Patents by Inventor Kenta Sato
Kenta 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).
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Publication number: 20250149255Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that exhibits both high withstand voltage and large capacity and a manufacturing method of the solid electrolytic capacitor are provided. The solid electrolytic capacitor includes anode foil, cathode foil facing the anode foil, and conductive polymers intervening between the anode foil and the cathode foil. The anode foil has tunnel-shaped etching pits formed on a surface layer of the anode foil, a dielectric oxide film layer formed on the surface layer of the anode foil, and a pseudo boehmite layer on the dielectric oxide film layer and formed on the surface layer of the anode foil. An amount of the pseudo boehmite layer is adjusted to be 0.4 mg·cm?2 to 1.8 mg·cm?2.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Nippon Chemi-Con CorporationInventors: Atsushi TANAKA, Toshiki WAKABAYASHI, Tomoyuki GOUTSU, Kyohei YOSHIOKA, Kenji MACHIDA, Nozomu KAMIYAMA, Kazuya KOSEKI, Kazuhiro NAGAHARA, Kenta SATO
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Patent number: 12294352Abstract: A structure is a structure of a quartz crystal substrate having a slit. The structure includes, as an inner wall of the slit, a first side surface, a second side surface, a first end surface, and a second end surface. The first side surface extends along a first direction which is a longitudinal direction of the slit, and the second side surface extends along the first direction. The first end surface is continuous with the first side surface and extends along a first crystal plane of the quartz crystal substrate, and the second end surface is continuous with the second side surface and extends along a second crystal plane of the quartz crystal substrate. In a plan view of the quartz crystal substrate, an intersection point where a first straight line corresponding to the first end surface and a second straight line corresponding to the second end surface intersect each other is located inside the quartz crystal substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta Sato, Masayuki Oto
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Publication number: 20250046525Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor with low ESR even in the high frequency range, and the manufacturing method thereof are provided. The solid electrolytic capacitor includes anode foil, a cathode body, and an electrolyte layer. The anode foil id formed of valve action metal, and dielectric oxide film is formed on a surface thereof. The cathode body includes cathode foil formed of valve action metal and a conductive layer formed a surface of the cathode foil. The electrolyte layer intervenes between the anode foil and the cathode foil, and includes electrolytic solution and conductive polymers. The electrolytic solution includes phosphoric acid compound having alkyl groups with the carbon number of 1 to 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Nippon Chemi-Con CorporationInventors: Zhuguang JIN, Takashi MIURA, Yoshiki KAWAI, Katsumi MOGAKI, Kenji MACHIDA, Kenta SATO, Ippei NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20250046527Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor in which the transpiration of the electrolytic solution is suppressed even under the high-temperature environment is provided. The electrolytic capacitor comprising: a capacitor element having anode foil, cathode foil, electrolytic solution, and a solid electrolyte layer; a casing housing the capacitor element therein; and a sealing body sealing the casing, in which the sealing body includes butyl rubber, and the electrolytic solution includes glycerin, diglycerin, or both of 60 wt % or more relative to the solvent in the electrolytic solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Nippon Chemi-Con CorporationInventors: Kenta SATO, Hideaki TAKAHASHI, Tetsuo MAEDA
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Patent number: 12123891Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes: a base portion; a first arm portion, a second arm portion, and a third arm portion that are coupled to the base portion and that are provided with fixing portions; a movable portion disposed between the first arm portion and the second arm portion and between the first arm portion and the third arm portion in a plan view; a constricted portion that is disposed between the base portion and the movable portion, and that couples the base portion and the movable portion; and a physical quantity detection element that is disposed across the constricted portion in the plan view and that is attached to the base portion and the movable portion. Thin portions are formed at least at two positions in at least one of the second arm portion and the third arm portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kenta Sato
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Publication number: 20240328785Abstract: In a double-ended tuning fork vibrator, a pair of vibration beams having a pair of bases coupled to both ends have a first end region, a first excitation region, a first relay region, a second excitation region, a second relay region, a third excitation region, and a second end region in this order toward a first direction, and an interconnect coupling an excitation electrode in the first excitation region and an excitation electrode in the second excitation region and an interconnect coupling an excitation electrode in the first excitation region and an excitation electrode in the second excitation region are provided on a front surface of the first relay region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Inventors: Masayuki Oto, Kenta Sato
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Publication number: 20240303996Abstract: A dark place judgment device includes: an acquisition portion, acquiring a composite image, which is a composite of a first captured image captured in front of a vehicle with a first sensitivity and a second captured image captured in front of the vehicle with a second sensitivity; a dark place progression calculation portion, calculating a time change amount of a ratio of a first number of pixels of first pixels of the first captured image in a predetermined judgment area or a second number of pixels of second pixels of the second captured image in the judgment area to a number of pixels of judgment pixels in the judgment area of the composite image as the dark place progression; and a judgment portion, judging that a dark place is scheduled to be entered when the dark place progression is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenta SATO, Yuki IMATOH
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Publication number: 20240288466Abstract: A physical quantity detector includes a base member, a movable part coupled to the base member, a physical quantity detection element which is attached to the base member and the movable part, and which detects a physical quantity caused by a stress according to a displacement of the movable part, a supporter configured to support the base member, and a weight bonded to a principal surface of the movable part, wherein the weight includes a main body overlapping the movable part and the supporter when viewed from a perpendicular direction of the principal surface, and a first protrusion which protrudes from the main body toward the movable part, and which is bonded to the movable part, and the main body and the first protrusion are disposed integrally with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Kenta SATO, Masayuki OTO
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Patent number: 12057276Abstract: A hybrid-type solid electrolytic capacitor which suppresses corrosive reaction even if chlorine ions are contaminated while suppressing deterioration of product characteristics. The solid electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element including an anode foil and a cathode foil facing each other and an electrolyte layer formed in the capacitor element. The electrolyte layer includes a solid electrolyte layer including a dopant and a conjugated polymer, and an electrolyte solution filled in air gaps in the capacitor element on which the solid electrolyte layer is formed. The electrolyte layer includes a cation component at a molecular ratio of 6 or less relative to 1 mol of a functional group which can contribute to a doping reaction of the dopant, and the electrolytic solution includes a sulfolane-based solvent.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Nippon Chemi-Con CorporationInventors: Kenta Sato, Ippei Nakamura, Masao Sakakura
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Publication number: 20240256410Abstract: An information processing system includes storage apparatuses installed in areas, SDSs provided on a cloud, and a management system. The management system estimates, in reference to configuration information and performance information regarding a volume of each of the storage apparatuses, a required resource amount required to fail over the volume of each storage apparatus to a duplicate volume. The management system selects an SDS of a replication destination in such a manner as to minimize a required resource amount aggregated for each installation location and for each storage system SDS, while locating in a distributed manner, in the SDSs, duplicate volumes related to the storage apparatuses located at an identical point.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenta SATO, Tsukasa SHIBAYAMA, Akira DEGUCHI
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Patent number: 12026391Abstract: A copy control device for controlling a data copy between a plurality of cloud systems each including one or a plurality of storage devices collects predetermined information for determining data duplication between storage devices, accepts a copy process request for a data copy from a storage device in a copy source cloud system to a copy destination storage device in a different cloud system, determines duplication between copy target data designated in the copy process request and data in the different cloud system on the basis of the collected predetermined information, instructs the different cloud system to copy duplicate data from the storage device having the duplicate data to the copy destination storage device, and instructs the copy source cloud system to copy remaining data of the copy target data to the copy destination storage device.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuei Hironaka, Kenta Sato
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Publication number: 20240192848Abstract: A management computer receives designation of an operation content and an operation target resource from a management user of a first type (managed or self). In a case where the operation target resource is a system resource managed by a management user of a second type (self or managed) and an operation according to the operation content for the operation target resource influences storage management by the management user of the second type, the management computer changes an authority of an operation regarding an influence for the management user of the second type to an authority not to influence an environment realized by construction including performing an operation according to the operation content for the operation target resource, and then performs the operation according to the operation content for the operation target resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsukasa SHIBAYAMA, Kenta SATO, Akira DEGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240110960Abstract: A sensor module includes: a count unit configured to generate first to n-th count values of a time event of one of a measurement target signal output from a physical quantity sensor and a reference periodic signal output from a reference periodic signal generation unit in synchronization with the other; a time digital value generation unit configured to generate first to n-th time digital values based on a phase difference between the measurement target signal and the reference periodic signal; and a combined output value generation unit configured to generate an i-th combined output value based on the i-th time digital value and the i-th count value. A quantization error of the j-th combined output value is fed back to generation of the (j+1)-th combined output value, and a period of a change in the physical quantity when a frequency, at which the physical quantity changes, is a maximum frequency is longer than eight times an average period in which first to n-th combined output values are generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Kenta Sato, Masayoshi Todorokihara
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Publication number: 20240087817Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element that includes an anode part and a cathode part, an exterior body that seals the capacitor element, a first external electrode that is electrically connected to the anode part, and a second external electrode that is electrically connected to the cathode part. At least one of an end face of the anode part or an end face of the cathode part is exposed from the exterior body to be electrically connected to a corresponding one of the first external electrode or the second external electrode. The end face exposed from the exterior body is covered with an electroless Ni plating layer, and the electroless Ni plating layer is covered with an electroless Ag plating layer. The electroless Ag plating layer is covered with the corresponding one of the first external electrode or the second external electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: KENTA SATO, TOSHIFUMI KADOKAWA, JUNICHI KURITA, DAISUKE KUBO
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Patent number: 11928524Abstract: The computer system includes one or more storage devices and a management computer, the management computer includes an information collection unit, an event detection unit, a plan generation unit, and a plan execution unit. The plan generation unit determines a target volume of a change process of a right of control in a plan, a processor of a change source of the right of control, and a processor of a change destination of the right of control, estimates an influence by a change process of the right of control in the plan, and the plan execution unit determines execution time of the plan based on the estimation of the influence and the operation information of the storage devices. As a result, in consideration of the influence by an ownership change process, while the influence applied to usage of a computer system is suppressed, the ownership change process is executed.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsukasa Shibayama, Kazuei Hironaka, Kenta Sato
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Publication number: 20240072765Abstract: A structure is a structure of a quartz crystal substrate having a slit. The structure includes, as an inner wall of the slit, a first side surface, a second side surface, a first end surface, and a second end surface. The first side surface extends along a first direction which is a longitudinal direction of the slit, and the second side surface extends along the first direction. The first end surface is continuous with the first side surface and extends along a first crystal plane of the quartz crystal substrate, and the second end surface is continuous with the second side surface and extends along a second crystal plane of the quartz crystal substrate. In a plan view of the quartz crystal substrate, an intersection point where a first straight line corresponding to the first end surface and a second straight line corresponding to the second end surface intersect each other is located inside the quartz crystal substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Kenta Sato, Masayuki Oto
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Patent number: 11885721Abstract: An abnormality determination method includes: a first distance calculation step of calculating, based on measurement data of an object, a first Mahalanobis distance in a first unit space corresponding to a normal mode of the object; a second distance calculation step of calculating, based on the measurement data, an (i+1)-th Mahalanobis distance in an (i+1)-th unit space corresponding to an i-th abnormal mode of the object for each integer i greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2; and an abnormality determination step of determining, based on the second to (N+1)-th Mahalanobis distances, one of the first to N-th abnormal modes where the object is when the first Mahalanobis distance exceeds a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Inventor: Kenta Sato
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Patent number: 11846647Abstract: An inertial measurement unit includes: a sensor unit having an inertial sensor; and a first holding unit holding the sensor unit. The first holding unit includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a plurality of spacers coupling the sensor unit and the first substrate; a first elastic member and a second elastic member provided on both sides of the first substrate via opening parts; a first fixing member penetrating, pressing and fixing the first substrate and the first elastic member to the second substrate; and a second fixing member penetrating, pressing and fixing the first substrate and the second elastic member to the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Inventors: Jun Watanabe, Kenta Sato
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Publication number: 20230384344Abstract: An inertial measurement device includes: a board; a first inertial sensor disposed on one surface of the board and having a first detection axis along the board; a second inertial sensor disposed on the one surface of the board and having a second detection axis defined in a direction opposite to the first detection axis; and a processing circuit configured to generate a differential signal between an output signal of the first inertial sensor and an output signal of the second inertial sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventor: Kenta SATO
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Patent number: D1040345Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: TENGA CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Yamane, Hitoshi Watanabe, Kenta Sato