Patents by Inventor Tatsumi Sato

Tatsumi 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: 20240128733
    Abstract: An attachment structure of a flat wire harness includes: an attachment target member; a flat wire harness; and an attachment part. In the flat wire harness, a through hole is formed in a part of a base material where a plurality of electrical wires are not disposed. The attachment part includes a rod-like part passing through the through hole, a fixing part provided to a first end portion of the rod-like part to fix the rod-like part to the attachment target member, and a retaining part provided to a second end portion of the rod-like part to prevent the rod-like part from coming out of the through hole. An outer size of the retaining part is larger than a dimension of the through hole, and the dimension of the through hole is equal to or larger than a thickness of the rod-like part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsumi SATO, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA, Hirozumi OKANIWA, Tomohiko TATEISHI, Tatsuya AIDA, Mitsuhiro KATO, Akinori ISHIKAWA, Kazuhiro KUSUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240109503
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an attachment structure for attaching a wiring member to an instrument panel reinforcement, which is an attachment object, provided near an instrument panel. The wiring member includes a linear transmission member that transmits electricity or light, and a covering member that covers the linear transmission member. The wiring member attachment structure includes a rail member provided on the instrument panel reinforcement, and an insertion member that is provided on the covering member and inserted into the rail member. The wiring member is attached to the instrument panel reinforcement in a state in which the insertion member is inserted into the rail member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tatsumi SATO, Kazuhiro Nishimura, Hirozumi Okaniwa, Tomohiko Tateishi, Tatsuya Aida, Yuji Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 7973571
    Abstract: The invention provides a multichannel drive circuit by which, even when there occurs a variation between channels in circuit characteristics of each channel including current source due to the semiconductor manufacturing process and the like, loads of each channel constituting a load array can be driven under conditions uniform between all the channels. The invention includes; an interchannel common connection line (5) for making conduction between respective current paths of each channel for connecting the respective current sources of each channel constituting a current source array (11) with respective input switches of each channel constituting an input switch array (13); and current blocking means (12) for blocking output current of the current source of that channel of the plurality of channels in which the input switch is in an OFF state from flowing into the interchannel common connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Hiji High-Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsumi Sato, Kazuhiko Maki, Toshiyuki Wada, Takamasa Yanai
  • Publication number: 20090302898
    Abstract: The invention provides a multichannel drive circuit by which, even when there occurs a variation between channels in circuit characteristics of each channel including current source due to the semiconductor manufacturing process and the like, loads of each channel constituting a load array can be driven under conditions uniform between all the channels. The invention includes; an interchannel common connection line (5) for making conduction between respective current paths of each channel for connecting the respective current sources of each channel constituting a current source array (11) with respective input switches of each channel constituting an input switch array (13); and current blocking means (12) for blocking output current of the current source of that channel of the plurality of channels in which the input switch is in an OFF state from flowing into the interchannel common connection line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: Hiji High-Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsumi Sato, Kazuhiko Maki, Toshiyuki Wada, Takamasa Yanai
  • Patent number: 6583872
    Abstract: In a double beam spectrophotometer, a sample beam is irradiated to a large-sized sample in a substantially vertical direction, and the beam upwardly transmitted through the large-sized sample is reflected by a reflecting mirror and sent to an integrating sphere including a detector. A reference beam irradiated parallel to the sample beam is deflected by reflecting mirrors such that the reference beam goes around the large-sized sample, and guided to the integrating sphere. Thus, a holder is not required to correspond to a size or shape of the sample, and measurement position can be freely changed by moving the sample. Also, in case of utilizing a conventional standard sample chamber, movable reflecting mirrors are inserted in the optical paths to transfer the beams to the standard sample chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20010013931
    Abstract: In a double beam spectrophotometer, a sample beam is irradiated to a large-sized sample in a substantially vertical direction, and the beam upwardly transmitted through the large-sized sample is reflected by a reflecting mirror and sent to an integrating sphere including a detector. A reference beam irradiated parallel to the sample beam is deflected by reflecting mirrors such that the reference beam goes around the large-sized sample, and guided to the integrating sphere. Thus, a holder is not required to correspond to a size or shape of the sample, and measurement position can be freely changed by moving the sample. Also, in case of utilizing a conventional standard sample chamber, movable reflecting mirrors are inserted in the optical paths to transfer the beams to the standard sample chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2001
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsumi Sato
  • Patent number: 5311292
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring color transmissivities of a color separation prism P includes (where the color separation prism P receives a measurement light S on an incident path and emits three color lights Sr, Sg and Sb on three exit paths of different directions): a photomultiplier 21 and an integrating sphere I for measuring an intensity of light entering the integrating sphere I on an entrance path, where the entrance path is set detached from an extension of the incident path; a first movable mirror 9 located in one of four paths including an extension of the incident path and the three exit paths for reflecting the light on each path to the second movable mirror 10; and a second movable mirror 10 placed on the entrance path of the integrating sphere I (with the photomultiplier 21) and oriented in one of four directions for reflecting the light from the first movable mirror 9 to the integrating sphere I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsumi Sato, Osamu Ando
  • Patent number: 5268732
    Abstract: An integrating sphere has two openings, at which light-receiving and light-emitting ends of an optical fiber sample are attached. A light-receiving opening is provided opposite one of these openings, and another light-receiving opening opposite from none of those other openings. A monochromatic light beam from a source such as a spectroscope is passed through a lens or the like to be made convergent and introduced into the integrating sphere through each of the light-receiving openings. The difference in the optical path length between the two measurements is entirely due to the presence or absence of the optical fiber sample, and the spectral transmissivity of the sample can be measured accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1993
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsumi Sato
  • Patent number: 5268737
    Abstract: A spectrophotometer of the type using a pulse motor to rotate a diffraction grating through a speed reducing mechanism has a capability of constructing a conversion table according to a program, by which table a rotation amount of the motor is converted to a corresponding wavelength of output light from a monochromator. The spectrophotometer is capable of designating a calibration mode in which an emission peak at a known wavelength of light from a light source is detected, a coefficient in a conversion equation is determined on the basis of the known wavelength of the emission peak and a rotation amount of the motor at a time when the emission peak is detected, and the determined coefficient is used to construct the conversion table which is then stored in a nonvolatile memory. In an analysis mode, a rotation amount of the motor is converted to a corresponding wavelength in accordance with the conversion table in the nonvolatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1993
    Assignee: Shimidzu Corporation of 1
    Inventors: Toshiaki Fukuma, Tatsumi Sato, Hidehisa Nishigaki
  • Patent number: 5170280
    Abstract: An entrance slit and exit slit of a monochromator is shaped so that the width of the slits becomes smaller from the center towards the ends of their height, where the width is a dimension in the direction of the separation of the light in the monochromator. An example of such shape is rhombic. When the total amount of light emitted from the monochromator and the resolution of the monochromator are set to be the same, the efficiency of light in measuring small samples is increased and the ratio of stray light in the light emitted from the monochromator becomes smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsumi Sato
  • Patent number: 4930891
    Abstract: In quantitative analysis of a sample by using the spectrum thereof by means of a spectrophotometer, at a specific wavelength or in a specific wavelength range where a quantitative determination is to be conducted, wavelength scanning is temporarily stopped or its speed is slowed down so as to obtain spectral data from the sample, so that the accuracy of the data obtained is improved. In the wavelength range where no quantitative determination is to be conducted, the scanning operation is conducted at an ordinary relatively fast speed, so that the total time required for the analysis will not be lengthened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsumi Sato