Patents by Inventor Kanji Tanaka

Kanji 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: 20120127063
    Abstract: In an information display system having at least one information display panel having a first panel substrate and a second panel substrate opposed to the first panel substrate, at least one of the two substrates being transparent at an information display screen area, and display media disposed between the first panel substrate and the second panel substrate and driven by an electric field, and a drive device formed separately with the information display panel and having a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate in which pixel electrodes with a thin film transistor (TFT) are disposed: the first panel substrate of the information display panel has conductivity along a surface direction; the second panel substrate of the information display panel has no conductivity along a surface direction; a surface at a side of the second panel substrate of the information display panel is disposed in such a manner that it is opposed in such a manner that it is opposed to a surface of the TFT substrate of the drive device, an
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Ohno, Masayuki Nishii, Kanji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8172269
    Abstract: A file includes a binding body which is superimposed with a plurality of binding sheets, a curved retaining portion which is curved in a direction in which the binding body extends when the cover is opened, a curved subsidiary portion arranged to fix a back portion thereof in a desired configuration. The binding body is provided adjacent to the curved retaining portion and has an arch-shape in a direction away from the inner side of a spine portion and the curved retaining portion is connected with a width less than a width of the spine portion to the inner side of the curved subsidiary portion at the outer side of the curved retaining portion to enable the end edge adjacently provided on the binding body to curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Lihit Lab., Inc.
    Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Yoshiteru Arimoto, Mitsunori Maeda
  • Patent number: 8064742
    Abstract: A light input/output terminal module 100 comprises a jacket tube 110 and a flange 120. A glass portion 20 of the optical fiber is inserted in the center portion thereof. To efficiently remove the leaked light in a cladding 22 to the jacket tube 110, the jacket tube 110 is made of silica glass or the same material as that of the cladding 22. The jacket tube 110 is fixed by fusion splicing or adhesion to the cladding so as to integrally unify the jacket tube 110 and the cladding 22. The beam diameter at the fiber end portion is enlarged by an optical component which fusion bonds the tip end of the optical fiber to the coreless fiber so that the optical power density at the light input/output terminal module is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Watanabe, Mieko Yamagaki, Tatsuya Hatano, Kazuyou Mizuno, Kanji Tanaka, Akira Fujisaki
  • Publication number: 20110279423
    Abstract: Provided is an information display panel, which includes: a transparent first substrate having transparent pixel electrodes formed in an information display screen region, first connecting electrodes formed as line electrodes drawn from the pixel electrodes to a region outside the information display screen region, and third connecting electrode formed as different line electrodes that are not connected to the first connecting electrodes; and a film-like second substrate having pixel electrodes formed in the information display screen region, and second connecting electrodes formed as line electrodes drawn from the pixel electrodes to a region outside the information display screen region, in which the transparent pixel electrodes on the transparent first substrate and the pixel electrodes on the second substrate are opposed to each other so as to form a space between the first substrate and the second substrate opposing to each other, the space having a display media sealed therein in the information display
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Ohno, Kanji Tanaka, Ryo Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20110261434
    Abstract: Provided is an information display panel, in which transparent stripe electrodes on a first substrate and stripe electrodes on a second substrate are orthogonally opposed to each other, and at least two kinds of display media configured as particle groups containing electrically charged particles are sealed in a space between the first substrate and the second substrate which are opposed to each other in the information display screen region while the line electrodes drawn from the stripe electrodes on the first substrate and the L-shaped line electrodes formed on the third substrate are electrically connected to each other, so that, in a configuration where the first substrate, the second substrate, and the film-like third substrate having the L-shaped line electrodes formed thereon are arranged as being superposed one another in the stated order, the stripe electrodes opposing to each other forms an electrode pair, to which a voltage controlled by the driver circuit is applied so as to generate an electric
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Ohno, Kanji Tanaka, Ryo Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20110176198
    Abstract: A plurality of cells are formed by a polygonal cell having even number of sides being at least six sides, and a plurality of cells being constructed by a polygonal shape as a unit are arranged in a display region regularly, so as to construct the dot matrix type information display panel. Therefore, it is possible to provide a dot matrix type information display panel: in which lines in a longitudinal and lateral directions are not so emphasized when an image information such as characters and so on which are displayed based on a line; in which a dot does not look in such a manner that a quadrangular shape collapses and an interference fringe (moire) is not generated as in the case of the honeycomb-shaped partition walls; and in which an image such as sharp and natural characters and so on which are displayed based on a line can be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Ryo Sakurai, Shingo Ohno, Mitsuhiro Nishida, Masayuki Nishii
  • Publication number: 20110176199
    Abstract: An information display device, in which a display medium 3W, 3B having an optical reflectivity and comprised of a particle group containing particles that can be electrically driven is sealed between two panel substrates 5, 6 arranged so as to face each other, at least one of which panel substrates is transparent, and, the display medium is electrically moved via a pair of electrodes provided to the panel substrates and formed by the electrodes 5, 6, thereby to display information, in which the information display device has a structure in which a back side substrate 1, which is one of the two substrates, is connected with a wiring substrate 10; a first through-hole 7 penetrating the back side substrate for electrically connecting electrodes 5-1 and 5-2 provided on a front and a rear surfaces of the back side substrate is formed on the back side substrate, and the wiring substrate 10 is connected with the electrode 5-2 on the rear surface side within an area of the back side substrate; and, a second through-h
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Sakurai, Shingo Ohno, Mitsuhiro Nishida, Kanji Tanaka, Masayuki Nishii
  • Patent number: 7874758
    Abstract: A binding device having a binding member that operates at a binding position of objects to be bound has a structure with which the bound objects do not readily come off. The binding device includes a board having a bearing plate. A spring member and an operation lever are attached to a shaft inserted in the bearing plate and a turned-up part. Protruding pieces of a binding member are inserted in through holes of turned-up parts formed in the board. One end of the spring member is secured to the operation lever, and the other end is fitted in a through hole of a turned portion at the distal end of the binding member. By closing the operation lever, the binding member rotates around a line connecting the protruding pieces at both ends, thereby pressing down sheets of paper placed on the board with a pressing portion. At this time, the other end of the spring member presses the turned portion, thereby biasing the pressing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Lihit Lab., Inc.
    Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Hiroshi Arai, Hiroyuki Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20100278584
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a binding device easily manufactured and having binding rods easily opened and closed for easy leaf replacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: LIHIT LAB., INC.
    Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Yoshiteru Arimoto, Mitsunori Maeda
  • Publication number: 20100236720
    Abstract: An apparatus (10) for melt-adhering resin pipes, comprising support means (11, 12) for supporting a resin pipe (1) engaged with a resin joint (2), and laser irradiation means (30) for irradiating a laser beam onto a portion of the resin pipe engaged with the resin joint. Further, an axial direction driving means and a circumferential direction driving means may be provided so that the laser irradiation means (30) moves in the circumferential direction and in the axial direction of the resin pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicants: REX INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., THE FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Jiro Azuma, Yoshiharu Ikenaka, Kanji Tanaka, Akira Fujisaki, Junji Ueda, Masahiro Fukunaga, Koji Nakamura, Yoshifumi Akagawa
  • Patent number: 7758272
    Abstract: A binding device for files and binders in which rings to be inserted into binding holes of an object to be bound are openably and closeably secured to a base plate so as to be opened and closed by an opening-closing mechanism including a rotationally movable lever. In the binding device, a first ring member and a second ring member are configured such that they are interlocked with the opening-closing mechanism including the lever so as to be opened and closed about respective pivot portions and provided in the lower end thereof by rotationally moving the lever. In addition, the first ring member and the second ring member are secured in an opened state when opened, and the lever is secured such that the first ring member and the second ring member are maintained in the opened state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Lihit Lab., Inc.
    Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Hiroshi Arai, Yoshiteru Arimoto
  • Patent number: 7758273
    Abstract: A binding device for files and binders includes rings to be inserted into binding holes of an object to be bound which are openably and closeably secured to a base plate so as to be opened and closed by an opening-closing mechanism including a rotationally movable lever. In the binding device, a first ring member and a second ring member defining the binding rings are configured such that they are interlocked with the opening-closing mechanism including the lever so as to be opened and closed about respective pivot portions provided in the lower end thereof by rotationally moving the lever. The base plate is provided with a lever shaft receiver for pivotally supporting the lever of the opening-closing mechanism, and the lever shaft receiver is formed by punching the base plate and bending the punched portion upwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Lihit Lab., Inc.
    Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Hiroshi Arai, Yoshiteru Arimoto
  • Publication number: 20100156859
    Abstract: A display unit having a display memory property is constituted to be detachable from an attaching/detaching mechanism provided on a drive circuit substrate, so as to be attached to the attaching/detaching mechanism of the drive circuit substrate for rewrite of display information, and detached from the attaching/detaching mechanism of the drive circuit substrate after rewrite and moved to elsewhere while maintaining information displayed. Moreover, since it is constituted such that an actuation driver, having an expensive IC is mounted thereon, can be replaced rather than to be discarded or a drive circuit substrate can be replaced rather than to be discarded in a case where the display unit for displaying information such as an image causes a failure, it thereby achieves improvement of resource use efficiency by reusing the actuation driver having the expensive IC mounted thereon or the drive circuit substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Sakurai, Shingo Ohno, Mitsuhiro Nishida, Kanji Tanaka, Masayuki Nishii
  • Patent number: 7742513
    Abstract: A pattern generator 2 produces a predetermined pattern signal 11 which is an electric signal, and a LD output light 12 of light signal is produced by inputting the pattern signal 11 to a plurality of semiconductor lasers (LD) 3 as a pump light source. To make a output light 14 to be a pulsed light not following a surge pulse rectangular, a fiber laser modulator 1 is configured that the pattern signal 11 generated by a pattern generator 2 includes four phases power level: low powered phase, power rising phase, high power phase and power decreasing phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Tominaga, Kanji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7729038
    Abstract: In the method of manufacturing an information display panel, in which at least one group of display media having optical reflectance and charge characteristics and consisting of at least one or more groups of particles, are sealed in a cell formed by partition walls between two substrates, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display information such as an image, a display media filling step for filling the display media in the cell includes the steps of: setting a screen over the partition walls; arranging the display media on the screen; and moving a plate member on the screen under such a condition that the plate member is contacted to the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Ohno, Kanji Tanaka, Ryo Sakurai, Yoshitomo Masuda
  • Publication number: 20100034576
    Abstract: A binding device is provided which allows reduction in profile. A binding device 10 includes: a holding member 16 having a length which allows a plurality of openable-closable binding rings 12 and 14 to be disposed with a spacing therebetween; an operating member 18 secured inside the holding member 16; and an opening/closing member 40. The operating member 18 includes a pair of operating pieces 30 and 32 on which the binding rings 12 and 14 are secured. For housing the opening/closing member 40, an opening/closing member housing portion 36 is provided in a manner such as to be recessed from a reverse side, opposite to a surface on which the binding rings 12 and 14 are secured, towards the surface side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: LIHIT LAB., INC.
    Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Hiroshi Arai, Hiroshi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20090279940
    Abstract: A binding device includes a plurality of binding rings, a holding member which enables the binding rings to be disposed with a spacing therebetween, an operating member having a surface to which base portions of the binding rings are secured such that the binding rings are disposed with a spacing therebetween, the operating member including a pair of operating pieces movable in the holding member in a longitudinal direction of the holding member, and an opening-closing member which causes the binding rings to be changed in an opening direction. The opening-closing member includes an elastic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: LIHIT LAB., INC.
    Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Hiroshi Arai, Hiroshi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20090269126
    Abstract: A binding device includes a first main body and a second main body made of a synthetic resin and provided so as to be openable and closable. A synthetic resin locking member having two hook portions is integrally provided with the first main body, and a first prong member made of, for example, a metal is mounted to the first main body. A second prong member made of, for example, a metal is mounted to the second main body. In addition, a lever member made of a synthetic resin is slidably provided in the second main body 22b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: LIHIT LAB., INC.
    Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Hiroshi Arai, Mitsunori Maeda
  • Publication number: 20090169288
    Abstract: A binding device of a file is attached to a cover configured to be bendable at the central portion in the width direction of a spine. The binding device includes a synthetic resin first main body and a synthetic resin second main body which are arranged to be openable and closable. A synthetic resin locking member having two hook portions is integrally provided with the first main body, and a metal first prong member is mounted to the first main body. A metal second prong member is mounted to the second main body. Furthermore, a synthetic resin lever member is slidably provided in the second main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: LIHIT LAB., INC.
    Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Hiroshi Arai, Mitsunori Maeda
  • Patent number: D591344
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Lihit Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Hiroshi Arai, Hiroshi Nakano