Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Watanabe

Hiroaki 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: 20070003757
    Abstract: A radio wave absorbing coating composition that exhibits an excellent absorption performance of radio waves in 40 MHz to 3 GHz frequency band is provided. The radio wave absorbing coating composition contains metal powder that is made up of a martensitic Fe—Cr—Ni alloy powder and/or a martensitic Fe—Ni alloy powder, carbon powder, resin, and solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicants: FUJIKURA KASEI CO., LTD., MICROWAVE ABSORBERS INC.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Yamamoto, Hiroaki Watanabe, Satoshi Ogino, Takashi Takagai
  • Patent number: 7156473
    Abstract: An elastic track shoe is provided wherein loosening of bolts is prevented by use of a rigid core bar and the thickness of an elastic body subjected to a load can be increased irrespective of grousers. To this end, the core bar is integrally formed by casting, forging or precutting, a ground engaging side of the core bar is covered with the elastic body, and a portion of the core bar defined by projection of a ground engaging face of the elastic body is divided into two parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Hori, Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7157135
    Abstract: An embossable film for creating holograms and diffraction gratings and methods of producing the embossable films are provided. The embossable film includes a base layer and a co-extruded embossable layer that is coated with a transparent high refractive index (HRI) coating prior to embossing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Toray Plastics (America), Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Decker, Christopher S. Curry, Hiroaki Watanabe, Arthur Eric Bartholomay
  • Patent number: 7096406
    Abstract: A N-level cell memory controlled by the memory controller of the invention have an internal configuration in which the plurality of data input/output terminals connected to the second data bus are separated into first through Mth data input/output terminal groups, such that there is no redundancy in the n bits of data associated with one N-level cell. Together with this, the memory controller separates the plurality of data bits on the first data bus into first through Mth data groups, the ECC circuits generate error-correction codes for each of these data groups, and the first through Mth data groups and first through Mth error correction codes are input to the first through Mth data input/output terminals of the N-level cell memory, via the second data bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Keisuke Kanazawa, Hiroaki Watanabe, Yoshinobu Higuchi, Hideki Arakawa, Yoshiki Okumura, Yutaka Sekino
  • Publication number: 20060172093
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet recording material which has no cracks on the surface of the ink-receiving layer and possesses both the color developability and the absorbability of pigment inks. According to the present invention, there is provided an ink jet recording material formed by coating a coating solution of a pigment layer and a coating solution of at least one ink-receiving layer in succession on at least one side of a paper support and drying the resulting coating layers, wherein the pigment contained in the pigment layer has an average secondary particle diameter of not less than 1 ?m and not more than 5 ?m, 50% by volume or more of the total volume of the pigment has a secondary particle diameter of not less than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Katsuaki Arai, Yasuro Yokota, Suguru Kashima
  • Patent number: 7014279
    Abstract: The present invention is an elastic flat tread which can prevent an elastic solid from cracking even if the vehicle runs on a protruding object during traveling. For this purpose, the elastic flat tread is provided with any core (1, 11, 115) of a core (1, 11) attached to a link (6) and a core (115) attached to a metal plate (9A) which is attached to a link (8), and end portions (1a, 1b; 11a, 11h; 115a, 115b) in a longitudinal direction of the aforesaid any core (1, 11, 115) are bent toward the side not in contact with the around.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Komatsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Kazutoshi Hori, Teiji Yamamoto, Tomihiro Tagawa, Kenji Taira
  • Patent number: 6979950
    Abstract: A plurality of row electrode pairs and a dielectric layer are formed on a front glass substrate. A plurality of column electrodes forming discharge cells at the intersections with the row electrode pairs in a discharge space is formed on one of a back glass substrate and the front glass substrate. Each of the discharge cells is defined and separated from another discharge cell adjacent thereto in the column direction by a transverse wall of the partition wall provided between the front glass substrate and the back glass substrate. A black- or dark-colored light absorption layer facing the front glass substrate is formed in each non-light emission area including the transverse walls in the discharge space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Pioneer Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hirofumi Higashi, Shingo Ogane, Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20050276980
    Abstract: An embossable film for creating holograms and diffraction gratings and methods of producing the embossable films are provided. The embossable film includes a base layer and a co-extruded embossable layer that is coated with a transparent high refractive index (HRI) coating prior to embossing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: Tory Plastics (America), Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Decker, Christopher Curry, Hiroaki Watanabe, Arthur Bartholomay
  • Publication number: 20050182635
    Abstract: There is provided a product ordering system for supplying products from a production source to a plurality of dealers, according to an order in which the orders are placed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Masaaki Maikuma, Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20050104448
    Abstract: An elastic track shoe is provided wherein loosening of bolts is prevented by use of a rigid core bar and the thickness of an elastic body subjected to a load can be increased irrespective of grousers. To this end, the core bar is integrally formed by casting, forging or precutting, a ground engaging side of the core bar is covered with the elastic body, and a portion of the core bar defined by projection of a ground engaging face of the elastic body is divided into two parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicant: Komatsu, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Hori, Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20050076244
    Abstract: A wireless communication device in a communication system comprises: a controller which receives authentication information from the first base station, the authentication information being based on a first authentication process, the first authentication process being necessary for the wireless communication device to initiate a communication with the network via the first base station; and a memory coupled to the controller, which stores the authentication information received by the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Inventor: Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20050067205
    Abstract: In a hood lift capable of supplementing operational force of forwardly lifting and tilting a vehicle hood by torsional restoring force of torsion bars, a zero or neutral position of the torsion bars is set around a tilted balance or neutral position of the hood so as to suppress opening velocity and shocks when a hood reaches its maximum open degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: HINO MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Takayuki Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 6832820
    Abstract: It is possible to achieve a light structure by making a part of a core bar thin and to prevent an elastic body from strain deforming by a smooth rib reinforcing portion from which an edge portion of the core bar does not protrude. It is possible to achieve a strength even when piercing a hole in the core bar and to prevent the elastic body from being cut by an edge portion of a hole. Accordingly, in a core bar (10) of an elastic body track shoe fastened to each pair of joint links of a crawler by bolts, recess portions (1a, 1b) formed in a substantially inverse-trapezoidal shape or recess portions (10a, 10b) formed in a substantially inverse-trapezoidal shape toward front end portions are formed in non-grounded surface sides of right and left wing portions in a direction of a crawler width. A recess portion (1e) formed in a substantially inverse-trapezoidal shape or a through hole (1f) may be formed in a center portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Kazutoshi Hori, Kazuo Yasojima
  • Patent number: 6811530
    Abstract: A former is used to manufacture a bag in a packaging machine. The radius of curvature of the former top along a film guiding direction is between 0.27 mm and 0.50 mm, the average surface roughness of the former top is less than 10 &mgr;m, and the number of high projections per unit length of 10 mm of the former top along a width direction of the film guided by the collar into the cylinder. The high projection is defined as a projection of the surface of the former top that is as tall as or taller than 5 times the average surface roughness of the former top. It is found that the minimum radius of curvature of the former top should be equal to or larger than the critical radius that is defined by a radius of the curvature which causes an elastic limit strain at an innermost portion of a support layer of a laminated film immediately outside a barrier layer of the laminated film when the laminated film is bent over the former top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Toray Plastics America, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Hiroyuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20040189203
    Abstract: A plurality of row electrode pairs and a dielectric layer are formed on a front glass substrate. A plurality of column electrodes forming discharge cells at the intersections with the row electrode pairs in a discharge space is formed on one of a back glass substrate and the front glass substrate. Each of the discharge cells is defined and separated from another discharge cell adjacent thereto in the column direction by a transverse wall of the partition wall provided between the front glass substrate and the back glass substrate. A black- or dark-colored light absorption layer facing the front glass substrate is formed in each non-light emission area including the transverse walls in the discharge space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: Pioneer Corporation and Pioneer Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hirofumi Higashi, Shingo Ogane, Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20040176230
    Abstract: A former is used to manufacture a bag in a packaging machine. The radius of curvature of the former top along a film guiding direction is between 0.27 mm and 0.50 mm, the average surface roughness of the former top is less than 10 &mgr;m, and the number of high projections per unit length of 10 mm of the former top along a width direction of the film guided by the collar into the cylinder. The high projection is defined as a projection of the surface of the former top that is as tall as or taller than 5 times the average surface roughness of the former top. It is found that the minimum radius of curvature of the former top should be equal to or larger than the critical radius that is defined by a radius of the curvature which causes an elastic limit strain at an innermost portion of a support layer of a laminated film immediately outside a barrier layer of the laminated film when the laminated film is bent over the former top.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Hiroyuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20040131868
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high oxygen barrier, multilayer flexible packaging structure having a vacuum metallized, biaxially oriented polypropylene (met-BOPP) or metallized polyester (met-PET) film substrate; a high barrier EVOH layer coextruded or laminated directly on the metal-containing layer; and optionally an adjacent layer of anhydride modified polyolefin such as blend of LDPE, or MDPE, or PP and maleic anhydride modified adhesive resin on the EVOH layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: TORAY PLASTICS (AMERICA), INC.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Mark S. Lee
  • Publication number: 20040075340
    Abstract: It is possible to achieve a light structure by making a part of a core bar thin and to prevent an elastic body from strain deforming by a smooth rib reinforcing portion from which an edge portion of the core bar does not protrude. It is possible to secure a strength even when piercing a hole in the core bar and to prevent the elastic body from being cut by an edge portion of a hole. Accordingly, in a core bar (10) of an elastic body track shoe fastened to each pair of joint links of a crawler by bolts, recess portions (1a, 1b) formed in a substantially inverse-trapezoidal shape or recess portions (10a, 10b) formed in a substantially inverse-trapezoidal shape toward front end portions are formed in non-grounded surface sides of right and left wing portions in a direction of a crawler width. A recess portion (1e) formed in a substantially inverse-trapezoidal shape or a through hole (1f) may be formed in a center portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Kazutoshi Hori, Kazuo Yasojima
  • Patent number: 6709077
    Abstract: It is possible to achieve a light structure by making a part of a core bar thin and to prevent an elastic body from strain deforming by a smooth rib reinforcing portion from which an edge portion of the core bar does not protrude. It is possible to secure a strength even when piercing a hole in the core bar and to prevent the elastic body from being cut by an edge portion of a hole. Accordingly, in a core bar (10) of an elastic body track shoe fastened to each pair of joint links of a crawler by bolts, recess portions (1a, 1b) formed in a substantially inverse-trapezoidal shape or recess portions (10a, 10b) formed in a substantially inverse-trapezoidal shape toward front end portions are formed in non-grounded surface sides of right and left wing portions in a direction of a crawler width. A recess portion (1e) formed in a substantially inverse-trapezoidal shape or a through hole (1f) may be formed in a center portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Kazutoshi Hori, Kazuo Yasojima
  • Patent number: 6589383
    Abstract: The present invention provides an tonically conductive composition comprising a linear copolymer of a compound (A) having two functional groups (a) and a compound (B) having two functional groups (b) and an electrolyte; as well as a battery containing it. Preferably, a polymer having a network structure obtained by reacting the linear copolymer having functional group (b) at each end with a compound having three or more functional groups (a) is used in the ionically conductive composition of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited, Nippon Unicar Company Limited
    Inventors: Kazuchiyo Takaoka, Koshiro Ikegami, Kenji Hyodo, Hiroaki Watanabe, Takakazu Hino, Naoki Shikano, Eiji Andou