Patents by Inventor Kenichi Watanabe

Kenichi 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: 11597034
    Abstract: A joint body includes first and second metal members and a joint portion including a welded portion where the first and second metal members are joined together, the welded portion having a line shape. The joint portion includes first and second longitudinal portions and a plurality of connecting portions. The first longitudinal portion has first intersecting portions arranged in a first direction and extends in the first direction. The second longitudinal portion has second intersecting portions arranged in the first direction and extends in the first direction. The welded portion intersects itself at the first and second intersecting portions. The connecting portions are arranged in the first direction. The connecting portions extend in a first direction and connect the first and second longitudinal portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Watanabe, Kazuya Yasui, Dongyong Shi, Takayuki Kimura, Liang Chen, Masao Hadano, Reiichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230068976
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a photoelectric conversion element including a first electrode 3, a second electrode 7, a photoelectric conversion layer 5 between the first electrode 3 and the second electrode 7, and a reflection layer 6 between one of the first electrode 3 and the second electrode 7 and the photoelectric conversion layer 5. The wavelength at which the reflectance of the reflection layer 6 is maximum in the visible region is within the range of wavelengths in which the optical absorption coefficient of the photoelectric conversion layer 5 is ? or more of the maximum optical absorption coefficient in the visible region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Watanabe, Akihiro Maruyama, Tatsuya Yamaai, Kenichi Kaku, Shuntaro Watanabe, Jumpei Kuno, Kazunori Noguchi, Takashi Anezaki, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Kohei Makisumi
  • Publication number: 20230050708
    Abstract: A computer system trains a federated learning model. A federated learning model is distributed to a plurality of computing nodes, each having a set of local training data comprising labeled data samples. Statistical data is received from each computing node that indicates the node's count of data samples for each label, and is analyzed to identify one or more computing nodes having local training data in which a label category is underrepresented beyond a threshold value with respect to data samples. Additional data samples labeled with the underrepresented labels are provided, and the computing nodes perform training. Results of training are received and are processed to generate a trained global model. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for training a federated learning model in substantially the same manner described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Shoichiro Watanabe, Kenichi Takasaki, Mari Abe Fukuda, Sanehiro Furuichi, Yasutaka Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20230050036
    Abstract: The impurity concentration in the oxide semiconductor film is reduced, and a highly reliability can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Masahiro WATANABE, Mitsuo MASHIYAMA, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Motoki NAKASHIMA, Hideyuki KISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230037848
    Abstract: A motor includes a housing including a housing base and a housing shaft portion that is provided on the housing base and extends in a direction along a rotation center axis, a motor stator that is disposed outward in a radial direction of the housing shaft portion, a motor rotor that is provided between the motor stator and the housing shaft portion, a bearing that is provided inward in a radial direction of the motor rotor and rotatably supports the motor rotor to the housing shaft portion, a sealing structure that is provided on an opposite side to the housing base in an axial direction of the motor rotor and seals between the motor rotor and the housing shaft portion, and a resolver that is configured to detect rotation of the motor rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi TAGUCHI, Hayao WATANABE, Masayuki MARUYAMA, Kenichi FUKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230045444
    Abstract: A mechanism that enables developer replenishment by a simpler structure and a mechanism that enables more user-friendly developer replenishment are provided. An attachment port to which a developer supply bottle containing a developer stored therein is detachably attachable is disposed in an interior of an image forming apparatus. The developer supply bottle can be attached when the cover is in an open state. According to this image forming apparatus, when the developer supply bottle is attached to the attachment port, the developer inside the developer supply bottle moves into a developer housing chamber by its own weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Funatani, Masatake Tanaka, Kentaro Yamawaki, Kenichi Iida, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Kensuke Umeda, Takanori Watanabe, Ai Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230032681
    Abstract: A coil component includes: a base having a pair of side wall portions separated from and facing each other and a connecting wall portion interconnecting the pair of side wall portions; and an air core coil formed by winding a wire, in which the air core coil is disposed in a groove portion formed by the pair of side wall portions and the connecting wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichiro URABE, Hajime KATO, Toshinori MATSUURA, Kenichi INOUE, Koutarou WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230014200
    Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal element, a transistor, a scan line, and a signal line. The liquid crystal element includes a pixel electrode, a liquid crystal layer, and a common electrode. The scan line and the signal line are each electrically connected to the transistor. The scan line and the signal line each include a metal layer. The transistor is electrically connected to the pixel electrode. A semiconductor layer of the transistor includes a stack of a first metal oxide layer and a second metal oxide layer. The first metal oxide layer includes a region with lower crystallinity than the second metal oxide layer. The transistor includes a first region connected to the pixel electrode. The pixel electrode, the common electrode, and the first region are each configured to transmit visible light. Visible light passes through the first region and the liquid crystal element and exits from the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Daisuke KUROSAKI, Yasutaka NAKAZAWA, Kazunori WATANABE, Koji KUSUNOKI
  • Patent number: 11553539
    Abstract: In a communication apparatus on a network where communication apparatuses perform direct communication with each other, a network management apparatus for managing the network based on message information transmitted and received on the network is determined. When the communication apparatus itself is determined as the network management apparatus, the apparatus collects information indicating device capabilities from other communication apparatuses. On the other hand, the communication apparatus receives information indicating device capabilities from another communication apparatus when the other communication apparatus is determined as the network management apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Sakai, Kenichi Fujii, Mitsuhiro Watanabe, Kazuo Moritomo
  • Publication number: 20230000829
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a composition for sleep improvement, which contains a highly safe substance as an active ingredient, and a method of improving sleep. The present invention relates to, for example, a composition for sleep improvement, which contains L-ergothioneine or a salt thereof as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Makoto Katsube, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kenichi Wakabayashi, Norihito Murayama, Kosuke Suzuki, Yoshitaka Tatebayashi, Yoshiki Matsuda, Nobuyuki Ozawa, Takiko Shinozaki
  • Publication number: 20230002333
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, for example, a compound represented by general formula (6) below or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate of the compound or salt: wherein X1, X2, X3 and X4 are each independently —CR2? or —N?, R2 is, for example, a halogen atom, R1 is, for example, —S(?O)2—NH—R8, R8 is, for example, a C1-6 alkyl group, R3 is, for example, a hydrogen atom, R5 is, for example, a halogen atom, R6 is, for example, a hydrogen atom, and R4 is, for example, a cyclopropyl group. The compounds, salts or solvates provided by the present disclosure exhibit high RAF/MEK complex-stabilizing activity and can be used for the treatment or prevention of cell proliferative disorders, particularly cancers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Isshiki, Fumio Watanabe, Masaki Tomizawa, Kihito Hada, Kazuo Hattori, Kenichi Kawasaki, Ikumi Hyodo, Toshihiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20220414803
    Abstract: A frying oil ordering device 60 comprises a remaining amount recognition unit 61 that recognizes an amount of frying oil 17 remaining in a storage tank 33, and an ordering timing determination unit 62 that determines an ordering timing for the storage tank 33 to be replenished with the frying oil 17 based on the remaining amount and at least one of information regarding replacing the frying oil 17 in a fryer 14 in a facility 32, and parameters that affect future sales of fried foods 19 in the facility 32.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Takeshi SUZUKI, Masami INOUE, Kazuhiko HAKAMADA, Shinsuke KOZONO, Kenichi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220396041
    Abstract: A mold for producing a metal-resin composite by press-forming a metal member and integrally molding the metal member that is press-formed and a resin material includes an upper mold and a lower mold that sandwich the metal member and the resin material. The upper mold includes a first press surface for press-forming the metal member and a second press surface for integrally molding the metal member and the resin material. A distance between the first press surface and the lower mold is shorter than a distance between the second press surface and the lower mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Kenichi Watanabe, Ryohei Ihara, Zenzo Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220395883
    Abstract: The apparatus includes an upper mold and a lower mold that sandwich the metal member and the resin material, and a drive unit that vertically moves an elastic member attached to a molding surface of the upper mold and at least one of the upper mold and the lower mold. A cavity for arranging the resin material is provided by the upper mold 110 and the lower mold. The elastic member is arranged so as to seal the resin material in the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Ryohei IHARA, Kenichi WATANABE, Zenzo YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220395885
    Abstract: A mold is for press molding a metal plate and a resin material to produce a metal-resin composite. The mold includes an upper mold and a lower mold that sandwich the metal plate and the resin material. A cavity for arranging the resin material is provided by the upper mold and the lower mold. The upper mold has a recess into which the resin material leaking from the cavity is caused to flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Kenichi WATANABE, Ryohei IHARA, Zenzo YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11527281
    Abstract: Apparatuses with a signal line in a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes one or more power supply voltage lines in a first conductive layer, a plurality of transistors and a signal line in a second conductive layer. Each transistor of the plurality of transistors includes an active region disposed in a substrate and a gate electrode above the active region. The signal line in the second conductive layer is below the first conductive layer and above the active regions of the plurality of transistors. The signal line is coupled to the gate electrodes of the plurality of transistors. The signal line has electrical resistance higher than electrical resistance of the power supply voltage line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Watanabe, Moeha Shibuya
  • Patent number: 11518182
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a cleaning unit, a movement mechanism, and a unit mounting portion. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning part having a contact surface brought into contact with a surface of a conveyance roller. The movement mechanism moves the cleaning unit between a cleaning position at which the cleaning part comes in contact with the conveyance roller, and a mounting and removing position at which the cleaning part is located below the conveyance roller in a separated manner and the cleaning unit is allowed to be mounted and removed on and from the apparatus body. The unit mounting portion houses the cleaning unit disposed at the mounting and removing position. The cleaning unit is configured such that the cleaning unit in a state of being housed in the unit mounting portion is mounted and removed, together with the processing unit, on and from the apparatus body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Shinobu Ohata, Naoto Miyakoshi, Shunsuke Yamasaki, Hiroatsu Tamai, Yasuhiro Michishita, Takeshi Watanabe, Hiroki Sakane, Kenichi Satake, Masato Usui, Yuzuru Yuasa, Yusuke Tamekuni
  • Patent number: 11518101
    Abstract: A three-dimensional structure according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of resin layers including a light curable resin, the light curable resin including a coloring compound, a color developing-reducing agent, and a photothermal conversion agent, the plurality of resin layers being stacked, the color developing-reducing agent having an average particle diameter of 10 ?m or more and 100 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aya Shuto, Kenichi Kurihara, Nobuhiro Kihara, Yusuke Kajio, Tomomasa Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220379283
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a phosphorus adsorbent that is inexpensive and can exert high phosphorus adsorption performance. The present invention relates to a phosphorus adsorbent comprising incinerator ash, cement, and lanthanum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY, FujiClean Co., Ltd., THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi ASAOKA, Kohei KAWAKAMI, Tsuyoshi ICHINARI, Hiroyuki SAITO, Takahito OIKAWA, Kenichi WATANABE, Hideaki NOHARA
  • Publication number: 20220355656
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure for an electric vehicle includes: a battery disposed at a center lower portion of a vehicle body; a side sill being hollow and extending in a vehicle body front-rear direction outside in a vehicle width direction of the battery; a bridge beam member being hollow, disposed below the side sill and outside in the vehicle width direction of the battery, extending in the vehicle body front-rear direction, and having a cross section perpendicular to the vehicle body front-rear direction formed as a closed cross section; and at least one bridge pier member made of steel, extending in the vehicle width direction from the battery toward the bridge beam member, and having a cross section perpendicular to the vehicle width direction forming at least a part of a closed cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sadao MIYAZAWA, Kenichi WATANABE, Kenta KOJIMA