Patents by Inventor Masataka Sato

Masataka 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: 20240124245
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an article conveyance sorting apparatus includes a distributing section, a first conveyance section, a second conveyance section, and a conveyance sorting section. The distributing section distributes an article in a first direction or a second direction based on a first distribution control signal or a second distribution control signal corresponding to a distinguishing result of the article distinguished based on article information. The first conveyance section receives the article distributed in the first direction. The second conveyance section receives the article distributed in the second direction. The conveyance sorting section sorts each of articles conveyed by the plurality of trays to a designated sorting destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka SATO, Takashi AOKI
  • Patent number: 11960541
    Abstract: A name data associating device according to one embodiment associates synonymous name data having different notation between a first database (DB) holding adjacency information and a second DB holding adjacency information and path identification information, and includes: a path information extraction unit that generates all paths having common data common between both DBs as a starting point and the name data in the second DB as vertices, and extracts path information of each path; a path creation unit that, based on the information held by the first DB, generates paths having the same conditions as the extracted path information of each path; and an associating unit that associates the name data between the first and second DBs by extracting, from the generated paths, a combination of paths having more vertices passed through and fewer overlapping parts, and associating the vertices of each extracted path with the vertices of each path generated by the path information extraction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manami Ogawa, Masataka Sato
  • Publication number: 20240113367
    Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes placing a lid assembly that includes a lid and a terminal member integrated therewith via a resin member to close an opening portion of a case body with the lid, and laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid over an entire circumference. In placing the lid assembly, a peripheral high-level region, in which a peripheral outer surface of the peripheral portion of the lid is located on the outer side relative to an opening end surface of the opening portion of the case body is provided in proximate long-side opening portions, close of the opening portion and proximate long-side peripheral portions of the peripheral portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Tsuyoshi EHARA, Syoichi TSUCHIYA, Masataka ASAI, Tsuyoshi ASANO, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Yasuaki NAGANO
  • Publication number: 20240113368
    Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes closing an opening portion of a case body with a lid of a lid assembly, and laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and a peripheral portion of the lid over their entire circumference. A resin member has an outer surface including a scattered light-reached surface to which scattered light of a laser beam directly reaches, at least a part of the scattered light-reached surface including a smoothed region having a surface roughness of 0.6 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Tsuyoshi EHARA, Syoichi TSUCHIYA, Masataka ASAI, Tsuyoshi ASANO, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Yasuaki NAGANO
  • Publication number: 20240113366
    Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes forming a lid, forming a lid assembly, closing, and welding. In forming a lid, there is included forming, by forging, a protruding portion between a peripheral portion and an insertion-hole surrounding portion of the lid to block scattered light of a laser beam from being irradiated to a resin member, with a distance D from an end surface of the peripheral portion to a side surface of the protruding portion falling within 0.5t (D?0.5t) relative to a thickness t of the lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Tsuyoshi EHARA, Syoichi TSUCHIYA, Masataka ASAI, Tsuyoshi ASANO, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Yasuaki NAGANO
  • Patent number: 11940703
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. The display device includes a transistor, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a third insulating layer, a first conductive layer, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer in a pixel. The first insulating layer is positioned over a channel formation region of the transistor. The first conductive layer is positioned over the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is positioned over the transistor, the first insulating layer, and the first conductive layer. The pixel electrode is positioned over the second insulating layer, the third insulating layer is positioned over the pixel electrode, the common electrode is positioned over the third insulating layer, and the liquid crystal layer is positioned over the common electrode. The common electrode includes a region overlapping with the first conductive layer with the pixel electrode positioned therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouhei Toyotaka, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Kei Takahashi, Koji Kusunoki, Masataka Nakada, Ami Sato
  • Publication number: 20230419698
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an image interface, an input interface, an input terminal interface, a recognition unit, and a processor. The image interface is configured to acquire a display image including an image to be processed. The recognition unit is configured to recognize a character string in the image to be processed. The processor is configured to, in a case where additional information is necessary for first input information recognized from the image to be processed by the recognition unit, request the input terminal to input the first input information and input the additional information based on the image to be processed, and provide the external apparatus through the input interface with information indicating the first input information and the additional information input by the input terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka SATO, Kazutaka ASAHI
  • Patent number: 11855912
    Abstract: A network management device according to one embodiment includes a device that stores rules for mapping between a service order and a resource order; a device that stores, when a mapping is performed based on the mapping rules, a mapping history in which an identifier of a service for the service order which is a mapping source, a type of a rule used for the mapping, and an identifier of a resource for the resource order which is a mapping target are described; and a creation unit that, when a service order to change the service is created, acquires, from the mapping history and the identifier of the service to be changed, information indicating types of rules to be used for mapping of the service order to change the service and the identifier of the resource for a resource order which is a mapping target, and creates a resource order by mapping of the order to be changed based on the acquired mapping rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Akashi, Masataka Sato, Shingo Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 11843519
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a storage device configured to store information indicating a correspondence relationship between information objects related to a logical layer, information objects related to a physical layer in a network configuration, and information objects related to a facility layer which are objects in which the information objects related to the physical layer are housed; an acquisition unit configured to acquire an information object related to an occurrence path of a failure in the logical layer of the network configuration, from the storage device; and a search unit configured to search for, among the information objects related to the facility layer stored in the storage device, an information object related to the facility layer and the physical layer associated with the information object related to the occurrence path of the failure acquired from the acquisition unit, as a candidate for a facility that causes the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimihiko Fukami, Masataka Sato, Shohei Nishikawa, Kenji Murase, Kenichi Tayama
  • Publication number: 20230350948
    Abstract: A name data associating device according to one embodiment associates synonymous name data having different notation between a first database (DB) holding adjacency information and a second DB holding adjacency information and path identification information, and includes: a path information extraction unit that generates all paths having common data common between both DBs as a starting point and the name data in the second DB as vertices, and extracts path information of each path; a path creation unit that, based on the information held by the first DB, generates paths having the same conditions as the extracted path information of each path; and an associating unit that associates the name data between the first and second DBs by extracting, from the generated paths, a combination of paths having more vertices passed through and fewer overlapping parts, and associating the vertices of each extracted path with the vertices of each path generated by the path information extraction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manami OGAWA, Masataka SATO
  • Publication number: 20230325180
    Abstract: A server in a team activity evaluation system includes, as its functions, a scoring module for specifying a team score (parameter) indicating an activity situation of an engineer team, based on various parameters indicating the activity situation of the engineer team, and a presentation module for presenting, to a user, the team score indicating the activity situation of the engineer team that has been specified, in association with time-series information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Findy Inc.
    Inventors: Masataka SATO, Hiroyuki ISHIKAWA, Takashi UDAGAWA, Chihaya TODA, Satoko TAKADA, Ryu FURUTA
  • Publication number: 20230307473
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a light receiving element, a manufacturing method of same, and an electronic device that enables enhancement of quantum efficiency with respect to infrared light and an improvement in sensitivity. The light receiving element includes a pixel array region in which pixels including photoelectric conversion regions are aligned in a matrix shape, and the photoelectric conversion region of each pixel on a first semiconductor substrate, on which the pixel array region is formed, is formed of an SiGe region or a Ge region. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a distance measurement module for measuring a distance to an object, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masataka SATO
  • Patent number: 11765019
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a storage device configured to store information indicating connection relationships between a plurality of communication devices and communication paths in a network configuration and rank information indicating ranks of the plurality of communication devices in the network configuration and a determination unit configured to, when a fault has occurred in a communication device, determine that a communication device influenced by the fault is within a fault influence range based on the information stored in the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Nishikawa, Masataka Sato, Kenji Murase, Kimihiko Fukami, Kenichi Tayama
  • Patent number: 11765015
    Abstract: A network management apparatus acquires a given information object related to a plurality of occurrence paths of a failure in a logical layer of a network configuration; and retrieves, as a candidate of a facility to be a failure cause, information objects related to the facility layer and the physical layer commonly associated with the given information object; calculates, for each of the retrieved information objects, the number of information objects which are associated with the object and which are related to the plurality of occurrence paths of the failure as a multiplicity; and calculates, for each of the retrieved information objects, a proportion of the multiplicity with respect to the number of information objects in the logical layer which are affected when the failure occurs in the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumika Asai, Kimihiko Fukami, Shunsuke Kanai, Masataka Sato
  • Publication number: 20230289737
    Abstract: A server in an assumed annual income presentation system stores a user skill database for holding information of various parameters obtained by evaluating skills of each user as an engineer, and including, as its functions, a user job category reception module for receiving designation of a job category of a user who receives a presentation of an assumed annual income, and an assumed annual income specification module for specifying the assumed annual income for the user, based on the job category that has been designated by the user, a skill parameter related to the user, experience in the job category of each user, recruitment information of a company, or information of an annual income that has been received from each user, from the job category of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Findy Inc.
    Inventors: Masataka SATO, Takashi UDAGAWA, Kazuto OHARA, Daishi MIYAMOTO, Toshiaki YANAGISAWA, Kihaya SUGIURA, Yuki SHIGA
  • Patent number: 11757716
    Abstract: There is provided a network management device (1) including a capacity management unit (10) for managing the capacity in a network to be managed and a storage unit (20) for storing management information. The storage unit stores specification information of entities included in the network, and entity information including information indicative of relationships between the entities. The capacity management unit 10 includes a capacity request acquisition section (11) which receives a generation request of a first entity; reads the specification information about the first entity from the storage unit, and determines whether or not the first entity needs to consume a resource; when it is determined that the first entity needs to consume a resource, identifies a second entity capable of providing capacity consumed by the first entity, based on the entity information stored in the storage unit; and outputs information about the identification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka Sato, Kazuaki Akashi, Shingo Horiuchi, Kenichi Tayama, Kenji Murase, Kimihiko Fukami, Shohei Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20230269987
    Abstract: Display unevenness in a display panel is suppressed. A display panel with a high aperture ratio of a pixel is provided. The display panel includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a third pixel electrode, a first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer, a third light-emitting layer, a first common layer, a second common layer, a common electrode, and an auxiliary wiring. The first common layer is positioned over the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. The first common layer has a portion overlapping with the first light-emitting layer and a portion overlapping with the second light-emitting layer. The second common layer is positioned over the third pixel electrode. The second common layer has a portion overlapping with the third light-emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiki Nakamura, Shingo EGUCHI, Tomoya AOYAMA, Nozomu SUGISAWA, Junya MARUYAMA, Kazuhiko FUJITA, Masataka SATO, Susumu KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11736338
    Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a storage unit configured to store information indicating a correspondence relationship between information objects related to a physical layer and information objects related to a logical layer in a network configuration, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first information object related to a location where a failure occurs in the physical layer of the network configuration from the storage unit, an identification unit configured to identify, as a failure influence range, a second information object associated with the first information object related to the location where the failure occurs, of the information objects related to the logical layer stored in the storage unit, the first information object being acquired by the acquisition unit, and an outputting unit configured to output information indicating the failure influence range identified by the identification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimihiko Fukami, Masataka Sato, Kenichi Tayama, Kenji Murase, Shingo Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20230260778
    Abstract: A glass substrate is reused. The mass productivity of a semiconductor device is increased. A glass substrate one surface of which includes a first material and a second material. The first material includes one or both of a metal and a metal oxide. The second material includes one or both of a resin and a decomposition product of a resin. A cleaning method of a glass substrate, which includes a step of preparing the glass substrate one surface of which includes a first material and a second material and a step of exposing the first material by removing at least part of the second material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Masataka SATO, Satoru IDOJIRI, Natsuko TAKASE
  • Publication number: 20230259589
    Abstract: To easily find columns containing information to be shared between databases found when the databases (DBs) are combined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manami OGAWA, Masataka SATO