Patents by Inventor Kazuhiko Watanabe

Kazuhiko 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).

  • Patent number: 12212837
    Abstract: An imaging method is provided that includes: taking an image of an object to generate an image signal of the object; generating a taken image of the object on a basis of the image signal; detecting motion information of the object on the basis of the image signal; taking an image of the object on a basis of the motion information multiple times so as to differentiate an exposure amount thereof; and generating an HDR synthetic image of the object on the basis of a plurality of image signals whose exposure amounts are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Akira Ishiyama, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Motoyuki Suzuki, Mitsunobu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12109314
    Abstract: A soft capsule film composition, comprising: (A) a native gellan gum; (B) one or more hydrophilic polysaccharides; (C) a starch or modified starch; (D) a plasticizer; and (E) water, wherein a gelling agent other than the native gellan gum and the one or more hydrophilic polysaccharides is not an essential component. The soft capsule film composition shortens drying time at room temperature, suppresses the stickiness of the surface of a film sheet, imparts film sheet strength which can withstand continuous production in factory manufacturing with a rotary die filling machine or the like, and enables the manufacture of a good soft capsule with high adhesiveness. For this reason, the soft capsule produced using the soft capsule film composition can be utilized for various uses such as drugs, quasi drugs, cosmetics, and foods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI CAPSULE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Obatake, Yosuke Kondo, Koji Masuda, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Yoshihiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12075822
    Abstract: A breakable capsule for use in a tobacco industry product is disclosed. The capsule has a core-shell structure that includes a core containing both a crystallization inhibitor and at least about 35% w/w menthol, based on the total weight of the core. The crystallization inhibitor, which is different than methanol, may help reduce or inhibit the crystallization of methanol in the core-shell structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Wan, Frank Merzbach, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Yosuke Kondo, Kenji Kato
  • Patent number: 12045000
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearer, an intermediate transferor, a primary transferor, a second transferor, and a cleaning blade. The latent image bearer has a surface onto which a lubricant comprising zinc stearate is supplied. The intermediate transferor has a surface onto which the toner image is transferred, the surface including an adhering region to which the lubricant from the latent image bearer adheres. The cleaning blade cleans the surface of the intermediate transferor including the adhering region, after the toner image is secondarily transferred. In a region outside at least a horizontal A4 sheet passing width on the intermediate transferor, a ratio of a peak area derived from zinc stearate to a peak area derived from the intermediate transferor in a difference spectrum between attenuated total reflection (ATR) infrared absorption spectrums of the intermediate transferor in an unused state and after use is 0.892 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Watanabe, Hiroshi Nakai
  • Patent number: 11809097
    Abstract: A powder conveying device includes an inflow portion, a discharge portion, and a conveying screw. Powder flows into the inflow portion from outside of the powder conveying device. The powder flows out from the discharge portion to the outside of the powder conveying device. The conveying screw includes a shaft and conveys the powder from the inflow portion to the discharge portion in a conveying direction. A surface portion of the shaft at at least one of an upstream end or a downstream end of the shaft in the conveying direction, in at least one of the inflow portion or the discharge portion has a lower friction with the powder than another surface portion of the shaft at a position other than the at least one of the upstream end or the downstream end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Shiodera, Kazuhiko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230229107
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearer, an intermediate transferor, a primary transferor, a second transferor, and a cleaning blade. The latent image bearer has a surface onto which a lubricant comprising zinc stearate is supplied. The intermediate transferor has a surface onto which the toner image is transferred, the surface including an adhering region to which the lubricant from the latent image bearer adheres. The cleaning blade cleans the surface of the intermediate transferor including the adhering region, after the toner image is secondarily transferred. In a region outside at least a horizontal A4 sheet passing width on the intermediate transferor, a ratio of a peak area derived from zinc stearate to a peak area derived from the intermediate transferor in a difference spectrum between attenuated total reflection (ATR) infrared absorption spectrums of the intermediate transferor in an unused state and after use is 0.892 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko WATANABE, Hiroshi Nakai
  • Publication number: 20230090756
    Abstract: The cylindrical battery includes: an electrode body in which a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are wound with a separator therebetween: an electrolyte; a bottomed cylindrical outer can that houses the electrode body and the electrolyte; and a sealing body that closes an opening of the outer can, wherein the sealing body includes a nipture plate that is caulked and fixed to the opening of the outer can with a gasket therebetween, and an external terminal that is not caulked and fixed to the opening of the outer can, the rupture plate has a valve part that is ruptured when an internal battery pressure rises, and the external terminal is fixed to an upper surface portion of a valve part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Sugimoto, Takahiro Fukuoka, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Toshihiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20220299909
    Abstract: A powder conveying device includes an inflow portion, a discharge portion, and a conveying screw. Powder flows into the inflow portion from outside of the powder conveying device. The powder flows out from the discharge portion to the outside of the powder conveying device. The conveying screw includes a shaft and conveys the powder from the inflow portion to the discharge portion in a conveying direction. A surface portion of the shaft at at least one of an upstream end or a downstream end of the shaft in the conveying direction, in at least one of the inflow portion or the discharge portion has a lower friction with the powder than another surface portion of the shaft at a position other than the at least one of the upstream end or the downstream end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kota SHIODERA, Kazuhiko WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11442396
    Abstract: A cleaning blade includes a blade member including a ridgeline portion. The ridgeline portion contains polyrotaxane. A sheet conveyance roller includes a core and a surface layer. The surface layer contains polyrotaxane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Watanabe, Hiroshi Nakai, Masahiro Ohmori
  • Patent number: 11175610
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image bearers and a rotatable transferor. Images borne on the plurality of image bearers are transferred to the transferor. The transferor has an elastic power larger than an elastic power of each of the plurality of image bearers, and a difference in elastic power between the transferor and a most upstream image bearer in a rotation direction of the transferor is smaller than a difference in elastic power between the transferor and any other image bearer except the most upstream image bearer of the plurality of image bearers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naohiro Kumagai, Kazuhiko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210325802
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image bearers and a rotatable transferor. Images borne on the plurality of image bearers are transferred to the transferor. The transferor has an elastic power larger than an elastic power of each of the plurality of image bearers, and a difference in elastic power between the transferor and a most upstream image bearer in a rotation direction of the transferor is smaller than a difference in elastic power between the transferor and any other image bearer except the most upstream image bearer of the plurality of image bearers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Naohiro KUMAGAI, Kazuhiko WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11150604
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer to bear a latent image, a charging device to charge the image bearer, a developing device to develop the latent image on the image bearer, a cleaning device to clean a surface of the image bearer, a target component including at least one of the image bearer, the charging device, the developing device, and the cleaning device, and a temperature change suppression member opposed adjacent to or disposed in contact with an outer peripheral face of the target component. The temperature change suppression member suppresses a temperature change of the target component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Watanabe, Hiroshi Nakai, Yasuhide Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20210317498
    Abstract: The present invention provides an approach to enhancing the production of a foreign protein serving as a protein-based pharmaceutical product in host cells such as cultured cells derived from a mammal. The present invention provides transfected cells having a novel Hspa8 gene promoter, and a method for secreting and producing a foreign protein at high levels using the transfected cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Masuda, Yuto Nakazawa, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Maui Nishio, Takeshi Okumura, Koichi Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20210216032
    Abstract: A cleaning blade includes a blade member including a ridgeline portion. The ridgeline portion contains polyrotaxane. A sheet conveyance roller includes a core and a surface layer. The surface layer contains polyrotaxane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko WATANABE, Hiroshi NAKAI, Masahiro OHMORI
  • Publication number: 20210196641
    Abstract: A soft capsule film composition, comprising: (A) a native gellan gum; (B) one or more hydrophilic polysaccharides; (C) a starch or modified starch; (D) a plasticizer; and (E) water, wherein a gelling agent other than the native gellan gum and the one or more hydrophilic polysaccharides is not an essential component. The soft capsule film composition shortens drying time at room temperature, suppresses the stickiness of the surface of a film sheet, imparts film sheet strength which can withstand continuous production in factory manufacturing with a rotary die filling machine or the like, and enables the manufacture of a good soft capsule with high adhesiveness. For this reason, the soft capsule produced using the soft capsule film composition can be utilized for various uses such as drugs, quasi drugs, cosmetics, and foods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki Obatake, Yosuke Kondo, Koji Masuda, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Yoshihiko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210034010
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer to bear a latent image, a charging device to charge the image bearer, a developing device to develop the latent image on the image bearer, a cleaning device to clean a surface of the image bearer, a target component including at least one of the image bearer, the charging device, the developing device, and the cleaning device, and a temperature change suppression member opposed adjacent to or disposed in contact with an outer peripheral face of the target component. The temperature change suppression member suppresses a temperature change of the target component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuhiko WATANABE, Hiroshi NAKAI, Yasuhide NAKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10682808
    Abstract: A fabrication method includes laminating a fabrication material to form an object, and applying a release material on a surface of the object to form a release layer on the surface of the object. A surface free energy of the release material is equal to or smaller than 25 mN/m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Fujita, Akira Saito, Kiichi Kamoda, Yasutada Shitara, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Hitoshi Iwatsuki, Yuuya Endoh, Kazufumi Kimura, Yasuyuki Yamashita, Shinnosuke Koshizuka, Yuuki Kamon, Nozomu Tamoto
  • Patent number: 10514651
    Abstract: A cleaning blade includes an edge portion made of an elastic material having a rebound resilience value R35 at 35° C. and a 100% modulus value M35 at 35° C. that satisfy the relation R35??4.8 M35+42.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Watanabe, Hiroshi Nakai, Hiroshi Mizusawa, Tomoyuki Kirigane, Yasuhide Nakazawa
  • Patent number: D862750
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Sakai, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Mitsunori Morita
  • Patent number: D864801
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsunori Morita, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Junichi Sakai