Patents by Inventor Kenji Watanabe
Kenji 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).
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Patent number: 12243361Abstract: A measurement data synchronization method for synchronizing, through use of a data analysis apparatus, time series outputted from first through fifth measuring instruments, includes a step ST1 for acquiring first through fifth reference data outputted from the first through fifth measuring instruments when a reference signal including a stationary interval and a rising interval is inputted to the measuring instruments simultaneously, steps ST3-ST5 for generating first through fifth filter processed data by applying median filter processing to the first through fifth reference data to extract the median value in a prescribed duration, a step ST6 for calculating first through fifth rising times as timing information of rising from each of the first through fifth filter processed data, and a step ST7 for synchronizing first through fifth measurement data outputted from the measuring instruments on the basis of the first through fifth rising times.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignees: MEIDENSHA CORPRATION, JAPAN AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Toshimichi Takahashi, Kenji Watanabe, Tomoya Nakajo, Motoaki Oyama, Takahiro Haniu
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Publication number: 20250043556Abstract: The present invention provides a flush toilet apparatus that includes a flush toilet main body, and a flush water tank that is fixed via at least two fixing points and causes flush water to flow into a water inlet of the flush toilet main body, in which the water inlet is provided at a position eccentric to one side with respect to a lengthwise center line of the flush toilet main body, two of fixing points are each disposed on both sides of the discharge port, and are disposed so that a straight line connecting the two fixing points passes through the discharge port in a top view, and the fixing point located on a rear side among the two fixing points is located closer to the lengthwise center line of the flush toilet main body than a center point of the discharge port.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Ryohei OKABE, Kenji HATAMA, Kenji WATANABE, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 12215492Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet main body and a tank device for supplying flush water to the toilet main body, where the tank device includes a storage tank provided behind the toilet main body and above a floor surface, the storage tank includes a large tank section and a small tank section and has an asymmetrical shape in a front-back or left-right direction, the large tank section being a large-capacity side of the storage tank that is divided into two at a center in the left-right direction when seen in the front-back direction, the small tank section being a small-capacity side of the storage tank that is divided into two at the center in the left-right direction, and the storage tank or the toilet main body includes a deformation-preventing supporting member for preventing deformation of the storage tank by supporting the storage tank.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Toto Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Matsunaka, Kenji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20250037260Abstract: An image processing device includes signal processors, a second-control-signal generator that generates second control signals in accordance with first control signals generated by the signal processors, and an image synthesizer. Each signal processor includes a first digital processor for performing image adjustment and a second digital processor. The second digital processor includes a defect detector that detects a defective pixel and a defective pixel adaptation processor that generates, in accordance with the result of defective pixel detection, the first control signal specifying a synthesis coefficient to the second-control-signal generator. In accordance with synthesis coefficients indicated by the second control signals, the image synthesizer synthesizes images that have undergone the image adjustment by the first digital processors of the signal processors.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Jin MATSUMOTO, Katsumi TOKUYAMA, Kenji WATANABE, Mutsumi MATSUURA
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Publication number: 20250016467Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel circuit that outputs a plurality of pixel signals, a detection circuit, and a signal processor. The pixel circuit includes a photodiode, a transfer transistor that reads out a signal of the photodiode to a charge storage, and a storage capacitance that stores a charge overflowing from the photodiode. The detection circuit compares a signal of the storage capacitance with a reference signal and, when the signal of the storage capacitance has reached the reference signal, initializes the photodiode and the storage capacitance and counts an initialization count. The signal processor calculates a first signal that indicates intensity of incident light, in accordance with the initialization count and a mixed signal of the signal of the storage capacitance and the signal of the photodiode that has been read out to the charge storage by the transfer transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Makoto IKUMA, Yutaka ABE, Takayasu KITO, Norihiko SUMITANI, Kenji WATANABE
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Publication number: 20250006230Abstract: A neural network circuit provided with a convolution operation circuit that performs a convolution operation on input data, and a quantization operation circuit that performs a quantization operation on convolution operation output data from the convolution operation circuit, wherein the convolution operation circuit, when waiting to execute the convolution operation, enables clock gating of a first clock supplied to at least a portion of the convolution operation circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2022Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Koumei TOMIDA, Naotoshi NOJIRI, Kenji WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240376109Abstract: Provided is a pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine compound represented by the general formula [I]: wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, or a salt thereof, having PAR2 inhibitory activity, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2022Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicant: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukitaka UEMATSU, Minoru OKADA, Akihiro SAITO, Akira TAKAHASHI, Yuichi NAKAMURA, Taiki HANARI, Yasuhiro MENJO, Takahito YAMAUCHI, Atsushi YAMAGUCHI, Yohei YUKI, Kenji WATANABE, Satoshi MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20240369966Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a tray unit to which a cartridge is detachably mounted, and that is configured to be capable of moving between an internal position situated within the apparatus main body and an external position situated outside, includes first and second side plates configured to support the cartridge, and they are each made of metal, and include a supporting portion and an outer side portion, the supporting portions includes positioning portions configured to come into contact with the cartridge to position the cartridge as to an image forming position. The apparatus main body includes first and second pressing members each capable of moving between pressing positions at which the cartridge is pressed, and separated positions separated from the cartridge. The first and second pressing members are disposed each intersecting with imaginary planes that is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction and intersect the positioning portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Inventors: TAKEO KAWANAMI, KAZUAKI NOGAMI, TAKEHIRO HAYASHI, KENJI WATANABE, SHUNSUKE HIJIKATA
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Patent number: 12111610Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a tray unit to which a cartridge is detachably mounted, and that is configured to be capable of moving between an internal position situated within the apparatus main body and an external position situated outside, includes first and second side plates configured to support the cartridge, and they are each made of metal, and include a supporting portion and an outer side portion, the supporting portions includes positioning portions configured to come into contact with the cartridge to position the cartridge as to an image forming position. The apparatus main body includes first and second pressing members each capable of moving between pressing positions at which the cartridge is pressed, and separated positions separated from the cartridge. The first and second pressing members are disposed each intersecting with imaginary planes that is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction and intersect the positioning portions.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeo Kawanami, Kazuaki Nogami, Takehiro Hayashi, Kenji Watanabe, Shunsuke Hijikata
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Patent number: 12038008Abstract: A sheet-shaped check valve which opens and closes the injection passage is placed in the check valve chamber, an injection discharge passage portion connected to the compression chamber of the injection passage and the check valve chamber open from an outer surface of the fixed scroll, a lid body is attached to openings of the injection discharge passage and the check valve chamber such that the check valve is sandwiched between the openings and the lid body, and the injection discharge passage and the check valve chamber are hermetically closed, thereby forming the injection passage. According to this, it is possible to provide a reliable, efficient and inexpensive compressor with an injection mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Watanabe, Akinori Fukuda, Akihiro Hayashi, Hideto Oka, Keisuke Noba
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Publication number: 20240177543Abstract: A measurement data synchronization method for synchronizing, through use of a data analysis apparatus, time series outputted from first through fifth measuring instruments, includes a step ST1 for acquiring first through fifth reference data outputted from the first through fifth measuring instruments when a reference signal including a stationary interval and a rising interval is inputted to the measuring instruments simultaneously, steps ST3-ST5 for generating first through fifth filter processed data by applying median filter processing to the first through fifth reference data to extract the median value in a prescribed duration, a step ST6 for calculating first through fifth rising times as timing information of rising from each of the first through fifth filter processed data, and a step ST7 for synchronizing first through fifth measurement data outputted from the measuring instruments on the basis of the first through fifth rising times.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Toshimichi TAKAHASHI, Kenji WATANABE, Tomoya NAKAJO, Motoaki OYAMA, Takahiro HANIU
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Publication number: 20240152074Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotary including a first developing roller, a second developing roller, a first storage frame, and a second storage frame, a body frame with an opening, a first toner cartridge, a second toner cartridge, a first support member which is configured to support the first toner cartridge, and a second support member which is configured to support the second toner cartridge. The first support member is movable with respect to the first storage frame such that the first toner cartridge moves from the first attached position to the first retracted position. The second support member is movable with respect to the second storage frame such that the second toner cartridge moves from the second attached position to the second retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Jumpei Nitta, Tomoya Tateishi, Osamu Sasaoka, Kohei Koguchi, Shuma Hiasa, Tachio Kawai, Kenji Watanabe
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Patent number: 11955269Abstract: A manufacturing method of a coil component includes: providing an assembly including a wound-wire part formed by winding, around a core, a conductive wire coated with a coating; and a lead part pulled out outwardly from the wound-wire; removing a portion of the coating from the conductive wire at a location outwardly extending away from the wound-wire part, wherein an entire coating over an entire circumference of the conductive wire at the portion of the coating is removed; providing a terminal electrode with a connecting part; forming a joining part at an end of the coating-removed lead conductive wire to electrically connect the terminal electrode to the lead part via the joining part by irradiating a laser from the connecting part toward the coating-removed lead conductive wire while restricting an irradiation range of the laser within a range where the coated lead conductive wire is not included.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Takanori Yoshizawa, Kenji Watanabe
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Patent number: 11889690Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a stacked structure in which a plurality of conductive layers is stacked in a stacking direction via an insulating layer, a plurality of pillars extending in the stacking direction in the stacked structure and including a memory cell formed at an intersection between at least a part of the plurality of conductive layers and at least a part of the plurality of pillars, a plurality of first contacts arranged in the stacked structure, each of the first contacts reaching a different depth in the stacked structure and being connected to a conductive layer in a different layer among the plurality of conductive layers, and a plurality of second contacts arranged in the stacked structure separately from the plurality of first contacts, each of the second contacts being connected to a conductive layer identical to the conductive layer to which corresponding one of the plurality of first contacts is connected.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Kenji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20240027956Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a tray unit to which a cartridge is detachably mounted, and that is configured to be capable of moving between an internal position situated within the apparatus main body and an external position situated outside, includes first and second side plates configured to support the cartridge, and they are each made of metal, and include a supporting portion and an outer side portion, the supporting portions includes positioning portions configured to come into contact with the cartridge to position the cartridge as to an image forming position. The apparatus main body includes first and second pressing members each capable of moving between pressing positions at which the cartridge is pressed, and separated positions separated from the cartridge. The first and second pressing members are disposed each intersecting with imaginary planes that is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction and intersect the positioning portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Takeo Kawanami, Kazuaki Nogami, Takehiro Hayashi, Kenji Watanabe, Shunsuke Hijikata
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Patent number: 11871522Abstract: A control device configured to control a component pickup and mounting operation of a component mounting machine; and multiple devices configured to execute the component pickup and mounting operation are provided. A device out of the multiple devices is attachably and detachably attached to the component mounting machine and includes a field programmable gate array that operates each function of the device by communicating with the control device. The field programmable gate array has a clock gating function of reducing an electric current flowing into the attachable and detachable device by stopping processing on a function that is not used, out of individual functions of the attachable and detachable device, when the attachable and detachable device is in a state capable of being removed by an operator.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Fujimura, Kenji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20230395864Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolytic solution secondary battery including a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating a lithium ion; a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating a lithium ion; a non-aqueous electrolytic solution containing a lithium ion; and an outer package, wherein the positive electrode active material includes a lithium-containing composite oxide having a layered rock salt structure and represented by the following composition formula: LiNixCoyMnzO2, provided that 0.7?x?0.9, 0.05?y?0.2, 0.05?z?0.15, and x+y+z=1 are satisfied, and the battery is formed by using the non-aqueous electrolytic solution containing methylene methanedisulfonate and having a content thereof of 2.0% by mass or more and 5.0% by mass or less based on a solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: AESC JAPAN LTD.Inventor: Kenji WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230393085Abstract: Provided is a method of evaluating a deviation of a trajectory of a primary electron beam in a primary optical system in an electron beam observation device including the primary optical system that irradiates a sample with the primary electron beam including a plurality of primary electrons and a secondary optical system that detects, by a detector, a secondary electron beam including a plurality of secondary electrons emitted from the sample irradiated with the primary electron beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Kenji WATANABE, Takeshi MURAKAMI, Yasushi TOMA, Ryo TAJIMA, Tsutomu KARIMATA
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Patent number: D1046696Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji Watanabe
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Patent number: D1048944Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: JingWen Kuang, Bin Han, Kenji Watanabe