Patents by Inventor Makoto Watanabe
Makoto 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).
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Publication number: 20240139394Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to adsorb calciprotein particles. An adsorbent for calciprotein particles of the present invention is characterized in that the surface of a water-insoluble carrier is covalently bonded, through a hydrocarbon group, to at least one selected from the group consisting of amino group, carboxyl group, phosphate group, phosphono group, phosphino group, and thiol group.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: KANEKA CORPORATION, BROAD BEAN SCIENCE CO., LTD.Inventors: Ai YONEZAWA, Kana WATANABE, Makoto KUROO
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Publication number: 20240142086Abstract: A lighting device that can switch between intensity distributions of emitted light with a simple configuration. The lighting device includes a light source, a polarization controller, and a polarizing plate, in which the polarization controller switches light emitted from the light source between light components having two or more different polarization states to be incident into the polarizing plate, and the polarizing plate functions as a diffraction grating that has two or more regions having different polarization states of transmitted light in an in-plane direction and where one or more regions among the regions are periodically disposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoki KOITO, Yujiro YANAI, Makoto KAMO, Shinya WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240140132Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus for enclosing an enclosure in an envelope includes an envelope conveyance path, an enclosure supplier, an envelope supplier, a flap opener, and an envelope stacker. The envelope conveyance path extends in a substantially vertical direction to convey the envelope. The enclosure supplier supplies the enclosure to the envelope via the envelope conveyance path. The envelope supplier supplies the envelope to the envelope conveyance path, The flap opener opens a flap portion of the envelope between the envelope supplier and the envelope conveyance path. The envelope stacker stacks the envelope ejected from the envelope conveyance path.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyoshi SUZUKI, Michitaka SUZUKI, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Makoto HIDAKA, Akira KUNIEDA, Takahiro WATANABE, Takuya MORINAGA, Takahiro MATSUDA, Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Shinji ASAMI, Kazuyoshi MATSUO
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Publication number: 20240131791Abstract: A three-dimensional shaping device includes a stage, an ejection portion configured to selectively eject, as a shaping material, a first material containing a crystalline resin and a second material containing an amorphous resin to an upper side of the stage, a moving portion configured to relatively move the stage and the ejection portion, and a control unit. The control unit executes first stacking processing when a plurality of slice layers are stacked using the first material as the shaping material and executes second stacking processing when a plurality of slice layers are stacked using the second material as the shaping material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Manabu WATANABE, Makoto OMURA
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Publication number: 20240128006Abstract: A laminated coil component includes: an element body having a first surface and a second surface facing each other in a first direction; a coil unit formed by laminating a plurality of coil conductors in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction inside the element body; a first lead-out conductor; and a second lead-out conductor. A first coil conductor adjacent to the first lead-out conductor in the second direction includes a first side portion extending along the first surface, on a first surface side. A second coil conductor adjacent to the second lead-out conductor in the second direction includes a second side portion extending along the second surface, on a second surface side. The first side portion has a larger line width than other side portions of the first coil conductor and the second side portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya OSHIMA, Hiroshi ONO, Ryosuke HORIE, Daiki YAMADA, Yuki AKASAKA, Shuichi WATANABE, Satoshi TAKASU, Makoto YOSHINO, Takahiro YATA
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Publication number: 20240122899Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a composition for promoting immune cell metabolism, a composition for activating immunity, a method of promoting immune cell metabolism, and a method of activating immunity. The present invention relates to a composition for promoting immune cell metabolism, which contains L-ergothioneine or a salt thereof as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Makoto Katsube, Hiroshi Watanabe, Mariko Ozawa
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Patent number: 11959149Abstract: Provided are a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having excellent iron loss property without using magnetic domain refining treatment and an iron core produced using the same. The steel sheet comprises: a predetermined chemical composition; and a steel microstructure in which: crystal grains are made up of coarse secondary recrystallized grains of 5.0 mm or more, fine grains of more than 2.0 mm and less than 5.0 mm contained at a frequency of 0.2 to 5 grains per cm2, and very fine grains of 2.0 mm or less; for each coarse secondary recrystallized grain extending through the sheet in a thickness direction, an area ratio of a region in which projected surfaces of exposed areas of the coarse secondary recrystallized grain on a front side and a back side of the sheet coincide with each other to each of the exposed areas is 95% or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Imamura, Makoto Watanabe
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Publication number: 20240105369Abstract: In a production of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising hot rolling a raw steel material, cold rolling, decarburization annealing, applying an annealing separator composed mainly of MgO, finish annealing and magnetic domain subdividing, the annealing separator including certain compounds, and the finish annealing conducted by holding the steel sheet at a temperature of 800 to 950° C. for 10 to 100 hours and passing a dry gas containing not less than 1 vol % of H2 and having a dew point of not higher than 10° C. to reach a furnace pressure of not less than 3.5 mmH2O from not lower than 1050° C. to a purification treatment temperature, so that a pickling weight loss of undercoat film by pickling with HCl is not more than 1.8 g/m2 and the total concentration of Sn, Sb, Mo, and W on a boundary face between the film and iron matrix is 0.01 to 0.15 mass %.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Makoto Watanabe, Masahiro Suemune, Takeshi Imamura
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Publication number: 20240101138Abstract: A display system includes: a first display device displaying an image in a first region to cause the image to be visually recognized in a position at a first distance from a visual line of a driver of an auto-vehicle; a second display device displaying an image in a second region to cause the image to be visually recognized at a second distance greater than the first distance from the visual line; and a display controller displaying a warning image in the second region if a first condition is satisfied, moving the warning image to display a warning image in the first region if a second condition in which a warning level is higher than that of the first condition is satisfied after the first condition is satisfied, then updating the warning image to an updated warning image, and then moving the updated warning image to the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Makoto HADA, Yusuke SAHARA, Yuki MASUYA, Midori WATANABE, Hanako HONMA
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Publication number: 20240102172Abstract: An electrical steel sheet with an insulating film, the steel sheet having an insulating film containing a crystalline fibrous material on a surface of the steel sheet, in which a ratio (LRD/LTD) of a length in a rolling direction (LRD) of the crystalline fibrous material in a cross section in the rolling direction of the insulating film to a length in a direction perpendicular to the rolling direction (LTD) of the crystalline fibrous material in a cross section in the direction perpendicular to the rolling direction of the insulating film is 1.5 or more and 50.0 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Takashi Terashima, Karin Kokufu, Makoto Watanabe, Toshito Takamiya
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Publication number: 20240105384Abstract: A method for forming a film on a surface of a steel sheet includes applying a treatment solution for forming a film containing a fibrous material to the surface of the steel sheet by using a coater under a condition in which a difference between a speed of the steel sheet and a speed of an applicator of the coater is 1.0 m/min or more, inclining the surface of the steel sheet, to which the treatment solution for forming a film has been applied, at an angle of 10° or more with respect to a horizontal plane until drying is started, and thereafter drying the steel sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Takashi Terashima, Karin Kokufu, Makoto Watanabe, Toshito Takamiya
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Publication number: 20240102465Abstract: Provided is a method for continuing the operation of an electric compressor even if the magnitude of ripple voltage exceeds a predetermined threshold value. A control device of an electric compressor is provided with: a detection unit for detecting the ripple voltage of the electric compressor which is driven by a battery; a determination unit for determining whether or not the value of the ripple voltage is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; and a control unit for reducing the rotation speed of a motor of the electric compressor down to a predetermined first target rotation speed greater than 0 when the value is greater than or equal to the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Makoto HATTORI, Toyohisa KAWASHIMA, Kyohei WATANABE
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Patent number: 11939977Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Hajime Sato, Makoto Takeuchi, Genta Yoshikawa, Kazuhide Watanabe, Katsuhiro Fujita, Takayuki Hagita, Takayuki Kuwahara
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Publication number: 20240091936Abstract: A robot automation system includes circuitry configured to generate a plurality of task patterns that are candidates of a task flow for performing a job including a plurality of tasks by at least one robot. Each of the plurality of task patterns includes a corresponding relationship between the plurality of tasks and the at least one robot. The circuitry is further configured to calculate an estimated cycle time of the job based on a simulation in which the at least one robot performs the plurality of tasks, for each of the plurality of task patterns. The circuitry is further configured to generate, as an operation program, at least one task flow for performing the job by the at least one robot, in response to comparing a preset reference cycle time for the job with the estimated cycle time for each of the plurality of task patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Wataru WATANABE, Makoto TAKAHASHI, Masahiro GOYA, Tomoaki UCHIDA, Satoshi HIRONAKA
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Publication number: 20240083867Abstract: A compound of the formula (I) or a salt thereof (R represents methyl group or fluorine atom) having an mPGES-1 inhibitory activity and useful as an active ingredient of a medicament for prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of such diseases as inflammation, pain, or rheumatism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: ASKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto OKADA, Youichi NAKANO, Takashi NOSE, Satoshi MAEDA, Tomoaki WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240088818Abstract: Provided is a method for determining the generation source of ripple voltage when abnormal ripple voltage is detected. The control device is for an electric compressor, the control device comprising: a detection unit that detects ripple voltage; a judgment unit that judges whether the ripple voltage is abnormal based on the value of the ripple voltage; and a cause determination unit that determines whether the cause of the abnormality is the electric compressor or some other external device, based on the control result of the electric compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2020Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Makoto HATTORI, Toyohisa KAWASHIMA, Kyohei WATANABE
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Patent number: 11926888Abstract: Provided is an annealing separator with which a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a forsterite film with excellent appearance uniformity and adhesion can be obtained. The annealing separator for grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprises: magnesia that contains 0.05 mass % or more and 0.20 mass % or less of B, a phosphate in 0.1 parts by mass or more and 1.0 part by mass or less in terms of P per 100 parts by mass of the magnesia, and titanium oxide in 1.0 part by mass or more and 10.0 parts by mass or less per 100 parts by mass of the magnesia where the titanium oxide contains one or more types of alkali metals in a total amount of 0.050 mass % or more and 1.0 mass % or less, where an amount of P adsorbed on per 1 g of the titanium oxide is 1.0×10?4 g or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Terashima, Makoto Watanabe, Toshito Takamiya, Karin Kokufu
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Publication number: 20240079985Abstract: Provided is a method for detecting a ripple voltage. A control device is provided with: an acquiring unit which acquires the voltage value of an input voltage of a battery-driven electric compressor at irregular intervals; and a waveform computing unit which computes the waveform of a ripple component of the input voltage on the basis of the acquired voltage value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2020Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Makoto HATTORI, Toyohisa KAWASHIMA, Kyohei WATANABE
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Patent number: 11919325Abstract: An enclosing-sealing apparatus includes a flap opener that opens a flap of an envelope while the envelope is conveyed to an enclosing position. A first envelope detector is disposed upstream from the flap opener in an envelope conveyance direction and detects both ends of the envelope in the envelope conveyance direction. A second envelope detector is disposed downstream from the flap opener in the envelope conveyance direction and detects both ends of the envelope in the envelope conveyance direction in an open state in which the flap opens. A controller determines the open state of the flap based on a first detection result sent from the first envelope detector and a second detection result sent from the second envelope detector. The controller performs troubleshooting for enclosing the enclosure into the envelope if the controller determines that the open state of the flap is faulty.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Kunieda, Michitaka Suzuki, Shinji Asami, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Takahiro Matsuda, Makoto Hidaka, Kazuyoshi Matsuo, Shingo Yoshizawa, Takahiro Watanabe, Takuya Morinaga
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Publication number: 20240060980Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for detecting particulate substances with a high degree of sensitivity, while suppressing the generation of non-specific signals. According to the present invention, the generation of non-specific signals in the background can be suppressed by blocking a membrane of a test strip which is used for immunochromatography with a blocking composition including a polymer-based blocking agent having, in its side chain, a substituent represented by the following formula: (wherein R1, R2, and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group, or a C1-6 hydroxyalkyl group; and n is an integer of 1 to 4), and having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 1×103 to 1×107.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Yuta MIYAZAWA, Hirotaka FUJIMOTO, Makoto WATANABE, Taka-Aki SATO