Patents by Inventor Masato Watanabe

Masato 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: 20250116454
    Abstract: An inspection device (12) for a cold insulator (10) includes: an RF reader 50 that receives from an RF tag 30 a detected temperature of a cold insulator in a cold insulation box, the detected temperature being detected by a temperature sensor (20) attached to a surface of the cold insulator; and a controller 61. The controller outputs information indicating a result of comparison between: at least one of a lower limit temperature obtained by adding a predetermined first value to a lowest management temperature of an article that is kept cold in the cold insulation box and an upper limit temperature obtained by subtracting a predetermined second value from a solidification temperature of the cold insulator; and the detected temperature of the cold insulator which has been received by the RF reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Masahiro KAGIMOTO, Shinya KOJIMA, Akihisa YOSHIMURA, Masato WATANABE, Akifumi MIYANO, Hideji KAWARAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20250044262
    Abstract: A lamp house (6), a lamp (8) including a light emitting part (16) that emits light and a base end portion (18) from which a lead wire from the light emitting part (16) is drawn out, the lamp (8) being attached to the lamp house (6) in a state where the light emitting part (16) is accommodated in the lamp house (6) and the base end portion (18) is exposed to the outside of the lamp house (6), a housing (2) having an internal space and a ventilation port (24, 32) for taking air into the internal space from outside of the internal space and exhausting the air from the internal space, and accommodating the lamp house (6) in the internal space in a manner that the lamp house (6) and the base end portion (18) of the lamp (8) are located on a flow path of the air flowing through the internal space, a fan (12, 12?) provided so as to form a flow of the air in the internal space of the housing (2), and a heater (10, 10?) for heating the air taken into the internal space of the housing (2) are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240391364
    Abstract: The vehicle seat device has a rotation device provided between a floor and a seat cushion to rotatably support the seat cushion relative to the floor. The rotation device comprises a base portion provided on the floor; a rotatable portion provided on the seat cushion and rotatably supported by the base portion; an electric actuator for rotating the rotatable portion with respect to the base portion; and a rotation lock device for selectively prohibiting rotation of the rotatable portion with respect to the base portion. The rotation lock device is configured to be manually switched between a locked state and a released state. The electric actuator is configured to allow rotation of the rotatable portion with respect to the base portion when the rotation lock device is released and electric power is not supplied to the electric actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Haruki MOCHIZUKI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Takayoshi KATORI, Masato WATANABE, Tsukasa MEGURO, Yoichi TACHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240328932
    Abstract: Provided are a light source (2) that emits light to be applied to a sample, a spectroscopic element (12) that disperses the light from the sample for each wavelength; and a light receiver (14) in which light receiving elements for detecting light of each wavelength dispersed by the spectroscopic element (12) are arranged, the light receiver (14) having a surface in direct with a filter layer (16) that shields high-order diffracted light from the spectroscopic element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12078624
    Abstract: A spectrophotometer (40) includes a sample placement unit (422) in which a sample to be analyzed is placed, a light source unit (411, 412) including a plurality of light sources that irradiates the sample placed in the sample placement unit (422) with light, a detection unit (425) that detects light emitted from the sample (422), a housing (41, 42) that accommodates the sample placement unit (422), the light source unit (411, 412), and the detection unit (425), a storage unit (71) in which information of a temperature value predetermined for each combination of one or a plurality of light sources among the plurality of light sources is stored, a light source designation accepting unit (721) that accepts designation related to a combination of one or a plurality of light sources among the plurality of light sources, a target temperature setting unit (722) that reads a temperature value corresponding to the combination of light sources accepted by the light source designation accepting unit from the storage uni
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Yonekura, Masato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11933772
    Abstract: An absorbance detector for a chromatograph includes a light source, a flow cell that receives light generated by the light source, a photodetector that detects light transmitted through the flow cell, a light shield member that shields at least part of the light generated from the light source to the flow cell, a motor that rotates the light shield member to change the light shield member between a light-shielding state where the light shield member shields at least part of the light generated from the light source to the flow cell and a non-light-shielding state where the light shield member does not shield the light generated from the light source to the flow cell, and a reference position detector that rotates the motor and also acquires a change in amount of light received by the photodetector to detect a reference position of the light shield member in a rotation direction of the light shield member based on the acquired change in the amount of the received light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Yonekura, Masato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11835742
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor device including: a sensor unit that emits light and receives light reflected by an object; and a reflection mirror that is a columnar reflection mirror having a reflection surface on a side face and is configured to be rotated on an axis of the reflection mirror as a rotation axis, in which at least a part of the reflection surface forms a logarithmic spiral having the center at the rotation axis in a cross section perpendicular to the rotation axis, and when light emitted from the sensor unit and reflected by the reflection surface moves in parallel in response to rotation of the reflection mirror, the light reflected by the reflection surface is swept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi, Masato Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230066238
    Abstract: Provided are a motor drive device that reduces the likelihood of mounting error during manufacture, and a method for manufacturing the same. The motor drive device is provided with: a substrate; a first mounting region for mounting first circuit component; a second mounting region for mounting a second circuit component; a first pair of connection points for connecting a first connecting wire member, constituting a first path for supplying electric current to the first circuit component, onto the substrate such that at least a part of the first connecting wire member overlaps the second mounting region; and a second pair of connection points for connecting second connecting wire member, constituting a second path for supplying electric current to the second circuit component, onto the substrate such that at least a part of the second connecting wire member overlaps the first mounting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Masato WATANABE, Taku SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11585924
    Abstract: A spatial recognition device provided with an analysis unit configure to acquire, from an optical device, which is mounted on a moving body and which receives reflected light obtained by radiating light onto a reflective plate provided on a stationary structure positioned within a detection area, reflected light information obtained based on the reflected light in accordance with a radiation direction of the light, and determine a positional relationship between the moving body and the stationary structure on which the reflective plate is provided, based on a distribution of the reflected light information at coordinates within the detection area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi, Masato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11579296
    Abstract: A spatial recognition device provided with an analysis unit configured to acquire, from an optical device which receives reflected light obtained by radiating light onto a reflective plate provided on a moving body positioned within a detection area, reflected light information obtained based on the reflected light in accordance with a radiation direction of the light, and analyze a state of the moving body on which the reflective plate is provided, based on a distribution of the reflected light information at coordinates within the detection area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi, Masato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11568360
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a product registration apparatus including an information acquisition unit that determines a placement position of a product having a placing table surface side to which product information is attached and acquires the product information attached to the product, and an output unit that outputs information indicating at least one of the placement position of the product from which the product information can be acquired and the placement position of the product from which the product information cannot be acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi, Masato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11505104
    Abstract: Disclosed is a seat including: a seat back; a seat cushion; and a reclining device that couples the seat back to the seat cushion in a swingable manner in one and another directions, wherein the reclining device includes: a locking mechanism that locks and unlocks swinging movement of the seat back; a biasing member that biases the seat back in one direction so as to swing the seat back in the one direction when the locking mechanism is unlocked; and a switching mechanism that switches a biasing direction of the biasing member for the seat back to another direction in a middle of the swinging movement of the seat back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11480553
    Abstract: A detector includes a light source configured to emit measurement light, a flow cell incorporating a cell channel through which a sample solution flows inside, a photodetector configured to detect light from the flow cell, an optical system configured to guide light from the light source to the flow cell and guide light from the flow cell to the photodetector, and a flow cell accommodating part configured to cover the flow cell so as to spatially separate the flow cell from the optical system. Of the side surfaces of the flow cell accommodating part, the side surfaces facing the light incident surface and the light exit surface of the flow cell are formed from wall surfaces made of a light transmissive material, or sealed by a light transmissive plate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11403471
    Abstract: A delivery monitoring device includes: a reading unit that reads a tag signal transmitted by a tag signal transmission device, the tag signal transmission device being attached to a package located in a vicinity of the delivery monitoring device; an acquisition unit that acquires position information indicating a position of the delivery monitoring device; and a transmission unit that transmits management information including the tag signal and the position information, to a delivery management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi, Masato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11323060
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes: a converter configured to convert alternating current power of an AC source into direct current power; an inverter configured to convert the direct current power in a DC link into alternating current power for motor driving by the switching device being subjected to ON/OFF control, a DC link voltage detection unit configured to detect a DC link voltage, a DC link voltage determination unit configured to determine whether the DC link voltage exceeds a voltage threshold value, an alarm signal output unit configured to output an alarm signal in an abnormal condition; and a switching control unit configured to perform ON/OFF control on the switching device, and, when the alarm signal is output and the DC link voltage exceeds the voltage threshold value, the switching control unit performs control in such a way as to turn on all the switching device of a lower arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Hironao Tanouchi, Naoki Masuda, Masato Watanabe, Hirokazu Nagai
  • Publication number: 20220091077
    Abstract: An absorbance detector for a chromatograph includes a light source, a flow cell that receives light generated by the light source, a photodetector that detects light transmitted through the flow cell, a light shield member that shields a least part of the light generated from the light source to the flow cell, a motor that rotates the light shield member to change the light shield member between a light-shielding state where the light shield member shields at least part of the light generated from the light source to the flow cell and a non-light-shielding state where the light shield member does not shield the light generated from the light source to the flow cell, and a reference position detector that rotates the motor and also acquires a change in amount of light received by the photodetector to detect a reference position of the light shield member in a rotation direction of the light shield member based on the acquired change in the amount of the received light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Takuya YONEKURA, Masato WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220042956
    Abstract: A spectrophotometer (40) includes a sample placement unit (422) in which a sample to be analyzed is placed, a light source unit (411, 412) including a plurality of light sources that irradiates the sample placed in the sample placement unit (422) with light, a detection unit (425) that detects light emitted from the sample (422), a housing (41, 42) that accommodates the sample placement unit (422), the light source unit (411, 412), and the detection unit (425), a storage unit (71) in which information of a temperature value predetermined for each combination of one or a plurality of light sources among the plurality of light sources is stored, a light source designation accepting unit (721) that accepts designation related to a combination of one or a plurality of light sources among the plurality of light sources, a target temperature setting unit (722) that reads a temperature value corresponding to the combination of light sources accepted by the light source designation accepting unit from the storage uni
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Takuya YONEKURA, Masato WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11223194
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes: a main power conversion circuit that converts power that is supplied from a power supply into alternating current power for driving a motor, and outputs the alternating current power; a counter electromotive force protection circuit including a rectifier unit that rectifies alternating current power based on counter electromotive force of the motor and outputs direct current power, a short-circuit unit that short-circuits terminals on a direct current output side of the rectifier unit, and an alarm signal output unit that outputs an alarm signal at occurrence of an abnormality; a monitoring unit that monitors whether the alarm signal is output from the alarm signal output unit; and a protection operation unit that performs a protection operation for preventing damage to the main power conversion circuit when the monitoring unit determines that the alarm signal is output from the alarm signal output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Hironao Tanouchi, Naoki Masuda, Masato Watanabe, Hirokazu Nagai
  • Patent number: 11188871
    Abstract: A wireless tag system includes: a tag signal antenna configured to receive a tag signal transmitted from a wireless transmission tag; and a communication area shaping antenna configured to transmit a reception area shaping signal for narrowing an area in which the tag signal antenna can communicate with the wireless transmission tag, wherein the tag signal antenna and the communication area shaping antenna are arranged for each prescribed product unit in a group of products that are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi, Masato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11175218
    Abstract: A flow cell includes a cell into which a liquid to be measured is introduced and is arranged so that a measurement light to be used for measuring an optical characteristic of the liquid enters one side of the cell and exits from the other side of the cell, an inlet for leading the liquid to flow into the cell, and an outlet for leading the liquid in the cell to flow out from the cell. The inlet and the outlet are provided to form an interface between a liquid flowing into the cell through the inlet and a liquid with which the cell has been already filled at two places on an optical path of the measurement light passing through the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Watanabe