Patents by Inventor Kazuya Kato

Kazuya Kato 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: 12237450
    Abstract: A metallic structure for an optical semiconductor device including a conductive base body having disposed thereon metallic layers in the following order: a nickel or nickel alloy plated layer, a gold or gold alloy plated layer, and an indium or indium alloy plated layer, wherein the indium or indium alloy plated layer has a thickness in a range of 0.002 ?m or more and 0.3 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Kato, Kazuya Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20250058749
    Abstract: This braking control device comprises: a first unit that outputs a supply pressure in accordance with the amount of operation of a braking operation member; a second unit that is provided between the first unit and a wheel cylinder, and adjusts the supply pressure to output a wheel pressure to the wheel cylinder; a communication bus for communicating signals between the first unit and the second unit; an operation amount sensor that detects the operation amount; and a supply pressure sensor that detects the supply pressure. In the braking control device, when there is an abnormality in signal communication, the second unit calculates a target pressure on the basis of the operation amount and adjusts the wheel pressure on the basis of the difference between the target pressure and the supply pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideshi KATO, Kazuya MORISHITA, Yoshio MASUDA, Daichi NAGAE
  • Publication number: 20250055061
    Abstract: An energy storage cell according to the present disclosure includes a wound electrode assembly and a cell case. The cell case includes an outer peripheral wall portion, a first end portion, a second end portion, and an inner peripheral wall portion. The first end portion has a first hole. The second end portion has a second hole. The inner peripheral wall portion extends from the first hole to the second hole. The inner peripheral wall portion is disposed inside the wound electrode assembly in a radial direction. A portion of the outer peripheral wall portion that is located next to the wound electrode assembly in the radial direction has a rectangular tubular outer shape. A portion of the inner peripheral wall portion that is located next to the wound electrode assembly in the radial direction has a rectangular tubular outer shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhito KATO, Junta Takasu, Atsushi Yamanaka, Masato Ono, Satoshi Moriyama, Kosuke Suzuki, Kazuki Sugie, Kazuya Kumazawa
  • Publication number: 20250046607
    Abstract: A substrate processing method is provided that forms a target film on a first material layer of a substrate that includes the first material layer and a second material layer. The substrate processing method includes forming a first organic film on the first material layer of the substrate including the first material layer and the second material layer different from the first material layer, supplying a process gas including a raw material of a target film to form a first target film on the second material layer, and to allow the an outermost surface of the first organic film to react with the process gas to form an adsorption layer, forming a second organic film on the adsorption layer, and forming a second target film on the first target film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Takashi FUSE, Kazuya KATO, Shuji AZUMO
  • Patent number: 12219300
    Abstract: A method for processing image data according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes obtaining first image data indicating a hyperspectral image of a target captured in first background light, generating, on a basis of the first image data, first spectral data indicating an estimated spectrum of the first background light, and generating, from the first image data, at least one piece of second image data indicating at least one image of the target in at least one type of second background light, which is different from the first background light, using at least one piece of second spectral data indicating at least one spectrum of the at least one type of second background light and the first spectral data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Inada, Atsushi Ishikawa, Toshio Mochida, Taku Hirasawa, Kazuya Hisada, Yumiko Kato
  • Publication number: 20240383162
    Abstract: A working machine may include a working unit, a prime mover configured to drive the working unit, a housing that supports the working unit and houses the prime mover, a trigger lever extending through a through hole defined in the housing so as to be located inside and outside the housing and configured to be manipulated by a user, a sensor configured to detect a movement of the trigger lever, and a control unit configured to control the prime mover based on a detection result by the sensor. The trigger lever may be rotatably supported by the housing via a rotation shaft. The trigger lever may include a block portion that has a shape of a substantially solid of revolution about a rotation axis of the trigger lever. A peripheral edge of the through hole may include a facing edge that faces an outer circumferential surface of the block portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Makita Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuya Kato
  • Publication number: 20240188503
    Abstract: A cutter machine may include a first blade, a second blade configured to rotate relative to the first blade, a base member supporting the first blade and the second blade, a screw member including a head portion and a shaft portion extending from the head portion which is a proximal end of the shaft portion, wherein the screw member fastens the first blade and the base member to each other, a looseness restraint member attached to the shaft portion and configured to be pressed by the head portion to restrain loosening of the screw member, and a fall-off restraint member attached to the shaft portion on a distal side of the shaft portion relative to the looseness restraint member and configured to restrain the looseness restraint member from moving relative to the shaft portion in a direction from a proximal side to the distal side of the shaft portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya KATO
  • Patent number: 11971453
    Abstract: A battery state detection device including a battery post terminal, a case accommodating a circuit board including a current sensing circuit that senses a current by being electrically connected to the battery post terminal, and a harness connection part provided on the case, the harness connection part being capable of having a harness connected thereto, in which the battery post terminal includes a holding part held on one of faces of the case, and an insert part provided in a region from the holding part along a face adjacent to the one of the faces of the case, the battery post terminal contacts the case via at least two faces, the two faces including the one of the faces and the face adjacent to the one of the faces, and the case includes a fitting part, the fitting part being adapted to fit around the insert part by accommodating the insert part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Iwasaki, Ryosuke Takahashi, Kazuya Kato, Keita Saji, Ryusuke Kakoi
  • Publication number: 20220384183
    Abstract: A substrate cleaning method includes: providing a substrate including a low-k layer containing silicon to a substrate support; etching the low-k layer by a plasma generated from a first gas; separating the etched substrate from the substrate support; and removing a reaction product attached to the substrate in the etching by a plasma generated from a second gas. The second gas includes a first carbon-containing gas represented by CxHyFz (y?0, x/z>ΒΌ).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Wakako ISHIDA, Yasunori HATAMURA, Eundo BAE, Kazuya KATO, Inho JANG, Eisuke NUMAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220011367
    Abstract: A battery state detection device including a battery post terminal, a case accommodating a circuit board including a current sensing circuit that senses a current by being electrically connected to the battery post terminal, and a harness connection part provided on the case, the harness connection part being capable of having a harness connected thereto, in which the battery post terminal includes a holding part held on one of faces of the case, and an insert part provided in a region from the holding part along a face adjacent to the one of the faces of the case, the battery post terminal contacts the case via at least two faces, the two faces including the one of the faces and the face adjacent to the one of the faces, and the case includes a fitting part, the fitting part being adapted to fit around the insert part by accommodating the insert part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun IWASAKI, Ryosuke TAKAHASHI, Kazuya KATO, Keita SAJI, Ryusuke KAKOI
  • Patent number: 10889244
    Abstract: The lighting control device includes a controller, a diagnosis circuit, a latch circuit, and a logic circuit. The controller outputs a control signal. The diagnosis circuit outputs an irregular signal. The latch circuit decides a state of a forcibly lighting signal. The logic circuit controls a light source in accordance with an ignition signal, the control signal, and the forcibly lighting signal. The logic circuit turns on the light source in accordance with the ignition signal while receiving the forcibly lighting signal, and turns on the light source in accordance with the control signal while not receiving the forcibly lighting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Ueno, Masaaki Takamatsu, Toshiaki Sasaki, Kazuya Kato
  • Patent number: 10632669
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a helical layer structure including: a helical core member which is formed of a flexible, lengthy, flat plate-like core member and which is formed of a steel plate made of a metal material, such as iron; and a polymeric coating layer which is formed of a polymeric material such as a thermosetting elastic material or a thermoplastic elastic material, and which coats the helical core member. The manufacturing method of the helical layer structure includes: a feeding step of feeding a core member having flexibility; a supply step of supplying the polymeric material having fluidity; a coating step of coating the core member with the polymeric material; a cooling step of cooling a coated intermediate which is coated with the polymeric material; and a helix formation step of helically twisting the coated intermediate to form the helical layer structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignees: KASEI KOGYO, CO., LTD., HOWA PLASTICS. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Kondo, Kazuya Kato, Hiroyuki Oe
  • Patent number: 10477643
    Abstract: An impedance adjustment circuit varies an impedance of a transistor, thereby adjusting an impedance of a current path. A second control circuit controls a drive circuit to turn on or off at least one switch device of the switch devices while the impedance adjustment circuit is increasing the impedance of the current path. The impedance adjustment circuit adjusts the impedance of the current path to the minimum value after the drive circuit switches the at least one switch device from off to on or from on to off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiaki Nakamura, Kazuya Kato, Kenichi Fukuda, Akihiro Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 10393519
    Abstract: A fall detection sensor for a rammer includes an acceleration sensor, a low-pass filter, an integrator, a first comparator, a second comparator, and control means. The second comparator compares wave patterns of input signals with a plurality of types of fall sample waves and non-fall sample waves stored in advance. The second comparator outputs a fall detection signal upon determining that the rammer has fallen when the similarity with one of the fall sample waves exceeds a threshold, and the second comparator outputs a non-fall signal upon determining that the rammer has not fallen when the similarity with one of the non-fall sample waves exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignees: MIKASA SANGYO CO., LTD., NANO STUDIO INC.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Harashima, Hideo Saito, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazuma Hirai, Yuki Shibuichi, Kazuya Kato
  • Publication number: 20190101388
    Abstract: Provided is a fall detection sensor for rammer capable of determining a fall state of a rammer, that operates with a large vibration and impact, with high accuracy, and stopping a motor (an engine or the like) immediately. The fall detection sensor for rammer includes an acceleration sensor (2), a low-pass filter (3), an integrator (4), a first comparator (5), a second comparator (6), and control means (7). The second comparator (6) compares wave patterns of input signals (x?-z?) with a plurality of types of of fall sample waves (FW) and non-fall sample waves (NFW) stored in advance. The second comparator (6) outputs a fall detection signal (fs) upon determining that the rammer has fallen when the similarity with the fall sample wave (FW) exceeds a threshold, and the second comparator (6) outputs a non-fall signal (nfs) upon determining that the rammer has not fallen when the similarity with the non-fall sample wave (NFW) exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicants: MIKASA SANGYO CO., LTD., NANO STUDIO INC.
    Inventors: Yoshinori HARASHIMA, Hideo SAITO, Masahiro IKEDA, Kazuma HIRAI, Yuki SHIBUICHI, Kazuya KATO
  • Patent number: 10231312
    Abstract: In a lighting device, when determining that both of a first measuring value and a second measuring value are not an abnormal value, a controller is configured to control an output of a power converter based on the first and second measuring values. The first measuring value is a temperature inside a main body of the lighting device, sensed by a first temperature sensor. The second measuring value is a temperature of a light source, sensed by a second temperature sensor. When determining that at least one of the first and second measuring values is the abnormal value, the controller is configured to control the output of the power converter to another value that is different from a value of the output set based on the first and second measuring values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Kato, Toshiaki Nakamura, Akihiro Kishimoto, Kenichi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10191119
    Abstract: An inspecting apparatus is for a noncontact power transfer system that transfers electric power from a transmitting unit to a receiving device in a noncontact manner. The inspecting apparatus includes a coupling capacitance varying unit configured to vary at least one of a first coupling capacitance formed between a transmitting-side passive electrode and a receiving-side passive electrode and a second coupling capacitance formed between a transmitting-side active electrode and a receiving-side active electrode when the receiving device is placed on the transmitting unit, and a control unit configured to monitor an alternating-current voltage generated between the receiving-side passive electrode and the receiving-side active electrode of the receiving device or a direct-current voltage obtained through conversion by a rectifying circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Goma, Kazuya Kato
  • Patent number: 10033217
    Abstract: A wireless power receiver device includes a sheet-like electrode sheet section and a power receiver section. The electrode sheet section includes a power receiver side active electrode and a power receiver side passive electrode that are substantially coplanar and formed into sheet-like shapes; lead lines that are coplanar with both the electrodes, extended from the respective electrodes, and formed into sheet-like shapes; and an insulation sheet that covers both the electrodes and both the lead lines from both sides thereof. The power receiver section includes a step-down unit that steps down an alternating-current voltage induced between end portions of the lead lines; a power receiver module that rectifies and smoothes the alternating-current voltage that is stepped down by the step-down unit; and a connector for outputting an output voltage of the power receiver module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Goma, Kazuya Kato, Tsutomu Ieki
  • Patent number: 10009970
    Abstract: A power supply device includes converters, a command circuit, and a setter. The converters correspond to loads. The command circuit controls the converters. The setter sets a magnitude of an output of at least one target converter of the converters in accordance with an output characteristic representing a relationship between an input voltage of the at least one target converter and an output limit value which is an upper limit value of the output from the at least one target converter. The output characteristic is a characteristic that the output limit value decreases as the input voltage lowers when the input voltage is lower than a threshold. The setter varies the threshold of the output characteristic in accordance with an operation status of the converters and sets the magnitude of the output from the at least one target converter in accordance with the output characteristic whose threshold has been varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kishimoto, Toshiaki Nakamura, Kenichi Fukuda, Kazuya Kato
  • Publication number: 20180154414
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a helical layer structure including: a helical core member which is formed of a flexible, lengthy, flat plate-like core member and which is formed of a steel plate made of a metal material, such as iron; and a polymeric coating layer which is formed of a polymeric material such as a thermosetting elastic material or a thermoplastic elastic material, and which coats the helical core member. The manufacturing method of the helical layer structure includes: a feeding step of feeding a core member having flexibility; a supply step of supplying the polymeric material having fluidity; a coating step of coating the core member with the polymeric material; a cooling step of cooling a coated intermediate which is coated with the polymeric material; and a helix formation step of helically twisting the coated intermediate to form the helical layer structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicants: Kasei Kogyo, Co., Ltd., HOWA Plastics. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo KONDO, Kazuya KATO, Hiroyuki OE