Patents by Inventor Tomomi Tanaka
Tomomi 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: 20230231325Abstract: A member-joined structure includes: a first member, and a second member having a shape of plate, the second member including an overlapping portion that overlaps with the first member and a protruding portion that protrudes from the overlapping portion along a first direction. In the overlapping portion, a joined portion in which the first member and the second member are joined to each other by welding or fusing is formed. The joined portion is provided with a notch portion located opposite to the protruding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Takashi YOSHIDA, Tomomi TANAKA
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Patent number: 11428251Abstract: Weld structures of metal members include: a first member; and a second member that is layered together with the first member, wherein at least one first solidified part that extends from a surface of the first member to the inside of the first member, at least one second solidified part that is formed by a molten area extending through the first member and the second member, and at least one third solidified member that is formed by a molten area extending through the first member and the second member are provided, and the third solidified part is located closer to a non-layered surface of the second member than the second member is.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Kumazawa, Tomomi Tanaka, Daisuke Shioga, Takayuki Ashida
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Patent number: 11186588Abstract: The 6H-thieno[2,3-e][1,2,4]triazolo[3,4-c][1,2,4]triazepine derivatives or salts thereof of the present invention have BRD4 inhibitory activity, and thus, they are useful as medicaments, in particular, as prophylaxis and/or therapeutic agents for diseases associated with BRD4.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: AYUMI PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Aono, Iwao Seki, Miwa Imamura, Tomomi Tanaka, Satoshi Shirae, Kenji Kawashima, Yusuke Yamazaki, Minoru Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20210130367Abstract: The 6H-thieno[2,3-e][1,2,4]triazolo[3,4-c][1,2,4]triazepine derivatives or salts thereof of the present invention have BRD4 inhibitory activity, and thus, they are useful as medicaments, in particular, as prophylaxis and/or therapeutic agents for diseases associated with BRD4.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: AYUMI PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki AONO, Iwao SEKI, Miwa IMAMURA, Tomomi TANAKA, Satoshi SHIRAE, Kenji KAWASHIMA, Yusuke YAMAZAKI, Minoru YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200243830Abstract: A battery system includes a battery stack formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells, a bus bar coupling electrode terminals of the battery cells, a lead wire electrically coupled to the bus bar, and a voltage detection circuit configured to detect a voltage of each of the battery cells via the lead wire. The bus bar includes a bus bar main body including terminal coupling parts respectively coupled with the electrode terminals, and a lead wire fixing part fixed with the lead wire. The bus bar further includes, on a first surface, a coupling region electrically coupled with the lead wire, and, away from a coupling region, on the lead wire fixing part, a lock connection part locking and connecting the lead wire. The lock connection part includes a through part passing through the lead wire fixing part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomomi Tanaka, Go Yamashiro, Takashi Yoshida, Kazuaki Endo
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Patent number: 10601014Abstract: A plurality of battery cells are connected by a busbar. Electrode terminals of the battery cells each include a protruding portion and a welding surface around the protruding portion. The busbar includes a welding plate portion being in surface-contact with the welding surface and having a cut-away portion for guiding the protruding portion, and an exposure gap that exposes the welding surface between the inner side of the cut-away portion and the protruding portion. The busbar is welded to the welding surface in a predetermined welding width (H) by both of a fillet weld part and a penetration welding portion such that the inner edge of the cut-away portion as the fillet weld part is welded to the welding surface, and the boundary between the busbar and the welding surface is welded by the penetration welding portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Wataru Okada, Yoshihiro Shiotsu, Tomomi Tanaka, Seiji Kumazawa
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Publication number: 20190381685Abstract: To provide a pipe drilling tool for forming, in a pipe, a hole for injecting a non-oxidizing gas such as nitrogen, when joining pipes such as refrigerant pipes by brazing, wherein the pipe drilling tool has a compact configuration allowing work thereof to be performed by the drilling tool being gripped by the hand of a user, does not readily generate burrs, and prevents cutting residue and burr residue from remaining in the pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: Tanaka Kyogyo Inc.Inventor: Tomomi TANAKA
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Patent number: 10249856Abstract: An assembled battery has a battery block configured by stacking a plurality of single batteries, and fixing components fixing the plurality of the single batteries. The fixing components include a pair of end plates disposed at both ends in a stacked direction of the plurality of the single batteries, and a metal band making the plurality of the single batteries in a compressed state by coupling end parts of the pair of the end plates each other. Each of the pair of the end plates has a peripheral part and a central part. The pair of the end plates respectively contact both end single batteries located at both ends in the stacked direction at the peripheral parts, and are respectively separated from both end single batteries at the central parts.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Nishikawa, Tomomi Tanaka, Satoshi Higashida, Tsuneyuki Ejima
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Publication number: 20180347394Abstract: A turbine blade maximum vibration response prediction method for predicting a maximum vibration response acting on a plurality of turbine moving blades provided along the circumferential direction of a turbine rotor includes the steps of: gaining, before turbine operation start, prior response data that is distribution data on vibration response of all the turbine moving blades for each turbine operating condition; gaining, by using the prior response data, operation response data that is distribution data on the vibration response of all the turbine moving blades during the operation of the turbine; and predicting, from the operation response data, the turbine moving blade of all the turbine moving blades on which the maximum vibration response is acting, and the magnitude of the maximum vibration response.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventor: Tomomi TANAKA
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Publication number: 20180245616Abstract: Weld structures of metal members include: a first member; and a second member that is layered together with the first member, wherein at least one first solidified part that extends from a surface of the first member to the inside of the first member, at least one second solidified part that is formed by a molten area extending through the first member and the second member, and at least one third solidified member that is formed by a molten area extending through the first member and the second member are provided, and the third solidified part is located closer to a non-layered surface of the second member than the second member is. Further disclosed are welding processes for producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: SEIJI KUMAZAWA, TOMOMI TANAKA, DAISUKE SHIOGA, TAKAYUKI ASHIDA
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Patent number: 9944048Abstract: Provided are a laser-bonded component and a production method for same that ensure sufficient bonding strength using little laser energy and which cause little increase in surrounding temperature. A nickel layer, being a surface layer, is formed having sufficient thickness on the upper surface of a copper plate that is uppermost amongst at least two superposed copper plates, a laser is irradiated from above the nickel layer, a re-solidification section formed by fusing and alloying the copper in the copper plates and the nickel in the nickel layer is formed through to inside the bottommost copper plate, and the copper plates are bonded together. The re-solidification section having high breaking strength is formed by the alloying of the nickel and the copper. As a result, the copper plates can be bonded with a small welding surface area and little laser energy.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio Nishikawa, Tomomi Tanaka, Toshiki Itoi, Yoshiaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20170365838Abstract: A plurality of battery cells are connected by a busbar. Electrode terminals of the battery cells each include a protruding portion and a welding surface around the protruding portion. The busbar includes a welding plate portion being in surface-contact with the welding surface and having a cut-away portion for guiding the protruding portion, and an exposure gap that exposes the welding surface between the inner side of the cut-away portion and the protruding portion. The busbar is welded to the welding surface in a predetermined welding width (H) by both of a fillet weld part and a penetration welding portion such that the inner edge of the cut-away portion as the fillet weld part is welded to the welding surface, and the boundary between the busbar and the welding surface is welded by the penetration welding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2015Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: WATARU OKADA, YOSHIHIRO SHIOTSU, TOMOMI TANAKA, SEIJI KUMAZAWA
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Publication number: 20170365827Abstract: A battery system includes a plurality of battery cells; a busbar that is laser-welded to electrode terminals of the adjacent battery cells and electrically connects the battery cells; and a plastic insulating wall disposed between the adjacent electrode terminals. The surface color of the insulating wall is a heat-ray reflecting color having far-infrared reflectance of 50% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2015Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: WATARU OKADA, YOSHIHIRO SHIOTSU, TOMOMI TANAKA, SEIJI KUMAZAWA
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Publication number: 20170110695Abstract: An assembled battery has a battery block configured by stacking a plurality of single batteries, and fixing components fixing the plurality of the single batteries. The fixing components include a pair of end plates disposed at both ends in a stacked direction of the plurality of the single batteries, and a metal band making the plurality of the single batteries in a compressed state by coupling end parts of the pair of the end plates each other. Each of the pair of the end plates has a peripheral part and a central part. The pair of the end plates respectively contact both end single batteries located at both ends in the stacked direction at the peripheral parts, and are respectively separated from both end single batteries at the central parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2015Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: YUKIO NISHIKAWA, TOMOMI TANAKA, SATOSHI HIGASHIDA, TSUNEYUKI EJIMA
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Publication number: 20160114429Abstract: A dissimilar metal joined body includes a copper material, an aluminum material and a molten mixed portion. The molten mixed portion is configured so that part of the aluminum material is melted and flows into the copper material. The depth from a surface of the copper material which contacts the aluminum material in the molten mixed portion is at least 5 ?m and no greater than 30 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: DAISUKE SHIOGA, TOMOMI TANAKA, KOJI FUNAMI
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Patent number: 9257684Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a battery block that serves as a member that contains a plurality of battery cells, wherein if abnormal heat generation occurs, the resulting heat is evenly, rapidly, and efficiently distributed throughout the entire block, and the portions in which the battery cells are accommodated have high dimensional precision. The present invention provides a battery block that contains the following: a metal case that contains a plurality of pipe-shaped members; and battery cells accommodated, respectively, in said plurality of pipe-shaped members. The pipe-shaped members are joined to each other, forming a single unit, and join parts that join adjacent pipe-shaped members to each other are at least 70% as long as the pipe-shaped members themselves.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2013Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Hamada, Masahiro Ono, Tomomi Tanaka, Fuminori Takami, Yukio Nishikawa
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Patent number: 9158235Abstract: There is provided a developing apparatus which, when using a conveying member having a resin-made rotation shaft member, is capable of preventing fusion and adhesion of a toner in a vicinity of a bearing resulting from friction between the rotation shaft member and the bearing. A developing apparatus includes a developing tank; a first developer conveying section and a second developer conveying section; a first bearing and a second bearing; a first temperature rise suppression section and a second temperature rise suppression section which a have higher thermal conductivity than those of a first rotation shaft member and a second rotation shaft member as well as those of the first bearing and the second bearing; and a deflection suppression belt which is stretched out by the first temperature rise suppression section and the second temperature rise suppression section.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomomi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20150268584Abstract: There is provided a developing apparatus which, when using a conveying member having a resin-made rotation shaft member, is capable of preventing fusion and adhesion of a toner in a vicinity of a bearing resulting from friction between the rotation shaft member and the bearing. A developing apparatus includes a developing tank; a first developer conveying section and a second developer conveying section; a first bearing and a second bearing; a first temperature rise suppression section and a second temperature rise suppression section which a have higher thermal conductivity than those of a first rotation shaft member and a second rotation shaft member as well as those of the first bearing and the second bearing; and a deflection suppression belt which is stretched out by the first temperature rise suppression section and the second temperature rise suppression section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2013Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventor: Tomomi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20150155529Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a battery block that serves as a member that contains a plurality of battery cells, wherein if abnormal heat generation occurs, the resulting heat is evenly, rapidly, and efficiently distributed throughout the entire block, and the portions in which the battery cells are accommodated have high dimensional precision. The present invention provides a battery block that contains the following: a metal case that contains a plurality of pipe-shaped members; and battery cells accommodated, respectively, in said plurality of pipe-shaped members. The pipe-shaped members are joined to each other, forming a single unit, and join parts that join adjacent pipe-shaped members to each other are at least 70% as long as the pipe-shaped members themselves.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Hideaki Hamada, Masahiro Ono, Tomomi Tanaka, Fuminori Takami, Yukio Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20140363728Abstract: A battery pack that has superior output characteristics and long-term reliability and is less expensive is provided. More specifically, a battery pack is provided that includes plurality of batters cells each having electrode terminals including a positive terminals and a negative terminal, the battery cells being stacked on top of one another; and a bus bar haying a bent portion, the bus bar being welded and electrically connected to the electrode terminals, wherein each of the electrode terminals is formed of a flat plate, and a stacking direction of the electrode terminals and a stacking direction of the battery cells are the same, and the electrode terminal of one of the battery cells and the electrode terminal of another one of the battery cells are electrically connected by the bus bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: YUKIO NISHIKAWA, TOMOMI TANAKA, TAKUYA TSUTSUMI