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).

  • Patent number: 10762026
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an interface switching circuit including a first hardware interface to which a first device part is coupled; and a first processor including a second hardware interface, wherein the interface switching circuit is configured to block, when hot-removal of the first device part is detected, a signal path between the first hardware interface and the second hardware interface, and cancel, when diagnosis for a second device part newly hot-inserted in the first hardware interface is completed, the blocking of the signal path in response to a result of the diagnosis, and the first processor is configured to detect presence of the second device part from that the first processor transits from a non-responsive state to a responsible state, and execute an initialization process for the second device part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Naokazu Onda, Hirotoshi Inoue, Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10734684
    Abstract: Disclosed is a nonaqueous secondary battery having a nonaqueous electrolyte containing a lithium salt dissolved in an organic solvent, in which the positive electrode active material is preferably a manganese-containing, lithium transition metal oxide salt. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains at least one compound of general formula (1), preferably at least one compound of general formula (1?). The content of the compound of formula (1) or (1?) in the nonaqueous electrolyte is preferably 0.001 to 10 mass %. The symbols in formulae (1) and (1?) are as defined in the description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Nohara, Kenji Kakiage, Tomofumi Yokomizo, Hiroaki Watanabe, Yohei Aoyama, Toru Yano
  • Publication number: 20200240716
    Abstract: Provided is a heat dissipation device capable of uniformly cooling an entire base plate (support member) without generating stress in a heat pipe. A heat dissipation device configured to dissipate heat of a heat source into the air, the heat dissipation device including: a support member disposed such that a side of a first principal surface is in close contact with a heat source; a heat pipe thermally joined to a second principal surface of the support member and configured to transport the heat from the heat source; and multiple heat radiation fins disposed in a space adjoining the second principal surface, thermally joined to the heat pipe, and configured to dissipate the heat transported by the heat pipe, in which the respective heat radiation fins are directly joined to the second principal surface in a region other than a region in which the heat pipe is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: HOYA CANDEO OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200244024
    Abstract: Provided is a small-sized circuit board fixing structure capable of enabling a circuit board on a base to be easily replaced. A circuit board fixing structure configured to fix a circuit board onto a surface of a base includes a wire pattern formed on a surface of the circuit board, a first through hole penetrating from a front surface to a rear surface of the circuit board, a second through hole penetrating from a front surface to a rear surface of the base so as to communicate with the first through hole, an electrode penetratively inserted into the second through hole, and a fixing member engaged with the electrode mounted on the surface of the circuit board and configured to fix the circuit board to the base, in which when the fixing member and the electrode are engaged, the wire pattern and the electrode are electrically connected through the fixing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: HOYA CANDEO OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki WATANABE, Katsumi ASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20200245298
    Abstract: A base station capable of performing wireless communication with a wireless communication device with a Grant-free method, the base station includes: a reception circuit configured to receive a first signal transmitted from the wireless communication device by using a shared radio resource allocated to the wireless communication device; and a transmission circuit configured to transmit a second signal including information regarding a radio resource used for retransmission to the wireless communication device when retransmission of the first signal is requested to the wireless communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, YOSHIHIRO KAWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200214133
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit board supporting structure capable of easily detaching a circuit board on a base. The circuit board supporting structure is configured to support a circuit board on a base, in which the base has a concave portion formed in a placement surface of the circuit board, and a rotational operation member configured to be rotatably accommodated in the concave portion and extend and retract in a direction perpendicular to the placement surface by a rotational operation, in which the circuit board has a through hole formed at a position corresponding to the concave portion, in which the rotational operation member has a reference surface formed approximately in parallel with the placement surface, and an operation portion formed on a rotational axis of the rotational operation member so as to be exposed from the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200205313
    Abstract: (Problem) To provide a small light illuminating apparatus configured to uniformly cool a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) (Problem-solving approach) A light illuminating apparatus that irradiates light of a line shape includes a light source unit having a plurality of light sources arranged along a first direction on a surface of a substrate, a heat dissipation unit having a plurality of heat sink fins formed along the first direction, and thermally coupled to an opposing surface side of the substrate, a housing which receives the heat dissipation unit and forms a wind tunnel with a cooling wind flowing inside, wherein the cooling wind cools the heat sink fins, and a first cooling fan which generates the cooling wind flowing in the first direction within the wind tunnel, wherein at least one of opposite sides of a second direction of the housing has an air hole through which the cooling wind is discharged to outside via the plurality of heat sink fins, or the cooling wind is absorbed via the pluralit
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: HOYA CANDEO OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10688739
    Abstract: A spectacle lens manufacturing system includes resin material filling means which fills a lens mold with a lens material (heat-curable resin material), the lens mold includes a rear lens mold having a front surface that defines a rear surface of a spectacle lens, the rear lens mold has a rear lens mold base body, a three-dimensional printer which adds a aspherical surface addition portion to a front surface of the rear lens mold base body is provided, and a front surface of the rear lens mold is the front surface of the rear lens mold base body, to which the aspherical surface addition portion is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Tokai Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Atsushi Nagao, Hisashi Ikawa, Shingo Ono, Hiroshi Ueno
  • Publication number: 20200110850
    Abstract: An estimation method is performed by a computer for estimating a far field of electromagnetic waves or heat. The method includes: generating an emphasis pattern image obtained by emphasizing each target element of a pattern image of a target circuit by an emphasizing method that corresponds to a type of each target element, with respect to the target element which is at least a part of elements included in the target circuit; and estimating the far field of electromagnetic waves or heat radiated from the target circuit by an existing estimation model using the emphasis pattern image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shohei Yamane, Yusuke Oishi, Hiroaki Watanabe, Yoichi Kochibe
  • Publication number: 20200050572
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an interface switching circuit including a first hardware interface to which a first device part is coupled; and a first processor including a second hardware interface, wherein the interface switching circuit is configured to block, when hot-removal of the first device part is detected, a signal path between the first hardware interface and the second hardware interface, and cancel, when diagnosis for a second device part newly hot-inserted in the first hardware interface is completed, the blocking of the signal path in response to a result of the diagnosis, and the first processor is configured to detect presence of the second device part from that the first processor transits from a non-responsive state to a responsible state, and execute an initialization process for the second device part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Naokazu Onda, Hirotoshi Inoue, Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10558136
    Abstract: A charging member including an electro-conductive support; and an elastic layer, the elastic layer is a surface layer thereof and is constituted by a mono layer, the elastic layer includes domains and a matrix, an outer surface of the charging member is constituted by a surface of the matrix and surfaces of the domains, and the charging member has concave portions on the outer surface, the domains exist at bottom portions of the respective concave portions and are exposed to the outer surface of the charging member only at the bottom portions of the respective concave portions, the elastic layer has a volume resistivity of 1×105 ?cm or more and 1×108 ?cm or less, and A2 is 20 times or more of A1, wherein A1 and A2 are current values obtained by a prescribed method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takumi Furukawa, Hiroaki Watanabe, Kenya Terada, Yuya Tomomizu, Toshimitsu Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20200011041
    Abstract: A flush toilet is provided with a toilet main unit and a functional unit. The toilet main unit has a toilet bowl and an upper surface portion on which a recessed portion is formed. The functional unit is provided on the rear side of the toilet bowl and offers a function different from a function for washing the toilet bowl. The functional unit is able to move between an entering position where at least a portion of the functional unit is located inside the recessed portion and a retreating position where the entire functional unit is located outside the recessed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Akiya SAEKI, Hiroaki WATANABE, Tomoya SASAKI, Ryuichi YOKOI
  • Patent number: 10496029
    Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transferring member and a cleaning device. The cleaning device includes a cleaning member, a case and a toner seal. A refresh mode including a first operation and a second operation is executable when an image forming operation is not performed. The first operation is executed such that the image carrier is rotated in a counter direction and for a predetermined distance or longer. The counter direction is a direction opposite to the rotation direction of the image carrier at the image forming operation. The predetermined distance is a distance from a contact position where the cleaning member comes into contact with the surface of the image carrier to a transferring position where the transferring member transfers the toner image. The second operation is executed such that the transferred body is driven and the transferring member is applied with transferring bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10457105
    Abstract: An automobile undercarriage component has at least three elongated arms, each including a web and a rib having an inner wall surface. One of the three elongated arms is a first arm having a first one of the ribs and at least one of the three elongated arms is a second arm having a second one of the ribs. For each of the second ones of the ribs, the leading end of the respective second one of the ribs has a width in the direction parallel to the plane of the web and transverse to the direction of elongation of the arm which is narrower than the width of a leading end of the first one of the ribs, as an inner wall surface is disposed closer to an opposing outer wall surface in the respective second one of the ribs as compared to the first one of the ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Keita Okada, Hiroaki Hosoi
  • Publication number: 20190323880
    Abstract: The present invention provides a measuring device which is configured to measure a body weight of a user sitting on a toilet seat, which is installed on a toilet bowl, and on which the toilet seat is installed, the device including a plurality of load measuring units that are configured to measure a load of the user acting on the toilet seat and that are disposed to protrude upward from an upper surface. The toilet seat includes a plurality of leg portions disposed to protrude downward from a lower surface, a height from the upper surface to upper ends of the load measuring units is greater than a height from the lower surface of the toilet seat to lower ends of the leg portions, and the load measuring units are disposed at different positions from the leg portions as seen in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu SHIMASAKI, Hiroaki WATANABE, Tsunaki ITOU, Tomoya SASAKI, Hideya KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20190324379
    Abstract: Disclosed is a charging member comprising an electro-conductive support; and an elastic layer, the elastic layer is a surface layer thereof and is constituted by a mono layer, the elastic layer includes domains and a matrix, an outer surface of the charging member is constituted by a surface of the matrix and surfaces of the domains, and the charging member has concave portions on the outer surface, the domains exist at bottom portions of the respective concave portions and are exposed to the outer surface of the charging member only at the bottom portions of the respective concave portions, the elastic layer has a volume resistivity of 1×105 ?cm or more and 1×108 ?cm or less, and A2 is 20 times or more of A1, wherein A1 and A2 are current values obtained by a prescribed method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Takumi Furukawa, Hiroaki Watanabe, Kenya Terada, Yuya Tomomizu, Toshimitsu Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 10451262
    Abstract: Provided is a small-sized light emitting apparatus having a configuration capable of uniformly cooling multiple LEDs. A light emitting apparatus, which emits linear light, includes: a light source unit which has multiple light sources that are disposed on a surface of a substrate in parallel in a first direction; a heat dissipation unit which has multiple heat radiation fins formed in the first direction, and is thermally coupled to a rear side of the substrate; a partition plate which forms a first air channel surrounding the multiple heat radiation fins; a housing which forms a second air channel between the housing and the partition plate; and a cooling fan which receives air from the outside, guides the air to the second air channel, and forms an airflow in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: HOYA CANDEO OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10435878
    Abstract: A flush toilet is provided with a toilet main unit and a functional unit. The toilet main unit has a toilet bowl and an upper surface portion on which a recessed portion is formed. The functional unit is provided on the rear side of the toilet bowl and offers a function different from a function for washing the toilet bowl. The functional unit is able to move between an entering position where at least a portion of the functional unit is located inside the recessed portion and a retreating position where the entire functional unit is located outside the recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Akiya Saeki, Hiroaki Watanabe, Tomoya Sasaki, Ryuichi Yokoi
  • Patent number: 10434871
    Abstract: A closed tank system includes: a fuel tank; a canister adapted to adsorb evaporative fuel generated in the fuel tank; a fill-up limiting valve provided inside the fuel tank so as to be communicated with the evaporative fuel discharge passage and adapted to operate to close the evaporative fuel discharge passage when a fuel level reaches a predetermined full tank liquid level; a shut-off valve adapted to operate to open or close the evaporative fuel discharge passage; a fuel remaining amount sensor adapted to detect a remaining amount of fuel; and a hardware processor that causes a control section to carry out control for allowing the shut-off valve to be opened or closed. The hardware processor causes the control section to inhibit the control for allowing the shut-off valve to be opened when an engine is in operation and the detected remaining amount of fuel exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Ogiwara, Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190278201
    Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transferring member and a cleaning device. The cleaning device includes a cleaning member, a case and a toner seal. A refresh mode including a first operation and a second operation is executable when an image forming operation is not performed. The first operation is executed such that the image carrier is rotated in a counter direction and for a predetermined distance or longer. The counter direction is a direction opposite to the rotation direction of the image carrier at the image forming operation. The predetermined distance is a distance from a contact position where the cleaning member comes into contact with the surface of the image carrier to a transferring position where the transferring member transfers the toner image. The second operation is executed such that the transferred body is driven and the transferring member is applied with transferring bias.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroaki WATANABE