Patents by Inventor Kenichiro Watanabe

Kenichiro 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: 11935339
    Abstract: Provided are a vehicle inspection system and a vehicle inspection method that can align a vehicle with a constant location of a bench testing machine. The present invention comprises: a bench testing machine that rotatably supports wheels of a vehicle, using rollers that are provided for each of the wheels; and a monitor device that is positioned in a fixed location with regard to the bench testing machine and displays, toward a camera, an image resembling an exterior environment, wherein the bench testing machine has a location adjustment device (turning mechanism, test bench control device) that adjusts the location of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction such that the relative location of the camera in the vehicle width direction with regard to the monitor device is constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kento Aono, Tatsuya Jitsui, Kenichiro Kurai, Yuichi Fukuda, Yasushi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11914330
    Abstract: A timepiece including: a dial; a windshield glass having a plurality of curved surfaces that differ from each other in curvature; and a hand disposed between the dial and the windshield glass, wherein the windshield glass includes: a first curved surface having a first curvature and including a center of the windshield glass; a second curved surface disposed adjacent to the first curved surface and having a second curvature larger than the first curvature; and a third curved surface disposed adjacent to the second curved surface and having a third curvature larger than the second curvature, a thickness of the first curved surface and a thickness of the second curved surface are equal, and in plan view, a distal end of the hand is disposed on a center C side of the windshield glass with respect to a boundary between the second curved surface and the third curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koki Hayashi, Kenichiro Matsumoto, Kazunori Hoshino, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240062159
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract a feature quantity regarding a project; and present a feature quantity that has contributed to a success, as a factor to contribute to a success of a project, the feature quantity that has contributed to the success being a feature quantity identified, with a predetermined method, based on a feature quantity of a past project having a final outcome of success.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kenichiro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11880805
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to cause an activity element identifier that identifies an activity element defined in an activity management service, and for which a trail that indicates an electronic document to be registered is defined, to be stored in a memory in association with a channel identifier that identifies a channel defined in a communication service, and in a case where an electronic document already posted to the channel is selected by a user in the communication service, cause the electronic document to be registered as the trail of the activity element associated with the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11665114
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquirer and a controller. The acquirer acquires a message sent by a user for a task from a communication system. The communication system provides a communication service used by multiple users to send and receive messages via a network. The user is one of the multiple users using the communication service. The controller performs control to inform the user that the message is unsuitable if the message acquired by the acquirer is unsuitable for the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210304115
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to cause each of multiple activity element identifiers that identify multiple activity elements at different levels in a hierarchal structure defined in an activity management service to be stored in a memory in association with each of multiple channel identifiers that identify multiple channels in a parallel relationship defined in a communication service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Kenichiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210304144
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to cause an activity element identifier that identifies an activity element defined in an activity management service, and for which a trail that indicates an electronic document to be registered is defined, to be stored in a memory in association with a channel identifier that identifies a channel defined in a communication service, and in a case where an electronic document already posted to the channel is selected by a user in the communication service, cause the electronic document to be registered as the trail of the activity element associated with the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Kenichiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210303579
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to cause an activity element identifier that identifies an activity element defined in an activity management service, and for which a trail that indicates an electronic document to be registered is plurally defined, to be stored in a memory in association with a channel identifier that identifies a channel defined in a communication service, and cause a trail message indicating the trail selected by a user in the activity management service to be posted to the channel associated with the activity element for which the trail is defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Kenichiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210101547
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a control device, a control method, a program, and a mobile object which are capable of improving convenience. Pressure distributions for a plurality of measurement ranges of a seat on which a user is seated, and time variations of the pressure distributions are measured, and operation of a device or the seat is controlled according to the measurement result. Furthermore, it is determined that a behavior of the user is a gesture for a predetermined operation input, and control according to the gesture is performed. At this time, it is determined whether it is a gesture of the user intended to be the operation input or a posture change of the user not intended to be the operation input. The present technique is applicable to, for example, a control processing device that performs control processing for a seat for vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji NAGATA, Takashi SAITOH, Kenichiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200322289
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquirer and a controller. The acquirer acquires a message sent by a user for a task from a communication system. The communication system provides a communication service used by multiple users to send and receive messages via a network. The user is one of the multiple users using the communication service. The controller performs control to inform the user that the message is unsuitable if the message acquired by the acquirer is unsuitable for the task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichiro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10443122
    Abstract: A device of executing vacuum processing has a chamber capable of keeping the chamber as a whole in a depressurized state; a feeding roller so disposed as to hang a reinforcement fiber down in the chamber; a processor so disposed in the chamber as to pass the reinforcement fiber hung down in the chamber through the processor; a capture device so disposed as to capture and keep a leading end of the reinforcement fiber passing the processor and vertically falling down in place; a winding bobbin configured to wind the reinforcement fiber processed by the processor; and a resilient cord withdrawn in synchronism with the winding bobbin from a first position where the resilient cord surrounds the leading end kept in place by the capture device to a second position where the resilient cord gets in contact with and leads the reinforcement fiber to the winding bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, Kaji Seisakusho Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yukihiro Nakada, Kenichiro Watanabe, Yasutomo Tanaka, Hideki Kitagawa, Kenichi Sodeno
  • Publication number: 20190228055
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a generation unit that generates correspondence relationship information between messages by using a history of communication which is performed by associating a document with the messages among plural users, an extraction unit that extracts a difference in a case where the document is updated, and a presentation unit that retrieves the difference from the correspondence relationship information, and presents a message on the basis of a retrieval result in the correspondence relationship information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichiro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10006119
    Abstract: Arranged in the middle of an upper communication sleeve 21 is a first shutter 25 that is moved back and forth in a horizontal open-close direction to open and close a first communication path 23 that makes the inside of a first bobbin chamber 11 and the inside of a furnace body 3 communicate with each other. Arranged in a middle of a lower communication sleeve 53 is a second shutter 57 that is moved back and forth in a horizontal open-close direction to open and close a second communication path 55 that makes a second bobbin chamber 33 and the inside of the furnace body 3 communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Nakada, Kenichiro Watanabe, Hiroshige Murata
  • Publication number: 20180101280
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a component controller displaying a balloon component in a display area, the balloon component corresponding to a window component displayed in the display area, the balloon component and the window component being to be selected by a user; and a dynamic controller changing a behavior of the balloon component on the basis of an environmental attribute. A corresponding computer-implemented method and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Chikao Imade, Eisuke Kanzaki, Kouichiro Morinaka, Kenichiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20170371498
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a component controller displaying a balloon component in a display area, the balloon component corresponding to a window component displayed in the display area, the balloon component and the window component being to be selected by a user; and a dynamic controller changing a behavior of the balloon component on the basis of an environmental attribute. A corresponding computer-implemented method and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Chikao Imade, Eisuke Kanzaki, Kouichiro Morinaka, Kenichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9695504
    Abstract: Arranged in the middle of an upper communication sleeve is a first shutter that is moved back and forth in a horizontal open-close direction to open and close a first communication path that makes the inside of a first bobbin chamber and the inside of a furnace body communicate with each other. Arranged in a middle of a lower communication sleeve is a second shutter that is moved back and forth in a horizontal open-close direction to open and close a second communication path that makes a second bobbin chamber and the inside of the furnace body communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Nakada, Kenichiro Watanabe, Hiroshige Murata
  • Publication number: 20170022606
    Abstract: A device of executing vacuum processing has a chamber capable of keeping the chamber as a whole in a depressurized state; a feeding roller so disposed as to hang a reinforcement fiber down in the chamber; a processor so disposed in the chamber as to pass the reinforcement fiber hung down in the chamber through the processor; a capture device so disposed as to capture and keep a leading end of the reinforcement fiber passing the processor and vertically falling down in place; a winding bobbin configured to wind the reinforcement fiber processed by the processor; and a resilient cord withdrawn in synchronism with the winding bobbin from a first position where the resilient cord surrounds the leading end kept in place by the capture device to a second position where the resilient cord gets in contact with and leads the reinforcement fiber to the winding bobbin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicants: IHI Corporation, Kaji Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihiro NAKADA, Kenichiro WATANABE, Yasutomo TANAKA, Hideki KITAGAWA, Kenichi SODENO
  • Publication number: 20160333466
    Abstract: Arranged in the middle of an upper communication sleeve 21 is a first shutter 25 that is moved back and forth in a horizontal open-close direction to open and close a first communication path 23 that makes the inside of a first bobbin chamber 11 and the inside of a furnace body 3 communicate with each other. Arranged in a middle of a lower communication sleeve 53 is a second shutter 57 that is moved back and forth in a horizontal open-close direction to open and close a second communication path 55 that makes a second bobbin chamber 33 and the inside of the furnace body 3 communicate with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro NAKADA, Kenichiro WATANABE, Hiroshige MURATA
  • Patent number: 9464889
    Abstract: A method comprises a calibration curve creation step in which a calibration curve is created on the basis of hardened surface layer depth. A destructive test is performed on one of two samples in pairs, and propagation time of a first peak of a first wave of waveform of a signal outputted with the other in pairs in a non-destructive test is determined, the samples in pairs being prepared such that carburization depth varies gradually from pair to pair. A waveform of a signal outputted with a to-be-inspected piece is obtained. The propagation time of a first peak of a first wave of the waveform of the signal output with the to-be-inspected piece is obtained, and the hardened surface layer depth of the to-be-inspected piece is obtained using the calibration curve, on the basis of the propagation time obtained with the to-be-inspected sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arisa Yanagihara, Minoru Tagami, Kenichiro Watanabe, Yoshinori Ishida
  • Publication number: 20150218692
    Abstract: Arranged in the middle of an upper communication sleeve 21 is a first shutter 25 that is moved back and forth in a horizontal open-close direction to open and close a first communication path 23 that makes the inside of a first bobbin chamber 11 and the inside of a furnace body 3 communicate with each other. Arranged in a middle of a lower communication sleeve 53 is a second shutter 57 that is moved back and forth in a horizontal open-close direction to open and close a second communication path 55 that makes a second bobbin chamber 33 and the inside of the furnace body 3 communicate with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro NAKADA, Kenichiro Watanabe, Hiroshige Murata