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).

  • COMPOSITION FOR WIRE COATING, INSULATED, AND WIRING HARNESS
    Publication number: 20130008691
    Abstract: To provide a composition for a wire coating member containing a non-crosslinked material at a low cost, which has superior flame retardancy, and is excellent in heat resistance, wear resistance and flexibility, and to provide an insulated wire and a wiring harness containing the composition. The composition contains (A) polypropylene, (B) a polyolefin elastomer, (C) a bromine flame retardant, (D) an antimony trioxide, (E) magnesium hydroxide, either one of (F) (F1) a zinc sulfide and (F2) a zinc oxide and (F3) mercaptobenzimidazole, and (G) a hindered phenolic antioxidant. The insulated wire includes a conductor and an insulation coat made from the composition, wherein the insulation coat has a thickness of 0.5 mm or less, and the insulated wire has an external diameter of 4 mm or less. The wiring harness includes the insulated wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Shimada, Yukihiro Sakamoto, Masashi Sato
  • LIFESPAN EXTENDING AGENT
    Publication number: 20120329735
    Abstract: A lifespan extending agent that is safe for animals, and can easily be ingested in a form that resembles foods. A lifespan extending method is also disclosed. In the lifespan extending agent, a rare sugar usable as a sweetener is contained as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITY, IZUMORING CO., LTD., MATSUTANI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Sato, Kazuhiro Okuma, Ken Izumori
  • Battery pack
    Patent number: 8318339
    Abstract: A battery pack is provided and includes an outer package and a battery element housed in the outer package. The outer package includes a laminate having a conductive layer, and a positive electrode terminal or a negative electrode terminal of the battery element is electrically connected to the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Sennami, Masashi Sato
  • Assembling method and apparatus for assembly, and assembling method and apparatus for workpiece
    Patent number: 8312611
    Abstract: A first holding frame of a component holding unit is allowed to hold a plurality of components composing a first assembly and a second holding frame of the component holding unit is allowed to hold a plurality of components composing a second assembly which is to be mounted on the first assembly. The first assembly held onto the first holding frame and the second assembly held onto the second holding frame are assembled by an assembly work unit. The second holding frame is allowed to reciprocate towards the first holding frame to pass the second assembly from the second holding, frame to the first holding frame. Thereafter, the first assembly and the second assembly which are held onto the first holding frame are assembled and coupled together by the assembly work unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Tobita, Shinji Yoshino, Kenjiro Tsutsumi, Masashi Sato
  • Surface mount crystal oscillator and manufacturing method of the same
    Patent number: 8305150
    Abstract: There are disclosed a surface mount crystal oscillator which can enhance a product quality and improve productivity while realizing miniaturization and a manufacturing method of the crystal oscillator. On wall faces of through holes formed in corner portions of a rectangular ceramic base, through terminals are formed; on the front surface of the ceramic base, leading terminals of crystal holding terminals which hold a crystal piece are connected to the diagonal through terminals; on the back surface of the ceramic base, mount terminals connected to the through terminals are formed; and an insulating film projected especially in a corner portion direction is formed at such a position as to face the opening end face of a metal cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yasuo Sakaba, Masashi Sato
  • COMPOSITION FOR WIRE COATING MEMBER, INSULATED WIRE, AND WIRING HARNESS
    Publication number: 20120273268
    Abstract: A composition for a wire coating member having flame retardancy that is heat resistant and productive without using electron irradiation crosslinking, and an insulated wire and a wiring harness having the same. The insulated wire includes a wire coating member containing the composition for the wire coating member that contains water-crosslinkable polyolefin containing polyolefin that is modified by a silane coupling agent, unmodified polyolefin, modified polyolefin that is modified by a functional group, a bromine flame retardant, a cross-linking catalyst, a phenolic antioxidant, and either one of a zinc sulfide, and a zinc oxide and an imidazole compound. The insulated wire is prepared by extrusion-coating a conductor with the composition to form the wire coating member around the conductor, and the wire coating member is water-crosslinked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Shimada, Masashi Kimura, Kousuke Shiraki, Mamoru Kondou, Masashi Sato
  • Surface mount crystal oscillator and manufacturing method of the same
    Patent number: 8299859
    Abstract: There are disclosed a surface mount crystal oscillator which can enhance a product quality and improve productivity while realizing miniaturization and a manufacturing method of the crystal oscillator. On wall faces of through holes formed in corner portions of a rectangular ceramic base, through terminals are formed; on the front surface of the ceramic base, leading terminals of crystal holding terminals which hold a crystal piece are connected to the diagonal through terminals; on the back surface of the ceramic base, mount terminals connected to the through terminals are formed; and the opening end face of a metal cover joined onto the ceramic base via the molten resin comprises a flange having an inclined face in the surface mount crystal oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Masashi Sato, Yoshinori Ikeda
  • WIRING HARNESS
    Publication number: 20120261185
    Abstract: Provided is a wiring harness that has favorable radiation performance, is capable of achieving a reduced space for wiring, and allows an easy wiring task. A wiring harness includes three single flat cables, each of which has a flat shape in cross section in a width direction and includes a conductor having a flat shape and an insulator with which the conductor is coated, wherein the single flat cables are disposed in parallel in the width direction in a protection member where the flat cables are prevented from overlapping each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Murao, Takehiro Hosokawa, Masashi Sato, Tetsuya Iwasaki, Masanobu Yoshimura, Yukihiro Sakamoto
  • LCD device with pixels including first and second transistors of different sizes and connections
    Patent number: 8289464
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes pixels, each of which includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The size of the first transistor is larger than the size of the second transistor. In addition, channel widths and gate widths for the first transistor are larger than those of the second transistor. Also, the first transistor is located to be closer to a drain signal line provided for the pixel than the second transistor. In normal operation, the first transistor is coupled to the drain signal line and the second transistor is floating. However, if an abnormality occurs in the first transistor, it is cut off from the drain signal line and the second transistor is connected to the drain signal line by a repair line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kawamura, Masashi Sato, Masanori Ookawa, Kenta Kamoshida, Nagatoshi Kurahashi, Hiroaki Iwato
  • Surface mount crystal oscillator and manufacturing method of the same
    Patent number: 8289089
    Abstract: There are disclosed a surface mount crystal oscillator which can enhance a product quality and improve productivity while realizing miniaturization and a manufacturing method of the crystal oscillator. On wall faces of through holes formed in corner portions of a rectangular ceramic base, through terminals are formed; on the front surface of the ceramic base, leading terminals of crystal holding terminals which hold a crystal piece are connected to the diagonal through terminals; and on the back surface of the ceramic base, mount terminals connected to the through terminals are formed in the surface mount crystal oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Sato, Yasuo Sakaba
  • COMPOSITION FOR WIRE COATING MATERIAL, INSULATED WIRE, AND WIRING HARNESS
    Publication number: 20120241190
    Abstract: Provided is a composition for a wire coating material that is capable of achieving heat resistance and a mechanical property at the same time even if silane crosslinking and magnesium hydroxide that is made from a natural mineral are used in combination. The composition contains (A) silane-grafted polyolefin that defines polyolefin onto which a silane coupling agent is grafted, (B) unmodified polyolefin, (C) modified polyolefin that is modified by a functional group, (D) magnesium hydroxide that is made from a natural mineral, and (E) a cross-linking catalyst. Provided is an insulated wire including a wire coating material that contains the composition that is silane-crosslinked. Provided is a wiring harness including the insulated wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Shimada, Masashi Kimura, Kousuke Shiraki, Mamoru Kondou, Masashi Sato
  • COVERING MATERIAL FOR ELECTRIC WIRE
    Publication number: 20120172511
    Abstract: A polyvinyl chloride-type covering material for electric wire that has an excellent damage-resistance property, cold-resistance property and low-temperature property after aging. The covering material containing a polyvinyl chloride comprises, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polyvinyl chloride, (A) 15 to 30 parts by mass of a plasticizer comprising 15 parts by mass or more of one or more plasticizers selected from trimellitate plasticizers and pyromellitate plasticizers, (B) 2 to 10 parts by mass of a chlorinated polyolefin, and (C) 1 to 6 parts by mass of a methyl methacrylate-butadiene-styrene copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toyoki Furukawa, Masashi Sato, Masahiro Nakamura
  • CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR FUEL CELL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20120171590
    Abstract: An anode non-circulation type fuel cell sets an anode upper limit pressure and an anode lower limit pressure, and sets an anode pressure increase rate based on at least a detected temperature of a fuel cell. The system controls the supply of an anode gas to the fuel cell so as to repeat pressure increase and pressure decrease. The pressure increase is conducted by supplying the anode gas to the anode upper limit pressure at the anode pressure increase rate. The pressure decrease is conducted by restricting the supply of the anode gas to the anode lower limit pressure. When the detected temperature of the fuel cell is lower than a predetermined temperature, the system sets the anode pressure increase rate at a slower rate than when the temperature of the fuel cell is equal to or higher than the predetermined temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Michihiko Matsumoto, Masashi Sato, Ken Nakayama, Junichi Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Hoshi
  • SURFACE MOUNT CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR AND SUBSTRATE SHEET
    Publication number: 20120161882
    Abstract: Provided is a surface mount crystal oscillator and a substrate sheet to prevent a decrease in a frequency variable amount by reducing electrostatic capacitance of the crystal oscillator. The surface mount crystal oscillator and the substrate sheet are each configured such that one end of a crystal holding terminal is connected to a corner terminal, and another end of the crystal holding terminal is formed from a center of a short side to be shorter than the one end so as to form an area in which no pattern is formed, and a pattern of a GND terminal is formed on that portion of a rear surface of a substrate which is opposed to the area in which no pattern is formed, so that the pattern (a crystal-mounted pattern) of the crystal holding terminal and the pattern of the GND terminal are not opposed to each other across the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi SATO
  • OPERATION CONTROL DEVICE AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD FOR FUEL CELL POWER PLANT
    Publication number: 20120107711
    Abstract: A fuel cell power plant stops anode gas supply to a fuel cell stack 1 by an anode gas supply mechanism 20 when an anode gas pressure in the fuel cell stack 1 reaches an upper limit pressure, and resumes supplying the anode gas by the anode gas supply mechanism 20 when the anode gas pressure in the fuel cell stack 1 lowers to a lower limit pressure. A sensor 52-54 detects if a hydrogen supply amount supplied to the fuel cell stack 1 satisfies a required amount to generate a target generated power, and a controller 51 corrects the lower limit pressure in an increasing direction when the hydrogen supply amount does not satisfy the required amount, thereby suppressing a generated power of the fuel cell stack 1 from reducing even when a flooding takes place in the fuel cell stack 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Yousuke Tomita, Masashi Sato
  • Manual sheet feeder and image forming apparatus including same
    Patent number: 8118299
    Abstract: A manual sheet feeder including a pickup roller; a pickup arm; a sheet stopper; a rotation regulation member; a solenoid including a movable core having a straight line motion; a solenoid link rotatively coupled to the movable core; and a first spring to bias the pickup arm in a direction in which the pickup arm is rotated downward. At start of sheet feeding operation, the pickup arm is rotated by the first spring in a direction in which the pickup roller is moved downward in conjunction with rotation of the solenoid link caused by the straight line motion of the movable core in one direction, and the rotation regulation member is rotated in conjunction with the rotation of the solenoid link caused by the straight line motion of the movable core in the one direction to release regulation of rotation of the sheet stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Sato
  • Surface mount crystal oscillator and manufacturing method of the same
    Publication number: 20110221535
    Abstract: There are disclosed a surface mount crystal oscillator which can enhance a product quality and improve productivity while realizing miniaturization and a manufacturing method of the crystal oscillator. On wall faces of through holes formed in corner portions of a rectangular ceramic base, through terminals are formed; on the front surface of the ceramic base, leading terminals of crystal holding terminals which hold a crystal piece are connected to the diagonal through terminals; on the back surface of the ceramic base, mount terminals connected to the through terminals are formed; and an insulating film projected especially in a corner portion direction is formed at such a position as to face the opening end face of a metal cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Yasuo Sakaba, Masashi Sato
  • ELECTRODE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
    Publication number: 20110198617
    Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a p-type SiC semiconductor and an ohmic electrode having an Ni/Al laminated structure provided on the p-type SiC semiconductor. The semiconductor device simultaneously has improved contact resistance and surface roughness in the ohmic electrode. The semiconductor device comprises an ohmic electrode (18) comprising a nickel (Ni) layer (21), a titanium (Ti) layer (22), and an aluminum (Al) layer (23) stacked in that order on a p-type silicon carbide semiconductor region (13). The ohmic electrode (18) comprises 14 to 47 atomic % of a nickel element, 5 to 12 atomic % of titanium element, and 35 to 74 atomic % of an aluminum element, provided that the atomic ratio of the nickel element to the titanium element is 1 to 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke Iwanaga, Seiichi Yokoyama, Hideki Hashimoto, Kenichi Nonaka, Masashi Sato, Norio Tsuyuguchi
  • Defibrillator paddle
    Patent number: D659251
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Shuko Kawamura, Masashi Sato
  • Defibrillator paddle
    Patent number: D660970
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Shuko Kawamura, Masashi Sato