Patents by Inventor Takashi Tsunoda

Takashi Tsunoda 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: 11385715
    Abstract: A non-contact operating apparatus, for a vehicle, includes a generating unit, a projecting device, a detecting device, a stimulation output device, a determining unit, and a stimulation response output unit. The generating unit is configured to generate and update image containing an image object. The projecting device is configured to project the image in a predetermined display region. The detecting device is configured to detect an operation site of an occupant positioned in a vicinity of the predetermined display region. The stimulation output device is configured to output and update a tactile stimulation to the operation site. The determining unit is configured to determine whether the operation site performs a non-contact operation against the image object. The stimulation response output unit is configured to cause the stimulation output device to output the tactile stimulation to the operation site on the basis of a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Tsunoda, Hideyuki Sase, Takemi Oguri, Tomoyuki Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11124042
    Abstract: A vehicle heating device includes a heat storage material, a heat recovery unit, a footrest, and a heat controller. The vehicle heating device heats an occupant with heat stored in the heat storage material. The heat recovery unit recovers thermal energy from at least one of a heat source generated by a vehicle or a natural heat source from outside of the vehicle. The heat storage material stores the recovered thermal energy. The footrest is provided at a front portion of a vehicle seat disposed in a vehicle cabin, and has the heat storage material packed inside a heat insulating material. The heat controller heats the footrest by radiating the heat stored in the heat storage material at a predetermined timing with respect to the occupant to be on the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Tsunoda
  • Publication number: 20200310546
    Abstract: A non-contact operating apparatus, for a vehicle, includes a generating unit, a projecting device, a detecting device, a stimulation output device, a determining unit, and a stimulation response output unit. The generating unit is configured to generate and update image containing an image object. The projecting device is configured to project the image in a predetermined display region. The detecting device is configured to detect an operation site of an occupant positioned in a vicinity of the predetermined display region. The stimulation output device is configured to output and update a tactile stimulation to the operation site. The determining unit is configured to determine whether the operation site performs a non-contact operation against the image object. The stimulation response output unit is configured to cause the stimulation output device to output the tactile stimulation to the operation site on the basis of a determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi TSUNODA, Hideyuki SASE, Takemi OGURI, Tomoyuki KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 10538143
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus for a vehicle includes an air-conditioning duct that includes an air supply path through which air to be supplied into an interior of the vehicle passes, a first tank to which a cool medium and a warm medium for adjusting the temperature of a first intermediate medium are supplied, a first heat exchanger that is provided in the air-conditioning duct and through which the first intermediate medium circulates from the first tank, and a controller that controls the first intermediate medium to a temperature needed to set the interior to a desired temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Tsunoda, Hisashi Nagano
  • Patent number: 10293864
    Abstract: A vehicle with a capsule structure of a power unit includes the power unit and a transmission member. The power unit includes an internal combustion engine that combusts air-fuel mixture in an engine body and outputs a driving force, and a motor that outputs a driving force by using electric power of an electric generator or a battery. The transmission member transmits the driving force of the power unit. The capsule structure includes a heat-insulation casing having an internal space in which the power unit and the transmission member are accommodated, and a partition wall that divides the internal space of the heat-insulation casing into at least a first partition space and a second partition space which are separated from one another. At least the engine body is disposed in the first partition space, and at least the battery is disposed in the second partition space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Tsunoda, Takahito Aoki
  • Publication number: 20190100249
    Abstract: A vehicle with a capsule structure of a power unit includes the power unit and a transmission member. The power unit includes an internal combustion engine that combusts air-fuel mixture in an engine body and outputs a driving force, and a motor that outputs a driving force by using electric power of an electric generator or a battery. The transmission member transmits the driving force of the power unit. The capsule structure includes a heat-insulation casing having an internal space in which the power unit and the transmission member are accommodated, and a partition wall that divides the internal space of the heat-insulation casing into at least a first partition space and a second partition space which are separated from one another. At least the engine body is disposed in the first partition space, and at least the battery is disposed in the second partition space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi TSUNODA, Takahito AOKI
  • Publication number: 20190092119
    Abstract: A vehicle heating device includes a heat storage material, a heat recovery unit, a footrest, and a heat controller. The vehicle heating device heats an occupant with heat stored in the heat storage material. The heat recovery unit recovers thermal energy from at least one of a heat source generated by a vehicle or a natural heat source from outside of the vehicle. The heat storage material stores the recovered thermal energy. The footrest is provided at a front portion of a vehicle seat disposed in a vehicle cabin, and has the heat storage material packed inside a heat insulating material. The heat controller heats the footrest by radiating the heat stored in the heat storage material at a predetermined timing with respect to the occupant to be on the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi TSUNODA
  • Publication number: 20180162196
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus for a vehicle includes an air-conditioning duct that includes an air supply path through which air to be supplied into an interior of the vehicle passes, a first tank to which a cool medium and a warm medium for adjusting the temperature of a first intermediate medium are supplied, a first heat exchanger that is provided in the air-conditioning duct and through which the first intermediate medium circulates from the first tank, and a controller that controls the first intermediate medium to a temperature needed to set the interior to a desired temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi TSUNODA, Hisashi NAGANO
  • Patent number: 9889720
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus for a vehicle includes an air-conditioning duct that includes an air supply path through which air to be supplied into an interior of the vehicle passes, a first tank to which a cool medium and a warm medium for adjusting the temperature of a first intermediate medium are supplied, a first heat exchanger that is provided in the air-conditioning duct and through which the first intermediate medium circulates from the first tank, and a controller that controls the first intermediate medium to a temperature needed to set the interior to a desired temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Tsunoda, Hisashi Nagano
  • Publication number: 20160288617
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus for a vehicle includes an air-conditioning duct that includes an air supply path through which air to be supplied into an interior of the vehicle passes, a first tank to which a cool medium and a warm medium for adjusting the temperature of a first intermediate medium are supplied, a first heat exchanger that is provided in the air-conditioning duct and through which the first intermediate medium circulates from the first tank, and a controller that controls the first intermediate medium to a temperature needed to set the interior to a desired temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi TSUNODA, Hisashi NAGANO
  • Patent number: 9309470
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms from ethane stably in a simpler process. The present invention provides a method for producing olefin having a step of obtaining a cold fraction by cooling an ethane-cracked gas, which is obtained by thermal cracking of ethane in the presence of steam, to 600° C. or less; and a step of obtaining a catalytic cracking gas containing olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms by bringing the cold fraction into contact with a catalyst containing a medium pore diameter zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Sekiguchi, Takashi Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 9192922
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing propylene, comprising contacting at least one of raw material selected from the group consisting of ethylene and ethanol with a catalyst containing a medium pore diameter zeolite in a fluidized bed reactor wherein the catalyst containing the medium pore diameter zeolite satisfies the following (a) through (e): (a) a particle diameter of catalyst particles at 90% by weight or more is within a range of 10 to 197 ?m; (b) a bulk density of the catalyst particles is within a range of 0.7 to 1.1 g/cm3; (c) a mean compressive strength of the catalyst particles having a particle diameter within a range of 30 to 70 ?m is 15 MPa or more, and a compressive strength of the catalyst particles at 90% by weight or more is 10 MPa or more; (d) an angle of repose is 20 to 30°; and (e) a pore volume of pores having a pore radius within a range of 2000 to 20000 nm is 0.050 cc/g or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Midorikawa, Takashi Tsunoda, Kenji Akagishi, Hiroyuki Yano, Ryusuke Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8072550
    Abstract: A remote control unit capable of bidirectionally communicating with a display apparatus, such as a television set. The remote control unit comprises a display unit adapted to display an image transmitted from the display apparatus, a detector unit adapted to detect a state of a power supply of the remote control unit, and a switching unit adapted to switch a display mode of the display unit from a moving image mode to a still image mode, according to the state of the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Tsunoda, Toshiaki Itazawa
  • Publication number: 20110172477
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms from ethane stably in a simpler process. The present invention provides a method for producing olefin having a step of obtaining a cold fraction by cooling an ethane-cracked gas, which is obtained by thermal cracking of ethane in the presence of steam, to 600° C. or less; and a step of obtaining a catalytic cracking gas containing olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms by bringing the cold fraction into contact with a catalyst containing a medium pore diameter zeolite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Sekiguchi, Takashi Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 7825987
    Abstract: An information processor enabling a digital broadcast to be viewed at a child device at a low cost, a TV system and a program are provided. Video decoders are corrected to the post-stage of demultiplexers, respectively, and video data of MPEG divided by the demultiplexers is decoded by the video decoders. At this time, the video data of MPEG is converted into a display format of a base band in a raster scan form. A common memory having a capacity equivalent to at least one displayed image, and a memory controller controlling the operation of the common memory are further provided. Three write video data output from resolution converters is stored in the common memory under control by the memory controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Yui, Makoto Uehara, Takashi Tsunoda, Kenichiro Ono, Masaki Nakano
  • Patent number: 7794617
    Abstract: A plasma etching method includes the step of: etching a silicon layer of a target object by using a plasma generated from a processing gas containing a fluorocarbon gas, a hydrofluorocarbon gas, a rare gas and an O2 gas and by employing a patterned resist film as a mask. The target object includes the silicon layer whose main component is silicon and the patterned resist film formed over the silicon layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Akihiro Kikuchi, Takashi Tsunoda, Yuichiro Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20100197986
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing propylene, comprising contacting at least one of raw material selected from the group consisting of ethylene and ethanol with a catalyst containing a medium pore diameter zeolite in a fluidized bed reactor wherein the catalyst containing the medium pore diameter zeolite satisfies the following (a) through (e): (a) a particle diameter of catalyst particles at 90% by weight or more is within a range of 10 to 197 ?m; (b) a bulk density of the catalyst particles is within a range of 0.7 to 1.1 g/cm3; (c) a mean compressive strength of the catalyst particles having a particle diameter within a range of 30 to 70 ?m is 15 MPa or more, and a compressive strength of the catalyst particles at 90% by weight or more is 10 MPa or more; (d) an angle of repose is 20 to 30°; and (e) a pore volume of pores having a pore radius within a range of 2000 to 20000 nm is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Hideo Midorikawa, Takashi Tsunoda, Kenji Akagishi, Hiroyuki Yano, Ryusuke Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 7768576
    Abstract: There is provided a multi-screen synthesis apparatus that can execute display of video data and update of an OSD image without causing a user to feel a visual sense of incongruity, and reduce system costs. Periodic video source data and aperiodic OSD image data are written into a unified memory reserved for planes. The video source data and the OSD image data are read from the unified memory, based on a synthesis layout, for simultaneous display on a single display in a synthesized state. Video data to be written into the unified memory is decimated in units of a frame on an input video source-by-input video source basis. The decimation of the data is controlled based on display priority of the video data determined based on a multi-screen display layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Yui, Takashi Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 7754934
    Abstract: A process for efficiently and stably producing ethylene and propylene which comprises bringing a hydrocarbon feedstock comprising at least one C4-12 olefin into contact with a zeolite-containing catalyst to obtain a reaction mixture containing ethylene and propylene, separating the reaction mixture into a fraction comprising ingredients ranging from hydrogen to C3 hydrocarbons and a fraction comprising C4 and higher hydrocarbons, and recycling the C4 and higher hydrocarbons as they are to a reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tsunoda, Mitsuhiro Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 7655570
    Abstract: A difference in etching rate between the coated silicon based insulating film and any of other kinds of silicon-based insulating films is reduced by using nitrogen gas as a part of the etching gas. Therefore, the underlying film may not be exposed to the etching gas for a long time, so that degradation or deterioration of the underlying film can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Akihiro Kikuchi, Yuichiro Sakamoto, Takashi Tsunoda