Patents by Inventor Hajime Watanabe

Hajime 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: 20160233652
    Abstract: An insulating film removal method according to the present disclosure includes first, second, and third removal steps. In the first removal step, an insulating film coated on a junction surface and an opposed surface opposed to the junction surface is removed, the junction surface being a surface where a rectangular conductor is joined with another rectangular conductor. In the second removal step, a corner of the rectangular conductor is removed so that a burr is formed on the junction surface and a side surface, the side surface adjoining the junction surface and the opposed surface. In the third removal step, the insulating film coated on the side surface is removed so that a burr is formed on the junction surface side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro GOTO, Hajime WATANABE, Yasuyuki MATSUSHITA, Yoshinori MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20160200874
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a polyarylene sulfide resin comprising: reacting a sulfoxide represented by the following formula (1) with a particular aromatic compound to obtain a poly(arylenesulfonium salt) having a particular constitutional unit; and dealkylating or dearylating the poly(arylenesulfonium salt) to obtain a polyarylene sulfide resin having a particular constitutional unit, wherein R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, etc.; Ar1 and Ar2 each independently represent an arylene group optionally having a substituent; and Z represents a direct bond, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Hajime Watanabe, Takashi Furusawa, Satoshi Ogawa, Toshikazu Takata
  • Publication number: 20160194450
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a polyarylene sulfide resin comprising: a step of reacting a poly(arylenesulfonium salt) having a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (1) with an aliphatic amide compound to obtain a polyarylene sulfide resin having a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (2): wherein R1 represents a direct bond, —Ar2—, —Ar2—S— or —Ar2—O—; Ar1 and Ar2 each represent an arylene group optionally having a functional group as a substituent; R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or an aromatic group optionally having an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms as a substituent; and X? represents an anion, wherein R1 and Ar1 are the same as described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicants: DIC Corporation, National University Corporation, Iwate University, National University Corporation, Iwate University
    Inventors: Hajime Watanabe, Takashi Furusawa, Satoshi Ogawa, Toshikazu Takata
  • Patent number: 9316303
    Abstract: A first radial bearing and a second radial bearing are respectively disposed in two rows between the outer periphery of a pin and the inner periphery of a corresponding planet roller so as to face each other in the thrust direction. A first inner ring of the first radial bearing is fitted onto a first region of the pin by interference fit. A second inner ring of the second radial bearing is fitted onto a second region of the pin by clearance fit. The second region is closer to a carrier main body than the first region is. An elastic member is interposed between the second radial bearing and the carrier main body. The elastic member elastically presses the second inner ring in a first thrust direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20160060397
    Abstract: A problem is to provide a method for producing a polyarylene sulfide resin having excellent reactivity to other compounds and resins, such as an impact resistance improver such as an epoxysilane coupling agent, a functional group-containing thermoplastic elastomer, or the like, and also provide a polyarylene sulfide resin composition produced by the production method, not containing chlorine atoms, and having the excellent reactivity. A method for producing a polyarylene sulfide resin includes performing polymerization reaction of a mixture containing a diiodo aromatic compound, a sulfur compound, and a polymerization inhibitor having a specified functional group. The problem can be solved by using a polyarylene sulfide resin composition containing a polyarylene sulfide resin having a specified terminal functional group and iodine atoms within a range of 0.01 to 10,000 ppm relative to the polyarylene sulfide resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Watanabe, Toshio Hinokimori
  • Publication number: 20160060384
    Abstract: Provided are a modified epoxy resin and a modified epoxy resin whose cured products exhibit good heat resistance and dielectric properties, methods for producing these, a curable resin composition, a cured product of the curable resin composition, and a printed wiring substrate. A modified phenolic resin comprises a phenolic resin structure (A), wherein at least one aromatic nucleus (a) in the phenolic resin structure (A) has, as a substituent, a structural segment (1) represented by structural formula (1) below: In the formula, Ar each independently represent a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, or a structural segment having, on an aromatic nucleus of a phenyl or naphthyl group, at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, a phenyl group, and an aralkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Takamitsu NAKAMURA, Hajime WATANABE, Koji HAYASHI, Yoshiaki MURATA
  • Patent number: 9258472
    Abstract: A control apparatus that is connected to at least one image capturing apparatus by wireless communication transmits, by multicast or broadcast via the wireless communication, a command for instructing to start a prescribed operation to each image capturing apparatus, in response to detection of an operation for instructing to start the prescribed operation, and transmits, by unicast via the wireless communication, a command for instructing to end the prescribed operation to each image capturing apparatus, in response to detection of the operation for instructing to end the prescribed operation. Then, the control apparatus confirms a response to transmission of the command for instructing to end the prescribed operation, and retransmits, by unicast, the command to end the prescribed operation to each image capturing apparatus whose response is not confirmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hajime Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20160025138
    Abstract: A rolling bearing apparatus includes: a bearing portion with an inner ring, an outer ring, balls, and a cage; and a lubrication unit provided adjacently to an annular space formed between the inner ring and the outer ring. The lubrication unit apparatus includes a pump that supplies a lubricant to the annular space and a tank in which a lubricant is stored. The pump has a housing portion filled with the lubricant and a driving portion that drives the lubricant in the housing portion to discharge the lubricant into the annular space. In order to detect insufficiency of the lubricant, the lubrication unit further includes a sensor provided in the pump and having an output that changes according to an amount of the lubricant in the housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventor: Hajime WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9239098
    Abstract: In a planet roller speed changer, a plurality of shaft portions of a carrier is disposed such that, when the carrier is displaced in a direction that intersects with the axial direction of an output shaft, the outer periphery of at least one of the shaft portions that are displaced with a displacement of the carrier contacts the stationary ring-side portion of the inner periphery of a corresponding planet roller without contacting the input shaft-side portion of the inner periphery of the corresponding planet roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9205300
    Abstract: Training system including: a training machine including: a Magnet Rheological fluid (MR-fluid) load generating unit generating a load to be exerted on the trainee, by using an MR-fluid having a variable viscosity depending on a magnetic field strength; mechanical arrangements; a displacement detection sensor; a power-assisting motor; a storage unit configure to store MR-fluid load characteristic information on a relationship between a current through the MR-fluid load generating unit and the load generated by the MR-fluid load generating unit; and chain and sprocket arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignees: HITACHI, LTD., TAKEI SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS CO., LTD., YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ishii, Shizuo Takatou, Kenichi Honda, Hajime Watanabe, Kouichi Yamada, Yasuyuki Murayama, Toshihiko Shiraishi, Shin Morishita
  • Publication number: 20150280339
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector terminal including a tin layer on an outermost surface and a material therefor which achieves a low insertion force without depending on the detail of the microstructure of the outermost surface and excessively increasing a contact resistance. A composite coating layer including areas where tin is exposed and areas where a copper-tin alloy is exposed on an outermost surface is formed on a surface of a base material in an area including a contact portion to be brought into contact with another electrically conductive member and the glossiness of the surface of the composite coating layer is in a range of 50 to 1000%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Saka, Masayuki Okubo, Hajime Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9127322
    Abstract: A yeast including a cell wall having a low mannan content, wherein the yeast has an immunopotentiating capability, and is able to grow in a YPD liquid medium with an osmotic pressure of 300 mOsm, and wherein, when a part of a pre-culture of the yeast grown in a YPDS liquid medium is added to the YPD liquid medium so that OD660 is adjusted to 0.1, followed by incubating at 30° C. for 24 hours, the yeast grows to increase the OD660 of the YPD liquid medium to 1.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: ORIENTAL YEAST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Azuma, Taro Tachibana, Shuhei Furukawa, Ryoichi Nakajima, Hajime Watanabe, Sayumi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9113067
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus receives a signal regularly transmitted from a control apparatus, determines whether or not the imaging apparatus is disconnected from the network based on a status of the reception of the signal, transmits a request for participation in the network to the control apparatus according to a determination that the imaging apparatus is disconnected from the network to notify the control apparatus that the imaging apparatus is disconnected from the network, and participates in the network after the control apparatus receives the request for participation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Watanabe, Hideaki Ohshima
  • Publication number: 20150195445
    Abstract: A master flash apparatus which emits light when an image capturing device outputs a synchronous light emission command after the image capturing device outputs a first light emission start command. The apparatus can perform wireless communication with a slave flash apparatus which emits light in response to a second light emission start command received from the master flash apparatus. A transmission unit transmits the second light emission start command to the slave flash apparatus when a predetermined time has elapsed after the image capturing device outputs the first light emission start command. A measurement unit measures a time from the output of the first light emission start command from the image capturing device to the output of the synchronous light emission command from the image capturing device. An adjustment unit adjusts the predetermined time based on the time measured by the measurement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventor: Hajime Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150184738
    Abstract: A first radial bearing and a second radial bearing are respectively disposed in two rows between the outer periphery of a pin and the inner periphery of a corresponding planet roller so as to face each other in the thrust direction. A first inner ring of the first radial bearing is fitted onto a first region of the pin by interference fit. A second inner ring of the second radial bearing is fitted onto a second region of the pin by clearance fit. The second region is closer to a carrier main body than the first region is. An elastic member is interposed between the second radial bearing and the carrier main body. The elastic member elastically presses the second inner ring in a first thrust direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventor: Hajime WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20150176004
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to improve the efficiency of screening/selection of a membrane protein in molecular evolutionary engineering (for example, an enzyme evolutionary method). The above-described objective is achieved by providing a unilamellar liposome comprising: (a) a DNA comprising a promoter sequence, a translational initiation sequence, and a sequence encoding a membrane protein; (b) an RNA polymerase; (c) a ribonucleotide; and (d) a cell-free protein synthesis system. In one aspect of the present invention, the membrane protein is a transporter, and the unilamellar liposome further comprises (e) a factor that binds to a ligand transported by the membrane protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yomo, Tomoaki Matsuura, Haruka Soga, Hajime Watanabe, Satoshi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20150167821
    Abstract: In a planet roller speed changer, a plurality of shaft portions of a carrier is disposed such that, when the carrier is displaced in a direction that intersects with the axial direction of an output shaft, the outer periphery of at least one of the shaft portions that are displaced with a displacement of the carrier contacts the stationary ring-side portion of the inner periphery of is corresponding planet roller without contacting the input shaft-side portion of the inner periphery of the corresponding planet roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventor: Hajime WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20150133005
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a plated terminal for connector which requires a smaller insertion force by reducing a friction coefficient and a terminal pair formed using such a plated terminal for connector. An alloy containing layer (1) made of tin and palladium and containing a tin-palladium alloy is formed on a surface of a terminal base material (2) made of copper or copper alloy. Here, the alloy containing layer (1) is preferably such that domain structures of a first metal phase (11) made of an alloy of tin and palladium are formed in a second metal phase (12) made of pure tin or an alloy having a higher ratio of tin to palladium than in the first metal phase (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Saka, Hajime Watanabe, Mikio Satou, Masayuki Ookubo
  • Publication number: 20150104651
    Abstract: The present invention provides an epoxy resin having a low melting point, low melt viscosity, excellent solvent solubility, and excellent processability. Also, the present invention provides an epoxy resin composition and a cured product thereof having excellent fluidity, processability, flexibility, adhesion, and thermal conductivity. The epoxy resin is represented by general formula (I) below (Q: an alkylene chain having a C1-C9 linear part which may have a C1-C18 alkyl group in a side chain, or a linkage chain having an ether bond present between two continuous methylene groups in the alkylene chain; A: a phenylene unit in which 2 to 4 phenylene groups are bonded directly or through a linkage chain, or a naphthylene unit, n: 0 to 10). The epoxy resin composition contains the epoxy resin and a curing agent. The composition includes the epoxy resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuo Arita, Hajime Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9005043
    Abstract: A wheel supporting device includes: a hub unit that has a rotary ring having a first spline on its axially inner end face; and a joint that has an outer ring having a second spline, meshing with the first spline, on its axially outer end face. At least one projection included in a plurality of projections of the first spline projects in the axial direction by a larger amount than the remaining projections of the first spline. When a crest of the at least one projection contacts a crest of one of projections of the second spline, a play is caused between the rotary ring and the outer ring due to the at least one projection that works as a fulcrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Watanabe, Toshihiro Hakata, Shinichi Mizuta