Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Kato

Tomoaki Kato 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).

  • Patent number: 11961916
    Abstract: A novel memory device is provided. The memory device includes a plurality of first wirings extending in a first direction, a plurality of memory element groups, and an oxide layer extending along a side surface of the first wiring. Each of the memory element groups includes a plurality of memory elements. Each of the memory elements includes a first transistor and a capacitor. A gate electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first wiring. The oxide layer includes a region in contact with a semiconductor layer of the first transistor. A second transistor is provided between the adjacent memory element groups. A high power supply potential is supplied to one or both of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Onuki, Kiyoshi Kato, Tomoaki Atsumi, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11958182
    Abstract: A mobile body system for managing a mobile body that moves within a predetermined area includes a mobile body associated with a guest group including one or more guests, and a managing apparatus configured to manage an outer appearance of the mobile body. The managing apparatus includes an activity collector configured to collect activity information indicative of an activity of the guest within the predetermined area, and an outer appearance manager configured to change the outer appearance of the mobile body viewed by the guest based on the activity information collected by the activity collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mutsumi Kawashima, Tomoaki Miyazawa, Masato Noritake, Nobuhiro Nishikawa, Masato Kurima, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Reiko Tomita, Takaaki Kato, Hiroyuki Tomita, Daisaku Kato
  • Patent number: 11950836
    Abstract: A medical device and a treatment method, in which energy is accurately applied to a target site by suppressing a positional displacement between an expansion body and a biological tissue. The medical device includes an elongated shaft portion and an expansion body disposed in a distal portion of the shaft portion and configured to expand and contract in a radial direction. The expansion body includes a holding portion having a proximal side holding portion and a distal side holding portion configured to hold the biological tissue, and a movable portion configured to open and close the holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Takahashi, Yukitoshi Kato, Tomoaki Takemura
  • Publication number: 20240106560
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion device includes an optical medium that converts a first wavelength-multiplexed light including a plurality of first wavelengths belonging to a first wavelength band to a second wavelength-multiplexed light including a plurality of second wavelengths belonging to a second wavelength band, a first monitor configured to monitor power of the plurality of second wavelengths belonging to the second wavelength band, a storage unit that holds control information for adjusting a conversion characteristic of the optical medium, and a control unit configured to perform control of adjusting the conversion characteristic of the optical medium based on the control information acquired from the storage unit according to a first monitoring result by the first monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hidenobu MURANAKA, Tomoyuki KATO, Tomoaki Takeyama
  • Patent number: 11931891
    Abstract: A robot includes a trunk portion frame (functioning as a “base portion”), a head portion frame (functioning as a “first movable portion”) supported by the trunk portion frame, a flexible outer skin provided in such a way as to come into contact with the head portion frame and cover the trunk portion frame, and a pair of arm portions (functioning as a “second movable portion”), provided in contact with the outer skin, whose relative displacement with respect to the trunk portion frame changes in accompaniment to a displacement of the outer skin that accords with an operation of the head portion frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GROOVE X, INC.
    Inventors: Kaname Hayashi, Daijiro Kato, Tomoaki Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20240088162
    Abstract: A novel semiconductor device formed with single-polarity circuits using OS transistors is provided. Thus, connection between different layers in a memory circuit is unnecessary. This can reduce the number of connection portions and improve the flexibility of circuit layout and the reliability of the OS transistors. In particular, many memory cells are provided; thus, the memory cells are formed with single-polarity circuits, whereby the number of connection portions can be significantly reduced. Further, by providing a driver circuit in the same layer as the cell array, many wirings for connecting the driver circuit and the cell array can be prevented from being provided between layers, and the number of connection portions can be further reduced. An interposer provided with a plurality of integrated circuits can function as one electronic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Kiyoshi KATO, Tomoaki ATSUMI
  • Patent number: 11926230
    Abstract: Ease of connecting to a robot in a charging station is increased. A charging station includes a base having an upper face up on which a wheel rides, and a power supply terminal to be connected to a charging terminal of a robot. The upper face of the base is such that a target position is set in a far side region, while a reference entrance line that connects an entrance side specific position and the target position is set, and the upper face of the base includes an inverted face of a three-dimensional curved form that provides an entering wheel with a gravitational component that acts toward the reference entrance line side. The power supply terminal is connected to the charging terminal in a state wherein the wheel has arrived at the target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GROOVE X, INC.
    Inventors: Kaname Hayashi, Daijiro Kato, Tomoaki Yokoyama, Yuichi Onda, Naoshi Hatori
  • Patent number: 11786558
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of cell therapies. Also described herein are methods of generating donor derived T cells in an organ transplant recipient, by administering bone marrow stem cells to the organ transplant recipient about 1 to about 30 days after the organ transplant recipient receives one or more organ transplants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ossium Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik J. Woods, Brian H. Johnstone, Dongsheng Gu, Aubrey Marie Sherry, Kelsey Gwen Musall, Megan Sykes, Tomoaki Kato, Jianing Fu
  • Publication number: 20220241342
    Abstract: Described herein are methods of cell therapies. Also described herein are methods of generating donor derived T cells in an organ transplant recipient, by administering bone marrow stem cells to the organ transplant recipient about 1 to about 30 days after the organ transplant recipient receives one or more organ transplants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Erik J. Woods, Brian H. Johnstone, Dongsheng Gu, Aubrey Marie Sherry, Kelsey Gwen Musall, Megan Sykes, Tomoaki Kato
  • Patent number: 11285933
    Abstract: A vehicle drive device includes a control device, and the control device controls an electric motor, a first pressing mechanism and a second pressing mechanism such that a relational expression of T<T1+T2 is satisfied, where T represents a torque that is input to an input rotation member, T1 represents a maximum of a torque that is able to be transmitted by a first multi-disc clutch and T2 represents a maximum of a torque that is able to be transmitted by a second multi-disc clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Yamamoto, Tetsuya Yamazaki, Wataru Hirata, Shotaro Niimi, Tomoaki Kato
  • Patent number: 11247690
    Abstract: A driving force control apparatus for controlling a driving force to be transmitted to a wheel includes a processor. The processor is configured to set, when the wheel is idled, a control amount of the driving force to be transmitted to the wheel based on a vehicle acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamazaki, Tomoaki Kato, Wataru Hirata, Toshihiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11084375
    Abstract: A drive force transmission apparatus is mountable on a four-wheel drive vehicle switchable between a four-wheel drive mode that transmits a drive force of an engine to front wheels and rear wheels, and a two-wheel drive mode that transmits the drive force to only the front wheels. The drive force transmission apparatus allows adjustment of the drive force to the rear wheels, and includes a multi-plate clutch, a piston for axially pressing the multi-plate clutch, an actuator for axially moving the piston, and a control unit for controlling the actuator. Upon satisfaction of a predetermined condition that indicates a high probability of the vehicle needing to be switched from the two-wheel drive mode to the four-wheel drive mode, the control unit causes the actuator to displace the piston by a predetermined amount with respect to an initial position of the piston toward the multi-plate clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Nozu, Tsutomu Matsumoto, Tomoaki Kato, Akiyoshi Kakita, Kenta Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11059133
    Abstract: A bonded structure, including a Zn-based brazing filler metal and a Cu-based bonding object bonded to each other, wherein the bonded structure includes a joint including a first alloy phase, a second alloy phase and a third alloy phase between the Zn-based brazing filler metal and the Cu-based bonding object, wherein the second alloy phase is formed at an interface between the first alloy phase and the third alloy phase, and wherein, in a cross section parallel to a bonding direction, a ratio of the second alloy phase at the interface between the first alloy phase and the third alloy phase is less than 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Yamazaki, Tomoaki Kato
  • Patent number: 11011440
    Abstract: A semiconductor element bonding body including: a substrate, in which a concave portion is formed; and a semiconductor element placed in the concave portion to be mounted to the substrate. A portion of the substrate in which the concave portion is formed is made of Cu. The concave portion has a perimeter portion in which a level difference is formed, and the level difference has a height d of 20 ?m or more and less than 50 ?m. The concave portion has a bottom surface having a flatness degree of ?/8.7 ?m or more and ?/1.2 ?m or less when a wavelength ? of a laser is 632.8 nm. A metal film is formed on the semiconductor element, and the bottom surface of the concave portion and the metal film are bonded directly to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Yamazaki, Tomoaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20210107443
    Abstract: A vehicle drive device includes a control device, and the control device controls an electric motor, a first pressing mechanism and a second pressing mechanism such that a relational expression of T<T1+T2 is satisfied, where T represents a torque that is input to an input rotation member, T1 represents a maximum of a torque that is able to be transmitted by a first multi-disc clutch and T2 represents a maximum of a torque that is able to be transmitted by a second multi-disc clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko YAMAMOTO, Tetsuya YAMAZAKI, Wataru HIRATA, Shotaro NIIMI, Tomoaki KATO
  • Patent number: 10931087
    Abstract: An ignition plug includes a tubular insulator, a metallic shell disposed around the outer circumference of the insulator, a center electrode disposed in an axial hole of the insulator, and a ground electrode connected to the forward end of the metallic shell and facing the center electrode. The metallic shell has a threaded portion to be engaged with an internal combustion engine. The relational expression Ss/(Sa+Sb)?2.6 is satisfied, where Ss is the surface area of an outer circumferential surface of the metallic shell extending from the rear end of the threaded portion to the forward end of the threaded portion, Sa is the surface area of that portion of the metallic shell which is to be exposed to combustion gas of the internal combustion engine, and Sb is the surface area of that portion of the insulator which is to be exposed to the combustion gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20200273762
    Abstract: A semiconductor element bonding body including: a substrate, in which a concave portion is formed; and a semiconductor element placed in the concave portion to be mounted to the substrate. A portion of the substrate in which the concave portion is formed is made of Cu. The concave portion has a perimeter portion in which a level difference is formed, and the level difference has a height d of 20 ?m or more and less than 50 ?m. The concave portion has a bottom surface having a flatness degree of ?/8.7 ?m or more and ?/1.2 ?m or less when a wavelength ? of a laser is 632.8 nm. A metal film is formed on the semiconductor element, and the bottom surface of the concave portion and the metal film are bonded directly to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji YAMAZAKI, Tomoaki KATO
  • Publication number: 20200262010
    Abstract: A bonded structure, including a Zn-based brazing filler metal and a Cu-based bonding object bonded to each other, wherein the bonded structure includes a joint including a first alloy phase, a second alloy phase and a third alloy phase between the Zn-based brazing filler metal and the Cu-based bonding object, wherein the second alloy phase is formed at an interface between the first alloy phase and the third alloy phase, and wherein, in a cross section parallel to a bonding direction, a ratio of the second alloy phase at the interface between the first alloy phase and the third alloy phase is less than 80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji YAMAZAKI, Tomoaki KATO
  • Publication number: 20200139978
    Abstract: A driving force control apparatus for controlling a driving force to be transmitted to a wheel includes a processor. The processor is configured to set, when the wheel is idled, a control amount of the driving force to be transmitted to the wheel based on a vehicle acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamazaki, Tomoaki Kato, Wataru Hirata, Toshihiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10639989
    Abstract: A control device is mounted on a four-wheel-drive vehicle, and includes a detector and a vibration suppression controller. The detector detects the occurrence of a vibrating state, in which drive wheels and auxiliary drive wheels slip alternately in a four-wheel-drive state in which a drive force is transferred to the auxiliary drive wheels, or the occurrence of a preliminary state for the vibrating state. The vibration suppression controller reduces the drive force which is transferred to the auxiliary drive wheels via a drive force transfer device when the vibrating state or the preliminary state is detected by the detector. The vibration suppression controller reduces the drive force which is transferred to the auxiliary drive wheels on condition that a thermal load of the drive force transfer device is less than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kondo, Tomoaki Kato, Akiyoshi Kakita, Kotaro Sarai