Patents by Inventor Toru Watanabe

Toru 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: 20240148839
    Abstract: Disclosed is a serum albumin-thioredoxin fusion body which is improved in the activity thereof and is stable with respect to the activity. The serum albumin-thioredoxin fusion body is provided, which is characterized in that the thioredoxin is a modified from in which at least a cysteine residue located at position 73 from the N-terminal of an amino acid sequence for the thioredoxin or located at a position equivalent to the position 73 is substituted by another amino acid residue. the modified serum albumin-thioredoxin fusion body is superior in the activity and stability thereof, is reduced in immunogenicity and has superior safety compared with a fusion body in which the thioredoxin is non-modified form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Junichi MATSUDA, Kento NISHIDA, Masaki HIRASHIMA, Toru MARUYAMA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Hitoshi MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240128081
    Abstract: A film forming method includes preparing a substrate having an amorphous silicon film on a surface thereof, diffusing nickel into the amorphous silicon film by supplying a nickel source gas to the amorphous silicon film, and forming a polycrystalline silicon film by heating the amorphous silicon film, and crystallizing the amorphous silicon film by metal-induced lateral crystallization using the nickel diffused in the amorphous silicon film as a nucleus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshihiro TAKEZAWA, Toru KANAZAWA, Yosuke WATANABE, Tatsuya MIYAHARA, Yuki TANABE, Daisuke SUZUKI, Masahisa WATANABE, Keisuke SUZUKI, Tuhin Shuvra Basu
  • Patent number: 11951691
    Abstract: Provided is a production method for a freshness-keeping bag capable of reducing the inflow of oxygen from the outside of the bag to a very low level, and thereby keeping the freshness of a content thereof for a long period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: W & CO.
    Inventor: Toru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11946777
    Abstract: A position detection device includes a position sensor including a coil and a magnetic core, and a signal processor. The signal processor generates a rectangular wave voltage applied to the coil, converts a current which flow through the coil by the rectangular wave voltage into a voltage and outputs the voltage, and acquires a voltage measurement value obtained by sampling the output voltage after predetermined time in synchronization with a timing of rising or falling of a waveform of the rectangular wave voltage. The predetermined time is set such that the voltage measurement value is restricted within a range of 40% or more and 99.999% or less with respect to a maximum value of the rectangular wave voltage when the coil is at a position where an inductance of the coil is minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhito Watanabe, Toru Ikeuchi
  • Publication number: 20240096357
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a rotatable magnetic disk, an actuator which supports and moves a head, a ramp which holds the head at an unloaded position, a motor which rotates the magnetic disk, and a controller which performs a load operation and a seek operation. When a radial travel speed of the head during the load operation is referred to as Vr1, a circumferential travel speed of the head is referred to as Vt1, a radial travel speed of the head during the seek operation is referred to as Vrs, and a circumferential travel speed is referred to as Vts, the controller controls at least one of the radial travel speed of the head and number of revolutions of the magnetic disk to satisfy a relationship (Vr1/Vt1)<(Vrs/Vts).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Shinichi Kobatake, Toru Watanabe, Masami Yamane
  • Publication number: 20240035823
    Abstract: An inertial measurement device includes: a substrate having a joining area; a cap; a sensor device accommodated in a resin package and disposed in a mounting area on the substrate in an internal space between the substrate and the cap; and a sealing material and a joining material configured to join the cap to the substrate in the joining area of the substrate. The joining material surrounds the mounting area and has a communication hole for communication between the internal space and the outside, and the sealing material closes the communication hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Toru WATANABE, Hiroyuki OGISO
  • Patent number: 11887634
    Abstract: A magnetic disk device of an embodiment includes: a head structure including at least one reproducing head and main magnetic pole gap installation portion behind a flying slider and including at least two thermal actuators; and a control unit that can independently control the thermal actuators and that sets spacing of the reproducing head and the main magnetic pole gap installation portion with respect to a recording medium by setting a rotational speed at the time of contact, which rotational speed is a rotational speed of the recording medium, to be lower than a normal rotational speed when the reproducing head and the main magnetic pole gap installation portion are brought into contact with the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11844229
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element which has a substrate, a pair of electrodes disposed on this substrate and composed of an anode and a cathode, and at least one organic layer disposed between these electrodes and including a light-emitting layer, and in which a compound expressed by General Formula 1-1 is contained in at least one layer of the aforementioned light-emitting layer(s) exhibits high luminous efficiency, excellent blue color purity, and little change in chromaticity accompanying drive deterioration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Tetsu Kitamura, Koji Takaku, Wataru Sotoyama, Yasunori Yonekuta, Toshihiro Ise, Saki Takada, Toru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230356886
    Abstract: --Provided is a coffee storage bag and method capable of discharging carbon dioxide generated inside the bag while preventing the intrusion of oxygen from the outside. The coffee storage bag 10 is designed to store 500 g or less of coffee, and comprises a strip-shaped sealed portion 12 extending approximately parallel to an edge of the bag along which two overlapped end sections of a film 1 are joined together, and having a width of 5 mm to 15 mm, wherein the strip-shaped sealed portion includes a single non-joined portion 20 in which the two overlapped end sections of the film is not joined together, wherein the non-joined portion forms a single vent passage communicating the inside and the outside of the bag. The vent passage has a length of 100 mm to 400 mm, and a width of 0.5 mm to 3 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventor: Toru WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11786223
    Abstract: An ultrasonic probe has a transduction layer in which a plurality of transducers are placed, a backing layer provided at a rear side of the transduction layer with a wiring layer therebetween, and a plurality of heat dissipation members provided in the backing layer. The plurality of heat dissipation members extend in a line form in the backing layer, and are placed with an aligned direction of extension. An area occupancy percentage of the heat dissipation member at a center region of the backing layer is larger than that at an outer side of the center region. The center region is not positioned at ends of the cross section intersecting the direction of extension of the heat dissipation member, includes a center of gravity of the cross section, and occupies an area less than or equal to a half of an area of the cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Sawada, Toru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230326438
    Abstract: A communication device for an electronic musical instrument, comprising: an antenna for transmitting and receiving a radio signal of MIDI data and receiving a radio signal of audio data; a radio communication module for mutually converting the MIDI data and the radio signal of MIDI data and converting the radio signal of audio data into the audio data; a control device for mutually converting the MIDI data and a signal for a certain interface and converting the audio data into the signal for the certain interface; and a connector for transmitting and receiving the MIDI data as the signal for the certain interface to and from the electronic musical instrument and transmitting the audio data as the signal for the certain interface to the electronic musical instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi SUMI, Takumi YOSHIDA, Tomoyuki KAGAWA, Toru WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230306992
    Abstract: A magnetic disk device of an embodiment includes: a head structure including at least one reproducing head and main magnetic pole gap installation portion behind a flying slider and including at least two thermal actuators; and a control unit that can independently control the thermal actuators and that sets spacing of the reproducing head and the main magnetic pole gap installation portion with respect to a recording medium by setting a rotational speed at the time of contact, which rotational speed is a rotational speed of the recording medium, to be lower than a normal rotational speed when the reproducing head and the main magnetic pole gap installation portion are brought into contact with the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventor: Toru WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230304187
    Abstract: A film deposition method according to an embodiment includes rotating a wafer mounted on a susceptor in a reaction chamber. Next, a temperature of the wafer is controlled such that, when changing a rotational speed of the wafer before and after a film deposition step of introducing a process gas into the reaction chamber and epitaxially growing a SiC film on the wafer, a force of friction generated on a contact surface between the wafer and the susceptor becomes larger than a force of inertia generated in a direction of rotation of the wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshikazu MORIYAMA, Yoshiaki DAIGO, Toru WATANABE, Shigeaki ISHII
  • Patent number: 11746295
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a polymerizable liquid crystal composition used for formation of an optically anisotropic film having excellent moisture-heat resistance and an excellent surface condition, an optically anisotropic film, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device. The polymerizable liquid crystal composition of an embodiment of the present invention is a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a compound represented by Formula (1): L1-SP1-(E3-A1)m-E1-G1-C(?O)—O—C(?O)-G2-E2-(A2-E4)n-SP2-L2, in which a content of the compound represented by Formula (1) is 0.01 to 5 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polymerizable liquid crystal compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Hayashi, Aiko Yoshida, Toru Watanabe, Keita Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11744144
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element including a luminescent compound represented by the following formula (in which R1 to R14 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a deuterium atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, a fluorine atom, a cyano group, an amino group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a thio group, or a silyl group, and 8 to 13 groups out of R1 to R14 each represent a hydrogen atom or a deuterium atom) in a light emitting layer has high durability and excellent chromaticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Toru Watanabe, Yuki Hirai, Tianhua Ouyang, Koji Takaku, Wataru Sotoyama, Tetsu Kitamura, Yasunori Yonekuta
  • Publication number: 20230213839
    Abstract: A lens unit including a lens group formed by aligning a plurality of lenses along an optical axis; and a lens barrel having a cylindrical shape and including an inner accommodation space for accommodating and holding the lens group, the lens group including a first lens located to be closest to an object side and a second lens adjacent to the first lens on an image side, the lens unit including an annular body that integrates the first lens and the second lens and that is fit to outer circumferences of the first lens and the second lens to cover a joint portion between the first lens and the second lens from an outside, and the annular body is fit to an inner circumferential surface of the lens barrel, and includes a seal portion for tightly sealing an inside of an inter-lens space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventor: Toru WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230194563
    Abstract: An inertial measurement device includes: a first inertial sensor; a first inertial sensor module in which the first inertial sensor is stored in a first package made of resin; a base having a concave portion and made of ceramic; and a lid body. The first inertial sensor module is accommodated in an accommodation space between the base and the lid body and is hermetically sealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Toru Watanabe, Masayasu Sakuma, Hiroki Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20230145614
    Abstract: A vapor phase growth method of embodiments includes: forming a first silicon carbide layer having a first doping concentration on a silicon carbide substrate at a first growth rate by supplying a first process gas under a first gas condition; forming a second silicon carbide layer having a second doping concentration at a second growth rate higher than the first growth rate by supplying a second process gas under a second gas condition; and forming a third silicon carbide layer having a third doping concentration lower than the first doping concentration and the second doping concentration at a third growth rate higher than the second growth rate by supplying a third process gas under a third gas condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiaki DAIGO, Yoshikazu MORIYAMA, Toru WATANABE, Masataka IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230147973
    Abstract: An inertial measurement unit includes: a substrate; a sealing member; a first inertial sensor module including a first inertial sensor and a first package accommodating the first inertial sensor; and a second inertial sensor module including a second inertial sensor and a second package accommodating the second inertial sensor. A material of the first package includes a resin. A material of the second package is an inorganic material. The first inertial sensor module is accommodated in a space between the substrate and the sealing member and thus airtightly sealed therein. The second inertial sensor module is provided outside the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Toru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11618427
    Abstract: A vehicle control device that controls a vehicle electric brake system includes: a shutdown determination part that determines whether the vehicle control device itself has been previously shut down normally or abnormally; a cranking determination part that determines whether an instruction to perform a cranking at a start-up of the vehicle is based on a manual operation of a driver of the vehicle or automatically; a diagnosis part that performs a plurality of initial diagnoses of the vehicle control device at the start-up of the vehicle; and a diagnosis skip control part configured to provide control such that the diagnosis part skips at least one of the initial diagnoses when the shutdown determination part determines that the vehicle control device has been previously shut down abnormally, and at the same time, when the cranking determination part determines that the cranking has been conducted based on the driver's manual operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eisuke Horii, Katsuhito Kanbe, Hiroyuki Hase, Hideharu Murano, Shinji Suto, Keishiro Kikuchi, Katsuya Matsuzaki, Toru Watanabe, Hisanori Yanagida, Yuki Hotani