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: 20180187917
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit configured to circulate refrigerant, a heat exchanger unit accommodating a heat exchanger of the refrigerant circuit, and a controller configured to control the heat exchanger unit. The heat exchanger unit includes an air-sending fan, an electric refrigerant detection unit, and a notifier configured to output notification of an abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SUZUKI, Masahiko TAKAGI, Kenyu TANAKA, Yohei SUZUKI, Kenta NOMURA, Kazuki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20180061999
    Abstract: A pressure detecting includes a plurality of sensing cells arranged a plurality of rows and columns, each of the plurality of sensing cells including a pressure sensing element and a selection transistor. First driving signal lines are disposed in the rows, and the first driving signal lines are connected to the selection transistors of a first portion of the plurality of sensing cells in a respective row. Second driving signal lines are disposed in a portion of the plurality of rows, and the second driving signal lines are connected to the selection transistors of a second portion of the plurality of sensing cells in a respective row. First and second driving circuits are respectively connected to the first driving signal lines the second driving signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi HIRAKI, Osamu SATO, Kazuki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20180062056
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light source device that includes a substrate; a light source portion supported on the substrate and producing a light; a container supported on the light source portion and containing quantum dots excited by the light; and a thermal conductor connecting the container with the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Young KIM, Osamu SATO, Kazuki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20170152906
    Abstract: A shock absorbing device that has high strength rigidity and good attenuation characteristics, that can be reduced in weight and size, is free from degassing, and has stable temperature characteristics. The device connects between a first and second member so as to be applicable to shock absorption therebetween, and includes: a first and a second shock absorbing member; and a holding and connecting mechanism which holds the first member via the first and second shock absorbing members and which is connected to the second member. The first shock absorbing member, the first member, and the second shock absorbing member are disposed in that order. The holding and connecting mechanism sandwiches the first shock absorbing member, the first member, and the second shock absorbing member from outside the first and second shock absorbing members, thereby holding the first member while applying stress to the first and second shock absorbing members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: WEL RESEARCH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20170057594
    Abstract: A front fender is prevented from being enlarging while still covering the brake caliper in the front fender structure of the straddle type vehicle. A front fender has a covered portion covering a brake caliper by avoiding a front two-wheeled suspension device. The covered portion has a drooping portion covering a brake caliper from a side direction, a lower extending portion covers the brake caliper from the lower direction. The brake caliper and the covered portion are disposed in front of a shaft of the front wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9496585
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolyte solution comprising a lithium salt and a nonaqueous organic solvent, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte solution comprises a specific sulfonic acid ester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuhei Sawa, Minoru Kotato, Kunihisa Shima, Masamichi Onuki, Youichi Ohashi, Kazuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9472510
    Abstract: To enhance the security of a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device has a regulator unit for generating an internal power supply voltage based on a power supply voltage supplied from outside, an internal circuit which operates on the internal power supply voltage, a current detection unit for monitoring a power supply current supplied to the internal circuit, and a control unit for controlling operation of the internal circuit. In the semiconductor device, when the current detection unit detects that the power supply current exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the control unit restricts the operation of the internal circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Watanabe, Yosuke Tanno
  • Patent number: 8781537
    Abstract: The semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a pair of antenna terminals; a rectifier; a source-voltage terminal; a shunt regulator; a series regulator. When the voltage of the inside source line rises to or above a first set voltage, the shunt regulator passes a pull-down current through a pull-down transistor. When the voltage of the inside source line drops to or below the second set voltage, the series regulator passes a pull-up current through a pull-up transistor. The first set voltage is set to be higher than the second set voltage in voltage level. With the semiconductor integrated circuit, the competition of actions of the two regulators is prevented. The semiconductor integrated circuit is arranged to work in contact and noncontact operation modes, and a stable source voltage can be supplied to an internal circuit thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Watanabe, Hisataka Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 8753750
    Abstract: A reflector of a lighting apparatus comprises a substrate and a coating layer located on a surface of the substrate. The coating layer is formed of a resin composition comprising an acrylic resin having at least one of a dimethylsiloxane group and a perfluoroalkyl group. Then, the coating layer is configured so that total surface free energy is less than or equal to 30 [mJ/m2], and when the total surface free energy is divided into two components of a polar force component and a dispersion force component, surface free energy of the dispersion force component is less than or equal to 25 [mJ/m2].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Watanabe, Shinjiro Noma, Satoru Yamauchi, Shigeharu Fukuzawa, Toshiharu Sako
  • Patent number: 8737453
    Abstract: There is included a detection unit for detecting a magnitude of a surplus of a direct current to a source voltage generated by a voltage generation unit generating the source voltage from the direct current obtained by rectifying a signal inputted from an antenna terminal. A data processing unit operating at the source voltage and performing data processing on a transmission/reception signal includes a clock control unit for determining a frequency of a clock signal for the data processing based on the magnitude of the surplus current detected by the detection unit in a state where a frequency of the clock signal is set to a predetermined reference frequency. Since the power consumed by the data processing unit at the time of detecting the surplus of the direct current is determined by the specific reference frequency, the surplus of the direct current can be detected as an absolute surplus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Toriyama, Kazuki Watanabe, Makoto Shindo, Makoto Toyoshima, Yosuke Tanno
  • Patent number: 8643470
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit and an IC card mounted with the same are provided, in which a signal of any one of at least three kinds of reception signals can be received for a short time. An RF signal from an antenna is supplied in parallel to a first and a second demodulator circuit included in a demodulator circuit. The first demodulator circuit demodulates a first reception signal of a first degree of modulation. The second demodulator circuit demodulates a second reception signal having a first communication start signal (SOF), and a third reception signal having a second communication start signal (Preamble). The demodulated output signals of the first and the second demodulator circuit are supplied to a determination circuit. When the demodulation output by the first demodulator circuit is determined, it is determined that the first reception signal is currently received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Toriyama, Kazuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8635472
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device which enables a power-supply voltage terminal and an internal circuit to be isolated from each other in a noncontact operation of a semiconductor integrated circuit device for an IC card, including a first power supply circuit for rectifying and smoothing an AC signal supplied from an antenna, a second power supply circuit which includes a voltage control circuit for controlling a gate terminal voltage of a first MOS transistor, a substrate potential control circuit for forming a source voltage of the first MOS transistor as a substrate voltage, and a second MOS transistor which causes the substrate voltage and the gate voltage of the first MOS transistor to be conductive when using the first power supply circuit, and which causes the substrate voltage and the gate voltage to be nonconductive when using power supplied from an external terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Watanabe, Nobuaki Yoneya
  • Publication number: 20130278284
    Abstract: To enhance the security of a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device has a regulator unit for generating an internal power supply voltage based on a power supply voltage supplied from outside, an internal circuit which operates on the internal power supply voltage, a current detection unit for monitoring a power supply current supplied to the internal circuit, and a control unit for controlling operation of the internal circuit. In the semiconductor device, when the current detection unit detects that the power supply current exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the control unit restricts the operation of the internal circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Watanabe, Yosuke Tanno
  • Patent number: 8403233
    Abstract: In an IC card, even when undershoot or overshoot which occurs upon an amplitude change by communication data is large, the change is accurately detected. A semiconductor device has antenna terminals, a power supply circuit for generating power supply voltage from an AC signal supplied to the antenna terminals, and a receiver circuit for demodulating an information signal superimposed on the AC signal. The receiver circuit includes a rectifier circuit, a filter circuit, a capacitor, an amplifier, a feedback path, a switch circuit, a binarizing circuit, and a control circuit. An output of the amplifier is transmitted to an inverting input terminal thereof, and the switch circuit is controlled by an output of the control circuit. In a predetermined period since level changes of an output of the binarizing circuit, the switch circuit is controlled to an off state by the output of the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Watanabe, Akihiro Toriyama
  • Publication number: 20130067252
    Abstract: A semiconductor intergrated circuit device which enables a power-supply voltage terminal and an internal circuit to be isolated from each other in a noncontact operation of a semiconductor integrated circuit device for an IC card, including a first power supply circuit for rectifying and smoothing an AC signal supplied from an antenna, a second power supply circuit which includes a voltage control circuit for controlling a gate terminal voltage of a first MOS transistor, a substrate potential control circuit for forming a source voltage of the first MOS transistor as a substrate voltage, and a second MOS transistor which causes the substrate voltage and the gate voltage of the first MOS transistor to be conductive when using the first power supply circuit, and which causes the substrate voltage and the gate voltage to be nonconductive when using power supplied from an external terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuki WATANABE, Nobuaki Yoneya
  • Patent number: 8301915
    Abstract: The present invention enables a power-supply voltage terminal and an internal circuit to be isolated from each other in a noncontact operation without largely increasing a chip area in a semiconductor integrated circuit device for an IC card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Watanabe, Nobuaki Yoneya
  • Patent number: 8198983
    Abstract: Depending on the power supplied to the non-contact electronic device, the voltage suppression characteristic of the regulator function mounted in a power supply circuit is changed. When the power supplied to the non-contact electronic device is small, the voltage change amount of the voltage between antenna terminals for the current flowing in the antenna is increased, and when the power supplied to the non-contact electronic device is large, the voltage change amount of the voltage between the antenna terminals for the current flowing in the antenna is decreased. By this means, the current change of the entire consumption current for the current change of the load modulator (transmitting circuit) at the time of the long distance communication is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Watanabe, Hisataka Tsunoda, Tetsuo Funane
  • Patent number: 8200152
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit provided with a charge pump circuit of low power consumption, capable of maintaining an output voltage thereof at a predetermined voltage level without causing current consumption to undergo intermittent variation, and a contactless electronic device using the semiconductor integrated circuit. With respective charge pump circuit unit cells (charge/discharge circuits) making up the charge pump circuit, charge current/discharge current flowing to or from the capacitor, respectively, is controlled according to the output voltage of the charge pump circuit. Accordingly, the charge pump circuit can maintain the output voltage thereof at the predetermined voltage level without undergoing an intermittent action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20120120699
    Abstract: The semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a pair of antenna terminals; a rectifier; a source-voltage terminal; a shunt regulator; a series regulator. When the voltage of the inside source line rises to or above a first set voltage, the shunt regulator passes a pull-down current through a pull-down transistor. When the voltage of the inside source line drops to or below the second set voltage, the series regulator passes a pull-up current through a pull-up transistor. The first set voltage is set to be higher than the second set voltage in voltage level. With the semiconductor integrated circuit, the competition of actions of the two regulators is prevented. The semiconductor integrated circuit is arranged to work in contact and noncontact operation modes, and a stable source voltage can be supplied to an internal circuit thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuki WATANABE, Hisataka Tsunoda
  • Patent number: D752489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Jungkyu Choi, Kazuki Watanabe