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: 10349022
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihito Iwadate, Hirokazu Kanda, Kenji Sato, Shoichi Okaniwa
  • Patent number: 10340532
    Abstract: A separator for fuel cell includes a corrugated portion formed to have a corrugated cross section where a first groove that is concave to a first surface to form a flow path for a first fluid on the first surface and a second groove that is concave to a second surface opposite to the first surface to form a flow path for a second fluid on the second surface are arranged alternately and repeatedly. Each of the second grooves has at least one shallower groove section formed to have a less depth from the second surface than depth of a remaining groove section and provided to form a communication flow channel on the first surface side, which is arranged to communicate between two flow path spaces for the first fluid that are adjacent to each other across the shallower groove section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Okabe, Hiroya Nakaji, Makoto Yoshida, Shigetaka Hamada, Takuya Kurihara, Kenji Sato, Hideaki Tanaka, Nobuhiko Nakagaki, Junji Ueda, Katsuhiko Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20190197370
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions are executed by a processor of a pretreatment information generation device that generates pretreatment information to be used in pretreatment on a recording medium by a pretreatment device. The computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform processes including receiving image data to be printed on the recording medium, and identifying the pretreatment information to perform the pretreatment with respect to the received image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Shuichi TAMAKI, Takeshi WATANABE, Kenji SATO
  • Publication number: 20190193424
    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: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Shuichi TAMAKI, Takeshi WATANABE, Kenji SATO
  • Patent number: 10329968
    Abstract: In a hydraulically-operated vane rotor equipped variable valve timing control device for an internal combustion engine, a fluid-communication control mechanism is configured to switch, after having started the engine, a communication hole from a communicated state to a fluid-communication restricted state prior to switching operation of a lock mechanism from a lock state in which rotary motion of a vane rotor relative to a housing is restricted to an unlock state in which rotary motion of the vane rotor relative to the housing is enabled. As a result of this configuration, it becomes possible to apply, after having started the engine, an appropriately controlled hydraulic pressure to all of vanes, with hydraulic pressure supplied to either all phase-retard chambers or all phase-advance chambers, thereby ensuring a good control responsiveness of the vane rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Sato
  • Publication number: 20190135117
    Abstract: A power conversion controller for electric train in one aspect of the present disclosure includes an active current command value generator, an overhead line voltage detector, an initial value calculator, an adjustment value calculator, an upper limit value setter, and an output limiter. The output limiter outputs a reactive current command adjustment value calculated by the adjustment value calculator as a reactive current command value when the reactive current command adjustment value is equal to or lower than an upper limit value set by the upper limit value setter, and outputs the upper limit value as the reactive current command value when the reactive current command adjustment value exceeds the upper limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Ken KUNOMURA, Kenji SATO, Akihiro KOYANAGI
  • Patent number: 10270106
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal plate comprising a plate stacked body including a first metal plate that is electrically conductive and has a current collecting terminal for power collection, and second metal plates that have higher corrosion resistance than the first metal plate and are placed across the first metal plate. A first gasket is mounted to the second metal plate and is provided to surround at least a gas flow hole used for supply of a gas on the second metal plate-side. A second gasket is mounted to the second metal plate and is provided to surround a cooling water flow area which communicates with a cooling water flow hole used for supply of cooling water on the second metal plate-side. The current collecting terminal is protruded from a plate outer circumferential end of the first metal plate in a direction from one flow hole of the gas flow hole and the cooling water flow hole toward the plate outer circumferential end of the first metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Hiroki Itakura, Takahiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 10263392
    Abstract: Provided are: an optical waveguide that relatively easily expands a spot size and that can suppress an increase in optical coupling loss with another optical waveguide element; and an optical component and variable-wavelength laser that use the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide is provided with: a cladding member; and a core layer that is disposed within the cladding member and that is formed as an elongated body having a rectangular cross-sectional shape from a material having a higher refractive index than the material configuring the cladding member. Here, the cross-sectional shape of the core layer is characterized in having a rectangular shape in which the length in the lateral direction is at least 10 times the length in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kobayashi, Kenji Sato
  • Publication number: 20190101875
    Abstract: A temperature control unit has an SSR control unit that outputs an instruction to an SSR, a determination unit that determines, based on a current value acquired by a current value acquisition unit, whether or not a heater is being driven or stopped as instructed, and a warning output unit that outputs a warning to a controller if it is determined that the heater is not being driven or stopped as instructed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka KIKUNAGA, Kenji SATO
  • Publication number: 20190101873
    Abstract: A temperature control unit has an acquisition unit that acquires first information regarding driving and stopping of a heater and second information indicating whether or not to subject a time proportional output to an SSR to autonomous control and an SSR control unit that performs time proportional output of an instruction to drive or stop the heater, to the SSR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka KIKUNAGA, Kenji SATO
  • Publication number: 20190100817
    Abstract: A dehydrogenation processing method for a turbine blade of a steam turbine includes: a step of heating the turbine blade by supplying heating steam into a casing of the steam turbine when a steam turbine plant is started or stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yuichi SHIMIZU, Tatsuya FURUKAWA, Ryuichi MATSUBARA, Kenji SATO
  • Publication number: 20190101874
    Abstract: A temperature control unit according to one or more embodiments may include an acquisition unit that is configured to acquire an operation amount from a controller, and an SSR control unit that is configured to perform time proportional output of an instruction to drive or stop a heater to SSR after reflecting the operation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka KIKUNAGA, Kenji SATO
  • Publication number: 20190085735
    Abstract: It includes: a housing (7) to which a torque is transmitted from a crankshaft; a vane rotor (8) mounted inside the housing and includes a cylindrical rotor (20) fastened to a camshaft (2) by a cam bolt (5); and a groove portion (47) formed at a distal end surface of a tubular part (23) of the rotor and has a lateral surface (47a) in a direction opposite to a direction of fastening of the cam bolt. The lateral surface includes an inside edge (47d) in a radial direction of the rotor, and is inclined in the direction opposite to the direction of fastening of the cam bolt, with respect to a first imaginary plane (S1) containing the inside edge and a rotational axis (O) of the vane rotor. This serves to suppress rotation of the vane rotor during bolting the vane rotor to the camshaft, and suppress deformation due to the suppression of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kuninaga HATSUGAI, Kenji SATO, Yoshinori ICHINOSAWA
  • Publication number: 20190081552
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electric power conversion system includes a convertor, a detector, a delay controller, and a deteminator. The detector is configured to detect information related to a voltage of electric power converted by the converter. The delay controller is configured to delay a conversion operation start of the converter by a first predetermined time with respect to a supply start time at which supply of the electric power is started. The determinator is configured to perform a first determination on the basis of a detection result detected by the detector before elapse of the first predetermined time from the supply start tune, and to perform a second determination on the basis of a detection result detected by the detector after the elapse of the first predetermined time from the supply start time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicants: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji SATO, Hirokazu KATO, Takafumi FUKUSHIMA, Hiroaki OTANI, Tomoyuki MAKINO, Toshiyuki UCHIDA, Manato MORI
  • Patent number: 10229819
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a high frequency power supply turning a high frequency power ON/OFF and supplying the high frequency power to either one of upper and lower electrodes. A matching circuit and a power transmission line are provided between the high frequency power supply and the either one of the electrodes. A probe detector measures electrical characteristics on the power transmission line and generates measurement signals. A processing unit samples the measurement signals, generates sample values, The processing unit receives a pulse signal corresponding to ON/OFF switching of the high frequency power, generates sample values by sampling the measurement signals at a sampling interval for a period after the lapse of a mask period from an ascending timing thereof until a descending timing thereof, and selects sample values obtained through the last one or more sampling with respect to the descending timing, as detection values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Taichi Hirano, Kenji Sato
  • Publication number: 20190074509
    Abstract: In electrode (2) for an electrochemical device comprising current collector (9) and active material layer (10) made up from active material coated on current collector (9), active material layer (10) comprises lower active material layer (10a) which adheres to current collector (9) and upper active material layer (10b) formed on lower active material layer (10a). Lower active material layer (10a) is thinner than upper active material layer (10b). The termination portion of upper active material layer (10b) in the longitudinal direction of current collector (9) either coincides with the termination portion of lower active material layer (10a) or is positioned nearer side from the starting portion than the termination portion of lower active material layer (10a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: NEC ENERGY DEVICES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori HIRAI, Kenji SATO
  • Patent number: 10204516
    Abstract: Provided is a system whereby the self-driving capability or each vehicle can be improved by using not only an experience of own vehicle but also an experience of another vehicle. For example, suppose own vehicle (V1) has no experience of having traveled on a root (R). On the other hand, another vehicle (V2) has experienced traveling on the root (R). The another vehicle (V2) acquires various data pertaining to driving when traveling on the route (R), and stores the various data in an onboard storage device. The another vehicle (V2) provides information including the various data stored in the storage device to the own vehicle (V1) as experience information. The own vehicle (V1) can achieve self-driving capability at the same level as the another vehicle (V2) by performing self-driving control on the basis of the experience information of the another vehicle (V2), which has experience of having traveled on the root (R).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Inventor: Kenji Sato
  • Publication number: 20190041254
    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: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru TAKAYASU, Shinya ISHIMA, Shigeru ENDO, Kenji SATO
  • 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