Patents by Inventor Kaoru Sato

Kaoru 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: 20240287079
    Abstract: A 6-aminopyrazolopyrimidine compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, having NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitory activity, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same, and their medical use, etc., are provided. A compound of Formula [IA]: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein a partial structure: is a structure of the following formula: etc. wherein R4 is hydrogen or C1-4 alkyl, in which the alkyl may be optionally substituted with hydroxy or cyano, Ring group CyA is a group of the following formula: etc. wherein R6 and R7 are, each independently, hydrogen, hydroxy, cyano, C1-6 alkyl, etc., R8 and R9 are, each independently, hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl, or C1-4 haloalkyl, R10 is hydrogen, cyano, C1-6 alkyl, etc.), R1 is hydrogen or C1-4 alkyl, R2A and R3A are, each independently, hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke Ohba, Kaoru Adachi, Tatsuya Nishimaru, Kentaro Sakurai, Yosuke Ogoshi, Shimpei Sato
  • Publication number: 20230253221
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a loading and unloading unit having a first side surface through which a container accommodating a substrate is loaded and unloaded, and a second side surface opposite to the first side surface, a substrate transport unit extending along a first direction perpendicular to the second side surface, and a plurality of batch processing units adjacent to one another along a longitudinal direction of the substrate transport unit. Each of the plurality of batch processing units includes a processing container configured to accommodate and process a plurality of substrates, a gas supply unit configured to supply a gas into the processing container, and an exhaust unit configured to exhaust the gas inside the processing container. The gas supply unit and the exhaust unit are provided on one side of the processing container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Masato KADOBE, Hiromi NITADORI, Kaoru SATO, Kiyohiko GOKON
  • Publication number: 20230253230
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a loading and unloading unit having a first side surface through which a container accommodating a substrate is loaded and unloaded, and a second side surface opposite to the first side surface, a substrate transport unit extending along a first horizontal direction perpendicular to the second side surface, and a plurality of batch processing units adjacent to one another along a longitudinal direction of the substrate transport unit. Each of the plurality of batch processing units includes a processing container configured to accommodate and process a plurality of substrates, a gas supply unit configured to supply a gas into the processing container, and an exhaust unit configured to exhaust the gas inside the processing container. A first maintenance area, used for attending to a maintenance of the plurality of batch processing units, is provided above the exhaust unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Masato KADOBE, Hiromi NITADORI, Kaoru SATO, Kiyohiko GOKON
  • Publication number: 20230129251
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a composition containing various kinds of citrus juice including yuzu juice and having improved citrus flavor such that the composition can be easily and variedly prepared. The above objective can be achieved by a container-packed composition comprising citrus juice and 1 ppb to 2,000 ppb of phenethyl acetate; a processed food or beverage comprising, as raw materials, the composition and an ingredient, or a method of producing the processed food or beverage; a container-packed processed food or beverage comprising citrus juice and 1 ppb to 2,000 ppb of phenethyl acetate; and so on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: KIKKOMAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko OSHIMA, Naoto OHNO, Kaoru SATO
  • Publication number: 20220130280
    Abstract: Disclosed is a brain blood vessel model composed of a three-dimensional tissue containing defibrated extracellular matrix components and cells including brain microvascular endothelial cells, pericytes, and astrocytes, wherein at least a portion of the above-described cells adheres to the above-described defibrated extracellular matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Michiya MATSUSAKI, Agathe Elisabeth Marie FIGAROL, Kaoru SATO
  • Patent number: 10837110
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus is provided to deposit a film including a reaction product on a substrate by repeating a supply cycle of sequentially supplying at least two kinds of reaction gases reactable with each other to a surface of the substrate in a chamber. The substrate processing apparatus includes a turntable provided in the chamber and having a concave portion for receiving the substrate formed in its surface and through-holes formed in the concave portion, a lifting mechanism including lift pins used when transferring the substrate placed on the concave portion, and a control unit configured to control the lifting mechanism. The control unit controls the lifting mechanism to carry the substrate out of the concave portion by moving the lifting pins upward in a vertical direction and inward in a radial direction of the turntable after the lifting pins contact the substrate through the through-holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Kaoru Sato, Kiichi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9560794
    Abstract: A cooling device for cooling a rack-type server of which a housing includes a plurality of electronic devices includes an interior cooling unit and an exterior cooling unit. The interior cooling unit includes a heat-receiving unit, a heat dissipation unit, an outward path pipe, and a return path pipe. The interior cooling unit allows working fluid to be circulated through the heat-receiving unit, the outward path pipe, the heat dissipation unit, the return path pipe, and the heat-receiving unit to thereby move the heat from the heat-receiving unit to the heat dissipation unit. The exterior cooling unit has a heat exchange unit abutted on the heat dissipation unit and allows, by a circulated cooling medium, the heat of the working fluid discharged from the heat dissipation unit to be dissipated to external air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Sato, Makoto Sugiyama, Wakana Nogami, Shunji Miyake, Ayaka Suzuki, Mutsuhiko Matsumoto, Masafumi Matsui, Hiroshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20160330874
    Abstract: A cooling device has a circulation passage that annularly connects heat receiving part, heat radiation passage, heat radiation part, and feedback passage in order, and working fluid housed in the circulation passage, and check valve provided on an upstream side of heat receiving part. Heat radiation part has a liquefying chamber and a cooling water chamber separated by a partition plate. The liquefying chamber has a first connection part connected to heat radiation passage at an upper part of liquefying chamber, and a second connection part connected to feedback passage at a lower part of liquefying chamber, and has a plurality of first heat radiation fins fixed to the partition plate, and having a plurality of openings or cutouts. The cooling water chamber has a cooling water inlet, a cooling water outlet, and a plurality of second heat radiation fins that separate a passage from the cooling water inlet to the cooling water outlet into a plurality of parallel passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: KAORU SATO, AYAKA SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20150181756
    Abstract: In cooling device, refrigerant is circulated through heat receiving unit, heat radiation passage, heat radiation unit, return passage, and heat receiving unit, and cooling is performed by making use of a phase change between a liquid phase and a gaseous phase of refrigerant. Heat receiving unit is configured by placing in series a plurality of heat receivers each of which has inflow port and an outflow port. Check valve is provided on an inflow port side of heat receiver which is closest to return passage among the plurality of heat receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Sato, Wakana Nogami
  • Patent number: 9034148
    Abstract: A method to inexpensively and efficiently produce conductive materials on the surface of which a nano-level fine structure is formed includes surface modification including immersing a stable anode electrode and a workpiece as a cathode electrode, the workpiece including a conductive material with a work surface, in an electrolytic solution, then applying a voltage not less than a first voltage and less than a second voltage between the stable anode electrode and the workpiece as the cathode electrode immersed in the electrolytic solution, thereby modifying the work surface, the first voltage being a voltage corresponding to a current value that is ½ of the sum of a first maximum current value appearing first in a positive voltage region and a first minimum current value appearing first in the positive voltage region with respect to voltage-current characteristics of a surface modification treatment system, the second voltage exhibiting a complete-state plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu Nagoshi, Kaoru Sato, Seiichi Watanabe, Souki Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20150078864
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus is provided to deposit a film including a reaction product on a substrate by repeating a supply cycle of sequentially supplying at least two kinds of reaction gases reactable with each other to a surface of the substrate in a chamber. The substrate processing apparatus includes a turntable provided in the chamber and having a concave portion for receiving the substrate formed in its surface and through-holes formed in the concave portion, a lifting mechanism including lift pins used when transferring the substrate placed on the concave portion, and a control unit configured to control the lifting mechanism. The control unit controls the lifting mechanism to carry the substrate out of the concave portion by moving the lifting pins upward in a vertical direction and inward in a radial direction of the turntable after the lifting pins contact the substrate through the through-holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Kaoru SATO, Kiichi TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 8968839
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a surface-treated metallic material, by use of which a metallic material having a stable and excellent sliding characteristic can be produced with a low environmental load without covering the metallic material surface with an oxide film. The method for producing a surface-treated metallic material includes immersing an anode and a cathode in an electrolyte solution, placing a metallic material used as a material to be treated above the surface of the electrolyte solution, and applying a voltage between the anode and the cathode to treat the metallic material surface, the voltage being equal to or higher than a voltage for causing a complete plasma state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masayasu Nagoshi, Kaoru Sato, Seiichi Watanabe, Souki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8877348
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a surface-treated steel sheet which contains no Cr, which is excellent in wet resin adhesion, and which can be used as an alternative to a conventional tin-free steel sheet and to provide a resin-coated steel sheet produced by coating the surface-treated steel sheet with resin. A surface-treated steel sheet including an adhesive layer which is disposed on at least one surface of the steel sheet and which contains Ti and at least one selected from the group consisting of Co, Fe, Ni, V, Cu, Mn, and Zn, the ratio of the total amount of Co, Fe, Ni, V, Cu, Mn, and Zn to the amount of Ti contained therein being 0.01 to ten on a mass basis, and a method for producing the surface-treated steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yuka Nishihara, Takeshi Suzuki, Noriko Makiishi, Takumi Tanaka, Hiroki Iwasa, Norihiko Nakamura, Kaoru Sato, Takashi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20140321050
    Abstract: A cooling device for cooling a rack-type server of which a housing includes a plurality of electronic devices includes an interior cooling unit and an exterior cooling unit. The interior cooling unit includes a heat-receiving unit, a heat dissipation unit, an outward path pipe, and a return path pipe. The interior cooling unit allows working fluid to be circulated through the heat-receiving unit, the outward path pipe, the heat dissipation unit, the return path pipe, and the heat-receiving unit to thereby move the heat from the heat-receiving unit to the heat dissipation unit. The exterior cooling unit has a heat exchange unit abutted on the heat dissipation unit and allows, by a circulated cooling medium, the heat of the working fluid discharged from the heat dissipation unit to be dissipated to external air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Sato, Makoto Sugiyama, Wakana Nogami, Shunji Miyake, Ayaka Suzuki, Mutsuhiko Matsumoto, Masafumi Matsui, Hiroshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20140209028
    Abstract: A film deposition apparatus includes a turntable; a first process gas supply portion; a gas nozzle that supplies a second process gas; a nozzle cover that is provided to cover the gas nozzle; a separation gas supply portion, wherein the nozzle cover includes an upper plate portion, and an upstream sidewall portion and a downstream sidewall portion that extend downward from upstream and downstream edge portions of the upper plate portion in a rotational direction of the turntable, respectively, wherein an inner surface of the upstream sidewall portion is formed as an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to a surface of the turntable, and wherein an angle ?1 between the inner surface of the upstream sidewall portion and the surface of the turntable is smaller than an angle ?2 between an inner surface of the downstream sidewall portion and the surface of the turntable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Kentaro OSHIMO, Masato KOAKUTSU, Hiroko SASAKI, Kaoru SATO, Hiroaki IKEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20140144782
    Abstract: A method to inexpensively and efficiently produce conductive materials on the surface of which a nano-level fine structure is formed includes surface modification including immersing a stable anode electrode and a workpiece as a cathode electrode, the workpiece including a conductive material with a work surface, in an electrolytic solution, then applying a voltage not less than a first voltage and less than a second voltage between the stable anode electrode and the workpiece as the cathode electrode immersed in the electrolytic solution, thereby modifying the work surface, the first voltage being a voltage corresponding to a current value that is ½ of the sum of a first maximum current value appearing first in a positive voltage region and a first minimum current value appearing first in the positive voltage region with respect to voltage-current characteristics of a surface modification treatment system, the second voltage exhibiting a complete-state plasma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu Nagoshi, Kaoru Sato, Seiichi Watanabe, Souki Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20140110086
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes: a heat receiving portion including a heat receiving plate which transfers heat from a heat source to a working fluid; a heat radiating portion which discharges the heat of the working fluid; and a heat radiating path and a return path which connect the heat receiving portion and the heat radiating portion to each other. In the cooling apparatus, the working fluid is circulated through the heat receiving portion, the heat radiating path, the heat radiating portion, the return path and the heat receiving portion to dissipate the heat of the heat source. A check valve which controls a flow of the working fluid is provided in the return path at a location near the heat receiving portion or provided in the heat receiving portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaoru Sato, Makoto Sugiyama, Shunji Miyake, Hiroyuki Miyamoto, Wakana Nogami, Ayaka Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8544844
    Abstract: An image forming system including an image forming apparatus and a sheet feeding apparatus. The system includes: a first conveying unit conveying to the image forming apparatus a recording material; a second conveying unit conveying to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus the recording material; a detector detecting a recording material type while the second conveying unit halts conveying the recording material; a first controller, based on detection by the detector, determining a speed for conveying the recording material to the image forming unit, and conveying the recording material at the conveying speed; and a second controller controlling recording material conveying speeds of the first conveying unit. Before the recording material reaches the second conveying unit, the second controller maintains a first conveying speed, and after the recording material reaches the second convey unit, maintains a second conveying speed determined by the first control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuichi Yoshizawa, Atsuya Takahashi, Akihiro Nakamura, Tadashi Okanishi, Kazuhisa Maruyama, Kaoru Sato
  • Publication number: 20130243975
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a surface-treated metallic material, by use of which a metallic material having a stable and excellent sliding characteristic can be produced with a low environmental load without covering the metallic material surface with an oxide film. The method for producing a surface-treated metallic material includes immersing an anode and a cathode in an electrolyte solution, placing a metallic material used as a material to be treated above the surface of the electrolyte solution, and applying a voltage between the anode and the cathode to treat the metallic material surface, the voltage being equal to or higher than a voltage for causing a complete plasma state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu Nagoshi, Kaoru Sato, Seiichi Watanabe, Souki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8531695
    Abstract: There is provided an image forming system that automatically discharges paper sheets other than poorly fed ones without making an emergency stop, even when poor paper feeding is caused due to a paper jam or the like. At paper feeding, information showing poor paper feeding is transmitted when the poor paper feeding is detected in supplying the paper sheets. At image forming, a determination is made whether the paper conveyance in forming the image is continued or stopped when an instruction, based on the information showing the poor paper feeding. At paper discharging, a determination is made whether the paper conveyance in discharging the paper sheets is continued or stopped when an instruction, based on the information showing the defective conveyance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Nakamura, Atsuya Takahashi, Kaoru Sato, Ryuichi Yoshizawa, Kazuhisa Maruyama