Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Watanabe
Hiroshi 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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Patent number: 12341447Abstract: The present invention achieves highly accurate control characteristics by estimating an induced voltage coefficient of a magnet motor without rotary auto-tuning. A first power Pc is calculated on the basis of the output voltage and output current of the magnet motor, and a second power P{circumflex over (?)} is calculated on the basis of the electric circuit constant, current command, output frequency, and induced voltage coefficient of the magnet motor. The induced voltage coefficient is estimated so that the calculated first power follows the second power, and the driving of the magnet motor is controlled in accordance with the induced voltage coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tobari, Yusaku Onuma, Takuya Sugimoto, Hiroshi Watanabe, Mutsuo Tokashiki
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Patent number: 12334847Abstract: A power converter apparatus comprising: a power converter that outputs signal to the magnet motor to vary the output frequency, output voltage and output current of the magnet motor, a control unit controls the power converter, wherein the control unit calculating the gain of the magnetic flux component of the q-axis, which varies with the phase of the magnet motor, calculating the d-axis induced voltage command value based on a value of the induced voltage coefficient, frequency estimates or frequency command value, and the gain of the flux component of the q-axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Tobari, Hironori Ohashi, Hiroshi Watanabe, Masato Ohya
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Patent number: 12325599Abstract: A conveying device conveys a container including a magnetic body to a target position along a conveyance path and includes a conveyance surface configured by arranging a plurality of magnetic poles including a core and a coil, and including a conveyance path, a drive unit supplying a current to the coil, and a position detection unit estimating the position of the container. The position detection unit excites a first magnetic pole to detect the position of the container and applies a voltage to at least one second magnetic pole that is peripheral in a predetermined range from the first magnetic pole and is different from the first magnetic pole in a direction in which the polarity becomes opposite to the exciting current of the first magnetic pole, and a process of estimating the position of the container based on the current value of the first magnetic pole.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Takeshi Tamakoshi, Yasuaki Aoyama, Satoru Kaneko, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Ryosuke Hoshi, Hiroshi Watanabe, Katsuhiro Kambara, Kuniaki Onizawa
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Publication number: 20250145393Abstract: Provided are a conveying device and a conveying method capable of improving the position detection accuracy of the holder as compared with the related art. A conveying device 100 includes a coil 107 including a core 105 and a winding 106, a drive unit 108 that supplies a current to the winding 106, a current detection unit 109 that detects the value of the current flowing through the winding 106, and a control unit 110 that calculates the position of a holder 102, in which the control unit 110 calculates the position of the holder 102 based on the current value detected by the current detection unit 109 and the calibration curve obtained in advance, and changes the calibration curve used depending on how the drive voltage is applied by the drive unit 108.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Azuma, Hiroshi Watanabe, Shigeru Yano
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Patent number: 12292097Abstract: The present invention enables a simple structure to provide an easy adjustment of damping torque to be caused by applied rotation. The rotary damper (1) is intend to limit movement of viscous fluid filled in a circular cylindrical chamber (111), thereby generating a damping torque in response to an applied rotational force. The lid (15) is the screw-on type capable of being screwed into the casing (11), and thus adjusting a clearance gap G1 between the lid (15) and each partition (115) by way of changing the screwing amount of the lid (15) into the casing (11) allows amount of viscous fluid moving through the clearance gap G1 to be adjusted, thereby resulting in adjustment of a damping torque to be caused by rotation. In addition, each axial force generation member (17) includes a plastically or elastically deformable element and is located between the lid (15) and the corresponding partition (115) to apply a reaction force to the lid (15).Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: OILES CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Kenichi Okumura, Wataru Nishioka, Ryohei Kaneko
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Patent number: 12273965Abstract: A holding device including a ceramic member formed of a sintered ceramic material containing aluminum nitride as a main component, a heating resistor element formed of a metal and disposed in the ceramic member, an electrically conductive electricity supply connection member in contact with the heating resistor element, and an electrically conductive electricity supply terminal electrically connected to the electricity supply connection member. The holding device holds an object on the surface of the ceramic member. In the holding device, at least a portion of the surface of the electricity supply connection member, excluding its contact surface for contact with the heating resistor element and its connection surface for connection with the electricity supply terminal, is covered with a coat layer formed of a nitride containing at least one of Al, Ti, Zr, V, Ta, and Nb. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing the holding device.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Niterra Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryunosuke Sakamaki, Katsuya Takaoka, Hiroshi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20250103134Abstract: A computer performs processing including: generating an image to be presented to a driver in a preset coordinate system; identifying a display position at which the generated image is displayed in a field of vision of a driver, based on a viewpoint position of the driver; generating a driver viewpoint image obtained by converting the generated image to an image represented in a coordinate system defined with the viewpoint position as a reference; causing the driver viewpoint image to be displayed in such a manner that the driver viewpoint image overlaps a field of vision of the driver; detecting a line of sight of the driver; and when determining that a change amount of the detected line of sight exceeds a threshold value, suppressing change in a position at which the driver viewpoint image is displayed occurring in association with change in the viewpoint position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20250082610Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a technique to effectively inhibit microorganism growth in an oral composition and the like. The present invention relates to a composition containing (A) L-ergothioneine or a salt thereof and (B) quercetin or a glycoside thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Makoto Katsube, Hiroshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 12230441Abstract: A transport device and a transport method efficiently increase a thrust to suppress power consumption. The transport device has a first magnetic body on a side of a to-be-transported object, a magnetic circuit with a core consisting of a second magnetic body, and a winding wound around an outside of the core, and a drive circuit supplying a current to the winding of the magnetic circuit. The magnetic circuit has first and second magnetic circuits, and in a case where the first magnetic body is located on a side of the second magnetic circuit relative to a first predetermined position between the first magnetic circuit and the second magnetic circuit, the drive circuit supplies a current to a winding of the first magnetic circuit in such a manner to cause an electromagnetic repulsive force to be generated between the first magnetic body and the first magnetic circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke Hoshi, Yasuaki Aoyama, Satoru Kaneko, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tamakoshi, Katsuhiro Kambara, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kuniaki Onizawa
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Publication number: 20250017905Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a composition for inhibiting histamine-N-methyltransferase. The present invention relates to a composition for inhibiting histamine-N-methyltransferase, containing L-ergothioneine or a salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2022Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Makoto Katsube, Hiroshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 12173435Abstract: The present invention aims to speed up of processing necessary at the time of switching between different sewing operation modes. Sewing data supply means supplies sewing data having mixed therein data indicative of different sewing operation modes. The sewing machine sews, based on the sewing data, a string-shaped material to a workpiece with different sewing operation modes mixed. A control device for the sewing machine includes a quick shift process means that controls, at a boundary between the different sewing operation modes and depending on a difference between the sewing operation modes immediately preceding and succeeding the boundary, whether to execute a process for shifting to the succeeding sewing operation mode while keeping a main shaft of the sewing machine rotating (rapid process) or to execute the process for shifting to the succeeding sewing operation mode after temporarily stopping the rotation of the main shaft (normal shift process).Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: TISM CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Takuya Okamoto
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Patent number: 12141723Abstract: A site management system is provided with a server that acquires information about a construction machine and a construction machine operator at a construction site through a communication channel, and manages work conditions at the construction site. The server includes an information registration unit that acquires and registers position information, acceleration data, and gyro data of the construction machine and the construction machine operator, and a riding determination unit that determines a proximity state between the construction machine and the construction machine operator from the position information of the construction machine and the construction machine operator, and determines whether or not the construction machine operator is riding the construction machine from the acceleration data and gyro data of the construction machine operator in addition to the proximity state.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Seiya Kato, Eiji Egawa, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Masami Kamibayashi
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Patent number: 12110577Abstract: The iron loss of a dust core is reduced. A dust core (1) includes soft magnetic metal particles (3) having an average particle size of 5 ?m or more and 30 ?m or less, and a particle boundary phase (6). The particle boundary phase (6) includes a polycrystalline compound containing Al (aluminum). When a sectional structure of the dust core (1) is observed, an area percentage of ?-Al2O3 in the particle boundary phase (6) is 75% or less. An average thickness Ta of the particle boundary phase (6) is 10 nm or more and 300 nm or less. According to the present invention, the iron loss is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: NITERRA CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Satoshi Mori, Manami Fujii, Katsuya Takaoka, Hiroki Takeuchi, Hisashi Kozuka
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Patent number: 12114402Abstract: A holding device including a ceramic member formed of a sintered ceramic material containing aluminum nitride as a main component, a heating resistor element formed of a metal and disposed in the ceramic member, and an electrically conductive electricity supply member in contact with the heating resistor element. The holding device holds an object on the surface of the ceramic member. In the holding device, at least a portion of the surface of the heating resistor element, excluding its contact surface for contact with the electricity supply member, is covered with a coat layer formed of a nitride containing at least one of Al, Ti, Zr, V, Ta, and Nb. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing the holding device.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: NITERRA CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryunosuke Sakamaki, Katsuya Takaoka, Hiroshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 12108005Abstract: Provided is a reading device including: a first emitting unit configured to emit light; an optical path unit having a reflection surface configured to reflect a part of light emitted from the first emitting unit, and an optical path configured to guide the part of light from the reflection surface to an original; and an image sensor that generates an image from specular reflection of the part of light guided by the optical path from the original.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yoji Nishida, Hiroshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 12098039Abstract: The weight of a body-to-be-conveyed constituting a conveying device is reduced, and the friction force between the sliding surface of the body-to-be-conveyed and the conveyance path is reduced. A body-to-be-conveyed that is a component of a conveying device that uses electromagnetic force as thrust and can move in a horizontal direction includes a mover in which a bottom surface is arranged so that a predetermined gap is formed in a vertical direction with respect to the sliding surface thereof, in which the mover includes a permanent magnet and a cover, a gap facing surface of the permanent magnet facing the gap includes one magnetic pole, the cover is installed on a side of the permanent magnet opposite from the gap facing surface in the vertical direction, the horizontal outermost diameter of the cover is larger than the horizontal outermost diameter of the permanent magnet, and the cover is formed of a flat plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Ryosuke Hoshi, Yasuaki Aoyama, Satoru Kaneko, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tamakoshi, Hiroshi Watanabe, Katsuhiro Kambara, Kuniaki Onizawa
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Patent number: 12094959Abstract: Provided is a technology that suppresses the removal of collector layers in the planarization process while suppressing the snapback phenomenon. A semiconductor device related to a technology disclosed in the present specification includes a drain layer of first conductivity type in a part of a lower surface a drift layer, a plurality of collector layers of second conductivity type in parts of the lower surface of the drift layer, and a dummy layer of the first conductivity type interposed between the plurality of collector layers in parts of the lower surface of the drift layer, in which a width of the dummy layer 3 in a first direction, which is the direction in which the dummy layer is interposed between the plurality of collector layers, is narrower than a width of the drain layer in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuya Konishi, Yoichiro Tarui, Hiroki Niwa, Hiroaki Okabe, Hiroshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 12067352Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium with an executable revision history integration program for causing at least one computer executes: a procedure for acquiring data on at least one document having at least one editing history including a name of an editor of the document; a procedure for collectively converting at least one name of an editor included in the editing history in the acquired data; and a procedure for deleting addition and deletion histories where a character string in the acquired data has been added and deleted by the same editor's name, as a result of the conversion of the name of the editor.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: BOOSTDRAFT, INC.Inventors: Yohei Fujii, Hiroshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 12038450Abstract: Provided is an automatic analysis device in which even an operator can easily identify the type of processing and the type of individual and erroneous setting hardly occurs. A vessel holder for holding a sample vessel, a reading unit for reading an identification area formed in the vessel holder, and a control unit for performing processing based on information read by the reading unit are included, in which the control unit identifies the type of processing based on the type of color applied to the identification area, and identifies the type of individual in the sample vessel based on how the identification area is colored.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Kazuma Tamura
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Patent number: D1042812Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Shinji Azuma, Shigeru Yano, Hiroshi Watanabe