Patents by Inventor Masahiro Watanabe

Masahiro 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: 20240134280
    Abstract: A polymer containing a structural unit including an aromatic hydroxy group bonded to a main chain, where the aromatic hydroxy group is protected by an acid-labile group represented by the following formula (ALU-1) and is deprotected by action of an acid to become alkali-soluble. This provides: a polymer that makes it possible to form a resist film with which it is possible to form a pattern having extremely high isolated space resolution, small LER, and excellent rectangularity, effects of development loading and residue defects being suppressed, and the pattern having etching resistance and suppressed pattern collapse in the produced resist pattern; a chemically amplified positive resist composition containing the polymer; a resist patterning process using the chemically amplified positive resist composition; and a mask blank including the chemically amplified positive resist composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro FUKUSHIMA, Satoshi WATANABE, Kenji FUNATSU, Keiichi MASUNAGA, Masaaki KOTAKE, Yuta MATSUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240135539
    Abstract: The image processing device 1X includes an acquisition means 30X and a lesion detection means 34X. The acquisition means 30X acquires an endoscopic image obtained by photographing an examination target by a photographing unit provided in an endoscope. The lesion detection means 34X detects a lesion based on a selection model which is selected from a first model and a second model, the first model being configured to make an inference regarding a lesion of the examination target based on a predetermined number of endoscopic images, the second model being configured to make an inference regarding a lesion of the examination target based on a variable number of endoscopic images. Besides, the lesion detection means 34X changes a parameter to be used for detection of the lesion based on a non-selection model that is the first model or the second model other than the selection model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro WATANABE, Yuji IWADATE, Masahiro SAIKOU, Akinori EBIHARA, Taiki MIYAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11967648
    Abstract: The impurity concentration in the oxide semiconductor film is reduced, and a highly reliability can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Masahiro Watanabe, Mitsuo Mashiyama, Kenichi Okazaki, Motoki Nakashima, Hideyuki Kishida
  • Publication number: 20240128571
    Abstract: The battery pack includes a tray having a bottom wall, a cell module disposed on the tray and having at least one battery cell, a high voltage connection portion provided on the bottom surface of the cell module and electrically connected to the at least one battery cell, a high voltage busbar connected to the high voltage connection portion, and a water absorbing sheet disposed between the bottom wall of the tray and the bottom surface of the cell module. A first opening portion is defined in the water absorbing sheet at a position opposite the high voltage connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka WATANABE, Masahiro YAMADA, Akiya KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20240127442
    Abstract: The image processing device 1X includes an acquisition means 30X, a variation detection means 311X, a selection means 312X, and a lesion detection means 34X. The acquisition means 30X acquires an endoscopic image obtained by photographing an examination target by a photographing unit provided in an endoscope. The variation detection means 311X detects a degree of variation between the endoscopic images. The selection means 312X selects either one of a first model or a second model based on the degree of variation, the first model making an inference regarding a lesion of the examination target based on a predetermined number of the endoscopic images, the second model making an inference regarding the lesion based on a variable number of the endoscopic images. The lesion detection means 34X detects the lesion based on a selection model that is either the first model or the second model selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro WATANABE, Yuji IWADATE, Masahiro SAIKOU, Akinori EBIHARA, Taiki MIYAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240127443
    Abstract: The image processing device 1X includes an acquisition means 30X and a lesion detection means 34X. The acquisition means 30X acquires an endoscopic image obtained by photographing an examination target by a photographing unit provided in an endoscope. The lesion detection means 34X detects a lesion based on a selection model which is selected from a first model and a second model, the first model being configured to make an inference regarding a lesion of the examination target based on a predetermined number of endoscopic images, the second model being configured to make an inference regarding a lesion of the examination target based on a variable number of endoscopic images. Besides, the lesion detection means 34X changes a parameter to be used for detection of the lesion based on a non-selection model that is the first model or the second model other than the selection model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro WATANABE, Yuji Iwadate, Masahiro Saikou, Akinori Ebihara, Taiki Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 11959165
    Abstract: There have been cases where transistors formed using oxide semiconductors are inferior in reliability to transistors formed using amorphous silicon. Thus, in the present invention, a semiconductor device including a highly reliable transistor formed using an oxide semiconductor is manufactured. An oxide semiconductor film is deposited by a sputtering method, using a sputtering target including an oxide semiconductor having crystallinity, and in which the direction of the c-axis of a crystal is parallel to a normal vector of the top surface of the oxide semiconductor. The target is formed by mixing raw materials so that its composition ratio can obtain a crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Tetsunori Maruyama, Yuki Imoto, Hitomi Sato, Masahiro Watanabe, Mitsuo Mashiyama, Kenichi Okazaki, Motoki Nakashima, Takashi Shimazu
  • Publication number: 20240118613
    Abstract: A chemically amplified positive resist composition is provided comprising a polymer comprising units containing a phenolic hydroxy group and units containing a phenolic hydroxy group protected with an acid labile group, in which a carbon atom neighboring the carbon atom to which the phenolic hydroxy group protected with an acid labile group is attached is substituted with a specific group. A resist pattern with a high resolution, reduced LER, rectangularity, minimized influence of develop loading, and few development residue defects can be formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Masunaga, Satoshi Watanabe, Masaaki Kotake, Kenji Funatsu, Masahiro Fukushima, Yuta Matsuzawa
  • Publication number: 20240121916
    Abstract: A heat radiation structure includes a mesh that abuts on a surface of a die, and a vapor chamber that interposes the mesh between the surface of the die and the vapor chamber. The mesh includes a heat generation element abutting range portion that is provided at a central portion of the mesh, is impregnated with a liquid metal, and abuts on the surface of the die to receive heat, and a pair of heat generation element non-abutting range portions that continuously extends from both sides of the heat generation element abutting range portion and does not abut on the surface of the die. Each of the pair of heat generation element non-abutting range portions is fixed to the vapor chamber via a sheet material. Each of a pair of the heat generation element non-abutting range portions is interposed between a pair of the sheet materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Takuroh Kamimura, Ryota Watanabe, Junki Hashiba
  • Publication number: 20240120510
    Abstract: There is provided a fuel cell gas supply diffusion layer that includes: a sheet-shaped porous body layer having conductivity, the porous body layer allowing permeation and diffusion of a gas therethrough; and a plurality of gas flow path grooves formed on one surface of the porous body layer in a direction respectively directed from a gas inflow side to a gas outflow side. In the fuel cell gas supply diffusion layer, the plurality of gas flow path grooves include: a plurality of gas inflow side grooves formed on the gas inflow side; and a plurality of gas outflow side grooves formed on the gas outflow side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi YANAI, Mitsunori NASU, Masahiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240113558
    Abstract: A power system supervisory control apparatus, a power system supervisory control system, and a power system supervisory control method for reducing social cost and improving resilience of a power system are provided. The power system supervisory control apparatus including multiple renewable energy power supplies includes: a system influence degree evaluation section that evaluates a system influence degree when a renewable energy fluctuation or an assumed fault has an influence on the power system by using, as computation conditions, system data for obtaining a state of the power system, renewable energy fluctuation data indicative of a fluctuation of a power generation output, and assumed fault data of an assumed fault in the power system, and calculates system influence degree evaluation result data; a computation condition selection index calculation section that calculates a selection index for the computation conditions; and a condition selection section that selects the computation conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Masahiro Watanabe, Takahisa Matsuzaki, Yohei Murakami
  • Publication number: 20240105369
    Abstract: In a production of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising hot rolling a raw steel material, cold rolling, decarburization annealing, applying an annealing separator composed mainly of MgO, finish annealing and magnetic domain subdividing, the annealing separator including certain compounds, and the finish annealing conducted by holding the steel sheet at a temperature of 800 to 950° C. for 10 to 100 hours and passing a dry gas containing not less than 1 vol % of H2 and having a dew point of not higher than 10° C. to reach a furnace pressure of not less than 3.5 mmH2O from not lower than 1050° C. to a purification treatment temperature, so that a pickling weight loss of undercoat film by pickling with HCl is not more than 1.8 g/m2 and the total concentration of Sn, Sb, Mo, and W on a boundary face between the film and iron matrix is 0.01 to 0.15 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Watanabe, Masahiro Suemune, Takeshi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20240103364
    Abstract: An onium salt having formula (1) is provided. A chemically amplified resist composition comprising the onium salt as a PAG has advantages including solvent solubility and improved lithography properties such as high sensitivity, high contrast, EL, and LWR when processed by photolithography using high-energy radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Fukushima, Tomomi Watanabe, Kenji Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240091936
    Abstract: A robot automation system includes circuitry configured to generate a plurality of task patterns that are candidates of a task flow for performing a job including a plurality of tasks by at least one robot. Each of the plurality of task patterns includes a corresponding relationship between the plurality of tasks and the at least one robot. The circuitry is further configured to calculate an estimated cycle time of the job based on a simulation in which the at least one robot performs the plurality of tasks, for each of the plurality of task patterns. The circuitry is further configured to generate, as an operation program, at least one task flow for performing the job by the at least one robot, in response to comparing a preset reference cycle time for the job with the estimated cycle time for each of the plurality of task patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Wataru WATANABE, Makoto TAKAHASHI, Masahiro GOYA, Tomoaki UCHIDA, Satoshi HIRONAKA
  • Publication number: 20240094635
    Abstract: A chemically amplified positive resist composition comprising (A) a base polymer, (B) a photoacid generator, and (C) a quencher is provided. The base polymer (A) contains a polymer comprising phenolic hydroxy group-containing units, aromatic ring-containing units, and units containing a phenolic hydroxy group protected with an acid labile group. The photoacid generator (B) and the quencher (C) are present in a weight ratio (B)/(C) of less than 3/1. The resist composition exhibits a very high isolated-space resolution and forms a pattern with reduced LER, rectangularity, minimized influences of develop loading and residue defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Masunaga, Satoshi Watanabe, Kenji Funatsu, Masahiro Fukushima, Masaaki Kotake, Yuta Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 11934623
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, an information presentation apparatus for displaying information on a display device including a display area corresponding to a visual field range of a user includes: a first storage medium that stores presentation information including content information representing a presentation content and attribute information of the content information; a detection unit that detects a gaze point within the visual field range of the user; and a presentation control unit that determines a presentation position of the content information within the visual field range of the user in accordance with the attribute information stored together with the content information to be presented and the detected gaze point and cause the content information to be displayed at a position corresponding to the determined presentation position within the display area of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Saijo, Shinichiro Eitoku, Masahiro Watanabe, Tae Sato
  • Patent number: 11937365
    Abstract: An affixation film 101 for a printed wiring board includes a circuit pattern concealing layer 112, and an adhesive layer 111 put on top of the circuit pattern concealing layer 112. An opposite surface of the circuit pattern concealing layer 112 from the adhesive layer 111 has an Rku of 2.5-3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Tatsuta Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sougo Ishioka, Masahiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11934708
    Abstract: An image forming device includes: a scanner mechanism; an inkjet-type print mechanism; a display mechanism; and a control unit configured to control the scanner mechanism, the print mechanism, and the display mechanism. The control unit includes a pattern storage unit configured to store a temperature, a humidity, and an adjustment pattern group including a plurality of adjustment patterns, in association with each other, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first measured temperature and a first measured humidity from a temperature and humidity sensor, and a data generation unit configured to read an adjustment pattern group corresponding to the first measured temperature and the first measured humidity acquired by the first acquisition unit from the pattern storage unit, and generate print data including the read adjustment pattern group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ikumi Watanabe, Masahiro Someno
  • 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: 11914295
    Abstract: The present invention is a thermosetting silicon-containing material containing one or more of a repeating unit shown by the following general formula (Sx-1), a repeating unit shown by the following general formula (Sx-2), and a partial structure shown by the following general formula (Sx-3): where R1 represents an iodine-containing organic group; and R2 and R3 are each independently identical to R1, a hydrogen atom, or a monovalent organic group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms. This provides: a thermosetting silicon-containing material used for forming a resist underlayer film which is capable of contributing to sensitivity enhancement of an upper layer resist while keeping LWR thereof from degrading; a composition for forming a silicon-containing resist underlayer film, the composition containing the thermosetting silicon-containing material; and a patterning process using the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ogihara, Tsukasa Watanabe, Yusuke Biyajima, Masahiro Kanayama, Ryo Mitsui