Patents by Inventor Takeshi Watanabe

Takeshi 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: 20210402762
    Abstract: When a print data creation program is executed by a computer, the computer performs the following processing. The computer acquires image data representing a print image from a storage. The computer divides the print image represented by the acquired image data into a plurality of divided images of a desired resolution. The computer creates print data to be printed by a print device, from at least one of the plurality of divided images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshihisa KAYANAKA, Shota MORIKAWA, Takeshi WATANABE, Masashi UEDA, Masashi OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210402763
    Abstract: A print device is provided with a background head that discharges a background ink onto a recording medium, a color head that discharges a color ink onto the recording medium, and a CPU that controls the background head and the color head. The CPU of the print device divides the background ink into a plurality of layers including a first background layer and a second background layer, and discharges the background ink from the background head. A first discharge region of the first background layer is further to an inner side than a second discharge region of the second background layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshihisa KAYANAKA, Shota MORIKAWA, Masatoshi IZUCHI, Takeshi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11208094
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle has an engine (E) that is capable of changing a combustion mode between a stoichiometric combustion mode and a lean combustion mode and a motor/generator (MG) that is capable of performing torque assist by a power running operation and torque absorption by a regenerative operation. As a boundary between a stoichiometric combustion operating region and a lean combustion operating region, a second boundary (L2) at a torque decrease has a hysteresis at a low torque side with respect to a first boundary (L1) at a torque increase. Upon shift from the stoichiometric combustion operating region to the lean combustion operating region, for delay in increase of an intake-air quantity, decrease in fuel and the torque assist by the motor/generator (MG) are carried out, and an exhaust air-fuel ratio is changed stepwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Morihiro Nagamine, Hiromu Terai, Takeshi Watanabe, Atsushi Teraji, Hiroyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11207906
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a cleaning unit which removes foreign matter adhered on a conveyance face of a conveyance member conveying a sheet, by using a belt shaped web; and a unit moving mechanism which displaces the cleaning unit to a cleaning position where the cleaning unit comes into contact with the conveyance face and to a separation position separated away from the cleaning position. The cleaning unit includes a delivery roller delivering the web, a pressure roller bringing the web pressure-contact with the conveyance face and a winding roller winding the web passed the conveyance face. The cleaning unit is tilted such that a cleaning face of the web between the pressure roller and the winding roller faces upward as the cleaning unit is displaced from the cleaning position to the separation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Satake, Takeshi Watanabe, Hiroki Sakane, Yasuhiro Michishita, Masato Usui, Yuzuru Yuasa, Yusuke Tamekuni, Shinobu Ohata, Naoto Miyakoshi, Shunsuke Yamasaki, Hiroatsu Tamai
  • Patent number: 11198464
    Abstract: A steering system includes an operation member; a first movement mechanism configured to move the operation member between a normal position and a storage area located forward of the normal position; a second movement mechanism configured to move the operation member so as to change a position of the operation member in an up-down direction of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to control the first and second movement mechanisms. The storage area is located inward of an opening of a vehicle member provided in front of a driver's seat in the vehicle. The control unit is configured to control, in a case where the operation member is retracted into the storage area, the first movement mechanism and the second movement mechanism to perform a forward movement of moving the operation member that has reached a vicinity of the vehicle member, along an outer shape of the vehicle member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Watanabe, Yasuyuki Nozawa
  • Patent number: 11192394
    Abstract: A cleaning device cleans a surface of a sheet conveyance member which conveys a sheet in an image forming apparatus that executes image forming processing using a recording material, the surface carrying a solid substance that originates from the recording material and that adheres to the surface. The cleaning device includes a cleaning member including a contact surface configured to come in contact with the surface of the sheet conveyance member. The contact surface is an irregular surface rougher than the surface of the sheet conveyance member. At cleaning of the surface, the cleaning member makes a relative movement to the surface of the sheet conveyance member. The irregular surface is an irregular surface configured to take away the solid substance adhering to the surface of the sheet conveyance member when the cleaning member makes the relative movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichi Satake, Hiroatsu Tamai, Takeshi Watanabe, Hiroki Sakane, Yusuke Tamekuni, Masato Usui, Yuzuru Yuasa, Yasuhiro Michishita, Naoto Miyakoshi, Shunsuke Yamasaki, Shinobu Ohata
  • Patent number: 11192393
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a cleaning unit, a movement mechanism, and a positioning portion. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning part that has a contact surface extending along an axial direction of a conveyance roller and cleans the conveyance roller, and a cleaning housing that supports the cleaning part. The movement mechanism moves the cleaning unit between a cleaning position and a mounting and removing position. The movement mechanism allows the cleaning part to be brought into contact with the conveyance roller at the cleaning position, allows the cleaning part to be disposed below the conveyance roller in a separated manner at the mounting and removing position and allows the cleaning unit to be mounted on or removed from the apparatus body. The positioning portion restricts a relative position between the cleaning part and the conveyance roller by being brought into contact with the cleaning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventors: Naoto Miyakoshi, Shinobu Ohata, Shunsuke Yamasaki, Hiroatsu Tamai, Yasuhiro Michishita, Takeshi Watanabe, Kenichi Satake, Hiroki Sakane, Masato Usui, Yuzuru Yuasa, Yusuke Tamekuni
  • Patent number: 11194265
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, light emitting elements, a developing device, a fixing device, and a controller. The photoconductor is charged. The light emitting elements form light spots on the photoconductor in order to form an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor, and are provided to have a first distance with each other in a main scanning direction. The developing device develops an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor to a toner image. The fixing device fixes the toner image to a sheet. The controller causes the light emitting elements to form first light spots on the photoconductor, causes the photoconductor to move toward the light emitting elements by a second distance shorter than the first distance in a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction, and causes the light emitting elements to form second light spots on the photoconductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Watanabe, Koji Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 11179955
    Abstract: The cleaning device includes a cleaning unit. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning part having a contact surface brought into contact with a surface of a conveyance roller to clean the surface of the conveyance roller, and a housing that supports the cleaning part. The cleaning part includes a web of a strip shape, the web forming the contact surface that comes in contact with the conveyance roller, a pressing roller that presses the web against the conveyance roller, a feed-out roller that feeds out the web so as to cause a part of the web that comes in contact with the conveyance roller to shift, and a take-up roller that takes up the web. The housing has an opening that receives foreign matter dropping from the vicinity of a nip portion formed between the pressing roller and the conveyance roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamasaki, Shinobu Ohata, Naoto Miyakoshi, Hiroatsu Tamai, Yasuhiro Michishita, Takeshi Watanabe, Kenichi Satake, Hiroki Sakane, Masato Usui, Yuzuru Yuasa, Yusuke Tamekuni
  • Publication number: 20210347189
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a cleaning unit, a movement mechanism, and a unit mounting portion. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning part having a contact surface brought into contact with a surface of a conveyance roller. The movement mechanism moves the cleaning unit between a cleaning position at which the cleaning part comes in contact with the conveyance roller, and a mounting and removing position at which the cleaning part is located below the conveyance roller in a separated manner and the cleaning unit is allowed to be mounted and removed on and from the apparatus body. The unit mounting portion houses the cleaning unit disposed at the mounting and removing position. The cleaning unit is configured such that the cleaning unit in a state of being housed in the unit mounting portion is mounted and removed, together with the processing unit, on and from the apparatus body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Shinobu Ohata, Naoto Miyakoshi, Shunsuke Yamasaki, Hiroatsu Tamai, Yasuhiro Michishita, Takeshi Watanabe, Hiroki Sakane, Kenichi Satake, Masato Usui, Yuzuru Yuasa, Yusuke Tamekuni
  • Publication number: 20210323598
    Abstract: A steering device includes: a first moving unit that moves in an axial direction along with a shaft member to which an operating member is connected; a second moving unit; a holding unit; a first screw mechanism; a second screw mechanism; a driving unit; and a transmission mechanism that transmits driving force of the driving unit to the first screw mechanism and the second screw mechanism. One of the first screw mechanism and the second screw mechanism is provided so as to operate in a forward direction when the operating member moves between a retraction region and an operation region, and reverse efficiency of that one screw mechanism is set such that when the operating member is subjected to an external force directed toward the retraction region, that one screw mechanism does not operate in a reverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi WATANABE, Kunihiro OKA, Yasuyuki NOZAWA, Kei KITAHARA
  • Patent number: 11148443
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a controller configured to control cleaning of a conveyance roller by a web. The controller includes a take-up control unit and a web end determination unit. The take-up control unit controls the solenoid such that the web is taken up by rotatably driving the take-up roller in a state where the web is pressed to the conveyance roller. The web end determination unit determines whether or not an end of the web is exposed on a support roller by a take-up operation of the take-up roller. The web end determination unit determines that the end of the web is exposed on the support roller when a detection result of a detection unit is not changed in spite of a fact that supplying of electricity to the solenoid is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroatsu Tamai, Naoto Miyakoshi, Shunsuke Yamasaki, Shinobu Ohata, Yasuhiro Michishita, Takeshi Watanabe, Kenichi Satake, Hiroki Sakane, Masato Usui, Yuzuru Yuasa, Yusuke Tamekuni
  • Patent number: 11148442
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a controller configured to control cleaning of a conveyance roller by a web. The controller includes a separation and contact control unit, a conveyance roller rotation control unit, and a take-up control unit. The separation and contact control unit is configured to control a separation and contact mechanism so as to allow the web to be pressed to the conveyance roller when the conveyance roller is in a non-conveyable state. The conveyance roller rotation control unit rotates the conveyance roller in a state where the web is pressed to the conveyance roller. The take-up control unit is configured to allow the take-up roller to perform a take-up operation of taking up the web by rotatably driving the take-up roller plural times at a predetermined time interval within a cleaning time set in advance in a state where the conveyance roller is being rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Watanabe, Hiroatsu Tamai, Kenichi Satake, Hiroki Sakane, Masato Usui, Yuzuru Yuasa, Yusuke Tamekuni, Yasuhiro Michishita, Shinobu Ohata, Naoto Miyakoshi, Shunsuke Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11142235
    Abstract: A steering system includes an operation member; a first movement mechanism configured to move the operation member between a normal position at which the operation member is operated by a driver, and a storage area located forward of the normal position; and a control unit configured to control the first movement mechanism. The storage area is located inward of an opening of a vehicle member located in front of a driver's seat in the vehicle. The control unit is configured to control, in a case where the operation member is retracted into the storage area, the first movement mechanism to move the operation member forward at a first speed, and to move the operation member forward at a second speed that is lower than the first speed when a distance between the operation member and the vehicle member becomes equal to or less than a predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Watanabe, Yasuyuki Nozawa
  • Publication number: 20210308812
    Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device includes: a mounting table provided with a mounting surface; a focus ring; and a cooling element, in which a holding portion of the mounting table is provided with an annular groove portion surrounding the mounting table, a through-hole that is open on a bottom surface of the groove portion, upper surfaces on both sides of the groove portion in a width direction in the holding portion form a holding surface that comes into contact with the focus ring and holds the focus ring, the holding surface is composed of an inner peripheral surface located further on an inner periphery side than the groove portion and an outer peripheral surface located further on an outer periphery side than the groove portion, and the holding surface satisfies the following conditions (i) and (ii), wherein (i) the holding surface has a shape in which in a cross section in a thickness direction, a straight line connecting a first point corresponding to an innermost periphery of the holding surface and a se
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Keisuke MAEDA, Masaki OZAKI, Masayuki SHIOJIRI, Takeshi WATANABE, Shinchi MAETA, Yuuki KINPARA
  • Publication number: 20210303942
    Abstract: A conveyance control system is provided with a conveyance mechanism that conveys a platen, a printer provided in the conveyance mechanism and capable of performing printing on a print medium held by the platen received from the conveyance mechanism, and a PC that is communicably connected to the printer and controls the conveyance mechanism. A storage of the PC stores identification information of the printer and identification information of the conveyance mechanism in association with each other. The PC acquires the identification information of the conveyance mechanism associated with the identification information of the printer. A CPU of the PC causes the platen to be conveyed by the conveyance mechanism, on the basis of the acquired identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Takeshi WATANABE, Shuichi TAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20210294240
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, light emitting elements, a developing device, a fixing device, and a controller. The photoconductor is charged. The light emitting elements form light spots on the photoconductor in order to form an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor, and are provided to have a first distance with each other in a main scanning direction. The developing device develops an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor to a toner image. The fixing device fixes the toner image to a sheet. The controller causes the light emitting elements to form first light spots on the photoconductor, causes the photoconductor to move toward the light emitting elements by a second distance shorter than the first distance in a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction, and causes the light emitting elements to form second light spots on the photoconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi WATANABE, Koji TANIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210280480
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes: a wiring board; a semiconductor chip mounted on the wiring board; and a resin-containing layer bonded on the wiring board so as to fix the semiconductor chip to the wiring board. The resin-containing layer contains a resin-containing material having a breaking strength of 15 MPa or more at 125° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki SUGO, Ayana AMANO, Keiichiro HATTORI, Takeshi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11090962
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a cleaning unit, a movement mechanism, and a unit mounting portion. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning part having a contact surface brought into contact with a surface of a conveyance roller. The movement mechanism moves the cleaning unit between a cleaning position at which the cleaning part comes in contact with the conveyance roller, and a mounting and removing position at which the cleaning part is located below the conveyance roller in a separated manner and the cleaning unit is allowed to be mounted and removed on and from the apparatus body. The unit mounting portion houses the cleaning unit disposed at the mounting and removing position. The cleaning unit is configured such that the cleaning unit in a state of being housed in the unit mounting portion is mounted and removed, together with the processing unit, on and from the apparatus body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventors: Shinobu Ohata, Naoto Miyakoshi, Shunsuke Yamasaki, Hiroatsu Tamai, Yasuhiro Michishita, Takeshi Watanabe, Hiroki Sakane, Kenichi Satake, Masato Usui, Yuzuru Yuasa, Yusuke Tamekuni
  • Patent number: 11072194
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a cleaning unit including a cleaning part and a cleaning housing; and a movement mechanism that is capable of moving the cleaning unit between a cleaning position and a mounting and removing position below the cleaning position. The cleaning housing includes a pair of wall portions and a pair of housing shaft portions. The movement mechanism includes a unit housing portion, a pair of support members, a rotation drive unit, and a positioning portion. The positioning portion is configured to be brought into contact with the cleaning unit at the cleaning position and is configured to position the cleaning unit such that the cleaning part is capable of cleaning the conveyance roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventors: Shinobu Ohata, Naoto Miyakoshi, Shunsuke Yamasaki, Hiroatsu Tamai, Yasuhiro Michishita, Takeshi Watanabe, Kenichi Satake, Hiroki Sakane, Masato Usui, Yuzuru Yuasa, Yusuke Tamekuni