Patents by Inventor Yusuke Sato

Yusuke 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: 20250124478
    Abstract: A system includes a distribution control server and a management server. The distribution control server controls data accumulation to make data related to a service that is provided to a user from a data accumulator a target for data distribution. The distribution control server controls data sharing for a data sharing destination to acquire the accumulated data. The distribution control server controls data providing for a data providing destination to acquire the accumulated data. The management server charges an accumulation platform usage fee related to the data accumulation to the data accumulator. The management server charges a sharing platform usage fee related to data sharing to the data sharing destination. The management server charges a providing platform usage fee related to data providing to the data providing destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke SATO
  • Publication number: 20250126379
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion unit that includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode, in which the photoelectric conversion unit further includes a charge storage electrode that has an opposite region opposite to the first electrode via an insulating layer, and a transfer control electrode that is opposite to the first electrode and the charge storage electrode via the insulating layer, and the photoelectric conversion layer is disposed above at least the charge storage electrode via the insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: YUSUKE SATO, FUMIHIKO KOGA
  • Patent number: 12269001
    Abstract: Provided are: a flow channel structure with which lipid particles or micelles, which are useful as nano-sized carriers, for example, in drug delivery systems, are produced with good control of particle size; and a method for forming lipid particles or micelles using the same. Said flow channel structure has a two-dimensional structure such as one in which multiple structural elements (baffles) of a specified width are alternately disposed from the two side faces in a micro-sized flow channel through which feedstock solutions are flowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: National University Corporation Hokkaido University
    Inventors: Manabu Tokeshi, Masatoshi Maeki, Yusuke Sato, Hideyoshi Harashima
  • Patent number: 12260950
    Abstract: A nutrient intake amount estimation system according to an embodiment includes: a sensor that is disposed in a toilet space, and configured to detect an excretion smell related to excretion of a user of the toilet space; an estimation unit configured to estimate an estimated nutrient intake amount that is an amount of nutrients taken by the user by using an output of an estimation model that outputs information indicating an amount of nutrients estimated to be taken by the user in accordance with an input based on an output value of the sensor; and an output unit configured to output information based on the estimated nutrient intake amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Suzuki, Mizuki Watanabe, Isao Okayama, Yusuke Sato, Ryoji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12234544
    Abstract: A sputtering target comprised of a plurality of members including a target material and a base material, wherein the plurality of members includes a first member and a second member laminated to each other, wherein the first member contains Al, and the second member contains Cu, wherein at least one of the first member and the second member contains Mg, wherein the sputtering target includes an alloy layer containing Al and Cu between the first member and the second member, the alloy layer being in contact with the first member and the second member, and wherein the alloy layer further includes an Mg-containing layer containing 5.0 at % or more of Mg in at least a part of the alloy layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: JX Advanced Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Murata, Masaya Iwabuchi, Yusuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20250046163
    Abstract: An evacuation guidance apparatus includes a server and one or a plurality of information terminals capable of moving in a commercial facility and capable of communicating with the server. The information terminal includes an emitting unit configured to emit specifying information for specifying a position of the information terminal including the emitting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventor: Yusuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20250041326
    Abstract: The present invention provides a therapeutic agent for refractory viral infections, etc., which is capable of reducing or eliminating cccDNA from hepatocytes. The therapeutic agent for refractory viral infections according to the present invention is characterized by comprising a complex encapsulating poly-I or a poly-I analog and poly-C or a poly-C analog within a drug carrier useful for drug delivery into cells, wherein the surface of the carrier is conjugated with a molecule imparting the ability to accumulate in hepatocytes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Michinori KOHARA, Naoki YAMAMOTO, Yasuhito TANAKA, Yusuke SATO
  • Publication number: 20250048934
    Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film contains a metal oxide having a perovskite structure. The metal oxide contains bismuth, potassium, titanium, magnesium, iron, and an element M. The element M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of gallium and cobalt. At least a part of the metal oxide is at least one crystal selected from the group consisting of a tetragonal crystal and an orthorhombic crystal. A (001) plane of the crystal is oriented in a normal direction of a surface of the piezoelectric thin film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Junpei Morishita, Yusuke SATO
  • Patent number: 12185013
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion unit that includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode, in which the photoelectric conversion unit further includes a charge storage electrode that has an opposite region opposite to the first electrode via an insulating layer, and a transfer control electrode that is opposite to the first electrode and the charge storage electrode via the insulating layer, and the photoelectric conversion layer is disposed above at least the charge storage electrode via the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Sato, Fumihiko Koga
  • Patent number: 12185457
    Abstract: The control unit includes a wiring board on which a connector is disposed. The connector is disposed on a back surface of the wiring board, the back surface being a back surface on a back side of a facing surface facing a body of the control unit. The wiring board includes legs protruding from the back surface on the back side of the facing surface facing the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sato, Hideyuki Mamiya, Katsunori Yamashita, Hirohisa Yukawa, Akira Suwabayashi
  • Publication number: 20240417845
    Abstract: There is provided a Cu—Al binary alloy sputtering target with a high Al content while suppressing occurrence of cracks on the sputtering target, and a method for manufacturing the same. A sputtering target is composed of a sintered body containing a binary alloy of Cu and Al, the rest being inevitable impurities, wherein a content (at %) of Cu and Al satisfies a relational expression of 0.48?Al/(Cu+Al)?0.70, and wherein a relative density is 95% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke Sato, Takanori Sato, Kengo Kaminaga
  • Publication number: 20240363651
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device, an electronic device, and a distance measurement system for miniaturization of pixels in a device that outputs a luminance signal and an event signal. A device includes: a pixel array unit in which an event pixel that detects that a luminance change exceeds a predetermined threshold and a gradation pixel that outputs a luminance signal of a gradation level according to a light amount of incident light are mixed, in which a color filter of the same color is formed in units of two or more pixels in the gradation pixel, and the event pixel is disposed with a region size in which at least two of the gradation pixels are arranged in a row direction or a column direction. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a distance measurement system or the like that generates image information and distance measurement information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke SATO, Masahiro TSUKAMOTO, Kanae OHI
  • Patent number: 12130944
    Abstract: An information transaction device is connected to an information holding device including a storage unit storing personal information and includes a sharing approval reception unit configured to receive approval of sharing of the personal information by an information sharing destination device from a user associated with the personal information, a provision approval reception unit configured to receive approval of provision which is transmission of the personal information to an information provision destination device, from the user associated with the personal information, a sharing instruction unit configured to, in a case where the sharing approval reception unit receives the approval of the sharing, instruct the information holding device to perform the sharing, and a provision instruction unit configured to, in a case where the provision approval reception unit receives the approval of the provision, instruct the information holding device to perform the provision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Sato, Yasumasa Mitsuhata, Masashi Inoue, Yurika Michishita
  • Publication number: 20240308016
    Abstract: A wafer grinding method includes a first grinding step of grinding a first wafer for testing held on a chuck table to a finishing thickness, a thickness measuring step of measuring, at a plurality of locations in a radial direction, a thickness of the first wafer ground in the first grinding step, a nozzle positioning step of positioning a jetting nozzle directly above a portion of the first wafer having a thickness that is one of the thicknesses of the first wafer measured at the plurality of locations in the thickness measuring step and that is either greater or smaller than a reference thickness set beforehand, and a second grinding step of grinding a second wafer that is next held on the chuck table, while jetting cold water or warm water from the jetting nozzle to the second wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Atsushi INOUE, Kosuke ABE, Taesup YOO, Yusuke SATO, Masahiro TAKEKAWA
  • Patent number: 12054919
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body; an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body; a work attachment attached to the upper turning body; a detecting part provided to the upper turning body and configured to detect a predetermined object around the shovel; and a notification part configured to provide a notification to surroundings of the shovel in response to detection of the predetermined object by the detecting part. The notification part determines whether to provide the notification to the surroundings of the shovel in response to the detection of the predetermined object by the detecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Tsuji, Takaaki Morimoto, Yusuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20240238202
    Abstract: The present invention provides lipid nanoparticles that contain a pH-sensitive cationic lipid and a polyalkylene glycol-modified lipid. The pH-sensitive cationic lipid fraction of the total lipids that constitute the lipid nanoparticles is 10-25 mol %, the polyalkylene glycol-modified lipid fraction of the total lipids that constitute the lipid nanoparticles is 0.5-1.75 mol %, and the number average particle size of the lipid nanoparticles is at least 150 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yusuke Sato, Kosuke Sasaki, Hideyoshi Harashima
  • Publication number: 20240231727
    Abstract: An information processing unit 20 includes a CPU 21, in which the CPU 21 displays an operator associated with a setting of a job on a display unit 14, and in a case in which the CPU 21 receives a retaining instruction, which is an instruction to retain the operator associated with the setting of the job without erasing the operator from the display unit 14 while the job is being executed, and after the receipt of the retaining instruction, in a case in which the job that is being executed is discontinued, the CPU 21 cancels the retaining instruction for the discontinued job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventor: Yusuke SATO
  • Publication number: 20240224808
    Abstract: A piezoelectric thin-film element includes a first electrode layer, a piezoelectric thin film stacked on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer stacked on the piezoelectric thin film. A performance index P of the piezoelectric thin film is defined as (d33,f)2×Y/?. d33,f is a piezoelectric strain constant of thickness longitudinal vibration of the piezoelectric thin film. Y is a Young's modulus of the piezoelectric thin film. ? is a permittivity of the piezoelectric thin film. The performance index P is from 10% to 80.1%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke SATO
  • Publication number: 20240222881
    Abstract: A planar antenna includes a dielectric layer including a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite from the first surface, an antenna conductor provided on the first surface, a ground conductor provided on the first surface or the second surface, or provided on both of the first surface and the second surface, and a transmission line including a signal line that is connected to the antenna conductor or provided in proximity to the antenna conductor, wherein a dielectric portion of the dielectric layer that is in contact with the signal line has a loss tangent of 0.007 or less at 28 GHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiki SAYAMA, Ryota OKUDA, Minami HAGIWARA, Yusuke SATO, Takeshi MOTEGI
  • Patent number: 12019935
    Abstract: An information processing unit 20 includes a CPU 21, in which the CPU 21 displays an operator associated with a setting of a job on a display unit 14, and in a case in which the CPU 21 receives a retaining instruction, which is an instruction to retain the operator associated with the setting of the job without erasing the operator from the display unit 14 while the job is being executed, and after the receipt of the retaining instruction, in a case in which the job that is being executed is discontinued, the CPU 21 cancels the retaining instruction for the discontinued job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Sato