Patents by Inventor Kosuke Sato
Kosuke 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: 11539263Abstract: A rotary connector device body in which a rotator and a stator are assembled so as to be relatively rotatable has a housing space that can house an FFC inside. The rotary connector device body has a viewing window that is a through hole through which the housing space is viewed from outside of the rotary connector device body, a cover member disposed at the viewing window so as to cover the viewing window, an outer regulating portion facing outside of the rotary connector device body and disposed so as to be able to contact an outer surface of the cover member, and an inner regulating portion facing the housing space and disposed so as to be able to contact an inner surface of the cover member. The cover member is disposed between an outer regulating portion and an inner regulating portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Kento Oiwa, Hirofumi Utsunomiya, Masatoshi Ushiyama, Masashi Kanazawa, Kosuke Sato
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Publication number: 20220321007Abstract: A switching power supply device includes a first switch with a first terminal connectable to an application terminal for the input voltage and a second terminal connectable to the first terminal of an inductor; a second switch with a first terminal connectable to the first terminal of the inductor and a second terminal connectable to an application terminal for a voltage lower than the input voltage; a third switch with a first terminal connectable to the first terminal of the inductor and a second terminal connectable to the second terminal of the inductor; a detector; and a controller. The controller produces, after occurrence or a sign of occurrence of an overshoot in the output voltage is detected by the detector until settlement of the overshoot in the output voltage, a control state in which to keep the first and second switches off and the third switch on.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Kosuke Sato, Tetsuo Tateishi, Shingo Hashiguchi, Isao Takobe, Yuhei Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20220311008Abstract: The lithium ion secondary battery includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and an electrolytic solution, in which the positive electrode has a metal foil and a positive electrode active material layer provided on the metal foil, a plurality of voids are formed on the positive electrode active material layer, and a transition metal oxide having an average particle size of 10 nm or more and 500 nm or less is provided on an inner wall portion of the voids, on which the voids and the electrolytic solution are in contact with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiko HASEGAWA, Kosuke SATO, Hiroki KARISYUKU, Tomohide SHIRANE, Takashi MORI
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Publication number: 20220274952Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cyclic azine compound exhibiting both excellent driving voltage characteristics and excellent current efficiency characteristics. The desired cyclic azine compound has a specific structure represented by formula (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicants: TOSOH CORPORATION, SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Naoki UCHIDA, Hidenori AIHARA, Takuya YAMAGATA, Naoki HAYAKAWA, Natsumi NAKAJIMA, Kazuki HATTORI, Fuminari UEHARA, Yohei ONO, Masaya HIRANO, Yuta MORINAKA, Keisuke NOMURA, Eriko OHTA, Tomohiro SHONO, Kana OIKE, Kazushi HAYASHI, Keiya AOYAGI, Kosuke SATO, Toshiki NISHIURA
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Publication number: 20220212689Abstract: In a display control method, if a control system proposes an automatic lane change to a driver of a host-vehicle, an arrow icon for guiding an automatic lane change is displayed on a head-up display, and a display method for the arrow icon is switched depending on a plurality of processes in the control performed by the control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Hikaru Nakao, Akira Morimoto, Kosuke Sato, Shohei Nakamura, Shuko Ishimaru
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Publication number: 20220203834Abstract: In a display control method, a first information image is displayed on a head-up display. The first information image includes a first vehicle icon which is a figure indicating a vehicle, and a first character string arranged above the first vehicle icon. A second information image is displayed on a meter display. The second information image includes a second vehicle icon which is a figure indicating a vehicle, and a second character string which is arranged below the second vehicle icon, and includes the first character string.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Hikaru Nakao, Akira Morimoto, Kosuke Sato, Shohei Nakamura, Shuko Ishimaru
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Patent number: 11309456Abstract: This invention provides a nitride semiconductor light emitting device in which current concentration is suppressed without excessively increasing resistance at a low cost without increasing a manufacturing process. The planar shape of a mesa portion configuring a nitride semiconductor light emitting device is a shape containing a convex-shaped tip portion 352b formed by a curved line or a plurality of straight lines and abase portion 352a continuous to the convex-shaped tip portion 352b, in which an obtuse angle is formed by adjacent two straight lines in the convex-shaped tip portion formed by the plurality of straight lines. The first electrode layer 4 has visible outlines 411 and 412 along a visible outline 302 of the mesa portion through a gap 9 in planar view. The relationship between a gap W1 in the convex-shaped tip portion 352b and a gap W2 in the base portion 352a is W1>W2.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Asahi Kasel Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kosuke Sato
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Patent number: 11296255Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting element including, in the following order, steps of: preparing a wafer on which a semiconductor layer including an light-emission layer is formed; forming a resist film comprising a main body and a protrusion; forming a first metal film; forming a second metal film on the resist film and on the first metal film; pulling the protrusion of the resist film upward by raising and then lowering a temperature of the wafer; forming a third metal film on the second metal film and covering an end of the first metal film by the third metal film; and removing the resist film. In the step of forming the second metal film, the end of the first metal film is exposed from the second metal film.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke Sato, Kazuya Nakao
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Publication number: 20220026097Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes: a communication unit that receives a radio signal from a portable terminal: a sensor that detects detailed information including information indicating presence or absence of a person in a detection target region that is a target region for detection of whether a person is present or not; and a control unit that causes, when the communication unit receives a radio signal having a radio field intensity higher than or equal to a predetermined radio field intensity and a detection process by the sensor to detect the detailed information is in a stopped state, the sensor to start the detection process to detect the detailed information and control an air-conditioning operation based on the detailed information detected by the sensor,Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Makoto KURIHARA, Kosuke SATO
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Publication number: 20210375614Abstract: Provided is a nitride semiconductor element capable of stably withstand being driven at high current density without becoming insulated. The nitride semiconductor element includes an active layer and an AlGaN layer formed above the active layer and formed of AlGaN, the AlGaN containing Mg and having an Al composition ratio decreasing in a direction away from the active layer, and the Al composition ratio being larger than 0.2, in which the AlGaN layer includes a first AlGaN region in which a compositional gradient a1 of the Al composition ratio is larger than 0 Al %/nm and smaller than 0.22 Al %/nm, and a concentration b1 of the Mg in the AlGaN layer is larger than 0 cm?3 and smaller than 7.0×1019×a1-2.0×1018 cm?3.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kosuke SATO, Motoaki IWAYA
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Publication number: 20210366703Abstract: Provided is a nitride semiconductor element that does not cause element breakdown even when driven at high current density. A nitride semiconductor element includes an active layer, an electron block layer formed above the active layer, an AlGaN layer formed on the electron block layer, and a cover layer covering an upper surface of the AlGaN layer and formed of AlGaN or GaN having a lower Al composition ratio than in the AlGaN layer, in which the AlGaN layer includes protrusions provided on a surface opposite to the active layer, and the cover layer covers the protrusions. The AlGaN layer is preferably formed of AlGaN having an Al composition ratio decreasing in a direction away from the active layer, and the protrusions preferably have a frustum shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kosuke SATO, Motoaki IWAYA
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Patent number: 11175077Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes an expansion device, a pipe, and a transmission sound suppressing member. The expansion device includes a valve body to control a flow rate of refrigerant. The pipe is connected to the expansion device to extend along moving directions, in controlling the flow rate of the refrigerant, of the valve body of the expansion device, and allowing the refrigerant to pass therethrough. The transmissive sound suppressing member is positioned at a first region, which is defined on an outer side of the pipe to cover at least a tip of the valve body of the expansion device, and a second region, which is continuous to the first region and is defined on an outer side of a portion of the pipe including a portion of connection to the expansion device.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Susumu Fujiwara, Kosuke Sato
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Publication number: 20210313760Abstract: To provide a Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser diode obtained through a step of forming a mirror facet using an etching technology, in which the threshold current density for laser oscillation is reduced. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor laser diode includes a step of forming a plurality of semiconductor laser diodes on a substrate, and then dividing the substrate into each semiconductor laser diode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kosuke SATO, Motoaki IWAYA
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Patent number: 11088512Abstract: This invention aims at providing a nitride semiconductor causing no element breakdown even in driving under a high current density. A nitride semiconductor element is provided with a nitride semiconductor active layer made of AlxGa(1-x)N and a composition change layer made above the nitride semiconductor active layer and made of Alx3Ga(1-x3)N in which an Al composition ratio x3 decreases in a direction away from the nitride semiconductor active layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kosuke Sato, Motoaki Iwaya, Shinji Yasue, Yuya Ogino
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Publication number: 20210202798Abstract: A light emitting element includes a semiconductor structure, and first and second electrodes. In a plan view, the first electrode has a first connecting portion, and a first extending portion and exactly two second extending portions. The second electrode has a second connecting portion, and exactly two third extending portions. The first extending portion extends linearly from the first electrode connecting portion toward the second electrode connecting portion. Each of the two third extending portions includes a bent portion, and a linear portion located between the first extending portion and a respective one of linear portions of the two second extending portions, and along an imaginary line that extends through the two second extending portions and the two third extending portions in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the first extending portion extends, an entirety of the second electrode is located inward of the two second extending portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Kosuke SATO, Keiji EMURA
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Patent number: 11046261Abstract: A vehicle interior component includes: a body including a through hole, a first surface opposed to a vehicle body panel, and a second surface opposite from the first surface; and a wire holder holding an end section of an electric wire connected with a wire-side connector. The wire holder includes: a base section extending from a first section of a hole edge of the through hole toward an inner side of the through hole and having resilience; a free end section including an end surface opposed to a second section of the hole edge; and a meddle section. The base section, the free end section, the middle section, and the first section define a space with a dimension greater than a diameter of the end section and less than the wire-side connector to hold the end section in the space and the wire-side connector closer to the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kosuke Sato
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Patent number: 10978617Abstract: A light emitting element has first and second electrodes. In plan view, the first electrode has a first connecting portion, a first extending portion, and two second extending portions. The second electrode has a second connecting portion, and two third extending portions. The first extending portion extends linearly toward the second connecting portion, and the second extending portions are arranged on two sides of the first extending portion. The second extending portions each has two bent portions and a linear portion extending parallel to the first extending portion and disposed between the two bent portions. The third extending portions extend parallel to the first extending portion between the first extending portion and the second extending portions. The second extending portions extend beyond the second connecting portion. The first and second connecting portions are symmetrically arranged with respect to a virtual line parallel to one side of the light emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke Sato, Keiji Emura
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Publication number: 20210033091Abstract: An oil pump includes a rotation shaft, a pump unit including an inner rotor and an outer rotor, and a casing provided with a pump chamber accommodating the pump unit, wherein at least one of a first suction passage, a first ejection passage, a second suction passage, and a second ejection passage of the casing includes a check valve provided in the oil carrying passage and the check valve includes a ball and a seating portion allowing the ball to be seated thereon and does not use a spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Kazuhiro Arai, Kosuke Sato, Sentaroh Nishioka
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Publication number: 20200403122Abstract: This invention provides a nitride semiconductor light emitting device in which current concentration is suppressed without excessively increasing resistance at a low cost without increasing a manufacturing process. The planar shape of a mesa portion configuring a nitride semiconductor light emitting device is a shape containing a convex-shaped tip portion 352b formed by a curved line or a plurality of straight lines and abase portion 352a continuous to the convex-shaped tip portion 352b, in which an obtuse angle is formed by adjacent two straight lines in the convex-shaped tip portion formed by the plurality of straight lines. The first electrode layer 4 has visible outlines 411 and 412 along a visible outline 302 of the mesa portion through a gap 9 in planar view. The relationship between a gap W1 in the convex-shaped tip portion 352b and a gap W2 in the base portion 352a is W1>W2.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kosuke SATO
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Publication number: 20200400320Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a first heat exchanger inclined forward and downward, a second heat exchanger provided below the first heat exchanger, a drain pan provided below the second heat exchanger, and a blocking member covering an area between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and also a part of the first heat exchanger from a front side. The first heat exchanger has at least one heat exchanging unit. An upper edge of the blocking member is higher than a front edge at a lower end of the heat exchanging unit disposed at a front-most side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Koichi OBARA, Tomonobu IZAKI, Kosuke SATO, Keisuke OISHI