Patents by Inventor Katsuhiro Watanabe

Katsuhiro 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: 20240140735
    Abstract: The weight of a body-to-be-conveyed constituting a conveying device is reduced, and the friction force between the sliding surface of the body-to-be-conveyed and the conveyance path is reduced. A body-to-be-conveyed that is a component of a conveying device that uses electromagnetic force as thrust and can move in a horizontal direction includes a mover in which a bottom surface is arranged so that a predetermined gap is formed in a vertical direction with respect to the sliding surface thereof, in which the mover includes a permanent magnet and a cover, a gap facing surface of the permanent magnet facing the gap includes one magnetic pole, the cover is installed on a side of the permanent magnet opposite from the gap facing surface in the vertical direction, the horizontal outermost diameter of the cover is larger than the horizontal outermost diameter of the permanent magnet, and the cover is formed of a flat plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Ryosuke HOSHI, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Satoru KANEKO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Takeshi TAMAKOSHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Katsuhiro KAMBARA, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11939977
    Abstract: A scroll compressor comprising a fixed scroll (15); an orbiting scroll (16) supported in a manner allowing for orbiting motion; a discharge port through which a fluid compressed by the two scrolls (15, 16) is discharged; an end plate step portion (16E) provided on an end plate of the orbiting scroll (16) formed so that a height of the end plate is higher on a center portion side in the direction of a spiral wrap and lower on an outer end side; and a wrap step portion (15E) provided on a wall portion of the fixed scroll (15) that corresponds to the end plate step portion (16E) so that a height of the wall portion is lower on the center portion side of the spiral and higher on the outer end side; wherein the orbiting scroll (16) is treated for surface hardening and the fixed scroll (15) is not treated for surface hardening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Sato, Makoto Takeuchi, Genta Yoshikawa, Kazuhide Watanabe, Katsuhiro Fujita, Takayuki Hagita, Takayuki Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11933801
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transport device and a specimen analysis system including the transport device that reduce the pulsation of thrust for moving an object to be transported, reduce vibration of the object to be transported during transport, and realize stable transport. The transport device of the present invention includes a first electromagnet unit including a first tooth made of a magnetic body, a first core connected to the first tooth and made of a magnetic body, and a first winding formed around the first core; a second electromagnet unit including a second tooth installed adjacent to the first electromagnet unit and made of a magnetic body, a second core connected to the second tooth and made of a magnetic body, a second winding formed around the second core; and a magnetic coupling unit made of a magnetic body between the first tooth of the first electromagnet unit and the second tooth of the second electromagnet unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Ryosuke Hoshi, Satoru Kaneko, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tamakoshi, Hiroshi Watanabe, Katsuhiro Kambara, Kuniaki Onizawa
  • Patent number: 11552441
    Abstract: A display device includes a laser irradiation device and a control device. The laser irradiation device is configured to irradiate an irradiation point located at a display position in air, with a laser beam having a wavelength equal to or larger than 380 nm and equal to or smaller than 780 nm and produce plasma at the display position. The control device is configured to control intensity of the laser beam emitted from the at least one laser irradiation device so that a relationship between intensity of plasma light emitted from the plasma at the display position and intensity of scattered light produced from the laser beam and scattered by the plasma becomes a predetermined relationship to display a color pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsunenori Ashibe, Hidehiko Fujimura, Katsuhiro Watanabe, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Shunsuke Kuboyama, Toshiji Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 10965222
    Abstract: A power supply includes: a rectifier circuit which has a plurality of rectifier switching elements, and separately extracts a positive voltage and a negative voltage for every phase from a primary power source of three-phase alternating current, respectively; a smoothing circuit which has a pair of smoothing capacitors connected in series to each other to be charged by the rectifier circuit, and a plurality of smoothing inductors respectively arranged between the rectifier circuit and the smoothing capacitors; a inverter circuit which has a plurality of inverter switching elements and inverts output of the smoothing circuit into alternating current; and a control circuit which controls switching of the plurality of rectifier switching elements so that output voltage of the smoothing circuit becomes a desired voltage, and electrical current flowing to each phase of the rectifier circuit becomes a desired electrical current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshikiyo Tanabe, Katsuhiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200220482
    Abstract: A power supply includes: a rectifier circuit which has a plurality of rectifier switching elements, and separately extracts a positive voltage and a negative voltage for every phase from a primary power source of three-phase alternating current, respectively; a smoothing circuit which has a pair of smoothing capacitors connected in series to each other to be charged by the rectifier circuit, and a plurality of smoothing inductors respectively arranged between the rectifier circuit and the smoothing capacitors; a inverter circuit which has a plurality of inverter switching elements and inverts output of the smoothing circuit into alternating current; and a control circuit which controls switching of the plurality of rectifier switching elements so that output voltage of the smoothing circuit becomes a desired voltage, and electrical current flowing to each phase of the rectifier circuit becomes a desired electrical current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshikiyo TANABE, Katsuhiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200184861
    Abstract: A display device includes a laser irradiation device and a control device. The laser irradiation device is configured to irradiate an irradiation point located at a display position in air, with a laser beam having a wavelength equal to or larger than 380 nm and equal to or smaller than 780 nm and produce plasma at the display position. The control device is configured to control intensity of the laser beam emitted from the at least one laser irradiation device so that a relationship between intensity of plasma light emitted from the plasma at the display position and intensity of scattered light produced from the laser beam and scattered by the plasma becomes a predetermined relationship to display a color pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Tsunenori Ashibe, Hidehiko Fujimura, Katsuhiro Watanabe, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Shunsuke Kuboyama, Toshiji Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 8611179
    Abstract: When correcting the acoustic wave refraction occurring on the interface between mediums having different sound speeds by Snell's law, an applicable back-projection method is limited to a time domain method. An image data generating method performed to receive and convert an acoustic wave generated by irradiating a subject with light into a first electrical signal with an acoustic wave receiver via a medium having a sound speed different from that of the subject, and to generate image data based on the first electrical signal is provided, wherein a second electrical signal obtained when the acoustic wave is received at each virtual reception point is generated based on the first electrical signal through an integral calculation performed by using an advanced Green's function, and image data is generated based on the second electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Tanji, Katsuhiro Watanabe, Yasufumi Asao
  • Publication number: 20110182136
    Abstract: When correcting the acoustic wave refraction occurring on the interface between mediums having different sound speeds by Snell's law, an applicable back-projection method is limited to a time domain method. An image data generating method performed to receive and convert an acoustic wave generated by irradiating a subject with light into a first electrical signal with an acoustic wave receiver via a medium having a sound speed different from that of the subject, and to generate image data based on the first electrical signal is provided, wherein a second electrical signal obtained when the acoustic wave is received at each virtual reception point is generated based on the first electrical signal through an integral calculation performed by using an advanced Green's function, and image data is generated based on the second electrical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Tanji, Katsuhiro Watanabe, Yasufumi Asao
  • Patent number: 7864908
    Abstract: A recovered clock signal is simulated from an acquired external clock signal by use of an uncomplicated algorithm requiring few calculations. The recovered clock is usually used in an apparatus that receives external clock and external data signals and recovers the recovered clock signal from the external clock signal by use of a phase lock loop to process the external data according to the recovered clock. Apparatus according to the invention digitizes the external clock signal and stores resulting the time domain data in memories (step 48). It detects time domain data of edges of the stored external clock (step 50), and the detected time domain data of the edges are converted into frequency domain data (step 52). The frequency domain data are multiplied by the respective predetermined coefficients in different frequency domains (step 54). The resultant frequency domain data are restored to the time domain data (step 56) to obtain time domain data of the edges of the recovered clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Watanabe, Tetsuo Ogawa, Hiromi Nishizaka
  • Publication number: 20100159382
    Abstract: A carrier has an impedance Z having a frequency dependence, obtained by alternating current impedance measurement. When the frequency dependence is fitted by a fitting function, parameter ? lies in a range of 0.70 to 0.90 in an electric field of 103 V/cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Juun Horie, Takeshi Yamamoto, Manami Haraguchi, Kenta Kubo, Tomoaki Miyazawa, Hirokazu Usami, Yoshinobu Baba, Koh Ishigami, Kazuo Uchida, Katsuhiro Watanabe, Jumpei Shirono
  • Patent number: 7718817
    Abstract: A safe additive that increases the feeling effects from a hair cosmetic is provided at low costs. The additive that increases the feeling effects has less stickiness, can be easily and uniformly mixed with hair cosmetics, and can provide feelings, effects and advantages that are similar to those of sterol wax and lanolins including lanolin itself, liquid lanolin, and hard lanolin. The additive that increases the feeling effects contains a composition (I) prepared by distillation, fatty acid esterification, decoloring, and deodorization of a by-product obtained when tocopherol is extracted, separated and purified from a vegetable oil deodorized distillate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: San-Ei Kagaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Watanabe, Toshimitsu Furusawa, Hiroki Kuriyama, Hiroyuki Suganuma
  • Publication number: 20090090255
    Abstract: An agricultural product peeling apparatus includes an alignment supply unit, a peeling unit, and a plurality of urging plates. The alignment supply unit aligns and supplies agricultural product such as potatoes. The peeling unit includes a pair of parallel rotary members with a cutting body on their outer surfaces and peels with the cutting body the agricultural products, sequentially supplied from the alignment supply unit to a convey path formed between the rotary members. The urging plates move the agricultural products supplied to the start side of the convey path to the end side of the convey path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Karasawa, Masayuki Kaji, Katsuhiro Watanabe, Noritoshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 7452022
    Abstract: A bent front wall 2a of a roof panel 2 is not bent at least inwardly of a press-worked direction of the roof panel 2, so that a front end of the roof panel 2 is free from undercut formation. This eliminates the necessity to further machine the front wall 2a of the press-worked roof panel 2, using for example a cam. Thus, manufacturing cost may be reduced without increasing man-hour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Hino Motors, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Sato, Tatsuo Miyamoto, Shoichi Sakai, Katsuhiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20070145782
    Abstract: A bent front wall 2a of a roof panel 2 is not bent at least inwardly of a press-worked direction of the roof panel 2, so that a front end of the roof panel 2 is free from undercut formation. This eliminates the necessity to further machine the front wall 2a of the press-worked roof panel 2, using for example a cam. Thus, manufacturing cost may be reduced without increasing man-hour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: HINO MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Sato, Tatsuo Miyamoto, Shoichi Sakai, Katsuhiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7150868
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions blended in hair treating agents which can prepare a hair conditioner, a coloring agent, a waving agent, a finishing agent, a feeling improving agent, a perfume dispersing agent, a refreshner or a thickning agent easily and by lower price, further provides a hair treating agent which is excellent in hair treating feature, such as moist feel, slippery feel, wetting feeling, smooth feel, soft feel, slightly oily feel, rustle feeling, luster, supple, no stickiness, smooth combing, setting ability by containing alcohols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: San-Ei Kagaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Ohta, Michihiro Aga, Katsuhiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20060280764
    Abstract: A safe additive that increases the feeling effects from a hair cosmetic is provided at low costs. The additive that increases the feeling effects has less stickiness, can be easily and uniformly mixed with hair cosmetics, and can provide feelings, effects and advantages that are similar to those of sterol wax and lanolins including lanolin itself, liquid lanolin, and hard lanolin. The additive that increases the feeling effects contains a composition (I) prepared by distillation, fatty acid esterification, decoloring, and deodorization of a by-product obtained when tocopherol is extracted, separated and purified from a vegetable oil deodorized distillate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Watanabe, Toshimitsu Furusawa, Hiroki Kuriyama, Hiroyuki Suganuma
  • Patent number: 7052682
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions for blending in hair treating agents which can prepare hair conditioners, waving agents, finishing agents or thickening agents used on preparing hair treating agents easily by lower cost. Further, the present invention provides hair treating agents which are excellent in the features of feeling at actual use such as moist feel, slippery feel, slightly oily feel, good feeling to hair, brilliance, suppleness, soft feel and smooth combing and excellent in the features of hair treating agents such as less damage for hair (protective ability of hair), absorbency•penetration•fixing ability•spreading ability, wetting ability and smooth forming of wave without unevenness and tight and protection for generation of static electricity, by containing cationic surfactants or nonionic surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: San-Ei Kagaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Ohta, Michihiro Aga, Katsuhiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20050196367
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions blended in hair treating agents which can prepare a hair conditioner, a coloring agent, a waving agent, a finishing agent, a feeling improving agent, a perfume dispersing agent, a refreshner or a thickning agent easily and by lower price, further provides a hair treating agent which is excellent in hair treating feature, such as moist feel, slippery feel, wetting feeling, smooth feel, soft feel, slightly oily feel, rustle feeling, luster, supple, no stickiness, smooth combing, setting ability by containing alcohols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Toshio Ohta, Michihiro Aga, Katsuhiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6939537
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions blended in hair treating agents which can prepare a hair conditioner, a coloring agent, a waving agent, a finishing agent, a feeling improving agent, a perfume dispersing agent, a refreshner or a thickning agent easily and by lower price, further provides a hair treating agent which is excellent in hair treating feature, such as moist feel, slippery feel, wetting feeling, smooth feel, soft feel, slightly oily feel, rustle feeling, luster, supple, no stickiness, smooth combing, setting ability by containing alcohols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: San-Ei Kagaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Ohta, Michihiro Aga, Katsuhiro Watanabe