Patents by Inventor Shiro Watanabe
Shiro 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: 11964402Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11947723Abstract: Provided is a decoding device including a decoding unit configured to decode a plurality of pieces of encoded data on the basis of encoding method information that has been received, received bitstream data including the plurality of pieces of encoded data in which a plurality of segments of a tactile signal has been respectively encoded, in which the encoding method information includes information indicating in which encoding method of a plurality of encoding methods the respective segments of the tactile signal have been encoded, the plurality of encoding methods includes a simple tactile encoding method corresponding to a simple tactile signal related to a beginning segment of the tactile signal, the plurality of pieces of encoded data includes simple tactile encoded data in which the simple tactile signal has been encoded in the simple tactile encoding method, and the decoding unit decodes the simple tactile encoded data, in a case where the encoding method information indicates the simple tactile encodiType: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hirofumi Takeda, Shuichiro Nishigori, Takuma Domae, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Shiro Suzuki, Takahiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 11926067Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11919168Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of transport robots that is travelable autonomously in a facility. The robot control system: acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot; acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot; determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information; and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Taira, Shiro Oda, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma
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Patent number: 11914397Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that can autonomously move in a facility. The robot control system acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot, acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot, determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information, and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11914363Abstract: A mobile robot receives first transmission information transmitted from a server device to manage the mobile robot in a state where wireless communication with the server device is possible, directly executes wireless communication with another mobile robot among the mobile robots and executes a reception process of receiving the first transmission information transmitted from the server device to manage the mobile robot from the other mobile robot in a case where wireless communication with the server device is not possible.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 9327582Abstract: The present invention is aimed to provide a working machine provided with: a condenser unit including a condenser of an air conditioner and a cooling fan for cooling the condenser, the condenser unit being disposed in a side of a cabin; and a protection cover covering above the condenser unit, capable of reducing propagation to an operator side of an air intake sound caused by inhalation of air in the protection cover through an air intake vent when the cooling fan causes a wind. In this working machine, each of air intake vents for taking cooling air into the protection cover is formed in an upper surface side of the protection cover and in each of wall parts oriented in a direction opposite to a direction visible from an operator in the cabin.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Matsumiya, Kiyoshi Matsui, Shiro Watanabe, Junichi Fujiwara, Tsukasa Haraguchi
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Publication number: 20130255911Abstract: The present invention is aimed to provide a working machine provided with: a condenser unit including a condenser of an air conditioner and a cooling fan for cooling the condenser, the condenser unit being disposed in a side of a cabin; and a protection cover covering above the condenser unit, capable of reducing propagation to an operator side of an air intake sound caused by inhalation of air in the protection cover through an air intake vent when the cooling fan causes a wind. In this working machine, each of air intake vents for taking cooling air into the protection cover is formed in an upper surface side of the protection cover and in each of wall parts oriented in a direction opposite to a direction visible from an operator in the cabin.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke MATSUMIYA, Kiyoshi MATSUI, Shiro WATANABE, Junichi FUJIWARA, Tsukasa HARAGUCHI
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Patent number: 8436047Abstract: To provide a preventive or ameliorating agent for liver diseases associated with hepatopathy comprising an omega-9 unsaturated fatty acid as an active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2005Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Suntory Holdings LimitedInventors: Yoshiyuki Ishikura, Hiroshi Kawashima, Tomohito Hamazaki, Shiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20100198120Abstract: A control section (50) of a chair-type massage machine (1) is configured so that air cells (7c) press the area around the lumbar of the user supported on a backrest section (3) to push up the area in conjunction with the backward tilting of the backrest section (3) performed using an actuator (37).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2008Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: Family Co. LTdInventors: Mitsunori Tago, Tomoharu Fukuda, Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Shiro Watanabe, Koji Goto
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Patent number: 7717868Abstract: Disclosed is a chair-type massaging apparatus that is capable of massaging lower legs freely and precisely in pressing angles or pressing positions with a user seated therein and allows the user to assume a desired posture without interference. The chair-type massaging apparatus of the present invention typically includes a leg rest including a support portion configured to support lower legs of a user, and massaging portions configured to protrude and retract to press the lower legs of the user. The support portion includes protrusible portions that is mounted on both sides in the rightward and leftward direction and is protrusible to rise up inward in the rightward and leftward direction and is retractable. The massaging portions are mounted on the protrusible portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2004Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Family Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Mitsunori Tago, Shiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20070144465Abstract: A structure of layout of parts around a radiator reducing the effects of heat due to the radiator, that is, a structure of layout of parts around a radiator provided with a radiator provided with an inflow part and an outflow part of a heat exchange medium flowing through the inside at two sides in a substantially horizontal direction, an engine arranged at a rear of the radiator, an exhaust pipe arranged at a rear side of the engine, and an intake duct connected with the engine and having an intake port introducing outside air, the intake duct being arranged at a side closer to the outflow part than the inflow part, whereby the ambient temperature of the intake duct can be reduced and the temperature of the engine intake air can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2006Publication date: June 28, 2007Applicant: DENSO CorporationInventor: Shiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20070016119Abstract: Disclosed is a chair-type massaging apparatus that is capable of massaging lower thighs freely and precisely in pressing angles or pressing positions with a user seated therein and allows the user to assume a desired posture without interference. A chair-type massaging apparatus (1) of the present invention comprises a leg rest (4) including a support portion (7) configured to support lower thighs (22) of a user, and massaging portions (8) configured to protrude and retract to press the lower thighs (22) of the user. The support portion (7) includes protrusible portions (9) that is mounted on both sides in the rightward and leftward direction and is protrusible to rise up inward in the rightward and leftward direction and is retractable. The massaging portions (8) are mounted on the protrusible portions (9).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2004Publication date: January 18, 2007Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Mitsunori Tago, Shiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20060217442Abstract: To provide a preventive or ameliorating agent for liver diseases associated with hepatopathy comprising an omega-9 unsaturated fatty acid as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2005Publication date: September 28, 2006Applicant: SUNTORY LIMITEDInventors: Yoshiyuki Ishikura, Hiroshi Kawashima, Tomohito Hamazaki, Shiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 5235811Abstract: A control change system for a backhoe in a construction vehicle, comprising a plurality of pilot valves for generating a pilot pressure corresponding to operations of a first and a second control levers, respectively, and a hydraulic switching unit for relaying the pilot pressure from the pilot valves and supplying the pilot pressure to a plurality of control valves. This switching unit includes a plurality of slidable spools for supplying the pilot pressure from the pilot valves selectively to the control valves. The control system further includes a first and a second switching members for selectively sliding the plurality of slidable spools. The first switching member is operable to select the swing cylinder or the hydraulic motor to be controlled by a shift in one direction of the first control lever. The second switching member is operable to switch interlocks between the first and second control levers and a boom cylinder and an arm cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1992Date of Patent: August 17, 1993Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi Arii, Shiro Watanabe, Kazuhiko Tsuji, Kiyoshi Matsui
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Patent number: 5125232Abstract: A control change system for a hydraulic working vehicle having a plurality of hydraulic actuators operable by control levers each shiftable to a plurality of control positions. This system includes a plurality of pilot-operated control valves for controlling pressure oil supply to the hydraulic actuators, respectively, pilot pressure generating valves for generating a pilot pressure in accordance with the control positions of the control levers, and a pilot pressure switching unit for receiving the pilot pressure from the pilot pressure generating valves and outputting the pilot pressure selectively to the control valves. The pilot pressure switching unit includes a plurality of spools slidable to change communicating passages between a pilot pressure input section and a pilot pressure output section of the switching unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1991Date of Patent: June 30, 1992Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi Arii, Shiro Watanabe, Kazuhiko Tsuji
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Patent number: 4968513Abstract: The phosphorus-reduced cow milk of the invention contains a reduced proportion of phosphorus of 1.0 g to 2.0 g per 100 g of protein in the cow milk, the weight ratio of phosphorus to calcium being 1:2, nearly the same as that of human milk. The ratio is most adequate for calcium absorption and is suitable as food for kidney-disease patients with reduced calcium-absorbing function, persons of old age and hyperphosphatemia patients. Moreover, the phosphorus-reduced cow milk of the invention in which only phosphorus component is selectively removed and none of other component is lost maintains the value of cow milk as perfect food.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1989Date of Patent: November 6, 1990Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shiro Watanabe, Hiroshi Nakashima
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Patent number: 4026795Abstract: Method for the regeneration of an activated carbon having adsorbates adsorbed therein characterized by removing the adsorbates by liquid dimethyl ether or a mixture of liquid dimethyl ether and water. By such method, the spent carbon can be effectively regenerated without degrading the absorption capacity and mechanical strength thereof. Further, valuable substances in the desorbed adsorbates can be effectively concentrated and recovered by a simple additional operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1975Date of Patent: May 31, 1977Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshige Okamoto, Shiro Watanabe, Katsumi Yuasa, Mitsuo Takano, Itaru Fukinbara, Nobumitsu Yano
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Patent number: 3975181Abstract: A novel herbicidal composition for combating the undesired vegetation of perennial weeds of Cyperaceae and Gramineae comprising as active ingredients at least one of the herbicidal compounds having contact acute phytotoxicity and at least one of the herbicidal compounds having translocated chronic phytotoxicity and being selected from the group consisting of fluoropropionic acids of the formula: ##EQU1## wherein X is fluorine or chlorine, and their salts and amides with an inert carrier.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1973Date of Patent: August 17, 1976Assignee: Daikin Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shiro Watanabe, Keiichi Maruo, Hiroshi Ono
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Patent number: D517338Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2004Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Family Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Shiro Watanabe