Patents by Inventor Takumi Sato

Takumi 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: 11976583
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reservoir tank for coolant that stores the coolant for cooling an internal combustion engine. The reservoir tank includes: a tank chamber that stores the coolant; an opening, which is disposed in an upper part of the tank chamber, through which the coolant flows in and flows out, and in a circumferential wall of which a breathing hole is formed; and a first communication passage, a second communication passage, and a third communication passage that respectively communicate with the opening and the tank chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miyo Kitamura, Shinji Shimoyama, Keijiro Koide, Masahiro Kato, Tatsuya Kurimoto, Tatsuki Tanaka, Koji Sato, Takumi Tokinoya
  • Patent number: 11971683
    Abstract: Provided an electrophotographic electro-conductive member that can stably suppress an occurrence of fogging in an electrophotographic image. The member comprises a support having an electro-conductive outer surface, and an electro-conductive layer on the outer surface of the support, the electro-conductive layer having a matrix including a cross-linked product of a first rubber, and domains dispersed in the matrix, the domains each includes a cross-linked product of a second rubber and an electro-conductive particle, at least some of the domains is exposed to the outer surface of the electro-conductive member to constitute protrusions on an outer surface of the member, the outer surface of the electro-conductive member is constituted by the matrix and the domains exposed to the outer surface of the electrophotographic electro-conductive member, the electrophotographic electro-conductive member has an impedance of 1.0×103? or more and 1.0×108? or less, and some of the domains satisfy two specific requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Nishioka, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Hiroaki Watanabe, Takumi Furukawa, Yasuhiro Fushimoto, Masahiro Kurachi, Kenji Takashima, Yuichi Kikuchi, Kana Sato
  • Publication number: 20240124050
    Abstract: An auxiliary power supply unit includes an auxiliary power supply device and a downstream power supply line group connecting the auxiliary power supply device to motor units. The auxiliary power supply device includes: an auxiliary power supply provided on a power supply path; and a switching circuit configured to switch the connection state of the auxiliary power supply to the power supply path. The connection state of the auxiliary power supply includes a boost state in which the auxiliary power supply is connected in series with the external power supply. The downstream power supply line group includes branch first downstream drive lines and branch second downstream drive lines. Each of the upstream ends of the branch first downstream drive lines and the branch second downstream drive lines is connected to the power supply path at a position downstream of the auxiliary power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomonori TOTOUMI, Takumi MIO, Fumihiko SATO, Satoshi SHINODA, Hiroki NITTA, Kouhei OTA
  • Patent number: 11958494
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires pieces of information including information related to a vehicle, information related to the environment inside and outside the vehicle, and information related to a driver on board the vehicle. A determination unit determines priorities of the pieces of information acquired by the acquisition unit on the basis of a service or the like used by the driver among services or the likes provided using information accumulated in a server device. A selection unit selects a piece of information to be transmitted to the server device from among the pieces of information acquired by the acquisition unit on the basis of the priorities determined by the determination unit. A communication unit transmits the piece of information selected by the selection unit to the server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanobu Osawa, Daisuke Fushiki, Takuji Morimoto, Takumi Sato, Hiroyoshi Shibata, Tetsuro Nishioka, Mizuki Higuchi, Shogo Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20240092337
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes front-wheel and rear-wheel driving systems, and a control system. The front-wheel driving system includes a first travel motor mechanically coupled to a front wheel of a vehicle and a first accumulator electrically coupled to the first travel motor. The rear-wheel driving system includes a second travel motor mechanically coupled to a rear wheel of the vehicle and a second accumulator electrically coupled to the second travel motor. The control system includes one or more processors and one or more memories communicably coupled to the one or more processors, and controls the first and second travel motors. When a difference between an SOC of the first accumulator and an SOC of the second accumulator is greater than a threshold value, the one or more processors change a torque distribution ratio between the first and second travel motors from a reference distribution ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi KUSANO, Yoshinobu YAMAZAKI, Masami OGURI, Akihiro NABESHIMA, Yoshiyuki JIN, Takeshi YONEDA, Fumiya SATO, Keigo YAMADA, Takumi ARAKI, Shuntaro MIURA
  • Publication number: 20240077015
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reservoir tank for coolant that stores the coolant for cooling an internal combustion engine. The reservoir tank includes: a tank chamber that stores the coolant; an opening, which is disposed in an upper part of the tank chamber, through which the coolant flows in and flows out, and in a circumferential wall of which a breathing hole is formed; and a first communication passage, a second communication passage, and a third communication passage that respectively communicate with the opening and the tank chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Miyo KITAMURA, Shinji SHIMOYAMA, Keijiro KOIDE, Masahiro KATO, Tatsuya KURIMOTO, Tatsuki TANAKA, Koji SATO, Takumi TOKINOYA
  • Publication number: 20240066898
    Abstract: A printing device 1 includes a print section 8 for printing on a continuous medium M, a pair of holding sections 3 each having an insertion section 15 configured to be inserted into one of a first winding core of the wound medium M or a second winding core for winding the medium M from an outer side in an extending direction of the winding core, and a support section 19 for supporting the holding section 3, wherein the support section 19 is disposed closer to the print section 8 than the holding section 3 in a first direction, which is a direction from the holding section 3 toward the support section 19, of directions perpendicular to the extending direction of the winding core. By adopting the printing device 1 having such a configuration, it is possible to configure the printing device 1 to be lowered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Takumi SATO, Shoji AKATSU, Shuhei KUROTOBI
  • Publication number: 20240067189
    Abstract: Included are: a surrounding situation acquiring unit that acquires surrounding situation information regarding a situation around a control target apparatus; a control amount inferring unit that infers a control amount of the control target apparatus on the basis of the surrounding situation information and acquires attention-paid region information regarding an attention-paid region in the surrounding situation information used when the control amount is inferred; a target detecting unit that detects a position of a target present around the control target apparatus on the basis of the surrounding situation information acquired by the surrounding situation acquiring unit; and a reliability determining unit that determines reliability of the control amount inferred by the control amount inferring unit on the basis of the attention-paid region information acquired by the control amount inferring unit and target position information regarding the position of the target detected by the target detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi SATO, Takuji MORIMOTO, Genki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240046101
    Abstract: When a first determination unit determines that a total necessary time does not satisfy a requested necessary time, or when a second determination unit determines that accuracy of inference does not satisfy requested inference accuracy, a generation unit generates a second operation combination different from a first operation combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genki TANAKA, Takumi SATO
  • Publication number: 20230386219
    Abstract: An acquisition unit to acquire input data; an abstraction unit to generate abstraction data representing the input data in an abstract expression form on a basis of the input data acquired by the acquisition unit; a feature amount extracting unit to output a feature amount of the abstraction data by using the abstraction data generated by the abstraction unit as an input; a restoration unit to output restored abstraction data obtained by restoring the abstraction data by using the feature amount output by the feature amount extracting unit as an input; and a reliability determination unit to determine reliability of the feature amount output by the feature amount extracting unit on a basis of the abstraction data generated by the abstraction unit and the restored abstraction data output by the restoration unit are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuji MORIMOTO, Takumi SATO
  • Patent number: 11787321
    Abstract: The vehicle seat includes a seat back 2 having a support surface 11, a recessed portion 28 that is provided on a back surface 12 of the seat back 2 opposite to the support surface 11 and formed to be recessed from the back surface 12 toward the inside of the seat back 2, and a socket 7 provided inside the recessed portion 28, to which an external device is connected, and which is provided on a surface inclined to face upward with respect to the back surface 12 of the seat back 2. The back surface 12 of the seat back 2 is provided with a socket housing 6 that is attached to a skin 13 of the seat back 2 and is formed to be recessed toward the inside of the seat back 2. A space inside the socket housing 6 is the recessed portion 28.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tohru Inagaki, Takumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20230256565
    Abstract: Provided is a wet blasting treatment device including a first nozzle unit that discharges, toward a target treatment region of a workpiece, slurry in which a first liquid and abrasive grains are mixed, a second nozzle unit that discharges a second liquid toward an untreated region adjacent to the target treatment region such that a liquid film is formed in the target treatment region of the workpiece, and a control unit that controls a discharge amount of the second liquid discharged by the second nozzle unit such that the liquid film has a predetermined thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki MORI, Takumi SATO, Takayuki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230182494
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, a frame, a cover configured to open and close relative to the frame, and an open-close mechanism. The open-close mechanism includes a base attached to the frame, a holder attached to the base, a shaft attached to the holder, an arm attached to the shaft, the cover being attached to the arm, and a lockscrew configured to fix the holder to the base. The base includes an attachment hole used to attach the holder to the base, and a protrusion protruding toward the holder. The holder includes a holder hole overlapping with the attachment hole, and a guide hole into which the protrusion is inserted. The guide hole is an elongated hole elongated in one direction. The holder hole is an elongated hole elongated in the one direction. The lockscrew is inserted into the attachment hole and the holder hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: Takumi SATO
  • Patent number: 11614022
    Abstract: A second temperature adjustment medium branches and flows into the first branch flow path and the second branch flow path at the branching portion, the second temperature adjustment medium and the second temperature adjustment medium are merged at the merging portion and flow through the pressure feed flow path to be supplied to the first pump, and the second temperature adjustment medium circulates through the second temperature adjustment circuit. A valve device configured to adjust a flow rate of the second temperature adjustment medium flowing through the second branch flow path is provided in the second branch flow path between the branching portion and the heat exchanger. The control device is configured to control the valve device to block the second temperature adjustment medium from flowing through the second branch flow path when a failure of the heat exchanger is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Honjo, Tomoyo Honjo, Takumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20220406504
    Abstract: The superconducting coil includes: a winding frame; and at least two superconducting rectangular wire layers provided in such a manner that a superconducting rectangular wire is spirally wound on an outer surface of the frame such that wires adjacent to each other in an axial direction of the frame are arranged side by side and separated, the wire including an NbTi-based or Nb3Sn-based wire having a surface coated with copper or copper alloy, in which at least a thermoplastic fusible resin is provided in a separated section between the adjacent wires, and when viewed in a cross section including an axis of the frame, at least one of voids that are partitionable on outer surfaces of a total of three wires and a total of four wires located on the two adjacent layers and adjacent to each other are 4% or less in terms of a void ratio (V1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yonghoon KIM, Hideki II, Takumi SATO, Daisuke ASAMI, Masahiro SUGIMOTO, Hirokazu TSUBOUCHI
  • Patent number: 11427916
    Abstract: A surface treatment apparatus includes a treatment vessel including a treatment space in which a metal component is disposed, a spray nozzle that supplies mist of a non-chromate conversion treatment liquid to the treatment space, and a circulation device that collects the non-chromate conversion treatment liquid from the treatment space and supplies the non-chromate conversion treatment liquid to the spray nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Mikawa, Hiromitsu Nagayasu, Shigehiro Sugiyama, Takumi Sato, Kohei Kawasaki, Yusuke Takagi
  • Patent number: 11415423
    Abstract: A map information management device includes a processor; and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform processes of: acquiring map information and determining a guiding route for a vehicle, determining whether the vehicle has operated in accordance with the guiding route, acquiring a position where the vehicle is determined to have operated differently from the guiding route, acquiring an image in which the acquired position is captured, acquiring landmark information from the acquired image, and generating difference information on a difference between the acquired landmark information and landmark information included in map information of the position where the vehicle is determined to have operated differently from the guiding route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20220242446
    Abstract: Included are: an information acquisition unit for acquiring a plurality of pieces of vehicle surrounds information output from a plurality of respective sensors; a control amount inferring unit for inferring an automatic driving control amount on the basis of the plurality of pieces of vehicle surrounds information and a machine learning model, and outputting the automatic driving control amount; a monitoring unit for determining whether or not the reliability of any one of the plurality of pieces of vehicle surrounds information has decreased; and a control unit for controlling, when the monitoring unit determines that the reliability of any one of the plurality of pieces of vehicle surrounds information has decreased, the control amount inferring unit in such a way as to output the automatic driving control amount excluding an influence of the one of the plurality of pieces of vehicle surrounds information whose reliability is determined to be decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Takumi SATO
  • Publication number: 20220242290
    Abstract: To provide a vehicle seat capable of widening a space for a passenger to board. A vehicle seat (1) is provided with a seat back (2) having a support surface which supports a back surface of a passenger; a socket (7) which is provided on the back surface of the seat back (2) opposite to the support surface and to which an external device is connected; and a booster unit (9) which extends from the socket (7) toward an inside of the seat back (2) and is housed inside the seat back (2). The booster unit (9) is disposed diagonally downward from the back surface toward the support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Toru Inagaki, Takumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20220242291
    Abstract: The vehicle seat includes a seat back 2 having a support surface 11, a recessed portion 28 that is provided on a back surface 12 of the seat back 2 opposite to the support surface 11 and formed to be recessed from the back surface 12 toward the inside of the seat back 2, and a socket 7 provided inside the recessed portion 28, to which an external device is connected, and which is provided on a surface inclined to face upward with respect to the back surface 12 of the seat back 2. The back surface 12 of the seat back 2 is provided with a socket housing 6 that is attached to a skin 13 of the seat back 2 and is formed to be recessed toward the inside of the seat back 2. A space inside the socket housing 6 is the recessed portion 28.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Tohru Inagaki, Takumi Sato