Patents by Inventor Keiji Sato

Keiji 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: 11972907
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a resin molding, a first external electrode, and a second external electrode. The resin molding includes a laminate of multiple capacitor elements, and a sealing resin sealing the laminate. The following are satisfied: t1<t2, t3<t4, t1<t3, and t4/t3<t2/t1, where t1 is the thickness of an inner portion of the cathode lead-out layer, the inner portion not being exposed at the second end surface; t2 is the thickness of an exposed portion of the cathode lead-out layer, the exposed portion being exposed at the second end surface; t3 is the thickness of an inner portion of the valve-action metal substrate, the inner portion not being exposed at the first end surface; and t4 is the thickness of an exposed portion of the valve-action metal substrate, the exposed portion being exposed at the first end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tani, Kenichi Oshiumi, Kazutoyo Horio, Junichi Sato, Keiji Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240117646
    Abstract: A concrete pumping pipe comprising no metal pipe, and having a cylindrical body composed of a resin, wherein a dynamic friction coefficient of the inner surface of the cylindrical body is 0.07 to 0.30, the cylindrical body is free of rupture and leakage in a 25 MPa hydraulic pressure resistance test, and a total luminous transmittance per 2 mm-thickness test piece of the cylindrical body is 10% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Advance Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Sato, Keiji Kasumi
  • Patent number: 11942545
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, the first electrode provided between the substrate and the second electrode, the oxide semiconductor layer in contact with the first electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the oxide semiconductor layer contains Zn and at least one first element selected from In, Ga, Si, Al, and Sn; a conductive layer between the oxide semiconductor layer and the second electrode, the conductive layer in contact with the second electrode, the conductive layer contains O and at least one second element selected from the group consisting of In, Ga, Si, Al, Sn, Zn, and Ti, a gate electrode; and a gate insulating layer between the oxide semiconductor layer and the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Sato, Tomomasa Ueda, Nobuyoshi Saito, Keiji Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20230280727
    Abstract: Provided is an integrated management system including: a registration unit configured to register a plurality of production management systems for each managing a target production process as a target among a plurality of production processes of producing a product from a material in association with a sequence of the plurality of production processes; a feedback data acquisition unit configured to acquire, from at least one of the plurality of production management systems, feedback data for evaluating a production element in an upstream production process, which is an upstream process of the target production process, on a basis of quality of a target product, which is a product of the target production process, in the upstream production process; and a feedback data providing unit configured to provide the feedback data to an upstream production management system configured to manage the upstream production process on a basis of the sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Masato KATSUKI, Keiji SATO, Eiji TAYA, Tsutomu NIHO, Makoto ENDO, Toshiya YAMASHITA, Akifumi INOMATA, Fumihiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230280730
    Abstract: Provided is a production management system including: an operational data acquisition unit for acquiring operational data regarding a production element in a target production process as a target among a plurality of production processes for producing a product from a material; a quality data acquisition unit for acquiring quality data indicating quality of a target product; an analysis unit for analyzing the operational and quality data to estimate an influence, caused by an upstream product, on the quality of the target product, the upstream product being a product of an upstream production process and serving as a material in the target production process; and a feedback unit for outputting, based on an analysis result, feedback data for evaluating a production element in the upstream production process based on the quality of the target product in the upstream production process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Masato KATSUKI, Keiji SATO, Eiji TAYA, Tsutomu NIHO, Makoto ENDO, Toshiya YAMASHITA, Akifumi INOMATA, Fumihiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230280731
    Abstract: Provided is a production management system including: an operational data acquisition unit for acquiring operational data regarding a production element in a target production process as a target among a plurality of production processes for producing a product from a material; a quality data acquisition unit for acquiring, as quality data indicating quality of a target product, feedback data for evaluating the production element in the target production process based on quality of a downstream product in the target production process, the feedback data being output from a production management system for managing a downstream production process of producing the downstream product by using, as a material, the target product; an analysis unit for analyzing the operational feedback data; and a control information decision unit for deciding control information for controlling the production element in the target production process based on an analysis result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Masato KATSUKI, Keiji SATO, Eiji TAYA, Tsutomu NIHO, Makoto ENDO, Toshiya YAMASHITA, Akifumi INOMATA, Fumihiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230137817
    Abstract: A low-temperature transport device is for the purpose of transporting a transport object in a state in which the transport object is kept at a low temperature for a long period of time. The low-temperature transport device includes a thermal insulation container, a plurality of pieces of dry ice disposed in the thermal insulation container so as to cool a transport object, a support member disposed in the thermal insulation container to support the transport object, and a first space formed between the transport object supported by the support member and an inner bottom surface of the thermal insulation container. The first space is filled with the dry ice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicants: KANEKA CORPORATION, TAMAIKASEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Risa Narahara, Keiji Sato
  • Publication number: 20220284346
    Abstract: Provided is a learning apparatus comprising: a correspondence receiving unit for receiving a correspondence between each produced object of a target process and a quality evaluation of each downstream produced object produced by using each produced object of the target process; a learning processing unit for generating, through learning, an estimation model for estimating the quality evaluation of the downstream produced object, by using the at least one production parameter about the production of each produced object of the target process and the quality evaluation of each downstream produced object; a calculating unit for calculating a model evaluation based on at least one of certainty or complexity of the estimation model; and a model evaluation sending unit for sending the calculated model evaluation, to an evaluation apparatus for evaluating at least one upstream process by using a model evaluation about each of the at least one upstream process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki KANOKOGI, Hirotsugu GOTOU, Yota FURUKAWA, Yoshio UOMORI, Masato KATSUKI, Keiji SATO, Fumihiro SAITO, Eiji TAYA, Tomotaka MAKI, Akifumi INOMATA
  • Patent number: 11387116
    Abstract: In a manufacturing process of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, oxygen doping treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor film, and then heat treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor film and an aluminum oxide film provided over the oxide semiconductor film. Consequently, an oxide semiconductor film which includes a region containing more oxygen than a stoichiometric composition is formed. The transistor formed using the oxide semiconductor film can have high reliability because the amount of change in the threshold voltage of the transistor by a bias-temperature stress test (BT test) is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yuhei Sato, Keiji Sato, Tetsunori Maruyama, Junichi Koezuka
  • Patent number: 11340071
    Abstract: A calibration system is mounted in a vehicle and is provided with: an attitude sensor that acquires attitude information regarding a vehicle coordinate system of the vehicle; an image pickup unit that captures an image of the surroundings of the vehicle; an attitude-sensor reliability level calculation unit that calculates an attitude-sensor reliability level that is a reliability level of the attitude sensor; and an attitude use estimation unit that estimates, in the case where the calculated attitude-sensor reliability level is greater than a predetermined threshold, an external parameter of the image pickup unit using the attitude information output by the attitude sensor and a relationship of a coordinate system of the image pickup unit to the vehicle coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Morihiko Sakano, Keiji Sato
  • Patent number: 11334056
    Abstract: A method to be performed in a production support system configured to process a raw material and to produce a product. And the method includes: acquiring a plurality of element values relating to production elements of the product; determining whether the element values are within allowable ranges in which a quality of the product meets a predetermined allowed quality; resetting the allowable ranges of one or a plurality of other element values to the allowable ranges in which the quality of the product meets the predetermined allowed quality, upon determining that at least one element value exceeds the allowable range; and outputting information about the reset allowable ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji Sato, Noboru Wakiyama, Ryoichi Himono, Ichiro Tsubota
  • Publication number: 20200272974
    Abstract: A quality stabilization system includes a design system unit and an execution system unit. The design system unit is configured to extract a feature amount indicating a time transition of operation data which is data related to a plurality of production elements of a product in a section in which there is likelihood of an influence on quality of the product from the operation data, generate an evaluation index, and define running maintenance improvement information from the evaluation index. The execution system unit is configured to monitor the operation data related to the product to be produced and supply reference information referred to in decision-making of a worker using the running maintenance improvement information when the execution system unit has detected that the quality of the product is likely to deviate from an allowable range of the evaluation index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Sato, Noboru Wakiyama, Masayasu Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20200271449
    Abstract: A calibration system is mounted in a vehicle and is provided with: an attitude sensor that acquires attitude information regarding a vehicle coordinate system of the vehicle; an image pickup unit that captures an image of the surroundings of the vehicle; an attitude-sensor reliability level calculation unit that calculates an attitude-sensor reliability level that is a reliability level of the attitude sensor; and an attitude use estimation unit that estimates, in the case where the calculated attitude-sensor reliability level is greater than a predetermined threshold, an external parameter of the image pickup unit using the attitude information output by the attitude sensor and a relationship of a coordinate system of the image pickup unit to the vehicle coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Morihiko SAKANO, Keiji SATO
  • Publication number: 20200203183
    Abstract: In a manufacturing process of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, oxygen doping treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor film, and then heat treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor film and an aluminum oxide film provided over the oxide semiconductor film. Consequently, an oxide semiconductor film which includes a region containing more oxygen than a stoichiometric composition is formed. The transistor formed using the oxide semiconductor film can have high reliability because the amount of change in the threshold voltage of the transistor by a bias-temperature stress test (BT test) is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Yuhei SATO, Keiji SATO, Tetsunori MARUYAMA, Junichi KOEZUKA
  • Patent number: 10662358
    Abstract: A heat storage material composition having a melting temperature utilized for control of an optional management temperature, providing no variation in melting behavior and solidification behavior, and having a constant melting temperature. The heat storage material composition consists primarily of a mixture of a higher alkane having carbon number of 9 to 24 and a higher alcohol having carbon number of 6 to 20, and the mixture has a substantially single melting peak in DSC curve measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: KANEKA CORPORATION, TAMAIKASEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Ueda, Keiji Sato
  • Patent number: 10661712
    Abstract: The bird's-eye view image system is provided with a plurality of cameras for acquiring a surrounding image of the work vehicle, a display unit for displaying a bird's-eye view image based on the image acquired by the plurality of cameras, and a control unit for causing a bird's-eye view image to be generated and displayed by the display unit. The plurality of cameras have a first front camera provided in the traveling body for acquiring an image ahead of the travelling body, a first rear camera provided in the traveling body for acquiring an image backward of the traveling body, a right camera provided on the swivel base for acquiring an image rightward of the swivel base, and a left camera provided on the swivel base for acquiring an image leftward of the swivel base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: TADANO LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ishihara, Keiji Sato, Hideyuki Higashi
  • Patent number: 10620000
    Abstract: This calibration apparatus calibrates a camera mounted on a vehicle and includes: an image obtaining unit that obtains an image of outside of the vehicle; and a calibration unit that calibrates a camera parameter which is the roll angle and/or the pitch angle of the camera by using corresponding feature points in an image of the vehicle captured before a change in the attitude thereof and in an image captured after the change in the attitude thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Morihiko Sakano, Keiji Sato
  • Patent number: 10615052
    Abstract: In a manufacturing process of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, oxygen doping treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor film, and then heat treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor film and an aluminum oxide film provided over the oxide semiconductor film. Consequently, an oxide semiconductor film which includes a region containing more oxygen than a stoichiometric composition is formed. The transistor formed using the oxide semiconductor film can have high reliability because the amount of change in the threshold voltage of the transistor by a bias-temperature stress test (BT test) is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yuhei Sato, Keiji Sato, Tetsunori Maruyama, Junichi Koezuka
  • Patent number: 10594943
    Abstract: The present invention provides a camera calibration device and a camera calibration system with which it is possible to execute calibration even in a situation where the load-bearing state of a vehicle changes, and also to precisely estimate all of camera parameters and execute calibration without utilizing the parallelism of the vehicle to, e.g., a white line. The orientation of a vehicle is estimated on the basis of a prescribed feature amount extracted from a video, the translation-direction position of a camera relative to ground is corrected on the basis of information obtained from the calibration executed at a time in the past such as the time of product shipment, and a camera parameter pertaining to the orientation of the camera relative to ground is calculated on the basis of the orientation of the vehicle and the translation-direction position of the camera relative to ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Morihiko Sakano, Keiji Sato
  • Publication number: 20190351751
    Abstract: A power transmitting apparatus with rotary electrical machine disposed in a power transmission path from an output shaft of an internal combustion engine to a transmission in a vehicle is disclosed. The power transmitting apparatus includes a rotary electrical machine disposed coaxially with the output shaft, and a transmission apparatus disposed adjacent to the power transmitting apparatus and the rotary electrical machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Keiji SATO, Hitoshi KATSURA, Taichi KITAMURA