Patents by Inventor Masashi Sano

Masashi Sano 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: 20240103450
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device that includes: a circuit board; an antenna; a solar panel; and at least one contact member. The antenna has an annular shape in a plan view from a first direction, has at least an outer peripheral edge and an inner peripheral edge, and has at least one of a notch and a hole. The at least one contact member electrically connects the solar panel and the circuit board. The solar panel, the antenna, and the circuit board are arranged in order from the first direction. The contact member is at a position corresponding to the at least one of the notch and the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi SANO, Takeshi MATSUE, Masashi SAWAI
  • Publication number: 20230104024
    Abstract: Provided are an application management program, an information processing device, and an application management system that make it possible to confirm a notification to an application and the content of the notification in advance on a specific terminal and make it possible to confirm the notification in advance even when a change is made to the application. An application management server includes: an application editing means that edits test application information; information distribution means that distributes test application information 113ti to a test terminal and distributes actual application information to terminals a, b, c, . . . ; and a notification means that carries out notification processing of notification content information 112a to the test terminal in response to reception of a test notification request together with the notification content information from the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventor: Masashi SANO
  • Publication number: 20200171368
    Abstract: A training bat 100 includes a core bar 170 placed within a space formed in a bat body 120; a weight 130 movable within the space; and a biasing means for applying a biasing force to the weight 130. The biasing means includes a first compression spring 150 having a coil and a second compression spring 160 having a coil. The core bar 170 is configured to pass through the coil of the first compression spring 150, the through hall of the weight 130 and the coil of the second compression spring 160. The weight 130 is movable between an initial position and a tip position. The biasing means is configured to apply the biasing force to the weight 130 in a direction where the weight 130 returns from the tip position back to the initial position, when the weight 130 is positioned at the tip position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Masashi SANO
  • Patent number: 10480987
    Abstract: An electromechanical fill-level measuring device comprising at least one displacement element, which is connected by means of a measurement wire windably at least with a measurement drum, at least one measuring shaft, with which the measurement drum is mechanically fixedly connected, wherein the shaft is held rotatably in at least one rotary bearing, at least one weight measuring system, which ascertains the effective weight of the displacement element and the measurement wire, and at least one servomotor, which is coupled with the measuring shaft and which rotates the measuring shaft corresponding to an ascertained weight measurement, so that an ascertaining of the relative movement of the measurement drum produced by a change of the liquid level to be measured is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER SE+CO.KG
    Inventors: Masashi Sano, Andreas Kaiser, Yoichi Kamei
  • Publication number: 20170254693
    Abstract: An electromechanical fill-level measuring device comprising at least one displacement element, which is connected by means of a measurement wire windably at least with a measurement drum, at least one measuring shaft, with which the measurement drum is mechanically fixedly connected, wherein the shaft is held rotatably in at least one rotary bearing, at least one weight measuring system, which ascertains the effective weight of the displacement element and the measurement wire, and at least one servomotor, which is coupled with the measuring shaft and which rotates the measuring shaft corresponding to an ascertained weight measurement, so that an ascertaining of the relative movement of the measurement drum produced by a change of the liquid level to be measured is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Masashi Sano, Andreas Kaiser, Yoichi Kamei
  • Patent number: 8972741
    Abstract: A biometrics authentication device utilizes biometrics information and performs individual authentication enables secure modification of authorization details for an authorized agent other than the principal. A verification device verifies biometrics information registered on an IC card against biometrics information detected by a detection unit. When results in satisfactory biometrics authentication, modification of authorization details of an authorized agent, registered on the IC card, is permitted. Authorization details for an authorized agent can be securely modified on a card on which biometrics information for the principal and the authorized agent is registered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Frontech Limited
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Awatsu, Takahiro Kudoh, Masashi Sano, Masanori Ohkoshi
  • Patent number: 8896974
    Abstract: A thin film magnetic head includes a spin valve film that includes a magnetization free layer, a magnetization pinned layer and a non-magnetic spacer layer that is disposed between the magnetization free and pinned layers, and a pair of side layers that are disposed at both sides of the spin valve film in a track width direction and at least in the vicinity of the magnetization free layer and the magnetization pinned layer. Each of the side layers has a bias magnetic field application layer that includes a soft magnetic layer and applies a bias magnetic field in the track width direction to the magnetization free layer, and a gap layer that is positioned between the spin valve film and the bias magnetic field application layer, and the side layers have compression stresses at least in the vicinity of the magnetization pinned layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Shohei Kawasaki, Shuji Okame, Takayasu Kanaya, Satoshi Miura, Kenzo Makino, Takumi Yanagisawa, Takahiko Machita, Masashi Sano, Hideyuki Ukita
  • Patent number: 8817417
    Abstract: A trailing shield is provided on a trailing side of a magnetic pole with a non-magnetic gap layer in between, and an intermediate layer having negative uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy is provided between the non-magnetic gap layer and the trailing shield. The intermediate layer has a magnetic property in which an easy axis of magnetization is provided in an in-plane direction and thus magnetization is likely to occur in that direction, whereas a difficult axis of magnetization is provided in a direction intersecting the in-plane direction and thus magnetization is less likely to occur in that direction. Accordingly, magnetic flux becomes difficult to excessively flow from the magnetic pole into the trailing shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ukita, Kenta Hara, Kenkichi Anagawa, Yosuke Antoku, Masashi Sano, Shuji Okame, Masaya Kato
  • Publication number: 20140177104
    Abstract: A trailing shield is provided on a trailing side of a magnetic pole with a non-magnetic gap layer in between, and an intermediate layer having negative uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy is provided between the non-magnetic gap layer and the trailing shield. The intermediate layer has a magnetic property in which an easy axis of magnetization is provided in an in-plane direction and thus magnetization is likely to occur in that direction, whereas a difficult axis of magnetization is provided in a direction intersecting the in-plane direction and thus magnetization is less likely to occur in that direction. Accordingly, magnetic flux becomes difficult to excessively flow from the magnetic pole into the trailing shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki UKITA, Kenta HARA, Kenkichi ANAGAWA, Yosuke ANTOKU, Masashi SANO, Shuji OKAME, Masaya KATO
  • Patent number: 8654479
    Abstract: A thin film magnetic recording head having a multilayer structure in which plural thin films are laminated and being a perpendicular recording type that applies a magnetic field perpendicularly to a magnetic recording medium and performs recording, includes a main magnetic pole exposed on an air bearing surface facing the magnetic recording medium and guiding a magnetic flux toward the magnetic recording medium, a thin film positioned beneath the main magnetic pole from a perspective of a lamination direction and configuring a sensor or a heater configured to determine a distance from the magnetic recording medium of the thin film magnetic recording head, and a light-absorbing portion positioned between the main magnetic pole and the thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Sano, Hiromichi Umehara, Mutsumi Fujita, Isamu Toba, Tatsuhiro Nojima, Hitoshi Hatate, Hisayoshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20140002921
    Abstract: A thin film magnetic recording head having a multilayer structure in which plural thin films are laminated and being a perpendicular recording type that applies a magnetic field perpendicularly to a magnetic recording medium and performs recording, includes a main magnetic pole exposed on an air bearing surface facing the magnetic recording medium and guiding a magnetic flux toward the magnetic recording medium, a thin film positioned beneath the main magnetic pole from a perspective of a lamination direction and configuring a sensor or a heater configured to determine a distance from the magnetic recording medium of the thin film magnetic recording head, and a light-absorbing portion positioned between the main magnetic pole and the thin film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi SANO, Hiromichi Umehara, Mutsumi Fujita, Isamu Toba, Tatsuhiro Nojima, Hitoshi Hatate, Hisayoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8574729
    Abstract: A magnetic structure includes a first magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic insulating layer, a nonmagnetic adhesion layer disposed on the top surfaces of the first magnetic layer and the nonmagnetic insulating layer, and a second magnetic layer disposed on the nonmagnetic adhesion layer. The nonmagnetic insulating layer contains an oxygen atom. The nonmagnetic adhesion layer is composed of one element or a plurality of elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Si and nonmagnetic transition metal elements except Ru, and the bond enthalpy of a diatomic molecule composed of an atom of the one element or each of the plurality of elements and an oxygen atom is 400 kJ/mol or higher. The nonmagnetic adhesion layer has a thickness within a range of 0.3 to 0.8 nm. The first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer are ferromagnetically coupled to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kenzo Makino, Masashi Sano, Atsushi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20130286507
    Abstract: A thin-film magnetic head has a high write performance because its shape is smooth without roughness. The thin-film magnetic head includes a slider substrate, a write element and an antireflection film. The slider substrate has an air bearing surface at one side and supports a first support layer. The first support layer has a leading shield, and the leading shield has a low-level flat part, a slope part and a high-level flat part continuously arranged at one side in the recited order toward the air bearing surface. The antireflection film entirely covers the low-level flat part, the slope part and the high-level flat part of the leading shield. The write element has a recording magnetic pole film, and the recording magnetic pole film is formed above the antireflection film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi Umehara, Masashi Sano, Atsushi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8564905
    Abstract: A thin-film magnetic head has a high write performance because its shape is smooth without roughness. The thin-film magnetic head includes a slider substrate, a write element and an antireflection film. The slider substrate has an air bearing surface at one side and supports a first support layer. The first support layer has a leading shield, and the leading shield has a low-level flat part, a slope part and a high-level flat part continuously arranged at one side in the recited order toward the air bearing surface. The antireflection film entirely covers the low-level flat part, the slope part and the high-level flat part of the leading shield. The write element has a recording magnetic pole film, and the recording magnetic pole film is formed above the antireflection film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi Umehara, Masashi Sano, Atsushi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8529777
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of making a mask for patterning a thin film. The method includes a step of forming an inorganic material, which is resolvable into alkali solution, on a substrate; a step of forming the inorganic material in a predetermined pattern; and a step of narrowing the inorganic material with the alkali solution to form the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Hisayoshi Watanabe, Hideyuki Yatsu, Takayuki Nishizawa, Masashi Sano, Hiromichi Umehara, Takayasu Kanaya, Tetsuji Hori
  • Patent number: 8462469
    Abstract: A magneto-resistive effect (MR) element includes a magneto-resistive (MR) stack with a magnetization free layer, a bias magnetic field application layer positioned on a side of the MR stack, and an insulation film insulating the bias magnetic field application layer. The bias magnetic field application layer includes hard magnetic layer positioned on the side of the magnetization free layer and formed of iron-platinum (FePt) alloy and Pt seed layer provided between the MR stack and the hard magnetic layer and on a lower surface of the hard magnetic layer in contact manner with the hard magnetic layer and formed of platinum (Pt). The insulation film is a MgO insulation film formed of oxide magnesium (MgO), provided on a surface of the Pt seed layer in contact manner with the Pt seed layer, the surface being opposite to another surface of the Pt seed layer contacting the hard magnetic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takayasu Kanaya, Masashi Sano
  • Publication number: 20130062307
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of making a mask for patterning a thin film The method includes a step of forming an inorganic material, which is resolvable into alkali solution, on a substrate; a step of forming the inorganic material in a predetermined pattern; and a step of narrowing the inorganic material with the alkali solution to form the mask.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Hisayoshi WATANABE, Hideyuki Yatsu, Takayuki Nishizawa, Masashi Sano, Hiromichi Umehara, Takayasu Kanaya, Tetsuji Hori
  • Patent number: 8379346
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming a metal in a concave portion of a substrate. The method includes a step of preparing a substrate having a concave portion; a step of applying a liquid coating member on the substrate and filling in and solidifying the concave portion with the coating member; a step of covering the coating member with a resist; a step of forming a penetrating hole that penetrates the resist in a position of the concave portion of the substrate; a step of removing the coating member within the concave portion; and a step of filling a metal into a portion where the coating member has been removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Hisayoshi Watanabe, Yuji Matsuura, Takayuki Nishizawa, Masashi Sano, Tetsuji Hori
  • Patent number: 8373947
    Abstract: A magnetic head slider includes a magnetic recording part and/or a reproducing part. The magnetic head slider includes a resistance film having temperature dependence of electrical resistance, the resistance film being positioned in the vicinity of an air bearing surface or on the air bearing surface, separately from the magnetic recording part and the reproducing part. The magnetic head slider further includes a first protective film with a smaller milling rate than the resistance film, the first protective film contacting a lower surface of the resistance film in a lamination direction of the magnetic head slider and on the air bearing surface, and/or a second protective film with a smaller milling rate than the resistance film, the second protective film contacting an upper surface of the resistance film in the lamination direction of the magnetic head slider and on the air bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Nojima, Masashi Sano, Yosuke Antoku, Mutsumi Fujita, Isamu Toba, Norio Takahashi, Hideyuki Ukita
  • Publication number: 20130027810
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming a metal in a concave portion of a substrate. The method includes a step of preparing a substrate having a concave portion; a step of applying a liquid coating member on the substrate and filling in and solidifying the concave portion with the coating member; a step of covering the coating member with a resist; a step of forming a penetrating hole that penetrates the resist in a position of the concave portion of the substrate; a step of removing the coating member within the concave portion; and a step of filling a metal into a portion where the coating member has been removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Hisayoshi WATANABE, Yuji MATSUURA, Takayuki NISHIZAWA, Masashi SANO, Tetsuji HORI