Patents by Inventor Hiroto Watanabe
Hiroto 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: 12263592Abstract: Provided is an autonomous mobile body, an information processing method, and an information processing device that enable a user to experience discipline for the autonomous mobile body. The autonomous mobile body includes a recognition unit that recognizes an instruction given, an action planning unit that plans an action on the basis of the instruction recognized, and an operation control unit that controls execution of the action planned, in which the action planning unit changes a detail of a predetermined action as an action instruction that is an instruction for the predetermined action is repeated. The present technology can be applied to a robot, for example.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Watanabe, Daisuke Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20250026020Abstract: To activate communication between an autonomous operation body and a user. Providing an information processing device that includes: an application control unit that controls operation of an application relating to communication between an autonomous operation body and a user; and a reflection unit that causes the autonomous operation body to reflect an operation performed by the user in the application. In the information processing device, the application control unit controls operation of an avatar imitating the autonomous operation body, and the reflection unit causes the autonomous operation body to reflect a reward obtained by the avatar on the basis of the operation performed by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: TOMOO MIZUKAMI, KEI YOSHINAKA, NAOKI YUASA, IZUMI KAWANISHI, HIROTO WATANABE, JUNICHIROU SAKATA, TOHRU KURATA, YUICHIRO TOU
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Publication number: 20240375488Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes a retainer defining a vent passage including an outlet, two fins disposed upstream of the outlet in the vent passage, and an actuation mechanism. The actuation mechanism is configured to move the fins between the neutral positions and the inclined positions. When the fins are in the neutral positions, the actuation mechanism causes the fins to extend in the inflow direction and face each other in a direction orthogonal to the inflow direction. When the fins are in the inclined positions, the actuation mechanism moves the fins to separate locations respectively located upstream and downstream from the neutral positions, and tilts the fins with respect to the inflow direction such that downstream sides of the fins are located inward in the vent passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Daigo ARIKI, Hiroto WATANABE
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Patent number: 12122039Abstract: Provided is an information processing device to activate communication between an autonomous operation body and a user. The information processing device includes an application control unit that controls operation of an application relating to communication between an autonomous operation body and a user and a reflection unit that causes the autonomous operation body to reflect an operation performed by the user in the application. In the information processing device, the application control unit controls operation of an avatar imitating the autonomous operation body, and the reflection unit causes the autonomous operation body to reflect a reward obtained by the avatar on the basis of the operation performed by the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoo Mizukami, Kei Yoshinaka, Naoki Yuasa, Izumi Kawanishi, Hiroto Watanabe, Junichirou Sakata, Tohru Kurata, Yuichiro Tou
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Patent number: 12113011Abstract: A bus bar includes a laminated body formed by directly laminating a flat plate-shaped first conductive plate, flat plate-shaped insulating sheet, and flat plate-shaped second conductive plate. The laminated body has main terminal connection parts into which end portions of external connection terminals are inserted, and is sealed in a sealing body, except the main terminal connection parts. The first conductive plate, insulating sheet, and second conductive plate are pressurized toward the insulating sheet in the lamination direction of the laminated body so that volumes of air spaces inside the insulating sheet (and air spaces between the first conductive plate and the insulating sheet and between the second conductive plate and the insulating sheet) are compressed.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto Watanabe, Sho Takano
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Publication number: 20240228320Abstract: Provided is a method for separating impurities and cobalt without using an electrolysis process from a cobalt chloride solution containing impurities and producing a high purity cobalt sulfate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki OHARA, Keiji KUDOU, Tatsuya HIGAKI, Hiroto WATANABE, Natsuki KONDOU, Takashi KANEKO, Shin-ichi HEGURI
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Patent number: 12023982Abstract: A proximity air conditioner is capable of performing energy-saving and efficient air-conditioning. A proximity air-conditioning unit for vehicles includes: a housing; a temperature adjustment unit including a temperature adjuster and a blower; and ducts, wherein upper ends of blowout ports of ducts are located above seat surfaces of seats, end portions in a long-side direction of the blowout ports are located on a front side with respect to other end portions thereof in a front-back direction of the seats, and the temperature adjustment unit is disposed between both end portions in the long-side direction of each of the blowout ports.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuhiro Terai, Chiharu Totani, Yoshinori Masatsugu, Naoyuki Fukui, Hiroto Watanabe
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Patent number: 11904661Abstract: A rear wall of an instrument panel has an outlet port and an inclined wall. An angle defined by the inclined wall and a vertical plane is from 30° to 40°. An upper fin and a lower fin are both supported by fin pivots. The lower fin is configured to be inclinable downward by at most 30° with respect to a horizontal plane. When the lower fin is inclined downward by a maximum angle, an interlocking mechanism inclines the upper fin together with the lower fin in an interlocking manner such that an angle of the upper fin with respect to the lower fin is greater than that when in a horizontal state. A bottom wall of a retainer includes an inclined surface located under an upstream end of the lower fin. The inclined surfaced is inclined upward toward the downstream end.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroto Watanabe
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Patent number: 11807077Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes: a movable fin; an operation knob; and a transmission mechanism. A load generating mechanism is provided in a middle of a force transmission path in the transmission mechanism. The load generating mechanism includes a pressure receiving portion, a pressing member, and a spring. The pressure receiving portion has a pressure receiving surface. The pressing member rotates with respect to the pressure receiving portion as the operation knob rotates. The spring generates a load between the pressing member and the pressure receiving portion by urging the pressing member toward a side approaching the pressure receiving surface and pressing the pressing member against the pressure receiving surface. The pressing member and the pressure receiving portion are each formed of a hard resin material, and the pressing member is directly in contact with the pressure receiving surface to generate the load.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto Watanabe, Hitoshi Fujisawa, Tatsuya Tanikawa
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Patent number: 11781228Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sulfuric acid solution includes supplying a chloride ion-containing sulfuric acid solution as an initial electrolyte in an electrolyzer inside of which is divided into an anode chamber and a cathode chamber by a diaphragm; and subsequently taking out a metal dissolved electrolyte in which a metal constituting the anode is dissolved from the anode chamber while supplying a current to an anode and a cathode disposed in the electrolyzer.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto Watanabe, Itsumi Matsuoka, Yusuke Senba, Hiroshi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20230286440Abstract: A console box includes a box body, storage, a side table, a shaft, a shaft support arranged above the storage, and a rotation stopper. The storage is located in a side portion of the box body with respect to a widthwise direction of a vehicle seat. The side table is vertically movable between a storage position and an intermediate position. The shaft is located at a lower end of the side table when in the upright state. The shaft support rotatably supports the shaft so that the side table rotates about the shaft away from the box body in the widthwise direction from the intermediate position to a usage position. The rotation stopper restricts rotation of the side table beyond the usage position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Hiroto WATANABE, Masanori MIZUNO, Yasuhiro KODAMA
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Publication number: 20230183091Abstract: Provided is a method for separating impurities and cobalt without using an electrolysis process from a cobalt chloride solution containing impurities and producing a high purity cobalt sulfate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto WATANABE, Hideki OHARA, Keiji KUDOU, Takashi KANEKO, Tatsuya HIGAKI, Natsuki KONDOU, Shin-ichi HEGURI
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Publication number: 20230121889Abstract: A bus bar includes a laminated body formed by directly laminating a flat plate-shaped first conductive plate, flat plate-shaped insulating sheet, and flat plate-shaped second conductive plate. The laminated body has main terminal connection parts into which end portions of external connection terminals are inserted, and is sealed in a sealing body, except the main terminal connection parts. The first conductive plate, insulating sheet, and second conductive plate are pressurized toward the insulating sheet in the lamination direction of the laminated body so that volumes of air spaces inside the insulating sheet (and air spaces between the first conductive plate and the insulating sheet and between the second conductive plate and the insulating sheet) are compressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto WATANABE, Sho TAKANO
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Patent number: 11585563Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes: a downstream fin; and an upstream fin. The downstream fin and the upstream fin are provided in a ventilation passage which allows air-conditioning air to flow. The downstream fin is rotatable around a center line of a first rotation shaft. The upstream fin is rotatable around a center line of a second rotation shaft further on an upstream side than the downstream fin in the ventilation passage. The second rotation shaft extends in a direction different from that of the first rotation shaft. The downstream fin is slidable in a center line direction of the first rotation shaft and has a driving unit which presses the upstream fin in a slide movement direction as the downstream fin slides.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki Mitsui, Hiroto Watanabe
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Publication number: 20220355470Abstract: The present technology relates to an autonomous mobile body, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing device that enable a user to experience discipline for the autonomous mobile body. The autonomous mobile body includes: a recognition unit that recognizes an instruction given; an action planning unit that plans an action on the basis of the instruction recognized; and an operation control unit that controls execution of the action planned, in which the action planning unit changes a detail of a predetermined action as an action instruction that is an instruction for the predetermined action is repeated. The present technology can be applied to a robot, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: HIROTO WATANABE, DAISUKE MOCHIZUKI
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Publication number: 20220185059Abstract: A proximity air conditioner is capable of performing energy-saving and efficient air-conditioning. A proximity air-conditioning unit for vehicles includes: a housing; a temperature adjustment unit including a temperature adjuster and a blower; and ducts, wherein upper ends of blowout ports of ducts are located above seat surfaces of seats, end portions in a long-side direction of the blowout ports are located on a front side with respect to other end portions thereof in a front-back direction of the seats, and the temperature adjustment unit is disposed between both end portions in the long-side direction of each of the blowout ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2019Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Nobuhiro TERAI, Chiharu TOTANI, Yoshinori MASATSUGU, Naoyuki FUKUI, Hiroto WATANABE
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Publication number: 20220154308Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cobalt-nickel-containing solution including: preparing a crude nickel hydroxide and/or a crude cobalt hydroxide as a starting material, the crude nickel or cobalt hydroxide containing cobalt and nickel and elements except the cobalt and nickel as impurities, the crude nickel hydroxide containing the nickel more than the cobalt, and the crude cobalt hydroxide containing the cobalt more than the nickel; a water-washing process for obtaining a post-water-washing crude hydroxide from the starting material; a leaching process for obtaining a post-leaching solution from the post-water-washing crude hydroxide; a neutralization process of subjecting the post-leaching solution to neutralization and solid-liquid-separation to remove the impurities as a post-neutralization residue containing one or more of iron, silicon, aluminum, and chromium, thereby obtaining a post-neutralization solution; and an extraction process of subjecting the post-neutralization solution to solvent extraction to obType: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Ohara, Shota Sanjo, Masatoshi Takano, Satoshi Asano, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Yusuke Senba, Hiroto Watanabe
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Publication number: 20220063380Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes: a movable fin; an operation knob; and a transmission mechanism. A load generating mechanism is provided in a middle of a force transmission path in the transmission mechanism. The load generating mechanism includes a pressure receiving portion, a pressing member, and a spring. The pressure receiving portion has a pressure receiving surface. The pressing member rotates with respect to the pressure receiving portion as the operation knob rotates. The spring generates a load between the pressing member and the pressure receiving portion by urging the pressing member toward a side approaching the pressure receiving surface and pressing the pressing member against the pressure receiving surface. The pressing member and the pressure receiving portion are each formed of a hard resin material, and the pressing member is directly in contact with the pressure receiving surface to generate the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Hiroto WATANABE, Hitoshi FUJISAWA, Tatsuya TANIKAWA
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Publication number: 20220065491Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes: a downstream fin; and an upstream fin. The downstream fin and the upstream fin are provided in a ventilation passage which allows air-conditioning air to flow. The downstream fin is rotatable around a center line of a first rotation shaft. The upstream fin is rotatable around a center line of a second rotation shaft further on an upstream side than the downstream fin in the ventilation passage. The second rotation shaft extends in a direction different from that of the first rotation shaft. The downstream fin is slidable in a center line direction of the first rotation shaft and has a driving unit which presses the upstream fin in a slide movement direction as the downstream fin slides.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Yasuyuki MITSUI, Hiroto WATANABE
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Publication number: 20210354533Abstract: A rear wall of an instrument panel has an outlet port and an inclined wall. An angle defined by the inclined wall and a vertical plane is from 30° to 40°. An upper fin and a lower fin are both supported by fin pivots. The lower fin is configured to be inclinable downward by at most 30° with respect to a horizontal plane. When the lower fin is inclined downward by a maximum angle, an interlocking mechanism inclines the upper fin together with the lower fin in an interlocking manner such that an angle of the upper fin with respect to the lower fin is greater than that when in a horizontal state. A bottom wall of a retainer includes an inclined surface located under an upstream end of the lower fin. The inclined surfaced is inclined upward toward the downstream end.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventor: Hiroto WATANABE