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).

  • Publication number: 20200070513
    Abstract: A liquid injection head improving electric reliability includes: a substrate including: energy generating elements configured to apply energy for ejection to a liquid, and a substrate upper surface on which terminals respectively connected to electric wirings are provided, an ejection port forming member having: an ejection port forming surface in which the ejection ports for ejecting a liquid are formed, and a back surface on a side opposite to the ejection port forming surface, which is arranged so as to opposite to the substrate upper surface, and a sealant configured to cover connecting portions between the electric wirings and the terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoki Ishiwata, Shuzo Iwanaga, Masaki Oikawa, Keiji Tomizawa, Tomohiro Sato, Akiko Hammura, Chiaki Muraoka, Shimpei Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10507654
    Abstract: A print element substrate and a liquid ejection head capable of suppressing degradation of a print quality caused by a white stripe/black stripe etc., is actualized without using a high degree of microfabrication technology. As a result of asymmetric deformation by swelling in a direction of relative movement to a print medium, print elements having different liquid droplet ejection directions are made to coexist and arrayed for that purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Saito, Takatsugu Moriya, Koichi Ishida, Tatsuya Yamada, Shuzo Iwanaga, Tomohiro Sato, Tomoki Ishiwata
  • Patent number: 10486421
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes a discharge port that discharges a liquid, a pressure chamber that communicates with the discharge port, and an energy generating element that is disposed in the pressure chamber. In the liquid discharging head, the discharge port is provided with a plurality of projections that project towards a central portion of the discharge port from an inner peripheral edge of the discharge port, and an interval between the projections at a location where the projections are closest to each other is 5 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takatsugu Moriya, Shuzo Iwanaga, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Hammura, Tatsuya Yamada, Tomohiro Sato, Ayako Iwasaki, Tomoki Ishiwata, Koichi Ishida
  • Publication number: 20190337926
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel and excellent small-molecule-corn pounds that specifically antagonize BMP signal pathways, and these compounds can be used to modulate cell growth, differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis, and thus can be used to treat diseases or pathological symptoms related to BMP signal pathway including inflammation, cardiovascular diseases, hematopoietic diseases, cancer, osteodystrophia, or the like, particularly, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, and the present invention relates to provision of a pharmaceutical and pharmacological agent used for specifically antagonizing the BMP signal pathways and acting on the BMP signal pathways in the prevention and treatment or experimental application since the compounds can be beneficial for regulating cell differentiation and/or cell proliferation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicants: RIKEN, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Yoshinobu HASHIZUME, Katsuhiko SEKIMATA, Hirokazu KUBOTA, Hirofumi YAMAMOTO, Yasuko KODA, Hiroo KOYAMA, Tomonori TAGURI, Tomohiro SATO, Akiko TANAKA, Kohei MIYAZONO
  • Patent number: 10470224
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a method which does not cause degradation of security and communication obstruction in an assigned terminal and is not limited by a button operation when an unassigned terminal is assigned to a repeater by use of the assigned terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: NEC PLATFORMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20190308413
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head including first and second recording element substrates adjacent in a direction intersecting a relative movement direction include ejection opening rows that include ejection openings arranged in the intersecting direction. A straight line connecting the ejection openings in end portions on a second recording element substrate side in the first recording element substrate and a straight line connecting the ejection openings in end portions on a first recording element substrate side in the second recording element substrate are inclined towards a middle area side of the first recording element substrate, and arrangement intervals of the ejection openings in an end portion area on the second recording element substrate side of a first ejection opening row is larger than arrangement intervals of the ejection openings in an end portion area on the first recording element substrate side of a second ejection opening row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Koichi Ishida, Shuzo Iwanaga, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Hammura, Takatsugu Moriya, Tomohiro Sato, Tatsuya Yamada, Tomoki Ishiwata, Ayako Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 10421276
    Abstract: A printing element substrate includes a substrate, an energy generating element, and an ejection-port formed member. The energy generating element is disposed on one surface of the substrate and configured to generate energy for use in ejecting liquid. The ejection-port formed member includes ejection ports that eject the liquid. A protrusion protruding toward inside of each of the ejection ports is provided on an inner surface of the ejection port. In a surface of the ejection-port formed member remote from the substrate, a tip portion of the protrusion is positioned closer to the substrate than an outer periphery of the ejection port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akiko Saito, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Takatsugu Moriya, Koichi Ishida, Tatsuya Yamada, Shuzo Iwanaga, Ayako Iwasaki, Tomoki Ishiwata, Tomohiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10230087
    Abstract: A non-woven fabric base material for a lithium ion secondary battery separator composed mainly of a polyethylene terephthalate fiber, characterized in that the non-woven fabric base material comprises a polyethylene terephthalate binder fiber and a crystallized polyethylene terephthalate fiber, and the content of a polyethylene terephthalate binder fiber having a fiber length of 2.5 mm or less is 10 to 60 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Toshihiro Shigematsu, Makoto Kato, Kenji Hyodo, Wakana Aizawa
  • Publication number: 20190023001
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes a discharge port that discharges a liquid, a pressure chamber that communicates with the discharge port, and an energy generating element that is disposed in the pressure chamber. In the liquid discharging head, the discharge port is provided with a plurality of projections that project towards a central portion of the discharge port from an inner peripheral edge of the discharge port, and an interval between the projections at a location where the projections are closest to each other is 5 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Takatsugu Moriya, Shuzo Iwanaga, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Hammura, Tatsuya Yamada, Tomohiro Sato, Ayako Iwasaki, Tomoki Ishiwata, Koichi Ishida
  • Patent number: 10183490
    Abstract: A discharge port array is inclined to a second direction B at an angle ? that satisfies a relation of tan ?=d2/(N×d1), where d1 is a distance between discharge ports within the discharge port array in the second direction B, and d2 is a distance between two adjacent discharge ports within each group in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Saito, Takatsugu Moriya, Koichi Ishida, Tatsuya Yamada, Shuzo Iwanaga, Shingo Okushima
  • Publication number: 20180312996
    Abstract: A method for a SiC single crystal that allow prolonged growth to be achieved are provided. A method for producing a SiC single crystal in which a seed crystal substrate held on a seed crystal holding shaft is contacted with a Si—C solution having a temperature gradient such that a temperature of the Si—C solution decreases from an interior of the Si—C solution toward a liquid level of the Si—C solution, in a graphite crucible, to grow a SiC single crystal, wherein the method comprises the steps of: electromagnetic stirring of the Si—C solution with an induction coil to produce a flow, and heating of a lower part of the graphite crucible with a resistance heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayoshi DOI, Hironori DAIKOKU, Motohisa KADO, Tomohiro SATO, Kazuaki SEKI, Kazuhiko KUSUNOKI, Yutaka KISHIDA
  • Patent number: 10112387
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes a discharge port that discharges a liquid, a pressure chamber that communicates with the discharge port, and an energy generating element that is disposed in the pressure chamber. In the liquid discharging head, the discharge port is provided with a plurality of projections that project towards a central portion of the discharge port from an inner peripheral edge of the discharge port, and an interval between the projections at a location where the projections are closest to each other is 5 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takatsugu Moriya, Shuzo Iwanaga, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Saito, Tatsuya Yamada, Tomohiro Sato, Ayako Iwasaki, Tomoki Ishiwata, Koichi Ishida
  • Patent number: 10085712
    Abstract: An apparatus capable of connecting a connector of ultrasonic probe includes a connected part, a wall part and a vent hole. The connected part is provided in a housing and is configured to be capable of connecting a connector of ultrasonic probe. The wall part is provided in a location to surround side faces of the connector in a state of being connected to the connected part. The vent hole is provided between the connected part and the wall part so as to pass through from outside to inside of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Miyagi, Tomohiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10040288
    Abstract: A liquid ejection module and a liquid ejection head capable of suppressing unevenness in printing are provided. Accordingly, openings are disposed so that a center position of at least one of openings in a plurality of ejection opening rows is not disposed on the same line extending in a print medium movement direction in a relative movement with respect to center positions of the other openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takatsugu Moriya, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Saito, Koichi Ishida, Tatsuya Yamada, Shuzo Iwanaga, Ayako Tozuka, Tomoki Ishiwata, Tomohiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20180220490
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a method which does not cause degradation of security and communication obstruction in an assigned terminal and is not limited by a button operation when an unassigned terminal is assigned to a repeater by use of the assigned terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20180162130
    Abstract: A liquid ejection module and a liquid ejection head capable of suppressing unevenness in printing are provided. Accordingly, openings are disposed so that a center position of at least one of openings in a plurality of ejection opening rows is not disposed on the same line extending in a print medium movement direction in a relative movement with respect to center positions of the other openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Takatsugu Moriya, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Saito, Koichi Ishida, Tatsuya Yamada, Shuzo Iwanaga, Ayako Tozuka, Tomoki Ishiwata, Tomohiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9975347
    Abstract: A liquid is reliably supplied to a liquid ejection head through a plurality of supply paths. The liquid is supplied to a plurality of areas of the liquid ejection head through the plurality of supply paths and a liquid ejection amount per unit time from the liquid ejection head is controlled so that a liquid flow amount of each of the areas becomes a predetermined flow amount or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ayako Tozuka, Shuzo Iwanaga, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Saito, Tomohiro Sato, Takatsugu Moriya, Koichi Ishida, Tatsuya Yamada, Tomoki Ishiwata
  • Patent number: 9969165
    Abstract: Multiple recording elements are disposed on one face of a recording element board, and a groove-shaped liquid supply channel is provided on the other face in common for the recording elements. Multiple supply ports passing through the recording element board and communicating the liquid supply channel with pressure chambers, and supply-side openings serving as supply ports of liquid to the liquid supply channel are further provided. When discharging liquid, the sum of pressure drop of the liquid from any supply-side opening to the supply port at a position farthest removed from that supply-side opening, and the pressure drop of the liquid at the supply port, is 5000 Pa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Saito, Takatsugu Moriya, Koichi Ishida, Tatsuya Yamada, Shuzo Iwanaga, Ayako Tozuka, Tomoki Ishiwata, Tomohiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9931845
    Abstract: A liquid ejection module and a liquid ejection head capable of suppressing unevenness in printing are provided. Accordingly, openings are disposed so that a center position of at least one of openings in a plurality of ejection opening rows is not disposed on the same line extending in a print medium movement direction in a relative movement with respect to center positions of the other openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takatsugu Moriya, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Saito, Koichi Ishida, Tatsuya Yamada, Shuzo Iwanaga, Ayako Tozuka, Tomoki Ishiwata, Tomohiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20180056654
    Abstract: A discharge port array is inclined to a second direction B at an angle ? that satisfies a relation of tan ?=d2/(N×d1), where d1 is a distance between discharge ports within the discharge port array in the second direction B, and d2 is a distance between two adjacent discharge ports within each group in a first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Saito, Takatsugu Moriya, Koichi Ishida, Tatsuya Yamada, Shuzo Iwanaga, Shingo Okushima