Patents by Inventor Wataru Mizutani
Wataru Mizutani 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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Publication number: 20240429559Abstract: The object of the disclosure is to provide a multilayer porous membrane that can improve heat resistance (ability to inhibit heat shrinkage) and strength when the thickness of a nonaqueous electrolyte solution battery separator has been decreased, while inhibiting friction on the separator surface as a whole, and that can also increase energy density in a nonaqueous electrolyte solution battery, as well as a nonaqueous electrolyte solution battery separator and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution battery comprising the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Wataru Mizutani, Kazushi Funakoshi, Haruka Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20240327550Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide, for example, a polyethylene powder that can produce a shaped article excellent in balance between mechanical strength and a rate of thermal shrinkage even when shaped at a high speed. Provided is a polyethylene powder having intrinsic viscosity IV of 1.5 dL/g or more and 15.0 dL/g or less measured in accordance with ISO1628-3 (2010), an amorphous moiety thickness of 5.3 nm or larger and 12.0 nm or smaller, and a crystallite size of 13.9 nm or larger and 18.0 nm or smaller obtained by a reflection method of X-ray diffraction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuya Shikata, Natsumi Shiozawa, Keisuke Hirami, Naoya Okitsu, Tomosato Okubo, Noriko Horiike, Wataru Mizutani
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Publication number: 20240281771Abstract: A computer according to the present disclosure includes a controller configured to acquire requests to exchange components of vehicles, acquire degree of deterioration of the components with which the vehicles are equipped, select a pair of vehicles whose components are to be exchanged based on the requests, and determine second parts to be exchanged in the pair among first parts composing the components based on the degree of deterioration.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Wataru MIZUTANI, Kyosuke MATSUMOTO, Yohei NAKANISHI
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Publication number: 20240281772Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire an identifier of a vehicle upon receiving a request for customization of the vehicle, identify one or more parts with which the vehicle is already equipped by searching a vehicle database that stores data on parts with which a plurality of vehicles is equipped using the acquired identifier as a key, and determine a work item for the customization according to the one or more identified parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Wataru MIZUTANI, Kyosuke MATSUMOTO, Yohei NAKANISHI
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Publication number: 20240083354Abstract: An information notification device includes a central processing unit. The central processing unit is configured to acquire information on the state of deterioration of a vehicle lamp of a vehicle, and is configured to propose replacement or maintenance of a lens of the vehicle lamp and also propose customization of the vehicle lamp, based on the information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventor: Wataru MIZUTANI
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Publication number: 20240079723Abstract: A polyolefin microporous membrane having a film thickness of 1 ?m to 30 ?m; an air permeability of 500 sec/100 cm3 or less; and a withstand voltage reduction rate of 1.0% or greater and 17.0% or less due to pressing under conditions of a temperature of 60° C., a pressure of 3.4 MPa, and a compression time of 1 sec or a withstand voltage reduction rate of 1.0% or greater and 28.0% or less due to pressing under conditions of a temperature of 70° C., a pressure of 8 MPa, and a compression time of 3 min, or having a polyethylene crystal long period before compression of 35.0 nm or more, measured by a small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) method, and a diffraction peak-to-peak distance of 2.410° or more and 2.600° or less derived from a (110) plane and a (200) plane of a polyethylene crystal before compression is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Wataru Mizutani, Tomosato Okubo, Masaaki Okada, Takeshi Matsubayashi
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Publication number: 20240055722Abstract: A polyolefin porous film is provided which has a film thickness of 1-30 ?m and an air permeability of at most 500 sec/100 cm3, and which has a 30% or higher porosity after compression, measured in a compression test under the conditions in which the temperature is 70° C., the pressure is 8 MPa and the compression time is 3 minutes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Wataru Mizutani, Tomosato Okubo, Masaaki Okada, Takeshi Matsubayashi
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Patent number: 9999925Abstract: Provided is a lamination molding apparatus which can prevent the recoater head from being damaged when the recoater head clashes with an obstacle. Provided is a lamination molding apparatus including: a recoater head to form a material powder layer by moving in a chamber while supplying a material powder on a molding region and planarizing the material powder; wherein the recoater head is configured so as to be capable of being moved by a recoater head driving mechanism; the recoater head driving mechanism includes: a servo motor to move the recoater head; an encoder to detect a movement amount of the recoater head; and a controlling apparatus to control the servo motor in accordance with a value detected by the encoder; and the controlling apparatus is configured to place the servo motor in a non-control state when clashing of the recoater head with an obstacle is detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.Inventor: Wataru Mizutani
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Publication number: 20160144429Abstract: Provided is a lamination molding apparatus which can prevent the recoater head from being damaged when the recoater head clashes with an obstacle. Provided is a lamination molding apparatus including: a recoater head to form a material powder layer by moving in a chamber while supplying a material powder on a molding region and planarizing the material powder; wherein the recoater head is configured so as to be capable of being moved by a recoater head driving mechanism; the recoater head driving mechanism includes: a servo motor to move the recoater head; an encoder to detect a movement amount of the recoater head; and a controlling apparatus to control the servo motor in accordance with a value detected by the encoder; and the controlling apparatus is configured to place the servo motor in a non-control state when clashing of the recoater head with an obstacle is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: SODICK CO., LTD.Inventor: Wataru MIZUTANI
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Patent number: 9057296Abstract: A muffler having a shell of a double-layer structure includes an inner shell that is formed by fixing ends of a tubularly rolled plate material to each other through a lock seam, and an outer shell that is formed substantially in the same manner as the inner shell. In this muffler, a through-hole is provided through the inner shell at a position where the inner shell overlaps with a lock seam portion of the outer shell.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2012Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuru Hiramatsu, Wataru Mizutani
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Publication number: 20140231167Abstract: A muffler having a shell of a double-layer structure includes an inner shell that is formed by fixing ends of a tubularly rolled plate material to each other through a lock seam, and an outer shell that is formed substantially in the same manner as the inner shell. In this muffler, a through-hole is provided through the inner shell at a position where the inner shell overlaps with a lock seam portion of the outer shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuru Hiramatsu, Wataru Mizutani
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Patent number: 8093518Abstract: A switching element 100 includes an insulating substrate 10, a first electrode 20 provided on the insulating substrate 10, a second electrode 30 provided on the insulating substrate 10, and an interelectrode gap 40 provided between the first electrode 20 and the second electrode 30, a distance G between the first electrode 20 and the second electrode 30 being 0 nm<G?50 nm.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2006Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Yasuhisa Naitoh, Masayo Horikawa, Hidekazu Abe, Tetsuo Shimizu, Wataru Mizutani, Shigeo Furuta, Masatoshi Ono, Tsuyoshi Takahashi
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Patent number: 7969569Abstract: Provided is a detection method and device for analyzing trace substance of interest in a short time and with high accuracy without the need of performing any treatment for binding a fluorescent substance to the substance of interest or using any large apparatus. The substance of interest is detected by being immobilizing on a surface of any one of a hole transport layer, an electron transport layer, a luminescent layer, a buffer layer, and inside surfaces of electrodes for an organic electroluminescent device based on a change in at least one luminescent property selected from luminescence intensity, luminous efficiency, and emission spectrum of the organic electroluminescent device before and after the immobilization of the substance of interest.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2007Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Wataru Mizutani, Kiyomi Tsukagoshi, Koichi Sakaguchi, Yuuji Yoshida
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Publication number: 20100039647Abstract: Provided is a detection method and device for analyzing trace substance of interest in a short time and with high accuracy without the need of performing any treatment for binding a fluorescent substance to the substance of interest or using any large apparatus. The substance of interest is detected by being immobilizing on a surface of any one of a hole transport layer, an electron transport layer, a luminescent layer, a buffer layer, and inside surfaces of electrodes for an organic electroluminescent device based on a change in at least one luminescent property selected from luminescence intensity, luminous efficiency, and emission spectrum of the organic electroluminescent device before and after the immobilization of the substance of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2007Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Wataru Mizutani, Kiyomi Tsukagoshi, Koichi Sakaguchi, Yuuji Yoshida
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Publication number: 20090251199Abstract: A switching element 100 includes an insulating substrate 10, a first electrode 20 provided on the insulating substrate 10, a second electrode 30 provided on the insulating substrate 10, and an interelectrode gap 40 provided between the first electrode 20 and the second electrode 30, a distance G between the first electrode 20 and the second electrode 30 being 0 nm<C?50 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2006Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, FUNAI ELECTRIC ADVANCED APPLIED TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC.Inventors: Yasuhisa Naitoh, Masayo Horikawa, Hidekazu Abe, Tetsuo Shimizu, Wataru Mizutani, Shigeo Furuta, Masatoshi Ono, Tsuyoshi Takahashi
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Patent number: 6793153Abstract: There is provided a structure for mounting a headlamp cleaner including pistons having a nozzle cover and an injection nozzle at the front ends, and a cylinder for moving the pistons back and forth from a bumper. The cylinder is mounted in the bumper via a bracket having mating pieces which mate with a mounting hole provided in the bumper and positioning projections which are inserted into the mounting hole and used for positioning the bracket with respect to the planar horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Hirose, Hiromasa Takada, Riichiro Miura, Hiroaki Kimura, Wataru Mizutani
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Publication number: 20030116645Abstract: There is provided a structure for mounting a headlamp cleaner including pistons having a nozzle cover and an injection nozzle at the front ends, and a cylinder for moving the pistons back and forth from a bumper. The cylinder is mounted in the bumper via a bracket having mating pieces which mate with a mounting hole provided in the bumper and positioning projections which are inserted into the mounting hole and used for positioning the bracket with respect to the planar horizontal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2002Publication date: June 26, 2003Inventors: Hitoshi Hirose, Hiromasa Takada, Riichiro Miura, Hiroaki Kimura, Wataru Mizutani
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Patent number: 5218757Abstract: A tapered carbon microelectrode is produced by extruding an organic material or a composition composed of crystalline carbon fine powder and an organic binder into a thin rod form, carbonizing said rod by calcining to produce a pure carbon thin rod, soaking the resulting thin rod as an anode in an electrolytic solution, gradually pulling up the thin rod while electrochemically oxidizing the tip portion of the thin rod. Then a lead wire is connected with the thick portion of the thin rod followed by coating all the surface except the conically sharp tip portion.The tapered carbon electrode can be used for various electrochemical measurements and scanning tunneling microscope.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1991Date of Patent: June 15, 1993Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Mitsubishi Pencil Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroko Kaneko, Masahiro Yamada, Yukifumi Shigematsu, Wataru Mizutani, Akira Negishi, Takamasa Kawakubo, Yoshihisa Suda
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Patent number: 4902892Abstract: A probe is shifted at a distance where the probe and a material to be obsed are sufficiently far away from each other relative to the roughness of the material's surface. This method prevents the probe from colliding with the material's surface during the shift of the probe thereby enabling high speed shift of the probe. Further, a micro-drive mechanism for controlling tunnel currents may be stopped during the shift in order to minimize the drift which may be caused by heat generated inside the micro-drive mechanism. Therefore, it is particularly advantageous to apply this STM measuring method for high-speed and stable measurement of a very large surface area and a very rough surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1988Date of Patent: February 20, 1990Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Kosaka Laboratory Ltd., Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventors: Shigeo Okayama, Hiroshi Tokumoto, Hiroshi Bando, Wataru Mizutani, Masayuki Shimura, Haruki Nakagawa, Masatsugu Shigeno, Kazutoshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 4866271Abstract: A relative displacement control apparatus provides both coarse and extremely fine precise control over displacements between a sample and a detecting probe as required, e.g. in operations of optical instruments, analyzing instruments and scanning tunneling microscopes. This precise fine displacement is produced through a double-lever-action which is created substantially by means of an arm assembly preferably with a piezoelectric drive for precise displacement control, a support pivotally holding the arm assembly, a rigid arm fixed solidly atop the support and a pointed stop or "foot" fixed in the proximity of the free end of the rigid arm.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1987Date of Patent: September 12, 1989Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventors: Masatoshi Ono, Wataru Mizutani, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Bando, Shigeru Wakiyama, Fumiki Sakai, Takashi Wakatsuki