Patents by Inventor Sho Sato

Sho 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: 20250207529
    Abstract: Systems and methods for combusting liquid natural gas (LNG) for use in turbofan engines in aircraft are disclosed. Various components use a non-recuperated supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton cycle by the sCO2 extracting heat from a heat exchanger through which flows primary exhaust of a gas turbine engine. The sCO2 is split into dual streams. One stream flows through a sCO2 turbine which turns a shaft coupled to a gearbox for performing useful work. The other stream is equalized in pressure and is recombined with the stream from the sCO2 turbine. The recombined stream flows through an evaporator in the fuel injection system, which converts LNG to gaseous natural gas (GNG) suitable for combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Mingxuan Shi, Htet Htet Nwe OoMandzak, Sho Sato
  • Publication number: 20250161229
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a poultice including: a backing layer; and an adhesive agent layer, wherein the adhesive agent layer comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of carboxymethyl cellulose and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; a silicic anhydride; a drug; and a water-soluble polymer; and a particle diameter D50 at which a cumulative volume in a particle size distribution of the silicic anhydride becomes 50% is 0.2 to 9.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: HISAMITSU PHARMACEUTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Sho SATO, Keiichiro TSURUSHIMA, Shinji YAMASOTO, Tetsuro TATEISHI
  • Patent number: 12145240
    Abstract: Provided is a cavitation processing apparatus for providing cavitation effects such as residual stress evenly on the surface and inner part of the component. The cavitation processing apparatus includes: a nozzle that ejects cavitation fluid to a workpiece; a direction changing member that changes a flow direction of the cavitation fluid that collided with the workpiece to be branched toward inside; a driving apparatus including a rotary shaft, the driving apparatus that rotates the workpiece together with the rotary shaft; and a support member supporting one end of the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Sawakoshi, Sho Sato, Yoichi Tokumichi, Hirokazu Kamisaka
  • Patent number: 12071224
    Abstract: An aircraft is equipped with multiple fans for boundary layer ingestion. The aircraft comprises a fuselage, having an exterior surface and a rearward-most end. The aircraft also comprises a plurality of fans that are fixed to and positioned about the exterior surface of the fuselage at an axial location forward of the rearward-most end of the fuselage. Each one of the plurality of fans comprises a plurality of fan blades and a fan drive configured to rotate the plurality of fan blades. The plurality of fan blades are positioned at lateral locations relative to the exterior surface of the fuselage such that when rotated by the fan drive the plurality of fans receive and accelerate fuselage boundary layer air flow, along the exterior surface of the fuselage, from a first average velocity to a second average velocity, greater than the first average velocity, when the aircraft is in flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Sho Sato
  • Publication number: 20240142423
    Abstract: A conversion device converts output information, which is output from a device having a predetermined gas detection function with respect to a predetermined odor molecule, into quantified data of an odorant receptor. The conversion device comprises a conversion unit that uses a prediction model, which has been subjected to machine learning using, as explanatory variables, pieces of output information output from a device having a plurality of gas detection functions with respect to a plurality of respective odor molecules and using, as objective variables, pieces of response information indicating a plurality of responses of the odorant receptor with respect to the plurality of respective odor molecules, to convert the acquired output information into response information indicating a response of the odorant receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Kenji KUBO, Sho SATO, Naoto ASAI
  • Patent number: 11946425
    Abstract: The present invention provides an engine control device that sets a cam signal read value according to a cam signal output from a cam angle sensor, in a front-rear determination position; if the cam signal read value is alternately changed between 1 (LOW) and 2 (HIGH) in the front-rear determination position, sets the cam signal read value to the cam signal expected value; if the cam signal read value is not alternately changed between 1 (LOW) and 2 (HIGH), inverts the cam signal expected value in the control cycle of the previous time, and sets the resultant cam signal expected value; then, when the cam signal read value and the cam signal expected value are equal to each other, distinguishes the cylinders by using the cam signal read value; and when the cam signal read value and the cam signal expected value are different from each other, distinguishes the cylinders by using the cam signal expected value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sho Sato, Akihito Kubota
  • Publication number: 20230415105
    Abstract: Provided is an atomizing apparatus that reduces stress concentration applied to a slit chamber, maintains an appropriate tightening force, and improves maintenance performance. The slit chamber includes: a water guide nozzle into which raw material is supplied; an upstream nozzle disposed on a downstream side of the water guide nozzle, the upstream nozzle including a first and a second upstream nozzle water guide portions each having an elongated hole and having enlarged diameter portions at both ends; and a downstream nozzle disposed on a downstream side of the upstream nozzle, the downstream nozzle having a downstream nozzle water guide portion into which the raw material is supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Seigo MURAYAMA, Sho Sato, Futoshi HIMI
  • Patent number: 11814152
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for accelerating an aircraft fuselage boundary layer via a fan powered by an APU of the aircraft are disclosed. An example aircraft includes a fuselage, an APU, and a fan. The fuselage includes an outer skin. The APU is located within the fuselage. The fan includes a plurality of fan blades arranged circumferentially about the APU and projecting radially outward from the outer skin. The fan further includes a fan drive operatively coupled to the APU. The fan drive is configured to rotate the fan blades in response to a supply of electrical energy provided to the fan drive from the APU. The rotation of the fan blades accelerates a fuselage boundary layer traveling rearward along the outer skin from a first velocity to a second velocity greater than the first velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Norman H. Princen, Robert H. Liebeck, Sho Sato
  • Patent number: 11779076
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cushion partially or entirely composed of a foam, the foam composed of a polymer composition that includes a homopolymer or a copolymer including a constituent unit derived from farnesene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ASICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichiro Tateishi, Sho Sato
  • Publication number: 20230166832
    Abstract: An aircraft is equipped with multiple fans for boundary layer ingestion. The aircraft comprises a fuselage, having an exterior surface and a rearward-most end. The aircraft also comprises a plurality of fans that are fixed to and positioned about the exterior surface of the fuselage at an axial location forward of the rearward-most end of the fuselage. Each one of the plurality of fans comprises a plurality of fan blades and a fan drive configured to rotate the plurality of fan blades. The plurality of fan blades are positioned at lateral locations relative to the exterior surface of the fuselage such that when rotated by the fan drive the plurality of fans receive and accelerate fuselage boundary layer air flow, along the exterior surface of the fuselage, from a first average velocity to a second average velocity, greater than the first average velocity, when the aircraft is in flight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Sho Sato
  • Publication number: 20230137964
    Abstract: An electrode body housed, in a cylindrical battery can, in a spirally wound arrangement includes a sheet-like positive electrode, a sheet-like negative electrode, and a first separator laminate and a second separator laminate with one of the positive and negative electrodes therebetween (the negative electrode in the example of FIG. 2). Each of the first separator laminate and the second separator laminate has a layered structure including two or more separators (two in FIG. 2) welded together by a first weld region extending in a longitudinal direction along a first side and a second weld region extending in the longitudinal direction along a second side opposing the first side. The first separator laminate and the second separator laminate are welded together by a third weld region extending in the longitudinal direction along the first side and a fourth weld region extending in the longitudinal direction along the second side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: FDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki YAMAMOTO, Koichi MOTOIKE, Sho SATO, Daisuke HIRATA, Rei HANAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230071939
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for monitoring and delivering a cell suspension. In certain examples, the apparatus comprises a reservoir containing the cell suspension, a cannula, and a liquid transfer mechanism configured to transfer the cell suspension from the reservoir to the cannula. The apparatus can also comprise an agitation mechanism to agitate the cell suspension, and a monitoring device to quantify a concentration of cells transferred from the reservoir to the cannula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall D. LEARISH, Nathaniel A. BEARDSLEY, Sho SATO, Christopher W. McMAHON
  • Publication number: 20220325673
    Abstract: The present invention provides an engine control device that sets a cam signal read value according to a cam signal output from a cam angle sensor, in a front-rear determination position; if the cam signal read value is alternately changed between 1 (LOW) and 2 (HIGH) in the front-rear determination position, sets the cam signal read value to the cam signal expected value; if the cam signal read value is not alternately changed between 1 (LOW) and 2 (HIGH), inverts the cam signal expected value in the control cycle of the previous time, and sets the resultant cam signal expected value; then, when the cam signal read value and the cam signal expected value are equal to each other, distinguishes the cylinders by using the cam signal read value; and when the cam signal read value and the cam signal expected value are different from each other, distinguishes the cylinders by using the cam signal expected value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Sho SATO, Akihito KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20220203485
    Abstract: To provide a cavitation processing device that provides proper cavitation effect for an appropriate processing position. The cavitation processing apparatus includes a nozzle configured to eject cavitation fluid; a direction changing member configured to change a flow direction of the cavitation fluid, the direction changing member having groove for guiding the flow direction of the cavitation fluid, the groove configured to suppress cavitation bubbles contained in the cavitation fluid from dispersing; and a workpiece fixing member on which a workpiece is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Hirokazu KAMISAKA, Sho SATO, Yoichi TOKUMICHI, Jun SAWAKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20220203500
    Abstract: Provided is a cavitation processing apparatus for providing cavitation effects such as residual stress evenly on the surface and inner part of the component. The cavitation processing appratus includes: a nozzle that ejects cavitation fluid to a workpiece; a direction changing member that changes a flow direction of the cavitation fluid that collided with the workpiece to be branched toward inside; a driving apparatus including a rotary shaft, the driving apparatus that rotates the workpiece together with the rotary shaft; and a support member supporting one end of the rotary shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Jun SAWAKOSHI, Sho SATO, Yoichi TOKUMICHI, Hirokazu KAMISAKA
  • Patent number: 11368640
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a pixel region including a plurality of pixels, and bias wiring laid on a light incident side of pixels to supply a bias from a power supply to the pixels in the pixel region via a second side defining the pixel region. The bias wiring includes first wiring portions and second wiring portions laid around the pixels. The first wiring portions are laid in a Y direction away from the second side, and the second wiring portions are laid in an X direction orthogonal to the Y direction. The first wiring portions include a light non-transmissive member. A resistance of the first wiring portion per pixel is smaller than that of the second wiring portion per pixel. A loss of light due to the second wiring portion is smaller than that of the light incident due to the first wiring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Ofuji, Jun Kawanabe, Kentaro Fujiyoshi, Sho Sato
  • Publication number: 20220017207
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for accelerating an aircraft fuselage boundary layer via a fan powered by an APU of the aircraft are disclosed. An example aircraft includes a fuselage, an APU, and a fan. The fuselage includes an outer skin. The APU is located within the fuselage. The fan includes a plurality of fan blades arranged circumferentially about the APU and projecting radially outward from the outer skin. The fan further includes a fan drive operatively coupled to the APU. The fan drive is configured to rotate the fan blades in response to a supply of electrical energy provided to the fan drive from the APU. The rotation of the fan blades accelerates a fuselage boundary layer traveling rearward along the outer skin from a first velocity to a second velocity greater than the first velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Norman H. Princen, Robert H. Liebeck, Sho Sato
  • Patent number: 11097620
    Abstract: A circuit system for a railroad vehicle according to an embodiment includes a power conversion unit, a first converter, a second converter, a power storage unit, and a control unit. The power conversion unit converts power supplied from an overhead wire into power for driving a motor for running mounted on a railroad vehicle. The first converter converts power supplied from the overhead wire into DC power. The second converter converts power output from the first converter into power for driving a load mounted on the railroad vehicle. The power storage unit is electrically connected to an input side of the second converter. The control unit inputs regenerative power output from the power conversion unit to the first converter and inputs power output from the first converter to the power storage unit in a case where it is determined that the railroad vehicle is being regenerated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Yamamoto, Sakio Nishimiya, Sonoko Miyajiri, Sho Sato, Hideyuki Shimizu, Kazuaki Yuuki, Tomoyuki Makino
  • Publication number: 20210257187
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber in which a plasma processing is performed, an electrode that supplies a radio-frequency power to the chamber for the plasma processing; a radio-frequency power supply electrically connected to the electrode, and a matching device connected between the radio-frequency power supply and the electrode. The radio-frequency power supply supplies one of a modulated wave and a continuous wave of a radio-frequency power to the electrode. The modulated wave is generated by alternately increasing or decreasing the power level of the radio-frequency power. The matching device gradually changes a load impedance to a target impedance during a period in which the continuous wave is supplied before or after the power supplied from the radio-frequency power supply to the electrode is switched from one of the modulated wave and the continuous wave to the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Sho SATO, Ken YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: RE49401
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus includes a pixel array having pixels including conversion elements and switching elements, a bias line for supplying a bias potential to the conversion elements; driving lines for supplying a signal to control the switching elements, a driving unit for performing an initialization operation of supplying a driving signal to each driving line group, switching each driving signal from an OFF voltage to an ON voltage, and then returning the driving signal to the OFF voltage; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of times in each driving cycle a signal value representing a current flowing through the bias line; a calculation unit configured to calculate radiation information based on the signal values; and a determination unit configured to determine whether irradiation of the pixel array with radiation is present based on the radiation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Iwashita, Toshio Kameshima, Tomoyuki Yagi, Katsuro Takenaka, Hideyuki Okada, Sho Sato, Eriko Sato, Takuya Ryu