Patents by Inventor Satoshi Okamoto
Satoshi Okamoto 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).
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Patent number: 11339261Abstract: A prepreg contains: a reinforcing fiber material; and a resin composition with which the reinforcing fiber material is impregnated. The resin composition contains an epoxy resin, an amine curing agent, and an imidazole curing agent. An amount of the amine curing agent is less than or equal to 3.8 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of the epoxy resin, and a sum of the amount of the amine curing agent and an amount of the imidazole curing agent is less than or equal to 10 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of the epoxy resin. The fiber-reinforced composite material is a cured product of the prepreg.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Takuya Teranishi, Satoshi Okamoto, Akira Oota, Masahiro Ichino
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Publication number: 20210354767Abstract: An airflow deflector for a vehicle includes: an exterior surface and at least one airflow deflector area in a portion on a vehicle rear side of the exterior surface. The airflow deflector area includes a slanted side that is slanted in a manner to extend to a vehicle lower side as extending to the vehicle rear side and an airflow deflector surface that extends in a vehicle vertical direction from the slanted section toward the exterior surface. An extending direction of a side of the airflow deflector surface, which serves as a boundary between the airflow deflector surface and a surface of the cover, is oriented inward or outward in a vehicle width direction with respect to a vehicle longitudinal direction. The airflow deflector surface is tilted inward or outward in the vehicle width direction with respect to the surface of the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Yosuke MORIKAWA, Akihiro NAKATA, Satoshi OKAMOTO, Yuya KAWAZU
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Publication number: 20210309175Abstract: A front vehicle-body structure flows air from the vehicle lower side to its upper side. After hitting a front bumper face, the air is separated and flows around and along a top face of an exterior member, ensuring aerodynamic performance. Embodiments include exterior members covering the upper side of an engine room, and a front grille disposed on a lower side relative to a front end portion of the exterior member. A rectification member extends the width of the exterior member in the vehicle width direction on the lower side of the exterior member front end portion. The rectification member includes a front piece portion extending toward the vehicle up-down-direction lower side from the exterior member to an upper end portion of the front grille, and a lower piece portion extending toward the vehicle rear side from an upper end of the front piece portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Michiya MIZOKANE, Yuki IKAWA, Masayoshi ENOMOTO, Yoshiatsu KUGA, Satoshi OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11084544Abstract: Deflector are disposed below, in a vertical direction of a vehicle body, right and left ends of a front bumper to suppress flowing of traveling air from the from side into wheel houses. Splash shields are disposed between a pair of front side frames and a sub-frame to suppress flowing of the air from an engine room into the wheel houses. Ducts are provided at right and left ends of the front bumper. Each of the ducts includes an intake port that takes in the traveling air from the front side, and a discharge port that discharges the traveling air taken in from the intake port into the wheel houses.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Shuhei Nishida, Michiya Mizokane, Satoshi Okamoto
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Publication number: 20210152721Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit configured to change a charge accumulation time for each area, a histogram calculation unit configured to calculate a histogram of a pixel value for the each area, an area increase/decrease unit configured to increase or decrease the number of divisions of the area based on the histogram calculated by the histogram calculation unit, and a determination unit configured to determine a charge accumulation time of the each area of which number has been increased or decreased by the area increase/decrease unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventor: Satoshi Okamoto
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Publication number: 20210114810Abstract: A robot system includes a robot control device to link a plurality of transport robots having a function of traveling with a package being loaded. A task acquisition unit acquires a task to be performed. A notification unit notifies the transport robot of action details which are assigned regarding the task. The transport robot takes an action in link with another transport robot according to the notified action details.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohito MATSUOKA, Nobuyuki TOMATSU, Yasutaka ETOU, Masanobu OHMI, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Seiichi TSUNODA, Keima FUKUNAGA, Takuya WATABE, Makoto KAKUCHI, Kunihiro IWAMOTO, Daisuke SATO, Shunji INOUE, Kenta MIYAHARA, Satoshi OKAMOTO, Jiro GOTO, Terumi UKAI, Tetsuya TAIRA, Daisaku HONDA, Masato ENDO, Takashi HAYASHI, Suguru WATANABE, Yohei TANIGAWA
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Publication number: 20210114226Abstract: A product conveyance robot includes: a travel portion configured to travel on a road surface; a holding portion provided above the travel portion and configured to hold a product, the holding portion being provided rotatably around a lateral turn axis extending in the height direction of the holding portion; and a controller configured to control driving of the travel portion and a rotation angle of the holding portion around the lateral turn axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Zixun Mei, Satoshi Okamoto, Takuya Watabe, Shinya Sakurai
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Publication number: 20210107159Abstract: In a robot utilization system using a plurality of transport robots, the transport robot includes a traveling mechanism having a traveling function, a main body supported by the traveling mechanism and configured to receive products, and a specifying unit configured to specify the products received by the main body. The transport robots include a transport robot that performs a purchase process of the products received by the main body, and a transport robot that performs a return process of the products received by the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jiro Goto, Satoshi Okamoto, Terumi Ukai, Tetsuya Taira, Daisaku Honda, Masato Endo, Takashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 10934406Abstract: A prepreg tape in which reinforcing fiber bundles are impregnated with a thermosetting resin composition, wherein the prepreg tape has a tack value measured at 23° C. at a plunger push pressure of 90 kPa of 5-40 kPa, a tack value measured at 45° C. and a plunger push pressure of 150 kPa of 35-100 kPa, and a drape value at 23° C. of 10-40°, and includes unidirectional fibers arranged along the direction of length of the prepreg tape.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Satoshi Okamoto, Yukihiro Harada, Atsushi Nohara
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Patent number: 10899388Abstract: An arm cover comprises a main part and a front part. These parts are configured such that when the rear suspension takes a standard vehicle-weight position, these parts are respectively inclined rearwardly and downwardly, wherein an angle of inclination of the inclined front part is smaller than that of the inclined main part. When the rear suspension takes the standard vehicle-weight position, a front edge of the front part is located at a higher level than a bottom face portion of a under cover, and when the rear suspension takes a rebound position, the front edge of the front part is located at a position which is higher than a level of the bottom face portion of the under cover and close to a rear end portion of the under cover.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Shuhei Nishida, Yoshiatsu Kuga, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Yosuke Fukamachi, Satoshi Okamoto
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Publication number: 20210009776Abstract: A prepreg contains: a reinforcing fiber material; and a resin composition with which the reinforcing fiber material is impregnated. The resin composition contains an epoxy resin, an amine curing agent, and an imidazole curing agent. An amount of the amine curing agent is less than or equal to 3.8 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of the epoxy resin, and a sum of the amount of the amine curing agent and an amount of the imidazole curing agent is less than or equal to 10 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of the epoxy resin. The fiber-reinforced composite material is a cured product of the prepreg.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Takuya TERANISHI, Satoshi OKAMOTO, Akira OOTA, Masahiro ICHINO
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Patent number: 10889695Abstract: Provided are a tow prepreg comprising a reinforcing fiber bundle impregnated with a matrix resin composition, wherein the matrix resin composition contains a component (A) (an epoxy resin), a component (B) (dicyandiamide), a component (C) (a curing accelerator), and a component (D) (a core-shell type rubber particle), and a content of the component (D) with respect to 100 parts by mass of the component (A) is from 20 to 70 parts by mass, a viscosity is from 3 Pa·s to 80 Pa·s at 30° C., and a minimum viscosity to be obtained when a viscosity is measured by raising a temperature from room temperature to 130° C. at a rate of temperature rise of 2.0° C./min is from 0.04 Pa·s to 1 Pa·s, which exhibits excellent drape property and tackiness and less stickiness and can be unwound at a high speed; and a composite material-reinforced pressure vessel having fewer voids in a reinforcing layer which is obtainable by using the tow prepreg, a high burst pressure, and an excellent appearance due to appropriate resin flow.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Satoshi Okamoto, Yukihiro Harada
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Patent number: 10780675Abstract: This invention provides a gas barrier film, which can suppress blocking and winding deviation, and an optical film using the gas barrier film. The gas barrier film includes a flexible substrate and an inorganic thin film layer formed on at least one surface of the flexible substrate. A static friction coefficient between one surface of the gas barrier film and the other surface is not less than 0.85 and not more than 2.0, and when a 50 mm-square portion cut from the gas barrier film is placed on a horizontal surface such that a central portion of the 50 mm-square portion is in contact with the horizontal surface, an average value of distances from the horizontal surface to four corners of the 50 mm-square portion is not more than 2 mm.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Toshiyuki Ueno, Yasuhiro Yamashita, Mitsunori Nodono, Satoshi Okamoto
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Publication number: 20200123500Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a retinal pigment epithelial cell from a human pluripotent stem cell, and a method of treating or preventing a retinal disease by using the produced cell. The retinal pigment epithelial cell is prepared by (a) inducing differentiation of a human pluripotent stem cell into a pigment cell by adhesion cultivation of a human pluripotent stem cell in a medium containing a Nodal signal inhibitor and a Wnt signal inhibitor in the absence of a feeder cell to give a culture containing the pigment cell, (b) subjecting the obtained culture to further adhesion culture to give a culture containing a pigment cell colony, and (c) isolating the pigment cell from the obtained culture and culturing the cell to give a retinal pigment epithelial cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: RIKENInventors: Masayo TAKAHASHI, Satoshi OKAMOTO, Noriko SAKAI
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Publication number: 20200102026Abstract: Deflector are disposed below, in a vertical direction of a vehicle body, right and left ends of a front bumper to suppress flowing of traveling air from the from side into wheel houses. Splash shields are disposed between a pair of front side frames and a sub-frame to suppress flowing of the air from an engine room into the wheel houses. Ducts are provided at right and left ends of the front bumper. Each of the ducts includes an intake port that takes in the traveling air from the front side, and a discharge port that discharges the traveling air taken in from the intake port into the wheel houses.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Shuhei NISHIDA, Michiya MIZOKANE, Satoshi OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200045247Abstract: To provide a technology for easily determining a change in hue caused due to switching between a visible image and a combined image. In an imaging apparatus 101 capable of imaging a visible image and an infrared image, a combination unit 110 combines the visible image and the infrared image to generate a combined image. A superimposition unit 114 superimposes combination information indicating a combination ratio of the visible image to the infrared image on the combined image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Satoshi Okamoto, Tomohiro Harada
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Publication number: 20200024414Abstract: A prepreg sheet (1) is formed by stacking a plurality of unit layers (10a, 10b) In the unit layers (10a, 10b), prepreg tapes (100), in which a reinforced fiber bundle is impregnated with a thermosetting matrix resin composition, are disposed in rows a plurality of times. One or more of the unit layers (10a, 10b) has a gap (G) between adjacent prepreg tapes (100), and the width thereof is 10% or less of the width of the narrower of the adjacent prepreg tapes (100).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ichino, Kazuhisa Ikeda, Satoshi Okamoto, Yuma Furuhashi
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Patent number: 10519422Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a retinal pigment epithelial cell from a human pluripotent stem cell, and a method of treating or preventing a retinal disease by using the produced cell. The retinal pigment epithelial cell is prepared by (a) inducing differentiation of a human pluripotent stem cell into a pigment cell by adhesion cultivation of a human pluripotent stem cell in a medium containing a Nodal signal inhibitor and a Wnt signal inhibitor in the absence of a feeder cell to give a culture containing the pigment cell, (b) subjecting the obtained culture to further adhesion culture to give a culture containing a pigment cell colony, and (c) isolating the pigment cell from the obtained culture and culturing the cell to give a retinal pigment epithelial cell.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: RIKENInventors: Masayo Takahashi, Satoshi Okamoto, Noriko Sakai
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Patent number: 10509674Abstract: A software component assigning system for a vehicle includes electronic control units connected to a common network in the vehicle, one of the electronic control units being an integrated control electronic control unit which is configured to: acquire a first rank value of each of the electronic control units, the first rank value becoming higher as a probability of occurrence of a malfunction is higher; acquire a second rank value of an additional software component that is additionally arranged in any one of the electronic control units, the second rank value becoming higher as a level of importance; and decide an electronic control unit to arrange the additional software component from among the electronic control units such that the additional software component is arranged in the electronic control unit of which the first rank value is lower as the second rank value of the additional software component is higher.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Okamoto, Shogo Sekizawa, Yuta Ochiai, Kosuke Kaji
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Publication number: 20190291783Abstract: An arm cover comprises a main part and a front part. These parts are configured such that when the rear suspension takes a standard vehicle-weight position, these parts are respectively inclined rearwardly and downwardly, wherein an angle of inclination of the inclined front part is smaller than that of the inclined main part. When the rear suspension takes the standard vehicle-weight position, a front edge of the front part is located at a higher level than a bottom face portion of a under cover, and when the rear suspension takes a rebound position, the front edge of the front part is located at a position which is higher than a level of the bottom face portion of the under cover and close to a rear end portion of the under cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Shuhei NISHIDA, Yoshiatsu KUGA, Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI, Yosuke FUKAMACHI, Satoshi OKAMOTO