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).
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Patent number: 11354942Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro Kawano, Atsushi Watanabe, Youichi Suzuki, Takashi Agari, Ryosuke Mori
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Publication number: 20220145655Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Shinsuke YAMAZAKI, Tadayuki NORO, Yoshinao KONISHI, Atsushi WATANABE, Koji NISHIMOTO, Masato SEKIYAMA, Yuki NINOMIYA, Masaru HARADA
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Patent number: 11327043Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Hino, Atsushi Watanabe, Ryo Hayase
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Patent number: 11328442Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Minoru Nakamura, Yuuki Takahashi, Atsushi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20220137014Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Kazuko Ishida, Atsushi Watanabe, Chuichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 11321858Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuki Takahashi, Atsushi Watanabe, Minoru Nakamura
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Patent number: 11317629Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Yoshinao Sada
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Patent number: 11272707Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Yoshinao Sada
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Patent number: 11246475Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Norihito Karikomi, Atsushi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20210405000Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Chuichi Watanabe, Atsushi Watanabe, Koji Tei
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Patent number: 11204336Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Takashi Suzuki, Shuichi Ozawa, Hirohito Kiyota, Satoko Moriyama, Shiho Iwai
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Publication number: 20210389267Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Tomoki NAGAE, Yoshimasa KONDO, Yusuke OGISO, Katsunao UENISHI, Atsushi WATANABE, Ayato KOIZUMI
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Publication number: 20210381999Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Tomoki NAGAE, Yoshimasa KONDO, Yusuke OGISO, Katsunao UENISHI, Atsushi WATANABE, Ayato KOIZUMI
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Publication number: 20210342966Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATEDInventors: Atsushi WATANABE, Kazuo MIZUNO, Naoki UKAI, Takayoshi KAMIYA
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Patent number: 11157666Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Agari, Youichi Suzuki, Atsushi Watanabe, Kentaro Kawano, Ryosuke Mori
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Patent number: 11126859Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuki Takahashi, Atsushi Watanabe, Minoru Nakamura
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Publication number: 20210270858Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Kenta Imai, Tomoakira Kawai, Taku Sakazume, Shigeru Yano, Manabu Minegishi, Takahiro Suzuki, Atsushi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20210259248Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi WATANABE, Yoshinao SADA
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Patent number: 11033030Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Yoshinao Sada
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Publication number: 20210158562Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Minoru NAKAMURA, Yuuki TAKAHASHI, Atsushi WATANABE