Patents by Inventor Masayasu Watanabe
Masayasu 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: 11963313Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus having a simple structure suitable for an increase in screen size and a decrease in thickness. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a substrate, and a frame structure. The substrate has an outer circumference end face including a first end face part and a second end face part intersecting the first end face part at a first intersection, a first groove formed on the first end face part and extending in a first direction, and a second groove formed on the second end face part and extending in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventor: Masayasu Watanabe
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Patent number: 11938965Abstract: Vehicle allocation system includes an information provision apparatus, a first apparatus: control apparatus, and a user's second apparatus: user terminal apparatus. Processor of the information provision apparatus calculates a first driving plan for a vehicle in response to request information. When a second driving plan different from the first driving plan is calculated based on detection information acquired from the vehicle, the processor determines the cause of a change in the driving plan on the basis of the detection information. The processor transmits cause information including the cause to the user terminal apparatus. The user terminal apparatus presents the cause information on a display.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayasu Suzuki, Masahide Nakamura, Masaki Watanabe, Daisuke Saito
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Publication number: 20240015426Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, an actuator that comes into contact with a back surface of the display panel, and a woofer configured to generate a sound wave from behind the display panel toward the back surface of the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yoshinori Ikuma, Masayasu Watanabe, Toshihiko Masuda, Shigenori Sunaoshi, Ryosuke Seki, Tsutomu Enomoto
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Publication number: 20230418096Abstract: A supporting body is provided that is able to select a form of support to a display unit in accordance with a user's purpose or preference, an installation environment, or the like. The supporting body supports a display unit including a display section, a first mounting section, and a second mounting section to cause the display unit to stand on a placement surface in a first direction. The display section has a display surface that spreads in each of the first direction and a second direction, and the first mounting section and the second mounting section are disposed side by side in the first direction. The supporting body includes a first supporting unit that is formed detachably on the first mounting section, and a second supporting unit that is formed detachably on the second mounting section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kazunori Kawaguchi, Atsushi Tokumi, Masayasu Watanabe, Toshiaki Takahashi, Hiroaki Yokota, Takahiro Naito
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Publication number: 20230389194Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus having a simple structure suitable for an increase in screen size and a decrease in thickness. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a substrate, and a frame structure. The substrate has an outer circumference end face including a first end face part and a second end face part intersecting the first end face part at a first intersection, a first groove formed on the first end face part and extending in a first direction, and a second groove formed on the second end face part and extending in a second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventor: Masayasu WATANABE
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Patent number: 11683893Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a substrate, and a frame structure. The substrate has an outer circumference end face including a first end face part and a second end face part intersecting the first end face part at a first intersection, a first groove formed on the first end face part and extending in a first direction, and a second groove formed on the second end face part and extending in a second direction. The frame structure holds the display panel and the substrate, and has a cyclic frame part surrounding the substrate and the display panel, a first rib erected on a first part of the frame part, and a second rib erected on a second part of the frame part.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventor: Masayasu Watanabe
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Publication number: 20220078927Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a substrate, and a frame structure. The substrate has an outer circumference end face including a first end face part and a second end face part intersecting the first end face part at a first intersection, a first groove formed on the first end face part and extending in a first direction, and a second groove formed on the second end face part and extending in a second direction. The frame structure holds the display panel and the substrate, and has a cyclic frame part surrounding the substrate and the display panel, a first rib erected on a first part of the frame part, and a second rib erected on a second part of the frame part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Masayasu Watanabe
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Publication number: 20180283626Abstract: A light-emitting device is provided that has a light-emitting performance of higher grade, while achieving thickness reduction and an increased light-emitting area. The light-emitting device includes a base on which one or more light sources are provided, the base including a front surface and a rear surface; an optical sheet including an inner surface that faces the front surface of the base and an outer surface on side opposite to the base; one or more columnar members that stand on the base toward the optical sheet, the columnar members each including a top part that abuts on the inner surface of the optical sheet or is provided abuttable on the inner surface of the optical sheet; and one or more anchoring members that each couple the base and the optical sheet, the anchoring members each exhibiting elasticity in at least a portion thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masayasu Watanabe, Hiroki Asakawa, Kenji Kobayashi, Kenichi Nakaki, Nobuki Oshima
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Patent number: 7796772Abstract: A stand on which a flat panel display main body is placed has low-pitched sound speakers built therein and a speaker of the flat panel display main body and the low-pitched sound speakers of the stand are combined together to construct a powerful sound system with large sound volume. The low-pitched sound speakers are located at the back side of the flat panel display main body when the flat panel display main body is placed on the stand. In a flat panel display apparatus composed of the flat panel display main body having the speaker built therein and the stand supporting this flat panel display main body thereon, it is possible to easily realize a powerful sound system using the low-pitched sound speakers (woofers) without requiring any extra space.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Hitoshi Takahashi, Hiroyoshi Maeda, Eiji Amaya, Masayasu Watanabe
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Patent number: 7167358Abstract: In an information terminal apparatus 1 having a thin housing structure including at least a display (not shown), the information terminal apparatus being driven by batteries 102, a battery pack 10 to accommodate therein the batteries 102 includes a rotary support mechanism for rotating the battery pack 10 about the intermediate portion of the rear wall side 1d of this display so that the battery pack becomes freely openable and closable from the lower portion of the rear wall side 1d of this display, wherein the rotated battery pack 10 is used as a stand to enable this display to rise to the erect position and the battery pack 10 is directly exposed to the air.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2004Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuuki Iwasaki, Akira Sato, Masayasu Watanabe, Keisuke Kawamura
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Publication number: 20060008103Abstract: A stand on which a flat panel display main body is placed has low-pitched sound speakers built therein and a speaker of the flat panel display main body and the low-pitched sound speakers of the stand are combined together to construct a powerful sound system with large sound volume. The low-pitched sound speakers are located at the back side of the flat panel display main body when the flat panel display main body is placed on the stand. In a flat panel display apparatus composed of the flat panel display main body having the speaker built therein and the stand supporting this flat panel display main body thereon, it is possible to easily realize a powerful sound system using the low-pitched sound speakers (woofers) without requiring any extra space.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2005Publication date: January 12, 2006Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Hitoshi Takahashi, Hiroyoshi Maeda, Eiji Amaya, Masayasu Watanabe
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Publication number: 20040191614Abstract: In an information terminal apparatus 1 having a thin housing structure including at least a display (not shown), the information terminal apparatus being driven by batteries 102, a battery pack 10 to accommodate therein the batteries 102 includes a rotary support mechanism for rotating the battery pack 10 about the intermediate portion of the rear wall side id of this display so that the battery pack becomes freely openable and closable from the lower portion of the rear wall side 1d of this display, wherein the rotated battery pack 10 is used as a stand to enable this display to rise to the erect position and the battery pack 10 is directly exposed to the air.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuuki Iwasaki, Akira Sato, Masayasu Watanabe, Keisuke Kawamura
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Patent number: 4260356Abstract: A plastic resin cutting apparatus for cutting a plastic extruded from an extrusion opening provided in a flat surface of an extrusion block. The apparatus comprises a rotating shaft disposed substantially perpendicular to the surface of the extrusion block with its front end positioned opposite to said surface; a drive mechanism for rotating the rotating shaft; and a cutting tool interposed between the surface of the extrusion block and the front end of the rotating shaft and having formed at its front surface facing the surface of the extrusion block at least one cutting blade having a flat cutting edge. At least the front end portion of the rotating shaft is urged resiliently toward the surface of said extrusion block by the action of an elastic member such as a spring. The connection of the cutting tool to the shaft is a universal connection.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1980Date of Patent: April 7, 1981Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuo Fujiwara, Masayasu Watanabe, Mikio Yabumoyo, Takaaki Kanemori, Hiroshi Seo
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Patent number: 4019385Abstract: A noise-compensating circuit for an electromagnetic flowmeter in which the fluid to be metered is conducted through a flow tube having a pair of diametrically-opposed electrodes mounted thereon, the fluid intercepting an electro-magnetic field whereby a voltage is induced in the fluid which is transferred to the electrodes to produce a flow signal that is a function of flow rate. Noise resulting from asymmetry in the magnetic field as well as noise arising from the signal leads is eliminated by means including a loop coil symmetrically disposed with respect to the transverse axis passing through the electrodes, the loop coil being so connected that the error current induced therein acts to cancel out the noise components in the flow signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1975Date of Patent: April 26, 1977Assignee: Hokushin Electric Works, Ltd.Inventor: Masayasu Watanabe
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Patent number: 3977246Abstract: An electromagnetic flowmeter in which the fluid to be metered is conducted through a flow tube in which it intercepts a magnetic field, the voltage induced in the fluid being transferred to electrodes disposed at diametrically opposed points on the tube. In phase noise arising from asymmetry in the main magnetic fluxes as well as noise resulting from leakage magnetic fluxes are both compensated for by a unitary compensation system.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1975Date of Patent: August 31, 1976Assignee: Hokushin Electric Works, Ltd.Inventor: Masayasu Watanabe
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Patent number: 3965738Abstract: A magnetic flowmeter wherein liquid to be metered is conducted through a flow tube to intersect a transverse magnetic field produced by an electromagnet, the voltage induced in the fluid being transferred to a pair of electrodes mounted at diametrically opposed positions on the tube. The electromagnet is excited by DC power which is applied thereto periodically, this being effected by means of a switch interposed between the electromagnet and the DC power source. When DC excitation is cut off by the switch, the output voltage of the flowmeter is fed to a first hold circuit, whereas during the excitation period, both the flow signal and zero voltage are fed to a second hold circuit. The outputs from both hold circuits are fed to an amplifier whereby the held zero signal is subtracted from the total voltage of flow signal and zero voltage in order to eliminate zero error due to polarization.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1974Date of Patent: June 29, 1976Assignee: Hokushin Electric Works, Ltd.Inventor: Masayasu Watanabe