Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Watanabe
Tomoyuki 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: 11969662Abstract: There is provided a robot device including: a head portion coupled to a trunk; four leg portions on a front left, a front right, a rear left, and a rear right coupled to the trunk; a first indirect portion that tilts the head portion left and right; and a second joint portion that rotates, with respect to the trunk, one of the leg portions on the rear left and the rear right to a front side, and the other to a rear side. It is possible to faithfully reproduce the movement of the four-legged animal by providing the first joint portion and the second joint portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori Ishibashi, Tomoo Mizukami, Takuma Araki, Masato Muraki, Tomoyuki Arai, Goushi Koike, Takayuki Ito, Kouta Katsumura, Yohei Watanabe, Muneyuki Horiguchi, Takashi Maeda, Satoshi Muto, Hideo Miyano
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Publication number: 20240131722Abstract: An robot operation device attached to a robot having a long tool fixed to a flange provided at a distal end of the robot, the robot operation device includes a handle having an inner hole through which the tool is inserted, the handle configured to be held by one of hands of an operator in a manner that a longitudinal axis of the tool is enclosed by the one of the hands, and a sensor configured to attach the handle to the flange, the sensor detecting force or moment applied to the handle by the operator. The robot is operable by lead-through control which changes a position and posture of the robot in response to the force or the moment detected by the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Kazuhiro WATANABE, Tomoyuki MOTOKADO, Toshihiko INOUE
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Publication number: 20240084020Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions for suppressing the progression of fibrosis in systemic sclerosis, which contain an antibody against IL-31 receptor A as an active ingredient. In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions for suppressing Th2 polarization to suppress the progression of fibrosis in systemic sclerosis, which comprise an antibody against IL-31 receptor A as an active ingredient. In a certain embodiment, the above-mentioned antibody is an antibody having a neutralizing activity against IL-31 receptor A.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: Maruho Co., Ltd., The University of TokyoInventors: Ayumi Yoshizaki, Ai Kuzumi, Shinichi Sato, Tomoyuki Fujita, Hideki Watanabe
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Patent number: 11929489Abstract: A manufacturing method for an electrode plate and an electrode plate are provided. The method includes deposition-layer forming to form a deposition layer in which active material particles and binder particles are deposited on a surface of a current collecting foil and heat pressing to form an electrode layer on the surface of the current collecting foil by heating and compressing a deposition-layer-formed current collecting foil having the deposition layer on the surface of the current collecting foil. The deposition layer includes a first deposition layer placed on a side of the current collecting foil and a second deposition layer constituting a surface of the deposition layer. The deposition-layer forming includes forming the deposition layer in which a content rate of the binder particles in the second deposition layer is lower than a content rate of the binder particles in the first deposition layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sokichi Okubo, Tomoyuki Uezono, Momoka Miyajima, Nagisa Shimasaki, Masaki Watanabe, Miyuki Matsuyama
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Patent number: 11915951Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a stage disposed in a processing chamber for mounting a wafer, a plasma generation chamber disposed above the processing chamber for plasma generation using process gas, a plate member having multiple introduction holes, made of a dielectric material, disposed above the stage and between the processing chamber and the plasma generation chamber, and a lamp disposed around the plate member for heating the wafer. The plasma processing apparatus further includes an external IR light source, an emission fiber arranged in the stage, that outputs IR light from the external IR light source toward a wafer bottom, and a light collection fiber for collecting IR light from the wafer. Data obtained using only IR light from the lamp is subtracted from data obtained also using IR light from the external IR light source during heating of the wafer. Thus, a wafer temperature is determined.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Nobuya Miyoshi, Kazunori Shinoda, Tatehito Usui, Naoyuki Kofuji, Yutaka Kouzuma, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Kenetsu Yokogawa, Satoshi Sakai, Masaru Izawa
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Patent number: 11831846Abstract: In a case where a color space that is specified by a specification unit is a predetermined color space corresponding to information that is held in advance before an image processing apparatus obtains image data, even if obtained predetermined information includes color conversion information for converting the color space of the obtained image data into another color space, a conversion unit converts the color space of the obtained image data by use of the information that is held in advance before the image processing apparatus obtains the image data, without using the color conversion information that is included in the obtained predetermined information.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20220310422Abstract: An objects detecting method for a vacuum processing apparatus equipped with: a processing unit including a vacuum container having therein a processing chamber in which a wafer is processed, and an exhaust pump that exhausts gas in the processing chamber; a vacuum transfer unit including a transfer chamber in which the wafer is transferred; and a connection pipe including a passage through which the wafer can be transferred between the processing chamber and the transfer chamber, includes: an objects collecting process of increasing an internal pressure of the transfer chamber to be higher than an internal pressure of the processing chamber to generate a gas flow in the passage from the transfer chamber toward the processing chamber, transferring the wafer to a position straddling the transfer chamber, the passage, and the processing chamber, and holding the wafer for a predetermined time; and an objects detecting process of detecting objects adhering to a surface of the wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Takaharu Kinoshita, Hisanori Hayano, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Norifumi Ozaki
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Publication number: 20220239803Abstract: In a case where a color space that is specified by a specification unit is a predetermined color space corresponding to information that is held in advance before an image processing apparatus obtains image data, even if obtained predetermined information includes color conversion information for converting the color space of the obtained image data into another color space, a conversion unit converts the color space of the obtained image data by use of the information that is held in advance before the image processing apparatus obtains the image data, without using the color conversion information that is included in the obtained predetermined information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 11301188Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus capable of printing a plurality of additional information without non-uniformity in a case where a plurality of images and the plurality of additional information corresponding to the respective images are arranged and printed on the same print medium, an information processing apparatus prepares a template in which image arrangement frames for arranging the plurality of images individually and an additional information arrangement frame for arranging the plurality of additional information together are laid out. The information processing apparatus arranges the plurality of images in the respective image arrangement frames and arranges the plurality of additional information in the additional information arrangement frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyuki Watanabe, Masao Maeda, Hirokazu Ishii, Yoshihiro Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20210132880Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus capable of printing a plurality of additional information without non-uniformity in a case where a plurality of images and the plurality of additional information corresponding to the respective images are arranged and printed on the same print medium, an information processing apparatus prepares a template in which image arrangement frames for arranging the plurality of images individually and an additional information arrangement frame for arranging the plurality of additional information together are laid out. The information processing apparatus arranges the plurality of images in the respective image arrangement frames and arranges the plurality of additional information in the additional information arrangement frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Tomoyuki Watanabe, Masao Maeda, Hirokazu Ishii, Yoshihiro Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20210125332Abstract: A diagnosis assisting system, a diagnosis assisting method, and a diagnosis assisting program provide information that contributes to an objective diagnosis, with a server of a diagnosis assisting system including a learned model acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of learned models, each of which is generated by machine learning, inputs information based on an image obtained by imaging a diagnostic target, and outputs information that indicates a diagnosis result of the diagnostic target; an image acquisition unit that acquires an image to be analyzed; a calculation unit that performs calculation based on the plurality of learned models acquired on the image acquired, and calculates one piece of information about a diagnosis using the plurality of learned models; and an output unit that outputs the information calculated by the calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Katsunori SASAKI, Tomoyuki WATANABE
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Patent number: 10821883Abstract: A control unit of a headlamp control device for a vehicle is configured so that, when an occupant of the vehicle performs a predetermined interruption operation while the illumination mode of a headlamp is a high beam mode during automatic illumination control, the control unit sets the illumination mode to a low beam mode until an interruption time passes. The interruption time is set to a smaller value as a vehicle speed correlation value is larger. The vehicle speed correlation value is a value that increases as a speed at which the vehicle has been traveling since the start of the interruption operation is higher.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukimi Murase, Kazuhiko Nakashima, Yoshiharu Okabe, Tomonari Sawada, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Haruya Iwatsuki
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Patent number: 10825664Abstract: Provided is a plasma processing apparatus including: a processing chamber; a sample stage placed inside the processing chamber; a processing gas supply unit which supplies processing gas into the processing chamber; a high-frequency power supply which supplies an electric field inside the processing chamber; an electrostatic chuck unit disposed on the sample stage in which openings to flow heat transfer gas are formed; a refrigerant supply unit which supplies a refrigerant inside the sample stage; and a control unit, wherein the control unit controls a heat transfer gas supply unit to control the temperature of a wafer depending on a plurality of processes for processing the wafer by switching a flow rate of the heat transfer gas or the type of the heat transfer gas flowing out of the openings between a concave portion formed in the electrostatic chuck unit and the wafer attracted to the electrostatic chuck unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Watanabe, Yutaka Kouzuma, Takumi Tandou, Kenetsu Yokogawa, Hiroshi Ito
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Patent number: 10816159Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light emitting element; and a plate-shaped light guide arranged such that a longitudinal direction thereof crosses an optical axis of the light emitting element. The plate-shaped light guide includes an introducing portion, a reflecting portion, and an emitting portion. The reflecting portion is arranged in front of the optical axis, and includes a front side reflective surface that reflects the light from the introducing portion toward the emitting portion. The front side reflective surface includes a plurality of diffusing steps that diffuses the light from the introducing portion in an extending direction of the plate-shaped light guide.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsunari Enomoto, Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 10811852Abstract: A spark plug which is capable of further improving load life performance and a resistor material for a spark plug are provided. A spark plug includes a center electrode, a terminal fitting, and a resistor disposed between the center electrode and the terminal fitting. The resistor contains glass, a zirconia-based material and an electrically conducting material. The zirconia-based material contains at least stabilized zirconia.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20200328099Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a stage disposed in a processing chamber for mounting a wafer, a plasma generation chamber disposed above the processing chamber for plasma generation using process gas, a plate member having multiple introduction holes, made of a dielectric material, disposed above the stage and between the processing chamber and the plasma generation chamber, and a lamp disposed around the plate member for heating the wafer. The plasma processing apparatus further includes an external IR light source, an emission fiber arranged in the stage, that outputs IR light from the external IR light source toward a wafer bottom, and a light collection fiber for collecting IR light from the wafer. Data obtained using only IR light from the lamp is subtracted from data obtained also using IR light from the external IR light source during heating of the wafer. Thus, a wafer temperature is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Nobuya MIYOSHI, Kazunori SHINODA, Tatehito USUI, Naoyuki KOFUJI, Yutaka KOUZUMA, Tomoyuki WATANABE, Kenetsu YOKOGAWA, Satoshi SAKAI, Masaru IZAWA
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Publication number: 20200317115Abstract: A control unit of a headlamp control device for a vehicle is configured so that, when an occupant of the vehicle performs a predetermined interruption operation while the illumination mode of a headlamp is a high beam mode during automatic illumination control, the control unit sets the illumination mode to a low beam mode until an interruption time passes. The interruption time is set to a smaller value as a vehicle speed correlation value is larger. The vehicle speed correlation value is a value that increases as a speed at which the vehicle has been traveling since the start of the interruption operation is higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukimi MURASE, Kazuhiko NAKASHIMA, Yoshiharu OKABE, Tomonari SAWADA, Tomoyuki WATANABE, Haruya IWATSUKI
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Publication number: 20200091685Abstract: A spark plug which is capable of further improving load life performance and a resistor material for a spark plug are provided. A spark plug includes a center electrode, a terminal fitting, and a resistor disposed between the center electrode and the terminal fitting. The resistor contains glass, a zirconia-based material and an electrically conducting material. The zirconia-based material contains at least stabilized zirconia.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventor: Tomoyuki WATANABE
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Publication number: 20200018457Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light emitting element; and a plate-shaped light guide arranged such that a longitudinal direction thereof crosses an optical axis of the light emitting element. The plate-shaped light guide includes an introducing portion, a reflecting portion, and an emitting portion. The reflecting portion is arranged in front of the optical axis, and includes a front side reflective surface that reflects the light from the introducing portion toward the emitting portion. The front side reflective surface includes a plurality of diffusing steps that diffuses the light from the introducing portion in an extending direction of the plate-shaped light guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Tatsunari Enomoto, Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 10348060Abstract: When one of a center chip and a ground chip of a spark plug is defined as a first chip and another one is defined as a second chip, a discharge starting ridge line, which is a straight ridge line that forms a boundary between two surfaces having different normal line directions, is formed in a portion closest to the second chip in the first chips, and a distance from the discharge starting ridge line to the second chip is configured to be equal at a portion where the first chip and the second chip are opposed to each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Watanabe, Ryohei Akiyoshi, Ryuichi Ohno