Patents by Inventor Shinichi Sato
Shinichi 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: 11932243Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an electronic control unit configured to: enlarge the detection range, when the electronic control unit determines that a current deceleration support control is control for passing the object; set a new target deceleration of the host vehicle when a new object with a possibility of collision with the host vehicle has been detected in the enlarged detection range; determine whether an interval from an ending time of the current deceleration support control to a starting time of the next deceleration support control is less than a threshold value, when the electronic control unit determines that the next deceleration support control is control for passing the new object; and perform one of the inter-vehicle distance control and acceleration support control from the ending time to the starting time, when the electronic control unit determines that the interval is less than the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Ozawa, Minami Sato, Shinichi Nagata
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Publication number: 20240084020Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions for suppressing the progression of fibrosis in systemic sclerosis, which contain an antibody against IL-31 receptor A as an active ingredient. In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions for suppressing Th2 polarization to suppress the progression of fibrosis in systemic sclerosis, which comprise an antibody against IL-31 receptor A as an active ingredient. In a certain embodiment, the above-mentioned antibody is an antibody having a neutralizing activity against IL-31 receptor A.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: Maruho Co., Ltd., The University of TokyoInventors: Ayumi Yoshizaki, Ai Kuzumi, Shinichi Sato, Tomoyuki Fujita, Hideki Watanabe
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Patent number: 11928544Abstract: An article management system includes an acquirer and a management unit. The acquirer is configured to acquire identification information and management information. The identification information is information read from an electronic tag by the reading device in each of a plurality of bases in a distribution channel for an article, the electronic tag being attached to the article and storing the identification information. The management information is information collected in association with the identification information in a corresponding one of the plurality of bases, the management information relating to management of the article. The management unit is configured to manage the article with reference to the identification information and the management information which are acquired by the acquirer in each of the plurality of bases.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Okada, Akifumi Nagao, Kou Inoue, Takaaki Sato
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Publication number: 20240075656Abstract: The mold release film has a multilayer structure in which a mold release layer, a first base material layer, and a second base material layer are laminated. The mold release layer constitutes a mold release surface, and the second base material layer constitutes a surface of the mold release film on an opposite side of the mold release surface. The mold release layer contains one or two or more selected from a silicone resin, a fluororesin, a melamine resin, an epoxy resin, and a phenolic resin. The first base material layer is formed by a stretched or un-stretched film containing one or two or more selected from a polyester resin, a polyolefin resin, and a polyamide resin. The second base material layer is formed by a stretched or un-stretched film containing one or two or more selected from a polyester resin, a polyolefin resin, and a polyamide resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Maesowa, Jun Okada, Motoki Sato
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Publication number: 20240077828Abstract: A cleaning blade includes a contact layer that is in contact with a toner image carrier, and a support layer that joins to a support member, wherein the contact layer does not contain an inorganic filler, the support layer contains an inorganic filler having a thermal conductivity (?) of 30 W/mK or more, and the average particle diameter of the inorganic filler is in a range of 0.1 to 5.0 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Kunihiro OGURA, Yuya SATO, Shinichi YABUKI
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Publication number: 20240069467Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first unit including an image bearing member and a second unit. The second unit includes a developing roller to supply the toner to the image bearing member, a mounting portion in which the replenishing container is dismountably mounted and an accommodating portion to accommodate the toner replenished from the replenishing container. The second unit is movable between a first position where the developing roller contacts the image bearing member and a second position where the developing roller separates from the image bearing member. When a moving direction in which the second unit moves from the first position toward the second position is defined as a separating direction, the second unit is urged in the separating direction by a force which the mounting portion receives from the replenishing container when the replenishing container is mounted to the mounting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Goshi Ozaki, Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Shinichi Nishida, Sohta Sugimoto, Mitsuhiro Sato, Masahiro Suetsugu
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Patent number: 11894195Abstract: An electronic component includes an element body, an external electrode, and a resin film having electrical insulation properties. The element body includes a principal surface and a side surface adjacent to the principal surface. The external electrode includes a first electrode portion disposed on the principal surface and a second electrode portion disposed on the side surface. The resin film is disposed on the principal surface and is in contact with the principal surface. Each of the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion includes a conductive resin layer disposed on the element body. A conductive resin layer included in the first electrode portion is disposed on the resin film and is in contact with the resin film.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoji Tozawa, Masashi Shimoyasu, Makoto Yoshino, Takuo Abe, Akihiko Oide, Tsutomu Ono, Shinichi Sato, Makoto Morita, Shinichi Sato, Hidekazu Sato
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Publication number: 20240038436Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body, a coil disposed in the element body, and an external electrode disposed in the element body and electrically connected to the coil. The element body includes a principal surface that is a mounting surface, and an end surface positioned adjacent to the principal surface and extending in a direction crossing to the principal surface. The external electrode includes an underlying metal layer and a conductive resin layer. The underlying metal layer is formed on the principal surface and the end surface. The conductive resin layer is formed to cover the underlying metal layer. A thickness of the conductive resin layer at an end positioned above the principal surface of the underlying metal layer is equal to or greater than 50% of a maximum thickness of a portion positioned above the principal surface of the conductive resin layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi SHIMOYASU, Shinichi SATO, Seiichi NAKAGAWA, Mamoru KAWAUCHI, Shigetoshi KINOUCHI, Mitsuru ITO, Yuto SHIGA
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Publication number: 20240014200Abstract: The present invention provides a method of relocating optical devices onto a carrier substrate in a case where a pixel pitch of a display is not an integer multiple of a pitch of the optical devices arrayed on a sapphire substrate. A moving speed ratio between a donor substrate and a receptor substrate is determined from an array pitch (3, 4) of optical devices (2) formed on the sapphire substrate and an array pitch (5, 7) of optical devices to be transferred onto a carrier substrate (6), and the optical devices are subjected to LIFT (laser transferred) in synchronization with movement of the donor substrate, whereby the optical devices on the sapphire substrate are transferred onto the carrier substrate at an array pitch that is identical to the pixel pitch of the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaoka, Nobutaka Uemori, Satoki Nakada, Takeshi Saito, Shusaku Ozawa, Shinichi Sato, Masami Kurata, Masahiko Sato, Tsukasa Abe, Tsuyoshi Noguchi, Taketo Usami
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Publication number: 20240002191Abstract: An elevating body derailment detection device includes: a photoelectric sensor provided on an elevating body elevated and lowered along a guide rail, including a light emitter which performs irradiation of light and a photodetector which receives the light, and attached to a position where the photodctector is blocked from receiving the light by the guide rail or a wire provided in parallel with an elevating and lowering direction of the elevating body; and a detector configured to detect that the elevating body is detached from the guide rail. The photodetector receives the light in response to the photoelectric sensor moving from the position. The detector detects that the elevating body is detached from the guide rail when the photodetector receives the light.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Shinichi SATO
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Patent number: 11817252Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body, a coil disposed in the element body, and an external electrode disposed in the element body and electrically connected to the coil. The element body includes a principal surface that is a mounting surface, and an end surface positioned adjacent to the principal surface and extending in a direction crossing to the principal surface. The external electrode includes an underlying metal layer and a conductive resin layer. The underlying metal layer is formed on the principal surface and the end surface. The conductive resin layer is formed to cover the underlying metal layer. A thickness of the conductive resin layer at an end positioned above the principal surface of the underlying metal layer is equal to or greater than 50% of a maximum thickness of a portion positioned above the principal surface of the conductive resin layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Shimoyasu, Shinichi Sato, Seiichi Nakagawa, Mamoru Kawauchi, Shigetoshi Kinouchi, Mitsuru Ito
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Publication number: 20230348230Abstract: A guide deviation detection device for elevators that can improve accuracy of detecting that an ascending and descending body has deviated from a correctly guided state is provided. The guide deviation detection device for elevators includes a base provided in an ascending and descending body, a contact maker that is provided in the base to be adjacent to a long object positioned with an ascending and descending direction of the ascending and descending body set as a longitudinal direction, does not come into contact with the long object to take a reference posture when the ascending and descending body is in a correctly guided state, and comes into contact with the long object to change a posture from the reference posture when the ascending and descending body deviates from the correctly guided state, and a detector detects that the contact maker changes the posture from the reference posture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2020Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Shinichi SATO
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Publication number: 20230343625Abstract: Proposed are a method and an apparatus for transferring devices arranged on a first substrate to a second substrate by using laser light while correcting positional deviations of the devices. The present invention involves: acquiring actual positional information about devices on the first substrate; performing grouping in accordance with a criterion determined on the basis of an allowable positional deviation amount; correcting, for each group unit, a position of the first substrate such that positions of the devices fall into a range of an allowable positional deviation amount; and applying laser light from the back surface of the first substrate and transferring the devices to the second substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaoka, Satoki Nakada, Nobutaka Uemori, Takeshi Saito, Shusaku Ozawa, Shinichi Sato, Taketo Usami, Masami Kurata, Masahiko Sato, Tsukasa Abe, Tsuyoshi Noguchi
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Publication number: 20230317342Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body including a plurality of metal magnetic particles, and a plurality of coil conductors. The plurality of coil conductors is disposed in the element body. The plurality of coil conductors is separated from each other in a predetermined direction and electrically connected to each other. The plurality of coil conductors includes one pair of side surfaces opposing each other in the predetermined direction. Surface roughness of the one pair of side surfaces is less than 40% of an average particle size of the plurality of metal magnetic particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi SATO, Takahiro SATO, Yusuke NAGAI, Mitsuharu KOIKE, Kazuhiro MIURA, Seiichi NAKAGAWA, Shinichi KONDO, Takashi SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20230253143Abstract: A coil device 10 including a core having a core center part 23 for disposing roughly perpendicularly to a mounting surface and a flange 22 formed to one end in an axial direction of the core center part 23; a coil 30 disposed around the core center part 23; and an electrode 40 connected to a lead part 30a of the coil 30 and formed at least partially to a circumference surface of the flange 22; wherein the electrode 40 on the circumference surface of the flange 22 has a recessed part 420 which is recessed from an edge of the electrode 40 towards an outer end surface 221 of the flange 22.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyofumi FUJIWARA, Michinori SUTO, Shinichi SATO
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Patent number: 11710593Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body including a plurality of metal magnetic particles, and a plurality of coil conductors. The plurality of coil conductors is disposed in the element body. The plurality of coil conductors is separated from each other in a predetermined direction and electrically connected to each other. The plurality of coil conductors includes one pair of side surfaces opposing each other in the predetermined direction. Surface roughness of the one pair of side surfaces is less than 40% of an average particle size of the plurality of metal magnetic particles.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Sato, Takahiro Sato, Yusuke Nagai, Mitsuharu Koike, Kazuhiro Miura, Seiichi Nakagawa, Shinichi Kondo, Takashi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20230230738Abstract: A coil component includes an element body, a coil and a first electrode part. The element body includes a main surface which is used as a mounting surface. The coil is disposed in the element body. The first electrode part is embedded in the element body and electrically connected to the coil. The first electrode part includes a first surface exposed from the main surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. An area of the first surface is larger than an area of the second surface when viewed from a direction orthogonal to the first surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: TDK CorporationInventors: Yusuke NAGAI, Kazuhiro EBINA, Kunihiko KAWASAKI, Shinichi KONDO, Shinichi SATO, Seiichi NAKAGAWA, Mitsuharu KOIKE, Takato SASAKI, Youhei IIDA
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Publication number: 20230230737Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes: an element body including a plurality of magnetic layers that includes soft magnetic metal particles and is laminated in a first direction; and a coil disposed in the element body. The coil includes a plurality of coil conductors electrically connected to each other. The plurality of magnetic layers includes a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer laminated between two coil conductors adjacent to each other in the first direction. An average particle diameter of soft magnetic metal particles included in the second magnetic layer is larger than an average particle diameter of soft magnetic metal particles included in the first magnetic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke NAGAI, Kazuhiro EBINA, Kunihiko KAWASAKI, Shinichi KONDO, Kouichi KAKUDA, Shinichi SATO, Keito YASUDA
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Publication number: 20230230742Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body including an end surface, a coil disposed in the element body, and an external electrode disposed on an end portion of the element body and connected to the coil. The external electrode includes a conductive resin layer. The conductive resin layer includes resin and a plurality of metal particles and is in contact with the end surface. The conductive resin layer includes a metal particle group. The metal particle group consists a plurality of first metal particles included in the plurality of metal particles, and the plurality of first metal particles is adjacent to the end surface and separated from the end surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke NAGAI, Kazuhiro EBINA, Kunihiko KAWASAKI, Shinichi KONDO, Yuya ISHIMA, Shinichi SATO, Seiichi NAKAGAWA, Kosuke ITO, Keito YASUDA, Youhei IIDA
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Publication number: 20230223183Abstract: The coil component includes an element body, a coil, a first electrode part and a second electrode part. The element body includes a main surface to be used as a mounting surface. The coil is disposed in the element body. The first electrode part and the second electrode part are spaced apart from each other in a first direction, embedded in the element body in such a way as to be exposed from the main surface, and electrically connected to the coil. The first electrode part includes a first surface exposed from the main surface and a protrusion disposed in the element body in such a way as to be spaced apart from the main surface. The protrusion protrudes more toward the second electrode part than the first surface in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke NAGAI, Kazuhiro EBINA, Kunihiko KAWASAKI, Shinichi KONDO, Shinichi SATO, Seiichi NAKAGAWA, Mitsuharu KOIKE, Takato SASAKI, Youhei IIDA