Patents by Inventor Yuji Watanabe

Yuji 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: 12227991
    Abstract: A laminated body includes a glass substrate; and a laminated film installed on a surface of the glass substrate. The laminated film includes, from a side of the glass substrate, a first layer containing silicon nitride; a second layer containing silicon; and a third layer containing silicon nitride. A transmittance of visible light incident from the side of the glass substrate is greater than or equal to 10%. A surface resistance value measured from a side of the laminated film is greater than 200 ?/sq.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yaoita, Soshi Watanabe, Yuji Endo
  • Publication number: 20250033919
    Abstract: A media processing apparatus includes a slit insertable a sheet bundle of multiple sheets, a sheet-bundle holder, a liquid applier, a press binder, and a controller. The sheet-bundle holder holds the sheet bundle and detects the thickness of the sheet bundle. The liquid applier applies liquid to the sheet bundle. The press binder presses and binds the sheet bundle to perform press-binding process. The controller causes the sheet-bundle holder to hold the sheet bundle and detect the thickness of the sheet bundle, determines whether to cause the liquid applier to apply liquid to the sheet bundle based on the thickness of the sheet bundle, causes the liquid applier to apply the liquid to the sheet bundle when it is determined that the thickness of the sheet bundle is equal or larger than a prescribed thickness, and causes the press binder to press and bind the sheet bundle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hirata, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Yusuke Hirono, Atsushi Shinoda, Shuuto Tohkaishi, Shingo Yoshizawa, Suzuka Fujita, Naofumi Yoshida, Ryota Takayama, Takahiro Watanabe, Takuya Morinaga, Yuji Suzuki, Kanako Fujisaki, Jun Yamada, Wataru Nozaki
  • Publication number: 20250030718
    Abstract: A topology graph for a computing system can be collected. An environment and application policy posture for at least one regulation relevant to the computing system can be collected. A plurality of penetration tests can be generated, the plurality of penetration tests determined based on the at least one topology graph for the computing system and the environment and application policy posture for the at least one regulation relevant to the computing system. The plurality of penetration tests can be run against the computing system, the plurality of penetration tests determining a plurality of threat vectors and at least one threat linkage between at least two of the plurality of threat vectors. The threat vectors and the at least one threat linkage between the at least two of the plurality of threat vectors can be output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Anca Sailer, Yuji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20250005152
    Abstract: A risk dependency platform may obtain a source code for task automation. The risk dependency platform may analyze the source code to determine one or more dependencies associated with the source code. The one or more dependencies may identify referenced source code that are included in the source code by reference. The risk dependency platform may obtain the referenced source code and may decompose the source code and the referenced source code into a plurality of tasks. The plurality of tasks may invoke a plurality of modules that are executables. The risk dependency platform may analyze the plurality of tasks to determine operations that are performed based on the plurality of modules being executed. The risk dependency platform may evaluate the operations to identify one or more risks associated with performing the operations. The risk dependency platform may perform an action based on the one or more risks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Yuji WATANABE, Ruriko KUDO, Hirokuni KITAHARA
  • Patent number: 12117386
    Abstract: An inspection device for a pillar shaped honeycomb filter includes: a housing portion that can house a pillar shaped honeycomb filter; an introduction pipe and a discharge pipe through which a gas can flow, each of the introduction pipe and the discharge pipe being connected to the housing portion; a particle generation portion for generating particles; a particle introduction portion for introducing the particles generated by the particle generation portion into the introduction pipe; a gas stirring portion arranged in the introduction pipe on an upstream side of the particle introduction portion in a gas flow direction; and particle counters for measuring the number of particles, the particle counters being arranged in the introduction pipe and the discharge pipe on a downstream side of the particle introduction portion in the gas flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Kajiura, Yuji Watanabe, Yoshihiro Sato, Yuichi Tajima
  • Publication number: 20240255408
    Abstract: An inspection device for a pillar shaped honeycomb filter, wherein the inspection device includes: a housing portion; an introduction pipe and a discharge pipe, each of the introduction pipe and the discharge pipe being connected to the housing portion; a particle generation portion for generating particles; a particle introduction portion for introducing the particles generated by the particle generation portion into the introduction pipe; a gas stirring portion disposed in the introduction pipe on an upstream side of the particle introduction portion; a particle concentration adjusting portion disposed in the introduction pipe on a downstream side of the particle introduction portion; and particle counters for measuring the number of particles, the particle counters being disposed in the introduction pipe and the discharge pipe on the downstream side of the particle introduction portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu KOYAMA, Yuji WATANABE, Hiroyoshi INOUE, Takuya YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240166810
    Abstract: Provided is a polyarylene ether ketone resin, wherein a GPC-based number average molecular weight Mn is 6000 or more and less than 16000, a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn represented by a ratio of a GPC-based weight average molecular weight Mw to the number average molecular weight Mn is 2.5 or less, and in all repeating units contained in the resin, ketone groups are 9.5 mol % or more and ether groups are 4.5 mol % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji WATANABE, Michihiro ISHIHARA, Masami YONEMURA
  • Patent number: 11960578
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining command-to-process correspondence. The method includes identifying, by the hardware processor, initial processes resulting from executions of container immutability change events for each of multiple initially mutable containers in a cluster, based on an execution time, a process identifier and a process group identifier for each of the container immutability change events. The method also includes designating, by the hardware processor, a particular external command, from among external container commands stored in a database, as having a correspondence to an initial process, responsive to the initial process matching at least one respective process resulting from executing the particular external command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokuni Kitahara, Yuji Watanabe, Fumiko Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20240095075
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining container information associated with detected container mutation events is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes: determining that a system call event to a host operating system includes a call to join a namespace and execute a parent process inside the namespace; determining that the namespace is associated with an existing container; responsive to determining that the namespace is associated with an existing container, determining that the system call event further includes a call to execute a child process inside the namespace; and responsive to determining that the system call event further includes a call to execute a child process inside the namespace: designating the child process as a mutation event to the existing container, and determining container information associated with the mutation event to the existing container. A corresponding computer system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokuni Kitahara, Yuji Watanabe, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Ruriko Kudo
  • Patent number: 11914755
    Abstract: Methods and systems for verifying a resource definition include simulating an original resource definition to identify at least one change that is made to the original resource definition by a management service. A signature of a received resource definition is generated, omitting portions of the received resource definition that correspond to the at least one identified change. The signature of the received resource definition is compared to a signature of the original resource definition to find a match and to verify the received resource definition. The received resource definition is implemented, responsive to finding the match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokuni Kitahara, Ruriko Kudo, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Yuji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11809534
    Abstract: A system for controlling access to cluster resources is provided. The system includes one or more processors; and memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors and the memory form a cluster of computer resources that includes an admission controller configured to receive requests and determine if the request is authorized, a request history database that stores the request information received by the admission controller from a plurality of users, a role design advisor that is configured to adjust permissions for the plurality of users based on a pattern of usage identified from the request history database, and an alert system that communicates an alert to an administrator that a request outside the pattern of requests for the user has been received by the admission controller, wherein the admission controller, request history database, and role design advisor control access to the cluster resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Watanabe, Ruriko Kudo, Hirokuni Kitahara, Kugamoorthy Gajananan
  • Patent number: 11772160
    Abstract: To provide a fine nickel powder for an internal electrode paste of an electronic component, the nickel powder obtained by a wet method and having high crystallinity, excellent sintering characteristics, and heat-shrinking characteristics. The nickel powder is obtained by precipitating nickel by a reduction reaction in a reaction solution including at least water-soluble nickel salt, salt of metal nobler than nickel, hydrazine as a reducing agent, and alkali metal hydroxide as a pH adjusting agent and water; the reaction solution is prepared by mixing a nickel salt solution including the water-soluble nickel salt and the salt of metal nobler than nickel with a mixed reducing agent solution including hydrazine and alkali metal hydroxide; and the hydrazine is additionally added to the reaction solution after a reduction reaction initiates in the reaction solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD., MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Ishii, Shingo Murakami, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takahiro Kamata, Toshiaki Terao, Masaya Yukinobu, Yuji Watanabe, Tsutomu Tanimitsu, Yoshiyuki Kunifusa, Haruo Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11704413
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for assessing latent security risks in Kubernetes clusters is provided including selecting a service account from a plurality of service accounts defined in namespaces of a cluster, binding a role to the selected service account based on predetermined role-binding data, and determining if the role meets at least one of a first, second, and third conditions based on predetermined role data defining permitted operations for roles, the first condition being that the role can receive secret tokens for pods within a namespace of the namespaces, the second condition being that the role can perform execution operation to other pods, and the third condition being that the role can create DaemonSet, Deployment, StatefulSet, and additional pods on the namespace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Watanabe, Ruriko Kudo, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Hirokuni Kitahara
  • Patent number: 11662293
    Abstract: An inspection method for a pillar-shaped honeycomb filter having a honeycomb-shaped first end face and a honeycomb-shaped second end face, including: allowing gas containing fine particles to flow into the first end face; imaging the entire second end face covered with the sheet-like light using a camera while the gas that has flowed into the first end face flows out of the second end face through the filter, and generating an image of the entire second end face covered with the sheet-like light; selecting an inspection area of the second end face and measuring information concerning a sum of luminance of all pixels in the inspection area; and determining quality of the filter based on at least the information concerning the concentration of the fine particles in the gas before the gas flows into the first end face and the information concerning the sum of luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sato, Takakazu Koyama, Yuji Watanabe, Yutaka Ishii, Takaaki Kanemitsu, Makoto Murai, Masanari Iwade, Takafumi Terahai, Ryota Kurahashi, Akinari Fukaya, Kenji Ebisutani
  • Patent number: 11634532
    Abstract: Provided is a material having an excellent sound-absorbing performance which can be easily applied to the desired area at the operation site and which can effectively prevent sound leakage. The material includes an open-cell soft polyurethane foam prepared from a 2-part reactive urethane resin composition prepared from a polyisocyanate component and a polyol-containing component, wherein the polyol-containing component comprises a polyol component, catalysts, a foam stabilizer, an amine compound having primary or secondary amino groups, and carbon dioxide; wherein an average sound absorption coefficient of said polyurethane foam is 30% or more, measured in accordance with JIS A 1405-2:2007 for 63 hertz to 5000 hertz; and the length of liquid-dripping is within 300 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: Mazda Motor Corporation, Nihon Tokushu Toryo Co., Ltd., Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kataoka, Eiichi Kawase, Masanori Takasaki, Yuji Watanabe, Hirofumi Takeuchi, Shinichiro Sado, Hiroaki Ido, Shinji Nishikawa, Saeko Kinami, Kazuki Murata
  • Patent number: 11633875
    Abstract: A bottom face processing method of a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including steps of: preparing a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including a plurality of first cells which extend in parallel with each other from a first bottom face to a second bottom face, and each of which is opened in the first bottom face and has a protruding plugged portion in the second bottom face, and a plurality of second cells each of which is adjacent to at least one of the first cells with a partition wall interposed therebetween, which extend in parallel with each other from the first bottom face to the second bottom face, and each of which has a protruding plugged portion in the first bottom face, and is opened in the second bottom face; and removing the protruding portion from the plugged portion of each of the first cells and the second cells of the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Fujie, Yuji Watanabe, Ken Itadu, Yoshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11599772
    Abstract: Guided character string alteration can be performed by obtaining an original character string and a plurality of altered character strings, traversing the original character string with a first Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) network to generate, for each character of the original character string, a hidden state of a partial original character string up to that character, and applying, during the traversing, an alteration learning process to each hidden state of a partial original character string to produce an alteration function for relating partial original character strings to partial altered character strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pablo Loyola, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Yuji Watanabe, Fumiko Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20230054683
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining command-to-process correspondence. The method includes identifying, by the hardware processor, initial processes resulting from executions of container immutability change events for each of multiple initially mutable containers in a cluster, based on an execution time, a process identifier and a process group identifier for each of the container immutability change events. The method also includes designating, by the hardware processor, a particular external command, from among external container commands stored in a database, as having a correspondence to an initial process, responsive to the initial process matching at least one respective process resulting from executing the particular external command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hirokuni Kitahara, Yuji Watanabe, Fumiko Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11580199
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining command-to-process correspondence. The method includes identifying, by the hardware processor, initial processes resulting from executions of container immutability change events for each of multiple containers in a cluster, based on an execution time, a process identifier and a process group identifier for each of the container immutability change events. The method further includes checking, by the hardware processor, if an initial process from among the identified initial processes matches an entry in a database that stores external container commands and at least one respective process resulting from executing each of the external container commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokuni Kitahara, Yuji Watanabe, Fumiko Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20220404261
    Abstract: An inspection device for a pillar shaped honeycomb filter includes: a housing portion that can house a pillar shaped honeycomb filter; an introduction pipe and a discharge pipe through which a gas can flow, each of the introduction pipe and the discharge pipe being connected to the housing portion; a particle generation portion for generating particles; a particle introduction portion for introducing the particles generated by the particle generation portion into the introduction pipe; a gas stirring portion arranged in the introduction pipe on an upstream side of the particle introduction portion in a gas flow direction; and particle counters for measuring the number of particles, the particle counters being arranged in the introduction pipe and the discharge pipe on a downstream side of the particle introduction portion in the gas flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei KAJIURA, Yuji WATANABE, Yoshihiro SATO, Yuichi TAJIMA