Patents by Inventor Masahiko Sato
Masahiko 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: 11949347Abstract: A power conversion device includes a power converter to output AC power by converting input DC power, an electric leakage detector to detect electric leakage in a power supply line through which the AC power output by the power converter flows when the AC power is being output by the power converter, and a power conversion controller configured to control power conversion of the power converter. The power conversion controller is configured to stop power conversion operation of the power converter based on a detection result of the electric leakage detector.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuhisa Ando, Hiroki Katsumata, Masahiko Sato
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Publication number: 20240067682Abstract: Disclosed are a partial peptide of cysteine-rich secretory protein, antigen 5, and pathogenesis-related 1 (CAP), consisting of an amino acid sequence of the conserved region of CAP, the peptide having at least one effect selected from the following effects: a plant stem cell-inducing effect, a plant environmental stress tolerance-enhancing effect, a plant pest resistance-inducing effect, a germination-promoting effect, a plant transformation efficiency-enhancing effect, and a plant growth-promoting effect; and a plant stem cell inducer, an environmental stress enhancer, a plant pest resistance inducer, a germination promoter, a transformation efficiency enhancer, and a plant growth promoter, all of which comprise the peptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Masahiko SATO, Issei OHSHIMA, Tomoko HIRANO, Seisuke KIMURA
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Publication number: 20240013870Abstract: There is provided a model selection apparatus including: an evaluation model storage unit configured to store each of a plurality of evaluation models capable of outputting an index for evaluating a state of a facility that is configured to manufacture a product from a raw material, in association with the raw material; a property data acquisition unit configured to acquire property data indicating a property of the raw material which is used in the facility; a model selection unit configured to select a target model for evaluating the state of the facility based on the property data, from among the plurality of evaluation models, when a target raw material in the facility is used; and a target model output unit configured to output the target model.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Yoshiyuki JINGUU, Hiromi OKAMOTO, Nobuhiro MITOMO, Go TAKAMI, Masahiko SATO, Hideyuki FUJII
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Publication number: 20240014200Abstract: The present invention provides a method of relocating optical devices onto a carrier substrate in a case where a pixel pitch of a display is not an integer multiple of a pitch of the optical devices arrayed on a sapphire substrate. A moving speed ratio between a donor substrate and a receptor substrate is determined from an array pitch (3, 4) of optical devices (2) formed on the sapphire substrate and an array pitch (5, 7) of optical devices to be transferred onto a carrier substrate (6), and the optical devices are subjected to LIFT (laser transferred) in synchronization with movement of the donor substrate, whereby the optical devices on the sapphire substrate are transferred onto the carrier substrate at an array pitch that is identical to the pixel pitch of the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaoka, Nobutaka Uemori, Satoki Nakada, Takeshi Saito, Shusaku Ozawa, Shinichi Sato, Masami Kurata, Masahiko Sato, Tsukasa Abe, Tsuyoshi Noguchi, Taketo Usami
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Publication number: 20240012967Abstract: An evaluation model generating apparatus, including: a property data obtaining unit which obtains property data representing a property of a raw material to be used in equipment that manufactures a product from the raw material; a determining unit which determines, based on the property data, whether to generate an evaluation model that outputs an indicator obtained by evaluating a state of the equipment; and an evaluation model generating unit which generates, according to a result of the determining, the evaluation model by machine learning, is provided. In the evaluation model generating apparatus, the determining unit may determine, if it is judged that a target raw material is not similar in property to a raw material that has been used in the past based on the property data, to generate the evaluation model.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Yoshiyuki JINGUU, Hiromi OKAMOTO, Nobuhiro MITOMO, Go TAKAMI, Masahiko SATO, Hideyuki FUJII
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Patent number: 11865606Abstract: This manufacturing method for a link part is a method of manufacturing a link part having one end portion having a connecting hole and provided on one side in one direction from an intermediate part which is long in the one direction and has a first side wall and a second side wall each having a pilot hole at least at one end portion and disposed to face each other and a connecting wall connecting one side edge of the first side wall and one side edge of the second side wall, and the other end portion provided on the other side therefrom in the one direction. The method includes a reinforcing process of inserting a metal core into the pilot hole, and an O-bending process of O-bending the first side wall and the second side wall so that the other side edge of the first side wall and the other side edge of the second side wall are brought into contact with each other after the reinforcing process.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiko Sato, Masaaki Mizumura
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Patent number: 11865850Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head including head chips each including a nozzle plate, a holder that is formed of resin, holds the head chips, and includes a flow path for supplying the liquid to each of the head chips, a holder cover that is formed of a material having a higher thermal conductivity than a thermal conductivity of the holder and houses the head chips and the holder, and a fixing plate that is formed of metal and to which the holder cover and the head chips are fixed, a carriage on which the liquid ejecting head is mounted, and a heater that is mounted on the carriage and heats the liquid inside each of the head chips via the holder cover and the fixing plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Tomimatsu, Masahiko Sato, Hiroki Kobayashi, Osamu Yagi, Kenta Ono
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Publication number: 20230409928Abstract: An estimation apparatus is provided, including an abnormality index acquisition unit for acquiring, as an abnormality index, an evaluation index output by an evaluation model according to state data being input when an abnormality occurs in a facility, among the state data indicating a state of the facility when an operation model is used to control a control target, the operation model being generated by reinforcement learning where an output of the evaluation model trained by machine learning to output the evaluation index in accordance with the state of the facility is set as at least a part of a reward, and outputting an action in accordance with the state of the facility; an estimation unit for estimating which of the evaluation model or the operation model is a main cause of the abnormality; and an output unit for executing an output in accordance with a result of the estimate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Go TAKAMI, Hiromi OKAMOTO, Masahiko SATO, Hideyuki FUJII, Yoshiyuki JINGUU, Nobuhiro MITOMO
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Patent number: 11833570Abstract: The present invention has as its object to provide a method for manufacturing a shaped part able to suppress the occurrence of shaping defects when manufacturing a tubular shaped part. The above object is achieved by providing a method for manufacturing a shaped part comprising a first bending process of press-forming a metal sheet to obtain a curved intermediate part curved in a longitudinal direction by a curvature ?, a U-process of press-forming the curved intermediate part into an approximately U-section to obtain a first curved U-section intermediate part provided with a bottom part having the curvature ?, and an O-process of press-forming the first curved U-section intermediate part to form a closed cross-section to obtain a tubular shaped part provided with a bottom part having the curvature ?.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiko Sato
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Publication number: 20230384742Abstract: Provided is a model selection apparatus including a candidate model storage unit configured to store a plurality of candidate models each of which is generated by reinforcement learning using, as at least a part of a reward, an output of an evaluation model configured to output an indicator obtained by evaluating a state of equipment and is capable of output an action, a state data acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of pieces of state data representing the state of the equipment in a case where each of manipulated variables based on outputs of the plurality of candidate models is applied to a controlled object in the equipment, an indicator acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of indicators, a model selection unit configured to select an object model for controlling the controlled object, and an object model output unit configured to output the object model.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Go TAKAMI, Hiromi OKAMOTO, Masahiko SATO, Hideyuki FUJII, Yoshiyuki JINGUU, Nobuhiro MITOMO
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Publication number: 20230343625Abstract: Proposed are a method and an apparatus for transferring devices arranged on a first substrate to a second substrate by using laser light while correcting positional deviations of the devices. The present invention involves: acquiring actual positional information about devices on the first substrate; performing grouping in accordance with a criterion determined on the basis of an allowable positional deviation amount; correcting, for each group unit, a position of the first substrate such that positions of the devices fall into a range of an allowable positional deviation amount; and applying laser light from the back surface of the first substrate and transferring the devices to the second substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaoka, Satoki Nakada, Nobutaka Uemori, Takeshi Saito, Shusaku Ozawa, Shinichi Sato, Taketo Usami, Masami Kurata, Masahiko Sato, Tsukasa Abe, Tsuyoshi Noguchi
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MODEL VERIFICATION APPARATUS, MODEL VERIFICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
Publication number: 20230305501Abstract: Provided is a model verification apparatus including a model storage unit configured to store a machine learning model that has been subjected to machine learning, by using a learning sample including state data indicating a state of equipment in which a controlled object is provided and action data indicating an action for deciding a manipulated variable to be applied to the controlled object, so as to output an action according to the state of the equipment, a learning range identification unit configured to identify a learning range indicating a range of the learning sample, a verification data acquisition unit configured to acquire verification data indicating a plurality of states of the equipment outside the learning range, and a verification result output unit configured to output a verification result indicating a plurality of actions to be output by the machine learning model in response to an input of the verification data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Go TAKAMI, Hiromi OKAMOTO, Masahiko SATO, Hideyuki FUJII, Yoshiyuki JINGUU, Nobuhiro MITOMO -
Patent number: 11645794Abstract: Provided is a monitoring apparatus comprising: a selection unit configured to select, among a plurality of state values corresponding to measurement values from a plurality of sensors for monitoring states of a plurality of facilities, a state value that has changed by an amount equal to or greater than a predetermined change width or change rate during a predetermined time length period; a sort unit configured to sort at least one state value selected, according to a change width or a change rate; and a display processing unit configured to perform processing to display an information screen corresponding to the at least one state value sorted.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventor: Masahiko Sato
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Patent number: 11607966Abstract: A control device for a mobile body is equipped with a charging and electrical power supplying unit including a first smoothing capacitor positioned on a connector side and a second smoothing capacitor positioned on a battery side, and a control unit configured to control the charging and electrical power supplying unit. When the battery is charged using electrical power supplied from the electrical power source device, the control unit completes precharging a first smoothing capacitor and a second smoothing capacitor using electrical power supplied from the battery, before the electrical power from the electrical power source device starts to be supplied to the charging and electrical power supplying unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuteru Yano, Shinichi Yokoyama, Masahiko Sato, Tomoki Nakahara
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Publication number: 20230010747Abstract: There is provided a head module in which a first direction is a main scanning direction, including: a first nozzle row including a first nozzle; a second nozzle row including a second nozzle; and a third nozzle row including a third nozzle, in which a distance P1 between the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row in the first direction and a distance P2 between the first nozzle row and the third nozzle row in the first direction are expressed as P1:P2=E1:O1 where a value E1 is a positive even number and a value O1 is a positive odd number satisfying O1>E1.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Masahiko SATO, Shunsuke WATANABE, Shun KATSUIE
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Patent number: 11548282Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head unit having heads that configure to eject a liquid in a first-direction, and in which a second-direction orthogonal to the first-direction is a short direction and a third-direction orthogonal to the first and second-directions is a longitudinal direction, and a holding member. The head unit has a first-head, a second-head adjacent to the first-head, and disposed in the second-direction, and a third head adjacent to the second-head, and disposed in the second-direction. The first head has a first-gripping portion provided on an upper surface. The second-head has a second-gripping portion provided on the upper surface. The third-head has a third-gripping portion provided on the upper surface. A position of the second-gripping portion with respect to the third-direction is different from positions of the first-gripping portion and the third-gripping portion with respect to the third-direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yu Okamura, Masahiko Sato, Shun Katsuie
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Patent number: 11529813Abstract: A pressure adjustment unit includes a valve body including a base end portion, a shaft portion protruding in a first-direction from the base end portion, and an elastic member, and a casing that has a partition wall formed with a through hole into which the shaft portion is inserted, and a first-wall protruding in a second-direction opposite to the first-direction to define the first-chamber. On a first-chamber side of the partition wall, a valve seat, which is annular, is provided around the through hole to block a flow path by contacting with the elastic member, an outer periphery of the base end portion has a positioning region, and a distance between a first-direction-side end portion of the positioning region and a first-direction-side distal end of the shaft portion is shorter than a distance between the valve seat and a second-direction-side end portion of the first-wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masahiko Sato, Yu Okamura
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Patent number: 11524503Abstract: A liquid ejecting head configured to eject a liquid in a first direction includes an upper surface facing a direction opposite to the first direction, and a gripping portion provided on the upper surface to grip the liquid ejecting head.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yu Okamura, Masahiko Sato
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Patent number: 11498107Abstract: This torsion beam manufacturing method is for manufacturing a torsion beam including a central portion of which a cross-section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction is a closed cross-section having a substantial V-shape or a substantial U-shape at any position in the longitudinal direction, and a shape changing portion which has a connection region leading to the central portion and including a closed cross-section having a shape different from the shape of the closed cross-section of the central portion. This torsion beam manufacturing method has a compression step of thickening at least the connection region through application of a compression force in the longitudinal direction to at least the connection region of a torsion beam material to obtain the torsion beam, the torsion beam material being formed with the central portion and the shape changing portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiko Sato, Masaaki Mizumura
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Publication number: 20220305827Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head including head chips each including a nozzle plate, a holder that is formed of resin, holds the head chips, and includes a flow path for supplying the liquid to each of the head chips, a holder cover that is formed of a material having a higher thermal conductivity than a thermal conductivity of the holder and houses the head chips and the holder, and a fixing plate that is formed of metal and to which the holder cover and the head chips are fixed, a carriage on which the liquid ejecting head is mounted, and a heater that is mounted on the carriage and heats the liquid inside each of the head chips via the holder cover and the fixing plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Shingo TOMIMATSU, Masahiko SATO, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Osamu YAGI, Kenta ONO