Patents by Inventor Katsumi Watanabe

Katsumi 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: 20170197382
    Abstract: The present invention is a laminate where a carbon nanotube-containing layer composed at least of carbon nanotube and resin is laminated above a substrate. The laminate is a laminate where a clear layer is further laminated above a laminated surface of the carbon nanotube-containing layer. The laminate has L* being equal to or less than 2.5, a* being in a range of ?2 to 2, and b* being in a range of ?2 to 0.3, each measured from the laminated surface. The carbon nanotube-containing layer above the substrate is formed by coating. The clear layer is transparent resin or glass. Note that L*, a* and b* indicate values in L*a*b* color system specified in JIS Z8729.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Yu MORITA, Katsumi WATANABE, Nobuyuki NAHATA, Motoki MASUDA, Toshiaki HIRAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170166769
    Abstract: Provided is a layered product with high jet-black. A layered product according to the present invention is a layered product (10) including at least a first layer (1) and a second layer (2) that are stacked. A value of L* in a L*a*b* color system defined by JIS Z8729 of the first layer (1) is ten or less. The second layer (2) is formed on the first layer (1) and 0.1 to 1 mass % of carbon nanotubes are contained in a material constituting the second layer (2). In the L*a*b* color system defined by JIS Z8729, when values are measured from a side of a plane of the second layer (2), a value of L* is 2.5 or less, a value of a* is ?2.0 or greater and 2.0 or less, and a value of b* is ?2.0 or greater and 0.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Nobuyuki NAHATA, Katsumi WATANABE, Yu MORITA, Motoki MASUDA, Toshiaki HIRAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170110230
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a solenoid valve for hydraulic control. The solenoid valve includes a spool valve and a linear solenoid. The spool valve is used inside a hydraulic oil. The linear solenoid includes a resin cylindrical bobbin, a coil, and a case. The solenoid valve further includes a projecting portion, a first terminal, a first coil lead wire, a slit, a first coating portion, and a second coating portion. The first coil lead wire includes an exposed and the second coil lead wire includes an exposed portion. The slit separates an electrical connection between the first terminal and the first coil lead wire from an electrical connection between the second terminal and the second coil lead wire in the plate width direction. The first coating portion is formed by coating an entire surface of the exposed portion of the first coil lead wire. The second coating portion is formed by coating an entire surface of the exposed portion of the second coil lead wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsumi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9573334
    Abstract: Provided is a hot isostatic pressing (HIP) device (1) that can efficiently cool a hot zone during HIP processing while restraining temperatures in the lower part of a high-pressure container. This HIP device (1) is provided with the following: gas-impermeable casings (3, 4) that surround an object to be processed (W); a heating unit (7) that is disposed inside these casings and forms a hot zone around the object to be processed (W); a high-pressure container (2); and a cooling unit that guides a pressure-medium gas cooled on the outside of the casings into the hot zone to cool the hot zone. The cooling unit comprises the following: a gas introduction unit that introduces the pressure-medium gas that has been cooled on the outside of the casings (3, 4) into the hot zone; and a cooling promotion unit (37) that cools the pressure medium gas by causing the pressure-medium gas that has been cooled on the outside of the casings to exchange heat with a base (11) of the high-pressure container (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomitsu Nakai, Katsumi Watanabe, Makoto Yoneda
  • Patent number: 9561633
    Abstract: Provided is a hot isostatic pressing device (HIP) (1) that enables prompt cooling in a processing chamber. The HIP device (1) is provided with the following: gas impermeable casings (3, 4); a heating unit (7); a high-pressure container (2); a heat accumulator (43) provided below a processing chamber; and a cooling promotion flow path (44). The casings (3, 4) are disposed so as to form the following: a first circulation flow (41) in which a pressure medium gas passes through an inner flow path (22) and an outer flow path (12) and then returns to the inner flow path (22); and a second circulation flow (42) in which the pressure medium gas which has branched off from the first circulation flow (41) performs heat exchange with an object-of-processing (W) in the processing chamber and then is fed back to the first circulation flow (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomitsu Nakai, Katsumi Watanabe, Makoto Yoneda
  • Publication number: 20170015849
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ink composition for inkjet recording with which high-speed printing is possible while maintaining the quality of a printed material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Megumi OOGAKI, Shinichi YOSHIMITSU, Katsumi WATANABE, Ryohei OKA, Yukiko ISHIMA, Karuna IWASAWA
  • Patent number: 9412685
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a substrate including a plurality of external terminals on a rear surface and a plurality of bonding terminals electrically connected to the plurality of external terminals on a front surface, a semiconductor chip mounted on the front surface of the substrate, a surface of the chip including a plurality of bonding pads, a plurality of bonding wires connecting between the plurality of bonding pads or between the plurality of bonding terminals and the plurality of bonding wires respectively, a first sealing layer sealing the front surface of the substrate, the plurality of bonding wires and the semiconductor chip, and a second sealing layer comprised of the same material as the first sealing, the second sealing layer being formed above the first sealing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: J-DEVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tomonaga, Mitsuru Ooida, Katsumi Watanabe, Hidenari Sato
  • Publication number: 20160218898
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication device and communication method capable of realizing faster communication. [Solution] A communication device includes a modulation unit configured to use, in each modulation scheme, symbol points for which an average power is the same across a predetermined plurality of modulation schemes, and modulate transmit data according to one of the predetermined plurality of modulation schemes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Katsumi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20160197716
    Abstract: [Object] To propose a communication apparatus, a communication system and a communication method through which it is possible to support full-duplex communication over half-duplex communication channels. [Solution] Provided is a communication apparatus including: a switch unit configured to switch data communication to be performed with another communication apparatus on a transmission side or a reception side; and a communication unit configured to transmit transmission data to the other communication apparatus and receive a response when the data communication is performed on the transmission side, and receive reception data from the other communication apparatus and transmit a response when the data communication is performed on the reception side. The switch unit performs switching from the transmission side to the reception side when the response received by the communication unit includes a switching instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Fumihiro NISHIYAMA, Katsumi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20160059504
    Abstract: Provided is a hot isostatic pressing device (HIP) (1) that enables prompt cooling in a processing chamber. The HIP device (1) is provided with the following: gas impermeable casings (3, 4); a heating unit (7); a high-pressure container (2); a heat accumulator (43) provided below a processing chamber; and a cooling promotion flow path (44). The casings (3, 4) are disposed so as to form the following: a first circulation flow (41) in which a pressure medium gas passes through an inner flow path (22) and an outer flow path (12) and then returns to the inner flow path (22); and a second circulation flow (42) in which the pressure medium gas which has branched off from the first circulation flow (41) performs heat exchange with an object-of-processing (W) in the processing chamber and then is fed back to the first circulation flow (41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Tomomitsu NAKAI, Katsumi WATANABE, Makoto YONEDA
  • Publication number: 20160039163
    Abstract: Provided is a hot isostatic pressing (HIP) device (1) that can efficiently cool a hot zone during HIP processing while restraining temperatures in the lower part of a high-pressure container. This HIP device (1) is provided with the following: gas-impermeable casings (3, 4) that surround an object to be processed (W); a heating unit (7) that is disposed inside these casings and forms a hot zone around the object to be processed (W); a high-pressure container (2); and a cooling unit that guides a pressure-medium gas cooled on the outside of the casings into the hot zone to cool the hot zone. The cooling unit comprises the following: a gas introduction unit that introduces the pressure-medium gas that has been cooled on the outside of the casings (3, 4) into the hot zone; and a cooling promotion unit (37) that cools the pressure medium gas by causing the pressure-medium gas that has been cooled on the outside of the casings to exchange heat with a base (11) of the high-pressure container (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Tomomitsu NAKAI, Katsumi WATANABE, Makoto YONEDA
  • Publication number: 20150291373
    Abstract: The invention provides a compact and easily movable workpiece stacking apparatus which uses only an electric source as a power source. A workpiece stacking apparatus includes lift bars on which workpieces are stackable and a lift bar drive apparatus which drives the lift bars in the upward and downward directions. The lift bar drive apparatus includes a support pillar which guides the lift bars in the upward and downward directions, a first sprocket, a second sprocket disposed below the first sprocket and guided movably in the upward and downward directions, a roller chain of which one end is fixed to the lift bars and extended from the lift bars to be engaged with the teeth of the first and second sprockets and the other end is fixed so as to hang the second sprocket, and an electric motor which drives and rotates the first sprocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: TOA Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji KANAI, Katsumi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 8995942
    Abstract: There is provided a radio communication device including a radio receiving unit to receive a radio signals, a synchronization unit to detect synchronization based on a result of a correlation for received signals output from the radio receiving unit, and a signal strength output unit to output, as signal strength of the received signals that is RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) value, a level of a correlation signal that is output as a result of the correlation by the synchronization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsumi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8977802
    Abstract: Provided is a method for stabilizing and increasing the speed of processing for writing a plurality of different-sized files such as a video file and a management file in parallel in the case where the area in a non-volatile memory of an information recording module is managed by a file system. An access module (1) includes a means for retaining sequential areas in logical block units as areas for writing file data, and a means for realizing file data addition and overwriting by writing data to logical blocks and changing links in a FAT regardless of whether file data addition or overwriting is performed. Writing to the information recording module is performed by writing to sequential addresses in the logical blocks. This realizes the stabilization of and an increase in the file data recording speed by suppressing needless copy processing performed in the information recording module 2 in the case of recording a plurality of files such as a video file and a management file in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuji Maeda, Masayuki Toyama, Hirokazu So, Yoshinori Nakashima, Katsumi Watanabe, Masafumi Nosaka
  • Patent number: 8867654
    Abstract: A transmission device of the present invention includes a baseband waveform generator to generate a transmission signal by using a transfer function H0(f) that is in a relation of a matched filter with a transfer function H1(f) in an analog domain of a transmission side and a reception side connected through a wireless channel, and transmits the transmission signal generated by the baseband waveform generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsumi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20140159215
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a substrate including a plurality of external terminals on a rear surface and a plurality of bonding terminals electrically connected to the plurality of external terminals on a front surface, a semiconductor chip mounted on the front surface of the substrate, a surface of the chip including a plurality of bonding pads, a plurality of bonding wires connecting between the plurality of bonding pads or between the plurality of bonding terminals and the plurality of bonding wires respectively, a first sealing layer sealing the front surface of the substrate, the plurality of bonding wires and the semiconductor chip, and a second sealing layer comprised of the same material as the first sealing, the second sealing layer being formed above the first sealing layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: J-DEVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tomonaga, Mitsuru Ooida, Katsumi Watanabe, Hidenari Sato
  • Patent number: 8741252
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing porous materials by replacing a first solvent in a wet material containing the first solvent with a second solvent in a high pressure condition and drying the resulting wet material which process comprises a mixed solvent feeding step for feeding a mixed solvent composed of a solvent identical to or of the same kind as the first solvent and the second solvent to the wet material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Watanabe, Masahiro Yamagata
  • Patent number: 8647092
    Abstract: A hot isotropic pressure device including: a casing disposed inside a high-pressure container; a heating unit provided inside the casing and forms a hot zone around the treatment material, in which an isotropic pressure treatment is performed on the treatment material using a pressure medium gas. A cooling unit is provided to cool the hot zone by guiding the pressure medium gas, cooled while guided from the upper side toward the lower side at the outside of the casing, into the hot zone. The cooling unit includes a gas introducing unit which guides the pressure medium gas cooled at the outside of the casing from the lower portion of the high-pressure container to the upper portion of the hot zone without any intersection with the pressure medium gas inside the hot zone and introduces the pressure medium gas into the hot zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomitsu Nakai, Makoto Yoneda, Itaru Masuoka, Katsumi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8573962
    Abstract: The objective is to provide a high-pressure treatment apparatus with which the pressure or temperature in a treatment chamber can be efficiently adjusted in a short period of time without an overall significant increase in the size or complication of the apparatus. The high-pressure treatment apparatus has a pressure-resistant container having pressure-resistant walls surrounding a treatment chamber, a lid member that closes an open end of the pressure-resistant container, a supply means that supplies a process fluid into the treatment chamber, a partition wall that is thinner than the pressure-resistant wall and is provided along the inside surface of said pressure-resistant container to form a partitioned chamber with said inside surface, and a heat transfer control means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamagata, Katsumi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20130255849
    Abstract: Provided is a method of setting a carrier tape, the carrier tape including a carrier tape body configured to contain a plurality of electronic components, and a cover tape configured to cover the carrier tape body, the method including: starting rotation of a pair of rollers capable of nipping the cover tape of the carrier tape; and inserting a leading end portion of the cover tape to between the pair of rollers during the rotation so that the cover tape is pulled in by the pair of rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Watanabe, Togo Matsuura, Masataka Koike