Patents by Inventor Koji Sakai

Koji Sakai 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: 11979983
    Abstract: A printed wiring board includes an electrically insulating base film, and an electrically conductive pattern stacked on at least one surface side of the base film. An average width of multiple wiring portions included in the electrically conductive pattern is 5 ?m or greater and 20 ?m or less. Each of the wiring portions includes a seed layer and a plating layer. The plating layer includes copper crystal planes of a (111) plane, a (200) plane, a (220) plane, and a (311) plane. An intensity ratio IR220 of an X-ray diffraction intensity of the copper crystal plane (220) obtained by Equation (1) below is 0.05 or greater and 0.14 or less, IR220=I220/(I111+I220+I311)??(1) (where I111, I200, I220, I311 are respectively X-ray diffraction intensity of the (111) plane (200) plane, the (220) plane, and the (311) plane).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Maki Ikebe, Koji Nitta, Shoichiro Sakai
  • Publication number: 20240111195
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel including in the following order an active matrix substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a counter substrate. The active matrix substrate includes in the following order a first electrode and a second electrode including a first linear electrode portion extending in a first direction. The counter substrate includes a third electrode including second linear electrode portions extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a fourth electrode including an island-shaped electrode portion as a floating electrode. The island-shaped electrode portion is disposed between the second linear electrode portions in a plan view, overlaps an optical aperture of one of two pixels adjacent to each other along the second direction, and does not overlap an optical aperture of the other of the two pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Koji MURATA, Akira HIRAI, Hiroshi TSUCHIYA, Takashi SATOH, Akira SAKAI, Shinji SHIMADA
  • Patent number: 11950365
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board includes: a base film having a hole for forming a through hole; and a coil-shaped wiring layer layered on at least one surface side of the base film, wherein the wiring layer includes a land portion arranged at an inner peripheral surface of the hole and at a peripheral portion of the hole of the base film, and a winding portion arranged in a spiral shape with the land portion as an inside end portion or an outside end portion, wherein the winding portion includes a first winding portion that is an outermost circumference and a second winding portion that is inside relative to the outermost circumference, and wherein a ratio of an average thickness of the land portion to an average thickness of the second winding portion is 1.1 or more and 5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Shoichiro Sakai, Koji Nitta, Yoshio Oka, Junichi Motomura, Masanao Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20240003865
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is an electrode stack array including: a planar substrate; and a plurality of electrode stacks, each electrode stack including a sacrificial layer that is stacked on the planar substrate, a bent layer that is stacked on the sacrificial layer and is capable of bending such that a surface on a side opposite to a surface on a side of the sacrificial layer becomes an inner side, and a conductive layer that is disposed on the bent layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SAKAI, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Tetsuhiko TESHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230267613
    Abstract: From a plurality of medical images in time phases, a target site is extracted from at least one medical image, a reference point is set on each of a target-site side, and a periphery side of the target site which are on across from each other over an outline of the extracted target site, and movement information for the reference points is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Ryo Sakamoto, Koji Sakai, Gakuto Aoyama, Kiyohide Satoh
  • Patent number: 11676277
    Abstract: From a plurality of medical images in time phases, a target site is extracted from at least one medical image, a reference point is set on each of a target-site side, and a periphery side of the target site which are on across from each other over an outline of the extracted target site, and movement information for the reference points is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo Sakamoto, Koji Sakai, Gakuto Aoyama, Kiyohide Satoh
  • Publication number: 20230022519
    Abstract: There is provided a three-dimensional structure in which a multilayer film is three-dimensionally curved to form an interior space. The multilayer film includes a layer containing a carbon monoatomic layer substance, a support layer, and a curve induction layer that induces a curved structure, where the layer containing the carbon monoatomic layer substance is in contact with the interior space, and the support layer is positioned between the layer containing the carbon monoatomic layer substance and the curve induction layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SAKAI, Tetsuhiko TESHIMA, Hiroki MIYAZAKO, Yuko UENO
  • Patent number: 11524550
    Abstract: An air conditioning control device includes: a passenger determination unit that determines whether a passenger is in a self-driving vehicle; a travel determination unit that determines a traveling state of the self-driving vehicle; and a light blocking control unit that executes a light blocking air conditioning control for a vehicle cabin by operating a light blocking device to adjust solar radiation into the vehicle cabin from a window of the self-driving vehicle when the passenger determination unit and the travel determination unit determine that the self-driving vehicle is in an unmanned traveling condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Sakai
  • Patent number: 11472257
    Abstract: An air-conditioning control ECU is an air-conditioning control apparatus mounted in an automated driving vehicle, and includes an occupant determining section that determines whether an occupant is in the automated driving vehicle, and a window operation controlling section that executes a window operation air-conditioning control for performing cabin air-conditioning when a determination result of the occupant determining section indicates the automated driving vehicle is in an unmanned traveling state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Sakai, Yasuhiro Sekito
  • Patent number: 11321618
    Abstract: An image pickup system includes an input/output modeling section 24, the input/output modeling section 24 creating, as a population, an image group obtained when a specific target is photographed, (access image), and generating an inference model by using, as teacher data, sequential images selected from the image group created as the population, based on whether the specific target can be accessed, wherein each image of the image group is associated with date and time information and/or position information, and the input/output modeling section 24 generates an inference model for determining based on the date and time information and/or the position information whether a process to the specific target is good or bad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OM DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Nonaka, Kazuhiko Osa, Yoichi Yoshida, Hirokazu Nozaki, Masahiro Fujimoto, Hidekazu Iwaki, Koji Sakai, Keiji Okada, Yoshihisa Ogata
  • Patent number: 11320372
    Abstract: A component sensor detects a fluid component with improved accuracy. The component sensor includes tube (3) including tube side (4) that permits inflow of fluid (2), substrate (5) provided to tube (3), first protrusion (6) provided at one end of substrate (5), second protrusion (7) provided at another end of substrate (5), light emitter (9) that emits infrared light (8) toward first protrusion (6), and light receiver (10) that receives infrared light (8). Infrared light (8) entering substrate (5) through first protrusion (6) experiences total reflection inside substrate (5) and exits through second protrusion (7) to head for light receiver (10). Tube side (4) includes two through holes (13) that each extend between an interior and an exterior of tube (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Okudo, Shinichi Kishimoto, Masahiko Ohbayashi, Koji Sakai, Hiroki Yoshino
  • Patent number: 11256898
    Abstract: A culture information processing device includes: a feature value computing unit that computes growth feature values indicating features of growth characteristics of cells from data acquired in a particular first subculturing process selected from among a plurality of subculturing processes included in a culture period of the cells; a condition setting unit that sets culturing conditions of a second subculturing process one process after the first subculturing process; and an information computing unit that computes, on the basis of the growth feature values computed by the feature value computing unit and the culturing conditions set by the condition setting unit, characteristics-related information related to growth characteristics in the second subculturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taiji Mine, Yasunobu Iga, Yoshinobu Akahori, Koji Sakai, Kazunari Tokuda
  • Publication number: 20220036557
    Abstract: From a plurality of medical images in time phases, a target site is extracted from at least one medical image, a reference point is set on each of a target-site side, and a periphery side of the target site which are on across from each other over an outline of the extracted target site, and movement information for the reference points is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Ryo Sakamoto, Koji Sakai, Gakuto Aoyama, Kiyohide Satoh
  • Publication number: 20220022792
    Abstract: Provided is an electrode having an internal space, wherein the internal space is formed by a film including a layer containing a conductive material (conductive layer). Also provided is a method for producing an electrode, including a step (a) of forming a film including a layer containing a polymer compound (polymer compound layer) and a layer containing a conductive material (conductive layer); and a step (b) of allowing the film to form a tubular shape in a self-organized manner, using, s a driving force, a strain gradient in the thickness direction of the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SAKAI, Tetsuhiko TESHIMA, Yuko UENO, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11176671
    Abstract: From a plurality of medical images in time phases, a target site is extracted from at least one medical image, a reference point is set on each of a target-site side, and a periphery side of the target site which are on across from each other over an outline of the extracted target site, and movement information for the reference points is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo Sakamoto, Koji Sakai, Gakuto Aoyama, Kiyohide Satoh
  • Publication number: 20210142594
    Abstract: An automatic daily inspection system that automatically performs a daily inspection of an automobile includes an automatic daily inspection apparatus mounted on the automobile. The automatic daily inspection apparatus is configured to perform a daily inspection on the automobile at a predetermined point of time, and transmit a diagnosis result of the daily inspection to a transceiver held by a manager who manages the automobile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: Koji SAKAI
  • Patent number: 10907628
    Abstract: An inverter is disposed at a position on the upstream side relative to a compression mechanism along the flow of a refrigerant and the position cooled by the refrigerant. A motor is disposed at a position heated by the refrigerant compressed by the compression mechanism. A control device changes an upper limit value of a driving current supplied to the motor on the basis of at least one of first information relating to the temperature of the motor or second information relating to the temperature of the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Sakai
  • Patent number: 10899194
    Abstract: An air-conditioning control apparatus for a vehicle capable of unmanned driving includes a determining section that is configured to determine whether an occupant is in the vehicle and an output section that is configured to execute an air-conditioning control based on a determination result by the determining section. The output section is configured to execute the air-conditioning control based on ride schedule information indicating a length of time until an occupant rides in the vehicle when the vehicle is determined to be in an unmanned state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Sakai, Shinsuke Konishi, Hiromitsu Maehata
  • Patent number: 10897185
    Abstract: An electric device includes a case, an electric component that is provided in the case and has a main body section and a lead terminal extending from the main body section, the main body section being supported on the case, a circuit board that is provided in the case and has a connecting hole through which the lead terminal is inserted, and a guide member that has a guide hole positioned relative to the connecting hole, the lead terminal being disposed to penetrate through the guide hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Sakai
  • Patent number: D1002699
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Sakai