Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Sato

Hitoshi 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: 20260193292
    Abstract: Crystals of the compound represented by formula (1), a method for the production thereof, and a method for producing an antibody-drug conjugate using the crystals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2025
    Publication date: July 9, 2026
    Applicant: DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuya YAMAGUCHI, Takashi KOUKO, Shigeru NOGUCHI, Yohei YAMANE, Fumikatsu KONDO, Takahiro AOKI, Tadahiro TAKEDA, Kohei SAKANISHI, Hitoshi SATO, Tsuyoshi UEDA, Shinji MATUURA, Kei KURAHASHI, Yutaka KITAGAWA, Tatsuya NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20260171058
    Abstract: A sensor module for electronic wind instrument according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a main flow path positioned between an air inlet and an exhaust port for exhaled air formed on an outer surface of a housing of an electronic wind instrument; a branch flow path branching to intersect with the main flow path; and a sensor positioned in the branch flow path and detecting changes in airflow in the branch flow path caused by changes in exhaled air flowing in the main flow path, in which a cross-sectional area of a first opening of the branch flow path formed at a connection portion between the main flow path and the branch flow path is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the main flow path at the connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2025
    Publication date: June 18, 2026
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi SATO, Rin YAEGASHI, Kentaro MORI, Masato SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20260171057
    Abstract: An electronic wind instrument includes: a cylindrical body, having an air inlet; a sensor, attached inside the cylindrical body and detecting exhaled air blown from the air inlet; a substrate, connected to the sensor via a wiring; and an instrument body, to which the substrate is attached inside; a first cylinder portion, which is cylindrical, is formed on one of the instrument body and the cylindrical body; a second cylinder portion, which is cylindrical and rotatably inserted into an inner circumferential side of the first cylinder portion, is formed on the other of the instrument body and the cylindrical body; and first stoppers, which regulate a relative rotation between the first cylinder portion and the second cylinder portion at a predetermined angle, are formed on the first cylinder portion and the second cylinder portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2025
    Publication date: June 18, 2026
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi SATO, Rin YAEGASHI
  • Publication number: 20260171050
    Abstract: An electronic wind instrument includes an index value calculating part and a performance control part. The index value calculating part is configured to calculate an intensity index value corresponding to a first exhaled air intensity based on an intensity of exhaled air blown into a first air inlet and a second exhaled air intensity based on an intensity of exhaled air blown into a second air inlet provided in proximity to the first air inlet. The performance control part is configured to start sounding of a musical sound based on an other pitch that is a pitch different from a key pitch in a case where the intensity index value calculated by the index value calculating part is equal to or greater than a first pitch change threshold, and the key pitch is a pitch corresponding to an operation on an operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2025
    Publication date: June 18, 2026
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu HIROSE, Kaito KOMIYA, Hitoshi SATO, Rin YAEGASHI, Kentaro MORI, Masato SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20260173217
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic wind instrument and a mounting method of a heating element. The electronic wind instrument includes a housing; an air inlet for exhaled air formed in the housing; a flow path extending from the air inlet to an interior of the housing; a sensor positioned in the flow path and configured to detect exhaled air; and a heating element configured to heat the flow path on an upstream side of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2025
    Publication date: June 18, 2026
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi SATO, Rin YAEGASHI, Kentaro MORI, Masato SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20260046382
    Abstract: A projection apparatus that is able to shift a projection image includes: a projection lens; and a processor. The processor is configured to: acquire information related to an installation state of the projection apparatus; and perform a control of restricting shifting of the projection image in accordance with the installation state and a state of a light source of the projection apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2025
    Publication date: February 12, 2026
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki INOUE, Hitoshi SATO, Akihiro ISHIZUKA
  • Patent number: 12503489
    Abstract: Crystals of the compound represented by formula (1), a method for the production thereof, and a method for producing an antibody-drug conjugate using the crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Takashi Kouko, Shigeru Noguchi, Yohei Yamane, Fumikatsu Kondo, Takahiro Aoki, Tadahiro Takeda, Kohei Sakanishi, Hitoshi Sato, Tsuyoshi Ueda, Shinji Matuura, Kei Kurahashi, Yutaka Kitagawa, Tatsuya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12456444
    Abstract: A keyboard device includes keys, drive devices, a housing, and a fan. The keys are arranged side by side in a scale direction. The drive devices apply, to the keys, a driving force swinging the key. The housing includes a shelf plate supporting the drive devices. The fan is attached to an upper side of the shelf plate of the housing and exhausts air in the housing to outside. The shelf plate includes an air intake port for sucking in air outside the housing by the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sato, Yutaka Goto, Kousuke Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 12400901
    Abstract: A conveyance hand which conveys an object, includes a base, and a plurality of supports arranged on the base and configured to support the object. The plurality of supports include a first attraction pad configured to attract the object, and a second attraction pad configured to attract the object by a force weaker than the first attraction pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsumasa Yamazaki, Hitoshi Sato, Hideo Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20250099306
    Abstract: A disposable wearable article includes an absorptive body in which an absorber is disposed between a top sheet and a back sheet; flap parts that are put on one of a front part and back part of the absorptive body and extend to the both sides in the around-torso direction; and fastener members that are each provided on the flap part at a distance from a tip end of the flap part in the around-torso direction and are attachably and detachably joined to an opposing part put on the absorptive main body. Each flap part is formed from thermoplastic nonwoven fabric and has, in an extending part between the tip end of the flap part and the fastener member, a thermally-fused part at which the nonwoven fabric is thermally fused and bending rigidity of the nonwoven fabric is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Hitoshi SATO, Takeshi FUKUHARA, Kazuma NAGATA
  • Patent number: 12206092
    Abstract: The method for producing an electrode disclosed here is a method for producing an electrode having an electrode current collector and an electrode active substance layer, and includes the following steps: a step for preparing a powdery electrode material containing at least an electrode active substance and a binder; a step for passing the electrode material between a pair of opposing rollers so as to form the electrode active substance layer comprising the electrode material; a step for pressing the electrode active substance layer, wherein the pressing comprises pressing at a linear pressure of 1 ton/cm or more; a step for coating an adhesive liquid containing at least an adhesive resin on the electrode current collector; and a step for supplying the electrode active substance layer to the current collector on which the adhesive liquid has been coated so as to construct an electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Sato
  • Publication number: 20240376147
    Abstract: Crystals of the compound represented by formula (1), a method for the production thereof, and a method for producing an antibody-drug conjugate using the crystals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuya YAMAGUCHI, Takashi Kouko, Shigeru Noguchi, Yohei Yamane, Fumikatsu Kondo, Takahiro Aoki, Tadahiro Takeda, Kohei Sakanishi, Hitoshi Sato, Tsuyoshi Ueda, Shinji Matuura, Kei Kurahashi, Yutaka Kitagawa, Tatsuya Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240169964
    Abstract: A keyboard device includes keys, drive devices, a housing, and a fan. The keys are arranged side by side in a scale direction. The drive devices apply, to the keys, a driving force swinging the key. The housing includes a shelf plate supporting the drive devices. The fan is attached to an upper side of the shelf plate of the housing and exhausts air in the housing to outside. The shelf plate includes an air intake port for sucking in air outside the housing by the fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sato, Yutaka Goto, Kousuke Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11984103
    Abstract: A displacement amount detecting apparatus is provided and includes: transmission member, transmitting a displacement on one end side thereof to a displacement on the other end side thereof; a sensor, disposed to face the other end side of the transmission member, and configured to output a value according to a distance between the sensor and the other end side of the transmission member; a calculation device, calculating a value for indicating the distance based on the value output by the sensor and a reference value; and a correction device, correcting the reference value. When the one end side is displaced in a first direction, the other end side is displaced in a second direction opposite to the first direction and away from the sensor. The correction device is configured to correct the reference value based on the value for indicating the distance calculated by the calculation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sato, Ryohei Kanayama, Kentaro Mori
  • Patent number: 11959407
    Abstract: A detection device detecting collapse of PM collected in a filter provided in an exhaust system flow path of an internal combustion engine includes: a differential pressure sensor configured to acquire a differential pressure between an exhaust inlet side and an exhaust outlet side of the filter; a water generation determination unit configured to determine whether water is generated in the exhaust system flow path; and a PM collapse determination unit configured to determine that at least a part of the PM collected in the filter has collapsed when a PM accumulation amount estimated based on the acquired differential pressure has increased by a predetermined amount or more within a predetermined period in a state where the PM accumulation amount estimated based on the acquired differential pressure is equal to or larger than a predetermined first threshold and the water generation determination unit has determined that water is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Daiki Ishii, Naofumi Ochi, Takanobu Ogawa, Yuta Kageyama, Akira Matsutani, Hitoshi Sato
  • Patent number: 11945882
    Abstract: Crystals of the compound represented by formula (1), a method for the production thereof, and a method for producing an antibody-drug conjugate using the crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Takashi Kouko, Shigeru Noguchi, Yohei Yamane, Fumikatsu Kondo, Takahiro Aoki, Tadahiro Takeda, Kohei Sakanishi, Hitoshi Sato, Tsuyoshi Ueda, Shinji Matuura, Kei Kurahashi, Yutaka Kitagawa, Tatsuya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11830465
    Abstract: To provide an electronic wind instrument capable of accurately detecting the amount of rotation of a transmission member. An electronic wind instrument whereby contact with an optical sensor by a flat surface of a rear section can be suppressed even when at least a prescribed amount of a reed is bitten, as a result of the flat surface rotating in a direction away from the optical sensor when the rear section of the transmission member rotates in conjunction with displacement of the reed. As a result, the spacing between the facing flat surface and the optical sensor can be set comparatively narrowly in the initial state and the detection sensitivity at the optical sensor increased, thereby enabling accurate detection of the rotation amount of the transmission member (the amount of the reed that is bitten).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sato, Ryohei Kanayama
  • Patent number: 11781249
    Abstract: Provided is a polyurethane elastic fiber wherein surface treating agents do not bleed even after lengthy storage, thereby preventing contamination of packing material, and which exhibits stable friction performance independent of storage duration, making the fiber suitable for a stable gathered member with low occurrence of core slip-back. This polyurethane elastic fiber is a multifilament polyurethane elastic fiber and is characterized by having, in the multifilament cross section, a void part demarcated by the constituent individual filaments being in contact with one another and by having a cross-sectional void part area ratio of 15% to 60% as calculated according to the formula (cross-sectional void part area ratio [%])=100×(area of the void part)/(total cross-sectional area), where the total cross-sectional area is the sum of the area of the void part and the cross-sectional areas of all individual filaments that constitute the multifilament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sato, Taro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11776512
    Abstract: Provided is a keyboard device for which the number of parts can be reduced. The present invention is provided with: hammers rotatably linked to a chassis; keys rotatably linked to the hammer thereof; guiding pins provided to the keys and extending in the widthwise direction of the keys; and a guiding groove provided to the chassis side and into which the guiding pins are inserted. The downward displacement of the front-end sides of the keys is guided by the rotation of the hammers with respect to the chassis, and the downward displacement of rear-end parts of the keys is guided by the sliding of the guiding pins with respect to the guiding groove. This eliminates the need for links to guide the displacement of the rear-end parts of the keys, thus allowing the number of parts to be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Kasubuchi, Hitoshi Sato, Yukihide Takata, Mutsuo Sawada
  • Patent number: 11776511
    Abstract: Provided is a keyboard device that can suppress a reduction in the operability of a key. A rear guiding member comprises a pair of guiding surfaces that, in a side view of a key, face forward and rearward and are formed along an arc that is convex toward the front. The key comprises a pair of sliding surfaces that slide against the pair of guiding surfaces. Due to this sliding of the guiding surfaces and the sliding surfaces, rotation of the key can be guided while displacement of the key in the front-rear direction is regulated. Consequently, because forward and rearward displacement of the key during key pressing can be suppressed, a reduction in operability (feeling of touch) during pressing of the key can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihide Takata, Hitoshi Sato, Masaki Kasubuchi, Mutsuo Sawada