Patents by Inventor Yuta WATANABE
Yuta 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: 12291043Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a medium supporting part configured to support a medium, a recording unit configured to perform recording on the medium supported by the medium supporting part, and a housing covering the medium supporting part and the recording unit. An opening for communication between inside and outside of the housing is provided in a first surface and a second surface intersecting the first surface of the housing. The housing includes a housing cover being openable and closable and configured to cover the opening. The housing cover includes a first cover configured to cover the opening in the first surface, and a second cover configured to cover the opening in the second surface. The first cover is coupled to the housing by a first coupling part. The second cover is coupled to the first cover through a second coupling part.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Ryuji Moriyama, Akimasa Nozawa, Yuta Watanabe, Tsutomu Ozaki
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Patent number: 12285869Abstract: A robot control system according to an embodiment is configured to control a mobile robot configured to autonomously move by referring to a map, the robot control system being further configured to: acquire a distance to a nearby object measured by using a range sensor; specify a position of the nearby object on the map according to the distance from a position of the mobile robot to the nearby object; estimate a movement vector indicating a moving speed and a moving direction of the nearby object according to a change in the distance to the nearby object; add a cost for restricting a movement of the mobile robot on the map; and perform control so that the mobile robot moves according to the cost updated according to a result of measurement by the range sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta Watanabe, Shiro Oda, Kei Yoshikawa, Yukinori Kurahashi
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Patent number: 12269255Abstract: A printing device includes a carriage configured to move in a first direction along a first axis; a head configured to eject ink onto a medium; and an irradiation section that is provided alongside the head in the first direction and that is configured to irradiate ultraviolet light toward the medium, wherein the irradiation section has a cooling unit that cools the irradiation section by airflow, in a plan view facing the medium, the head is disposed in a first region of the carriage and the irradiation section is disposed in a second region of the carriage, and in the second region, at least one lid section is provided to block an airflow from a side in which the carriage faces the medium to the irradiation section.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yuta Watanabe, Yoshitsugu Tokai
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Publication number: 20250106749Abstract: A control function module of a mobile network receives, from a user terminal that has accessed the mobile network, a request to communicate with a data processing device connected to an external network outside the mobile network. The control function module determines whether or not a user of the user terminal is a registered user. In a case where a user of the user terminal is a registered user, the control function module transmits information used to establish communication between a communication device in the mobile network and the data processing device to an external network control device that controls the external network.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Masanari WATANABE, Yuta WATANABE, Takayuki FUJIWARA
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Patent number: 12244487Abstract: A traffic transfer system includes a switch (10) and a switch (20) and distributes and transfers traffic of communication on a network to a plurality of devices. The switch (10) determines a device of a transfer destination of input traffic among a plurality of devices by a hash function. The switch (10) transfers traffic to a first device when the first device determined to be a transfer destination is available and transfers traffic to the switch (20) when the first device is not available. The switch (20) determines a device to which the traffic transferred by the switch (10) is transferred, from available devices by a hash function. The switch (20) transfers the traffic to a second device determined to be a transfer destination.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Yuta Watanabe, Masato Nishiguchi, Yuki Takei
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Publication number: 20250065651Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a moving mechanism configured to be movable in a front-rear direction with respect to a medium support portion that supports a printing medium, and a driving mechanism that moves the moving mechanism in the front-rear direction, wherein the moving mechanism includes a first guide shaft, a second guide shaft, a first leg portion movably supported by the first guide shaft, and a second leg portion movably supported by the second guide shaft, the driving mechanism includes a leg-driving motor and a transmission structure that transmits driving force generated by the leg-driving motor to the first leg portion and the second leg portion, and the leg driving motor is disposed between the first guide shaft and the second guide shaft in the left-right direction and drives the first leg portion and the second leg portion in the front-rear direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Ryuji MORIYAMA, Yuta WATANABE
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Patent number: 12192627Abstract: Provided are a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a signal processing program, an imaging apparatus, and a lens apparatus capable of accurately calculating an amount of blurring on the basis of a signal which is output from a blurring detection sensor. The signal processing device processes a signal which is output from a blurring detection sensor in progress of exposure of an imaging element. The signal processing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform processing of generating a second signal obtained by performing high-pass filter processing on a first signal which is output from the blurring detection sensor; and processing of calculating an amount of blurring on the basis of the first signal or the second signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Toshiki Kobayashi, Yota Akashi, Yuya Hirakawa, Yuta Watanabe
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Publication number: 20250003463Abstract: The present invention relates to a friction material including: a friction modifier; a binder; and a fiber base material, in which as the friction modifier, cashew particles having an amount of eluted sulfate ions of 500 ppm or less and a titanate are contained, in which the cashew particles may have a content of 1.0 mass % to 7.0 mass %.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Motoyuki MIYAJI, Yuta WATANABE
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Patent number: 12172835Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 12177568Abstract: Provided are a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a signal processing program, an imaging apparatus, and a lens apparatus capable of accurately removing an offset from an output signal of a blurring detection sensor. The signal processing device comprises the blurring detection sensor and a processor. The processor is configured to execute processing of extracting a first feature amount relating to the offset from the output signal of the blurring detection sensor, processing of integrating the output signal, processing of extracting a second feature amount relating to the offset from a value obtained by integrating the output signal, processing of calculating the offset on the basis of the first feature amount and the second feature amount, and processing of subtracting the calculated offset from the output signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Toshiki Kobayashi, Yota Akashi, Yuya Hirakawa, Yuta Watanabe
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Patent number: 12155559Abstract: A communication system sets a first priority as a priority of a BGP in a path connecting from a terminal to a terminal through an active system connection unit, sets a second priority lower than the first priority as a priority of a BGP in a path connecting from the terminal to the terminal through the standby system connection unit, and sets a third priority which is lower than the first priority and higher than the second priority as a priority of a BGP in a path connecting the active system connection unit and the standby system connection unit. The communication system discards traffic other than a BGP among traffic from the standby system connection unit to the active system connection unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Yuta Watanabe, Yuki Takei
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Publication number: 20240353859Abstract: An autonomous moving system according to the present disclosure is an autonomous moving system including an autonomous moving body that moves autonomously. The autonomous moving system includes a control unit that executes control of movement of the autonomous moving body including collision control, a setting unit that sets a defense space around the autonomous moving body, for executing the collision control, a detecting unit that detects obstructions in a vicinity of the autonomous moving body, and a classifying unit that classifies obstructions that are detected. The setting unit changes a range of the defense space, based on the obstructions that are classified by the classifying unit, and the control unit executes control of movement of the autonomous moving body including the collision control in at least one of when the obstruction is inside the defense space and when the obstruction is predicted to enter the defense space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta WATANABE, Shiro ODA, Takeshi MATSUI
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Publication number: 20240353860Abstract: An autonomous moving system according to the present disclosure includes a control unit executing control of movement of an autonomous moving body, including collision control, a setting unit setting a predetermined defense space around the autonomous moving body, for executing the collision control, and a classifying unit classifying an obstruction detected by a detecting unit installed in the autonomous moving body, and an obstruction detected by a detecting unit installed in a facility space through which the autonomous moving body moves. The setting unit changes a range of the defense space to a first range based on a result of the classifying unit classifying the obstruction detected by one of the detecting units, and changes the range of the defense space from the first range to a second range based on a result of the classifying unit classifying the obstruction detected by at least another of the detecting units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta WATANABE, Shiro Oda, Takeshi Matsui
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Patent number: 12115650Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 12111660Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 12093025Abstract: In a conveyance system, a conveyance object is conveyed by use of a plurality of mobile robots autonomously movable inside a facility. In a case where a blockade request event occurs in at least one area inside the facility, the conveyance system receives occurrence information transmitted from a facility management system configured to manage the facility and causes the mobile robots to execute an operation restriction to restrict operations of the mobile robots. In a case where a predetermined condition for the blockade request event is established after the mobile robots execute the operation restriction, the conveyance system reboots the mobile robots.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 12068643Abstract: A rotary electric machine rotor includes a rotor core and a core support member that supports the rotor core. The core support member includes a tubular portion formed in a tubular shape and a support portion supported so as to be rotatable with respect to a non-rotary member to support the tubular portion from the inner side in a radial direction. The core support member is formed such that a diameter of a fitting surface portion in a specific region, which includes an overlapping region which overlaps a connection region as viewed in the radial direction, is smaller than a diameter of the fitting surface portion in a general region which is a region other than the specific region.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeru Morita, Shigeki Ideue, Yuta Watanabe, Kenji Dozono, Masashi Ikemura, Toshihiko Kamiya
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Publication number: 20240247698Abstract: The present invention relates to an underlayer material to be used in a friction member, the underlayer material including a plant-derived resin, in which the friction member includes a friction material and a pressure plate, and the friction material includes a friction modifier, a binder, and a fiber base material. The plant-derived resin may be a lignin-modified phenol resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kentaro OWA, Motoyuki MIYAJI, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Yuta WATANABE, Kenta KIMURA
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Patent number: 12047225Abstract: In a network management device, a storage unit stores priority of each of a plurality of users using a network system and a plurality of spare configurations used when a failure occurs in an active edge router, and, when a failure occurs in the active edge router, a setting unit sets each of the plurality of spare configurations to any of a plurality of edge routers included in the network system, in order from a user having higher priority, on the basis of the priority of the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Yuki Takei, Yuta Watanabe, Masayuki Nishiki
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Patent number: 12038755Abstract: An autonomous movement system according to an embodiment is an autonomous movement system for autonomous movement in a facility, the autonomous movement system changing a movement speed for the autonomous movement depending on a cooperation mode, a connection mode and a caution mode, the cooperation mode being a mode of moving while acquiring position information inside a first range in cooperation with a facility camera, the first range being a range that the facility camera photographs to generate image data, the facility camera being fixed in the facility, the connection mode being a mode of moving inside a second range and outside the first range, the second range being a range in which connection with an access point is performed by wireless communication, the access point being fixed in the facility, the caution mode being a mode of moving outside the first range and outside the second range.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Taira, Shiro Oda, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma