Patents by Inventor Masahiko Watanabe

Masahiko 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: 20240122565
    Abstract: A user is presented with determination information obtained by determining a condition of a target site and feature information indicating a feature related to a condition of a body of a subject, which are generated from the same image representing the target site of the subject. A determination system includes an acquirer that acquires a target image representing a target site of a body of a subject, a first generator that generates first determination information indicating a condition of the target site from the target image used to generate the first determination information, a second generator that generates feature information indicating a feature related to a condition of the body of the subject from the target image, and a display controller that causes a display apparatus to display the first determination information and the feature information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichi WATANABE, Masayuki KYOMOTO, Masahiko HASHIDA, Shintaro HONDA, Naoya WADA
  • Patent number: 11959675
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit connected to each other via a refrigerant pipe through which refrigerant flows. The air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant sensor that detects leakage of the refrigerant in the indoor unit, a notification unit that provides a notification of occurrence of leakage of the refrigerant, a transmitter that communicates with an external terminal via a network, and a controller that controls the notification unit and the transmitter. The notification unit includes a display and a speaker disposed on a surface of a casing of the indoor unit, and the external terminal. When leakage of the refrigerant is detected by the refrigerant sensor, the controller controls the notification unit and the transmitter to provide a notification of occurrence of leakage of the refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Watanabe, Masahiko Takagi
  • Publication number: 20240119587
    Abstract: A prediction image is generated and output that represents a condition of a target region of a subject. A prediction system includes a prediction information acquirer that acquires (a) a subject image representing a target region of a subject at a first time, and (b) first prediction information regarding the target region at a second time when a predetermined period has elapsed from the first time; and a prediction image generation unit that generates a prediction image indicating a condition of the target region at the second time from the subject image based on the first prediction information and output the prediction image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichi WATANABE, Masayuki KYOMOTO, Masahiko HASHIDA, Shintaro HONDA, Naoya WADA
  • Publication number: 20240090344
    Abstract: A magnetic storage device includes first and second magnetic layers and a non-magnetic layer, where the non-magnetic layer includes a first oxide layer containing magnesium and oxygen, a second oxide layer containing magnesium and oxygen, a third oxide layer containing zinc and oxygen, a fourth oxide layer containing a first predetermined element and oxygen, and a fifth oxide layer containing a second predetermined element and oxygen, and a crystal structure of an oxide of the first predetermined element and a crystal structure of an oxide of the second predetermined element are each a rock salt structure. The first predetermined element and the second predetermined element each have an oxide formation free energy greater than an oxide formation free energy of zinc, and the oxide of the first predetermined element and the oxide of the second predetermined element each have a bandgap narrower than a bandgap of an oxide of magnesium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Takeo KOIKE, Rina NOMOTO, Hiroyuki KANAYA, Masahiko NAKAYAMA, Daisuke WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230390173
    Abstract: A dyeing composition for keratin fibers, including one or more direct dyes selected from HC Blue 18, HC Red 18, HC Yellow 16, and salts thereof, and tris-(hydroxymethyl)-aminomethane and salts thereof. A method for dyeing keratin fibers, including mixing the composition with a second aqueous composition having a pH in a range of 1 to 6 and optionally including one or more oxidizing agents to yield a ready-to-use composition having a pH in a range of 7 to 12, applying the ready-to-use composition onto the keratin fibers and leaving it for a time period in a range of 1 min to 60 min, and rinsing-off the keratin fibers and optionally shampooing the keratin fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bernd NÖCKER, Steven BREAKSPEAR, Fariba GHIASI, Anna NEU, Masahiko WATANABE, Fumina ABO
  • Publication number: 20230121803
    Abstract: A nitride laminate, in which contamination in the nitride layer is suppressed and crystallinity is improved, is provided. A nitride laminate includes a polymer substrate, and a nitride layer provided on at least one of the surfaces of the polymer substrate. The nitride layer has a wurtzite crystal structure. The atomic proportion of oxygen in the nitride layer is 2.5 atm. % or less, and the atomic proportion of hydrogen in the nitride layer is 2.0 atm. % or less. The FWHM of the X-ray rocking curve of the nitride layer is 8 degree or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiko WATANABE, Toshitaka NAKAMURA, Hironobu MACHINAGA
  • Publication number: 20230094041
    Abstract: A toilet device includes a casing, a lock part, and a release part. The casing is mounted to an upper surface of a toilet. The lock part restricts movement of the casing with respect to the toilet. The release part releases the restriction by the lock part. The release part includes an operation part and a transmission part. The transmission part transmits the operating force applied to the operation part to the lock part. The operation part is located at a position separated upward or downward from a lower end of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiko WATANABE, Katsushi MAETA, Fumiya MIDORI, Yoshitaka IMAMURA, Jun KAWAMATA
  • Publication number: 20220289543
    Abstract: An operation panel for aerial work vehicles that can be operated by one hand and removable from a deck and used as a remote control. The operation panel body of an operation panel equipped with a driving operation device is detachably mounted on a deck, the driving operation device being provided with: a control stick capable of tilting back/forth and left/right from the neutral position, and that causes an aerial work vehicle to perform a traveling operation to move forward, backward, and stop as the control stick tilts back/forth and a steering operation to steer as the control stick tilts in the left/right directions; and an enable switch that is located in a position where the enable switch can be pressed by the same fingers as those gripping and tilting the control stick, and that enables the traveling operation and steering operation only when pressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Norihide IKARASHI, Masahiko WATANABE, Masaki HIWATASHI
  • Patent number: 11390507
    Abstract: Reduction of minimum turning radius of an aerial work platform. Drive motors are provided to driven wheels of the platform respectively, so that the driven wheels can be independently controlled in terms of rotational speed and rotation direction. When the steering angle of steered wheels is at most a first steering angle, constant velocity control is performed, driving both of the driven wheels in the same rotation direction and at the same rotational speed. When the steering angle exceeds the first steering angle and is at most a second steering angle, differential control is performed, reducing the rotational speed of the driven wheel on the inside in the turning direction relative to the driven wheel on the outside in the turning direction. When the steering angle exceeds the second steering angle, counter-rotation control is performed, counter-rotating the driven wheel that is on the inside in the turning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HOKUETSU INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi Tanikawa, Norihide Ikarashi, Masahiko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220151897
    Abstract: A liquid hair dye composition comprising components (A), (B) and (C), wherein a content of the component (A) is 1.5 mass % or more, (A) an azo dye selected from the group consisting of the following formulae (A-1), (A-2) and (A-3); (B) a surfactant with an HLB of 7 or more, selected from the group consisting of anionic surfactants, nonionic surfactants and amphoteric surfactants; and (C) water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji MONDA, Masahiko WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210114360
    Abstract: The heat-shielding heat insulating substrate is a heat-shielding heat insulating substrate including a transparent substrate layer and an infrared reflection layer, the heat-shielding heat insulating substrate including: a protective topcoat layer arranged on a side of the infrared reflection layer opposite to the transparent substrate layer; and a protective film arranged on a surface of the protective topcoat layer opposite to the infrared reflection layer, wherein a 180° peel strength of the protective film to the protective topcoat layer under an environment having a temperature of 23±1° C. and a humidity of 50±5% RH is from 0.01 N/50 mm to 0.40 N/50 mm, and wherein a 180° peel strength of the protective film to the protective topcoat layer after storage of the heat-shielding heat insulating substrate under an environment having a temperature of 80±1° C. for 10 days is from 0.01 N/50 mm to 1.0 N/50 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko WATANABE, Yuta SHIMAZAKI, Taichi WATANABE, Yusuke YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro KONTANI
  • Publication number: 20200385256
    Abstract: Reduction of minimum turning radius of an aerial work platform. Drive motors are provided to driven wheels of the platform respectively, so that the driven wheels can be independently controlled in terms of rotational speed and rotation direction. When the steering angle of steered wheels is at most a first steering angle, constant velocity control is performed, driving both of the driven wheels in the same rotation direction and at the same rotational speed. When the steering angle exceeds the first steering angle and is at most a second steering angle, differential control is performed, reducing the rotational speed of the driven wheel on the inside in the turning direction relative to the driven wheel on the outside in the turning direction. When the steering angle exceeds the second steering angle, counter-rotation control is performed, counter-rotating the driven wheel that is on the inside in the turning direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Katsumi TANIKAWA, Norihide IKARASHI, Masahiko WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10288782
    Abstract: Disclosed is an infrared reflective film (100) configured by disposing an infrared ray reflective layer (20) and a transparent protective layer (30) on a transparent film backing (10) in this order. The infrared ray reflective layer (20) comprises: a first metal oxide layer (21); a metal layer (25) comprising a primary component consisting of silver; and a second metal oxide layer (22) comprised of a composite metal oxide containing zinc oxide and tin oxide, which are arranged in this order from the side of the transparent film backing (10). The transparent protective layer (30) lies in direct contact with the second metal oxide layer (22). The transparent protective layer (30) has a thickness of 30 nm to 150 nm, and is preferably an organic layer having a cross-linked structure derived from an ester compound having an acidic group and a polymerizable functional group in the same molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Watanabe, Yutaka Ohmori
  • Patent number: 10209414
    Abstract: Infrared reflecting film includes, on a transparent film substrate, a metal oxide layer, an infrared reflecting layer mainly made of silver, and a light absorptive metal layer, in this order. No metal layer is disposed between the transparent film substrate and the infrared reflecting layer. The metal oxide layer is preferably formed of a composite metal oxide including zinc oxide and tin oxide. The light absorptive metal layer has a thickness of 2 nm to 10 nm and includes at least one selected from the group consisting of nickel, chromium, niobium, tantalum, and titanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Nakanishi, Yutaka Ohmori, Masahiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10007037
    Abstract: An infrared-ray reflective film (100) of the present invention is configured by disposing an infrared reflective layer (20) and a transparent protective layer (30) on a transparent film backing (10) in this order. The infrared reflective layer (20) comprises: a first metal oxide layer (21); a metal layer (25) made of a silver alloy containing silver in an amount of 96 to 99.9 weight %; and a second metal oxide layer (22), which are arranged in this order from the side of the transparent film backing (10), wherein each of the first metal oxide layer (21) and the second metal oxide layer (22) is in direct contact with the metal layer (25). There is no metal layer between the transparent film backing (10) and the infrared reflective layer (20) and between the infrared reflective layer (20) and the transparent protective layer (30). Preferably, the infrared-ray reflective film of the present invention has a visible ray transmittance of 65% or more, a shading coefficient of less than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Fujisawa, Yutaka Ohmori, Masahiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9816429
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling device and a control method therefor. This cooling device includes: a first cooling liquid line routed by way of a cylinder head and a radiator; a second cooling liquid line routed by way of a cylinder block while bypassing the radiator; a third cooling liquid line routed by way of the cylinder head and a heater core while bypassing the radiator; a flow rate control valve for distributing cooling water to the cooling liquid lines; and mechanical and electric water pumps. A control unit controls the flow rate control valve according to the temperatures of the cylinder head and block, during engine operation, and causes the electric water pump to operate while controlling the flow rate control valve according to the temperature of the cylinder head, and whether or not heat exchange in the heater core is requested, during temporary engine stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Murai, Tomoyuki Murakami, Shigeyuki Sakaguchi, Yuichi Toyama, Masahiko Watanabe, Hideaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9810240
    Abstract: A pump is provided which includes a pump housing, a drive shaft rotatably installed in the pump housing through a ball bearing, a pulley integrally connected to one end of the drive shaft through a flange wall, an impeller connected to the other end of the drive shaft, a cylindrical base part integrally connected to an outer periphery of the flange wall and six through openings formed in an outer peripheral part of the flange wall, in which each of the through openings has, at a generally middle part of a bottom surface of an inner surface thereof, a pathway groove that extends substantially along an inner cylindrical surface of the cylindrical base part, so that the performance of discharging water, dust and the like from the through openings formed in the flange wall is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Furusawa, Masahiko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20170227694
    Abstract: Infrared reflecting substrate includes, on a transparent film base, an infrared reflecting layer mainly made of silver and a light absorptive metal layer in this order. The light absorptive metal layer has a thickness of 15 nm or less, and a transparent protective layer has a thickness of 10 nm to 120 nm. The distance between the light absorptive metal layer and the transparent protective layer is 25 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke NAKANISHI, Masahiko WATANABE, Yutaka OHMORI
  • Patent number: 9726068
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling device and a control method for the same. This cooling device includes: a first cooling liquid line routed by way of a cylinder head and a radiator; a second cooling liquid line routed by way of a cylinder block while bypassing the radiator; an electric flow rate control valve whose inlet is connected to the first and second cooling liquid lines, and whose outlet is connected to the intake side of an electric water pump; and a bypass line that branches off from the first cooling liquid line at a point between the cylinder head and the radiator and that joins to the outlet of the flow rate control valve while bypassing the radiator. A control unit controls the flow rate control valve according to the temperature of the cylinder head and the temperature of the cylinder block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Murai, Tomoyuki Murakami, Shigeyuki Sakaguchi, Yuichi Toyama, Masahiko Watanabe, Hideaki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20170219750
    Abstract: Infrared reflecting film includes, on a transparent film substrate, a metal oxide layer, an infrared reflecting layer mainly made of silver, and a light absorptive metal layer, in this order. No metal layer is disposed between the transparent film substrate and the infrared reflecting layer. The metal oxide layer is preferably formed of a composite metal oxide including zinc oxide and tin oxide. The light absorptive metal layer has a thickness of 2 nm to 10 nm and includes at least one selected from the group consisting of nickel, chromium, niobium, tantalum, and titanium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Yosuke NAKANISHI, Yutaka OHMORI, Masahiko WATANABE