Patents by Inventor Akihiro Tanabe

Akihiro Tanabe 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: 10568212
    Abstract: The present invention enables the manufacture of a small-sized high-density multi-layer printed circuit board. The manufacturing method for a multi-layer printed circuit board, according to the present invention, comprises: a step in which an electrical insulation layer is formed by heating a laminate comprising a substrate, a heat-curable resin composition layer provided on the substrate, and a release substrate provided on the heat-curable resin composition layer, thereby curing the heat-curable resin composition layer, and a step in which a via hole is formed in the electrical insulation layer by irradiating a laser from above the release substrate. In addition, in the present invention, the release substrate has a thickness of at least 80 ?m and is formed using a material having a glass transition temperature, the heat-curable resin composition layer has a volatile component-content of 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Fujimura, Takashi Iga, Akihiro Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20190356893
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises an analyzer that analyzes a file, a convertor that converts dynamic range of image data, and a controller that outputs image data in the file to a display on the basis of the analysis, wherein the controller outputs a main image in the file to the display device if the display supports the dynamic range of the main image, outputs sub image to the display device if the display does not support the dynamic range of the main image and the sub image is included in the file, and uses the converter to convert the main image into image data having a dynamic range supported by the display to output the image data obtained through the conversion if the display does not support the dynamic range of the main image and the sub image is not included in the file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20190323170
    Abstract: An automobile instrument panel surface material includes a microfiber having an average single fiber diameter of 0.3 to 7 ?m; and polyurethane, the automobile instrument panel surface material having nap formed of the microfiber, the automobile instrument panel surface material having, of light fastnesses measured according to a light fastness measurement method of JIS L 0843:2006 under conditions of a xenon arc intensity of 110 MJ/m2, a fading by gray scale evaluation of grade 3.5 or higher, the automobile instrument panel surface material having a glass haze of 10.0% or less as measured according to a glass haze evaluation method of ISO 6452:2007 under conditions of a heating temperature of 100° C. and a heating time of 20 hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Satoshi Yanagisawa, Akihiro Tanabe, Makoto Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10404326
    Abstract: A power transmission apparatus includes a wireless power transmission unit that performs a power transmission process, a wireless communication unit that performs a data transfer process, and a control unit that determines whether or not an external apparatus entered in a predetermined range is an apparatus which has left the predetermined range during the data transfer process, and controls the power transmission process and the data transfer process based on whether the external apparatus entered in the predetermined range is the apparatus which has left the predetermined range during the data transfer process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanabe
  • Patent number: 10355748
    Abstract: An electronic device that communicates with a communication apparatus includes a connection unit that connects to a battery, a storage unit accessible from an external apparatus via a close proximity wireless communication, a control unit that performs control such that information used in executing one of a plurality of functions including a wireless power transmission function is stored in the storage unit, wherein the control unit performs the control such that information associated with the wireless power transmission function is stored in the storage unit depending on a charge status of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20190215032
    Abstract: According to the present invention, the communication mode can be prevented from changing when re-authentication is performed. To achieve this, a power supply apparatus that wirelessly supplies power to an electronic device, comprises a communicating unit that contactlessly transmits power and transmits/receives information, a holding unit that holds, when authentication is first performed with an electronic device via the communicating unit, information indicating a communication mode when communication is established with the electronic device, and a controlling unit that controls the communicating unit so as to perform communication in a communication mode based on the information held in the holding unit, when a second authentication is performed with the electronic device via the communicating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanabe
  • Patent number: 10326320
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a power supply unit configured to perform power supply, a communication unit configured to perform communication, and a control unit configured to control, based on data received by the communication unit, a power supply for an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanabe
  • Patent number: 10318996
    Abstract: An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and an auction providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content. The auction providing unit presents the plan information received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which bid targets are a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space that is set to the content and a right to replace the advertisement displayed in the advertising space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Takata, Nobuyuki Akashi, Akira Tajima, Koji Tsukamoto, Nari Woo, Akihiro Tanabe, Shinichiro Sega, Rin Katou
  • Patent number: 10298025
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a power supply unit that wirelessly supplies power to an electronic apparatus, a communication unit that communicates with the electronic apparatus, and a control unit that controls, based on whether information regarding the electronic apparatus that is received from the electronic apparatus is updated by the electronic apparatus, power to be supplied from the power supply apparatus to the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanabe
  • Patent number: 10183670
    Abstract: The drive system from the engine (1) to the drive wheels (7) of a vehicle is equipped with a torque converter (2), which has a lock-up clutch (3), and a variator (4). Said engined car is provided with a lock-up control means for controlling the engagement/disengagement of the lock-up clutch (3) and a gear change mode switch-controlling means (FIG. 8) for performing control to switch between a “continuously variable gear change mode” and a “DSTEP gear change mode.” While traveling, the gear change mode switch-controlling means (FIG. 8) prohibits gear change by the “DSTEP gear change mode” when the detected oil temperature is at or below a lock-up engagement-permitting threshold for permitting engagement of the lock-up clutch (3) and allows gear change by the “DSTEP gear change mode” when the detected oil temperature is higher than the lock-up engagement-permitting threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Tomoaki Honma, Akihiro Tanabe, Tomoko Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20180359002
    Abstract: A power transmission apparatus includes a wireless power transmission unit that performs a power transmission process, a wireless communication unit that performs a data transfer process, and a control unit that determines whether or not an external apparatus entered in a predetermined range is an apparatus which has left the predetermined range during the data transfer process, and controls the power transmission process and the data transfer process based on whether the external apparatus entered in the predetermined range is the apparatus which has left the predetermined range during the data transfer process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Akihiro TANABE
  • Publication number: 20180342909
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a power supply unit configured to perform power supply, a communication unit configured to perform communication, and a control unit configured to control, based on data received by the communication unit, a power supply for an electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanabe
  • Patent number: 10084320
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a power reception unit configured to wirelessly receive power from a power supply apparatus, a communication unit configured to receive a detection period, during which the power supply apparatus detects a foreign object, from the power supply apparatus and to notify a control unit of the detection period, the detection period, and the control unit configured to perform a process for keeping power consumed by the electronic apparatus in predetermined range constant until the detection period has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Tanabe, Yudai Fukaya
  • Patent number: 10085110
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a power supply unit configured to wirelessly supply power to an electronic apparatus, a communication unit configured to receive information regarding the electronic apparatus from the electronic apparatus, and a control unit configured to control whether to perform a process for detecting a foreign object according to whether the information is updated by the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Tanabe, Nobuyuki Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 10079620
    Abstract: A power transmission apparatus includes a wireless power transmission unit that performs a power transmission process, a wireless communication unit that performs a data transfer process, and a control unit that determines whether or not an external apparatus entered in a predetermined range is an apparatus which has left the predetermined range during the data transfer process, and controls the power transmission process and the data transfer process based on whether the external apparatus entered in the predetermined range is the apparatus which has left the predetermined range during the data transfer process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20180262061
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus of this invention includes a communication unit that performs transmission. of power and. transmission/reception. of information, in a non-contact manner, a plurality of object sensors that are provided on a placing table, and generate object detection signals, a determiner that determines, based on identification information of the electronic device acquired by the communication unit, whether or not the detection signals from the object sensors are within predetermined reference value ranges, a power supply unit that supplies power to the electronic device if it is determined that the detection signals are within the reference value ranges, and a controller that uses signals from object sensors that have not detected placement of the electronic device for detecting extraneous object, and that controls the power supply unit based on whether or not an extraneous object is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20180254664
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a communication unit which performs power transmission and transmission/reception of information in a non-contact manner, a detector which detects intrusion of an object in a communication range of the communication unit, an acquisition unit which acquires information indicating a size of an electronic device from the electronic device via the communication unit, a determiner which determines a detection range in which intrusion of an object is detected by the detector, based on the acquired information, and a controller which supplies power to the electronic device via the communication unit. In addition, the controller controls power supply to the electronic device based on detection of intrusion of an object in the detection range performed by the detector, during power supply to the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanabe
  • Patent number: 10069349
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a power supply unit configured to perform power supply, a communication unit configured to perform communication, and a control unit configured to control, based on data received by the communication unit, a power supply for an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20180205233
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a power supply unit that wirelessly supplies power to an electronic apparatus, a communication unit that communicates with the electronic apparatus, and a control unit that controls, based on whether information regarding the electronic apparatus that is received from the electronic apparatus is updated by the electronic apparatus, power to be supplied from the power supply apparatus to the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20180184525
    Abstract: The present invention enables the manufacture of a small-sized high-density multi-layer printed circuit board. The manufacturing method for a multi-layer printed circuit board, according to the present invention, comprises: a step in which an electrical insulation layer is formed by heating a laminate comprising a substrate, a heat-curable resin composition layer provided on the substrate, and a release substrate provided on the heat-curable resin composition layer, thereby curing the heat-curable resin composition layer, and a step in which a via hole is formed in the electrical insulation layer by irradiating a laser from above the release substrate. In addition, in the present invention, the release substrate has a thickness of at least 80 ?m and is formed using a material having a glass transition temperature, the heat-curable resin composition layer has a volatile component-content of 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Makoto FUJIMURA, Takashi IGA, Akihiro TANABE