Patents by Inventor Akira Tanaka

Akira Tanaka 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: 11789279
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a wearable device configured to be attached to a display configured to display a display image. The wearable device features an optical component set featuring a lens, a first user operable member configured to set an adjustment value relating to a projection angle of the visual image, and a second user operable member configured to set an adjustment value relating to at least one of a color tone or a brightness of the visual image. A position of the visual image is changed by adjusting the projection angle of the visual image using the first user operable member so that the visual image is displayed at a position based on at least one of a shape or a size of the head of the user. The color tone or the brightness of the visual image is changed using the second user operable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Kenichi Doniwa, Hiroaki Komaki, Hiroki Kumagai, Takashi Sudo, Nobuhide Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 11791102
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor has a relationship of about 10°??1?about 50° and a relationship of about 10°??2?about 50°, where ?1 denotes an angle between a first end surface and a perpendicular extending from a side of a first main surface at a point of intersection of the first main surface and the first end surface, and ?2 denotes an angle between a second end surface and a perpendicular extending from a side of the first main surface at a point of intersection of the first main surface and the second end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Suguru Nakano, Risa Hojo, Akira Tanaka, Toru Nishikawa, Satoshi Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20230317921
    Abstract: A bipolar electrode for a bipolar lead-acid battery includes a substrate (bipolar plate) in which a through hole for conduction is formed, a positive electrode bonded to one surface of the substrate with an adhesive layer, and a negative electrode bonded to another surface of the substrate with an adhesive layer. The substrate has, on each of the one surface and the other surface, a projecting portion surrounding an outer circumference of the through hole as an entry avoidance structure. The bipolar lead-acid battery includes multiple layers of the bipolar electrodes. By preventing adhesive from entering a through hole for conduction formed in a bipolar plate, the reliability of joining between a positive-electrode lead layer and a negative-electrode lead layer is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakajima, Hiroki Tanaka, Kenichi Suyama, Akira Tanaka, Yoshinobu Taira, Kenji Hirota, Satoshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20230318045
    Abstract: A bipolar storage battery includes a bipolar electrode including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a bipolar plate provided with a positive electrode on one surface and a negative electrode on an other surface. The bipolar plate has a communication hole communicating the one surface and the other surface. A positive current collector and a negative current collector are electrically joined through the communication hole. A partition is provided in the space between an inner surface of the communication hole and a joint portion between the positive current collector and the negative current collector. This arrangement provides a bipolar lead-acid storage battery that prevents an electrolytic solution from reaching a negative electrode side as much as possible to greatly suppress the occurrence of liquid junction even when the electrolytic solution enters communication holes, so that the battery performance is less likely to deteriorate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki Tanaka, Yasuo Nakajima, Kenichi Suyama, Akira Tanaka, Yoshinobu Taira, Kenji Hirota
  • Publication number: 20230318046
    Abstract: A bipolar storage battery includes a bipolar electrode including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a substrate provided with the positive electrode on one surface and the negative electrode on another surface. The bipolar storage battery includes a first adhesive provided between the one surface of the substrate and the positive electrode to bond the positive electrode to the substrate. The first adhesive is a conductive adhesive. This configuration can provide a bipolar storage battery in which battery performance is less likely to deteriorate by preventing an electrolytic solution from easily infiltrating an interface between a positive electrode and an adhesive layer even when growth occurs in the positive electrode due to corrosion by sulfuric acid contained in the electrolytic solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki Tanaka, Yasuo Nakajima, Kenichi Suyama, Akira Tanaka, Miho Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20230304912
    Abstract: A crimping determination device according to an embodiment includes a dropping unit, an image acquisition unit, and a control unit. The dropping unit drops a test solution to a wire harness. The wire harness includes a crimped portion in which an electric wire is crimped by a crimping terminal, a first electric wire portion in which the electric wire is exposed on a distal end side, and a second electric wire portion in which the electric wire is exposed on a proximal end side. The dropping unit drops the test solution to either one of the first electric wire portion and the second electric wire portion. The image acquisition unit acquires an image including the other one of the first electric wire portion and the second electric wire portion. The control unit determines a quality of a crimped state of the crimped portion based on the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Masashi WATANABE, Emi SATO, Juhong YANG
  • Publication number: 20230302904
    Abstract: A display device includes a processing circuit and a display. The processing circuit obtains an ambient temperature of a gyro sensor, obtains a sensitivity associated with a temperature range including the ambient temperature, corrects an angular velocity of the gyro sensor in accordance with the sensitivity, estimates a first estimated vehicle orientation based on the angular velocity corrected, estimates a second estimated vehicle orientation based on the angular velocity detected by the gyro sensor, derives a third estimated vehicle orientation by correcting the first estimated vehicle orientation using a position and a speed of vehicle, and updates the sensitivity of the temperature range using a calculated sensitivity that is based on the second estimated vehicle orientation and the third estimated vehicle orientation. The display displays an image that is in accordance with the third estimated vehicle orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Toshiya MORI
  • Publication number: 20230299266
    Abstract: A bipolar lead storage battery includes a plurality of cell members laminated on one another, inner frames that each include a bipolar plate provided between the cell members, and a frame member (a rim) provided in an outer peripheral portion of the bipolar plate to rise in a thickness direction of the bipolar plate. The bipolar lead storage battery also includes a pair of outer frames respectively placed at opposite end portions in a lamination direction. The inner frames or the outer frames are made of fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin. The arrangement restrains deformation of an inner frame or an outer frame due to the pressure inside a cell and allows a reduced thickness of the inner frame or the outer frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakajima, Hiroki Tanaka, Kenichi Suyama, Akira Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230299400
    Abstract: A bipolar battery includes a plurality of cell members and a plurality of frame units configured to form a plurality of cells individually housing the plurality of cell members. Each of the plurality of frame units has joining surfaces facing each other in the stacking direction of the cell members, which are joined to each other by a joining material. On outer side surfaces of the frame units adjacent to each other in the stacking direction, a groove is formed which communicates between the joining surfaces to be joined and opens to the outer side surfaces. A water sealing material is disposed in the groove. This arrangement provides a bipolar battery capable of reliably preventing an electrolyte from leaking out of a cell by a simple seal configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Yasuo Nakajima, Kenichi Suyama, Hiroki Tanaka, Yoshinobu Taira, Kenji Hirota
  • Patent number: 11741811
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method executed by an electronic apparatus including storage configured to store device information including first position information indicating a position of a device installed in a particular range and risk information associated with use of the device is provided. The method includes receiving second position information indicating a position of a user wearing an eyeglasses-type wearable terminal and working within the particular range, from the eyeglasses-type wearable terminal and estimating a status of the user, based at least in part on the first position information and the risk information included in the device information, and the second position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takashi Sudo, Akira Tanaka, Kenichi Doniwa, Hiroaki Komaki, Hiroki Kumagai, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Nobuhide Okabayashi
  • Publication number: 20230238936
    Abstract: A filter includes a body and first and second filters with pass bands different from each other. In the body, an inductor of the first filter is in a first range, and an inductor of the second filter is in a second range. The inductor in the first filter is a vertical coil including a plate electrode and a via extending in a normal direction of the body. In the second filter, the inductor facing the first range is a planar coil with a winding axis in the normal direction of the body. As seen in plan view in the normal direction of the body, an imaginary line from an extending-direction center of the plate electrode of the first filter in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the extending direction does not intersect with the inductor of the second filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventor: Akira TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230235565
    Abstract: This traveling assistance tool for a wheelchair includes a travel path member including a travel path part on which a wheelchair travels and a reinforcing part for reinforcing the travel path part from below; and end members which are fitted to the ends of the travel path member to introduce a wheelchair onto the travel path part, the reinforcing part being constituted of a plurality of hollow segments arranged in a single line in the crossing direction of the travel path part, where the traveling assistance tool for a wheelchair is characterized in that the end members have: insertion parts which are inserted into ends of the reinforcing parts; and a support part which supports the ends of the reinforcing part from below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Masayuki Matsushita, Junichiro Hoshikawa, Hiromi Taniguchi, Nobuo Asahara, Yohei Noguchi, Akira Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230238586
    Abstract: A bipolar storage battery is described in which, even when growth occurs in a positive electrode due to corrosion caused by sulfuric acid contained in an electrolytic solution, the electrolytic solution has difficulty penetrating an interface between the positive electrode and an adhesive and battery performance is hard to decrease. The bipolar storage battery includes a bipolar electrode including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a bipolar plate in which the positive electrode is provided on one surface and the negative electrode is provided on the other surface. The bipolar electrode includes a covering member configured to cover a peripheral part of an opposite surface of the positive electrode in close contact with the peripheral part, the opposite surface being opposite to a surface, of the positive electrode, bonded to the bipolar plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki Tanaka, Yasuo Nakajima, Kenichi Suyama, Akira Tanaka, Ayano Koide, Yoshinobu Taira, Kenji Hirota
  • Publication number: 20230220676
    Abstract: A ramp includes a plate member. The ramp is formed from a carbon fiber-reinforced resin having a longitudinal elastic modulus in the bridging direction of 50+ GPa, and a connecting section that connects the plate member which plate member can be divided into two in a plane perpendicular to the plate member and parallel to the bridging direction. A reinforcement part forms a plurality of hollow segments arranged single file along the bridging direction of the plate member. The cross section shape perpendicular to the direction of extension of the hollow segments is trapezoidal, the height of the trapezoid is 10 to 50 mm, the base angles are 45° to 90°, the width of the plane that contacts the trapezoidal plate member is 100 to 10 mm, and derailment preventing walls connect to portions of plate member side end faces and hollow segment side end faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Masayuki Matsushita, Junichiro Hoshikawa, Hiromi Taniguchi, Nobuo Asahara, Yohei Noguchi, Akira Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230223628
    Abstract: A bipolar battery that can achieve both a hermetic seal and mechanical strength and increases energy density is described. The bipolar lead acid battery includes an outer wall integrally projected along a peripheral edge on a facing surface of one frame-plate out of a pair of the frame-plates facing each other and a joining wall integrally projected on a facing surface of the other frame-plate out of the pair of the frame-plates facing each other. The joining wall is positioned inwardly from the outer wall of the one frame-plate and surrounds a peripheral edge of a cell member. The joining wall is joined to the facing surface of the one frame-plate by a joining material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Masanobu Aragaki, Kenichi Suyama, Yasuo Nakajima, Hiroki Tanaka, Yoshinobu Taira, Kenji Hirota
  • Publication number: 20230196953
    Abstract: A display device includes a controller that determines the mode of inclination of a display object that is an image shaped to point to one direction, and a drawing unit that projects light representing the display object in the mode of inclination determined by the controller onto a windshield to cause the light to be reflected off the windshield toward a user in the vehicle to enable the user to visually recognize the display object in the mode of inclination as a virtual image through the windshield. The controller determines the mode of inclination of the display object that points to the one direction as a navigation direction, by controlling yaw and roll angles of the display object depending on the attribute of a path point that is set on the path to navigate the vehicle to a destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Toshiya MORI, Tadashi SHIBATA, Fumihito INUKAI
  • Publication number: 20230179166
    Abstract: In a resonant device, a third plane electrode is located between a first plane electrode and a second plane electrode. A first via electrode connects the first plane electrode and the third plane electrode. A second via electrode, a third via electrode, and a fourth via electrode connect the first plane electrode and the second plane electrode. When the third plane electrode is seen in plan view in a normal direction of the first plane electrode, the third plane electrode includes a first projecting portion overlapping with a first area between the second via electrode and the third via electrode, and a second projecting portion overlapping with a second area between the third via electrode and the fourth via electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Akira TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230178712
    Abstract: A lead alloy is described that is capable of manufacturing a positive electrode for a lead storage battery with a reduced likelihood of causing growth. The lead alloy contains 0.4% by mass or more and 2% by mass or less of tin and 0.004% by mass or less of bismuth, with the balance being lead and inevitable impurities. The diffraction intensity of a Cube orientation {001} <100> in a pole figure created by analyzing the surface of the lead alloy by an X-ray diffraction method is 4 times or less the diffraction intensity of a random orientation in a pole figure created by analyzing a pure lead powder by the X-ray diffraction method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Miho Yamauchi, Akira Tanaka, Hideto Nakamura, Masanobu Aragaki, Jun Furukawa, Toru Mangahara, Keizo Yamada, Ayano Koide, Atsushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20230179167
    Abstract: In a resonant device, a first via electrode and a second via electrode connect a first plane electrode and a third plane electrode. A third via electrode and a fourth via electrode connect the first plane electrode and a second plane electrode. When the first plane electrode is seen in plan view in a normal direction of the first plane electrode, a first imaginary line connecting the first via electrode and the second via electrode intersects with a second imaginary line connecting the third via electrode and the fourth via electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Akira TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230170464
    Abstract: A lead alloy is described that is capable of manufacturing a positive electrode for a lead storage battery less likely to cause corrosion penetrating through a lead layer for the positive electrode in the thickness direction. The lead alloy contains 0.4% by mass or more and 2% by mass less of tin and 0.004% by mass or less of bismuth, with the balance being lead and inevitable impurities. When image analysis of a crystal orientation distribution map created by analyzing the surface of the lead alloy by an electron backscatter diffraction method is performed, intersection points of misorientation boundaries between crystal grains with a crystal misorientation of 5° or more and a straight line extending in one specific direction are extracted. The distances between two adjacent intersection points among the extracted intersection points are measured, and the average value of the distances is 50 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Miho Yamauchi, Akira Tanaka, Hideto Nakamura, Masanobu Aragaki, Jun Furukawa, Toru Mangahara, Keizo Yamada, Ayano Koide, Atsushi Sato