Patents by Inventor Isao Watanabe
Isao 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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Publication number: 20250219900Abstract: An in-vehicle device to be installed in a vehicle, the in-vehicle device includes: a communication unit configured to receive, from a management device, setting information corresponding to a selected function and related to an in-vehicle component of the vehicle; and a setting unit configured to perform setting processing regarding the in-vehicle component based on the setting information received by the communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: July 3, 2025Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Kodama, Makoto Chujo, Isao Watanabe
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Patent number: 12343958Abstract: A rubber-metal laminate that includes a metal member; and a rubber layer provided on the metal member, wherein the rubber layer has a 100%-modulus value in accordance with JIS K6251 of 8.5 MPa or more and a thickness of 80 ?m or more. A gasket that includes the rubber-metal laminate.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Watanabe, Ryota Shimura, Daiki Takekawa
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Patent number: 12346686Abstract: A program update system includes a vehicle including a first and second electronic device, and a program transmission device. The program transmission device is configured to communicate with the vehicle and transmit a program for the first electronic device and a program for the second electronic device to the vehicle. The program transmission device transmits an update program for a first electronic device to a second electronic device. The program transmission device transmits a program in a state before the update for backup. The second electronic device updates the program for the first electronic device based on the update program. The second electronic device stores the program in the state before the update.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2024Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Miyauchi, Isao Watanabe, Hiroya Andou
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Publication number: 20250202980Abstract: An information processing method in a management device includes the steps of: creating setting information corresponding to a selected function and related to an in-vehicle component; and transmitting the created setting information to a vehicle in which the in-vehicle component is installed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: June 19, 2025Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Kodama, Makoto Chujo, Isao Watanabe
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Patent number: 12152672Abstract: A gasket includes an elastic part containing a rubber having a dynamic-to-static ratio, Kd/Kst, of 2.5 or lower, wherein the dynamic-to-static ratio, Kd/Kst, is a ratio between a dynamic spring constant, Kd, and a static spring constant, Kst. The dynamic spring constant, Kd, represents a constant as measured under conditions of 23±2° C., 100 Hz, and a strain amplitude of 0.1% according to JIS K6394:2007, and the static spring constant, Kst, represents a constant as measured under conditions of 23±2° C. and a strain amplitude of 0.1% according to JIS K6394:2007.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Watanabe, Ryota Shimura, Daiki Takekawa
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Patent number: 12130618Abstract: An in-vehicle system enables retrofitted hardware to be used in cases in which predetermined hardware has been connected to an in-vehicle unit by performing processing to obtain an application corresponding to the predetermined hardware from a server and install the application in the in-vehicle unit. In cases in which the retrofitted hardware has been disconnected from the in-vehicle unit, the in-vehicle system also performs at least one type of processing out of processing to compress or processing to delete the application corresponding to the retrofitted hardware that has been disconnected.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Isao Watanabe, Kanade Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20240319986Abstract: A program update system includes a vehicle including a first and second electronic device, and a program transmission device. The program transmission device is configured to communicate with the vehicle and transmit a program for the first electronic device and a program for the second electronic device to the vehicle. The program transmission device transmits an update program for a first electronic device to a second electronic device. The program transmission device transmits a program in a state before the update for backup. The second electronic device updates the program for the first electronic device based on the update program. The second electronic device stores the program in the state before the update.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro MIYAUCHI, Isao Watanabe, Hiroya Andou
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Patent number: 12055219Abstract: A hydrogenated NBR composition comprising 30 to 200 parts by weight of titanium oxide and 1 to 8 parts by weight of magnesium oxide, based on 100 parts by weight of hydrogenated NBR. By forming a crosslinked rubber layer of the rubber composition on a metal plate, a gasket material with excellent blister resistance, whose roll kneadability is improved without reducing the rubber strength of hydrogenated NBR, is provided. Moreover, the rubber composition is effective as a rubber raw material for use in soft metal or a high hardness hydrogenated NBR material for which kneading processing is difficult.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Watanabe, Daiki Takekawa
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Patent number: 12032946Abstract: A program update system includes a vehicle including a first and second electronic devices, and a program transmission device. The program transmission device is configured to communicate with the vehicle and transmit a program for the first electronic device and a program for the second electronic device to the vehicle. The program transmission device transmits an update program for a first electronic device to a second electronic device. The program transmission device transmits a program in a state before the update for backup. The second electronic device updates the program for the first electronic device based on the update program. The second electronic device stores the program in the state before the update.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Miyauchi, Isao Watanabe, Hiroya Andou
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Patent number: 11924726Abstract: An in-vehicle control device includes a vehicle-side communication unit installed on a vehicle and communicating with at least an information processing device external to the vehicle, and a first processor. The first processor is configured to: receive an installation request for an application program from the information processing device; in a case in which the installation request has been received, notify the information processing device of a rule defining whether or not a communication frame received at the vehicle-side communication unit is unauthorized and of equipment information related to optional equipment of the vehicle; acquire the application program and a rule that has been updated based on the notified rule and the equipment information from the information processing device; and, in a case in which the updated rule has been acquired, update the rule to the updated rule.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Isao Watanabe, Kunihiro Miyauchi, Hiroya Andou
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Patent number: 11780993Abstract: An NBR composition for rubber laminated metal having 1 to 3 parts by weight of sulfur and 1 to 15 parts by weight of a disulfide compound such as 4,4?-dithiodimorpholine or dithiodicaprolactam represented by the general formula RN—S—S—NR (wherein RN is a cyclic linking group formed together with the N atom bonded to the S atom), based on 100 parts by weight of NBR. The rubber composition that can improve the protrusion properties of a rubber layer when used for, for example, a gasket or a brake shim material that is a laminated composite metal laminated with another metal plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Watanabe, Daiki Takekawa
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Patent number: 11714628Abstract: A program update system includes a vehicle including a first and second electronic devices, and a program transmission device. The program transmission device is configured to communicate with the vehicle and transmit a program for the first electronic device and a program for the second electronic device to the vehicle. The program transmission device transmits an update program for a first electronic device to a second electronic device. The program transmission device transmits a program in a state before the update for backup. The second electronic device updates the program for the first electronic device based on the update program. The second electronic device stores the program in the state before the update.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Miyauchi, Isao Watanabe, Hiroya Andou
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Patent number: 11466642Abstract: A gasket material, in which a crosslinked rubber layer compounding 30 to 200 parts by weight of titanium oxide based on 100 parts by weight of NBR or hydrogenated NBR is formed on a metal plate, improves blister resistance, and thus exhibits an excellent effect of preventing rubber peeling of the gasket in the engine and leading to an improvement of engine malfunction. Further, the use of NBR or hydrogenated NBR results in an advantage of low cost relative to that of fluororubber. Therefore, the gasket material of the present invention is effectively used as a cylinder head gasket.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Daiki Takekawa, Isao Watanabe
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Patent number: 11349685Abstract: A relay device connected to an in-vehicle network includes a first determination unit; a second determination unit; and a relay processing unit. The first determination unit is configured to send out a high priority transfer message through a first path that runs from the first determination unit to the relay processing unit without passing through the second determination unit. The relay processing unit is configured to output the high priority transfer message, acquired through the first path, to the second determination unit and the in-vehicle device. The first determination unit is configured to send out a normal priority transfer message to the relay processing unit through a second path that runs from the first determination unit to the relay processing unit via the second determination unit. The relay processing unit is configured to output the normal priority transfer message, acquired through the second path, to the in-vehicle device.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Isao Watanabe, Masahide Ozaki, Nobuyuki Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11223935Abstract: An onboard communication device can execute communication with an exterior of a vehicle via a communication section. The onboard communication device includes: an acquiring section that acquires at least one of a speed of the vehicle or position information of the vehicle; a judging section that judges whether or not communication by the communication section is possible, based on an acquisition result of the acquiring section; and a control section that effects control such that, in a case in which it is judged that communication by the communication section is not possible, vehicle information is stored together with time information in a storage section, and, in a case in which it is judged that communication is possible, the communication section transmits, to an external device at the exterior of the vehicle, the vehicle information to which is appended the time information that is stored in the storage section.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Isao Watanabe
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Patent number: 11103945Abstract: A method of manufacturing an integrated impeller has a first shroud forming a bottom portion, a second shroud forming a lid portion, a hub formed at the center portion of the first shroud, and blades that section a flow path which is formed between the first shroud and the second shroud and through which a fluid flows. This method includes forming a flow path on the inner circumferential side of the impeller; and forming a flow path on the outer circumferential side of the impeller. The step of forming the flow path on the outer circumferential side of the impeller has the steps of: while rotating the linear electrode having a tip-end part and a base-end part about a longitudinal direction axis thereof, applying electric discharge machining to the first shroud; applying electric discharge machining to the second shroud; and applying electric discharge machining to the blade.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: HODEN SEIMITSU KAKO KENKYUSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Ota, Isao Watanabe, Takanori Iwata
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Patent number: 10650619Abstract: An on-vehicle relay device that is connected to a first on-vehicle device and a second on-vehicle device via an on-vehicle network, and relays a message transmitted from the first on-vehicle device to the second on-vehicle device, includes a processor configured to receive a permission request for transmission of a first message from the first on-vehicle device, determine whether the total of the usage rate of the bandwidth of the on-vehicle network used by at least one message already permitted to be transmitted via the on-vehicle network, and the usage rate of the bandwidth of the on-vehicle network used by the first message is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold value, and send a reply that permits transmission of the first message, to the first on-vehicle device, when the sum is equal to or smaller than the predetermined threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Isao Watanabe, Takashi Yasuda, Takashi Matsuura
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Patent number: 10602006Abstract: An operation terminal is held by and detachable from a holder on an MFP. The operation terminal includes a touch panel with a display region for an operation screen for the MFP. The touch panel senses an external object touching the display region. A vibrator unit applies vibration to the display region. In response to the touch panel sensing the object, a response controller unit instructs the vibrator unit to apply to the display region vibration responsive to the object. The response controller unit checks whether the operation terminal is held by or detached from the holder at the time the touch panel senses the object, and when the operation terminal is held by the holder, sets the responsive vibration to a level lower than when the operation terminal is detached from the holder.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Mineo Yamamoto, Isao Watanabe, Toshikazu Higashi, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10112314Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes: a moving mechanism configured to move a punching apparatus in a width direction orthogonal to a transportation direction of a sheet; and a sensor configured to optically detect a mark formed on the sheet and indicating a position to be punched. The mark is configured such that an interval in the transportation direction between a plurality of feature portions extending in the width direction is configured to be changed depending on the width direction. The moving mechanism is configured to determine a position of the punching apparatus in the width direction based on a difference between respective timings of detection of the plurality of feature portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Hiroaki Takatsu, Tatsuya Eguchi, Takeshi Ishida, Isao Watanabe, Taku Kimura
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Patent number: 10069987Abstract: A touch panel has a display region for an operation screen and senses an outer object touching the display region. A vibrator unit applies vibration to the display region. In response to the touch panel sensing the object, a response controller unit instructs the vibrator unit to apply to the display region vibration responsive to the object. The response controller unit checks whether an image processing unit is under waiting or operating condition at the time the touch panel senses the object, and when the image processing unit is under the operating condition, sets the responsive vibration to a level lower than when the image processing unit is under the waiting condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Mineo Yamamoto, Isao Watanabe, Toshikazu Higashi, Hiroshi Yamaguchi