Patents by Inventor Kenji Sato

Kenji 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: 10197284
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor is provided with a combustor basket where combustion gas flows, the combustion gas being produced by combustion of fuel injected from a nozzle, and a first resonance device and a second resonance device mounted on an outer surface of the combustor basket. The second resonance device is disposed on a downstream side from the first resonance device in a flow of the combustion gas and damps combustion oscillation of a frequency higher than the first resonance device. The first and second resonance devices are acoustic liners each having a housing mounted to the outer surface of the combustor basket. A resonance space surrounded by the housing and the outer surface of the combustor basket communicates with an interior space of the combustor basket via a plurality of acoustic holes formed in the combustor basket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Akamatsu, Hiroaki Kishida, Kenji Sato, Kentaro Tokuyama, Keisuke Matsuyama, Takayoshi Takashima
  • Publication number: 20190013511
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an electrode sheet including a compression step of causing a band-shaped electrode sheet provided with an active substance layer which is an active substance forming portion between at least a pair of rotating columnar compression rolls, and pressing and compressing the electrode sheet by the pair of compression rolls, and a cutting step of cutting the electrode sheet undergoing the compression step parallel to a longitudinal direction of the electrode sheet. When the width of the active substance layer is assumed as a first width, the compression step compresses the electrode sheet using the compression rolls having a second width equal to or less than the first width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: NEC ENERGY DEVICES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji SATO, Kenichi ITO, Akira KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10164268
    Abstract: A fuel cell includes a power generating body that includes an electrolyte membrane; a separator provided along the power generating body; a flow path through which a fluid to be supplied to the fuel cell flows; a first seal portion that surrounds the flow path in a surface of the separator, and inhibits the fluid from flowing out of the fuel cell; and an electrolytic corrosion inhibiting portion provided between the flow path and the first seal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki Okabe, Kenji Sato, Takuya Kurihara
  • Patent number: 10126159
    Abstract: A passenger's weight measurement device for a vehicle seat includes an upper rail provided on a lower rail that is fixable to a vehicle floor, the upper rail being movable in at least one of rear and front directions; a load sensor fixed onto the upper rail; and a frame provided on the load sensor and below the vehicle seat. In plan view, the load sensor protrudes from the frame in at least one of left and right directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Takayasu, Shinya Ishima, Shigeru Endo, Kenji Sato
  • Publication number: 20180320595
    Abstract: In a combustion cylinder, gas turbine combustor, and gas turbine, an outer-side region of a cooling part which is a region on an outer side with regard to a reference line that is a straight line orthogonal to a radial direction and an axial direction of a gas turbine and passing through a center of a combustor basket, and an inner-side region of the cooling part which is a region on an inner side with regard to the reference line are set. A connection angle at an intersection between an extension line of an outer surface of the combustor basket along the axial direction and an inner surface of a combustor transition piece is set. First regions set at positions near the reference line in either the outer-side region or the inner-side region, and second regions with a larger connection angle than the first regions, set at positions farther from the reference line than the first regions are set. The second regions are set to have a higher flow rate of a cooling medium than the first regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Kenji SATO, Kentaro TOKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180301727
    Abstract: A fuel cell includes a power generating body including a membrane electrode assembly, a resin frame placed around the power generating body, and a pair of separators laminated on the resin frame so as to sandwich the power generating body and the resin frame. The resin frame has a resin-frame-side manifold in which reaction gas flows in a direction passing through the resin frame, an opening that holds the power generating body, and a gas introduction channel formed through the resin frame between the resin-frame-side manifold and the opening. Each separator has a separator-side manifold through which the reaction gas flows, and which is provided at a position corresponding to the resin-frame-side manifold in a lamination direction, and the gas introduction channel has a gas introduction part that extends into the separator-side manifold, when viewed in the lamination direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Sachio Okada, Hideya Kadono
  • Publication number: 20180301717
    Abstract: A gasket comprising: a first sealing part surrounding the sealed area; and a second sealing part surrounding the sealed area and being provided external to an area surrounded by the first sealing part. When a compressive deformation ratio is defined as a ratio of a deformation amount in a height direction to pressure applied to the gasket in the height direction, in the first sealing part, the compressive deformation ratio at a section to be arranged on a first fuel cell side is greater than the compressive deformation ratio at a section to be arranged on a second fuel cell side, and in the second sealing part, the compressive deformation ratio at a section to be arranged on the second fuel cell side is greater than the compressive deformation ratio at a section to be arranged on the first fuel cell side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nonoyama, Kenji Sato, Hideya Kadono
  • Publication number: 20180278903
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to acquire a captured image of an area that includes a display area in which content is displayed by a display device and a peripheral area of the display area; acquire a content image data corresponding to the content; specify a display area in the captured image; produce process information based on the captured image; and perform image processing that includes combining an image based on the content image data with the display area of the captured image by using the process information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihito IWADATE, Hirokazu KANDA, Kenji SATO, Shoichi OKANIWA
  • Patent number: 10065681
    Abstract: A vehicle lower section structure that includes: a floor panel; a dash panel partitioning an engine compartment from a vehicle cabin; a front side member that extends in a vehicle body front-rear direction on a vehicle body front side of the dash panel, and that is disposed along a lower face of the floor panel on a vehicle body rear side of the dash panel; a rocker extending in the vehicle body front-rear direction; a torque box that extends in the vehicle width direction, that is joined to the lower face of the floor panel between the front side member and the rocker in bottom face view, and that forms a closed cross-section profile together with the floor panel; and a bulkhead running along the vehicle body front-rear direction inside the torque box and sectioning the inside of the torque box in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Sato
  • Patent number: 10056773
    Abstract: A battery package including a power storage portion; and a control device, where the control device determines if a first temperature of the power storage portion is higher than a predetermined temperature, and if the first temperature is higher than the predetermined temperature, discharges the power storage portion at a first discharge rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sugeno, Kohki Watanabe, Shuichi Takizawa, Kenji Sato, Koji Umetsu
  • Patent number: 10056273
    Abstract: A heating apparatus includes a heater, an electron reflection plate, a filament arranged between the heater and the electron reflection plate, a heating power supply configured to supply an AC voltage between a first terminal and a second terminal of the filament to emit thermoelectrons from the filament, an acceleration power supply configured to supply an acceleration voltage between the filament and the heater, and a resistor arranged so as to form a path which connects the electron reflection plate and the heating power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Anelva Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Sasaki, Kazutoshi Yoshibayashi, Kenji Sato, Kenzou Murata
  • Publication number: 20180222501
    Abstract: A voltage estimating device for a power supply line according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a voltage detector, a current detector, a voltage calculator. The voltage calculator calculates a magnitude of alternating primary voltage that a primary winding in a transformer receives from a power supply line based on a magnitude of tertiary voltage in the transformer detected by the voltage detector, a magnitude of output current in the transformer detected by the current detector, and correlation information. The correlation information indicates a correlation between a voltage ratio and the magnitude of the output current, and the voltage ratio represents a ratio of the magnitude -of the primary voltage to the magnitude of the tertiary voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Takafumi Fukushima, Norihiro Suyama
  • Patent number: 10041796
    Abstract: A method for inspecting a physical quantity sensor includes: applying a test drive signal while changing a voltage level, to an angular velocity sensor as a physical quantity sensor having a detection portion which performs detection vibration according to a physical quantity; detecting an output signal from the detection portion corresponding to the test drive signal, as a test detection signal; and performing pass/fail determination based on a change in the test detection signal in relation to the change in the voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Oshio, Kenji Sato
  • Publication number: 20180205892
    Abstract: A sensor support system includes a sensor and a terminal device configured to display form information of the sensor. The sensor includes a two-dimensional code (storage tag) which can be read from the terminal device and which is configured to store the form information of the sensor. The terminal device is configured to calculate position information of the sensor from an image of the sensor, configured to generate a virtual image of the form information of the sensor, and configured to display on a display an image in which the virtual image is superimposed on an image of the sensor taken by a camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi KAMIMURA, Kenji SATO, Hirohito MIZUMOTO, Ziqiang XU, Hajime UJIIE
  • Publication number: 20180202948
    Abstract: An X-ray diffraction measurement method includes an arranging step of arranging a shielding plate and a two-dimensional detector on an outgoing optical axis, and a calculating step of calculating a diffraction profile indicating an X-ray intensity with respect to a diffraction angle of the object to be measured, on the basis of a two-dimensional X-ray image detected by the two-dimensional detector. In the arranging step, the shielding plate is arranged in a manner so that the slit is inclined at least in a direction about the outgoing optical axis with respect to an orthogonal direction which is orthogonal to both the incident optical axis and the outgoing optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Kazuhito Nakao
  • Publication number: 20180187610
    Abstract: Provided is a valve timing control apparatus, for an internal combustion engine, capable of sufficiently draining hydraulic oil from between a pulley and a housing body. The pulley includes a through-hole extending axially therethrough at a position radially outward with respect to the outer peripheral surface of the housing body. The through-hole is formed so as to extend over a bottom portion and cylindrical portion of the pulley.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kuninaga HATSUGAI, Kenji SATO
  • Patent number: 10013434
    Abstract: A geographic coordinate encoding device including a processing unit, wherein the processing unit performs: a first encoding process of determining, from among a plurality of areas obtained by hierarchically dividing a geographic range, an area specified by geographic coordinates of at least two points detected by a sensor, and encoding data representing the determined area; and an output process of outputting data representing a relationship between the specified area and the coordinates of the at least two points, along with code data encoded by the first encoding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Sato
  • Publication number: 20180178845
    Abstract: A vehicle front structure includes a radiator support upper, a first connection member and a second connection member. The radiator support upper is provided with a connected portion on an inner side with respect to both ends of the radiator support upper in a vehicle width direction. When viewed in a vehicle longitudinal direction, the first connection member connects the connected portion with a bumper reinforcement in an oblique direction such that a portion of the first connection member, connected to the connected portion, is located on an inner side in the vehicle width direction with respect to a portion of the first connection member, connected to the bumper reinforcement. The second connection member connects the radiator support upper with a vehicle component. A portion of the second connection member, connected to the radiator support upper, is located on a central axis of the first connection member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takanori HAYASHI, Kenji SATO, Mamiko YAMATANI
  • Publication number: 20180157233
    Abstract: A communication system includes a communication device functioning as a master device and a plurality of slave devices communicably connected to the communication device via a communication line, the communication device setting a prescribed address in an added slave device based on a position of the added slave device in a topology composed of a plurality of slave devices, judging whether a change has possibly occurred in the topology when the prescribed address is set in the added slave device, if there is an erroneously set slave device whose address was erroneously set, specifying that slave device, when it is judged that a change has possibly occurred, and resetting the address of the specified erroneously set slave device to an original address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohito MIZUMOTO, Kenji SATO, Ziqiang XU, Hajime UJIIE, Atsushi KAMIMURA
  • Patent number: 9991524
    Abstract: In a fuel cell separator and the like, a technology for reducing the separation of a flow path rib which rectifies the flow of a fluid is desired. A separator used in a fuel cell is provided, the separator including: a separator main body that includes a fluid flow region through which a reactive gas or a coolant flows, a through-hole through which the reactive gas or the coolant flows, and a connection portion which connects the fluid flow region and the through-hole; and a flow rectifying portion that is arranged by being adhered on the connection portion and that rectifies flow of the reactive gas or the coolant between the fluid flow region and the through-hole, where the flow rectifying portion includes a plurality of protruded portions and a coupling portion which is thinner than the protruded portions and which couples the protruded portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Hiroki Itakura, Takahiro Aoki