Patents by Inventor Itaru Watanabe

Itaru 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).

  • Publication number: 20240132666
    Abstract: A polymer powder includes a polyamide, wherein a melting point determined in differential scanning calorimetry is 190° C. or higher, a difference between the melting point and a melting onset temperature, which is defined in differential scanning calorimetry as a lowest temperature among temperatures at each of which a first temperature differential value of Heat Flow (W/g) observed between a peak top temperature of an endothermic peak, observed when 10 mg of powder is heated at a rate of 20° C./min from 30° C. in a nitrogen atmosphere, and a temperature point of ?50° C. from the peak top, becomes ?0.2 (W/g.° C.), is less than 30° C., and a D50 particle size is 1 ?m or more and 100 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokazu Iwata, Tomohiko Nakamura, Yota Okuno, Kei Watanabe, Mikiya Nishida, Itaru Asano
  • Publication number: 20240076868
    Abstract: The present invention intends to provide a technique by which, in an interior building material which is represented by a gypsum board and to which a magnet does not attach, the surface of such an interior building material can be modified so that a magnet can attach to the surface by simple means that can be put into practical use, a wall face and the like for which a stopper with a magnet, which is a substitute for a thumbtack, and a magnet sheet are usable can thereby be formed, and an interior building material which has realized favorable construction efficiency such that the interior building material can be easily cut with a cutter knife or the like can be made, and this object is realized by providing an interior building material having a plurality of sheet-like magnetic materials fixed to at least a portion of a surface or back surface of a plate-like base material to which a magnet does not attach, wherein adjacent magnetic materials are disposed in such a way as to have a portion where the adjacen
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Itaru YOKOYAMA, Ken WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240065305
    Abstract: [Summary] The present invention relates to an anti-allergy functional food composition, a cosmetic, and a percutaneous external agent containing mastic oil as an active component. [Means for Solving the invention] An anti-allergy functional food composition, characterized by containing a mastic component as an immunosuppressive participating component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: SOSIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Itaru WATANABE, Tomoki FUKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230325147
    Abstract: An operation device includes a housing arranged on a center cluster located diagonally in front of a driver seat and a passenger seat of a vehicle, a left-side operation unit and a right-side operation unit arranged on a right side and a left side, respectively, of a front surface of the housing to receive an operation, a left-side operation detection unit and a right-side operation detection unit to detect an operation performed on the left-side operation unit and the right-side operation unit, respectively, a substrate on which the left-side and right-side operation detection units are arranged, and an output unit that outputs a sound in response to a received operation and is arranged on the substrate so as to be located between the left-side operation detection unit and the right-side operation detection unit at a position to equalize distances from the driver seat and the passenger seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Itaru WATANABE, Takao IMAI
  • Publication number: 20230307198
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operation unit to receive an operation performed by a user, a movable contact that is connected to a ground circuit and moves according to an operation performed on the operation unit, plural fixed contacts whose state of connection to the movable contact is switched according to an operation position of the operation unit, plural resistors connected in series in such a manner that one end is connected to a power supply, another end is connected to one of the plural fixed contacts, and a node formed by connecting in series is connected to the remaining of the plural fixed contacts, and a control unit that includes an input terminal connected to a first node between the fixed contact connected closest to the power supply and the resistor and determines the operation position of the operation unit based on voltage detected through the input terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Itaru WATANABE, Takao IMAI, Masanori FUJII
  • Patent number: 11422657
    Abstract: A control surface has a first area configured to accept a first operation performed with an object for enabling a first function of the controlled device, a second area configured to accept a second operation performed with the object for enabling a second function of the controlled device, and a third area located between the first and second areas. A processing device is configured to: enable the third area to accept the first operation in a case where it is determined that an object contacts or approaches the first area; enable the third area to accept the second operation in a case where it is determined that the object contacts or approaches the second area; and disable acceptance of the first operation and the second operation in a case where it is determined that the objects contacts or approaches the third area prior to the first and second areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Takao Imai, Itaru Watanabe, Shoji Kakinuma
  • Publication number: 20210401914
    Abstract: [Summary] The present invention relates to an oral composition for animal, containing mastic resin and/or mastic essential oil as active components, especially a valid oral composition for pet animals, such as dogs and cats. [Means for Solving the invention] An oral composition for animal, for sterilizing a periodontal disease bacterium and an infection disease bacterium, characterized in that, said oral composition contains mastic resin as an active component, and said periodontal disease bacterium is Porphyromonas circumdentaria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: SOSIN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Itaru WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210223937
    Abstract: A control surface has a first area configured to accept a first operation performed with an object for enabling a first function of the controlled device, and a second area configured to accept a second operation performed with the object for enabling a second function of the controlled device. A detector is configured to detect an electrostatic capacity between the control surface and the object. A processing device is configured to: determine that the object contacts or approaches the first area or the second area, based on the electrostatic capacity; enlarge the first area in a case where it is determined that the object contacts or approaches the first area; and enlarge the second area in a case where it is determined that the object contacts or approaches the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Takao IMAI, Itaru WATANABE, Shoji KAKINUMA
  • Publication number: 20210223930
    Abstract: A control surface has a first area configured to accept a first operation performed with an object for enabling a first function of the controlled device, a second area configured to accept a second operation performed with the object for enabling a second function of the controlled device, and a third area located between the first and second areas. A processing device is configured to: enable the third area to accept the first operation in a case where it is determined that an object contacts or approaches the first area; enable the third area to accept the second operation in a case where it is determined that the object contacts or approaches the second area; and disable acceptance of the first operation and the second operation in a case where it is determined that the objects contacts or approaches the third area prior to the first and second areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Takao IMAI, Itaru WATANABE, Shoji KAKINUMA
  • Publication number: 20180222115
    Abstract: A shaping apparatus includes a first moving unit that moves a base member; a shaping unit that performs a shaping operation of stacking the shaping material on a stacking surface of the base member, thereby shaping a shaping object; a cooling unit that performs a cooling operation of cooling the shaping object shaped on the stacking surface of the base member; and a control unit, wherein the control unit implements control such that the first moving unit moves the base member, on which the shaping object has been shaped, to the cooling unit and a subsequent base member is inserted into the shaping unit when the shaping operation ends, and such that the shaping operation of the shaping unit and the cooling operation of the cooling unit are executed in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Itaru Watanabe, Toshihiko Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8853312
    Abstract: A quick curing resin composition, which can be used in conventionally used ovens, and a semiconductor device, which is excellent in reliability such as solder crack resistance or the like when the resin composition, is used as a die attach material for semiconductor. The resin composition has a sufficient low stress property, good adhesion and excellent bleeding property. The resin composition includes a filler (A), compound (B) having the structure represented by the formula (1) and a functional group represented by the formula (2) and a thermal radical initiator (C), and substantially not containing a photo polymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hikaru Okubo, Nobuki Tanaka, Itaru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8614270
    Abstract: A resin composition which is excellent in quick curing and can be used for curing in conventionally used ovens, and a semiconductor device which is excellent in reliability such as solder crack resistance or the like when the resin composition is used as a die attach material for semiconductor. Further preferably, a resin composition which has a sufficient low stress property, good adhesion and excellent bleeding property. A resin composition comprising a filler (A), the compound (B) comprising a structure represented by the formula (1) and a functional group represented by the formula (2) and a thermal radical initiator (C), and substantially not containing a photo polymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Okubo, Nobuki Tanaka, Itaru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20120068106
    Abstract: A resin composition which is excellent in quick curing and can be used for curing in conventionally used ovens, and a semiconductor device which is excellent in reliability such as solder crack resistance or the like when the resin composition is used as a die attach material for semiconductor. Further preferably, a resin composition which has a sufficient low stress property, good adhesion and excellent bleeding property. A resin composition comprising a filler (A), the compound (B) comprising a structure represented by the formula (1) and a functional group represented by the formula (2) and a thermal radical initiator (C), and substantially not containing a photo polymerization initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: SUMITOMO BAKELITE COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hikaru OKUBO, Nobuki Tanaka, Itaru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8088308
    Abstract: A resin composition which is excellent in quick curing and can be used for curing in conventionally used ovens, and a semiconductor device which is excellent in reliability such as solder crack resistance or the like when the resin composition is used as a die attach material for semiconductor. Further preferably, a resin composition which has a sufficient low stress property, good adhesion and excellent bleeding property. A resin composition comprising a filler (A), the compound (B) comprising a structure represented by the formula (I) and a functional group represented by the formula (2) and a thermal radical initiator (C), and substantially not containing a photo polymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Okubo, Nobuki Tanaka, Itaru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090269449
    Abstract: In a method for a producing soft natural intestine casing, a natural intestine casing is treated in an alkaline aqueous solution at a temperature from 3 to 40° C. and pH from 11 to 13. By the method for producing a soft natural intestine casing, a soft natural intestine casing with a superior texture can be easily obtained. The natural intestine casing does not adversely affect the savor or flavor of sausages themselves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Yasuki Taguchi, Takashi Iki, Itaru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7588326
    Abstract: In an inkjet recording apparatus in which a single ink supply path for hermetically sealing an ink tank and a recording head from the atmosphere is formed by connecting the ink tank to first and second hollow needles. When the ink tank is detached, the flow path is sealed in association with mounting and dismounting of the ink tank, thereby leakage of ink to the outside of the apparatus is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Itaru Watanabe, Shigeru Watanabe, Tetsuo Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20070213467
    Abstract: A resin composition which is excellent in quick curing and can be used for curing in conventionally used ovens, and a semiconductor device which is excellent in reliability such as solder crack resistance or the like when the resin composition is used as a die attach material for semiconductor. Further preferably, a resin composition which has a sufficient low stress property, good adhesion and excellent bleeding property. A resin composition comprising a filler (A), the compound (B) comprising a structure represented by the formula (1) and a functional group represented by the formula (2) and a thermal radical initiator (C), and substantially not containing a photo polymerization initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Inventors: Hikaru Okubo, Nobuki Tanaka, Itaru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20070211122
    Abstract: In an inkjet recording apparatus in which a single ink supply path for hermetically sealing an ink tank and a recording head from the atmosphere is formed by connecting the ink tank to first and second hollow needles. When the ink tank is detached, the flow path is sealed in association with mounting and dismounting of the ink tank, thereby leakage of ink to the outside of the apparatus is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Itaru Watanabe, Shigeru Watanabe, Tetsuo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 7234800
    Abstract: In an inkjet recording apparatus in which a single ink supply path for hermetically sealing an ink tank and a recording head from the atmosphere is formed by connecting the ink tank to first and second hollow needles. When the ink tank is detached, the flow path is sealed in association with mounting and dismounting of the ink tank, thereby leakage of ink to the outside of the apparatus is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Itaru Watanabe, Shigeru Watanabe, Tetsuo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 7150519
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus comprises a recording head including a discharge port for discharging ink, a first liquid chamber at the upstream side in the direction of ink flow toward the discharge port, and a second liquid chamber at the downstream side, an ink tank for containing ink to be supplied to the recording head, an ink supply tube for causing the ink tank to communicate with the recording head, a shut-off valve provided in the ink supply tube and opening or closing the ink supply tube, a cap for covering the discharge port; and a suction pump for forcedly discharging the ink in the recording head from the discharge port when the cap covers the discharge port. The shut-off valve is opened when the first and second liquid chambers are reduced to respectively desired pressures by the suction pump in a state where the cap covers the discharge port and the shut-off valve is closed, whereby the ink in the ink tank is supplied through the ink supply tube to the first and second liquid chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Kono, Mitsuru Kurata, Akihiro Yamanaka, Takeaki Shima, Tetsuto Kageyama, Itaru Watanabe, Hiroki Tajima, Toshihiro Sasaki