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).

  • Patent number: 11927895
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shougo Sato, Koji Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20240077015
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Miyo KITAMURA, Shinji SHIMOYAMA, Keijiro KOIDE, Masahiro KATO, Tatsuya KURIMOTO, Tatsuki TANAKA, Koji SATO, Takumi TOKINOYA
  • Publication number: 20240079103
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: RITSUKO KANO, EIJIRO MORI, SHINSUKE NOGUCHI, KAZUMI HIRANO, TAKAFUMI YANAGIMOTO, KOJI SATO, HIROSHI HARA
  • Patent number: 11922361
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kawaguchi, Takeshi Sato
  • Publication number: 20240069633
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Eitaro YAMATSUTA, Koji SATO
  • Patent number: 11882133
    Abstract: A list-type detection unit (220) performs list-type detection on communication data so as to detect a fraudulent communication. A machine-learning-type detection unit (230) performs machine-learning-type detection on communication data so as to detect a fraudulent communication. A communication acceptance unit (210) receives communication data from a network, and allocates the received communication data to at least one of the list-type detection unit and the machine-learning-type detection unit, using an allocation filter. A filter setting unit (250) determines a parameter value based on a load status of the list-type detection unit and a load status of the machine-learning-type detection unit, and sets the determined parameter value in the allocation filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Hirai, Koji Sato
  • Publication number: 20240011769
    Abstract: A sheet identification device includes a light irradiation portion. When forming an identification image, the light irradiation portion projects first pattern light (P11) and second pattern light (P12) having different dependences on a fiber direction of a surface of a sheet on an identification region (R1). The identification image is an image of the identification region (R1) of the surface of the sheet on which image formation or image reading is performed, which is used for identifying the fiber direction of the surface of the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Koji SATO, Kazuhiro NAKACHI, Rui HAMABE, Takuya MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230412055
    Abstract: This method for manufacturing a coil includes a cross section forming step for transforming an outer shape of a part to be housed in a slot in a coil wire that has a circular cross section and is not subjected to an insulation coating process, and an insulation step for performing, after the cross section forming step, the insulation coating process on the coil wire after cross section forming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro ISHIKAWA, Hiroaki YABUI, Koji SATO, Akinori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20230392691
    Abstract: A metal gasket having an annular planar shape with a vertical cross-section having a sideways U-shape has angular portions in an upper surface portion and a lower surface portion, respectively. In the angular portions, inclined faces inclined toward the inner peripheral direction and having a minimum thickness portion with a thickness corresponding to 3-25% of the height of the metal gasket are formed at a boundary between an upper surface of the upper member and an inner peripheral surface of an inner peripheral portion and a boundary between a lower surface of the lower surface portion and the inner peripheral surface of the inner peripheral portion, respectively. A height from the upper surface of the upper surface portion to a vertex of the angular portion and a height from the lower surface of the lower surface portion to a vertex of the angular portion are 0.01 mm or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: VALQUA, LTD.
    Inventor: Koji SATO
  • Publication number: 20230387765
    Abstract: This method for manufacturing a stator includes, after a cross section forming step for forming a sectional shape of a coil portion by compressing the coil portion and a coating step for applying an insulation coating to the coil portion, a common heat treatment step for performing, by the same heat treatment, annealing of the coil portion whose sectional shape has been formed in the cross section forming step and baking of the insulation coating applied to the coil portion in the coating step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro ISHIKAWA, Hiroaki YABUI, Koji SATO, Akinori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20230384989
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to determine the cause of an image defect that occurs in an image forming device with high accuracy while suppressing the amount of calculation at a processor. A processor (80) determines the cause of an image defect on the basis of a test image read from an output sheet of an image forming device (2). The processor (80) generates a plurality of feature images by executing a feature extraction process on the test image. Further, the processor (80) uses each of the plurality of feature images as an input image and determines which of a plurality of cause candidates corresponding to the image defect the input image corresponds to by pattern recognition of the input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kazunori TANAKA, Takuya MIYAMOTO, Koji SATO, Rui HAMABE, Kanako MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11802621
    Abstract: Provided is a metal gasket, which is used for connecting pipes to each other in a thermal power plant, a nuclear power plant, a steam engine in a steam turbine ship, an oil refinery line, a petrochemical industry process line, a semiconductor manufacturing line or the like, and which is characterized in that a V-shaped circumferential groove 2 is provided on the outer circumferential surface of the metal gasket 1, the ratio (circumferential groove depth A/horizontal length B) of the depth A of the circumferential groove 2 and the horizontal length B in a cross section of the metal gasket 1 is 0.1 to 0.95, and the notch angle of the V-shaped circumferential groove 2 is 30° to 120°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: VALQUA, LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Sato
  • Publication number: 20230331512
    Abstract: A kink prevention jig used in a pail pack to prevent kinks when wire is pulled out is provided with a housing that has a base plate part and a tubular outer tube part, and that accommodates a laminated wire and a wire extraction hole thereabove. This kink prevention jig is provided with an outwardly extended section above the laminated wire and that extends in the radial direction of the outer tube part, and a wire abutment section above the outwardly extended section and which abuts on a welding wire W and thereby prevents kinks when the welding wire W is pulled out from the extraction hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Ryota SHIMOZAWA, Koji SATO
  • Patent number: 11788585
    Abstract: A rotation transmission device is provided which includes rollers disposed between the inner periphery of an outer ring and the outer periphery of an inner ring; an armature supported to axially move when an electromagnet is energized; and a ball ramp mechanism which converts the axial movement of the armature into the motion/movement of a roller cage from an engaged position to a disengaged position. This rotation transmission device further incudes an annular cover member made of aluminum, an O-ring and an oil seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Sato
  • Publication number: 20230316140
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a model evaluation device including an acquisition part configured to acquire updated second auxiliary filter information in which first auxiliary filter information and second auxiliary filter information are updated through learning, the first auxiliary filter information being generated by a first processing based on data for generation which was used in generation of a mathematical model which predicts degradation of an analysis target, the second auxiliary filter information indicating a regulation of estimating a reliability of a prediction result by the mathematical model while using the first auxiliary filter information, and an evaluation part configured to evaluate an accuracy of prediction by the mathematical model while using the second auxiliary filter information in a case input-scheduled data which is scheduled to be input to the mathematical model is actually input to the mathematical model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Shunsuke Konishi, Takuma Kawahara, Hidetoshi Utsumi, Koji Sato
  • Publication number: 20230316777
    Abstract: The image processing device of the present disclosure generates an overhead view image in which a captured image capturing a periphery of a vehicle is converted into an image from a viewpoint above the vehicle, detects a straight line from the overhead view image, removes a straight line extending radially from the detected straight lines based on the position of a camera, and extracts a parking frame from the remaining straight lines. Accordingly, the image processing device compares the feature amount corrected based on the movement amount of the vehicle with the feature amount of the straight line of the overhead view image at a later time point, and removes the non-corresponding straight line to extract a parking frame and appropriately extract the parking frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo OTSUKI, Yoshimasa OKABE, Koji SATO
  • Patent number: 11763580
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus for automatically generating information representing a context surrounding a user, the information processing apparatus including a recognition processing unit configured to perform, on the basis of user environment information including at least any of location information representing a location where a user is present, image information relating to an environment surrounding a user, and audio information relating to the environment, an analysis process of at least any of the location information, the image information, and the audio information included in the user environment information, at a predetermined time interval, and to recognize a context surrounding the user, using the acquired result of analysis relating to the user environment; and a context candidate information generating unit configured to generate context candidate information representing a candidate of the context surrounding the user, the context candidate information including, at
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Murata, Naoki Shibuya, Junko Takabayashi, Yuuji Takimoto, Koji Sato
  • Patent number: 11756181
    Abstract: A processor determines an image defect in a test image obtained through an image reading process performed on an output sheet output by an image forming apparatus. The processor derives a vertical data string that is composed of data about horizontal representative values serving as representative values of a plurality of pixel values in each line in a horizontal direction in the test image. Moreover, the processor determines the presence or absence of at least one periodicity set in advance in the vertical data string by performing frequency analysis on the vertical data string. Furthermore, the processor determines the occurrence or non-occurrence and the cause of periodic density unevenness serving as a type of the image defect according to the determination result on the periodicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kanako Morimoto, Kazunori Tanaka, Koji Sato, Takuya Miyamoto, Rui Hamabe
  • Publication number: 20230271412
    Abstract: A conveying unit conveys a medium by moving a glue belt. The conveying unit includes a vapor application unit and a cleaning unit. The vapor application unit applies heated vapor to a front surface of the glue belt separated from the medium. The cleaning unit cleans the front surface to which the vapor is applied by the vapor application unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Shuhei NISHIZAWA, Koji SATO, Yoshihisa HORIKAWA
  • Patent number: D997719
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Shimozawa, Koji Sato, Satoshi Ujino