- 2024/03 - Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan Fellow
- 2023/05 - Magnetics Society of Japan Encouragement Paper Award : Fabrication of Coupled Inductor for LLC Resonant Converter with a Current-Doubler Rectification Circuit, N. Kawada, H. Oyama, T. Minamisawa, M. Sonehara, and T. Sato, Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan, Vol.7, No.1, pp.80-84, 2023.
- 2021/10 - Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging Academic Plaza 10 years Award, 2021 JPCA Show/Academic Plaza, Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging
- 2019/08 - Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging JIEP Poster Award of ICEP 2019, Au-Sn Soldering Using a Micro-heater to Restrain Excess Temperature Rise Inside the Package, Hideaki Mizusaki, Toshiro Sato, Makoto Sonehara
- 2019/05 - Magnetics Society of Japan Encouragement Paper Award ;Integrated CMOS Switch Buck DC-DC Converter Fabricated in Organic Interposer with Embedded Magnetic Core Inductor, T. Akiyama, S. Ishida, T. Shirasawa, T. Fukuoka, S. Hara, H. Yoshida, M. Sonehara, T. Sato, K. Miyaji, Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan, Vol.43, No.3, pp.64-69, May 2019..
- 2018/06 - Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging 2018 Academic Plaza Award, 2018 JPCA Show/Academic Plaza, Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging
- 2017/12 - Magnetics Society of Japan Encouragement Paper Award ; Low permeability composite magnetic core transformer with high coupling coefficient and its application to PFM controlled quasi-resonant mode flyback-type DC-DC converter, K. Sato, T. Sato, M. Sonehara, H. Takeuchi, Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan, Vol.41, No.6, pp.132-139, Dec. 2017.
- 2017/01 - Magnetics Society of Japan Encouragement Paper Award : Investigation on Improvement of Figure of Merit of Faraday-effect of Fe (Co) Thin Film by Introduction of Induced Transmission Filter, M. Miyamoto, T. Kubo, T. Hanada, H. Ihara, T. Sato, M. Sonehara, Journal of the Magnetics...
- 2016/11 - 日本AEM学会 日本AEM学会著作賞;環境磁界発電-原理と設計法-
- 2015/09 - 電気学会基礎・材料・共通部門 電気学会基礎・材料・共通部門特別賞;感謝状(部門大会の企画と実施への貢献)
- 2015/09 - Magnetics Society of Japan MSJ Distinguished Paper Award, K. Hagita, Y. Yazaki, Y. Kondo, M. Sonehara, T. Sato, T. Fujii, K. Kobayashi, S. Nakazawa, H. Shimizu, T. Watanabe, Y. Seino, N, Matsushita, Y. Yanagihara, T. Someya, H. Fuketa, M. Takamiya, and T. Sakurai, "CMOS Switch Buck DC-DC Converter Fabricated in Organic Interposer with Embedded Zn-Fe Ferrite Core Inductor", Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan, Vol.39, No.2, pp.71-79 (2015)
- 2015/07 - Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging Excellent Presentation Award, Spring Meeting, Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging
- 2015/06 - Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging Academic Plaza 5 years Award, 2015 JPCA Show/Academic Plaza, Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging
- 2014/10 - 電気学会 電気学会、感謝状;上級会員の育成に尽力
- 2013/06 - Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging 2013 Academic Plaza Award, 2013 JPCA Show/Academic Plaza, Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging
- 2013/04 - 11th International Conference on Ferrites 2013 (ICF11) ICF11, New Product & Novel Technology Award; Kazuhiro Hagita, Hiroki Kobayashi, Fumihiro Sato, Yuichiro Yazaki, Makoto Sonehara, Toshiro Sato, Tetsuro Watanabe, Nobuhiro Matsushita, Tomoharu Fujii, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kazutaka Kobayashi, "Magnetic Properties of Spin-sprayed Ferrite Film Deposited on Glass/Epoxy Build-up Layer in Organic Interposer Substrate", THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FERRITES, 17pP-51 (2013).
- 2012 - IEEE Sensors 2012 IEEE Sensors 2012, Best Papers Award; N. Hirokubo, H. Komatsu, N. Hashimoto, M. Sonehara, T. Sato, "Wideband Visible Wavelength Range MEMS Fabry-Perot Tunable Filter with Calibration System", Proceedings of IEEE SENSORS 2012, pp.303-306 (2012).
- 1999 - Magnetics Society of Japan MSJ Distinguished Paper Award, T. Sato, S. Ikeda, K. Yamasawa, T. Mizoguchi, "Transmission-Line Low-Pass Filter Composed of Inner Copper Conductor Lines, Dielectric layeres, and Electrically Grounded Metallic Magnetic Layers", Journal of the Magnetics ...
- 1994 - Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan Excellent Paper Presentation Award, Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan