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: 20250070424
    Abstract: In a battery, a lid member of a battery case is provided with a terminal part and a resin member. The terminal part has a terminal plate-shaped portion located inside the battery case, which extends wider than a through hole along an inner surface of the lid member. The resin member has an inner resin plate-shaped portion located between the inner surface of the lid member and the terminal plate-shaped portion. The lid member, on the inner surface side around the through hole, includes a protruding portion defined by a protruding inner surface joined to the inner resin plate-shaped portion and protruding toward the inside of the battery case relative to a non-protruding inner surface farther from the through hole than the protruding inner surface. Side surfaces of the protruding portion and the terminal plate-shaped portion do not project outward beyond a side surface of the inner resin plate-shaped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Satoshi FUJIMURA, Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250055093
    Abstract: A power storage device has a case member, a terminal member, and a resin member subjected to insert molding to fix the terminal member to the case member. The resin member is made of a resin material including a thermoplastic main resin having a first glass transition temperature equal to or higher than 70° C., a thermoplastic elastomer, and a filler. The elastomer has a second glass transition temperature that is equal to or higher than ?10° C. and equal to or lower than 20° C. and a third glass transition temperature equal to or lower than ?40° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250055160
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a current collecting terminal, a case member having a terminal insertion hole, and an insulating resin member connecting the current collecting terminal with a hole periphery and a hole surrounding portion of the terminal insertion hole. The current collecting terminal and the case member have seal portions that ensure airtightness in a case, at connecting portions connecting with the insulating resin member, and each of the seal portions is a roughened surface. The insulating resin member has a thermoplastic resin material including high molecular weight particles with a molecular weight of 10,000 or more and low molecular weight particles with a molecular weight of 500 to 5,000, and the low molecular weight particles are included 5 to 15% by weight in the thermoplastic resin material and are unevenly distributed closer to the roughened surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250055099
    Abstract: A power storage device has a case member, a first terminal member, a second terminal member, a first resin member hermetically joined to the case member and the first terminal member, and a second resin member hermetically joined to the case member and the second terminal member. The first resin member is made of a first resin material having a resin material linear expansion coefficient ? within the range of 1.6×10?5 to 2.7×10?5 (1/K), and the second resin member is made of a second resin material that is different from the first resin material and has a resin material flexural modulus E of 17 GPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Patent number: 12225314
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichi Yoneda, Yusuke Negoro, Takeya Hirose, Shunsuke Sato, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 12216430
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasutada Kato, Shunsuke Ishii, Masatoshi Shiraki, Shougo Sato
  • Publication number: 20250032652
    Abstract: Described is a stable radiopharmaceutical composition in which the decrease in the radiochemical purity over time is suppressed even in the case where the radioactivity concentration is high immediately after production. The stabilized radiopharmaceutical composition includes a polypeptide labeled with a radionuclide and having a group selected from the group consisting of a thioether group and a thiol group, as an active ingredient, a solubilizing agent having an ethylene glycol group, a solvent including water, and a stabilizer selected from the group consisting of a sulfur-containing amino acid or a salt thereof, a sulfur-containing amino acid derivative or a salt thereof, and a polysaccharide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: NIHON MEDI-PHYSICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki ICHIKAWA, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Michihiko TSUSHIMA, Takumi SATO, Satoshi KISHIMOTO, Yuta OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20250037069
    Abstract: A delivery support device includes a derivation unit that derives a route of a resource in a delivery apparatus, for minimizing a maximum value of a time during which the resource is exhausted at a plurality of first locations. The derivation unit derives the route on the basis of a branch-and-bound method using a relaxation problem of aggregating a plurality of second locations of which a delivery order is not determined among the plurality of first locations into one point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Manami OGAWA, Shunsuke KANAI, Kenji Murase, Masataka Sato, Kazuaki AKASHI, Hiroaki MATSUBAYASHI, Shohei Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12213063
    Abstract: A slice gateway connects one or more subslices in a network in which an E2E slice is made up of multiple subslices. The slice gateway receives an inspection packet, determines an output destination subslice of the inspection packet based on a distribution table, embeds an ID of the output destination subslice in a payload of the inspection packet, and outputs the packet that includes the embedded ID to the output destination subslice; and notifies a quality tabulation device of information regarding the inspection packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakamura, Tomohiro Okada, Shunsuke Homma, Takuya Sato, Hidetaka Nishihara
  • Publication number: 20250026883
    Abstract: An active ester resin comprising one or more of ?-methylbenzyl groups per one molecule is capable of achieving an excellent dielectric dissipation factor in a high temperature environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Ichiro OGURA, Naoya SATO, Shunsuke TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20250023145
    Abstract: In a partitioning member that is accommodated in a battery assembly to partition single cells and in which a liquid is sealed, an opening position of the partitioning member that opens upon receiving heat generated from the single cells is defined at a specific spot at a peripheral edge portion or a surface of the partitioning member. A partitioning member 1 includes a sealing portion 32 formed by sealing edge portions of multilayer sheets 31, 31 each including a resin layer and a metal layer in a band-like manner, a liquid and a heat insulation material 2 are sealed in an internal space surrounded by the sealing portion 32, and a weak seal strength portion 4A protruding from a side facing the internal space to an edge portion side of the sealing portion 32 is provided in the sealing portion 32.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya NINOMIYA, Kei HASHIMOTO, Akira MAKI, Shunsuke SATO
  • Publication number: 20250018945
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining travel information on travel of mobile bodies capable of autonomous travel and remote operation and/or monitoring; predicting, based on the travel information and location information on a first area in which the remote operation and/or monitoring is required, a first mobile body having a travel route scheduled to pass through the first area and being to enter the first area; identifying, based on the travel information and the location information, a second mobile body having a travel route scheduled to pass through the first area; determining whether the second mobile body catches up with the first mobile body before the first mobile body enters the first area; and outputting instruction information for causing the second mobile body to perform following control to follow the first mobile body, when the second mobile body catches up with the first mobile body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Masaki SATO, Shunsuke KUHARA
  • Publication number: 20240417742
    Abstract: A microorganism is cultivated in the presence of a carbon source. The microorganism is a transformed microorganism having an introduced fadH gene encoding 2,4-dienoyl-CoA reductase. That is, the transformed microorganism has an introduced foreign gene encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or an introduced foreign gene encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence that is at least 85% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1. The carbon source contains an oil containing unsaturated fatty acids as constituents or free unsaturated fatty acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken HARADA, Shunsuke SATO, Hisashi ARIKAWA
  • Patent number: 12134217
    Abstract: A method for producing an injection-molded body from a molding material containing a poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) resin includes: melting the molding material by heating the molding material to a temperature between a melting point peak temperature and a melting point peak end temperature in differential scanning calorimetry analysis of the molding material, wherein the difference between the melting point peak temperature and the melting point peak end temperature of the molding material is from 10 to 70° C.; injecting the molten molding material into a mold having a temperature of 30 to 80° C.; and cooling the molding material in the mold to crystallize and solidify the molding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Katsuta, Nobuo Nakamura, Shunsuke Sato
  • Patent number: 12120446
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Sato, Seiichi Yoneda, Yusuke Negoro, Takeya Hirose, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20240191266
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer mixture. The method includes the step of culturing a microorganism that produces the polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer mixture. The mixture contains: a fraction (I) containing a polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer having a 3-hydroxybutyrate structural unit and a 3-hydroxyhexanoate structural unit, the fraction (I) having an average 3-hydroxyhexanoate unit ratio of 20 mol % or more; and a fraction (II) containing a polyhydroxyalkanoate having a 3-hydroxybutyrate structural unit, the fraction (II) having an average 3-hydroxyhexanoate unit ratio of 0 to 15 mol %. The polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer mixture has an average 3-hydroxyhexanoate unit ratio of 22 mol % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi ARIKAWA, Shunsuke SATO, Sho FURUTATE
  • 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: 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