Patents by Inventor Akira Watanabe

Akira Watanabe 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: 20210351266
    Abstract: A light-emitting element according to the present disclosure includes an anode electrode portion having a projecting-shaped side wall portion formed along a peripheral edge portion of an organic EL pixel, an insulating film layer configured to cover an outer edge portion of the anode electrode portion so as to cover a side wall of the side wall portion on a light emitting unit side of the organic EL pixel in a predetermined film thickness, an organic EL layer layered so as to cover the insulating film layer and an upper surface of the anode electrode portion, and a cathode electrode portion layered over an upper surface of the organic EL layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Naoya Kasahara, Akira Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210332329
    Abstract: A method for concentrating renal progenitor cells involves extracting MET-positive cells and/or AGTR2-positive cells from a renal progenitor cell-containing cell population. The MET-positive cells and/or AGTR2-positive cells are extracted using an anti-MET antibody and/or an anti-AGTR2 antibody. The renal progenitor cell-containing cell population is obtained from pluripotent stem cells. The renal progenitor cells are OSR1 (odd-skipped related 1)-positive and SIX2 (SIX Homeobox 2)-positive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji OSAFUNE, Toshikazu ARAOKA, Akira WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11150732
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a vibration device configured to generate a vibration to transmit to a user a touch sense in response to an operation of a user on an operation unit, and a grip portion gripped by the user. A lens barrel is attached to a front surface side of the image pickup apparatus. The grip portion covers a rear surface side and the front surface side of the image pickup apparatus. The grip portion that covers the front surface side of the image pickup apparatus includes a protrusion portion. The vibration device is disposed inside the protrusion portion and on a side facing an optical axis of the lens barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinga Nakashima, Toshihiro Ogawa, Takazumi Seo, Akira Watanabe, Kohei Uemura, Atsuto Noda
  • Patent number: 11142887
    Abstract: An engine cooling system (22) includes an engine (11), an engine cooling pipe line (23), an engine water pump (24) and an engine radiator (25). An electricity storage device cooling system (27) includes an electricity storage device (19), an electricity storage device cooling pipe line (28), an electricity storage device water pump (29) and an electricity storage device radiator (31). Different heat-transfer media (engine cooling water and electricity storage device cooling water) flow respectively in the engine cooling system (22) and the electricity storage device cooling system (27). Further, a heating heat exchanger (32) is provided in the halfway of the engine cooling pipe line (23) and in the halfway of the electricity storage device cooling pipe line (28) for performing heat exchange between the engine cooling water and the electricity storage device cooling water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Watanabe, Ken Takeuchi, Tadashi Osaka
  • Publication number: 20210293345
    Abstract: An electromagnetic valve has an inlet port and an outlet port. The electromagnetic valve is configured to open and close a driving fluid passage communicating the inlet port and the outlet port. The electromagnetic valve includes: a housing; a solenoid that includes a bobbin having a coil wound therearound; a moving core that is provided on an axis of the bobbin and is disposed movably in an axial direction; a stationary core that is provided on the axis of the bobbin and is fixed in the housing; and a valve that is configured to be movable together with the moving core and opens and closes the driving fluid passage. The inlet port is opened on one surface side of the housing in the axial direction of the bobbin while the outlet port is opened on the other surface side of the housing in the axial direction of the bobbin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Ryutaro TANNO, Yuya SUZUKI, Tsutomu SHINOHARA, Tomohiro NAKATA, Akira WATANABE, Takahiro KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20210296540
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a light-emitting device, including the steps of: preparing a substrate including a base, a first wall formed on an upper surface of the base, and a recess defined by a lateral surface of the first wall as an inside lateral surface and the upper surface of the base as a bottom surface; mounting a light-emitting element on the bottom surface of the recess; disposing a sealing member which covers the light-emitting element and the first wall; forming a groove section extending from an upper surface of the sealing member to the first wall by removing the sealing member on the first wall; disposing a second wall inside the groove section; and cutting the second wall and the substrate at a position including the second wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Sakamoto, Akira Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11117240
    Abstract: A grinding apparatus grinds a workpiece by rotating the workpiece held by main spindles and a grinding wheel held by a wheel spindle, and by relatively moving the grinding wheel toward and away from the workpiece. The grinding apparatus includes a first detection unit that detects a rotational phase of the workpiece; a second detection unit that detects a grinding resistance moment at a grinding point between the grinding wheel and the workpiece, or detects a drive current of a rotary drive unit of the workpiece or a rotary drive unit of the grinding wheel; a storage unit that stores the grinding resistance moment or the drive current in a manner associated with the rotational phase; and a determination unit that determines a slip between the workpiece and the main spindles based on the grinding resistance moment or the drive current at a current rotational phase, and on the grinding resistance moment or the drive current at the same phase as the current rotational phase of a previous time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210279961
    Abstract: The server control section of the server carries out control of at least either referring to device identification information and determining character management information, and transmitting the determined character management information to the terminal device, or referring to character management information and determining device management information, and transmitting the determined device management information to the household electric appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: AKIRA WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210261521
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a pest control agent that is excellent in safety, controlling effect, residual activity, and so on. According to an embodiment, there is provided a pyrazole derivative represented by general formula [I], or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof, and a pest control agent containing the same as an active ingredient: wherein, p represents an integer of 0 or 1, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 represent a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, C1-C6 alkyl group, or the like, A represents an oxygen atom or sulfur atom, Q represents a halogen atom, C6-C10 aryl group that is unsubstituted or substituted with (R8)m, or the like, and R6 and R7 represent a hydrogen atom, C1-C6, alkyl group, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: KUMIAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo ISHIKAWA, Akira KINPARA, Keiji TORIYABE, Akira WATANABE, Masao NAKATANI, Akira TAKANEZAWA, Takeshi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20210258453
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a vibration device, a vibration transmission member, a housing that holds the vibration transmission member, a movable portion, and an optical member. The vibration device vibrates the image capturing apparatus to give a user a feeling corresponding to a user operation performed on an operation portion. The vibration transmission member transmits a vibration. The movable portion holds an image sensor that moves within a first area in a direction different from an optical axis to perform image blur correction. The optical member is arranged on an object side of the image sensor and on the optical axis. While the image sensor is located in the first area, the optical member and the vibration transmission member are not in contact with each other. When the image sensor moves to a second area outside the first area, the optical and vibration transmission members are brought into contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventor: Akira Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11085172
    Abstract: A storage battery (21) is configured of a plurality of cells (22A) to (22N) series-connected to each other. A battery controller (27) receives power supplied from a lead battery (31). The battery controller (27) executes balancing control that reduces variation in cell voltages (VcA) to (VcN) of the plurality of cells (22A) to (22N). The battery controller (27) executes the balancing control in a time range during which a voltage of the lead battery (31) becomes equal to or more than a predetermined given voltage value (V1) and a charging rate of the storage battery (21) becomes equal to or more than a predetermined given charging rate value (SOC1) after a key switch (16) is switched from an on state to an off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruki Sugiyama, Ken Takeuchi, Akira Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11056617
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a light-emitting device, includes the steps of: preparing a substrate including a base, a first wall formed on an upper surface of the base, and a recess defined by a lateral surface of the first wall as an inside lateral surface and the upper surface of the base as a bottom surface; mounting a light-emitting element on the bottom surface of the recess; disposing a sealing member which covers the light-emitting element and the first wall; forming a groove section extending from an upper surface of the sealing member to the first wall by removing the sealing member on the first wall; disposing a second wall inside the groove section; and cutting the second wall and the substrate at a position including the second wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Sakamoto, Akira Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210201140
    Abstract: A learning model creation unit 12A that creates a learning model using parameters of a plurality of fitting functions corresponding to a generation source of a composite waveform fit to a frequency spectrum obtained by spectroscopic measurement of a terahertz wave, and a sample information prediction unit 22A that applies a parameter obtained for a sample to be predicted to the learning mode thereby predicting information about the sample to be predicted are included, and the information about the sample to be predicted can be more accurately predicted using a learning model in which a feature quantity representing a property of a sample is reflected as the parameters of the plurality of fitting functions corresponding to the generation source of the composite waveform fit to the frequency spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Akira WATANABE, Tadashi OKUNO, Takeji UEDA
  • Patent number: 11014458
    Abstract: A die-cast aluminum bracket for a vehicle is provided between a mounted object and a vehicle structure. The die-cast aluminum bracket includes: a first attachment section configured to be coupled to the mounted object; and a second attachment section configured to be coupled to the vehicle structure, wherein a first surface, which faces the mounted object at the time when the mounted object is coupled, in the first attachment section has a chill layer removed section in which an internal layer of the bracket is exposed, and a second surface of the first attachment section has a chill layer, the second surface being on an opposite side of the first attachment section from the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigetaka Yoshikawa, Akira Watanabe, Ryo Kawauchi
  • Publication number: 20210105391
    Abstract: An optical apparatus configured to correct an image blur by moving an image stabilization unit in a first direction different from an optical axis direction based on shake information obtained by a shake detector includes a vibration device configured to generate a vibration in order to transmit to a user a tactual sense according to an operation of an operation unit by the user. During an imaging and recording period, the vibration device generates the vibration having a vibration intensity in a second direction different from the first direction higher than that in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Takazumi SEO, Toshihiro OGAWA, Kohei UEMURA, Shinga NAKASHIMA, Atsuto NODA, Akira WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10944018
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an application liquid for forming a semiconductor film, the application liquid comprising: an inorganic semiconductor particle; and a compound having a relative permittivity of 2 or more or a compound having reducing power against the inorganic semiconductor particle; a method for producing a semiconductor film comprising a step of applying the application liquid; a semiconductor film and a semiconductor element comprising the semiconductor film; and a method for producing the semiconductor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Akira Watanabe, Toru Yumoto
  • Publication number: 20210062467
    Abstract: An engine cooling system (22) includes an engine (11), an engine cooling pipe line (23), an engine water pump (24) and an engine radiator (25). An electricity storage device cooling system (27) includes an electricity storage device (19), an electricity storage device cooling pipe line (28), an electricity storage device water pump (29) and an electricity storage device radiator (31). Different heat-transfer media (engine cooling water and electricity storage device cooling water) flow respectively in the engine cooling system (22) and the electricity storage device cooling system (27). Further, a heating heat exchanger (32) is provided in the halfway of the engine cooling pipe line (23) and in the halfway of the electricity storage device cooling pipe line (28) for performing heat exchange between the engine cooling water and the electricity storage device cooling water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Akira WATANABE, Ken TAKEUCHI, Tadashi OSAKA
  • Patent number: 10917398
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to reduce the storage capacity necessary to save server certificates while enabling encrypted communication, such as SSL communication, whose convenience is high in the case where a plurality of server certificates is created. The present invention is a server that creates a server certificate that is necessary for encrypted communication and has a creation unit configured to create a first server certificate including information that fluctuates in accordance with a network environment, a second server certificate including information that does not fluctuate in accordance with the network environment, and a third server certificate that puts together information on a plurality of host names of the server, which a user can change and a transmission unit configured to transmit one of the created first, second, and third server certificates to a communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210018820
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus to which an external apparatus is detachably attachable includes a controlling unit configured to make a vibration device vibrate by using a vibration parameter corresponding to a type of the external apparatus to be attached to the electronic apparatus, the vibration device being provided on at least one of the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Atsuto NODA, Shinga NAKASHIMA, Akira WATANABE, Takazumi SEO, Kohei UEMURA, Toshihiro OGAWA, Hiroshi TORIUMI
  • Publication number: 20200406288
    Abstract: A liquid film cartridge includes: a nozzle section 10 which ejects a foamable solution 100 and generates a liquid film in a space; and a liquid leading section 20 which leads the foamable solution 100 to the nozzle section 10, in which when an outermost portion of a liquid ejecting port 11 of the nozzle section 10 and an inner wall 21 of the liquid leading section 20 are disposed with a gap therebetween so as to satisfy a condition of a predetermined separation relationship, a distance from the inner wall 21 generating air bubbles 103 to the liquid ejecting port 11 in the liquid leading section 20 corresponding to a flow path immediately before the foamable solution 100 reaches the nozzle section 10 is increased and the amount of the air bubbles 103 entering from the liquid leading section 20 into the nozzle section 10 can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Akira WATANABE, Tadashi OKUNO, Takeji UEDA, Bunpei DOI