Patents by Inventor Hiroki Watanabe
Hiroki 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: 20240150646Abstract: The present invention is a semiconductor nanoparticle composed of a semiconductor crystal of a compound containing Ag, Au and S as essential constitutional elements. A AgAuS-based compound constituting the semiconductor nanoparticle has a total content of Ag, Au and S of 95 mass % or more. In addition, the compound is preferably a AgAuS ternary compound represented by the general formula Ag(nx)Au(ny)S(nz). In the formula, n is any positive integer. x, y and z represent proportions of the number of atoms of the respective atoms of Ag, Au and S in the compound and are real numbers satisfying 0<x, y, z?1, and x/y is 1/7 or more and 7 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM, TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO K.K.Inventors: Tsukasa TORIMOTO, Tatsuya KAMEYAMA, Shuhei TSUNEIZUMI, Yumezo WATANABE, Mariko HASEGAWA, Hiroki SATO, Yuusuke OHSHIMA
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Publication number: 20240147741Abstract: The present disclosure provides an inorganic/organic hybrid complementary semiconductor device that can be manufactured at a lower cost, has excellent long-term stability, has a well-balanced operation between the p-type transistor and the n-type transistor, and operates at a high speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, DAICEL CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi TAKEYA, Shunichiro WATANABE, Shouhei KUMAGAI, Xiaozhu WEI, Daiji IKEDA, Hiroki SATO, Yasuyuki AKAI
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Publication number: 20240136873Abstract: A rotor includes a first resin portion formed the periphery of a main shaft; a first core disposed the outer circumferential portion of the first resin portion; a magnet attached to the radial outside of the first core; and a second core disposed the radially outside end face of the magnet, wherein a plurality of structures in each of which the magnet is sandwiched between the first and second cores are disposed circumferentially around the main shaft, and a second resin portion is formed between the circumferential end faces of adjacent second cores and between the circumferential end faces of adjacent magnets, wherein the first core has a division surface on which the circumferential end faces of itself and an adjacent first core are in surface contact with each other, and wherein the second core is not in contact with an adjacent second core.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Taichi TOKUHISA, Ryo NABIKA, Takeshi YAGI, Hiroki ASO, Takanori WATANABE, Akiko TATEBE, Kazuya HARADA
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Publication number: 20240123654Abstract: Provided is a separation and recovery apparatus for continuously separating and recovering, from a resin mixture containing a resin containing a hydrolyzable polymer and a resin containing a nonhydrolyzable polymer, a hydrolytic component a of the hydrolyzable polymer A and the nonhydrolyzable polymer B, the apparatus including: a crushing unit that crushes the resin mixture a melting/discharging unit that melts a crushed product obtained by the crushing unit to form a fluid and discharges the fluid at a high pressure; and a hydrothermal reaction treatment unit that continuously subjects the fluid discharged from the melting/discharging unit to a hydrothermal reaction treatment, wherein, in the melting/discharging unit, the hydrolyzable polymer A is hydrolyzed, and the hydrolytic component a thereof is dissolved and transferred into water permeating a sintered alloy diaphragm, thereby separating the nonhydrolyzable polymer B.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOPPAN INC.Inventors: Masaru WATANABE, Aritomo YAMAGUCHI, Osamu SATO, Yuuma IRISA, Akira TAKAMA, Kousuke NISHIMURA, Hiroki KUJIRAOKA, Hideki MIYAZAKI, Keita AKIMOTO, Takuya TAKAHATA, Daisuke KUGIMOTO, Shingo KOUDA, Satoshi HAMURA, Takahiro IMAI, Yumiko OMORI, Manabu KAWA
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Publication number: 20240129962Abstract: A base station apparatus, configured to establish a wireless link for a backhaul line with a relay apparatus, and provide a first period in which a radio resource is used by the base station apparatus for the backhaul line, and a second period in which the radio resource is not used by the backhaul line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki TAKEDA, Xiao SHAO, Yasutomo MIYAKE, Shingo WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240128144Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sealing material suitable for a compound having a non-stoichiometric composi263tion. The present disclosure is related to a sealing material for a compound having a non-stoichiometric composition, the sealing material including a polymer layer and an inorganic oxide insulator layer, wherein the polymer layer includes a first polymer layer containing an organic solvent soluble polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, DAICEL CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi TAKEYA, Shunichiro WATANABE, Shouhei KUMAGAI, Xiaozhu WEI, Daiji IKEDA, Hiroki SATO, Yasuyuki AKAI
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Publication number: 20240104065Abstract: Pieces of information on multiple file management systems are managed by one contract in a distributed ledger. An administrator terminal includes: a file management system generation unit that issues a contract generation transaction for generating, in blockchain data, a contract in which a network identifier that identifies a file management system is associated with an identifier of a participant terminal in a blockchain system, and notifying the participant terminal of the network identifier and an identifier of the contract; and a file management control unit that issues a registration transaction for registering, in the contract, connection information of the administrator terminal in the file management system, acquires connection information of the participant terminal in the file management system from the contract, and establishes a P2P connection with the participant terminal based on the acquired connection information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Shigenori OHASHI, Hiroki WATANABE, Tatsuro ISHIDA, Shigeru FUJIMURA, Atsushi NAKADAIRA
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Patent number: 11942637Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the positive electrode active material comprising a Ni-containing lithium composite oxide a, b, wherein the Ni-containing lithium composite oxide a has an average primary particle size of 1 ?m or more which is larger than the average primary particle size of the Ni-containing lithium composite oxide b, the Ni-containing lithium composite oxide a has an average secondary particle size of 2 to 6 ?m, the Ni-containing lithium composite oxide b has an average primary particle size of 0.05 ?m or more and an average secondary particle size of 10 to 20 ?m, the Ni-containing lithium composite oxide a contains Mn and at least one of B and Al, the Ni-containing lithium composite oxide b contains Mn, and the ratio of the Ni-containing lithium composite oxide a to the Ni-containing lithium composite oxide b is 5:95 to 55:45.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidekazu Hiratsuka, Hiroki Watanabe, Kazunori Donoue
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Publication number: 20240097554Abstract: In one embodiment, electronic circuitry includes a current output circuit configured to output a drive current to a switching element, a first detection circuit configured to detect a timing at which a voltage between output terminals of the switching element, and a control circuit configured to cause the current output circuit to start outputting a first drive current in accordance with a command signal that instructs switching operation of the switching element. The control circuit switches the drive current output from the current output circuit to a second drive current smaller than the first drive current based on the timing at which the voltage between the output terminals, the timing being detected by the first detection circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki WATANABE, Takeshi UENO
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Publication number: 20240087125Abstract: The medical image processing device acquires the plurality of types of medical images obtained by imaging a subject under imaging conditions different from each other. In a case where a first medical image that is one type of the plurality of types of medical images is input, diagnosis information regarding a diagnosis of the subject shown in the first medical image is generated. Diagnostic reference information is generated using assigned reference information that is the reference information assigned to a second medical image which is included in the medical image and which has a type different from the first medical image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroki WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240071227Abstract: An information processing device mounted on a vehicle including a sensor includes an acquisition unit that acquires a surrounding image of the vehicle and information related to a behavior of the vehicle from the sensor, and an identification unit that identifies a moving object in the surrounding image of the vehicle based on a chronological change of the surrounding image of the vehicle and the information related to the behavior of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Masataka OKUDA, Hiroki MAKI, Kosuke WATANABE, Kanade KURIYAMA
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Patent number: 11913367Abstract: There is provided an exhaust gas purifying catalyst including a substrate and catalyst portions. The substrate includes an inflow-side cells, outflow-side cells, and porous partition walls, each partition wall separating the inflow-side cell from the outflow-side cell. The catalyst portion includes: (group A) first catalyst portions, each first catalyst portion being provided on a surface of the partition wall that faces the inflow-side cell on an upstream side in an exhaust gas flow direction; and (group B) second catalyst portions being provided on a surface of the partition wall that faces the outflow-side cell on a downstream side in the exhaust gas flow direction. Each catalyst portion of one of group A and group B includes at least one oxidizing catalyst layer and at least one reducing catalyst layer, and each catalyst portion of the other of group A and group B includes at least one oxidizing catalyst layer and/or at least one reducing catalyst layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Kurihara, Yusuke Nagai, Shingo Akita, Yoshinori Endo, Takeshi Mori, Takayuki Watanabe, Tomoko Tsuyama
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Publication number: 20240061356Abstract: The fine particle is a silicon-containing fine particle, wherein the number-average diameter of the fine particle is 0.05 ?m to 0.30 ?m; the proportion of the silicon atom with reference to the total of the elements is at least 20% according to fluorescent x-ray measurement of the fine particle; and, with respect to the silicon atom proportions measured in analysis by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy while irradiating with Ar-K? radiation and etching, the proportions of silicon atoms having prescribed structures vary at prescribed depths.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: ICHIRO KANNO, HIROKI WATANABE, MARI KABURAGI, HAYATO IDA
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Publication number: 20240054108Abstract: Pieces of information on multiple file management systems are managed by one contract in a distributed ledger. An administrator terminal includes: a file management system generation unit that issues a contract generation transaction for generating, in blockchain data, a contract in which a network identifier that identifies a file management system is associated with an identifier of a participant terminal in a blockchain system, and notifying the participant terminal of the network identifier and an identifier of the contract; and a file management control unit that issues a registration transaction for registering, in the contract, connection information of the administrator terminal in the file management system, acquires connection information of the participant terminal in the file management system from the contract, and establishes a P2P connection with the participant terminal based on the acquired connection information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Shigenori OHASHI, Hiroki WATANABE, Tatsuro ISHIDA, Shigeru FUJIMURA, Atsushi NAKADAIRA
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Patent number: 11893583Abstract: A settlement system includes a service provider device 2 which transmits a template information transaction including a template of a transaction to a network 4 of a first blockchain, a user device which transmits, to the network 4 of the first blockchain, a payment information transaction that includes an electronic signature generated by using the template of the transaction and a payment amount, and a smart contract 41, wherein the smart contract 41 verifies the electronic signature by using the payment amount and the template of the transaction, the service provider device 2 generates a settlement transaction by using the template of the transaction, the electronic signature and the payment amount, and transmits the settlement transaction to a network 3 of a second blockchain, a plurality of output conditions are set to the template of the transaction, and the settlement transaction becomes usable when any one of the plurality of output conditions is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Shigenori Ohashi, Atsushi Nakadaira, Shigeru Fujimura, Masayoshi Chikada, Tatsuro Ishida, Hiroki Watanabe, Kota Hidaka, Junichi Kishigami
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Patent number: 11888985Abstract: The present invention prevents falsification of ABI information and makes it possible for the users to safely read data on a blockchain. A registration terminal 1 includes an extraction unit 142 that extracts from a smart contract, ABI information used to access the smart contract and a transaction issuing unit 13 that issues a transaction including bytecode generated by compiling the smart contract and the ABI information, and an approval terminal 2 includes a verification unit 152 that verifies whether it is possible to access the bytecode included in the transaction by using the ABI information included in the transaction and a block generation unit 154 that, if it is possible to access the bytecode, generates a block including the transaction and makes the block and the ABI information reflected on a distributed ledger 11 of each terminal in the blockchain system.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Hiroki Watanabe, Shigenori Ohashi, Shigeru Fujimura, Atsushi Nakadaira
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Publication number: 20240029404Abstract: An endoscope system that illuminates a subject and captures light from the subject acquires an examination image based on an image signal captured by an endoscope, divides the examination image into a plurality of regions as an input image, inputs the input image divided into the plurality of regions to a first classifier to output region evaluation values for the plurality of regions, and inputs an input image in which the region evaluation values are added to the plurality of regions to a second classifier to output a lesion evaluation value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroki WATANABE
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Patent number: 11872366Abstract: A connecting structure for medical use includes a male assembly 1 and a female connector 2. The male assembly 1 includes a male connector 10 and a threadedly engageable cylinder 20. A male luer portion 11 of the male connector 10 and a female luer portion 2a of the female connector 2 are joined by turning the threadedly engageable cylinder 20 in a tightening direction in a state where a female screw 21a of the threadedly engageable cylinder 20 and an engageable protrusion 2c of the female connector 2 are threadedly engaged with each other. A torque limiting mechanism 50 is disposed between an operation cylinder 30 mounted on an outer periphery of the threadedly engageable cylinder 20 and the threadedly engageable cylinder 20. Engageable teeth 51 are formed in an inner periphery of one end portion of the operation cylinder 30 over an entire periphery. A slit 54 is formed in one end portion of the threadedly engageable cylinder 20.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: KOYO SANGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Mario Iwakata, Hiroki Watanabe, Takayuki Miyazaki
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Patent number: 11868322Abstract: Pieces of information on multiple file management systems are managed by one contract in a distributed ledger. An administrator terminal includes: a file management system generation unit that issues a contract generation transaction for generating, in blockchain data, a contract in which a network identifier that identifies a file management system is associated with an identifier of a participant terminal in a blockchain system, and notifying the participant terminal of the network identifier and an identifier of the contract; and a file management control unit that issues a registration transaction for registering, in the contract, connection information of the administrator terminal in the file management system, acquires connection information of the participant terminal in the file management system from the contract, and establishes a P2P connection with the participant terminal based on the acquired connection information.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Shigenori Ohashi, Hiroki Watanabe, Tatsuro Ishida, Shigeru Fujimura, Atsushi Nakadaira
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Patent number: 11837264Abstract: A data storage device comprises a lead actuator that actuates a first read-write head over a first disk and a support actuator that actuates a second read-write head over a second disk. A spindle motor rotates the first and second disks. In response to an emergency power off (EPO) event, a processing device retracts and parks the actuators using an internal supply voltage generated from a back electromotive force (BEMF) voltage of the spindle motor, and egresses data from a volatile to a non-volatile semiconductor memory. Egress is throttled before the actuators are retracted and parked when the internal supply voltage falls to or below a first egress throttling threshold voltage. Egress is throttled after the actuators are retracted and parked when the internal supply voltage falls to or below a second egress throttling threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian Johnson, Jaesoo Byoun, Gaku Ikedo, Hideaki Ito, Naoyuki Kagami, Hiroki Watanabe