Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Watanabe

Toshiaki 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: 20200315439
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes a processor configured to generate a clock at predetermined timing, a light source apparatus configured to irradiate white light and excitation light in a time division manner in synchronization with the clock, and an endoscope configured to perform image pickup based on irradiation timing of the light source apparatus. The processor generates a first white light image at a first clock, generates a first fluorescent image at a second clock, generates a second white light image at a third clock, and generates a third white light image at a fourth clock and superimposes the second white light image and the first fluorescent image at the fourth clock and superimposes the third white light image and the first fluorescent image at a fifth clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu MIZOGUCHI, Toshiaki WATANABE, Satoshi TAKEKOSHI, Susumu AONO
  • Publication number: 20200322512
    Abstract: An endoscope system is provided with: a processor; a light source; and an image pickup device. The processor performs control for causing reflected light images corresponding to a predetermined period before start of the fluorescence occurrence period during the fluorescence non-occurrence period, among the reflected light images, to be recorded to the first storage medium; and, furthermore, performs control for causing the reflected light images to be recorded to the first storage medium during an after-end-of-fluorescence-occurrence period corresponding to a predetermined period with an end of the fluorescence occurrence period as a start point, and performs control for causing the reflected light images not to be recorded to the first storage medium during the fluorescence non-occurrence period after an end of the after-end-of-fluorescence-occurrence period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Susumu AONO, Toshiaki WATANABE, Satoshi TAKEKOSHI, Masakazu MIZOGUCHI, Junichi TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20200298557
    Abstract: There are provided a liquid ejecting head and a liquid-ejecting recording apparatus in which it is possible to improve convenience. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a liquid ejecting head includes an ejecting section including a plurality of nozzles for ejecting liquid, a driving circuit that drives the ejecting section based on a printing driving signal to eject the liquid from the nozzles, a power supply path connected to the driving circuit, a detection section that acquires measurement data based on a detection result of a current flowing on the power supply path, and an arithmetic operation section that performs both an inspection of a state of the ejecting section based on the measurement data obtained by the detection section and acquisition of a parameter for ejection of the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Kensuke YOSHIDA, Toshiaki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200269569
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure is a driving circuit for ejecting liquid from a plurality of nozzles in an ejecting section in a liquid ejecting head. The driving circuit includes a first signal generation section that generates a printing driving signal for ejecting the liquid from the nozzles, a second signal generation section that generates an inspection driving signal for inspecting a state of the ejecting section, and a control section that controls the first signal generation section and the second signal generation section so as to exclusively output one of the printing driving signal and the inspection driving signal to the ejecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Toshiaki WATANABE, Kensuke Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20200271830
    Abstract: An antireflection structure includes an antireflection film provided on a front surface of a substrate. The antireflection film has a plurality of holes that are spatially and periodically arranged and pass through front and back surfaces of the antireflection film. A thickness and a relative dielectric constant of the antireflection film are set according to a relative dielectric constant and a thickness of the substrate and an incident angle ? of an electromagnetic wave. The thickness and the relative dielectric constant of the antireflection film are set for an electromagnetic wave incident at the angle ? so that, for example, an electromagnetic wave reflected by the antireflection film provided on the front surface of the substrate and an electromagnetic wave reflected by a back surface of the substrate deviate from each other by a half wavelength and cancel each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshihiro ABE, Toshiaki WATANABE, Shinichiro MATSUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20200183102
    Abstract: A light guide body for optical path and optical axis adjustment, the light guide body includes a silicon single crystal having an extinction ratio of 30 dB or more. The light guide body is a light guide body having one side surface alone joined and fixed to a base. An optical module including the light guide body installed at an installation angle adjusted for optical path and optical axis adjustment between components. An optical path and optical axis adjustment method including adjusting an installation angle of the light guide body to perform the optical path and optical axis adjustment between components. It is possible to provide the light guide body which does not adversely affect polarization characteristics and can easily perform the optical path and optical axis adjustment. It is possible to provide optical module and the optical path and optical axis adjustment method using such a light guide body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200159046
    Abstract: A Faraday rotator and an optical isolator having a high transmittance and a high Verdet constant are provided. The optical isolator includes at least a Faraday rotator that rotates a polarization plane of incident light in a non-reciprocal manner, a polarizer disposed on a light incident side of the Faraday rotator, and an analyzer disposed on a light exit side of the Faraday rotator. The Faraday rotator is made of an oxide containing ytterbium oxide (Yb2O3), and is manufactured by a ceramic manufacturing process, wherein the oxide is allowed to contain an oxide of a metal other than ytterbium, and the proportion of ytterbium in all metal atoms in the oxide is 80% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventor: Toshiaki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10617954
    Abstract: A computer is caused to execute processing that determines, based on a first usage amount of a hardware resource which is allocated for processing corresponding to objects of a first category including an essential object located in a target scene, a second usage amount of the hardware resource that is able to be allocated for processing for objects of a second category different to the first category. Also, the computer is caused to execute processing of deciding, for objects of the second category which are located in the target scene, types of those objects and an outer appearance parameter for each type based on the second usage amount and information for deciding outer appearances for when the objects of the second category are located in the target scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Sato, Atsushi Tawara, Toshiaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10574094
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitter which can maximize the efficiency of rectification in a power-receiving electronic device irrespective of the distance therebetween. The transmitter transmits electric power to the electronic device through use of a microwave. The electronic device receives the microwave, converts the microwave to DC power, and uses the DC power as operation power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Masaya Ishida, Toshiaki Watanabe, Shin-ichiro Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 10557992
    Abstract: The present invention is a polarization independent optical isolator including two polarizing separation members each configured to separate polarization components of a transmitted light, an absorptive polarizer arranged on optical paths of separated transmitted lights and corresponding to a plane of polarization of each separated transmitted light, and a Faraday rotator, wherein the Faraday rotator is arranged downstream of the absorptive polarizer in a forward direction. As a result, there can be provided a polarization independent optical isolator that requires no stray light processing of separated optical feedback and shows high isolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10539814
    Abstract: A small, low-cost 1.5-stage optical isolator has, in a forward direction, incoming light and outgoing light polarization directions that are parallel. The isolator includes a first Faraday rotator, a first polarizer, a second Faraday rotator and a second polarizer arranged in order on a light transmission path, and a magnet arranged so as to apply a same-direction magnetic field to the first Faraday rotator and the second Faraday rotator. Faraday rotation in the first Faraday rotator and Faraday rotation in the second Faraday rotator occur in opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190388702
    Abstract: A tumor treatment method for treating a tumor in a subject, the method includes: a step I of administering a therapeutically effective amount of one or a plurality of antibody-IR 700 molecules to the subject, in which the antibody specifically binds to a cell surface protein of the tumor; a step II of inserting an optical probe into the subject; a step III of applying light having a wavelength in a range from 660 nm to 740 nm from the optical probe, to supply energy of at least 1 J/cm2 to at least a part of the tumor; a step IV of waiting for a time until an immune response is elicited in the tumor; a step V of inserting an energy device into the subject; and a step VI of resecting tissues of the subject including the tumor using the energy device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki WATANABE, Masahiro YOSHINO, Tetsuhide TAKEYAMA, Motohiro MITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190309439
    Abstract: Provided are a practical method for manufacturing TAG single crystal. The method of manufacturing a garnet type crystal brings a raw material solution into contact with a substrate formed of a Y3Al5O12 crystal or a Dy3Al5O12 crystal and performs liquid phase epitaxial growth. The garnet type crystal is represented by (Tb3-x-yRxBiy) Al5O12 (R is one or more elements selected from Y or a lanthanoid (La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, or Lu), 0?x, and 0?y)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventor: Toshiaki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190309440
    Abstract: Provided are a Faraday rotator having a high light transmittance and a high Verdet constant and an optical isolator using the same. The Faraday rotator of the present invention contains a garnet type crystal represented by (Tb3-x-yRxBiy)Al5O12 (R represents one or more elements selected from Y, Er, Yb, or Lu, 0<x, and 0?y). It is preferable that the Faraday rotator contains a garnet type crystal represented by (Tb3-x-yRxBiy)Al5O12 (R is one or more elements selected from Y or a lanthanoid (La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, or Lu), 0?x, and 0<y)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventor: Toshiaki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10431731
    Abstract: The present invention comprises: a step of applying a liquid composition for forming a PZT ferroelectric film; a step of drying the film applied with the liquid composition; a step of irradiating UV rays onto the dried film at a temperature of 150 to 200° C. in an oxygen-containing atmosphere; and after the application step, the drying step, and the UV irradiation step once, or more times, a step of firing for crystallizing a precursor film of the UV-irradiated ferroelectric film by raising a temperature with a rate of 0.5° C./second or higher in an oxygen-containing atmosphere or by raising a temperature with a rate of 0.2° C./second or higher in a non-oxygen containing atmosphere, followed by keeping the temperature at 400 to 500° C. An amount of liquid composition is set such that thickness of the ferroelectric film be 150 nm or more for each application and ozone is supplied during UV irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Tagashira, Reijiro Shimura, Yuzuru Takamura, Jinwang Li, Tatsuya Shimoda, Toshiaki Watanabe, Nobuyuki Soyama
  • Publication number: 20190243168
    Abstract: An optical isolator includes: an optical isolator chip in which a first polarizer, a Faraday rotator made of a ferromagnet, and a second polarizer are bonded and fixed in this order; and a magnet for applying a magnetic field to the optical isolator chip. A light-entering end surface or a light-exiting end surface of the optical isolator chip is bonded and fixed to a component. On an optical axis of the optical isolator, a center of a magnetic flux formed by the magnet is positioned closer to the end surface side bonded and fixed to the component than a central position of the Faraday rotator on the optical axis. The optical isolator has high bonding reliability to the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10336067
    Abstract: An ejection volume of a liquid can more finely be adjusted without lowering the ejection speed. The liquid jet head includes a plurality of nozzles adapted to jet the liquid, a piezoelectric actuator having a plurality of pressure chambers corresponding respectively to the nozzles and filled with the liquid, and adapted to vary a capacity of each of the pressure chambers, and a control section adapted to apply a pulse signal to the piezoelectric actuator to thereby expand and contract the capacity of the pressure chamber so as to jet the liquid with which the pressure chamber is filled. The control section generates a drive waveform including a plurality of the pulse signals adapted to expand the capacity of the pressure chamber, and sets a crest value of either of the pulse signals other than the pulse signal applied last to a different value from a crest value of another of the pulse signals in the drive waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SII Printek Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Toshiaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190167083
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes: a light source apparatus configured to emit excitation light for exciting a fluorescent medical agent and illuminating light; an image sensor configured to pick up an image of each of fluorescence emitted in response to application of the excitation light to an object present inside a body cavity of a subject to which the fluorescent medical agent is administered and reflected light emitted in response to application of the illuminating light to the object; and a mixed image generating circuit configured to generate an observation image in which a first image that is an image obtained by performing image pickup of the reflected light by the image sensor, and a second image that is an image indicating a site of emission of the fluorescence in the object are mixed in a set of pixel arrays that do not overlap each other and each have periodicity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiaki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10202045
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a power receiving portion that contactlessly receives electric power from a power transmitting portion provided outside the vehicle and includes a shield member that is arranged around the power receiving portion in the same plane as a plane in which the power receiving portion is arranged, wherein the shield member includes a first shield region having a high shielding function and a second shield region having a shielding function lower than that of the first shield region at a position around the power receiving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Toru Nakamura, Masaya Ishida, Yoshiyuki Hattori, Toshiaki Watanabe, Takashi Kojima
  • Patent number: 10173138
    Abstract: A computer is caused to execute processing that that determines, based on a first usage amount of a hardware resource which is allocated for processing corresponding to objects of a first category including an essential object located in a target scene, a second usage amount of the hardware resource that is able to be allocated for processing for objects of a second category different to the first category. Also, the computer is caused to execute processing of deciding, for objects of the second category which are located in the target scene, types of those objects and an outer appearance parameter for each type based on the second usage amount and information for deciding outer appearances for when the objects of the second category are located in the target scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Sato, Atsushi Tawara, Toshiaki Watanabe