Patents by Inventor Manabu Tanaka
Manabu 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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Patent number: 10906009Abstract: A method for producing a gas separation membrane, including the following steps: step (a): treating the surfaces of silica nanoparticles dispersed in a first solvent with a reactive functional group-containing compound, while nanoparticles are being dispersed in the solvent, to thereby prepare a first solvent dispersion of reactive functional group-modified silica nanoparticles; step (b): replacing the first solvent dispersion's dispersion medium of reactive functional group-modified silica nanoparticles prepared in step (a) with a second solvent without drying of dispersion medium, and then reacting functional group-modified silica nanoparticles with dendrimer-forming monomer or hyperbranched polymer-forming monomer in the second solvent's presence so that dendrimer or hyperbranched polymer is added to reactive functional group, to thereby prepare dendrimer- or hyperbranched polymer-bound silica nanoparticles; step (c): mixing dendrimer- or hyperbranched polymer-bound silica nanoparticles prepared in step (bType: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignees: NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION, TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroyoshi Kawakami, Manabu Tanaka, Yuri Kameyama, Azusa Osawa, Tadayuki Isaji, Takamasa Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20210028322Abstract: A photoelectric conversion module (10) comprises a photoelectric conversion cell (12) including a first electrode layer (22), a second electrode layer (24), and a photoelectric conversion layer (26); and a plurality of grid electrodes (31). At least one of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer is a transparent electrode layer. The transparent electrode layer includes a first region and a second region. The second region has sheet resistance smaller than sheet resistance in the first region, a film thickness larger than a film thickness in the first region, or transmittance smaller than transmittance in the first region. An interval between the grid electrodes adjacent to each other in the first direction in the first region is smaller than an interval between the grid electrodes adjacent to each other in the first direction in the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobutaka YONEYAMA, Mikio HAMANO, Yoshihide MIYAGAWA, Toshiaki YAMAURA, Manabu TANAKA, Akihiko ASANO
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Patent number: 10899328Abstract: A braking control device comprising: an operation amount acquisition device that obtains an operation amount for a braking operation member; a pressurizing unit that presses a friction member to a rotating member fixed to a wheel, by using an electric motor; a control that controls the output of the motor based on the operation amount; a pressing force acquisition device that obtains the actual pressing force of the friction member pressing on the rotating member; and a rotation angle acquisition device that obtains the actual rotation angle of the motor. The control: stores the correlation between the actual pressing force and the actual rotation angle; approximates a function map indicated by a second degree or higher polynomial based on the correlation; calculates a target rotation angle based on the operation amount and the function map; and controls the motor such that the actual rotation angle matches the target rotation angle.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Tanaka, Shunya Watanabe
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Publication number: 20200279958Abstract: A photoelectric conversion module (10) comprises a photoelectric conversion cell (12) and a grid electrode (31) provided in the photoelectric conversion cell (12) on a substrate. The photoelectric conversion cell (12) includes a first electrode layer (22), a second electrode layer (24), a photoelectric conversion layer (26) between the first electrode layer (22) and the second electrode layer (24). The second electrode layer (24) is formed of a transparent electrode layer located on opposite side of the photoelectric conversion layer (26) to the substrate (20). The grid electrode (31) is provided between the photoelectric conversion layer (26) and the transparent electrode layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobutaka YONEYAMA, Mikio HAMANO, Yoshihide MIYAGAWA, Toshiaki YAMAURA, Akihiko ASANO, Manabu TANAKA
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Publication number: 20200275901Abstract: In one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray source, an X-ray detector, an arm, and processing circuitry. The arm supports the X-ray source and the X-ray detector. The processing circuitry identifies a three-dimensional running direction of a blood vessel of an object from a plurality of images that are obtained by using the X-ray source and the X-ray detector to image the object from at least two different angles, and controls positions of the X-ray source and the X-ray detector by using the arm in such a manner that a target position of the blood vessel is imaged from the at least two different directions determined depending on the three-dimensional running direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Hisato TAKEMOTO, Manabu TANAKA, Yuichiro WATANABE
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Patent number: 10712025Abstract: A dehumidifying apparatus includes first, second, and third heat exchangers; moisture adsorbing material; a fan to force air through the first heat exchanger, the moisture adsorbing material, the second heat exchanger, and the third heat exchanger; a compressor having a discharge side connected to the third heat exchanger; and an expansion valve configured to reduce the pressure of a refrigerant condensed by the first heat exchanger or the second heat exchanger. The third heat exchanger has a fin pitch smaller than a fin pitch of the first heat exchanger and a fin pitch of the second heat exchanger. The third heat exchanger is smaller than the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger. This arrangement provides a small, low-cost dehumidifying apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Keizo Fukuhara, Keigo Okajima, Manabu Tanaka
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Publication number: 20200129141Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes at least one of memory and processing circuitry. The memory stores a first medical image of a heart area acquired in a plurality of directions and a second medical image of the heart area acquired in real time. The processing circuitry is configured to set, based on the first medical image, each of a valve boundary line indicating a boundary between leaflets of a heart valve and an insertion point on an inner wall through which a catheter is inserted, generate a navigation graphic including the valve boundary line and the safety lines by generating a plurality of safety lines individually connecting the insertion point to ends of the valve boundary line, and superimpose the navigation graphic on the second medical image to generate a superimposed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicants: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Richard SMALLING, Andrew KUHLS-GILCRIST, Takuya SAKAGUCHI, Manabu TANAKA
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Publication number: 20200130656Abstract: A braking control device comprising: an operation amount acquisition device that obtains an operation amount for a braking operation member; a pressurizing unit that presses a friction member to a rotating member fixed to a wheel, by using an electric motor; a control that controls the output of the motor based on the operation amount; a pressing force acquisition device that obtains the actual pressing force of the friction member pressing on the rotating member; and a rotation angle acquisition device that obtains the actual rotation angle of the motor. The control: stores the correlation between the actual pressing force and the actual rotation angle; approximates a function map indicated by a second degree or higher polynominal based on the correlation; calculates a target rotation angle based on the operation amount and the function map; and controls the motor such that the actual rotation angle matches the target rotation angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu TANAKA, Shunya WATANABE
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Patent number: 10629923Abstract: A method for cleaning a radiator of a vehicle, includes stopping the vehicle that includes a fuel cell through which a coolant is to pass. Electric power in the fuel cell is generated to raise a temperature of the coolant while stopping the vehicle. The coolant is circulated from the fuel cell to a radiator while stopping the vehicle. The coolant flowing from the radiator is supplied to an ion exchanger to remove ions from the coolant while stopping the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Mohri, Masahiko Natsume, Manabu Tanaka, Shiro Yagawa, Daiki Nagata
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Publication number: 20200114307Abstract: Provided is a method for separating ammonia gas using zeolite membrane having excellent separation stability at a high temperature capable of separating ammonia gas from a mixed gas composed of multiple components including ammonia gas, hydrogen gas, and nitrogen gas to the permeation side with high selectivity and high permeability. Also provided is a method for separating ammonia by selectively permeating ammonia gas from a mixed gas containing at least ammonia gas, hydrogen gas, and nitrogen gas using a zeolite membrane, wherein the ammonia gas concentration in the mixed gas is 1.0% by volume or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu TANAKA, Takeshi MATSUO, Takayuki AOSHIMA
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Publication number: 20200079331Abstract: This braking control device pumps a brake fluid from a reservoir to each wheel cylinder by one fluid pump and includes an electric motor which drives the fluid pump; and a controller which controls the electric motor. The controller calculates a target fluid pressure on the basis of at least one among the vehicle wheel speed, the vehicle deceleration state, and the turning state of the vehicle, calculates a target discharge amount for the fluid pump on the basis of the target fluid pressure, and controls the electric motor on the basis of the target discharge amount. The controller has a front wheel calculation map of the relationship between the fluid pressure and the inflow volume of the brake fluid corresponding to a front wheel cylinder, and a rear wheel calculation map corresponding to a rear wheel cylinder, and calculates the target discharge amount on the basis of the maps.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu TANAKA, Shunya WATANABE
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Publication number: 20200047168Abstract: This transition metal-loaded zeolite is configured such that an absorption intensity ratio in a specific region of the transition metal-loaded zeolite observed by ultraviolet-visible-near infrared spectroscopy (UV-Vis-NIR) and an intensity ratio of a maximum peak in a different temperature range of the transition metal-loaded zeolite measured by ammonia temperature-programmed desorption, respectively fall within specific ranges.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuusuke HOTTA, Manabu TANAKA, Takahiko TAKEWAKI, Takeshi MATSUO
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Publication number: 20190321810Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an inexpensive, high-performance AEI type zeolite and an AEI type zeolite having a Si/Al ratio of 6.5 or less by using neither an expensive Y type zeolite as a raw material nor dangerous hydrofluoric acid. The method for producing an AEI type zeolite having a Si/Al ratio of 50 or less includes: preparing a mixture including a silicon atom material, an aluminum atom material, an alkali metal atom material, an organic structure-directing agent, and water; and performing hydrothermal synthesis of the obtained mixture, in which a compound having a Si content of 20% by weight or less and containing aluminum is used as the aluminum atom material; and the mixture includes a zeolite having a framework density of 14 T/1000 ?3 or more in an amount of 0.1% by weight or more with respect to SiO2 assuming that all Si atoms in the mixture are formed in SiO2.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu TANAKA, Takahiko Takewaki, Takeshi Matsuo, Masahiro Hara
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Patent number: 10393393Abstract: A dehumidifier includes a compressor, a flow path switch, a first heat exchanger, a pressure-reducing device, a second heat exchanger, a moisture adsorption member that is arranged between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger, a fan, a storage unit configured to store an operation time map, and a temperature and humidity detection unit. The controller controls the flow path switch that switches a first operation mode to adsorb moisture by the moisture adsorption member and a second operation mode to desorb moisture adsorbed by the moisture adsorption member. The controller acquires a first time and a second time corresponding to the temperature and humidity detected by the temperature and humidity detection unit from the operation time map, and controls the flow path switch in accordance with the acquired first time and second time.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Keizo Fukuhara, Keigo Okajima, Manabu Tanaka
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Patent number: 10357760Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an inexpensive, high-performance AEI type zeolite and an AEI type zeolite having a Si/Al ratio of 6.5 or less by using neither an expensive Y type zeolite as a raw material nor dangerous hydrofluoric acid. The method for producing an AEI type zeolite having a Si/Al ratio of 50 or less includes: preparing a mixture including a silicon atom material, an aluminum atom material, an alkali metal atom material, an organic structure-directing agent, and water; and performing hydrothermal synthesis of the obtained mixture, in which a compound having a Si content of 20% by weight or less and containing aluminum is used as the aluminum atom material; and the mixture includes a zeolite having a framework density of 14 T/1000 ?3 or more in an amount of 0.1% by weight or more with respect to SiO2 assuming that all Si atoms in the mixture are formed in SiO2.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Tanaka, Takahiko Takewaki, Takeshi Matsuo, Masahiro Hara
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Publication number: 20190184345Abstract: A gas separation membrane containing a matrix resin and hyperbranched polymer- or dendrimer-bound, heteromorphous shaped silica nanoparticles, which are formed of heteromorphous shaped silica nanoparticles having surfaces onto which a hyperbranched polymer or a dendrimer is chemically added.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicants: NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION, TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroyoshi KAWAKAMI, Manabu TANAKA, Yuri KAMEYAMA, Yuuki KUDO, Hiroto MIKAMI, Tadayuki ISAJI, Kazutoshi ODAKA, Takamasa KIKUCHI
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Patent number: 10260762Abstract: A dehumidification device according to the present invention includes an operation control unit configured to switch between thermo-on for circulating refrigerant in a refrigerant circuit and thermo-off for suspending circulation of the refrigerant, and an operation mode control unit configured to switch an operation mode to any one of a first operation mode in which a moisture adsorption unit is caused to adsorb moisture and a second operation mode in which moisture retained in the moisture adsorption unit is caused to be desorbed. The operation mode control unit is configured to select the operation mode at a time when the thermo-on is switched from the thermo-off in response to the operation mode and a relative humidity of air in switching from the thermo-on to the thermo-off.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporartionInventors: Keigo Okajima, Keizo Fukuhara, Manabu Tanaka
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Publication number: 20190083942Abstract: A method for producing a gas separation membrane, including the following steps: step(a): treating the surfaces of silica nanoparticles dispersed in a first solvent with a reactive functional group-containing compound, while nanoparticles are being dispersed in the solvent, to thereby prepare a first solvent dispersion of reactive functional group-modified silica nanoparticles; step(b): replacing the first solvent dispersion's dispersion medium of reactive functional group-modified silica nanoparticles prepared in step(a) with a second solvent without drying of dispersion medium, and then reacting functional group-modified silica nanoparticles with dendrimer-forming monomer or hyperbranched polymer-forming monomer in the second solvent's presence so that dendrimer or hyperbranched polymer is added to reactive functional group, to thereby prepare dendrimer- or hyperbranched polymer-bound silica nanoparticles; step(c): mixing dendrimer- or hyperbranched polymer-bound silica nanoparticles prepared in step(b) witType: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicants: NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION, TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroyoshi KAWAKAMI, Manabu TANAKA, Yuri KAMEYAMA, Azusa OSAWA, Tadayuki ISAJI, Takamasa KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20180372348Abstract: In a dehumidifying apparatus, a third heat exchanger functioning as a condenser is configured to be smaller than at least one of a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Keizo FUKUHARA, Keigo OKAJIMA, Manabu TANAKA
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Patent number: 10099941Abstract: A magnetic ?-form iron oxide nanopowder is a novel magnetic iron oxide nanopowder having magnetic polarization and spontaneous electric polarization and having physical properties similar to those of half-metals; and a process produces the magnetic nanopowder. The magnetic powder has a composition represented by Fe2O3 and has a crystal structure belonging to the monoclinic system.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, Marie Yoshikiyo, Asuka Namai, Hiroko Tokoro, Waka Tarora, Tomomichi Nasu, Takayuki Yoshida, Manabu Tanaka