Patents by Inventor Kimitaka Watanabe

Kimitaka 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: 11643732
    Abstract: A trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating from which substantially no hexavalent chromium is released. The trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating is one formed on the surface of a zinc or zinc-alloy deposit. In a brine spray test, the chemical conversion coating has unsusceptibility to corrosion (time required for white-rust formation) of 96 hours or longer. The chemical conversion coating has a hexavalent-chromium concentration less than 0.01 ?g/cm2 in terms of metal atom amount. The amount of hexavalent chromium released after 30-day standing in a thermo-hygrostatic chamber at a temperature of 80° C. and a humidity of 95% (amount of hexavalent chromium released when the coating is immersed in 100° C. water for 10 minutes) is smaller than 0.05 ?g/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Dipsol Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Kimitaka Watanabe, Go Nagata, Motoi Nakatani, Keita Ishizu, Toshiki Inomata
  • Patent number: 9950269
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide an electrically-operated toy that uses an electric double-layer capacitor as a main power source and yet can secure an operation duration time per charge that is long enough to fully satisfy the users who are infants, younger school children, etc. [Solution] Provided is an electrically-operated toy that includes: an electric double-layer capacitor acting as a main power source; a movable mechanism for realizing toy functions; an electric motive power source for operating the movable mechanism; and a chopper-type step-up DC/DC converter that boosts a voltage received from the electric double-layer capacitor and supplies the voltage as a power source to at least the electric motive power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Tomy Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimitaka Watanabe, Yoshio Suimon
  • Publication number: 20170226644
    Abstract: A trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating from which substantially no hexavalent chromium is released. The trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating is one formed on the surface of a zinc or zinc-alloy deposit. In a brine spray test, the chemical conversion coating has unsusceptibility to corrosion (time required for white-rust formation) of 96 hours or longer. The chemical conversion coating has a hexavalent-chromium concentration less than 0.01 ?g/cm2 in terms of metal atom amount. The amount of hexavalent chromium released after 30-day standing in a thermo-hygrostatic chamber at a temperature of 80° C. and a humidity of 95% (amount of hexavalent chromium released when the coating is immersed in 100° C. water for 10 minutes) is smaller than 0.05 ?g/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Kimitaka Watanabe, Go Nagata, Motoi Nakatani, Keita Ishizu, Toshiki Inomata
  • Publication number: 20160369107
    Abstract: A trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating from which substantially no hexavalent chromium is released. The trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating is one formed on the surface of a zinc or zinc-alloy deposit. In a brine spray test, the chemical conversion coating has unsusceptibility to corrosion (time required for white-rust formation) of 96 hours or longer. The chemical conversion coating has a hexavalent-chromium concentration less than 0.01 ?g/cm in terms of metal atom amount. The amount of hexavalent chromium released after 30-day standing in a thermo-hygrostatic chamber at a temperature of 80° C. and a humidity of 95% (amount of hexavalent chromium released when the coating is immersed in 100° C. water for 10 minutes) is smaller than 0.05 ?g/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Kimitaka Watanabe, Go Nagata, Motoi Nakatani, Keita Ishizu, Toshiki Inomata
  • Publication number: 20160271507
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved]To provide an electrically-operated toy that uses an electric double-layer capacitor as a main power source and yet can secure an operation duration time per charge that is long enough to fully satisfy the users who are infants, younger school children, etc. [Solution]Provided is an electrically-operated toy that includes: an electric double-layer capacitor acting as a main power source; a movable mechanism for realizing toy functions; an electric motive power source for operating the movable mechanism; and a chopper-type step-up DC/DC converter that boosts a voltage received from the electric double-layer capacitor and supplies the voltage as a power source to at least the electric motive power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Tomy Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimitaka WATANABE, Yoshio SUIMON
  • Patent number: 9057133
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a processing solution used for forming a hexavalent chromium free, black conversion film, which is applied onto the surface of zinc or zinc alloy plating layers, and which has corrosion resistance identical to or higher than that achieved by the conventional hexavalent chromium-containing conversion film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Ryo Nakajima, Kimitaka Watanabe, Toyoji Watanabe, Fumie Watanabe, Yutaka Watanabe, Takeshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20140124099
    Abstract: A trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating from which substantially no hexavalent chromium is released. The trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating is one formed on the surface of a zinc or zinc-alloy deposit. In a brine spray test, the chemical conversion coating has unsusceptibility to corrosion (time required for white-rust formation) of 96 hours or longer. The chemical conversion coating has a hexavalent-chromium concentration less than 0.01 ?g/cm in terms of metal atom amount. The amount of hexavalent chromium released after 30-day standing in a thermo-hygrostatic chamber at a temperature of 80° C. and a humidity of 95% (amount of hexavalent chromium released when the coating is immersed in 100° C. water for 10 minutes) is smaller than 0.05 ?g/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Kimitaka Watanabe, Go Nagata, Motoi Nakatani, Keita Ishizu, Toshiki Inomata
  • Patent number: 8605194
    Abstract: A dust-screening member is shaped like a plate as a whole, and has at least one side that is symmetric with respect to a virtual axis on a surface of the member. A vibrating member is adjacent to one side of the dust-screening member, arranged on the surface along the one side, and configured to produce, at the surface, vibration having a vibrational amplitude perpendicular to the surface. A drive unit is configured to drive the vibrating member to produce the vibration on the surface, such that peak ridges of the vibration form a closed loop and an area including a center of the closed loop is surrounded by a node area having almost no vibrational amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignees: Olympus Imaging Corp., Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Sumio Kawai, Takashi Miyazawa, Kimitaka Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20110261246
    Abstract: A dust-screening member is shaped like a plate as a whole, and has at least one side that is symmetric with respect to a virtual axis on a surface of the member. A vibrating member is adjacent to one side of the dust-screening member, arranged on the surface along the one side, and configured to produce, at the surface, vibration having a vibrational amplitude perpendicular to the surface. A drive unit is configured to drive the vibrating member to produce the vibration on the surface, such that peak ridges of the vibration form a closed loop and an area including a center of the closed loop is surrounded by a node area having almost no vibrational amplitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicants: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
    Inventors: Sumio KAWAI, Takashi Miyazawa, Kimitaka Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7905760
    Abstract: A robot toy including: a first block including a servo; a second block connected to the first block by fitting an output shaft of the servo into a boss; and a servo control section. The servo is provided with, a first disk to rotate with the output shaft; a second disk provided facing the first rotating disk to rotate relatively to the first rotating disk in a plane parallel to the first rotating disk according to user operation; and an angle detection section to detect a relative angle between predetermined reference lines on the first and second disks. The servo control section includes a center position control section to rotate the output shaft and the first rotating disk, and to control the servo while a position of the servo, when the relative angle is 0, is at a center position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Tomy Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Yoneda, Kimitaka Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7862398
    Abstract: A robot toy including one block to which a servo is installed, another block joined to the one block by fitting an output shaft of the servo to a shaft hole, and a shaft hole diameter adjustment member to change a diameter of the shaft hole so as to be in a condition where the shaft hole is loosely fitted to the output shaft or a condition where the shaft hole is tightly fitted to the output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Tomy Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Yoneda, Kimitaka Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100203327
    Abstract: A trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating from which substantially no hexavalent chromium is released. The trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating is one formed on the surface of a zinc or zinc-alloy deposit. In a brine spray test, the chemical conversion coating has unsusceptibility to corrosion (time required for white-rust formation) of 96 hours or longer. The chemical conversion coating has a hexavalent-chromium concentration less than 0.01 ?g/cm2 in terms of metal atom amount. The amount of hexavalent chromium released after 30-day standing in a thermo-hygrostatic chamber at a temperature of 80° C. and a humidity of 95% (amount of hexavalent chromium released when the coating is immersed in 100° C. water for 10 minutes) is smaller than 0.05 ?g/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Kimitaka Watanabe, Go Nagata, Motoi Nakatani, Keita Ishizu, Toshiki Inomata
  • Publication number: 20090178734
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a processing solution used for forming a hexavalent chromium free, black conversion film, which is applied onto the surface of zinc or zinc alloy plating layers, and which has corrosion resistance identical to or higher than that achieved by the conventional hexavalent chromium-containing conversion film. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a processing solution for forming a hexavalent chromium free, black conversion film on zinc or zinc alloy plating layers, the processing solution comprising: nitrate ions and trivalent chromium in a mole ratio (NO3?/Cr3+) of less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu INOUE, Ryo Nakajima, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Toyoji Watanabe, Fumie Watanabe, Yutaka Watanabe, Takeshi Watanabe, Kimitaka Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090149109
    Abstract: Disclosed is a robot toy including: a first block including a servo; a second block connected to the first block by fitting an output shaft of the servo into a boss; and a servo control section, wherein the servo is provided with, a first rotating disk to rotate following the output shaft; a second rotating disk provided facing the first rotating disk to rotate relatively to the first rotating disk in a plane parallel to the first rotating disk according to user operation; and an angle detection section to detect a relative angle between predetermined reference lines on the first rotating disk and the second rotating disk, and the servo control section includes a center position control section to rotate the output shaft and the first rotating disk, and to control the servo while a position of the servo when the relative angle is 0 is a center position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Yosuke YONEDA, Kimitaka Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080085657
    Abstract: A mist ejecting-toy includes: a liquid-retaining member fixed to a toy body; a jet cylinder provided in the toy body; an ultrasound generating element having a vibrating plate fixed to a piezoelectric vibrator; and a controller to drive and control the ultrasound generating element, wherein a vibrating section of the vibrating plate is abutted against the liquid retaining member, the controller vibrates the vibrating section to generate mist particles, the mist particles are ejected from the jet cylinder, and the vibrating plate is placed at a position where a liquid drop produced by adhesion of the mist particles to the jet cylinder does not fall onto the vibrating section, so that the mist particles can be generated and ejected effectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventors: Kimitaka Watanabe, Hitoshi Itakura, Hiroshi Shinohara, Yosuke Yoneda, Tomohisa Ueno
  • Patent number: 7109661
    Abstract: An electroluminescent light emitting system, having an electroluminescent light-emitting layer containing electroluminescent light-emitting elements, one surface side of which receives an AC electric field forming material thereon; an electrode section including a first electrode layer with a predetermined first pattern and a second electrode layer with a predetermined second pattern, which are disposed relatively close to but electrically spaced from each other on another surface side of the electroluminescent light emitting layer; and a waterproof resin layer provided between at least one of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer electrode section, and the electroluminescent light-emitting layer. The AC electric field forming material on the one surface side enables an AC electric field to be generated in the electroluminescent light-emitting layer with an AC voltage applied between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Tomy Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimitaka Watanabe, Hiroyuki Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 7067972
    Abstract: An EL emitting sheet realizing various changes of light emission. The EL emitting sheet includes: a light-emitting layer containing electroluminescence light-emitting elements therein; and an electrode section having a plurality of electrode pairs which is disposed with a predetermined arrangement, wherein each of the electrode pairs includes first and second electrodes which are electrically separated from each other with a spacing region and disposed in one surface side of the light-emitting layer with a predetermined arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Tomy Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimitaka Watanabe, Hiroyuki Yamanaka
  • Publication number: 20060057929
    Abstract: A moving toy includes: a plurality of control coils; a control device to control conduction to the plurality of control coils; and a moving body provided with a magnet, the moving body being operated through the control of the conduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicants: TOYTEC CORPORATION, TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kimitaka Watanabe, Takashi Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20050109426
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a processing solution used for forming a hexavalent chromium free, black conversion film, which is applied onto the surface of zinc or zinc alloy plating layers, and which has corrosion resistance identical to or higher than that achieved by the conventional hexavalent chromium-containing conversion film. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a processing solution for forming a hexavalent chromium free, black conversion film on zinc or zinc alloy plating layers, the processing solution comprising: nitrate ions and trivalent chromium in a mole ratio (NO3?/Cr3+) of less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Ryo Nakajima, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Toyoji Watanabe, Fumie Watanabe, Yutaka Watanabe, Takeshi Watanabe, Kimitaka Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20040113541
    Abstract: An EL emitting sheet realizing various change of light emission. The EL emitting sheet includes: a light-emitting layer containing electroluminescence light-emitting elements therein; and an electrode section comprising a plurality of electrode pairs which are disposed with a predetermined arrangement, wherein each of the electrode pairs includes first and second electrodes which are electrically separated from each other with a spacing region and disposed in one surface side of the light-emitting layer with a predetermined arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Applicant: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kimitaka Watanabe, Hiroyuki Yamanaka