Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Watanabe
Masatoshi 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: 10625795Abstract: It is contemplated to arrange a plurality of operational levers without inviting complications of the arrangements or enlargement of the vehicle body, intensively for better operability between the driver's seat and one of the right and left rear fenders. In a riding work vehicle, a plurality of operational levers 25, 26 are disposed adjacent on the right and left sides between a driver's seat and one of right and left rear fenders 7. Of the plurality of operational levers 25, 26, an inner operational lever 25 disposed on the side of the driver's seat is displaceable in a front-rear direction of a vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Yoshida, Ayaka Nakabayashi, Daisuke Tomimatsu, Koji Masumoto, Koji Kajino, Isamu Morimoto, Kyosuke Tanaka, Yoshiaki Niimoto, Hiroo Fujimoto, Masatoshi Watanabe, Shinji Kato, Yutaka Inubushi, Tatsuyuki Kashimoto
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Patent number: 10419164Abstract: There is provided a control device configured to be periodically monitored by a monitoring device, which is connected in communication with the control device, through the communication, the control device. An acquisition unit configured to acquire a monitoring result of the monitoring device corresponding to the period. A determination unit configured to determine success or failure of the communication with the monitoring device, based on a change in the monitoring result acquired by the acquisition unit. A retransmission unit that, when it is determined by the determination unit that the communication has not been established, retransmits a recent transmission content transmitted to the monitoring device.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Masatoshi Watanabe, Mitsunari Miyamoto
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Patent number: 10370038Abstract: Contemplated are cost reduction and enhanced readiness of parts management related to right and left fenders. A work vehicle includes right and left fenders (16) each having a vertical plate member (18) covering an inner face of a traveling device from an inner side of a vehicle body and a top plate member (19) covering an upper portion of the traveling device (5) from above, wherein the top plate member (19) is configured to be front-rear symmetric, and each of the vertical plate member (18) and the top plate member (19) is configured to act as a right-left interchangeable member.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Hiroo Fujimoto, Masatoshi Watanabe, Takahiro Hisada
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Publication number: 20190176091Abstract: A first blood processing member 5U and a second blood processing member 5D are arranged in a first housing 2/U and a second housing 2/D, respectively. The first blood processing member 5U and the second blood processing member 5D are arranged in such a manner that inside filtration sections 5FI/U and 5FI/D face each other. A first blood chamber 2.1 is formed between the inside filtration sections 5FI/U and 5FI/D, and a second blood chamber 2.2 is formed between the inner periphery of the first housing 2/U and an outside filtration section 5FO/U and between the inner periphery of the second housing 2/D and an outside filtration section 5FO/D. A blood inlet port 7I communicates with the first blood chamber 2.1 (a blood inflow chamber 2IR), and a blood discharge port 7O communicates with the second blood chamber 2.2 (a blood outflow chambers 20R/U and 20R/D).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Masatoshi WATANABE, Shoichi GOTOH, Seiichi NAKAYA
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Patent number: 10316780Abstract: A controller of an air-fuel-ratio sensor includes a control unit, a voltage-abnormality detecting unit, and a short-circuit-abnormality detecting unit. The control unit controls a current and a voltage of a gas sensor element through a plurality of terminals connected with the gas sensor element. The voltage-abnormality detecting unit changes, when at least one of voltages of the plurality of terminals is out of a predetermined range, a voltage level of an output voltage. The short-circuit-abnormality detecting unit causes, when the voltage level of the output voltage changes from a first voltage into a second voltage, a control unit to perform for a predetermined time a protective operation that suppresses currents from the control unit to the plurality of terminals, and detects, when the voltage level of the output voltage is the second voltage after the protective operation is released, a short-circuit abnormality.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignees: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masatoshi Watanabe, Shigeto Umeyama, Motoki Komiya, Keisuke Kido, Chiharu Morisaki, Hiroto Miura
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Publication number: 20190157914Abstract: A transmission antenna includes a resonant capacitor and a transmitter coil coupled in series. The driver includes a bridge circuit structured to apply a driving voltage to the transmission antenna. A current sensor detects current IS flowing through the bridge circuit. A foreign object detector detects the current IS flowing through the bridge circuit while changing switching frequency of the bridge circuit and determines whether a foreign matter is present or absent based on a difference between two frequencies fH and fL giving current lower than a peak by a predetermined ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventor: Masatoshi WATANABE
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Patent number: 10291078Abstract: A transmission antenna includes a resonance capacitor and a transmission coil coupled in series. A driver includes a bridge circuit that applies a driving voltage to the transmission antenna. A current sensor detects a current IS that flows through the bridge circuit. A foreign object detector detects the current IS that flows through the bridge circuit while changing the switching frequency applied to the bridge circuit. The foreign object detector judges the presence or absence of a foreign object based on the detection result.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Watanabe, Tomoya Morinaga
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Publication number: 20180363630Abstract: The object of the present invention is to achieve a wind power generation device that reduces effects of a tower shadow. In order to solve the problem, the wind power generation device related to the present invention includes a nacelle that includes a generator, blades that are connected to the generator of the nacelle through a shaft, receive wind, and rotate, and a tower that is disposed upstream of the wind with respect to the blades and supports the nacelle in a vertical direction, in which the tower includes a first portion having a tubular structure standing up in the vertical direction from an installation base section of the tower, and a second portion connecting the first portion and the nacelle to each other and having a ventilating structure that allows some of wind from the upstream side of the wind to go through at a position where the blade overlaps with the tower.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2015Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Shigehisa FUNABASHI, Takahiko SAWADA, Masatoshi WATANABE, Hiromu KAKUYA
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Patent number: 10110066Abstract: A wireless power transmitter transmitting a power signal to a wireless power receiver, includes: a transmission antenna; an inverter circuit applying an AC driving signal to the transmission antenna; and a control circuit controlling the inverter circuit. The control circuit includes: a demodulator demodulating a control signal received by the transmission antenna from the wireless power receiver; a transmission power measurement part measuring transmission power to generate transmission power data; and a logic circuit that controls the inverter circuit based on power control data included in the control signal to change the transmission power, control the inverter circuit based on the control signal to be transmitted to the wireless power receiver to modulate the power signal, and perform foreign object detection by a power loss method based on transmission power data and reception power data included in the control signal. The logic circuit is configured to perform a calibration sequence.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Watanabe, Tomoya Morinaga
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Publication number: 20180273119Abstract: It is contemplated to arrange a plurality of operational levers without inviting complications of the arrangements or enlargement of the vehicle body, intensively for better operability between the driver's seat and one of the right and left rear fenders. In a riding work vehicle, a plurality of operational levers 25, 26 are disposed adjacent on the right and left sides between a driver's seat and one of right and left rear fenders 7. Of the plurality of operational levers 25, 26, an inner operational lever 25 disposed on the side of the driver' seat is displaceable in a front-rear direction of a vehicle body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2016Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: Kubota CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Yoshida, Ayaka Nakabayashi, Daisuke Tomimatsu, Koji Masumoto, Koji Kajino, Isamu Morimoto, Kyosuke Tanaka, Yoshiaki Niimoto, Hiroo Fujimoto, Masatoshi Watanabe, Shinji Kato, Yutaka Inubushi, Tatsuyuki Kashimoto
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Publication number: 20180234209Abstract: There is provided a control device configured to be periodically monitored by a monitoring device, which is connected in communication with the control device, through the communication, the control device. An acquisition unit configured to acquire a monitoring result of the monitoring device corresponding to the period. A determination unit configured to determine success or failure of the communication with the monitoring device, based on a change in the monitoring result acquired by the acquisition unit. A retransmission unit that, when it is determined by the determination unit that the communication has not been established, retransmits a recent transmission content transmitted to the monitoring device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Masatoshi WATANABE, Mitsunari MIYAMOTO
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Patent number: 10044226Abstract: A first oscillator is configured to be switchable between a disabled state and an oscillation state in which a first clock signal CLK1 having a first frequency is generated. A second oscillator oscillates at a second frequency that is lower than the first frequency, so as to generate a second clock signal. In (i) a power transfer phase in which electric power is transmitted to a wireless power receiving apparatus, a controller instructs the first oscillator to oscillate, and generates a first pulse signal for controlling a driver according to the first clock signal. In (ii) a selection phase in which the presence or absence of the wireless power receiving apparatus is detected, the controller generates a second pulse signal for controlling the driver at a predetermined time interval, which is measured based on the second clock signal, and during which the first oscillator is set to the disabled state.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: ROHM CO., LTDInventors: Masatoshi Watanabe, Takeshi Nozawa, Tatsuya Iwasaki, Manabu Miyata
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Patent number: 9929604Abstract: A transmission antenna includes a transmission coil, and transmits an electric power signal. A driver applies a driving signal to the transmission antenna. A first temperature sensor measures the temperature of the transmission coil, and generates a first temperature signal. A second temperature sensor measures the temperature of an interface surface on which an electronic device mounting a wireless power receiving apparatus is to be placed, and generates a second temperature signal. A control circuit controls the electric power signal according to the difference between the first temperature signal S11 and the second temperature signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Watanabe, Tomoya Morinaga
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Patent number: 9893568Abstract: A wireless power transmitter for transmitting a power signal to a wireless power receiver is disclosed. The transmitter includes a transmission antenna, an inverter circuit including a plurality of switches; and a control circuit configured to demodulate a control signal received by the transmission antenna from the transmitter and control the inverter circuit based on power control data included in the control signal. The control circuit is configured to select among a first, second and third mode. For example, in the first mode in which a first pair including first and second switches and a second pair including third and fourth switches are both complementarily switched at a duty ratio of 50%, and a phase difference of the first pair and the second pair is changed between a minimum value and a maximum value depending on a transmission power, and the inverter circuit performs a full-bridge operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Watanabe, Tomoya Morinaga
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Publication number: 20180023494Abstract: A controller of an air-fuel-ratio sensor includes a control unit, a voltage-abnormality detecting unit, and a short-circuit-abnormality detecting unit. The control unit controls a current and a voltage of a gas sensor element through a plurality of terminals connected with the gas sensor element. The voltage-abnormality detecting unit changes, when at least one of voltages of the plurality of terminals is out of a predetermined range, a voltage level of an output voltage. The short-circuit-abnormality detecting unit causes, when the voltage level of the output voltage changes from a first voltage into a second voltage, a control unit to perform for a predetermined time a protective operation that suppresses currents from the control unit to the plurality of terminals, and detects, when the voltage level of the output voltage is the second voltage after the protective operation is released, a short-circuit abnormality.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicants: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masatoshi WATANABE, Shigeto UMEYAMA, Motoki KOMIYA, Keisuke KIDO, Chiharu MORISAKI, Hiroto MIURA
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Publication number: 20180024093Abstract: A controller of an air-fuel-ratio sensor according to an embodiment includes a current supplying unit, a sweep processing unit, and an abnormality detecting unit. The current supplying unit supplies a current to the pump cell through a first terminal connected with the pump cell so as to control the pump cell. The sweep processing unit executes a sweeping process in which a predetermined voltage or a predetermined current is applied to the detection cell through a second terminal connected with the detection cell so as to change a voltage and a current of the detection cell. The abnormality detecting unit detects a short-circuited state between the first terminal and the second terminal on the basis of a fluctuation in a voltage or a current, generated by the sweeping process, of the first terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicants: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masatoshi WATANABE, Shigeto UMEYAMA, Satoshi NOGUCHI, Motoki KOMIYA, Keisuke KIDO, Hiroto MIURA
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Publication number: 20170366048Abstract: A transmission antenna includes a resonance capacitor and a transmission coil coupled in series. A driver includes a bridge circuit that applies a driving voltage to the transmission antenna. A current sensor detects a current IS that flows through the bridge circuit. A foreign object detector detects the current IS that flows through the bridge circuit while changing the switching frequency applied to the bridge circuit. The foreign object detector judges the presence or absence of a foreign object based on the detection result.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Masatoshi WATANABE, Tomoya MORINAGA
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Patent number: 9843197Abstract: A rectifier circuit rectifies a current that flows through a reception coil. A smoothing capacitor is connected to the output of the rectifier circuit. A judgment unit generates a notification signal that corresponds to a comparison result obtained by comparing the voltage VRECT across the smoothing capacitor with a predetermined threshold voltage at a judgment timing. The judgment timing is positioned after the start of reception of a signal from a power supply apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Inoue, Daisuke Uchimoto, Masatoshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 9787315Abstract: A control device according to an embodiment includes a driving unit that supplies, to a control target, a current or a voltage on which an Alternating-Current (AC) component is superimposed, an Analog-to-Digital (AD) converter, and an AD conversion controller. The AD conversion controller causes, in an AC cycle of the AC component, the AD converter to execute a first AD conversion in synchronization with a starting timing of the AC cycle, and then to execute second and subsequent AD conversions at predetermined time intervals in response to a trigger by an internal timer of the AD converter.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITEDInventors: Masatoshi Watanabe, Shigeto Umeyama, Masanori Akaza
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Patent number: 9698337Abstract: A piezoelectric ceramic includes: a metal oxide represented by General Formula (1); and 0.04 parts by weight or more and 0.36 parts by weight or less of Mn and 0.042 parts by weight or more and 0.850 parts by weight or less of Bi on a metal basis relative to 100 parts by weight of the metal oxide, wherein the piezoelectric ceramic includes a plurality of first crystal grains having a perovskite structure, and a plurality of second crystal grains provided at a grain boundary between the first crystal grains and having a crystal structure different from that of the first crystal grain, and the second crystal grain mainly contains at least one metal oxide selected from Ba4Ti12O27 and Ba6Ti17O40. (Ba1-xCax)a(Ti1-yZry)O3??(1) (where 0.09?x?0.30, 0.025?y?0.085, 0.986?a?1.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kanako Oshima, Masatoshi Watanabe, Tatsuya Suzuki, Mikio Shimada, Shinya Koyama, Yasushi Shimizu, Tatsuo Furuta, Hidenori Tanaka, Makoto Kubota, Jumpei Hayashi