Patents by Inventor Yoshimasa Watanabe

Yoshimasa 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).

  • Patent number: 11945336
    Abstract: An information creation apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where priorities of power supply are set to power supply targets, set upper limits of power storage remaining amounts of the power supply targets such that the upper limit of the power storage remaining amount of a power supply target with a lower priority is set to a value larger than a reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Watanabe, Kizuku Yamada, Masaki Ito, Sakiko Yoshida, Yuki Takahashi, Tomonori Imamura
  • Publication number: 20240091958
    Abstract: A hand mechanism (2) comprises a plurality of finger units. Each of the plurality finger units is equipped with a first finger link unit (211) including a fingertip, a first joint unit (22) provided at an end portion on a finger base side of the first finger link unit (211), a second finger link unit (212) connected to the first finger link unit (211) via the first joint unit (22), and a second joint unit (23) provided at an end portion on a finger base side of the second finger link unit (212). A suction mechanism (600) is provided on at least one predetermined finger unit of the plurality of finger units (21). The suction mechanism (600) is provided on a dorsal surface (216) of the first finger link unit (211) in a predetermined finger, and suctions and retains a target object by generating negative pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Endo, Toshiya Watanabe, Min Bao
  • Patent number: 11921078
    Abstract: A sensor element includes an element body and a porous protective layer arranged to cover a part of a surface of the element body. The protective layer includes an inlet protective layer arranged to cover a gas inlet formed in the surface of the element body, and at least a part of a face included in the surface of the element body, the face on which the gas inlet is opens, and an arithmetic average roughness Rap of an inner peripheral surface of an internal space of the inlet protective layer satisfies at least one of conditions below: the arithmetic average roughness Rap is 8 ?m or more, and the arithmetic average roughness Rap is higher than an arithmetic average roughness Rac of a bonding surface of the protective layer, the bonding surface at which the protective layer is bonded to the element body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nagae, Yoshimasa Kondo, Yusuke Ogiso, Katsunao Uenishi, Atsushi Watanabe, Ayato Koizumi
  • Publication number: 20240070937
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire three-dimensional thermographic image data by imaging a subject irradiated with infrared rays. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a plurality of items of projection data by imaging the subject with tomosynthesis. The processing circuitry is configured to execute reconstruction based on the plurality of items of projection data and the three-dimensional thermographic image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Daisuke SATO, Tomio MAEHAMA, Risa HAYASHI, Tamotsu INO, Katsunori KOJIMA, Yoshinori SAITO, Naoto WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230197447
    Abstract: A method of forming a crystalline silicon film includes forming a first amorphous silicon film on a substrate, forming a crystal nucleation film in which crystal nuclei of silicon are formed by performing a first annealing on the substrate having the first amorphous silicon film formed thereon, performing etching with an etching gas, forming a second amorphous silicon film on the crystal nuclei remaining after the etching, and forming a crystalline silicon film by performing a second annealing on the substrate after the forming of the second amorphous silicon film to grow the crystal nuclei.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Kota UMEZAWA, Yoshimasa WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11615957
    Abstract: A method of forming a boron-based film mainly containing boron on a substrate includes forming, on the substrate, an adhesion layer containing an element contained in a surface of the substrate and nitrogen, and subsequently, forming the boron-based film on the adhesion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ueda, Jinwang Li, Masahiro Oka, Yoshimasa Watanabe, Yuuki Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ikuta
  • Publication number: 20220244065
    Abstract: The control device according to the present disclosure is a control device that controls a destination of a vehicle. The control device includes a processor that sets, upon acquiring occurrence information of a disaster, when the disaster has occurred at a first destination preset for an electric vehicle to be controlled or in a route to the first destination, a second destination different from the first destination, achieving the same purpose as the first destination, and at which no disaster has occurred, and a route to the second destination and in which no disaster has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Kizuku YAMADA, Masaki ITO, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220234453
    Abstract: A power supply control device according to the present disclosure includes a processor that generates control information for preferentially supplying electric power to a wide traveling lane when information on a disaster is acquired in a plurality of traveling lanes in which a vehicle travels in the same direction, each of the traveling lanes having a different width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki ITO, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Kizuku YAMADA, Yoshimasa WATANABE, Tomonori IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220212564
    Abstract: A control device according to the present disclosure is a control device configured to control charging and discharging of the power storage device included in a drive device. The control device includes a processor configured to determine whether the remaining capacity of the power storage device is able to reach the target charging capacity by a disaster occurrence predicted time when disaster information including the predicted time is acquired and is configured to calculate the discharge capacity that is able to be discharged by the predicted time when it is determined that the target charging capacity is able to be reached by the predicted time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Kizuku YAMADA, Masaki ITO, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220212558
    Abstract: There is provided a power supply device that supplies electric power to a motor-driven vehicle including a power storage device through one of wireless supply of electric power using a wireless system and wired supply of electric power using a wired system to the motor-driven vehicle. The power supply device includes a processor configured to perform control for recommending the supply of electric power using the wired system as a power supply system for the motor-driven vehicle when information on a disaster is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Watanabe, Kizuku Yamada, Masaki Ito, Sakiko Yoshida, Yuki Takahashi, Tomonori Imamura
  • Publication number: 20220153165
    Abstract: An information creation apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where priorities of power supply are set to power supply targets, set upper limits of power storage remaining amounts of the power supply targets such that the upper limit of the power storage remaining amount of a power supply target with a lower priority is set to a value larger than a reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Kizuku YAMADA, Masaki ITO, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220135034
    Abstract: A traveling control device according to the present disclosure includes a processor that cancels a designation of type a vehicle that travels in each of a plurality of traveling lanes in which the vehicle travels in the same direction and for which the type of the vehicle that travels in each of the traveling lanes is designated, when information relating a disaster is acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki ITO, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Kizuku YAMADA, Yoshimasa WATANABE, Tomonori IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220111750
    Abstract: A first aspect of the present disclosure relates to a disaster-stricken area specification device including a processor configured to determine whether or not a disaster occurs at a place where power feed to a target to be charged is performed, based on power feed efficiency by noncontact charging to the target to be charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Kizuku YAMADA, Masaki ITO, Sakiko YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11177133
    Abstract: A method of filling a recess according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises heating an amorphous semiconductor film without crystallizing the amorphous semiconductor film by radiating laser light to the amorphous semiconductor film embedded in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Takagi, Yoshimasa Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11145522
    Abstract: A method of forming a boron-based film includes forming the boron-based film mainly containing boron on a substrate by plasma CVD using plasma of a processing gas including a boron-containing gas; and controlling film stress of the formed boron-based film by adjusting a process parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Watanabe, Masahiro Oka, Hirokazu Ueda, Yuuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210090888
    Abstract: A method of forming a boron-based film mainly containing boron on a substrate includes forming, on the substrate, an adhesion layer containing an element contained in a surface of the substrate and nitrogen, and subsequently, forming the boron-based film on the adhesion layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Hirokazu UEDA, Jinwang LI, Masahiro OKA, Yoshimasa WATANABE, Yuuki YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki IKUTA
  • Publication number: 20200161135
    Abstract: A method of filling a recess according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises heating an amorphous semiconductor film without crystallizing the amorphous semiconductor film by radiating laser light to the amorphous semiconductor film embedded in the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKAGI, Yoshimasa WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190301019
    Abstract: There is provided a boron-based film forming method for forming a boron-based film mainly containing boron on a substrate. The method includes steps of loading a substrate into a chamber of a film forming apparatus for forming the boron-based film by plasma CVD using capacitively-coupled plasma, supplying a processing gas containing a boron-containing gas into the chamber, applying a high frequency power for generating the capacitively-coupled plasma and forming the boron-based film on the substrate by generating a plasma of the processing gas by the high frequency power. A film stress of the boron-based film is adjusted by the high frequency power in the applying step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshimasa WATANABE, Masahiro OKA, Jinwang LI, Yuuki YAMAMOTO, Hirokazu UEDA
  • Patent number: 10399817
    Abstract: In an elevator car position detection device, a magnetic field generator generates an eddy current magnetic field on an identification member, and a magnetic field detector detects the eddy current magnetic field generated on the identification member. The identification member includes a plurality of conductors which are continuously arranged along an ascending and descending direction of a car, and are relatively different in a plate thickness with respect to a skin depth of an eddy current generated by the magnetic field generator on the identification member. A shape of at least a part of a boundary between the adjacent conductors is a straight line or a curve tilted with respect to a direction orthogonal to the ascending and descending direction of the car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Inoue, Emiko Kurata, Yoshimasa Watanabe, Akihide Shiratsuki, Hiroshi Nishizawa, Hajime Nakajima, Masahiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10388524
    Abstract: There is provided a method of forming a boron film on a substrate on which a semiconductor device is formed, by plasmarizing a reaction gas containing a boron-containing gas under a process atmosphere regulated to a pressure which falls within a range of 0.67 to 33.3 Pa (5 to 250 mTorr). The boron film is formed on a substrate on which a semiconductor device is formed, by plasmarizing a reaction gas containing a boron-containing gas under a process atmosphere regulated to a pressure which falls within a range of 0.67 to 33.3 Pa (5 to 250 mTorr).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ueda, Masahiro Oka, Hiraku Ishikawa, Yoshimasa Watanabe, Syuhei Yonezawa