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).

  • Patent number: 11209197
    Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating/heating device that efficiently refrigerates and heats while suppressing device costs. This refrigerating/heating device for efficiently heating and refrigerating is provided with: a refrigeration chamber; a Peltier-type cooler for supplying cold air to inside the refrigeration chamber; a heat radiation member for radiating Peltier heat; fans for air-cooling the heat radiation member; an exhaust duct through which waste heat from the fans and the heat radiation member passes; and an installation part to which a subject to be heated can be installed. The subject to be heated is installed in the waste heat flow path of the exhaust duct and heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Tadao Yabuhara, Terumi Tamura, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11209285
    Abstract: A vehicular display device configured to display a guide route to a destination of a host vehicle includes a navigation device configured to calculate the guide route, a display controller configured to draw an arrow having a shaft with an arrowhead at one end of the shaft, as a guide figure for guidance along the guide route calculated by the navigation device, such that the arrow is shaped as a three-dimensional object in which one surface of the arrow is a continuous flat surface from the shaft to the arrowhead and the other surface of the arrow includes a first portion with a first width having a first height, and a second portion with a second width smaller than the first width and having a second height smaller than the first height, and a display configured to display an image drawn by the display controller in a display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Maruyama, Hiroshi Watanabe, Masayuki Shishido, Norio Kosaka
  • Patent number: 11199856
    Abstract: The safe operation assistance device 200 includes: a connecting destination detecting section 259 that detects and manages a connection state between the safe operation assistance device 200 and a connecting destination device; a unique information setting section 251 that sets unique information identifying a vehicle type of an own vehicle according to the connecting destination device; a positional information acquisition section 257 that acquires positional information of the own vehicle; an own vehicle information management section 252 that manages the positional information and the unique information of the own vehicle; an inter-vehicle communication section 255 that transmits the own vehicle information to other vehicle and acquires other vehicle information; and a risk determination section 254 that determines presence or absence of a collision risk between the own vehicle and the other vehicle using the own vehicle information and the other vehicle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Katou, Takeshi Ito, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11110934
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle travel control apparatus configured to, when a specific scene has not been detected, start deceleration control after a first set time has elapsed since alert processing is started, the vehicle travel control apparatus being further configured to, when the specific scene has been detected, start the deceleration control before the first set time has elapsed since the alert processing is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Hiroki Yabushita, Masato Takagi
  • Patent number: 11111820
    Abstract: A gas turbine for an aircraft includes: blades each including a blade body extending outward from a rotor rotating about an axis in a radial direction of the rotor and a fin protruding from an outer peripheral surface of a blade shroud formed on a distal end of the blade body; a casing installed to form gaps between the casing and the fins; and vanes each including a vane shroud formed such that at least a leading end portion of the vane shroud formed upstream in an axial direction is located outside with respect to an extended line of an inner peripheral surface of the casing in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo Fujimura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Tadayuki Hanada, Takaaki Hase
  • Patent number: 11096957
    Abstract: One purpose of the present invention is to provide a high molecular weight glucan having both properties low digestion rate and high digestibility. A high molecular weight glucan that has property digested slowly and contains almost no indigestible ingredients is produced by enzymatic reactions of (1) a specific concentration of branching enzyme and (2) 4-?-glucanotransferase and/or an exo-type amylase to a branched glucan used as a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: EZAKI GLICO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Yoshinobu Terada
  • Patent number: 11063122
    Abstract: In a termination region of a SiC-MOSFET, suppressing operation of a p-n diode between a well and a drift layer sometimes decreases reliability during high-speed switching. In a termination region of a SiC-MOSFET with a built-in SBD are provided second well region having an impurity concentration lower than the impurity concentration in a well region in an active region, and a high-concentration region that is formed on a surface layer of the second well region, has an impurity concentration higher than the impurity concentration in the well region in the active region, and is ohmic-connected to a source electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Yamashiro, Kazuyuki Sugahara, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kohei Ebihara
  • Patent number: 11064029
    Abstract: A microscope device connected to a network includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit receives master setting information from a data processor by communicating with the data processor over the network, and the master setting information includes multiple pieces of customizing setting information that correspond to multiple types of microscopy. The control unit registers or updates own-device-setting information of the microscope device in accordance with the master setting information received by the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Norikazu Urata
  • Patent number: 11003404
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage unit and a control unit. The storage unit stores in advance first identification information out of the first identification information and second identification information which are associated with the same user. The control unit acquires data of a job associated with the second identification information. The control unit suspends the execution of the job when the second identification information is not associated with the first identification information. The control unit authenticates the user using the first identification information. The control unit associates the second identification information with the first identification information when an operation determined in advance is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Hagiwara, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10985949
    Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology capable of supporting reverse connection in which the front and back of a connector are reversed while expansion of circuit scale is suppressed. A reception control device is provided including a polarity detection unit that detects, as a polarity determination result signal, at least one of a polarity of a first reception signal received by a first reception unit or a polarity of a polarity inversion result of a second reception signal received by a second reception unit and a reception control unit that controls output destinations of a third reception signal received after the first reception signal by the first reception unit and a fourth reception signal received after the second reception signal by the second reception unit, on the basis of the polarity determination result signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Mori, Toshihisa Hyakudai, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10982544
    Abstract: A turbine includes a diffuser. The diffuser includes a combustor basket, an outer shell, a plurality of struts, and a protrusion. A front end of the protrusion is between a leading edge position of an adjacent pair of the struts and a trailing edge position of the adjacent pair of the struts, and a rear end of the protrusion extends further than the trailing edge position of the adjacent pair of the struts in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naonori Nagai, Hiroyoshi Torikai, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10982566
    Abstract: A turbine is equipped with a turbine rotor (21), a turbine casing, a turbine blade (24), a turbine stator and a diffuser (4A). The diffuser (4A) is equipped with an inner cylinder (41) extending along an axis, an outer cylinder covering the inner cylinder (41) from an outer circumferential side and forming an exhaust flow path (C) between the inner cylinder (41) and the outer cylinder. The inner cylinder (41) is equipped with an inclined surface (51) extending from an inner side to an outer side in the radial direction centering on the axis as going from one side to the other side in the direction of the axis. The inclined surface (51) is disposed to intersect an extension (55) obtained by extending platforms (54) of a plurality of turbine blades (24) to the other side in the direction of the axis, in a cross sectional view including the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo Fujimura, Takashi Hiyama, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10967789
    Abstract: A safe driving assistance device includes a region setting section that sets a collision risk determination region used for determining presence or absence of a collision risk of a host vehicle, and a determination section that determines a collision risk between the host vehicle and another vehicle using a host vehicle collision risk determination region, another vehicle collision risk determination region, and environment data. The host vehicle collision risk determination region of the host vehicle is set based on travel data of the host vehicle, a vehicle specification of the host vehicle, and the environment data obtained by the host vehicle. The other vehicle collision risk determination region is obtained by a vehicle-to-vehicle communication device. The other vehicle collision risk determination region is the collision risk determination region of the other vehicle as a collision risk determination target with the host vehicle set by the other vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Katou, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takeshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20210089252
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage unit and a control unit. The storage unit stores in advance first identification information out of the first identification information and second identification information which are associated with the same user. The control unit acquires data of a job associated with the second identification information. The control unit suspends the execution of the job when the second identification information is not associated with the first identification information. The control unit authenticates the user using the first identification information. The control unit associates the second identification information with the first identification information when an operation determined in advance is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro HAGIWARA, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10931072
    Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology capable of improving reliability in light transmission and convenience at the time of connecting a transmission device to a cable with a simple circuit configuration. A transmitting device is provided which includes a connector receptacle unit connected to an optical-electrical composite cable, in which the connector receptacle unit includes a first electrode group, a second electrode group provided at a position rotated from the first electrode group by 180 degrees about a center of a main body of the connector receptacle unit as a reference, a first connection unit group for transmitting optical signals, and a second connection unit group for transmitting optical signals provided at a position rotated from the first connection unit group for transmitting optical signals by 180 degrees about the center of the main body of the connector receptacle unit as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihisa Hyakudai, Atsushi Mori, Naoto Nagaki, Manabu Sakai, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10919094
    Abstract: Cutting machining is performed on a workpiece by making a cutting tool travel relative to the workpiece while rotating the cutting tool such that a peripheral speed of the cutting tool becomes equal to or more than a cutting speed of the cutting tool, while an outer peripheral surface and an end surface of the cutting tool function as a rake surface and a relief surface, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Azuma, Yoshihiko Yamada, Kenji Hamada, Masahiro Kiji, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10908120
    Abstract: A semiconductor biosensor includes a central reaction unit of an inspection equipment. The central reaction unit includes a plurality of first conducting wires, a plurality of second conducting wires, a common electrode source, a plurality of sense-amplifiers, a plurality of non-volatile memory type transistors, and a first oxide film. Each sense-amplifier is connected to a respective second conducting wire. The non-volatile memory type transistors are respectively formed on the second conducting wires. Each non-volatile memory type transistor includes a control gate, a third oxide film, a floating gate, and a second oxide. The first oxide film wraps or covers the first conducting wires. Receptors are fixed on a surface of the first oxide film. A portion of the targets couples with a portion of the receptors to form composite bodies. The sense-amplifiers are configured to detect a change in a current signal based on the charges of the composite bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Laurus Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Zhe-An Lee, Ikuo Kurachi
  • Patent number: 10900536
    Abstract: Provided is a damper wherein viscous fluid which fills a circular cylinder chamber is more reliably prevented from leaking. A rotary damper (1) includes: a first seal ring (8a) of an elastic body, arranged between a through-hole (23) of a circular cylinder chamber (21) in a case (2) and a lower end of a rotor body of a rotor (3); and a second seal ring (8b) of an elastic body, arranged between a through-hole (60) in a lid (6) and an upper end of the rotor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: OILES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Ryohei Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10895733
    Abstract: A microscope system includes: a stage on which a specimen is mounted; one or more light sources configured to emit light irradiating the specimen; an illumination optical system configured to irradiate the specimen with the light; an operating unit configured to receive selection of the light sources and setting of the state and/or an amount of light; a focusing unit configured to move in a direction orthogonal to a mounting surface and adjust the distance between the stage and an objective lens; an imaging unit configured to image the observation image of the specimen and generate image data; and a combined image generating unit configured to combine the image data and generate combined image data. The microscope system enables selection of the state of optical elements constituting the illumination optical system and selection of the type, the state, and an amount of light of the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10882962
    Abstract: Using an organic compound having a bottle brush structure, a material having softness and resilience and having excellent low-friction performance (SRT material) can be provided. Preferably, the SRT material contains a reinforcing filler, and may contain a lubricating liquid to be gelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Tsujii, Keita Sakakibara, Yoshihiko Shimizu, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takaya Sato, Ken Nakano, Hitoshi Hattori