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).
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Patent number: 11643732Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Dipsol Chemicals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Kimitaka Watanabe, Go Nagata, Motoi Nakatani, Keita Ishizu, Toshiki Inomata
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Patent number: 9950269Abstract: [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: GrantFiled: July 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Tomy Company Ltd.Inventors: Kimitaka Watanabe, Yoshio Suimon
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Publication number: 20170226644Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Kimitaka Watanabe, Go Nagata, Motoi Nakatani, Keita Ishizu, Toshiki Inomata
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Publication number: 20160369107Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Kimitaka Watanabe, Go Nagata, Motoi Nakatani, Keita Ishizu, Toshiki Inomata
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Publication number: 20160271507Abstract: [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: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: Tomy Company Ltd.Inventors: Kimitaka WATANABE, Yoshio SUIMON
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Patent number: 9057133Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 10, 2009Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Ryo Nakajima, Kimitaka Watanabe, Toyoji Watanabe, Fumie Watanabe, Yutaka Watanabe, Takeshi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20140124099Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Kimitaka Watanabe, Go Nagata, Motoi Nakatani, Keita Ishizu, Toshiki Inomata
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Patent number: 8605194Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignees: Olympus Imaging Corp., Olympus CorporationInventors: Sumio Kawai, Takashi Miyazawa, Kimitaka Watanabe
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Publication number: 20110261246Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicants: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.Inventors: Sumio KAWAI, Takashi Miyazawa, Kimitaka Watanabe
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Patent number: 7905760Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Tomy Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yosuke Yoneda, Kimitaka Watanabe
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Patent number: 7862398Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 3, 2007Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Tomy Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yosuke Yoneda, Kimitaka Watanabe
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Publication number: 20100203327Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2008Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Kimitaka Watanabe, Go Nagata, Motoi Nakatani, Keita Ishizu, Toshiki Inomata
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Publication number: 20090178734Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2009Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu INOUE, Ryo Nakajima, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Toyoji Watanabe, Fumie Watanabe, Yutaka Watanabe, Takeshi Watanabe, Kimitaka Watanabe
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Publication number: 20090149109Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Inventors: Yosuke YONEDA, Kimitaka Watanabe
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Publication number: 20080085657Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2005Publication date: April 10, 2008Inventors: Kimitaka Watanabe, Hitoshi Itakura, Hiroshi Shinohara, Yosuke Yoneda, Tomohisa Ueno
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Patent number: 7109661Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 29, 2003Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Tomy Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kimitaka Watanabe, Hiroyuki Yamanaka
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Patent number: 7067972Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 23, 2003Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Tomy Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kimitaka Watanabe, Hiroyuki Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20060057929Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2003Publication date: March 16, 2006Applicants: TOYTEC CORPORATION, TOMY COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kimitaka Watanabe, Takashi Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20050109426Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2004Publication date: May 26, 2005Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Ryo Nakajima, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Toyoji Watanabe, Fumie Watanabe, Yutaka Watanabe, Takeshi Watanabe, Kimitaka Watanabe
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Publication number: 20040113541Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Applicant: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kimitaka Watanabe, Hiroyuki Yamanaka