Patents by Inventor Manabu Watanabe

Manabu 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: 20240131791
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shaping device includes a stage, an ejection portion configured to selectively eject, as a shaping material, a first material containing a crystalline resin and a second material containing an amorphous resin to an upper side of the stage, a moving portion configured to relatively move the stage and the ejection portion, and a control unit. The control unit executes first stacking processing when a plurality of slice layers are stacked using the first material as the shaping material and executes second stacking processing when a plurality of slice layers are stacked using the second material as the shaping material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Manabu WATANABE, Makoto OMURA
  • Publication number: 20240123654
    Abstract: Provided is a separation and recovery apparatus for continuously separating and recovering, from a resin mixture containing a resin containing a hydrolyzable polymer and a resin containing a nonhydrolyzable polymer, a hydrolytic component a of the hydrolyzable polymer A and the nonhydrolyzable polymer B, the apparatus including: a crushing unit that crushes the resin mixture a melting/discharging unit that melts a crushed product obtained by the crushing unit to form a fluid and discharges the fluid at a high pressure; and a hydrothermal reaction treatment unit that continuously subjects the fluid discharged from the melting/discharging unit to a hydrothermal reaction treatment, wherein, in the melting/discharging unit, the hydrolyzable polymer A is hydrolyzed, and the hydrolytic component a thereof is dissolved and transferred into water permeating a sintered alloy diaphragm, thereby separating the nonhydrolyzable polymer B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOPPAN INC.
    Inventors: Masaru WATANABE, Aritomo YAMAGUCHI, Osamu SATO, Yuuma IRISA, Akira TAKAMA, Kousuke NISHIMURA, Hiroki KUJIRAOKA, Hideki MIYAZAKI, Keita AKIMOTO, Takuya TAKAHATA, Daisuke KUGIMOTO, Shingo KOUDA, Satoshi HAMURA, Takahiro IMAI, Yumiko OMORI, Manabu KAWA
  • Publication number: 20240123752
    Abstract: There are provided a washout processor and a washing method that prevent solid contents from being attached to a developed flexographic printing plate precursor again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Fumio MOGI, Manabu HASHIGAYA, Toshihiro WATANABE, Yusuke IKEYAMA
  • Patent number: 11957498
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray source, an X-ray detector, an arm, and processing circuitry. The arm supports the X-ray source and the X-ray detector. The processing circuitry identifies a three-dimensional running direction of a blood vessel of an object from a plurality of images that are obtained by using the X-ray source and the X-ray detector to image the object from at least two different angles, and controls positions of the X-ray source and the X-ray detector by using the arm in such a manner that a target position of the blood vessel is imaged from the at least two different directions determined depending on the three-dimensional running direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato Takemoto, Manabu Tanaka, Yuichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11948461
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an data acquisition unit that acquires sensor data of an infrastructure sensor; an object information generation unit that generates object information based on the sensor data; a detection range estimation unit that estimates an object detection range based on at least partial information constituting the object information; an intersection determination unit that determines whether the objects intersect with each other within a predetermined time based on at least partial information constituting the object information; and a signal output unit that outputs an intersection avoidance signal when a position of a second object is outside the object detection range of a first object or when the position of the first object is outside the object detection range of the second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Suguru Watanabe, Manabu Nagai, Daisaku Honda
  • Publication number: 20240097950
    Abstract: A transmission device includes an encoding circuit and a modulation circuit. The encoding circuit is configured to encode first and second data stream portions of a transmission data stream in accordance with first and second encoding protocols, respectively, convert each M bit of the encoded second data stream portion into a high-resolution value of N bit, and generate a baseband data stream including the encoded first data stream portion and the converted second data stream portion. The modulation circuit is configured to perform a 2N-level pulse amplitude modulation with respect to each N bit of the encoded first data stream portion in the baseband data stream and each N bit of the converted second data stream portion in the baseband data stream, to generate a transmission signal. M is an integer equal to or greater than 1 and N is an integer greater than M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Ushio JIMBO, Manabu WATANABE, Daisuke SONODA
  • Patent number: 11932022
    Abstract: Convenience of an ink bottle and a bottle set is improved. An ink bottle includes: a container portion that contains ink; a guiding portion that is formed in one end portion of the container portion, and includes an outflow port from which the ink in the container portion flow out; and a cover that covers at least an end portion of the container portion on the opposite side of the guiding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku Ishizawa, Tadahiro Mizutani, Ryoichi Tanaka, Manabu Akahane, Koichi Toba, Takumi Nagashima, Yoshiaki Shimizu, Tadashi Watanabe, Noriyuki Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20240087963
    Abstract: To planarize a substrate having irregularities on its surface. Provided is a method of chemical mechanical polishing of a substrate. The method includes the step of polishing the substrate using a processing solution, and the step of changing concentration of an effective component in the processing solution, which contributes to the polishing of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Akira FUKUNAGA, Katsuhide WATANABE, Itsuki KOBATA, Manabu TSUJIMURA
  • Patent number: 11738512
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shaped article production apparatus includes a shaping table, a layer forming section that forms a powder layer, a head that ejects a liquid containing a binder to a shaping region of a three-dimensional shaped article, a liquid supply system that supplies the liquid to the head, and a moving system that relatively moves the head with respect to the shaping table, wherein the head includes a nozzle that ejects the liquid, a pressure chamber that communicates with the nozzle, a supply flow channel that communicates with the pressure chamber upstream in a supply direction of the liquid, and a circulation flow channel that communicates with the pressure chamber downstream in the supply direction, the circulation flow channel includes a first filter, and a pore diameter of the first filter is larger than a particle diameter of a powder for forming the powder layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Watanabe, Toshimitsu Hirai, Akihiko Tsunoya, Kaoru Momose
  • Patent number: 11734811
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an inspection system includes an illuminator, an imager, and a processor. The illuminator irradiates light into an interior of a hole. The imager acquires a first image by imaging the interior of the hole where the light is irradiated. The processor detecting a blockage of at least a portion of the hole based on a luminance of the hole inside the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kuwahara, Manabu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11701824
    Abstract: A plasticizing apparatus for plasticizing a material to form a molten material includes a screw having a groove formed face, in which a groove portion in a spiral shape to be supplied with the material is formed, and a first heating portion heating the material, and a barrel having a screw opposed face, which is a face opposed to the groove formed face, and in which a sending-out hole for sending out the molten material is formed at a center, and a second heating portion heating the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230078727
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shaping apparatus includes an ejecting section configured to eject a shaping material from a nozzle, a stage on which the shaping material is stacked, a driving section configured to change relative positions of the ejecting section and the stage, a cleaning mechanism including a brush and a blade, and a control section. The control section causes, in cleaning processing, the nozzle to reciprocate to traverse the cleaning mechanism a plurality of times to execute a cleaning operation for bringing at least one of the brush and the blade and the nozzle to come into contact. The control section causes, in the cleaning operation, the nozzle to reciprocate to come into contact with the brush or the blade in different positions of the brush or the blade. Temperature of the nozzle in the cleaning operation is lower than temperature of the nozzle at a stacking time of layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventor: Manabu WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11577470
    Abstract: Provided is a three-dimensional shaping apparatus in which surface of a three-dimensional shaped object can be prevented from being roughened. The three-dimensional shaping apparatus that shapes a three-dimensional shaped object by stacking layers of a material includes: a stage; a discharge unit that has a nozzle surface in which a nozzle hole is formed; a moving unit that is configured to change a relative position between the stage and the nozzle surface; and a control unit that is configured to control the moving unit. The control unit drives the moving unit such that a relation between a gap G between the nozzle surface and the stage or the layer of the material when the material is discharged from the discharge unit and an outer diameter Dp of the nozzle surface satisfies a following relation (1). Dp?20×G+0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventors: Manabu Watanabe, Eiji Okamoto, Akihiko Tsunoya, Koji Fujimori, Kazuhide Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230042121
    Abstract: A method for producing a formed product using a resin composition including a plurality of raw materials, in which the content of raw materials in the resin composition is measured in real time, the method comprising the steps of: supplying each of the plurality of raw materials to an extruder; melt-kneading the plurality of raw materials in the extruder to prepare a resin composition; and irradiating the prepared resin composition with radiation and calculating the content of the raw material in the resin composition based on the results of detection of the radiation transmitted through the resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: YUPO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu WATANABE, Kou NAKAMURA, Tsuyoshi DANNO
  • Patent number: 11565467
    Abstract: A plasticizing apparatus for plasticizing a material to form a molten material includes a screw in a columnar shape having a groove formed face, in which a material flow channel including a groove portion to be supplied with the material is formed, and a barrel having a screw opposed face, which is a face opposed to the groove formed face, and in which a sending-out hole for sending out the molten material is formed at a center, and a heating portion heating the material. The material flow channel has a recess provided at a center of the groove formed face, and the groove portion extending in a spiral shape toward an outer circumference of the groove formed face from the recess, and a heat insulating portion having a lower thermal conductivity than an outer circumferential portion in the screw is provided in at least a part of an inner circumferential portion including the recess in the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230011696
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shaped article production apparatus includes a shaping table, a layer forming section that forms a powder layer, a head that ejects a liquid containing a binder to a shaping region of a three-dimensional shaped article, a liquid supply system that supplies the liquid to the head, and a moving system that relatively moves the head with respect to the shaping table, wherein the head includes a nozzle that ejects the liquid, a pressure chamber that communicates with the nozzle, a supply flow channel that communicates with the pressure chamber upstream in a supply direction of the liquid, and a circulation flow channel that communicates with the pressure chamber downstream in the supply direction, the circulation flow channel includes a first filter, and a pore diameter of the first filter is larger than a particle diameter of a powder for forming the powder layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Manabu WATANABE, Toshimitsu HIRAI, Akihiko TSUNOYA, Kaoru MOMOSE
  • Publication number: 20230003624
    Abstract: A precipitate and/or an inclusion in a metal material is extracted by electrolysis using an electrolyte solution. The electrolyte solution contains an adsorbent that is adsorbed to a surface of the precipitate and/or a surface of the inclusion. The extracted precipitate and/or the inclusion can be quantitatively analyzed with high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Seiya Sugawara, Michitoshi Saeki, Manabu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220402213
    Abstract: A three-dimensional modeling device includes a first ejection section configured to eject a first material, a second ejection section configured to eject a second material, a drive section configured to move each of the first ejection section and the second ejection section relatively to a stage, and a control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Manabu WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11530698
    Abstract: An oil pump is configured to include a rotor, a drive shaft that drives the rotor to rotate, a rotor chamber in which the rotor is contained, an inlet port and an outlet port each provided in the vicinity of the rotor chamber, and a pump cover. The pump cover is made of a resin. On a portion of an outer surface side of the pump cover corresponding to an inner portion, in which oil circulates, of the pump cover, a rib that has an erecting wall shape is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: YAMADA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuken Saito, Manabu Watanabe, Tomonori Yahagi
  • Patent number: 11516319
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a controller and a plurality of devices serially connected to the controller by a communication path. Each device has a different identifying address from each other device. The communication path connects the controller to the plurality of devices in a loop. The communication path is configured to transmit a communication frame as a differential serial signal. The communication frame includes a plurality of packets. Each packet in the plurality of packets has a fixed data length. Each device is configured to insert data into, and extract data from, a packet in the communication frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Watanabe