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: 8084536Abstract: A resin composition is provided which comprises from 50 to 95% by weight of a modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C) obtained by reacting an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) with a monovalent epoxy compound (B) having a molecular weight of 500 or less, and from 5 to 50% by weight of a soft resin (F) that has at least one functional group able to react with a hydroxyl group and has a Young's modulus at 23° C., 50% RH of 500 MPa or less, wherein the soft resin (F) is dispersed with an average particle diameter of 0.1 ?m or less in a matrix of the modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C). This resin composition is excellent in barrier properties and also in flex resistance and impact resistance at low temperature.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2006Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouta Isoyama, Hiroyuki Shindome, Naoki Kataoka, Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20110297082Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a metallic basic material arranged in a sample stage, a dielectric film of dielectric material disposed on an upper surface of the basic material, the dielectric film being formed through a plasma spray process; a film-shaped heater disposed in the dielectric film, the heater being formed through a plasma spray process; an adhesive layer arranged on the dielectric film; a sintered ceramic plate having a thickness ranging from about 0.2 mm to about 0.4 mm, the sintered ceramic plate being adhered onto the dielectric film by the adhesive layer; a sensor disposed in the basic material for sensing a temperature; and a controller for receiving an output from the sensor and adjusting quantity of heat generated by the heater.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2010Publication date: December 8, 2011Inventors: Tomoyuki Watanabe, Mamoru Yakushiji, Yutaka Ohmoto
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Patent number: 8066682Abstract: An eye drops container including a container body filled with a drug solution along with a pressurized gas and including a valve mechanism discharging a fixed amount of drug solution; a nozzle member coupled with a stem for open operation of the valve mechanism and including a drug solution drop nozzle; an operating member including an operating piece and attached to the container body; a guide member contained in the operating member and guiding the nozzle member in the axial direction; and a ball contained in the guide member. The nozzle member includes an outer flange for suspending a skirt on the lower surface thereof; the guide member includes a ring-like bottom groove into which the forward end of the skirt enters; and the ball falls into the bottom groove in an upright state to block the open operation of the valve mechanism, and falls onto the outer flange in an inverted state to permit the open operation of the valve mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2007Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignees: Teika Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Toyo Aerosol Industry Co., Ltd., Shinko Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahito Kimura, Kazuhide Maeda, Nobuyuki Hanai, Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 8058554Abstract: A bus bar has a lead portion and a bus bar portion which are integrally shaped. The lead portion is provided in such a shape that branches from the bus bar portion. A part of the lead portion forms a connection part directly electrically connected with a transistor electrode and a diode electrode by a connecting material such as solder. The thickness of the lead portion including the connection part is made smaller than the thickness of the bus bar portion. Accordingly, such an interconnection structure can be provided in which the electrode of the semiconductor device and the bus bar are electrically directly connected with each other and thermal stress at the connection part therebetween can be relieved.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Nakamura, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Hirotaka Ohno, Nobuaki Inagaki
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Patent number: 8044500Abstract: Disclosed is a power module having improved joint reliability. Specifically disclosed is a power module including a power module substrate wherein a circuit layer is brazed on the front surface of a ceramic substrate, a metal layer is brazed on the rear surface of the ceramic substrate and a semiconductor chip is soldered to the circuit layer. The metal layer is composed of an Al alloy having an average purity of not less than 98.0 wt. % but not more than 99.9 wt. % as a whole. In this metal layer, the Fe concentration in the side of a surface brazed with the ceramic substrate is set at less than 0.1 wt. %, and the Fe concentration in the side of a surface opposite to the brazed surface is set at not less than 0.1 wt. %.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Kitahara, Hiroya Ishizuka, Yoshirou Kuromitsu, Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20110201814Abstract: A method for producing a solid preparation containing a compound represented by the formula (I) below or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, which comprises a step wherein a composition containing the compound represented by the general formula (I) below or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof is mixed, while applying mechanical stress to the composition. The compound of the formula (I) is as follows: The method results in improved dissolvability of the compound of the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2007Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicants: Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited, Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20110097527Abstract: A shaped article including a modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C), wherein the modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C) is a product obtained by modifying an unmodified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) with an epoxy compound (B) having a double bond and has a degree of modification with the epoxy compound (B) of 0.1 to 10 mol % based on the monomer units of the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A), and at least a part of the modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C) is crosslinked, and the gel fraction of the shaped article is 3% by weight or more. Thereby, a shaped article which contains almost no harmful crosslinking agent and which is excellent in hot water resistance, heat resistance and a gas barrier property is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2007Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: Kuraray Co., LtdInventors: Kaoru Ikeda, Masakazu Nakaya, Kazuhiro Kurosaki, Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 7907291Abstract: An image supply device and control method for supplying image data to a printing device by directly communicating with the printing device. The device and method include obtaining functional information of the printing device, obtaining printable range information indicating a printable range by the printing device, converting image data of a file to be printed in accordance with the printable range information and received printing specification information, and transmitting the converted image data to the printing device upon a data request from the printing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2005Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirokazu Ishii, Masao Kato, Futoshi Sasaki, Nobuo Onuma, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Takuya Matsuno, Yoshiro Udagawa
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Publication number: 20110045314Abstract: A multilayer structure having a layer of a polypropylene (A) and a layer of an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (B) laminated to each other via a layer of an adhesive resin composition (C), wherein the adhesive resin composition (C) contains a thermoplastic resin (c1), having functional groups of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a boronic acid group and boron-containing groups capable of being converted into a boronic acid group in the presence of water, and an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer (c2), having a density of 0.925 g/cm3 or less and not having the functional groups. Consequently, a multilayer structure can be provided that has a layer of a polypropylene and a layer of an EVOH and has good interlayer adhesion strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2007Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeyuki Igarashi, Tomonori Murata, Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 7893145Abstract: The present invention provides an oxygen-absorbing resin composition containing a thermoplastic resin (A) having carbon-carbon double bonds substantially only in the main chain and a transition metal salt (B), and the oxygen absorption amount of 1 mol of carbon-carbon double bond of the thermoplastic resin (A) being 1.6 mols or more.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasutaka Inubushi, Tatsuhiko Hayashibara, Hideharu Iwasaki, Kazuhiro Kurosaki, Emi Yatagai, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Mie Kanehara
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Patent number: 7876470Abstract: It is an object of this invention to provide a user-legible print result in consecutively printing a plurality of pages of images. To this end, it is checked whether there is continuity between data to be printed at the lower end portion of a page and data to be printed at the upper end portion of the next page. If there is continuity, a page break is inserted before the data at the lower end portion of the page, and an image of the data at the lower end portion is printed on the next page. Controlling a printing method in this manner makes it possible to prevent character split due to printing across pages and provide a user-legible print result.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2004Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 7864293Abstract: An exposure apparatus for exposure-transferring an image of a pattern projected through an optical system having a plurality of optical units L1 to L13 onto an object P, comprises a correcting device which corrects a position of at least one of a plurality of images to be projected onto the object P by the plurality of optical units L1 to L13 so that displacements of the optical units L1 to L13 are compensated.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2006Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Masaki Kato, Kenji Shimizu, Manabu Toguchi, Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20100280178Abstract: Provided is a modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C) having an ethylen content of 5 to 55 mol %, which contains a specific structural unit (I) in an amount of 0.3 to 40 mol % and may be obtained by reacting an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) with a monofunctional epoxy compound (B) having a molecular weight of not more than 500. This can be produced by a method for producing the modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C) which comprises melting and kneading an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) with a monofunctional epoxy compound (B) in an extruder. The modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C) is superior to a unmodified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) in transparency, stretchability, flexibility and flexing resistance due to the specific structural unit (I) incorporated therein, and thus, can be used as a barrier material in various applications requiring the above performance capabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2010Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kaoru IKEDA, Shinji Tai, Kouta Isoyama, Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20100280064Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition containing (A) a compound represented by the formula (I) below or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, and (B) a water-soluble polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2007Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: Tomoyuki Watanabe, Kazuko Maeda
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Patent number: 7822221Abstract: A speaker device includes a terminal member, a voice coil bobbin, and a connecting member mounted on the voice coil bobbin. The connecting member has a terminal mounting part. A pair of claw part and hook-shaped projecting part is provided on an upper end portion of the terminal mounting part, and a mounting base having a groove is provided on a lower end portion thereof. A projecting part and an opening are provided at the upper end portion of the terminal member, and a mounting part is provided at the lower end portion thereof. The projecting part has a function to move the upper end portion of the terminal member to a circumferential direction of the connecting member.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2006Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 7811646Abstract: Provided is a modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C) having an ethylen content of 5 to 55 mol %, which contains a specific structural unit (I) in an amount of 0.3 to 40 mol % and may be obtained by reacting an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) with a monofunctional epoxy compound (B) having a molecular weight of not more than 500. This can be produced by a method for producing the modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C) which comprises melting and kneading an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) with a monofunctional epoxy compound (B) in an extruder. The modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C) is superior to a unmodified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) in transparency, stretchability, flexibility and flexing resistance due to the specific structural unit (I) incorporated therein, and thus, can be used as a barrier material in various applications requiring the above performance capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2002Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kaoru Ikeda, Shinji Tai, Kouta Isoyama, Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20100174247Abstract: An eye drops container including a container body filled with a drug solution along with a pressurized gas and including a valve mechanism discharging a fixed amount of drug solution; a nozzle member coupled with a stem for open operation of the valve mechanism and including a drug solution drop nozzle; an operating member including an operating piece and attached to the container body; a guide member contained in the operating member and guiding the nozzle member in the axial direction; and a ball contained in the guide member. The nozzle member includes an outer flange for suspending a skirt on the lower surface thereof; the guide member includes a ring-like bottom groove into which the forward end of the skirt enters; and the ball falls into the bottom groove in an upright state to block the open operation of the valve mechanism, and falls onto the outer flange in an inverted state to permit the open operation of the valve mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2007Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicants: TEIKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., TOYO AEROSOL INDUSTRY CO., LTD., SHINKO CHEMICAL CO. LTD.Inventors: Takahito Kimura, Kazuhide Maeda, Nobuyuki Hanai, Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 7747034Abstract: A speaker device includes a voice coil bobbin around which a voice coil is wound, and a connecting member mounted on an outer peripheral wall of the voice coil bobbin. Plural ventilation holes are provided on a side wall of the voice coil bobbin with constant spaces, and plural ventilation holes are provided at a cylindrical part of the connecting member with constant spaces. Particularly, in this speaker device, each position of the ventilation holes of the connecting member coincides with each position of the ventilation holes of the voice coil bobbin in such a state that the connecting member is mounted on the outer peripheral wall of the voice coil bobbin.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2006Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 7722372Abstract: A direct mounting connector includes: six independent busbars for connecting the apparatus to two auxiliary machines for three-phase alternating current; two U-pole first terminal parts, two V-pole first terminal parts and two W-pole first terminal parts The six first terminal parts are connected to the apparatus at first ends of the respective six busbars, the two first terminal parts of the same pole are arranged adjacently to each other; and two sets, each set of which consists of a second U-pole terminal part, a second V-pole terminal part and a second W-pole terminal part The six second terminal parts are connected to the two auxiliary machines at second ends of the respective six busbars, the two sets arranged adjacently to each other having a distance therebetween. Busbar parts extend between the two sets of the second terminal parts.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2005Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Hirotaka Fukushima, Takashi Tsukamoto, Kenjiro Shiba, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Takashi Okamoto
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Publication number: 20100119746Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a resin composition suitable for adhering a layer of a base material, such as polyolefins, and a layer of a barrier resin, such as ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers. The object is achieved by a resin composition (A) including: a thermoplastic resin (a1) having functional groups of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a boronic acid group and boron-containing groups capable of being converted into a boronic acid group in the presence of water, a polyolefin (a2) not having the functional groups, and a thermoplastic elastomer (a3) not having the functional groups, wherein the thermoplastic resin (a1) is contained 1 to 20 parts by mass and the thermoplastic elastomer (a3) is contained 3 to 50 parts by mass in terms of 100 parts by mass of the polyolefin (a2).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeyuki Igarashi, Tomonori Murata, Tomoyuki Watanabe