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).

  • Patent number: 11276984
    Abstract: A method of controlling an optical transmitter includes steps of amplifying, by an EDFA, a main signal output from an optical modulator, attenuating and outputting, by a VOA, the main signal amplified and output by the EDFA, and maintaining an output power of the main signal output from the VOA at a predetermined value, suspending the phase modulation in the optical modulator to output continuous wave light from the optical modulator, disabling feedback control of the VOA that is performed by the VOA controller and maintaining a constant control signal of the VOA, disabling feedback control of a pump laser that is performed by a pump laser controller, and controlling the pump laser to modulate an intensity of the excitation light and generate an auxiliary signal having a cycle longer than a cycle of the main signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220063950
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveyance unit that conveys a sheet, a processing unit that performs processing on the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, and a controller that controls the conveyance unit and the processing unit. The processing unit includes a cutting unit capable of cutting the sheet along a cutting line, a holding unit that is configured to be movable between a holding position and a release position and that is disposed such that a holding line, which is formed on the sheet when the sheet is held, is substantially parallel to the cutting line, and an angle adjuster capable of adjusting an angle of the cutting unit and the holding unit with respect to a conveying direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: DUPLO SEIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro TANAKA, Haruka TAKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220068051
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Vikram KRISHNAMURTHY, Yasuhiro TANAKA, Toru TAKAGI
  • Patent number: 11199187
    Abstract: A plunger pump, comprising: a liquid tank; a pump body including a liquid storage part, a suction passage configured to allow communication between the liquid storage part and the liquid tank and a discharge passage configured to discharge a liquid in the liquid storage part to outside; and a plunger reciprocally movably supported in the pump body so that a tip reaches the liquid storage part. The suction passage includes a first suction passage, the tip of the plunger being reciprocally slidably inserted into the first suction passage, and a second suction passage provided in parallel to the first suction passage, and a check valve configured to allow only a flow of the liquid from the liquid tank to the liquid storage space is disposed in the second suction passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignees: NITTOKU CO., LTD., NAKA LIQUID CONTROL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norio Oda, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Takahiro Sato, Yuji Kanbayashi
  • Publication number: 20210336377
    Abstract: A molding method of a waterproof member is provided. The waterproof member is molded by molds and is for a coated electric wire. The molds include mold division surfaces including molding portions and electric wire mold clamping portions. The electric wire mold clamping portions are to sandwich the coated electric wire at sides of the molding portions. One of the electric wire mold clamping portions includes a convex portion and a side wall erected on an end of the convex portion. The other of the electric wire mold clamping portions includes a concave portion. One of the molding portions includes a side wall entering groove into which the side wall enters. The method includes molding the waterproof member accommodated in the concave portion with the waterproof member being pressed by the convex portion toward a direction in which one of the mold is attached to the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanobu HIGASHITANI, Madoka OOISHI, Masayuki TAMANO, Yasuhiro TANAKA, Hiroki KITAGAWA, Yusuke TSUTAGAWA, Masatoshi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20210336376
    Abstract: A packing mounting structure includes a casing having a passage part on a wall part facing a power detection terminal; packing including a seal part and an portion to be held; and a cover installed on the casing in a state in which the portion to be held is held by a hole part, and closing the passage part by the packing. The portion to be held includes a shaft part and a first flange part. The hole part includes a narrow part; an insertion hole part through which the first flange part is capable of passing; and a holding hole part configured to hold the shaft part in a state in which a gap is formed between the holding hole part and the shaft part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro TANAKA, Hiroki KITAGAWA, Masanobu HIGASHITANI, Kengo MACHIDA, Maho SHINOHARA, Masatoshi YAMADA, Junya YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210304937
    Abstract: A controller for a linear solenoid valve is configured to: calculate an average value of an exciting current within a period including a natural number multiple of the dither cycle as an average current value; execute a feedback control on a control value of the pulse width modulation signal such that a target value of the exciting current and the average current value match; and calculate a dither correction amount by multiplying a ratio between the control value of the pulse width modulation signal obtained by the feedback control and the average current value by a dither current value that is a current value corresponding to the dither correction amount and calculating the dither correction amount such that an increase in the exciting current due to the dither correction amount is canceled out by a decrease in the exciting current due to the dither correction amount within one dither cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki TOKURA, Takeshi YASUDA, Katsumi KONO, Tomohiro KONDO, Yasuhiro TANAKA, Masanori MATSUBARA, Tomoyuki KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20210288436
    Abstract: There is provided a connector including: a housing; and a terminal-equipped electric wire assembled to the housing. The terminal-equipped electric wire includes: a terminal; an electric wire; and a flexible conductor provided between the terminal and the electric wire. The flexible conductor is divided into a plurality of divided conductor portions along an axial direction of the flexible conductor. The divided conductor portions are bent in different directions from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki KITAGAWA, Yasuhiro TANAKA, Masanobu HIGASHITANI, Yusuke TSUTAGAWA, Masatoshi YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11121501
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing member having a fitting part that houses a terminal and is fitted to a counterpart connector provided in a connection target and a fixed part that is fixed to a fixed wall surface of the connection target together with the fitting part in the state in which the fitting part has been fitted to the counterpart connector. The fixed part has through holes, which communicate with fastening holes formed in the fixed wall surface along a fitting direction between the fitting part and the counterpart connector and into which fastening bolts fastened to the fastening holes are inserted along the fitting direction, in the state in which the fitting part has been fitted to the counterpart connector, and a screw hole into which a separation member is screwed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Toshiaki Nozawa, Noboru Hayasaka
  • Publication number: 20210277296
    Abstract: An adhesive composition includes: a clathrate including a cyclodextrin derivative and a guest compound; an epoxy resin; and a tertiary amine having a base dissociation constant of 5.0 or less, wherein the cyclodextrin derivative has an alkoxy group and a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, the guest compound has a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, and the clathrate has a content of 1 part by mass or more and 2.5 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the epoxy resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210273374
    Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal metal fitting; a housing storing therein the terminal metal fitting and including an engaging portion inserted into a hole-shaped counterpart engaging portion from a front end and engaged with the counterpart engaging portion; and a tubular watertight member that is mounted on an outer circumferential surface of the engaging portion to fill a tubular gap between the engaging portion and the counterpart engaging portion in an inserting and engaging state and that includes a ring-shaped outer circumferential lip on an outer circumferential side, the outer circumferential lip being elastically deformed to come into close contact with an inner circumferential surface of the counterpart engaging portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Noboru Hayasaka, Hiroaki Ono, Toru Suzuki, Tatsuya Hosono, Kazuya Takeda
  • Publication number: 20210257776
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with: a terminal metal fitting to which a core wire exposed portion of a core wire of a terminal of a wire is physically and electrically connected; a housing inside which the terminal metal fitting and the terminal of the wire are housed and from which the wire is drawn outside from inside; and a wire holding member that holds, inside the housing, the terminal of the wire, in which the wire holding member has a fixed portion that is fixed to a fixing portion inside the housing, and a holding portion that holds the terminal of the wire so that the terminal of the wire does not move relatively to the housing when the fixed portion is fixed to the fixing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Takatoshi Suzuki, Yoshitaka Tsushima, Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210229282
    Abstract: An abnormality determination device includes a control unit for determining an abnormality of a robot, the control unit being configured to calculate a measurement probability distribution which is a probability distribution using disturbance torque acquired during a predetermined period as a random variable. The control unit causes an average of the calculated measurement probability distribution to conform to an average of an evaluation normal model which is a predetermined probability distribution, compares the measurement probability distribution with the evaluation normal model of which the respective averages conform to each other, and determines an abnormality of the robot in accordance with a result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11071913
    Abstract: The present invention provides a program for a game in which characters operated by an electronic device and other electronic devices are placed in a common game field to play the game, the program causing the electronic device to execute receiving positions of the individual characters in the game field from a server; displaying a radar screen and icons; determining whether or not one of the icons has been touched; obtaining a touch termination position indicating a touched position that is detected just before a touch termination in a case where an icon has been touched and the touch has been terminated; determining whether the touch termination position falls within a predetermined range; and sending a sending request to the server in a case where the touch termination position falls within the predetermined range so that the server will send icon information to at least one of the other electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11052630
    Abstract: A sheet processor subjecting a sheet having been conveyed forward to processing along a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the sheet, includes: a processing unit performing the processing; and a receiving unit receiving the processing unit therein in a state capable of perfecting the processing on the sheet, and the processing unit includes a first processing tool 4A and a second processing tool 4B disposed to vertically oppose each other with a conveyance surface of the sheet disposed therebetween, and the receiving unit includes at least one receiver that removably receives the first processing tool 4A and the second processing tool 4B in the state capable of performing the processing on the sheet, with arbitrarily selected one of the first processing tool 4A and the second processing tool 4B disposed above the conveyance surface, and with arbitrarily selected another of the first processing tool 4A and the second processing tool 4B disposed below the conveyance surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: DUPLO SEIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Oiwa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Masayasu Matsumoto, Takuya Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20210191346
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Toshimichi Urakawa, Toru Takagi, Satoru Hirose
  • Publication number: 20210178615
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis device diagnoses an abnormality of a plurality of speed reducers included in a robot in accordance with disturbance torque regarding a state of the respective speed reducers acquired from a sensor installed in the robot, and outputs a result of the diagnosis to a display unit, the abnormality diagnosis device including a maintenance history DB configured to store maintenance data on maintenance made for the respective speed reducers, and a control unit configured to detect an abnormality in the respective speed reducers in accordance with the disturbance torque. The control unit, when detecting an abnormality in one speed reducer in accordance with the disturbance torque, predicts an abnormality in another speed reducer caused in association with the abnormality in the one speed reducer in accordance with the maintenance data, and outputs information on the predicted abnormality to the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11005216
    Abstract: A connector includes: an outer housing including an arm that protrudes from a first wall portion to a space portion surrounded by a housing main unit; an inner housing inside the housing main unit; and a detection member supported between the first wall portion and the inner housing slidably. The housing main unit has an opening portion in which a counterpart housing having a protrusion is inserted. The arm includes an arm main unit with flexibility extending toward the opening portion and a lock tab protruding from the arm main unit. When the counterpart housing is inserted, the arm main unit is elastically deformed to enable the lock tab to ride over and lock the protrusion. When the lock tab completes riding over, the lock tab allows the detection member to move toward the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Hayasaka, Jun Sugioka, Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11005208
    Abstract: A connector applied to a wire harness includes: a housing main body including a housing space part for housing a terminal along an axial direction, and an insertion port provided at one side of the housing space part in the axial direction and into which a counterpart terminal connected to the terminal is inserted; a lance that faces the housing space part, that is elastically deformably supported by the housing main body in a cantilever manner, that extends toward the insertion port side along the axial direction, and that engages the terminal housed in the housing space part; and a regulating contact part that comes into contact with the lance and that regulates excessive displacement of the lance toward the housing space part side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Toshiaki Nozawa, Noboru Hayasaka, Takeaki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10971844
    Abstract: A connector includes: a casing that has a housing space, a through hole communicating the housing space with an external space, and an electric wire insertion hole, and that holds a connection terminal connected to a counterpart device; a wiring material that has a distal end part inserted into the housing space via the electric wire insertion hole and a conductor part exposed from a covering at the distal end part, the exposed conductor part being curved at a curved part and connected to the connection terminal; and a conductive voltage detection terminal that has a connection part connected to the exposed conductor part at a position closer to the covering than a curved part and a voltage detection part facing the through hole, and that is provided by branching from a conduction path between the connection terminal and the conductor part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi Hirakawa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida