Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Watanabe
Hirotaka 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: 10968791Abstract: A control device for an onboard engine is configured to control the oil discharge pressure of an oil pump and execute, when determining that there may be an abnormality in the control of the oil discharge pressure, a change process that increases the target discharge pressure to a value that is greater than that before it is determined that there may be an abnormality in the control. When a discharge pressure sensor value in a situation in which the discharge pressure is being controlled based on the target discharge pressure increased through execution of the change process does not become greater than or equal to a discharge pressure threshold, the control device sets an upper limit for the engine rotation speed and increases the upper limit as the discharge pressure sensor value increases.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki Hosogi, Hisayuki Ito, Noboru Takagi, Kazuyoshi Shimatani, Takahiko Aoyagi, Masahiro Yoshida, Yoshinobu Uchiyama, Toshiki Sato, Hirotaka Watanabe
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Patent number: 10961898Abstract: A cooling device includes an inner passage, an outer passage, an engine-driven pump, an electromagnetic control valve, and a driving circuit that regulates current flowing through the electromagnetic control valve by activating and deactivating a switching element. A cooling controller for the cooling device includes a processing circuit configured to execute an operation process for operating, when the engine-driven pump is driven, the switching element by setting a duty cycle of an activation time to a switching cycle, which is a reciprocal of a switching frequency of the switching element, to be a larger value when a temperature of the internal combustion engine is low than when the temperature is high and a cycle varying process for setting a longer switching cycle when the temperature of the internal combustion engine is less than a preset temperature than when the temperature is greater than or equal to the preset temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Rihito Kaneko, Noboru Takagi, Naoto Hisaminato, Mitsuru Yamaguchi, Hirokazu Ando, Masaaki Yamaguchi, Takahiko Aoyagi, Hirotaka Watanabe
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Publication number: 20210067695Abstract: An apparatus and a method are achieved in which guide information for enabling a high-quality composite image to be captured is output and in addition, a composite image, a color image, and the like are displayed in parallel to enable a user to select an image to be recorded. Included are a composite image generation unit that performs a process of combining a color image and a black-and-white image captured from different viewpoints, to generate a composite image; and a display information control unit that performs control such that auxiliary information regarding the composite image is displayed on a display unit. In a case where a subject is too close or in a case where a high-quality composite image cannot be generated due to an obstacle, the display information control unit outputs a proximity alert or an obstacle alert as warning information, and also displays a composite image adaptation level.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: GOSHI WATANABE, HIROTAKA GOTO
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Patent number: 10928762Abstract: A device includes a rotator, a belt facing the rotator and having an outer peripheral surface which contacts the rotator to form a nip therebetween, a first pad configured to press the belt toward the rotator to form one part of the nip, a second pad configured to press the belt toward the rotator, to form another part of the nip, a holder holding the first pad and the second pad, a stay supporting the holder, and an urging member urging the stay toward the rotator in an urging direction. The second pad is located upstream of the first pad in a conveyance direction in the nip orthogonal to the urging direction. At least a portion of a contact area between the stay and the holder is located downstream of a center of the nip and upstream of a front edge of the first pad in the conveyance direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuna Taguchi, Tomonori Watanabe, Kenji Takeuchi, Hiroshi Handa, Mingguang Zhang, Shuhei Fukue, Hirotaka Imaeda
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Patent number: 10927748Abstract: A flow passage device includes a circulation flow passage, a swing valve provided in the circulation flow passage, an energizing part, and a lock mechanism including a lock pin. The lock pin is configured so as to hinder the swing valve from opening, and to allow the swing valve to open. The swing valve is configured so as to rotate from a first valve position to a second valve position. The lock mechanism is configured so as to set a locked state and to set an unlocked state. The lock pin is configured so as to protrude as being energized by pressure of the fluid on an upstream side of the swing valve, and to retract as being energized by pressure of the fluid on a downstream side of the swing valve.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignees: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masafumi Yoshida, Naoto Yumisashi, Koji Nunami, Masahiro Yoshida, Hirotaka Watanabe, Takahiko Aoyagi, Noboru Takagi, Hirokazu Kato, Rihito Kaneko, Masaaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10902182Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a transmission unit that performs facsimile transmission to a destination and a changing unit that changes, in accordance with a language registered in the information processing apparatus, size of a certain area, in which characters including source characters for identifying a facsimile source are to be formed, of a sheet output at the destination as a result of the facsimile transmission in a height direction of the characters.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Wada, Satoshi Watanabe, Hirotaka Kawabata, Hideki Soejima, Hideki Fujii
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Patent number: 10888919Abstract: A core forming device is equipped with a kneading tank in which raw materials of a core are kneaded, a raw material supply unit that supplies the raw materials to the kneading tank, a mold that accommodates a kneaded material including the raw materials kneaded in the kneading tank and that forms the core, a piston that injects the kneaded material into the mold, a position sensor that detects a position of the piston, and a control unit that controls a supply amount of the raw materials supplied to the kneading tank from the raw material supply unit. The control unit determines the supply amount of the raw materials based on a difference between the position of the piston upon completion of injection and a reference position of the piston.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sintokogio, Ltd.Inventors: Katsutoshi Okumura, Hirotsune Watanabe, Shogo Izumi, Hirotaka Kurita, Katsushige Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10882783Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon is intermittently connected in a length direction by an intermittent connection which includes a polyol having a weight-average molecular weight of 3000 to 4000 in a specific amount relative to the entire intermittent connection and which has Young's modulus at 23° C. within a specific range. When collectively unitizing optical fiber ribbons to form an optical fiber cable, an optical fiber ribbon is formed which maintains advantages of the optical fiber ribbon and which prevents cracks of the intermittent connection and detachment of the intermittent connection from a colored optical fiber core when the cable is subjected to repetitive ironing.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Tanaka, Yutaka Hoshino, Hirotaka Watanabe, Yoshihiro Arashitani, Kenji Yokomizo, Tomohiro Ishimura
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Publication number: 20200400903Abstract: Provided is an optical fiber ribbon and an optical fiber cable, which are adaptable to manufacture at a high velocity, in the intermittent connecting type optical fiber ribbon obtained by adhering and connecting adjacent colored optical fibers by intermittent connecting portions. In an optical fiber ribbon 2 of the present invention, since, in addition to polyol having a weight average molecular weight in a specific range, rheology control agent is contained in a specific range in a material forming an intermittent connecting portion 3, the Newtonian region between a low shear rate region and a high shear rate region of the material forming the intermittent connecting portion 3 can be adjusted. Thus, scattering of the material due to a centrifugal force generated by rotation of an application roll that applies the material at the time of manufacture and the like can be suppressed, and the application amount to colored optical fiber 1 can be stabilized.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki TANAKA, Kenji YOKOMIZO, Tomohiro ISHIMURA, Hirotaka WATANABE, Yoshihiro ARASHITANI
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Publication number: 20200339152Abstract: A vehicle travel control device executes trajectory following control to make the vehicle follow a target trajectory. A delay time represents control delay of the trajectory following control. A delay compensation time is at least a part of the delay time. The trajectory following control includes: displacement estimation processing that estimates a displacement of the vehicle in the delay compensation time; and delay compensation processing that corrects a deviation between the vehicle and the target trajectory based on the estimated displacement to compensate the control delay. The displacement estimation processing is effective in an effective period and ineffective in an ineffective period. When the ineffective period is included in the delay time of the trajectory following control, the displacement estimation processing is executed in a temporary mode by using sensor-detected information in the effective period without using the sensor-detected information in the ineffective period.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Go INOUE, Yoshinori WATANABE, Hirotaka TOKORO
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Patent number: 10809950Abstract: The web server program causes the information processing apparatus to function as: a reception unit that receives a request from a web application executed on the web browser; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the request, information about a domain of the web application executed on the web browser; a determination unit that determines whether or not to permit communication with the web application executed on the web browser, based on the domain indicated in the information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a transmission unit that transmits a response to the web browser based on the result of determination of the determination unit, wherein the web server program communicates with an external apparatus connected to a network, and acquires, from the external apparatus, information used for authentication or authorization by the external apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: CANON DENSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sousuke Onodera, Hiroki Miura, Taketo Ochiai, Hirotaka Watanabe, Kazuki Takano, Hiroki Arai, Dayon Kou, Yuantian Wei
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Publication number: 20200326673Abstract: An information processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to calculate, for a plurality of bits corresponding to a plurality of spins included in an Ising model obtained by converting a problem to be calculated, in a case where the plurality of bits is divided into a plurality of groups, on the basis of a first local field value for a first bit having a value of 1 and a second local field value for a second bit having a value of 0 among a plurality of bits included in each of the plurality of groups, a first energy change of the Ising model due to a change of the value of the first bit from 1 to 0 and a change of the value of the second bit from 0 to 1Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kouichi Kanda, Hirotaka TAMURA, Yasuhiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20200307625Abstract: A vehicle has first and second wheels arranged in a longitudinal direction. In vehicle travel control, a control device calculates a control amount based on a parameter detected by a sensor and controls vehicle travel in accordance with the control amount. Modes of the vehicle travel control include first and second modes. In the first mode, a forward direction is from the second wheel toward the first wheel. In the second mode, the forward direction is from the first wheel toward the second wheel. The control device holds definition information that defines at least one of the detected parameter and the control amount. In the first mode, the control device executes the vehicle travel control in accordance with first definition information for the first mode. In the second mode, the control device executes the vehicle travel control in accordance with second definition information for the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Go Inoue, Yoshinori Watanabe, Hirotaka Tokoro
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Patent number: 10790409Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes at least an n-type nitride semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer, and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer. A multilayer body is provided between the n-type nitride semiconductor layer and the light-emitting layer, having at least one stack of first and second semiconductor layers. The second semiconductor layer has a greater band-gap energy than the first semiconductor layer. The first and second semiconductor layers each have a thickness of more than 10 nm and 30 nm or less. In applications in which luminous efficiency at room temperature is a high priority, the first semiconductor layer has a thickness of more than 10 nm and 30 nm or less, the second semiconductor layer has a thickness of more than 10 nm and 40 nm or less, and the light-emitting layer has V-shaped recesses in cross-sectional view.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiko Tani, Tetsuya Hanamoto, Masanori Watanabe, Akihiro Kurisu, Katsuji Iguchi, Hiroyuki Kashihara, Tomoya Inoue, Toshiaki Asai, Hirotaka Watanabe
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Publication number: 20200302000Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a transmission unit that performs facsimile transmission to a destination and a changing unit that changes, in accordance with a language registered in the information processing apparatus, size of a certain area, in which characters including source characters for identifying a facsimile source are to be formed, of a sheet output at the destination as a result of the facsimile transmission in a height direction of the characters.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu WADA, Satoshi WATANABE, Hirotaka KAWABATA, Hideki SOEJIMA, Hideki FUJII
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Publication number: 20200272079Abstract: A device includes a rotator, a belt facing the rotator and having an outer peripheral surface which contacts the rotator to form a nip therebetween, a first pad configured to press the belt toward the rotator to form one part of the nip, a second pad configured to press the belt toward the rotator, to form another part of the nip, a holder holding the first pad and the second pad, a stay supporting the holder, and an urging member urging the stay toward the rotator in an urging direction. The second pad is located upstream of the first pad in a conveyance direction in the nip orthogonal to the urging direction. At least a portion of a contact area between the stay and the holder is located downstream of a center of the nip and upstream of a front edge of the first pad in the conveyance direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2019Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuna TAGUCHI, Tomonori WATANABE, Kenji TAKEUCHI, Hiroshi HANDA, Mingguang ZHANG, Shuhei FUKUE, Hirotaka IMAEDA
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Patent number: 10752804Abstract: A coating agent includes a polyurethane and a hydrocarbon-based synthetic wax.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: NICHIAS CORPORATIONInventors: Hideharu Aoyagi, Tomokazu Watanabe, Hideaki Mori, Hirotaka Natori, Nahoko Kitajima, Mai Fujiwara, Jun Tachiki, Jun Oikawa
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Patent number: 10728416Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a sending unit and a controller. The sending unit sends a fax to a destination. The controller executes control for printing identification information for identifying the destination in accordance with selection made by a sender of the fax on paper output at the destination in response to sending of the fax. In a case where the sender of the fax selects a destination name as the identification information, if the destination name is unprintable as it is on the paper, the controller executes control for printing a phone number of the destination as the identification information on the paper.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Soejima, Hirotaka Kawabata, Hideki Fujii, Manabu Wada, Satoshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 10703188Abstract: A vehicle includes: a floor panel; and a battery pack mounted under the floor panel. The battery pack includes: a plurality of cell stacks; a housing case including a bottom portion and configured to house the plurality of cell stacks; and a plurality of support members provided on the bottom portion and spaced apart from one another. When a front region, a central region and a rear region are defined in a bottom view of the housing case, a ratio of a total area where the support member is provided in the central region to an area of the central region is higher than a ratio of a total area where the support member is provided in the rear region to an area of the rear region.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotaka Watanabe, Shigeyuki Inoue, Toshio Uchiyama, Satoshi Inukai
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Publication number: 20200192614Abstract: The web server program causes the information processing apparatus to function as: a reception unit that receives a request from a web application executed on the web browser; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the request, information about a domain of the web application executed on the web browser; a determination unit that determines whether or not to permit communication with the web application executed on the web browser, based on the domain indicated in the information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a transmission unit that transmits a response to the web browser based on the result of determination of the determination unit, wherein the web server program communicates with an external apparatus connected to a network, and acquires, from the external apparatus, information used for authentication or authorization by the external apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2020Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: SOUSUKE ONODERA, Hiroki Miura, Taketo Ochiai, Hirotaka Watanabe, Kazuki Takano, Hiroki Arai, Dayon Kou, Yuantian Wei