Patents by Inventor Junji Watanabe
Junji 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: 20240134457Abstract: A vibration measurement presentation plate (160) is a substantially transparent plate and is disposed on a use position side of a user. A display (130) is disposed outside of an imaging range of the camera on a side opposite to the use position side with respect to the plate such that the plate side serves as a display surface. A camera (120) is disposed on the opposite side with respect to the plate and is outside of the viewing range of the display surface of the display via the plate from the use position side so that the plate side is in the imaging range. A vibration measurement sensor (140) and a vibrator (150) are attached to the plate to be out of the imaging range of the camera and out of the viewing range of the display surface of the display via the plate from the use position side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kakagu KOMAZAKI, Junji WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240088196Abstract: A member for a solid-state image pickup device having a bonding plane with no gaps and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The manufacturing method includes the steps of providing a first substrate provided with a photoelectric converter on its primary face and a first wiring structure, providing a second substrate provided with a part of a peripheral circuit on its primary face and a second wiring structure, and performing bonding so that the first substrate, the first wiring structure, the second wiring structure, and the second substrate are disposed in this order. In addition, at least one of an upper face of the first wiring structure and an upper face of the second wiring structure has a concave portion, and a conductive material forms a bottom face of the concave portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Nobuyuki Endo, Tetsuya Itano, Kazuo Yamazaki, Kyouhei Watanabe, Junji Iwata
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Patent number: 11920680Abstract: A vehicle includes a chain tensioner that serves as an oil damper using oil supplied from an oil pump. The vehicle includes a controller that controls a traveling mode of the vehicle in a BEV mode or a non-BEV mode. When shifting the traveling mode from the BEV mode to the non-BEV mode, the controller executes a high-pressure process for controlling the oil pump such that a supply pressure of oil supplied to the chain tensioner becomes higher when a duration of the BEV mode is greater than or equal to a specified time than when the BEV mode duration is less than the specified time.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kentaro Mushiga, Junji Watanabe
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Patent number: 11919255Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin molding material by which, when the fiber-reinforced resin molding material is manufactured, separated fiber bundles can be supplied to a cutting machine in stable condition while avoiding the influence of meandering of the fiber bundles or slanting or meandering of filaments occurring in the fiber bundles. A method for manufacturing a sheet-shaped fiber-reinforced resin molding material in which spaces between filaments of cut-out fiber bundles (CF) are impregnated with resin includes, so that a condition of the following expression (1) is satisfied, intermittently separating fibers of the continuous fiber bundles (CF) in a longitudinal direction by a rotational blade (18) serving as a fiber separating part and cutting out the fiber bundles with an interval therebetween in a longitudinal direction of a cutting machine (13A) to obtain the cut-out fiber bundles (CF).Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Tadao Samejima, Yukihiro Mizutori, Yasushi Watanabe, Junji Kanehagi
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Publication number: 20230342549Abstract: An estimation apparatus includes an estimation unit configured to estimate a non-fixed ambient environment of future by using an estimation model, the estimation model being for receiving, as an input, at least a time series of two or more psychological state sensitivity expression words up to a certain time-point to estimate a non-fixed ambient environment after the certain time-point, the non-fixed ambient environmental information being information related to a non-fixed ambient environment that is an ambient environment not uniquely defined for a location, the estimation unit estimating the non-fixed ambient environment of the future, based at least on the input two or more psychological state sensitivity expression words and an input order of the psychological state sensitivity expression words.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2019Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Junji WATANABE, Aiko MURATA
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Patent number: 11790740Abstract: Provided is a vibration presentation system that allows a user to perceive vibrations in bodily sensing the vibrations at various body sites without feeling unnatural. The vibration presentation system for presenting vibration signals for perception by a tactile sense for media content includes a vibrating body configured to generate vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals of a plurality of channels respectively, wherein each of the vibration signals of the plurality of channels is for any of specific body sites, and the vibrations generated by the vibrating body are provided with a time difference such that, for the vibrations for the specic body sites to be perceived at the same time, a vibration for a body site of the specific body sites that is farther from the brain is earlier generated.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Junji Watanabe, Yutaka Kamamoto
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Publication number: 20230060407Abstract: The present invention provides a sport status presentation system with which a user can easily grasp, by touch, the status of a sport competition in which two teams compete and the players on the two teams capture a single ball from each other while moving within a single competition area and score points by placing the ball in a goal set for each team. The sport status presentation system includes two vibrating bodies, the vibrating bodies respectively apply vibration to sites on the left side and the right side of the body of the user and are allocated to the respective teams, and the vibrating body allocated to the team in possession of the ball, among the two vibrating bodies, vibrates by a larger amount as a distance between the ball and the goal or a goal line of the team in possession of the ball decreases.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Junji WATANABE, Akiko HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220405866Abstract: An information processing method includes preparing first data containing information of a workpiece, information of a product, and information of a plurality of tools used for machining the workpiece to manufacture the product. The information processing method includes instructing a job to generate second data by using the first data. The second data contains information of respective paths for the plurality of tools. The information processing method includes displaying a status of information processing of the job on a display portion after the instructing of the job. The displaying includes displaying, on the display portion, a status of first information processing of calculating a machined shape formed by a first tool included in the plurality of tools and a status of second information processing of calculating a path for the first tool that is performed after the first information processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Junji Watanabe, Kazunari Kurokawa, Hideki Watanabe, Yuichi Matsumi, Kosuke Saito, Naoki Sakai
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Publication number: 20220343740Abstract: Provided is a vibration presentation system that improves the convenience of a user in sensing vibrations at various body sites, or of a plurality of users in sensing vibrations. A vibration presentation system for presenting vibration signals for perception by tactile sense for media content, the vibration presentation system including: a vibrating body configured to generate vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals of a plurality of channels respectively; and a presentation target batch selection user interface including a plurality of (M, where M is an integer of 2 or more) combinations each of which contains one selection button and designation of a predefined body site for a channel included in the plurality of channels, wherein the vibrating body generates vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals for a body site for a channel included in a combination corresponding to a selection button selected from among M selection buttons.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Junji WATANABE, Yutaka KAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20220343741Abstract: Provided is a vibration presentation system that allows a user to perceive vibrations in bodily sensing the vibrations at various body sites without feeling unnatural. The vibration presentation system for presenting vibration signals for perception by a tactile sense for media content includes a vibrating body configured to generate vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals of a plurality of channels respectively, wherein each of the vibration signals of the plurality of channels is for any of specific body sites, and the vibrations generated by the vibrating body are provided with a time difference such that, for the vibrations for the specic body sites to be perceived at the same time, a vibration for a body site of the specific body sites that is farther from the brain is earlier generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Junji WATANABE, Yutaka KAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20220301580Abstract: A learning apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores at least a learning-purpose expression indicating a psychological state and an emotion, and learning-purpose feeling information indicating a feeling at the time of issuance of the learning-purpose expression indicating the psychological state and the emotion; and a learning unit that learns an estimation model, using a plurality of pieces of learning data, one piece of the learning data being a set including at least a chronological series of two or more expressions indicating psychological states and. emotions up to time (t) and learning-purpose feeling information indicating a feeling after the time (t), the estimation model estimating a feeling after a certain time by using at least a chronological series of two or more expressions indicating psychological states and emotions up to the certain time as an input.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Junji WATANABE, Aiko MURATA
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Patent number: 11384664Abstract: An air introduction hole having an aperture area smaller than that of an oil inlet is formed above the oil inlet, and therefore, when the oil level of oil accumulated in an oil pan inclines during traveling, air is sucked in through the air introduction hole, thereby restraining a decrease in hydraulic pressure of the oil. Further, the air introduction hole is formed behind the oil inlet in the vehicle front-rear direction in a vehicle. Accordingly, during heavy load traveling such as hill-climbing traveling, the air introduction hole sinks in the oil, thereby restraining the air from being sucked in through the air introduction hole. Accordingly, no air is sucked into an oil strainer, thereby making it possible to obtain high hydraulic pressure during heavy load traveling.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Junji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20220207799Abstract: A technology is provided in which a temporal change of a psychological state is visualized in an intuitively easy-to-understand manner without utilizing a biosensor. A psychological state visualization apparatus includes: an input unit configured to receive, as an input, a psychological state sensibility representation word representing a psychological state of a user at a time point and a psychological state index value corresponding to the psychological state sensibility representation word and indicating the psychological state of the user; and a presentation unit configured to visualize and present a character string of the psychological state sensibility representation word and the psychological state index value in a form in which a temporal variation is visible.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2019Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Junji WATANABE, Aiko MURATA, Reiko ARUGA
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Publication number: 20220128130Abstract: A vehicle includes a chain tensioner that serves as an oil damper using oil supplied from an oil pump. The vehicle includes a controller that controls a traveling mode of the vehicle in a BEV mode or a non-BEV mode. When shifting the traveling mode from the BEV mode to the non-BEV mode, the controller executes a high-pressure process for calculating a supply pressure of oil supplied to the chain tensioner that is higher when a duration of the BEV mode is greater than or equal to a specified time than when the BEV mode duration is less than the specified time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro MUSHIGA, Junji WATANABE
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Patent number: 11231527Abstract: A diffuser plate includes a plurality of fine structures having two or more types of lens functions arranged on a main surface. Intensity of diffused light within a desired diffusion angle range is substantially uniform, and the diffuser plate satisfies a relation of P×P×Sk?400 [?m2], where P is an average pitch of the plurality of fine structures, Sk is a standard deviation of relative luminance of the plurality of fine structures in their front directions, P?200 [?m], and Sk?0.005. Thus, it is possible to provide a diffuser plate having a simple structure capable of achieving optical properties with little luminance and color unevenness and excellent appearance quality when an image is projected.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Uchida, Masaru Karai, Junji Watanabe
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Patent number: 10901122Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to the field of screen. It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a transmissive screen including a microlens array. The screen of the present disclosure further comprises an aperture array arranged on a surface opposite to the surface on which the microlens array is disposed. A light shielding portion of the aperture array is a metal film. The transmissive screen of the present disclosure can be used for a display.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: KURARAY Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junji Watanabe, Masaru Karai, Tomohiro Takahashi, Chikafumi Kurahashi
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Patent number: 10877188Abstract: A composite diffuser plate capable of inhibiting luminance unevenness from occurring locally is described. The composite diffuser plate includes a first diffuser plate and a second diffuser plate arranged in this order from an incident side. At least one of the first diffuser plate and the second diffuser plate is composed of a random microlens array including multiple microlenses. The microlenses include a plurality of parameters defining a lens shape. At least one of the plural parameters is randomly distributed. The random microlens array causes a phase difference to be generated in transmitted light.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Junji Watanabe, Masaru Karai, Atsushi Uchida
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Publication number: 20200355100Abstract: An air introduction hole having an aperture area smaller than that of an oil inlet is formed above the oil inlet, and therefore, when the oil level of oil accumulated in an oil pan inclines during traveling, air is sucked in through the air introduction hole, thereby restraining a decrease in hydraulic pressure of the oil. Further, the air introduction hole is formed behind the oil inlet in the vehicle front-rear direction in a vehicle. Accordingly, during heavy load traveling such as hill-climbing traveling, the air introduction hole sinks in the oil, thereby restraining the air from being sucked in through the air introduction hole. Accordingly, no air is sucked into an oil strainer, thereby making it possible to obtain high hydraulic pressure during heavy load traveling.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Junji WATANABE
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Patent number: 10697358Abstract: An intake passage structure for a turbocharger-equipped engine (1) includes a supercharging passage (71) and an air relief passage (72) that are provided in a compressor case (72a). The air relief passage (72) has a first passage (73) and a second passage (74), each of which is in a non-linear shape. The first and second passages (73) and (74) each have an air outflow port (73a, 74a) formed through an inner wall surface of an upstream portion (71a) of the supercharging passage (71) upstream of a compressor (21). The air outflow ports (73a, 74a) are formed through different portions of the inner wall surface in a circumferential direction of the inner wall surface so as to overlap with each other in a direction along a central axis of the upstream portion (71a).Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Uehane, Ken Ohtsuki, Einosuke Suekuni, Kimio Ishida, Hiroshi Hosokawa, Junji Watanabe
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Patent number: 10558084Abstract: A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device includes forming a first alignment layer on a first substrate, forming a second alignment layer on a second substrate, disposing the first substrate and the second substrate such that the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer are spaced apart, forming a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules between the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer and forming an electrode layer on one of the first substrate and the second substrate, the electrode layer applying an electric field to the liquid crystal molecules along a direction parallel to the first and second substrates, the forming the first alignment layer including applying a copolymer solution including first moieties and second moieties, and the first moieties have affinity with the first substrate, and the second moieties have compatibility with the liquid crystal molecules and heating the first alignment layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignees: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Osamu Sato, Joji Kawamura, Masatoshi Tokita, Junji Watanabe