Patents by Inventor Keiichi Sato

Keiichi 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: 12134819
    Abstract: A cesium tungsten oxide film has high heat ray shielding performance and a radio wave transmissivity, and a method for manufacturing a cesium tungsten oxide film capable of manufacturing such film by a dry method. A cesium tungsten oxide film including cesium, tungsten and oxygen as main components, wherein, an atomic ratio of the cesium and the tungsten is Cs/W, which is 0.1 or more and 0.5 or less, and the cesium tungsten oxide film is having a hexagonal crystal structure. A method for manufacturing a cesium tungsten oxide film including cesium, tungsten and oxygen as main components, including: a film deposition process using a cesium tungsten oxide target; and a heat treatment process for heat-treating the film at a temperature of 400° C. or more and less than 1000° C., wherein either the film deposition process or the heat treatment process is performed in an atmosphere containing oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Sato, Isao Ando
  • Patent number: 12080583
    Abstract: A base plate has one surface and the other surface opposite to the one surface. An electrostatic chuck is capable of being mounted on the one surface. The base plate includes a refrigerant flow path provided therein. An inner wall of the refrigerant flow path has an upper surface convex toward the one surface in a longitudinal sectional view in a direction intersecting with a direction in which refrigerant flows. An unevenness is formed on the upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Sato, Keiichi Takemoto, Tatsuya Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240284913
    Abstract: An antibacterial material containing composite tungsten oxide fine particles, which is represented by a general formula MxWyOz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mika OKADA, Keiichi SATO
  • Patent number: 12054919
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body; an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body; a work attachment attached to the upper turning body; a detecting part provided to the upper turning body and configured to detect a predetermined object around the shovel; and a notification part configured to provide a notification to surroundings of the shovel in response to detection of the predetermined object by the detecting part. The notification part determines whether to provide the notification to the surroundings of the shovel in response to the detection of the predetermined object by the detecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Tsuji, Takaaki Morimoto, Yusuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20240255749
    Abstract: Provided is an endoscope that is not susceptible to damage due to static electricity. This endoscope includes: an observation window fixed to a distal tip member disposed at a distal tip of an insertion portion; and an illumination unit that emits light in a viewing direction of the observation window, the illumination unit including a light-emitting element, a power supply wire that supplies power to the light-emitting element, a conductor wire extending along the power supply wire, and a conductive illumination frame that surrounds a connection portion between the light-emitting element and the power supply wire, is insulated from the power supply wire, and is electrically connected to the conductor wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rei SATO, Keiichi SAITO, Yuki IIDA
  • Publication number: 20240255748
    Abstract: Provided is an endoscope that prevents an increase in temperature of a light-emitting element. This endoscope includes: an observation window fixed to a distal tip member disposed at a distal tip of an insertion portion; a light-emitting element that emits light in a viewing direction of the observation window; a power supply wire that supplies power to the light-emitting element; an illumination frame that surrounds a connection portion between the light-emitting element and the power supply wire; a connector unit connected to an endoscope processor; and a conductor wire that connects the illumination frame and the connector unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rei SATO, Keiichi SAITO, Yuki IIDA
  • Patent number: 12018359
    Abstract: Purpose of the present invention is to provide a composite tungsten oxide film having a transmissivity of light with a wavelength of 700 to 1200 nm, in addition to a function to shield light by absorbing light, a function to generate heat by absorbing light and a function to release electrons by absorbing light, and also having a substantial radio wave transmissivity, and having both of an infrared light absorbing property in an infrared light region and a transparency in a visible light region, and a method for manufacturing the composite tungsten oxide film, and further, to provide a film-deposited base material or an article using any of or a plurality of the above functions. A composite tungsten oxide film comprising a composition represented by a general formula MxWyOz (wherein, an element M is one or more elements selected from alkaline metal, alkaline earth metal, Fe, In, Tl, and Sn, an element W is tungsten, and an element O is oxygen) as main components, wherein 0.001?x/y?1, 2.2?z/y?3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Sato, Isao Ando
  • Patent number: 12006566
    Abstract: A composite tungsten oxide film having high film smoothness, with a function to shield infrared light by reflecting infrared light by a thermal insulation, while maintaining transparency in a visible light region, and a method for manufacturing the composite tungsten oxide film, and a film-deposited base material or an article using these functions. A composite tungsten oxide film including a composition with a general formula MxWyOz as main components, wherein 0.001?x/y?1, 2.2?z/y?3.0, organic components are not contained substantially, a transmittance in a wavelength of 550 nm is 50% or more, a transmittance in a wavelength of 1400 nm is 30% or less, and also, a reflectance in a wavelength of 1400 nm is 35% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Sato, Isao Ando
  • Publication number: 20240177883
    Abstract: A transparent conductive film containing an alkali tungsten bronze is provided. The alkali tungsten bronze exhibits a pattern of a hexagonal crystal as a powder X-ray diffraction pattern and is free of shift to an orthorhombic crystal, a trigonal crystal, and a pyrochlore phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Kenji ADACHI, Keiichi SATO, Hideharu OGAMI, Satoshi YOSHIO
  • Patent number: 11982243
    Abstract: A controller is used in an internal combustion engine provided with an EGR device recirculating some of exhaust gas flowing in an exhaust passage to an intake passage as EGR gas. The EGR device includes an EGR passage and an EGR valve. The controller includes a CPU that controls opening and closing of the EGR valve. The CPU executes determining process of determining whether the temperature of the internal combustion engine is about the same as the outside air temperature, and an axis displacement eliminating process of opening and closing the EGR valve when it is determined that the temperature of the internal combustion engine is about the same as the outside air temperature in the determining process during the operation stop of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiichi Sato
  • Publication number: 20240153642
    Abstract: A processing device includes an interface configured to receive electrocardiographic waveform data corresponding to an electrocardiographic waveform of a subject, and a processor configured to divide the electrocardiographic waveform into a plurality of partial electrocardiographic waveforms, based on the electrocardiographic waveform data, calculate a probability that a waveform portion in which a heart disease is suspected is included in each of the plurality of partial electrocardiographic waveforms, and cause a display to display an index together with information, the index corresponding to the probability, the information corresponding to the partial electrocardiographic waveform from which the probability is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yota SEKIGUCHI, Takuya UMEMOTO, Keiichi SATO, Wataru MATSUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240122127
    Abstract: A cultivation greenhouse includes: an inner lining that forms a housing space for housing a plant to be a cultivation target, the inner lining tightly sealing the housing space; an outer lining that is disposed on an outer side of the inner lining to house the inner lining, the outer lining forming, with the inner lining, a circulation space for flowing outside air; and a circulation device that circulates air outside the outer lining into the circulation space and discharges the air to outside of the outer lining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shohei Akagi, Keiichi Sato, Yutaka Miyamoto, Yoshitaka Shindo
  • Publication number: 20240022397
    Abstract: A data file encryption transmission/reception system includes a computer with a registration module that encrypts input data files. The registration module includes a string conversion module that configured to convert the data file to be encrypted to string data, a key generation module that configured to generate a common key, and to divide the common key and the string data into first input information and second input information, a common key encryption module is configured to encrypt the first input information with the common key, to thereby generate common key encrypted data, a searchable encryption module that configured to encrypt the second input information in accordance with searchable encryption with a user secret key set in advance, to thereby generate searchable encrypted data and a communication module is configured to register a set of the common key encrypted data and the searchable encrypted data in the data management server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Narumi NAITO, Masaki KUBOTA, Shinji MURASE, Keiichi SATO
  • Publication number: 20230407628
    Abstract: A load-bearing panel and a building frame structure is provided, in which an initial stiffness and a yield strength are enhanced while appropriately reducing the maximum strength after yielding. Thus, it is possible to avoid generating excessive stress in adjacent building frames. The load-bearing panel includes: a rectangular-shaped base frame 2 formed by joining a pair of horizontal base materials 21 and 22 to a pair of vertical base materials 23 and 23; and a composite surface material 3 made of wooden plywood 31 and a metal plate 32 stacked on each other. Four side edges of the composite surface material 3 are attached to a base frame 2 by driving nails. The spacing between the nails in a center part of each side edge in the length direction is smaller than the spacing between the nails in both end parts of the side edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: SEKISUI HOUSE, LTD., NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki FUKUMOTO, Kazumi HIJIKATA, Ayana HISAZUMI, Keiichi SATO, Kazunori FUJIHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230348292
    Abstract: A near-infrared shielding film including a continuous film of a cesium tungsten composite oxide represented by a general formula CsxWyOz where 4.8?x?14.6, 20.0?y?26.7, 62.2?z?71.4, and x+y+z=100, is provided. The continuous film includes one or more crystals selected from an orthorhombic crystal, a rhombohedral crystal, and a hexagonal crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kenji ADACHI, Keiichi SATO, Satoshi YOSHIO
  • Publication number: 20230332550
    Abstract: A controller is used in an internal combustion engine provided with an EGR device recirculating some of exhaust gas flowing in an exhaust passage to an intake passage as EGR gas. The EGR device includes an EGR passage and an EGR valve. The controller includes a CPU that controls opening and closing of the EGR valve. The CPU executes determining process of determining whether the temperature of the internal combustion engine is about the same as the outside air temperature, and an axis displacement eliminating process of opening and closing the EGR valve when it is determined that the temperature of the internal combustion engine is about the same as the outside air temperature in the determining process during the operation stop of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventor: Keiichi SATO
  • Publication number: 20230334057
    Abstract: An information providing method to be executed by an information providing system includes: a first step of acquiring, by a second terminal, the action data corresponding to the data ID from a management server when the second terminal transmits to the management server a request to acquire the personal information including the data ID; a second step of acquiring, by the second terminal, the personal information from the management server when the second user has access authority for the personal information associated with the data ID; and a third step of transmitting, by the second terminal, the information to the first terminal of a first user identified by the personal information when the second terminal acquires the action data and the personal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Keiichi SATO, Tsutomu KAINUKI, Masayuki YOSHINO, Mayuko YAMAMOTO, Akira TSUBOYAMA, Shiroh NAGURA
  • Patent number: 11760423
    Abstract: To improve the collision performance of a panel member of an automobile. A panel member 1 includes a plurality of circular recessed parts 10 linearly arranged, wherein: when it is assumed that a portion where three recessed parts 10 are linearly aligned is called a recessed part group G, there are at least a first recessed part group G1 and a second recessed part group G2 arranged in parallel with the first recessed part group G1; and an angle formed between a first straight line L1 linking a center of the recessed part 10 in the first recessed part group G1 and a center of the recessed part 10 in the second recessed part group G2 located at a position closest to the recessed part 10, and, a second straight line L2 linking centers of the recessed parts 10 in the first recessed part group G1 is 80 degrees or more and 100 degrees or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Hirose, Keiichi Sato, Yoshimichi Kawai
  • Publication number: 20230272225
    Abstract: A dark powder dispersion liquid including a dark pigment, composite tungsten oxide particles and a solid medium, wherein a mass ratio of the dark pigment to the composite tungsten oxide particles (mass of dark-colored pigment/mass of composite tungsten oxide fine particles) is 0.01 or more and 5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi ITO, Keiichi SATO, Mika OKADA
  • Patent number: 11698540
    Abstract: A lens drive device comprises: a fixing part disposed away from the movable part; a cover for covering the movable part in the direction of an optical axis; and suspension wires for supporting the movable part relative to the fixing part, one ends of the suspension wires being secured to the fixing part and the other ends being secured to the movable part. The movable part is configured so as to be provided with: a damper material disposed so as to come in contact with the suspension wires; a stopper protrusion provided near a portion of the light-receiving-side surface where the other ends of the suspension wires are secured, the tip end of the stopper protrusion facing the inner surface of the cover in the direction of the optical axis; and a flow-stopper part stopping a flow of the damper flowing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Takimoto, Keiichi Sato, Ichiro Hayashi