Patents by Inventor Soichiro Watanabe
Soichiro 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: 20240123876Abstract: A conveyance seat capable of ensuring the rigidity of a reclining device and suppressing manufacturing cost includes a reclining device that rotatably connects a seat back to a seat cushion. The reclining device includes rotating shafts disposed on right and left sides in a seat width direction and serving as a rotation center of the seat back, and a connecting member having a plate shape, extending the seat width direction, and connecting the right and left rotating shafts. The connecting member includes a connecting body portion extending long in the seat width direction, and shaft attachment portions provided at extending end portions of the connecting body portion and used for attaching the rotating shafts. The shaft attachment portions have an open cross-sectional shape in which opening portions are formed on upper sides of the shaft attachment portions, and support extending portions of the rotating shafts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Hiroaki WADA, Hironori WATANABE, Soichiro KAMEI, Jinichi TANABE
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Publication number: 20240076600Abstract: Disclosed are cell culture vessels capable of preventing the deformation of the culture vessels in a manipulation of taking in/out a cell or replacing a culture medium and preventing over-time increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide or and temporal decrease of pH of the culture medium and over-time temporal decrease of pH of the culture medium in cell culture as advantageous effects, and further parallel filter connectors for configuring such cell culture vessels. The cell culture vessels have two types of filters in parallel so as to partition a gas phase inside the cell culture vessel and the outer air, and the parallel filter connectors for configuring the cell culture vessels have an opening to be connected to the body of the cell culture vessel, and two openings capable to be installed with each one of the two types of different filters.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Shunsuke WATANABE, Soichiro KUSANO
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Patent number: 11827727Abstract: A photo-alignment polymer has a repeating unit represented by Formula (1), in Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, X represents —O—, —S—, or —NR2—, in which R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, L1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, P represents a photo-aligned group, and A represents an acid-cleavage group which is decomposed by an action of acid to produce a polar groupType: GrantFiled: November 15, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Soichiro Watanabe, Yutaka Nozoe, Takashi Iizumi, Akio Tamura, Tomoaki Yokota, Keisuke Yoshimasa, Ayako Matsumoto
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Patent number: 11692050Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a photo-alignment copolymer capable of improving upper layer coatability after layer formation, a binder composition, a binder layer, an optical laminate, and an image display device. A photo-alignment copolymer according to the embodiment of the invention has a repeating unit A including a photo-alignment group, a repeating unit B including a crosslinkable group which causes a crosslinking reaction by the action of at least one selected from the group consisting of light, heat, an acid, and a base, and a repeating unit C including a cleaving group which decomposes by the action of at least one selected from the group consisting of light, heat, an acid, and a base to produce a polar group, and the repeating unit C has the cleaving group on a side chain, and has a group of atoms which is provided on a side closer to a terminal than the cleaving group on the side chain to be able to unevenly distribute the photo-alignment copolymer on an air interface side.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yutaka Nozoe, Takashi Iizumi, Soichiro Watanabe, Hideyuki Nishikawa, Kazushige Nakagawa, Kunihiro Atsumi
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Publication number: 20230167216Abstract: A photo-alignment polymer has a repeating unit represented by Formula (1), in Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, X represents —O—, —S—, or —NR2—, in which R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, L1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, P represents a photo-aligned group, and A represents an acid-cleavage group which is decomposed by an action of acid to produce a polar groupType: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Soichiro WATANABE, Yutaka NOZOE, Takashi IIZUMI, Akio TAMURA, Tomoaki YOKOTA, Keisuke YOSHIMASA, Ayako MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20230138456Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a binder composition in which air unevenness is suppressed and which has excellent upper layer coating properties after being formed as a layer, a compound, a binder layer, an optical laminate, an optical laminate manufacturing method, and an image display device. The binder composition of the present invention is a binder composition containing a binder and a compound having a group represented by Formula (B1) or (B2). In Formulae (B1) and (B2), Z represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having a fluorine atom or an organosiloxane group.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takashi IIZUMI, Soichiro WATANABE, Yutaka NOZOE, Kazushige NAKAGAWA, Kunihiro ATSUMI
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Publication number: 20230088847Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical laminate in which an optically anisotropic layer provided as an upper layer has good liquid crystal alignment properties, and a polarizing plate and an image display device using the optical laminate. An optical laminate of the present invention is an optical laminate including: a first optically anisotropic layer; and a second optically anisotropic layer, in which the first and second optically anisotropic layers are directly laminated, each of the first and second optically anisotropic layers consists of a liquid crystal layer, and a photo-alignment polymer having a photo-alignment group and at least one type of polar group selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group and a ketone group is present in a surface of the second optically anisotropic layer on a side in contact with the first optically anisotropic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kunihiro ATSUMI, Kazushige NAKAGAWA, Yutaka NOZOE, Takashi IIZUMI, Soichiro WATANABE
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Publication number: 20220179250Abstract: The present invention provides a photo-alignment polymer having excellent liquid crystal aligning properties, a binder composition, a binder layer, an optical laminate, an optical laminate manufacturing method, and an image display device. A photo-alignment polymer according to the embodiment of the present invention has a repeating unit having a photo-alignment group and a repeating unit having a group represented by Formula (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takashi IIZUMI, Soichiro WATANABE, Yutaka NOZOE, Kunihiro ATSUMI
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Publication number: 20220048544Abstract: A variable-gauge train control apparatus includes an inverter that collectively controls the torque of main motors; and a voltage control unit that controls an output voltage of the inverter. When at least one of axles to be driven by the main motors is within the gauge conversion section and at least one of the axles is located outside the gauge conversion section, the voltage control unit treats, as a reference frequency, a value obtained by conversion of an average value of rotational frequencies of the axles located outside the gauge conversion section into the electric angular frequencies of the main motors, and adds up a slip frequency command and the reference frequency to provide the frequency of the output voltage of the inverter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kyushu Railway CompanyInventors: Kohei FUJITANI, Shinsuke KADOI, Tsuyoshi MORIMITSU, Yuichi MIMURA, Soichiro WATANABE
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Publication number: 20210339633Abstract: A variable-gauge train control apparatus for a variable-gauge train having a gauge variable in a gauge conversion section includes: a plurality of main motors that transmits driving force to axles and wheels; a plurality of inverters that outputs voltage to at least one of the main motors; and voltage control units that control the individual output voltages of the plurality of inverters. Each of the voltage control units corresponds to one of the inverters and, when at least one of the axles to be subjected to the driving force controlled by the corresponding one inverter is within the gauge conversion section, controls the speed of the associated main motors by using, as a speed command value, a train speed converted into a rotational frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, KYUSHU RAILWAY COMPANYInventors: Kohei FUJITANI, Shinsuke KADOI, Tsuyoshi MORIMITSU, Yuichi MIMURA, Soichiro WATANABE
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Publication number: 20210292456Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a photo-alignment copolymer capable of improving upper layer coatability after layer formation, a binder composition, a binder layer, an optical laminate, and an image display device. A photo-alignment copolymer according to the embodiment of the invention has a repeating unit A including a photo-alignment group, a repeating unit B including a crosslinkable group which causes a crosslinking reaction by the action of at least one selected from the group consisting of light, heat, an acid, and a base, and a repeating unit C including a cleaving group which decomposes by the action of at least one selected from the group consisting of light, heat, an acid, and a base to produce a polar group, and the repeating unit C has the cleaving group on a side chain, and has a group of atoms which is provided on a side closer to a terminal than the cleaving group on the side chain to be able to unevenly distribute the photo-alignment copolymer on an air interface side.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yutaka NOZOE, Takashi IIZUMI, Soichiro WATANABE, Hideyuki NISHIKAWA, Kazushige NAKAGAWA, Kunihiro ATSUMI
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Patent number: 10688878Abstract: A variable gauge train control device comprises an inverter, a location detector, and a torque calculator. The inverter collectively controls torques of main electric motors. The location detector detects an entry into a gauge changeover section. The torque calculator, upon detection by the location detector of the entry into the gauge changeover section, suspends idling control that otherwise restricts the torques of the main electric motors and calculates a first torque pattern for making the inverter operate in accordance with the torques of the main electric motors.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignees: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, KYUSHU RAILWAY COMPANYInventors: Kazuki Konishi, Hidetoshi Kitanaka, Tsuyoshi Morimitsu, Yuichi Mimura, Soichiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20180312079Abstract: A variable gauge train control device comprises an inverter, a location detector, and a torque calculator. The inverter collectively controls torques of main electric motors. The location detector detects an entry into a gauge changeover section. The torque calculator, upon detection by the location detector of the entry into the gauge changeover section, suspends idling control that otherwise restricts the torques of the main electric motors and calculates a first torque pattern for making the inverter operate in accordance with the torques of the main electric motors.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicants: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, KYUSHU RAILWAY COMPANYInventors: Kazuki KONISHI, Hidetoshi KITANAKA, Tsuyoshi MORIMITSU, Yuichi MIMURA, Soichiro WATANABE
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Patent number: 9441514Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a diesel engine in which an engine body, a DPF case and an SCR catalyst case can be placed compactly. In the diesel engine including the engine body, the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case, a DPF is accommodated in the DPF case and an SCR catalyst is accommodated in the SCR catalyst case, the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case are mounted on the engine body, the DPF case is supported by the engine body through an exhaust gas introducing pipe, and the SCR catalyst case is supported by the DPF case through an exhaust gas relay pipe.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Tamon Tanaka, Koichi Funaki, Hirozumi Kuwabara, Soichiro Watanabe, Yoshitaka Taira, Tetsuya Kosaka, Satoshi Inayama
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Patent number: 9416707Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a diesel engine in which a DPF case and an SCR catalyst case can be placed compactly. The diesel engine includes an engine body, the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case, a DPF is accommodated in the DPF case, an SCR catalyst is accommodated in the SCR catalyst case, and the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case are mounted on the engine body. The SCR catalyst case is placed in a direction which extends along the DPF case. The DPF case is placed directly above a flywheel housing and right behind a cylinder head cover, and the SCR catalyst case is placed directly above the cylinder head cover.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: KUBOTA CorporationInventors: Tamon Tanaka, Koichi Funaki, Hirozumi Kuwabara, Soichiro Watanabe, Yoshitaka Taira, Tetsuya Kosaka, Satoshi Inayama
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Publication number: 20150184566Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a diesel engine in which an engine body, a DPF case and an SCR catalyst case can be placed compactly. In the diesel engine including the engine body, the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case, a DPF is accommodated in the DPF case and an SCR catalyst is accommodated in the SCR catalyst case, the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case are mounted on the engine body, the DPF case is supported by the engine body through an exhaust gas introducing pipe, and the SCR catalyst case is supported by the DPF case through an exhaust gas relay pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2014Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventors: Tamon TANAKA, Koichi FUNAKI, Hirozumi KUWABARA, Soichiro WATANABE, Yoshitaka TAIRA, Tetsuya KOSAKA, Satoshi INAYAMA
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Publication number: 20150089930Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a diesel engine in which a DPF case and an SCR catalyst case can be placed compactly. The diesel engine includes an engine body, the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case, a DPF is accommodated in the DPF case, an SCR catalyst is accommodated in the SCR catalyst case, and the DPF case and the SCR catalyst case are mounted on the engine body. The SCR catalyst case is placed in a direction which extends along the DPF case. The DPF case is placed directly above a flywheel housing and right behind a cylinder head cover, and the SCR catalyst case is placed directly above the cylinder head cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Tamon TANAKA, Koichi FUNAKI, Hirozumi KUWABARA, Soichiro WATANABE, Yoshitaka TAIRA, Tetsuya KOSAKA, Satoshi INAYAMA
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Publication number: 20060140890Abstract: An oil-based solid cosmetic comprising (A) vitamin A and/or a fatty acid ester thereof, (B) silicic anhydride, (C) an oil-soluble antioxidant, and (D) an oily ingredient existing as paste and/or liquid at room temperature is disclosed. The aforementioned oil-based solid cosmetic, wherein the ingredient (B) is aerosol silicic anhydride, and the aforementioned oil-based solid cosmetic, wherein the ingredient (D) is polybutene and/or heavy liquid isoparaffin are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2003Publication date: June 29, 2006Inventors: Atsushi Miida, Toshiyuki Ito, Junko Nakayama, Soichiro Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Hata
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Publication number: 20060018853Abstract: A cosmetic pack preparation comprising (a) 5-20 wt % of polyvinyl alcohol and (b) 0.01-10 wt % of atitanium-titanium dioxide sinter is disclosed. The cosmetic pack preparation enables distinct identification of areas which the cosmetic composition was applied to or was peeled from and the skin cleaning effect, imparts a favorable sensation upon use such as ease of application and peeling, and excels in preservation stability with passage of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2003Publication date: January 26, 2006Applicant: Kose CorporationInventor: Soichiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 6759052Abstract: The present invention is a cosmetic composition comprising, component (A) and component (B), wherein, (A) is carboxylic acid ester of inulin and/or hydrolyzed inulin whose degree of substitution by acyl group is larger than 1, and (B) is cyclic silicone oil, and the present invention is the oily cosmetic compound further containing oleophilic component. More over, the present invention is the W/O type emulsified cosmetic composition prepared by further adding aqueous component and an emulsifier to above mentioned cosmetic compound. In the present invention, acyl group composing component (A) is desirable to be an acyl group of carbon number 14 to 22. Further, a part or all of acyl group composing component (A) is desirable to be palmiroyl group and/or stearoyl group. Furthermore, the above mentioned cosmetic composition can contain dextrin carboxylic acid ester whose degree of substitution by acyl group is 1.6 to 2.5.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Kosé CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Suzuki, Satsuki Miyagawa, Kei Inagawa, Soichiro Watanabe, Noboru Naito