Patents by Inventor Atsushi Watanabe

Atsushi 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: 11354942
    Abstract: In an input data creation device, a reception unit is configured to acquire diagnostic information of a vehicle and traffic information output from an external device. A data generation unit is configured to extract vehicle status data including a plurality of data elements indicating a vehicle status from the diagnostic information to generate input data for operating a multimedia device for a vehicle. A command unit is configured to give an instruction such that the multimedia device operates based on the input data. The data generation unit is configured to set a timing at which traffic information is generated on a time axis of the input data, and change values of the data elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Kawano, Atsushi Watanabe, Youichi Suzuki, Takashi Agari, Ryosuke Mori
  • Publication number: 20220145655
    Abstract: A sliding seismic isolation device includes a structure fixation plate having a first sliding surface and a metallic slider having a second sliding surface contacting the first sliding surface. A friction member composed of a single-layer fabric is attached to the first sliding surface, the second sliding surface, or both of the first sliding surface and the second sliding surface. One of a warp and a weft is formed of multiple plied yarns into which high-strength fibers and PTFE fibers are twisted together and the other of the warp and the weft is formed of multiple high-strength fibers in the single-layer fabric. The single-layer fabric has a twill weave and is woven such that the plied yarns of the one forming the single-layer fabric are exposed at a surface opposite from the attachment side of the friction member more than the high-strength fibers of the other forming the single-layer fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Shinsuke YAMAZAKI, Tadayuki NORO, Yoshinao KONISHI, Atsushi WATANABE, Koji NISHIMOTO, Masato SEKIYAMA, Yuki NINOMIYA, Masaru HARADA
  • Patent number: 11327043
    Abstract: A gas sensor element includes: an element base being a ceramic structure including a sensing part; and a leading-end protective layer being a porous layer disposed around an outer periphery of the element base in a predetermined range on a side of the sensing part. The leading-end protective layer includes: a first layer disposed at least on two main surfaces of the element base; a second layer disposed to cover the end portion and four side surfaces of the element base including the two main surfaces; and a third layer disposed to cover the second layer. The second layer has a porosity of 30% to 80%, and has a thickness of 30 to 50 times thickness of the first layer, and the third layer has a porosity of 15% to 30%, and has a thickness of 5 to 10 times the thickness of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hino, Atsushi Watanabe, Ryo Hayase
  • Patent number: 11328442
    Abstract: The object detection system includes a TOF sensor which outputs an image of a target space on the basis of a phase difference between reference light emitted toward the target space and reflected light from the target space, an object detection section which detects a position of an object present in the target space on the basis of the output image, an imaging conditions calculation section which calculates imaging conditions including at least one of an integration time and a light emission period of the TOF sensor on the basis of an image of the detected object, and an imaging conditions changing section which changes a configuration of the TOF sensor to the calculated imaging conditions, and the object detection section detects a position of the object on the basis of the image output under the changed imaging conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Nakamura, Yuuki Takahashi, Atsushi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220137014
    Abstract: There is provided a content determination assistance system capable of efficiently assisting in identifying a mixture that is highly likely to be contained in a sample. The content determination assistance system records characteristic mass spectrum data for each of known compounds. The content determination assistance system extracts the corresponding current-sample mass spectrum from the current-sample mass spectrum data, and detects a high intensity mass spectra from the corresponding current-sample mass spectrum. The content determination assistance system outputs a degree of concordance in the mass spectrum between a known compound subject to determination and a current sample using the characteristic mass spectrum and the high intensity mass spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuko Ishida, Atsushi Watanabe, Chuichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11321858
    Abstract: A distance image generation device includes a light projection unit for projecting reference light onto a subject, a light reception unit having a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed pixels, an optical system for guiding light from the subject to the light reception unit, an influence calculation means for calculating, based on an amount of light received by a target pixel and peripheral pixels thereof among the plurality of pixels, an influence of optical phenomena on the target pixel and the peripheral pixels, an impact calculation means for calculating the impact exerted by the peripheral pixels on the target pixel based on the influence, and a distance image generation means for generating a distance image of the subject based on the impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuki Takahashi, Atsushi Watanabe, Minoru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11317629
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition which is excellent in plant disease control effect. A liquid composition comprising an effective amount of mefentrifluconazole, 0.1 to 10% by volume of an oil adjuvant, and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Yoshinao Sada
  • Patent number: 11272707
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition which is excellent in plant disease control effect without causing significant injury to the plants. A liquid composition comprising mefentrifluconazole, a Nonionic Surfactant (NIS), and water, wherein the weight ratio of mefentrifluconazole to the NIS is in the range of 1:0.1 to 1:10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Yoshinao Sada
  • Patent number: 11246475
    Abstract: An endoscope including: a flexible sheath extending in a longitudinal direction; a rigid body portion connected to an end portion of the flexible sheath; a ferrule provided in the rigid body portion and having a connection portion; and a tube inserted into the flexible sheath and including an end portion connected to the ferrule. The tube includes: an inner resin layer having a solid structure and that extends along an entire length of the tube in the longitudinal direction; and an outer layer provided on the inner layer and including a first portion that covers at least part of an outer periphery of the connection portion and has a porous structure, and a second portion having a solid structure and that is located on a side of the first portion that is away from the end portion of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihito Karikomi, Atsushi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210405000
    Abstract: A gas phase component analysis device and a gas phase component analysis method that can prevent degradation of the device due to an unnecessary component and can obtain excellent detection sensitivity are provided. A gas phase component analysis device (1) includes a heating unit (2) configured to heat a specimen to generate a gas phase component composite, a first column (31) into which the gas phase component composite is introduced, a second column (32) that is a separation column connected with the first column (31) through a connection unit (33), an isothermal oven (3) housing the first column (31), the second column (32), and the connection unit (33), a detection unit (4) configured to detect a gas phase component having passed through the second column (32), and a suction unit (5) connected with the connection unit (33).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Chuichi Watanabe, Atsushi Watanabe, Koji Tei
  • Patent number: 11204336
    Abstract: A sensor element 101 includes an element main body 101a that includes oxygen ion-conductive solid electrolyte layers (1 to 6), and a porous protective layer 90 that covers at least part of the element main body 101a. The porous protective layer 90 includes a porous inner protective layer 92 and a porous outer protective layer 91 disposed on the outer side of the inner protective layer 92 and having a smaller average pore diameter than the inner protective layer 92.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Takashi Suzuki, Shuichi Ozawa, Hirohito Kiyota, Satoko Moriyama, Shiho Iwai
  • Publication number: 20210389267
    Abstract: A sensor element includes an element body and a porous protective layer arranged to cover a part of a surface of the element body. The protective layer includes an inlet protective layer arranged to cover a gas inlet formed in the surface of the element body, and at least a part of a face included in the surface of the element body, the face on which the gas inlet is opens, and an arithmetic average roughness Rap of an inner peripheral surface of an internal space of the inlet protective layer satisfies at least one of conditions below: the arithmetic average roughness Rap is 8 ?m or more, and the arithmetic average roughness Rap is higher than an arithmetic average roughness Rac of a bonding surface of the protective layer, the bonding surface at which the protective layer is bonded to the element body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoki NAGAE, Yoshimasa KONDO, Yusuke OGISO, Katsunao UENISHI, Atsushi WATANABE, Ayato KOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20210381999
    Abstract: A sensor element includes an element body having a measurement-object gas flow section formed therein, and a porous protective layer arranged to cover first to fifth surfaces of the element body. When an external wall that is the thinnest of parts of an external wall which constitute the element body and extend from the measurement-object gas flow section to the first to fifth surfaces is defined as a thinnest external wall and a surface corresponding to the thinnest external wall is defined as a closest surface, a part of the protective layer which covers the closest surface overlaps the entirety of the thinnest external wall when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the closest surface, and has one or more internal spaces formed therein which overlaps 80% or more of the thinnest external wall when viewed in the direction perpendicular to the closest surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoki NAGAE, Yoshimasa KONDO, Yusuke OGISO, Katsunao UENISHI, Atsushi WATANABE, Ayato KOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20210342966
    Abstract: An airline baggage management system includes a boarding reception device; a loading reception device; and a server. The boarding reception device outputs a baggage tag with an RF tag in which tag information is recorded, the tag information including at least one of a user ID, a boarding pass ID, and a baggage ID. The loading reception device includes: a loading reader unit that performs wireless communication with the RF tag of the baggage tag attached to the baggage has arrived at the loading position to read the tag recorded in the RF tag; an information generating unit generates loading position-related information, which is related to a position in the scheduled boarding plane at which the baggage whose tag information has been read by the loading reader unit is to be loaded; and a loading transmission unit transmits the tag information and the loading position-related information to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Atsushi WATANABE, Kazuo MIZUNO, Naoki UKAI, Takayoshi KAMIYA
  • Patent number: 11157666
    Abstract: In a vehicle traveling simulation system, a multimedia device has at least a test target function among in-vehicle media functions. An activation device activates the multimedia device. A plurality of external terminal devices is respectively provided at different positions from the multimedia device. A data acquisition unit of the activation device is able to acquire vehicle state data simulating a vehicle state when a vehicle is traveling from the plurality of external terminal devices. An input unit inputs, to the multimedia device, activation data corresponding to the vehicle state data. The multimedia device is activated based on the input activation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Agari, Youichi Suzuki, Atsushi Watanabe, Kentaro Kawano, Ryosuke Mori
  • Patent number: 11126859
    Abstract: Provided is a robot system including a robot, a distance image sensor that temporally continuously acquires, from above an operating space of the robot, distance image information around the operating space, and an image processing device that processes the acquired distance image information, the image processing device defining, around the operating space, a monitoring area that includes a boundary for enabling entrance into the operating space from the outside, including a storing unit that stores reference distance image information, and detecting, based on the distance image information acquired by the distance image sensor and the reference distance image information stored in the storing unit, whether a stationary object present in the monitoring area is blocking the boundary in a visual field of the distance image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuki Takahashi, Atsushi Watanabe, Minoru Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210270858
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic analysis system that reduces a personnel burden and increases an operating rate using an autonomous mobile robot while suppressing an initial cost. The automatic analysis system includes: a plurality of devices that are disposed in an automatic analysis area 101 and includes analyzing units 103 and 104 included in an automatic analyzer; and a robot 102 that moves in the automatic analysis area, in which an operation screen of the analyzing unit has a first screen mode for an operator and a second screen mode for the robot and is switchable between the first screen mode and the second screen mode, and the robot obtains state information of the analyzing unit from the operation screen in the second screen mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Kenta Imai, Tomoakira Kawai, Taku Sakazume, Shigeru Yano, Manabu Minegishi, Takahiro Suzuki, Atsushi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210259248
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition which is excellent in plant disease control effect without causing significant injury to the plants. A liquid composition comprising mefentrifluconazole, a Nonionic Surfactant (NIS), and water, wherein the weight ratio of mefentrifluconazole to the NIS is in the range of 1:0.1 to 1:10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsushi WATANABE, Yoshinao SADA
  • Patent number: 11033030
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition which is excellent in plant disease control effect without causing significant injury to the plants. A liquid composition comprising mefentrifluconazole, a Nonionic Surfactant (NIS), and water, wherein the weight ratio of mefentrifluconazole to the NIS is in the range of 1:0.1 to 1:10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Yoshinao Sada
  • Publication number: 20210158562
    Abstract: The object detection system includes a TOF sensor which outputs an image of a target space on the basis of a phase difference between reference light emitted toward the target space and reflected light from the target space, an object detection section which detects a position of an object present in the target space on the basis of the output image, an imaging conditions calculation section which calculates imaging conditions including at least one of an integration time and a light emission period of the TOF sensor on the basis of an image of the detected object, and an imaging conditions changing section which changes a configuration of the TOF sensor to the calculated imaging conditions, and the object detection section detects a position of the object on the basis of the image output under the changed imaging conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Minoru NAKAMURA, Yuuki TAKAHASHI, Atsushi WATANABE