Patents by Inventor Seiji Sato

Seiji 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: 20240145465
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is preferably excellent in characteristics such as a loss characteristic. Provided is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, including an upper-surface electrode provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate; an lower-surface electrode provided on a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate; a transistor portion provided in the semiconductor substrate and connected to the upper-surface electrode and the lower-surface electrode; a first diode portion provided in the semiconductor substrate and connected to the upper-surface electrode and the lower-surface electrode; and a second diode portion provided in the semiconductor substrate and connected to the upper-surface electrode and the lower-surface electrode, wherein the first diode portion and the second diode portion have different resistivities in a depth direction of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Shigeki SATO, Seiji MOMOTA, Tadashi MIYASAKA
  • Patent number: 11962731
    Abstract: A light emitting component includes: a first light emitting element row including light emitting elements arranged in a main scanning direction; and a second light emitting element row including light emitting elements arranged in the main scanning direction such that the second light emitting element row is deviated from the first light emitting element row in a sub scanning direction and each of the light emitting elements in the second light emitting element row is positioned between light emitting elements adjacent to each other in the first light emitting element row, and a light emitting point area that is an area where each light emitting element of the first light emitting element row emits light, and a light emitting point area that is an area where each light emitting element of the second light emitting element row emits light are overlapped with each other in the main scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yusuke Niisaka, Masaki Sato, Seiji Ono
  • Patent number: 11937263
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus and a method for communicating with a base station apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling and a first DCI format addressed to a Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI); determining a first priority of a first uplink grant based on a priority field in the RRC signaling; and transmitting a first Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) scheduled by the first uplink grant and a second PUSCH scheduled by a second uplink grant. The first uplink grant is a configured uplink grant notified by the RRC signaling. The second uplink grant is notified by the first DCI format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Jungo Goto, Osamu Nakamura, Seiji Sato, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11796191
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heat exchanger and an air conditioner including the same. The heat exchanger may be provided for heat exchange between refrigerant and air. The heat exchanger may include a plurality of refrigerant tubes that are disposed with a clearance (C) therebetween in a first direction (A), in which the air moves, and are disposed to be spaced apart in a second direction (B) crossing the first direction (A) and a plurality of heat exchange fins that are disposed between the plurality of refrigerant tubes disposed to be spaced apart in the second direction (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Mu Lee, Hyun Young Kim, Seiji Sato
  • Patent number: 11705400
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes: a first substrate; a semiconductor chip mounted on the first substrate such that a circuit formation surface is oriented toward the first substrate; a second substrate arranged above the first substrate, the semiconductor chip being sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a resin that seals the semiconductor chip and that is filled between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the second substrate includes a solder resist layer having a first surface facing a back surface that is an opposite surface of the circuit formation surface of the semiconductor chip, and wherein on an area of the first surface of the solder resist layer facing the back surface of the semiconductor chip, at least one protruding portion that protrudes towards the back surface of the semiconductor chip is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seiji Sato
  • Publication number: 20230199967
    Abstract: An embedded printed circuit board includes a first substrate, a semiconductor chip mounted on the first substrate, a second substrate provided on the first substrate via the semiconductor chip so that the semiconductor chip is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first resin filled between the semiconductor chip and the first substrate and having a cladding portion covering a side surface of the semiconductor chip, and a second resin filled between the first substrate and the second substrate and encapsulating the semiconductor chip and the first resin. The first resin includes a protrusion protruding from the cladding portion toward the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Seiji SATO
  • Patent number: 11601950
    Abstract: A state managing unit configured to control a prescribed communication resource allocating process and a reception processing unit configured to receive a control element (CE) are included. The prescribed communication resource allocating process is a process of allocating a communication resource at a predetermined time interval, and the state managing unit suspends an uplink grant configured for the prescribed communication resource allocating process in a case that the reception processing unit receives an SCell Activation/Deactivation MAC CE for deactivating a secondary cell, or an sCellDeactivationTimer configured for the secondary cell expires, and the state managing unit reinitializes the uplink grant suspended, in a case that the reception processing unit receives the SCell Activation/Deactivation MAC CE for activating the secondary cell after the state managing unit suspends the uplink grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Seiji Sato, Jungo Goto, Osamu Nakamura, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 11582437
    Abstract: A camera system includes: a first camera and a second camera; a camera adaptor box; and a camera control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kamiya, Seiji Sato, Tomoyasu Katsuyama
  • Publication number: 20220369362
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus and a method for communicating with a base station apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling and a first DCI format addressed to a Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI); determining a first priority of a first uplink grant based on a priority field in the RRC signaling; and transmitting a first Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) scheduled by the first uplink grant and a second PUSCH scheduled by a second uplink grant. The first uplink grant is a configured uplink grant notified by the RRC signaling. The second uplink grant is notified by the first DCI format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: JUNGO GOTO, OSAMU NAKAMURA, SEIJI SATO, YASUHIRO HAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11445540
    Abstract: To provide a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication method capable of ensuring high reliability and low latency of URLLC. There are included a receiver configured to detect first and second DCI formats and RRC information, and a transmitter capable of data transmission based on any of a first uplink grant to be available via activation by using a radio resource periodicity included in the RRC information and the first DCI format, a second uplink grant to be available via activation by using the radio resource periodicity included in the RRC information and the second DCI format, and a third uplink grant to be available after detection of the second DCI format, wherein multiple DCI formats are detected, the transmitter performs an override, in a case that the third uplink grant overlaps in a time domain with the second uplink grant, and performs an override, in a case that the first uplink grant overlaps in a time domain with the third uplink grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Jungo Goto, Osamu Nakamura, Seiji Sato, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220205650
    Abstract: The centrifugal fan includes a base plate connected to a rotating shaft of a motor, a plurality of blades joined to a surface of the base plate, and a ring-shaped shroud joined to the plurality of blades to face the base plate. The blade is provided in such a way that a length of one end joint portion joined to the base plate is greater than a length of another end joint portion joined to the shroud, and with respect to a plane perpendicular to a rotation axis, an angle between a first straight line, which connects a leading edge position and a trailing edge position of the one end joint portion, and a straight line passing through a center point of the first straight line and a rotation center is less than an angle between a second straight line, which connects a leading edge position and a trailing edge position of the other end joint portion, and a straight line passing through a center point of the second straight line and the rotation center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji SATO, Shinji GOTO, Nozomu INOUE
  • Patent number: 11324071
    Abstract: There is a concern that communication failure may occur in a case that the state of a serving cell is not properly managed during communication of SPS or GF. A mobile station apparatus of a communication system including at least a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus configured to perform communication by using carrier aggregation that simultaneously uses multiple serving cells configured by the base station apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, wherein the mobile station apparatus restarts a deactivation timer of a serving cell of the multiple serving cells at a timing indicated by a configured uplink grant configured for the serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Seiji Sato, Jungo Gotoh, Osamu Nakamura, Shohei Yamada, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11324034
    Abstract: In a case that multiple configured uplink grants are configured in a single serving cell, there is a problem that normal communication cannot be performed unless appropriate control is performed to prevent transmissions in a radio resource (slot) of the same timing. A mobile station apparatus in a communication system including at least a base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus for which the base station apparatus allocates a normal uplink and a supplementary uplink in a single serving cell, wherein the mobile communication apparatus is configured to configure a configured uplink grant individually for each of the normal uplink and the supplementary uplink, and validate, in a case that the serving cell is activated, one of the configured uplink grant configured for the normal uplink and the configured uplink grant configured for the supplementary uplink and suspend another one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Seiji Sato, Jungo Gotoh, Osamu Nakamura, Shohei Yamada, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11293701
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a heat exchanger including a corrugated fin and an air conditioner including the same. The corrugated fin includes a through hole through which a heat transfer tube passes, a corrugated portion formed in a zigzag shape in the first direction corresponding to an air flow direction and a flat portion provided in the plane adjacent to the through hole, and the flat portion has a first length in the first direction corresponding to an air flow direction, and a second length shorter than the first length in a second direction perpendicular to the air flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Young Kim, Seiji Sato, Sang Mu Lee
  • Publication number: 20220095099
    Abstract: In a case in which a plurality of mobile station apparatuses to which a plurality of sub-devices are connected through Ethernet (registered trade name) are connected to a base station apparatus, efficient communication needs to be performed through an appropriate routing process. A base station apparatus of a communication system including at least the base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus, the base station apparatus including a controller configured to control a core net interface unit, a PDCP layer configured to handle a PDCP-PDU, and an RRC layer configured to perform radio resource control, in which the PDCP-PDU is able to use at least an IP packet or an Ethernet (registered trade name) frame, and in a case that the controller is configured such that the PDCP-PDU uses the Ethernet (registered trade name) frame, the base station apparatus receives, from the mobile station apparatus, an RRC message including a MAC address list of Ethernet (registered trade name).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: SEIJI SATO, HIDEO NAMBA, YASUHIRO HAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220070729
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes: multiple transmission data compression and coding units configured to perform, based on one or multiple pieces of header compression and coding configuration information of transmission data included in a higher layer message, compression and coding of the transmission data. First header compression and coding configuration information includes first compression and coding profile configuration for a first communication protocol header. Second header compression and coding configuration information includes second compression and coding profile configuration for a second communication protocol header. A first transmission data compression and coding unit compresses and codes the first communication protocol header included in the transmission data, based on the first header compression and coding configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: SEIJI SATO, YASUHIRO HAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11265912
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a control information detection unit configured to detect first and second DCI, and a transmitter configured to perform UL data transmission based on the first DCI or cancel a resource allocated in the second DCI. A UL grant using the first DCI is detected, when performing UL data transmission based on the UL grant, after the data transmission, a first timer for a corresponding HARQ process is started and a second timer is stopped, and when the first timer expires, the second timer for a HARQ process is started. When cancellation of the UL data transmission using the second DCI is detected, at a timing for the data transmission canceled, the second timer is restarted in a case that the first timer expires and the second timer is running, and the second timer is started in a case that the second timer is not running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Jungo Goto, Osamu Nakamura, Seiji Sato, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11231051
    Abstract: A blower including a duct configured to allow air to flow in and out and a plurality of blades disposed to be parallel to the duct. Each of the blades including a first part, a second part, and an airflow generator configured to generate airflow in a direction from the inlet to the outlet by applying a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode which are disposed between a first electrode on a side of the inlet, a second electrode on a side of the outlet, and a dielectric. In a cross section of the blade in the airflow direction when cut in a cross section perpendicular to each of the blades, the first part has a thickness decreasing in a direction toward the inlet and the second part has a thickness decreasing in a direction toward the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seiji Sato
  • Publication number: 20220002017
    Abstract: There is provided a filling packaging machine which does not cause poor sealing between a sealing tape and the inner surface of a tubular packaging material in a laterally sealed portion as formed by ultrasonic sealing. A filling packaging machine includes a tape attachment device, a vertical sealing device and a lateral sealing device. The tape attachment device attaches a predetermined-width portion of a sealing tape to one end of one surface of a web-like packaging material in such a manner that a first edge of both edges of the sealing tape, which is to be located on an overlapping portion side of a tubular packaging material when viewed from an inner step of an overlapping portion, will be disposed at a position displaced from an outer step of the overlapping portion when viewed in the thickness direction of the tubular packaging material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicants: SHIKOKU KAKOKI CO., LTD., NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Morikawa, Seiji Sato, Hiroshi Sora, Kazuhiko Sase, Shigekazu Miyagawa
  • Patent number: RE49709
    Abstract: Provided are a blower, capable of suppressing noise occurring in a stator while significantly improving blowing efficiency, and an outdoor unit using the same. The present disclosure comprises: a bell mouth part spaced apart at a predetermined distance in the radial direction with respect to an outer circumferential end of a propeller fan; and a diffuser part installed on the downstream side of the bell mouth part, and having a flow path area which is enlarged from the upstream side toward the downstream side with a larger magnification rate than the magnification rate of the flow path area in the downstream end of the bell mouth part; and a stator part having a plurality of stators, wherein the stator part is arranged within the diffuser part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Suguru Nakagawa, Seiji Sato