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).

  • Patent number: 7570776
    Abstract: A speaker device has a connecting member on which a groove capable of accumulating a constant amount of adhesive is formed. The groove is in the vicinity of a lower end of an outer peripheral wall of a cylindrical portion, and is formed on the outer peripheral wall of the cylindrical portion along a circumferential direction. A bottom surface of an inner peripheral edge portion of a conductive damper disposed on an upper side in plural dampers is fixed to the connecting member with adhesive applied to the groove. The adhesive is applied between the upper surface of the inner peripheral edge portion of the conductive damper and the outer peripheral wall of the cylindrical portion. Thus, the conductive damper, which is sandwiched by the adhesive applied to the groove and the adhesive applied to the upper surface of the conductive damper, is fixed to the connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090169902
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Yasutaka Inubushi, Tatsuhiko Hayashibara, Hideharu Iwasaki, Kazuhiro Kurosaki, Emi Yatagai, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Mie Kanehara
  • Patent number: 7538897
    Abstract: A print control device including an acquisition unit for acquiring print conditions in response to a print request, a fixing unit for fixing a frequency of determining a print cancel based on the print conditions acquired by the acquisition unit, and a determining unit for determining whether a print cancel command is issued as the data processing unit generates and/or transfers print data at the frequency fixed by the fixing unit. The print control device thus determines the presence or absence of a print cancel command at an appropriate frequency under an environment that permits no multitasking. A response process from the reception of the print cancel command to the execution of a cancel operation becomes uniform, resulting in unnecessary waiting time and useless printing actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuo Onuma, Tomoyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7534829
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition comprising 1-99% by weight of a modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C) having an ethylene content of 5-55 mol %, which contains a specific structural unit (I) in an amount of 0.3-40 mol % and can 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, and 1-99% by weight of a thermoplastic resin (T1) other than (C). Moreover, a multilayer structure in which the resin composition and a thermoplastic resin (T2) are laminated is also provided. Thus, a resin composition superior in barrier properties, transparency, stretchability, flexibility, flexing resistance and interlayer adhesiveness and various kinds of molded articles made thereof are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Tai, Kaoru Ikeda, Haruhisa Masuda, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Kouta Isoyama
  • Patent number: 7515727
    Abstract: A speaker device includes a terminal member, a connecting member, a conductive damper and a diaphragm. The connecting member has a terminal mounting part. The terminal mounting part has a projecting part and a connecting part. The connecting member has a hole in its upper end portion and a fixing part at its lower end portion. The terminal member is mounted to the terminal mounting part. At this time, the projecting part is inserted into the hole, and the fixing part is inserted into a groove. Thereby, at positions of two spots, the terminal member is physically fixed to the connecting member. The connecting part is connected to the conductive member of the conductive damper. Thus, a soldering operation of the connecting part and the conductive member can be performed easily. Then soldering is performed for the terminal member, a lead wire of a voice coil and the conductive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7515729
    Abstract: A speaker device includes a terminal member, a connecting member and a voice coil. The connecting member has a terminal mounting part, a flat surface and a recessed portion. The terminal member is mounted to the terminal mounting part. On the flat surface, an inner peripheral edge portion of a diaphragm is mounted via an adhesive. A lead wire drawn from the voice coil is drawn along an outer peripheral wall of the voice coil bobbin and inside the recessed portion to be electrically connected to a connecting part of the terminal member. Thus, the lead wire is not sandwiched by the flat surface and the diaphragm. Thereby, at the time of driving the speaker device, pressure is not given to the lead wire drawn into the recessed portion from the diaphragm and the connecting member. The cut of the lead wire can be thus prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7502487
    Abstract: A speaker device includes a terminal member, a connecting member, a conductive damper and a voice coil. The terminal member has a first connecting part, a slit, a hole, a second connecting part and a fixing part. The connecting member has a projecting portion on a bent portion and a groove at an area in the vicinity of a lower end of an outer peripheral wall of the cylindrical portion. The terminal member is mounted to the connecting member. A lead wire is wound around the slit of the connecting part, and a portion thereof is soldered. The projecting portion is inserted into the hole. The fixing part is inserted into the groove. The second connecting part is connected to a conductive member of the conductive damper disposed at the area in the vicinity of the lower end of the outer peripheral wall of the cylindrical portion by the soldering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7499563
    Abstract: In a speaker device, when an excessive driving signal larger than a withstand input is inputted to a voice coil, a voice coil bobbin moves with large magnitude. When the voice coil bobbin largely moves on a side opposite to a sound emitting side (downward), each component of the speaker device collides with each other and a large abnormal sound occurs. Therefore, a connecting member and a pot type yoke are designed to collide with each other via a buffer member in an area E1, for example, when the voice coil moves downward with the large magnitude. Namely, the buffer member is attached on a bottom surface of a bent portion of the connecting member, opposite to an upper surface of a cylindrical portion of the pot type yoke, in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090023345
    Abstract: An inverter (apparatus), to which two motors are connected, or a connecting structure of the inverter and the motors is made compact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicants: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Hirotaka Fukushima, Takashi Tsukamoto, Kenjiro Shiba, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Takashi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20090012236
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouta Isoyama, Hiroyuki Shindome, Naoki Kataoka, Tomoyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080254279
    Abstract: A multilayer structure having a layer of an adhesive resin composition (A) and a layer of another resin (B), wherein the adhesive resin composition (A) includes a thermoplastic resin (a1) containing 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 a polyolefin (a2) which does not contain the functional groups, the blending weight ratio (a1/a2) of the thermoplastic resin (a1) to the polyolefin (a2) is 1/99 to 15/85, and particles of the thermoplastic resin (a1) are dispersed with an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 1.2 ?m in a matrix of the polyolefin (a2). Consequently, a multilayer structures having satisfactory interlayer adhesion strength can be provided even if the content of the resin having a special functional group in the adhesive resin composition layer is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonori Murata, Takeyuki Igarashi, Kaoru Ikeda, Tomoyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7436539
    Abstract: At the image processing time for an image data, a storage area to be secured is reduced, and moreover, the number of access processing times for the storage area which is required until the image processing result is obtained is sharply reduced, thereby shortening the processing time. Consequently, an image correction processing portion is characterized by a configuration wherein the image correction processing portion secures an image correction buffer to store the image data for at least M+(N?1) lines, and when it is determined that an image correction processing requires decoding processing, the address of an image correction buffer is set as a decoding destination, and the image correction processing for the image data is performed within the set storage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Suwa, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Hirokazu Ishii
  • Patent number: 7396865
    Abstract: An oxygen absorber of the present invention includes at least one compound represented by Formula (1): and an oxidizable polymer. R1 and R2 each independently indicates a hydrogen atom or an organic group. R1 and R2 may form a ring together with carbon atoms to which they are bonded. R1 and/or R2 may form a carbon-carbon double bond with carbon atoms to which they are bonded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Tsuji, Mie Kodani, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Hideharu Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20080160783
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing semiconductor device according to the present invention comprises a first film forming step of forming, on a concave and convex portion formed by an element on a semiconductor substrate, an oxidation preventive layer which prevents permeation of moisture into the element; a second film forming step of forming, on this oxidation preventive layer, an expansion layer which can be oxidized and expanded by a heat treatment in an oxidation atmosphere; a third film forming step of forming, on this expansion layer, an insulating film which can be fluidized by the heat treatment in the oxidation atmosphere; and an expansion step of subjecting, to the heat treatment in the oxidation atmosphere, the semiconductor substrate on which the oxidation preventive layer, the expansion layer and the insulating film have been formed, to fluidize the insulating film and to oxidize and expand the expansion layer, thereby eliminating bubbles generated in the insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: ISHIKAWAJIMA-HARIMA HEAVY INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Watanabe, Atsushi Yoshinouchi
  • Patent number: 7364027
    Abstract: A belt-type continuously-variable transmission includes a casing enclosing a primary pulley, a secondary pulley, a belt connecting the pulleys and a parking gear; and a side cover subassembly including a side cover joined to the casing. The side cover assembly further includes a parking pawl arranged to engage with the parking gear, a support member arranged to support the parking pawl; and a return spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Jatco Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Matsubara, Hiromi Taguchi, Yasuhiko Kunii, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Hitoshi Nakata, Tetsuya Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080061270
    Abstract: An oxygen-absorbing composition of the present invention contains a gas-barrier resin as well as a salt of an unsaturated carboxylic acid and an oxygen absorption promoter that are dispersed in the gas-barrier resin A cation that composes the salt of the unsaturated carboxylic acid is a cation of at least one element selected from the group consisting of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, and aluminum. The oxygen absorption promoter is at least one selected from the group consisting of transition metal salts, radical generators, and photocatalyst particles. The unsaturated carboxylic acid has a molecular weight of 3000 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: Kuraray Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Tsuji, Mie Kodani, Masayoshi Yamanaka, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Hideharu Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20080003390
    Abstract: A multi-layer structure comprising a layer of an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A), a layer of a carboxylic acid-modified polyolefin (B), a layer of a thermoplastic resin (C) having a solubility parameter of 11 or less, and a layer of a resin composition (E), wherein the resin composition (E) comprises an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A), a carboxylic acid-modified polyolefin (B), a thermoplastic resin (C) and a thermoplastic resin (D) having at least one functional group 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 the layer of an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) is laminated with the layer of a thermoplastic resin (C) or the layer of a resin composition (E) through the layer of a carboxylic acid-modified polyolefin (B). This provides a multi-layer structure which allows effective reuse of regrind and which is excellent in impact resistance and gas barrier properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Nahoto Hayashi, Hiroyuki Shindome, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Naoki Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20070296936
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Kato, Kenji Shimizu, Manabu Toguchi, Tomoyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20060280330
    Abstract: 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 coilbobbin. 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: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicants: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20060281882
    Abstract: An oxygen absorption resin composition is provided that comprises a thermoplastic resin (A) having carbon-carbon double bonds substantially in its main chain and a transition metal salt (B). If necessary, the composition further comprises a gas barrier resin (C), a compatibilizer (D) and the like. The composition has excellent oxygen absorption properties, and when the composition is employed, generation of odorous substances derived from the decomposition of resins as a result of oxygen absorption can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: Kuraray Co., Ltd.,
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Tsuji, Yasutaka Inubushi, Mie Kodani, Tatsuhiko Hayashibara, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Hideharu Iwasaki