Patents by Inventor Kazuo Sato

Kazuo 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).

  • Patent number: 11641048
    Abstract: A battery terminal connector assembly for attaching to a terminal post of a battery includes a biasing portion and a post engagement portion. The biasing portion has a first terminal post receiving opening. A biasing wall extends about a circumference of the first terminal post receiving opening. The post engagement portion has a second terminal post receiving opening for receiving the battery terminal post therein. Engagement walls extend about a circumference of the second terminal post receiving opening. The biasing portion is movable relative to the post engagement portion between a first insertion position and a second termination position. As the biasing portion is moved from the first insertion position to the second termination position, the biasing wall engages the engagement walls and moves the engagement walls into mechanical and electrical engagement with the battery terminal post positioned in the second terminal receiving opening of the post engagement portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Brasil Industria De Eletronicos LTDA
    Inventors: Gustavo Bonucci, Luis Altero, Agnelo Bartolomeu Cavallaro, Rafael Kazuo Sato T Leme
  • Patent number: 11626649
    Abstract: A battery terminal connector assembly includes a first post engagement portion and a second post engagement portion. The first post engagement portion has a first opening for receiving the battery terminal post therein. The second post engagement portion has a second opening for receiving the battery terminal post therein. The first post engagement portion is movable relative to the second post engagement portion and the first post engagement portion and the second post engagement portion are movable relative to the battery terminal post as the first post engagement portion and the second post engagement portion are moved between a first insertion position and a second termination position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Brasil Industria De Eletronicos LTDA
    Inventors: Luis Altero, Gustavo Bonucci, Agnelo Bartolomeu Cavallaro, Rafael Kazuo Sato T Leme
  • Patent number: 11502431
    Abstract: A terminal includes a body and a bolt section at a first end of the body. The bolt section has a body passageway extending through the body and a sidewall defining the body passageway. The bolt section has a rib disposed on the sidewall and protruding into the body passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventors: Rafael Kazuo Sato T Leme, Djalma Oliveira, Paulo Barletta, Jochen Mayer
  • Publication number: 20220352657
    Abstract: A terminal includes a body and a bolt section at a first end of the body. The bolt section has a body passageway extending through the body and a sidewall defining the body passageway. The bolt section has a rib disposed on the sidewall and protruding into the body passageway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicants: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, TE Connectivity Brasil Industria De Eletronics LTDA
    Inventors: Rafael Kazuo Sato T. Leme, Djalma Oliveira, Paulo Barletta, Jochen Mayer
  • Publication number: 20220109135
    Abstract: A battery terminal connector assembly includes a first post engagement portion and a second post engagement portion. The first post engagement portion has a first opening for receiving the battery terminal post therein. The second post engagement portion has a second opening for receiving the battery terminal post therein. The first post engagement portion is movable relative to the second post engagement portion and the first post engagement portion and the second post engagement portion are movable relative to the battery terminal post as the first post engagement portion and the second post engagement portion are moved between a first insertion position and a second termination position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Luis Altero, Gustavo Bonucci, Agnelo Bartolomeu Cavallaro, Rafael Kazuo Sato T. Leme
  • Publication number: 20220109134
    Abstract: A battery terminal connector assembly for attaching to a terminal post of a battery includes a biasing portion and a post engagement portion. The biasing portion has a first terminal post receiving opening. A biasing wall extends about a circumference of the first terminal post receiving opening. The post engagement portion has a second terminal post receiving opening for receiving the battery terminal post therein. Engagement walls extend about a circumference of the second terminal post receiving opening. The biasing portion is movable relative to the post engagement portion between a first insertion position and a second termination position. As the biasing portion is moved from the first insertion position to the second termination position, the biasing wall engages the engagement walls and moves the engagement walls into mechanical and electrical engagement with the battery terminal post positioned in the second terminal receiving opening of the post engagement portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Gustavo Bonucci, Luis Altero, Agnelo Bartolomeu Cavallaro, Rafael Kazuo Sato T Leme
  • Publication number: 20220068305
    Abstract: A base member serves as a part of a housing of a hard disk drive device. The base member includes a base body being a cast product, a first machined surface obtained by machining a portion formed with a convex portion of the base body, and a coating film covering a surface of the base body. The base body includes a coated surface obtained by covering the first machined surface with the coating film, and a second machined portion obtained by machining a part of the base body other than the first machined surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hideaki SHOWA, Kazuo SATO, Junichi NAKANE
  • Patent number: 11156986
    Abstract: A machining program editing device calculates an editable time for a block of a machining program, makes editable only those of a plurality of blocks in the machining program which have the editable time left remaining, and locally writes only edited portions into a machining program used for control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu Kato, Kazuo Sato, Yorikazu Fukui
  • Patent number: 11149350
    Abstract: A shower plate for a plasma deposition apparatus, the shower plate including: a plurality of apertures each extending from a rear surface of the shower plate to a front surface for passing a carrier gas therethrough in this direction to a chamber, a plurality of first apertures each extending from a first connecting aperture to an inner part of the front surface for passing gas therethrough in this direction to the chamber, and a plurality of second apertures each extending from a second connecting aperture to an outer part of the front surface for passing gas therethrough in this direction to the chamber, wherein the first connecting aperture connects the first apertures to at least one first aperture extending from a sidewall side of the shower plate and the second connecting aperture connects the second apertures to at least one second aperture extending from the sidewall side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ASM IP HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Wataru Adachi, Kazuo Sato
  • Patent number: 10950449
    Abstract: Examples of a substrate processing apparatus includes a chamber, a susceptor provided in the chamber, a flow control ring of an insulator that is mounted on the chamber and surrounds the susceptor, a shower plate opposed to the susceptor, and a metal film that is formed on a lower surface of the flow control ring while exposing an upper surface of the flow control ring, and is in contact with the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ASM IP Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Wataru Adachi, Kazuo Sato
  • Patent number: 10871761
    Abstract: A numerical controller that detects occurrence of an abnormality according to a neighborhood method includes a sampling value acquisition unit configured to collect sampling values indicative of a state of a machine or environment, wherein the sampling values are collected during normal machining and during operation; a learning unit configured to generate a set of the sampling values during the normal machining; and an abnormality degree determination unit configured to compute an abnormality degree on the basis of a distance between the sampling value during the operation and the set of the sampling values during the normal machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Ebato, Kazuo Sato, Takahiko Endo
  • Patent number: 10839317
    Abstract: A control device includes a machine learning device that learns a state of a spindle during normal machining without a collision of the spindle, and the machine learning device includes a state observation unit that observes spindle estimated load torque data indicating an estimated load torque value for the spindle and spindle acceleration data indicating an acceleration value of the spindle as state variables representing a current state of an environment and a learning unit that learns a correlation between the estimated load torque values for the spindle and the acceleration values of the spindle during the normal machining with use of the state variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Sato
  • Patent number: 10801106
    Abstract: A shower plate adapted to be installed in a plasma deposition apparatus including a gas inlet port, a shower head, a reaction chamber and an exhaust duct, the shower plate being adapted to be attached to the showerhead and having: a front surface adapted to face the gas inlet port; and a rear surface opposite to the front surface, wherein the shower plate has multiple apertures each extending from the front surface to the rear surface, and wherein the shower plate further has at least one aperture extending from the front surface side of the shower plate to the exhaust duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: ASM IP HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Ryoko Yamada, Jun Kawahara, Kazuo Sato
  • Patent number: 10732616
    Abstract: A numerical controller that controls a machine based on a program includes a manual program execution instruction unit that gives instructions for advancing and reversing execution of the program in a manual manner, a program manual execution unit that sequentially executes the program, and a block information notification unit that identifies a block in the program the execution of which is about to be started, based on execution status of the program reported from the program manual execution unit, and that makes notification in accordance with an attribute of the identified block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Shimizu, Kazuo Sato, Hideaki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10645280
    Abstract: An object is to provide an image-sensing system which can acquire uniform images with a line sensor camera. An image-sensing system includes: a line sensor camera that shoots a workpiece in which a plurality of circumferential surfaces whose radii differ from each other are aligned in a direction of an axis and which is being machined while being rotated about the axis from a direction orthogonal to the axis so as to cover the entire workpiece in the direction of the axis; and a scan rate change unit which changes a scan rate of the line sensor camera to values that respectively correspond to the radii of the circumferential surfaces, and the line sensor camera shoots the workpiece at the scan rates which are changed to the values corresponding to the radii of the circumferential surfaces so as to respectively correspond to the circumferential surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouhei Kuribara, Kazuo Sato
  • Patent number: 10585417
    Abstract: A machine learning device for learning a threshold value of detecting an abnormal load in a machine tool, includes a state observation unit, and a learning unit. The state observation unit observes a state variable obtained based on at least one of information about a tool, main spindle revolution rate, and amount of coolant of the machine tool, material of a workpiece, and moving direction, cutting speed, and cut depth of the tool, and the learning unit learns the threshold value of detecting an abnormal load based on training data created from an output of the state observation unit and data related to detection of an abnormal load in the machine tool and on teacher data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kanta Takayama, Kazuo Sato, Hideaki Maeda
  • Patent number: D871160
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Sato
  • Patent number: D899202
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Sato
  • Patent number: D934931
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Sato
  • Patent number: D953388
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Inventor: Kazuo Sato