Patents by Inventor Hideaki Tanaka
Hideaki 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: 20220123311Abstract: A carbon material may include granulated particles made of a carbonaceous material and satisfying (2L), ? X 1 - X ? / X 1 ? 0.2 , ( 2 ? L ) wherein X is a volume-based average particle diameter determined by laser diffraction, and X1 is an equivalent circular diameter determined from a cross-sectional SEM image, which is a reflected electron image acquired at 10 kV, wherein the carbon material has an average inter-void distance Z of 30 granulated particles randomly selected from a cross-sectional SEM image of the carbon material, as Zave, and wherein the carbon material has volume-based average particle diameter X determined by laser diffraction in a Zave/X ratio of 0.060 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Satoshi AKASAKA, Daigo NAGAYAMA, Shingo MOROKUMA, Koichi NISHIO, Iwao SOGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Takashi KAMEDA, Tooru FUSE, Hiromitsu IKEDA
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Patent number: 11285517Abstract: A substrate cleaning apparatus for cleaning a substrate while rotating the substrate and placing a cleaning member in contact with the rotating substrate is disclosed. The substrate cleaning apparatus comprises: a self-cleaning member mounted to an arm supporting the cleaning member, the self-cleaning member being configured to come into contact with the cleaning member to perform self-cleaning of the cleaning member; and a moving mechanism mounted to the arm supporting the cleaning member, the moving mechanism being configured to move the self-cleaning member between a position where the self-cleaning member is in contact with the cleaning member and a position where the self-cleaning member is separated from the cleaning member.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: EBARA CORPORATIONInventor: Hideaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11219422Abstract: An image displaying system according to an embodiment includes an observation target device, a display device and processing circuitry. The display device is configured to display an image. The processing circuitry is configured to: arrange a three-dimensional model relating to the observation target device in a virtual space; acquire data indicating a relative positional relationship between an operator and the observation target device; generate an image of a three-dimensional model included in a blind area when viewed from the operator, based on the data indicating the relative positional relationship and on the three-dimensional model arranged in the virtual space; and display the image on the display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimasa Kobayashi, Hisato Takemoto, Toru Takahashi, Tomio Maehama, Hideaki Tanaka, Naoya Fujita, Manabu Tanaka
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Publication number: 20210350983Abstract: An electronic component includes a laminate in which a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes are alternately laminated and external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrodes. A side margin portion as a region in which the plurality of internal electrodes is not provided when a section of the laminate having the length direction and the width direction is viewed from the laminating direction includes a plurality of side margin layers laminated in the width direction. An outer layer portion as a region in which the plurality of internal electrodes is not provided except for the side margin portion when a section of the laminate including the laminating direction and the width direction is viewed from the length direction includes a plurality of layer-margin layers laminated in the laminating direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Daiki FUKUNAGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Masahiro WAKASHIMA, Daisuke HAMADA, Hironori TSUTSUMI, Satoshi MAENO, Ryota ASO, Koji MORIYAMA, Akihiro TSURU
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Patent number: 11152246Abstract: A chuck table holding a frame unit including a workpiece is securely placed in an opening of an annular frame by a tape. A transparent holder having a holding surface holds the workpiece with the tape interposed therebetween. A frame body is erected around and surrounding the holder, the frame body having a plurality of suction holes that are open in an inner circumferential surface of the frame body. The frame body has an inside diameter equal to or smaller than an inside diameter of the annular frame. While an opening of the frame body is being covered by the tape, a suction force is transmitted through the suction holes into the frame body, discharging air from between the tape and the holding surface to bring the tape into intimate contact with the holding surface thereby securing the workpiece of the frame unit to the holding surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: DISCO CORPORATIONInventor: Hideaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11120945Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a laminated body and first and second external electrodes respectively on both end surfaces of the laminated body. When regions where first internal electrodes or second internal electrodes are not present are regarded as side margin portions in a cross section of the laminated body as viewed from the laminating direction, the side margin portions include multiple side margin layers, and the content of Si in the side margin layer closest to the internal electrode is lower than that in the side margin layer other than the side margin layer closest to the internal electrode.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Tanaka, Daiki Fukunaga, Koji Moriyama
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Patent number: 11094462Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a laminate, a first external electrode on a first end surface of the laminate, and a second external electrode on a second end surface of the laminate. The laminate includes a central layer portion in which each first internal electrode layer and each second internal electrode layer oppose each other with a dielectric ceramic layer therebetween, peripheral layer portions sandwiching the central layer portion in a lamination direction, and side margins sandwiching the central layer portion and the peripheral layer portions in a width direction. The side margins each include multiple ceramic layers laminated in the width direction, and the ceramic layers include an inner layer disposed closest to the laminate and an outer layer disposed farthest from the laminate.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Daiki Fukunaga, Hideaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11094464Abstract: An electronic component includes a laminate in which a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes are alternately laminated and external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrodes. A side margin portion as a region in which the plurality of internal electrodes is not provided when a section of the laminate having the length direction and the width direction is viewed from the laminating direction includes a plurality of side margin layers laminated in the width direction. An outer layer portion as a region in which the plurality of internal electrodes is not provided except for the side margin portion when a section of the laminate including the laminating direction and the width direction is viewed from the length direction includes a plurality of layer-margin layers laminated in the laminating direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Daiki Fukunaga, Hideaki Tanaka, Masahiro Wakashima, Daisuke Hamada, Hironori Tsutsumi, Satoshi Maeno, Ryota Aso, Koji Moriyama, Akihiro Tsuru
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Publication number: 20210209940Abstract: The invention provides an inter-vehicle communication apparatus for traveling safely and efficiently. In the invention, an inter-vehicle communication apparatus mounted on the vehicle on the information provider side is configured as an “inter-vehicle communication apparatus that includes a communication unit for performing communication by broadcasting, and a storage unit for storing obstacle information during vehicle driving confirmed on a travel route of the own vehicle together with the time and position information, and broadcasts the obstacle information stored in the storage unit from the communication unit”.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Hideaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20210202182Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a laminated body and first and second external electrodes respectively on both end surfaces of the laminated body. When regions where first internal electrodes or second internal electrodes are not present are regarded as side margin portions in a cross section of the laminated body as viewed from the laminating direction, the side margin portions include multiple side margin layers, and the content of Si in the side margin layer closest to the internal electrode is lower than that in the side margin layer other than the side margin layer closest to the internal electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Hideaki TANAKA, Daiki FUKUNAGA, Koji MORIYAMA
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Patent number: 11011757Abstract: A separator for a fuel cell, includes: a metal plate; a first electro-conductive resin layer formed on a first surface side of the metal plate; a second electro-conductive resin layer formed on a second surface side of the metal plate opposite to the first surface side; and a flow channel in which the metal plate and the first and second electro-conductive resin layers have a wavy shape in cross section.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideaki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20210075216Abstract: A control device including a power generation amount detector, a flow detecting unit which detects an amount of flow power and outputs the flow power amount as a flow signal, a flow control unit which compares a preset target value with the flow signal and outputs a flow operation amount, a power generation control unit which outputs an amount of generated power, an instantaneous power transmitter which detects instantaneous power and outputs the instantaneous power as an instantaneous power signal, a demand control unit which outputs a demand operation amount, and a setting value calculating unit which obtains a demand target value, outputs the demand operation amount according to the result of a comparison of the demand target value with the instantaneous power signal, and determines whether to change a setting value according to the amount of power being output from the power conditioner for power generation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2019Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Tetsugo MATSUO, Nobuhiro FUJIYOSHI, Sinichi KENKI, Hideaki TANAKA, Toshiyuki SHIMA
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Patent number: 10931112Abstract: A control device including a power generation amount detector, a flow detecting unit which detects an amount of flow power and outputs the flow power amount as a flow signal, a flow control unit which compares a preset target value with the flow signal and outputs a flow operation amount, a power generation control unit which outputs an amount of generated power, an instantaneous power transmitter which detects instantaneous power and outputs the instantaneous power as an instantaneous power signal, a demand control unit which outputs a demand operation amount, and a setting value calculating unit which obtains a demand target value, outputs the demand operation amount according to the result of a comparison of the demand target value with the instantaneous power signal, and determines whether to change a setting value according to the amount of power being output from the power conditioner for power generation.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: MATSUO CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsugo Matsuo, Nobuhiro Fujiyoshi, Sinichi Kenki, Hideaki Tanaka, Toshiyuki Shima
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Patent number: 10902725Abstract: A problem to be addressed by the present invention is to obtain a vehicle control device which, while alleviating an excessive computation load, is capable of appropriately ascertaining an external environment. This vehicle control device 01 comprises an other vehicle information acquisition unit 02 which acquires information of another vehicle by communication, and an exterior recognition unit 03 which carries out recognition of the exterior of a host vehicle by sensing. The exterior recognition unit 03 senses an other vehicle vicinity space in the vicinity of the other vehicle on the basis of the information of the other vehicle which is acquired by the other vehicle information acquisition unit 02.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Hideaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 10892104Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a laminated body and first and second external electrodes respectively on both end surfaces of the laminated body. When regions where first internal electrodes or second internal electrodes are not present are regarded as side margin portions in a cross section of the laminated body as viewed from the laminating direction, the side margin portions include multiple side margin layers, and the content of Si in the side margin layer closest to the internal electrode is lower than that in the side margin layer other than the side margin layer closest to the internal electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Tanaka, Daiki Fukunaga, Koji Moriyama
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Patent number: 10890625Abstract: A battery model includes a series connection of a direct current resistance model, a charge transfer resistance model derived from the Butler-Volmer equation, and a diffusion resistance model. A battery state estimating device includes a storage unit and a parameter calculating unit. The storage unit stores information on the resistance parameter related to the resistance component of the diffusion resistance model, the time constant parameter related to the time constant of the diffusion resistance model, and the charge parameter of the charge transfer resistance model, in association with temperature information of the secondary battery. The parameter calculating unit calculates each of the parameters corresponding to the detected temperature value based on a detected temperature value of the secondary battery and the information stored in the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Kawai, Keiichi Kato, Yuji Koike, Hideaki Tanaka, Shuntaro Kono
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Patent number: 10892103Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a laminated body and first and second external electrodes respectively on both end surfaces of the laminated body. When regions where first internal electrodes or second internal electrodes are not present are regarded as side margin portions in a cross section of the laminated body as viewed from the laminating direction, the side margin portions include multiple side margin layers, and the content of Si in the side margin layer closest to the internal electrode is lower than that in the side margin layer other than the side margin layer closest to the internal electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Tanaka, Daiki Fukunaga, Koji Moriyama
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Publication number: 20210002528Abstract: The present invention provides an epoxy adhesive composition capable of reducing re-aggregation of an adhesive layer modifier, maintaining favorable viscosity for a long period of time, exhibiting high adhesiveness, and reducing process failures during application of the adhesive. Provided is an epoxy adhesive composition containing: a modified polyvinyl acetal resin having a constitutional unit with an acid-modified group; an adhesive layer modifier; and an epoxy resin, the epoxy adhesive composition having a ratio of an acid-modified group equivalent of the modified polyvinyl acetal resin to an epoxy equivalent of the epoxy resin (acid-modified group equivalent/epoxy equivalent) of 5.0 to 150.0, the epoxy adhesive composition having a number ratio of the acid-modified group to an epoxy group (acid-modified group number/epoxy group number) of 0.0005 to 0.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Tasuku YAMADA, Shiori TATENO, Yousuke CHIBA, Takayuki MAEDA, Yukio OCHITANI, Hideaki TANAKA
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Patent number: 10861647Abstract: A method for manufacturing a monolithic ceramic electronic component includes preparing a mother block including ceramic green sheets stacked on each other, and an internal electrode pattern arranged along interfaces between the ceramic green sheets, cutting the mother block along first and second cutting lines that are perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to each other to obtain green chips each having a laminated structure including ceramic layers and internal electrodes in a raw state, the internal electrodes being exposed on a cut side surface produced by cutting along the first cutting line, forming a raw ceramic protective layer on the cut side surface to obtain a raw component body, and firing the raw component body, wherein the cut side surface is treated with a degreasing agent.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuya Takagi, Akira Fujita, Hideaki Tanaka, Togo Matsui
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Patent number: RE48952Abstract: According to one embodiment, a recording medium controller includes a recording medium, an input module, a reading module, and a writing module. The recording medium includes a write area and an escape area. The write area includes track groups. Each of the track groups is a unit for writing data and includes tracks. The input module receives a write command for data. The reading module reads data stored in the escape area and data from a first track group of the track groups. The writing module writes data received for the write command to the escape area, and writes merged data obtained by merging the data read from the escape area and the data read from the first track group to each track of a second track group of the track groups by using a shingle recording technique in which adjacent tracks are partly overlapped with each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tatsuya Haga, Hideaki Tanaka, Tatsuo Nitta, Tadashi Hongawa, Takahiro Shinbori