Patents by Inventor Shun SATO

Shun 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).

  • Patent number: 11926323
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: an engine controller configured to perform an IS control upon satisfaction of a predetermined stop condition and an engine restart control upon satisfaction of a predetermined restart condition; an HDC controller configured to perform, when the vehicle is traveling on a downhill road and a deceleration request according to an HDC control occurs, a target vehicle speed-based deceleration irrespective of brake operations by the driver; and an information acquisition part configured to acquire progress status information related to the engine restart control and including information on initiation and completion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahito Yoshida, Yoshinari Sugita, Rei Okubo, Hidetoshi Kobori, Shumpei Tahara, Shun Igarashi, Takuya Sato, Takayuki Matsuyoshi
  • Publication number: 20240043344
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a coating layer having a laminated structure that includes first sublayers and second sublayers having a cubic crystal structure and has an average thickness of 0.5 to 8 ?m, the bottommost and topmost sublayers being both first sublayers; the first sublayer has an average thickness of 0.1 to 2 ?m and a composition (Al1?xCrx)N, where x=0.20 to the second sublayer has an average thickness of 0.1 to 2 ?m, has a composition (Al1-a-bCraSib)N where a=0.20 to 0.60, b=0.01 to 0.20, and has a repeated variation in Si content with an average interval of 1 to 100 nm between local minima and local maxima, the average local maximum and minimum are each within a specific range; and the diffraction peaks of the 111 and 200 diffraction peaks each have a predetermined full width at half maximum and a peak intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun Sato, Yuto Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20230417927
    Abstract: A determination device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a ranging signal received by a receiver, a first determination unit configured to determine whether the ranging signal has been redundantly received based on information about a positioning satellite that has transmitted the ranging signal and information about a transmission time of the ranging signal, which are included in the ranging signal, and a second determination unit configured to determine that the ranging signal is a spoofing signal when the first determination unit determines that the ranging signal has been redundantly received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shun SATO, Yuki FUJISHIMA, Satoru TORII
  • Patent number: 11840417
    Abstract: A sheet bonding apparatus includes an electrophotographic unit configured to apply powder adhesive on a sheet by an electrophotographic process, a folding portion configured to fold the sheet on which the powder adhesive has been applied by the electrophotographic unit, and a bonding portion configured to heat the sheet folded by the folding portion to bond the sheet by the powder adhesive, wherein the bonding portion and the folding portion are disposed over the electrophotographic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohei Matsuda, Kentaro Kawata, Taku Watanabe, Atsushi Toda, Shun Sato
  • Patent number: 11835898
    Abstract: An adhesion apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form, through an electrophotographic process, an adhesive image of a powder adhesive on a sheet that is conveyed; and a control unit configured to control the image forming unit to use a first pattern in a first conveyance period, and use a second pattern different from the first pattern in a second conveyance period following the first conveyance period, as a formation pattern in an adhering section corresponding to part of a width direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei Matsuda, Taku Watanabe, Shun Sato, Tsutomu Shimano, Yuki Nishizawa
  • Publication number: 20230388482
    Abstract: A method according to the present disclosure includes (a) obtaining a calibration parameter of a first camera, (b) using a second camera to obtain a relative position between the first camera and the second camera, and (c) displaying a specific image representing a calibration state of the first camera on a display device with a positional posture changing with a value of the calibration parameter so as to be superimposed on an image taken by the second camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventor: Shun SATO
  • Patent number: 11783472
    Abstract: A color tone correction system includes a reception unit that receives a target workpiece image and design information of a target workpiece, a reference image data storage unit that stores a reference workpiece image, an image determination unit that determines whether or not the target workpiece is inclined more than the reference workpiece, a calculation processing unit that estimates an inclination angle of the target workpiece based on the stored reference workpiece image and the target workpiece image, a color tone data storage unit that stores a relationship between the inclination angle and a color tone correction value, an image correction unit that corrects a color tone of the target workpiece image based on the estimated inclination angle and a color tone correction formula corresponding to the stored relationship, and an output unit that outputs the corrected target workpiece image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Tsubaki, Shun Sato
  • Publication number: 20230313916
    Abstract: Provided is a hydrogen-filling hose including an inner layer, a reinforcing layer, and an outer layer, the hydrogen-filling hose being characterized in that the inner layer includes a thermoplastic resin composition including a matrix that includes a polyamide resin and a domain that includes a modified styrene elastomer, the modified styrene elastomer content of the thermoplastic resin composition is 5-50 mass % of all polymer components in the thermoplastic resin composition, the reinforcing layer includes at least one layer that includes steel wire, and the outer layer includes a thermoplastic elastomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Shun SATO, Daisuke MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11732236
    Abstract: A microorganism of the present invention is Dirkmeia churashimaensis (NITE BP-03054), Papiliotrema flavescens (NITE BP-03051), Papiliotrema flavescens (NITE BP-03052), or Apiotrichum porosum (NITE BP-03053).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: KUREHA CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki Koshiyama, Mutsumi Kaneko, Yukihiro Higashiyama, Shun Sato, Tomotake Morita, Azusa Saika
  • Publication number: 20230235205
    Abstract: An adhesive set is disclosed. This adhesive set includes a main agent containing a compound having two or more isocyanate groups and a curing agent containing a compound having two or more hydroxyl groups. At least one of the compound having two or more isocyanate groups and the compound having two or more hydroxyl groups has a disulfide bond in the molecule. At least one of the main agent and the curing agent further contains a curing catalyst. At least one of the main agent and the curing agent further contains a photoradical generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Masayuki WADA, Takashi KUMAKI, Yuki MIYAMOTO, Keiichi SAKAMOTO, Shun SATO
  • Patent number: 11697415
    Abstract: A vehicular breaking force control system that includes a control device including a processor that acquires a plurality of longitudinal accelerations from a driving assistance system, and calculates a driving/braking request when the vehicle is in a coasting state in which an acceleration operation or a deceleration operation are not performed during running of the vehicle. The processor further acquires a driving force lower limit set for a powertrain actuator having a set gear ratio, and distributes the driving/braking request to at least one of (i) a powertrain system including the powertrain actuator and (ii) a brake system including a brake actuator. The driving/braking request is distributed to the at least one of the powertrain system and the brake system based on the acquired driving force lower limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Shimizu, Shun Sato, Katsumi Kono, Atsushi Ayabe, Noritake Mitsutani, Hiroki Nakano
  • Patent number: 11636586
    Abstract: The process control system converts, into images, time-varying waveforms of inspection data of an assembled product, parts, and sub-assembling processes that constitute the assembling process, performs matching between an inspection waveform image (IWI) of the assembled product and a predetermined deterioration pattern image (DPI), determines whether IWI of the assembled product is similar to DPI, performs, when IWI is similar to DPI, a first determination for performing matching between an IWI of each of sub-assembling processes and DPI and determining whether there is a sub-assembling process similar to DPI, performs, when there is a sub-assembling process similar to DPI in the first determination, a second determination for performing matching between IWI of each of parts assembled in the sub-assembling process similar to DPI and DPI and determining whether there is a part similar to DPI, and specifies a deterioration factor based on results of the first and second determinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shun Sato
  • Publication number: 20230119858
    Abstract: A surface coated cutting tool comprises: a tool substrate and a coating layer on a surface of the tool substrate; wherein the coating layer comprises a lower layer, an intermediate layer, and an upper layer, in sequence from the tool substrate toward the surface of the tool. The lower layer comprises an A layer having an average composition represented by formula: (Al1-xCrx)N, where x is 0.20 to 0.60; the intermediate layer comprises a B layer having an average composition represented by formula: (Al1-a-bCraSib)N, where a is 0.20 to 0.60 and b is 0.01 to 0.20; and the upper layer comprises a C layer having an average composition represented by formula: (Ti1-?-?Si?W?)N where ? is 0.01 to 0.20 and ? is 0.01 to 0.10; and the upper layer has a repeated variation in W level with an average interval of 1 nm to 100 nm between adjacent local maxima and minima.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shun Sato
  • Publication number: 20230055055
    Abstract: A hose for transportation of refrigerant includes an inner layer, a reinforcing layer, and an outer layer. The inner and outer layers each include a thermoplastic resin composition having a sea-island structure including a matrix containing a thermoplastic resin and a domain containing an elastomer. A water vapor permeability coefficient of the thermoplastic resin composition of the outer layer at a temperature of 60° C. and a relative humidity of 100% is 10.0 g·mm/(m2·24 h) or less. An oxygen permeability coefficient of the thermoplastic resin composition of the inner layer at a temperature of 21° C. and a relative humidity of 50% is 0.05 cm3 mm/(m2·day·mmHg) or less. A water vapor permeation amount of the hose is 6.0 mg/(240 h·cm2) or less. A hydrofluoroolefin HFO-1234yf permeation amount of the hose is 170 g/(m2·72 h) or less, and the mass per 1 m2 of the outer surface area of the hose is 3000 g/m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kenta WAKABAYASHI, Shusaku TOMOI, Shun SATO
  • Publication number: 20230038477
    Abstract: A resin composition for a refrigerant-transporting hose contains a thermoplastic resin and an elastomer, the thermoplastic resin and the elastomer forming a sea-island structure of a matrix of the thermoplastic resin and a domain of the elastomer, the resin composition having a P(O2), an M10, and a P(H2O) satisfying2: 0 < P(O2) x M10 ? 150 and log(P(H2O)/P(O2)) ? 0.9, where the P(O2) is an oxygen permeability coefficient [cm·cm3/(cm2·s·cmHg)] at a temperature of 21° C. and a relative humidity of 50%, the M10 is a 10% modulus [MPa] at a temperature of 25° C., and the P(H2O) is a water vapor permeability coefficient [cm·cm3/(cm2·s·cmHg)] at a temperature of 60° C. and a relative humidity of 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventor: Shun SATO
  • Publication number: 20230043773
    Abstract: A microorganism of the present invention is Dirkmeia churashimaensis (NITE BP-03054), Papiliotrema flavescens (NITE BP-03051), Papiliotrema flavescens (NITE BP-03052), or Apiotrichum porosum (NITE BP-03053).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki KOSHIYAMA, Mutsumi KANEKO, Yukihiro HIGASHIYAMA, Shun SATO, Tomotake MORITA, Azusa SAIKA
  • Patent number: 11566125
    Abstract: Provided is a thermoplastic elastomer composition which does not undergo viscosity increase during melt molding, gelation and molding failure, while having excellent heat resistance and durability. A thermoplastic elastomer composition for tires, which contains (A) an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer or a modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, (B) a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic elastomer, which has a melting point of 200° C. or higher, and (C) an acid-modified elastomer in an amount of 20% by volume or more based on the amount of all polymer components. This thermoplastic elastomer composition for tires is characterized in that if this thermoplastic elastomer composition for tires is extruded at a piston speed of 5 min/min at a temperature that is higher than the melting point of the thermoplastic resin or thermoplastic elastomer (B) by 20° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shun Sato, Shusaku Tomoi
  • Patent number: 11565669
    Abstract: A braking force controller causes a first actuator unit to generate a target jerk when the target jerk is equal to or larger than a first jerk, causes the first actuator unit to generate the first jerk and a second actuator unit to generate a jerk obtained by subtracting the first jerk from the target jerk as an additional jerk when the target jerk is smaller than the first jerk and equal to or larger than the sum of the first jerk and a second jerk, and causes the first actuator unit to generate the first jerk and the second actuator unit to generate the second jerk as the additional jerk when the target jerk is smaller than the sum of the first jerk and the second jerk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shun Sato, Kazuki Miyake, Yoshihisa Yamada, Akitsugu Sakai, Kazumitsu Sugano, Hiroya Fujiwara, Hiromasa Takai
  • Patent number: D988241
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shun Sato
  • Patent number: RE49777
    Abstract: A vehicular breaking force control system includes: a plurality of actuators capable of generating a braking force for a vehicle; a coasting state detection unit configured to detect that a coasting state has been established; a target braking force calculation unit configured to calculate a target braking force on the basis of a state of the vehicle when the coasting state detection unit detects that the coasting state has been established; and a braking force distribution control unit configured to determine a distribution braking force that is a braking force to be caused to be generated by each actuator, such that the distribution braking force is equal to or less than a braking force generable by the actuator and a sum of the distribution braking forces is equal to the target braking force, and to perform control of causing each actuator to generate the distribution braking force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Shimizu, Shun Sato, Katsumi Kono, Atsushi Ayabe, Noritake Mitsutani, Hiroki Nakano