Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Tanaka
Yasuhiro 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: 20240148058Abstract: A power supply unit of an aerosol generating device includes: a power supply; a first connector to which a load configured to generate aerosol from an aerosol source by consuming electric power supplied from the power supply or a coil configured to transmit electric power to the load by electromagnetic induction is connected; a first circuit substrate; a second circuit substrate; a first cable connecting the first circuit substrate and the second circuit substrate; and a second connector which is mounted on the second circuit substrate and to which the first cable is connected. A shortest distance between an edge of the second circuit substrate closest to the second connector and the second connector is longer than a shortest distance between a center of the second circuit substrate and the second connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.Inventors: Minoru KITAHARA, Shujiro TANAKA, Yasuhiro ONO
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Publication number: 20240150229Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to provide a substrate with high versatility, a method for producing the substrate, and a method for producing a unit cell using the substrate. The problem is solved by providing a substrate comprising a plurality of alkali metal azide spots on a substantially flat surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, TOYOBO MC CorporationInventors: Motoaki HARA, Yuichiro YANO, Tetsuya IDO, Hikaru TANAKA, Kazutake HAGIYA, Yasuhiro SATO
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Publication number: 20240138487Abstract: A power supply unit of an aerosol generating device, includes: a power supply; a positive electrode-side discharge terminal and a negative electrode-side discharge terminal to which a load configured to generate aerosol from an aerosol source by consuming electric power supplied from the power supply or a coil configured to transmit electric power to the load by electromagnetic induction is connected; and a circuit substrate including a first surface on which the positive electrode-side discharge terminal is mounted and a second surface which is a back surface of the first surface and on which the negative electrode-side discharge terminal is mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.Inventors: Minoru KITAHARA, Shujiro TANAKA, Yasuhiro ONO
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Publication number: 20240141176Abstract: A light-shielding film comprising a resin, an inorganic particle and an organic particle, wherein the organic particle is a core-shell particle which has a surface layer portion and a center portion, and an elastic modulus of the surface layer portion is higher than an elastic modulus of the center portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: REIKO KUBOTA, YASUHIRO TANAKA
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Publication number: 20240138488Abstract: A power supply unit of an aerosol generating device includes: a power supply; a connector to which a load configured to generate aerosol from an aerosol source by consuming electric power supplied from the power supply, or a coil configured to transmit electric power to the load by electromagnetic induction is connected; a voltage converter that has an input terminal connected to the power supply and an output terminal connected to the connector; a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected between the output terminal of the voltage converter and the connector; and a circuit substrate on which the voltage converter, the first capacitor, and the second capacitor are mounted. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are not arranged in a line in a length direction or a width direction of the circuit substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.Inventors: Minoru KITAHARA, Shujiro TANAKA, Yasuhiro ONO
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Publication number: 20240138026Abstract: A power supply unit of an aerosol generating device includes: a power supply; a positive electrode-side connector and a negative electrode-side connector to which a load configured to generate aerosol from an aerosol source by consuming electric power supplied from the power supply, or a coil configured to transmit electric power to the load by electromagnetic induction is connected; a first conductive pattern connecting the power supply and the positive electrode-side connector; a second conductive pattern branched from the first conductive pattern; a circuit substrate on which the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern are formed; and a first protection component having one end connected to the second conductive pattern and configured to protect an electronic component mounted on the circuit substrate from noise entering through the positive electrode-side connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.Inventors: Minoru KITAHARA, Shujiro TANAKA, Yasuhiro ONO
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Publication number: 20240128683Abstract: The CPA-attached connector 1a includes a connector body 11 and a CPA member 12. The connector body 11 includes a temporary latch portion 112 for the CPA member 12, a full latch portion 113 which, before the mating with a mating connector, restricts full latch of the CPA member, and which, during the mating, cancels restriction of the full latch by the mating connector, and a hood portion 114 configured to cover, in a manner of a canopy, a portion of the CPA member 12 in the full latch state. The CPA member 12 includes a CPA body 121 and a finger rest portion 122 provided on the CPA body 121, a portion of the finger rest portion 122 being exposed from the hood portion 114 even in the full latch state, an inclined surface 122a being formed in the exposed portion to incline toward a central axis of the connector body 11 in accordance with a distance from the hood portion 114.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: Yazaki Corporation, MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Koki Tokumoto, Yusuke Tsutagawa, Yasuhiro Otsuta, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Yoshio Nakamura, Yo Yamada
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Patent number: 11952244Abstract: A tag reader acquires identification data and data of a reception intensity indicative of an intensity of a reception signal from a weight tag mounted on each weight, and a data processing device acquires the identification data and the data of a reception intensity of each weight tag from the tag reader, discriminates the identification data corresponding to each weight tag into attached weight data indicating that a reception intensity corresponding to the identification data exceeds a reference intensity set in advance and other non-attached weight data, and determines an attachment state of the weight to the main body portion based on the attached weight data.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasuhiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11956314Abstract: A network of a new configuration is flexibly constructed while maintaining a stable operation in the network. A management device includes: a detection unit that detects addition of a function unit to a network including one or a plurality of on-vehicle function units; an acquisition unit that acquires function unit information of a new function unit that is the function unit the addition of which has been detected by the detection unit and function unit information of each on-vehicle function unit, each piece of function unit information including information regarding network configuration of a layer lower than an application layer; and a generation unit that, based on the pieces of function unit information acquired by the acquisition unit, generates configuration information of a new network that is the network further including the new function unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Yamamoto, Koichi Takayama, Hideyuki Tanaka, Tatsuya Izumi, Junji Yano, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi, Tadashi Matsumoto, Takeshi Hagihara
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Publication number: 20240110533Abstract: An engine malfunction determination system includes a vehicle engine, an engine sensor system, an engine control module and an electronic display device. The engine sensor system has at least one sensor configured to detect an operation condition of the vehicle engine. The engine control module is in electrical communication with the sensor system to receive a detection signal from the engine sensor system regarding the operation condition of the vehicle engine. The engine control module is programmed to determine an anomaly in the detection signal. The electronic display device is programmed to display an indication of engine malfunction when the engine control module determines that the anomaly in the detection signal exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTDInventors: Vikram KRISHNAMURTHY, Wenying LI, Yasuhiro TANAKA, Toru TAKAGI, Shota YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20240113510Abstract: A resin molded component includes a bus bar having conductivity, a conductive member including an insertion hole into which the bus bar is inserted along an axis line direction, a resin member covering the bus bar and insulating the bus bar and the conductive member, and a potting material charged into the insertion hole. The bus bar includes a bend terminal portion positioned at an end portion in the axis line direction, and bent along a terminal bend direction, and a bus bar crank portion positioned inside the insertion hole and extending along a crank direction intersecting with the axis line direction and the terminal bend direction. The resin member includes a resin crank portion positioned inside the insertion hole and covering and insulating the bus bar crank portion. The potting material covers a whole circumference of the resin crank portion when charged into the insertion hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yusuke Tsutagawa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroaki Kodera, Norihiro Ushida, Hiroyuki Hattori
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Publication number: 20240113589Abstract: A drive unit is equipped with a rotating electric machine, a transmission, and a cooling structure. The cooling structure includes a first cooling passage configured to cool the rotating electric machine and a second cooling passage configured to cool the transmission. A first cooling passage and a second cooling passage communicate with each other, and a common coolant flows through the first cooling passage and the second cooling passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yasuhiro Kawamura, Shingo Tanaka
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Publication number: 20240098363Abstract: An inspection device and an inspection method are provided. The inspection device includes: a main body portion, configured to be held by an inspector; a camera portion, disposed on the main body portion and configured to capture an inspected portion of a vehicle; and a guiding portion, configured to guide a camera direction of the camera portion to the inspector, so that an image obtained through the camera portion becomes a prescribed image suitable for inspection.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro OKUNO, Sukeyuki Shinotsuka, Shoji Matsuda, Shunsuke Torigai, Yosuke Tanaka, Daiki Kurei, Koki Isobe, Kotaro Nakamoto
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Patent number: 11937495Abstract: An organic light-emitting device containing both a compound represented by the following general formula (1) and a compound represented by the following general formula (2) has a high light emission efficiency. The rings a to c each are a benzene ring that can be optionally condensed, R1 and R2 each represent a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, etc., four of R31 to R35 each are a substituted or unsubstituted carbazol-9-yl group, but all of these four are not the same, and the remaining one is a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, etc.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, KWANSEI GAKUIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, KYULUX, INC.Inventors: Hajime Nakanotani, Takuji Hatakeyama, Yasuhiro Kondo, Yasuyuki Sasada, Motoki Yanai, Chin-Yiu Chan, Masaki Tanaka, Hiroki Noda, Chihaya Adachi, Yoshitake Suzuki, Naoto Notsuka
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Patent number: 11820007Abstract: An abnormality detection device of detecting an abnormality of a robot which executes an operation such as welding on a target object, includes a control unit including a signal input unit to which a detection signal is input, the detection signal being obtained when a state of the robot is detected by a sensor, so that the control unit detects an abnormality of the robot in accordance with the detection signal. The control unit outputs a control signal to the robot so as to execute an integrated action in which a necessary action necessary for detecting an abnormality is added to a predetermined action in which the operation is not executed on the target object. The control unit detects the abnormality of the robot in accordance with the detection signal detected when the integrated action is executed.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Toshimichi Urakawa, Toru Takagi, Satoru Hirose
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Patent number: 11742124Abstract: A controller executes a dither control that cyclically increases and decreases an exciting current in a linear solenoid valve so as to vibrate a spool of the linear solenoid valve. A vibration cycle of the spool obtained through the dither control is referred to a dither cycle. The dither control includes a first dither control that vibrates the spool in a first dither cycle and a second dither control that vibrates the spool in a second dither cycle that is shorter than the first dither cycle. The controller executes the first dither control and the second dither control when an oil temperature of the hydraulic oil is between a first oil temperature and a second oil temperature that is higher than the first oil temperature.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takaaki Tokura, Katsumi Kono, Takeshi Yasuda, Tomohiro Kondo, Tomoyuki Koike, Masanori Matsubara, Yasuhiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11704945Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting component failure in a vehicle and alerting a driver based thereon. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving sensor data from at least one vehicle sensor over a period of time, processing the sensor data using a predictive model to detect an anomaly indicative of an upcoming component failure, determining a severity of the upcoming component failure based on at least one operating characteristic of the vehicle, and providing an alert to the driver of the vehicle regarding the severity of the upcoming component failure.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Vikram Krishnamurthy, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Toru Takagi
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Patent number: 11677464Abstract: An optical transceiver is configured to receive an optical signal on which a monitoring signal encoded by Manchester encoding is superimposed. The optical transceiver includes a decoding circuit configured to decode the monitoring signal from an electrical signal generated from the optical signal. The decoding circuit includes an interval measuring unit and a decoding unit. The interval measuring unit is configured to detect only a rising edge or a falling edge of a waveform of the electrical signal, to measure a first time interval between a detected first edge and a second edge detected immediately after detecting the first edge, and to measure a second time interval between the second edge and a third edge detected immediately after detecting the second edge. The decoding unit is configured to decode the monitoring signal encoded by the Manchester encoding based on a ratio between the first and second time intervals.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yasuhiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20230168463Abstract: An optical element includes a first transparent member, a second transparent member disposed in contact with the first transparent member and having a different linear expansion coefficient from the first transparent member, and a bonding member configured to bond the first transparent member and the second transparent member to each other. An elastic modulus of the bonding member is 1700 MPa or less at a temperature of ?30° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: YASUHIRO TANAKA, MAMO MATSUMOTO, TAKEAKI KUMAGAI
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Publication number: 20230115722Abstract: A stacked type power supply device includes a first battery stack and a second battery stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked on each other, a first case and a second case in which the first battery stack and the second battery stack is accommodated respectively, a first connector electrically connected to the first battery stack and disposed to be exposed at a first opening provided in the first case, and a second connector electrically connected to the second battery stack and disposed to be exposed at a second opening provided in the second case. The first case and the second case are stacked on each other in a vertical direction, the first connector and the second connector are fitted to each other through the first and second openings, and the first battery stack and the second battery stack are electrically connected to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Michihiro Ishihara, Yasuhiro Tanaka