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).

  • Publication number: 20210170957
    Abstract: An information distribution system obtains event information such as image data about an event in the past or future using a collection server or a creation server, and stores the obtained event information in a storage server. The event information such as the image data is obtained with association to a location of the event and stored. The vehicle includes an image display system. An occupant wears a wearable device which is a display unit. When the location of an event is within the field of view of the occupant, the event image is displayed through the wearable device based on the event information such as the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Kei Yamamoto, Takashi Nishimoto
  • Publication number: 20210159533
    Abstract: A fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly having electrodes disposed on both surfaces of an electrolyte membrane, a gas diffusion layer stacked on one surface of the membrane electrode assembly, a resin frame assembled onto the one surface of the membrane electrode assembly so as to surround the outer periphery of the gas diffusion layer apart from the outer periphery of the gas diffusion layer, and a resin sheet disposed between the gas diffusion layer and the resin frame, and the membrane electrode assembly so as to fill a space between the inner periphery of the resin frame and the outer periphery of the gas diffusion layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Makoto ADACHI, Katsuhiko KINOSHITA, Yu ASHITAKA, Naohiro MITANI, Yusuke WATANABE, Kenji SATO
  • Patent number: 11011964
    Abstract: A cage induction motor includes a rotor core that is rotatable about a central axis, and a shaft to which the rotor core is fixed. The rotor core includes an annular yoke and a plurality of spokes. The yoke supports at least one conductor. The plurality of spokes are arranged apart from one another in a circumferential direction of the yoke, are provided between the yoke and the shaft, and support the yoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Takafumi Fukushima, Daisuke Misu, Makoto Matsushita, Toshio Hasebe
  • Publication number: 20210140329
    Abstract: A first-stage stator vane for a gas turbine includes: a first portion partially forming an airfoil which includes a pressure surface, a suction surface, and a trailing edge; and a second portion positioned at a leading-edge side of the airfoil with respect to the first portion, the second portion having a recess portion or a protruding portion. The recess portion or the protruding portion of the second portion has a pair of side wall surfaces, and an angle formed between the pair of side wall surfaces is less than 90 angular degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Kentaro TOKUYAMA, Kenji SATO, Keisuke MATSUYAMA, Takaya KODA, Shunsuke TORII, Tetsuya SHIMMYO, Shinya HASHIMOTO, Akihiro MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11005121
    Abstract: A sealing part has an outer peripheral point of the sealing part within a range from 0 degree to 90 degrees around a center point of the sealing part relative to a stacking direction, and that is located at a distance of a first length L1 from the center point. Each point on the outer peripheral line within a first range satisfies L2?L1, where L2 is a second length that is a distance from the center point to that point. Each point on the outer peripheral line within a second range satisfies L3<L1, where L3 is a distance from the center point to that point, and is located on the opposite side of the outer peripheral point from the center point or at the same position as the outer peripheral point in the direction perpendicular to the stacking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Hideya Kadono
  • Publication number: 20210118192
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a wearable device worn by a passenger of a vehicle, and an on-board system. The wearable device includes an organic EL display for displaying an image within a visual field of the passenger. The on-board system includes an image processor configured to generate an image for altering at least one of an outer appearance, a position, and visibility of a component or the passenger of the vehicle, and cause the display device to display the image. This alters color densities and graphical patterns of a roof ceiling, a left A pillar, a right A pillar, a frame of a left triangle window, a left front door trim panel, a frame of a right triangle window, a right front door trim panel, an instrument panel, a center console, a driver seat, a driver seat floor, a front passenger seat, and a front passenger seat floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Kei Yamamoto, Takashi Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 10961910
    Abstract: In a combustion cylinder, an outer-side region of a cooling part on an outer side with regard to a reference 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 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 are set at positions near the reference line, and second regions, with a larger connection angle than the first regions, are set at positions farther from the reference line than the first regions. The second regions are set to have a higher flow rate of a cooling medium than the first regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Kentaro Tokuyama
  • Patent number: 10948434
    Abstract: An X-ray spectroscopic analysis apparatus includes: a radiation source configured to irradiate a predetermined irradiation area in the surface of a sample with an excitation beam for generating a characteristic X-ray; an analyzing crystal provided facing the irradiation area; a slit provided between the irradiation area and the analyzing crystal, the slit being parallel to the irradiation area and a predetermined crystal plane of the analyzing crystal; and an X-ray linear sensor including linear detection elements arranged in a direction perpendicular to the slit, the detection elements each having a length in a direction parallel to the slit. By detecting characteristic X-rays from different linear portions of the irradiation area for each wavelength, it is possible to perform analysis with sensitivity higher than the sensitivity of a conventional X-ray spectroscopic analysis apparatus that irradiates a point-like irradiation area with an excitation beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Akihiro Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20210067167
    Abstract: To allow a time-series change among signal values to be recorded easily for a process of recording the respective time-series values of input signals, a recording device includes: a determination reference value obtaining section configured to obtain a determination reference value on a basis of signal values during a reference time period, the reference time period being a predetermined time period after a start of input of time-series signal values, the determination reference value indicating a feature of the signal values during the reference time period, and a recording control section configured to (i) obtain information on a recording start condition on a basis of the determination reference value, the recording start condition indicating whether, as compared to the signal values during the reference time period, there has been a large change among signal values after the reference time period has elapsed, and (ii) start recording signal values in response to the recording start condition becoming sati
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji SATO
  • Patent number: 10919318
    Abstract: A pretreatment device includes a pretreatment portion, a reception portion, a processor and a memory. The pretreatment portion performs a pretreatment on a recording medium. The reception portion receives recording medium information that the recording medium has. The memory stores computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform processes including: setting, for the pretreatment portion, pretreatment information relating to the pretreatment, on the basis of the recording medium information received by the reception portion; and causing the pretreatment portion to perform the pretreatment on the basis of the set pretreatment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuichi Tamaki, Takeshi Watanabe, Kenji Sato
  • Publication number: 20210039192
    Abstract: A production method of an additive manufactured object according to an EB-based additive manufacturing method of spreading a pure copper powder, preheating the pure copper powder and thereafter partially melting the pure copper powder by scanning the pure copper powder with an electron beam, solidifying the pure copper powder to form a first layer, newly spreading a pure copper powder on the first layer, preheating the pure copper powder and thereafter partially melting the pure copper powder by scanning the pure copper powder with an electron beam, solidifying the pure copper powder to form a second layer, and repeating the foregoing process to add layers, wherein used as the pure copper powder is a pure copper powder with a Si coating formed thereon, and wherein the preheating temperature is set to be 400° C. or higher and less than 800° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Hirofumi Watanabe, Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Shibuya, Kenji Sato, Satoru Morioka, Akihiko Chiba, Kenta Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20210031627
    Abstract: A projector is disposed inside a seatback of a front seat as a vehicle seat; therefore, when a driver as an occupant seated in the front seat checks the rear side with a rearview mirror or the like, the projector can be restrained from entering the field of view of the driver. Accordingly, different from the case in which the projector is disposed on a ceiling of the vehicle cabin or the like and exposed into the vehicle cabin, it is possible to restrain the projector from blocking the field of view of the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji SATO, Kei YAMAMOTO, Takashi NISHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10894468
    Abstract: An electric drive vehicle provided with a current collecting device, the current collecting device including: a framework having an underframe, a lower frame that is pivotably linked to the underframe, and an upper frame that is pivotably linked to the lower frame; a current collecting portion that is supported by the upper frame; and a lock mechanism that holds the framework in a predetermined posture, in which the framework is capable of moving up and down between a standing posture in which the current collecting portion is ascended and a folded posture in which the current collecting portion is descended, and the lock mechanism includes an adsorption plate made of a magnetic material provided in the upper frame, and a hook device which is equipped with an electromagnet and adsorbs to hold the adsorption plate by a magnetic force to hold the framework in the folded posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Nakamura, Kenji Sato, Hitomi Ooshima
  • Publication number: 20210001648
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium by discharging liquid droplets onto the medium; and a media heater to heat the medium by contacting a rear surface of the medium opposite a surface of the medium on which the image is formed, in which the media heater includes a contact member with a contact surface having a predetermined curvature that the medium contacts, the contact member is a roller member, and the medium closely contacts the contact surface of the contact member across an entire width of the medium in a direction perpendicular to the media conveyance direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki HOSHINO, Kenji SATO, Hirokazu IKENOUE, Satoshi KITAOKA, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yoko ISHII
  • Publication number: 20200391692
    Abstract: A side support block for a vehicle seat configured to be disposed adjacent to a lateral side of a seat back of the vehicle seat includes an airbag module, a cushion pad having a recessed portion accommodating the airbag module on a rear surface of the seat back, a frame embedded in the cushion pad, and a bracket with which the airbag module is fixed to the frame. The bracket includes a fixing portion to be fixed to a vehicle body, and the fixing portion is disposed behind the airbag module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhei HASHIMOTO, Kenji SATO
  • Publication number: 20200386696
    Abstract: A chemical state analysis apparatus 10 includes: an excitation source 11 configured to irradiate an irradiation region A of a predetermined surface in a sample S containing a battery material with an excitation rays for generating characteristic X-rays of the battery material; an analyzing crystal 13 of a flat plate arranged so as to face the irradiation region A; a slit 12 arranged between the irradiation region A and the analyzing crystal 13, the slit being arranged in parallel to the irradiation region A and a predetermined crystal plane of the analyzing crystal 13; an X-ray linear sensor 15 in which linear detecting elements 151 each having a length in a direction parallel to the slit 12 are arranged in a direction perpendicular to the slit; a wavelength spectrum generation unit 161 configured to generate a wavelength spectrum based on intensity of the characteristic X-rays detected by the X-ray linear sensor 15; a peak wavelength determination unit 162 configured to determine a peak wavelength which is a
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji SATO, Satoshi TOKUDA, Takuro IZUMI, Tetsuya YONEDA, Susumu ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200381749
    Abstract: A first resin frame of a power generation cell includes a fuel gas communication structure configured to lead fuel gas to a first surface of a membrane electrode assembly, and an oxidation gas communication structure configured to lead oxidation gas to a second surface of the membrane electrode assembly. A second resin frame of a non-power generation cell includes either one of a fuel gas communication structure configured to lead fuel gas to a conductive member, and an oxidation gas communication structure configured to lead oxidation gas to the conductive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji SATO, Yuto TAMURA, Tomoo YOSHIZUMI
  • Patent number: 10844843
    Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes: a blade body extending from a blade root along a blade longitudinal direction toward a blade tip; and a metal strip provided to cover at least a leading edge at the blade tip side of the blade body so as to suppress erosion at the leading edge of the blade body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: MHI VESTAS OFFSHORE WIND A/S
    Inventors: Hideyasu Fujioka, Kenji Sato
  • Patent number: 10826097
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Sachio Okada, Hideya Kadono
  • Patent number: 10800187
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium by discharging liquid droplets onto the medium; and a media heater to heat the medium by contacting a rear surface of the medium opposite a surface of the medium on which the image is formed, in which the media heater includes a contact member with a contact surface having a predetermined curvature that the medium contacts, the contact member is a roller member, and the medium closely contacts the contact surface of the contact member across an entire width of the medium in a direction perpendicular to the media conveyance direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hoshino, Kenji Sato, Hirokazu Ikenoue, Satoshi Kitaoka, Hideaki Nishimura, Yoko Ishii