Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Watanabe

Kiyoshi 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: 20240149581
    Abstract: Provided is a method for removing a coating film from a coated film including a coating film containing a water-soluble resin on at least one side of a base film. The method includes: supplying a cleaning liquid in a form of droplets to a surface of the coating film, and retaining the cleaning liquid in the form of droplets on the surface of the coating film; and subsequently removing the coating film containing the cleaning liquid from the coated film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Tanino, Yoshihisa Higashida, Kazutaka Watanabe, Tadamasa Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11975682
    Abstract: A power transmission member including a base resin that has a water absorption characteristic that a water absorption rate is 1% or less when Method 1 of ISO 62 (a method for measuring a weight increasing rate after being immersed in water at 23° C. for 24 hours) is used and an elastomer that imparts mechanical characteristics to the power transmission member 32a, in which as the mechanical characteristics, tensile yield stress (ISO 527) is 40 to 54 MPa, tensile fracture strain (ISO 527) is 50% or more, tensile elastic modulus (ISO 527) is 1200 to 1900 MPa, bending elastic modulus (ISO 178) is 1100 to 1700 MPa, and unnotched Charpy impact strength (ISO 179) is no fracture at ?30° C. or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Joyson Safety Systems Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kanamori, Kiyoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11964626
    Abstract: Provided are a seat belt retractor and a seat belt device capable of suppressing an increase in frictional resistance when a pretensioner is steadily driven and increasing the resistance to be applied to a webbing when energy is absorbed. A seat belt retractor includes a guide member facing at least a part of an outer circumferential surface of a locking base and disposed along an opening portion. The guide member is configured not to come into contact with the locking base until a pretensioner is shifted to a steady driving state, is configured to come into contact with the locking base when the pretensioner is steadily driven, and is configured to allow contact between lock teeth and the locking base when subjected to a predetermined load after the pretensioner is shifted to the steady driving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: JOYSON SAFETY SYSTEMS JAPAN G.K.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Watanabe, Tadayuki Asako
  • Publication number: 20240101378
    Abstract: A sheet transporting device includes: a skew correcting component configured to correct any skew of a sheet by executing speed-gap driving in which first and second transporting components that are arranged at respective positions in a direction intersecting a direction of sheet transport are driven for a predetermined time period with a speed gap between the first and second transporting components; and a changing component configured to change, with reference to a characteristic relevant to sheet transport, a state of the speed-gap driving of the skew correcting component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshinori KOIKE, Hirotake EGUCHI, Yasunobu GOTO, Kiyoshi WATANABE, Yuki KAWAZOE, Shuhei KOBORI
  • Publication number: 20240101372
    Abstract: A medium transport device includes a first transporter configured to transport a medium by nipping the medium along with rotation, a second transporter configured to transport the medium and disposed on an upstream side of the first transporter in a transport direction of the medium, a first adjuster configured to adjust a position of the medium in a width direction by moving the first transporter and the second transporter in the width direction of the medium with the medium nipped by the first transporter and the second transporter, and a second adjuster configured to adjust a contact pressure of the first transporter for the medium and a contact pressure of the second transporter for the medium based on resistance caused when the medium is moved in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hirotake EGUCHI, Yasunobu GOTO, Yoshinori KOIKE, Yuki KAWAZOE, Shuhei KOBORI, Kiyoshi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240101381
    Abstract: A sheet transporting device includes first and second position correcting components provided at respective positions in a direction of sheet transport and each being configured to correct a position of a sheet in a direction intersecting the direction of sheet transport by being shifted in the direction intersecting the direction of sheet transport while holding the sheet, and a changing component capable of changing an amount of correction of the position of the sheet individually for the first and second position correcting components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasunobu GOTO, Kiyoshi WATANABE, Yoshinori KOIKE, Hirotake EGUCHI, Yuki KAWAZOE, Shuhei KOBORI
  • Patent number: 11929049
    Abstract: An output content generation device, includes: a first calculation unit that calculates a size, in a display region of a display device, of each of pieces of information to be displayed in the display region; a determination unit that determines whether or not the pieces of information are arrangeable in the display region, based on the size of each of the pieces of information and a size of the display region; and a generation unit that allocates the pieces of information in a plurality of screens accommodated in the display region in a distributed manner, and generates output content of the pieces of information, when the pieces of information are not arrangeable in the display region, thereby enabling information to be legibly viewable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihide Saito, Yumiko Matsuura, Kiyoshi Nakahama, Masahiro Watanabe, Junichi Sawase, Sayaka Teranaka
  • Patent number: 11915865
    Abstract: A movable-side magnet is provided to a movable portion in a vacuum chamber. A drive unit is provided outside the vacuum chamber, and drives the movable portion by exerting magnetic force on the movable-side magnet. The drive unit has a first magnet, a second magnet, and a moving mechanism (moving member). The first magnet exerts magnetic force of attracting the movable-side magnet. The second magnet is provided to be adjacent to the first magnet, and exerts magnetic force of repelling the movable-side magnet. The moving mechanism integrally moves the first magnet and the second magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaji Furuta, Kei Kodera, Kiyoshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240010162
    Abstract: Provided are a seat belt retractor and a seat belt device capable of suppressing an increase in frictional resistance when a pretensioner is steadily driven and increasing the resistance to be applied to a webbing when energy is absorbed. A seat belt retractor includes a guide member facing at least a part of an outer circumferential surface of a locking base and disposed along an opening portion. The guide member is configured not to come into contact with the locking base until a pretensioner is shifted to a steady driving state, is configured to come into contact with the locking base when the pretensioner is steadily driven, and is configured to allow contact between lock teeth and the locking base when subjected to a predetermined load after the pretensioner is shifted to the steady driving state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kiyoshi WATANABE, Tadayuki ASAKO
  • Publication number: 20230312282
    Abstract: A sheet transporting device includes: a pair of transporting rolls provided to a sheet transport path; a separating component configured to move one of transporting rolls that form the pair of transporting rolls to an open position where the one of the transporting rolls is spaced apart from an other of the transporting rolls; and a switching component having a switching function of switching a position of the pair of transporting rolls between a nipping position and an unnipping position, the switching component being configured to resume the switching function when the pair of transporting rolls once moved to the open position by the separating component is returned to a normal operating position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshinori KOIKE, Nobuhiro HIROE, Hirotake EGUCHI, Koji DEGUCHI, Yasunobu GOTO, Natsumi NAKATA, Yoshiki MATSUZAKI, Kiyoshi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230312289
    Abstract: A medium transport device include: an inclination corrector including a first inclination correction member and a second inclination correction member disposed away from each other in a width direction of a medium, the first inclination correction member and the second inclination correction member being individually drivable during transport of the medium, the inclination corrector being configured to correct an inclination of the medium relative to a transport direction of the medium by causing a difference in the transport of the medium between the first inclination correction member and the second inclination correction member; and a medium transporter disposed on a downstream side of the inclination corrector in the transport direction and configured to transport the medium, the medium transporter including a pair of medium transport members disposed across the medium in a thickness direction of the medium, the medium transport members being movable between a transport position where the medium transport
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Koji DEGUCHI, Kiyoshi WATANABE, Nobuhiro HIROE, Hirotake EGUCHI, Yoshinori KOIKE, Yasunobu GOTO, Natsumi NAKATA, Yoshiki MATSUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230312290
    Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a pair of movable transport rollers capable of transporting a sheet while holding the sheet and capable of moving in an axial direction crossing a transportation direction; pairs of first transport rollers disposed at a distance from each other upstream from the pair of movable transport rollers in the transportation direction to transport the sheet while holding the sheet; and pairs of first transport guides disposed to define sheet transport spaces between the pair of movable transport rollers and the pairs of first transport rollers and between the pairs of first transport rollers. When the pair of movable transport rollers is moved in the axial direction, at least one of the pairs of first transport rollers is displaced in a direction to widen the transport space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Yasunobu GOTO, Yoshiki MATSUZAKI, Yoshinori KOIKE, Natsumi NAKATA, Nobuhiro HIROE, Hirotake EGUCHI, Kiyoshi WATANABE, Koji DEGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230312293
    Abstract: A medium transport device includes a positional corrector configured to transport a medium and correct a position of the medium in a width direction of the medium by moving the medium in the width direction, and an inclination corrector configured to transport the medium and correct an inclination of the medium relative to a transport direction of the medium on an upstream side of the positional corrector in the transport direction, the inclination corrector being disposed at a position where the medium is transported in a flat posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hirotake EGUCHI, Nobuhiro HIROE, Koji DEGUCHI, Kiyoshi WATANABE, Yasunobu GOTO, Yoshinori KOIKE, Natsumi NAKATA, Yoshiki MATSUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230312288
    Abstract: A medium transport device includes a positional corrector configured to transport a medium and correct a position of the medium in a width direction of the medium by moving the medium in the width direction, a first inclination corrector disposed on a transport path of the medium and configured to correct an inclination of the medium relative to a transport direction of the medium, and a second inclination corrector configured to correct the inclination of the medium on an upstream side of the first inclination corrector in the transport direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Hirotake EGUCHI, Nobuhiro HIROE, Koji DEGUCHI, Kiyoshi WATANABE, Yasunobu GOTO, Yoshinori KOIKE, Natsumi NAKATA, Yoshiki MATSUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230312292
    Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a pair of movable transport rollers capable of transporting a sheet while holding the sheet and capable of moving in an axial direction crossing a transportation direction; pairs of first transport rollers disposed upstream from the pair of movable transport rollers in the transportation direction while being spaced apart from each other to transport the sheet while holding the sheet; and pairs of transport guides disposed to define sheet transport spaces between the pair of movable transport rollers and the pairs of first transport rollers and between the pairs of first transport rollers. When the pair of movable transport rollers is to be moved in the axial direction, at least one of the pairs of first transport rollers is displaced in the axial direction while holding a portion of the transported sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasunobu GOTO, Yoshiki MATSUZAKI, Yoshinori KOIKE, Natsumi NAKATA, Nobuhiro HIROE, Hirotake EGUCHI, Kiyoshi WATANABE, Koji DEGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230312291
    Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a pair of movable transport rollers capable of transporting a sheet while holding the sheet and capable of moving in an axial direction crossing a transportation direction; pairs of first transport rollers disposed upstream from the pair of movable transport rollers in the transportation direction while being spaced apart from each other to transport the sheet while holding the sheet; and pairs of transport guides disposed to define sheet transport spaces between the pair of movable transport rollers and the pairs of first transport rollers and between the pairs of first transport rollers. When the pair of movable transport rollers is to be moved in the axial direction, first transport rollers in at least one of the pairs of first transport rollers are separated not to hold at least part of a portion of the transported sheet located upstream from the pair of movable transport rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasunobu GOTO, Yoshinori KOIKE, Natsumi NAKATA, Nobuhiro HIROE, Hirotake EGUCHI, Kiyoshi WATANABE, Koji DEGUCHI, Yoshiki MATSUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230312281
    Abstract: A sheet transporting device includes: plural pairs of transporting rolls that are arranged adjacent to one another in a direction of transport of a sheet; and a component configured to switch individual positions of the plural pairs of transporting rolls between a nipping position and an unnipping position, the component being a single switching component capable of switching a state of nipping by the plural pairs of transporting rolls between a state where all of the plural pairs of transporting rolls are in the nipping position, a state where some of the plural pairs of transporting rolls are in the nipping position while remaining ones of the plural pairs of transporting rolls are in the unnipping position, and a state where all of the plural pairs of transporting rolls are in the unnipping position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Yoshinori KOIKE, Nobuhiro HIROE, Hirotake EGUCHI, Koji DEGUCHI, Yasunobu GOTO, Natsumi NAKATA, Yoshiki MATSUZAKI, Kiyoshi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230314998
    Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a pair of movable transport rollers capable of transporting a sheet while holding the sheet and moving in an axial direction crossing a transportation direction; pairs of first transport rollers upstream from the pair of movable transport rollers in the transportation direction while being spaced apart from each other to transport the sheet while holding the sheet; and pairs of transport guides to define sheet transport spaces between the pair of movable transport rollers and the pairs of first transport rollers and between the pairs of first transport rollers. When the pair of movable transport rollers is to be moved in the axial direction, at least one pair of first transport rollers transports the sheet while bending the sheet in the transport space by producing a difference in transport rate within a portion of a section upstream from the pair of movable transport rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Yasunobu GOTO, Yoshinori KOIKE, Yoshiki MATSUZAKI, Hirotake EGUCHI, Kiyoshi WATANABE, Natsumi NAKATA, Koji DEGUCHI, Nobuhiro HIROE
  • Patent number: 11661295
    Abstract: A supporting frame of a sheet feeding device includes a bottom plate, a first side plate fixed to the bottom plate, and a second side plate fixed to the bottom plate. The first side plate includes a supporting portion, a first bent and erected portion, and a second bent and erected portion. The supporting portion includes a swing center portion having a swing center of the first side plate when the first side plate is positionally adjusted relative to the second side plate. In a direction in which a bending edge line formed between the supporting portion and the first bent and erected portion extends, the swing center portion projects downward than a lower end portion of the first bent and erected portion and a lower end portion of the second bent and erected portion are and contacts the bottom plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Michiaki Endo, Kiyoshi Watanabe, Kazuhisa Okuda
  • Patent number: 11565898
    Abstract: A sheet accommodating apparatus includes a main body portion, a loading portion that is provided in the main body portion and supports a portion of a sheet loaded thereon from below, a lifting unit that lifts the loading portion, and a supporting portion that is connected to the main body portion and supports another portion of the sheet from below during a process in which the loading portion is lifted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kimura, Kiyoshi Watanabe, Shoichi Maeda, Masashi Ikeda