Patents by Inventor Tatsuya Sato

Tatsuya 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: 20230382703
    Abstract: A control system configured to control a forklift to unload a transport pallet onto an unloading place includes a control device configured to control at least one of movement of the forklift and horizontal movement of a fork, the forklift including a load sensor configured to detect load of an item placed on the fork, and a lift height sensor configured to detect a lift height of the fork, control raising and lowering of the fork, acquire load information of the transport pallet placed on the fork and lift height range information, the lift height range information indicating a lift height range, the lift height range being a range of height in which the fork is able to be inserted when unloading onto the unloading place is successful, and determine whether an abnormality is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SHINMEI INDUSTRY CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takumi SHIGEMASA, Daisuke ASAMI, Yoshiaki SATO, Yutaka OSHIMA, Tatsuya MITA
  • Patent number: 11830945
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second electrode, a gate electrode, second semiconductor regions of a second conductivity type, third semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type, and a third electrode. The second electrode is provided in a plurality in second and third directions. Each second electrode opposes a portion of the first semiconductor region in the second and third directions with an insulating layer interposed. The gate electrode is provided around each second electrode. The first semiconductor region includes first regions provided respectively around the second electrodes and the second region provided around the first regions in the second and third directions. Impurity concentration of the first conductivity type in each of the first regions is higher than impurity concentration of the first conductivity type in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Ichinoseki, Tatsuya Nishiwaki, Shingo Sato
  • Patent number: 11820135
    Abstract: A print head includes a head portion that includes a driving element driven by a drive signal and ejects a liquid in response to the drive of the driving element, a flow path member provided with a liquid flow path for supplying a liquid to the head portion, a circuit board provided with a supply circuit for supplying the drive signal to the driving element and disposed between the head portion and the flow path member, and a light emitting element disposed between the circuit board and the flow path member, in which the flow path member is provided with a light guide tube that guides light emitted by the light emitting element to an outside of the flow path member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Tatsuya Sato, Masahiro Toki, Shunsuke Kasai
  • Patent number: 11820134
    Abstract: A print head includes a head portion that includes a driving element driven by a drive signal and ejects a liquid in response to the drive of the driving element, a flow path member provided with a liquid flow path for supplying a liquid to the head portion, a circuit board provided with a supply circuit for supplying the drive signal to the driving element and disposed between the head portion and the flow path member, and a sound emitting element disposed between the circuit board and the flow path member, in which the flow path member is provided with a sound guide tube that guides sound emitted by the sound emitting element to an outside of the flow path member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Tatsuya Sato, Masahiro Toki, Shunsuke Kasai
  • Publication number: 20230335898
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus that comprises an antenna array in which a plurality of active antennas each including an antenna and a semiconductor structure configured to generate or detect an electromagnetic wave are arranged in an array, a coupling line configured to mutually couple two antennas respectively included in at least two active antennas among the plurality of active antennas, and an impedance variable device configured to make an impedance of the coupling line variable is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: YASUSHI KOYAMA, TAKEAKI ITSUJI, YUKI KITAZAWA, TATSUYA MURAO, KOJI YUKIMASA, TAKAHIRO SATO
  • Publication number: 20230335885
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus that comprises an active antenna including an antenna, a semiconductor structure configured to operate as an oscillator, and at least two power lines configured to give a potential difference to the semiconductor structure, and configured to generate or detect an electromagnetic wave, and a control line electrically connected to one of the at least two power lines and configured to be injected with a signal for controlling a phase of the oscillator in the active antenna is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: KOJI YUKIMASA, TAKEAKI ITSUJI, YUKI KITAZAWA, TATSUYA MURAO, YASUSHI KOYAMA, TAKAHIRO SATO
  • Publication number: 20230324723
    Abstract: An optical phase modulator includes a rib part extending in an extending direction. The rib part includes an N-type first rib portion and a P-type second rib portion arranged in a width direction to have a PN junction therebetween along the extending direction. An N-type first slab portion is connected to the first rib portion and a P-type second slab portion is connected to the second rib portion to provide a PN structure with the rib part in a cross-section having a normal direction along the extending direction. A P-type third slab portion is connected to the first rib portion and an N-type fourth slab portion is connected to the second rib portion to have a PNPN structure with the rib part in a cross-section having a normal direction along the extending direction. The PN structure and the PNPN structure are alternately disposed in the extending direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Taku SUZUKI, Tatsuya YAMASHITA, Naoya TAKE, Masashige SATO
  • Publication number: 20230323144
    Abstract: Provided is a film that has high-quality low gloss appearance with a small change in appearance of texture as observed at various viewing angles and that has tactile texture. Solution means A film of an embodiment is a film including a surface layer embossed, wherein the surface layer includes a low gloss layer and a gloss printed pattern partially covering the low gloss layer, (1) 85-degree surface glossiness of the surface layer is less than or equal to 3.5 GU as an in-plane average value; (2) ?85-degree surface glossiness defined by a difference between an in-plane maximum value of the 85-degree surface glossiness and the in-plane average value of the 85-degree surface glossiness of the surface layer (= in-plane maximum value of 85-degree surface glossiness - in-plane average value of 85-degree surface glossiness) is from 0.2 to 2.5, and (3) surface roughness Ra of an embossed surface of the film is greater than or equal to 3.5 µm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kondo, Tatsuya Sato, Naota Sugiyama, Masaaki Furusawa, Koji Saito, Tomohiro Oba, Keisuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11772194
    Abstract: A method for designing an additively-manufactured object includes: a slicing step of slicing a shape of the additively-manufactured object into weld bead layers each having a height corresponding to one bead layer using data of the shape of the additively-manufactured object, thereby generating a plurality of virtual bead layers; a reference direction setting step of setting, as a reference direction, a direction in which the sliced layer of the additively-manufactured object is continuously provided and extended in an intermediate layer disposed at a deposition-direction center of the plurality of virtual bead layers; and a bead adjusting step of adjusting a bead size of the weld bead to be formed in the plurality of virtual bead layers depending on a bead shape in a section perpendicular to the reference direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
    Inventors: Takemasa Yamasaki, Tatsuya Fujii, Shinji Sato, Takeshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11770630
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a second substrate including a signal processing circuit configured to perform signal processing using machine learning on a signal output from the first substrate. The second substrate is disposed on the first substrate in a multilayer structure. The signal processing circuit is so disposed to overlap with a pixel array but not overlap with a light-shielded pixel area as seen in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Sato, Masahiro Kobayashi, Tatsuya Ryoki, Kohichi Nakamura, Daisuke Kobayashi, Hiroaki Kameyama, Yasuhiro Oguro
  • Publication number: 20230294967
    Abstract: A forklift includes a vehicle including a pair of straddle legs extending forward from a lower part of a vehicle body and provided at an interval in a vehicle width direction, a cargo handling device including a mast provided between the pair of straddle legs and extending in an up-down direction, a lift bracket provided at the mast such that the lift bracket is capable of being raised and lowered, and a pair of forks extending forward from the lift bracket, a reach mechanism including an advance/retract drive unit capable of performing advance/retract drive in a front-back direction on each of the pair of straddle legs, and a coupling portion coupling the mast and the advance/retract drive unit, in which the coupling portion includes a protrusion provided at one of the advance/retract drive unit and the mast and extending in the up-down direction toward the other of the advance/retract drive unit and the mast, and an accommodating portion provided at the other of the advance/retract drive unit and the mast a
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Kawauchi, Tatsuya Sato, Tetsuhei Kobayashi, Megumu Tsuruta, Kensuke Futahashi
  • Publication number: 20230294101
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a temperature control device (1) capable of changing the temperature of a temperature regulating block (2) rapidly and with high accuracy. A temperature control device (1) according to the present invention is provided with: the temperature regulating block (2), on which a container (5) accommodating a solution (6) can be placed; and a temperature regulating part (3) that is installed so as to contact the temperature regulating block (2) and that changes the temperature of the solution (6), wherein the temperature regulating block (2) is provided with, on the inside thereof, one or a plurality of hollow parts (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Wataru SATO, Nobuyuki ISOSHIMA, Tatsuya KOBARI, Masashi SHIBAHARA
  • Publication number: 20230287553
    Abstract: A galvanized steel sheet including a steel sheet having a chemical composition with an equivalent carbon content Ceq of 0.60% or more and less than 0.85%, and a specified steel microstructure; and a galvanized layer on a surface of the steel sheet. The retained austenite has a solute C content of 0.6% or more by mass, and retained austenite grains with an aspect ratio of less than 2.0 constitute 50% or more of all retained austenite grains. In 90-degree bending at a curvature radius/thickness ratio of 4.2 in a rolling (L) direction with respect to an axis extending in a width (C) direction, an L cross section in a 0- to 50-µm region from a surface of the steel sheet on a compression side has a number density of voids of 1500 /mm2 or less, and the galvanized steel sheet has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke KOMINE, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Kentaro SATO, Tomohiro SAKAIDANI
  • Patent number: 11757075
    Abstract: Provided is a silica glass member for hermetic sealing of an ultraviolet SMD LED element to be suitably used for hermetic sealing of, and as a transmission window material for, a surface mount-type package (SMD) having an ultraviolet LED mounted thereon and configured to emit ultraviolet light in a wavelength range of from 200 nm to 350 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU QUARTZ PRODUCTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Fujinoki, Hiroyuki Nishimura, Akira Sato, Yuya Yokosawa, Tatsuya Mori
  • Publication number: 20230271416
    Abstract: A print head that includes a drive element to be driven when a drive signal is supplied to the drive element and that ejects liquid by the driving of the drive element includes an ejecting module including the drive element and a nozzle from which the liquid is ejected, and a current detecting circuit that detects a drive current generated due to propagation of the drive signal. The current detecting circuit includes a current detector that detects the drive current as a current detection signal, and a processor that controls an operation of the current detecting circuit according to the current detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventor: Tatsuya SATO
  • Publication number: 20230270869
    Abstract: Presented herein, in certain aspects, are conjugates capable of binding phosphatidylserine (PS) and toll-like receptors (TLRs), and their uses for the treatment of selected diseases and disorders, such as cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Takumi KAWABE, Takuji SATO, Tatsuya KIBE, Toshiyuki HIBINO, Jonathan M. FRIEDMAN, Sayaka YAMAMOTO, Chikako SUDA
  • Patent number: 11740937
    Abstract: A parallel process apparatus connecting electronic controllers via buses includes: a process request acceptance section that accepts process requests to the electronic controllers; and a process execution section that, while multiple process requests are simultaneously accepted, arbitrates the multiple process requests being accepted, and parallelizes multiple processes in accordance with the multiple process requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Nakamura, Yuzo Harata, Kazuaki Hayakawa, Tatsuya Sato, Yasuo Morita
  • Publication number: 20230264934
    Abstract: A forklift includes a vehicle and a cargo handling device. The cargo handling device includes a mast, a lift bracket, and a pair of forks that includes claw portions, the forks being separated from each other in a vehicle width direction. The vehicle includes a vehicle main body, and a pair of straddle legs that is provided such that the straddle legs extend to the front side from a lower portion of the vehicle main body and the cargo handling device is interposed between the straddle legs in the vehicle width direction and that supports the mast such that the cargo handling device is movable forward and backward between an advance position and a retreat position, and front ends of the claw portions are positioned behind front ends of the straddle legs when the cargo handling device is at the retreat position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Okuda, Megumu Tsuruta, Tatsuya Sato, Naoto Kawauchi, Mitsuhisa Kawabe, Masayuki Ishikawa, Noriyuki Hasegawa, Keitaro Kamata, Yusuke Otaki, Yu Shibata, Sho Onodera, Kensuke Nishiura, Ei Onogawa
  • Publication number: 20230267932
    Abstract: A dialogue system that dialogues with a user includes an execution device configured to execute a detection process and a recognition process. The recognition process is a process of recognizing that the user talks to the dialogue system when a predetermined state is detected by the detection process. The detection process is a process of detecting the predetermined state using, as an input, an output signal of a camera that images the user. The predetermined state includes a state in which a mouth of the user moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin OSUGA, Godai TANAKA, Ayana NABEKURA, Ryota NAKANO, Ryota WATANABE, Tatsuya SATO, Norihide KITAOKA, Ryota NISHIMURA, Sunao HARA, Kengo OHTA, Teruyuki ISHIKAWA, Yuka ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230267930
    Abstract: A dialogue system includes a storage device and an execution device. Scenario data stored in the storage device define a response sentence corresponding to a state and a transition condition for transition to a different state. The execution device executes a text data generation process, a determination process, a scenario response process, a chat process, a storage process, and a return process. The text data generation process is a process of converting a voice of a user into text data. The determination process is a process of determining whether the transition condition is satisfied. The scenario response process is a process of operating a speaker so as to make a response when the transition condition is satisfied. The chat process is a process of operating the speaker so as to make a different response when the transition condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin OSUGA, Godai TANAKA, Ayana NABEKURA, Ryota NAKANO, Ryota WATANABE, Tatsuya SATO, Norihide KITAOKA, Ryota NISHIMURA, Sunao HARA, Kengo OHTA