Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Sato

Tomohiro 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).

  • Patent number: 12281684
    Abstract: A flywheel housing 100 includes: a main body portion 110 which is arranged on a side of an engine 1 of a flywheel 20 and which has a housing portion 111 that houses the flywheel 20; and a cover portion 120 which is arranged on an opposite side of the flywheel 20 to the engine 1, and which is connected to the main body portion 110, and moreover which has an opening portion 125 with an inner diameter that is smaller than an outer diameter of the flywheel 20, wherein the cover portion 120 is provided with a recessed portion 123 that is recessed in a direction of separation from the flywheel 20 on an opposing surface 122b to the flywheel 20 in a peripheral portion of an edge of the opening portion 125.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko Ban, Yuichi Tamaki, Tomohiro Sato, Masato Ueda, Noriyoshi Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20250042153
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a liquid chamber having an element that generates thermal energy, a discharge port for liquid, a nozzle that communicates between the discharge port and the liquid chamber, and a liquid supply path and a liquid collection path in communication with the liquid chamber on opposite sides. The thermal energy forms a bubble in the liquid chamber, and the formed bubble enters the nozzle to eject liquid under pressure of the bubble. In a state where at least a portion of the bubble in the nozzle has a velocity component toward a surface of the liquid chamber that has the element and before liquid to be ejected comes in contact with the surface of the liquid chamber by being drawn into the liquid chamber by contraction of the bubble, the bubble communicates with an atmosphere and the liquid is ejected through the discharge port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: KOICHI ISHIDA, SHUZO IWANAGA, KEIJI TOMIZAWA, TAKATSUGU MORIYA, SO AIZAWA, YOSHIHIRO HAMADA, FUMI TANAKA, TOMOHIRO SATO
  • Publication number: 20240351331
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a print element substrate having an ejection port forming member including an ejection surface on which a plurality of ejection port arrays for ejecting liquid are formed and a protection member having an opening corresponding to one of the ejection port arrays, the protection member is provided with at least one recessed portion at an end parallel to a direction of the plurality of ejection port arrays in a direction orthogonal to the plurality of ejection port arrays and a projection portion projecting in the direction orthogonal to the plurality of ejection port arrays, the projection portion is provided inside the at least one recessed portion, and the ejection port forming member has a corresponding recessed portion corresponding to the projection portion in the direction orthogonal to the plurality of ejection port arrays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: KOICHI ISHIDA, SHUZO IWANAGA, HIROAKI MIHARA, SATOSHI KIMURA, TOMOHIRO SATO
  • Publication number: 20240343628
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a glass article, including: a melting step of heating molten glass (Gm) in a glass melting furnace (2) through application of a current with electrode groups (13) to (16) including a plurality of electrodes (A) to (H) connected to a common power supply system; and a forming step of forming a glass fiber (Gf) from the molten glass (Gm) heated in the melting step. The melting step includes: a measurement step of measuring ground voltages of the electrodes (A) to (H) included in the electrode groups (13) to (16); and a determination step of determining leakage glass (Gx) from the glass melting furnace (2) based on variations in the ground voltages measured in the measurement step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Daisuke MOMO, Tomohiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20240242333
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a folder management unit that performs generation and setting of a folder that manages images for detecting a defect of an inspection target, and an image management unit that sets the images managed in the folder. The folder management unit sets a resolution of the images managed in the folder, and the image management unit applies the resolution set by the folder management unit to the images managed in the folder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohiro SATO, Junichi KODAMA, Yuki KAMAMORI
  • Publication number: 20240200633
    Abstract: A flywheel housing 100 includes: a main body portion 110 which is arranged on a side of an engine 1 of a flywheel 20 and which has a housing portion 111 that houses the flywheel 20; and a cover portion 120 which is arranged on an opposite side of the flywheel 20 to the engine 1, and which is connected to the main body portion 110, and moreover which has an opening portion 125 with an inner diameter that is smaller than an outer diameter of the flywheel 20, wherein the cover portion 120 is provided with a recessed portion 123 that is recessed in a direction of separation from the flywheel 20 on an opposing surface 122b to the flywheel 20 in a peripheral portion of an edge of the opening portion 125.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Mariko Ban, Yuichi Tamaki, Tomohiro Sato, Masato Ueda, Noriyoshi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 11970004
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a liquid discharge substrate that has a discharge-orifice row, pressure generating elements, and pressure chambers. The liquid discharge head discharges a liquid in a block-by-block manner using sequential driving. The discharge-orifice row is disposed so as to incline at an angle ?=Arctan (d1/d2) relative to a direction extending orthogonal to the conveyance direction of the medium, in which d1 (?m) is a disposition spacing of the discharge orifices in the discharge-orifice row in the conveyance direction and d2 (?m) is a disposition spacing of the discharge orifices in the discharge-orifice row in the direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction. A partition wall is formed between adjacent pressure chambers so as to separate the adjacent pressure chambers from each other. The partition wall has a communicating portion that communicates the adjacent pressure chambers with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Shuzo Iwanaga, Takatsugu Moriya, Koichi Ishida, Shingo Okushima, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Hammura
  • Patent number: 11933022
    Abstract: A tractor includes a working motor, a work machine including a roller configured to rotate by an output from the working motor, a support mechanism configured to support the work machine such that a working posture and a retracting posture are achievable, and a control device. The control device executes: an adherence amount acquisition process of acquiring an estimated adherence amount as an estimated value for the amount of mud attached to the roller; and a mud removal process of, when the estimated adherence amount is equal to or more than a determination adherence amount, removing the mud from the roller by driving the working motor in a state where the work machine takes the retracting posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Sugo, Masaki Numakura, Makoto Hirai, Taiga Higuchi, Tomohiro Sato, Hiroyuki Azuma
  • Patent number: 11881062
    Abstract: Provided is a control device of a working vehicle including a prime mover and a driving mechanism that drives an implement based on power of the prime mover, wherein the control device is configured to obtain a steering angle of the working vehicle, and detect switching between tasks performed by the working vehicle in a farm field, when the steering angle is equal to or greater than a predetermined angle indicating the switching between tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Sugo, Makoto Hirai, Masaki Numakura, Tomohiro Sato, Taiga Higuchi, Hiroyuki Azuma
  • Publication number: 20230405663
    Abstract: To provide a processing apparatus for a flat wire adapted to suppress adhesion of a shaft and improve durability. A processing apparatus includes: a holder including a rotation axis for rotating in a bending direction of a flat wire; and a clamp including the rotation axis for rotating in the bending direction and configured to restrain the flat wire by clamping it with the holder, in which the clamp includes: a flange that restrains the flat wire between it and the holder; a shaft connected to the flange and disposed so as to pass through a penetrating hole formed in the holder; and a coating film formed on a surface of the shaft, and in which a hardness of the shaft and a hardness of the coating film are greater than a hardness of the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Akihiro TOKUYAMA, Tomohiro SATO, Masato ISOBE, Hironari ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20230412056
    Abstract: A coil holding apparatus for laying a concentrated wound cassette coil in which a wire is laminated in multi layers, including a plurality of supporting parts configured to support the concentrated wound cassette coil, in which the plurality of the supporting parts include a first supporting part having a first height in the vertical direction and a second supporting part having a second height different from the first height in the vertical direction. The concentrated wound cassette coil includes an upper surface and a lower surface, each of the plurality of the supporting parts includes a supporting surface that is brought into contact with the lower surface and that supports the concentrated wound cassette coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Akihiro TOKUYAMA, Hironari ADACHI, Shuai ZHANG, Masashi KAWAI, Masato ISOBE, Tomohiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20230378705
    Abstract: A terminal crimping apparatus clamps a barrel portion of a terminal between an anvil and a crimper and caulks the barrel portion so as to enclose a core wire of a cable with the barrel portion. The terminal crimping apparatus comprising: a pressing part which is provided adjacent to the crimper side by side, is capable of separating from and approaching to the cable by movement of at least one of the anvil and the crimper, and prior to caulking of the barrel portion, pushes the cable outward while coming into contact with the cable and being applied with pressing force so as to bring the core wire into contact with a base surface of the barrel portion; and a regulating part which interferes with the pressing part which brings the core wire into contact with the base surface, and regulates pushing out the cable by the pressing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11779305
    Abstract: A puncture adapter of an embodiment holds a puncture needle and is attached to an ultrasonic probe having an ultrasonic probe group. The puncture adapter has a puncture bracket that can be fixed to the ultrasonic probe and a puncture needle guide that is attached to the puncture bracket. The puncture bracket is not fixed to the ultrasonic probe when the puncture needle guide is not attached. The puncture bracket is fixed to the ultrasonic probe when the puncture needle guide is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Yusuke Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Shikata
  • Patent number: 11735797
    Abstract: A coating solution for lithium ion battery separators which comprises inorganic particles, an organic polymer binder and carboxymethyl cellulose having an etherification rate of 1.10 to 2.00 or a salt thereof, or a coating solution for lithium ion battery separators comprising inorganic particles containing magnesium hydroxide having a linseed oil absorption of 30 to 80 (g/100 g), and a separator having a coating layer formed from the coating solution on a substrate and high safety and low internal resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Hideaki Saegusa, Makoto Kato, Noriko Kasai, Kukjin Yoon
  • Patent number: 11721492
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a solid electrolytic capacitor separator configured such that thickness non-uniformity is reduced, internal short-circuit is less likely to occur, an impedance is not too high, and a high heat resistance is exhibited. In a solid electrolytic capacitor separator including non-woven fabric, the non-woven fabric contains fibrillated heat-resistant fibers and synthetic short fibers as essential components, the fiber length of the fibrillated heat-resistant fiber is 0.30 to 0.75 mm, and the percentage of fibrillated heat-resistant fibers with a fiber width of 12 to 40 ?m is equal to or higher than 55% and lower than 75%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Keisuke Oyama, Tomohiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20230132970
    Abstract: The electric tractor is equipped with a battery, a transmission unit, a machine body frame, a rear axle unit, and a front axle unit. The transmission unit shifts the input power and outputs the shifted input power. The machine body frame is fixed to the transmission unit. The rear axle unit supports the rear wheels, and transmits, to the rear wheels, the power output from the transmission unit. The front axle unit supports the front wheels. The rear axle unit and the front axle unit support chassis including the machine body frame and transmission unit. The battery is supported by the chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicants: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd., Toyota Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Hashimoto, Taihei Daiyakuji, Masashi Matsumoto, Tomohiko Miyamoto, Hirotsugu Iwamoto, Tomohiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11637349
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a substrate for lithium ion battery separators which has high adhesion to an inorganic particle layer, can be made thin and is excellent in tensile strength and cuttability and a lithium ion battery separator including the substrate for lithium ion battery separators. The substrate for lithium ion battery separators which contains heat-resistant fibers and synthetic resin short fibers contains fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml as the heat-resistant fibers and has a content of the fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml of not less than 1.0 mass % to less than 5.0 mass % based on the total of all the fiber components contained in the substrate. The modified freeness is a value measured in accordance with JIS P8121-2:2012 except that an 80-mesh wire net having a wire diameter of 0.14 mm and an opening of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshihiro Shigematsu, Tomohiro Sato, Makoto Kato
  • Publication number: 20230101509
    Abstract: A terminal crimping apparatus clamps a barrel portion of a terminal between an anvil and a crimper and caulks the barrel portion so as to enclose a core wire of a cable with the barrel portion. The terminal crimping apparatus comprising: a pressing part which is provided adjacent to the crimper side by side, is capable of separating from and approaching to the cable by movement of at least one of the anvil and the crimper, and prior to caulking of the barrel portion, pushes the cable outward while coming into contact with the cable and being applied with pressing force so as to bring the core wire into contact with a base surface of the barrel portion; and a regulating part which interferes with the pressing part which brings the core wire into contact with the base surface, and regulates pushing out the cable by the pressing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20230035812
    Abstract: A coating solution for lithium ion battery separators which comprises inorganic particles, an organic polymer binder and carboxymethyl cellulose having an etherification rate of 1.10 to 2.00 or a salt thereof, or a coating solution for lithium ion battery separators comprising inorganic particles containing magnesium hydroxide having a linseed oil absorption of 30 to 80 (g/100 g), and a separator having a coating layer formed from the coating solution on a substrate and high safety and low internal resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro SATO, Hideaki SAEGUSA, Makoto KATO, Noriko KASAI, Kukjin YOON
  • Patent number: 11517286
    Abstract: An ultrasonic probe according to an embodiment comprises an ultrasonic-transducer element array, an offset and an exterior member. The ultrasonic-transducer element array is formed by a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements. The offset is provide on an ultrasonic-transmitting and receiving side of the ultrasonic-transducer element array and includes a contact portion with a subject. The exterior member supports the offset. The offset has at least a first region that is formed by a curved surface having a first curvature and arranged in the middle of the contact portion and a second region that is formed by a curved surface having a second curvature greater than the first curvature and arranged on an edge of the contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Takashi Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Shikata, Kengo Okada