Patents by Inventor Masahiro Sato

Masahiro 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: 20190260059
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a stack case containing a fuel cell stack. Ventilation air inlet holes are formed at lower positions of the stack case in the vertical direction, and ventilation air outlet holes (holes) are formed at upper positions of the stack case in the vertical direction. Each of the ventilation air inlet holes is equipped with a filter unit having a liquid-impermeable and gas-permeable filter body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Kimiharu Mizusaki, Hideharu Naito, Kosuke Takagi, Masahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10358042
    Abstract: An underwater mobile body includes: a secondary battery; a detector that detects a remaining amount of electricity stored in the secondary battery; a power generation unit that uses natural energy to generate electricity with which the secondary battery is charged; and a transition unit that when the remaining amount of electricity detected by the detector decreases below a predetermined threshold, causes transition to a charge mode in which the secondary battery is charged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Nemoto, Tsutomu Kimura, Motofumi Baba, Masahiro Sato, Akihito Yamauchi, Kengo Tokuchi
  • Publication number: 20190202395
    Abstract: An airbag apparatus inflates to be spread such that a front side and both sides of at least one occupant are surrounded. The airbag apparatus includes an airbag's bag body that has the first bag body, the second bag body, and the third bag body which are integrally formed and inflate to be spread on one side, the front side, and the other side of the occupant; and an energy absorbing portion that causes an upper portion of the first bag body and an upper portion of the third bag body to be coupled to a vehicle body, generates a load reaction force for supporting the airbag's bag body when the occupant is restrained, and allows the airbag's bag body to move.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yuya Obayashi, Seiji Kobata, Masahiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20190202394
    Abstract: An airbag apparatus includes an airbag's bag body that inflates to be spread such that a front side and both sides of an occupant are surrounded. The airbag's bag body includes a first bag body, a second bag body, and a third bag body which are integrally formed. In a state in which the first bag body, the second bag body, and the third bag body have inflated to be spread, a lower portion of each of the bag bodies is disposed to be further attracted to the occupant side than an upper portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yuya Obayashi, Seiji Kobata, Masahiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20190199895
    Abstract: A stereo image pickup unit includes: first and second image pickup apparatuses including first and second image pickup devices and first and second mount boards, the image pickup apparatuses being formed in a same shape each other; and a holding frame for holding the first and second image pickup devices, the first and second mount boards including non-mounting surfaces perpendicular to rear surfaces of the first and second image pickup devices and projecting toward an outer side of projection surfaces of the first and second image pickup devices, the holding frame holding the first and second image pickup apparatuses such that the non-mounting surfaces are opposed to each other on a parallax direction inner side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu ICHIHARA, Hiroshi UNSAI, Toshiyuki FUJII, Mayumi IMAI, Teruyuki NISHIHARA, Jumpei ARAI, Masahiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20190179899
    Abstract: An information transmission device includes: a determining unit that determines a situation of an interlocutor who interacts with a user; and a transmission unit that transmits, to the user, information to be provided according to the situation of the interlocutor determined by the determining unit. In a further modification of the invention, the determining unit may determine a situation related to a body or conversation of the interlocutor as the situation of the interlocutor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro SATO, Kengo TOKUCHI
  • Patent number: 10317206
    Abstract: A location determination processing device includes: an accepting section as defined herein; an atmospheric pressure information accepting section as defined herein; a computation result accepting section as defined herein; an identification result accepting section as defined herein; a detection result accepting section as defined herein; a determination result accepting section as defined herein; a correcting section as defined herein; and an outputting section as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideto Yuzawa, Takayuki Takeuchi, Masahiro Sato, Akira Ichiboshi, Jiro Matsuda, Shinobu Ozeki
  • Patent number: 10292941
    Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive patch having a support and an adhesive agent layer laminated on the support, wherein the support consists of spunlace nonwoven fabric, the adhesive agent layer comprises an SIS block copolymer and liquid paraffin, the adhesive patch has a first direction, which is a predetermined reference axis direction, and a second direction, which is orthogonal to the first direction, and a bending resistance in the first direction of the adhesive patch is 18 to 30 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: HITSAMITSU PHARMACEUTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Nakashima, Masahiro Sato, Yasuhisa Kose, Takaaki Yoshinaga
  • Publication number: 20190141123
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process including acquiring, for each of a plurality of applications executed on a plurality of virtual machines, an amount of traffic of packets transmitted to any of a plurality of CPUs, identifying, for each of the plurality of applications, a CPU to which packets are transmitted, calculating, for each of the plurality of CPUs, a total amount of traffic of packets that are received by the CPU, identifying, among the plurality of CPUs, a specific CPU of which the calculated total amount exceeds a predetermined threshold, identifying, among applications those transmit packets to the specific CPU, a specific application, and identifying, among the plurality of virtual machines, a specific virtual machine, a CPU to which packets are transmitted from the specific application being changed by moving the specific application to the specific virtual machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masahiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20190126771
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle is applied to a hybrid vehicle capable of running in EV mode and configured to allow external charging. The control apparatus comprises a controller configured to acquire an external charging time at which charging of the battery by electrical power supplied from outside the vehicle becomes possible with the hybrid vehicle staying at a predetermined charging site and execute generation control to control electrical power generation by the electric motor using an internal combustion engine on the basis of a remaining time defined as the length of time from the current time to the time of the next external charging time, when an SOC value becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined lower threshold. The control apparatus as above can reduce the degree of dependence on the internal combustion engine as much as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20190114994
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a converting unit configured to convert a color of a target region of an input image into a conversion color; and a display control unit configured to display an image based on an image acquired by converting the color of the target region, wherein in a case that a brightness of the target region is included in a first partial range, the converting unit converts the color of the target region into a monochrome color, in a case that the brightness of the target region is included in a second partial range, the converting unit converts the color of the target region into a conversion color corresponding to the second partial range, and regarding each of the plurality of second partial ranges, a brightness of the conversion color is higher as a brightness of the second partial range is higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Publication number: 20190116234
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a transmission controller. The receiving unit receives a notification to inquire about a state of a user of the information processing apparatus, which is portable, from a different information processing apparatus. If the notification is received by the receiving unit, the determining unit determines whether communication from the other information processing apparatus is acceptable in the state of the user. If the determination unit determines that the communication from the other information processing apparatus is not acceptable in the state of the user, the transmission controller controls transmission so as not to transmit the state of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideto YUZAWA, Takayuki TAKEUCHI, Masahiro SATO
  • Patent number: 10253782
    Abstract: The present invention provides a shaped component for a compressor wheel that can be used to manufacture a turbo compressor wheel which is excellent in terms of high-temperature strength, rigidity, and dynamic balance and, furthermore, has optimal performance suitable for diverse required characteristics in individual portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Masahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10250223
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: a first substrate including a support substrate and a piezoelectric substrate bonded on an upper surface of the support substrate, and including a first acoustic wave element located on an upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate; a ring-shaped metal layer located in a region that surrounds the first acoustic wave element and in which the piezoelectric substrate is removed, a second substrate flip-chip mounted on an upper surface of the first substrate and including a functional element located on a lower surface of the second substrate; and a metallic member located on an upper surface of the ring-shaped metal layer, surrounding the second substrate in plan view, not located between the first substrate and the second substrate, and sealing the first acoustic wave element and the functional element so that the first acoustic wave element and the functional element are located across an air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kurihara, Kazushige Hatakeyama, Takuma Kuroyanagi, Yohei Shimizu, Masahiro Sato, Naoki Kakita, Kazutaka Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190066606
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit configured to display images, an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an image to be displayed in the display unit, a reception unit configured to receive a luminance setting associated with a luminance of a light source included in the display unit, and a controller configured to display a display image obtained by replacing at least a region of the image to be displayed with a colored image in the display unit. The controller sets a first luminance as a luminance of the colored image in a case where a first luminance setting value is set as the luminance setting, and sets a second luminance that is lower than the first luminance as the luminance of the colored image in a case where a second luminance setting value that is higher than the first luminance setting value is set as the luminance setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Patent number: 10215078
    Abstract: A pressure relief valve is opened from a first time to a second time for the purpose of reducing the pressure in the gas phase in a gas-liquid separator. A first water pump (WP) is driven at a third time and a fourth time. The third time and fourth time correspond to timings at which a difference between a boiling temperature and an actual temperature becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined temperature. Since liquid-phase coolant in a catch tank can be fed to another water pump by driving the first WP, the actual temperature of the liquid-phase coolant immediately upstream of the other water pump can be lowered. It is thus possible to prevent intense boiling of the liquid-phase coolant immediately upstream of the other water pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10205793
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a transmission controller. The receiving unit receives a notification to inquire about a state of a user of the information processing apparatus, which is portable, from a different information processing apparatus. If the notification is received by the receiving unit, the determining unit determines whether communication from the other information processing apparatus is acceptable in the state of the user. If the determination unit determines that the communication from the other information processing apparatus is not acceptable in the state of the user, the transmission controller controls transmission so as not to transmit the state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideto Yuzawa, Takayuki Takeuchi, Masahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10199855
    Abstract: A power-receiving apparatus includes a power supply unit and a wireless communication unit. The power supply unit includes a first rechargeable battery that accumulates power, a power-receiving unit that receives power transferred from a power-transfer apparatus by using a radio system, and a power controller that, in a wireless charging mode, performs control of charging of the first rechargeable battery in accordance with the power received by the power-receiving unit and stops supply of the power to a main controller. The wireless charging mode is set for wirelessly charging the first rechargeable battery as an operation mode. The main controller performs control of predetermined operations of the power-receiving apparatus. The wireless communication unit operates when receiving supply of the power from the power supply unit and wirelessly communicates with the power-transfer apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihito Yamauchi, Tsutomu Kimura, Yoshihiko Nemoto, Masahiro Sato, Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 10165045
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: receive, from each of a plurality of data centers located in a plurality of positions, load information pertaining to a load of each data center; calculate an estimated load value for each of the plurality of data centers based on the received load information; determine a data center to execute a requested process based on the estimated load value and a time zone of the position where each of the plurality of data centers is located; and control the determined data center to execute the requested process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masato Otsuka, Akira Satou, Tooru Yamamoto, Masahiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20180365817
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit; an acquiring unit configured to acquire brightness information that is information related to display brightness; and a correcting unit configured to, in a case where a first image that is an image based on first image data having a first dynamic range and a second image that is an image based on second image data having a second dynamic range narrower than the first dynamic range are displayed on a screen, correct the second image data so that the first image is displayed in accordance with the display brightness related to the brightness information and the second image is displayed in accordance with display brightness that is lower than the display brightness related to the brightness information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Hirofumi Urabe, Takehito Fukushima