Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Sakai
Hiroshi Sakai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20250112223Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid-state battery anode including: an anode current collector including a metallic porous body as a constituent material; and an anode active material with which the anode current collector is filled, in which a pore portion without the metallic porous body in a thickness direction from a surface on a solid-state electrolyte side is provided in the anode current collector, the pore portion has a pore diameter of 100 ?m to 180 ?m, and a depth in a thickness direction is larger than the pore diameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Kiyoshi TANAAMI, Hiroshi SAKAI, Toshimitsu TANAKA
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Patent number: 12265307Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel including in the following order an active matrix substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a counter substrate. The active matrix substrate includes in the following order a first electrode and a second electrode including a first linear electrode portion extending in a first direction. The counter substrate includes a third electrode including second linear electrode portions extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a fourth electrode including an island-shaped electrode portion as a floating electrode. The island-shaped electrode portion is disposed between the second linear electrode portions in a plan view, overlaps an optical aperture of one of two pixels adjacent to each other along the second direction, and does not overlap an optical aperture of the other of the two pixels.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Koji Murata, Akira Hirai, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Takashi Satoh, Akira Sakai, Shinji Shimada
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Patent number: 12258706Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a carpet exhibiting excellent antifouling property against both dry soil and wet soil. The carpet is a carpet including a pile yarn having a coated pile single yarn, in which the coated pile single yarn is a pile single yarn to which a layer A containing organopolysiloxane and a fluorine-based compound is attached, a fineness of the coated pile single yarn is 8 to 40 dtex, a crimp elongation of the pile yarn is 10% to 30%, a carpet staining degree (?E) in an antifouling dry test is 30 or less, and a carpet staining degree (?E) in an antifouling wet test is 30 or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Kenichi Sakai, Hiroshi Kajiyama
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Publication number: 20250086539Abstract: According to an embodiment, a support device is configured to output a first work instruction and a safety instruction when a first worker performs a first task. The support device is further configured to output the first work instruction and not output the safety instruction, or output the first work instruction and output another safety instruction, when a second worker performs the first task.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Yusuke AOKI, Hiroshi SAKAI, Yuki SAKURAI, Yasuo NAMIOKA
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Patent number: 12250057Abstract: A wireless relay station to be included in a ladder-type wireless relay network along a moving route of a moving object includes a relay control unit that includes station identification information in the wireless relay network assigned sequentially along the moving route to each of the wireless relay stations included in the wireless relay network and deployed along the moving route, configures and updates, using a first routing table that provides an address of a destination wireless relay station, a second routing table including the address, the station identification information, and an information update time, being associated with one another, of the destination wireless relay station, and provides control to share, among the wireless relay stations included in the wireless relay network, the second routing table configured and updated by each wireless relay station; and a relay communication unit that performs wireless relay communication with other wireless relay stations.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Nishimoto, Yasunori Kato, Manabu Sakai, Kenichiro Kamohara, Hiroyasu Sano
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Publication number: 20250074530Abstract: There is provided a saddle-ride vehicle in which an attitude of the vehicle is less likely to become unstable when a rider shifts a main stand from an upright state to a retracted state to cause a wheel to touch a road surface. A saddle-ride vehicle according to the present disclosure includes: a main stand (35) that is turnably provided on a vehicle body (5) and holds the vehicle body (5) so that the vehicle body (5) does not topple over; a first detection unit (36) that detects a turning state of the main stand (35); a steering actuator (30) that applies torque in a steering direction to a suspension apparatus (31) supporting a steering wheel (13); and a control apparatus (34) that controls the steering actuator (30) to apply the torque to the suspension apparatus (31), in which the control apparatus (34) performs control to apply the torque so that the steering wheel (31) is directed toward a front (FR), depending on the turning state of the main stand (35).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2022Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Atsushi Ogahara, Tsubasa Nose, Chikashi Iizuka, Masaki Nakagawara, Masaki Naito, Kiyotaka Sakai, Hiroshi Maeda
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Patent number: 12227259Abstract: An operating device comprises a base and an operating member. The base includes a base body and a cover. The cover includes an upper outer surface, a first lateral outer surface, a second lateral outer surface, a first shoulder, and a second shoulder. The first shoulder is provided between the upper outer surface and the first lateral outer surface. The first shoulder includes a first curved surface connecting the upper outer surface and the first lateral outer surface. The second shoulder is provided between the upper outer surface and the second lateral outer surface. The second shoulder includes a second curved surface connecting the upper outer surface and the second lateral outer surface. The first curved surface is gentler than the second curved surface as viewed in a longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Hayata Mizutani, Takuma Sakai, Shun Kakehashi, Yuichiro Hidaka, Hiroshi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 12221908Abstract: A sound reducing device (30) for an internal combustion engine (1, 101) comprises a chamber forming member (33) defining a sound reducing chamber (32) having a prescribed column length jointly with a belt cover, and the sound reducing chamber communicates with the belt chamber via an opening (31), and the opening opposes a part of a timing belt passed around the cam pulley.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuta Urushibara, Hiroshi Sakai, Tetsuya Hiraide, Tomohiko Nozaki
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Patent number: 12202552Abstract: A vehicle exterior member having a self-neutralizing function which can improve running characteristics and steering stability of a vehicle without impairing the design property has a fiber molded member containing a needle-punched nonwoven fabric or knitted fabric. The fibers constituting the fiber molded member contain a conductive fiber.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignees: HAYASHI TELEMPU CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kensaku Sakai, Hiroshi Suzuki, Koushi Yamada, Motoi Iida, Masaru Shirota
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Publication number: 20250021172Abstract: A pen-type controller includes a pen portion having a pen shape, a grip portion that intersects an axis direction of the pen portion, and a first light emitting part disposed at an end part of the grip portion, wherein the end part is closer to the axis of the pen portion than another end part of the grip portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Hiroshi MUNAKATA, Jun HASEGAWA, Futa IMATA, Hiroshi FUJIOKA, Yuta SATO, Kiyokazu SAKAI, Ryoichi KIKUCHI
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Patent number: 12180555Abstract: A blast furnace operation method according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a process of acquiring a correlation between a carbon consumption in reducing gas and a reduction Input?C in specific carbon consumption caused by blowing the reducing gas into the blast furnace per molar ratio C/H of carbon atoms to hydrogen atoms in the reducing gas; a process of determining a carbon consumption in the reducing gas where the reduction Input?C in specific carbon consumption is a predetermined target value or higher on the basis of the correlation acquired per C/H; and a process of adjusting the amount of the reducing gas blown into the blast furnace on the basis of the determined carbon consumption in the reducing gas and the carbon proportion in the reducing gas.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION;, JFE Steel Corporation, Kobe Steel, Ltd., NIPPON STEEL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Sakai, Koki Nishioka, Kaoru Nakano
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Patent number: 12159148Abstract: The present invention includes a memory and a processor configured to store, in a storage, a first digital twin in which at least one model defining at least one function of an entity at a given time, and at least one piece of second data that includes, as a constituent element, first data for realizing the function of the entity due to being input to the model are included, create at least one second digital twin by performing predetermined first computation using, as a computation target, at least one first digital twin stored in the storage, and execute computation for arranging the second digital twin in a sandbox for which a predetermined time axis has been set, and realizing a function of an entity indicated by the second digital twin in the sandbox in accordance with the time axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Iida, Ryutaro Kawamura, Masayuki Hanadate, Koya Mori, Takao Nakamura, Shigekuni Kondo, Yukio Koike, Hiroshi Ogawa, Hiroshi Sakai, Hiroyuki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20240332629Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a solid electrolyte sheet with less surface roughness. The method for producing a solid electrolyte sheet according to the present invention comprises a step of applying a solid electrolyte-containing slurry to inside and upper part of a three-dimensional structure to form a second uncured product of the slurry; and a step of drying the second uncured product present inside and on the upper part of the three-dimensional structure to form a second solid electrolyte layer inside and on the upper part of the three-dimensional structure, so as to obtain a solid electrolyte sheet with the second solid electrolyte layer filling inside of the three-dimensional structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Inventors: Takehiro Fukushima, Hiroshi Sakai, Sanshiro Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20240322409Abstract: A battery module including a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells is stacked, a container filled with a liquid and containing the battery cell stack, and a pressurizer for pressurizing the liquid that is filled in the container. The battery cells are solid-state battery cells. The battery cell stack is packaged with a packaging material. The liquid contains an oil and a heat-absorbing material. The heat-absorbing material has an endothermic reaction initiation temperature of 80° C. or greater and 190° C. or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Inventors: Wataru SHIMIZU, Hiroshi SAKAI, Masataka FURUYAMA, Takafumi NAGAI, Wataru HOSHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240304961Abstract: A lithium secondary battery of the present invention comprises: a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode material mixture layer, a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode current collector and a lithium metal foil, and a separator, and further comprises a thermally deformable separator disposed in the vicinity of the positive electrode material mixture layer on the surface of the positive electrode current collector, and an extension portion that extends from the lithium metal foil so as to be in contact with the thermally deformable separator; the thermally deformable separator having a melting point of 80° C. or higher, which is equal to or lower than the melting point of lithium metal; and when a thermally deformable separator 31 thermally deforms, the extension portion comes into contact with the positive electrode current collector, resulting in a short circuit of the positive electrode and the negative electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Hiroshi SAKAI, Hiroshi OGASA, Wataru SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20240287974Abstract: A linear motor for a compressor having asymmetric load characteristics in both directions of a stroke, improves the service life of a bearing, and reduces a total length of a system. The linear motor includes a movable element having a magnetic pole frame and a plurality of field element poles, and a plurality of magnetic pole teeth around which windings are wound and that are provided so as to sandwich the movable element, and the movable element and the magnetic pole teeth are relatively displaced. The plurality of field element poles include primary magnets arranged between the plurality of magnetic pole teeth and secondary magnets arranged externally relative to spaces between the plurality of magnetic pole teeth in either direction of the relative displacement. A neck part of the magnetic pole frame connected to a bearing is arranged externally in the other direction of the relative displacement direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2022Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Junnosuke NAKATSUGAWA, Masaki KOYAMA, Hiroshi SAKAI, Kan KOBAYASHI, Yoshinori KAWAI
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Publication number: 20240167398Abstract: A sound reducing device (30) for an internal combustion engine (1, 101) comprises a chamber forming member (33) defining a sound reducing chamber (32) having a prescribed column length jointly with a belt cover, and the sound reducing chamber communicates with the belt chamber via an opening (31), and the opening opposes a part of a timing belt passed around the cam pulley.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Yuta URUSHIBARA, Hiroshi SAKAI, Tetsuya HIRAIDE, Tomohiko NOZAKI
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Patent number: 11987698Abstract: The resin composition for plating of the present invention includes: a graft copolymer (A) in which a monomer component (a) including specific amounts of an aromatic vinyl compound (a1), a vinyl cyanide compound (a2), and another vinyl compound (a3) is graft-polymerized on a rubbery polymer; and a polycarbonate resin (P), wherein an amount of resin (P) is 40 to 70% by mass, based on a total mass of the resin composition, a rubber content (X) in copolymer (A) is more than 40% by mass, based on a total mass of copolymer (A), a graft ratio (Y) of copolymer (A) satisfies formula (1): 793e?0.041X?Y?515e?0.041X (1), and a rubber content (Z) in the resin composition is 10 to 18% by mass, based on a total mass of the resin composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: TECHNO-UMG CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Yamashita, Hiroshi Sakai, Hideichiro Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 11933543Abstract: A heat sink includes: a container having a cavity inside and a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a working fluid encapsulated in the cavity; and a steam flow path in the cavity where the working fluid in a gas phase flows, the first surface having a flat part and a protruding part projecting from the flat part in an external direction, causing the container to have a flat portion and a protruding portion projecting from the flat portion in the external direction, an inner space of the protruding portion of the container being in communication with an inner space of the flat portion, causing the cavity to be formed, and a first heat radiating fin being provided on an exterior of the flat part of the first surface and a second heat radiating fin being provided on an exterior of the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenya Kawabata, Masahiro Meguro, Ryo Tsubata, Hirofumi Aoki, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Hiroshi Sakai, Hideaki Kawabata
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Publication number: 20230264489Abstract: A recording device includes a recording head including a nozzle row configured to discharge ink droplets that are to be cured when irradiated with light onto a recording medium, a drive unit configured to cause the recording head and the recording medium to move relative to each other, a plurality of irradiation parts configured to irradiate the recording medium with the light, a reception unit configured to receive an input of irradiation range data indicating an irradiation range of the light, and a control unit configured to control turning ON and OFF of the plurality of irradiation parts, to irradiate the recording medium with the light in accordance with the irradiation range, based on the irradiation range data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi SAKAI, Kazuya TOSHIMA, Masakazu OKAJIMA