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).

  • Patent number: 11340254
    Abstract: An inertial measurement unit includes: a sensor unit having at least one inertial sensor; a substrate where at least one of a processing unit performing processing based on detection information from the inertial sensor and a display unit performing a display based on the detection information is provided; and at least one fixing member removably fixing the sensor unit and the substrate together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Yasushi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11320408
    Abstract: A gas analysis device and a gas analysis method for performing measurement in a direct mode and a trap mode without carrying out a complicated control. The gas analysis device includes a branching section that branches a target gas, a mass spectrometer performing mass spectrometry of one branched target gas, a trap section holding the other branched target gas, a gas chromatograph analyzing the other branched target gas, and a controller controlling the flow path of the one branched target gas and the other branched target gas. The branching section is controlled so that, while a thermal analysis is performed by a thermal analysis device, the branching section continuously branches the supplied target gas and discharges the one branched target gas and the other branched target gas, and when the thermal analysis is completed, the other branched target gas held by the trap section is supplied to the gas chromatograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: NETZSCH-Gerätebau GmbH
    Inventors: Ryoichi Kinoshita, Hiroki Takaishi, Daisuke Ito, Kenta Sato
  • Patent number: 11307789
    Abstract: A storage system and storage control method are provided in which a plurality of volumes to be processed by a storage control unit are distributed and evacuated in a normal storage control unit without recovering redundancy of the storage control unit having decreased redundancy, and the storage control unit itself having the decreased redundancy is deleted after the evacuating is completed, and thus reservation information processing resources for guaranteeing recoverability of the redundancy become unnecessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Akira Deguchi, Tomohiro Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220114034
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Shibayama, Kazuei Hironaka, Kenta Sato
  • Publication number: 20220099633
    Abstract: A signal processing method includes generating N data sequences by dividing i-th measurement data based on a signal output from an i-th sensor that detects a physical quantity generated due to a vibration of a target object, for each integer i of 1 or more and M or less, where N is a predetermined integer of 2 or more, and M is a predetermined integer of 2 or more, generating an i-th averaged data sequence by averaging the N data sequences generated by dividing the i-th measurement data, for each integer i of 1 or more and M or less, and generating a Lissajous figure in which the i-th averaged data sequence is assigned to an i-th axis, for each integer i of 1 or more and M or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventor: Kenta SATO
  • Publication number: 20220091153
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Jun WATANABE, Kenta SATO
  • Publication number: 20220091790
    Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor provides a plurality of logical volumes each allowing input and output of data, and processes each data input to and output from a storage device via the logical volume. The processor acquires operational data associated with each of the plurality of logical volumes, and transmits the acquired operational data to a source of a operational data request. The processor adjusts, for each of the logical volumes, accuracy of the operational data to be acquired from each of the logical volumes, according to a status of each of the logical volumes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta SATO, Kazuei HIRONAKA, Akira DEGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11262265
    Abstract: A temperature correction device includes a data acquisition portion that acquires physical quantity data based on an output signal from a physical quantity sensor and temperature data based on an output signal from a temperature sensor, a physical quantity measurement portion that measures a physical quantity detected by the physical quantity sensor based on the physical quantity data, a correction value calculation portion that calculates a correction value based on a product of a temperature gradient value for a first period from a first time to a second time obtained based on the temperature data and a correction coefficient value, and a correction portion that corrects a measurement value of the physical quantity measured by the physical quantity measurement portion based on the correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Yasushi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11219122
    Abstract: A sensor unit includes a physical quantity sensor, a connecter to be coupled to the outside, a board on which the physical quantity sensor and the connecter are installed, and a container accommodating the board. The board is provided with a first region in which the connecter is installed, a second region in which the physical quantity sensor is installed, and a coupling region disposed between the first and second regions and having a sectional area S3 that is smaller than a sectional area S1 of the first region and a sectional area S2 of the second region in a sectional view as seen in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the first region and the second region are arranged, and a region in the second region of the board on the coupling region side is attached to the container via a fixation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Yasushi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11216317
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Shibayama, Kazuei Hironaka, Kenta Sato
  • Patent number: 11204244
    Abstract: A sensor unit includes acceleration sensors as physical quantity sensors, a control IC as a processor electrically coupled to the acceleration sensors, a circuit board as a board on which the acceleration sensors and the control IC are installed, and a container accommodating the circuit board. The acceleration sensors and the control IC are disposed on the circuit board such that the acceleration sensors and the control IC do not overlap each other in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Yasushi Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20210356495
    Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes a base, at least two arms, a movable plate, a hinge, and a physical quantity measurement element. Four quadrants of the sensor are defined by first and second orthogonal lines. The first line passes through the center of the sensor and crosses the hinge. The second line extends along the hinge. Fixed regions of the sensor are located in the first and second quadrants. No fixed regions are located in at least one of the third and fourth quadrants. The third and fourth quadrants are closer to the base than the first and second quadrants in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventor: Kenta SATO
  • Publication number: 20210333304
    Abstract: An inertial measurement device includes: an inertial sensor; a battery supplying electric power to the inertial sensor; a first case accommodating the inertial sensor; and a second case accommodating the battery. The battery and the first case are spaced apart from each other. The second case is fixed outside the first case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Kenta SATO, Jun WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210333147
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit displaying a first two-dimensional display showing a frequency and a spectral intensity of a vibration at the frequency. In the first two-dimensional display, at least one measurement value of a first measurement value in a first direction, a second measurement value in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a third measurement value in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction, and a composite value of the first measurement value, the second measurement value, and the third measurement value, are displayed as superimposed on each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Kenta SATO
  • Publication number: 20210335553
    Abstract: In a solid electrolytic capacitor having an electrolyte layer consisting of a solid electrolyte layer and a liquid, the solid electrolytic capacitor, which suppresses a dedoping reaction and which ESR thereof does not keenly increase, in particular, after a loading of heat stress, is provided. In the solid electrolytic capacitor, the electrolyte layer is formed in the capacitor element which is formed by opposing an anode foil and a cathode foil. This electrolyte layer includes the solid electrolyte layer and the liquid. The solid electrolyte layer includes a conductive polymer consisting of a dopant and a conjugated polymer. The liquid is filled in air gaps in the capacitor element on which the solid electrolyte layer is formed. The electrolyte layer includes ammonia as a cation component, and a molecular ratio of the cation component relative to 1 mol of a functional group which can contribute to a doping reaction of the dopant, in the electrolyte layer is 23 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Kenta SATO, Masao SAKAKURA
  • Publication number: 20210325424
    Abstract: A physical quantity sensor module includes: a resonant frequency shift based physical quantity sensor whose frequency adjusts with a adjust in physical quantity; a reference signal oscillator which outputs a reference signal; a frequency delta-sigma modulator which performs frequency delta-sigma modulation of the reference signal, using an operation signal based on a measurement target signal as an output from the resonant frequency shift based physical quantity sensor, and generates a frequency delta-sigma modulated signal; a first low-pass filter provided on an output side of the frequency delta-sigma modulator and operating synchronously with the measurement target signal as the output from the resonant frequency shift based physical quantity sensor; and a second low-pass filter provided on an output side of the first low-pass filter and operating synchronously with the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Kenta SATO, Masayoshi TODOROKIHARA
  • Patent number: 11105827
    Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes a base, at least two arms, a movable plate, a hinge, and a physical quantity measurement element. Four quadrants of the sensor are defined by first and second orthogonal lines. The first line passes through the center of the sensor and crosses the hinge. The second line extends along the hinge. Fixed regions of the sensor are located in the first and second quadrants. No fixed regions are located in at least one of the third and fourth quadrants. The third and fourth quadrants are closer to the base than the first and second quadrants in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventor: Kenta Sato
  • Patent number: 11079403
    Abstract: A physical quantity sensor module includes: a resonant frequency shift based physical quantity sensor whose frequency adjusts with a adjust in physical quantity; a reference signal oscillator which outputs a reference signal; a frequency delta-sigma modulator which performs frequency delta-sigma modulation of the reference signal, using an operation signal based on a measurement target signal as an output from the resonant frequency shift based physical quantity sensor, and generates a frequency delta-sigma modulated signal; a first low-pass filter provided on an output side of the frequency delta-sigma modulator and operating synchronously with the measurement target signal as the output from the resonant frequency shift based physical quantity sensor; and a second low-pass filter provided on an output side of the first low-pass filter and operating synchronously with the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Masayoshi Todorokihara
  • Patent number: 11073532
    Abstract: A sensor module includes a sensor, a first substrate on which the sensor is mounted, a second substrate coupled to an external connector, conductive members that couple the first substrate and the second substrate, an accommodator that accommodates the first substrate, the second substrate, and a conductive member therein, a lid that closes an opening of the accommodator, a first elastic member in contact with a first main surface of the first substrate and the accommodator, and a second elastic member in contact with a second main surface of the first substrate and the lid. A resonance frequency f1 of the sensor, a resonance frequency f2 of the conductive member, a resonance frequency f3 of the first elastic member, and a resonance frequency f4 of the second elastic member satisfy f2<f3<f1 and f2<f4?f1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventor: Kenta Sato
  • Publication number: 20210142952
    Abstract: In a solid electrolytic capacitor having an electrolyte layer consisting of a solid electrolyte layer and a liquid, the solid electrolytic capacitor, which suppresses a dedoping reaction and which ESR thereof does not keenly increase, in particular, after a loading of heat stress, is provided. In the solid electrolytic capacitor, the electrolyte layer is formed in the capacitor element which is formed by opposing an anode foil and a cathode foil. This electrolyte layer includes the solid electrolyte layer and the liquid. The solid electrolyte layer includes a conductive polymer consisting of a dopant and a conjugated polymer. The liquid is filled in air gaps in the capacitor element on which the solid electrolyte layer is formed. A molecular ratio of a cation component relative to 1 mol of a functional group which can contribute to a doping reaction of the dopant, in the electrolyte layer is 6 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Masao Sakakura