Patents by Inventor Wataru Watanabe
Wataru 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: 12101580Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a captured data acquisition unit, a motion state detection unit, an extracted image data generation unit, a display image data generation unit, and an output unit. The captured data acquisition unit is configured to acquire captured data generated as a result of a camera capturing scenery outside a vehicle. The motion state detection unit is configured to detect a motion state of the vehicle. The extracted image data generation unit is configured to generate an extracted image from the captured data by using an angle of view set in accordance with the motion state. The display image data generation unit is configured to generate display image data related to a display image having a preset image size, from extracted image data. The output unit is configured to output the display image to a display unit having the image size.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CorporationInventors: Masaki Goto, Nobuyuki Matsukawa, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Masaru Kawasaki, Takeshi Ibaraki, Wataru Katase
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Patent number: 12090667Abstract: A planning system includes flow generating circuitry, confirmation circuitry, and update circuitry. The flow generating circuitry is configured to generate a task flow which includes work tasks predetermined based on a concurrent execution constraint with respect to concurrent execution of tasks performed by robots and connection tasks to be connected to the work tasks. The confirmation circuitry is configured to determine whether at least one of the robots interferes with an object in the connection tasks. The update circuitry is configured to update the concurrent execution constraint when the at least one of the robots is determined to interfere with the object.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Makoto Takahashi, Wataru Watanabe, Yutaro Uchida, Ryo Kabutan
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Publication number: 20240300771Abstract: A medium processing apparatus for processing a medium ejected from an image forming apparatus includes a conveyor, a slit, a medium processing device, a stopper, and detectors. The conveyor conveys the medium ejected from the image forming apparatus. The slit communicates with an opening of a housing into which a medium is manually inserted from outside and includes a placement face on which the inserted medium is placed. The placement face has a first side and a second side orthogonal to the first side. The first and second sides are not parallel to a direction in which a side face of the housing extends. The medium processing device processes the medium conveyed by the conveyor or the medium placed on the slit. The stopper regulates edges of the medium along the first and second sides of the placement face. The detectors are disposed on the stopper to detect the medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Shuuto Tohkaishi, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Yusuke Hirono, Atsushi Shinoda, Satoshi Hirata, Shingo Yoshizawa, Suzuka Fujita, Naofumi Yoshida, Ryota Takayama, Takahiro Watanabe, Takuya Morinaga, Yuji Suzuki, Wataru Nozaki, Kanako Fujisaki, Jun Yamada
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Publication number: 20240294351Abstract: A liquid application device for applying liquid to a plurality of media to be crimped by a crimping device includes a liquid applier and a liquid-applier moving mechanism. The liquid applier applies liquid to the plurality of media. The liquid-applier moving mechanism moves the liquid applier to a first position at which the liquid applier applies liquid to a medium on a conveyance path in the liquid application device and a second position at which the liquid applier applies liquid to the plurality of media inserted through a liquid application slit of the liquid application device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Inventors: Kanako FUJISAKI, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Yusuke HIRONO, Atsushi SHINODA, Shuuto TOHKAISHI, Satoshi HIRATA, Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Suzuka FUJITA, Naofumi YOSHIDA, Ryota TAKAYAMA, Takahiro WATANABE, Takuya MORINAGA, Yuji SUZUKI, Jun YAMADA, Wataru NOZAKI
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Publication number: 20240281824Abstract: According to one embodiment, a troubleshooting support apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires multiple pieces of document data which describe content of a problem relating to multiple articles or services. The processing circuitry extracts, from the multiple pieces of document data, multiple first keywords relating to the multiple articles or services together with attribute information. The processing circuitry records the multiple first keywords in a memory for the respective pieces of attribute information. The processing circuitry determines, based on a rate of occurrence of each of multiple second keywords relating to predetermined attribute information among the first keywords recorded in the memory, a display manner of first data relating to each of the multiple second keywords.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Jumpei ANDO, Wataru WATANABE, Toshiyuki ONO, Shintaro YAMAMOTO, Kenzo ISOGAWA
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Patent number: 12061467Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor generates visualization data for displaying estimation results of manufacturing conditions based on estimation results and relationship data. The relationship data includes first relationship data as a relationship between first manufacturing conditions recorded during an analysis, and second relationship data as a relationship between second manufacturing conditions corresponding. The processor divides the estimation results of the manufacturing conditions into a first group based on the first relationship data, and into a second group based on the second relationship data. The processor generates the visualization data based on a change in manufacturing condition relationship between the first group and the second group.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Wataru Watanabe, Takayuki Itoh, Jumpei Ando, Keisuke Kawauchi, Toshiyuki Ono
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Publication number: 20240253923Abstract: A sheet processing device includes an upstream device, a downstream device, and a controller as circuitry. The upstream device includes multiple rollers to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction and perform a sheet processing. The downstream device is downstream from the upstream device in the conveyance direction. The downstream device includes a sheet sensor to detect the sheet. The controller controls a timing to rotate the multiple rollers of the upstream device to perform the sheet processing in response to a detection of the sheet by the sheet sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Yusuke HIRONO, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Atsushi SHINODA, Shuuto TOHKAISHI, Satoshi HIRATA, Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Suzuka FUJITA, Naofumi YOSHIDA, Ryota TAKAYAMA, Takahiro WATANABE, Takuya MORINAGA, Yuji SUZUKI, Wataru NOZAKI, Kanako FUJISAKI, Jun YAMADA
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Publication number: 20240246787Abstract: A sheet folder includes a conveyor conveying a sheet, a first folding roller and a second folding roller that form a first nip, a third folding roller forming a second nip with the second folding roller, a first guide movable between a first guide posture and a first retracted posture, a second guide movable between a second guide posture and a second retracted posture, and a motor. The motor rotates the second folding roller forward to convey the sheet toward the first nip, reverse to convey the sheet toward the second nip, moves the first guide to arrange in the first guide in the first guide posture or the first retracted posture, and moves the second guide to arrange the second guide in the second guide posture or the second retracted posture.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Takuya MORINAGA, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Yusuke HIRONO, Atsushi SHINODA, Shuuto TOHKAISHI, Satoshi HIRATA, Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Suzuka FUJITA, Naofumi YOSHIDA, Ryota TAKAYAMA, Takahiro WATANABE, Yuji SUZUKI, Wataru NOZAKI, Kanako FUJISAKI, Jun YAMADA
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Patent number: 12042940Abstract: A simulation system includes circuitry configured to: determine placement of a robot with respect to another object in a virtual space, based on a placement constraint applied to the robot for executing a plurality of tasks; generate a path representing a trajectory of at least a portion of the robot or a tool operated by the robot during the tasks, based on a spatial relationship between the determined placement of the robot and the other object that satisfies the placement constraint; execute an operation program including the generated path in the virtual space in which the robot and the other object are placed; and check whether the robot interferes with the other object, based on the spatial relationship between the determined placement of the robot and the other object along the generated path in the virtual space, as a result of executing the tasks in the operation program.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Inventors: Makoto Takahashi, Wataru Watanabe, Yutaro Uchida, Ryo Kabutan, Keita Satsuma
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Publication number: 20240122413Abstract: A membrane unit includes: a cross-flow membrane filter; a cylindrical casing housing the membrane filter; a cap provided with an inflow port that allows water to flow into the casing, a first discharge port that discharges, to outside of the casing, permeated water obtained as a result of water that flows into the casing from the inflow port permeating the membrane filter, and a second discharge port that discharges, to the outside of the casing, concentrated water obtained as a result of water being concentrated as a result of the permeated water permeating the membrane filter, the cap detachably occluding the casing; and a positioning member which is fixed to the cap taking the first discharge port as a reference, and which defines a position of the membrane filter inside the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: WOTA CORP.Inventors: Satoshi TOKUNAGA, Ryo YAMADA, Wataru WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240091936Abstract: A robot automation system includes circuitry configured to generate a plurality of task patterns that are candidates of a task flow for performing a job including a plurality of tasks by at least one robot. Each of the plurality of task patterns includes a corresponding relationship between the plurality of tasks and the at least one robot. The circuitry is further configured to calculate an estimated cycle time of the job based on a simulation in which the at least one robot performs the plurality of tasks, for each of the plurality of task patterns. The circuitry is further configured to generate, as an operation program, at least one task flow for performing the job by the at least one robot, in response to comparing a preset reference cycle time for the job with the estimated cycle time for each of the plurality of task patterns.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Wataru WATANABE, Makoto TAKAHASHI, Masahiro GOYA, Tomoaki UCHIDA, Satoshi HIRONAKA
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Publication number: 20240094092Abstract: According to one embodiment, a manufacturing data analysis device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires, from manufacturing data related to a plurality of products, first manufacturing data under a first acquisition condition. The first manufacturing data includes manufacturing condition data related to a manufacturing condition for each of the products and quality data related to quality for each of the products. The processing circuitry determines a second acquisition condition different from the first acquisition condition based on the first manufacturing data. The processing circuitry acquires second manufacturing data including the manufacturing condition data and the quality data from the manufacturing data under the second acquisition condition. The processing circuitry calculates an analysis result of a relationship between the manufacturing condition data and the quality data by analyzing the second manufacturing data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Wataru WATANABE, Keisuke KAWAUCHI, Takayuki ITOH, Jumpei ANDO, Toshiyuki ONO
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Publication number: 20240094091Abstract: According to one embodiment, a manufacturing data analysis device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires manufacturing data including a manufacturing condition data group and a quality data group. The processing circuitry calculates one or more degrees of influence exerted by first manufacturing condition data included in the manufacturing condition data group on respective pieces of quality data included in the quality data group by analyzing the manufacturing data. The processing circuitry, in a case where one or more degrees of influence satisfy a determination condition, generates output data related to at least one of the first manufacturing condition data, one or more pieces of quality data on which the first manufacturing condition data has exerted the degrees of influence satisfying the determination condition, or the degrees of influence satisfying the determination condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Wataru WATANABE, Keisuke KAWAUCHI, Takayuki ITOH, Jumpei ANDO, Toshiyuki ONO
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Publication number: 20240085841Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developing section, and a controller that functions as a sign detector, a charge amount measurement section, and a charge amount adjuster. On the image bearing member, an electrostatic latent image is formed based on image data. The developing section contains a developer, and develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member with the developer to form a toner image. The sign detector detects a sign that the charge amount of the developer contained in the developing section changes. The charge amount measurement section measures the charge amount of the developer in accordance with the detection result by the sign detector. The charge amount adjuster adjusts the charge amount of the developer according to the measurement result by the charge amount measurement section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Wataru WATANABE, Ryoei IKARI
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Publication number: 20240085899Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data analysis apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires first factor data indicative of first manufacturing conditions of a first product, and acquires second factor data indicative of second manufacturing conditions of a second product. The processing circuitry computes, based on the first factor data, a first index value relating to a degree by which each of the first manufacturing conditions contributes to an abnormality, and computes, based on the second factor data, a second index value relating to a degree by which each of the second manufacturing conditions contributes to an abnormality. The processing circuitry computes a similarity between the first index value and the second index value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Jumpei ANDO, Wataru WATANABE, Takayuki ITOH, Keisuke KAWAUCHI, Toshiyuki ONO
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Patent number: 11782426Abstract: An abnormality score calculation apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuit configured to: acquire first data concerning a status of a product or a manufacturing process; calculate based on the first data an abnormality score for a respective one of a plurality of abnormality modes or for a respective one of a plurality of pieces of the first data of various types; and convert a scale of a respective one of a plurality of abnormality scores including the abnormality score in such a manner that the abnormality scores become substantially equal in occurrence degree.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Jumpei Ando, Wataru Watanabe, Takayuki Itoh, Toshiyuki Ono
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Patent number: 11775512Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data analysis apparatus includes a processor. The processor acquires, for a plurality of products as analysis targets, manufacturing data including at least one manufacturing condition for each product. The processor calculates, based on a bias of state data representing a degree that the product is in a specific state in at least one item that can be taken concerning one manufacturing condition extracted from the manufacturing data, an index value representing a degree that a cause of the specific state of the product is the manufacturing condition.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Wataru Watanabe, Takayuki Itoh, Jumpei Ando, Keisuke Kawauchi, Toshiyuki Ono
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Patent number: 11717965Abstract: A program generation system according to an example includes circuitry configured to: set multiple kinds of candidate postures of a robot in a connection area between a work path that is a trajectory of the robot in a task and an air-cut path that is a trajectory of the robot connecting tasks; evaluate an operation program including the work path and the air-cut path while changing a posture of the robot in the connection area among the multiple kinds of candidate postures; determine one of the multiple kinds of candidate postures as the posture of the robot in the connection area based on an evaluation result in the evaluating; and generate the operation program.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Inventors: Makoto Takahashi, Wataru Watanabe, Yutaro Uchida, Ryo Kabutan
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Publication number: 20230244210Abstract: In general, according to one embodiment, a data processing apparatus includes a processor including hardware. The processor acquires state data related to a state of each product and order data related to order related to manufacturing of each product. The processor calculates a first score by using the acquired state data and the acquired order data. The first score regards a change in the acquired state data and is based on a first change model. The first change model represents the change in the state data using the order data. The processor outputs the first score.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Keisuke KAWAUCHI, Takayuki ITOH, Wataru WATANABE, Jumpei ANDO, Toshiyuki ONO
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Publication number: 20230202030Abstract: Provided is a work system including: an object imaging unit configured to acquire an object image by photographing an object from a work direction; a work position acquisition unit configured to acquire a work position based on an existence region of the object obtained from a machine learning model; and a work unit configured to execute work on the object based on a work position obtained by inputting the object image to the work position acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Ryo MASUMURA, Wataru WATANABE