Patents by Inventor Shigeyuki Watanabe

Shigeyuki 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: 20240002700
    Abstract: The invention provides a thermal adhesive laminated oriented film containing a substrate layer comprising a resin composition containing 99.9 to 60% by mass of a polyamide resin or a polymethylpentene resin and 0.1 to 40% by mass of a modified polyolefin resin; and a thermal adhesive layer containing a thermal adhesive polyolefin resin and provided on each of both surfaces of the substrate layer so as to be in direct contact therewith by coextrusion. When a machine direction is defined as an X axis, a transverse direction is defined as a Y axis, and a thickness direction is defined as a Z axis, the film is stretched and oriented in at least one direction of the X axis or the Y axis, and has a thermal deformation rate at 150° C. of 4% or less in both directions of the X axis and the Y axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka TANAKA, Shigeyuki WATANABE, Nobuhiro YOSHIMURA, Ryo UMEKI, Takafumi MASUDA, Daiki FUNAOKA
  • Patent number: 11708488
    Abstract: The invention provides a polyester composition in which the primary repeating units contain an aromatic dicarboxylic acid component (Component A) and an ethylene glycol component (Component C) and a long-chain alkyl dicarboxylic acid component having not less than 6 carbons (Component B) or a long-chain alkyl diol component having not less than 6 carbons (Component D), wherein a sum (WB+WD) of a relative amount (WB) of Component B as calculated based on a total number of moles of Component A and Component B plus a relative amount (WD) of Component D as calculated based on a total number of moles of Component C and Component D are within a range of 2-13 mol %. The invention also provides a polyester film prepared from the polyester composition and having excellent dimensional stability, as well as a magnetic recording medium utilizing the polyester film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Amane Hirose, Junichi Togasaki, Makoto Handa, Tatsuya Ogawa, Shigeyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11681037
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a lamp chamber, an automatic operation marker lamp unit, and a sensor device. The lamp chamber includes a lamp body and an outer lens, and the automatic operation marker lamp unit and the sensor device are integrated in the lamp chamber. The automatic operation marker lamp unit informs surroundings that a vehicle is being driven automatically, and a sensor device detects information around the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Tezuka, Yuichi Watano, Shigeyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11508074
    Abstract: An input interface is configured to receive at least one sensor signal corresponding to information of the exterior of the vehicle sensed by at least one sensor. A processor is configured to, based on the sensor signal, generate: a first data corresponding to first information sensed in a first area; and a second data corresponding to second information sensed in a second area located outside the first area. An output interface is configured to output the first data and the second data independently from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Watanabe, Yuichi Watano
  • Publication number: 20220293971
    Abstract: The invention provides a laminated body for fuel cell having an outer peripheral shape corresponding to an outer peripheral shape of a fuel battery cell and including a resin substrate film and a heat seal layer disposed on each of both surfaces of the resin substrate film, wherein the resin substrate film has a storage elastic modulus of 2,000-8000 MPa, an average thickness of 30-300 ?m, a maximum value T1max and a minimum value T1min of a thickness of the resin substrate film that satisfies the relationship of T1max?T1min?12 ?m, and a maximum value T2max and a minimum value T2max of an average value of thicknesses of the resin substrate film that satisfies the relationship of T2max?T2min?6 ?m, and wherein the heat seal layer has an average thickness of 25-100 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro KURAGAKI, Ai KOGANEMARU, Yoshitaka TANAKA, Shigeyuki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11252338
    Abstract: A left infrared camera module includes a left infrared irradiation unit configured to emit infrared toward a left side region of a vehicle, a left infrared camera configured to acquire infrared image data indicative of a surrounding environment in the left side region of the vehicle, and a control unit configured to control an operation of the left infrared irradiation unit. The control unit is configured to change an intensity of the infrared to be emitted from the left infrared irradiation unit, in correspondence to a condition relating to a traveling state of the vehicle. The left infrared camera module configured as described above can detect the surrounding environment in the side region of the vehicle without causing an uncomfortable feeling to other vehicle, a pedestrian and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Muramatsu, Shigeyuki Watanabe, Masaaki Sato, Akinobu Kubota
  • Publication number: 20220014650
    Abstract: A left infrared camera module provided in a vehicle includes: a left infrared emitting unit configured to emit infrared rays toward an outside, and a left infrared camera configured to acquire infrared image data indicating a surrounding environment of the vehicle. The left infrared emitting unit and the left infrared camera are mounted on a left C-pillar of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao MURAMATSU, Shigeyuki WATANABE, Masaaki SATO, Akinobu KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20210349247
    Abstract: The invention provides a multilayer laminated film with alternately laminated birefringent and isotropic layers. The birefringent layers have a first monotonically increasing region of optical thickness and contain monotonically increasing region 1A of maximum optical thickness is 100 nm or less, and monotonically increasing region 1B of minimum optical thickness of more than 100 nm, and ratio 1B/1A of slope 1B of monotonically increasing region 1B to slope 1A of monotonically increasing region 1A is 0.8 or more and less than 1.5. The isotropic layers have a second monotonically increasing region of optical thickness and contain monotonically increasing region 2A of maximum optical thickness of 200 nm or less and monotonically increasing region 2B of minimum optical thickness of more than 200 nm, and ratio 2B/2A of slope 2B of monotonically increasing region 2B to slope 2A of monotonically increasing region 2A is more than 1.5 and less than 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dai NAKAGAWA, Nobuyuki NAKANISHI, Shigeyuki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210349249
    Abstract: The invention provides a multilayer laminated film with alternately laminated birefringent and isotropic layers. The birefringent layers have a first monotonically increasing region of optical thickness and contain monotonically increasing region 1A of maximum optical thickness is 100 nm or less, and monotonically increasing region 1B of minimum optical thickness of more than 100 nm, and ratio 1B/1A of slope 1B of monotonically increasing region 1B to slope 1A of monotonically increasing region 1A is more than 0 and less than 0.8. The isotropic layers have a second monotonically increasing region of optical thickness and contain monotonically increasing region 2A of maximum optical thickness of 200 nm or less and monotonically increasing region 2B of minimum optical thickness of more than 200 nm, and ratio 2B/2A of slope 2B of monotonically increasing region 2B to slope 2A of monotonically increasing region 2A is 0.8 or more and 1.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dai NAKAGAWA, Nobuyuki NAKANISHI, Shigeyuki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210341354
    Abstract: A sensor system (100) is equipped with a light emitting element that emits detecting light (L1), a translucent cover (120) that allows passage of the detecting light (L1), and a scanning mechanism that changes an emitting direction of the detecting light (L1) at least in a first direction (D1). A light receiving device (210) is equipped with a plurality of inspection light receiving elements (211a to 211g) arranged at least along the first direction, and adapted to be disposed on an optical path of the detecting light (L1) that has passed through the translucent cover (120). An inspection processor (220) is configured to output a determination result (R) as to whether an abnormality is present in the translucent cover (120) on the basis of a determination as to whether each of the inspection light receiving elements (211a to 211g) has normally received the detecting light (L).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki WATANABE, Yuichi WATANO, Shunsuke OKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210332233
    Abstract: The invention provides a polyester composition in which the primary repeating units contain an aromatic dicarboxylic acid component (Component A) and an ethylene glycol component (Component C) and a long-chain alkyl dicarboxylic acid component having not less than 6 carbons (Component B) or a long-chain alkyl diol component having not less than 6 carbons (Component D), wherein a sum (WB+WD) of a relative amount (WB) of Component B as calculated based on a total number of moles of Component A and Component B plus a relative amount (WD) of Component D as calculated based on a total number of moles of Component C and Component D are within a range of 2-13 mol %. The invention also provides a polyester film prepared from the polyester composition and having excellent dimensional stability, as well as a magnetic recording medium utilizing the polyester film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Amane HIROSE, Junichi TOGASAKI, Makoto HANDA, Tatsuya OGAWA, Shigeyuki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210229638
    Abstract: A camera unit is configured to capture an image of an outside area of a vehicle. A translucent cover covers the camera unit. A first air cleaner is configured to jet gas toward an area on the translucent cover located within an angle of view of the camera unit. The first cleaner is located above the area in an up-down direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi WATANO, Shigeyuki WATANABE, Akinobu KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 10955553
    Abstract: A sensor system mounted on a vehicle includes: a first sensor configured to acquire information on a first area outside the vehicle; a second sensor configured to acquire information on a second area that partially overlaps with the first area outside the vehicle; and a controller configured to change an information acquisition rate of the first sensor and an information acquisition rate of the second sensor, in which when the information acquisition rate of one of the first sensor and the second sensor falls below a predetermined value, the controller increases the information acquisition rate of the other sensor to be higher than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Watano, Shigeyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10912176
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp has a roof unit. The roof unit includes a plurality of types of light output units having different illumination functions, a light emission drive unit configured to cause the plurality of types of light output units to output lights, and a monitoring sensor. The roof unit is arranged at a roof part of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Masuda, Shigeyuki Watanabe, Hajime Takeda, Akihito Horikawa, Masaaki Nakabayashi, Yusuke Nakada, Osamu Endo
  • Patent number: 10836305
    Abstract: A marker lamp system includes a sensor configured to detect information around a vehicle, a projector configured to project an image onto a road surface around the vehicle, a controller configured to control the projector based on a detecting result of the sensor, and a marker lamp having a light emitting area surrounding the sensor and the projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Tezuka, Yuichi Watano, Shigeyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200209385
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a lamp chamber, an automatic operation marker lamp unit, and a sensor device. The lamp chamber includes a lamp body and an outer lens, and the automatic operation marker lamp unit and the sensor device are integrated in the lamp chamber. The automatic operation marker lamp unit informs surroundings that a vehicle is being driven automatically, and a sensor device detects information around the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Nobutaka Tezuka, Yuichi Watano, Shigeyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200207258
    Abstract: A marker lamp system includes a sensor configured to detect information around a vehicle, a projector configured to project an image onto a road surface around the vehicle, a controller configured to control the projector based on a detecting result of the sensor, and a marker lamp having a light emitting area surrounding the sensor and the projector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Nobutaka Tezuka, Yuichi Watano, Shigeyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200195831
    Abstract: A left infrared camera module includes a left infrared irradiation unit configured to emit infrared toward a left side region of a vehicle, a left infrared camera configured to acquire infrared image data indicative of a surrounding environment in the left side region of the vehicle, and a control unit configured to control an operation of the left infrared irradiation unit. The control unit is configured to change an intensity of the infrared to be emitted from the left infrared irradiation unit, in correspondence to a condition relating to a traveling state of the vehicle. The left infrared camera module configured as described above can detect the surrounding environment in the side region of the vehicle without causing an uncomfortable feeling to other vehicle, a pedestrian and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Muramatsu, Shigeyuki Watanabe, Masaaki Sato, Akinobu Kubota
  • Patent number: 10487414
    Abstract: A surface treatment system includes a surface treatment tank, a first guide rail and a second guide rail that extend at a position offset from a position over the upper opening of the surface treatment tank, and a plurality of transfer jigs that respectively hold a workpiece and are supported by the first guide rail and the second guide rail. The transfer jig includes a horizontal arm section, a first guide target section that is guided by the first guide rail, a second guide target section that is guided by the second guide rail, and a vertical arm section that is suspended from the horizontal arm section at a position between the first guide target section and the second guide target section, and holds the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: ALMEX PE INC.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Noda, Shigeyuki Watanabe, Katsumi Ishii
  • Publication number: 20190353783
    Abstract: A sensor system mounted on a vehicle includes: a first sensor configured to acquire information on a first area outside the vehicle; a second sensor configured to acquire information on a second area that partially overlaps with the first area outside the vehicle; and a controller configured to change an information acquisition rate of the first sensor and an information acquisition rate of the second sensor, in which when the information acquisition rate of one of the first sensor and the second sensor falls below a predetermined value, the controller increases the information acquisition rate of the other sensor to be higher than the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yuichi Watano, Shigeyuki Watanabe