Patents by Inventor Wataru Sato

Wataru 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: 20240134509
    Abstract: An input interface receives a trigger signal. A processor displays a first screen or a second screen on a display device based on the trigger signal. The first screen provides first medical information for each of a plurality of subjects. The second screen provides, for at least one of the plurality of subjects, second medical information that is not included in the first medical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Daisuke Horiguchi, Wataru Matsuzawa, Mitsuhiro Oura, Haruo Fujimoto, Shinichi Sato, Masashi Sato
  • Publication number: 20240118147
    Abstract: A detection device provided in an interior of a vehicle door handle including an inner casing includes a base portion, a displaceable member, and a sensor. The base portion has a longitudinal shape extending along a longitudinal direction of the door handle, is disposed fixedly to the inner casing, and is configured to deform in response to a pressure applied to the inner casing. The displaceable member has a longitudinal shape extending along the longitudinal direction of the door handle and is provided to face the base portion. Either or both of one end portion and the other end portion of the displaceable member are connected to the base portion. The displaceable member includes a displaceable portion configured to be displaced relatively to the base portion in accordance with deformation of the base portion. The sensor is configured to detect displacement of the displaceable portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Wataru SATO, Yuzuru KAWANA, Kazuhito OSHITA
  • Publication number: 20240102206
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a flame-retardant fabric that includes a modacrylic fiber and a cellulose fiber. The cellulose fiber is one or more selected from a regenerated cellulose fiber and a natural cellulose fiber. The flame-retardant fabric contains the modacrylic fiber in an amount of 65 to 90 wt % and the cellulose fiber in an amount of 10 to 35 wt % with respect to the overall weight of the fabric. The modacrylic fiber contains a magnesium compound inside the fiber. The flame-retardant fabric contains the magnesium compound in an amount of 2.5 to 4.5 wt %. Afterflame time and afterglow time of the flame-retardant fabric measured using a flammability test based on ISO 15025: 2000 are 2 seconds or less and 2 seconds or less, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motohiro Sato, Akira Ozaki, Wataru Mio
  • Publication number: 20240092400
    Abstract: A vehicle front recognition apparatus includes an imager that captures an image of an environment ahead of a vehicle on the road, an image analyzer that analyzes the image of the environment with artificial intelligence to segment the image areas of the image by classes to which objects captured in the image belong, and a road information acquirer that acquires high-precision map information ahead of the vehicle. The vehicle front recognition apparatus acquires dynamic information that is not included in the high-precision map information from the classes. The image analyzer includes a feeling-of-strangeness area extractor extracting a feeling-of-strangeness area using the classes from the image areas. The vehicle front recognition apparatus further includes a feeling-of-strangeness area verifier that verifies whether the vehicle can pass through the feeling-of-strangeness area and a notifier that notifies a driver when the vehicle cannot pass through the feeling-of-strangeness area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki MANIWA, Reo HARADA, Hiroaki KURAMOCHI, Seiya SATO, Shigeki MUKAI, Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Wataru MUNEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240083422
    Abstract: A vehicle drive assist apparatus is to be applied to a vehicle. The vehicle drive assist apparatus includes an object recognizer, a risk area setter, and a risk level setter. The object recognizer is configured to recognize an object in front of the vehicle. The risk area setter is configured to, when small objects are around the object, set a risk area including the small objects. The risk level setter is configured to set a risk level for the risk area with respect to the vehicle based on distribution of height information items within the risk area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiya SATO, Reo HARADA, Hiroaki KURAMOCHI, Hiroki MANIWA, Wataru MUNEMURA, Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Shigeki MUKAI
  • Publication number: 20240083423
    Abstract: A vehicle drive assist apparatus is to be applied to a vehicle. The vehicle drive assist apparatus includes an object recognizer, a dispersion area extractor, and a risk area setter. The object recognizer is configured to recognize an object in front of the vehicle. The dispersion area extractor is configured to extract a dispersion area where luminance values are dispersed around the recognized object. The risk area setter is configured to set, as a risk area where small objects are distributed, an area including the dispersion area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reo HARADA, Seiya SATO, Hiroaki KURAMOCHI, Hiroki MANIWA, Wataru MUNEMURA, Shigeki MUKAI, Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240083416
    Abstract: A vehicle drive assist apparatus is to be applied to a vehicle. The apparatus includes an object recognizer, a risk area setter, a risk level setter, a route candidate setter, a route evaluation value calculator, and a vehicle travel route setter. The object recognizer recognizes an object in front of the vehicle. The risk area setter sets, when small objects are around the object, a risk area including the small objects. The risk level setter sets a risk level for the risk area based on a distribution state of the small objects within the risk area. The route candidate setter sets patterns of route candidates for avoiding a risk resulting from the risk area. The route evaluation value calculator calculates a route evaluation value for each of the route candidates. The vehicle travel route setter sets, as a vehicle travel route, the route candidate having an optimum route evaluation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reo HARADA, Seiya SATO, Hiroaki KURAMOCHI, Hiroki MANIWA, Wataru MUNEMURA, Shigeki MUKAI, Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11922367
    Abstract: A stocker system for transporting a good via a transport vehicle to a stocker with multiple storage compartments, the stocker system including: a stocker information memory section configured to memorize stocker information including arrangement position information of the storage compartments in the stocker, and information of presence or absence of the good in the storage compartments; a stocker information updating section configured to update the stocker information in accordance with the goods being taken in and out of the storage compartments; and a stopping position setting section configured to acquire the arrangement position information of an empty storage compartment from the stocker information and to set a stopping position of the transport vehicle for the good to be put into the empty storage compartment based on the acquired arrangement position information of the empty storage compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Sato, Wataru Hosoi, Akihiro Higashida, Joji Isozumi, Kenta Hagihara
  • Patent number: 11914139
    Abstract: A scanning optical apparatus includes a first light source unit, a second light source unit, a rotary polygon mirror and a casing provided with a bottom surface on which said deflection unit is disposed. The second light source unit is disposed at a position away from the bottom surface more than the first light source unit with respect to a rotational axis direction of the rotary polygon mirror. The casing is provided with first and second supporting surfaces for supporting the first and second light source. Both the first and second supporting surfaces are faced in a direction away from the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Wataru Sato
  • Patent number: 11843101
    Abstract: Provided is a battery pack including: a first battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces face each other; a second battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces are face each other; and a case housing the first battery group and the second battery group, wherein the facing surfaces of the first battery group and the second battery group are directly or indirectly thermally connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Vehicle Energy Japan Inc.
    Inventors: Masanari Oda, Hirofumi Takahashi, Shigeki Makino, Wataru Sato, Hitoshi Nishimori
  • Patent number: 11821340
    Abstract: A turbine includes: a turbine blade wheel housed in a housing unit; two turbine scroll flow paths wound radially outward with respect to the turbine blade wheel and connected at positions different from each other in a circumferential direction in an outer circumferential portion of the housing unit; and two scroll outlets each communicating one of the two turbine scroll flow paths with the housing unit, the two scroll outlets formed along the circumferential direction, at least one of the two scroll outlets having a height distribution in which a height in an axial direction is lower than a surrounding height at at least one of an upstream end or a downstream end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Wataru Sato
  • Patent number: 11782022
    Abstract: The capillary electrophoresis apparatus according to the present invention can maintain the temperature in the longitudinal direction of each of a plurality of capillaries uniformly, such that the separation performance of the capillary electrophoresis apparatus can be stabilized, and the analysis performance can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Sato, Motohiro Yamazaki
  • 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: 20230098629
    Abstract: Power supply device includes battery stack in which a plurality of prismatic battery cells are stacked, end plate having a rectangular shape in plan view and having a pressing surface that covers an end surface of battery stack, and fastening member that fastens battery stack. End plate has, on a pressing surface, flat pressing regions respectively formed on end edge sides in the up-down direction, and bead region formed on the middle side in the up-down direction and bent in a shape protruding toward the back surface side of the pressing surface. Thus, strength can be improved by changing a shape in which bead region is formed in the middle while pressing regions that presses battery stack remains on end plate, which enables end plate having high strength to be provided at low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: MASAKI FUKUDA, WATARU SATO, YASUAKI UEMURA, TAIJYU MORISHITA
  • Publication number: 20230079515
    Abstract: A door handle apparatus to be attached to a door of a vehicle is provided. The door handle apparatus includes a case, a strain body, and an elastic mechanism. The case includes an outer case provided so as to face a vehicle exterior side and an inner case provided so as to face a vehicle interior side. The outer case and the inner case are integrated with each other. The strain body is provided in the case, has a sensor mounted on a middle portion between one end portion and an opposite end portion of the strain body, and the one end portion of the strain body is fixed to a portion on a center side of the inner case. The elastic mechanism uses an elastic force to press the opposite end portion of the strain body against a fixing portion at an end of the inner case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Wataru SATO, Yuzuru KAWANA, Kazuhito OSHITA, Masaru KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20230043042
    Abstract: A turbine includes: a turbine blade wheel housed in a housing unit; two turbine scroll flow paths wound radially outward with respect to the turbine blade wheel and connected at positions different from each other in a circumferential direction in an outer circumferential portion of the housing unit; and two scroll outlets each communicating one of the two turbine scroll flow paths with the housing unit, the two scroll outlets formed along the circumferential direction, at least one of the two scroll outlets having a height distribution in which a height in an axial direction is lower than a surrounding height at at least one of an upstream end or a downstream end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Wataru SATO
  • Patent number: 11551712
    Abstract: A base for a magnetic recording medium, includes an aluminum alloy substrate, and a nickel alloy film provided on at least one principal surface of the aluminum alloy substrate. The nickel alloy film includes Mo in a range of 0.5 wt % to 3 wt %, P in a range of 11 wt % to 15 wt %, and Al in a range of 0.001 wt % to 0.1 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Wataru Sato, Hideki Tomosue, Norihisa Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11551713
    Abstract: A base for a magnetic recording medium, includes an aluminum alloy substrate, and a nickel alloy film provided on at least one principal surface of the aluminum alloy substrate. The nickel alloy film includes Mo in a range of 0.5 wt % to 3 wt %, P in a range of 11 wt % to 15 wt %, and Fe in a range of 0.0001 wt % to 0.001 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Wataru Sato, Hideki Tomosue, Norihisa Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11492916
    Abstract: A turbine includes: an inner diameter side exhaust flow path; an outer diameter side exhaust flow path having a flow path cross-sectional area smaller than a flow path cross-sectional area of the inner diameter side exhaust flow path; an inner diameter side bypass flow path connecting the inner diameter side exhaust flow path and a discharge flow path; and an outer diameter side bypass flow path connecting the outer diameter side exhaust flow path and the discharge flow path, the outer diameter side bypass flow path having a flow path cross-sectional area larger than a flow path cross-sectional area of the inner diameter side bypass flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Morita, Wataru Sato
  • Patent number: 11402368
    Abstract: A biological sample analyzer using a nanopore, said analyzer comprising: a first chamber that storing a solvent; a baseboard provided with a nanopore through which a biological sample passes; a second chamber which is positioned adjacently to the first chamber via the baseboard and stores the solvent; a first electrode formed in the first chamber; a second electrode formed in the second chamber; a detector detecting the biological sample which has passed through the nanopore; and a stirrer stirring the solvent in the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Michiru Fujioka, Nobuyuki Isoshima, Wataru Sato