Patents by Inventor Satoshi Sasaki
Satoshi Sasaki 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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Publication number: 20240142890Abstract: A developing roll for use in an image-forming apparatus using electrophotography includes a cylindrical core made of metal; an annular elastic layer made of rubber and arranged around the core; and an annular surface layer arranged around the elastic layer. The surface layer includes a central portion and end portions. The central portion is located at the center of the developing roll in the longitudinal direction, the end portions are located at opposite end portions of the developing roll in the longitudinal direction. A coefficient of kinetic friction of the outer peripheral surface of each end portion of the surface layer is less than or equal to 0.1, and a ten-point average roughness Rz of the outer peripheral surface of each end portion of the surface layer is less than or equal to 1.8 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke OURA, Norimasa HOSONUMA, Atsushi IKEDA, Yu AKAI, Satoshi FUKUOKA, Kenji SASAKI
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Patent number: 11971469Abstract: A contactless switch device including a reflected signal acquisition unit that acquires a reflected signal of a Doppler radar or a distance measurement radar, an approach and recede detection unit that detects an approach and a recede of a target based on the reflected signal, a target identification unit that identifies the target as a hand waving left and right, up and down, or back and forth, or a thing other than the hand based on a repeated pattern of the approach and the recede of the target, and a switch control unit that executes on-and-off controls on a switch-controlled object based on whether the target is the hand waving left and right, up and down, or back and forth, or the thing other than the hand.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NEW JAPAN RADIO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuo Oikawa, Satoshi Sasaki
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Publication number: 20240111052Abstract: An information processing device (30) includes a signal acquisition unit (31), a passive depth estimation unit (34), and a fusion unit (35). The signal acquisition unit (31) extracts, from light reception data, active information indicating a flight time of reference light (PL) and passive information (PI) indicating two-dimensional image information of a subject (SU) obtained from ambient light (EL). The passive depth estimation unit (34) generates passive depth information (PDI) based on the passive information (PI). The fusion unit (35) fuses the passive depth information (PDI) with active depth information (ADI) generated based on the active information to generate depth information (DI) of the subject (SU).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuta SAKURAI, Toshiyuki SASAKI, Kazunori KAMIO, Satoshi KAWATA
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Patent number: 11947272Abstract: A conductive roller includes: a core member including an outer surface along and about an axial line thereof; and a surface layer arranged along the outer surface of the core member. The surface layer includes a conductive portion formed of a conductive resin composition, and a surface roughness imparting material in a form of particles dispersed in the conductive portion. An average particle size of the surface roughness imparting material is in a range of 6 micrometers or greater and 10 micrometers or less. The number of particles of the surface roughness imparting material per unit area of the surface layer is in a range of 1.0×104 particles per mm2 or greater and 2.0×106 particles per mm2 or less. An average thickness of the surface layer is in a range of 3.0 micrometers or greater and 15.0 micrometers or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Suzuki, Atsushi Ikeda, Satoshi Fukuoka, Kenji Sasaki
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Patent number: 11947273Abstract: A conductive roller includes: a core member including an outer surface along and about an axial line thereof; and a surface layer arranged along the outer surface of the core member. The surface layer includes a conductive portion, and a surface roughness imparting material in a form of particles dispersed in the conductive portion. An average particle size of the surface roughness imparting material is in a range of 6 micrometers or greater and less than 10 micrometers. The number of particles of the surface roughness imparting material per unit area of the surface layer is in a range of 3.5×105 particles per mm2 or greater and 7.5×105 particles per mm2 or less. An average thickness of the surface layer is in a range of 0.2 micrometers or greater and 5.5 micrometers or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Suzuki, Atsushi Ikeda, Satoshi Fukuoka, Kenji Sasaki
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Publication number: 20240100688Abstract: An information processing apparatus that executes a simulation by using a virtual model. The information processing apparatus includes a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to display the virtual model and an operating portion on a display unit, the operating portion being used by a user to operate the virtual model, and change setting information on the operating portion in response to input of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: SATOSHI SUGAYA, HIRONOBU SASAKI
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Publication number: 20240101923Abstract: This disclosure describes a zinc-free lubricating oil composition. The composition includes a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. in a range of about 1.5 to about 35 mm2/s and an anti-wear mixture having one or more ashless dispersants and an alkyl phosphonic acid having a structure given by wherein R is a C3-C20 hydrocarbyl group. The initial pH of the anti-wear mixture is between 5-9.5 as measured by ASTM D664.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: CHEVRON JAPAN LTD.Inventors: Masami FUCHI, Naoya SASAKI, Takahiro NAKAGAWA, Satoshi OHTA, Naoki MASUDA, Koichi KUBO
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Publication number: 20240094656Abstract: A charging roll includes a core, a rubber substrate arranged around the core, and a surface layer arranged around the rubber substrate. The surface layer includes a conductive matrix containing a base material formed of an insulator, and a conductive material dispersed in the base material, and particles of a surface roughness-imparting material dispersed in the conductive matrix. Each of the particles of the surface roughness-imparting material is formed of an insulator, is porous, and has a specific surface area of 8.7 m2/g or greater and 55 m2/g or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo SUZUKI, Atsushi IKEDA, Satoshi FUKUOKA, Kenji SASAKI
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Patent number: 11934110Abstract: A developing roll has a metal core, an elastic layer, and a surface layer. A value X is 65.6 N/mm3 or more and a value Y is 229 ?m or more. The value X is P1/(D1×A)?P2/(D2×A). P1 is the load to displace the roll 100 ?m when a metal probe is pressed against the roll. D1 is the displacement of the roll caused by the probe under the load P1. A is the area of the probe. P2 is the load to displace a material roll by 100 ?m when the probe presses against the material roll with the core and the elastic layer and without the surface layer. D2 is the displacement of the material roll caused by the probe under the load P2. The value Y is the displacement of the roll when the probe pierces the surface layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke Oura, Atsushi Ikeda, Satoshi Fukuoka, Kenji Sasaki
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Publication number: 20240085252Abstract: [Problem] To Provide a fabric-like sensor in which an output signal can be improved when in use and damage or fracture of a sensor element hardly occurs, and a fabric-like sensor device using it. Solution In a fabric-like sensor S having a fabric base material 1 and a line-shaped sensor element 2, at least one line-shaped cavity portion 11 is provided inside the fabric base material 1, and at least a part of the cavity portion 11 is composed of a raw fabric at least a part of the cavity portion has no elasticity in a line direction of the cavity portion 11, and further the line-shaped sensor element 2 is arranged in a state of not being substantially constrained or fixed in at least one of cavity portions in a fabric 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: TOHO KASEI CO., LTD., SHINDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken OGASAWARA, Satoshi SHIMIZU, Masaaki SASAKI, Manabu NAKAJIMA, Masahiro MURAO, Ken MIYAZAKI
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Patent number: 11928403Abstract: An optimization apparatus includes electronic circuits configured to perform calculating, for a plurality of annealing units to which respective states and respective, different temperatures are assigned, respective evaluation function values responsive to the respective states, and causing a transition in the states with probabilities responsive to the temperatures and the evaluation function values, exchanging the temperatures or the states between the plurality of annealing units with predetermined probabilities based on the temperatures and the evaluation function values, and changing a temperature of an annealing unit of interest, such that a probability of exchange between the annealing unit of interest and a first annealing unit situated next thereto on a lower temperature side in a sequence arranged in order of temperature approaches a probability of exchange between the annealing unit of interest and a second annealing unit situated next thereto on a higher temperature side in the sequence.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masato Sasaki, Satoshi Matsuura
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Patent number: 11927558Abstract: Provided is a microelectrode having a layered structure, including a layer containing a polymer compound having an aromatic ring (polymer compound layer) and a layer containing a conductive material (conductive layer), wherein a thickness of the polymer compound layer is 10 to 900 nm, a thickness of the conductive layer is 0.3 to 10 nm, and the microelectrode has a three-dimensional curved shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Tetsuhiko Teshima, Yuko Ueno, Yui Ogawa, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Satoshi Sasaki, Shengnan Wang, Makoto Takamura, Hiroshi Nakashima
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Publication number: 20240074320Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric body and first, second, third, and fourth electrode layers disposed in the piezoelectric body. Each of the first, second, third, and fourth electrode layers includes a pair of first electrodes and a pair of second electrodes. The first and second electrodes included in the first electrode layer oppose the second and first electrodes included in the second electrode layer, respectively, with a part of the piezoelectric body. The first and second electrodes included in the second electrode layer oppose the first and second electrodes included in the third electrode layer, respectively, with a part of the piezoelectric body. The first and second electrodes included in the third electrode layer oppose the second and first electrodes included in the fourth electrode layer, respectively, with a part of the piezoelectric body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shuto ONO, Satoshi SASAKI, Yasuyuki SATOH, Keiji OGUCHI
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Patent number: 11917840Abstract: A novel light-emitting device with high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting device with a high blue index (BI) is provided. A light-emitting device with low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting device including a first electrode and a second electrode which are a reflective electrode and a semi-transmissive and semi-reflective electrode, and an EL layer sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode, where the EL layer contains an emission center substance, where when the emission center substance in the EL layer includes only one kind of substance, photon energy of a peak wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting device is designed from an average value of photon energy of light emitted by the emission center substance in a solution state and emission edge energy on a short wavelength side of an emission spectrum of the emission center substance in the solution state.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki Sasaki, Ryohei Yamaoka, Shiho Nomura
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Patent number: 11917882Abstract: A light-emitting device, an electronic device, or a lighting device with low power consumption and high reliability is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, a third light-emitting element, and a fourth light-emitting element. The first to fourth light-emitting elements include the same EL layer between an anode and a cathode. The EL layer includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer contains a fluorescent substance. The peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of the fluorescent substance in a toluene solution of the fluorescent substance is 440 nm to 460 nm, preferably 440 nm to 455 nm. The second light-emitting layer contains a phosphorescent substance. The first light-emitting element exhibits blue emission. The second light-emitting element exhibits green emission. The third light-emitting element exhibits red emission.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki Sasaki, Tsunenori Suzuki, Sachiko Kawakami, Naoaki Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20230416665Abstract: A three-dimensional structure including a polymer film having a plurality of layers, wherein a microparticle is encapsulated in an internal space of the three-dimensional structure and each layer of the polymer film having the plurality of layers has mechanical strengths different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuhiko TESHIMA, Yuko UENO, Satoshi SASAKI, Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Touichiro GOTO
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Publication number: 20230396408Abstract: A mapping unit that modulates a transmission bit sequence to generate a modulated symbol sequence, a known sequence mapping unit that modulates a known bit sequence to generate a known symbol sequence, a selection unit that selects one of the modulated symbol sequence or the known symbol sequence and outputs the selected one as a transmission symbol sequence, and a DSTBC encoder that performs differential space-time block coding on the transmission symbol sequence are included. The known sequence mapping unit generates the known symbol sequence so that a matrix obtained by differential space-time block coding performed by the DSTBC encoder is a matrix with two rows and two columns that includes 0 in the first row and the first column, ?1 in the second row and the first column, 1 in the first row and the second column, and 0 in the second row and the second column.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi SASAKI, Akinori NAKAJIMA
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Publication number: 20230292159Abstract: The local 5G monitoring system includes a measuring device that measures radio waves from a base station of a local 5G system, wireless terminals, a first server device that belongs to the same wireless local area network (wireless LAN) as the measuring device and the wireless terminals, collects measurement data from the wireless terminals, belongs to the same local area network (LAN) as the measuring device, and is connected to the Internet, and a second server device that is connected to the first server device via the Internet, and is configured to be referred to by a user, in which the first server device uses the measurement data when installation of the local 5G system is completed, as reference information, and determines and notifies the user that an abnormal state occurs, when the measurement data during an operation of the local 5G system exceeds a threshold from the reference information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Mitsuhiro USUBA, Atsushi FURUKI, Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA, Satoshi SASAKI
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Publication number: 20230291666Abstract: The local 5G monitoring system includes measuring devices that measure radio waves from a base station of the local 5G system, and a server device that belongs to the same local area network (LAN) as the measuring devices, or is connected to the Internet, and collects measurement data from the measuring devices, in which the server device generates, based on the measurement data measured by the measuring devices at predetermined time intervals, a heat map showing a distribution of states of the measurement data, and displays the heat map at a time designated by a user, from the generated heat map.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Mitsuhiro USUBA, Atsushi FURUKI, Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA, Satoshi SASAKI
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Publication number: 20230292160Abstract: The local 5G monitoring system includes measuring devices that measure radio waves from a base station of the local 5G system, a first server device that belongs to the same local area network (LAN) as the measuring devices, and collects measurement data from the measuring devices, and a second server device that is connected to the first server device via the Internet, and is configured to be referred to by a user, in which the first server device uses the measurement data from the measuring devices when installation of the local 5G system is completed, as reference information, and determines and notifies the user that an abnormal state occurs, when the measurement data from the measuring devices during an operation of the local 5G system exceeds a threshold from the reference information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Mitsuhiro USUBA, Atsushi FURUKI, Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA, Satoshi SASAKI