Patents by Inventor Kazuki Watanabe

Kazuki 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: 20220034534
    Abstract: In an air-conditioning apparatus, an indoor unit and an outdoor unit are connected to each other by a refrigerant pipe through which refrigerant flows. The air-conditioning apparatus includes: a refrigerant detection unit that detects a leak of the refrigerant in the indoor unit; a notification unit that makes a notification indicating occurrence of the leak of the refrigerant; a controller that controls at least the notification unit; and a remote control unit configured to operate the indoor unit. When the refrigerant detection unit detects the leak of the refrigerant, the controller controls the notification unit to make in a first mode the notification indicating the occurrence of the leak of the refrigerant, and make the notification in a second mode different from the first mode after a predetermined time period elapses from time at which the notification in the first mode is made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuki WATANABE, Masahiko TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20210396412
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus performs an air conditioning action by causing heat exchange to be performed between refrigerant cycling through a refrigerant circuit and indoor and outdoor air, the air-conditioning apparatus including: a measuring unit configured to measure a concentration of the refrigerant leaked into air; a control determination unit configured to determine leakage of the refrigerant in a case where a value indicating the concentration is equal to or more than a first threshold; and a storage unit configured to cumulate and store at least one of a time period elapsed during a determination of the leakage of the refrigerant and a number of times of the determination of the leakage of the refrigerant, wherein the control determination unit prohibits the air conditioning action in at least one case out of a case where the time period cumulated is equal to or more than a predetermined time period, a case where the number of times cumulated is equal to or more than a predetermined number, and a
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuki WATANABE, Masahiko TAKAGI
  • Patent number: 11187424
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes: a casing; a gas sensor placed in the casing and configured to produce a sensor output according to refrigerant concentration; a controller configured to detect refrigerant leakage by comparing the sensor output from the gas sensor with a first threshold used to check for refrigerant leakage; and an output device configured to issue an alarm. The controller causes the output device to issue an alarm when the sensor output from the gas sensor continues to be equal to or higher than a second threshold but lower than the first threshold higher than the second threshold for a predetermined set period, where the second threshold is set to a voltage lower than a limit voltage that indicates that sensitivity of the gas sensor has been reduced to zero by siloxane poisoning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210326828
    Abstract: A weighing and pricing device includes: a processor that executes a registration process for a product to be purchased by a customer; a transceiver that: establishes a connection between a mobile device possessed by the customer and the weighing and pricing device; and upon establishing the connection, receives, from the mobile device, identification information that identifies the mobile device; and a storage that stores information relating to the product and the identification information in association with each other. After the registration process is interrupted, the transceiver receives, from the mobile device, identification information. The processor specifies the product associated with the stored identification information that corresponds to the identification information received after the registration process. The processor recommences the registration process for the specified product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Teraoka Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eriko Enatsu, Tomoki Kaneko, Naoto Kurosaki, Kazuya Sasaki, Shingo Higuchi, Kunio Mori, Kazuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11067303
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which refrigerant is circulated, and an indoor unit configured to accommodate a load-side heat exchanger of the refrigerant circuit. The indoor unit includes an air outlet provided in the housing, an air inlet provided in the housing below the air outlet, an air passage that extends between the air inlet and the air outlet via the load-side heat exchanger, a refrigerant detection unit disposed below the air inlet, and a first partition plate configured to separate the air passage from a space in which the refrigerant detection unit is installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Obara, Masahiko Takagi, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Kenyu Tanaka, Kazuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210199360
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus is provided with an indoor unit and an outdoor unit connected to each other via a refrigerant pipe through which refrigerant flows. The air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant detection unit configured to detect leakage of the refrigerant in the indoor unit, a notification unit configured to provide a notification of occurrence of leakage of the refrigerant, a communication unit capable of communicating with an external terminal device via a network, and a controller configured to control at least the notification unit and the communication unit. The notification unit includes at least one of a display unit and a speaker disposed on a surface of a casing of the indoor unit, and the external terminal device, in addition to a display unit disposed on a remote controller for operating the indoor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuki WATANABE, Masahiko TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20210192902
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: a processor that acquires a type of a product sold by weight; and a transceiver connected to the processor and that establishes intercommunication with a weighing device that weighs the product sold by weight; a storage connected to the processor. The processor causes the transceiver to acquire, from the weighing device, a weight value of the product sold by weight weighed by the weighing device. The processor registers, in the storage, the type of the product and the weight value that corresponds to the type of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Teraoka Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Sasaki, Tomoki Kaneko, Naoto Kurosaki, Shingo Higuchi, Kazuki Watanabe, Fumikatu Saitoh, Akiko Yoshikawa, Sayaka Tomori
  • Patent number: 10957837
    Abstract: A light source device can include a frame including a bottom wall and a side wall surrounding the bottom wall; a light source on the bottom wall; a wavelength converting structure disposed over the light source and including wavelength converting mediums therein; and a first heat sink disposed at a side of the frame to be opposite to the wavelength converting structure, in which the wavelength converting structure is disposed on and directly contacts a top surface of the side wall of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Young Kim, Osamu Sato, Kazuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10950827
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a coating-type organic electroluminescent device and a display device and a lighting device including the same. The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent device in which an inter-electrode layer and at least one layer of a first electrode and a second electrode can be consistently manufactured at atmospheric pressure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a first electrode, an electron injection layer facing the first electrode, and an emitting material layer located between the first electrode and the electron injection layer, wherein the emitting material layer and the electron injection layer are formable by coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Watanabe, Harumi Okuno
  • Publication number: 20210041114
    Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a suction grille having an air inlet through which air flows in, a decorative panel to which the suction grille is mounted and having an air outlet through which the air flows out, a casing to which the decorative panel is mounted and defining an air passage between the air inlet and the air outlet, a fan located to face the suction grille in the casing and configured to cause the air to flow in through the air inlet and flow out through the air outlet, a heat exchanger located in the air passage between the fan and the air outlet in the casing and configured to exchange heat between refrigerant flowing in the heat exchanger and the air, and a refrigerant detection sensor configured to detect leakage of the refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuki WATANABE, Masahiko TAKAGI, Tatsuo FURUTA, Kota HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20210018200
    Abstract: The refrigerant leakage determination device includes a refrigerant detection sensor that detects presence of gas and transmits a concentration of the gas as a sensor output, an alarm device that issues an alarm about leakage of refrigerant, and a controller configured to control the alarm device based on the sensor output from the refrigerant detection sensor. The controller includes a storage device that stores two thresholds for the sensor output and two set times each having a length set for each threshold, and a processing device that, when the sensor output exceeds one or both of the two thresholds and a length of a time period during which the sensor output exceeds the one or both of the two thresholds is longer than either one of the two set times associated with the two thresholds, determines leakage of refrigerant and actuates the alarm device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuki WATANABE, Masahiko TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20200399483
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gravure printing method of conducting printing on a printing substrate with an aqueous ink reserved in an ink pan using a furnisher roll, a gravure roll, a doctor blade and a nip roll, in which the aqueous ink contains a pigment, a polymer, an organic solvent, a surfactant and water; a content of organic solvent components of the organic solvent which have a boiling point of 100 to 260° C. in the aqueous ink is not less than 0.3% by mass and not more than 12% by mass; an average particle size of particles of the pigment is from 120 to 350 nm; and an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of a plate surface of the gravure roll is from 10 to 140 nm. According to the present invention, it is possible to improve transfer properties of the ink to the printing substrate such as a resin film, etc., and suppress fogging on the plate surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuma MIZUSHIMA, Kazuki WATANABE, Yuki OZAKI, Takuto MATSUZONO, Yasufumi UEDA
  • Patent number: 10870756
    Abstract: The acrylic composition for sealing contains an acrylic compound, a polyphenylene ether resin including a radical-polymerizable substituent at a terminal, an inorganic filler, and a thermal radical polymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Yamatsu, Kazuki Watanabe, Naoki Kanagawa, Daisuke Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20200377715
    Abstract: An encapsulation resin composition is used to hermetically seal a gap between a base member and a semiconductor chip bonded onto the base member. The encapsulation resin composition has a reaction start temperature of 160° C. or less. A melt viscosity of the encapsulation resin composition is 200 Pa·s or less at the reaction start temperature, 400 Pa·s or less at any temperature which is equal to or higher than a temperature lower by 40° C. than the reaction start temperature and which is equal to or lower than the reaction start temperature, and 1,000 Pa·s or less at a temperature lower by 50° C. than the reaction start temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru YAMATSU, Kazuki WATANABE, Naoki KANAGAWA
  • Patent number: 10823445
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus according to the present invention, a controller is configured to cause a first operation mode and a second operation mode to be executed as operation modes of an air-sending fan. The first operation mode is an operation mode in which an operation of the air-sending fan is started based on a first manipulation performed on an operation unit and the air-sending fan is stopped based on a second manipulation performed on the operation unit. The second operation mode is an operation mode in which the operation of the air-sending fan is started when refrigerant is detected by a refrigerant detection unit, the air-sending fan is not stopped based on the second manipulation, the air-sending fan is stopped based on a third manipulation different from the second manipulation, and the operation of the air-sending fan is restarted based on a fourth manipulation different from the first manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Suzuki, Masahiko Takagi, Kenyu Tanaka, Kazuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200331096
    Abstract: A machine learning device for learning a focal position offset of a laser processing apparatus. A data acquisition section acquires a learning dataset which includes data of a focal position command for a light-focusing optical system given to the laser processing apparatus and detection data of a physical quantity of light detected when a laser beam is emitted from a laser oscillator in accordance with a processing command including the focal position command. A learning section generates a learning model by using the learning dataset, which represents correlativity between the physical quantity of the detected light and the positional relationship of an effective light-focusing position of the light-focusing optical system relative to a workpiece. When performing processing, the physical quantity of light is detected so that a positional relationship between the workpiece and the effective light-focusing position during processing can be estimated from the detected quantity and the learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10808960
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigeration cycle circuit which includes a plurality of load-side heat exchangers; a plurality of indoor units which accommodate the plurality of load-side heat exchangers, respectively; and a controller which controls the plurality of indoor units. Each of the plurality of indoor units includes an air-sending fan. At least one of the plurality of indoor units includes a refrigerant detection unit. The controller divides the plurality of indoor units into one or more groups. The controller is set such that when refrigerant is detected by the refrigerant detection unit included in any of the plurality of indoor units, the controller causes the air-sending fans included in all the indoor units which belong to a same group as the indoor unit which includes the refrigerant detection unit which detects the refrigerant to be operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Suzuki, Masahiko Takagi, Kenyu Tanaka, Kazuki Watanabe, Naoya Matsunaga, Teppei Higuchi
  • Patent number: 10797013
    Abstract: A sealing acrylic resin composition contains a thermosetting acrylic resin in liquid phase, an organic peroxide, and an inorganic filler in a content proportion ranging from 50% by mass to 95% by mass, inclusive. A silane coupling agent is bonded to the inorganic filler, a total organic carbon content of the inorganic filler in proportion being ranging from 0.1% by mass to 1.0% by mass, inclusive, in a state before the inorganic filler is mixed with at least one of the thermosetting acrylic resin and the organic peroxide. The silane coupling agent has an acrylic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Jin, Naoki Kanagawa, Shigeru Yamatsu, Daisuke Sasaki, Kazuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10794611
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigeration cycle circuit that includes a plurality of load-side heat exchangers and a plurality of indoor units that accommodate the plurality of load-side heat exchangers. Each of the plurality of indoor units includes an air-sending fan. At least one of the plurality of indoor units includes a refrigerant detection unit. When refrigerant is detected by the refrigerant detection unit included in any one of the plurality of indoor units, the air-sending fans included in all of the plurality of indoor units operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Company
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Suzuki, Masahiko Takagi, Kenyu Tanaka, Kazuki Watanabe, Naoya Matsunaga, Teppei Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20200300493
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes: a casing; a gas sensor placed in the casing and configured to produce a sensor output according to refrigerant concentration; a controller configured to detect refrigerant leakage by comparing the sensor output from the gas sensor with a first threshold used to check for refrigerant leakage; and an output device configured to issue an alarm. The controller causes the output device to issue an alarm when the sensor output from the gas sensor continues to be equal to or higher than a second threshold but lower than the first threshold higher than the second threshold for a predetermined set period, where the second threshold is set to a voltage lower than a limit voltage that indicates that sensitivity of the gas sensor has been reduced to zero by siloxane poisoning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventor: Kazuki WATANABE