Patents by Inventor Yohei Watanabe
Yohei 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: 11969662Abstract: There is provided a robot device including: a head portion coupled to a trunk; four leg portions on a front left, a front right, a rear left, and a rear right coupled to the trunk; a first indirect portion that tilts the head portion left and right; and a second joint portion that rotates, with respect to the trunk, one of the leg portions on the rear left and the rear right to a front side, and the other to a rear side. It is possible to faithfully reproduce the movement of the four-legged animal by providing the first joint portion and the second joint portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori Ishibashi, Tomoo Mizukami, Takuma Araki, Masato Muraki, Tomoyuki Arai, Goushi Koike, Takayuki Ito, Kouta Katsumura, Yohei Watanabe, Muneyuki Horiguchi, Takashi Maeda, Satoshi Muto, Hideo Miyano
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Publication number: 20240133839Abstract: A gas sensor includes: an element body which is internally provided with a measurement-object gas flow portion; a first pump cell including a first inner electrode disposed in the measurement-object gas flow portion; a second pump cell including a second inner electrode disposed in the measurement-object gas flow portion; a heater; a first impedance measurer configured to measure a first impedance by applying a voltage to the first inner electrode; a second impedance measurer configured to measure a second impedance by applying a voltage to the second inner electrode; and a control apparatus configured to perform a heater control process of controlling the heater so that the first impedance reaches a target value, and a correction process of correcting, based on the second impedance, a second pump current which flows through the second pump cell or a value derived based on the second pump current.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Yusuke WATANABE, Yohei GORO
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Publication number: 20240113558Abstract: A power system supervisory control apparatus, a power system supervisory control system, and a power system supervisory control method for reducing social cost and improving resilience of a power system are provided. The power system supervisory control apparatus including multiple renewable energy power supplies includes: a system influence degree evaluation section that evaluates a system influence degree when a renewable energy fluctuation or an assumed fault has an influence on the power system by using, as computation conditions, system data for obtaining a state of the power system, renewable energy fluctuation data indicative of a fluctuation of a power generation output, and assumed fault data of an assumed fault in the power system, and calculates system influence degree evaluation result data; a computation condition selection index calculation section that calculates a selection index for the computation conditions; and a condition selection section that selects the computation conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Daichi Kato, Masahiro Watanabe, Takahisa Matsuzaki, Yohei Murakami
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Publication number: 20240101532Abstract: A compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy is provided. The present inventors have conducted studies on a compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy, and confirmed that a heteroaryl carboxamide compound has DGK ? (DGKzeta) inhibitory effect, leading to completion of the present invention. The heteroaryl carboxamide compound of the present invention has DGK ? inhibitory effect, and can be used as a therapeutic agent for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Hideyuki Watanabe, Takashi Kamikubo, Akio Kamikawa, Takuya Washio, Yohei Seki, Keiichiro Okuyama, Osamu Ikeda, Hiroshi Tomiyama, Yoshinori Iwai, Akihiko Nakamura, Kozo Miyasaka
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Publication number: 20230282895Abstract: A secondary battery protection apparatus includes a temperature sensitive element having a characteristic value that varies in accordance with a change in temperature of a secondary battery. The secondary battery protection apparatus includes a switching circuit provided in a charge-and-discharge path between a secondary battery and an external device. The secondary battery protection apparatus includes a secondary battery protection circuit configured to control charge and discharge using the switching circuit to protect the secondary battery from temperature. The secondary battery protection circuit includes a comparison circuit configured to compare a voltage against a threshold voltage, the voltage corresponding to the change in the temperature of the secondary battery. The secondary battery protection circuit includes a conversion circuit that is controlled such that a first input of the comparison circuit is electrically coupled to a first terminal of the secondary battery protection circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yohei WATANABE, Takashi TAKEDA, Junji TAKESHITA, Daisuke SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11575161Abstract: A secondary battery protection circuit for controlling charge and discharge using a switching circuit to protect a secondary battery from temperature is provided. The switching circuit is configured to be provided in a charge-and-discharge path between the secondary battery and an external device. The secondary battery protection circuit includes a detection terminal configured to be electrically connected, via a resistor, to between the switching circuit and the external device. The secondary battery protection circuit includes a first terminal configured to be electrically connected to a temperature detection terminal of the external device. The secondary battery protection circuit includes a second terminal to which a temperature sensitive element is configured to be electrically connected, the temperature sensitive element having a characteristic value varying in accordance with a change in temperature of the secondary battery.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yohei Watanabe, Takashi Takeda, Junji Takeshita, Daisuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 11465193Abstract: There is provided a conveying device that reliably discharges only scrap when simultaneously conveying the scrap and a pressed product without sacrificing cycle time. A conveying device for use in press forming includes: a conveying part that holds a product part and a scrap part of a workpiece after a cutting process, and conveys the product part and the scrap part to a next process; a nozzle part that is provided in the conveying part, and discharges compressed fluid toward the scrap part; and a controller that performs a control to release holding of the scrap part during conveyance of the workpiece and to blow compressed fluid toward the scrap part.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yohei Watanabe, Keiichi Takagi
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Publication number: 20220160795Abstract: Provided is a novel Bifidobacterium strain capable of utilizing xylans. Bacteria belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium having a xylanase gene on a genome.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHAInventors: Yohei WATANABE, Taeko HARA, Yoshimi SUZUKI, Yuki SAITO, Takahiro MATSUKI
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Publication number: 20210300691Abstract: There is provided a conveying device that reliably discharges only scrap when simultaneously conveying the scrap and a pressed product without sacrificing cycle time. A conveying device for use in press forming includes: a conveying part that holds a product part and a scrap part of a workpiece after a cutting process, and conveys the product part and the scrap part to a next process; a nozzle part that is provided in the conveying part, and discharges compressed fluid toward the scrap part; and a controller that performs a control to release holding of the scrap part during conveyance of the workpiece and to blow compressed fluid toward the scrap part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Yohei WATANABE, Keiichi TAKAGI
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Publication number: 20210119274Abstract: A secondary battery protection circuit for controlling charge and discharge using a switching circuit to protect a secondary battery from temperature is provided. The switching circuit is configured to be provided in a charge-and-discharge path between the secondary battery and an external device. The secondary battery protection circuit includes a detection terminal configured to be electrically connected, via a resistor, to between the switching circuit and the external device. The secondary battery protection circuit includes a first terminal configured to be electrically connected to a temperature detection terminal of the external device. The secondary battery protection circuit includes a second terminal to which a temperature sensitive element is configured to be electrically connected, the temperature sensitive element having a characteristic value varying in accordance with a change in temperature of the secondary battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yohei WATANABE, Takashi TAKEDA, Junji TAKESHITA, Daisuke SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20200246982Abstract: There is provided a robot device including: a head portion coupled to a trunk; four leg portions on a front left, a front right, a rear left, and a rear right coupled to the trunk; a first indirect portion that tilts the head portion left and right; and a second joint portion that rotates, with respect to the trunk, one of the leg portions on the rear left and the rear right to a front side, and the other to a rear side. It is possible to faithfully reproduce the movement of the four-legged animal by providing the first joint portion and the second joint portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori ISHIBASHI, Tomoo MIZUKAMI, Takuma ARAKI, Masato MURAKI, Tomoyuki ARAI, Goushi KOIKE, Takayuki ITO, Kouta KATSUMURA, Yohei WATANABE, Muneyuki HORIGUCHI, Takashi MAEDA, Satoshi MUTO, Hideo MIYANO
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Publication number: 20160264648Abstract: From PBMCs of patients infected with H1N1pdm, three human monoclonal antibodies have been obtained which are capable of binding to an epitope present at residues 40 to 58 in an HA2 region of a hemagglutinin protein derived from H1N1pdm. Further, these antibodies have been found to also have a neutralization activity against subtype H1 and subtype H5 of group 1 influenza A viruses. On the other hand, the three antibodies have also been found to exhibit neither a binding ability nor a neutralization activity against subtype H2 which belongs to the group 1, but in the HA2 region derived from H1N1pdm of which the amino acid at residue 45 is substituted with phenylalanine and the amino acid at residue 47 is substituted with glycine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES CO., LTD., DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL SCIENCESInventors: Tadahiro SASAKI, Kenichiro ONO, Naphatsawan BOONSATHORN, Yohei WATANABE, Yuji INOUE, Kazuyoshi IKUTA
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Patent number: 4440128Abstract: The idle air flow is adjusted by a step motor depending upon a drive signal applied to the step motor, so as to control the idling rotational speed of the engine. When the engine is under a certain operating condition during cranking, in which condition the step motor cannot be normally actuated, the drive signal is inhibited from being applied to the step motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1982Date of Patent: April 3, 1984Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jiro Nakano, Yohei Watanabe
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Patent number: 3944969Abstract: A central warning apparatus for vehicles which comprises a plurality of sensors mounted to the plurality of portions of vehicle to be inspected, discriminator circuits for discriminating an abnormal state of the sensors, display units connected to the discriminator circuits so as to be effected in response to the abnormal state, an OR-gate circuit connected to the output of respective discriminator circuits, and a main warning unit connected to the OR-gate circuit so as to be effected by an output therefrom for warning that there arises an abnormal state at at least one of portions to be inspected.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1973Date of Patent: March 16, 1976Assignees: Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Arai, Yohei Watanabe, Jun Ohta, Nobumasa Higo, Yasuhiko Sakurai
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Patent number: D935504Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Noriaki Takagi, Hidenori Ishibashi, Yohei Watanabe, Takayuki Ito