Patents by Inventor Satoru Watanabe

Satoru 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: 11971683
    Abstract: Provided an electrophotographic electro-conductive member that can stably suppress an occurrence of fogging in an electrophotographic image. The member comprises a support having an electro-conductive outer surface, and an electro-conductive layer on the outer surface of the support, the electro-conductive layer having a matrix including a cross-linked product of a first rubber, and domains dispersed in the matrix, the domains each includes a cross-linked product of a second rubber and an electro-conductive particle, at least some of the domains is exposed to the outer surface of the electro-conductive member to constitute protrusions on an outer surface of the member, the outer surface of the electro-conductive member is constituted by the matrix and the domains exposed to the outer surface of the electrophotographic electro-conductive member, the electrophotographic electro-conductive member has an impedance of 1.0×103? or more and 1.0×108? or less, and some of the domains satisfy two specific requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Nishioka, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Hiroaki Watanabe, Takumi Furukawa, Yasuhiro Fushimoto, Masahiro Kurachi, Kenji Takashima, Yuichi Kikuchi, Kana Sato
  • Publication number: 20240125400
    Abstract: Included are: a cylindrical body (cylindrical portion 16) provided with a shaft portion (18); and a first valve body (11) that is in close contact with the shaft portion to close an opening portion (22) of the cylindrical body, and is separated from the shaft portion when pressure (P) in the cylindrical body rises to a threshold (Pth) or higher by gas that has entered the cylindrical body, to release the gas from the cylindrical body to the outside. The valve body includes a closing portion (40) that receives the pressure (P) of the gas in the cylindrical body. The pressure received by the closing portion (40) serves as a valve opening force. As a result, the discharge characteristics of the gas filling a case are improved to enhance a pressure regulation function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON CHEMI-CON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi Yasuda, Ikufumi Honda, Atsushi Koga, Hiroshi Komatsu, Satoru Tsumeda, Shin Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11959156
    Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material comprises cubic boron nitride particles and a bonding material, wherein the bonding material comprises at least one first metallic element selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, vanadium, niobium, hafnium, tantalum, chromium, rhenium, molybdenum, and tungsten; cobalt; and aluminum; the cubic boron nitride sintered material has a first interface region sandwiched between an interface between the cubic boron nitride particles and the bonding material, and a first virtual line passing through a point 10 nm apart from the interface to the bonding material side; and when an element that is present at the highest concentration among the first metallic elements in the first interface region is defined as a first element, an atomic concentration of the first element in the first interface region is higher than an atomic concentration of the first element in the bonding material excluding the first interface region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Watanabe, Katsumi Okamura, Akito Ishii, Yoshiki Asakawa, Akihiko Ueda, Satoru Kukino, Hisaya Hama
  • Publication number: 20240094234
    Abstract: The present invention controls liquid shaking during transportation while maintaining high-precision with respect to the stopping position of a specimen at the time of device start-up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Satoru KANEKO, Takahiro SUZUKI, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Ryosuke HOSHI, Hiroshi WATANABE, Shinji AZUMA
  • 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: 11927904
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic belt of an endless shape including a substrate, wherein the substrate contains a polyimide resin and carbon nanotubes, wherein a content of the carbon nanotubes in the substrate is 15 vol % or less with respect to a total volume of the polyimide resin, wherein the substrate has a tensile strength of 200 MPa or more in each of a peripheral direction thereof and a direction perpendicular to the peripheral direction, and wherein the substrate has a thermal conductivity of 0.9 W/(m·K) or more in a thickness direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akeshi Asaka, Taiki Watanabe, Yuma Kobayashi, Hidetaka Kawamura, Satoru Nishiuma, Akihiro Taya, Ryunosuke Kawahara
  • Patent number: 11921737
    Abstract: Aspects relate to recommending ETL workflows for performing specific tasks based on user inputs related to a predetermined business domain while complying with policy and access conditions. Provided is an ETL workflow recommendation device including a knowledge database for storing an overall knowledge graph including an ETL knowledge graph that at least indicates ETL information about a predetermined business domain in a graph format, an input management unit that receives a user input related to the predetermined business domain and converts the user input into a graph query for searching the overall knowledge graph, an ETL recommendation unit that searches the overall knowledge graph using the graph query and generates ETL workflow candidates with respect to the user input; and an output management unit that evaluates the ETL workflow candidates and outputs an ETL workflow report indicating a recommended ETL workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Garima Natani, Satoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11913917
    Abstract: An autosampler includes a retention path for injecting a sample into a mobile phase that flows through an analysis path to a column, the retention path including a needle at a downstream end and holding the sample, an injection path including a port at an upstream end for injecting into the analysis path, the sample injected from the needle into the port, a low-pressure path having an upstream end connected to a pump, and a valve that can switch between a first state in which an upstream analysis path and a downstream analysis path are connected and a downstream end of the low-pressure path and an upstream end of the retention path are connected and a second state in which the upstream analysis path and the upstream end of the retention path are connected and the downstream end of the injection path and the downstream analysis path are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Watanabe, Takashi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20240054132
    Abstract: The processing load for joining a plurality of tables by hash join is reduced for a computer system in which the CPU of a node creates a partial bloom filter that manages a first table hash value of a joining key of a row corresponding to a query in an assigned row of a build table. An integrated bloom filter is created from a plurality of partial bloom filters, and a second table hash value of the joining key of the row corresponding to the condition of the query among the rows of a probe table is calculated. The row of the probe table is transmitted to the node containing a row of the build table of the join hash value for that row when the integrated bloom filter includes an identical first table hash value, and an integrated joined table is created and returned to the query request source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Mayuko OZAWA, Satoru WATANABE, Norifumi NISHIKAWA, Kazuhiko MOGI
  • Patent number: 11871590
    Abstract: A thin film of metal oxide includes zinc (Zn); tin (Sn); silicon (Si); and oxygen (O). In terms of oxide, based on 100 mol % of total of oxides of the thin film, SnO2 is greater than 15 mol % but less than or equal to 95 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Hideo Hosono, Yoshitake Toda, Satoru Watanabe, Toshinari Watanabe, Kazuhiro Ito, Naomichi Miyakawa, Nobuhiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11853260
    Abstract: A data search system includes an agent server that includes a storage and stores data in the storage, and a host server that manages tag management information in which a tag as a term for searching the data and a storage as a storage location of the data are associated with the data, receives a query including a search designation tag, and acquires data associated with the search designation tag from the storage location of the data by referring to the tag management information and responds to the query. The host server continuously updates the tag management information according to content and the storage location of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Watanabe, Yuichiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 11829357
    Abstract: An analysis assistance device includes an estimator that estimates distribution of measurement quality index data using a plurality of analysis condition data to be provided to an analysis device and a plurality of measurement data obtained in the analysis device based on the plurality of analysis condition data, a calculator that calculates the measurement quality index data from the measurement data obtained from the analysis device, and a comparison outputter that compares and outputs for display the measurement quality index data estimated by the estimator and the measurement quality index data calculated by the calculator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Satoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230297575
    Abstract: A database management system identifies a required column which is required for executing the query, reads out data of the identified required column from a storage device, and executes the query based on the data of the required column. When reading out the data of the required column, the database management system preferentially reads out the data of the required column from a high-speed storage device storing the data of the required column among a memory, a second storage, and a first storage, stores, in the memory, data of the second data size unit including the data of the required column used for executing the query, and, when the data of the required column is read out from the first storage, stores the data of the second data size unit in the memory and stores the read-out data of the first data size unit in the second storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kurokawa, Satoru Watanabe, Norifumi Nishikawa, Kazuhiko Mogi
  • Patent number: 11543392
    Abstract: An online HPLC dissolution test system includes a dissolution tester and a liquid chromatograph. An autosampler of the liquid chromatograph includes at least one flow vial, a sampling needle and an injection port. the flow vial is connected to the dissolution tester via a pipe and is for storing a sample solution supplied from the dissolution tester therein. The sampling needle is for collecting the sample solution by sucking from the flow vial. The injection port is for injecting the sample solution from the sampling needle into the analysis channel. The controller of the liquid chromatograph includes an immediate analyzing execution part configured to cause the autosampler to execute immediate analyzing operation for sucking the sample solution in the flow vial with the sampling needle and directly injecting the sample solution into the injection port when the sample solution is supplied from the dissolution tester to the flow vial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Taichi Tomono, Takayuki Iriki, Tomohiro Shagawa, Satoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220412929
    Abstract: A data processor (10) that performs data processing on a plurality of the chromatograms stored in the data storage part (8) is provided. The data processor (10) is capable of executing automatic identification for automatically performing identification processing. In the identification processing, one chromatogram among the plurality of the chromatograms is set as a reference chromatogram, a plurality of component peaks on the reference chromatogram is set as reference peaks, and it is identified which component peaks among component peaks on other chromatograms than the reference chromatogram among the plurality of the chromatograms corresponds to each of the plurality of the reference peaks. In the automatic identification, the data processor (10) is configured to identify component peaks corresponding to each of the reference peaks by executing filtering using a reference parameter for peak parameters of each of component peaks on the other chromatograms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Satoru WATANABE, Tomohiro KAWASE
  • Publication number: 20220405283
    Abstract: A reflection creation system 1 includes a storage device 3 that holds a history 24 of reflections and an arithmetic device 2 that selects, from the history, a query whose reflection creation source is different from that of a new query for reflection creation among queries related to a past reflection having a same content as that of a reflection represented by the new query, based on the content of the reflection, and creates a reflection based on the selected query of the past reflection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yuichiro AOKI, Satoru WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220358090
    Abstract: A data search system includes an agent server that includes a storage and stores data in the storage, and a host server that manages tag management information in which a tag as a term for searching the data and a storage as a storage location of the data are associated with the data, receives a query including a search designation tag, and acquires data associated with the search designation tag from the storage location of the data by referring to the tag management information and responds to the query. The host server continuously updates the tag management information according to content and the storage location of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru WATANABE, Yuichiro AOKI
  • Patent number: 11486863
    Abstract: An organic solvent containing liquid that does not include a component to be detected by a detector is used as a first solvent, and an organic solvent containing liquid that includes the component to be detected and is adjusted to have a concentration of an organic solvent that prevents a separation column from actually holding the component to be detected is used a second solvent. Further, a mobile phase is sent while a setting value of a concentration of the second solvent in the mobile phase is changed over time with the separation column provided on an analysis flow path, and an actual concentration of the second solvent in the mobile phase is found based on a detection signal of the detector when the mobile phase is sent at each setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Satoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220260536
    Abstract: A liquid delivery pump (4), an analysis channel (2), an injector (6), a separation column (8), a detector (10), and a controller (12) are provided. Then, the controller (12) includes a setting value storage memory (14) that stores a setting value set by the user for the number of peaks in a chromatogram obtained during analysis started by injection of a sample into the mobile phase by the injector (6), a peak counter (18) configured to count the number of peaks in the chromatogram from start of the analysis, and an end trigger detector (20) configured to detect that the number of peaks from start of the analysis counted by the peak counter (18) reaches the setting value as an end trigger of the analysis being executed, and the controller (12) is configured to end the analysis being executed based on that the end trigger detector (20) detects the end trigger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: Satoru Watanabe