Patents by Inventor Satoshi Tanaka

Satoshi 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).

  • Patent number: 11978326
    Abstract: The present disclosure appropriately encourages provision of a service according to a location or provision of a location according to a service. A controller of a server apparatus that is an information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure acquires, from an apparatus of a location provider, attribute information of a location that the location provider is able to provide. The controller acquires, from an apparatus of a service provider, attribute information of a service that the service provider is able to provide. The controller performs, at least one of transmission, to the apparatus of the location provider, of a notification encouraging rental of the location to the service provider and transmission, to the apparatus of the service provider, of a notification encouraging use of the location when the attribute information of the location and the attribute information of the service satisfy a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Matsunami, Atsuko Yamanaka, Kunihiro Tsunekawa, Sokfan Yee, Masahiro Tanaka, Shuichiro Takahashi, Satoshi Nonoyama, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Hikaru Satou
  • Patent number: 11975995
    Abstract: A wash water processing apparatus of reusing wash water includes: a washing processing part washing a subject to be washed; a wash water accommodation part into which processed water used in a washing process in the washing processing part is once accommodated; a sterilization and purification unit causing, while acting with an ozone supply function, ozone water to be contained in the processed water flowing through the wash water accommodation part in a circular manner; and a filtration mechanism part configured to include a filter and an ion-exchange resin and sequentially filtrating the processed water to be reused as wash water in the washing processing part, as the ozone water is supplied as the processed water is mixed to dilute an ozone concentration in the wash water accommodation part. In a state where the ozone concentration is adjusted, the processed water is passed through the filter and the ion-exchange resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: KITZ CORPORATION, TOYO VALVE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Yata, Takako Sakurai, Satoshi Ito, Toshiharu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240142876
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate, includes: directly or indirectly applying a composition for forming a resist underlayer film to a substrate to form a resist under film directly or indirectly on the substrate; applying a composition for forming a resist film to the resist underlayer film to form a resist film on the resist underlayer film; exposing the resist film to radiation; and developing the exposed resist film by a developer. The composition for forming a resist underlayer film includes: a polymer; an onium salt that is capable of generating at least one polar group selected from the group consisting of a carboxy group and a hydroxy group by radiation or heat; and a solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: JSR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MIYAUCHI, Satoshi DEI, Ryotaro TANAKA, Eiji YONEDA, Sho YOSHINAKA
  • Publication number: 20240142346
    Abstract: An AE signal is acquired from an AE sensor disposed on a fixed part of the rotating machine, and the presence or absence of rubbing in the rotating machine is determined, based on the AE signal. As a result, if the rubbing is determined to be present, a rubbing suppression operating condition imposed on control of the rotating machine is decided to suppress the rubbing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kumagai, Ryo Kawabata, Shuichi Ishizawa, Masahiko Yamashita, Yoshinori Tanaka, Shinnosuke Haga
  • Patent number: 11972391
    Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to further improve convenience of customers and the like accompanying purchase of merchandise. An autonomous traveling unit is provided with: a driving portion including an autonomous traveling ability, the driving portion being configured to be movable together with a storing portion configured to store merchandise; and a controlling portion configured to execute: acquiring settlement completion information about the merchandise stored in the storing portion, the merchandise being merchandise in a store; and controlling the driving portion to cause the merchandise storing portion to move to a first point outside the store after acquiring the settlement completion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Matsunami, Atsuko Yamanaka, Kunihiro Tsunekawa, Sokfan Yee, Masahiro Tanaka, Shuichiro Takahashi, Satoshi Nonoyama, Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Hikaru Satou
  • Patent number: 11972611
    Abstract: A controller is provided that is configured to perform: obtaining information about a condition for an image that is provided to a user, and that corresponds to a preference of the user; specifying at least one predetermined position at which an image satisfying the condition can be taken; and generating a command for a moving object to move to the predetermined position and to take an image, and transmitting the command to the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Komamine, Yurika Tanaka, Kenichi Yamada, Ryuichi Kamaga, Ai Miyata, Yu Nagata, Shintaro Matsutani
  • Publication number: 20240137743
    Abstract: A communication device may execute a wireless communication of object data with a mobile device via a first target network using a second type of interface after executing a sending process of sending a wireless setting, for causing the mobile device to belong to the first target network, to the mobile device using a first type of interface in a case where the communication device is determined as currently belonging to the first target network. The communication device may execute the wireless communication of the object data with the mobile device via a second target network using the second type of interface after executing a specific process of causing both the communication device and the mobile device to belong to the second target network in a case where the communication device is determined as currently not belonging to the target network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Takanobu Suzuki, Hirotaka Asakura, Munehisa Matsuda, Satoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11967978
    Abstract: A radio-frequency circuit is used in simultaneous transfer of a radio-frequency signal of 4G and a radio-frequency signal of 5G, and includes a first transfer circuit that selectively receives the 4G radio-frequency signal or the 5G radio-frequency signal, and transfers a radio-frequency signal of a first communication band including a first transmission band and a first reception band and a radio-frequency signal of a second communication band including a second transmission band and a second reception band. The first and second transmission bands at least partially overlap. The first transfer circuit includes a first power amplifier that amplifies transmission signals of the first and second communication bands, and a first transmission filter that has a first passband including the first and second transmission bands, and passes the transmission signals of the first and second communication bands output from the first power amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ono, Satoshi Tanaka, Hirotsugu Mori
  • Publication number: 20240124821
    Abstract: A culture vessel includes at least a first port used for medium supply and a second port used for medium discharge, and A medium supplying vessel serves as a mixing vessel for adjusting a concentration of A new medium to be supplied to the culture vessel. A cell culture method includes: transferring a portion of a used medium in the culture vessel from the culture vessel to the mixing vessel; creating a concentration-adjusted medium by mixing the new medium and the portion of the used medium in the mixing vessel; and filling the culture vessel with the concentration-adjusted medium by discharging a remaining used medium from the culture vessel while the concentration-adjusted medium is transferred from the mixing vessel to the culture vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Takaharu NISHIYAMA, Satoshi TANAKA, Osamu KOSEKI, Takahiko TOTANI
  • Publication number: 20240125618
    Abstract: A location estimation system includes at least four directional sensors that each acquire data used to estimate a location of a mobile object; a sensor assignment section that assigns one of the at least four sensors as a first sensor, and assigns, as a second sensor, one of the at least four sensors that is adjacent to the first sensor and situated on one of sides of the first sensor; an environment map generator that generates an environment map on the basis of first sensor data that is data acquired by the first sensor and on the basis of second sensor data that is data acquired by the second sensor; a first location estimator that estimates the location in the environment map on the basis of the first sensor data to generate a first sensor estimated location; a second location estimator that estimates the location in the environment map on the basis of the second sensor data to generate a second sensor estimated location; and a location integration section that integrates the first sensor estimated locati
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: SATOSHI SUZUKI, HIROTAKA TANAKA, TAKAHITO NAKANO
  • Patent number: 11958307
    Abstract: Provided are a material for pressure measurement, including a color forming layer that contains microcapsules A encapsulating an electron-donating colorless dye precursor and microcapsules B not encapsulating an electron-donating colorless dye precursor, in which a volume standard median diameter D50A of the microcapsules A and a volume standard median diameter D50B of the microcapsules B satisfy Equation 1; a material composition for pressure measurement; and a material set for pressure measurement: D50A<D50B??Equation 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11958725
    Abstract: A guide display unit for a crane, wherein a data processing unit: calculates a measurement area corresponding to the measurement area of a camera; the measurement area from the viewpoint of the camera and generates a first image; performs mosaic-processing on the image captured by the camera according to the particle size of the three-dimensional map and generates a second image; performs registration processing on the first image and the second image and calculates the amount of deviation between the first image and the second image; corrects the position of a guide frame figure with respect to the image of a suspended load and a feature on the basis of the calculated amount of deviation; and overlays the guide frame figure on the images of the suspended load and the feature and displays the result on the data display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao Ishikawa, Takayuki Kosaka, Keita Mashima, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Masaya Nakahara, Koki Nakahata
  • Patent number: 11958920
    Abstract: Provided is an active energy ray curable composition cured by irradiation of active energy rays. The active energy ray curable composition contains an (A) radical polymerizable compound, a (B) photopolymerization initiator, and a (C) amine compound. The (B) photopolymerization initiator includes a (B1) sulfur compound and a (B2) acyl phosphine oxide compound. The (B1) sulfur compound is at least one of a sulfone compound and a thiobenzoyl compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Asia Stencil Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuniyasu, Kazuhiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11959851
    Abstract: An absolute thickness distribution cannot be accurately calculated with a conventional technique. A sensor device is provided that includes a plurality of magnetic sensors arranged to face an outer circumference surface of a pipeline and ultrasonic sensors arranged to face the outer circumference surface and measure a thickness of the pipeline in a measurement region in which the plurality of magnetic sensors measure a magnetic field, the ultrasonic sensors being less than the plurality of magnetic sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Okabe, Satoshi Yoshitake, Kazuma Takenaka, Yoshiaki Tanaka, Shumpei Ito
  • Publication number: 20240118394
    Abstract: There are provided a device and a method that execute light output control that eliminates an occlusion region and does not disturb blinking pattern light of a mobile device. At least one of a light application region or a light output timing of output light of a light output unit is determined on the basis of a data analysis result based on sensor input information and reception information from another device, the light output unit is controlled according to the light application region or the light output timing that has been determined, and a light output process is executed. Specifically, for example, light output control is executed so as to eliminate an occlusion region which no light reaches due to a pillar or the like, and moreover, so as not to disturb blinking pattern light output from the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka TANAKA, Shoji MATSUDA, Katsunori HONMA, Satoshi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11956606
    Abstract: An audio signal processing method includes receiving an audio signal corresponding to a voice of a talker, obtaining an image of the talker, estimating posture information of the talker using the image of the talker, generating a correction filter according to the estimated posture information, performing filter processing on the audio signal using the generated correction filter, and outputting the audio signal on which the filter processing has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Ukai, Ryo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11954962
    Abstract: A main unit includes a cassette shelf, at least one transporting cassette holder that temporarily holds a cassette removed from the cassette shelf and to be transported to a drug receiver, at least one returning cassette holder that temporarily holds the cassette received from the drug receiver and to be returned to the cassette shelf, and a main cassette transporter that transports the cassette between the cassette shelf and the at least one transporting cassette holder, and between the cassette shelf and the at least one returning cassette holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akifumi Tanaka, Hidenori Tsuji, Satoshi Gotou, Hiroshi Ieda
  • Patent number: 11948026
    Abstract: Formed is a dither pattern that makes it possible to output an image with excellent dot dispersibility and reduced graininess regardless of controls after quantization processing. To this end, an extended pattern in which multiple divided pixels correspond to each of multiple pixels included in quantization data and one or more of the multiple divided pixels are determined as dot-arrangeable-pixels in which dots can be printed is generated. Thereafter, the thresholds of the dither pattern are set based on the extended pattern in which the dots are arranged to obtain predetermined dispersibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Nakagawa, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tsukasa Doi, Mayuko Yamagata, Satoshi Seki
  • Patent number: 11950333
    Abstract: Light (light (L1)) at peak luminous intensity in a light distribution of a first region (12a) of a light-irradiating surface (12) is sent to a first region (32a) of a target surface (32) via a first region (22a) of a reflecting surface (22). Light (light (L2)) at peak luminous intensity in a light distribution in a second region (12b) of the light-irradiating surface (12) is sent to a second region (32b) of the target surface (32) via a second region (22b) of the reflecting surface (22). An optical distance from the first region (12a) of the light-irradiating surface (12) to the first region (32a) of the target surface (32) via the first region (22a) of the reflecting surface (22) is greater than an optical distance from the second region (12b) of the light-irradiating surface (12) to the second region (32b) of the target surface (32) via the second region (22b) of the reflecting surface (22). The luminous intensity of the light (L1) is higher than the luminous intensity of the light (L2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kashiwagura, Shinsuke Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240104478
    Abstract: To reduce a power surplus of fluctuating renewable energy. Data center candidate management information indicates a characteristic of renewable energy supplied to each data center candidate. Application program type candidate management information indicates a characteristic of each application program type candidate. The system determines, with reference to the data center candidate management information and the application program type candidate management information, a plurality of combinations each including one or more data center candidates and one or more application program type candidates, determines a score of each combination based on a characteristic of renewable energy supplied to each of the one or more data center candidates and a characteristic of each of the one or more application program type candidates, and selects, based on the score, a combination to be presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yoji OZAWA, Satoshi KANEKO, Hiro TANAKA, Yasutaka KONO