Patents by Inventor Yuji Watanabe

Yuji 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).

  • Patent number: 11915176
    Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junya Watanabe, Yuji Sasaki, Seiji Arakawa, Naotoshi Kadotani, Masafumi Hayakawa, Takashi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11914363
    Abstract: A mobile robot receives first transmission information transmitted from a server device to manage the mobile robot in a state where wireless communication with the server device is possible, directly executes wireless communication with another mobile robot among the mobile robots and executes a reception process of receiving the first transmission information transmitted from the server device to manage the mobile robot from the other mobile robot in a case where wireless communication with the server device is not possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 11914397
    Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that can autonomously move in a facility. The robot control system acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot, acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot, determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information, and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 11809534
    Abstract: A system for controlling access to cluster resources is provided. The system includes one or more processors; and memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors and the memory form a cluster of computer resources that includes an admission controller configured to receive requests and determine if the request is authorized, a request history database that stores the request information received by the admission controller from a plurality of users, a role design advisor that is configured to adjust permissions for the plurality of users based on a pattern of usage identified from the request history database, and an alert system that communicates an alert to an administrator that a request outside the pattern of requests for the user has been received by the admission controller, wherein the admission controller, request history database, and role design advisor control access to the cluster resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Watanabe, Ruriko Kudo, Hirokuni Kitahara, Kugamoorthy Gajananan
  • Patent number: 11772160
    Abstract: To provide a fine nickel powder for an internal electrode paste of an electronic component, the nickel powder obtained by a wet method and having high crystallinity, excellent sintering characteristics, and heat-shrinking characteristics. The nickel powder is obtained by precipitating nickel by a reduction reaction in a reaction solution including at least water-soluble nickel salt, salt of metal nobler than nickel, hydrazine as a reducing agent, and alkali metal hydroxide as a pH adjusting agent and water; the reaction solution is prepared by mixing a nickel salt solution including the water-soluble nickel salt and the salt of metal nobler than nickel with a mixed reducing agent solution including hydrazine and alkali metal hydroxide; and the hydrazine is additionally added to the reaction solution after a reduction reaction initiates in the reaction solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD., MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Ishii, Shingo Murakami, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takahiro Kamata, Toshiaki Terao, Masaya Yukinobu, Yuji Watanabe, Tsutomu Tanimitsu, Yoshiyuki Kunifusa, Haruo Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11704413
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for assessing latent security risks in Kubernetes clusters is provided including selecting a service account from a plurality of service accounts defined in namespaces of a cluster, binding a role to the selected service account based on predetermined role-binding data, and determining if the role meets at least one of a first, second, and third conditions based on predetermined role data defining permitted operations for roles, the first condition being that the role can receive secret tokens for pods within a namespace of the namespaces, the second condition being that the role can perform execution operation to other pods, and the third condition being that the role can create DaemonSet, Deployment, StatefulSet, and additional pods on the namespace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Watanabe, Ruriko Kudo, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Hirokuni Kitahara
  • Patent number: 11662293
    Abstract: An inspection method for a pillar-shaped honeycomb filter having a honeycomb-shaped first end face and a honeycomb-shaped second end face, including: allowing gas containing fine particles to flow into the first end face; imaging the entire second end face covered with the sheet-like light using a camera while the gas that has flowed into the first end face flows out of the second end face through the filter, and generating an image of the entire second end face covered with the sheet-like light; selecting an inspection area of the second end face and measuring information concerning a sum of luminance of all pixels in the inspection area; and determining quality of the filter based on at least the information concerning the concentration of the fine particles in the gas before the gas flows into the first end face and the information concerning the sum of luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sato, Takakazu Koyama, Yuji Watanabe, Yutaka Ishii, Takaaki Kanemitsu, Makoto Murai, Masanari Iwade, Takafumi Terahai, Ryota Kurahashi, Akinari Fukaya, Kenji Ebisutani
  • Patent number: 11633875
    Abstract: A bottom face processing method of a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including steps of: preparing a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including a plurality of first cells which extend in parallel with each other from a first bottom face to a second bottom face, and each of which is opened in the first bottom face and has a protruding plugged portion in the second bottom face, and a plurality of second cells each of which is adjacent to at least one of the first cells with a partition wall interposed therebetween, which extend in parallel with each other from the first bottom face to the second bottom face, and each of which has a protruding plugged portion in the first bottom face, and is opened in the second bottom face; and removing the protruding portion from the plugged portion of each of the first cells and the second cells of the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fujie, Yuji Watanabe, Ken Itadu, Yoshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11634532
    Abstract: Provided is a material having an excellent sound-absorbing performance which can be easily applied to the desired area at the operation site and which can effectively prevent sound leakage. The material includes an open-cell soft polyurethane foam prepared from a 2-part reactive urethane resin composition prepared from a polyisocyanate component and a polyol-containing component, wherein the polyol-containing component comprises a polyol component, catalysts, a foam stabilizer, an amine compound having primary or secondary amino groups, and carbon dioxide; wherein an average sound absorption coefficient of said polyurethane foam is 30% or more, measured in accordance with JIS A 1405-2:2007 for 63 hertz to 5000 hertz; and the length of liquid-dripping is within 300 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: Mazda Motor Corporation, Nihon Tokushu Toryo Co., Ltd., Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kataoka, Eiichi Kawase, Masanori Takasaki, Yuji Watanabe, Hirofumi Takeuchi, Shinichiro Sado, Hiroaki Ido, Shinji Nishikawa, Saeko Kinami, Kazuki Murata
  • Patent number: 11599772
    Abstract: Guided character string alteration can be performed by obtaining an original character string and a plurality of altered character strings, traversing the original character string with a first Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) network to generate, for each character of the original character string, a hidden state of a partial original character string up to that character, and applying, during the traversing, an alteration learning process to each hidden state of a partial original character string to produce an alteration function for relating partial original character strings to partial altered character strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pablo Loyola, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Yuji Watanabe, Fumiko Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20230054683
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining command-to-process correspondence. The method includes identifying, by the hardware processor, initial processes resulting from executions of container immutability change events for each of multiple initially mutable containers in a cluster, based on an execution time, a process identifier and a process group identifier for each of the container immutability change events. The method also includes designating, by the hardware processor, a particular external command, from among external container commands stored in a database, as having a correspondence to an initial process, responsive to the initial process matching at least one respective process resulting from executing the particular external command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hirokuni Kitahara, Yuji Watanabe, Fumiko Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11580199
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining command-to-process correspondence. The method includes identifying, by the hardware processor, initial processes resulting from executions of container immutability change events for each of multiple containers in a cluster, based on an execution time, a process identifier and a process group identifier for each of the container immutability change events. The method further includes checking, by the hardware processor, if an initial process from among the identified initial processes matches an entry in a database that stores external container commands and at least one respective process resulting from executing each of the external container commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokuni Kitahara, Yuji Watanabe, Fumiko Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20220404261
    Abstract: An inspection device for a pillar shaped honeycomb filter includes: a housing portion that can house a pillar shaped honeycomb filter; an introduction pipe and a discharge pipe through which a gas can flow, each of the introduction pipe and the discharge pipe being connected to the housing portion; a particle generation portion for generating particles; a particle introduction portion for introducing the particles generated by the particle generation portion into the introduction pipe; a gas stirring portion arranged in the introduction pipe on an upstream side of the particle introduction portion in a gas flow direction; and particle counters for measuring the number of particles, the particle counters being arranged in the introduction pipe and the discharge pipe on a downstream side of the particle introduction portion in the gas flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei KAJIURA, Yuji WATANABE, Yoshihiro SATO, Yuichi TAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11526599
    Abstract: One or more computer processors collect logs containing one or more admission requests associated with a new application installation in an empty namespace, wherein the empty namespace is a sandbox representative of a production environment. The one or more computer processors classify the one or more admission requests according to a set of conditions indicating respective levels of trust. The one or more computer processors create a set of candidates for signing containing admissions requests that are classified unsigned. The one or more computer processors generate a security policy for each candidate for signing in the set of candidates for signing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruriko Kudo, Hirokuni Kitahara, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Yuji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220342997
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for assessing latent security risks in Kubernetes clusters is provided including selecting a service account from a plurality of service accounts defined in namespaces of a cluster, binding a role to the selected service account based on predetermined role-binding data, and determining if the role meets at least one of a first, second, and third conditions based on predetermined role data defining permitted operations for roles, the first condition being that the role can receive secret tokens for pods within a namespace of the namespaces, the second condition being that the role can perform execution operation to other pods, and the third condition being that the role can create DaemonSet, Deployment, StatefulSet, and additional pods on the namespace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji Watanabe, Ruriko Kudo, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Hirokuni Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20220342965
    Abstract: A system for controlling access to cluster resources is provided. The system includes one or more processors; and memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors and the memory form a cluster of computer resources that includes an admission controller configured to receive requests and determine if the request is authorized, a request history database that stores the request information received by the admission controller from a plurality of users, a role design advisor that is configured to adjust permissions for the plurality of users based on a pattern of usage identified from the request history database, and an alert system that communicates an alert to an administrator that a request outside the pattern of requests for the user has been received by the admission controller, wherein the admission controller, request history database, and role design advisor control access to the cluster resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji Watanabe, Ruriko Kudo, Hirokuni Kitahara, Kugamoorthy Gajananan
  • Publication number: 20220335119
    Abstract: One or more computer processors collect logs containing one or more admission requests associated with a new application installation in an empty namespace, wherein the empty namespace is a sandbox representative of a production environment. The one or more computer processors classify the one or more admission requests according to a set of conditions indicating respective levels of trust. The one or more computer processors create a set of candidates for signing containing admissions requests that are classified unsigned. The one or more computer processors generate a security policy for each candidate for signing in the set of candidates for signing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: RURIKO KUDO, HIROKUNI KITAHARA, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, YUJI WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11477236
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for identifying words likely to be used in new combo-squatted domains of a target domain. The method includes selecting the target domain. The method further includes storing, in a memory device, a sequence of previously detected combo-squatted domains from period [t-W, t-1]. The sequence includes a set of words W. The method also includes obtaining trends associated with the target domain at time t. The method additionally includes obtaining, by a hardware processor responsive to the trends, a trend distribution associated with the target domain at time t. The method further includes ranking, by a likelihood, a set of words E that have been extracted from the trend distribution and are expected to be used in the future in the new combo-squatting domains, responsive to the set of words W.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pablo Salvador Loyola Heufemann, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Hirokuni Kitahara, Yuji Watanabe, Fumiko Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20220274162
    Abstract: To provide a fine nickel powder for an internal electrode paste of an electronic component, the nickel powder obtained by a wet method and having high crystallinity, excellent sintering characteristics, and heat-shrinking characteristics. The nickel powder is obtained by precipitating nickel by a reduction reaction in a reaction solution including at least water-soluble nickel salt, salt of metal nobler than nickel, hydrazine as a reducing agent, and alkali metal hydroxide as a pH adjusting agent and water; the reaction solution is prepared by mixing a nickel salt solution including the water-soluble nickel salt and the salt of metal nobler than nickel with a mixed reducing agent solution including hydrazine and alkali metal hydroxide; and the hydrazine is additionally added to the reaction solution after a reduction reaction initiates in the reaction solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Junji ISHII, Shingo MURAKAMI, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Takahiro KAMATA, Toshiaki TERAO, Masaya YUKINOBU, Yuji WATANABE, Tsutomu TANIMITSU, Yoshiyuki KUNIFUSA, Haruo NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220251284
    Abstract: Provided is a material having an excellent sound-absorbing performance which can be easily applied to the desired area at the operation site and which can effectively prevent sound leakage. The material includes an open-cell soft polyurethane foam prepared from a 2-part reactive urethane resin composition prepared from a polyisocyanate component and a polyol-containing component, wherein the polyol-containing component comprises a polyol component, catalysts, a foam stabilizer, an amine compound having primary or secondary amino groups, and carbon dioxide; wherein an average sound absorption coefficient of said polyurethane foam is 30% or more, measured in accordance with JIS A 1405-2:2007 for 63 hertz to 5000 hertz; and the length of liquid-dripping is within 300 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kataoka, Eiichi Kawase, Masanori Takasaki, Yuji Watanabe, Hirofumi Takeuchi, Shinichiro Sado, Hiroaki Ido, Shinji Nishikawa, Saeko Kinami, Kazuki Murata