Patents by Inventor Fumio Watanabe

Fumio 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: 20120241604
    Abstract: A vacuum measurement device includes a grid (10) and an electron source (20) provided inside a vacuum vessel, and an ion beam (100) extracted outside the grid is captured by an ion collector (40) and is converted into a current signal. The grid (10) is a grid-shaped cylinder, and an ion outlet (11) is opened and elongated in the longitudinal direction along the side surface of the grid (10). The vacuum measurement device includes a primary ion collector (40) capturing specific ions and a secondary ion collector (50) capturing other ions. The gas molecule density of the ion source is obtained from a total current of the primary and secondary ion collectors, and a ratio of the gas molecule density of the specific ions relative to the gas molecule density is obtained from a ratio of the current of the primary ion collector (40) relative to the total current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventor: Fumio Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20110239588
    Abstract: A product roll packaging apparatus includes a transfer unit for lifting and transferring a product roll from a conveyor, a wrapping unit for wrapping a protective sheet around the roll and attaching an end thereof with an adhesive tape, a protective sheet supply unit for cutting off the sheet from a sheet roll and supplying it along a protective sheet path line to the wrapping unit, and a tape supply unit for supplying the tape to the end of the cut sheet. The transfer unit includes a position correcting mechanism for establishing a reference line depending on the roll size, and bringing a reference end face of the roll into alignment with a vertical plane including the reference line. The protective sheet supply unit includes an edge position control mechanism for bringing a reference edge of the sheet into alignment with the reference line corresponding to the roll size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Fumio WATANABE, Tsutomu Tada, Nobuyasu Akiyoshi, Yasushi Kikuchi, Toshiaki Kenmotsu
  • Publication number: 20110092700
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by general formula (1) below or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein: X is selected from heteroaryl etc., Y1 and Y2 are selected from —N? etc., Y3 and Y4 are selected from —CH? etc., A is selected from sulfamide etc., R1 is selected from hydrogen etc., and R2 is selected from C1-6 alkyl etc. The compound or salt has sufficiently high antitumor activity, and is useful in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders, particularly cancers. The present invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound or salt as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Hitoshi Iikura, Ikumi Hyoudoh, Toshihiro Aoki, Noriyuki Furuichi, Masayuki Matsushita, Fumio Watanabe, Sawako Ozawa, Masahiro Sakaitani, Pil-Su Ho, Yasushi Tomii, Kenji Takanashi, Naoki Harada
  • Patent number: 7929127
    Abstract: There is provided a laser energy measuring unit whose laser energy measuring range is widened. The laser energy measuring unit has a filter provided within an optical path of a laser to attenuate energy of the laser, a calculating section for measuring the energy of the laser passing through the filter, and a condenser lens provided on one side of the filter for condensing the laser. The filter has a shading portion for blocking a center part of the laser beam from being transmitted through the filter at a position coincident with the center of the laser. The center part of the laser where its energy is large is cut by the shading portion, and the calculating section measures the part where its energy is not so large. Thereby, it is possible to widen the laser energy measuring range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Via Mechanics
    Inventors: Fumio Watanabe, Katsurou Bukawa
  • Patent number: 7897792
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by general formula (1) below or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein: X is selected from heteroaryl etc., Y1 and Y2 are selected from —N? etc., Y3 and Y4 are selected from —CH? etc., A is selected from sulfamide etc., R1 is selected from hydrogen etc., and R2 is selected from C1-6 alkyl etc. The compound or salt has sufficiently high antitumor activity, and is useful in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders, particularly cancers. The present invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound or salt as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignees: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Iikura, Ikumi Hyoudoh, Toshihiro Aoki, Noriyuki Furuichi, Masayuki Matsushita, Fumio Watanabe, Sawako Ozawa, Masahiro Sakaitani, Pil-Su Ho, Yasushi Tomii, Kenji Takanashi, Naoki Harada
  • Publication number: 20110009398
    Abstract: The present invention provides a p27 protein inducing agent comprising a compound represented by general formula (11) below or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient: wherein G1, G2, G3 and G8 are each independently selected from —N? etc., Ring G6 is selected from divalent aryl etc., A is selected from amino etc., G4 is selected from oxygen etc., G5 is selected from oxygen etc., G7 is selected from —CH2— etc., and R2 is selected from C1-6 alkyl etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Sakai, Hitoshi Iikura, Ikumi Hyoudoh, Toshihiro Aoki, Noriyuki Furuichi, Masayuki Matsushita, Fumio Watanabe, Sawako Ozawa, Masahiro Sakaitani, Pil-Su Ho, Yasushi Tomii, Kenji Takanashi, Naoki Harada
  • Publication number: 20100168430
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a compound represented by the formula (1): [wherein Ar is an arylene group to be attached selected from the following formula (2): (wherein * represents a binding site to a nitrogen atom and ** represents a binding site to T); T represents —(O)n—R; R represents a C1-C6 alkyl group or the like; n represents 0 or 1; X represents O or the like; R2, R3 and R4 are independently selected from a hydrogen atom or C1-C3 alkyl; or R2 and R3 may join together with an urea structure containing the nitrogen atoms to which they bind to form a 5- or 6-membered heterocycle; Y represents CH or N], or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a prodrug thereof and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicants: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Sawako Ozawa, Nobuhiro Oikawa, Eisaku Mizuguchi, Hirosato Ebiike, Fumio Watanabe, Kenji Morikami, Nobuo Shimma, Nobuya Ishii, Toshiyuki Tsukaguchi, Yasuhiro Tamaki, Hidenori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7741852
    Abstract: An ionization vacuum gauge which has at least three electrodes of a grid (2), an electron source (3) and an ion collector (1) in a vacuum vessel (4) connected in communication with a vacuum apparatus, oscillates electrons emitted front the electron source (3) within and outside of the grid (2), ionizes gas molecules flying into the grid (2) by the oscillated electrons, supplements the ionized ions by the ion collector (1) to convert into a current signal, and measures a gas molecular density (pressure) in the vacuum apparatus according to the obtained current intensity, wherein the ion collector (1) is provided with a heating device for heating the ion collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Mori Patent Office
    Inventors: Fumio Watanabe, Reiki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100031600
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a load bearing frame for suppressing generation of buckling of diagonal materials and breakage of connection parts and having high deformability. A load bearing frame 1 has two pillar materials 2 and 3, two frame materials 4 and 5 and four diagonal materials 6 to 9. A connection point 41 between the pillar material 3 and the frame material 4 is apart from a connection point 43 between the diagonal material 6 arranged on the uppermost side and the pillar material 3 by a distance L1. A connection point 48 between the pillar material 3 and the frame material 5 is apart from a connection point 47 between the diagonal material 9 arranged on the lowermost side and the pillar material 3 by a distance L2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOVE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Tomokazu Nakagawa, Tadao Hatanaka, Toshikazu Karatsu, Nobuo Hiura, Tetsuo Tamada, Takeshi Morii, Takeo Suga, Fumio Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100004233
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by general formula (1) below or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein: X is selected from heteroaryl etc., Y1 and Y2 are selected from —N? etc., Y3 and Y4 are selected from —CH? etc., A is selected from sulfamide etc., R1 is selected from hydrogen etc., and R2 is selected from C1-6 alkyl etc. The compound or salt has sufficiently high antitumor activity, and is useful in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders, particularly cancers. The present invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound or salt as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Hitoshi Iikura, Ikumi Hyoudoh, Toshihiro Aoki, Noriyuki Furuichi, Masayuki Matsushita, Fumio Watanabe, Sawako Ozawa, Masahiro Sakaitani, Pil-Su Ho, Yasushi Tomii, Kenji Takanashi, Naoki Harada
  • Publication number: 20090152430
    Abstract: The object is to provide a brace which allows its installment to an object portion and its detachment therefrom to be carried out easily. In a brace including a brace body 3 which is attachable between attaching object portions of a structure, at each one of opposed end portions of the brace body 3, there is provided a contact attaching portion to be attached to the attaching object portion. The brace body 3 includes an expandable urging mechanism S which can be expanded to urgedly extend the brace body 3 along a longitudinal direction thereof, with the two contact attaching portions attached to the attaching object portions and a prestress introducing mechanism P which can be switched over between a state for introducing a compressive prestress to the brace body 3 along the longitudinal direction thereof and a state for releasing the introduced prestress. At least a state switchover control portion 22 of the prestress introducing mechanism is provided to be exposed outside the brace body 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicants: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Eiji NAGAI, DAIWA CORPORATION, TAKENAKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumio Watanabe, Susumu Kono, Eiji Nagai, Kyohei Kono, Takeshi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20090134018
    Abstract: An ionization vacuum device measures a pressure in a vacuum vessel, and has: an anode provided inside the vacuum vessel; a cathode provided inside the vacuum vessel; a power source for discharge that supplies electric power for discharge between the anode and the cathode; a power source for cathode-heating that supplies power for heating to the cathode, means for forming a magnetic field in a space between the anode and the cathode; control means for controlling so as to heat said cathode by said power source for cathode-heating while discharge of gas inside said vacuum vessel is caused, and so as to maintain the temperature of said cathode within a temperature range where thermonic electrons are not emitted from said cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: VACLAB, INC.
    Inventor: Fumio Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090096460
    Abstract: An ionization vacuum gauge which has at least three electrodes of a grid (2), an electron source (3) and an ion collector (1) in a vacuum vessel (4) connected in communication with a vacuum apparatus, oscillates electrons emitted from the electron source (3) within and outside of the grid (2), ionizes gas molecules flying into the grid (2) by the oscillated electrons, supplements the ionized ions by the ion collector (1) to convert into a current signal, and measures a gas molecular density (pressure) in the vacuum apparatus according to the obtained current intensity, wherein the ion collector (1) is provided with heating means for heating the ion collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Fumio Watanabe, Reiki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7473867
    Abstract: A laser machining apparatus that excels in precision in terms of machining position and shape is provided with an optical axis adjusting unit disposed on a basal optical axis of a laser beam outputted from a laser oscillator so as to adjust the laser beam outputted from the laser oscillator onto a workpiece. The laser machining apparatus is provided further with mirrors, disposed between the laser oscillator and the optical axis adjusting unit, for freely deflecting the optical axis of the laser beam. The laser machining apparatus also includes an optical axis position detecting means, disposed between the optical axis adjusting unit and the optical axis deflecting means, for detecting the position of the optical axis of the laser beam. The apparatus aligns the optical axis of the laser beam incident on the optical axis adjusting unit with the basal optical axis by means of the mirrors based on a result detected by the optical axis position detecting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Via Mechanics, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Ishii, Fumio Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080239300
    Abstract: There is provided a laser energy measuring unit whose laser energy measuring range is widened. The laser energy measuring unit has a filter provided within an optical path of laser to attenuate energy of the laser, a calculating section for measuring the energy of the laser passing through the filter and a condenser lens provided on one side of the filter for condensing the laser. The filter has a shading portion for blocking a center part of the laser beam from transmitting through the filter at position coincident with the center of the laser. The center part of the laser where its energy is large is cut by the shading portion and the calculating section measures the part where its energy is not so large. Thereby, it is possible to widen the laser energy measuring range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Fumio Watanabe, Katsurou Bukawa
  • Publication number: 20080225927
    Abstract: In a transmission method of the present invention, when transmitting an information bit from a transmitter to a receiver, an encoder of the transmitter firstly inputs and encodes the information bit, and a modulator then modulates the encoded information bit to create a modulation symbol. A spreader spreads the obtained modulation symbol using a rotation orthogonal code having a rotation angle that is appropriate to a combination of the modulation method and the coding rate, and transmits it to a transmission path. The receiver performs a reverse operation of the transmitter, and decodes the information bit. In QPSK modulation where the coding rate of an error-correction code is ½, when a rotation angle that obtains a same signal point as OFDM is 0°, spreading is performed using a rotation orthogonal code having a rotation angle of between 17° and 45°, or between ?17° and ?45°, thereby reducing bit error and enabling highly-reliable communication to be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Miyazaki, Toshinori Suzuki, Fumio Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080143868
    Abstract: A camera module for imaging a plurality of types of light such as visible light and infrared light with a single lens unit and sensor unit. The camera module includes a lens unit and a housing capable of attaching the lens unit so that it is in opposition to a photosensitive element. A filter unit, in which there are disposed a plurality of light cut filters having different wavelengths is disposed between the lens unit and the photosensitive element or outside of the lens unit. A filter positioning device passes imaging light from a photographic subject through a desired light cut filter in the filter unit before the imaging light reads the photosensitive element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: SMK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Tsuchiya, Kazutaka Motohashi, Fumio Watanabe, Toshitaka Sakimura
  • Patent number: 7378446
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a compound useful for the prevention and treatment of viral infectious diseases, and particularly liver diseases caused by HCV infection due to its having a high degree of replication inhibitory activity against HCV, its production method, an intermediate compound useful for its production and a pharmaceutical composition containing these compounds, and the present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): (wherein A represents —(CH2)n—, etc.; B represents —(C?O)—, etc.; D represents —(CH2)m—R?, etc.; E represents a hydrogen atom, etc.; G represents —(CH2)p-J, etc.; bond Q represents a single bond or double bond; and R1, R2 and R3 may be the same or different and each represent a hydrogen atom, etc.), a prodrug thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Sudoh, Takuo Tsukuda, Miyako Masubuchi, Kenichi Kawasaki, Takeshi Murata, Fumio Watanabe, Hiroshi Fukuda, Susumu Komiyama, Tadakatsu Hayase
  • Patent number: 7332714
    Abstract: In a quadrupole mass spectrometer which measures partial pressure strength according to a gas type in a vacuum system from ion current intensity, a quadrupole mass spectrometer with a total pressure measurement electrode has a total pressure measurement electrode for examining an ion density disposed in a demarcation space which is comprised of a grid electrode and an ion focusing electrode. And, a vacuum system is provided with only the quadrupole mass spectrometer which measures partial pressure strength according to a gas type in the vacuum system from an ion current intensity and does not have an ionization vacuum gauge other than the quadrupole mass spectrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Vaclab Inc.
    Inventors: Fumio Watanabe, Reiki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7297419
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a manufacturing method of a material for vacuum device used in a vacuum apparatus that generates ultra-high vacuum and performs processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Vaclab Inc.
    Inventor: Fumio Watanabe