Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Watabe

Hiroyuki Watabe 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: 11851508
    Abstract: An acid-type sulfonic acid group-containing polymer containing perfluoromonomer units, no monomer units having a halogen atom other than a fluorine atom, and acid type sulfonic acid groups, whose hydrogen gas permeability coefficient under the conditions of a temperature of 80° C. and a relative humidity of 10% is at most 2.5×10?9 cm3·cm/(s·cm2·cmHg), and whose mass reduction rate when immersed in hot water at 120° C. for 24 hours is at most 15 mass %. Liquid composition, membrane electrode assembly, polymer electrolyte fuel cell, and ion exchange membrane utilizing the acid-type sulfonic acid group-containing polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hirai, Susumu Saito, Hiroyuki Watabe, Chikaya Tamitsuji, Daisuke Jomuta
  • Publication number: 20230355919
    Abstract: A problem to be solved is to restrict sickness of a user due to a digital content that includes virtual space experience. In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, an information processing device according to one aspect of embodiments includes an acquisition unit, an estimation unit, and a restraint processing unit. The acquisition unit acquires a state inside and outside related to a user of a digital content that includes virtual space experience. The estimation unit estimates a state of sickness of the user based on a state that is acquired by the acquisition unit. The restraint processing unit executes a restraining process of sickness related to a sound of the digital content in accordance with the state of sickness of the user that is estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Tomoe OHTSUKI, Hiroyuki WATABE, Shinichi SHIOTSU, Motoki KOJIMA, Minoru MAEHATA, Miki HITOTSUYA, Haruo HARADA
  • Publication number: 20230311809
    Abstract: A communication device according to one aspect of embodiments includes a controller. In a case where vibration of the communication device is detected, the controller allows execution of a communication process with a communication target device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Hiroyuki WATABE
  • Patent number: 11746171
    Abstract: To provide a method for fractionating a liquid composition, which is excellent in separability of the liquid composition. This method for fractionating a liquid composition comprises discharging, from a discharge port of a filling nozzle, a liquid composition containing a solvent and a polymer having ion exchange groups, and fractionating a predetermined amount of the liquid composition, characterized in that the temperature of the liquid composition is controlled so that the average tan ?1 of the liquid composition when discharged from the discharge port of the filling nozzle becomes to be at most 1.00.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Watabe, Mitsuhisa Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11703682
    Abstract: An apparatus connected to a first display apparatus of head mounted type including two or more displays and to a second display apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine an image to be displayed on a display that corresponds to a dominant eye of a wearer wearing the first display apparatus among the two or more displays of the first display apparatus based on information about the dominant eye of the wearer of the first display apparatus and a control unit configured to perform control to display the determined image on the second display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Watabe
  • Patent number: 11575140
    Abstract: To provide a liquid composition with which a catalyst layer and a polymer electrolyte membrane will hardly be broken at the time of their formation and a method for producing the liquid composition; and a method for producing a membrane/electrode assembly by which a catalyst layer and a polymer electrolyte membrane will hardly be broken at the time of their formation. A liquid composition comprising a polymer having ion exchange groups, water and an organic solvent, wherein the average secondary particle size of the polymer having ion exchange groups is from 100 to 3,000 nm, and the primary particle size parameter represented by the product of the average primary particle size (nm) and the ion exchange capacity (meq/g dry resin) of the polymer having ion exchange groups, is from 12 to 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Watabe, Satoru Hommura, Jun Kato, Tatsuya Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20220309392
    Abstract: A recommendation apparatus recommends content to a user. The apparatus includes: a memory that stores a probability distribution of a probability of a likelihood of matching a preference of the user; and a hardware processor. The probability distribution is across a plurality of content genres of the content. The hardware processor is programmed to: (i) select a content to be recommended to the user based on the probability distribution, (ii) update the probability distribution by learning from a feedback about acceptance or nonacceptance by the user of the content that was recommended, and (iii) obtain profile information of the user. The profile information of the user is reflected in an initial setting of the probability distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Masayuki TOYODA, Hiroyuki WATABE
  • Publication number: 20220262837
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a detection device includes a substrate, a photoelectric conversion element provided on the substrate and including a semiconductor layer, a transistor provided to correspond to the photoelectric conversion element, and a green color filter provided above the photoelectric conversion element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshitaka OZEKI, Seiji Uejima, Hiroyuki WATABE
  • Publication number: 20220251264
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fluoropolymer containing fluorosulfonyl groups capable of forming a polymer electrolyte membrane with high conductivity and hot water resistance, a method for its production, a fluoropolymer containing acid-form sulfonic acid groups and a method for its production, a polymer electrolyte membrane, a membrane-electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell. The method for producing a fluoropolymer containing fluorosulfonyl groups of the present invention comprises copolymerizing a monomer m1 (CF2?CFCF2O-Q1-SO2F) and TFE in a reactor at a temperature of from 150 to 200° C. in the presence of a radical polymerization initiator, wherein the radical polymerization initiator is continuously or sequentially added into the reactor so that the concentration of the radical polymerization initiator is kept to at most 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi HIRAI, Susumu SAITO, Hiroyuki WATABE
  • Publication number: 20220227375
    Abstract: An information processing device that is mountable on a vehicle, includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire at least one of internal condition or external condition of a user of a digital content including a virtual space experience; an estimating unit configured to estimate a sickness status of the user based on the at least one of internal condition or external condition acquired by the acquiring unit; and a guidance processing unit configured to perform a guidance processing such that a driving state of the vehicle is guided to suppress sickness, depending on the sickness status of the user estimated by the estimating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Motoki KOJIMA, Hiroyuki WATABE, Shinichi SHIOTSU, Tomoe OHTSUKI, Kazuma HASHIMOTO, Haruo HARADA
  • Patent number: 11335140
    Abstract: A terminal device according to one aspect of an embodiment includes a storage, an acquisition unit, a selection unit, and a transmitting unit. The storage stores therein imaging data captured from a moving body. The acquisition unit acquires a transmitting request for imaging data transmitted from an external device on the basis of positional information on the moving body. The selection unit selects, from among the imaging data stored in the storage, target data that is imaging data corresponding to the transmitting request acquired by the acquisition unit. The transmitting unit transmits the target data selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Watabe
  • Patent number: 11295608
    Abstract: In a travel status recording apparatus, a data acquisition unit acquires first travel status data and second travel status data indicating a travel status in relation to a vehicle. An event detection unit detects a predetermined event that occurs in relation to the vehicle based on the first travel status data acquired. In response to the predetermined event being detected, a data analysis unit analyzes the second travel status data using artificial intelligence. A recording control unit records, in a storage unit, an analysis result of the second travel status data in association with event detection information in relation to the predetermined event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yoshikuni Miki, Hiroshi Yamada, Hiroyuki Watabe, Kimitaka Murashita, Yasutaka Okada, Ryusuke Seki
  • Patent number: 11277589
    Abstract: A travel status recording apparatus records an image captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle, identifies personal information included in the captured image, and masks the personal information in the captured image. A server acquires a masked image corresponding to the captured image in which the personal information is masked from the travel status recording apparatus. The server determines, in response to a request from a third party, whether to restore the personal information included in the acquired masked image based on a preset restoration level. In a case where the server determines to restore the personal information, the server restores the personal information. In a case where the server determines not to restore the personal information, the server conceals the personal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yoshikuni Miki, Hiroshi Yamada, Hiroyuki Watabe, Yasuhiko Nakano, Yuuji Uno
  • Publication number: 20210380732
    Abstract: To provide a sulfonic acid group-containing polymer which is capable of forming a low hydrogen permeable membrane, which shows a high ion exchange capacity, and which shows a proper softening temperature. The sulfonic acid group-containing polymer has units u1 represented by the following formula u1, units u2 represented by the following formula u2, and units u3 based on tetrafluoroethylene, in the formula u1, RF1 and RF2 are each independently a C1-3 perfluoroalkylene group, and Z+ is a hydrogen ion, a metal ion, or an ammonium ion, —[CF2—CF(CF2O—Rf1)]—??Formula u2 in the formula u2, Rf1 is a perfluoroalkyl group which may contain a SO3?Z+ group and/or an etheric oxygen atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi HIRAI, Hiroyuki WATABE, Susumu SAITO
  • Publication number: 20210301044
    Abstract: To provide an acid-type sulfonic acid group-containing polymer which is excellent in hydrogen gas barrier properties and hot water resistance and which generates less oligomer during production; a liquid composition and a polymer electrolyte membrane comprising this acid-type sulfonic acid group-containing polymer; and a membrane electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell provided with the polymer electrolyte membrane. This acid-type sulfonic acid group-containing polymer is a polymer which has perfluoromonomer units, no monomer units having a halogen atom other than a fluorine atom, and acid-type sulfonic acid groups, and of which the hydrogen gas permeability coefficient under the conditions of a temperature of 80° C. and a relative humidity of 10%, is at most 2.5×10?9 cm3·cm/(s·cm2·cmHg), and the mass reduction rate when being immersed in hot water at 120° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi HIRAI, Susumu SAITO, Hiroyuki WATABE, Chikaya TAMITSUJI, Daisuke JOMUTA
  • Publication number: 20210296673
    Abstract: To provide a liquid composition capable of forming a polymer electrolyte membrane which is excellent in the initial power generation characteristics when made into a membrane electrode assembly, and which is excellent in durability and has few defects. This liquid composition comprises a liquid medium, a sulfonic acid group-containing fluorocarbon polymer and a hardly soluble cerium compound, wherein the ion exchange capacity of the sulfonic acid group-containing fluorocarbon polymer is from 1.36 to 2.50 meq/g dry resin, the average particle size of the hardly soluble cerium compound is from 1 nm to 3,000 nm, and the ratio of the total number of moles of cerium atoms in the hardly soluble cerium compound to the total number of moles of sulfonic acid groups in the sulfonic acid group-containing fluorocarbon polymer is from 0.001 to 0.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Susumu SAITO, Takumi OKUYAMA, Hiroyuki WATABE
  • Patent number: 11127155
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that displays an image on a display unit mounted with a position sensor, and includes a selection unit configured to select one of a sensor coordinate system of the position sensor and a coordinate system different from the sensor coordinate system, an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a position output from the position sensor, in the coordinate system selected by the selection unit, and a control unit configured to display an image based on the information about the position acquired by the acquisition unit, on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Watabe
  • Publication number: 20210263308
    Abstract: An apparatus connected to a first display apparatus of head mounted type including two or more displays and to a second display apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine an image to be displayed on a display that corresponds to a dominant eye of a wearer wearing the first display apparatus among the two or more displays of the first display apparatus based on information about the dominant eye of the wearer of the first display apparatus and a control unit configured to perform control to display the determined image on the second display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Watabe
  • Patent number: 11031618
    Abstract: To provide a polymer capable of forming a polymer electrolyte membrane that is resistant to breakage even when being repeatedly subjected to humidification and drying or a catalyst layer that is resistant to formation of cracks; a polymer electrolyte membrane employing said polymer; and a membrane/electrode assembly for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell. A polymer comprising units (u1) having two ion-exchange groups and units (u2) of e.g. a perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether), wherein the molar ratio (u2)/((u1)+(u2)) is more than 0.30 and at most 0.70. A membrane/electrode assembly 10 comprising an anode 13 having a catalyst layer 11 and a gas diffusion layer 12, a cathode 14 having a catalyst layer 11 and a gas diffusion layer 12, and a polymer electrolyte membrane 15 disposed between the anode 13 and the cathode 14 in a state of being contact with the catalyst layers 11, wherein either one or each of the catalyst layers 11 and the polymer electrolyte membrane 15 contains the aforementioned polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Susumu Saito, Hiroyuki Watabe, Takumi Okuyama
  • Publication number: 20210070903
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing a fluorinated polymer, in which it is possible to efficiently and easily control the molecular weight to be proper when polymerizing a perfluoromonomer having a dioxolane ring containing a polymerizable double bond in the ring skeleton, and in which the obtainable fluorinated polymer is less susceptible to a decrease in molecular weight even when contacted with a base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Susumu SAITO, Satoru HOMMURA, Hiroyuki WATABE