Patents by Inventor Kenta WATANABE

Kenta 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: 20240014529
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a single positive electrode terminal formed in a flat plate shape, a single negative electrode terminal formed in a flat plate shape, a holder holding the single positive and negative electrode terminals, and a laminate exterior body. The single positive and negative electrode terminals each have a single protruding portion protruding from the laminate exterior body in one direction. An insulating plate is arranged between main side surfaces of the single protruding portions of the terminals. On one side of the insulating plate in a facing direction, only the single protruding portion of the positive terminal protrudes from the laminate exterior body, and on the other side of the insulating plate in the facing direction, only the single protruding portion of the negative terminal protrudes from the laminate exterior body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko SASAKI, Taro MATSUSHITA, Kenta WATANABE, Shotaro ISHIKAWA, Koichiro KISHI
  • Patent number: 11834791
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a paper barrier base material includes a step of applying a water vapor barrier layer coating liquid that contains at least a water vapor barrier resin and a pigment onto a paper base material by a curtain coating method to form a water vapor barrier layer, and a step of applying a gas barrier layer coating liquid that contains at least one polymer selected from water-soluble polymers and water-dispersible polymers onto the water vapor barrier layer by a curtain coating method without a drying step interposed between the two steps to form a gas barrier layer. The gas barrier layer coating liquid has a B-type viscosity equal to or higher than a B-type viscosity of the water vapor barrier layer coating liquid. The method is intended to suppress the occurrence of coating unevenness in wet-on-wet coating by a curtain coating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., JUJO THERMAL OY
    Inventors: Kenta Watanabe, Yuri Oishi, Satoshi Tsuda, Masashi Okamoto, Hiroshi Koyamoto
  • Patent number: 11829573
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for graphical user interface element accessibility is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes generating a graphical user interface element rendered on a web page as a virtual button displayed on a display screen of a device. The virtual button is not rendered on the webpage and includes an invocable function mapped to the graphical user interface element. The computer-implemented method further includes moving the virtual button along a periphery of the display screen of the device. A rate at which the virtual button moves along the periphery of the display screen of the device is dynamically modified based on a detected identity of a user of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Asako Ono, Tohru Hasegawa, Hiroaki Uetsuki, Shunsuke Ishikawa, Kenta Watanabe, Yasuyuki Tominaga, Issei Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230374669
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wet etching method including pretreating a metal-containing film on a substrate with a surface modification liquid and etching the metal-containing film with an etching liquid, wherein the etching liquid is a solution containing: a ?-diketone with a trifluoromethyl group bonded to a carbonyl group; and an organic solvent, wherein the metal-containing film contains a metal element capable of forming a complex with the ?-diketone, wherein the surface modification liquid contains an acidic substance against the metal element, and wherein the wet etching method is carried out through: a first step of bringing the surface modification liquid into contact with the metal-containing film, thereby forming an oxide layer of the metal element at a surface of the metal-containing film; and a second step of bringing the etching liquid into contact with the metal-containing film on which the oxide layer has been formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuki YOSHIURA, Takuya OKADA, Kenta WATANABE, Soichi KUMON, Yosuke NAKAMURA, Takahisa TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230369988
    Abstract: A modular multilevel power converter includes: a capacitor voltage adjuster that calculates an active current component command to make an average voltage of capacitors match a command value; an active power detector that receives an AC current signal and an AC voltage signal and calculates an active power; an active power adjuster that calculates a DC current command value to make the active power match a command value; a first active power command suppressor that suppresses an absolute value of an active power command value; and a second active power command suppressor that adjusts an absolute value of an active power command value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Akira BANDO, Takahiko KIKUI, Kenta WATANABE, Tomomichi ITO, Yasuhiro KIYOFUJI, Masakazu ISHIKAWA, Yosuke NAKAIDE
  • Publication number: 20230343997
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium-based solid electrolyte excellent in ion conductivity, an inorganic solid electrolyte, a production method for a lithium-based solid electrolyte, a modified positive electrode active material, a modified negative electrode active material, an all-solid state secondary battery, an electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, a solid electrolyte sheet, and an electrode for an all-solid state secondary battery. The lithium-based solid electrolyte according to the present invention contains lithium tetraborate in a noncrystalline state, water, and a lithium salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicants: FUJIFILM Corporation, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yosuke SHIRATORI, Yukihiro OKUNO, Shintaro YASUI, Kengo SAITO, Kenta WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230266817
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for identifying a section of a first display corresponding to a user’s initial gaze, identifying a string of text within the identified section of the first display, detecting a shift in the user’s gaze from the identified section on the first display to an area on a second display, calculating coordinates corresponding to the area on the second display, identifying an input field in the second display closest to the calculated coordinates, and inputting the identified string of text within the input field in the second display. The method may further include determining whether content currently exists within the input field and subsequently removing the existing content from the input field, and replacing said existing content with the identified text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: KENTA WATANABE, HIROAKI UETSUKI, MASAHITO SUGITA, TAIHEI MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230257339
    Abstract: The alkylamine composition of the present disclosure contains: an alkylamine represented by the following formula (1) in an amount of 99.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: CENTRAL GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Masutaka SHINMEN, Kenta WATANABE, Azusa MIYAKE
  • Publication number: 20230252092
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for reflecting metadata annotated in crawled documents to original data sources. In response to one or more internal documents in an application being annotated with metadata, the computer system converts a metadata format handled in the application to a metadata format handled in one or more data sources. The computer system posts, to one or more original documents in the one or more data sources, the metadata in the metadata format handled in the one or more data sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: KENTA WATANABE, Takahito Tashiro, Yoshitaka Kurokawa, TAIHEI MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230252065
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for coordinating schedules of crawling documents based on metadata added to documents by text mining. A computer system determines whether added metadata in internal documents or metadata in original documents necessitates that the original documents in at least two of respective data sources be crawled by an application with a same crawling schedule. A computer system changes respective crawling schedules of at least two of the respective data sources to the same crawling schedule, in response to determining that the same crawling schedule is needed. A computer system crawls the original documents in at least two of the respective data sources, according to the same crawling schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: TAIHEI MIYAMOTO, KENTA WATANABE, Takahito Tashiro, Yoshitaka Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11687579
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a system, computer program product, and method for text mining, and dynamic facet and facet value management and application to a document collection. Two or more words from a first document collection are extracted, with the extracted words being associated with an applied annotation. At least one word is selected from the extracted words, designated as a facet, and a value is selectively added to the facet. An analysis of the added value is dynamically performed, and a dictionary with the annotation, facet, and values is constructed and the dictionary is applied to the document collection. A targeted list of documents is returned from the dictionary application to the document collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Fukuda, Kenta Watanabe, Shunsuke Ishikawa, Takashi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11621435
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of secondary batteries, and a binding band made of fiber reinforced plastic. The binding band has a braid member formed into a braided state with use of a plurality of bundled bodies, and a reinforcing part made of resin impregnated in the braid member. Each of the bundled bodies includes a plurality of fiber materials that have been bundled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Sugiyama, Fumio Nomizo, Yutaroh Gotoh, Kenta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220413206
    Abstract: An optical member includes a light source, a first substrate to be a light guide that guides emitted light from the light source, a variable layer in contact with a predetermined surface of the first substrate, and a second substrate facing the first substrate via the variable layer. When a refractive index of the first substrate is n1, a refractive index of the variable layer can be changed to n2 or n3 (where n2>n3), and n1, n2, and n3 satisfy a relationship of |n1?n2|<|n1?n3|.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Watanabe, Akiko Ogasawara, Atsushi Kishi
  • Publication number: 20220413280
    Abstract: An optical component has: a planar liquid layer; and one or more light sources arranged such that light is guided to the planar liquid layer; wherein the liquid layer is configured to guide light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta Watanabe, Akiko Ogasawara, Atsushi Kishi
  • Publication number: 20220406597
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a nitride semiconductor device includes: introducing a p type impurity into at least a part of an upper layer portion of a first nitride semiconductor layer to form a p type impurity introduction region; forming a second nitride semiconductor layer from an upper surface of the first nitride semiconductor layer so as to include the p type impurity introduction region; and performing an anneal treatment in a state where the second nitride semiconductor layer is formed on the first nitride semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi OKAWA, Kenta WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220406614
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a compound semiconductor layer having a first compound semiconductor layer and a second compound semiconductor layer having a higher melting point than the first compound semiconductor layer; and an insulation gate on the second compound semiconductor layer. The compound semiconductor layer further includes: a drift region; a source region; and a body region between the drift region and the source region. The insulation gate faces the body region. The body region bridges over both the first compound semiconductor layer and the second compound semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: KENTA WATANABE, TAKASHI OKAWA
  • Patent number: 11518325
    Abstract: There is provided a reinforcement member for a vehicle which includes a cylindrical body section having a continuously closed cross section intersecting with a longitudinal direction. The cylindrical body section has a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface. The third surface has a fourth surface extending away from the second surface, and a fifth surface connecting the fourth surface and the first surface to each other. In a sectional view when viewed in the longitudinal direction, in a case where a virtual line connecting a first intersection portion where the first surface and the third surface intersect with each other and a second intersection portion where the second surface and the third surface intersect with each other is set, a third intersection portion where the fourth surface and the fifth surface intersect with each other protrudes outward with respect to the virtual line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kimihiro Nogiwa, Masayuki Ishizuka, Norieda Ueno, Kenta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220382753
    Abstract: In a method for improving generation and relevancy of search results, a processor receives a search query comprising a search term. A processor generates a document group based on the search query and at least one synonym related to the search term in a synonym dictionary. The synonym dictionary may include search document attributes for base words and synonyms of the base words. A processor extracts, from the document group, an extracted document having a document attribute matching a search document attribute of the at least one synonym. A processor lists the extracted document as a search result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Kenta Watanabe, Takahito Tashiro, Takashi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20220346164
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication with a plurality of communication apparatuses simultaneously, a second wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication with one of the plurality of communication apparatuses selectively, a control unit that controls establishment of a wireless connection with one of the plurality of communication apparatuses via the second wireless communication unit based on information shared via the first wireless communication unit, and a transmission unit that transmits, in a case a request to establish a wireless connection via the second wireless communication unit is received from one of the plurality of communication apparatuses, a notification indicating that a connection via the second wireless communication unit is not allowed to a communication apparatus that has a wireless connection to the information processing apparatus via the first wireless communication unit, and is not a t
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: Kenta Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11460747
    Abstract: An electrochromic light adjusting member sequentially includes a transparent substrate, a light transmitting electrically conductive layer, and an electrochromic light adjusting layer. The light transmitting electrically conductive layer sequentially includes a first indium-based electrically conductive oxide layer, a metal layer, and a second indium-based electrically conductive oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Yonezawa, Nozomi Fujino, Kenta Watanabe, Tomotake Nashiki