Patents by Inventor Shunsuke Sato

Shunsuke 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: 20240111244
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, having a main housing, a first photosensitive drum, a second photosensitive drum, a first developing device to supply toner to the first photosensitive drum, a second developing device to supply toner to the second photosensitive drum, a first reloading device to reload the first developing device with the toner, and a second reloading device to reload the second developing device with the toner, is provided. The first reloading device has a first reloading port, which accepts the toner for reloading the first developing device. The first reloading port is openable to an outside of the main housing. The second reloading device has a second reloading port, which accepts the toner for reloading the second developing device. The second reloading port is openable to the outside of the main housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yasutada KATO, Shunsuke ISHII, Masatoshi SHIRAKI, Shougo SATO
  • Publication number: 20240112496
    Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. A determination unit determines, based on at least one of first face information and first posture information of a first person detected from an image, and second posture information of a second person different from the first person, whether a face of the first person is occluded by part of the first person or part of the second person. An authentication unit performs face authentication of the first person, in a case where the determination unit determines that the face of the first person is not occluded by part of the first person or part of the second person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: Shunsuke SATO
  • Patent number: 11932015
    Abstract: A print head includes a generation portion that amplifies an input signal to generate a drive signal, an ejection portion that includes a first driving element driven by a drive signal, and ejects a liquid in response to the drive of the first driving element, a supply portion that includes a first switch for switching between supply and non-supply of the drive signal to the first driving element, and a sound emitting portion that includes a second driving element driven by the drive signal, and a second switch for switching between supply and non-supply of the drive signal to the second driving element, and emits sound in response to the drive of the second driving element, in which the first switch and the second switch are turned on exclusively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Masahiro Toki, Tatsuya Sato, Shunsuke Kasai
  • Patent number: 11928293
    Abstract: An input device is characterized in that in a first stroke region in which an operation panel is pushed during a touch operation, a first reaction force that occurs by pushing the operation panel is generated by the first elastic portion. In a second stroke region including a stroke longer than in the first stroke region and a stroke for performing a push operation, a second reaction force that occurs by pushing the operation panel is a resultant force generated by a first elastic portion and the push switch. In the vicinity of a boundary between the first stroke region and the second stroke region, the amount of change in the first reaction force with respect to a stroke length is less than the amount of change in the second reaction force with respect to a stroke length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Sato, Shunsuke Sato, Shinya Urayama
  • Publication number: 20240057704
    Abstract: A problem to be solved of the invention is to provide a fiber for artificial hair comprising polyamide, which has a glossy feeling with suppressed luster similar to natural hair, is excellent in persistent antistatic properties, and also excellent in heat-setting properties. The means for solving the problem is a fiber for artificial hair comprising a thermoplastic polyamide and a polymeric antistatic agent having compatibility with the thermoplastic polyamide, wherein the polymeric antistatic agent has a melting point equal to or lower than the melting point of the thermoplastic polyamide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Aderans Company Limited
    Inventors: Shunsuke SATO, Shiho MATSUMOTO, Fumitaka SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20240061525
    Abstract: An input device including a panel that is held in a tiltable manner, a plurality of input operation sections that are disposed on the panel and that are capable of detecting a touch input operation, a pressure detector that detects pressure to the panel, and a pressing determination section that determines pressing based on a result of the pressure detection performed by the pressure detector, further includes a tilt detector that detects tilt of the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi IIMURE, Shunsuke SATO
  • Patent number: 11908197
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects an object from an image, includes a determination unit configured to determine a boundary at which a movement of the object between partial regions in the image is estimated, the partial regions each including a plurality of objects, and an estimation unit configured to estimate movement information indicating a number of objects that have passed the boundary determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunsuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20240006674
    Abstract: A sensor capable of detecting local expansion or the like is provided, and a storage battery system including a safety system such as the sensor and a secondary battery is provided. The storage battery system includes a first secondary battery and a second secondary battery each including an exterior body holding an electrolyte solution, a positive electrode, and a negative electrode; a sensor member provided to be in contact with part of the exterior body; and a detection circuit controlling the sensor member. The first secondary battery includes a memory unit storing data collected with gas introduction into the second secondary battery, a learning model constructed on the basis of the data, and an estimated value obtained using the learning model; and a unit providing information based on the estimated value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi OSADA, Takayuki IKEDA, Yosuke TSUKAMOTO, Hiroki INOUE, Kiyotaka KIMURA, Shunsuke SATO, Toshiki MIZUGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230408595
    Abstract: Provided is a power storage system, a secondary battery control system, a secondary battery measurement circuit, or the like that consumes low power. Provided is a power storage system, a secondary battery control system, a secondary battery measurement circuit, or the like that is highly integrated. The power storage system includes a secondary battery and a measurement circuit; the measurement circuit includes a resistor, a capacitor, and an inductor; one terminal of the resistor is electrically connected to one electrode of the capacitor; the other terminal of the resistor is electrically connected to one terminal of the inductor; one terminal of the inductor is electrically connected to a positive electrode of the secondary battery; and the measurement circuit has a function of measuring impedance of the secondary battery by measuring current of the resistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Takayuki IKEDA, Yosuke TSUKAMOTO, Takeshi OSADA, Hiroki INOUE, Kiyotaka KIMURA, Shunsuke SATO, Toshiki MIZUGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11746407
    Abstract: A method includes: sandwiching a plastic layer between a glass substrate and a metal plate made of an iron-nickel alloy and joining the metal plate to the glass substrate with the plastic layer in between; forming a mask portion including a plurality of mask holes from the metal plate; joining a surface of the mask portion that is opposite to a surface of the mask portion that is in contact with the plastic layer to a mask frame, which has a higher rigidity than the mask portion and is in a shape of a frame surrounding the mask holes of the mask portion; and peeling off the plastic layer and the glass substrate from the mask portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Sato, Reiji Terada, Naoko Mikami
  • Publication number: 20230265468
    Abstract: In culturing a poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate)-producing microorganism, an oil A and an oil B are used as the carbon source. The proportion of the oil B to the total amount of the oils A and B used during the entire course of the culturing is 10 wt% or more. The oil A is the total oil used until the amount of the poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) accumulated in the poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate)-producing microorganism reaches 16 wt%, and the average unsaturated fatty acid content in constituent fatty acids is from 25 wt% to less than 75 wt% in the total oil A. The unsaturated fatty acid content in constituent fatty acids in the oil B is higher than the average unsaturated fatty acid content in the total oil A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Harada, Shunsuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20230179888
    Abstract: An imaging device that has an image processing function and is capable of operating at high speed is provided. The imaging device has an additional function such as image processing, image data obtained by an imaging operation is binarized in a pixel unit, and a product-sum operation is performed using the binarized data. A memory circuit is provided in the pixel unit and retains a weight coefficient used for the product-sum operation. Thus, an arithmetic operation can be performed without the weight coefficient read from the outside every time, whereby power consumption can be reduced. Furthermore, a pixel circuit, a memory circuit, and the like and a product-sum operation circuit and the like are stacked, so that the lengths of wirings between the circuits can be reduced, and high-speed operation with low power consumption can be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Shunsuke SATO, Seiichi YONEDA, Yusuke NEGORO, Takeya HIROSE, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230156376
    Abstract: An imaging device that has an image processing function and is capable of a high-speed operation is provided. The imaging device has an additional function such as image processing, and can retain analog data obtained by an image capturing operation in pixels and extract data obtained by multiplying the analog data by a given weight coefficient. In the imaging device, the data is stored in a memory cell and pooling processing of data stored in a plurality of memory cells can be performed. The pixels are provided so as to have a region overlapping with at least one of the memory cells, a pooling processing circuit, and a reading circuit of the pixels; thus, an increase in the area of the imaging device can be inhibited even with an additional function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Seiichi YONEDA, Yusuke NEGORO, Takeya HIROSE, Shunsuke SATO, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230144505
    Abstract: A multifunctional imaging device is provided. The imaging device includes first to fourth light-receiving elements and first and second functional layers. The first to fourth light-receiving elements are photoelectric conversion elements having sensitivity to light of different wavelengths from each other. The first and second functional layers each include first and second transistors. The first functional layer and the fourth to first light-receiving elements are stacked in this order over the second functional layer. In each of the first to fourth light-receiving elements, a first conductive layer, a first buffer layer, a photoelectric conversion layer, a second buffer layer, and a second conductive layer are stacked in this order. The photoelectric conversion layer includes an organic compound, and the first buffer layer and the second buffer layer each include a metal or an organic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke NEGORO, Seiichi YONEDA, Hiroki INOUE, Shunsuke SATO, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11634696
    Abstract: Provided is a mutant polyhydroxyalkanoate synthetase having an amino acid sequence which has 85% or more sequence identity with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and which contains a mutation of substitution of at least one of the amino acids at the 27th to 33rd, 39th, 56th, 106th, 129th, 144th, 165th, 170th and 172nd to 187th positions from the N-terminus of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 with another amino acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Kobayashi, Shunsuke Sato, Naoaki Taoka
  • Publication number: 20230027171
    Abstract: A cathode electrode for a gas diffusion electrolytic flow cell that produces a carbon dioxide reduction product by reducing carbon dioxide, wherein the cathode electrode comprises a catalyst layer having a metal complex catalyst, a carbon material and an alkali metal salt, and a gas diffusion layer disposed on the catalyst layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Shunsuke SATO, Keita SEKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220411830
    Abstract: A polyhydroxyalkanoate-producing microorganism is cultured to obtain microbial bodies accumulating polyhydroxyalkanoate particles and having an average cell size of 2 ?m or more. The microbial bodies are subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature higher than a temperature in the culturing to increase an average particle size of the polyhydroxyalkanoate particles in the microbial bodies. The resulting average particle size is equal to or greater than 1.8 ?m and equal to or smaller than the average cell size. The microbial bodies subjected to the heat treatment can be disrupted to obtain a cell disruption solution. The PHA particles can be separated from an aqueous phase of the cell disruption solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi ARIKAWA, Shunsuke SATO, Yoshihiro MOURI
  • Patent number: 11533424
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set an imaging condition under which an imaging apparatus captures a video, a region determination unit configured to determine a detectable region in which a detection target is detectable in the video, based on the imaging condition, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a desired detection condition under which a user desires detection for the detection target to be executed, and a condition determination unit configured to determine a detection condition under which the detection target is detected from the video, based on the desired detection condition and the detectable region determined based on at least one imaging condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunsuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20220382397
    Abstract: An input device is characterized in that in a first stroke region in which an operation panel is pushed during a touch operation, a first reaction force that occurs by pushing the operation panel is generated by the first elastic portion. In a second stroke region including a stroke longer than in the first stroke region and a stroke for performing a push operation, a second reaction force that occurs by pushing the operation panel is a resultant force generated by a first elastic portion and the push switch. In the vicinity of a boundary between the first stroke region and the second stroke region, the amount of change in the first reaction force with respect to a stroke length is less than the amount of change in the second reaction force with respect to a stroke length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi SATO, Shunsuke SATO, Shinya URAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220315958
    Abstract: Provided is a transformed microorganism that has a polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase gene and in which expression of an A1386 gene and/or an A2405 gene is reduced. In the transformed microorganism, expression of a minC gene and a minD gene may be enhanced. Also provided is a method of producing a PHA, the method including the step of culturing the transformed microorganism in the presence of a carbon source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro MOURI, Hisashi ARIKAWA, Shunsuke SATO