Patents by Inventor Masaki Sato

Masaki 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: 20250045226
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a connection unit that connects to a power supply device, and a control unit that controls an operation of the electronic apparatus by power received from the power supply device. When the power supplied from the power supply device is changed based on power consumption of the electronic apparatus, the control unit notifies user for a period until the power supplied from the power supply device is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: MASAKI SAKATA, MAYUKO SATO
  • Patent number: 12216416
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main-body housing, a drum unit, and a toner cartridge. The drum unit includes a photosensitive drum, a drum frame, a developing roller, a toner-inlet shutter to open and close a toner-inlet opening, a cleaning member, and a collected-toner outlet shutter to open and close a collected-toner outlet opening. The toner cartridge includes a toner casing having a toner container and a collected-toner container, and a shutter-driving member having a transmission device and an operable device. The transmission device is movable by the operable device between a first position, at which the toner-inlet shutter and the collected-toner outlet shutter are located at positions to close the toner-inlet opening and the collected-toner outlet opening, and a second position, at which the toner-inlet shutter and the collected-toner outlet shutter are located at positions to open the toner-inlet opening and the collected-toner outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ueji, Shougo Sato
  • Publication number: 20250038614
    Abstract: A cooler includes a base material, and a plurality of ribs protruding from a main surface of the base material, a distance between an upstream side end portion of a first rib and an upstream side end portion of a second rib in a second direction is larger than a distance between a downstream side end portion of the first rib and a downstream side end portion of the second rib in the second direction, and a distance between the upstream side end portion of the second rib and an upstream side end portion of a third rib in the second direction is smaller than a distance between the downstream side end portion of the second rib and a downstream side end portion of the third rib in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Yuji Ono, Keiji Tada, Hiroshi Nagami, Masaki Sato, Yoshiyuki Hoshi
  • Publication number: 20250038858
    Abstract: A detector is configured to coherently receive a polarization-multiplexed optical signal transmitted from a transmitter via a transmission line. A digital signal processing circuit is configured to perform equalization signal processing on the reception signal coherently received. A carrier phase compensation filter is configured to compensate for a carrier phase in the reception signal. A 4×2 WL filter is disposed after the carrier phase compensation filter and configured to compensate for distortion included in the polarization-multiplexed optical signal. A filter coefficient updating unit is configured to update a filter coefficient of the carrier phase compensation filter and a filter coefficient of the 4×2 WL filter by use of an output of the 4×2 WL filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Sato, Manabu Arikawa
  • Publication number: 20250038616
    Abstract: A housing includes an inner tube component having a tubular shape and capable of accommodating therein a heating element, a cooler having a tubular shape and defining a coolant passage for causing a coolant to flow along an outer peripheral surface of the inner tube component, and an outer tube component having a tubular shape and accommodating therein the inner tube component and the cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Keiji Tada, Yuji Ono, Hiroshi Nagami, Masaki Sato, Yoshiyuki Hoshi
  • Publication number: 20250038621
    Abstract: A cooler includes a base material, and a plurality of ribs protruding from a main surface of the base material, a distance between a base end of a first rib and a base end of a second rib in a second direction is larger than a distance between a protruding end of the first rib and a protruding end of the second rib in the second direction, and a distance between the base end of the second rib and a base end of a third rib in the second direction is smaller than a distance between the protruding end of the second rib and a protruding end of the third rib in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Yuji Ono, Keiji Tada, Hiroshi Nagami, Masaki Sato, Yoshiyuki Hoshi
  • Patent number: 12202566
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle including a vehicle body frame, an engine unit, and at least one front wheel. The engine unit includes a turbocharger, and an engine body including a cylinder head and a cylinder head cover. The cylinder head cover is fixed to a first surface of the cylinder head. The turbocharger is fixed to a second surface of the cylinder head, a surface of the turbocharger through which the turbocharger is fixed to the cylinder head being a third surface. When the vehicle body frame is in an upright state, a turbocharger rotation axis, the second and third surfaces are positioned above a first horizontal plane in which the front axle lies, above a second horizontal plane in which the crankshaft axis lies, and below a third horizontal plane in which a front end of the first surface lies, in the upward-downward direction of the straddled vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Momiyama, Hayatoshi Sato, Masaki Torigoshi, Makoto Kuroiwa
  • Patent number: 12203775
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus includes a plurality of differential transmitters, and a power supply circuit that supplies a power supply voltage to each of the plurality of differential transmitters. The power supply circuit includes a common circuit unit that defines the power supply voltage supplied to the plurality of differential transmitters, and a plurality of individual circuit units provided in association with the plurality of differential transmitters and each connected to the common circuit unit. Each of the plurality of individual circuit units has an output node that outputs the power supply voltage defined by the common circuit unit to a corresponding differential transmitter of the plurality of differential transmitters, and respective output nodes of the plurality of individual circuit units are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohichi Nakamura, Masaki Sato, Daisuke Kobayashi, Tetsuya Itano, Daisuke Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20250018945
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining travel information on travel of mobile bodies capable of autonomous travel and remote operation and/or monitoring; predicting, based on the travel information and location information on a first area in which the remote operation and/or monitoring is required, a first mobile body having a travel route scheduled to pass through the first area and being to enter the first area; identifying, based on the travel information and the location information, a second mobile body having a travel route scheduled to pass through the first area; determining whether the second mobile body catches up with the first mobile body before the first mobile body enters the first area; and outputting instruction information for causing the second mobile body to perform following control to follow the first mobile body, when the second mobile body catches up with the first mobile body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Masaki SATO, Shunsuke KUHARA
  • Patent number: 12180026
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body and a moveable unit. The apparatus body includes an image forming device and a restriction portion. The moveable unit includes an image reading device and is detachably attached to the apparatus body. The moveable unit is opened and closed with respect to the apparatus body by rotation about a rotation shaft when the moveable unit is attached to the apparatus body. The moveable unit is attached to and detached from the apparatus body by moving in an axial direction of the rotation shaft. The moveable unit further includes a restricted portion that engages with the restriction portion that restricts a movement of the moveable unit in the axial direction. The restriction portion or the restricted portion further includes a deformation portion having elasticity. The deformation portion is deformed so that the moveable unit is attached to and detached from the apparatus body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaki Sato
  • Patent number: 12170544
    Abstract: An optical signal processing circuit (1) includes: an FDE-MIMO equalizer (2) configured to generate, based on continuous subcarrier signals including a target subcarrier signal in an optical multicarrier signal to be received, the continuous subcarrier signals that have been subjected to frequency-domain MIMO equalization processing; and a TDE-MIMO equalizer (3) configured to generate, based on the continuous subcarrier signals that have been subjected to the frequency-domain MIMO equalization processing, the target subcarrier signal that has been subjected to time-domain MIMO equalization processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Sato, Hidemi Noguchi, Junichi Abe
  • Publication number: 20240405874
    Abstract: A chromatic dispersion compensation filter is configured to multiply each of a real component and an imaginary component of each of a first polarization and a second polarization of a polarization-multiplexed optical signal by a filter coefficient that compensates for chromatic dispersion. An adaptive equalizer is configured to multiply input signals and their phase conjugates by a complex impulse response and add the signals multiplied by the complex impulse response. The adaptive equalizer is configured to perform, for each polarization, phase rotation for carrier phase compensation including a frequency offset and rotation reverse to the phase rotation and add, for each polarization, the signals subjected to the phase rotation and the signals subjected to the rotation reverse to the phase rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Sato, Manabu Arikawa
  • Publication number: 20240406601
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus is provided. The photoelectric conversion apparatus includes: a photoelectric conversion unit configured to receive incident light; a differential circuit configured to receive a first signal and a second signal, which are signals respectively corresponding to signal charges generated by the photoelectric conversion unit based on the incident light, and output a third signal indicating a difference between the first signal and the second signal; and an oversampling conversion circuit configured to perform analog-digital conversion of the third signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: HIDEO KOBAYASHI, MASAKI SATO
  • Patent number: 12136997
    Abstract: In order to estimate a polarization fluctuation speed with high accuracy independently of the quality of a received signal, a polarization-fluctuation estimating device according to the present invention includes: a polarization de-multiplexing unit that generates a single-polarization optical signal from an input polarization-multiplexed optical signal; a photoelectric converting unit that converts the generated optical signal into an electrical signal; and an estimation unit that estimates the polarization fluctuation speed of the polarization-multiplexed optical signal in accordance with the electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20240357258
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first substrate including a pixel array having a plurality of pixels including a pixel configured to output a focus detection signal and a second substrate layered on the first substrate, the second substrate including an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter including a plurality of A/D conversion circuits that converts a signal output from the first substrate to a digital signal, wherein the second substrate further includes a plurality of signal processing sections configured to perform a mechanical learning process, the second substrate including a first signal processing section and a second signal processing section, wherein the plurality of A/D conversion circuits includes a plurality of different sets, wherein the first signal processing section is disposed in correspondence with one of the plurality of sets, and wherein the second signal processing section is disposed in correspondence with another of the plurality of sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: KEI OCHIAI, YOSHIAKI TAKADA, MASAKI SATO, Masahiro Kobayashi, DAISUKE KOBAYASHI, TETSUYA ITANO, NAO NAKATSUJI, YASUHIRO OGURO
  • Patent number: 12110354
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a copolymer that produces an aromatic vinyl-diene copolymer having a low glass transition temperature, and a method of producing a rubber composition using the method. The subject method produces an aromatic vinyl-diene copolymer having a content of repeating units derived from an aromatic vinyl in an amount of 18 mass % or greater, and among repeating units derived from a diene, a proportion of a vinyl structure of 8 mol % or less, a proportion of a 1,4-trans structure of 60 mol % or less, and a proportion of a 1,4-cis structure from 40 to 95 mol %, the method including copolymerizing a monomer containing an aromatic vinyl and a diene using an initiator prepared with an organolithium compound, an alkylaluminum, a metal alcoholate, and at least one polar compound selected from the group consisting of water and an alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Uenishi, Yu Shinke, Yoshihiro Kameda, Masaki Sato, Ayaki Kazariya, Hideaki Sawa
  • Patent number: 12090233
    Abstract: Masking particles which comprise a drug-containing particle containing a drug, an acid, and a carbonate, the drug-containing particle being coated with a coating layer containing a water-insoluble polymer sufficiently suppress drug release in the oral cavity and pharynx, rapidly release a drug after swallowing, and easily control the release suppression time of a drug. The acid may be at least one organic acid. The carbonate may be at least one water-soluble carbonate. Oral pharmaceutical compositions include tablets, granules, fine granules, powders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOWA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Honjo, Megumi Murahashi, Masaki Sato, Kayo Yuminoki, Isamu Saeki, Yutaka Okuda
  • Publication number: 20240250770
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an optical transmission apparatus, system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium that can reduce noise generated due to IQ mixing in a subcarrier multiplexing method. An optical transmission apparatus according to the present disclosure includes pilot addition means for generating a first digital signal by adding a first pilot signal to a first data signal and generating a second digital signal by adding a second pilot signal to a second data signal, and optical modulation means for generating an optical modulation signal by optically modulating the first digital signal with a first subcarrier (SC1) included in a negative frequency band to a center frequency of a used frequency band, optically modulating the second digital signal with a second subcarrier (SC2) included in a positive frequency band to the center frequency of the used frequency band, and transmitting the optical modulation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20240230326
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus includes a plurality of differential transmitters, and a power supply circuit that supplies a power supply voltage to each of the plurality of differential transmitters. The power supply circuit includes a common circuit unit that defines the power supply voltage supplied to the plurality of differential transmitters, and a plurality of individual circuit units provided in association with the plurality of differential transmitters and each connected to the common circuit unit. Each of the plurality of individual circuit units has an output node that outputs the power supply voltage defined by the common circuit unit to a corresponding differential transmitter of the plurality of differential transmitters, and respective output nodes of the plurality of individual circuit units are connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kohichi Nakamura, Masaki Sato, Daisuke Kobayashi, Tetsuya Itano, Daisuke Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240217222
    Abstract: A laminate film including a base material layer and a sealant layer including a polyolefin resin, the base material layer including a first resin layer that includes a polyolefin resin and a second resin layer that includes a laser beam-absorbing resin, in which the laser beam-absorbing resin absorbs a laser beam used to form a half-cut line, the polyolefin resins included in the sealant layer and the first resin layer do not absorb the laser beam, and a total content percentage occupied by the polyolefin resins in the entirety of the laminate film is 90% by mass or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOPPAN INC.
    Inventors: Masaki SATO, Hiroyuki OTSUKA, Yuka FUKUDA