Patents by Inventor Shinya Watanabe

Shinya 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: 20240134192
    Abstract: An image projection system in which a projection image is easier to see. An image projection system includes an image projection device which emits projection light that is linearly polarized light; a screen which is irradiated with the projection light emitted from the image projection device; and a light absorption anisotropic layer which is disposed between the image projection device and the screen and through which the projection light passes, the light absorption anisotropic layer contains a dichroic substance, and a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer is in a direction toward the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi YOSHINARI, Naoya SHIBATA, Shinya WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240128619
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery includes a positive electrode layer including a positive electrode active material layer and a positive electrode current collector; a negative electrode layer including a negative electrode active material layer and a negative electrode current collector; a solid electrolyte layer; and an insulating film, in which the insulating film has therein a through-hole in which a laminate in which the positive electrode active material layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the negative electrode active material layer are sequentially stacked is housed, the laminate and the insulating film are arranged between the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector, and an external shape of the insulating film is larger than external shapes of the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector when viewed in a plan view in a laminating direction of the laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya WATANABE, Wen MA
  • Publication number: 20240125994
    Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic film that, when being applied to an image display device, it is easy to control a region where visibility is high and a region where visibility is low and viewing angle controllability is more excellent, an optical film, and an image display device. The light absorption anisotropic film contains a dichroic substance and a liquid crystal compound, in which the light absorption anisotropic film has a plurality of regions having different directions of transmittance central axes in an in-plane direction of the light absorption anisotropic film, in the plurality of regions, all angles ? between the transmittance central axes and a normal direction of a surface of the light absorption anisotropic film are in a range of 0° to 70°, and any of a specific requirement 1, a specific requirement 2, or a specific requirement 3 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru HOSHINO, Shinichi YOSHINARI, Shinya WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240112860
    Abstract: An electronic component includes: a first internal electrode which is provided inside an element body and is drawn on a first main surface corresponding to a mounting surface; a second internal electrode which is provided inside the element body, is provided at a position different from the first internal electrode when viewed from a third direction, and is drawn on the first main surface; a third internal electrode which is provided inside the element body, is provided at a position facing the first internal electrode and the second internal electrode in the third direction, and is drawn on the first main surface; wherein the first internal electrode and the third internal electrode face each other in the third direction to form a first capacitor portion, and wherein the second internal electrode and the third internal electrode face each other in the third direction to form a second capacitor portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki HAYAKAWA, Yoshitaka NAGASHIMA, Yasuhiro OKUI, Shinya SAITO, Yasuo WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240112863
    Abstract: An electronic component includes: a first internal electrode provided in an element body; a second internal electrode provided in the element body; a third internal electrode provided in the element body and drawn out to a first side surface; and a fourth internal electrode provided in the element body and drawn out to a second side surface. The third internal electrode and the fourth internal electrode are electrically connected to each other through an external connection conductor formed on at least the first side surface and the second side surface. In a first direction, the first internal electrode faces the third internal electrode without facing the second internal electrode and the fourth internal electrode. In the first direction, the second internal electrode faces the fourth internal electrode without facing the first internal electrode and the third internal electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi WATANABE, Yasuhiro OKUI, Yoshitaka NAGASHIMA, Shinya SAITO, Yasuo WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11949257
    Abstract: A controller executes an equalization process of equalizing capacities of a plurality of cells, and a cell abnormality determination process of, of detected voltages of the plurality of cells, calculating a voltage difference between a representative voltage based on the detected voltage of at least one cell to be compared and the detected voltage of one cell to be detected at a first time and a second time, and when a difference between the two voltage differences is greater than or equal to a threshold value, determining that the cell to be detected is abnormal. In the case of executing the cell abnormality determination process during the equalization process, the controller provides the detected voltage of a target cell to be subjected to the equalization process with a compensation value corresponding to a voltage change based on energy transfer in the target cell due to the equalization process between the first time and the second time, and calculates the voltage difference at the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Itakura, Changhui Yang, Shinya Nishikawa, Tohru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240091247
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an inhibitor against the stem cells of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of CML having preventive effect on CML recurrence, a method of preventing CML recurrence, and a method of assessing the efficacy of treatment with a drug in a patient with CML, including a step of determining the expression level of latexin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki Kurahashi, Shinya Kimura, Tatsuro Watanabe, Yuta Yamamoto, Hiroshi Ureshino, Kazuharu Kamachi
  • Publication number: 20240075537
    Abstract: A tool driving device for cutting includes a spindle and an electric motor. A user carries the tool driving device by hand to use the tool driving device. The spindle has a holder for holding a tool for the cutting. The holder is disposed at a distal portion of the spindle. The electric motor rotates the spindle. A thrust bearing is attached to a housing of the electric motor. The spindle is contacted to the thrust bearing so that cutting resistance in a rotation axis direction of the spindle, transmitted from the tool to the spindle, is applied to the thrust bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Ryohei ONO, Masao WATANABE, Tatsuo NAKAHATA, Shinya MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20240075536
    Abstract: A tool driving device for hole processing includes a spindle, an electric motor, a guide, an electric actuator, a sensor and a controller. The spindle has a holder for holding a tool for the hole processing. The holder is disposed at a distal portion of the spindle. The electric motor rotates the spindle. The guide has a positioning member for positioning the tool driving device to the workpiece. The electric actuator advances and retreats the spindle relatively to the guide in a rotation axis direction of the spindle. The sensor measures cutting resistance transmitted from the tool to the spindle. The controller is configured to control the electric motor and the electric actuator based on the cutting resistance measured by the sensor so that a rotating speed and a feeding speed of the spindle become a rotating speed and a feeding speed according to the cutting resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Ryohei ONO, Masao WATANABE, Tatsuo NAKAHATA, Shinya MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20240066675
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a tool driving device includes a drill chuck, a motor, a casing and a vibrating mechanism. The drill chuck holds a drill. The motor is configured to rotate the drill chuck. The casing houses the motor. The vibrating mechanism is configured to periodically reciprocate the drill chuck relatively to the casing in a tool axis direction during rotation of the drill chuck. The vibrating mechanism is configured to distance the drill chuck from the casing at a first speed smaller than a second speed for bringing the drill chuck close to the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei ONO, Masao WATANABE, Tatsuo NAKAHATA, Shinya MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20240069264
    Abstract: Provided is a laminate capable of reducing a change in hue of a reflected image in the surroundings (for example, window glass) from an original image, suppressing a hue shift of particularly the reflected image to redness, and suppressing the reflected image from being conspicuous, a reflection prevention system including this laminate, and an image display device including this laminate. The laminate includes a polarizer having an absorption axis in an in-plane direction, a light absorption anisotropic layer containing a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic substance, and a linear polarization conversion layer, in which an angle between a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal line of a layer plane of the light absorption anisotropic layer is 0° or greater and 45° or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi YOSHINARI, Naoyoshi YAMADA, Naoya NISHIMURA, Shinya WATANABE, Naoya SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 11913998
    Abstract: Provided is a controller configured: to calculate, among voltages detected from a plurality of cells, a voltage difference between the voltage detected from one cell of the plurality of cells, the one cell to be detected, and a representative voltage at each of a first time and a second time, the representative voltage based on the voltage detected from at least one cell of the plurality of cells, the at least one cell to be compared; and when a discrepancy between the voltage difference at the first time and the voltage difference at the second time is equal to or more than a threshold, to determine that an abnormality has occurred in the one cell to be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Itakura, Changhui Yang, Shinya Nishikawa, Tohru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11908648
    Abstract: A switch includes: a first stationary contact having a first stationary contact point; a second stationary contact having a second stationary contact point; a movable contact having a first movable contact, and a second movable contact point; a first magnet pair defined by magnets having surfaces facing each other, the magnets of the first magnet pair being disposed with the first stationary contact point and the first movable contact point therebetween in such a manner that the magnets of the first magnet pair become farther from each other outwardly; and a second magnet pair defined by magnets having surfaces facing each other, the magnets of the second magnet pair being disposed with the second stationary contact point and the second movable contact point therebetween in such a manner that the magnets of the second magnet pair become farther from each other outwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuki Hotta, Shinya Watanabe, Takashi Inaguchi, Katsutoshi Ikarashi
  • Publication number: 20230417971
    Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic film that displays a bright, clear image in a desired direction and makes the image invisible from other than the desired direction using an image display device, a viewing angle control system formed of the light absorption anisotropic film, and an image display device formed of the light absorption anisotropic film. The light absorption anisotropic film includes a light absorption anisotropic layer that contains a liquid crystal compound and an organic dichroic substance, where an angle between an alignment direction of a light absorption axis of the organic dichroic substance on one surface and on the other surface of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal line of the light absorption anisotropic layer is defined as ?A and ?B, a difference between the angle ?A and the angle ?B is 15° or less, and the angle ?A is 5° or greater and less than 45°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi YOSHINARI, Shinya WATANABE, Naoya SHIBATA, Wataru HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 11850674
    Abstract: Provided is a spot welding method by which welding can be performed successfully while inhibiting occurrence of expulsion. First to third metal plates W1 to W3 were welded in which a ratio of a total thickness to a thickness of the first metal plate W1 is 7. In Example 1, a peak current value A1 is 14.6 kA, an effective current value A2 is 7.8 kA, a peak duration T1 is 0.1 ms, and a no-peak duration T2 is 5.9 ms. As a result, a lower limit current value A3 is 6.9 kA, an upper limit current value A4 is 8.42 kA, a difference A5 between A4 and A3 is 1.52 kA, T2/T1 is 59.0, A2/A1 is 0.53, and rising time T3/falling time T4 is 0.53, furthermore, no expulsion occurs, and a welding result was determined to be OK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Watanabe, Hitoshi Saito, Xihao Tan, Shinyu Hirayama
  • Publication number: 20230382670
    Abstract: Provided is a sheet folding apparatus including: a stacking unit configured to be stacked with a paper stack; a feeding roller configured to come into contact with a surface of the uppermost sheet of the paper stack and feed sheets in a feeding direction; and a sheet separating mechanism configured to separate the uppermost sheet of the paper stack from the remaining sheets. The sheet separating mechanism has a suction unit that sucks and pulls the uppermost sheet of the paper stack upward in upstream in a feeding direction and an injection mechanism that separates the uppermost sheet from the remaining sheets by injecting air toward a predetermined region including an end face in upstream in the feeding direction of the paper stack including the uppermost sheet. The injection mechanism has a rotary injection unit configured to inject air to change a first injection direction oriented to the predetermined region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Shinya WATANABE, Kazuyuki FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230384498
    Abstract: Provided is an optically anisotropic film, an optical film, and a display device, which have a high contrast and excellent light fastness. The optically anisotropic film includes a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic substance, in which the liquid crystal compound is vertically aligned, the dichroic substance forms an arrangement structure, and in a case where, in a cross section observed with a scanning transmission electron microscope, a length of a major axis of the arrangement structure is defined as L, and a length of a minor axis of the arrangement structure is defined as D, 16 or more arrangement structures satisfying L?30 nm are observed per 40 ?m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru HOSHINO, Madoka KAWAI, Shinya WATANABE, Takuya INOUE, Kengo SAITO, Naoya NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11819975
    Abstract: A workpiece processing apparatus which coats a front surface of a workpiece with a resin, the workpiece having devices formed in regions demarcated by a plurality of planned dividing lines formed in a lattice pattern. The workpiece processing apparatus includes a cassette mounting base mounted with a cassette housing a plurality of workpieces, a resin coating unit that coats the front surface of the workpiece with the resin, a resin curing unit that cures the resin by applying an external stimulus to the coated resin, a resin grinding unit that flattens the cured resin by grinding the cured resin by a rotating grinding stone, and a conveying mechanism that conveys the workpiece between the units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Watanabe, Ichiro Yamahata, Katsuhiko Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230332048
    Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic film, an optical film, and a liquid crystal display device, with less defects and a high alignment degree even when the concentration of a dichroic substance is increased. The light absorption anisotropic film is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal compound, a dichroic substance represented by Formula (C-1), a dichroic substance represented by Formula (C-2), in which a total content of the dichroic substances represented by Formula (C-1) and Formula (C-2) is 4.5% by mass or greater with respect to a total mass of a solid content of the liquid crystal composition, and the liquid crystal compound is vertically aligned. When Ra1 and Ra2 represent the same group, —N(Rb11)(Rb12) and —N(Rb21)(Rb22) are groups different from each other. When Ra1 and Ra2 represent different groups, —N(Rb11)(Rb12) and —N(Rb21)(Rb22) may be groups that are the same as or different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru HOSHINO, Naoya NISHIMURA, Shinya WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230311234
    Abstract: A spot welding method includes supplying a welding current having a pulse-shaped waveform to a workpiece by alternately executing a step of maintaining the welding current within a set peak current range and a step of decreasing the welding current from the peak current range toward a bottom current and then increasing the welding current toward the peak current range when an effective value of the welding current reaches a set target range for a plurality of cycles. The spatter detection method includes measuring a pulse width IW(1), IW(2), . . . in each cycle of the pulse-shaped waveform and detecting the occurrence of spatter when a pulse width difference D(M)=IW(M)?IW(M?1) between a pulse width IW(M) in a target cycle (M-th cycle) and a pulse width IW(M?1) in a cycle immediately before the target cycle exceeds a width threshold value Dth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki TOYODA, Xihao TAN, Hitoshi SAITO, Shinya WATANABE