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).

  • Publication number: 20180171472
    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: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: ASM IP HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Ryoko YAMADA, Jun KAWAHARA, Kazuo SATO
  • Patent number: 9885112
    Abstract: A film forming apparatus includes a susceptor, and a shower head provided above the susceptor and having a first passage and a second passage independent of the first passage formed therein, wherein the first passage is formed through the shower head by being provided with a first cavity surrounded by a first upper wall and a first lower wall, a first thin hole formed in the first upper wall, and a plurality of second thin holes formed in the first lower wall, the height of the first upper wall in the vertical direction is reduced with increase in distance from the first thin hole, and the second passage is formed in the same manner as the first passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: ASM IP HOLDINGS B.V.
    Inventors: Naoto Tsuji, Kazuo Sato, Takayuki Yamagishi
  • Publication number: 20180032053
    Abstract: A numerical controller includes: a program analyzing unit to obtain an end point position of a tool; a first angle calculating unit to calculate an inclination angle of a synthetic feeding direction that maximizes a synthetic torque, based on an upper limit movement torque of the tool in each of the two axis directions; a second angle calculating unit to calculate an inclination angle of a cutting feed direction of the tool based on a start point position and the end point position of the tool; a rotation angle calculating unit to calculate a difference between the inclination angle of the synthetic feeding direction and the inclination angle of the cutting feed direction as a rotation angle of a table; and a servo motor control unit to control rotation of the table based on the rotation angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Sekimoto, Kazuo Sato, Hideaki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20180032051
    Abstract: A numerical controller includes: a program analyzing unit to obtain a first movement end point position of the tool; a direction calculating unit to calculate a synthetic movement direction that maximizes a synthetic velocity, based on an upper limit movement velocity of the tool in each of the two axis directions; an end point position calculating unit to calculate an intersection position of a circle and the synthetic movement direction as a second movement end point position, wherein the circle has as a radius a distance from a rotation center position of the table to the first movement end point position; a rotation angle calculating unit to calculate a rotation angle of the table based on the first movement end point position and the second movement end point position; and a rotation control unit to control rotation of the table based on the rotation angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Sekimoto, Kazuo Sato, Hideaki Maeda
  • Patent number: 9871328
    Abstract: A connector assembly having a cover assembly housing a first electrical component and a second electrical component. The cover assembly includes a mating connector receiving recess, a first component receiving recess and a second component receiving recess. A separating wall mechanically and electrically separates the first component receiving recess from the second component receiving recess. Latches are positioned in the first and second component receiving recess proximate the mating connector receiving recess. The latches cooperate with the electrical components to maintain the electrical component in the component receiving recesses. A seal is provided about an inside perimeter of the mating connector receiving recess. Bus bars electrically connect the first electrical component to the second electrical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS BRASIL LTDA.
    Inventors: Ednei Lopes, Rafael Kazuo Sato Toledo Leme, Natanael Marcondes Santos
  • Patent number: 9849795
    Abstract: A vehicle connector that is connected through a cable to a vehicle-mounted power switchboard is attached to an attachment bracket secured to a vehicle body. The attachment bracket includes a first bracket having an attachment portion to which the vehicle connector is attached and a second bracket secured to the vehicle body so as to be positioned further to an inside of the vehicle body than the first bracket. The first bracket and the second bracket form a closed cross section. Thus, the attachment bracket having the closed cross section supports a load that is applied when a connector to be mated with the vehicle connector is inserted into or removed from the vehicle connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kato, Kazuo Sato, Masaki Shoji, Shohei Ohji
  • Publication number: 20170357243
    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: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Kanta TAKAYAMA, Kazuo SATO, Hideaki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20170244200
    Abstract: A connector assembly having a cover assembly housing a first electrical component and a second electrical component. The cover assembly includes a mating connector receiving recess, a first component receiving recess and a second component receiving recess. A separating wall mechanically and electrically separates the first component receiving recess from the second component receiving recess. Latches are positioned in the first and second component receiving recess proximate the mating connector receiving recess. The latches cooperate with the electrical components to maintain the electrical component in the component receiving recesses. A seal is provided about an inside perimeter of the mating connector receiving recess. Bus bars electrically connect the first electrical component to the second electrical component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Ednei LOPES, Rafael Kazuo Sato LEME, Natanael Marcondes SANTOS
  • Publication number: 20170185079
    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: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Shimizu, Kazuo Sato, Hideaki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20170113562
    Abstract: A vehicle connector that is connected through a cable to a vehicle-mounted power switchboard is attached to an attachment bracket secured to a vehicle body. The attachment bracket includes a first bracket having an attachment portion to which the vehicle connector is attached and a second bracket secured to the vehicle body so as to be positioned further to an inside of the vehicle body than the first bracket. The first bracket and the second bracket form a closed cross section. Thus, the attachment bracket having the closed cross section supports a load that is applied when a connector to be mated with the vehicle connector is inserted into or removed from the vehicle connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kato, Kazuo Sato, Masaki Shoji, Shohei Ohji
  • Publication number: 20170017228
    Abstract: A numerical control apparatus includes an API interface section that accepts invocation of an API function, an API control section that executes the process of the API function based on the invocation of the API function, and processing period estimation means for estimating if the execution of the API function is completed in a predetermined period, and the API control section does not execute but terminates the process of the API function when the processing period estimation means estimates that the execution of the API function will not be completed in the predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu Kato, Kazuo Sato, Hideaki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20160363925
    Abstract: A numerical controller determines a consumption factor representing the degree to which a tool included in a machine tool consumes the life in association with machining conditions, and calculates a tool life (accumulated consumption life) consumed before each block based on the determined consumption factor and a tool usage for each block. If a command of a block read from a machining program is a tool change command, a tool having a tool life not ending before the next tool change command is selected among tools based on the accumulated consumption life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Takumi OOHASHI, Kazuo SATO, Hideaki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20160349739
    Abstract: A numerical controller stores, as project data, input data including at least a machining program and a machining condition and output data indicative of the result of operation control of a machine based on the input data. Further, version management of the project data is performed by a data management unit. With respect to a plurality of versions, the data management unit displays, in response to an operator's request, the relationship between the content of modification of the input data between the plurality of versions of the project data and a change of the output data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshikazu SATAKE, Hideaki MAEDA, Kazuo SATO
  • Patent number: 9483042
    Abstract: A load display device for a machine tool acquires machine coordinate values and load values for axes of the machine tool for each predetermined time from an axis drive control unit for drivingly controlling the machine tool. Three-dimensional coordinate values of a tool center point is calculated to obtain a tool trajectory, based on the machine coordinate values for the axes acquired for each predetermined time and information on a configuration of the machine tool. As the tool trajectory is displayed by a display device, vectors of the load values for the axes stored for each predetermined time are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Sato, Yamato Iwamura
  • Publication number: 20160153088
    Abstract: A film forming apparatus includes a susceptor, and a shower head provided above the susceptor and having a first passage and a second passage independent of the first passage formed therein, wherein the first passage is formed through the shower head by being provided with a first cavity surrounded by a first upper wall and a first lower wall, a first thin hole formed in the first upper wall, and a plurality of second thin holes formed in the first lower wall, the height of the first upper wall in the vertical direction is reduced with increase in distance from the first thin hole, and the second passage is formed in the same manner as the first passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: ASM IP Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Naoto TSUJI, Kazuo SATO, Takayuki YAMAGISHI
  • Patent number: 9334005
    Abstract: In a motorcycle including a screen, a meter panel is arranged at the vehicle front of a rider, and a visor is arranged at the vehicle front of the meter panel. The visor is higher than the meter panel to form an air intake for taking in traveling wind between the visor and the meter panel. A duct extends to a rear side of the screen from the air intake at the vehicle rear of the visor, so that the duct can introduce traveling wind to the rear side of the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsu Horiuchi, Kanta Yamamoto, Tomokatsu Suda, Kazuo Sato, Tomofumi Kuramitsu, Toshio Miura
  • Publication number: 20160109877
    Abstract: A numerical control device includes an operation stop block designation unit configured to predict an executing block of a machining program at designated time, predicted to being executed at the designated time, based on machining time of each block of the machining program, and designate a stop block for the machining operation to be safely stopped, by searching from the executing block at the designated time in reverse order to the order to execute blocks of the machining program, and a program operation control unit configured to control to stop the machining operation at the stop block designated by the operation stop block designation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Hisateru ISHIWARI, Hideaki MAEDA, Kazuo SATO
  • Patent number: D753269
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: ASM IP Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamagishi, Kazuo Sato, Naoto Tsuji
  • Patent number: D774646
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuo Sato
  • Patent number: D785766
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: ASM IP Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Kazuo Sato