Patents by Inventor Koji Sato
Koji 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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Patent number: 11965562Abstract: An outer member of a rotation transmission device has an opening integral with an inner peripheral portion of the outer member. Engaging elements are disposed between an inner member and the inner peripheral portion. An outer ring is fitted to the inner peripheral portion. A first snap ring is attached to the inner peripheral portion. An inner ring is fitted to an end portion of the inner member at one axial end thereof. A second snap ring is attached to the end portion through the opening. A shaft is connected to the opening so as to be rotatable in unison with and coaxially with the outer member.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NTN CorporationInventor: Koji Sato
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Publication number: 20240121898Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board according to an embodiment includes a base film and a first wire. The base film has a first surface. The first wire is disposed on the first surface. The first wire has a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is disposed on the first surface directly or indirectly. The second layer covers the first layer. In the first surface, a first groove is formed next to the first layer in a plan view. The second layer on a side surface of the first layer exists on a bottom surface and a side surface of the first groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Yosuke FUKAYA, Koji NITTA, Daisuke SATO
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Publication number: 20240115959Abstract: Provided are a program, an information processing device, a method, and a system that allow properties of an organized party to be easily grasped. An information processing device 10 is an information processing device for executing a game and includes: a setting unit 231 for setting two or more game media on a deck with which indicator information is associated; an indicator-information-point calculation unit 232 for determining points for each item of the indicator information on the basis of predetermined data associated with the game media; and an indicator-information determination unit 233 for determining the indicator information to be displayed on a game screen on the basis of the points for each item of the indicator information obtained by the indicator-information-point calculation unit 232 and associating the determined indicator information with the deck.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.Inventors: Shohei Sawa, Masayoshi Sato, Koji Otani, Yasuaki Hayashizaki, Ryota Yagi, Junpei Yamaguchi, Takafumi Oka
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Patent number: 11945071Abstract: A polishing brush (1) includes a rod-shaped member (2) and a grinding element bundle (4) formed of a plurality of wire-shaped grinding elements (3). The rod-shaped member (2) has a holding hole (6) at a front portion (2a) to hold the grinding element bundle (4). The holding hole (6) has a bottom face (7) and a sleeve-shaped peripheral wall (8) extending from the bottom face (7) in an inclination direction (S). The grinding element bundle (4) has a seated portion (4a) seated in the holding hole (6) and a protruding portion (4b) protruding from an opening (6a) of the holding hole (6) in the inclination direction (S). The tip end of the protruding portion (4b) is located on the outside of the rod-shaped member (2) when viewed from the axis (L0) direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: XEBEC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., TAIMEI CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventor: Koji Sato
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Patent number: 11947305Abstract: An apparatus includes a developer container to and from which a replenishment container is attachable and detachable and which includes an accommodating portion and a replenishment port, a transfer portion configured to transfer a developer image on an image bearing member onto a recording material, a supporting tray including a supporting surface configured to support the recording material thereon, and a discharge portion configured to discharge the recording material, onto which the developer image has been transferred, on the supporting surface, wherein the supporting surface has an opening portion opening such that the replenishment port is exposed through the supporting surface, and wherein an opening/closing member configured to be movable between a closed position where the opening/closing member covers the replenishment port and serves as a part of the supporting surface and an open position where the replenishment port is exposed is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomio Noguchi, Masaaki Sato, Kenji Matsuzaka, Koji Fujinaka, Takao Sameshima, Akitoshi Toyota, Yuichiro Inaba, Kenichi Iida
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Publication number: 20240102240Abstract: A fibrous body processing apparatus includes a coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit; a humidifying unit that generates humidified air and supplies the humidified air to the coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit; a weight measurement unit that measures a weight of the coarsely crushed pieces let out of the coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit; a fixed amount supplying unit that supplies a fixed amount of the coarsely crushed pieces measured by the weight measurement unit; a defibrating unit that defibrates the coarsely crushed pieces supplied from the fixed amount supplying unit; a first transportation portion through which the coarsely crushed pieces are sent from the coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit to the weight measurement unit; a second transportation portion through which the coarsely crushed pieces are sent from the fixed amount supplying unit to the defibrating unit; and a generated at the humidifying unit is supplied to the defibrating unit while bypassing the weight measurement unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Jun SAKURADA, Makoto SATO, Koji MOTOHASHI, Karen HASEBE, Toshihiko YAMAZAKI, Takashi ABE
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Publication number: 20240102239Abstract: A fibrous body processing apparatus includes a humidifying unit, a first processing unit, a second processing unit, a first supply passage, a second supply passage, and a returning passage. The humidifying unit generates humidified air. The first processing unit processes a material that contains fibers. The second processing unit processes the material that was processed at the first processing unit. Humidified air is supplied from the humidifying unit to the first processing unit through the first supply passage. Humidified air is supplied from the first processing unit to the second processing unit, together with the material, through the second supply passage. The returning passage includes an upstream-side end portion and a downstream-side end portion. Humidified air is returned from the second supply passage or the second processing unit to the humidifying unit through the returning passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Karen HASEBE, Makoto SATO, Koji MOTOHASHI, Jun SAKURADA, Toshihiko YAMAZAKI, Takashi ABE
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Publication number: 20240107799Abstract: A novel functional panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The functional panel includes a base material and a pair of pixels, and the base material covers the pair of pixels and has a light-transmitting property. The pair of pixels includes one pixel and another pixel, and the one pixel includes a light-emitting device and a first microlens. The light-emitting device emits light toward the base material, and the first microlens is interposed between the base material and the light emission and converges light. The first microlens includes a first surface and a second surface; the second surface is closer to the light-emitting device than the first surface is; and the second surface has a smaller radius of curvature than the first surface. The other pixel includes a photoelectric conversion device and a second microlens. The second microlens is interposed between the base material and the photoelectric conversion and converges external light incident from the base material side.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Daiki NAKAMURA, Ryo HATSUMI, Rai SATO, Shingo EGUCHI, Koji KUSUNOKI
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Patent number: 11941182Abstract: A housing of an example of an electronic apparatus has a top surface and a bottom surface and has a flat shape. A power supply section having a flat shape is a power supply section, which is a housing case capable of accommodating a battery or is a battery, and the power supply section is provided at a position inside the housing that intersects with a reference plane perpendicular to the up-down direction. A first substrate is provided parallel to the reference plane on the top surface side relative to the power supply section. A second substrate is provided parallel to the reference plane on the bottom surface side relative to the power supply section. The electronic apparatus includes at least one of a vibrator and a speaker at a position that intersects with the reference plane.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wakana Ohori, Kazuhiro Maruyama, Yoshitaka Tamura, Masaya Takei, Takahiro Sato, Koji Saito, Mitsuru Katayama
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Patent number: 11940703Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. The display device includes a transistor, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a third insulating layer, a first conductive layer, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer in a pixel. The first insulating layer is positioned over a channel formation region of the transistor. The first conductive layer is positioned over the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is positioned over the transistor, the first insulating layer, and the first conductive layer. The pixel electrode is positioned over the second insulating layer, the third insulating layer is positioned over the pixel electrode, the common electrode is positioned over the third insulating layer, and the liquid crystal layer is positioned over the common electrode. The common electrode includes a region overlapping with the first conductive layer with the pixel electrode positioned therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouhei Toyotaka, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Kei Takahashi, Koji Kusunoki, Masataka Nakada, Ami Sato
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Publication number: 20240093846Abstract: The vehicle light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element having a peak emission wavelength of 400 nm or greater and 510 nm or less, and a fluorescent member including a first phosphor excited by light emitted by the light-emitting element and emitting light having a peak emission wavelength of 480 nm or greater and 530 nm or less a second phosphor excited by the light emitted by the light-emitting element and emitting light having a peak emission wavelength of 540 nm or greater and 600 nm or less. The vehicle light-emitting device emits light in a region AL in a CIE1931 chromaticity diagram as defined in the present disclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya GOTO, Koji KAJIKAWA, Yuji SATO
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Patent number: 11931847Abstract: A magnet chuck has a piston assembly including a tube shaped permanent magnet and a core yoke able to move on the interior of a cylinder tube. The permanent magnet is provided on the outer periphery of the core yoke, is magnetized in the radial direction, and a magnetic sensor is attached to the side surface of the cylinder tube.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi Yajima, Motohiro Sato, Tsuyoshi Sasaki, Koji Hara, Kouichirou Kanda
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Publication number: 20240083514Abstract: In the vehicle body structure including a body frame and a stabilizer which is supported by the body frame and connected to left and right front suspension arms, the body frame has an upper frame and a cross member connected to the upper frame, and the upper frame and the cross member are located upward of the front suspension arms. The cross member is connected to an air guide panel for redirecting ambient air flowing from the front of the vehicle body, and the air guide panel is arranged in a position overlapping the stabilizer in a vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Yuki Yamanaka, Koji Sato, Kenichi Oishi
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Publication number: 20240085823Abstract: A cartridge is configured to be attachable to a main body of an image forming apparatus and configured to receive toner supplied from a supply container. The cartridge includes a supply port configured to receive the toner supplied from the supply container, a shutter member configured to cover the supply port, and a locking member. The locking member is moved from a lock position to an unlock position to allow movement of the shutter member by using electric power supplied from the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Koji Wada, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Hiroshi Takarada, Masaaki Sato
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Publication number: 20240085828Abstract: An intermediate transfer member including a base layer, wherein the base layer contains a thermoplastic resin and an electroconductive filler dispersed in the thermoplastic resin, and wherein the base layer has a volume resistivity of 1×106 to 1×1013 ?·cm, and the base layer has an electroconductive path index of 0.20 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: ATSUSHI HORI, AKIHIRO TAYA, MEGUMI UCHINO, KOJI SATO
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Patent number: 11927895Abstract: A drum cover is movable relative to a photosensitive drum between a first position at which the drum cover covers a part of a circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum, and a second position at which the drum cover does not cover the part of the circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum. A toner cartridge includes a toner storage portion configured to store toner to be supplied to the photosensitive drum. A drum cartridge includes a toner cartridge guide extending in a second direction crossing a first direction. The toner cartridge guide guides the toner cartridge to move in the second direction when the toner cartridge is being attached to the drum cartridge. A distance from the toner cartridge guide to the drum cover at the second position is longer than a distance from the toner cartridge guide to the drum cover at the first position.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shougo Sato, Koji Ogawa
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Publication number: 20240077015Abstract: The present invention relates to a reservoir tank for coolant that stores the coolant for cooling an internal combustion engine. The reservoir tank includes: a tank chamber that stores the coolant; an opening, which is disposed in an upper part of the tank chamber, through which the coolant flows in and flows out, and in a circumferential wall of which a breathing hole is formed; and a first communication passage, a second communication passage, and a third communication passage that respectively communicate with the opening and the tank chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Miyo KITAMURA, Shinji SHIMOYAMA, Keijiro KOIDE, Masahiro KATO, Tatsuya KURIMOTO, Tatsuki TANAKA, Koji SATO, Takumi TOKINOYA
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Publication number: 20240079103Abstract: An information processing device (40) according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an analysis unit (41) being a first data generation unit that generates objective score data, which indicates objective scores in time series, based on a plurality of pieces of objective data regarding a patient; a processing unit (42) being a second data generation unit that generates subjective score data, which indicates subjective scores in time series, based on a plurality of pieces of subjective data obtained from the patient; and a generation unit (44) being an image generation unit that generates a score image indicating the objective score data and the subjective score data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: RITSUKO KANO, EIJIRO MORI, SHINSUKE NOGUCHI, KAZUMI HIRANO, TAKAFUMI YANAGIMOTO, KOJI SATO, HIROSHI HARA
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Patent number: 11922361Abstract: A distribution system is linked to a delivery vehicle delivering a product stored in a warehouse to a delivery destination and includes an automatic conveyance device and an automatic conveyance device server. An automatic conveyance device server transmits a release instruction to an automatic conveyance device when receiving a request for delivery, transmits a loading instruction for loading of a product to a delivery vehicle to the automatic conveyance device when receiving loading permission, and transmits a release completion notification to a transmitter of a delivery request when receiving information indicating the releasing is completed.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Kawaguchi, Takeshi Sato
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Publication number: 20240069633Abstract: A finger-worn type finger-braille device that can be carried at all times in daily life is provided. A wearing side device 3A of the present invention includes an input/output unit 10, a main body unit 50 for receiving a signal from the input/output unit 10 to perform predetermined processing, and a wearing tool 20 which holds the input/output unit 10 and the main body unit 50, and by which the input/output unit 10 and the main body unit 50 are to be worn on a person's hand. The input/output unit 10 is provided on a finger F of the hand by the wearing tool 20, and has a motion detector 13 for detecting the motion of the finger F. The main body unit 50 receives motion information complying with the motion of the finger detected by the motion detector 13 and identifies characters based on the received motion information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Eitaro YAMATSUTA, Koji SATO