Patents by Inventor Akira Watanabe

Akira 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: 12356526
    Abstract: A light-emitting element according to the present disclosure includes an anode electrode portion having a projecting-shaped side wall portion formed along a peripheral edge portion of an organic EL pixel, an insulating film layer configured to cover an outer edge portion of the anode electrode portion so as to cover a side wall of the side wall portion on a light emitting unit side of the organic EL pixel in a predetermined film thickness, an organic EL layer layered so as to cover the insulating film layer and an upper surface of the anode electrode portion, and a cathode electrode portion layered over an upper surface of the organic EL layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Kasahara, Akira Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12347583
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of first electrodes each provided for each pixel, an insulating layer containing a silicon compound, provided between the first electrodes, and covering a peripheral edge portion of the first electrode, a first interface layer containing a first silicon oxide and provided at an interface between the first electrode and the insulating layer, an organic layer including a light emitting layer, and provided on the first electrodes and the insulating layer, commonly to all of pixels, and a second electrode provided on the organic layer. The insulating layer contains a second silicon oxide on a surface portion on a side of the organic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Watanabe, Yoshifumi Zaizen
  • Patent number: 12295117
    Abstract: An audio recording apparatus provided with a heat radiation fan comprises at least one processor and/or circuit configured to function as following units: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a type of microphone used to record audio; a control unit configured to control a rotation frequency for driving the heat radiation fan; and a recording unit configured to record audio acquired by the used microphone, wherein the control unit changes the rotation frequency of the heat radiation fan according to the type of the used microphone acquired by the acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12258326
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a pest control agent that is excellent in safety, controlling effect, residual activity, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: KUMIAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Ishikawa, Akira Kinpara, Keiji Toriyabe, Akira Watanabe, Masao Nakatani, Akira Takanezawa, Takeshi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 12231036
    Abstract: A work machine includes: a controller; a first electrical circuit provided with a first power supply that supplies power to the controller; an electric drive source necessary for operating the work machine; and a second electrical circuit provided with a second power supply that supplies power to the electric drive source. The work machine further includes: a capacitor provided to the second electrical circuit; a first precharge device that performs precharge of the capacitor by using power of the first power supply; and a second precharge device that performs precharge of the capacitor by using power of the second power supply. The controller performs precharge by using one of the precharge devices when it is determined that precharge by using the other one of the precharge devices is impossible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Watanabe, Yasunori Ota, Yusuke Imai, Manabu Yano
  • Patent number: 12225690
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a conduit configured to circulate magnetic fluid, and a magnetic field generator that applies a magnetic field to the magnetic fluid. The conduit includes at least four areas of a first conduit area in which the magnetic fluid receives heat from a heating unit, a second conduit area from the first conduit area to a cooling unit, a third conduit area in which the magnetic fluid is cooled by the cooling unit, and a fourth conduit area from the cooling unit to the heating unit. When the apparatus is used, a volume of the magnetic fluid in one of the first to fourth conduit areas, in which a flow direction of the magnetic fluid coincides with a gravity direction, is larger than that of another conduit area, in which the flow direction of the magnetic fluid does not coincide with the gravity direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Genki Tanaka, Akira Watanabe, Akinori Inagaki
  • Patent number: 12174113
    Abstract: A terahertz-wave signal input unit 11 configured to input a terahertz-wave signal from a spectroscopic apparatus 200 for detecting a terahertz wave acting on a photoresist, and a terahertz-wave signal analysis unit 12 configured to analyze a terahertz-wave signal input by the terahertz-wave signal input unit 11 to acquire characteristic information of the photoresist are included, and spectroscopic processing using a terahertz wave is performed on a photoresist to acquire characteristic information of the photoresist (a characteristic value or a correlation characteristic indicating a relationship between a plurality of elements including the characteristic value).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: FEMTO Deployments Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Watanabe, Tadashi Okuno, Takeji Ueda
  • Patent number: 12163639
    Abstract: A cover body includes: a multi-color molded body including a first resin portion having a gate mark on an outer surface thereof, and a second resin portion having a color different from a color of the first resin portion and adhering to the outer surface of the first resin portion to cover the gate mark. An outer surface of the second resin portion includes a stepped portion that overlaps with the gate mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamasa Yagi, Akira Watanabe, Taro Fujisawa, Tomonori Iida, Noriyuki Nakajima, Daisuke Okitsu
  • Patent number: 12098522
    Abstract: A management server receives a maximum value and a minimum value of the respective voltages in a plurality of battery cells configuring an electricity storage device of a hydraulic excavator from the hydraulic excavator, and stores the values in a storage device. Discharge characteristics of the electricity storage device are stored in the storage device in the management server. A battery state estimation calculating unit in the management server calculates an estimation maximum value and an estimation minimum value of cell voltages in the present or in the future by adding the discharge characteristics stored in the storage device to the latest maximum value and the latest minimum value of the cell voltages stored in the storage device. A management information producing unit outputs information based upon the estimation maximum value and the estimation minimum value of the cell voltages calculated in the battery state estimation calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Watanabe, Ken Takeuchi, Itaru Naya
  • Patent number: 12072285
    Abstract: The invention is configured to include a spectroscopy cell 100 as a container including one or more spaces, each of which has a plate shape and contains a to-be-measured object that transmits or reflects a terahertz wave; and a holder 6 including one or more first holder through-holes 6b and 6c disposed at positions corresponding to the spaces of the spectroscopy cell 100, each of the spaces containing the to-be-measured object. A body portion 1 of the spectroscopy cell 100 is made of a resin material that transmits the terahertz wave, and the spectroscopy cell 100 is loaded into the holder 6 and is used. The holder 6 has a function of holding the spectroscopy cell 100, and a function of correcting one or more of a distortion, a twist, and a bending of the spectroscopy cell 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: FEMTO Deployments Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Watanabe, Tadashi Okuno, Takeji Ueda
  • Patent number: 11964957
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a pest control agent that is excellent in safety, controlling effect, residual activity, and so on. According to an embodiment, there is provided a pyrazole derivative represented by general formula [I], or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof, and a pest control agent containing the same as an active ingredient: wherein, p represents an integer of 0 or 1, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 represent a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, C1-C6 alkyl group, or the like, A represents an oxygen atom or sulfur atom, Q represents a halogen atom, C6-C10 aryl group that is unsubstituted or substituted with (R8)m, or the like, and R6 and R7 represent a hydrogen atom, C1-C6 alkyl group, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: KUMIAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Ishikawa, Akira Kinpara, Keiji Toriyabe, Akira Watanabe, Masao Nakatani, Akira Takanezawa, Takeshi Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20240074106
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a conduit configured to circulate magnetic fluid, and a magnetic field generator that applies a magnetic field to the magnetic fluid. The conduit includes at least four areas of a first conduit area in which the magnetic fluid receives heat from a heating unit, a second conduit area from the first conduit area to a cooling unit, a third conduit area in which the magnetic fluid is cooled by the cooling unit, and a fourth conduit area from the cooling unit to the heating unit. When the apparatus is used, a volume of the magnetic fluid in one of the first to fourth conduit areas, in which a flow direction of the magnetic fluid coincides with a gravity direction, is larger than that of another conduit area, in which the flow direction of the magnetic fluid does not coincide with the gravity direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Genki Tanaka, Akira Watanabe, Akinori Inagaki
  • Patent number: 11839052
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a conduit configured to circulate magnetic fluid, and a magnetic field generator that applies a magnetic field to the magnetic fluid. The conduit includes at least four areas of a first conduit area in which the magnetic fluid receives heat from a heating unit, a second conduit area from the first conduit area to a cooling unit, a third conduit area in which the magnetic fluid is cooled by the cooling unit, and a fourth conduit area from the cooling unit to the heating unit. When the apparatus is used, a volume of the magnetic fluid in one of the first to fourth conduit areas, in which a flow direction of the magnetic fluid coincides with a gravity direction, is larger than that of another conduit area, in which the flow direction of the magnetic fluid does not coincide with the gravity direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Genki Tanaka, Akira Watanabe, Akinori Inagaki
  • Patent number: 11834603
    Abstract: A heat dissipation sheet 10 includes cohesive inorganic filler particles 1 having a breaking strength of 20 MPa or lower and a modulus of elasticity of 48 MPa or higher and a matrix resin 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Sawamura, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Akira Watanabe, Katsuhiko Hidaka
  • Patent number: 11772010
    Abstract: The present application provides an extract production system. The extract production system includes an extraction unit for extracting an extract from a starting material by using a solvent flowing into the interior thereof, a first heat exchange unit for subjecting the solvent flowing into the extraction unit to heat exchange by using a heat exchange medium, and a second heat exchange unit for subjecting the solvent which underwent heat exchange in the first heat exchange unit to heat exchange by reusing the heat exchange medium which underwent heat exchange in the first heat exchange unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventor: Akira Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11732818
    Abstract: An electromagnetic valve has an inlet port and an outlet port. The electromagnetic valve is configured to open and close a driving fluid passage communicating the inlet port and the outlet port. The electromagnetic valve includes: a housing; a solenoid that includes a bobbin having a coil wound therearound; a moving core that is provided on an axis of the bobbin and is disposed movably in an axial direction; a stationary core that is provided on the axis of the bobbin and is fixed in the housing; and a valve that is configured to be movable together with the moving core and opens and closes the driving fluid passage. The inlet port is opened on one surface side of the housing in the axial direction of the bobbin while the outlet port is opened on the other surface side of the housing in the axial direction of the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED, KOGANEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryutaro Tanno, Yuya Suzuki, Tsutomu Shinohara, Tomohiro Nakata, Akira Watanabe, Takahiro Kawano
  • Patent number: 11680896
    Abstract: An electromagnetic signal analysis apparatus includes a frequency spectrum obtaining unit 11 to obtain a frequency spectrum that is generated based on an electromagnetic signal obtained by a spectral device 20 and represents a property value with respect to a frequency, a water vapor fitting processing unit 12 to fit a waveform of a single fitting function or a composite waveform, of a plurality of fitting functions to a frequency spectrum at a frequency at which absorption of the electromagnetic waves by water vapor is increased, and a property analyzing unit 14 to analyze a property of a liquid sample using at least two values that determine a characteristic of the fitting function used for the fitting, so that the frequency spectrum, at the frequency at which absorption of the electromagnetic waves by water vapor generated from surfaces of the liquid sample is increased is processed to analyze the property of the liquid sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: FEMTO DEPLOYMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Akira Watanabe, Tadashi Okuno, Takeji Ueda
  • Patent number: 11581459
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a light-emitting device, including the steps of: preparing a substrate including a base, a first wall formed on an upper surface of the base, and a recess defined by a lateral surface of the first wall as an inside lateral surface and the upper surface of the base as a bottom surface; mounting a light-emitting element on the bottom surface of the recess; disposing a sealing member which covers the light-emitting element and the first wall; forming a groove section extending from an upper surface of the sealing member to the first wall by removing the sealing member on the first wall; disposing a second wall inside the groove section; and cutting the second wall and the substrate at a position including the second wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Sakamoto, Akira Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220390084
    Abstract: A cover body includes: a multi-color molded body including a first resin portion having a gate mark on an outer surface thereof, and a second resin portion having a color different from a color of the first resin portion and adhering to the outer surface of the first resin portion to cover the gate mark. An outer surface of the second resin portion includes a stepped portion that overlaps with the gate mark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Takamasa Yagi, Akira Watanabe, Taro Fujisawa, Tomonori Iida, Noriyuki Nakajima, Daisuke Okitsu
  • Patent number: 11442340
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus to which an external apparatus is detachably attachable includes a controlling unit configured to make a vibration device vibrate by using a vibration parameter corresponding to a type of the external apparatus to be attached to the electronic apparatus, the vibration device being provided on at least one of the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsuto Noda, Shinga Nakashima, Akira Watanabe, Takazumi Seo, Kohei Uemura, Toshihiro Ogawa, Hiroshi Toriumi