Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Kato

Hiroyuki Kato 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).

  • Patent number: 12220395
    Abstract: Agents containing either or both of aspartic acid and tyrosine are effective for improving intermittent endurance capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko Ando, Sakiko Toyoda, Hiroyuki Kato, Yoshihito Nogusa
  • Patent number: 12208446
    Abstract: There is provided a powder material that is for densifying a molded article manufactured by an additive layer manufacturing method and improving harness of the molded article. There is provided a powder material for use in additive layer manufacturing containing ceramics and metals, in which a tapped filling rate defined by (tapped density/theoretical density)×100% is 40% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIMI INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Junya Yamada, Hiroyuki Ibe, Nobuaki Kato, Yuta Kato, Yoshikazu Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20250012426
    Abstract: A decorative laminate for transmitting light includes a light-permeable substrate, a light adjusting layer, an interference pigment print layer, and a black semi-transparent print layer. The light adjusting layer has, at a surface opposite from the substrate, an uneven part formed to match a design's shape shown by the interference pigment print layer. The interference pigment print layer has first light transmitting parts, through which the light is transmitted. The black semi-transparent print layer has second light transmitting parts, at positions at a main surface of the black semi-transparent print layer where, in plan view, the second light transmitting parts at least partially overlap the first light transmitting parts. The first light transmitting parts and the second light transmitting parts are voids in a coating layer and formed at a main surface of the interference pigment print layer and at the main surface of the black semi-transparent print layer, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroshi IKEHARA, Hiroyuki KATO, Kentaro YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250010636
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to (a) acquire an image of a document, (b) identify a mark region containing a predetermined mark in the acquired image of the document, (c) decide a variable region containing a variable object that is variable based on an input based on the identified mark region, (d) decide a fixed region indicating a format of the document and containing a fixed object that is not variable, and (e) generate document data based on the decided variable region and the decided fixed region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki KATO
  • Patent number: 12142791
    Abstract: A bus bar module includes: a case extending from a first end to a second end; a bus bar; and electric wires. The case includes first and second electric wire routing groove portions provided in parallel, electric wire passing portions bridged between the first and second electric wire routing groove portions, and an electric wire take-out portion which is provided in the first electric wire routing groove portion and from which the electric wires are drawn toward the second end. At least a part of the electric wires is routed from a position of the second electric wire routing groove portion closer to the second end than the electric wire take-out portion, through an electric wire passing portion provided closer to the one end than the electric wire take-out portion, to the electric wire take-out portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaro Okazaki, Yoh Matsui, Koji Haneda, Takenori Tsuchiya, Shigeyuki Inoue, Hiroyuki Kato, Shinsuke Azuma
  • Publication number: 20240369069
    Abstract: To provide an axial fan motor increasing the mounting area of a circuit board and further improving heat dissipation as compared with the axial fan motor in the related art. A fan device as an axial fan motor includes: a casing having a hollow tubular shape and provided with an intake opening at one end in an axial direction and an exhaust opening at another end in the axial direction; an impeller including a plurality of blades and accommodated in the casing; a motor accommodated in the casing and configured to rotate the impeller; and a plurality of circuit boards arranged along the axial direction at a side close to exhaust opening in the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Toshikazu KOSHIBA, Tomoyuki SUZUKI, Yuji OMURA, Mitsuhiko TAKAHASHI, Hiroyuki KATO
  • Patent number: 12117392
    Abstract: A gas sensor includes a light receiving element, a light emitting element, an integrated circuit, a lead frame, and a sealing member configured to seal these into a package. The lead frame includes at least one die pad portion and a plurality of terminal portions, the die pad portion includes a first region having a first thickness and a second region having a second thickness thinner than the first thickness, the integrated circuit is arranged on the second region of the die pad portion, the light emitting element is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of terminal portions, the light receiving element is electrically connected to the integrated circuit and is arranged on the opposite side to the light emitting element with the integrated circuit interposed therebetween, and the integrated circuit is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of terminal portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Fukunaka, Hiroyuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20240274964
    Abstract: A bus-bar module include an electrical-wire routing body to be assembled with a battery module configured of plural battery cells, plural bus-bars that are stored in the electrical-wire routing body and are to be electrically connected between electrodes of the battery cells, respectively, and plural electrical-wires to be connected with the battery cells via the bus-bars. The electrical-wire routing body includes a pair of electrical-wire routing passages that are divided by a slit and in which the electrical-wires are routed. Each of the electrical-wire routing passages is provided with a pair of side walls. In at least one of the pair of electrical-wire routing passages that are divided by the slit, a cut-off is formed at an upper-end corner, which faces to the slit, of one of the pair of side walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki SAITO, Hiroyuki KATO, Hajime NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20240265716
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus has a first interface for communicating with a server, a second interface for communicating with a label printer, and a third interface for acquiring an image including a label image. A processor of the apparatus is configured to receive the image via the third interface, extract the label image from the received image, perform image processing on the extracted label image, transmit the processed extracted label image to the server via the first interface along with a request to generate label data based on processed extracted label image, receive the generated label data from the server via the first interface, and transmit the received label data to the label printer along with a request to print a label corresponding to the label data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventor: Hiroyuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20240150202
    Abstract: A liquid sterilization device includes: an outer tube through which a fluid to be sterilized flows from one end side to the other end side in the axial direction; a flow-regulating plate that has a plurality of tapered holes having diameters thereof increasing from one end side toward the other end side in the axial direction; and a light source that applies ultraviolet light to a sterilization space on the other end side relative to the flow-regulating plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Hideaki TANAKA, Hiroyuki KATO, Kazuhisa SHINNO
  • Publication number: 20240088523
    Abstract: A terminal holding structure includes a detection terminal having a through hole penetrating in an attaching direction to an object to be conductively connected, a resin case including an insertion portion to be inserted into the through hole and configured to hold the detection terminal, and a restricting member configured to restrict movement of the detection terminal in the attaching direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Yoshikazu Ezuka, Ryota Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20240059588
    Abstract: A fluid sterilizing apparatus includes: a cylindrical inner pipe which has cutouts penetrating in a radial direction and an outlet pipe projecting in the radial direction; an outer pipe which has, between itself and the inner pipe, an annular space in communication with the cutouts and which houses the inner pipe; an inflow pipe which allows a fluid to flow into the outer pipe; an outflow pipe which is provided coaxially with the inflow pipe and which is connected with the outlet pipe to allow the fluid having passed through the annular space to flow out; and a light source which irradiates the fluid passing through the interior of the inner pipe with ultraviolet light via an ultraviolet light transmitting window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Hideaki TANAKA, Hiroyuki KATO, Kazuhisa SHINNO
  • Publication number: 20240047834
    Abstract: An attachment structure for a sheet material includes an attachment hole portion that is provided in a sheet material and in which a large-diameter hole and a small-diameter hole communicate with each other through a communication portion, a locking portion provided in a member to be attached corresponding to the attachment hole portion, and configured to lock the attachment hole portion to attach the sheet material to the member to be attached, and a projecting piece that is provided in the communication portion and in which a width of the communication portion is narrower than an inner diameter of the small-diameter hole. The locking portion includes an insertion guide portion having an inclined face formed on a side face of a column portion, and configured to bend the projecting piece in contact with the column portion in a thickness direction of the sheet material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Ryota Kataoka
  • Patent number: D1016031
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Yorimasa Yasuda, Satoru Kozuka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Nichika Moriguchi, Keisuke Tada, Kenichi Oi, Masaaki Kadoyanagi, Toshio Nakayama, Shinichiro Ando, Akihiro Gonda
  • Patent number: D1016032
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Yorimasa Yasuda, Satoru Kozuka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Nichika Moriguchi, Keisuke Tada, Kenichi Oi, Masaaki Kadoyanagi, Toshio Nakayama, Shinichiro Ando, Akihiro Gonda
  • Patent number: D1016033
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Yorimasa Yasuda, Satoru Kozuka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Nichika Moriguchi, Keisuke Tada, Kenichi Oi, Masaaki Kadoyanagi, Toshio Nakayama, Shinichiro Ando, Akihiro Gonda
  • Patent number: D1020742
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Hiroyuki Onojima, Kazuma Takahata, Takashi Ando, Mitsuhiro Yamada, Atsutomo Hayamizu
  • Patent number: D1053695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Shinichi Kato, Asuna Osawa, Tsutomu Tanaka, Masaaki Kadoyanagi, Shotaro Hirako, Takahiro Yamatani
  • Patent number: D1056858
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Atsushi Fujita, Yudai Yoneoka, Koichiro Nihei
  • Patent number: D1056868
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kato, Tetsuya Okuda, Kentaro Tsukamoto, Masahiro Ichikawa, Hanako Kondo, Taku Kondo, Koji Uchimura