Patents by Inventor Makoto Sato

Makoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20210232223
    Abstract: In a force sense presenting apparatus having a right-hand force sense presenting unit and a left-hand force sense presenting unit, one side of an upper frame of the right-hand force sense presenting unit is linearly coupled to the one side of the upper frame of the left-hand force sense presenting unit. A right-hand rear-coupled frame couples an approximately middle location of the upper frame in the right-hand force sense presenting unit to one side of a lower frame in the right-hand force sense presenting unit so that the upper frame and the lower frame are approximately T-shaped viewed from above. A left-hand rear-coupled frame couples an approximately middle location of the upper frame in the left-hand force sense presenting unit to the one side of the lower frame in the left-hand force sense presenting unit so that the upper frame and the lower frame are approximately T-shaped viewed from above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: ArachnoForce Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto SATO, Kenji HONDA
  • Publication number: 20210233858
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to arrangements of one or more “cuts” or pattern of cuts in conductive structures. Wiring layers may each include a cut pattern including a set of cuts through conductive structures of the wiring layers where each of the cuts is offset from the other in a direction orthogonal to the cut. The cut pattern in a wiring layer may be orthogonal to the cut pattern in another wiring layer. In some examples, the cut pattern may be a stair-step pattern. In some examples, the cut pattern may be interrupted by other conductive structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Matsumoto, Ryota Suzuki, Mitsuki Koda, Makoto Sato
  • Patent number: 11073453
    Abstract: An automatic sample preparation apparatus that automatically prepares a sample piece from a sample includes: a focused ion beam irradiation optical system configured to irradiate a focused ion beam; an electron beam irradiation optical system configured to irradiate an electron beam from a direction different from a direction of the focused ion beam; a sample piece transfer device configured to hold and transfer the sample piece separated and extracted from the sample; a detector configured to detect secondary charged particles emitted from an irradiation object by irradiating the irradiation object with the focused ion beam and/or the electron beam; and a computer configured to recognize a position of the sample piece transfer device by image-recognition using an image data of the focused ion beam and the electron beam generated by irradiating the sample piece transfer device with the focused ion beam and the electron beam, and drive the transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Uemoto, Tatsuya Asahata, Makoto Sato, Yo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210204821
    Abstract: A measuring device provided with a pressing unit that presses a part of a user's body according to adjustment by a user, a pressure measuring unit that measures a pressing force by the pressing unit, and a blood flow measuring unit that measures a blood flow velocity of the user in a case where the pressing force is in a predetermined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: KEN MIYASHITA, MAKOTO SATO
  • Publication number: 20210171549
    Abstract: A surface treatment agent including a silylating agent and a solvent, the silylating agent including a compound represented by General Formula (A-1) in which Ra1 is a monovalent organic group or a hydrogen atom; Ra2 is a monovalent organic group; a Si atom is excluded from an atom in Ra1 and Ra2, which is bonded to the nitrogen atom in the formula; Ra3 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group or a hydrogen atom; and Ra4 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group which may be substituted with a fluorine atom
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Makoto SATO, Natsumi OKAWA, Issei SUZUKI, Emi TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11004798
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to arrangements of one or more “cuts” or pattern of cuts in conductive structures. Wiring layers may each include a cut pattern including a set of cuts through conductive structures of the wiring layers where each of the cuts is offset from the other in a direction orthogonal to the cut. The cut pattern in a wiring layer may be orthogonal to the cut pattern in another wiring layer. In some examples, the cut pattern may be a stair-step pattern. In some examples, the cut pattern may be interrupted by other conductive structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Matsumoto, Ryota Suzuki, Mitsuki Koda, Makoto Sato
  • Publication number: 20210104466
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to arrangements of one or more “cuts” or pattern of cuts in conductive structures. Wiring layers may each include a cut pattern including a set of cuts through conductive structures of the wiring layers where each of the cuts is offset from the other in a direction orthogonal to the cut. The cut pattern in a wiring layer may be orthogonal to the cut pattern in another wiring layer. In some examples, the cut pattern may be a stair-step pattern. In some examples, the cut pattern may be interrupted by other conductive structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Matsumoto, Ryota Suzuki, Mitsuki Koda, Makoto Sato
  • Publication number: 20210090855
    Abstract: The charged particle beam irradiation apparatus includes: a focused ion beam column; an electron beam column; an electron detector; an image forming unit configured to form an observation image based on a signal output from the electron detector; and a control unit configured to repeatedly perform exposure control in which the focused ion beam column is controlled to expose a cross section of a multilayered sample toward a stacking direction with the focused ion beam, the control unit being configured to perform, every time exposure of an observation target layer at a cross section of the multilayered sample is detected in a process of repeatedly performing the exposure control, observation control in which the electron beam column is controlled to radiate the electron beam, and the image forming unit is controlled to form an observation image of the cross section of the multilayered sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Takuma ASO, Xin MAN, Makoto SATO, Tatsuya ASAHATA
  • Publication number: 20210090998
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses and methods for trench walls including widened portions and/or conductive structures including constricted portions. The trench walls may include multiple widened portions spaced apart along a length of the trench wall in some examples. Similarly, in some examples, the conductive structures may include multiple constricted portions spaced apart along a length of the conductive structure. In some examples, the dimensions of the widened portions and/or the spacing between the widened portions may be based on properties of the trench wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Matsumoto, Ryota Suzuki, Mitsuki Koda, Makoto Sato
  • Publication number: 20210090853
    Abstract: The particle beam irradiation apparatus includes: an irradiation unit configured to radiate a particle beam; a first detection unit configured to detect first particles; a second detection unit configured to detect second particles; an image forming unit configured to form an observation image based on a first signal obtained by the detection of the first particles, which is performed by the first detection unit, and to form an observation image based on a second signal obtained by the detection of the second particles, which is performed by the second detection unit; and a control unit configured to calculate a brightness of a first region in the formed first observation image and perform a brightness adjustment of the first detection unit based on a first target brightness as a first brightness adjustment when the brightness of the first region is different from the first target brightness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Takuma ASO, Xin MAN, Makoto SATO, Tatsuya ASAHATA
  • Patent number: 10957490
    Abstract: An electronic unit includes an electrolytic capacitor, a covering resin layer, and electronic components. The electrolytic capacitor is on an upper surface of an insulating substrate. The covering resin layer covers the upper surface of the insulating substrate and the electronic components. Part of the covering resin layer serves as an electrolytic capacitor covering portion. The electrolytic capacitor covering portion includes an outer peripheral covering portion that covers an outer peripheral surface of the electrolytic capacitor and a top covering portion that covers a top portion of the electrolytic capacitor. A thin wall groove is formed in the top covering portion. The outer peripheral covering portion extends upward beyond the top covering portion by a height h. The top covering portion easily breaks at the thin wall groove so that an explosion-proof valve easily operates. A region corresponding to the height h creates an operating space of the explosion-proof valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Sato, Hiroki Haraguchi
  • Publication number: 20210075991
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a communication device for transmitting a video to an external device through first to third transmission lines, the communication device including: a transmission module configured to transit first color difference information and second color difference information concerned with adjacent two pixels through the first transmission line, to transmit first luminance information concerned with one of the two pixels through the second transmission line, and to transmit second luminance information concerned with the other of the two pixels through the third transmission line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Nobuaki Suzuki, Makoto Sato, Masahiko Mawatari
  • Publication number: 20210062415
    Abstract: A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes: a raw material supplying section; a first coarse crushing section; a defibrating section; a deposition section; a heating and pressing section; a cutting section; and an ejection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi ABE, Makoto SATO, Koji MOTOHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210060820
    Abstract: A small piece supplying apparatus includes: a raw material supplying section that supplies a raw material sheet; a coarse crushing section that coarsely crushes the raw material sheet supplied from the raw material supplying section to produce small pieces; and a reservoir section in which the small pieces produced by the coarse crushing section are accumulated. The raw material supplying section includes a feeder roller that feeds out the raw material sheet, and a contact section that changes a course of the raw material sheet by contact with an edge of the raw material sheet fed out by the feeder roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi ABE, Makoto SATO, Koji MOTOHASHI
  • Patent number: 10890515
    Abstract: An apparatus for classifying fine particles in slurry provides a sharp particle size distribution with few mixed coarse particles and high classification accuracy. The apparatus includes a rotor (15) including classification chambers (17) between blades (16) radially arranged at circumferentially regular intervals, and classifies particles so that a classified particle size is constant in an entire radial region from an outer periphery to an inner periphery of the classification chamber. The blade (16) of the rotor has a circumferential thickness t(d) increasing toward the outer periphery, and the classification chamber (17) has a width increasing toward the inner periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: SATAKE CHEMICAL EQUIPMENT MFG. LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsugi Inkyo, Makoto Sato, Masaaki Ogihara
  • Publication number: 20200412177
    Abstract: To realize a vertical type wireless charging device capable of detecting a metal foreign object. The wireless charging device comprises a holder, a power transmission coil, a thermal sensor, a controller, and a warning device. The power transmission coil is disposed outside the side part of the holder. The thermal sensor is disposed at the bottom part of the holder. When the temperature rising rate is not less than 20° C. per five minutes, the controller judges that a metal foreign object exists between the power transmission coil and the electronic device, and the foreign object generates unusual heat. The controller stops wireless charging from the power transmission coil to the electronic device. The controller starts the warning device to alert the user that a foreign object is mixed in the holder and generates unusual heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Makoto Sato, Jun Imai, Toru Kanto
  • Publication number: 20200399825
    Abstract: A storage portion includes a case which includes an internal space configured to accommodate raw material pieces having fibers, a discharge pipe coupled to a side wall of the case, and a transport motor which rotates the discharge pipe on an axis, in which one end in an axial direction of the discharge pipe communicates with the internal space and the other end has an outlet for discharging the raw material pieces, and a spiral member is provided on an inner peripheral surface of the discharge pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Koji MOTOHASHI, Makoto SATO, Takashi ABE
  • Patent number: D921042
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: TOHATSU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Shiina, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Makoto Sato
  • Patent number: D922436
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: TOHATSU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Sato
  • Patent number: D922437
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: TOHATSU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Sato