Patents by Inventor Takashi Kato

Takashi 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: 20200189973
    Abstract: A glass member for a housing of an electronic device may include an aluminosilicate glass substrate defining a first surface of the glass member, the first surface having a first surface roughness, a fused composite coating bonded to a portion of the aluminosilicate glass substrate and defining a second surface of the glass member, the second surface having a second surface roughness greater than the first surface roughness, a first ion-exchanged layer extending into the glass member and through the fused composite coating, and a second ion-exchanged layer extending into the glass member from the first surface. The fused composite coating may include an amorphous glass matrix and a crystalline material dispersed in the amorphous glass matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Masashige Tatebe, Takahiro Oshima, Jody Akana, Palaniappan Chinnakaruppan, Tushar S. Deshpande, Kenichi Nakajima, Shigehiro Sanichi, Takashi Kato, Koji Takano
  • Patent number: 10670912
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate, a first liquid crystal layer disposed between the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate, a third glass substrate, a fourth glass substrate, a second liquid crystal layer disposed between the third glass substrate and the fourth glass substrate, a first polarizing plate formed on the first glass substrate, a second polarizing plate formed on the third glass substrate, and a bonding layer disposed between the first glass substrate and the third glass substrate. In planar view, the bonding layer is disposed outside the first polarizing plate and the second polarizing plate, a surface on the bonding layer bonds to the first glass substrate, and a surface on the bonding layer bonds to the third glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Yasui, Takenori Yaguchi, Takaaki Kitada, Kazuhiko Tsuda, Takashi Kato, Hidenori Kikuchi, Naoki Terasawa, Katsuji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10661464
    Abstract: A drilling apparatus has a work robot mounting a drilling blade and moving inside a main pipe and a photodetector for detecting the contour of an opening image formed on the inner surface of a pipe lining material by illumination light. The opening image is scanned, and a two-dimensional image corresponding to the opening image is generated based on the contour points P0 to P8 detected by the photodetector for display on a display unit. The amount of positional deviation between the center of the two-dimensional image on the display unit and the axial center C of the rotary shaft of the drilling blade is calculated, and the pipe lining material is drilled by moving the drilling blade by the amount of positional deviation in a direction in which the positional deviation is eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Shonan Gosei-Jushi Seisakusho K.K.
    Inventors: Takao Kamiyama, Takashi Kato
  • Patent number: 10641987
    Abstract: A controller includes: operating member having movable range for operating a movable optical member; setting device setting relation between operation amount in entirety of movable range and command value in part of an operating range of the movable optical member; controller generating signal for controlling operation of the movable optical member, based on the set relation and an operation amount of the operating member in the movable range; and switcher switching mode between first mode causing the entirety of the movable range to correspond to entirety of the operating range, and second mode causing the entirety of the movable range to correspond to the part of the operating range. The setting device sets the relation such that a point in the operating range corresponding to a reference point, set by the setting device, in the movable range is unchanged in any of the first or second mode is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Kato
  • Publication number: 20200131373
    Abstract: Provided are a black mixed oxide that contains chromium per se of any valency as a main component, and fails to contain cobalt as the main component material, and has a high safety, an excellent color tone and economical efficiency, and a method for producing the same, and various products using the black mixed oxide material. The mixed oxides comprise oxides containing La, Mn and Cu as main components but containing neither Cr nor Co as a main component, wherein the contents of La, Mn and Cu in the mixed oxides satisfy the following ratios, as oxide equivalent amount with respect to 100% by weight of the oxide equivalent amount: the La content as La2O3 being 35-70 wt %; the Mn content as MnO2 being 25-60 wt %; and the Cu content as CuO being 0.5-10 wt %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicants: Nakashima Sangyo Co., Ltd., Okuno Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio NAKASHIMA, Takashi KATO
  • Patent number: 10627707
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a projector which is capable of reducing mechanical stress of an optical panel due to vibration of a coolant tube through which a coolant for cooling the optical panel is made to flow. A projector according to the present invention includes: an optical panel (60R, 60G, 60B); a heat receiving plate (30a, 30b, 30c) including a coolant passage inside and configured to receive heat released by the optical panel; a coolant tube (21a, 23a, 23b, 25a, 25b, 27a) having flexibility and connected to the heat receiving plate; and a supporting portion to which the coolant tube extending from the heat receiving plate is connected. The coolant tube is disposed along a direction in which a plane of the heat receiving plate is disposed at least at a portion where the coolant tube is connected to the heat receiving plate and a portion where the coolant tube is connected to the supporting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gota Kishimoto, Takashi Kato, Miki Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20200111062
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated or computer assisted planning of pipe replacement projects includes searching a database of pipe segments each having assigned or calculated failure risk parameters. The searching algorithm looks for connected pipe segments falling within a customer's specified project size and identifies potential projects having a relatively high combined high failure risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Fracta
    Inventors: Daichi YOSHIKAWA, Takashi KATO, Yongyang WANG, Tomohiro KAWAJI, Joel Michael WEINGARTEN
  • Publication number: 20200104615
    Abstract: An occupant monitoring device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image obtained by imaging a region in which there is a probability that a face of an occupant is present in a vehicle; a determination unit that determines whether the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit corresponds to at least a first image not including a feature portion of the face of the occupant but including at least a part of a body of the occupant or a second image not including the body of the occupant; and a processing unit that monitors a state change of the face of the occupant based on the captured image, and switches whether or not an occupant parameter set for monitoring the state change of the face of the occupant is to be reset according to a determination result in the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin OSUGA, Takashi KATO, Yuya YAMADA, Tetsuya HATTORI, Yoshiyuki YAMADA, Yuta KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20200105016
    Abstract: An eyeball information estimation device includes: an acquisition unit acquiring an image including a pupil of a subject and a Purkinje image of the subject; a detection unit detecting a center position of the pupil and a position of the Purkinje image; a selection unit selecting which of first and second sight line angle calculation processings of calculating a sight line angle of the eye of the subject is to be executed; and a processing unit estimating an eyeball center position of the subject based on a three-dimensional face model and updating an eyeball center position of a storage unit, at least on a condition that a pupil reliability is higher than a first pupil threshold value, and a Purkinje reliability is higher than a first Purkinje threshold value, when the first sight line angle calculation processing is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuya YAMADA, Takashi KATO, Hironobu HODA
  • Publication number: 20200104590
    Abstract: An eyeball information detection device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by imaging a region in which there is a probability that a face of an occupant is present in a vehicle by an imaging device provided in proximity to an illumination device that emits light to the region; and a detection unit configured to output eyeball information that corresponds to the captured image by receiving the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit as an input based on a learned model generated by learning a learning image including information similar to the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit and a correct value of the eyeball information on an eyeball of the occupant appearing in the learning image, by machine learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin OSUGA, Takashi KATO, Yuya YAMADA, Yuta KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20200104571
    Abstract: An occupant modeling device includes: an acquisition section acquiring an image by imaging a region where there is a probability that a face of an occupant is present; a model fitting section generating a model of the face based on a first image acquired by the acquisition section; a tracking section adapting the model to a second image acquired after the first image; a determination section determining correctness of a facial part position included in the second image to which the model is adapted, by using learned information obtained through learning based on correct information and incorrect information regarding the facial part position; and a processing section determining whether a process in the tracking section is to be continuously executed or a process in the model fitting section is to be executed again according to a determination result in the determination section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin OSUGA, Takashi KATO, Yoshiyuki YAMADA, Tetsuya HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20200063906
    Abstract: A drilling apparatus includes a hydraulic motor 27 for rotating a drilling blade 30 that drills a pipe lining material 13, laser light sources 40, 41 for emitting laser beams toward the pipe lining material parallel to the rotary shaft of the drilling blade from positions near the drilling blade to form laser spots on the inner circumferential surface of the pipe lining material, an electric motor 28 for rotating the laser light sources coaxially with the rotary shaft of the drilling blade, and a camera 50 for photographing the trajectory of the laser spots rotating on the inner circumferential surface of the pipe lining material and a bright area that is formed on the inner circumferential surface of the pipe lining material by illumination light from the lateral pipe side. The positioning of the drilling blade is performed so that the trajectory image and the bright area image match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Takao KAMIYAMA, Takashi KATO
  • Publication number: 20200039571
    Abstract: Provided is a hollow rack bar including a rack portion that is engaged with a pinion gear and faces supported by a yoke. The hollow rack bar includes: the rack portion engaged with the pinion gear; and the supported faces provided on a back side of teeth of the rack portion and supported by the yoke. The rack portion is formed by locating a toothed mold on an outer face of a circular tube material, and inserting a cored bar into the circular tube material to pressurize an inner face, thereby transferring a shape of the toothed mold. The supported faces are formed by removal processing or deformation processing of a back side of the teeth rack portion of the circular tube material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: NETUREN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kato, Takashi Yamawaki
  • Publication number: 20200028188
    Abstract: A resin film equipped MEA of a power generation cell includes a membrane electrode assembly and a resin film. An inner peripheral end of a first frame shaped sheet of the resin film is positioned outside an outer peripheral end of a cathode, and faces the outer peripheral end of the cathode so as to be separated by a gap. An inner peripheral portion of a second frame shaped sheet is held between the anode and the cathode. A first metal separator facing the first frame shaped sheet is provided with protruding support structure configured to support an inner peripheral portion of the first frame shaped sheet and an outer peripheral portion of the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji Sasaki, Yutaka Ebato, Takaaki Shikano, Takashi Kato, Sho Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10541341
    Abstract: A light receiving device includes a light absorbing layer. The light absorbing layer includes multiple unit structures. Each unit structure has an InAs portion, a first GaSb portion, an InSb portion, and a second GaSb portion, which are arranged in a direction of an axis. One of the group-III atomic plane and the group-V atomic plane in the first GaSb portion is bonded to another of the group-III atomic plane and the group-V atomic plane in the InAs portion. One of the group-III atomic plane and the group-V atomic plane of the InSb portion is bonded to another of the group-III atomic plane and the group-V atomic plane of the first GaSb portion. One of the group-III atomic plane and the group-V atomic plane of the second GaSb portion is bonded to another of the group-III atomic plane and the group-V atomic plane of the InSb portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Kato
  • Patent number: 10491065
    Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous motor includes a stator with a stator winding, a rotor with a rotor core rotatable relative to the stator, and a magnetic structure with at least one permanent magnet mounted to the rotor core. The magnetic structure produces a magnetic flux that flows between different magnetic poles of the magnetic structure through a main magnetic flux path that passes through the stator winding of the stator via an air gap and a leakage magnetic flux path that is located within the rotor core about an end portion of the permanent magnet near the air gap. The stator, the rotor and the magnetic structure being further configured to satisfy predetermined relationships in regards to the magnetic resistance of the main magnetic flux path and the leakage magnetic flux path, the magnetomotive force of the magnets and the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Kensuke Sasaki, Takashi Fukushige, Takashi Kato, Robert D. Lorenz, Apoorva Athavale
  • Patent number: 10483892
    Abstract: A variable magnetization machine control system comprising a controller configured to adjust a d-axis current waveform and a q-axis current waveform in accordance with an operating condition of a variable magnetization machine to generate an adjusted d-axis current waveform and an adjusted q-axis current waveform that provide a driving voltage to drive the variable magnetization machine at a predetermined speed while maintaining the driving voltage below a predetermined maximum magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Takashi Fukushige, Takashi Kato, Brent S. Gagas, Robert D. Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20190334183
    Abstract: In a fuel cell stack, a stack body includes a plurality of power generation cells stacked in a stacking direction, and a first dummy cell is provided at one end of the stack body in the stacking direction. The first dummy cell includes a dummy assembly, a dummy resin frame member, and a dummy joint separator. The dummy resin member includes a first resin sheet and a second resin sheet. An inner exposed portion is provided in an inner periphery of the first resin sheet. The inner exposed portion extends inward beyond an inner end of the second resin sheet. A first heat welding portion is provided discontinuously in a stack part where the inner exposed portion and the first electrically conductive porous sheet of the dummy assembly are stacked together. The dummy resin frame member and the dummy assembly are joined together by the first heat welding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Yutaka Ebato, Takashi Kato
  • Patent number: D879767
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: KOHOKU KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Iwasaki, Takashi Kato
  • Patent number: D879768
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: KOHOKU KOGYO CP., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Iwasaki, Takashi Kato