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).

  • Patent number: 12366283
    Abstract: A speed reducer includes: ring-shaped external gear including outer teeth and through holes arranged circumferentially; input shaft penetrating space surrounded by an external gear inner circumferential surface; bearing between the external gear and input shaft; ring-shaped internal gear surrounding an external gear outer circumferential surface; inner pins penetrating the through holes axially; and inner pin holder holding both ends of each inner pin. The inner pin holder includes: first holder portion including a ring-shaped holding portion holding a first end of each inner pin; second holder portion including a ring-shaped holding portion holding a second end of each inner pin; and pillars connecting the first and second holder portion and penetrating the through holes. The speed reducer further includes fixing members that fix pillar end surfaces to the first holder portion or the second holder portion and are inserted in the pillars from the end surfaces of the pillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20250137487
    Abstract: A bearing includes a first raceway member having an annular first raceway surface on an outer circumferential surface thereof, a second raceway member having an annular second raceway surface facing the first raceway surface on an inner circumferential surface thereof, and a plurality of rolling elements arranged in an annular rolling path along the first and second raceway surfaces so as to contact the first and second raceway surfaces. At least one of the first and second raceway members has a rolling element feed port formed as an opening of the rolling path. The bearing further includes a lid member disposed at the rolling element feed port, and a fixing member inserted into a first hole, formed in the lid member, and a second hole, formed in the at least one member to communicate with the first hole, to extend in a direction crossing an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20250132409
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a protective film for solid-state batteries, which is a protective film arranged to cover a heat seal part of a solid-state battery including a battery element having a solid electrolyte, a packaging material housing the battery element, the heat seal part being disposed to a peripheral portion of the packaging material, and which contains a hydrogen sulfide adsorbent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Satoshi SASAKI, Koji Murata
  • Publication number: 20250092937
    Abstract: A speed reducer includes: ring-shaped external gear including outer teeth and through holes arranged circumferentially; input shaft penetrating space surrounded by an external gear inner circumferential surface; bearing between the external gear and input shaft; ring-shaped internal gear surrounding an external gear outer circumferential surface; inner pins penetrating the through holes axially; and inner pin holder holding both ends of each inner pin. The inner pin holder includes: first holder portion including a ring-shaped holding portion holding a first end of each inner pin; second holder portion including a ring-shaped holding portion holding a second end of each inner pin; and pillars connecting the first and second holder portion and penetrating the through holes. The speed reducer further includes fixing members that fix pillar end surfaces to the first holder portion or the second holder portion and are inserted in the pillars from the end surfaces of the pillars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20250012319
    Abstract: A bearing includes: a first raceway member whose outer peripheral surface includes annular first raceway surface; a second raceway member whose inner peripheral surface includes annular second raceway surface facing first raceway surface; a plurality of cylindrical rollers arranged in circumferential direction such that cylindrical rollers contact first and second raceway surfaces in annular rolling path along first raceway surface and second raceway surface; and a separator adjacent to cylindrical rollers in the circumferential direction. The separator has cylindrical shape. An outer peripheral surface of the separator having annular groove defined by groove wall surface, a shape of groove wall surface in cross section including a center axis being arc shape. The separator being oriented such that groove wall surface contacts outer peripheral surfaces of cylindrical rollers adjacent to separator in circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20250010894
    Abstract: A straight-curved guide device including a rail and a movable element. The movable element includes a frame and first and a second swing portions. The swing portions are configured to be pivotable about connecting portions to the frame. Each swing portion includes an arm portion and first and second bearing portions. The first bearing portion includes first and second track members, and a plurality of first rolling elements. The second bearing portion includes third and fourth track members, and a plurality of second rolling elements. The straight-curved guide device further includes an elastic member, which is arranged across a space between the arm portions of the swing portions and is in a compressed state in which the elastic member is compressed in a longitudinal direction of the rail or a stretched state in which the elastic member is stretched in the longitudinal direction of the rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20250012321
    Abstract: A straight-curved guide device includes a rail and a movable element. The movable element includes a frame, a first swing portion, and a second swing portion. Each of the first swing portion and the second swing portion includes an arm portion, a first bearing portion, and a second bearing portion. The first bearing portion includes a first track member, a second track member, a third track member, a plurality of first rolling elements, and a plurality of second rolling elements. The second bearing portion includes a fourth track member, a fifth track member, and third rolling elements. The second track member of each of the first swing portion and the second swing portion is connected to the frame, and the second bearing portion of each of the first swing portion and the second swing portion is separate from the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240405513
    Abstract: A nanowire laser includes a nanowire on a substrate and a one-dimensional photonic crystals on ends the nanowire. The nanowire is disposed on a substrate. The nanowire has an elliptical cross-sectional shape with a longitudinal direction parallel to a plane of the substrate. The one-dimensional photonic crystals are separated from each other to form a resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Masato Takiguchi, Masaya Notomi, Satoshi Sasaki, Guoqiang Zhang, Kota Tateno, Hisashi Sumikura, Akihiko Shinya
  • Publication number: 20240399179
    Abstract: A first layered product for extinguishing fire, including: a pair of substrates; and a fire-extinguishing agent-containing layer between the pair of substrates, the layer containing a fire-extinguishing agent component generating an aerosol, and a binder resin, in which a water vapor transmission rate the substrate is 12 g/m2/day or less, a second layered product, including: a fiber layer containing an organic fiber or an inorganic fiber having a high strength-heat resistance; and a resin layer, in which at least any one of the fiber layer and the resin layer contains a fire-extinguishing agent component generating an aerosol, or a third layered product, including: a pair of substrates; and a fire-extinguishing agent-containing layer between the pair of substrates, the layer containing a fire-extinguishing agent component generating an aerosol, and a binder resin, in which a water vapor transmission rate of the substrate is 15 g/m2/day or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicants: TOPPAN Holdings Inc., YAMATO PROTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi SASAKI, Masato KUROKAWA, Junya TANABE, Ryo SHODA, Ryohei TODE, Hiroyoshi NISHIYAMA, Shougo TOMIYAMA, Akimasa TSUTSUMI
  • Patent number: 12155012
    Abstract: A nanowire optical device includes: a photonic crystal body having a planar shape and provided on a base part; an optical waveguide by a line defect in which a plurality of defects including a part without grating elements of the photonic crystal body are linearly arrayed; a trench formed in a waveguide direction in the optical waveguide; a nanowire made of a semiconductor and arranged in the trench; an n-type region formed on one end side of the nanowire; a p-type region formed on the other end side of the nanowire; an active region provided to be interposed between the n-type region and the p-type region in the nanowire; a first electrode connected to the n-type region; and a second electrode connected to the p-type region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Takiguchi, Masaya Notomi, Satoshi Sasaki, Kota Tateno, Atsushi Yokoo, Guoqiang Zhang, Sergent Sylvain, Akihiko Shinya
  • Publication number: 20240352964
    Abstract: A straight-curved guide rail includes a straight part and a curved part and is configured to guide movement of a movable element. The straight-curved guide rail includes: a base part extending in a longitudinal direction of the straight-curved guide rail; and a track part, which is formed on the base part, extends in the longitudinal direction, and has a pair of rail ends, each including a track surface to be in contact with the movable element, on both side portions of the straight-curved guide rail in a width direction of the straight-curved guide rail. A region of the straight-curved guide rail, which includes an end portion of the straight-curved guide rail in the longitudinal direction, includes a low-stiffness region in which portions including the track surfaces have lower stiffness than stiffness of other region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi SASAKI, Daisuke SATO, Yuichi SHIBUYA
  • Patent number: 12044294
    Abstract: A speed reducer includes: ring-shaped external gear including outer teeth, first through hole and multiple second through holes circumferentially surrounding the first; input shaft penetrating the first through hole; first bearing holding the input shaft rotatable to the external gear circumferentially; multiple inner pins penetrating the second through holes axially; inner pin holder surrounding the input shaft outer circumferential surface; second bearing surrounding the external gear outer circumferential surface; and internal tooth pins meshing with outer teeth. The second bearing includes an inner pin holder outer ring, inner ring inside the outer ring radially and output shaft rotating slower than the input shaft, a roller contacting an outer ring inner circumferential surface and an inner ring outer circumferential surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240191784
    Abstract: A speed reducer includes: ring-shaped external gear including outer teeth, first through hole and multiple second through holes circumferentially surrounding the first; input shaft penetrating the first through hole; first bearing holding the input shaft rotatable to the external gear circumferentially; multiple inner pins penetrating the second through holes axially; inner pin holder surrounding the input shaft outer circumferential surface; second bearing surrounding the external gear outer circumferential surface; and internal tooth pins meshing with outer teeth. The second bearing includes an inner pin holder outer ring, inner ring inside the outer ring radially and output shaft rotating slower than the input shaft, a roller contacting an outer ring inner circumferential surface and an inner ring outer circumferential surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11971469
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NEW JAPAN RADIO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Oikawa, Satoshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11927558
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhiko Teshima, Yuko Ueno, Yui Ogawa, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Satoshi Sasaki, Shengnan Wang, Makoto Takamura, Hiroshi Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20240074320
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuto ONO, Satoshi SASAKI, Yasuyuki SATOH, Keiji OGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230416665
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuhiko TESHIMA, Yuko UENO, Satoshi SASAKI, Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Touichiro GOTO
  • Publication number: 20230396408
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi SASAKI, Akinori NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230292159
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro USUBA, Atsushi FURUKI, Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA, Satoshi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230291666
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro USUBA, Atsushi FURUKI, Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA, Satoshi SASAKI