Patents by Inventor Kouji Watanabe
Kouji 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: 7252477Abstract: A rotating blade body is provided that can restrain vibrations of rotating blades effectively. The rotating blade body comprises a rotor disc, a plurality of rotating blades being assembled so as to extend from the outer circumference of the rotor disc in a radial pattern, and sealing pins extending along the direction of the rotating shaft in the gaps between the platforms of the rotating blades being adjacent in a circumferential direction. The sealing pins have a through-hole made therein, penetrating axially from one end surface to the other end surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2006Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuoki Tomita, Kouji Watanabe, Masamitsu Okuzono, Masaki Ono
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Publication number: 20070179005Abstract: An activating device for a cover has: a shaft unit having a rotary shaft; an arm unit which is coupled to the cover and the rotary shaft; and an actuator which drives the rotary shaft. The actuator has: a motor having a first output portion; a first reducer having an input portion and an output portion; and a second reducer having an input portion and an output portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2007Publication date: August 2, 2007Applicant: TS CORPORATIONInventors: Kouji WATANABE, Toshihiro YUDATE
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Patent number: 7213481Abstract: An activating device for a cover has: a shaft unit having a rotary shaft; an arm unit which is coupled to the cover and the rotary shaft; and an actuator which drives the rotary shaft. The actuator has: a motor having a first output portion; a first reducer having an input portion and an output portion; and a second reducer having an input portion and an output portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: TS CorporationInventors: Kouji Watanabe, Toshihiro Yudate
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Publication number: 20060177312Abstract: A rotating blade body is provided that can restrain vibrations of rotating blades effectively. The rotating blade body comprises rotor disc, a plurality of rotating blades being assembled so as to extend from the outer circumference of the rotor disc in a radial pattern, and sealing pins extending along the direction of the rotating shaft in the gaps between the platforms of the rotating blades being adjacent in circumferential direction. The sealing pins have a through-hole made therein, penetrating axially from one end surface to the other end surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2006Publication date: August 10, 2006Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuoki Tomita, Kouji Watanabe, Masamitsu Okuzono, Masaki Ono
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Patent number: 7034969Abstract: The divided one-dimensional solid-state imaging device includes photodiode arrays having photodiodes for individual pixels arrayed in a line, output transistors for outputting electric charges from the respective photodiodes and transfer paths for transferring the outputted electric charges to output terminals. In the imaging device, the photodiode arrays is divided into a plurality of sections differing in the number of pixels in a photodiode arraying direction, the respective divided sections connecting to the corresponding ones of the transfer paths and the output terminals, and pixel rows in the respective divided sections are read out in parallel at the same time from the output terminals corresponding to the respective divided sections.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2001Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kouji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20060048877Abstract: A pneumatic tire of which self-seal function can be improved while the increase in weight of the tire is minimized. The pneumatic tire having an adhesive sealant layer in the region corresponding to at least a tread portion on the inner side of the tire, the adhesive sealant layer being constituted from a rubber composition containing a rubber component to be decomposed by peroxide and 0.2 to 20 parts by weight of peroxide per 100 parts by weight of the rubber component, in which fibrillated short fibers with an average length of 100 to 5000 ?m are mixed and scattered.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2004Publication date: March 9, 2006Applicant: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTDInventors: Takashi Fukutomi, Takumi Sekiguchi, Issei Nakakita, Mitsuru Naito, Yuichi Kobayashi, Kouji Watanabe, Satoshi Makino, Takayuki Toyoshima
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Publication number: 20050186074Abstract: In a gas turbine having a plurality of moving blades provided on a rotary shaft in a circumferentially adjoining condition, a seal pin is provided in a spacing between the shanks of the adjacent moving blades for preventing leakage of cooling air from a blade root portion side to an airfoil side; an arcuately depressed portion is formed on the shank of each of the moving blades; and vibration of each of the moving blades is suppressed in such a manner that the seal pin serves as a spring system while the airfoil portion, the platform, the shank, and the blade root portion serve as a mass system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2005Publication date: August 25, 2005Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuoki Tomita, Masaki Ono, Eiji Akita, Masao Terazaki, Masayuki Takahama, Kouji Watanabe, Hideki Murata
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Publication number: 20050181242Abstract: A battery pack and method of manufacturing same are provided. The battery pack can stabilize bending of a lead housed in a space defined by an external package. Leads 2, 3 of a battery element are bonded to a circuit board housed in a top cover 6. A holder 11 is mechanically fitted to the top cover 6, made of resin molded material and produced by injection molding, for example. The edge faces of ribs 12a, 12b, 12c formed on the holder 11 serve as planes which receive the circuit board 4 in the top cover 6. The top cover 6 and the holder 11 fitted to each other are turned 90°, and moved toward the opening in the edge face of the cell 1 while bending the leads 2, 3, which are bent along the contours of both the sidewalls and bottom surface of the holder 11 and housed in a space defined by the external package. The circumferential surface of the top cover 6 is bonded by heat to the inner surface of the external package.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2004Publication date: August 18, 2005Inventors: Fumihiko Suzuki, Takayuki Aita, Hiroaki Kanno, Kouji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20050130030Abstract: The present invention relates to a battery apparatus used as a power source for a mobile phone unit and other electronic equipment, in which in a storage portion formed by overlapping a battery storage and a lid, a battery unit containing a power-generating element is stored. The battery apparatus according to the present invention includes: the battery unit containing a power-generating element, the battery storage having the storage portion in which the battery unit is stored, and the lid that closes the end of an opening of the storage portion of the battery storage, wherein a first fixing element for enabling the lid to be engaged with the battery storage and fixing the lid to the battery storage is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2003Publication date: June 16, 2005Inventors: Kouji Watanabe, Yuho Ishikawa, Hidetoshi Akasawa
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Patent number: 6868680Abstract: The heater has increased quick responsiveness to temperature control of air, and the air conditioner can realize highly accurate temperature control using the heater. A duct unit having heat sources comprising electric lamps in the inside thereof is attached to an air duct. Air coming into contact with glass bulbs of the electric lamps is heated by radiant heat and transferred heat generated by lighting the electric lamps, whereby the heater with increased quick responsiveness to temperature control is obtained. A first heater and a second heater are provided in the air duct, respectively, and temperature sensors for controlling these heaters are attached to the air duct and a precision environment chamber, respectively, whereby temperature control in two stages with different temperature resolutions is made possible, and an air conditioner with high accuracy excellent in controllability can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2003Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Sakuma, Ryuusuke Gotouda, Kouji Watanabe, Minoru Takahashi, Hidenao Kawai, Toshio Onodera, Katsuhiro Joukou, Yoshihiro Kimoto, Yutaka Shimokawa, Makoto Tanaka
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Publication number: 20050016321Abstract: An activating device for a cover has: a shaft unit having a rotary shaft; an arm unit which is coupled to the cover and the rotary shaft; and an actuator which drives the rotary shaft. The actuator has: a motor having a first output portion; a first reducer having an input portion and an output portion; and a second reducer having an input portion and an output portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2004Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventors: Kouji Watanabe, Toshihiro Yudate
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Patent number: 6840973Abstract: An air cleaner is provided which is effective to retain a cleaner element 3 in a heteromorphic shape and which has an increased cleaning capability and an assemblability. The air cleaner includes a cleaner element 3 made of a urethane foam and formed in a tubular form having an endless wall and operable to pass an air therethrough in a direction across the thickness of the cleaner element to purify the air. The cleaner element 3 when viewed from top represents a heteromorphic shape, and first and second retainer plates 7 and 8 made of an elastic material effective to retain the heteromorphic shape of the wall, which plates 7 and 8 are bonded to upper and lower end faces of the cleaner element 3. The cleaner element 3 together with the first and second retainer plates 7 and 8 is carried by a holder assembly 4 and is accommodated within a cleaner housing 1 together with the holder assembly 4.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2003Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Kuji, Isamu Nishikawa, Yuichi Kawamoto, Kouji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20040239291Abstract: A battery pack and a battery proofed against counterfeiting is provided. The outer surface of the exterior material of the battery and the outer surface of the battery pack are each provided with a light emitting material which, when irradiated with invisible light, emits visible light.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Inventor: Kouji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20040187453Abstract: An air cleaner is provided which is effective to retain a cleaner element 3 in a heteromorphic shape and which has an increased cleaning capability and an assemblability. The air cleaner includes a cleaner element 3 made of a urethane foam and formed in a tubular form having an endless wall and operable to pass an air therethrough in a direction across the thickness of the cleaner element to purify the air. The cleaner element 3 when viewed from top represents a heteromorphic shape, and first and second retainer plates 7 and 8 made of an elastic material effective to retain the heteromorphic shape of the wall, which plates 7 and 8 are bonded to upper and lower end faces of the cleaner element 3. The cleaner element 3 together with the first and second retainer plates 7 and 8 is carried by a holder assembly 4 and is accommodated within a cleaner housing 1 together with the holder assembly 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2003Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: Yasuhiro Kuji, Isamu Nishikawa, Yuichi Kawamoto, Kouji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20040065096Abstract: The heater has increased quick responsiveness to temperature control of air, and the air conditioner can realize highly accurate temperature control using the heater. A duct unit having heat sources comprising electric lamps in the inside thereof is attached to an air duct. Air coming into contact with glass bulbs of the electric lamps is heated by radiant heat and transferred heat generated by lighting the electric lamps, whereby the heater with increased quick responsiveness to temperature control is obtained. A first heater and a second heater are provided in the air duct, respectively, and temperature sensors for controlling these heaters are attached to the air duct and a precision environment chamber, respectively, whereby temperature control in two stages with different temperature resolutions is made possible, and an air conditioner with high accuracy excellent in controllability can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: HITACHI PLANT ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayoshi Sakuma, Ryuusuke Gotouda, Kouji Watanabe, Minoru Takahashi, Hidenao Kawai, Toshio Onodera, Katsuhiro Joukou, Yoshihiro Kimoto, Yutaka Shimokawa, Makoto Tanaka
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Patent number: 6524077Abstract: A control valve used in a variable displacement compressor includes a valve chamber, a valve body and a pressure sensing chamber. A pressure sensing ball is movably located in the pressure sensing chamber and divides the pressure sensing chamber into a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber. First and second pressure monitoring points are located in a refrigerant circuit. The first pressure chamber is exposed to the pressure at the first pressure monitoring point. The second pressure chamber is exposed to the pressure at the second pressure monitoring point. The ball is displaced based on the pressure difference between the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber. The position of the valve body is determined based on the position of the pressure sensing member.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2001Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki SeisakushoInventors: Ken Suitou, Kazuya Kimura, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Masaki Ota, Satoshi Umemura, Tomoji Tarutani, Norio Uemura, Kouji Watanabe, Hideki Higashidouzono, Syuji Hukunaga
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Patent number: 6398516Abstract: A control valve is provided to be mainly used in a clutch-less compressor of the type in which displacement of the compressor is varied depending on the inclination of a drive plate which varies depending on the crank pressure. The control valve includes biasing means that applies force to a valve body, a force transferring member that urges the valve body to forcibly open the valve, and a solenoid assembly to actuate the force transferring member. The valve remains closed when no electric current is supplied to the solenoid assembly, regardless of the crank pressure or the suction pressure. This facilitates minimum displacement operation of the compressor for a desired period of time and therefore makes the valve suitable for a clutch-less type compressor that is directly connected to an engine with a belt and/or a pulley.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1999Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho, NOK CorporationInventors: Masahiro Kawaguchi, Takuya Kudo, Norio Uemura, Kouji Watanabe, Hideki Higashidozono, Ichiro Hirata
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Patent number: 6368744Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery is disclosed which has an improved volume energy density and satisfactory impact resistance, a heat radiating characteristic and producibility. The battery element is accommodated in a casing constituted by a laminate film so as to be sealed by welding. Electrode-terminal leads electrically conducted to electrodes which constitute the battery element are sandwiched by welded portions so as to be exposed to the outside portion of the casing. A control circuit of the battery is mounted on a welded portion of the casing. Since the control circuit of the battery is mounted on the welded portion of the casing, the space in the battery in which the battery element is not present can effectively be used. Therefore, the volume efficiency can considerably be improved.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1999Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tsuyonobu Hatazawa, Kazuhito Hatta, Tomitaro Hara, Takashi Ono, Kouji Watanabe
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Patent number: 6361283Abstract: A control valve controls the displacement of a variable displacement type compressor. The compressor has a crank chamber, a bleed passage, and a supply passage. An outlet valve portion located on the bleed passage to control the opening of the bleed passage. An inlet valve portion is located on the supply passage to control the opening of the supply passage. A transmission rod extends between the outlet valve portion and the inlet valve portion to connect the outlet valve portion to the inlet valve portion. The transmission rod moves axially. A through hole is located in the inlet valve portion to receive a part of the transmission rod. The through hole constitutes a part of the supply passage. A clearance is formed between the transmission rod and the through hole to constantly connect the discharge pressure zone to the crank chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2000Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki SeisakushoInventors: Masaki Ota, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Ken Suitou, Ryo Matsubara, Hiroyuki Nishinosono, Kouji Watanabe
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Patent number: D529863Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2005Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Izumi Kuramochi, Kotaro Iwabuchi, Takumi Morito, Kouji Watanabe, Yoshimasa Hashimoto, Isamu Kishizoe