Patents by Inventor Yasutaka Sasaki

Yasutaka Sasaki 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: 11574653
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a housing including a base with a bottom wall, a drive motor including a pivot erected on the bottom wall and a hub rotatably supported around the pivot, ten or more magnetic disks attached to the hub and stacked on a flange of the hub, and spacer rings attached to the hub and each disposed between each respective adjacent pair of two magnetic disks. A number of the spacer rings is one less than the magnetic disks. At least one spacer ring has a thickness different from that of the other spacer rings, and a difference between a maximum thickness and a minimum thickness of the spacer rings is 0.01 mm or more and 0.09 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Uehara, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20220399041
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a housing including a base with a bottom wall, a drive motor including a pivot erected on the bottom wall and a hub rotatably supported around the pivot, ten or more magnetic disks attached to the hub and stacked on a flange of the hub, and spacer rings attached to the hub and each disposed between each respective adjacent pair of two magnetic disks. A number of the spacer rings is one less than the magnetic disks. At least one spacer ring has a thickness different from that of the other spacer rings, and a difference between a maximum thickness and a minimum thickness of the spacer rings is 0.01 mm or more and 0.09 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu UEHARA, Yasutaka SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220371293
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin molded article is produced by pressing a plurality of thermoplastic base material sheets, each of which contains a plurality of reinforcing fibers, in a stacked state where the base material sheets are stacked so that the fiber directions (orientation direction of the reinforcing fibers) are alternated. Each base material sheet is provided with a cut including: a plurality of lengthwise cut lines extending parallel to the fiber direction; and a plurality of crosswise cut lines extending parallel to a direction that is perpendicular to the fiber direction. A plurality of cut interruption parts for interrupting the lengthwise cut lines in the fiber direction are formed. The cut interruption parts are arranged in a staggered manner so as to be displaced from each other in the fiber direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUKUVI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yui NAKANO, Yasutaka SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220262397
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a base, a drive motor, disk-shaped magnetic recording media, a carriage supporting a magnetic head to be movable with respect to the magnetic recording medium, and a plurality of fixing members. The base includes a bottom wall and a side wall having a first corner and a second corner. The fixing member includes a support post erected on the bottom wall, and extending parts each extending from the support post between the magnetic recording media. The fixing members include a first fixing member provided between the magnetic recording medium and the first corner, a second fixing member provided between the magnetic recording medium and the second corner, and a third fixing member provided on a side facing the first fixing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Ryusuke KIMURA, Yasutaka SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11074932
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a suspension assembly includes a support plate including a distal end portion and a proximal end portion, a wiring member including a gimbal portion and provided on the support plate, and a magnetic head on the gimbal portion. The gimbal portion includes a first welded portion located near the proximal end portion and welded to the support plate, a second welded portion located near the distal end portion and welded to the support plate, a tongue portion between the first welded portion and the second welded portion, supported displaceably to the support plate, and on which the magnetic head is mounted, and a limiter extending from the tongue portion toward the second welded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Suzuki, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20210225394
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a suspension assembly includes a support plate including a distal end portion and a proximal end portion, a wiring member including a gimbal portion and provided on the support plate, and a magnetic head on the gimbal portion. The gimbal portion includes a first welded portion located near the proximal end portion and welded to the support plate, a second welded portion located near the distal end portion and welded to the support plate, a tongue portion between the first welded portion and the second welded portion, supported displaceably to the support plate, and on which the magnetic head is mounted, and a limiter extending from the tongue portion toward the second welded portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuo Suzuki, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10930320
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a disk-shaped recording medium, a head which processes data on the recording medium, and a housing accommodating the recording medium and the head. The housing includes a base with a side wall, and a cover having a welded portion welded to the side wall by laser welding. The welded portion includes a first welded portion welded to a first region of the side wall and having weld beads with a first shape, and a second welded portion welded to a second region of the side wall and having welded beads with a second shape different from the first shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Makoto Okamoto, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10878842
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device comprises a plurality of rotatable magnetic disks, a first actuator assembly, and a second actuator assembly. A slit provided in each of arms of the first actuator assembly is provided to be offset in a direction spaced away from a border plane between actuator assemblies with respect to a center of the arm in its thickness direction. A connection end portion of a wiring member is partially located in the slit, such as to be offset in a direction spaced away from the border plane, and disposed on a wiring board, and joined to the wiring board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Uehara, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10818214
    Abstract: Provided is a display system for a vehicle. The display system includes a display device installed to be visually recognizable from the outside of a vehicle, and a control device configured to cause the display device to display state information of the vehicle. The control device receives a signal from a sensor that senses a distance from the vehicle to an object around the vehicle, and the control device changes display of the display device based on the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Ishizuka, Kazuhisa Inoue, Yosuke Ohashi, Tomoaki Harada, Yasuaki Tsutsumi, Yoshiro Ito, Yoshinori Shibata, Takeshi Iwasaki, Yasutaka Sasaki, Honami Fujii
  • Publication number: 20200312213
    Abstract: Provided is a display system for a vehicle. The display system includes a display device installed to be visually recognizable from the outside of a vehicle, and a control device configured to cause the display device to display state information of the vehicle. The control device receives a signal from a sensor that senses a distance from the vehicle to an object around the vehicle, and the control device changes display of the display device based on the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Takayoshi Ishizuka, Kazuhisa Inoue, Yosuke Ohashi, Tomoaki Harada, Yasuaki Tsutsumi, Yoshiro Ito, Yoshinori Shibata, Takeshi Iwasaki, Yasutaka Sasaki, Honami Fujii
  • Publication number: 20200294538
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device comprises a plurality of rotatable magnetic disks, a first actuator assembly, and a second actuator assembly. A slit provided in each of arms of the first actuator assembly is provided to be offset in a direction spaced away from a border plane between actuator assemblies with respect to a center of the arm in its thickness direction. A connection end portion of a wiring member is partially located in the slit, such as to be offset in a direction spaced away from the border plane, and disposed on a wiring board, and joined to the wiring board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Manabu Uehara, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20200258551
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a disk-shaped recording medium, a head which processes data on the recording medium, and a housing accommodating the recording medium and the head. The housing includes a base with a side wall, and a cover having a welded portion welded to the side wall by laser welding. The welded portion includes a first welded portion welded to a first region of the side wall and having weld beads with a first shape, and a second welded portion welded to a second region of the side wall and having welded beads with a second shape different from the first shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Makoto Okamoto, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10657993
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device comprises a plurality of rotatable magnetic disks, a first actuator assembly, and a second actuator assembly. A slit provided in each of arms of the first actuator assembly is provided to be offset in a direction spaced away from a border plane between actuator assemblies with respect to a center of the arm in its thickness direction. A connection end portion of a wiring member is partially located in the slit, such as to be offset in a direction spaced away from the border plane, and disposed on a wiring board, and joined to the wiring board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Uehara, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10643670
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a disk-shaped recording medium, a head which processes data on the recording medium, and a housing accommodating the recording medium and the head. The housing includes a base with a side wall, and a cover having a welded portion welded to the side wall by laser welding. The welded portion includes a first welded portion welded to a first region of the side wall and having weld beads with a first shape, and a second welded portion welded to a second region of the side wall and having welded beads with a second shape different from the first shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Makoto Okamoto, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10311770
    Abstract: Provided is a display system for a vehicle. The display system includes a display device installed to be visually recognizable from the outside of a vehicle, and a control device configured to cause the display device to display state information of the vehicle. The control device receives a signal from a sensor that senses a distance from the vehicle to an object around the vehicle, and the control device changes display of the display device based on the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Ishizuka, Kazuhisa Inoue, Yosuke Ohashi, Tomoaki Harada, Yasuaki Tsutsumi, Yoshiro Ito, Yoshinori Shibata, Takeshi Iwasaki, Yasutaka Sasaki, Honami Fujii
  • Publication number: 20190164577
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a disk-shaped recording medium, a head which processes data on the recording medium, and a housing accommodating the recording medium and the head. The housing includes a base with a side wall, and a cover having a welded portion welded to the side wall by laser welding. The welded portion includes a first welded portion welded to a first region of the side wall and having weld beads with a first shape, and a second welded portion welded to a second region of the side wall and having welded beads with a second shape different from the first shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto Okamoto, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10295140
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicular lamp including an organic EL element that has only a non-light emitting point with a size of 120 ?m or less on a light emitting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Ito, Masaya Shido, Yoshiro Ito, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10291818
    Abstract: A calculator performs in parallel gamma correction calculations on gray level values 1 to Z depending on each of target nozzles for each of target pixels containing gray level values other than zero of pixels in image data to be printed by a multi-drop inkjet head including nozzles and having a maximum droplet number Z per pixel, the nozzles of the multi-drop inkjet head including the target nozzles for ink ejection on the respective target pixels. A selector selects a calculation result corresponding to a gray level value of the target pixel from calculation results of the gamma correction calculations performed on the gray level values 1 to Z by the calculator, for each of the target pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10242715
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a disk-shaped recording medium, a head which processes data on the recording medium, and a housing accommodating the recording medium and the head. The housing includes a base with a side wall, and a cover having a welded portion welded to the side wall by laser welding. The welded portion includes a first welded portion welded to a first region of the side wall and having weld beads with a first shape, and a second welded portion welded to a second region of the side wall and having welded beads with a second shape different from the first shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Makoto Okamoto, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10163457
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a lift tab of a suspension assembly, includes: forming a first mask on a first surface of a plate-shaped base material; forming a second mask smaller than the first mask by a width less than or equal to a plate thickness of the base material, on a second surface of the base material, which is on an opposite side to the first surface, to oppose the first mask; etching the base material from both surface sides through the first mask and the second mask, to cut out the base material; and subjecting the cut-out base material to a bending process to form the lift tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoki, Yasutaka Sasaki