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).

  • Publication number: 20240247698
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro OWA, Motoyuki MIYAJI, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Yuta WATANABE, Kenta KIMURA
  • Patent number: 12047225
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Takei, Yuta Watanabe, Masayuki Nishiki
  • Publication number: 20240240332
    Abstract: A method for producing a hydrocarbon including: preparing a molten salt containing a carbonate of a first metal; obtaining precipitates containing a first metal carbide by applying a voltage to the molten salt; and obtaining a gas containing the hydrocarbon and a hydroxide of the first metal by hydrolyzing the first metal carbide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicants: THE DOSHISHA, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya GOTO, Takashi WATANABE, Yuta SUZUKI, Haruka FUKUDA, Atsuya YAMADA, Tomohiro ISOGAI, Yosuke KISHIKAWA, Akiyoshi YAMAUCHI
  • Patent number: 12038755
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Taira, Shiro Oda, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma
  • Patent number: 12034598
    Abstract: When a controller receives a tunnel setting order from a high-order Ops (operation system), the controller divides the setting order into a first setting processing step related to setting registration of a user, a second setting processing step related to a transfer surface of the tunnel, a third setting processing step related to an interface of each transfer apparatus used for a tunnel of the transfer surface, and a fourth setting processing step related to a parameter to be set to the interface and stores the setting processing steps in a setting management DB. Subsequently, the controller creates a configuration for executing each setting processing step indicated in the tunnel setting order by reflecting information indicated in each divided setting processing step to a template of each setting processing step. In addition, the controller inputs the created configuration to a transfer apparatus at a setting destination of the tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Takei, Satoshi Nakatsukasa, Yuta Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12032384
    Abstract: A robot control system according to an embodiment is a robot control system that controls a mobile robot configured to be able to move autonomously inside a facility. When the mobile robot moves from a first area inside the facility to a second area through a partition configured to be openable and closable, a moving route of the mobile robot is set based on the mobile robot that is determined from an image captured by a first camera that photographs the first area and an obstacle that is determined from an image captured by a second camera that photographs the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Taira, Shiro Oda, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma
  • Patent number: 12031620
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sprocket that mitigates the impact of tension fluctuations resulting from load torque changes, suppresses noise and vibration, ensures stable chain behavior, prevents sprocket durability loss and the generation of harmonics during rotation, along with a chain drive system. Tooth roots between adjacent teeth of the sprocket include those with a radial deviation from a root circle of a standard tooth profile, set within a predetermined numerical range corresponding to a tooth pitch. A phase variation pattern is created by changing a root radius in accordance with an angular position. The phase variation pattern has a waveform with an amplitude varied within a range of (1/7)Amax, where Amax represents a maximum amplitude. The chain drive system includes a plurality of sprockets and a chain passed over the sprockets, at least one of them being the above-described sprocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN CO.
    Inventors: Shoichiro Shimizu, Yuta Watanabe, Akira Hirai
  • Patent number: 12032387
    Abstract: An autonomous mobile system according to the present embodiment includes an autonomous mobile robot that autonomously moves in a facility. Among priorities assigned to a plurality of the autonomous mobile robots for delivery of a transported object at a destination or passage through a waypoint in the facility, when the autonomous mobile robot has a lower priority, the autonomous mobile robot stands by in a predetermined standby area until another autonomous mobile robot having a higher priority completes the delivery or the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 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
  • Patent number: 12025980
    Abstract: When an autonomous mobile robot is acquires enters a stuck state in which the autonomous mobile robot cannot autonomosly move, an autonomous mobile apparatus control system according to the present disclosure transmits an autonomous cancel notification for notifying the higher-level management apparatus that the autonomous mobile robot cannot autonomosly move, waits for an operation instruction from the higher-level management apparatus after the transmission of the autonomous cancel notification. The higher-level management apparatus gives an operation instruction to the autonomous mobile robot in response to receiving the autonomous cancel notification based on information acquired from at least one of the plurality of environment cameras. The autonomous mobile robot is configured to resume autonomous driving in response to safety confirmation based on a proximity sensor provided in the autonomous mobile robot after operating in accordance with the operation instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohisa Takai, Yuhei Yamaguchi, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Tetsuya Taira, Mikio Honda, Shiro Oda, Nobuhisa Otsuki
  • Publication number: 20240191116
    Abstract: A friction material including: a friction modifier: a binder: and a fiber base material, in which an alumina fiber is contained as the fiber base material, and a content of the alumina fiber is 0.1 mass % to 1.0 mass. The alumina fiber preferably includes Al2O3 and SiO2, and a chemical composition ratio of Al2O3 and SiO2 is preferably Al2O3:SiO2=70:30 to 80:20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta KIMURA, Motoyuki MIYAJI, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Kentaro OWA, Yuta WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11972156
    Abstract: A device management application acquires device information at a predetermined frequency from a printing device on a network and generates a device list by adding a newly detected printing device. In the device list, for a printing device on which device information is acquired, the device information is accumulated in association with the acquisition date and time, and for a printing device on which device information is not acquired, information indicating no connection is accumulated as device usage information in association with the acquisition date and time. A report is created based on the information accumulated for printing devices included in the device list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuta Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11971721
    Abstract: To effectively enhance the operation efficiency of an autonomous mobile robot, an autonomous mobile robot control system includes a processor and a plurality of environmental cameras. The processor estimates a moving route of each of a plurality of moving bodies on the basis of characteristics of each of the plurality of moving bodies and sets a subset of the plurality of moving bodies whose moving routes overlap among the detected moving bodies as avoidance processing target moving bodies. The processor generates an avoidance procedure for the avoidance processing target moving bodies so the motion of the avoidance processing target moving bodies does not interfere with the motion of other avoidance target moving bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohisa Takai, Yuhei Yamaguchi, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Tetsuya Taira, Mikio Honda, Shiro Oda, Nobuhisa Otsuki
  • Patent number: 11964402
    Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 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: 20240121152
    Abstract: When a controller receives a tunnel setting order from a high-order Ops (operation system), the controller divides the setting order into a first setting processing step related to setting registration of a user, a second setting processing step related to a transfer surface of the tunnel, a third setting processing step related to an interface of each transfer apparatus used for a tunnel of the transfer surface, and a fourth setting processing step related to a parameter to be set to the interface and stores the setting processing steps in a setting management DB. Subsequently, the controller creates a configuration for executing each setting processing step indicated in the tunnel setting order by reflecting information indicated in each divided setting processing step to a template of each setting processing step. In addition, the controller inputs the created configuration to a transfer apparatus at a setting destination of the tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki TAKEI, Satoshi NAKATSUKASA, Yuta WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240107164
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiki KOBAYASHI, Yota AKASHI, Yuya HIRAKAWA, Yuta WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240106733
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yuta WATANABE, Yuki TAKEI
  • Publication number: 20240097941
    Abstract: A filter setting device (20) includes a shared filter DB (21) having a shared filter information table (211) in which information of each shared filter is recorded and a shared filter application destination table (212) in which a transfer device of an application destination of each shared filter is recorded; a shared filter creation unit (22) for determining new creation of a shared filter or diversion of an existing shared filter by referring to a shared filter information table (211) and a shared filter application destination table (212) on the basis of an instruction of a host server (10), in the L3 transfer technology; and a configuration input unit (23) for generating a configuration on the basis of a determination result of the shared filter creation unit (22), and setting a shared filter to be shared among a plurality of IF in a transfer device (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki FUJIWARA, Satoshi NAKATSUKASA, Yuta WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240084885
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sprocket that mitigates the impact of tension fluctuations resulting from load torque changes, suppresses noise and vibration, ensures stable chain behavior, prevents sprocket durability loss and the generation of harmonics during rotation, along with a chain drive system. Tooth roots between adjacent teeth of the sprocket include those with a radial deviation from a root circle of a standard tooth profile, set within a predetermined numerical range corresponding to a tooth pitch. A phase variation pattern is created by changing a root radius in accordance with an angular position. The phase variation pattern has a waveform with an amplitude varied within a range of ( 1/7)Amax, where Amax represents a maximum amplitude. The chain drive system includes a plurality of sprockets and a chain passed over the sprockets, at least one of them being the above-described sprocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN CO.
    Inventors: Shoichiro Shimizu, Yuta Watanabe, Akira Hirai
  • Patent number: 11926067
    Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 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
  • Patent number: 11919168
    Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of transport robots that is travelable autonomously in a facility. The robot control system: acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot; acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot; determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information; and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Taira, Shiro Oda, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma