Patents by Inventor Shinji Kato

Shinji Kato 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: 20240106289
    Abstract: A stator includes a cylindrical stator core having a plurality of slots, and a plurality of coils having segment conductors inserted through the plurality of slots and extending in axial direction, a coolant flow channel through which coolant flows is formed between outer circumferential surface of the segment conductor and inner circumferential surface of the slot, the outer circumferential surface of the segment conductor includes first flat surface facing radial direction, second flat surface facing circumferential direction, and a corner portion curved surface connecting the first flat surface and the second flat surface, the corner portion curved surface includes first curved surface continuous with the first flat surface and second curved surface continuous with the second flat surface, and when seen in cross-sectional view perpendicular to the axial direction, radius of curvature of the first curved surface is greater than radius of curvature of the second curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kentaro Fukui, Shinji Kato, Takashi Wakui, Noriyuki Yagi
  • Publication number: 20240092285
    Abstract: A protector includes a case main body and a cover member. The cover member includes the cover main body part, the first cover part, and the second cover part. The first cover part and the second cover part are at the positions overlapping with each other in the longitudinal direction when viewed from the lateral direction of the cover main body part, and form an insertion space for passing a third extension part of a wiring material WH through in the lateral direction when viewed from the orthogonal direction of the cover main body part. The first cover part includes a movable part that is movable in the orthogonal direction with respect to the cover main body part when viewed from the lateral direction of the cover main body part, and a hinge part that rotatably connects the cover main body part and the movable part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Shinji Kato, Kazuhiro Tsutida, Suginobu Iguchi, Takumasa Suzuki, Rikuya Saitou, Tomohiro Shibata
  • Patent number: 11932823
    Abstract: To provide a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, a friction adjusting additive for a lubricant for shock absorbers, and a lubricant additive, each capable of satisfying both operational stability and ride comfort and improving the ride comfort further. The lubricant composition for shock absorbers contains a base oil and a friction adjusting agent and the friction adjusting agent contains a first zinc dithiophosphate represented by the following formula 1: [in the formula 1, R11 to R14 are alkyl groups in which one or more and three or less is/are a primary alkyl group and the other(s) is/are a secondary alkyl group].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: KYB CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Kato
  • Publication number: 20240084869
    Abstract: To provide a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, a shock absorber, and a method for adjusting the friction of a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, each capable of satisfying both operational stability and ride comfort particularly at the time of a minute amplitude. The lubricant composition for shock absorbers contains a base oil and a friction adjusting agent, wherein the friction adjusting agent contains a pentaerythritol ester, the pentaerythritol ester contains a pentaerythritol tetraester at the highest proportion or in an amount of 50 mass % or more, and the pentaerythritol ester content is 0.5 mass % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: KYB Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Kato
  • Publication number: 20240078570
    Abstract: A reward providing device comprises an acquiring section that acquires, when charging of the battery by a charging device is completed, battery state-of-charge information concerning a battery state of charge that is a state of charge of a battery provided to a moving body, and a reward providing section that provides a reward to the user of the moving body when the battery state of charge is less than or equal to a recommended upper limit state of charge that is an upper limit of a recommended charge rate set to be lower than a full charge, serving as a state of charge that is recommended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Kei HIROHATA, Shinji YASUHARA, Yuichi NAKAMURA, Seiichi KATO
  • Publication number: 20240077493
    Abstract: Provided is a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the steps including a step of subjecting a sample containing microorganisms to mass spectrometry to obtain a mass spectrum, a step of reading a mass-to-charge ratio m/z of a peak derived from a marker protein from the mass spectrum, and an identification step of identifying which bacteria of serovar of Salmonella genus bacteria the microorganisms contained in the sample contain, based on the mass-to-charge ratio m/z, wherein at least one of two types of ribosomal proteins S8 and Peptidylpropyl isomerase is used as the marker protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicants: SHIMADZU Corporation, Meijo University
    Inventors: Hiroto Tamura, Naomi Yamamoto, Teruyo Kato, Keisuke Shima, Shinji Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20240077015
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reservoir tank for coolant that stores the coolant for cooling an internal combustion engine. The reservoir tank includes: a tank chamber that stores the coolant; an opening, which is disposed in an upper part of the tank chamber, through which the coolant flows in and flows out, and in a circumferential wall of which a breathing hole is formed; and a first communication passage, a second communication passage, and a third communication passage that respectively communicate with the opening and the tank chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Miyo KITAMURA, Shinji SHIMOYAMA, Keijiro KOIDE, Masahiro KATO, Tatsuya KURIMOTO, Tatsuki TANAKA, Koji SATO, Takumi TOKINOYA
  • Patent number: 11876224
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a negative electrode active material having excellent charge/discharge characteristics (charge and discharge capacities, initial coulombic efficiency, and cycle characteristics). The object is achieved by providing a negative electrode active material containing: a silicon-based inorganic compound (a) composed of silicon (excluding zerovalent silicon), oxygen, and carbon; and silicon (zerovalent) (b). The equivalent constituent ratio [Q units/(D units+T units+Q units)] indicating the chemical bonding state (D units [SiO2C2], T units [SiO3C], Q units[SiO4]) of the silicon (excluding zerovalent silicon) present in the silicon-based inorganic compound (a) is within the range of from 0.30 to 0.80 inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Peixin Zhu, Shinji Kato, Ryuuichi Kiyooka, Katsuhito Kuroki, Satoshi Katano, Takahito Ikuma
  • Publication number: 20240001436
    Abstract: According to the present invention, an additively manufactured ceramic core having both strength and collapsibility, and meltability and moreover having surface roughness improved is provided. The additively manufactured ceramic core disclosed herein is an additively manufactured ceramic core to be used as a core when manufacturing a metal casting and includes a central part corresponding to an additively manufactured fired body of a predetermined ceramic powder, a first layer covering at least a part of the central part, and a second layer formed on a surface layer of the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Noritake Co., Limited
    Inventors: Hirokazu Watanabe, Akihiro Kawahara, Tsuyoshi Hondo, Kouji Inukai, Shinji Kato
  • Publication number: 20230313064
    Abstract: Provided are a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, a lubricant additive, and a method of adjusting frictional property of a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, each capable of satisfying both the steering stability and ride comfort. The lubricant composition for shock absorbers contains a base oil and pentaerythritol esters and having frictional property represented by the following formula (1): RI > 1 .75 × F ave - ? 0 .05 ­­­(1) supposing that a ratio ({Fsa - Fave} / Fave) of a difference, at the time of minute amplitude, between a peak frictional force Fsa in transition from a stationary state to a sliding state and an average frictional force Fave to the average frictional force Fave at the time of minute amplitude is responsiveness RI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: KYB Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Kato
  • Patent number: 11777296
    Abstract: A wire harness installation structure includes a wire harness, a protector, and a bending motion mechanism that causes the wire harness to make a bending movement. The wire harness has a first portion that is fixed to the protector, a second portion that is distant from both of the first portion and the protector beyond a bending position of the wire harness, and a third portion that is located between the first portion and the second portion. The second portion and the third portion of the wire harness are fixed on a movable member of the bending motion mechanism, and the wire harness is routed so that a second excess length between the second portion and the third portion is shorter than a first excess length between the first portion and the third portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kato, Tatsuya Otsuka, Tomohiro Shibata
  • Patent number: 11777353
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine includes: a winding formed of a bundle of conducting wires; a stator core including a slot in which the winding is disposed; and an insulating paper disposed between the stator core and the winding in the slot, wherein the conducting wires have a self-fusing property, the insulating paper has a foam layer, and a coolant channel is formed between the conducting wires of the winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taku Ueda, Noriyuki Yagi, Fumiya Nishii, Shinji Kato
  • Publication number: 20230257927
    Abstract: A cloth spreading apparatus includes: a spreading unit having spreading clamps that spread an upper-side part of a fed cloth in a right-left direction; and an ejection unit having an intermediate movable body that releases the upper-side part of the cloth that the intermediate movable body has received from the spreading clamps in the forward position and held onto an upper surface by sucking, and a belt conveyor that receives the upper-side part of the cloth released by the intermediate movable body and ejects the entire cloth backward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: PUREX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori KONDO, Tomoyuki TANII, Masashi IDO, Shinji KATO
  • Publication number: 20230197974
    Abstract: A porous silicon oxycarbide composite material comprises a porous silicon oxycarbide having a three-dimensional skeleton structure, and a carbon-containing material supported by the three-dimensional skeleton structure, wherein the porous silicon oxycarbide composite material has a BET specific surface area of 100 m2/g or more and an electrical conductivity of 1.0×10?6 S/cm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Yusaku GOTO, Shinji KATO
  • Publication number: 20230174882
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition according to the present embodiment is a lubricating oil composition to be used in a sliding member coated with hydrogen-containing diamond-like carbon, and contains a base oil and a friction modifier. The friction modifier contains a fatty acid ester of pentaerythritol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: KYB Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji KATO
  • Publication number: 20230159845
    Abstract: Provided are a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, a lubricant additive, and a method of adjusting friction characteristics of a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, each capable of satisfying both the operational stability and ride comfort. The lubricant composition for shock absorbers contains a base oil and a friction adjusting agent, the friction adjusting agent contains pentaerythritol esters, and the pentaerythritol esters contain a pentaerythritol tetraester and a pentaerythritol ester other than the pentaerythritol tetraester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: KYB Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Kato
  • Publication number: 20230008744
    Abstract: Traveling environment information is recognized. A predicted traveling path is calculated based on a driving condition of a vehicle. An oncoming-vehicle predicted traveling path is calculated based on behavior of an oncoming vehicle. It is determined whether the vehicle has an intention to enter a first intersecting road at an intersection. When the vehicle cannot enter the first intersecting road, the predicted traveling path is corrected to a limit traveling path. It is determined whether the oncoming vehicle has an intention to enter a second intersecting road at the intersection. When the oncoming vehicle cannot enter the second intersecting road, the oncoming-vehicle predicted traveling path is corrected to an oncoming-vehicle limit traveling path. The oncoming vehicle is set as a control target against which emergency braking is executed when the predicted traveling path and the oncoming-vehicle predicted traveling path overlap each other at least in part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuya KOZONO, Shinji KATO
  • Publication number: 20220380884
    Abstract: A nickel alloy sputtering target comprises: a nickel alloy containing an element capable of decreasing the Curie temperature of nickel, wherein an area ratio of a Ni phase having a Ni content of 99.0 mass % or more is 13% or less and an average crystal grain diameter is 100 gm or less. It is preferred that an area ratio of a high-purity Ni phase having a Ni content of 99.5 mass % or more be 5% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Kato
  • Publication number: 20220302784
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine includes: a winding; a stator core including a slot in which the winding is installed; a cover part that covers the stator core; and a crossing part that is a space formed between the cover part and the stator core, wherein, in the crossing part, an end portion of the winding in an axial direction is exposed, and a filling member is disposed between a side surface of the winding in a radial direction and an inner side surface of the cover part in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Shinji Kato, Fumiya Nishii, Masaru Sora, Taku Ueda, Takashi Wakui
  • Publication number: 20220286005
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine includes: a winding formed of a bundle of conducting wires; a stator core including a slot in which the winding is disposed; and an insulating paper disposed between the stator core and the winding in the slot, wherein the conducting wires have a self-fusing property, the insulating paper has a foam layer, and a coolant channel is formed between the conducting wires of the winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Taku Ueda, Noriyuki Yagi, Fumiya Nishii, Shinji Kato