Patents by Inventor Takuya Sato

Takuya 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: 20250236211
    Abstract: An earthwork machine includes a vehicle body, a fuel cell, a housing, and a refrigerant pipe. The housing stores the fuel cell and is electrically connected to the vehicle body. The refrigerant pipe penetrates the housing and allows a refrigerant to flow from the outside of the housing to the fuel cell. The refrigerant pipe is electrically insulated from the housing and is configured such that the refrigerant and the vehicle body are electrically connected to each other on the outside of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Takuya SATO, Takashi HIROTA, Koji OBATA
  • Publication number: 20250232909
    Abstract: An electronic component includes a first main body and a second main body. The second main body is mounted on a first surface of the first main body. The first main body includes a first region that overlaps the second main body when viewed in a stacking direction, and a second region that does not overlap the second main body when viewed in the stacking direction. At least a part of the plurality of capacitor conductors is disposed in the first region. At least one inductor conductor includes a major part disposed in the second region, and a non-major part. The non-major part is disposed in the second region, or is disposed at least in part in the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro TSUKAMOTO, Takuya SATO
  • Publication number: 20250196721
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a step-down circuit provided between a fuel cell and a converter, a contactor provided in parallel with the step-down circuit and configured to switch conduction and insulation between the fuel cell and the converter and a control device configured to control the step-down circuit and the contactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Takuya SATO, Takashi HIROTA, Koji OBATA
  • Patent number: 12334620
    Abstract: A balun includes an unbalanced terminal; balanced terminals; first and second main lines; and first and second sub-lines. The first main line has an end connected to the unbalanced terminal. The second main line has an end connected to the first main line and an end that is open. Each of the first and the second sub-lines is connected between the balanced terminal and a reference potential, respectively. The second sub-line includes a first partial line connected to the balanced terminal, and a second partial line connected between the first partial line and the reference potential. The second main line includes a third partial line connected to the first main line, and a fourth partial line connected to the third partial line. The distance between the first partial line and the third partial line is shorter than the distance between the second partial line and the fourth partial line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Sato
  • Publication number: 20250174486
    Abstract: When a substrate is held by a first hand, a servomotor is operated to move each guide to an outer peripheral surface of the substrate. When a tactile sensor detects that each guide abuts on the outer peripheral surface of the substrate, the servomotor adjusts a biasing force by each guide to the outer peripheral surface of the substrate according to the shape of the substrate. Therefore, the grasping force can be adjusted according to the shape of the substrate such as warpage and a thickness of the substrate. As a result, it is possible to prevent the substrate from being damaged during transportation regardless of the shape of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAWAHARA, Takashi OTA, Michinori IWAO, Takuya SATO
  • Publication number: 20250174487
    Abstract: A substrate transfer apparatus includes a hand, a horizontal drive mechanism that advances and retracts the hand, at least two guides, and an advancing/retracting drive mechanism that drives at least one of the at least two guides. The hand has modes for holding the substrate including: an upper holding in which the hand is positioned above the substrate and the guide clamps an outer peripheral surface of the substrate in a state where the hand and the substrate are separated from each other; and a lower holding in which the hand is positioned below the substrate, and the guide clamps an outer peripheral surface of the substrate in a state where the hand and the substrate are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAWAHARA, Takashi OTA, Takuya SATO
  • Publication number: 20250174485
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a processing unit that processes a substrate; and a controller that controls the processing unit, wherein the processing unit includes: a plate having an upper surface; a rotation driver that rotates the plate; a support that protrudes upward from the plate, is in contact with at least one of a lower surface of the substrate and an edge of the substrate, and supports the substrate at a position higher than the upper surface of the plate; a gas outlet that is formed on the upper surface of the plate and blows gas upward; a blowing adjuster that adjusts a flow rate of the gas; and a detector that detects a force received from the substrate when a suction force according to Bernoulli's principle acts on the substrate, and the controller controls the processing unit based on information on the force received from the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Yuichi TAKAYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWAHARA, Takuya SATO
  • Publication number: 20250170707
    Abstract: A substrate transfer robot includes a hand and a robot control unit. The hand includes: four guides (including a guide disposed on a distal end of the hand body) that are provided on the top surface of a hand body, and receive an outer edge portion of the substrate; a pusher disposed on a proximal end of the hand body; a pusher actuator that moves the pusher horizontally; and a weight sensor unit that measures the weight of the substrate placed on the hand. The guides and the pusher together grip the horizontally-orientated substrate on the four guides by clasping the substrate in the horizontal direction. The robot control unit changes the gripping force for gripping the substrate placed on the four guides, by controlling the pusher actuator depending on the weight measured by the weight sensor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Yuichi TAKAYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWAHARA, Takuya SATO
  • Publication number: 20250174477
    Abstract: A substrate transfer apparatus includes a hand, a horizontal drive mechanism that advances and retracts the hand, at least two guides that clamp an outer peripheral surface of the substrate to separate and hold the substrate from the hand, an advancing/retracting drive mechanism that drives at least one of the at least two guides, an acquisition unit that acquires clamp position information indicating a position in the horizontal plane where the guide clamps the outer peripheral surface of the substrate, and a control unit that determines a consumption degree of the guide on a basis of the acquired clamp position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAWAHARA, Yuichi TAKAYAMA, Takuya SATO
  • Publication number: 20250174481
    Abstract: In a case where both of a first sensor and a second sensor respectively sense that a substrate is placed on a first guide and a second guide, a pusher is allowed to change from an open state to a closed state. On the other hand, in a case where at least one of the first sensor and the second sensor does not sense the substrate, the pusher is prohibited from changing from the open state to the closed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Takuya SATO, Hiroyuki KAWAHARA, Yuichi TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250171249
    Abstract: A taking hand including a first guide member provided on an upper surface of a base member and with which a peripheral edge of a substrate comes into contact, a first sensor configured to sense the substrate coming into contact with the first guide member, a second guide member provided on the upper surface of the base member and with which the peripheral edge of the substrate comes into contact, and a second sensor configured to sense the substrate coming into contact with the second guide member; and a comparison unit configured to determine an inclination state of the taking hand with respect to the substrate based on a difference between a timing at which the first sensor senses the substrate and a timing at which the second sensor senses the substrate are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Takuya SATO, Yuichi TAKAYAMA, Hiroyuki KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20250121634
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire can include a plurality of Helmholtz sound absorbers on a tire inner cavity surface. The plurality of Helmholtz sound absorbers can have a first resonance frequency as a maximum resonance frequency and a second resonance frequency as a minimum resonance frequency. A difference between the first resonance frequency and the second resonance frequency can be 10 to 90 Hz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sho MATSUNAMI, Naoki YUKAWA, Takuya SATO
  • Publication number: 20250121635
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire including: a tread portion; a pair of sidewall portions extending to an inner side in a tire radial direction from both respective ends in a tire axial direction of the tread portion; a pair of bead portions located on the inner side in the tire radial direction relative to the pair of respective sidewall portions; and a plurality of Helmholtz sound absorbers disposed on a tire inner cavity surface. The plurality of Helmholtz sound absorbers include first and second sound absorbers respectively having a first resonance frequency and a second resonance frequency different from the first resonance frequency. Each of the first and second sound absorbers is disposed on an inner side in the tire axial direction relative to at least one of either of the pair of sidewall portions and either of the pair of bead portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sho MATSUNAMI, Naoki YUKAWA, Takuya SATO
  • Publication number: 20250105039
    Abstract: A substrate transporting device includes the following elements. A substrate transporting device includes a transporting unit having a holding hand that holds the substrate, and being configured to transport the substrate by advancing/retreating the holding hand from the carry-in/out port of the accommodating container to a gap between the substrates; a thickness shape information collecting unit configured to collect thickness shape information based on an outer edge of the substrate for each substrate while the substrate is accommodated in the accommodating container; a calculation unit configured to calculate height information of a gap between two vertically adjacent substrates to which the holding hand advances/retreats based on the thickness shape information of the two substrates when the transporting unit carries-in/out the substrates to/from the accommodating container; and a control unit configured to control transport of the transporting unit based on the height information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Takuya SATO, Hiroyuki KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20250105772
    Abstract: A motor control device and a motor control method capable of performing power limitation of a drive circuit more accurately are provided. A motor control device for controlling a motor by supplying a drive signal generated on the basis of a rotation command value by a drive circuit to the motor includes a voltage detection part that detects a voltage of the drive signal as a load voltage, a current detection part that detects a current of the drive signal as a load current, and a power limitation part that detects a load power of the drive circuit on the basis of the load voltage and the load current, and decreases the rotation command value when the load power exceeds a predetermined upper limit value to perform power limitation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: MAMORU SUWA, DAISUKE HOSONO, TAKUYA SATO, TAKAYUKI FURUUTA, HIROKAZU TAKADA, HIROAKI OBUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250105041
    Abstract: A substrate transporting device for transporting a substrate with a carrier capable of stacking and accommodating a plurality of substrates with a gap and having a carry-in/out port on one side surface includes the following. The device includes a transporting unit including a holding hand that holds the substrate, and being configured to transport the substrate by advancing/retreating the holding hand to/from the carry-in/out port of the carrier to a gap between the substrates; an acquisition unit configured to acquire shape information of the substrate when the substrate is viewed in an advancing/retreating direction of the holding hand from the carry-in/out port side while the substrate is accommodated; and a control unit configured to control the transporting unit based on the shape information; where the acquisition unit obtains the shape information by irradiating light in a wavelength region longer than visible light from the advancing/retreating direction of the holding hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAWAHARA, Takashi OTA, Takuya SATO, Fujikazu KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 12244287
    Abstract: A filter device includes an unbalanced terminal, balanced terminals, and first and second resonant circuits. The first resonant circuit is connected to the unbalanced terminal. The second resonant circuit is connected to the balanced terminals and electromagnetically coupled with the first resonant circuit. The first resonant circuit includes a resonator in which an inductor and a capacitor are connected in parallel between the unbalanced terminal and a reference potential. The second resonant circuit includes a resonator including an inductor connected between the balanced terminals and capacitors connected in series between the balanced terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Sato, Masahiro Teramoto, Keisuke Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20250065675
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire of the present invention includes a tire inner cavity 1B and a porous sound damper 10. The sound damper 10 is an annular body extending in a tire circumferential direction and is not adhered to a surface of the tire inner cavity 1B. An average thickness T (mm) of the sound damper 10 and an inner cavity surface radius R (mm) satisfy the following formula (1). An average circumferential length L (mm) in a circumferential direction of the sound damper 10 in a state where the sound damper 10 is removed from the pneumatic tire, and an inner cavity surface circumferential length C (mm), satisfy the following formulas (2) and (3). 0.04 ? T / R ? 0 .18 ( 1 ) 1.02 - 1.1 × T / R ? L / C ? 0 . 9 ? 5 + 1.4 × T / R ( 2 ) L / C ? 1 .
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya SATO, Sho MATSUNAMI, Naoki YUKAWA
  • Patent number: 12230859
    Abstract: A balun includes: an unbalanced terminal; a first and a second balanced terminals; a first and a second main lines; a first and a second sub-lines; and a first line. The first main line has a first end connected to the unbalanced terminal. The second main line has a first end connected to a second end of the first main line, and a second end that is open. The first sub-line is connected between the first balanced terminal and a reference potential, and is coupled to the first main line. The second sub-line is connected between the second balanced terminal and the reference potential, and is coupled to the second main line. The first line has a first end connected to the midpoint of the first sub-line, and a second end that is open. The first line is coupled to the first main line and the first sub-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Sato
  • 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