Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Sato

Hirotaka 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: 20190130044
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium storing instructions readable by an information processing apparatus. When executed by the computer, the instructions cause the information processing apparatus to perform: executing an obtaining processing for obtaining a URL; executing a determining processing for determining whether the number of characters of a first URL obtained in the obtaining processing is less than a threshold value; and executing a creating processing in which: in a case where the number of the characters of the first URL is less than the threshold value, the information processing apparatus creates a first two-dimensional code storing the first URL; and in a case where the number of the characters of the first URL is greater than or equal to the threshold value, the information processing apparatus creates a second two-dimensional code storing a second URL associated with the first URL and having less characters than the first URL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sato, Susumu Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20190132402
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions readable by a computer of an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes an accepter configured to accept an operation of a user. When executed by the computer, the instructions cause the information processing apparatus to perform: executing an accepting processing in which the accepter of the information processing apparatus accepts a selecting operation that is an operation of selecting data; executing an obtaining processing in which the information processing apparatus obtains a URL corresponding to data specified by the selecting operation accepted in the accepting processing; and executing a creating processing in which the information processing apparatus creates a two-dimensional code storing the URL obtained in the obtaining processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sato, Susumu Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 10236525
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a control unit which instructs a constant temperature mode to the fuel cell unit as one of operation modes, the constant temperature mode being a mode for performing an control to cover power consumption of the auxiliaries by power supplied from the outside and an control to keep a temperature of the power generation unit constant within a prescribed temperature range. In the constant temperature mode, power output from the power generation unit is at least smaller than the power consumption of the auxiliaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Nakamura, Hiroshi Inoue, Kenta Okino, Hirotaka Sato, Takashi Shigehisa, Takashi Ono, Eiji Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20190027621
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element includes, in this order: a first electrode that includes a photosensitive layer containing a light absorbing agent on a conductive support; a compound layer that contains a surface treating agent and is provided on a surface of the photosensitive layer; and a second electrode, in which the light absorbing agent contains a compound having a perovskite-type crystal structure that has a cation of an element of Group 1 in the periodic table or a cationic organic group A, a cation of a metal atom M other than elements of Group 1 in the periodic table, and an anion of an anionic atom or atomic group X, and the surface treating agent is represented by a specific formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka SATO, Kenji SHIROKANE, Toshihiro ISE
  • Publication number: 20190006119
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element includes, at least: a conductive support; a photosensitive layer that contains a light absorbing agent; a hole transport layer that contains a hole transporting material; and a second electrode, in which at least one of the photosensitive layer or the hole transport layer is provided on the conductive support to constitute a first electrode in combination with the conductive support, and in which the hole transport layer contains a compound Q having at least one structure M represented by Formula 1 as the hole transporting material, provided that in a case where the compound Q has two or more of the structures M, the two or more structures M may be the same as or different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka SATO, Kenji SHIROKANE
  • Publication number: 20180198326
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor frame; a shaft; first and second rotor magnets that are coupled with the shaft, formed separately, and spaced apart in an axial direction of the shaft; a stator portion having a stator core, a winding around the stator core, and a plurality of first salient pole portions; a torque holding portion facing the rotor magnets in a radial direction, being arranged between the rotor frame and the stator portion in the axial direction of the shaft, and having a plurality of second salient pole portions; and a circuit board arranged, in the axial direction of the shaft, on a side of the stator portion opposite the rotor frame. An electronic component is arranged at the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio ANDO, Hirotaka SATO, Toshiyuki NISHIKATA
  • Publication number: 20180163346
    Abstract: A papermaking chemical consisting of an aqueous solution of an acrylamide-based polymer, the acrylamide-based polymer being a polymer of a polymer component, wherein the polymer component comprises (meth)acrylamide, a quaternary ammonium-based monomer, and (meth)allylsulfonic acid salt, but does not include either a crosslinkable monomer containing nitrogen, or a tertiary amino-based monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: HARIMA CHEMICALS, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hirotaka SATO, Tadaaki Horii, Takanori Kurihara, Takahiro Fujiwara, Kazushige Inaoka
  • Patent number: 9995001
    Abstract: The acrylamide-based polymer is produced by polymerizing a polymer component including (meth)acrylamide, a quaternary ammonium-based monomer, and (meth)allylsulfonic acid salt, but not including either a crosslinkable monomer containing nitrogen or a tertiary amino-based monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: HARIMA CHEMICALS, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sato, Tadaaki Horii, Takanori Kurihara, Takahiro Fujiwara, Kazushige Inaoka
  • Patent number: 9948151
    Abstract: An outer rotor type brushless motor of the present invention comprises: a rotor portion having a rotor frame, a shaft, and a rotor magnet; a bearing housing; a stator portion facing the rotor magnet and having a stator core, a plurality of first salient pole portions extending toward the rotor magnet from the stator core, an insulation surrounding the first salient pole portion, and a winding around the first salient pole portion through the insulation; and a torque holding portion provided on an inner side of the outer circumference portion of the rotor frame and an outer circumference of the bearing housing, and having a plurality of second salient pole portions disposed coaxially with the stator core and extending toward the rotor magnet, where the first salient pole portions and the second salient pole portions are provided in different numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Ando, Hirotaka Sato, Toshiyuki Nishikata
  • Patent number: 9947482
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element has a conductive support, a photoreceptor layer containing an electrolyte, a charge carrier layer containing an electrolyte and a counter electrode, and the photoreceptor layer has semiconductor particles on which a metal complex dye represented by Formula (I) is carried. M1(LA)(LD)(Z1).CI??Formula (I) M1 represents a metal atom; Z1 represents a monodentate ligand; LA represents a tridentate ligand represented by Formula (AL-1); LD represents a bidentate ligand represented by Formula (DL-1); and CI represents a counterion necessary for neutralizing the charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kohsuke Watanabe, Hirotaka Sato, Yukio Tani, Ryo Fujiwara, Kazuhiro Tsuna, Katsumi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20180087429
    Abstract: In an exhaust-gas-purification catalytic heating device that houses a current heater in a conductive metallic housing where a catalytic unit is housed, the current heater being arranged at an upstream side of the catalytic unit along a distribution direction of exhaust gas, the current heater has a negative electrode directly coupled to the housing electrically coupled to an external ground wire, the current heater has a positive electrode with which a rod-shaped terminal is continuous, the terminal passing through the housing in an electrically insulating state so as to be electrically coupled to a power line outside the housing, and the terminal has a portion protruding from the housing, the protruding portion being covered with a terminal cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro NAKAMURA, Ryosuke IBATA, Daiji KAWAGUCHI, Hirotaka SATO, Tetsuya KANEKO
  • Patent number: 9896149
    Abstract: A handlebar-mounted switch control device includes switch activation buttons which respectively correspond to specific switches, and which are arranged on surfaces of a switch case adjacent to a grip in an end portion of a handlebar. Two switch activation buttons are disposed on a front outer surface of the switch case. The two switch activation buttons are configured and placed in such a way so that a rider can easily recognize which of the two switch activation buttons the rider touches. The second switch activation button is placed above the first switch activation button, and inward of the first switch activation button in a vehicle width direction. A guide surface inclining to extend inward in the vehicle width direction toward an upper side is formed on a side surface of the switch case which is above the first switch activation button, and which faces the grip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Watanabe, Manabu Ichikawa, Kazuhiko Ono, Hirotaka Sato
  • Patent number: 9776493
    Abstract: A battery holding structure includes a battery tray for storing a battery therein. A battery holding rack is configured to store the battery tray with the battery stored therein and to allow the battery tray to be pulled out along widthwise directions of the vehicle. A ground wire has one end connected to a negative terminal of the battery and another end connected to a grounding member on a vehicle frame. A movement prevention member fixes the other end of the ground wire to the battery tray and prevents the battery tray from being pulled out to one side along the widthwise directions of the vehicle with the ground wire which is connected to the grounding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Ono, Toru Hasegawa, Naoyuki Yamate, Kazuyuki Ochiai, Yoji Kanaoka, Hirotaka Sato, Teppei Oshima
  • Patent number: 9735591
    Abstract: A HEMS 100 that controls a plurality of storage batteries 10 provided in a power consumer acquires information on type and/or deterioration level of each of the plurality of storage batteries. The HEMS 100 controls charge and discharge of each of the plurality of storage batteries 10 on the basis of the information on the type and/or the deterioration level of each of the plurality of storage batteries 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Hirotaka Sato
  • Patent number: 9547349
    Abstract: An HEMS 500 that performs a power management in a consumer 1 that includes one or more loads 40 that consume power and an SOFC unit 100 that performs a load following operation calculates, for each time zone, predicted power consumption, and thereafter, displays information indicating an exceeding time zone in which the predicted power consumption in the consumer exceeds a first threshold value of the SOFC unit 100 and information indicating a non-exceeding time zone in which the predicted power consumption falls short of a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sato, Kenta Okino
  • Publication number: 20160340831
    Abstract: The acrylamide-based polymer is produced by polymerizing a polymer component including (meth)acrylamide, a quaternary ammonium-based monomer, and (meth)allylsulfonic acid salt, but not including either a crosslinkable monomer containing nitrogen or a tertiary amino-based monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: HARIMA CHEMICALS, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hirotaka SATO, Tadaaki HORII, Takanori KURIHARA, Takahiro FUJIWARA, Kazushige INAOKA
  • Publication number: 20160164286
    Abstract: A panelboard (200) has a plurality of branches for branching a grid power line (30) into a plurality of home power lines (40). A home energy management system (HEMS) (300) is provided with a home communication unit (310) for receiving branch information, which is information on the plurality of branches, from the panelboard (200).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Hirotaka SATO, Takashi NOUE, Kazutaka NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20160141111
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element includes a first electrode which has a photosensitive layer containing a light absorber on a conductive support, a second electrode which is opposed to the first electrode, and a hole transport layer which is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the light absorber contains at least one of compound (P) having a perovskite crystal structure represented by the following Formula (I). A solar cell includes this photoelectric conversion element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka SATO, Katsumi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160133392
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element includes a first electrode which has a porous layer provided on a conductive support and a photosensitive layer having a light absorber on a surface of the porous layer, a second electrode which is opposed to the first electrode, and a solid hole transport layer which is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The light absorber includes a compound having a perovskite crystal structure having a cation of a group I element of the periodic table or a cation of a cationic organic group A, a cation of a metal atom M other than the group I elements of the periodic table, and an anion of an anionic atom X, and the porous layer contains at least one of insulating material. A solar cell includes this photoelectric conversion element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sato, Katsumi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160104843
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element including a first electrode which has a photosensitive layer containing a light absorber on a conductive support, a second electrode which is opposed to the first electrode, and a hole transport layer which is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the light absorber includes a compound having a perovskite crystal structure having a cation of a group I element of the periodic table or a cationic organic group, a cation of a metal atom M other than the group I elements of the periodic table, and an anion of an anionic atom X, and the hole transport layer contains a hole transport material of which the energy level of the highest occupied molecular orbital obtained by density functional theory calculation is within a range of ?4.50 eV to ?5.00 eV, and a solar cell including the photoelectric conversion element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi KOBAYASHI, Hirotaka SATO