Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Watanabe
Hirokazu 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).
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Publication number: 20080143608Abstract: The present invention provides an antenna-integrated module capable of decreasing the size thereof, facilitating prevention of arbitrary alternation to the circuit, effectively performing a reflow process, and being manufactured at low cost. Circuit elements 3 are mounted on a circuit board 1 with a wiring pattern and a ground conductive layer 2 and a sheet-metal covering antenna element 4 mounted on the circuit board 1 covers the circuit elements 3. The covering antenna element 4 includes a rectangular top plate 5 with openings 5a, a power feeding leg piece 6 connected to a feeding line of the wiring pattern, short-circuited leg pieces 7 and 8 connected to the ground conductive layer 2, support leg pieces 9 to 11 electrically opened, side plates 12 to 15 with openings 12a to 15a and the pieces 6 to 11 are soldered on the circuit board 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu WATANABE, Tomotaka SUZUKI, Atsushi MURATA, Yoshikiyo WATANABE
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Publication number: 20070198874Abstract: An electronic control apparatus for vehicles is provided. The apparatus comprises a volatile memory storing control data therein, a control component performing control necessary to the vehicle using the control data in the volatile memory, and an update component updating the control data in the volatile memory based on controlled results. The apparatus further comprises a detecting component, recording component and transmitting unit. The detecting component detects an abnormality occurring in the volatile memory and the recording component correlates a history of the detected abnormality with information indicating a region of the volatile memory in which the abnormality occurs and records information indicating the abnormality history. The transmitting unit generates a transmission signal indicating the abnormality history on the basis of the information indicating the recorded history and transmitting the transmission signal to an external device via a communication interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2007Publication date: August 23, 2007Applicant: Denso CorporationInventor: Hirokazu Watanabe
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Publication number: 20070151388Abstract: An industrial robot may include a main body part and an arm part including a first arm, a second arm and a hand arm. The main body part is provided with a first turnable shaft for performing an expansion-contraction operation of the arm part, a second turnable shaft which is disposed within the first turnable shaft for changing an expansion-contraction direction of the hand arm together with the first arm, a first sensor mechanism including a first sensor for detecting a home position of the second turnable shaft, a second sensor mechanism provided in the second turnable shaft and which includes a second sensor for detecting a relative home position between the second turnable shaft and the first turnable shaft, and a rotary joint which is connected with the second turnable shaft and is electrically connected with the second sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2006Publication date: July 5, 2007Inventors: Takayuki Yazawa, Yasunori Takeuti, Hiroto Nakajima, Hirokazu Watanabe
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Publication number: 20060048686Abstract: The present invention is a new manufacturing system which is small one that can mount on a desk and the like. The inventors call it a DTF (Desk Top Factory) such as to mean a small factory. In the present application is described what “DTF” aims at and two main items are described in this report. 1) A manufacturing system having an automatic guided pallet (what is called “AGP”) as an automatic transport system. This AGP system is in harmony with an advantage of conventional two transfer systems of manufacturing lines that is, a flow shop type (what is called “assembly line”), which is suitable for a mass-manufacturing, has the advantage of being able to minimize the distance transferred between each process in the system and a job shop type (there is much to need a batch working) has an advantage of enabling traffic (go and return) between each process.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2003Publication date: March 9, 2006Inventors: Hirokazu Watanabe, Hitoshi Joko, Haruhiro Tsuneta
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Publication number: 20040248075Abstract: The present invention relates to a material that is able to selectively inactivate a specific biologically harmful substance through photocatalysis, and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: Koushi Yamaguchi, Yoichi Kondo, Hisanori Kurobe, Shinji Kato, Hirokazu Watanabe, Misao Iwata
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Publication number: 20040179978Abstract: The present invention relates to a photocatalytic material that can selectively inactivate a specific biologically harmful substance through photocatalysis, and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Hirokazu Watanabe, Shinji Kato, Hisanori Kurobe, Misao Iwata, Yoichi Kondo
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Publication number: 20040110458Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust purification apparatus for removing contaminants and odorous components from exhaust from cooking or the like, to an exhaust purification cabinet and cooking device equipped with the exhaust purification apparatus, and to a cooking system equipped with such a cooking device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2004Publication date: June 10, 2004Inventors: Shinji Kato, Misao Iwata, Hirokazu Watanabe, Hisanori Kurobe, Mikio Hirano
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Patent number: 6739647Abstract: A tailored blank article and a manufacturing method thereof, which is used for partitioning an inside and an outside such as a dashboard panel for partitioning an engine room of a car body and the inside of a car room. A thick plate blank and a thin plate blank are joined by a mash-seam welding or a laser welding, and are subjected to a pressing. Thereby, the thin plate blank is bent until an inner surface of the thin plate blank is made flush or almost flush with an inner surface of the thick plate blank, subsequently, a connection part having a portion connected over a welding portion is connected to at least one of an outer surface and the inner surface of the tailored blank article comprising the thick plate blank and the thin plate blank, and then an entire tailored article including the connection part is coated.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2003Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignees: Kikuchi Co., Ltd., Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisashi Obara, Hiroyuki Komatsu, Noriyuki Yanase, Kouji Shimohigashi, Kazumi Kodama, Hirokazu Watanabe, Fumiaki Niisato
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Patent number: 6723869Abstract: For the production of acrylonitrile by ammoxidation of propylene, there is provided a catalyst capable of giving a high yield for a long period of time. In producing acrylonitrile by ammoxidation of propylene, there is used a metal oxide as a catalyst, which metal oxide contains iron, antimony, molybdenum, bismuth, potassium, an F element, a G element, an H element and silica as essential components in a specific composition ratio, and in which metal oxide iron antimonate exists as a crystal phase, provided that the F element is at least one element selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, manganese, cobalt, nickel, copper, silver, zinc and cadmium, the G element is at least one element selected from the group consisting of chromium, aluminum, gallium and indium, and the H element is at least one element selected from the group consisting of yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium and samarium.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2002Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kunio Mori, Yutaka Sasaki, Kenichi Miyaki, Hirokazu Watanabe
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Patent number: 6653496Abstract: For the production of acrylonitrile by ammoxidation of propylene, there is provided a process capable of giving a high yield and maintaining such an effect for a long period of time. In producing acrylonitrile by ammoxidation of propylene, a fluidized bed catalyst is used and the reaction is carried out while appropriately adding a molybdenum-containing material, wherein the fluidized bed catalyst, in which iron antimonate exists as a crystal phase, contains molybdenum, bismuth, iron, potassium, an M component, an N component and silica as essential components, and has a number of Mo/Me of from 0.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2002Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kunio Mori, Yutaka Sasaki, Kenichi Miyaki, Hirokazu Watanabe
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Patent number: 6642405Abstract: For the production of acrylonitrile by ammoxidation of propylene, there is provided a process capable of giving a high yield and maintaining such an effect for a long period of time. In producing acrylonitrile by ammoxidation of propylene, a fluidized bed catalyst is used and the reaction is carried out while appropriately adding a molybdenum-containing material, wherein the fluidized bed catalyst contains molybdenum, bismuth, iron, nickel, chromium, potassium, an F component and silica as essential components, and has a number of Mo/Me of from 0.8 to 1, wherein the Mo/Me is a number obtained by dividing the product 20 of a valence number of molybdenum as molybdic acid and an atomic ratio of molybdenum by the sum of respective products of respective valence numbers and atomic ratios of bismuth, iron, nickel, chromium, potassium, the F component element, a G component element and a Y component element.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kunio Mori, Yutaka Sasaki, Kenichi Miyaki, Hirokazu Watanabe
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Publication number: 20030193214Abstract: A tailored blank article and a manufacturing method thereof, which is used for partitioning an inside and an outside such as a dashboard panel for partitioning an engine room of a car body and the inside of a car room. A thick plate blank and a thin plate blank are joined by a mash-seam welding or a laser welding, and are subjected to a pressing. Thereby, the thin plate blank is bent until an inner surface of the thin plate blank is made flush or almost flush with an inner surface of the thick plate blank, subsequently, a connection part having a portion connected over a welding portion is connected to at least one of an outer surface and the inner surface of the tailored blank article comprising the thick plate blank and the thin plate blank, and then an entire tailored article including the connection part is coated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2003Publication date: October 16, 2003Applicants: Kikuchi Co., Ltd, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisashi Obara, Hiroyuki Komatsu, Noriyuki Yanase, Kouji Shimohigashi, Kazumi Kodama, Hirokazu Watanabe, Fumiaki Niisato
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Publication number: 20030178296Abstract: A hazardous substance treatment agent has a retainer and a transition metal oxide. The retainer has the specificity of retaining only a specific hazardous substance, such as a virus, a bacterium or a toxin, that has become mixed in or has the possibility of becoming mixed in a treatment subject, such as blood, that is in at least either a liquid or gaseous phase. By a photocatalytic action, the transition metal oxide inactivates said hazardous substance retained by the retainer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventors: Shinji Kato, Hirokazu Watanabe, Hisanori Kurobe, Misao Iwata, Koushi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 6601909Abstract: A tailored blank article and a manufacturing method thereof, which is used for partitioning an inside and an outside such as a dashboard panel for partitioning an engine room of a car body and the inside of a car room. A thick plate blank and a thin plate blank are joined by a mash-seam welding or a laser welding, and are subjected to a pressing. Thereby, the thin plate blank is bent until an inner surface of the thin plate blank is made flush or almost flush with an inner surface of the thick plate blank, subsequently, a connection part having a portion connected over a welding portion is connected to at least one of an outer surface and the inner surface of the tailored blank article comprising the thick plate blank and the thin plate blank, and then an entire tailored article including the connection part is coated.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2001Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignees: Kikuchi Co., Ltd., Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisashi Obara, Hiroyuki Komatsu, Noriyuki Yanase, Kouji Shimohigashi, Kazumi Kodama, Hirokazu Watanabe, Fumiaki Niisato
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Patent number: 6600897Abstract: A satellite-broadcasting receiving converter includes a plurality of output terminals each of which is connected to an external receiver, to each of which a selection control voltage in which a high-frequency voltage is superposed on a DC voltage is sent from the external receiver, and from each of which one type of a receiving signal is selected according to the selection control voltage and output; and a regulator for generating a power-source voltage from the selection control voltage. Since a high-frequency attenuation unit is connected in series between each output terminal and the regulator in the satellite-broadcasting receiving converter, even if a plurality of selection control voltages are input in common to the regulator, the plurality of selection control voltages different from each other do not affect each other and thereby only one regulator is required.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2000Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu Watanabe, Shigetaka Suzuki
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Publication number: 20030071488Abstract: A tailored blank article and a manufacturing method thereof, which is used for partitioning an inside and an outside such as a dashboard panel for partitioning an engine room of a car body and the inside of a car room. A thick plate blank and a thin plate blank are joined by a mash-seam welding or a laser welding, and are subjected to a pressing. Thereby, the thin plate blank is bent until an inner surface of the thin plate blank is made flush or almost flush with an inner surface of the thick plate blank, subsequently, a connection part having a portion connected over a welding portion is connected to at least one of an outer surface and the inner surface of the tailored blank article comprising the thick plate blank and the thin plate blank, and then an entire tailored article including the connection part is coated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2001Publication date: April 17, 2003Inventors: Hisashi Obara, Hiroyuki Komatsu, Noriyuki Yanase, Kouji Shimohigashi, Kazumi Kodama, Hirokazu Watanabe, Fumiaki Niisato
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Publication number: 20030050196Abstract: Photocatalyst compositions may include a photocatalyst layer formed or disposed on the surface of a porous substrate. A metal may be disposed on the photocatalyst layer. If the metal is present predominantly at the surface of the photocatalyst layer, the metal can be utilized efficiently for photocatalytic reactions. The photocatalyst composition may be preferably formed by disposing the photocatalyst layer on the surface of the porous substrate and depositing the metal predominantly on the surface of the photocatalyst layer. Photocatalytic filter devices may include these photocatalyst compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2002Publication date: March 13, 2003Applicant: NORITAKE CO., LIMITEDInventors: Yuji Hirano, Shinji Kato, Hirokazu Watanabe, Hisanori Kurobe, Misao Iwata
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Patent number: 6457213Abstract: The present invention provides a tack which prevents puckering phenomenon from being generated when the tack is pierced into cloth and enables a firm engagement between the tack and a boss portion of a button. In the tack for button, a cylindrical post stands on the center of a seat plate and a quadrangular pyramid shaped head is formed at an end of the post. The head is pointed such that a vertical angle of each of peripheral faces of the head is in a range of 20 to 40°. Four corners on a proximal periphery of the head are protruded out of an outer peripheral face of the post so as to form an engaging portion which bites into a wall face of an attaching hole in a boss portion of the button. When the tack is pierced into cloth, because the head makes a linear contact with the cloth and it is pointed, no puckering phenomenon occurs, thereby making it possible to engage and fix the tack to the boss portion firmly.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2000Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: YKK CorporationInventor: Hirokazu Watanabe
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Patent number: 6438811Abstract: A male/female engaging device utilized with a pair of tapes constructed so that a gap between the pair of tapes is as small as possible and capable of providing a fashionable and beautiful appearance. Female engaging devices made of synthetic resin are attached to one side edge of one of the pair of tapes and male engaging devices are attached to one side edge of the other of the pair of tapes. Engagement or disengagement between a female engaging device and its corresponding male engaging device is carried out inside of the side edge of one of the tapes on which the female engaging device or the male engaging device is attached. In one embodiment, each female engaging device includes a vertical pair of engaging pieces protruded from a base portion for covering the side edge of one tape and each male engaging device includes a hooking portion for covering the side edge of the other tape so that the engaging pieces are capable of engaging the hooking portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2000Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: YKK CorporationInventor: Hirokazu Watanabe
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Publication number: 20010005924Abstract: The present invention provides a tack which prevents puckering phenomenon from being generated when the tack is pierced into cloth and enables a firm engagement between the tack and a boss portion of a button. In the tack for button, a cylindrical post stands on the center of a seat plate and a quadrangular pyramid shaped head is formed at an end of the post. The head is pointed such that a vertical angle of each of peripheral faces of the head is in a range of 20 to 40°. Four corners on a proximal periphery of the head are protruded out of an outer peripheral face of the post so as to form an engaging portion which bites into a wall face of an attaching hole in a boss portion of the button. When the tack is pierced into cloth, because the head makes a linear contact with the cloth and it is pointed, no puckering phenomenon occurs, thereby making it possible to engage and fix the tack to the boss portion firmly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2000Publication date: July 5, 2001Applicant: YKK CORPORATIONInventor: Hirokazu Watanabe