Patents by Inventor Ryo Watanabe
Ryo 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: 8822825Abstract: The foamed electric wire with a conductor and a foamed insulation layer covering the conductor; the foamed insulation layer is obtained by kneading a base resin composed of a high melting point propylene-based resin having a melting point of 150° C. or higher with a master batch containing a thermally decomposing chemical foaming agent and a low melting point propylene-based resin having a melting point of 135° C. or lower and melting the low melting point propylene-based resin followed by foaming by inducing thermal decomposition of the thermally decomposing chemical foaming agent, and a compounding ratio of the low melting point propylene-based resin in the entire resin component formed of the high melting point propylene-based resin and the low melting point propylene-based resin is less than 20% by mass.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.Inventor: Ryo Watanabe
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Patent number: 8801568Abstract: Controlling a hybrid vehicle includes: reducing a rotation speed of a motor generator before a locking apparatus that locks the motor generator is switched from a disengaged condition to an engaged condition; starting to switch the locking apparatus to the engaged condition when the rotation speed decreases to a predetermined operation permission rotation speed; controlling the locking apparatus such that from the start of the switch to the engaged condition onward, the rotation speed decreases from the operation permission rotation speed to an engagement rotation speed with the motor generator in the engaged condition; and controlling the locking apparatus such that a decrease rate of the rotation speed when switching from the disengaged condition to the engaged condition in a low torque operation mode is higher than the decrease rate of the rotation speed when switching from the disengaged condition to the engaged condition in a high torque operation mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Hori, Hiroatsu Endo, Isao Sato, Hiroki Kuwamoto, Akihiro Sato, Ryo Watanabe
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Patent number: 8784073Abstract: A liquid pressure generating apparatus including a pump, and two one-way clutches arranged coaxially with the pump drive shaft in a line in the axial direction on the side of a first axial direction. The pump case includes a projecting portion projecting from the corresponding pump case. Inner races of the respective two one-way clutches are integrated with each other and form a common inner race. Outer races of the respective two one-way clutches are formed independently from each other and are driven respectively by pump driving members different from each other, and directions of restricted relative rotation with respect to the common inner race are identical to each other. The common inner race includes a coupling portion to be coupled to the pump driving shaft on the side of the first axial direction with respect to the projecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignees: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, NSK-Warner K. KInventors: Shinichi Nomura, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Atsushi Mori, Hironari Toyoda, Ryo Watanabe, Haruhisa Suzuki, Akira Iwano
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Publication number: 20140184823Abstract: A transmission apparatus transmits second metadata when it receives a second acquisition request of metadata (e.g., playlist) after the transmission apparatus has received a first acquisition request of the metadata. Segment data indicated by the second metadata to be acquirable by a reception apparatus includes not segment data already transmitted to the reception apparatus but segment data yet to be transmitted to the reception apparatus among segment data indicated by first metadata transmitted in response to the first acquisition request.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryo Watanabe
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Patent number: 8766096Abstract: The present invention discloses a production method of a foamed electric wire, whereby a foamed electric wire is obtained via a foamed insulation layer formation step of forming a foamed insulation layer on a conductor, wherein the foamed insulation layer formation step includes: a step of introducing a base resin into an extruding machine, a step of introducing a foaming agent into the extruding machine, and a step of extruding a mixture containing the base resin and the foaming agent from the extruding machine and forming the foamed insulation layer on the conductor, and wherein the resin contained in the mixture has a shear stress of 0.40 to 0.80 Mpa, and the base resin is a propylene-based resin.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.Inventor: Ryo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20140179488Abstract: Controlling a hybrid vehicle includes: reducing a rotation speed of a motor generator before a locking apparatus that locks the motor generator is switched from a disengaged condition to an engaged condition; starting to switch the locking apparatus to the engaged condition when the rotation speed decreases to a predetermined operation permission rotation speed; controlling the locking apparatus such that from the start of the switch to the engaged condition onward, the rotation speed decreases from the operation permission rotation speed to an engagement rotation speed with the motor generator in the engaged condition; and controlling the locking apparatus such that a decrease rate of the rotation speed when switching from the disengaged condition to the engaged condition in a low torque operation mode is higher than the decrease rate of the rotation speed when switching from the disengaged condition to the engaged condition in a high torque operation mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuo Hori, Hiroatsu Endo, Isao Sato, Hiroki Kuwamoto, Akihiro Sato, Ryo Watanabe
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Patent number: 8714940Abstract: A liquid pressure generating apparatus including a pump; and two one-way clutches arranged coaxially with the pump's drive shaft. Inner races of the respective two one-way clutches are integrated with each other to form a common inner race. Outer races of the respective two one-way clutches are formed independently from each other and are driven respectively by pump driving members different from each other. The common inner race includes a coupling portion coupled to the pump drive shaft and extending in the radial direction and a cylindrical body portion extending from the coupling portion in a second axial direction opposite from the first axial direction on the radially outside the pump drive shaft. The body portion includes a depression indented radially outward on an inner peripheral surface thereof. A lubricant supply portion for the depression is provided radially inside the depression.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignees: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, NSK-Warner K. KInventors: Shinichi Nomura, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Atsushi Mori, Hironari Toyoda, Ryo Watanabe, Masabumi Nishigaya, Akira Iwano
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Publication number: 20130264091Abstract: The present invention is an insulated wire provided with a conductor and an insulating layer that covers the conductor, wherein the insulating layer contains a propylene-based copolymer obtained by synthesis using a metallocene catalyst, and an antioxidant having a chemical structure that differs from a hindered phenol structure, and the antioxidant is incorporated at a ratio of not less than 0.01 parts by mass to less than 1.5 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the propylene-based copolymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventor: Ryo WATANABE
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Patent number: 8374779Abstract: A navigation device which stores a captured image of an area ahead of user in a moving direction after turning at an intersection and displays the captured image before turning at the intersection, includes: a first storage unit (HDD recording/playback unit 14) storing a map; a display unit (display unit 18); and a control unit (control unit 10) displaying the map on the display unit, and the navigation device further includes a second storage unit (HDD recording/playback unit 14) storing a captured image of an area to be entered after a turn is made at an intersection, and the control unit displays the captured image stored in the second storage unit on the display unit before a mobile body reaches the intersection.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2008Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Consumer Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Yuichi Abe, Ryo Watanabe, Kazuhiro Yamane, Tomoyuki Yoshimura, Tadashi Sakai, Toshiyuki Irie, Tomoaki Maeta, Kazuya Murakami
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Publication number: 20120282318Abstract: The present invention relates to a sheet for corneal transplants comprising corneal endothelial cells on a gelatin hydrogel, which is obtainable by seeding and culturing corneal endothelial cells on a gelatin hydrogel coated with collagen. The sheet of the present invention is extremely useful as a sheet for corneal transplants not only for its biocompatibility and biodegradability, but also for its high transparency.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2010Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicants: KOYOTO UNIVERSITY, TOHOKU UNIVERSITYInventors: Kohji Nishida, Ryuhei Hayashi, Ryo Watanabe, Yasuhiko Tabata
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Publication number: 20120138332Abstract: The foamed electric wire of the present invention is provided with a conductor and a foamed insulation layer covering the conductor; the foamed insulation layer is obtained by kneading a base resin composed of a high melting point propylene-based resin having a melting point of 150° C. or higher with a master batch containing a thermally decomposing chemical foaming agent and a low melting point propylene-based resin having a melting point of 135° C. or lower and melting the low melting point propylene-based resin followed by foaming by inducing thermal decomposition of the thermally decomposing chemical foaming agent, and a compounding ratio of the low melting point propylene-based resin in the entire resin component formed of the high melting point propylene-based resin and the low melting point propylene-based resin is less than 20% by mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventor: Ryo WATANABE
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Patent number: 8191240Abstract: A method for winding a lead wire on a multi-winding electronic component is provided. The method can prevent winding slack of the lead wire, a break of the lead wire, and/or a terminal disconnection failure. A lead wire is wound around a winding core by a certain number of turns to form at least one first layer. Next, the lead wire is folded back toward an electrode, is pulled toward the electrode at an end-of-winding side so as to be across the second layer. Then, the lead wire is caught at a bottom part of the collar to form a final terminal part for boding to the electrode.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2011Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimitsu Ishido, Ryo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20120076674Abstract: A liquid pressure generating apparatus including a pump, and two one-way clutches arranged coaxially with the pump drive shaft in a line in the axial direction on the side of a first axial direction. The pump case includes a projecting portion projecting from the corresponding pump case. Inner races of the respective two one-way clutches are integrated with each other and form a common inner race. Outer races of the respective two one-way clutches are formed independently from each other and are driven respectively by pump driving members different from each other, and directions of restricted relative rotation with respect to the common inner race are identical to each other. The common inner race includes a coupling portion to be coupled to the pump driving shaft on the side of the first axial direction with respect to the projecting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., NSK-WARNER K. K, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichi NOMURA, Hiroshi YOSHIKAWA, Atsushi MORI, Hironari TOYODA, Ryo WATANABE, Haruhisa SUZUKI, Akira IWANO
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Publication number: 20120076675Abstract: A liquid pressure generating apparatus including a pump; and two one-way clutches arranged coaxially with the pump's drive shaft. Inner races of the respective two one-way clutches are integrated with each other to form a common inner race. Outer races of the respective two one-way clutches are formed independently from each other and are driven respectively by pump driving members different from each other. The common inner race includes a coupling portion coupled to the pump drive shaft and extending in the radial direction and a cylindrical body portion extending from the coupling portion in a second axial direction opposite from the first axial direction on the radially outside the pump drive shaft. The body portion includes a depression indented radially outward on an inner peripheral surface thereof. A lubricant supply portion for the depression is provided radially inside the depression.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., NSK-WARNER K. K, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichi NOMURA, Hiroshi YOSHIKAWA, Atsushi MORI, Hironari TOYODA, Ryo WATANABE, Masabumi NISHIGAYA, Akira IWANO
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Publication number: 20120010308Abstract: The present invention discloses a production method of a foamed electric wire, whereby a foamed electric wire is obtained via a foamed insulation layer formation step of forming a foamed insulation layer on a conductor, wherein the foamed insulation layer formation step includes: a step of introducing a base resin into an extruding machine, a step of introducing a foaming agent into the extruding machine, and a step of extruding a mixture containing the base resin and the foaming agent from the extruding machine and forming the foamed insulation layer on the conductor, and wherein the resin contained in the mixture has a shear stress of 0.40 to 0.80 Mpa, and the base resin is a propylene-based resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventor: Ryo WATANABE
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Publication number: 20120001741Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle-mounted electronic device provided with an input unit which designates a destination, an incident-prone area storage unit in which incident-prone area data is stored, a report unit, and a control unit, wherein incident occurrence rates in a plurality of time zones in each of areas or incident occurrence rates in a plurality of time zones in each of facilities within each of the areas are stored in the incident-prone area storage unit, and the control unit calculates the predicted time of arrival at the designated destination, and when detecting that the incident occurrence rate in the area in which the destination is located or the incident occurrence rate in the destination is a preset predetermined value or more in a time zone of a predetermined time period later than the calculated predicted time, causes the report unit to make a report.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Inventor: Ryo Watanabe
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Patent number: 8069357Abstract: A multi-processor control device according to an example of the invention comprises a cooperative control unit which determines priorities of requests issued from processors to a shared resource which are used to suppress a total power consumption of the processors within a range in which performance constraints of programs executed by the processors are satisfied, and determines a frequency of each of the processors so as to suppress the total power consumption within the range in which the performance constraint of the each program is satisfied, a first control unit which issues requests from the processors to the shared resource in accordance with priorities determined by the cooperative control unit, and a second control unit which controls the frequency of each of the processors in accordance with the frequency determined by the cooperative control unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Technology Academic Research CenterInventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Masaaki Kondo, Takashi Nanya, Ryo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20110257880Abstract: A vehicle-mounted electronic device according to the present invention includes: an input portion through which a destination is specified; an incident-prone area storage portion in which incident-prone area data is stored; an alarm notification portion; and a control portion, in which an incidence of incidents in each area or an incidence of incidents in each facility in each area is stored in the incident-prone area storage portion, and, when an incidence of incidents in an area where the specified destination is located or an incidence of incidents in a facility that is the specified destination is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the control portion makes the alarm notification portion provide an alarm notification.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2009Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicants: SANYO CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryo Watanabe, Takashi Kajitani
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Publication number: 20110203105Abstract: A method for winding a lead wire on a multi-winding electronic component is provided. The method can prevent winding slack of the lead wire, a break of the lead wire, and/or a terminal disconnection failure. A lead wire is wound around a winding core by a certain number of turns to form at least one first layer. Next, the lead wire is folded back toward an electrode, is pulled toward the electrode at an end-of-winding side so as to be across the second layer. Then, the lead wire is caught at a bottom part of the collar to form a final terminal part for boding to the electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2011Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshimitsu ISHIDO, Ryo WATANABE
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Publication number: 20100138153Abstract: A navigation device which stores a captured image of an area ahead of user in a moving direction after turning at an intersection and displays the captured image before turning at the intersection, includes: a first storage unit (HDD recording/playback unit 14) storing a map; a display unit (display unit 18); and a control unit (control unit 10) displaying the map on the display unit, and the navigation device further includes a second storage unit (HDD recording/playback unit 14) storing a captured image of an area to be entered after a turn is made at an intersection, and the control unit displays the captured image stored in the second storage unit on the display unit before a mobile body reaches the intersection.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2008Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: SANYO CONSUMER ELECTRICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Abe, Ryo Watanabe, Kazuhiro Yamane, Tomoyuki Yoshimura, Tadashi Sakai, Toshiyuki Irie, Tomoaki Maeta, Kazuya Murakami