Patents by Inventor Takaaki Tanaka
Takaaki 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: 20220153583Abstract: The present invention relates to aggregated boron nitride particles including hexagonal boron nitride primary particles aggregated, including a spacer type coupling agent. The thermally conductive resin composition of the present invention includes the aggregated boron nitride particles of the present invention. The heat dissipation member of the present invention includes the thermally conductive resin composition of the present invention. According to the present invention, aggregated boron nitride particles that can suppress the formation of voids in a heat dissipation member produced by mixing with a resin, a thermally conductive resin composition including the aggregated boron nitride particles, and a heat dissipation member using the thermally conductive resin composition can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Go TAKEDA, Takaaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220154059Abstract: The present invention relates to aggregated boron nitride particles including hexagonal boron nitride primary particles aggregated, having a specific surface area measured by the BET method of 2 to 6 m2/g and a crushing strength of 5 MPa or more. The thermally conductive resin composition of the present invention includes the aggregated boron nitride particles of the present invention. The heat dissipation member of the present invention includes the thermally conductive resin composition of the present invention. According to the present invention, aggregated boron nitride particles that can suppress the formation of voids in a heat dissipation member and can improve the insulation breakdown characteristics and the thermal conductivity of a heat dissipation member, a thermally conductive resin composition including the aggregated boron nitride particles, and a heat dissipation member using the thermally conductive resin composition can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Go TAKEDA, Takaaki TANAKA
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Patent number: 11332115Abstract: A power regeneration system of a work vehicle includes: a first generator (12) and a second generator (31) that are driven by an engine (11); a first electric circuit (C1) for supplying electric power to traveling motors (10L, 10R); a second electric circuit (C2) for supplying electric power to an auxiliary device (35); a voltage step down converter (21) providing electric power from the first electric circuit to the second electric circuit; and a controller (51) that determines whether a travel mode of the work vehicle is a powering mode or a regeneration mode in order to control driving of the voltage step down converter. If the travel mode is the regeneration mode, the controller provides the regenerative power from the first electric circuit through the voltage step down converter to the second electric circuit, in order to drive the auxiliary device with the regenerative power.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shintarou Tanaka, Masatsugu Arai, Naoki Fukuda, Takaaki Tanaka, Yukiaki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20220091493Abstract: A light source device includes: blue, green, and red laser light sources; a first retardation plate that controls polarization of blue laser light emitted from the blue laser light source; a polarizing beam splitter that separates the blue laser light whose polarization is controlled by the first retardation plate into a first blue laser light and a second laser light; a second retardation plate that controls polarization of the second blue laser light separated by the polarizing beam splitter; a fluorescent plate that is excited by the first blue laser light separated by the polarizing beam splitter and emits fluorescent light including a green component and a red component; a first dichroic mirror that combines the second blue laser light whose polarization is controlled by the second retardation plate and light emitted from the green and red laser light sources, to generate combined laser light; a dynamic diffuser plate that diffuses the combined laser light combined by the first dichroic mirror to generatType: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventor: Takaaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220091609Abstract: An automatic driving system includes a control device that controls automatic driving of a vehicle, and a storage device that contains external environment information indicating an external environment of the vehicle. A driving transition zone is a zone in which a driver of the vehicle takes over at least a part of driving of the vehicle, from the control device. A termination target velocity is a target velocity of the vehicle at an end point of the driving transition zone. The control device variably sets the termination target velocity, depending on the external environment at the end point or the external environment surrounding the end point. Then, the control device controls the velocity of the vehicle in the driving transition zone, such that the velocity of the vehicle at the end point is the termination target velocity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takaaki TANAKA, Kenichiro AOKI, Masayuki KATOH
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Publication number: 20220064751Abstract: In a production of a non-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising subjecting a slab containing a particular composition to a hot rolling, a hot-band annealing, a cold rolling to form a cold-rolled sheet and a finish annealing, a rolling reduction of a final finish rolling pass in the hot rolling is not less than 10%, and a coiling temperature is not higher than 620° C., and a soaking temperature in the finish annealing is 600 to 800° C. to achieve such properties that a recrystallization ratio is less than 100% as an area ratio, a strength C is not less than 2.0 and a strength difference C-D is not more than 2.0, where C is a strength at ?=0° and ?1=0° and D is a strength at ?=20° and ?1=0° in a section of ?2=45° of ODF obtained in a central layer of a sheet thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki Okubo, Takaaki Tanaka, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Yoshihiko Oda
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Publication number: 20220056548Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet having high magnetic flux density and a low iron loss at a high frequency is produced by subjecting a slab containing, in mass %, C: not more than 0.0050%, Si: 2.8 to 6.5%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.0%, P: not more than 0.10%, S: not more than 0.0050%, Al: 0.3 to 2.0%, N: not more than 0.0050% and Zn: 0.0005 to 0.0050% to a hot rolling, a hot-band annealing, a cold rolling and a finish annealing, a dew point in the hot-band annealing is set to 0 to 70 ° C. and an atmosphere of the finish annealing has a nitrogen content of not more than 30 vol % and a dew point of not higher than ?20° C., and a ratio of the amount of nitrogen present as AlN in an entire sheet thickness to the amount of nitrogen present as AlN in a layer from one-side surface of steel sheet to a depth of 1/20 of sheet thickness is made to not less than 5.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Zaizen, Yoshihiko Oda, Tomoyuki Okubo, Takaaki Tanaka, Yukino Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20220056833Abstract: A hydraulic drive fan control device is provided with a variable displacement hydraulic pump, a hydraulic motor, a hydraulic drive fan that is driven by the hydraulic motor, a flow amount control valve, a rotational speed detector that detects a rotational speed of an engine, and a controller. The controller outputs a first valve control signal to the flow amount control valve and outputs a first pump control signal to the hydraulic pump to rotate the hydraulic drive fan at a first rotational speed, and outputs a second valve control signal to the flow amount control valve and outputs a second pump control signal to the hydraulic pump, thereby stopping the rotation of the hydraulic drive fan.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2018Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Takaaki TANAKA, Masatsugu ARAI, Takayuki SATO, Naoki FUKUDA, Jun IKEDA, Ryuji KOUNO
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Publication number: 20220049323Abstract: Proposed is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet being low in iron loss and excellent in tensile strength and fatigue strength, which has a chemical composition comprising C: not more than 0.005 mass %, Si: 3 to 5 mass %, Mn: not more than 5 mass %, P: not more than 0.1 mass %, S: not more than 0.01 mass %, Al: not more than 3 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, Zn: 0.0005 mass % to 0.003 mass %, and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, an average crystal grain size being not more than 40 ?m, the number of the inclusions having a diameter of not less than 5 ?m being not more than 5/mm2, a tensile strength being not less than 600 MPa, and the fatigue strength being not less than 450 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Oda, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Tomoyuki Okubo, Takaaki Tanaka, Yukino Miyamoto
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Patent number: 11231710Abstract: An automatic driving system includes a control device that controls automatic driving of a vehicle, and a storage device that contains external environment information indicating an external environment of the vehicle. A driving transition zone is a zone in which a driver of the vehicle takes over at least a part of driving of the vehicle, from the control device. A termination target velocity is a target velocity of the vehicle at an end point of the driving transition zone. The control device variably sets the termination target velocity, depending on the external environment at the end point or the external environment surrounding the end point. Then, the control device controls the velocity of the vehicle in the driving transition zone, such that the velocity of the vehicle at the end point is the termination target velocity.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takaaki Tanaka, Kenichiro Aoki, Masayuki Katoh
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Patent number: 11215910Abstract: A light source device includes a laser optical system, a fluorescence optical system, and a light combiner combining first and second outgoing lights from the laser optical system and the fluorescent optical system. The laser optical system includes first laser optical sources emitting a plurality of outgoing lights respectively, the plurality of outgoing lights being blue, green, and red lights, or blue and red lights; a first dichroic mirror combining the plurality of outgoing lights from the first laser optical sources, and a diffusion plate reducing speckle noise and an uneven luminance of each of the plurality of outgoing lights. The fluorescence optical system includes a second laser light source, and a phosphor plate emitting, as the second outgoing light, a fluorescent light containing green and red lights by being excited by an outgoing light from the second laser light source. The light combiner includes a second dichroic mirror.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Takaaki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20210405517Abstract: A light source device includes: a plurality of first laser light sources, a second laser light source, and a plurality of third laser light sources; a first polarization mirror that combines light from the plurality of first laser light sources and transmits light from the second laser light source; a dichroic mirror that combines the light from the plurality of first laser light sources and the light from the second laser light source; a second polarization mirror that combines light from the plurality of third laser light sources and transmits the light from the plurality of first laser light sources and the light from the second laser light source; a retardation plate that converts polarization of light from the second polarization mirror into circular polarization; and a filter element that reflects light from the retardation plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventor: Takaaki TANAKA
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Patent number: 11173911Abstract: A vehicle control device according to an example in the present disclosure detects a monitoring target vehicle that may potentially cut into an own-lane from an adjacent lane. Further, the vehicle control device first executes an evasive preparation when sensing a predetermined relative motion of the monitoring target vehicle relative to the flow of the adjacent lane. The vehicle control device executes an evasive action to avoid interference between the monitoring target vehicle and the own-vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro Katsura, Yoshinori Watanabe, Takaaki Tanaka, Tadashi Omachi
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Patent number: 11173890Abstract: To provide a power regeneration system for a working vehicle that can effectively use a regenerative electric energy. A first electric circuit for supplying an electric power generated by the first generator to a traveling motor, a voltage detector for detecting an actual voltage of the first electric circuit, a second electric circuit for supplying an electric power generated by a second generator to an auxiliary device, a step-down device connected to the first electric circuit and the second electric circuit, and a controller are provided. The controller estimates the voltage of the first electric circuit after a predetermined time has elapsed from the present time, based on information on a traveling state of a work vehicle and the actual voltage detected by the voltage detector, and outputs a drive command to the step-down device when the estimated voltage is equal to or more than a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Fukuda, Masatsugu Arai, Yukiaki Shimizu, Takaaki Tanaka, Shintarou Tanaka
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Patent number: 11124166Abstract: A hydraulic oil resupply device (40) is provided between first accumulators (15F, 15R) in a manual braking operation circuit (11) and a second accumulator (25) in an automatic brake circuit (24). The hydraulic oil resupply device (40) resupplies hydraulic oil accumulated in the second accumulator (25) to the first accumulators (15F, 15R) at the operating of a manual braking operation by an operator. This configuration can suppress a rising speed of a brake pressure at the manual operation braking from being slow. Accordingly, in a vehicular brake system, it is possible to enhance a braking capability by the manual braking operation and improve the reliability.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takaaki Tanaka, Takanobu Ikari, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Takayuki Satou, Takashi Sasaki
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Patent number: 11104316Abstract: An autonomous traveling vehicle, equipped with autonomous traveling function on a standard machine, has a high-pressure selector valve placed on a flow path in which pressure-oil is supplied from a standard brake valve (SBV) installed in the standard machine to a hydraulic brake. A flow path is installed to connect the high-pressure selector valve and an autonomous brake control valve (ABCV) that is supplied with pressure-oil delivered by a hydraulic pump. Further, an autonomous traveling controller is installed to perform control for autonomous travel, and an autonomous brake controller is installed to perform open or close control on the ABCV in response to a braking instruction from the autonomous traveling controller. When the brake pedal is stepped on, the pressure-oil flows from the SBV to the hydraulic brake, and when the autonomous traveling controller outputs a stop instruction, the pressure-oil flows from the ABCV to the hydraulic brake.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Sato, Takaaki Tanaka, Hidefumi Ishimoto
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Patent number: 11102911Abstract: Dew condensation in a housing of an inverter device can be prevented. The inverter device includes: a housing accommodating a power electronic element and an electrolytic capacitor; an opening formed in the housing; a thermal insulator disposed along a periphery of the opening; and a water jacket having a body portion, and a flow-in pipe and a discharge pipe for cooling water, the water jacket being disposed such that a first surface of the body portion closes the opening from an outside of the housing, with the thermal insulator interposed therebetween. The power electronic element is mounted on the first surface of the body portion, and the electrolytic capacitor is mounted in the housing so as to be in contact with an inner surface of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hisakazu Yamane, Takaaki Tanaka, Fumino Suzuki, Akihiro Sawada
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Publication number: 20210191243Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a plurality of light emitting apparatuses. Each of the light emitting apparatuses includes a plurality of light emitting devices each of which has a light emitting area and a non-light emitting area on an emission surface thereof that emits light. At least two light emitting apparatuses of the light emitting apparatuses constitute a light emitting apparatus group disposed such that the emission surfaces of the respective light emitting apparatuses are parallel to each other with a predetermined distance, and that a distance between light emitting areas of the respective light emitting apparatuses when viewed along a direction perpendicular to the emission surfaces of the at least two of the light emitting apparatuses is shorter than a distance between the light emitting areas of the respective light emitting apparatuses when the emission surfaces of the respective light emitting apparatuses are on the same plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Takaaki TANAKA, Manabu OKUNO
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Publication number: 20210059072Abstract: Dew condensation in a housing of an inverter device can be prevented. The inverter device includes: a housing accommodating a power electronic element and an electrolytic capacitor; an opening formed in the housing; a thermal insulator disposed along a periphery of the opening; and a water jacket having a body portion, and a flow-in pipe and a discharge pipe for cooling water, the water jacket being disposed such that a first surface of the body portion closes the opening from an outside of the housing, with the thermal insulator interposed therebetween. The power electronic element is mounted on the first surface of the body portion, and the electrolytic capacitor is mounted in the housing so as to be in contact with an inner surface of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hisakazu YAMANE, Takaaki TANAKA, Fumino SUZUKI, Akihiro SAWADA
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Publication number: 20210041779Abstract: A first light source device includes: a solid-state light source; a condenser element that collects light from the solid-state light source; a retardation plate that converts linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light; and a reflection plate, wherein the retardation plate is disposed at a point of incidence of collected light and divergent light between the condenser element and the reflection plate. A second light source device includes: a solid-state light source; a retardation plate that changes a polarization direction of light from the solid-state light source to make a ratio of p-polarization and s-polarization components of the light constant under control; and a dichroic mirror that separates the light from the retardation plate according to the polarization direction, wherein the retardation plate is disposed at a point of incidence of one of collected light and divergent light between the solid-state light source and the dichroic mirror.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Takaaki TANAKA, Manabu OKUNO