Patents by Inventor Yoichi Sato

Yoichi 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: 12371191
    Abstract: A method of producing a structure by coupling a first component to a second component and inserting a shim into a gap formed between the first component and the second component includes: measuring first and second profiles of first and second surfaces of the first and second components before completing positioning of the first and second components to coupling positions; measuring third and fourth profiles of third and fourth surfaces of the first and second components before completing the positioning; performing the positioning by butting the first surface against the second surface; measuring fifth and sixth profiles of the third and fourth surfaces after completing the positioning; calculating a size of the gap based on the first to sixth profiles; producing the shim based on the size of the gap; and coupling the second component to the first component with the shim inserted and the positioning completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Yutaka Yamagishi, Kazuma Ashizawa
  • Patent number: 12345871
    Abstract: An inspection cable guide mechanism of the present disclosure includes a heat-resistant sheath having flexibility through which a cable is allowed to be inserted and cooling air is allowed to flow toward a tip through a gap between the cable and the heat-resistant sheath, a segment stacked body configured by stacking segments having heat resistance configured to cover the heat-resistant sheath in a centerline direction, and a plurality of wires disposed around the heat-resistant sheath and extending along a centerline, one segment of the segment stacked body is swingable with respect to two segments adjacent to the one segment about swing axes extending in a direction perpendicular to the centerline, the two swing axes becoming centers when the one segment swings with respect to the two segments are perpendicular to each other when viewed in the centerline direction, and one end of each wire is fixed to one of the segments in the segment stacked body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yasutaka Fuke, Hirone Komatsu, Takashi Matsuzawa, Shin Asano, Kotaro Tadano, Koshiro Irie, Yoichi Sato
  • Patent number: 12331206
    Abstract: An aqueous inkjet ink composition contains a pigment, an alkali-soluble resin, a polyolefin resin emulsion, a basic compound, an aqueous medium, and a surfactant, wherein the alkali-soluble resin is a copolymer of acrylic acid/lauryl acrylate/styrene; a glass transition temperature of the alkali-soluble resin is 45° C. to 95° C.; an average grain size of the polyolefin resin emulsion is 5 to 300 nm; a solids content of the polyolefin resin emulsion is 0.5 to 5.0 percent by mass in the aqueous inkjet ink composition; and the surfactant contains at least an acetylenediol-based surfactant. The aqueous inkjet ink composition is adapted to offering excellent high-gap discharge stability, antifouling property, adhesion, drying property, abrasion resistance, discharge stability, and preservation stability, even when printed on nonabsorbent media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Hiroyuki Konishi, Kazuki Moriyasu
  • Patent number: 12269614
    Abstract: A method of producing a structure including a first component, having a first surface, and a second component, having second and third surfaces includes: measuring profiles of the second and third surfaces; measuring profiles of fourth and fifth surfaces of subcomponents; assembling the first component by coupling the subcomponents with adjustment; recording data representing the adjustment; estimating a changed profile of the second surface in case of coupling the third surface to the first surface; determining a coupling position of the third surface to the first surface; and coupling the third surface to the first surface at the determined coupling position. The predetermined contour degree is required for the second surface. The first surface is formed by the fourth surfaces. The fifth surfaces influence a profile of the first surface. The changed profile is estimated based on the profiles of the second to fifth surfaces and the recorded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Kazuma Ashizawa, Yutaka Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 12264252
    Abstract: An ink set including an aqueous inkjet ink composition and a primer composition. The aqueous inkjet ink composition contains a pigment, an alkali-soluble resin, a resin emulsion, a surfactant, a water-soluble solvent, and water; the resin emulsion contains a polyurethane resin emulsion and/or a polyolefin resin emulsion; the surfactant contains an alkyl sulfonate and/or a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether sulfate; the aqueous inkjet ink composition has a content of the alkyl sulfonate and/or the polyoxyethylene alkyl ether sulfate of 0.05% by mass or more and 0.5% by mass or less; and the primer composition contains an aggregation accelerator that accelerates aggregation of the aqueous inkjet ink composition. The ink set provides a printed matter having good print image quality and excellent abrasion resistance, and has good storage stability and ejection stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Kazuki Moriyasu, Eri Ueda, Takaaki Sano
  • Patent number: 12258482
    Abstract: An object is to provide a method for storing or transporting an aqueous white ink composition for inkjet that does not cause precipitation of a pigment therein during storage for a long period or transport, and allows the pigment to be easily redispersed even if precipitation occurs. As means for solving the problems, a storing method is provided that includes placing an aqueous white ink composition for inkjet containing titanium oxide and a pigment dispersant in a tank and maintaining the entire aqueous white ink composition for inkjet in the tank at a temperature of ?5 to ?35° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Hirohito Maeda, Kazuki Moriyasu, Eri Ueda, Takaaki Sano
  • Patent number: 12247573
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes: a housing including an intake flow path; a compressor impeller arranged in the intake flow path and including a plurality of blades; an accommodation chamber formed upstream of the blades in a flow of intake air in the housing; a movable member arranged in the accommodation chamber and movable to a protruding position where the movable member protrudes into the intake flow path and to a retracted position where the movable member is retracted from the intake flow path; and one or more grooves formed over an inner circumferential surface and a side face closer to the blades in the movable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Yonemura, Ryota Sakisaka, Yoichi Sato, Ryosuke Inomata, Taiki Kanzawa
  • Patent number: 12180848
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes: a housing including an intake flow path; a compressor impeller arranged in the intake flow path and including a plurality of blades; an accommodation chamber formed upstream of the blades in a flow of intake air in the housing; a movable member arranged in the accommodation chamber and movable to a protruding position where the movable member protrudes into the intake flow path and to a retracted position where the movable member is retracted from the intake flow path; a plurality of slits formed closer to the blades with respect to the accommodation chamber in the housing and connected to the intake flow path; a plurality of compartment walls circumferentially separating the plurality of slits; and an outer circumferential wall connecting radially outer ends of the plurality of compartment walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Yonemura, Ryota Sakisaka, Yoichi Sato, Taiki Kanzawa
  • Publication number: 20240370735
    Abstract: A label generation method according to one aspect of the present invention prepares a first inference model trained on a first dataset obtained from a source domain, and a second inference model trained on a second dataset including second training data generated by adding a disturbance to first training data, and generates a third correct answer label for third training data, on the basis of a consensus of the prepared trained first inference model and second inference model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Takehiko OHKAWA, Atsushi HASHIMOTO, Yoshitaka USHIKU, Yoichi SATO, Takuma YAGI
  • Publication number: 20240336795
    Abstract: An aqueous inkjet ink composition contains a pigment, an alkali-soluble resin, a polyolefin resin emulsion, a basic compound, an aqueous medium, and a surfactant, wherein the alkali-soluble resin is a copolymer of acrylic acid/lauryl acrylate/styrene; a glass transition temperature of the alkali-soluble resin is 45° C. to 95° C.; an average grain size of the polyolefin resin emulsion is 5 to 300 nm; a solids content of the polyolefin resin emulsion is 0.5 to 5.0 percent by mass in the aqueous inkjet ink composition; and the surfactant contains at least an acetylenediol-based surfactant. The aqueous inkjet ink composition is adapted to offering excellent high-gap discharge stability, antifouling property, adhesion, drying property, abrasion resistance, discharge stability, and preservation stability, even when printed on nonabsorbent media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Yoichi SATO, Hiroyuki KONISHI, Kazuki MORIYASU
  • Patent number: 12104067
    Abstract: An object is to provide an aqueous inkjet ink composition offering excellent high-gap discharge stability, antifouling property, adhesion, drying property, abrasion resistance, discharge stability, and preservation stability, even when printed on nonabsorbent media. As a solution, an aqueous inkjet ink composition is provided that contains a pigment, an alkali-soluble resin, a polyolefin resin emulsion, a basic compound, an aqueous medium, and a surfactant, wherein the glass transition temperature of the alkali-soluble resin is 40 to 100° C., the average grain size of the polyolefin resin emulsion is 5 to 300 nm, the solids content of the polyolefin resin emulsion is 0.5 to 5.0 percent by mass in the aqueous inkjet ink composition, and the surfactant contains at least an acetylenediol-based surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Hiroyuki Konishi, Kazuki Moriyasu
  • Patent number: 12091584
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a packaging material having excellent printed image quality as well as excellent laminate strength and heat sealability. Provided is a packaging material including at least: a base film, a primer layer, a printed layer, an adhesive layer, and a sealant film in a stated order, the primer layer being formed of a primer composition containing a water-soluble polyvalent metal salt, a chlorinated polyolefin emulsion, and at least one selected from the group consisting of an acrylic emulsion, a vinyl acetate emulsion, and a urethane-modified polyester resin, the printed layer being formed of a printing ink containing a polyester polyurethane resin, the adhesive layer being formed of an aliphatic ester adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORP.
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Kazuki Moriyasu, Eri Ueda, Takaaki Sano
  • Patent number: 12086734
    Abstract: A manufacturing assistance apparatus includes a learning unit and an estimator. The learning unit is configured to load a plurality of pieces of actual measurement data in each of which a gap and a plurality of parameters are associated with each other, and construct an estimation model on the basis of machine learning in which the plurality of pieces of actual measurement data serve as teacher data. The gap is provided between a first workpiece and a second workpiece that eventually structure an airframe of an aircraft and that are eventually fastened to each other. The estimation model estimates the gap from the plurality of parameters. The estimator is configured to derive an estimation value of a length of the gap on which measurement has not yet been performed, on the basis of the estimation model constructed by the learning unit and the plurality of parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshimasa Kobayashi, Marosuke Kikuchi, Yoichi Sato, Yuki Matsuda, Toshimichi Ogisu, Daisuke Hirabayashi, Kei Suzuki, Toru Onishi, Haruka Miyanishi
  • Publication number: 20240278937
    Abstract: A method of producing a structure including a first component, having a first surface, and a second component, having second and third surfaces includes: measuring profiles of the second and third surfaces; measuring profiles of fourth and fifth surfaces of subcomponents; assembling the first component by coupling the subcomponents with adjustment; recording data representing the adjustment; estimating a changed profile of the second surface in case of coupling the third surface to the first surface; determining a coupling position of the third surface to the first surface; and coupling the third surface to the first surface at the determined coupling position. The predetermined contour degree is required for the second surface. The first surface is formed by the fourth surfaces. The fifth surfaces influence a profile of the first surface. The changed profile is estimated based on the profiles of the second to fifth surfaces and the recorded data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi SATO, Kazuma ASHIZAWA, Yutaka YAMAGISHI
  • Publication number: 20240278936
    Abstract: A method of producing a structure by coupling a first component to a second component and inserting a shim into a gap formed between the first component and the second component includes: measuring first and second profiles of first and second surfaces of the first and second components before completing positioning of the first and second components to coupling positions; measuring third and fourth profiles of third and fourth surfaces of the first and second components before completing the positioning; performing the positioning by butting the first surface against the second surface; measuring fifth and sixth profiles of the third and fourth surfaces after completing the positioning; calculating a size of the gap based on the first to sixth profiles; producing the shim based on the size of the gap; and coupling the second component to the first component with the shim inserted and the positioning completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi SATO, Yutaka YAMAGISHI, Kazuma ASHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240263026
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cleaning liquid that can remove even white ink after being fixed and solve ejection failure of inkjet printers. Provided is a cleaning liquid containing: a first surfactant, a second surfactant, and a basic compound, the first surfactant including an amphoteric surfactant, the second surfactant including at least one of an anionic surfactant that is a sulfonate or a nonionic surfactant that has a branched structure and has an HLB of 7 to 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Yoichi SATO, Yuya WATANABE, Ryuta NODA
  • Patent number: 12024637
    Abstract: A primer composition including a resin emulsion, an aggregation accelerator, a surfactant, and water, the surfactant containing one or more of acetylene-based surfactants and silicone-based surfactants, and a nonionic surfactant other than the surfactant, the nonionic surfactant having an HLB value of 10 or above and below 15.5 and having multiple polyoxyalkylene groups, and the proportion of the nonionic surfactant in the primer composition is 3 mass % or below. The primer composition has excellent storage stability and makes it possible to form a primer layer that has excellent transparency and that produces excellent bleeding resistance and printability when a solid image is printed by an aqueous inkjet ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Hirohito Maeda, Kazuki Moriyasu, Eri Ueda, Takaaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20240084714
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes: a housing including an intake flow path; a compressor impeller arranged in the intake flow path and including a plurality of blades; an accommodation chamber formed upstream of the blades in a flow of intake air in the housing; a movable member arranged in the accommodation chamber and movable to a protruding position where the movable member protrudes into the intake flow path and to a retracted position where the movable member is retracted from the intake flow path; a plurality of slits formed closer to the blades with respect to the accommodation chamber in the housing and connected to the intake flow path; a plurality of compartment walls circumferentially separating the plurality of slits; and an outer circumferential wall connecting radially outer ends of the plurality of compartment walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi YONEMURA, Ryota SAKISAKA, Yoichi SATO, Taiki KANZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240010861
    Abstract: An aqueous inkjet ink composition containing a pigment, an alkali-soluble resin, a surfactant, a water-soluble solvent, colloidal silica, and water, in which the surfactant includes a surfactant having an HLB value equal to or greater than 3 and less than 10 and a surfactant having an HLB value of 10-20 (inclusive), the water-soluble solvent has a boiling point of 170-250° C. (inclusive) at 1 atm, and the percentage of the colloidal silica in the aqueous inkjet ink composition is 0.05-2 mass % (inclusive). The aqueous inkjet ink composition has excellent storage stability, mechanical stability, discharge stability, coating film drying properties, and cissing resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Hirohito Maeda, Kazuki Moriyasu, Eri Ueda, Takaaki Sano
  • Patent number: 11869219
    Abstract: An inspection support system for erroneous attachment includes an imaging device and an erroneous attachment detector. The imaging device is configured to capture an image that represents a state in which multiple components are attached to each other. The erroneous attachment detector is configured to convert a color space of the image into an HSV color space, create a comparative image on the basis of hue and saturation in the HSV color space, determine whether the multiple components are each a correct component and whether the multiple components are attached in a correct manner by comparing the comparative image with a correct image that is based on the hue and the saturation, and detect the erroneous attachment of at least one of the multiple components, in a case where the at least one of the multiple components is not the correct component and/or is not attached in the correct manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Sato, Shoichiro Sako, Marosuke Kikuchi