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).

  • 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: 12173777
    Abstract: A linear motion actuator has a ball screw device having a screw shaft, a nut, and a plurality of balls, a piston mounted on one end of the screw shaft, and a stroke limiting mechanism setting an operation starting point in time of the screw shaft toward a first direction pointed by the one end. The nut has one end face directed to the first direction and a protruding part protruding from the one end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Reona Umei, Yasumi Watanabe, Yuji Shimomura
  • Patent number: 12172835
    Abstract: A management system includes an autonomously movable mobile robot configured to be managed by the management system and transport a transport article. The mobile robot includes a storage locker capable of containing a transport article and being electrically locked or unlocked. The management system is configured to determine whether to unlock the storage locker according to a security level set for unlocking the storage locker. The management system is configured to, when the management system receives a notification of an emergency event, lower the security level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Publication number: 20240417205
    Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes: a binder to bind multiple sheets at a binding position to form a sheet bundle; a sheet inserter having an opening into which the sheet bundle is insertable from an outside of the sheet inserter to a bindable region having the binding position; and a binding position verifier allowing the multiple sheets, inserted from the opening to the bindable region, to be verifiable from an outside of the sheet inserter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Suzuka Fujita, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Yusuke Hirono, Atsushi Shinoda, Shuuto Tohkaishi, Satoshi Hirata, Shingo Yoshizawa, Naofumi Yoshida, Ryota Takayama, Takahiro Watanabe, Takuya Morinaga, Yuji Suzuki, Wataru Nozaki, Kanako Fujisaki, Jun Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240422273
    Abstract: A medium processing device includes a conveyor to convey multiple sheets in a conveyance direction; a tray to stack the multiple sheets; a first binder to perform a first binding process; a second binder to perform a second binding process; a common guide extending in a main scanning direction; a first branch guide branched from one end of the common guide in the main scanning direction to a first standby position; and a second branch guide branched from the one end of the common guide in the main scanning direction to a second standby position. The first binder is movable between the first standby position and the manual binding position along the first branch guide and the common guide. The second binder is movable between the second standby position and the manual binding position along the second branch guide and the common guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Nozaki, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Atsushi Shinoda, Yusuke Hirono, Shuuto Tohkaishi, Satoshi Hirata, Shingo Yoshizawa, Naofumi Yoshida, Suzuka Fujita, Ryota Takayama, Takahiro Watanabe, Jun Yamada, Takuya Morinaga, Yuji Suzuki, Kanako Fujisaki
  • Publication number: 20240400331
    Abstract: A media conveying apparatus includes: a pair of first defining members defining an upstream part of a conveyance path in a conveyance direction; a pair of second defining members defining a downstream part of the conveyance path in the conveyance direction; a first conveyor to convey a medium in the upstream part in the conveyance direction; a second conveyor to convey the medium in the downstream part in the conveyance direction; and a tray disposed downstream from the pair of second defining members in the conveyance direction. The tray stacks the medium ejected from the conveyance path. The pair of first defining members and the pair of second defining members are movable relative to each other in the conveyance direction to lengthen and shorten the conveyance path including the upstream part and the downstream part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Yoshizawa, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Yusuke Hirono, Atsushi Shinoda, Shuuto Tohkaishi, Satoshi Hirata, Suzuka Fujita, Naofumi Yoshida, Ryota Takayama, Takahiro Watanabe, Takuya Morinaga, Yuji Suzuki, Wataru Nozaki, Kanako Fujisaki, Jun Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240402050
    Abstract: A vehicle development support system includes a frame body equipped with electronic control units installed in a vehicle, a real-time simulator that calculates physical state amounts for operating in-vehicle devices controlled by the electronic control units using control signals for the electronic control units and simulate operations of the in-vehicle devices and a behavior of the vehicle caused by the operations, and a synchronizer that synchronizes communication in which the electronic control units receive outputs from the real-time simulator with communication in which the real-time simulator receives the control signals for the electronic control units. The real-time simulator includes an external information acquisition interface that acquires, as external information, driving information obtained by driving a vehicle in a real space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Yutaka HIWATASHI, Yuji TANIZAKI, Atsushi UDAGAWA, Tsunehiro WATANABE, Satoshi NARUSE
  • Publication number: 20240400337
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: an ejection tray; an internal tray; a first conveyor to convey a sheet medium in a first direction in which the sheet medium is ejected to the ejection tray; a second conveyor to come into contact with and separate from sheet media stacked on the internal tray to convey the sheet media in a second direction different from the first direction; a crimp binder downstream from the internal tray in the second direction to execute crimp binding on the sheet media stacked on the internal tray; and control circuitry. When a subsequent sheet medium, which is subsequent to a preceding sheet medium of the sheet media stacked on the internal tray, is conveyed in the first direction while contacting the preceding sheet medium, the control circuitry causes the crimp binder to press a downstream end of the preceding sheet medium in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Jun YAMADA, 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, Yusuke HIRONO
  • Publication number: 20240402696
    Abstract: A vehicle development support system includes an operation apparatus that outputs an operation signal for an in-vehicle device, in response to an operation input by an operator in a cockpit; an ECU that outputs a control signal for controlling the device in response to the operation signal; a real-time simulator that calculates a physical state quantity for operating the device in response to the control signal to simulate a motion of the device and a vehicle behavior associated with the motion; a synchronization apparatus that synchronizes communication in which the ECU receives a simulation result in the simulator with communication in which the simulator receives the control signal; and a video display apparatus that generates video information for the operator based on the simulation result. The control signal output from the ECU which reflects the simulation result is synchronized with the display in the video display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Yutaka HIWATASHI, Yuji TANIZAKI, Atsushi UDAGAWA, Tsunehiro WATANABE, Satoshi NARUSE
  • Publication number: 20240402566
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion device is provided with a wavelength converter using a non-linear optical medium and a controller that controls a temperature of the wavelength converter, in which the wavelength converter includes an input port to which signal light and excitation light are input, a gain equalizer having at least one input port and two or more output ports is connected to an output (subsequent stage) of the wavelength converter, light output from the wavelength converter is input to the gain equalizer, the light is split into gain-equalized light and other light, then the split other light is measured by a light intensity detector, and the temperature of the wavelength converter is controlled by the controller on the basis of detected light intensity. The gain equalizer selectively splits only unnecessary light out of the light output from the nonlinear optical element, so that an excessive loss can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji Fujiwara, Kei Watanabe, Takushi Kazama
  • Publication number: 20240404422
    Abstract: A vehicle development support system includes a visualization apparatus that generates a video including an operation apparatus in a vehicle; a virtual operation apparatus that displays the video and outputs an operation signal corresponding to a pseudo operation input by an operator on the displayed video; an ECU that outputs a control signal for controlling an in-vehicle device in response to the operation signal; a real-time simulator that simulates a motion of the in-vehicle device in response to the control signal and outputs a simulation result to the visualization apparatus and the ECU; and a synchronization apparatus that synchronizes communication in which the simulation result in the real-time simulator is input into the ECU with communication in which the control signal is input into the real-time simulator. The visualization apparatus updates the video including the operation apparatus in accordance with the simulation result in the real-time simulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Yutaka HIWATASHI, Yuji TANIZAKI, Atsushi UDAGAWA, Tsunehiro WATANABE, Satoshi NARUSE
  • Publication number: 20240400335
    Abstract: A media processing apparatus includes: an internal tray; an ejection tray; a first conveyor to convey a sheet medium in a first conveyance direction leading to the ejection tray via the internal tray; a second conveyor to convey the medium in a second conveyance direction; a binder including a pair of clampers to clamp sheet media stacked on the internal tray and being switchable among an out-of-contact state in which the clampers are out of contact, a clamping state in which the media are clamped by the clampers, and a binding state in which the media are pressed and bound by the clampers. The circuitry switches the binder into the clamping state when an (N+1)-th sheet medium is conveyed in the first direction while contacting an N-th sheet medium in a state in which N sheets of sheet media are stacked on the internal tray, N being a natural number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji SUZUKI, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Yusuke HIRONO, Atsushi SHINODA, Shuuto TOHKAISHI, Satoshi HIRATA, Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Suzuka FUJITA, Naofumi YOSHIDA, Ryota TAKAYAMA, Takahiro WATANABE, Jun YAMADA, Takuya MORINAGA, Wataru NOZAKI, Kanako FUJISAKI
  • Patent number: 12158542
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a light-receiving element and a distance-measuring module for enabling improvement of characteristics. A light-receiving element includes an on-chip lens, a wiring layer, and a semiconductor layer arranged between the on-chip lens and the wiring layer, the semiconductor layer includes a first voltage application portion to which a first voltage is applied, a second voltage application portion to which a second voltage different from the first voltage is applied, a first charge detection portion arranged around the first voltage application portion, and a second charge detection portion arranged around the second voltage application portion, and the wiring layer includes at least one ground line having a wider line width than a power supply line. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a light-receiving element that generates distance information by a ToF method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Watanabe, Toshifumi Wakano, Takuro Murase, Takuya Maruyama, Tsutomu Imoto, Yuji Isogai
  • Publication number: 20240353616
    Abstract: A refractive index variation due to short wavelength and high power in a silica-based planar lightwave circuit (PLC) is suppressed. An optical multiplex/demultiplex circuit which include two waveguide, is made up of an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZ) in which two arms having different lengths are formed between two coupler portions, and multiplexing and demultiplexing light of different wavelengths, wherein a second waveguide core width of an arm through which light on a short wavelength side propagates is larger than a first waveguide core width of the waveguide constituting the asymmetric MZ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Junji Sakamoto, Yuji Fujiwara, Kei Watanabe, Toshikazu Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20240347889
    Abstract: Provided is a multiplexer that can easily vary the passband without switching filters, and is adaptable to high-precision measurement, analysis, and testing of high-frequency signals with a simple and inexpensive structure, and a spectrum analyzer, signal analyzer, and signal generation device using the same, and a multiplexer control method. The multiplexer 10 includes two BPFs 20a1 that are connected in parallel between a hybrid coupler 18a1 and a hybrid coupler 19a1, a BPF 20b1 that is connected to a port P4 of the hybrid coupler 18a1 and has a passband adjacent to a passband of the BPF 20a1, and passband variable means 40a, 40b, and 40c that vary the passbands of the BPFs 20a1 and the hybrid coupler 18a1 within a range of bands forming mutually overlapping bands within a predetermined frequency range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichi WATANABE, Yuji KISHI
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12115650
    Abstract: A robot control system according to a present embodiment is a robot control system for controlling a mobile robot that is configured to autonomously within a facility. When it is detected that one or more used trays, among a plurality of trays used for meal service within the facility, are returned to a first prescribed place, the system instructs the mobile robot to collect the trays returned to the first prescribed place and deliver the trays to a second prescribed place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Publication number: 20240339747
    Abstract: An antenna module includes: a substrate with at least the top surface being a single crystal of silicon carbide; a single-crystal graphene layer provided in contact with the top surface of the substrate; and a gallium nitride layer on the substrate. The antenna module is characterized in that an antenna element portion is formed by patterning a region in the graphene layer that is not covered by the gallium nitride layer, an active element portion is formed in the gallium nitride layer, and a connection portion connecting the antenna element portion and the active element portion are integrally formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu FUKIDOME, Tetsuya SUEMITSU, Issei WATANABE, Minoru KAWAHARA, Shoji AKIYAMA, Yuji TOBISAKA, Makoto KAWAI
  • Patent number: 12111660
    Abstract: An autonomous movement system according to an embodiment is an autonomous movement system that performs autonomous movement in a facility including an elevator, in which the autonomous movement system moves a waiting position in a car of the elevator, based on a person that gets on the car or an object that gets on the car. The autonomous movement system may determine the person or the object before the car stops at a floor or before a car door opens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Publication number: 20240319241
    Abstract: The present invention provides a filter bank circuit capable of measuring or testing a frequency band, a spectrum analyzer, a signal analyzer, a signal generator using the filter bank circuit, and a method for controlling the filter bank circuit. A filter bank circuit 10 includes, for example, a one-pole two-throw changeover switch 20 and filter groups G1 and G2, each of which has m filters. The passbands of the filters included in each filter group do not overlap with each other, and the adjacent passbands of the filters included in all the filter groups overlap with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji KISHI, Kenichi WATANABE