Patents by Inventor Hirotoshi Watanabe

Hirotoshi 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: 11809533
    Abstract: A control device includes a storage unit that stores an authentication ledger, an authorization ledger, operation information, and operation recording target information. An authentication management unit, in a case of receiving authentication information from one information processing device, performs an authentication determination. An authorization unit determines whether to authorize the processing request of the one information processing device with the authorization ledger. An execution authorization unit, in a case in which the processing request authorized is a request for changing an operation state of the device, determines whether to authorize an execution of the processing request from the operation information, and, in a case of authorizing, causes the control execution unit to execute the processing request, and, in a case of not authorizing, transmits an error response to the one information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Watanabe, Masanori Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210150004
    Abstract: A control device includes a storage unit that stores an authentication ledger, an authorization ledger, operation information, and operation recording target information. An authentication management unit, in a case of receiving authentication information from one information processing device, performs an authentication determination. An authorization unit determines whether to authorize the processing request of the one information processing device with the authorization ledger. An execution authorization unit, in a case in which the processing request authorized is a request for changing an operation state of the device, determines whether to authorize an execution of the processing request from the operation information, and, in a case of authorizing, causes the control execution unit to execute the processing request, and, in a case of not authorizing, transmits an error response to the one information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Hirotoshi WATANABE, Masanori KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10624207
    Abstract: A touch sensor of this disclosure includes: a printed circuit board having a connection terminal; a substrate portion having a mounting portion on which the printed circuit board is mounted; a conductive layer disposed on the mounting portion of the substrate portion; and an adhesive agent connecting the connection terminal and the conductive layer to each other. A plurality of linear projections arranged in a first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction are disposed on a surface of the substrate portion at the mounting portion, and the conductive layer is disposed on a groove portion positioned between the linear projections disposed adjacently to each other out of the plurality of linear projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Aisaka, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Shigeki Sato
  • Publication number: 20190387622
    Abstract: A touch sensor of this disclosure includes: a printed circuit board having a connection terminal; a substrate portion having a mounting portion on which the printed circuit board is mounted; a conductive layer disposed on the mounting portion of the substrate portion; and an adhesive agent connecting the connection terminal and the conductive layer to each other. A plurality of linear projections arranged in a first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction are disposed on a surface of the substrate portion at the mounting portion, and the conductive layer is disposed on a groove portion positioned between the linear projections disposed adjacently to each other out of the plurality of linear projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: TSUTOMU AISAKA, HIROTOSHI WATANABE, SHIGEKI SATO
  • Patent number: 8736226
    Abstract: A charging cable for an electric vehicle includes a power plug adapted to be detachably connected to a power socket of a commercial power source; a temperature detecting unit for detecting a temperature of the power plug; a cable connector adapted to be detachably connected to an electric vehicle for supplying a charging current to a battery of the electric vehicle; and a switching unit for opening and closing a current path between the power plug and the cable connector. The charging cable further includes a leakage detecting unit for detecting an electric leakage based on a current flowing through the current path; and a power cutoff unit for opening the switching unit when the detected temperature of the temperature detection means exceeds a threshold value or when the leakage detection means detects the electric leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Mukai, Youji Minami, Satoru Ueno, Kiyoshi Goto, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Kouji Kakiuchi, Hiroshi Ooya, Tomoyoshi Hayashi, Yutaka Takada
  • Patent number: 8737026
    Abstract: An electric vehicle charging cord set includes a housing containing an interrupting device therein and a first cord provided at one end with a plug connectable to an outlet installed on a wall surface of a building and at the other end connected to one of the terminal units of the interrupting device. An electric vehicle charging cord set further includes a second cord provided at one end with a connector connectable to an inlet of an electric vehicle and at the other end connected to the other of the terminal units of the interrupting device. The housing includes a storage unit for extendibly storing the second cord, a stand for placing the housing on a ground surface and a transportation handle. The storage unit includes a drum rotatably attached to the housing. The second cord is wound on the outer circumferential surface of the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Ueno, Youji Minami, Tatsuya Mukai, Kiyoshi Goto, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Tomoyoshi Hayashi, Yutaka Takada, Hiroshi Ooya, Kouji Kakiuchi
  • Patent number: 8541978
    Abstract: A feed control device includes a contact device, an output detector, a contact weld sensor, and an alarm device. The output detector is configured to detect the presence of power feeding into the side of an electrically-powered car from an external power supply. The contact weld sensor is configured to sense that the contact device is welded based on a detection result of the output detector if detecting the presence of power feeding from the external power supply to a feed line for the contact device when a state signal representing charge permission is not entered. The alarm device is configured, if the contact weld sensor senses that the contact device is welded, to indicate the occurrence of weld to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Toyoya Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Fukuo, Tatsuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Shinichi Nakamura, Kouji Kakiuchi, Yoji Minami, Kazuhiro Kondou, Kiyosi Gotou
  • Patent number: 8508492
    Abstract: In a touch panel, one of conductive layers on a bottom of an upper substrate and on a top of a lower substrate is formed of belt-shaped conductive layers. The other is a single conductive layer facing the belt-shaped conductive layers. The single conductive layer is provided with a pair of electrodes in positions corresponding to both ends in a direction where the belt-shaped conductive layers extend. When the upper substrate is pressed while a voltage is applied between the pair of electrodes, the top and lower conductive layers contact with each other. Then, a voltage value corresponding to the pressed position in the direction where the belt-shaped conductive layers extend is generated from any of the belt-shaped conductive layers. From the voltage value and the position of the belt-shaped conductive layer from which the voltage value is generated, a pressed position on the upper substrate can be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Tanabe, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Hidetoshi Hiraoka, Kenichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8369067
    Abstract: An electricity feeding control device is provided with an air hole (31c) which is formed by penetrating a part of a peripheral wall of a body (31) constituting a part of a housing case (3). The housing case (3) is provided in its inside with an inner pressure adjusting sheet (5), formed with a breathable and waterproof member, and arranged so as to cover the air hole (31c) from the inside of the housing case (3). The air hole (31c) comprises a long recess (31c2) formed in an outer surface of the body (31), a communicating hole (31c1) consecutively formed in one end of a longi-tudinal direction of the recess (31c2) and communicated with an inner surface of the body (31), and a shielding plate (33) attached in the outer surface of the body (31) so as to cover a region other than the other end of the longitudinal direction of the recess (31c2), in a region of an opening section (31c3) of the recess (31c2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Kouji Kakiuchi, Tatsuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Naoki Fukuo, Yoji Minami, Kazuhiro Kondou
  • Patent number: 8363364
    Abstract: A branch wire L5 from the voltage detection circuit 14 is inserted in the zero-phase-sequence current transformer ZCT in the direction from the load side to the external power supply side. For this configuration, the zero-phase-sequence current transformer ZCT is to detect unbalance of the sum of current flowing in the first and second conductive wires L1, L2 and the current flowing in the branch wire L5. Therefore, the present invention can accurately detect occurrence of electrical leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Watanabe, Tatsuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Naoki Fukuo, Kiyosi Gotou, Kouji Kakiuchi, Shinichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8164014
    Abstract: A concavo-convex light emitting section provided on an under surface of a base material is formed of a synthetic resin with inorganic oxide dispersed therein. A larger amount of light is reflected by inorganic oxide having a large refractive index and dispersed inside the synthetic resin, to cause a plurality of light emitting sections to emit bright light with a small number of light emitting elements. A light guiding sheet capable of making bright and uniform illumination and a movable contact body using the same are realized with a simple configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Tatehata, Tsutomu Aisaka, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Yousuke Chikahisa
  • Publication number: 20110315534
    Abstract: A light guide sheet guides light emitted from a light introducer. The light guide sheet includes a film-shaped substrate, a light emitting section formed on the substrate, and a belt-shaped light-blocking section. The light emitting section reflects or scatters light transmitting in the substrate to the outside. The light-blocking section is formed in the substrate by coloring a position of the substrate to a color. In the position, the light emitting section is not formed. The color absorbs the light which is emitted from the light introducer. The light emitting section can alternatively be composed of a plurality of projections and/or a plurality of recesses. Such a light-blocking section is formed in a position of the substrate where the projections and/or the recesses are not formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Tanabe, Naoki Tatehata, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Tsutomu Aisaka
  • Publication number: 20110280024
    Abstract: The light guide sheet has a base of a light transmissive film, a first light-extracting section, and a second light-extracting section. The light-extracting sections having pits and projections are formed on a surface of the base. The base has a first color converter at least at a part corresponding to the position having the first light-extracting section in a thickness direction of the base. The first color converter converts light from a light source into a first color. Forming a color converter for predetermined color at each part corresponding to a plurality of the light-extracting sections allows the one color emitted from a light-emitting element to be converted into differently colored light beams at the light-extracting sections. The structure offers various patterns of illumination without increase in number of the light-emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: KOJI TANABE, NAOKI TATEHATA, HIROTOSHI WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20110204849
    Abstract: A charging cable for an electric vehicle includes a power plug adapted to be detachably connected to a power socket of a commercial power source; a temperature detecting unit for detecting a temperature of the power plug; a cable connector adapted to be detachably connected to an electric vehicle for supplying a charging current to a battery of the electric vehicle; and a switching unit for opening and closing a current path between the power plug and the cable connector. The charging cable further includes a leakage detecting unit for detecting an electric leakage based on a current flowing through the current path; and a power cutoff unit for opening the switching unit when the detected temperature of the temperature detection means exceeds a threshold value or when the leakage detection means detects the electric leakage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Tatsuya Mukai, Youji Minami, Satoru Ueno, Kiyoshi Goto, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Kouji Kakiuchi, Hiroshi Ooya, Tomoyoshi Hayashi, Yutaka Takada
  • Publication number: 20110198204
    Abstract: A light guide sheet has a light-transmissive film-shaped base material, and a convex first light emitting section formed on the base material. In the first light emitting section, a fluorescent pigment and a dyeing pigment are dispersed. The light guide sheet of the present invention emits light of a pure and vivid color by using the fluorescent pigment and the dyeing pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: NAOKI TATEHATA, HIROTOSHI WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20110149455
    Abstract: An electric vehicle charging cord set includes a housing containing an interrupting device therein and a first cord provided at one end with a plug connectable to an outlet installed on a wall surface of a building and at the other end connected to one of the terminal units of the interrupting device. An electric vehicle charging cord set further includes a second cord provided at one end with a connector connectable to an inlet of an electric vehicle and at the other end connected to the other of the terminal units of the interrupting device. The housing includes a storage unit for extendibly storing the second cord, a stand for placing the housing on a ground surface and a transportation handle. The storage unit includes a drum rotatably attached to the housing. The second cord is wound on the outer circumferential surface of the drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Electric Works Co. Ltd
    Inventors: Satoru Ueno, Youji Minami, Tatsuya Mukai, Kiyoshi Goto, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Tomoyoshi Hayashi, Yutaka Takada
  • Publication number: 20110122536
    Abstract: A branch wire L5 from the voltage detection circuit 14 is inserted in the zero-phase-sequence current transformer ZCT in the direction from the load side to the external power supply side. For this configuration, the zero-phase-sequence current transformer ZCT is to detect unbalance of the sum of current flowing in the first and second conductive wires L1, L2 and the current flowing in the branch wire L5. Therefore, the present invention can accurately detect occurrence of electrical leakage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Watanabe, Tatsuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Naoki Fukuo, Kiyosi Gotou, Kouji Kakiuchi, Shinichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110121780
    Abstract: A feed control device includes a contact device, an output detector, a contact weld sensor, and an alarm device. The output detector is configured to detect the presence of power feeding into the side of an electrically-powered car from an external power supply. The contact weld sensor is configured to sense that the contact device is welded based on a detection result of the output detector if detecting the presence of power feeding from the external power supply to a feed line for the contact device when a state signal representing charge permission is not entered. The alarm device is configured, if the contact weld sensor senses that the contact device is welded, to indicate the occurrence of weld to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Naoki Fukuo, Tatuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Sinichi Nakamura, Kouji Kakiuchi, Youji Minami, Kazuhiro Kondou, Kiyosi Gotou
  • Publication number: 20110122548
    Abstract: An electricity feeding control device is provided with an air hole (31c) which is formed by penetrating a part of a peripheral wall of a body (31) constituting a part of a housing case (3). The housing case (3) is provided in its inside with an inner pressure adjusting sheet (5), formed with a breathable and waterproof member, and arranged so as to cover the air hole (31c) from the inside of the housing case (3). The air hole (31c) comprises a long recess (31c2) formed in an outer surface of the body (31), a communicating hole (31c1) consecutively formed in one end of a longi-tudinal direction of the recess (31c2) and communicated with an inner surface of the body (31), and a shielding plate (33) attached in the outer surface of the body (31) so as to cover a region other than the other end of the longitudinal direction of the recess (31c2), in a region of an opening section (31c3) of the recess (31c2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Kouji Kakiuchi, Tatsuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Naoki Fukuo, Yoji Minami, Kazuhiro Kondou
  • Patent number: 7851717
    Abstract: A light-guide sheet includes a light transmissive film substrate, and luminescent protrusions formed at predetermined points on the substrate. At least one of the substrate and each of the luminescent protrusions is colored to a color tone that absorbs yellow light more than blue light. Alternatively, a reflective layer colored to a color tone that absorbs yellow light more than blue light is provided on at least one of the top and bottom faces of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Tatehata, Yousuke Chikahisa, Tsutomu Aisaka, Koji Tanabe, Hirotoshi Watanabe