Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Sato

Hiroshi Sato 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).

  • Publication number: 20250033261
    Abstract: To provide an injection molding device capable of injection-molding a molded article in a tubular shape with a constant inner diameter by using a core with a simple structure with no draft angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Yukio MIYAKOSHI, Tetsuro HOSAKA, Koshi SATO, Takahiro OI, Yo KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi OTAGURO, Kazuhisa FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20250038614
    Abstract: A cooler includes a base material, and a plurality of ribs protruding from a main surface of the base material, a distance between an upstream side end portion of a first rib and an upstream side end portion of a second rib in a second direction is larger than a distance between a downstream side end portion of the first rib and a downstream side end portion of the second rib in the second direction, and a distance between the upstream side end portion of the second rib and an upstream side end portion of a third rib in the second direction is smaller than a distance between the downstream side end portion of the second rib and a downstream side end portion of the third rib in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Yuji Ono, Keiji Tada, Hiroshi Nagami, Masaki Sato, Yoshiyuki Hoshi
  • Publication number: 20250031716
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a frozen dessert composition including (A) about 6 to 15% by weight of palatinose based on the total weight of the composition, and (B) about 10 to 30% by weight of a dextrin or a combination of a dextrin and a soluble dietary fiber based on the total weight of the composition. The disclosure also provides a method of manufacturing a frozen dessert composition including mixing the following components with water; (A) about 6 to 15% by weight of palatinose based on the total weight of the composition, and (B) about 10 to 30% by weight of a dextrin or a combination of a dextrin and a soluble dietary fiber based on the total weight of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shogo MOCHIZUKI, Takashi SATO, Hiroshi HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20250038621
    Abstract: A cooler includes a base material, and a plurality of ribs protruding from a main surface of the base material, a distance between a base end of a first rib and a base end of a second rib in a second direction is larger than a distance between a protruding end of the first rib and a protruding end of the second rib in the second direction, and a distance between the base end of the second rib and a base end of a third rib in the second direction is smaller than a distance between the protruding end of the second rib and a protruding end of the third rib in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Yuji Ono, Keiji Tada, Hiroshi Nagami, Masaki Sato, Yoshiyuki Hoshi
  • Publication number: 20250038616
    Abstract: A housing includes an inner tube component having a tubular shape and capable of accommodating therein a heating element, a cooler having a tubular shape and defining a coolant passage for causing a coolant to flow along an outer peripheral surface of the inner tube component, and an outer tube component having a tubular shape and accommodating therein the inner tube component and the cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Keiji Tada, Yuji Ono, Hiroshi Nagami, Masaki Sato, Yoshiyuki Hoshi
  • Publication number: 20250029625
    Abstract: A signal processing device (10) includes: a speech enhancement unit (11) that generates, from an observation signal, an enhancement signal in which a voice of a speaker is enhanced; an original sound addition unit (12) that adds the observation signal to the enhancement signal; and a speech recognition unit (13) that performs speech recognition on the enhancement signal to which the observation signal is added by the original sound addition unit (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa OCHIAI, Marc DELCROIX, Rintaro IKESHITA, Hiroshi SATO, Shoko ARAKI
  • Patent number: 12205079
    Abstract: A service system includes a reservation section by which a reservation for a commodity or a service in a commercial facility can be made and specific information for an electric vehicle that visits the commercial facility can be set, a connection confirmation section that detects that an electric vehicle corresponding to the specific information set by the reservation section has been connected to a charge and discharge device of the commercial facility, and a notification section that notifies the commercial facility that connection of the electric vehicle corresponding to the specific information to the charge and discharge device has been detected by the connection confirmation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Katsushi Saito, Yuki Ito, Miho Saisho, Kiyota Taniguchi, Aya Sato, Masato Koutari, Hiroshi Tatsumi
  • Publication number: 20250023054
    Abstract: Provided is a binder composition in which viscosity increases of an electrode mixture slurry is prevented or reduced while a high peel strength between a current collector and an electrode mixture layer is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicants: KUREHA CORPORATION, KUREHA (CHANGSHU) FLUOROPOLYMERS CO., LTD, KUREHA (CHINA) INVESTMENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Fei YU, Kenta AOKI, Hiroshi SATO, Kana ASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250021172
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroshi MUNAKATA, Jun HASEGAWA, Futa IMATA, Hiroshi FUJIOKA, Yuta SATO, Kiyokazu SAKAI, Ryoichi KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250018723
    Abstract: An object is to provide a technique that enables avoiding of erroneous attachment of multiple cartridges. A cartridge is attachable to a first attachment portion included in a printing apparatus. The cartridge includes a storage portion capable of storing a liquid. The cartridge includes a protruding portion configured to come into contact with another cartridge attempted to be inserted into the first attachment portion in a state where the cartridge is inserted in a second attachment portion adjacent to the first attachment portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: KYOHEI SATO, HIROSHI KOSHIKAWA, TATSUO NANJO, KEISUKE IINUMA, ATSUSHI KOHNOTOH, KEN TAKENAGA, DAIJU TAKEDA, KOUSUKE TANAKA, SHUHEI YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 12196993
    Abstract: Provided is an optical element in which the occurrence of sidelobe is suppressed and a reflectivity is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Yukito Saitoh
  • Patent number: 12189229
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal diffraction element, an image display apparatus, and a head mounted display where occurrence of a ghost in a head mounted display such as VR glasses can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yonemoto, Masaaki Suzuki, Koji Iijima, Hiroshi Sato, Ayato Sekine
  • Patent number: 12189159
    Abstract: Provided are an optical element, a light guide element, and an image display element in which the occurrence of sidelobe is suppressed. The optical element includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer that is obtained by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, in which the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, and in a case where a birefringence in a thickness region of 80% as a center portion with respect to a thickness of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer is represented by ?n1, a birefringence in a thickness region of 10% from one surface of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer is represented by ?n2, and a birefringence in a thickness region of 10% from another surface of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer is represented by ?n3, at least one of ?n2 or ?n3 is less than ?n1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yukito Saitoh, Hiroshi Sato, Katsumi Sasata, Shigeaki Nimura
  • Patent number: 12181771
    Abstract: Provided is a transmissive liquid crystal diffraction element having a large diffraction angle and a high diffraction efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yonemoto, Yukito Saitoh, Hiroshi Sato
  • Publication number: 20240413488
    Abstract: Provided is a battery wiring module according to which a load that acts on module-side terminals accompanying expansion or contraction of battery cells can be reduced. A housing includes a wire accommodating portion for accommodating wires, multiple terminal accommodating portions for accommodating module-side terminals, and first elastic joining portions that join the wire accommodating portion and the terminal accommodating portions in an elastically-deformable manner in the direction in which the battery cells are aligned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SATO, Ryota MORI, Hisayoshi YAITA, Masami SUZUKI, Maya NAKASUKA
  • Patent number: 12166446
    Abstract: A heater-integrated fuse is provided at a neutral point of a stator coil, and when a short-circuit failure of an inverter is detected, a fuse part of the heater-integrated fuse is cut by heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Kohtaro Shiino
  • Patent number: 12164130
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a light irradiation device which is thin and is capable of projecting an optical pattern, and a sensor which uses the light irradiation device. The object is achieved by a light irradiation device including a light emitting element which includes a plurality of light emitting units in a plane; and a liquid crystal optical element, in which the liquid crystal optical element has an optically anisotropic layer formed using a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal compound, the optically anisotropic layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which orientation of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound continuously changes rotationally along at least one in-plane direction and has regions with different lengths of periods in a case where a length over which the orientation of the optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound rotates by 180° in the plane is denoted by a single period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Yukito Saitoh
  • Patent number: 12162206
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus that performs a process of forming an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, with respect to each of a plurality of shot regions on the substrate, the apparatus comprising: a detector configured to detect positions of marks provided in the substrate; and a controller configured to control, in the process, alignment between the substrate and the mold based on a detection result by the detector, wherein each of the plurality of shot regions includes two or more transfer regions where a pattern of an original has been individually transferred in a pre-process, and in the process on a specific shot region, the controller controls the alignment based on the detection result of the marks provided in the transfer region other than the smallest transfer region among the two or more transfer regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sato
  • Publication number: 20240400527
    Abstract: A compound represented by the following Formula (1), a hole transport material containing the compound, a hole transport material composition for a photoelectric conversion element containing the hole transport material, a photoelectric conversion element using the hole transport material composition for a photoelectric conversion element, and a solar cell using the photoelectric conversion element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: HODOGAYA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki ITO, Hideaki TAKAHASHI, Atsushi SAKURAI, Hiroshi SATO
  • Patent number: 12147045
    Abstract: Provided are: a light guide element in which deterioration in image sharpness can be prevented and the entire area of a display image can be suitably observed irrespective of the visual line of a user, the position of eyes of the user, and the like; and an image display apparatus including the light guide element. The light guide element includes: a light guide plate that includes a first light guide layer and a second light guide layer; and an incidence diffraction element and an emission diffraction element that are laminated on the second light guide layer, in which in a case where a refractive index of the first light guide layer is represented by n1 and a refractive index of the second light guide layer is represented by n2 in the light guide plate, n1<n2 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Katsumi Sasata, Yukito Saitoh