Patents by Inventor Shingo Watanabe
Shingo 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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Publication number: 20240140132Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus for enclosing an enclosure in an envelope includes an envelope conveyance path, an enclosure supplier, an envelope supplier, a flap opener, and an envelope stacker. The envelope conveyance path extends in a substantially vertical direction to convey the envelope. The enclosure supplier supplies the enclosure to the envelope via the envelope conveyance path. The envelope supplier supplies the envelope to the envelope conveyance path, The flap opener opens a flap portion of the envelope between the envelope supplier and the envelope conveyance path. The envelope stacker stacks the envelope ejected from the envelope conveyance path.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyoshi SUZUKI, Michitaka SUZUKI, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Makoto HIDAKA, Akira KUNIEDA, Takahiro WATANABE, Takuya MORINAGA, Takahiro MATSUDA, Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Shinji ASAMI, Kazuyoshi MATSUO
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Patent number: 11970019Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus that inserts an enclosure into an envelope includes an envelope conveyor, a flap opener, an enclosure pusher, and circuitry. The envelope conveyor extends in a vertical direction and conveys the envelope to an enclosing position via an envelope conveyance passage as a passage in which the envelope is conveyed. The flap opener opens a flap of the envelope. The enclosure pusher pushes the enclosure toward an opening of a body of the envelope conveyed to the enclosing position with the flap open. The circuitry changes a pushing amount of the enclosure into the envelope and adjusts the pushing amount based on the opening of the body of the envelope within a specified range from an inside to an outside of the body of the envelope.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Michitaka Suzuki, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Takahiro Matsuda, Atsushi Shinoda, Shingo Yoshizawa, Takahiro Watanabe, Takuya Morinaga
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Publication number: 20240129962Abstract: A base station apparatus, configured to establish a wireless link for a backhaul line with a relay apparatus, and provide a first period in which a radio resource is used by the base station apparatus for the backhaul line, and a second period in which the radio resource is not used by the backhaul line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki TAKEDA, Xiao SHAO, Yasutomo MIYAKE, Shingo WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240123654Abstract: Provided is a separation and recovery apparatus for continuously separating and recovering, from a resin mixture containing a resin containing a hydrolyzable polymer and a resin containing a nonhydrolyzable polymer, a hydrolytic component a of the hydrolyzable polymer A and the nonhydrolyzable polymer B, the apparatus including: a crushing unit that crushes the resin mixture a melting/discharging unit that melts a crushed product obtained by the crushing unit to form a fluid and discharges the fluid at a high pressure; and a hydrothermal reaction treatment unit that continuously subjects the fluid discharged from the melting/discharging unit to a hydrothermal reaction treatment, wherein, in the melting/discharging unit, the hydrolyzable polymer A is hydrolyzed, and the hydrolytic component a thereof is dissolved and transferred into water permeating a sintered alloy diaphragm, thereby separating the nonhydrolyzable polymer B.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOPPAN INC.Inventors: Masaru WATANABE, Aritomo YAMAGUCHI, Osamu SATO, Yuuma IRISA, Akira TAKAMA, Kousuke NISHIMURA, Hiroki KUJIRAOKA, Hideki MIYAZAKI, Keita AKIMOTO, Takuya TAKAHATA, Daisuke KUGIMOTO, Shingo KOUDA, Satoshi HAMURA, Takahiro IMAI, Yumiko OMORI, Manabu KAWA
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Patent number: 11961871Abstract: A display device with high resolution is provided. Manufacturing cost of a display device using a micro LED as a display element is reduced. The display device includes a substrate, a plurality of transistors, and a plurality of light-emitting diodes. The plurality of light-emitting diodes are provided in a matrix over the substrate. Each of the plurality of transistors are electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of light-emitting diodes. The plurality of light-emitting diodes are positioned closer to the substrate than the plurality of transistors are. The plurality of light-emitting diodes emit light to the opposite side of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Kusunoki, Shingo Eguchi, Yosuke Tsukamoto, Kazunori Watanabe, Kouhei Toyotaka
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Publication number: 20240088734Abstract: A stator includes: an A-phase coil, wound around four of 12 teeth and supplied with an A-phase current; a B-phase coil, wound around another four of the 12 teeth and supplied with a B-phase current; a C-phase coil, wound around yet another four of the 12 teeth and supplied with a C-phase current. The A-phase coil includes a transition part extending along the cylindrical part on an axial side between the teeth spaced apart in the circumferential direction. The B-phase and C-phase coils each include a transition part extending along the cylindrical part on another axial side between the teeth spaced apart in the circumferential direction. The turns of the first A-phase coil are one turn fewer than the turns of the first B-phase coil and the turns of the first C-phase coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: MITSUBA CorporationInventors: Shingo WATANABE, Keiichi Hosoi, Satoshi Itabashi
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Publication number: 20240075767Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus conveys an envelope to an enclosing position and encloses an enclosure on which specific information is formed at a formation position. The enclosing device includes: an envelope conveyor to convey the enclosure to the enclosing position to insert the enclosure into the envelope; a sensor to acquire, as an image, a structure of the envelope during conveyance, and acquire transparent-portion information indicating a position of a transparent portion in the envelope; an envelope holder to hold the envelope in a state in which the enclosure is insertable; and control circuitry to output position adjustment information for adjusting a position of the envelope in a width direction of the envelope at the enclosing position or a position of the specific information in a conveyance direction of the envelope, based on relative positions between the formation position of the specific information and the position of the transparent portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Michitaka SUZUKI, Nobuyoshi SUZUKI, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Takahiro MATSUDA, Atsushi SHINODA, Takahiro WATANABE, Takuya MORINAGA
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Patent number: 11919325Abstract: An enclosing-sealing apparatus includes a flap opener that opens a flap of an envelope while the envelope is conveyed to an enclosing position. A first envelope detector is disposed upstream from the flap opener in an envelope conveyance direction and detects both ends of the envelope in the envelope conveyance direction. A second envelope detector is disposed downstream from the flap opener in the envelope conveyance direction and detects both ends of the envelope in the envelope conveyance direction in an open state in which the flap opens. A controller determines the open state of the flap based on a first detection result sent from the first envelope detector and a second detection result sent from the second envelope detector. The controller performs troubleshooting for enclosing the enclosure into the envelope if the controller determines that the open state of the flap is faulty.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Kunieda, Michitaka Suzuki, Shinji Asami, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Takahiro Matsuda, Makoto Hidaka, Kazuyoshi Matsuo, Shingo Yoshizawa, Takahiro Watanabe, Takuya Morinaga
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Patent number: 11913367Abstract: There is provided an exhaust gas purifying catalyst including a substrate and catalyst portions. The substrate includes an inflow-side cells, outflow-side cells, and porous partition walls, each partition wall separating the inflow-side cell from the outflow-side cell. The catalyst portion includes: (group A) first catalyst portions, each first catalyst portion being provided on a surface of the partition wall that faces the inflow-side cell on an upstream side in an exhaust gas flow direction; and (group B) second catalyst portions being provided on a surface of the partition wall that faces the outflow-side cell on a downstream side in the exhaust gas flow direction. Each catalyst portion of one of group A and group B includes at least one oxidizing catalyst layer and at least one reducing catalyst layer, and each catalyst portion of the other of group A and group B includes at least one oxidizing catalyst layer and/or at least one reducing catalyst layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Kurihara, Yusuke Nagai, Shingo Akita, Yoshinori Endo, Takeshi Mori, Takayuki Watanabe, Tomoko Tsuyama
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Patent number: 11877325Abstract: A base station apparatus, configured to establish a wireless link for a backhaul line with a relay apparatus, and provide a first period in which a radio resource is used by the base station apparatus for the backhaul line, and a second period in which the radio resource is not used by the backhaul line.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Takeda, Xiao Shao, Yasutomo Miyake, Shingo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20230214554Abstract: Improved reservoir simulation methods and systems are provided that employ a new velocity model in conjunction with a sequential implicit (SI) formulation or Sequential Fully Implicit (SF) formulation for solving the discrete form of the system of nonlinear partial differential equations. In embodiments, the new velocity model employs a fluid transport equation part based on calculation of phase velocity for a number of fluid phases that involves capillary pressure and a modification coefficient. In embodiments, the modification coefficient can be based on a derivative of capillary pressure with respect to saturation. In another aspect, the new velocity model can employ an estimate of the phase velocity of the water phase vw_est that is based on one or more derivatives of capillary pressure of the water phase as a function of water saturation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Zhuoyi Li, Antonina Kozlova, Shingo Watanabe, Kyrre Bratvedt, Jostein Natvig, Matei Tene
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Publication number: 20230119861Abstract: A subsurface representation may define subsurface configuration of a subsurface region. A grid connectivity graph for the subsurface representation may include (1) nodes that represent cells within the subsurface representation, and (2) edges between the nodes that represent connectivity between the cells within the subsurface representation. The grid connectivity graph may be filtered to remove edges that do not satisfy a connectivity criterion. The filtered grid connectivity graph may be used to compute a linear solver preconditioner that improves the performance of the subsurface simulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Shingo Watanabe, Jostein Natvig, Pavel Tomin
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Patent number: 11585192Abstract: A method includes obtaining a reservoir model for a subsurface reservoir, identifying a current state of the subsurface reservoir using the reservoir model, and a computer processor selecting an optimization function from multiple optimization functions according to the current state of the reservoir to obtain a selected optimization function. The method further includes the computer processor calculating valve positions of physical devices using the selected optimization function. The valve positions are implemented.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Trevor Graham Tonkin, Shingo Watanabe, Matthew Worthington, Mohamed Osman Mahgoub Ahmed
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Publication number: 20220408404Abstract: A terminal apparatus judges whether or not a first timing of paging relating to a first base station apparatus and a second timing of paging relating to a second base station apparatus coincide with each other, transmits, if it is judged that the first and second timings coincide with each other, a predetermined notification regarding a timing of paging to at least one of the first and second base station apparatuses, and changes, on the basis that the predetermined notification has been transmitted, the timing of paging of the base station apparatus to which the predetermined notification has been transmitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Hiroki TAKEDA, Shingo WATANABE, Jun OOTANI
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Publication number: 20220345983Abstract: A relay apparatus for wirelessly relaying communication between a base station apparatus and a terminal apparatus determines, when a connection destination apparatus of wireless connection in a relay path is changed while being connected to a first base station apparatus via a relay path, whether a base station apparatus connected via the changed connection destination apparatus is the first base station apparatus or a second base station apparatus different from the first base station apparatus, and executes, when the base station apparatus connected via the changed connection destination apparatus is the second base station apparatus, first setting concerning a relay path after the change, and executing, when the base station apparatus connected via the changed connection destination apparatus is the first base station apparatus, second setting different from the first setting and concerning a relay path after the change.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Hiroki TAKEDA, Shingo WATANABE
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Patent number: 11474858Abstract: Systems, computer-readable media, and methods for performing a reservoir simulation by obtaining reservoir data; translating the reservoir data into grid properties to create a grid; dividing the grid into domains; generating coarse grids corresponding to each domain; processing the domains, where processing a domain includes: calculating pressure for the domain using a coarse grid corresponding to the domain, calculating flux for the domain using a coarse grid corresponding to the domain, and calculating transport of fluids for the domain using a coarse grid corresponding to the domain; and generating a reservoir simulation corresponding to the grid based on processing each domain. The domains can be processed in parallel on different computer systems, different processors, or different cores.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Antonina Kozlova, Jostein Natvig, Dominic Walsh, Kyrre Bratvedt, Sindhu Chittireddy, Zhuoyi Li, Shingo Watanabe
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Patent number: 11423786Abstract: A management device is configured to acquire a flight-schedule time/date, a flight-start position, and a flight-end position with respect to a flight device, to determine a plurality of base stations based on the flight-start position and the flight-end position, to estimate allocatable radio resources, which are allocated to the flight device at the flight-schedule time/date by each of the base stations, according to the history information of the communication status of the base stations, to compare allocatable radio resources to the flight device with necessary radio resources scheduled to be used for a communication of the flight device, and to thereby set a flight route of the flight device over a cell of a base station which provides allocatable radio resources to the flight device larger than necessary radio resources scheduled to be used for the communication of the flight device.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Xiao Shao, Hiroki Takeda, Shingo Watanabe
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Patent number: 11401973Abstract: A thrust roller bearing includes a plurality of radially arranged rollers, and a pair of annular washers having raceway surfaces on which the rollers roll. The raceway surfaces are arranged to face each other. The roller is made of high-carbon chromium bearing steel and has a surface roughness of 0.01 to 0.10 in terms of Rvk and 0.01 to 0.08 in terms of Rk. At least one of the washers is made of carbon steel, surface compressive residual stress of the raceway surface is ?1400 MPa to ?1000 MPa, and Vickers hardness of surface of the raceway surface is 850 to 900.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Kokubun, Yoshihito Nakashima, Taizou Wakayama, Shingo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20220228466Abstract: Using a reservoir simulator, a reservoir model state is obtained. The reservoir model state is used to trace streamlines to obtain streamline trajectories and detect fluid fronts along the streamlines. Using the streamline trajectories, the streamlines are connected to wells. The streamlines are grouped for multiple granularity levels, into groups to obtain a grouping hierarchy. Through the granularity levels of the grouping hierarchy, fluid front time of flights are determined for the groups, and target flowrates assigned to completion devices based on the fluid front time of flights to obtain target flow rates. A completion design is presented that incorporates the target flowrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2019Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Shingo Watanabe, Frode Bratvedt, Matthew Worthington, Trevor Graham Tonkin
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Publication number: 20220174619Abstract: A radio communication apparatus makes it possible to prevent contents of communication from being intercepted. The radio communication apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate a first unique word based on operation time information of the radio communication apparatus before communication with a radio communication apparatus is started, and generate, for each radio frame, an ith unique word (i: an integer equal to or greater than two) based on an (i-1)th unique word when the communication is started, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit a first radio frame including the first unique word and an ith radio frame including the ith unique word to the radio communication apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Shingo WATANABE