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).
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Publication number: 20190184866Abstract: A seat device includes a seatback frame attached to a seat cushion frame via a seatback attachment member. The seatback attachment member includes a first attachment point to which the seat cushion frame extending forward is attached, a second attachment point to which the rear portion of the seat cushion frame is attached, and a third attachment point to which the lower portion of the seatback frame is rotatably attached. The second attachment point has a floating structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Hidekazu TAMAKI, Takumi SATO, Hideki HITOMI
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Publication number: 20190186576Abstract: A damper device includes: a case; a weight elastically supported in the case; and a second elastic member that is fixed to a surface of the case that faces the weight. The weight and the second elastic member are separated from each other, and a spring rate of the second elastic member has a nonlinear characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Hidekazu TAMAKI, Takumi SATO, Hideki HITOMI, Junko KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20190176667Abstract: A seat back of a seat includes: a seat back frame; a front side elastic member positioned on a user side; a rear side elastic member disposed more rearward than the front side elastic member is; and a pressure receiving member disposed at a rear of the rear side elastic member. The rear side elastic member has a lower resilience than the front side elastic member. The pressure receiving member supports the front side elastic member and the rear side elastic member while being supported by the seat back frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Hidekazu TAMAKI, Takumi SATO, Hideki HITOMI
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Patent number: 10266789Abstract: A processing method includes processing a metal wire rod using an emulsion lubricant that includes an oil and a nonionic surfactant at an oil-to-nonionic surfactant ratio of 1:0.3 to 0.9 (in mass ratio). The method may include purifying the emulsion lubricant after being used for processing the metal wire rod while maintaining the oil-to-nonionic surfactant ratio of 1:0.3 to 0.9 (in mass ratio) and then reusing the purified emulsion lubricant to process the metal wire rod.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Kotaro Tanaka, Takumi Sato, Yosuke Watanabe, Mamoru Ohashi, Yukio Kikuchi
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Patent number: 10260700Abstract: The vehicle-mounted light source device of the present invention includes a light source unit including a light source that emits a red laser beam, a light source that emits a green laser beam, and a light source that emits a blue laser beam; a light combining system that combines the red laser beam, the green laser beam, and the blue laser beam; a light diffusing element that adjusts diffusion angles of light beams emitted from the light combining system to a predetermined angle; an optical projection system that projects light beams emitted from the light diffusing element to distance; and a light distribution controller that is disposed between the light diffusing element and the optical projection system and that controls distributions of light beams introduced into the optical projection system.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mikio Shimizu, Takumi Sato
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Publication number: 20190083549Abstract: A novel agent useful for improving brain function is provided. The active ingredient in this agent is a Bifidobacterium breve and/or a Bifidobacterium breve-containing cultured material is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: MORINAGA MILK INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yodai Kobayashi, Tetsuya Kuhara, Kanetada Shimizu, Takumi Sato
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Patent number: 10059129Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing portion that performs printing on a medium, a cutting portion that is capable of moving in a movement direction and that has cutting blades that cut the medium and a housing unit that holds the cutting blades, and a contact portion provided at a position at which the contact portion comes into contact with the housing unit when the cutting portion moves in the movement direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takumi Sato
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Patent number: 10006138Abstract: A copper foil includes a copper-based metal sheet including mainly a copper, and a surface-treated layer that is provided on the copper-based metal sheet and includes an amorphous layer including oxygen and a metal with a higher oxygen affinity than a copper. A total thickness of the copper-based metal sheet and the surface-treated layer is less than 0.55 mm.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Hideyuki Sagawa, Keisuke Fujito, Takumi Sato, Hiromitsu Kuroda
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Patent number: 9994045Abstract: Disclosed are a light irradiation apparatus that prevents or suppresses projection of light on adjoining other portions and can be miniaturized overall, and a photocurable material treatment apparatus that includes this light irradiation apparatus. The light irradiation apparatus includes: a light source having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in the x direction; and an elongated cylindrical lens extending in the x direction along the light source unit. A light source reference plane that includes a center of a light emission surface of each light emitting element is located on a plane separated in the y direction from a lens reference plane that includes a center axis of the cylindrical lens.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takumi Sato, Koji Enomoto, Yoshihiro Kanahashi, Yoshihisa Yokokawa, Yoshio Okazaki, Norihiro Sengoku
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Patent number: 9740071Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a light shielding plate having an opening, a protective plate, and a coordinate input device having a transparent substrate, and a first flexible interconnect substrate. The coordinate input device is disposed on the display panel at the side of a display screen, and each of the light shielding plate and the protective plate is arranged on the coordinate input device on the opposite side of the display panel. The coordinate input device has first signal interconnects and a second signal interconnect disposed outside the first signal interconnects but near a peripheral edge of the transparent substrate. The second signal interconnect is formed of a thin conductive film disposed along a peripheral edge portion of the transparent substrate, and is disposed along the peripheral edge of three sides of the transparent substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic LIquid Crystal Display Co. Ltd.Inventors: Kouichi Anno, Takumi Sato, Masahiro Teramoto
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Publication number: 20170217214Abstract: Disclosed are a light irradiation apparatus that prevents or suppresses projection of light on adjoining other portions and can be miniaturized overall, and a photocurable material treatment apparatus that includes this light irradiation apparatus. The light irradiation apparatus according to the present invention includes, with three mutually orthogonal directions as an x direction, a y direction and a z direction: a long light source unit in which a plurality of light emitting elements are disposed in a state of being arranged in the x direction along a plane extending in the x direction and the y direction; and a cylindrical lens that has an elongated shape extending in the x direction along the light source unit, a longitudinal peripheral surface of the cylindrical lens including a light reception surface for receiving light from the light source unit and a light-exiting surface for allowing the received light to exit therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2015Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: Ushio Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takumi SATO, Koji ENOMOTO, Yoshihiro KANAHASHI, Yoshihisa YOKOKAWA, Yoshio OKAZAKI, Norihiro SENGOKU
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Patent number: 9719814Abstract: A needle type gauge includes: a needle that includes a main rotating portion that rotates around a rotation shaft, and an indicator which points out an index part; and an actuator. The main rotating portion includes a light emitting portion that emits strip-shaped light. The light emitting portion is located at the actuator side relative to the indicator, and emits the strip-shaped light to a nearby area to the indicator and located, relative the indicator, at one side in a rotation direction of the indicator. The needle includes a shield which extends in a direction of the actuator from the indicator, extends along the indicator, and blocks, among the strip-shaped light, light directed from the one side in the rotation direction of the indicator to the other side therein.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignees: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takumi Sato, Takashi Hori, Tetsuro Togawa, Ryo Kobe, Munehiro Yasuda, Shinji Kamon
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Publication number: 20170175967Abstract: The vehicle-mounted light source device of the present invention includes a light source unit including a light source that emits a red laser beam, a light source that emits a green laser beam, and a light source that emits a blue laser beam; a light combining system that combines the red laser beam, the green laser beam, and the blue laser beam; a light diffusing element that adjusts diffusion angles of light beams emitted from the light combining system to a predetermined angle; an optical projection system that projects light beams emitted from the light diffusing element to distance; and a light distribution controller that is disposed between the light diffusing element and the optical projection system and that controls distributions of light beams introduced into the optical projection system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mikio SHIMIZU, Takumi SATO
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Publication number: 20170165984Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing portion that performs printing on a medium, a cutting portion that is capable of moving in a movement direction and that has cutting blades that cut the medium and a housing unit that holds the cutting blades, and a contact portion provided at a position at which the contact portion comes into contact with the housing unit when the cutting portion moves in the movement direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventor: Takumi Sato
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Publication number: 20170044463Abstract: A processing method includes processing a metal wire rod using an emulsion lubricant that includes an oil and a nonionic surfactant at an oil-to-nonionic surfactant ratio of 1:0.3 to 0.9 (in mass ratio). The method may include purifying the emulsion lubricant after being used for processing the metal wire rod while maintaining the oil-to-nonionic surfactant ratio of 1:0.3 to 0.9 (in mass ratio) and then reusing the purified emulsion lubricant to process the metal wire rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Kotaro TANAKA, Takumi SATO, Yosuke WATANABE, Mamoru OHASHI, Yukio KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20170031222Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a light shielding plate having an opening, a protective plate, and a coordinate input device having a transparent substrate, and a first flexible interconnect substrate. The coordinate input device is disposed on the display panel at the side of a display screen, and each of the light shielding plate and the protective plate is arranged on the coordinate input device on the opposite side of the display panel. The coordinate input device has first signal interconnects and a second signal interconnect disposed outside the first signal interconnects but near a peripheral edge of the transparent substrate. The second signal interconnect is formed of a thin conductive film disposed along a peripheral edge portion of the transparent substrate, and is disposed along the peripheral edge of three sides of the transparent substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Kouichi Anno, Takumi Sato, Masahiro Teramoto
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Patent number: 9507477Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a light shielding plate having an opening, a protective plate, and a coordinate input device having a transparent substrate, and a first flexible interconnect substrate. The coordinate input device is disposed on the display panel at the side of a display screen, and each of the light shielding plate and the protective plate is arranged on the coordinate input device on the opposite side of the display panel. The coordinate input device has first signal interconnects and a second signal interconnect disposed outside the first signal interconnects but near a peripheral edge of the transparent substrate. The second signal interconnect is formed of a thin conductive film disposed along a peripheral edge portion of the transparent substrate, and is disposed along the peripheral edge of three sides of the transparent substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co. LtdInventors: Kouichi Anno, Takumi Sato, Masahiro Teramoto
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Patent number: 9505046Abstract: A flat wiring member includes a plurality of rectangular enamel coated wires arranged in the form of a flat plate, a wiring stem portion that the rectangular enamel coated wires are arranged in parallel to each other and adjacent ones of the rectangular enamel coated wires are bonded to each other at a surface of an enamel coat layer thereof, and a wiring branch portion with the rectangular enamel coated wires bent so as to branch off from the wiring stem portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Kotaro Tanaka, Toshiyuki Horikoshi, Takumi Sato, Kenichi Murakami, Yasuhiro Funayama, Asuka Okamoto
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Patent number: 9496244Abstract: A light emitting module includes: a substrate; at least one light emitting element line including a plurality of light emitting elements that are arrayed on the substrate in a first direction; and at least one sealing lens sealing the at least one light emitting element line, and including a plurality of lens sections. The lens sections each include a spherical light emission surface having a convex shape, and are provided corresponding to the respective light emitting elements and continuous in the first direction. The lens sections each satisfy predetermined expressions (1) and (2).Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Enomoto, Takumi Sato, Yoshihiro Kanahashi, Yoshihisa Yokokawa
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Patent number: 9462684Abstract: A wiring material includes conductors, each of which has a cross section having a thickness and a width not less than the thickness, a trunk portion in which the conductors are spaced parallel in a direction of the width thereof, a branch portion in which each conductor is bent and branched from the trunk portion in the direction of the width or in a direction that intersects the direction of the width, and a covering member for covering the trunk portion and the branch portion to expose both ends of the conductors.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Kotaro Tanaka, Toshiyuki Horikoshi, Takumi Sato, Kenichi Murakami