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: 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: 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 20230229795
    Abstract: In a distributed ledger system including nodes of a plurality of organizations, a smart contract of a distributed ledger node of each of the organizations refers to information made open to the public in a public area, the information being related to an evidence held in a private area of each of the plurality of organizations, and in response to a trigger event of the information's meeting a given condition, executes a process of making the evidence open to the public in the public area, the evidence being held in the private area of an organization to which the smart contract belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuya SATO, Taku SHIMOSAWA
  • Patent number: 11701879
    Abstract: A print head having an ejection portion that ejects a liquid includes a determination portion that executes a first determination process of determining whether or not a first error occurs in which replacement of the print head or replacement of a hardware coupled to the print head is required and a second determination process of determining whether or not a second error occurs in which neither the replacement of the print head nor the replacement of the hardware coupled to the print head is required, and a light emitting portion that emits light according to a result of determination in the determination portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sato, Shuichi Nakano, Masahiro Toki, Shunsuke Kasai
  • Publication number: 20230185107
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes: a first image display that outputs linearly polarized first image light; a second image display that outputs linearly polarized second image light; a first retardation plate that modulates and converts the first image light output from the first image display to first elliptically polarized light; a second retardation plate that modulates and converts the second image light output from the second image display to second elliptically polarized light that rotates in a direction identical to a rotation direction of the first elliptically polarized light; and a half mirror that transmits the first elliptically polarized light, converts the first elliptically polarized light to first circularly polarized light that rotates in a direction identical to the rotation direction of the first elliptically polarized light, reflects the second elliptically polarized light, and coverts the second elliptically polarized light to second circularly polarized light that rotates in a
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Arisawa MFG. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehiko Kon, Yasuaki Umezawa, Kazuhiro Ura, Tatsuya Sato
  • Patent number: 11566327
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to reduce pressure fluctuations in a chemical delivery system for a process chamber are provided herein. In some embodiments, a chemical delivery system for a process chamber, includes: a carrier gas supply; an ampoule fluidly coupled to the carrier gas supply via a first supply line, wherein the ampoule is configured to supply one or more process gases to the process chamber via a second supply line; an inlet valve disposed in line with the first supply line to control a flow of a carrier gas from the carrier gas supply to the ampoule; and a first control valve disposed in line with a pressure regulation line, wherein the pressure regulation line is fluidly coupled to the first supply line at a tee location between the carrier gas supply and the inlet valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ilker Durukan, Muhammad M. Rasheed, Kenric Choi, Tatsuya Sato
  • Patent number: 11514443
    Abstract: Operation management with consistent policies and timings between nodes even in a situation where there are a plurality of administrators in the distributed ledger system is realized. In an operation management system 10 for a distributed ledger system 6 comprising a plurality of nodes, each of at least two or more predetermined nodes in the plurality of nodes manages an operation smart contract 372 for operation management of the distributed ledger system with a distributed ledger 37, when at least one node in the two or more predetermined nodes receives a transaction, the node which has received the transaction judges whether or not a type of the transaction is the operation smart contract 372, and, based on the judgment result, executes the operation smart contract 372.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sato, Takayuki Nagai, Jun Nemoto, Nishio Yamada
  • Patent number: 11515119
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plasma processing device including a vacuum container that has controllable internal pressure, gas supply means, an electrode that is provided in the vacuum container and has an upper surface on which a substrate is placed, and an antenna that is arranged to face the electrode to form inductive coupling, in which the antenna that is configured to form the inductive coupling includes one end connected to a high-frequency power source via a matching circuit, and the other end that is an open end, a length of the antenna is less than ½? of a wavelength (?) of an RF frequency, an impedance adjustment circuit connected in parallel to the antenna is connected to an RF feeding side of the antenna, and a reactance component of a combined impedance by the impedance adjustment circuit is adjustable from a capacitive load to an inductive load with respect to the RF frequency supplied to the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Y.A.C. TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kaneko, Takeshi Noguchi, Tatsuya Sato
  • Publication number: 20220281729
    Abstract: A coupling portion that is coupled to a mast that supports a fork and has a mechanism that moves the fork in a vertical direction, the coupling portion disposed on each of both ends in a width direction of the mast, a rail that is disposed on a straddle leg disposed on an outside in the width direction of the mast and extending in a direction where the fork extends, the rail moving the coupling portion in the direction where the fork extends, and a drive unit that is disposed on the straddle leg and moves the mast along the straddle leg are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Megumu TSURUTA, Keitaro KAMATA, Tetsuhei KOBAYASHI, Kensuke FUTAHASHI, Tatsuya SATO, Naoto KAWAUCHI
  • Patent number: 11423409
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic transaction device includes: a relationship map storage unit that stores a relationship map (a participant relationship map) which is information indicating a relationship between a plurality of parties involved in a predetermined transaction; a policy requirement storage unit that stores policy requirements, which are requirements for the parties involved in the transaction, necessary for the closing of the transaction; an agreement policy calculation unit that generates an agreement policy which is a condition related to an approver of a transaction indicated by transaction data holding a predetermined transaction content, based upon the relationship map and the policy requirements; and an approval request transmission unit that transmits a predetermined approval request to a predetermined information processing device associated with an approver of a transaction specified based upon the generated agreement policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Arai, Tatsuya Sato, Yosuke Himura
  • Publication number: 20220214914
    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: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Sho NAKAMURA, Yuzo HARATA, Kazuaki HAYAKAWA, Tatsuya SATO, Yasuo MORITA
  • Patent number: 11373173
    Abstract: A distributed ledger system has a configuration in which each of the distributed ledger subsystems includes a sub-ledger that holds ledger data shared in the distributed ledger subsystems, and a smart contract that interlocks between the distributed ledger subsystems having a common sub-ledger to perform a transaction processing related to an input and output of the ledger data, transmits a transaction request targeted for ledger data of another sub-ledger managed by another distributed ledger subsystem to another distributed ledger subsystem having the common sub-ledger by receiving a predetermined transaction request from a predetermined device and executing the smart contract, and replies with a transaction reply obtained from the other distributed ledger subsystem to the predetermined device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Himura, Tatsuya Sato, Yusuke Arai, Takayuki Nagai, Hironori Emaru
  • Publication number: 20220162752
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to reduce pressure fluctuations in a chemical delivery system for a process chamber are provided herein. In some embodiments, a chemical delivery system for a process chamber, includes: a carrier gas supply; an ampoule fluidly coupled to the carrier gas supply via a first supply line, wherein the ampoule is configured to supply one or more process gases to the process chamber via a second supply line; an inlet valve disposed in line with the first supply line to control a flow of a carrier gas from the carrier gas supply to the ampoule; and a first control valve disposed in line with a pressure regulation line, wherein the pressure regulation line is fluidly coupled to the first supply line at a tee location between the carrier gas supply and the inlet valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Ilker DURUKAN, Muhammad M. RASHEED, Kenric CHOI, Tatsuya SATO
  • Patent number: 11331908
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head unit includes an ejection unit that ejects a liquid, a first wire configured to supply a fixed potential used for driving the ejection unit, a second wire configured to transmit a pulse signal that defines an ejection timing of the liquid in the ejection unit, a first counter whose count value changes based on a potential change in the first wire, a second counter whose count value changes based on a potential change in the second wire, and an ejection restriction unit that restricts an ejection operation of the liquid in the ejection unit according to a count value of the first counter and a count value of the second counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sato, Shuichi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20220134732
    Abstract: A print head having an ejection portion that ejects a liquid includes a determination portion that executes a first determination process of determining whether or not a first error occurs in which replacement of the print head or replacement of a hardware coupled to the print head is required and a second determination process of determining whether or not a second error occurs in which neither the replacement of the print head nor the replacement of the hardware coupled to the print head is required, and a light emitting portion that emits light according to a result of determination in the determination portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Tatsuya SATO, Shuichi NAKANO, Masahiro TOKI, Shunsuke KASAI
  • Publication number: 20220134741
    Abstract: A print head includes a generation portion that amplifies an input signal to generate a drive signal, an ejection portion that includes a first driving element driven by a drive signal, and ejects a liquid in response to the drive of the first driving element, a supply portion that includes a first switch for switching between supply and non-supply of the drive signal to the first driving element, and a sound emitting portion that includes a second driving element driven by the drive signal, and a second switch for switching between supply and non-supply of the drive signal to the second driving element, and emits sound in response to the drive of the second driving element, in which the first switch and the second switch are turned on exclusively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Shuichi NAKANO, Masahiro TOKI, Tatsuya SATO, Shunsuke KASAI