Patents by Inventor Hidekazu Tanaka

Hidekazu 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: 20160067108
    Abstract: There is provided a sole stimulation sock, in which an inner side of a sole portion between a heel portion and a toe portion is formed with projected portions and recessed portions, in which a proportion of an area of the projected portions, with respect to the sum of the areas of the projected portions and the recessed portions, is 26% to 68%, in which the difference between a proportion of an area of the projected portions in any one division region of four division regions of the inner side of the sole portion and a proportion of an area of the projected portions in other division regions is less than or equal to 30%, in which the average value of the areas of the projected portions is 7 mm2 to 650 mm2, and in which the recessed portions are knitted by mesh knitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Tsuneo KAWAGOE, Ichiro SHINGA, Hidekazu TANAKA, Akira TANIGUCHI, Yasuhito TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20150362570
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a static field magnet, a gradient coil and a shim housing box. The static field magnet generates a static magnetic field in a space within a substantially cylindrical hollow. The gradient coil is provided inside the static field magnet and generates a gradient magnetic field. The shim housing box is capable of housing a metallic shim, the shim housing box being formed into a shape such that an attractive force of the static magnetic field applied to the shim housing box under magnetic excitation becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshitomo SAKAKURA, Kazuto NOGAMI, Hidekazu TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20150346294
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging device according to embodiments includes a substantially cylindrical-shaped coil structure. The coil structure includes a static field magnet generating a magnetostatic field in a space inside a cylinder, and a gradient coil disposed inside the cylinder of the static field magnet and generating a gradient magnetic field. In the coil structure, magnetic bodies are supported independently of the gradient coil, and are disposed near the center of the coil structure in the long axis direction in such a way as to extend along the circumferential direction of the substantially cylindrical shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuto NOGAMI, Yoshitomo SAKAKURA, Hidekazu TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9180385
    Abstract: A cold trap includes two individually controllable cooling units. The cold trap is provided in an evacuation path for connecting a vacuum chamber to a turbomolecular pump, The first cooling unit includes a first panel unit provided in the evacuation path such that the panel is exposed, and a first refrigerator thermally coupled to the first panel unit so as to cool the first panel unit. The second cooling unit includes a second panel unit provided in the evacuation path such that the panel is exposed, and a second refrigerator thermally coupled to the second panel unit so as to cool the second panel unit. The first panel unit is spaced apart from the second panel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidekazu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150270521
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polyethylene porous film having an average pore diameter of 200 nm or less, a specific surface area of 50 m2/g or more, and a porosity of 15% or more, each of which is measured by a mercury intrusion method at room temperature, the polyethylene porous film being obtained by forming pores only by drawing a film containing an ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene having a viscosity average molecular weight of from 1 million to 15 million and a polyethylene having a weight average molecular weight of from 10,000 to 800,000 at a mass ratio of from 50:50 to 99:1. The polyethylene porous film is produced by molding a film using a mixture of the ultrahigh weight polyethylene and the polyethylene having a weight average molecular weight of from 10,000 to 800,000, biaxially drawing the film, then heat-treating and redrawing the film to form pores in the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroki Uehara, Takeshi Yamanobe, Hidekazu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150218216
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a PSF1-derived peptide useful for a specific immunotherapy for cancer patients. The present invention provides: a PSF1-derived peptide which can induce a CTL; and a pharmaceutical composition for treating or preventing cancer, which contains the peptide according to the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: GeneStem Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tanaka, Motofumi Iguchi, Mari Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9046091
    Abstract: A cryopump includes a second-stage cryopanel, a radiation shield that surrounds the second-stage cryopanel and has a shield opening, and a first-stage cryopanel provided in the shield opening. The first-stage cryopanel includes a first panel provided with opening regions thereon in a first distribution, and a second panel arranged closer to the second-stage cryopanel than the first panel and provided with opening regions thereon in a second distribution different from the first distribution when viewed in an arrangement direction of the first and second panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidekazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9032741
    Abstract: A cryopump 10 includes: a first cryopanel including a radiation shield 18 having a shield opening 20 and a louver 23 arranged in the shield opening 20; a second cryopanel 24 surrounded by the first cryopanel; and a refrigerator 14 configured to cool the first cryopanel to a first cooling temperature and to cool the second cryopanel to a second cooling temperature lower than the first cooling temperature. A rough surface 42 is formed on the louver 23.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidekazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8870016
    Abstract: A thermal insulating packaging film which includes: a base material; and an open-cell layer disposed on one face of the base material and made of polyolefin. The open-cell layer in the thermal insulating packaging film preferably has an average bore diameter of 150 ?m to 500 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Hosokawa Yoko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisaku Ishikawa, Tomonari Shinohara, Yukio Kobayashi, Hidekazu Tanaka, Takashi Maru, Hiroshi Kohno, Masayuki Akamatsu
  • Publication number: 20140253125
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit and a shield. The imaging unit is configured to perform a magnetic resonance imaging of an object by transmitting a radio frequency signal from a radio frequency coil in a condition that magnetic fields are formed by a gradient coil and a superconducting magnet respectively. The shield is configured to form a gradient magnetic field for the magnetic resonance imaging with the gradient coil and to prevent an ingress of a heat into the superconducting magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitomo SAKAKURA, Kazuto NOGAMI, Hidekazu TANAKA
  • Patent number: 8817397
    Abstract: In a lens actuator according to an exemplary embodiment, wires that connect a holder and a base of a movable unit have diameters of 30 ?m or more and less than 70 ?m, and the wires have longitudinal elastic moduli of 100 GPa or more and less than 500 GPa. The wire is flexible even if a small amount of currents are passed through a plurality of OIS coils, and the lens actuator suitable to electric power saving can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kimiya Ikushima, Hidekazu Tanaka, Hiroyuki Togawa, Tatsuya Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20140203809
    Abstract: A cooling device for sub-MRI units of an embodiment includes a tank in which cooling water for cooling a heat generating unit that an MRI apparatus has is stored, a pump which circulates the cooling water stored in the tank through a circulation path starting from the tank and traveling around the heat generating unit, a heat exchanger which cools the cooling water, and a controller which decides that a water leakage has occurred on the circulation path when a decreasing rate of the cooling water in the tank is greater than a given reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicants: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hidekazu TANAKA, Ken KUDOU, Masashi HORI
  • Publication number: 20140156367
    Abstract: A method and system for processing shopping information. The shopping information, which pertains to an item purchased by a user, is read from a mobile device, and was scanned by the mobile device from an item tag attached to the item. The item relates to another user. A set of affiliates is determined from analysis of the shopping information. Each affiliate is entitled to receive a reward due to purchase of the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Aihara, Noboru Kamijo, Kazumasa Ochiai, Hidekazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8670195
    Abstract: A lens actuator includes a carrier that is configured to retain a lens; a first AF coil that is disposed in the carrier while wound about an axis perpendicular to a lens retaining surface; first to fourth magnets that are disposed opposite the first AF coil in four directions parallel to the lens retaining surface; a first OIS coil that is disposed opposite the first magnet; and a second OIS coil that is disposed opposite the second magnet. A current is passed through the first AF coil to move the carrier in a vertical direction along an axis. The currents are passed through the first and second OIS coils to a movable unit in front-back and left-right directions. Therefore, weight reduction of the movable unit can be achieved to provide a lens actuator, in which electric power saving can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kimiya Ikushima, Hidekazu Tanaka, Hiroyuki Togawa, Norifumi Sata, Takuo Osaki, Takatoshi Ono
  • Patent number: 8598879
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance diagnostic apparatus is configured in such a manner that: a high-frequency transmission coil transmits a high-frequency electromagnetic wave at a magnetic resonance frequency to an examined subject; a heating coil performs a heating process by radiating a high-frequency electromagnetic wave onto the examined subject at a frequency different from the magnetic resonance frequency; based on a magnetic resonance signal, a measuring unit measures the temperature of the examined subject changing due to the high-frequency electromagnetic wave radiated by the heating coil; and a control unit exercises control so that the measuring unit measures the temperature while the heating coil is performing the heating process, by ensuring that the transmission of the high-frequency electromagnetic wave by the high-frequency transmission coil and the radiation of the high-frequency electromagnetic wave by the heating coil are performed in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitomo Sakakura, Satoshi Sugiura, Tomoyuki Yoshida, Takashi Yanashima, Masateru Iwasa, Yutaka Kato, Koji Kitamura, Kazuto Nogami, Hidekazu Tanaka, Makoto Sato, Shigehide Kuhara, Taketo Kawakami, Yasutake Yasuhara, Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8575934
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a static magnetic-field generating unit, a gradient magnetic-field generating unit, a plurality of metal shim plates in a plate shape, and a shim holding unit. The metal shim plates adjust uniformity of the static magnetic field. The shim holding unit holds the metal shim plates in a layered state. Each of the metal shim plates includes a convex having a certain angle at a certain position, and the metal shim plates are layered such that the convex of each one metal shim plate comes into contact with a back of the bent convex of another metal shim plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Masateru Iwasa, Yoshitomo Sakakura, Kazuto Nogami, Hidekazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8572988
    Abstract: A cold trap includes a refrigerator and a cold panel that is thermally connected with the refrigerator to be cooled. A rough surface is formed on the cold panel. The cold trap is arranged, for example, in an evacuation channel for connecting a vacuum chamber with a turbo-molecular pump in order to freeze and capture, on a surface thereof, part of a gas that is to be sucked and pumped into the turbo-molecular pump from the vacuum chamber through the evacuation channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidekazu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130200085
    Abstract: A thermal insulating packaging film which includes: a base material; and an open-cell layer disposed on one face of the base material and made of polyolefin. The open-cell layer in the thermal insulating packaging film preferably has an average bore diameter of 150 ?m to 500 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: HOSOKAWA YOKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisaku Ishikawa, Tomonari Shinohara, Yukio Kobayashi, Hidekazu Tanaka, Takashi Maru, Hiroshi Kohno, Masayuki Akamatsu
  • Publication number: 20130153838
    Abstract: A clamper (23) is inserted into a tube member (132) disposed in a tube plate (137) and clamps the tube member (132). Further, the clamper (23) includes a clamp mechanism (231) which has a contact portion (2311b) that contacts the tube plate (137) or the tube member (132) and inserts an insertion portion (2311a) into the tube member (132) so as to clamp the tube member (132) and a lifting and lowering mechanism (232) which lifts and lowers the clamp mechanism (231) in the insertion direction of the insertion portion (2311a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kamiyoshi, Takanori Baba, Hidekazu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130152385
    Abstract: A clamper (23) includes a clamp mechanism (231) which inserts an insertion portion (2311a) into a tube member and clamps the tube member and a lifting and lowering mechanism (232) which lifts and lowers the clamp mechanism (231) in the insertion direction of the insertion portion (2311a). The clamp mechanism (231) includes a clamp body (2311) which has the insertion portion (2311a), a cotter (2312) which protrudes from the insertion portion (2311a) to come into friction-contact with the tube member and is movable in a reciprocating manner in the insertion direction of the insertion portion (2311a), a piston rod (2313) which presses the cotter (2312) so that the cotter protrudes from the insertion portion (2311a) when being pulled toward the opposite side to the insertion direction of the insertion portion (2311a), and a rod cylinder (2315) which is integrated with the clamp body (2311) and pulls the piston rod (2313).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kamiyoshi, Jun Fujita, Hidekazu Tanaka