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).
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Publication number: 20230141255Abstract: An image display device according to an embodiment of the present technology include an emission portion, an irradiation target, and an optical portion. The emission portion emits image light along a predetermined axis. The irradiation target is disposed at at least a part around the predetermined axis. The optical portion controls an incident angle of the image light on the irradiation target, the image light having been emitted from the emission portion, the optical portion being disposed in a manner that the optical portion faces the emission portion on the basis of the predetermined axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Tomoharu Nakamura, Yusuke Oyama, Akira Tanaka
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Patent number: 11646000Abstract: An image display system includes a display unit displaying an image, a projection unit projecting in a target space a virtual image corresponding to the image with an output light of the display unit, a body unit provided thereto the display unit and the projection unit, and an image producing unit including a first correction unit and a second correction unit. The first correction unit performs a first correction processing of correcting, based on a first orientation signal indicative of a first orientation change of the body unit, a display position of the virtual image in the target space. The second correction unit performs a second correction processing of correcting, based on a second orientation signal indicative of a second orientation change of the body unit which is faster than the first orientation change, the display position of the virtual image in the target space.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC IN TEI IFCTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanaga Tsuji, Toshiya Mori, Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Yoshiteru Mino, Tadashi Shibata, Nobuyuki Nakano, Akira Tanaka, Shohei Hayashi
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Publication number: 20230115048Abstract: The stainless steel contains 0.0001 mass % or more and 0.15 mass % or less of C, 0.30 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less of Si, 0.1 mass % or more and 15 mass % or less of Mn, 5 mass % or more and 30 mass % or less of Ni, 0.0001 mass % or more and 0.01 mass % or less of S, 16 mass % or more and 25 mass % or less of Cr, 0 mass % or more and 5 mass % or less of Mo, 0 mass % or more and 0.005 mass % or less of Al, 0 mass % or more and 0.0010 mass % or less of Mg, 0.0010 mass % or more and 0.0060 mass % or less of 0, and 0.0001 mass % or more and 0.5 mass % or less of N, and at least includes an inclusion with an equivalent circle diameter of 5 ?m or more, having the average composition of 5 mass % or more of MnO, 20 mass % or more of Cr2O3+Al2O3, 1 mass % or more of Al2O3, and 5 mass % or less of Ca0. The number density of the inclusion having the composition is 0.5 inclusions/mm2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL Stainless Steel CorporationInventors: Tooru SHIBATA, Yuto SAKAIZAWA, Shigeo FUKUMOTO, Akira TANAKA, Shin KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20230104615Abstract: An eyeglasses-type wearable device of an embodiment can handle various data inputs. The device includes right and left eye frames corresponding to positions of right and left eyes and nose pads corresponding to a position of a nose. Eye motion detection electrodes (sightline detection sensor electrodes) are provided with the nose pads to detect the eye motion of a user. Transmitter/receiver electrodes (capacitance sensor electrodes) of a gesture detector are provided with a part of the right and left eye frames to detect a gesture of the user. Various data inputs are achieved by a combination of input A corresponding to a gesture of the user detected by the gesture detector and input B corresponding to the eye motion of the user detected by the eye motion detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Hiroaki Komaki, Akira Tanaka, Kenichi Doniwa, Hiroki Kumagai, Takashi Sudo, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Nobuhide Okabayashi
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Publication number: 20230086164Abstract: An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shohei HAYASHI, Toshiya MORI, Tadashi SHIBATA, Nobuyuki NAKANO, Akira TANAKA, Masanaga TSUJI
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Publication number: 20230077707Abstract: A stainless steel with reduced S and suppressed generation of hard inclusions. Inclusions with an equivalent circle diameter of 5 ?m or more, the number density of a first inclusion having the average composition of, in mass %, CaO: 0% or more and 15% or less, SiO2: 0% or more and 20% or less, Al2O3: 50% or more and 70% or less, and MgO: 10% or more and 40% or less is 0.5 inclusions/mm2 or less, the number density of a second inclusion having CaO: 10% or more and 70% or less, SiO2: 10% or more and 65% or less, Al2O3: 20% or less, MgO: 5% or more and 50% or less, and CaF2: 0% or more and 5% or less is 0.2 inclusions/mm2 or less, and the number density of a third inclusion having CaO: 5% or more and 40% or less, SiO2: 10% or more and 40% or less, Al2O3: 10% or more and 40% or less, MgO: 5% or more and 30% or less, and CaF2: 5% or more and 40% or less is 0.005 inclusions/mm2 or more and 0.5 inclusions/mm2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL Stainless Steel CorporationInventors: Tooru SHIBATA, Akira TANAKA, Shigeo FUKUMOTO, Shin KIKUCHI
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Patent number: 11587713Abstract: An inductor component includes a core including a substantially column-shaped shaft and a pair of supports provided at both ends of the shaft; terminal electrodes provided on the supports; a wire wound around the shaft and including end portions connected to the terminal electrodes; and a bottom cover member that covers a boundary portion between the shaft and one of the supports at a bottom of the shaft. The wire is exposed at a side of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akira Tanaka
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Patent number: 11561248Abstract: A resistance mapping device includes: a first chip including a first surface, a second surface positioned at a side opposite to the first surface, and a plurality of first electrodes provided at the first surface; a second chip including a third surface facing the first surface, a fourth surface positioned at a side opposite to the third surface, and a plurality of second electrodes provided at the third surface; and a measurement part, the measurement part being configured to measure a resistance of a portion of a measurement object, the portion of the measurement object being between the first electrode and the second electrode that correspond to each other among the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes, and acquire mapping data in which measured values of the resistances are associated with positions of the measurement object corresponding to the plurality of first electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Akira Tanaka
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Patent number: 11545107Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display and a sensor signal acceptor which accepts detection signals from a sensor are provided. A first display controller displays a first instruction for instructing a first work on the display, based on the detection signal which indicates an end of preparation for the first work. And, a second display controller displays a second instruction for instructing a next second work on the display, based on the detection signal which indicates an end of the first work.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yasuhiro Kanishima, Akira Tanaka, Kenichi Doniwa, Hiroaki Komaki, Hiroki Kumagai, Takashi Sudo, Nobuhide Okabayashi
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Publication number: 20220413307Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Kenichi Doniwa, Hiroaki Komaki, Hiroki Kumagai, Takashi Sudo, Nobuhide Okabayashi
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Publication number: 20220408076Abstract: An image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a plurality of projection units, a screen, and an image generation unit. The plurality of projection units projects image light corresponding to image data with reference to projection axes thereof and is disposed such that the projection axes face in directions different from each other along a first plane. The screen is disposed to intersect with the first plane at a first elevation angle (?i) and diffuses and outputs the image light projected along the first plane at a second elevation angle (?o) different from the first elevation angle (?i). The image generation unit generates the image data for displaying a plurality of viewpoint images corresponding to viewpoints at which the screen is observed at the second elevation angle (?o) on the basis of the directions of the projection axes on the first plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Akira TANAKA, Kazuki YOKOYAMA, Tomoya YANO
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Publication number: 20220395186Abstract: A biological information displaying apparatus according to an embodiment includes a picture obtaining apparatus and a processor. The picture obtaining apparatus obtains a picture signal of a predetermined site of a subject as a moving image. The processor generates a hue moving image by extracting a luminance or an image-based photoplethysmogram (iPPG) related to a pulse wave for each pixel of the moving image and assigning a hue in accordance with a value of luminance information or iPPG information. The processor displays the generated hue moving image such that the hue moving image is superimposed on an image of the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: TOHOKU UNIVERSITYInventors: Makoto YOSHIZAWA, Norihiro SUGITA, Makoto ABE, Tomoyuki YAMBE, Noriyasu HOMMA, Kazuma OBARA, Akira TANAKA, Yuki HORIHATA
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Patent number: 11514559Abstract: An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shohei Hayashi, Toshiya Mori, Tadashi Shibata, Nobuyuki Nakano, Akira Tanaka, Masanaga Tsuji
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Patent number: 11514785Abstract: A display system of the present disclosure forms an AR route by shifting node information included in road map data to a lane on which a subject vehicle is to travel on the basis of lane information. Thus, it is possible to display the AR route which matches a shape of a route on which the subject vehicle is to travel without providing a feeling of strangeness while resolving inconvenience that the AR route is largely displaced from the route on which the subject vehicle is to travel at positions such as an intersection and a branch point, where a plurality of roads intersect.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Toshiya Mori
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Publication number: 20220373611Abstract: A deterioration determination device for a storage battery system includes: a current sensor configured to, at a time of stopping charging or stopping discharging of storage batteries, measure circulation current generated among storage battery arrays in each of storage battery array blocks; a measurement control unit configured to collect a value of the circulation current measured by the current sensor; and a storage battery state determining unit configured to, from the collected value of the circulation current, determine whether or not there is deterioration of the storage batteries in the storage battery array blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., THE FURUKAWA BATTERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideto NAKAMURA, Akira TANAKA, Masanobu ARAGAKI, Hideaki YOSHIDA, Wataru TEZUKA, Akihiro SATO
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Patent number: 11500551Abstract: Provided is a control method of controlling locking or unlocking of storage using a blockchain. The control method includes: determining, when first request information indicating a lock/unlock request, that is a lock request or an unlock request, is received from a terminal, whether a keyholder identified by reading keyholder information stored in the blockchain matches an owner of the terminal that has transmitted the first request information, the keyholder information indicating a person having the authority to lock or unlock the storage; performing lock/unlock processing when the keyholder is determined to match the owner, the lock/unlock processing being processing for causing the storage to lock or unlock in accordance with the first request information; and performing first storage processing after the lock/unlock processing is performed, the first storage processing being processing of storing, in the blockchain, transaction data indicating that the lock/unlock processing has been performed.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Akira Tanaka, Fumiaki Kagaya, Eiichi Abe, Junichiro Soeda
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Publication number: 20220342330Abstract: A toner includes toner base particles. Each of the toner base particles includes a binder resin, a colorant, and inorganic filler. An atomic concentration % of Al in the toner base particles as measured by XRF is 0.35 or greater but 0.85 or less. The toner satisfies 0.8<(M1/M2)/(M3/M4)<1.2. M1 is an atomic concentration % of Al in the toner base particles as measured by XPS, M2 is the atomic concentration % of Al in the toner base particles as measured by XRF, and M3 is an atomic concentration % of Al in particles as measured by XPS, and M4 is an atomic concentration % of Al in the particles as measured by XRF. The particles are particles obtained by classifying the toner base particles into 6/5 Dv, and Dv is a volume average particle diameter of the toner base particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ryohei YAMAGUCHI, Ryuuta Yoshida, Yoshiyasu Adachi, Kazumasa Tabata, Akira Tanaka
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Patent number: 11476046Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and first and second inner electrodes that are laminated, and first and second outer electrodes. Each of the first inner electrodes includes a first opposing electrode portion and a first extending electrode portion. The first extending electrode portions at least positioned in a vicinity of the first and second principal surfaces in a lamination direction among the first inner electrodes include a first bent portion bent inward and a second bent portion bent outward in the lamination direction. A distance between vertices of the first and second bent portions in the lamination direction in the first inner electrodes positioned in the vicinity of the first and second principal surface in a lamination direction is larger than a distance in the first inner electrodes positioned in a central portion in the lamination direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Akira Tanaka
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TONER, DEVELOPING AGENT, TONER HOUSING UNIT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND A METHOD OF FORMING IMAGES
Publication number: 20220326632Abstract: [Object] An object of the invention is to provide a toner that can both achieve a higher level of low temperature fixability and suppression of the toner scattering. [Means of Achieving the Object] The disclosure is to provide a toner, including base-particles, and an external-additive, wherein a glass-transition temperature obtained from a DSC-curve at a second-warming of a THF-insoluble component is ?50° C. or higher and 10° C. or lower, wherein an average circularity of the toner is 0.975 or more and 0.985 or lower, wherein the toner satisfies the following formula: 1.5?Bt?0.025?Ct?3.0, wherein the Bt [m2/g] is a BET-specific-surface area of the toner-particles, and the Ct [%] is a coverage by the external-additive, and, at least a portion of a surface of the external-additive is coated with either an oxide of a metallic element, a hydroxide of the metallic element, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Keiji MAKABE, Akira Tanaka, Hidekazu Kakinuma, Tsukiko Takahashi -
Patent number: 11462353Abstract: A winding inductor component includes a core having a columnar shaft portion and a pair of support portions provided at both ends of the shaft portion. The wiring inductor component further includes terminal electrodes provided on the pair of support portions, respectively, and being non-magnetic bodies, and a wire wound around the shaft portion and having both end portions connected to the terminal electrodes of the pair of support portions.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akira Tanaka