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).

  • NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE AND NONAQUEOUS SECONDARY BATTERY
    Publication number: 20160336621
    Abstract: Provided are a nonaqueous electrolyte excellent in the prevention of overcharge and capable of retaining a small internal resistance and a high electrical capacity even after charge/discharge cycles and a nonaqueous secondary battery using the same. Specifically, the nonaqueous electrolyte is a lithium salt solution in an organic solvent and contains at least one compound having general formula (1), and the nonaqueous secondary battery includes a negative electrode capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium, a positive electrode containing a transition metal and lithium, and the nonaqueous electrolyte. The details of formula (1) are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Tomofumi YOKOMIZO, Toru YANO, Hiroaki WATANABE, Yohei AOYAMA, Tomomi SERI, Yuta NOHARA
  • AUTOMOBILE UNDERCARRIAGE COMPONENT
    Publication number: 20160318362
    Abstract: An automobile undercarriage component is provided with a web and a rib. The rib is configured so as to comprise a first section that is a section having the widest width and a second section that has a narrower width than the first section, and the second section having a narrower rib width than the first section as a result of an inner wall surface of the second section that is continuously formed from the web being provided so as to be adjacent to a facing outer surface wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Hiroaki WATANABE, Keita OKADA, Hiroaki HOSOI
  • Nonaqueous electrolyte and nonaqueous secondary battery using same
    Patent number: 9419306
    Abstract: The invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte for batteries and a nonaqueous secondary battery using the same which maintains small internal resistance and high electric capacity in high temperature storage. The nonaqueous electrolyte has an electrolyte salt, a compound of general formula (1), and a compound of general formula (2) dissolved in an organic solvent. The ratio of the compound of formula (2) to the sum of the compound of formula (1) and the compound of formula (2) is 0.1 to 8 mass %. In the formulae, R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent C1-C8 alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Taki, Hiroaki Watanabe, Atsuki Shibuya, Akiko Tasaki
  • BASE STATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20160212676
    Abstract: A base station including: an antenna configured to form a second cell, and a processor configured to: process a control signal with a terminal that is located in an overlapping area of a first cell and the second cell, the first cell being formed by another base station that processes a data signal with the terminal, and transfer processing of the control signal with the terminal to the other base station when a load of the processing of the control signal is more than a first threshold in the base station and when the terminal is located in the overlapping area for more than a given length of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Masakazu KOJIMA, Hiroaki WATANABE, Yasuharu IWATA
  • Water-stopping member and outer wall structure
    Patent number: 9388567
    Abstract: An outer wall structure according to the invention includes first to fourth linear water-stopping members, and first to fourth corner water-stopping members. These members include plate portions and seal portions and the like. The plate portions are fixed to a vertical furring strip member, a horizontal furring strip member, and a frame member by means of a first mounting screw. Consequently, the seal portions prevent entry of water between a sash body and the plate portion. With the outer wall structure, the plate portions are fixed to the vertical furring strip member, the horizontal furring strip member, and the frame member at a position spaced apart from the outer face farther than a first width of the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
    Patent number: 9379411
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery has a negative electrode containing graphite particles as a negative electrode active material, a positive electrode containing a lithium-containing oxide of a transition metal or a lithium-containing phosphate of a transition metal as a positive electrode active material, and a non-aqueous electrolyte in which a lithium salt is dissolved in an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Taki, Yuyu Ohnuma, Hiroaki Watanabe, Atsuki Shibuya
  • Charging member, manufacturing method for charging member, electrophotographic apparatus, and process cartridge
    Patent number: 9372429
    Abstract: Provided is a charging member capable of suppressing adhesion of smear on its surface and suppressing generation of a C set image as well. The charging member includes: an electroconductive support; and an elastic layer as a surface layer, in which: the elastic layer has at least one local maximum value in a distribution of Young's modulus at respective positions in a depth direction thereof; and “a”, “Tmax” and “b” satisfy the following expressions (1) to (3): (1) 0.8 ?m?Tmax?2.5 ?m, (2) 0.6 MPa?b?1.2 MPa, (3) (a?b)/b?0.40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Shinsuke Kokubo, Toshiro Suzuki
  • Charging member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus
    Patent number: 9360833
    Abstract: The present invention provides a charging member having an elastic layer on a surface thereof in which occurrence of compression set is reduced. The charging member includes an electro-conductive support and an elastic layer provided on the support as a surface layer, wherein the elastic layer is a rubber layer made of a crosslinked product of a rubber mixture including acrylonitrile butadiene rubber and polybutadiene, the polybutadiene includes 1,2-syndiotactic polybutadiene, and the elastic layer is formed by irradiating a surface of the rubber layer with electron rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenya Terada, Masaaki Harada, Hiroaki Watanabe, Takumi Furukawa, Keiji Nose
  • Nonaqueous secondary battery
    Patent number: 9337511
    Abstract: Disclosed is a nonaqueous secondary battery using a positive electrode containing a transition metal and lithium. The battery is prevented from deterioration due to elution of the transition metal from the positive electrode and thereby capable of maintaining small internal resistance and high electrical capacity even after high temperature storage or high-temperature charge and discharge cycles. The battery includes a negative electrode capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium, a positive electrode containing a transition metal and lithium, and a nonaqueous electrolyte having a lithium salt dissolved in an organic solvent, the nonaqueous electrolyte containing a polycarboxylic ester compound represented by general formula (1) or (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Taki, Hiroaki Watanabe, Atsuki Shibuya, Akiko Tasaki, Eiji Katsuno
  • Receptacle connector and method of producing receptacle connector
    Patent number: 9331406
    Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a receptacle insulator having an annular outer peripheral wall which defines a fitting recess; receptacle contacts; and a receptacle-side metal fixing member. When a projecting fitting portion of a plug insulator of a plug connector is fitted into the fitting recess, plug contacts of the plug connector come into contact with the receptacle contacts, and the plug connector comes into contact with the receptacle-side metal fixing member. The receptacle-side metal fixing member and the receptacle insulator are integrally formed by insert molding, and the receptacle-side metal fixing member includes a resilient contact portion which is spaced from a surface of the outer peripheral wall on the circumferentially inner side thereof when the resilient contact portion is in a free state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Connector Products Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Watanabe
  • MACROCELL BASE STATION AND TERMINAL
    Publication number: 20160080947
    Abstract: A macrocell base station includes a storage to store information of a plurality of virtual areas obtained by dividing a macrocell and information of small cells associated with the plurality of virtual areas, and a controller to perform a process of specifying the virtual area where the terminal is located, the specifying using a distance between the macrocell base station and the terminal residing in the macrocell, and a process of generating cell search information for the small cell that is to be transmitted to the terminal, the generating using the small cell information associated with the information of the specified virtual area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroaki WATANABE
  • WATER-STOPPING MEMBER AND OUTER WALL STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20160040419
    Abstract: An outer wall structure according to the invention includes first to fourth linear water-stopping members, and first to fourth corner water-stopping members. These members include plate portions and seal portions and the like. The plate portions are fixed to a vertical furring strip member, a horizontal furring strip member, and a frame member by means of a first mounting screw. Consequently, the seal portions prevent entry of water between a sash body and the plate portion. With the outer wall structure, the plate portions are fixed to the vertical furring strip member, the horizontal furring strip member, and the frame member at a position spaced apart from the outer face farther than a first width of the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: Nichiha Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki WATANABE
  • PROTECTION STRUCTURE FOR SPRING PORTION OF POWER SUPPLY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150360628
    Abstract: The present invention is to prevent sand or water from adhering to a spring member biasing a rotary member of a power supply device and thus cause the power supply device to smoothly and reliably perform a biasing operation of the rotary member over a long period. Provided is a protection structure for a spring member of power supply devices including: base members; cover members provided integrally with or separately from the base members; rotary members supported swingably by the base members and the cover members and leads out and holds a wire harness; and annular spring members biasing the rotary members in any one of swing directions, wherein the spring members are housed inside the cover members so that foreign matters are prevented from adhering to the spring member from the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Hiroshi Yamashita, Hiroaki Watanabe
  • CHARGING MEMBER, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR CHARGING MEMBER, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE
    Publication number: 20150355567
    Abstract: Provided is a charging member capable of suppressing adhesion of smear on its surface and suppressing generation of a C set image as well. The charging member includes: an electroconductive support; and an elastic layer as a surface layer, in which: the elastic layer has at least one local maximum value in a distribution of Young's modulus at respective positions in a depth direction thereof; and “a”, “Tmax” and “b” satisfy the following expressions (1) to (3): (1) 0.8 ?m?Tmax?2.5 ?m, (2) 0.6 MPa?b?1.2 MPa, (3) (a?b)/b?0.40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Shinsuke Kokubo, Toshiro Suzuki
  • ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE OF POWER-SUPPLYING PROTECTION TUBE
    Publication number: 20150325989
    Abstract: The present invention is to smoothly bend a wire harness equipped with a protection tube between a sliding structure body and a fixed structure body without causing buckling or the like and to prevent interference with the fixed structure body. A wire harness equipped with a bendable protection tube is swingably arranged between a fixed structure body and a sliding structure body, a rigidity imparting portion is formed on a side surface of an end portion of the protection tube in the fixed structure body side, and the end portion of the protection tube constantly extends in a linear manner by the rigidity imparting portion when the sliding structure body is opened or closed. The rigidity imparting portion is configured by a uniformly shaped portion on a tip side of the end portion of the protection tube and a gradually-changing shaped portion on a base end side of the end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Hiroshi Yamashita, Hiroaki Watanabe, Tomoyasu Terada
  • POWER SUPPLY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150321626
    Abstract: A power supply device includes: a rotary member that holds a wire harness inserted therethrough; and a support member that swingably supports the rotary member and is fixed to a fixed structure body or a sliding structure body, wherein the rotary member has an annular outer peripheral wall and a harness lead-out portion, the support member has one sidewall disposed along the outer peripheral wall, and the harness lead-out portion moves in a direction away from the sidewall when the sliding structure body is fully opened, the outer peripheral wall is widely exposed between the harness lead-out portion and the sidewall, and the outer peripheral wall and the sidewall are overlapped with each other in a plate thickness direction in a state where the outer peripheral wall is widely exposed and come in contact with each other so as to avoid an entry of foreign matters therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Hiroshi Yamashita, Hiroaki Watanabe
  • LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE
    Publication number: 20150226409
    Abstract: A light-emitting module is provided with a light-emitting element, a base, and a wiring pattern. The base includes an installation surface facing in a first direction and a mounting surface facing in a second direction which is at right angles to the first direction. The light-emitting element is installed on the installation surface. The wiring pattern is formed on the base and is in electrical contact with the light-emitting element. The base includes a pair of mounting recesses recessed from the mounting surface and spaced from each other in a third direction which is at right angles to both the first direction and the second direction. The wiring pattern includes a pair of mounting-surface electrodes respectively covering at least a part of the pair of mounting recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Yuki TANUMA, Satoshi UCHIDA, Norio YOSHIZAWA, Hiroaki WATANABE, Takeyuki ADACHI
  • Wave suppression structure for fuel tank
    Patent number: 9102231
    Abstract: A wave suppression structure for a fuel tank is provided in which a wave suppression member (37) disposed in the interior of a tank main body of the fuel tank is formed from a basket-shaped container (38) and cylindrical porous members (39), the basket-shaped container (38) being formed from two members, first and second half bodies (38L, 38R), two of the porous members (39) being supported in the interior of each of the first and second half bodies (38L, 38R), wherein the wave supporting member (37) is supported on a fuel suction pipe (36) by joining the first and second half bodies (38L, 38R) of the basket-shaped container (38) so as to sandwich a fuel suction pipe (36) between a through hole (38f) thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Takeaki Nakajima, Daisuke Nohara, Kiyofumi Shida, Shinya Murabayashi, Hiroaki Watanabe, Kengo Kobayashi, Seiji Yagura
  • ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150206664
    Abstract: An electricity storage device maintains low internal resistance and high electric capacity. The nonaqueous-electrolytic-solution hybrid electricity storage device employs an anode into/from which lithium can be intercalated and deintercalated and a cathode including activated carbon, even after high-temperature storage and/or high-temperature charging/discharging. Specifically, this electricity storage device includes an anode into/from which lithium can be intercalated and deintercalated, a cathode that includes activated carbon, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, wherein the electricity storage device employs a nonaqueous electrolytic solution that includes at least one type of compound represented by one of general formulas (1) to (5). Details on the general formulas (1) to (5) are as described in the Description.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Taki, Hiroaki Watanabe, Atsuki Shibuya, Akiko Tasaki, Eiji Katsuno
  • RECEPTACLE CONNECTOR AND METHOD OF PRODUCING RECEPTACLE CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20150140841
    Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a receptacle insulator having an annular outer peripheral wall which defines a fitting recess; receptacle contacts; and a receptacle-side metal fixing member. When a projecting fitting portion of a plug insulator of a plug connector is fitted into the fitting recess, plug contacts of the plug connector come into contact with the receptacle contacts, and the plug connector comes into contact with the receptacle-side metal fixing member. The receptacle-side metal fixing member and the receptacle insulator are integrally formed by insert molding, and the receptacle-side metal fixing member includes a resilient contact portion which is spaced from a surface of the outer peripheral wall on the circumferentially inner side thereof when the resilient contact portion is in a free state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA CONNECTOR PRODUCTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Watanabe