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).
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Publication number: 20240250255Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Akihiro TABUSHI, Hiroki WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240250256Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Akihiro TABUSHI, Hiroki WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240242793Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicants: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihiro KOGA, Koji HIRATA, Kohei WATANABE, Yasuo SAKURAI, Katsuaki DEGUCHI
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Patent number: 12038008Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Watanabe, Akinori Fukuda, Akihiro Hayashi, Hideto Oka, Keisuke Noba
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Publication number: 20240100689Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240061046Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta IZUMI, Akihiro WATANABE, Toshiki HORI, Misato BABA
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Patent number: 11906910Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Eiji Gyotoku, Akihiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 11906912Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Akihiro Watanabe, Eiji Gyotoku
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Patent number: 11906911Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Eiji Gyotoku, Akihiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 11881943Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage CorporationInventors: Akihiro Watanabe, Kenji Yoshida
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Patent number: 11874615Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Tamotsu Shimizu, Akihiro Watanabe, Ryo Yamada, Uto Syu, Yuji Toyota, Yasuhiro Tauchi
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Patent number: 11858132Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 11841400Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junta Izumi, Akihiro Watanabe, Toshiki Hori, Misato Baba
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Patent number: 11809096Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Akihiro Watanabe, Eiji Gyotoku
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Publication number: 20230306753Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuhiro KINOSHITA, Akihiro WATANABE, Hiroaki SHIMIZU, Ichiro MATSUYAMA, Masaki KISHIMOTO, Masamichi OHSUGI, Masateru UDATE, Satoshi TAKEYASU, Takahiro DOI, Takashi MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230290160Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Kawaharada, Akihiro Watanabe, Hiroaki Shimizu, Ichiro Matsuyama, Masaki Kishimoto, Masamichi Ohsugi, Masateru Udate, Satoshi Takeyasu, Takahiro Doi, Takashi Morimoto
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Patent number: 11646646Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Ide, Akihiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20230129577Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Akihiro WATANABE, Eiji GYOTOKU
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Publication number: 20230131628Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Akihiro WATANABE, Eiji GYOTOKU
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Patent number: 11579001Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Watanabe, Masahisa Takasaki