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).
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Patent number: 12237555Abstract: The first conductor plate has a groove portion that has a rectangular cross section and is formed in parallel with a first main surface such that the longitudinal direction becomes a first direction, and a first vertical tube portion formed in a direction away from the second conductor plate in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and the first main surface, with a branch position in the groove as a starting point. The second conductor plate includes a reflection portion that is inserted into the groove portion in a manner protruding from a second main surface, which is a flat surface of the second conductor plate in contact with the first main surface, and has a reflection surface that reflects the radio wave, propagated along the groove portion, toward the first vertical tube portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Waseda UniversityInventors: Seiji Nishi, Takuro Sato, Kazuhiko Tamesue, Tetsuya Kawanishi
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Patent number: 12140325Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji Sato, Shinji Goto, Nozomu Inoue
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Publication number: 20240356169Abstract: The electrochemical device includes: a case including a recessed container having a bottom and a side wall, and a cap that covers the opening of the recessed container; a power generation element having a laminate with an electrode layer, an electrode layer and a solid electrolyte layer laminated together and housed in the interior space of the case such that the bottom and electrode layer face each other; and a conductive plate positioned adjacent to the opening of the recessed container and between the electrode layer and cap. The recessed container includes a plurality of supports on the inner peripheral surface of the side wall. The conductive plate includes a plurality of supported portions located on its edges and corresponding in position to the supports. With each supported portion, the power generation element is pushed by a spring piece of the conductive plate toward the bottom of the recessed container.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki Furukawa, Koji Yamaguchi, Seiji Sato, Takumi Otsuka, Shumpei Masuda, Hiroyoshi Aoki
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Patent number: 12052722Abstract: The present disclosure includes a control unit that performs an uplink (UL) data transmission setting according to a radio resource control (RRC) message and a transmitting unit that transmits UL data according to the UL data transmission setting. The RRC message includes setting information of a plurality of configured UL grants (CGs). The setting information includes at least first and second CGs for each of at least one bandwidth part (BWP). The setting information further includes setting information related to transmission intervals for the first and second CGs. The control unit sets at least the first and second CGs for each BWP according to the setting information. The transmitting unit, when at least a part of the transmission interval of the first and second CGs overlap each other, interrupts UL data transmission of the first CG to perform UL data transmission of the second CG.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Seiji Sato, Hideo Nanba, Osamu Nakamura, Ryota Yamada
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Publication number: 20240151409Abstract: An indoor unit for an air conditioner including a centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan includes a main plate connectable to a rotation shaft of a motor, a plurality of blades, with one respective end to be bonded to the main plate and arrangeable at equal intervals from each other along a circumferential direction, a shroud, to be bonded to another respective end of the plurality of blades, to face the main plate, and a bell mouth arrangeable inside the shroud. An annular member arrangeable on an outer circumferential portion of the bell mouth with an inlet portion at the gap between the shroud and the bell mouth. The annular member including an annular flat plate portion spaced apart from and face the inlet portion, and a protrusion formed on an outer circumferential portion of a surface of the annular flat plate portion facing the shroud and being curved.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nozomu INOUE, Shinji GOTO, Seiji SATO
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Patent number: 11937263Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Jungo Goto, Osamu Nakamura, Seiji Sato, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 11796191Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang Mu Lee, Hyun Young Kim, Seiji Sato
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Patent number: 11705400Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Seiji Sato
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Publication number: 20230199967Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventor: Seiji SATO
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Patent number: 11601950Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Seiji Sato, Jungo Goto, Osamu Nakamura, Shohei Yamada
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Patent number: 11582437Abstract: A camera system includes: a first camera and a second camera; a camera adaptor box; and a camera control unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koji Kamiya, Seiji Sato, Tomoyasu Katsuyama
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Publication number: 20220369362Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: JUNGO GOTO, OSAMU NAKAMURA, SEIJI SATO, YASUHIRO HAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11445540Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Jungo Goto, Osamu Nakamura, Seiji Sato, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
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Publication number: 20220205650Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji SATO, Shinji GOTO, Nozomu INOUE
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Patent number: 11324071Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Seiji Sato, Jungo Gotoh, Osamu Nakamura, Shohei Yamada, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 11324034Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Seiji Sato, Jungo Gotoh, Osamu Nakamura, Shohei Yamada, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 11293701Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun Young Kim, Seiji Sato, Sang Mu Lee
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Publication number: 20220095099Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: SEIJI SATO, HIDEO NAMBA, YASUHIRO HAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220070729Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: SEIJI SATO, YASUHIRO HAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: RE49709Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Suguru Nakagawa, Seiji Sato