Patents by Inventor Katsuhiko Sato
Katsuhiko 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).
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Patent number: 11936170Abstract: A wire guide device is to be arranged at an end portion of a cable guide, and is internally provided with an insertion hole through which a wire is passed. The wire guide device includes a first divided part and a second divided part that can be combined in a width direction that intersects a direction in which the insertion hole is formed. The first divide part and the second divided part include locking portions that are locked to each other in the combined state, division faces that are opposed to each other in the width direction, and restriction portions (vertical movement restriction portions, and slide restriction portions) that are provided separately from the locking portions and abut against each other to restrict positional shift of the division faces.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kazuma Isoda, Katsuhiko Sato
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Patent number: 11924736Abstract: A wireless communication unit and a wireless network system enable a plurality of wireless communication units to be wirelessly cooperated with a simple structure, can easily realize cooperative operations, and can execute IP packet transfer control without acquiring communication path information from an external network. A relay wireless communication portion that is connectable to an upstream unit (upstream wireless base station portion) that is another upstream wireless communication unit via an upstream inter-unit wireless bearer is provided. A wireless base station portion is connectable to a downstream unit (downstream relay wireless communication portion) that is another downstream wireless communication unit via a downstream inter-unit wireless bearer.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Japan Radio Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Sato, Yusuke Egawa, Kunimitsu Arai, Satoshi Maeda, Sadayuki Katsumata
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Patent number: 11881693Abstract: A wire guide device includes a first divided part and a second divided part that can be combined in a width direction. In a combined state, the first divided part and the second divided part form an insertion hole 19 through which a wire passes in a direction intersecting the width direction. One end of the insertion hole is open toward a cable guide, and the other end of the insertion hole is open upward. The upper side of the insertion hole is covered by upper walls of the first divided part and the second divided part. The upper walls of the first divided part and the second divided part are formed in the width direction, are abutted against each other, and include upper guide portions that restrict displacement in a direction orthogonal to the width direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kazuma Isoda, Katsuhiko Sato, Hiroki Uno
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Publication number: 20230398107Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for treating or preventing a disease caused in the vagina or perivaginal area by a pathogenic virus. The composition contains, as an active ingredient, a compound of an aniline derivative represented by the following formula (I): where W represents S or O, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a hydrate thereof. The pharmaceutical composition is in the form of a vaginal insert (e.g., a vaginal tablet, a vaginal capsule, or a vaginal suppository) containing a granular preparation, which includes core particles and a coating layer covering the core particles. The core particles contain the compound, needle-like and/or approximately column-like-shaped crystalline cellulose, a pharmaceutically acceptable approximately spherical shaped additive, and a nonionic surfactant. The granular preparation is characterized in that, in the core particles, voids are present between the crystalline cellulose and the additive.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: KINOPHARMA, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi ONOGI, Tetsuo YAMAGUCHI, Katsuhiko SATO
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Patent number: 11820454Abstract: A straddle-type electric vehicle, comprising a pair of left and right main frames, a seat rail extending rearward from a rear portion of each of the main frames, a pivot frame extending downward from a rear portion of each of the main frames, a swing arm supported by the pivot frame, a battery arranged in a space between the main frames, a power unit arranged in the space, a wind guiding duct for guiding traveling wind to the space, and an air outlet port for emitting the traveling wind, the air outlet port being provided so as to be capable of emitting the traveling wind inside the wind guiding duct from a lower portion of a vehicle body to an area below the vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Fujikubo, Katsuhiko Sato, Tsugio Ikeda, Ryo Kubota, Yudai Hirose, Naoya Ishimatsu, Hiroshi Tamura
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Publication number: 20230197019Abstract: In order to provide an optical apparatus capable of adjusting a light amount in each of a plurality of optical systems with a simple structure, the optical apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of optical systems each of which includes a stop, a storing unit configured to store information indicating a relationship between target aperture diameters of the stop and target light amounts in the respective optical systems, and a controller configured to adjust a light amount by changing an aperture diameter of the stop in the respective optical systems based on the information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventor: KATSUHIKO SATO
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Publication number: 20230175611Abstract: A grommet according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a base part that is fixed to an insertion hole provided in a vehicle body panel; a tubular part that covers an outer circumference of a wire harness inserted into the insertion hole; and a coupling part that couples a basal portion of the tubular part and the base part while allowing tilting movement of the tubular part. The coupling part includes a compression allowance part provided on a first direction side in a circumferential direction and a tension allowance part provided on a second direction side opposite to the first direction side, such that when a leading end side of the tubular part is inclined toward the first direction side, stress applied to the base part is smaller than when the leading end side of the tubular part is inclined toward the second direction side.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Taiki KOBAYASHI, Katsuhiko SATO
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Patent number: 11433898Abstract: A driving control apparatus for a vehicle having a function for generating a target path to a predetermined range as a target and performing automated lane change to a neighboring lane when no other vehicle is recognized in the predetermined range of the neighboring lane by a surrounding recognition function and a merging support function for generating a target path using other vehicle information obtained by a communication function, performing acceleration/deceleration control and steering control, and automatically merging to a merged lane, wherein the driving control apparatus has a function for altering override threshold values serving as a determination criterion of operation intervention for stopping the acceleration/deceleration control and the steering control to a value greater than during normal operation of the communication function when failure occurs in the communication function during the automated merging.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuhiko Sato
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Patent number: 11433889Abstract: A driving control apparatus for a vehicle having a CACC function for performing convoy cruise by cooperative adaptive cruise control using an ACC function together with driving information on convoy vehicles obtained by vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and a tracking control function for performing steering control to perform following cruise to the preceding vehicle when it is determined that a lane cannot be recognized during the convoy cruise, the driving control apparatus has a function for: notifying a driver of CACC function cancelation and of tracking control start, in case in which failure has occurred in the vehicle-to-vehicle communication or the lane cannot be recognized during the convoy cruise; shifting to following cruise by the tracking control function; and setting override threshold values serving as a determination criterion of operation intervention for stopping the tracking control function to a second value greater than a first value of during normal operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuhiko Sato
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Patent number: 11407427Abstract: Vehicle driving control apparatus having function for performing automated in-lane driving by maintaining a vehicle speed when no preceding vehicle is in driving lane, and maintaining an inter-vehicle distance when a preceding other vehicle exists, function for performing automated lane change when there is no other vehicle in a predetermined area of neighboring lane, a function for notifying a driver of stopping the functions and an operation takeover request when a system failure occurs, function for evacuating vehicle to road shoulder when driver cannot resume operation, wherein, when vehicle is not in first lane neighboring road shoulder at operation of evacuating function, lane change from in-lane driving maintaining set inter-vehicle distance or set vehicle speed to first lane is performed, and prior thereto, a predetermined area serving as criterion of lane change to first lane is changed to a second area smaller than area of automated lane change.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuhiko Sato
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Patent number: 11407465Abstract: A straddle-type electric vehicle, comprising a pair of left and right main frames, a seat rail extending rearward from a rear portion of each of the main frames, a pivot frame extending downward from a rear portion of each of the main frames, a swing arm supported by the pivot frame and by which a rear wheel is swingably supported, a battery arranged in a space between the main frames, a power unit arranged in the space and generates motive power based on electric power of the battery, and a wind guiding duct for guiding traveling wind to the space, the wind guiding duct provided relative to each of the main frames, the wind guiding duct being positioned more outward in a vehicle width direction than the main frames.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsugio Ikeda, Katsuhiko Sato, Makoto Fujikubo, Takumi Furuto
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Patent number: 11396294Abstract: In a driving control apparatus for a vehicle having an ACC function for performing constant speed cruise according to a target speed when there is no preceding other vehicle in a vehicle's driving lane and performing following cruise by maintaining a predetermined inter-vehicle distance when there is a preceding other vehicle, an LKA function for maintaining cruise in the vehicle's driving lane by following control to a target path, an override function for stopping the ACC function and the LKA function by a driver's operation intervention, and a function for notifying the driver of stopping the LKA function and the ACC function and operation takeover and performing fallback control of the LKA function and the ACC function at the time of system limit of the LKA function, override threshold values serving as a determination criterion of the operation intervention for stopping the LKA function and the ACC function at the time of system limit of the LKA function are configured to be altered to a value greater thType: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuhiko Sato
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Publication number: 20220232451Abstract: A wireless communication unit and a wireless network system enable a plurality of wireless communication units to be wirelessly cooperated with a simple structure, can easily realize cooperative operations, and can execute IP packet transfer control without acquiring communication path information from an external network. A relay wireless communication portion that is connectable to an upstream unit (upstream wireless base station portion) that is another upstream wireless communication unit via an upstream inter-unit wireless bearer is provided. A wireless base station portion is connectable to a downstream unit (downstream relay wireless communication portion) that is another downstream wireless communication unit via a downstream inter-unit wireless bearer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Katsuhiko Sato, Yusuke Egawa, Kunimitsu Arai, Satoshi Maeda, Sadayuki Katsumata
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Patent number: 11370430Abstract: An ACC function for performing constant speed cruise according to a target speed when there is no preceding other vehicle in a vehicle's driving lane and performing following cruise by maintaining a predetermined inter-vehicle distance when there is a preceding other vehicle, an LKA function for maintaining cruise, an override function for stopping the ACC function and the LKA function by a driver's operation intervention, and a fallback function for performing fallback control of the ACC function and/or the LKA function, with notifying the driver of stopping the ACC function and/or the LKA function and operation takeover, at a time of system operational design domain deviation of the ACC function and/or the LKA function, override threshold values of the functions serving as a determination criterion of the operation intervention for stopping the ACC function and/or the LKA function at the time of system operational design domain deviation are configured to be altered to a value greater than during normal opeType: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuhiko Sato
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Patent number: 11299155Abstract: An ACC function for performing constant speed cruise according to a target speed when there is no preceding other vehicle in a vehicle's driving lane and performing following cruise by maintaining a predetermined inter-vehicle distance when there is a preceding other vehicle, an LKA function for maintaining cruise, an override function for stopping the ACC function and the LKA function by a driver's operation intervention, and a fallback function for performing fallback control of the ACC function and/or the LKA function, with notifying the driver of stopping the ACC function and/or the LKA function and operation takeover, at a time of system operational design domain deviation of the ACC function and/or the LKA function, override threshold values of the functions serving as a determination criterion of the operation intervention for stopping the ACC function and/or the LKA function at the time of system operational design domain deviation are configured to be altered to a value greater than during normal opeType: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuhiko Sato
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Patent number: 11235765Abstract: A driving control with environmental condition estimating including surrounding recognition function for recognizing a vehicle's lane and neighboring lanes and other vehicles and a function for obtaining the vehicle's state, a path generating part for generating a path based on information from the environmental condition estimating, and a vehicle control for speed and steering control for causing the vehicle to follow the path. The environmental condition estimating obtains the vehicle's position near a toll plaza, having a vehicle ahead following function for targeting a vehicle ahead. The driving control alters override threshold values serving as a determination criterion of the operation intervention for stopping the vehicle ahead following function and a path following function to a value greater than during driving in a general section with lane markings when the vehicle's own position reaches a predetermined point before the toll plaza.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuhiko Sato
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Patent number: 11186278Abstract: An ACC function for performing constant speed cruise according to a target speed when there is no preceding other vehicle in a vehicle's own driving lane and performing following cruise by maintaining a predetermined inter-vehicle distance when there is a preceding other vehicle, an LKA function for maintaining cruise in the vehicle's own driving lane by following control to a target path, a function for performing automated lane change to a neighboring lane when there is no other vehicle in a predetermined range in the neighboring lane, an override function for stopping the automated lane change function by a driver's operation intervention, and a function for performing fallback control of the automated lane change function, with notifying the driver of stopping the automated lane change function and operation takeover.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuhiko Sato
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Patent number: 11161513Abstract: An automated driving controller for a vehicle includes an environmental condition estimating part including a surrounding recognition function for recognizing a vehicle's driving lane, neighboring lanes, and other vehicles driving in the driving lanes and a function for obtaining the vehicle's moving state, a path generating part for generating a target path on the basis of information obtained by the environmental condition estimating part, and a vehicle control part configured to perform speed control and steering control for causing the vehicle to follow the target path, and has a function for performing automated lane change to a neighboring lane when there is no other vehicle in a predetermined range of the neighboring lane and a function for determining whether lane change should be continued when another vehicle is recognized in a predetermined area (XF and XR) around the vehicle during execution of the automated lane change.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Inventor: Katsuhiko Sato
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Publication number: 20210288482Abstract: A wire guide device is to be arranged at an end portion of a cable guide, and is internally provided with an insertion hole through which a wire is passed. The wire guide device includes a first divided part and a second divided part that can be combined in a width direction that intersects a direction in which the insertion hole is formed. The first divide part and the second divided part include locking portions that are locked to each other in the combined state, division faces that are opposed to each other in the width direction, and restriction portions (vertical movement restriction portions, and slide restriction portions) that are provided separately from the locking portions and abut against each other to restrict positional shift of the division faces.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Kazuma ISODA, Katsuhiko SATO
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Publication number: 20210288479Abstract: A wire guide device includes a first divided part and a second divided part that can be combined in a width direction. In a combined state, the first divided part and the second divided part form an insertion hole 19 through which a wire passes in a direction intersecting the width direction. One end of the insertion hole is open toward a cable guide, and the other end of the insertion hole is open upward. The upper side of the insertion hole is covered by upper walls of the first divided part and the second divided part. The upper walls of the first divided part and the second divided part are formed in the width direction, are abutted against each other, and include upper guide portions that restrict displacement in a direction orthogonal to the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Kazuma ISODA, Katsuhiko SATO, Hiroki UNO