Patents by Inventor Akihiro Watanabe

Akihiro 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: 20240250255
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to: a positive electrode NCM (nickel-cobalt-manganese)-based active material in which a ratio c/a of a length of an a-axis to a length of a c-axis in a crystal structure as obtained from an X-ray diffraction pattern analysis result is 4.9625 or less; a positive electrode including the positive electrode NCM-based active material; and a battery including the positive electrode. According to the present disclosure, there are provided: the positive electrode NCM-based active material that can exhibit an improved low-temperature low-SOC output property as well as high thermal stability; the positive electrode including the positive electrode NCM-based active material; and the battery including the positive electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro TABUSHI, Hiroki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240250256
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to: a positive electrode NCM-based active material in which a crystallite size is 460 ? or more; a positive electrode including the positive electrode NCM-based active material; and a battery including the positive electrode. According to the present disclosure, there are provided: the positive electrode NCM (nickel-cobalt-manganese)-based active material that can exhibit an improved low-temperature low-SOC output property as well as high thermal stability; the positive electrode including the positive electrode NCM-based active material; and the battery including the positive electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro TABUSHI, Hiroki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240242793
    Abstract: A medical support system according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry and a display. The processing circuitry acquires biometric data of a subject to be examined or treated. The processing circuitry generates information on the probability of success in cell production in the future based on biological samples of the subject, on the basis of the biometric data. The display displays information on the probability of success in cell production in the future.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicants: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro KOGA, Koji HIRATA, Kohei WATANABE, Yasuo SAKURAI, Katsuaki DEGUCHI
  • Patent number: 12038008
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped check valve which opens and closes the injection passage is placed in the check valve chamber, an injection discharge passage portion connected to the compression chamber of the injection passage and the check valve chamber open from an outer surface of the fixed scroll, a lid body is attached to openings of the injection discharge passage and the check valve chamber such that the check valve is sandwiched between the openings and the lid body, and the injection discharge passage and the check valve chamber are hermetically closed, thereby forming the injection passage. According to this, it is possible to provide a reliable, efficient and inexpensive compressor with an injection mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Watanabe, Akinori Fukuda, Akihiro Hayashi, Hideto Oka, Keisuke Noba
  • Publication number: 20240100689
    Abstract: An encoder device including a position detection unit for detecting position information of a moving part; a magnet having a plurality of polarities along a moving direction of the moving part; and an electric signal generation unit for generating an electric signal, based on a magnetic characteristic of a magnetosensitive part, the electric signal generation unit having the magnetosensitive part whose magnetic characteristic is changed by a change in magnetic field associated with relative movement to the magnet, wherein the magnetosensitive part is disposed so that the magnetosensitive part is spaced apart from a side surface of the magnet in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction and a length direction of the magnetosensitive part is orthogonal to tangential directions of at least some of magnetic field lines of the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240061046
    Abstract: A battery management system includes a control device and a storage. The storage stores at least one trained neural network. The trained neural network includes an input layer that accepts input data that represents a numeric value for each pixel in an image where a prescribed CCV waveform (a CCV charging waveform or a CCV discharging waveform) of a secondary battery is drawn in a region constituted of a predetermined number of pixels, and when input data is input to the input layer, the trained neural network outputs a full charge capacity of the secondary battery. The control device estimates the full charge capacity of a target battery by inputting input data obtained for the target battery into the input layer of the trained neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junta IZUMI, Akihiro WATANABE, Toshiki HORI, Misato BABA
  • Patent number: 11906910
    Abstract: A development device includes a development container, a first conveying member, a second conveying member, a toner concentration sensor, and a developer carrier. The first and second conveying members are equal to each other in outer diameter and shaft diameter, the outer diameter being 1.3 times the shaft diameter or more but 1.6 times the shaft diameter or less. Where L represents an axial length of the first conveying member, K represents a distance of a center position of the sensing surface of the toner concentration sensor from a downstream end of a first conveying chamber of the development container in the first direction, P represents a pitch of the conveying blade of the first conveying member, and R represents a rotational speed of the first conveying member, formula (1) is satisfied: 30000<(P×R×L)/K<45000 (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Eiji Gyotoku, Akihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11906912
    Abstract: A toner conveyance device includes a vertical conveyance portion, a horizontal conveyance portion, a conveyance member, and a loosening member. The vertical conveyance portion conveys a toner or developer conveyed therein through an entry port connected to a main-body-side conveyance path by causing the toner or developer to fall vertically. The horizontal conveyance portion is connected to a lower end of the vertical conveyance portion and conveys the toner or developer in a horizontal direction by using the conveyance member. the loosening member is arranged at a first position below a connection portion between the main-body-side conveyance path and the entry port and at a second position protruding upward beyond the connection portion. A toner loosening mode is executable in which the toner or developer is fed into the vertical conveyance portion so as to cause the loosening member to reciprocate at the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Watanabe, Eiji Gyotoku
  • Patent number: 11906911
    Abstract: A development device includes a development container, a first conveying member, a second conveying member, a toner concentration sensor, and a developer carrier. The toner concentration sensor is arranged at a wall portion of the first conveying chamber in which the first conveying member is arranged. The first and second conveying members are equal to each other in outer diameter and shaft diameter, the outer diameter being 2.3 times the shaft diameter or more but 3.0 times the shaft diameter or less. Where D represents the shaft diameter of the first conveying member, L represents an axial length of the first conveying member, and K represents a distance of a center position of a sensing surface of the toner concentration sensor from a downstream end of the first conveying chamber in the first direction, formula (1) is satisfied: 500<(L2×K)/D4<2500 (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Eiji Gyotoku, Akihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11881943
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic communication device includes a controller that changes an upper limit value capable of correcting an error of bit data in which an error occurs in packet data transferred by serial communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Watanabe, Kenji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11874615
    Abstract: A developing device includes a developing container, a first stirring conveyance member, a second stirring conveyance member, a developer carrying member including a developing sleeve and a magnet, and a regulation member. The regulation pole in the magnet has a region extending over 10° or more in which a maximum value of a vertical magnetic force is not more than 65 [mT] and a vertical magnetic force gradient is not more than 0.3 [mT/°]. A peak position of the vertical magnetic force gradient of the regulation pole is arranged at a position opposed to the second stirring conveyance member, and when a value of the vertical magnetic force gradient and a value of the vertical magnetic force at the peak position of the vertical magnetic force gradient are indicated as A [mT/°] and K [mT], respectively, A?2.8 and A×K?62.5 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Tamotsu Shimizu, Akihiro Watanabe, Ryo Yamada, Uto Syu, Yuji Toyota, Yasuhiro Tauchi
  • Patent number: 11858132
    Abstract: An encoder device including a position detection unit for detecting position information of a moving part; a magnet having a plurality of polarities along a moving direction of the moving part; and an electric signal generation unit for generating an electric signal, based on a magnetic characteristic of a magnetosensitive part, the electric signal generation unit having the magnetosensitive part whose magnetic characteristic is changed by a change in magnetic field associated with relative movement to the magnet, wherein the magnetosensitive part is disposed so that the magnetosensitive part is spaced apart from a side surface of the magnet in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction and a length direction of the magnetosensitive part is orthogonal to tangential directions of at least some of magnetic field lines of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11841400
    Abstract: A battery management system includes a control device and a storage. The storage stores at least one trained neural network. The trained neural network includes an input layer that accepts input data that represents a numeric value for each pixel in an image where a prescribed CCV waveform (a CCV charging waveform or a CCV discharging waveform) of a secondary battery is drawn in a region constituted of a predetermined number of pixels, and when input data is input to the input layer, the trained neural network outputs a full charge capacity of the secondary battery. The control device estimates the full charge capacity of a target battery by inputting input data obtained for the target battery into the input layer of the trained neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junta Izumi, Akihiro Watanabe, Toshiki Hori, Misato Baba
  • Patent number: 11809096
    Abstract: A toner conveyance device includes a vertical conveyance portion, a horizontal conveyance portion, a conveyance member, and a loosening member. The vertical conveyance portion conveys a toner or a developer containing the toner conveyed therein through an entry port connected to a main-body-side conveyance path by causing the toner or the developer to fall vertically. The horizontal conveyance portion is connected to a lower end of the vertical conveyance portion and conveys the toner or the developer in a horizontal direction by using the conveyance member arranged in the horizontal conveyance portion. The loosening member is arranged so as to be movable between a first position below a connection portion between the main-body-side conveyance path and the entry port and a second position protruding upward beyond the connection portion and reciprocates in a vertical direction at each of the first position and the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Watanabe, Eiji Gyotoku
  • Publication number: 20230306753
    Abstract: A method includes: recognizing a signal candidate position around a vehicle by using a sensor mounted on the vehicle, the signal candidate position being a position a traffic light is possibly present, the vehicle including a light configured in such a manner that a light distribution state of the light changes; and performing a first light control process of controlling the light in response to recognition of the signal candidate position, the first light control process including at least one of: increasing an intensity of light emitted to the signal candidate position to a value higher than before the recognition of the signal candidate position; or making the intensity of the light emitted to the signal candidate position higher than an intensity of light emitted to an area other than the signal candidate position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro KINOSHITA, Akihiro WATANABE, Hiroaki SHIMIZU, Ichiro MATSUYAMA, Masaki KISHIMOTO, Masamichi OHSUGI, Masateru UDATE, Satoshi TAKEYASU, Takahiro DOI, Takashi MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230290160
    Abstract: A stop line detection apparatus recognizes a boundary line of a lane on which the host vehicle travels, and detect a stop line at an intersection in front of the host vehicle. The apparatus sets an intersection area corresponding to the intersection in the road on which the host vehicle travels on the basis of a captured image by a front camera of the host vehicle, detects a crosswalk in the intersection area, a stop line search area setting unit configured to set a stop line search area extending from the crosswalk toward a front side in the lane on which the host vehicle travels, and performs stop line detection in the stop line search area. A depth of the stop line search area in an extending direction of a traveling lane is smaller than twice a depth of the crosswalk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kawaharada, Akihiro Watanabe, Hiroaki Shimizu, Ichiro Matsuyama, Masaki Kishimoto, Masamichi Ohsugi, Masateru Udate, Satoshi Takeyasu, Takahiro Doi, Takashi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11646646
    Abstract: The continuous wires respectively have U-shaped parts and straight parts. The method includes: a transposition shape forming step of forming transposition shapes in each of which, among at least the two continuous wires belonging to an identical phase, the U-shaped part of one of the continuous wires is disposed inside the U-shaped part of the other one of the continuous wires; an inclined part forming step of causing the pairs of straight parts of the continuous wires respectively formed with the transposition shapes to be offset to form inclined parts on the continuous wires; and a folding step of folding the continuous wires formed with the inclined parts to form the turning parts and the slot disposition parts. The inclined part forming step and the folding step are alternately performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ide, Akihiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230129577
    Abstract: A toner conveyance device includes a vertical conveyance portion, a horizontal conveyance portion, a conveyance member, and a loosening member. The vertical conveyance portion conveys a toner or a developer containing the toner conveyed therein through an entry port connected to a main-body-side conveyance path by causing the toner or the developer to fall vertically. The horizontal conveyance portion is connected to a lower end of the vertical conveyance portion and conveys the toner or the developer in a horizontal direction by using the conveyance member arranged in the horizontal conveyance portion. The loosening member is arranged so as to be movable between a first position below a connection portion between the main-body-side conveyance path and the entry port and a second position protruding upward beyond the connection portion and reciprocates in a vertical direction at each of the first position and the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro WATANABE, Eiji GYOTOKU
  • Publication number: 20230131628
    Abstract: A toner conveyance device includes a vertical conveyance portion, a horizontal conveyance portion, a conveyance member, and a loosening member. The vertical conveyance portion conveys a toner or developer conveyed therein through an entry port connected to a main-body-side conveyance path by causing the toner or developer to fall vertically. The horizontal conveyance portion is connected to a lower end of the vertical conveyance portion and conveys the toner or developer in a horizontal direction by using the conveyance member. the loosening member is arranged at a first position below a connection portion between the main-body-side conveyance path and the entry port and at a second position protruding upward beyond the connection portion. A toner loosening mode is executable in which the toner or developer is fed into the vertical conveyance portion so as to cause the loosening member to reciprocate at the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro WATANABE, Eiji GYOTOKU
  • Patent number: 11579001
    Abstract: A calibrator includes: a position calculator which calculates a relative position between a first detector and a second detector on the basis of detection signals acquired respectively from the first detector, the second detector, and a third detector positioned with respect to a scale attached to a rotating body; and an error calculator which calculates error information on rotational position information of the rotating body on the basis of the relative position calculated by the position calculator as well as the detection signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Watanabe, Masahisa Takasaki