Patents by Inventor Masashi Sato

Masashi 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).

  • Patent number: 11967233
    Abstract: To provide a vehicle sharing system that allows the user to use a shared vehicle having a battery with a reduced risk of the battery running out, a management server (1) includes a management information database (122) configured to store information on (i) a plurality of shared-vehicle standby locations (2) at each of which a motor-assisted bicycle(s) (3) having a battery (302) is on standby, (ii) a motor-assisted bicycle(s) (3), and (iii) the destination desired by the user; and a location specifying section (115) configured to, in a case where the location specifying section (115) has determined that the remaining battery power of the motor-assisted bicycle (3) that the user is using is not enough to continue to travel to the destination desired by the user, specify a transfer location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Kojima, Masashi Sato, Takanori Oka
  • Publication number: 20240123063
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel antigens of an allergy to soybean, methods and kits for diagnosing an allergy to soybean, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such an antigen, soybeans or processed products of soybean in which such an antigen is eliminated, and a tester for determining the presence or absence of a soybean antigen in an object of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: HOYU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kayoko Matsunaga, Akiko Yagami, Naoshi Shimojo, Masashi Nakamura, Nayu Sato
  • Publication number: 20240119173
    Abstract: An information transaction device is connected to an information holding device including a storage unit storing personal information and includes a sharing approval reception unit configured to receive approval of sharing of the personal information by an information sharing destination device from a user associated with the personal information, a provision approval reception unit configured to receive approval of provision which is transmission of the personal information to an information provision destination device, from the user associated with the personal information, a sharing instruction unit configured to, in a case where the sharing approval reception unit receives the approval of the sharing, instruct the information holding device to perform the sharing, and a provision instruction unit configured to, in a case where the provision approval reception unit receives the approval of the provision, instruct the information holding device to perform the provision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke SATO, Yasumasa MITSUHATA, Masashi INOUE, Yurika MICHISHITA
  • Publication number: 20240116802
    Abstract: The near-infrared absorbing glass includes four or more kinds of the prescribed main cations, and includes P ions, Ba ions and Cu ions as essential cations, wherein, in a glass composition expressed in anion %, the content of O ions is 90.0 anion % or more, in a glass composition expressed in atomic %, the ratio of the content of O ions to the content of P ions is 3.15 or less, in a glass composition expressed in mol % based on oxides, the total content of B2O3 and SiO2 is 3.0 mol % or less, the total content of MgO and Al2O3 is 8.0 mol % or less, and the total content of Li2O, Na2O and K2O is 15 mol % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi SATO, Yuki SHIOTA, Masashi KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11953116
    Abstract: A valve body has an inflow passage for a working fluid, an outflow passage for the working fluid, and a pressure relief passage, which connects the inflow passage and the outflow passage by bypassing a normally close valve seat. A pressure relief valve is located in the pressure relief passage. The pressure relief valve closes the pressure relief passage, if a pressure of the working fluid in the outflow passage is lower than, is equal to, and is higher by a pressure difference less than a predetermined relief pressure than a pressure of the working fluid in the inflow passage. The pressure relief valve opens the pressure relief passage, if the pressure of the working fluid in the outflow passage is higher by a pressure difference equal to or higher than the relief pressure than a pressure of the working fluid in the inflow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HAMANAKODENSO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Kaneko, Masashi Sugano, Yutaka Sato, Masahiro Hisada
  • Publication number: 20240108719
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel antigens of an allergy to shrimp, methods and kits for diagnosing an allergy to shrimp, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such an antigen, shrimps or processed products of shrimp in which such an antigen is eliminated, and a tester composition for determining the presence or absence of a shrimp antigen in an object of interest. The present invention also relates to polypeptides comprising an epitope of an antigen, kits, compositions and methods for diagnosing an allergy, comprising such a polypeptide, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such a polypeptide, and raw materials or processed products in which an antigen comprising such a polypeptide is eliminated or reduced. The present invention further relates to a tester composition for determining the presence or absence of an antigen in an object of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: HOYU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kayoko Matsunaga, Akiko Yagami, Masashi Nakamura, Naoshi Shimojo, Nayu Sato, Yuji Aoki, Tomomi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20240104080
    Abstract: An information transaction device stores catalog information including detailed information related to one or more datasets including personal information providable to an information provision destination device from an information provision source device. The information transaction device receives a provision request for the dataset from the information provision destination device. The information transaction device outputs a transmission request for the dataset indicated by the provision request to the information provision source device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke SATO, Yasumasa Mitsuhata, Masashi Inoue, Yurika Michishita
  • Patent number: 11929529
    Abstract: The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a first injection device associated with a supply of a fuel to the fuel cell, and a second injection device provided on an upstream side of the first injection device in a fuel flow passage from a fuel storage unit to the first injection device. The first and second injection devices switch a flow passage extending downstream from the fuel flow passage, between a first flow passage via the first injection device and second flow passage via the second injection device. The second injection device operates at a lower frequency than the first injection device during an operation of the fuel system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Maeshima, Akinobu Moriyama, Tatsuya Yaguchi, Masashi Sato, Tadaki Mano, Hiroyuki Wada
  • Publication number: 20240069297
    Abstract: In an optical fiber cable in which an optical fiber ribbon formed by parallelly arranging a plurality of optical fibers is packaged in an internal space, a core portion of each optical fiber is made of pure quartz and an effective cross-sectional area of the core portion at a wavelength of 1,550 nm is 110 ?m2 or more and 150 ?m2 or less. The optical fiber ribbon is an optical fiber ribbon in which the optical fibers are connected by continuously applying an adhesive resin between adjacent optical fibers. An occupation ratio of the optical fiber ribbon to the internal space calculated from a ratio of a cross-sectional area of the internal space to a cross-sectional area of the packaged optical fiber ribbon is 25% or more and 55% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yutaka HASHIMOTO, Fumiaki SATO, Masashi KIKUCHI, Akira SAKURAI, Yusuke YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230413044
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, an authentication system includes: a first communication device including: a first transmitting part configured to communicate in a first frequency band; and a first transmitting-and-receiving part configured to communicate in a second frequency band; and a second communication device including: a first receiving part configured to communicate in the first frequency band; and a second transmitting-and-receiving part configured to communicate in the second frequency band, and, in this authentication system, the first communication device transmits a command in the first frequency band from the first transmitting part, and, upon receipt of the command by the first receiving part, the second communication device activates the second transmitting-and-receiving part, generates an authentication key for a response signal, and transmits the response signal including the generated authentication key in the second frequency band, from the second communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Daichi SUTO, Takehiro IWABUCHI, Akira MIYAZAWA, Masashi SATO
  • Publication number: 20230335252
    Abstract: A physiological information processing apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory that stores a computer-readable instruction that when executed by the processor, causes the physiological information processing apparatus to perform operations comprising: displaying on a display unit, first attachment position information representing a position where a first physiological information sensor is attached; acquiring first physiological information data of a subject from the first physiological information sensor; and displaying, on the display unit, information relevant to the first physiological information data. The physiological information processing apparatus displays the first attachment position information on the display unit before displaying the information relevant to the first physiological information data on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Fumihiko TAKATORI, Masashi SATO, Masayuki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230278008
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a filter medium for air filters that has a high PF value and high water repellency in addition to stiffness and strength that are practically sufficient, and to provide the filter medium with an easy production method. The filter medium, composed of a wet-laid nonwoven fabric including a glass fiber, for air filters according to the present disclosure includes a cationic binder resin, a fluororesin, and a cationic surfactant, and the solid content mass ratio of the fluororesin to the cationic surfactant is within a range of 30/70 to 80/20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: HOKUETSU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomi Tashiro, Masashi Sato
  • Publication number: 20230076491
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery pack including a secondary battery and a circuit board, in which the secondary battery includes a metal exterior portion, a first external terminal, and a second external terminal, the circuit board has a plurality of connection portions connected to the first external terminal or the second external terminal, at least one of the connection portions has a first opening, and the connection portion having the first opening is solder-bonded to the first external terminal or the second external terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Masashi SATO, Ken SATO, Kenichi OZAWA, Fumio MATUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230071591
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a secondary battery and a circuit board, in which the secondary battery includes a metal exterior part, a first external terminal disposed at a center part of an end surface of the metal exterior part, and a second external terminal disposed so as to surround a periphery of the first external terminal, and the circuit board includes a first connection part connected to the first external terminal and a second connection part connected to the second external terminal; the battery pack including an insulating part that insulates the first connection part from the second connection part, the first connection part and the second connection part being disposed in an identical plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ken SATO, Kenichi OZAWA, Masashi SATO
  • Patent number: 11545682
    Abstract: A fuel cell system including: a fuel cell group; a refrigerant distribution passage; a pre-distribution refrigerant flow rate acquiring unit configured to acquire a first outlet temperature flow rate; a first outlet temperature detecting unit that is configured to detect a first outlet temperature; a voltage acquiring unit configured to acquire at least a first voltage that is a voltage of the first fuel cell; a current acquiring unit configured to acquire at least a first current; and a controller that calculates a first individual supply flow rate of the first fuel cell on the basis of the first voltage, the first current, and the first outlet temperature, and calculates a second individual supply flow rate of at least one second fuel cell other than the first fuel cell on the basis of the first individual supply flow rate and the pre-distribution refrigerant flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi Sato
  • Publication number: 20220209356
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a circuit board, a battery cell, an exterior case having a cylindrical shape, and a pair of external terminals respectively provided at both ends of the exterior case, in which each of the external terminals includes an inserted portion to be inserted into the exterior case and an uninserted portion not to be inserted into the exterior case, at least a part of the circuit board is disposed between the battery cell and the external terminals, and an elastic resin is provided so as to be in contact with the battery cell, the at least part of the circuit board, and the external terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Ken SATO, Madoka HAMANO, Kenichi OZAWA, Masashi SATO, Mikio YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki ITO
  • Publication number: 20220062483
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an air purification filter including a substrate, and an enzyme and glycine supported on the substrate, wherein the enzyme includes at least one enzyme selected from the group consisting of ?-1,3-glucanase, chitinase, lysozyme, protease, glycosidase, ?-galactosidase, endo-?-N-acetylglucosaminidase and endolysine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Akane NARIYUKI, Mitsuhiro ISHIDA, Toshiya NASHIDA, Kaori TOZUKA, Kanako INA, Toshihiko SOYAMA, Masashi SATO, Eiko MEGURO
  • Patent number: 11223239
    Abstract: A contactless power supply system includes a contactless power supply device and a power receiving device. Power is supplied from the contactless power supply device to the power receiving device while communication is performed therebetween. The power receiving device includes a power receiving coil unit, and a first communication unit that communicates with the contactless power supply device and attaches information having continuity to data transmitted to the contactless power supply device. The contactless power supply device includes a power supply coil unit, a second communication unit, and a power supply control unit that, when the second communication unit begins to receive data transmitted from the first communication unit, refers to the information having continuity attached to the continuously received data, and if continuity has been lost, performs correction to increase the output value of the power supplied from the power supply coil unit to the power receiving coil unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Miura, Toshiyasu Miwata, Yusuke Kawai, Masashi Sato
  • Patent number: 11223243
    Abstract: A contactless power supply system includes a contactless power supply device and a power receiving device. Power is supplied from the contactless power supply device to the power receiving device while communication is performed therebetween. The power receiving device includes a power receiving coil unit, and a first communication unit that attaches information having continuity to data transmitted to the contactless power supply device. The contactless power supply device includes a power supply coil unit, a second communication unit, and a power supply control unit that, in a steady state where communication is performed between two communication units after the second communication unit begins receiving the data transmitted from the first communication unit, refers to information having continuity attached to the data, and if continuity has been lost, performs correction to increase the output value of the power from the power supply coil unit to the power receiving coil unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Miura, Toshiyasu Miwata, Yusuke Kawai, Masashi Sato
  • Patent number: 11205785
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell configured to be supplied with fuel and air to generate electricity, a reformer configured to reform the fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell, a heat source device configured to heat an off-gas discharged from the fuel cell to produce a heating gas and configured to heat the reformer, a fuel cell heating device configured to heat the air to be supplied to the fuel cell using the heating gas, a fuel cell temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a temperature of the fuel cell, and a reformer temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a temperature of the reformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hayato Chikugo, Shinichi Miyazaki, Tatsuya Yaguchi, Masashi Sato