Patents by Inventor Mikio Sato

Mikio 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: 20240124571
    Abstract: Provided is a substance capable of effectively suppressing cancer metastasis or a pharmaceutical composition that effectively acts on an inflammatory disease. The pharmaceutical composition is a pharmaceutical composition containing, as an active ingredient, an antibody or an antibody fragment thereof having antigen-binding activity for an S100A8/A9 heterodimer, and blocks interaction between S100A8/A9 and a group of receptors therefor, to thereby strongly suppress cancer metastasis both in vitro and in vivo, or alleviate inflammation. That is, the anti-S100A8/A9 antibody or the antibody fragment thereof can strongly suppress cancer metastasis or alleviate inflammation, by virtue of its blocking action on the interaction between S100A8/A9 and the group of receptors therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: National University Corporation Okayama University
    Inventors: Masakiyo SAKAGUCHI, Shinichi TOYOOKA, Shuta TOMIDA, Kazuhiko SHIEN, Hiroki SATO, Rie KINOSHITA, Junichiro FUTAMI, Kota ARAKI, Mikio OKAZAKI, Eisaku KONDO, Yusuke INOUE, Akira YAMAUCHI
  • Patent number: 11942740
    Abstract: A motor includes a frame having an outer diameter of 10 millimeters or less and an inner surface. The motor also includes an annular magnet attached to the inner surface of the frame, a bracket provided at the frame, and a columnar brush formed of carbon and having an outer peripheral surface. In addition, the motor includes a commutator contacting the outer peripheral surface of the brush, and an elastic member supporting the brush at the bracket. A part of the elastic member is disposed inside of the columnar brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Minebea Mitsumi Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Umehara, Atsushi Omura, Kazuaki Sato
  • Patent number: 11901655
    Abstract: A pin terminal includes a bar-like base material and a plating layer covering a predetermined region of the base material. A constituent material of the base material is pure copper or a copper alloy. The plating layer includes a tin-based layer made of metal containing tin. One end side of the base material includes a tip covering portion covering an entire region in a circumferential direction of the base material. The tin-based layer includes the tip covering portion. The tip covering portion includes a thin film portion and a thick film portion at positions different in the circumferential direction of the base material. The thin film portion is provided in contact with the base material. The number of whiskers present on a surface of the thin film portion is 15 or less in a square visual field having one side length of 0.35 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Sato, Akihiro Kato, Mitsuhiro Kumondai, Yoshifumi Saka
  • Patent number: 11887825
    Abstract: A method of controlling a scanning-type plasma processing apparatus using a phased array antenna, includes observing light emission of plasma generated inside a processing container through observation windows provided at multiple positions in the processing container, calculating an in-plane distribution of values representing characteristics of the plasma on a substrate, based on data on the observed light emission of the plasma, and correcting a scanning pattern and/or a plasma density distribution of the plasma based on the calculated in-plane distribution of the values representing the characteristics of the plasma on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Mikio Sato, Eiki Kamata, Taro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11866536
    Abstract: A copper-clad laminate includes an insulating layer formed of a cured product of a resin composition and a surface treated copper foil in contact with the insulating layer, in which the resin composition contains a compound having at least one group specified in the present application and a crosslinking type curing agent; and the surface treated copper foil is a surface treated copper foil including a finely roughened particle treatment layer of copper on at least one surface side of copper foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kitai, Masashi Koda, Yasunori Hoshino, Atsushi Wada, Mikio Sato
  • Patent number: 11820105
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a prepreg including a resin composition or a semi-cured product of the resin composition and a fibrous base material, in which the resin composition contains a modified polyphenylene ether compound terminally modified with a substituent having an unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond, and a crosslinkable curing agent having an unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond in a molecule, the fibrous base material is quartz glass cloth, the prepreg contains a silane coupling agent having an unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond in a molecule, in an amount of 0.01% by mass or more and less than 3% by mass with respect to the prepreg, and a cured product of the prepreg has a dielectric loss tangent of 0.002 or less at 10 GHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Sato, Hiroaki Fujiwara, Yuki Kitai, Masashi Koda, Yasunori Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11749511
    Abstract: A plasma observation system includes a plasma processing apparatus which includes a processing container in which a substrate is processed with plasma, and a plurality of observation windows each capable of observing an emission state of the plasma in the processing container; and a measuring device including a light receiver configured to receive a plurality of light beams intersecting in the processing container through a plurality of observation windows, and a controller configured to specify an observation point of the plasma and determine a state of the plasma at the observation point based on the plurality of light beams received by the light receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Ryoji Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Miyashita, Mikio Sato
  • Publication number: 20230272213
    Abstract: A resin composition includes: a polyphenylene ether compound having at least one of groups expressed by formulas (1) and (2), a curing agent reactable with the polyphenylene ether compound, a styrene-based polymer having structural units expressed by formulas (3) and (4); and an inorganic filler containing boron nitride, wherein a content of the inorganic filler is 100 to 320 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of a total of the polyphenylene ether compound, the curing agent, and the styrene-based polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori HOSHINO, Yuki KITAI, Mikio SATO
  • Publication number: 20230257578
    Abstract: A resin composition includes: a polyphenylene ether compound; a curing agent reactable with the polyphenylene ether compound; and an inorganic filler including a boron nitride filler, wherein a particle size distribution of the inorganic filler, which is measured by a laser diffraction-based particle size distribution measuring method, has at least two peaks in a particle diameter range of 0.8 to 30.0 ?m, the peaks including at least one peak in a particle diameter range of 0.8 to 5.0 ?m and at least one peak in a particle diameter range of 5.0 to 30.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio SATO, Yuki KITAI, Yasunori HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 11721528
    Abstract: There is provided a plasma processing apparatus including: a processing container; a first electrode provided inside the processing container and connected to a high-frequency power supply; a second electrode provided inside the processing container to face the first electrode, the second electrode being grounded; and a film thickness calculator connected to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode and configured to calculate a thickness of a film deposited on the at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Taro Ikeda, Mikio Sato, Eiki Kamata
  • Patent number: 11705310
    Abstract: A plasma probe device includes: an antenna installed in an opening portion formed in a wall of a processing container via a seal member that seals between a vacuum space and an atmospheric space; and a light transmission portion installed inside the antenna or forming at least a portion of the antenna, and configured to transmit emission of plasma generated in the vacuum space to the atmospheric space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Taro Ikeda, Mikio Sato, Eiki Kamata
  • Patent number: 11600475
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a main container, one or more radio frequency antennas, a plurality of metal windows, and a plasma detector. The one or more radio frequency antennas are configured to generate inductively coupled plasma in a plasma generation region in the main container. The metal windows are disposed between the plasma generation region and the radio frequency antennas while being insulated from each other and from the main container. Further, a plasma detector is connected to each of the metal windows and configured to detect a plasma state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Taro Ikeda, Mikio Sato, Eiki Kamata
  • Publication number: 20230066120
    Abstract: Measuring a plasma state using a probe device in the case of performing plasma processing on a substrate by introducing process gas into a processing container accommodating the substrate and by producing pulsed plasma using an electromagnetic wave pulse obtained by processing an electromagnetic wave generated from an electromagnetic wave oscillator using a pulsing device. An AC voltage to the pulsed plasma is applied via the probe device; transmitting a signal from the pulsed plasma based on the AC voltage via the probe device and measuring data including a current value; and obtaining a state of the pulsed plasma by analyzing the measured data. The frequency of the AC voltage deviates from a frequency of the electromagnetic wave pulse so that the number of data required for the measurement of the pulsed plasma within one cycle of the electromagnetic wave pulse is obtained within allowable time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Eiki KAMATA, Mikio SATO, Taro IKEDA, Mitsutoshi ASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220389189
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a resin composition, which contains a polyphenylene ether compound, a curing agent, boron nitride, and an inorganic filler other than the boron nitride, in which the content of boron nitride is 15 to 70 parts by volume with respect to 100 parts by volume of the sum of the polyphenylene ether compound and the curing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio SATO, Yuki KITAI, Yasunori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20220393375
    Abstract: A pin terminal includes a bar-like base material and a plating layer covering a predetermined region of the base material. A constituent material of the base material is pure copper or a copper alloy. The plating layer includes a tin-based layer made of metal containing tin. One end side of the base material includes a tip covering portion covering an entire region in a circumferential direction of the base material. The tin-based layer includes the tip covering portion. The tip covering portion includes a thin film portion and a thick film portion at positions different in the circumferential direction of the base material. The thin film portion is provided in contact with the base material. The number of whiskers present on a surface of the thin film portion is 15 or less in a square visual field having one side length of 0.35 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Mikio SATO, Akihiro KATO, Mitsuhiro KUMONDAI, Yoshifumi SAKA
  • Patent number: 11476088
    Abstract: An array antenna radiates an electromagnetic wave into a chamber of a plasma processing apparatus. The array antenna includes antennas and coupling prevention elements arranged at intervals between the antennas. Each of the coupling prevention elements includes a first member connected to a ceiling wall which is a ground surface in the chamber and a second member connected to a tip end of the first member or a vicinity of the tip end of the first member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Eiki Kamata, Taro Ikeda, Mikio Sato, Nobuhiko Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220277935
    Abstract: A microwave plasma processing apparatus includes a microwave supply part configured to supply a microwave; a microwave emission member provided on a ceiling of a process chamber and configured to emit the microwave supplied from the microwave supply part; and a microwave transmission member configured to close an opening provided in the ceiling and made of a dielectric substance that transmits the microwave transmitted to a slot antenna. The ceiling has at least two recesses provided on an outer side of the opening, each of the at least two recesses having a depth different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Taro IKEDA, Tomohito KOMATSU, Eiki KAMATA, Mikio SATO
  • Patent number: 11410835
    Abstract: A plasma density monitor for monitoring a plasma density of surface wave plasma in a chamber accommodating a substrate and performs a plasma process on the substrate. The monitor includes: a monopole antenna installed to extend from a wall of the chamber toward an interior of the chamber and to be perpendicular to an inner wall surface of the chamber, and configured to receive a surface wave; a coaxial line configured to extract a detection value from a signal received by the monopole antenna; a length adjuster configured to adjust a length of the monopole antenna; and a controller configured to control the length adjuster so as to obtain a wavelength of the surface wave and the plasma density of the surface wave plasma from the wavelength of the surface wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Taro Ikeda, Eiki Kamata, Mikio Sato
  • Patent number: 11401393
    Abstract: A prepreg includes a resin composition or a semi-cured product of the resin composition, and a glass cloth, wherein the resin composition contains a modified polyphenylene ether compound terminally modified with a substituent having an unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond, and a crosslinkable curing agent having an unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond in a molecule, a content of the modified polyphenylene ether compound is 40 to 90 mass % with respect to a total mass of the modified polyphenylene ether compound and the crosslinkable curing agent, a cured product of the resin composition has a relative permittivity of 2.6 to 3.8, the glass cloth has a relative permittivity of 4.7 or less and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.0033 or less, and a cured product of the prepreg has a relative permittivity of 2.7 to 3.8 and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.002 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kitai, Mikio Sato, Yasunori Hoshino, Masashi Koda, Takayoshi Ozeki, Hiroaki Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20220220272
    Abstract: A copper clad laminate includes: an insulating layer containing a cured product of a resin composition; and a surface treated copper foil on one surface or both surfaces of the insulating layer, the resin composition containing a polymer, and the surface treated copper foil including a finely roughened particle treatment layer of copper on at least one surface side of a copper foil, the finely roughened particle treatment layer being formed of fine copper particles having a particle size of 40 to 200 nm, a heat resistance treatment layer containing nickel provided on the finely roughened particle treatment layer, a rust prevention treatment layer containing at least chromium provided on the heat resistance treatment layer, a silane coupling agent layer provided on the rust prevention treatment layer, and an amount of nickel attached in the heat resistance treatment layer being 30 to 60 mg/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki KITAI, Masashi KODA, Yasunori HOSHINO, Atsushi WADA, Mikio SATO