Patents by Inventor Atsushi Tanaka

Atsushi 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).

  • Publication number: 20240103265
    Abstract: A rotatable polygon mirror molded with a resin includes a plurality of reflecting surfaces provided in parallel to a rotational axis direction, a surface perpendicular to the rotational axis direction; a plurality of gate portions provided on the surface and a recess-projection on the surface. The recess-projection has at least one shape of a recess shape recessed in the rotational axis from the and a projection shape projected from the surface as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the rotational axis direction. The recess-projection is provided in a virtual straight line with equal distances from two of the adjacent gate portions with respect to a rotational direction of the rotatable polygon mirror and connecting a rotation center of the rotatable polygon mirror and a boundary of two of the adjacent reflecting surfaces with respect to the rotational direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: TAKATOSHI TANAKA, ATSUSHI TAKATA, YOSHIHIKO TANAKA, NAOKI MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20240106672
    Abstract: A content generation apparatus capable of easily confirming content data, the information of which is registered in a blockchain, is provided. An image pickup apparatus generates an image file and then immediately calculates a hash value of the image file, and transmits image file information including the hash value to a management system. In response to receipt of a registration completion notification indicating that a process of registering the image file information in a blockchain is completed, the image pickup apparatus stores registration-completed information indicating that the image file information is registered in the blockchain, relating to the image file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: DAIYU UENO, KEIICHIRO KUBO, NAOHIKO TSUCHIDA, MINORU SAKAIDA, ATSUSHI FUJITA, KEISUKE TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11939915
    Abstract: A raw material fluid treatment plant provided with a raw material reaction apparatus for reacting a raw material fluid to form a reaction gas. The raw material reaction apparatus includes preheaters and a reactor. The preheaters are heat exchangers that perform heat exchange between a second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid to heat the raw material fluid. The reactor is a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between a first heat transfer medium differing from the second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid having been heated by the preheaters to heat and react the raw material fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hidefumi Araki, Satoshi Tanimura, Masakazu Nose, Jun Sasahara, Yukio Tanaka, Atsushi Yuasa
  • Patent number: 11943545
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a circuit block in which an operation period is predetermined and intermittent operation is performed according to the operation period; a plurality of SRAMs; and a dummy control circuit configured to increase an intensity of a dummy operation of an unused SRAM among the plurality of SRAMs for a certain period of time before the operation period of the circuit block, and to decrease the intensity of the dummy operation of the unused SRAM among the plurality of SRAMs for a certain period of time after the operation period of the circuit block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Murata, Yoshinobu Tanaka, Atsushi Ishihara, Akira Ueno
  • Publication number: 20240094646
    Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes a droplet supplier to supply a target droplet inside a vacuum chamber, an irradiator irradiating a pulsed laser onto the target droplet, a condensing mirror installed inside the vacuum chamber and configured to condense a light emitted from the target droplet by irradiation of the pulsed laser onto the target droplet, a gas supplier to flow a hydrogen gas along a surface of the condensing mirror, a controller to change a supply condition of the target droplet and an irradiation condition of the pulsed laser to conditions different from conditions during an exposure operation to increase an amount of production of hydrogen radicals in the vacuum chamber, and an exhaust pump to exhaust a gas from an inside of the vacuum chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsunobu NISHIHARA, Nozomi TANAKA, Tomoyuki JOHZAKI, Ken OZAWA, Atsushi SUNAHARA, Shinji UEYAMA, Shinsuke FUJIOKA, Yubo WANG
  • Publication number: 20240097441
    Abstract: A management system includes a plurality of resources configured to be electrically connected to an external power supply, and a management device configured to manage the resources. The management device includes a planning unit and a management unit. The planning unit is configured to determine a power balancing plan of each of the resources by using first information on a use schedule of each of the resources and second information indicating a magnitude of an environmental load in a process of generating electric power to be supplied by the external power supply. The management unit is configured to manage the resources to cause each of the resources to operate according to the power balancing plan or a modified power balancing plan in power balancing of the external power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER MIRAIZ CO., INC., CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke HORII, Eiko Megan UCHIDA, Masashi TANAKA, Masato EHARA, Sachio TOYORA, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Akinori MORISHIMA, Takuji MATSUBARA, Tohru NAKAMURA, Ryou TAKAHASHI, Kenta ITO, Toshiki SUZUKI, Atsushi MIYASHITA, Takashi OCHIAI
  • Patent number: 11932696
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for cancer treatment comprising an antibody against CCR8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: SHIONOGI & CO., LTD., OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yoshida, Yujiro Kidani, Mitsunobu Matsumoto, Takayuki Kanazawa, Satomi Shinonome, Kanji Hojo, Naganari Ohkura, Shimon Sakaguchi, Atsushi Tanaka, Hisashi Wada, Atsunari Kawashima, Norio Nonomura
  • Patent number: 11932021
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a tank including a chamber configured to store liquid to be supplied to a recording head that ejects the liquid and a filling port from which the liquid is injected into the chamber, and an injection auxiliary member configured to assist injecting of the liquid into the chamber from the filling port, the injection auxiliary member including a first and a second flow channels each defined by a first or a second upper end portion that opens toward outside of the tank and a first or a second lower end portion that opens toward inside of the tank, wherein the second flow channel has an expansion portion arranged in a middle portion between the second upper end portion and the second lower end portion and configured to form a step to expand a cross-sectional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yusuke Naratani, Koya Iwakura, Hideaki Matsumura, Tetsu Hamano, Nobuhiro Toki, Daiju Takeda, Fumie Kameyama, Koki Shimada, Shota Asada, Ken Takenaga, Yusuke Tanaka, Yuta Araki, Taiji Maruyama, Atsushi Matsuyama, Kousuke Tanaka, Toshimitsu Takahashi, Nanae Uchinuno
  • Patent number: 11934022
    Abstract: A photoelectric fiber includes a fiber including a core through which light is guided; an electrical unit formed continuously with the fiber, the electrical unit being configured to house a photoelectric conversion chip including a photoelectric conversion element; and an external electrode formed on a front surface of at least one of the fiber or the electrical unit, wherein the photoelectric conversion chip is optically connected to the core and electrically connected to the external electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Sato, Atsushi Aratake, Makoto Abe, Takuya Tanaka, Kota Shikama, Takao Fukumitsu, Hiroshi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20240082965
    Abstract: A piston ring installation jig is to be used when installing a piston ring having a ring gap in a ring groove formed in an outer peripheral surface of a piston. The piston ring installation jig includes a main body including a groove. The main body has in a semi-cylindrical shape surrounding the outer peripheral surface of the piston. The groove has a substantially semicircular arc shape, and is formed in an inner peripheral surface of the main body in a region corresponding to the ring groove of the piston. A portion of the piston ring in a circumferential direction is inserted into the groove. The groove has a shape of an arc of a circle which has a circle center biased more to an outer peripheral side of the main body than a circle center of an inner peripheral surface of the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi TANAKA, Manabu SATO, Toshihiko FURUKAWA, Nanaka HOSODA, Ryuta SHINOHARA, Tomoki KAJIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240083183
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a carriage on which a liquid ejection head that ejects a liquid is mounted, the carriage being reciprocally movable in a scanning direction; a guide member that extends in the scanning direction and that guides movement of the carriage in the scanning direction; and a sliding member that is provided on the carriage and has a sliding surface that slides with a guide surface of the guide member via a lubricant, in a case where the carriage moves in the scanning direction. The carriage has a projecting portion that projects farther toward one side in the scanning direction than the sliding member. A gap formed between the projecting portion and the guide surface becomes smaller toward the sliding member in the scanning direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: YUSUKE NARATANI, ATSUSHI KOHNOTOH, KEN TAKENAGA, TAKASHI ABE, KOUSUKE TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11927244
    Abstract: When a contact area with a chain guide is reduced by a back surface of a link plate having a convex portion, a friction coefficient in a fluid lubrication region is reduced. A coating film containing 10% or more of chromium is on the link plate. A friction modifier made of a molybdenum compound and including with a lubricating oil promotes generation of MoS2 by the coating film, and prevents an increase in a friction coefficient in a boundary lubrication region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DAIDO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoki Tanaka, Satoshi Yamashita, Hiroki Nakagawa, Atsushi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11930280
    Abstract: A processor of an imaging support device is configured to acquire data related to a shake correction amount of a shake correction mechanism and a focal length of an imaging apparatus in a state where the shake correction mechanism of the imaging apparatus is operating, and adjust an irradiation range of light from an irradiation apparatus for a target subject based on the acquired data related to the shake correction amount and the acquired data related to the focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Fujikawa, Shinichiro Fujiki, Junichi Tanaka, Atsushi Kawanago
  • Publication number: 20240079368
    Abstract: A device includes a first conductive-member which connects to a first electrode on a first face of a chip. A second conductive-member is spaced from the chip and the first conductive-member. A third conductive-member is spaced from the first and second conductive-members. A first connector connects between the second electrode and the second conductive-member. A second connector is opposed to a third electrode on the second face and connects the third electrode and the third conductive-member. A first connecting-member connects the first connector and the second face. A second connecting-member connects the first connector and the second conductive-member. The first connector includes first protruded portions protruded in a first direction from the first conductive-member to the second conductive-member. The second connecting-member is provided to correspond to each of places between the first protruded portions and the second conductive-member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi HATTORI, Kyo TANABIKI, Atsushi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240070250
    Abstract: A content generation apparatus capable of guaranteeing that a provider of a content is a generator of the content is provided. The content generation apparatus that generates a content according to an instruction received from a user includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire biometric information of the user, a biometric authentication unit configured to perform biometric authentication of the user based on the biometric information of the user, a hash value generation unit configured to generate a hash value of the content in a case that the biometric authentication of the user has succeeded, and a communication unit configured to transmit the content and information of the content to a management server that registers the hash value and the information of the content in a blockchain. The information of the content includes result information indicating a result of the biometric authentication of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: NAOHIKO TSUCHIDA, DAIYU UENO, MINORU SAKAIDA, ATSUSHI FUJITA, KEIICHIRO KUBO, KEISUKE TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11917297
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging support device including an acquisition portion that acquires reversal information indicating that a revolution direction of an imaging apparatus that is caused to revolve about one axis out of a first axis and a second axis intersecting with the first axis as a central axis by a revolution mechanism enabling the imaging apparatus to revolve about each of the first axis and the second axis as the central axis is reversed, and a control portion that, in a case where the reversal information is acquired by the acquisition portion, performs a control of operating an adjustment portion capable of adjusting a position of a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Fujiki, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Junichi Tanaka, Atsushi Kawanago
  • Publication number: 20240043314
    Abstract: A tempered glass sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention has a compressive stress layer on a surface of the tempered glass sheet, in which a compressive stress value on the outermost surface of the compressive stress layer is 200 MPa or higher, and a bending strain is 30×10?4 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Yuta NAGANO, Atsushi TANAKA, Miyako TAKEDA, Yusuke SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11881470
    Abstract: In a mounting structure in which an electronic component is mounted on a wiring board, a wiring sheet including an adhesive layer interposes between the electronic component and the wiring board and the electronic component is indirectly mounted on the wiring board. The electronic component is directly mounted on the adhesive layer of the wiring sheet and the adhesive layer of the wiring sheet is directly fitted to the wiring board. Conduction between the electronic component and the wiring board is attained by conduction between the electronic component and the wiring sheet and conduction between the wiring sheet and the wiring board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Ryosuke Mitsui, Junya Sato, Atsushi Tanaka, Kosuke Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20240003439
    Abstract: A valve device may include: a shaft which has a shaft central axis; a stationary disk; a rotor; a housing which has a housing central axis and an opening; a housing cover which closes the opening; and a seal member. The seal member is eccentric with respect to the shaft central axis in conformity with the amount of eccentricity between the shaft central axis and the housing central axis. A valve device may include: a drive device; a shaft which has a shaft central axis; a stationary disk; a rotor; a housing which has a housing central axis and an opening; a drive device case which closes the opening and receives the drive device; and a seal member. The seal member is eccentric with respect to the shaft central axis in conformity with the amount of eccentricity between the shaft central axis and the housing central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Naoki ASANO, Takuya HAMADA, Atsushi TANAKA, Ryo SANO
  • Publication number: 20240003454
    Abstract: A valve device includes a drive device, a valve element, a housing main body, a main-body cover and a seal member. The housing main body has a main-body connecting portion and a main body fastening portion. The main-body cover has a cover connecting portion and a cover fastening portion. At least one of the housing main body and the main-body cover has a corresponding one of: a rigidity reducing structure that reduces a rigidity of the main-body connecting portion; and a rigidity reducing structure that reduces a rigidity of the cover connecting portion. The rigidity reducing structure is a space that reduces the rigidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshitada AONO, Atsushi TANAKA