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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Patent number: 10971854Abstract: A shielded connector includes a shielding shell, a connector housing, and an annular sealing member. The shielding shell has a tube portion and a flange portion formed at an end of the tube portion. The flange portion is fastened to a wall portion having a hole of a target object to which the shielded connector is fastened. The connector housing is covered with the tube portion and has an end portion projecting in an axial direction beyond the flange portion and inserted in the hole. The sealing member is sandwiched between the flange portion and the wall portion. The sealing member closely contacts with the wall portion by being compressed toward the wall portion and closely contacts with an outer surface of the connector housing by being compressed toward the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Noboru Hayasaka, Shotaro Shibata
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Publication number: 20210042710Abstract: A device including a work history DB is configured to store work data of an apparatus such as a speed reducer mounted on a manufacturing robot, and an abnormality determination circuit is configured to determine an abnormality of the apparatus according to the work data to notify a user of the abnormality having been determined. The device also includes a maintenance record creation circuit configured to create a maintenance record indicating that maintenance has been made for the abnormality according to the work data. The maintenance record is automatically created, so as to reduce a workload of the user upon the creation of the maintenance record. This can prevent an error upon creation such as failing to create the maintenance record or making clerical errors.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2018Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuhiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20200407198Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasuhiro TANAKA
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Patent number: 10879327Abstract: An organic EL display panel includes a substrate, an interlayer insulation layer formed over the substrate, and an organic EL light emitting section formed over the interlayer insulation layer. The organic EL light emitting section includes a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix pattern, a plurality of partition walls each of which is disposed between the pixel electrodes adjacent to each other in a row direction and extends in a column direction, an organic layer including a light emitting layer formed in a region partitioned by the partition walls, and a counter electrode formed on an upper side of the organic layer, and includes a first light emitting section for a first color and a second light emitting section for a second color. The first and second light emitting sections are different in thickness of the organic layer and in digging amount of the interlayer insulation layer in the region partitioned by the partition walls.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Noriteru Maeda, Kenichi Nendai, Masayuki Kubota
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Publication number: 20200381861Abstract: A connector applied to a wire harness includes a housing housing a terminal, a front holder assembled to an end portion in an axial direction of the housing, and a restriction member assembled to the housing. One of the housing and the front holder has a latch claw portion that latches the housing and the front holder. The other of the housing and the front holder has a latch arm portion extending along the axial direction and latched to the latch claw portion. The restriction member has a restriction piece that is located adjacent to the latch arm portion that is in a state of being latched to the latch claw portion, the restriction piece restricting displacement of the latch arm portion toward a latch release side.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada
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Patent number: 10847918Abstract: Provided are a holding structure that holds connectors in a completely fitted state by a first locking holding portion and a second locking holding portion, and an ensuring member. A locking holder includes a locking release operation portion, a cantilever locking arm portion, and a fulcrum portion. A release operation force receiving portion is provided to the ensuring member, and is disposed at such a position that the release operation force receiving portion is not in contact with the fulcrum portion when the locking release operation portion is operated by being pushed while the ensuring member is at the main locking position, and the release operation force receiving portion is in contact with the fulcrum portion when the locking release operation portion is operated by being pushed while the ensuring member is at the temporary locking position.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Noboru Hayasaka, Shotaro Shibata
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Publication number: 20200332794Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2018Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicants: NITTOKU CO., LTD., NAKA LIQUID CONTROL CO., LTD.Inventors: Norio ODA, Yasuhiro TANAKA, Takahiro SATO, Yuji KANBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20200331145Abstract: A malfunction determination method for a production machine including a motor as a driving source of a rotating mechanism acquires sensor data of a sensor for detecting a condition of the production machine, determines whether the production machine has an operation stop period during which the production machine has stopped its operation for a predetermined period of time or longer in accordance with an operation history of the production machine, sets a malfunction determination suspension period for suspending a malfunction determination of the production machine when determined to have the operation stop period, in accordance with a length of the operation stop period, and determines whether the production machine has a malfunction in a period other than the malfunction determination suspension period.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2017Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Toshimichi Urakawa, Toru Takagi, Minoru Tomikashi
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Patent number: 10812192Abstract: A hot-pluggable optical transceiver capable of being inserted into an apparatus is equipped with an optical reception circuit; an optical transmission circuit; a signal processing circuit; a nonvolatile memory; a control unit controlling each of the portions of the transceiver; an insertion detection terminal; a reset terminal; and an alarm terminal. When the insertion detection terminal has a voltage that is smaller than a predetermined value, the control unit is allowed to receive the reset signal from the apparatus through the reset terminal. When the insertion detection terminal has a voltage that is larger than the predetermined value, the control unit is allowed to load new software by receiving a clock signal from the apparatus through the reset terminal and receiving a data signal synchronized with the clock signal from the apparatus through the alarm terminal and to store the new software in the nonvolatile memory.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yasuhiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 10770834Abstract: In a fitting connector, a latch hold body includes a first fulcrum portion provided on a latch-release arm portion and exerting force in a detaching direction from a second latch hold portion on a first latch hold portion with a contact point with a first release-operation force receiving portion as a fulcrum when a latch-release operation portion is pushed, and a second fulcrum portion provided on the latch-release operation portion side relative to the first fulcrum portion in the latch-release arm portion and exerting the force in the detaching direction from the second latch hold portion on the first latch hold portion with a contact point with a second release-operation force receiving portion that contacted along with continuation of push operation as a new fulcrum.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Noboru Hayasaka, Shotaro Shibata
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Patent number: 10763762Abstract: A vibrator includes a piezoelectric element including a piezoelectric ceramic having an electrode, a vibration plate, and an adhesive layer between the piezoelectric element and the vibration plate, wherein the adhesive layer is obtained by a resin containing 50 parts by mass or more and 80 parts by mass or less of organic particles having a number average particle size of 5 ?m or more and 15 ?m or less, relative to 100 parts by mass of the resin.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20200269809Abstract: A vehicle occupant information acquisition system including an onboard device mounted to a vehicle and at least one vehicular portable device associated with the onboard device is provided. The vehicular portable device has a function of performing short-range communication with portable terminals, determines a holder's terminal based on a variation in received signal strength indication of a signal sent from each portable terminal, and sends a holder information signal identifying the holder's terminal to the onboard device. The onboard device identifies a user holding the vehicular portable device based on the holder information signal sent from the vehicular portable device, and identifies a portable device location by receiving a response signal. A seat determined based on the portable device location is determined to be a seated location of the user acting as the portable device holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Kenichiro SANJI, Noritaka HIRAO, Kentaro ASAI, Yasuhiro TANAKA
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Patent number: 10756473Abstract: A connection terminal includes a female connection body having a housing space, a male connection body inserted into the housing space to a fitting completion position, and an elastic member supported by an inner wall surface of the female connection body surrounding the housing space, having contact point portions contacting an outer wall surface of the male connection body, and pressing the male connection body by the contact point portions. The female connection body has far-side protruding portions and inlet-side protruding portions. The outer wall surface of the male connection body has at least one of first recessed portions formed at portions facing the inlet-side protruding portions when the male connection body is inserted into the housing space and a second recessed portion formed at a portion facing the contact point portion when the male connection body is inserted into the housing space.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Kengo Machida
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Publication number: 20200212613Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Takayoshi Hirakawa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida
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Publication number: 20200203882Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Toshiaki Nozawa, Noboru Hayasaka
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Patent number: 10677835Abstract: An evaluation method for insulation performance includes: a step ? of applying a DC voltage to a first insulator and measuring an integration value of a current flowing through the first insulator from a start of application of the DC voltage after a prescribed time period; a step ? of applying a DC voltage to the second insulator on an applying condition that is identical to that in the step ? and measuring an integration value of a current flowing through the second insulator from a start of application of the DC voltage after a prescribed time period; and a step ? of comparing (i) a first graph obtained in the step ? and (ii) a second graph obtained in the step ?, to evaluate a difference between insulation performances of the insulators.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoitsu Sekiguchi, Tatsuo Takada, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Masumi Fukuma
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Publication number: 20200162164Abstract: A hot-pluggable optical transceiver capable of being inserted into an apparatus is equipped with an optical reception circuit; an optical transmission circuit; a signal processing circuit; a nonvolatile memory; a control unit controlling each of the portions of the transceiver; an insertion detection terminal; a reset terminal; and an alarm terminal. When the insertion detection terminal has a voltage that is smaller than a predetermined value, the control unit is allowed to receive the reset signal from the apparatus through the reset terminal. When the insertion detection terminal has a voltage that is larger than the predetermined value, the control unit is allowed to load new software by receiving a clock signal from the apparatus through the reset terminal through the reset terminal and receiving a data signal synchronized with the clock signal from the apparatus through the alarm terminal and to store the new software in the nonvolatile memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yasuhiro TANAKA
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Publication number: 20200153149Abstract: Provided are a holding structure that holds connectors in a completely fitted state by a first locking holding portion and a second locking holding portion, and an ensuring member. A locking holder includes a locking release operation portion, a cantilever locking arm portion, and a fulcrum portion. A release operation force receiving portion is provided to the ensuring member, and is disposed at such a position that the release operation force receiving portion is not in contact with the fulcrum portion when the locking release operation portion is operated by being pushed while the ensuring member is at the main locking position, and the release operation force receiving portion is in contact with the fulcrum portion when the locking release operation portion is operated by being pushed while the ensuring member is at the temporary locking position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Noboru Hayasaka, Shotaro Shibata
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Publication number: 20200144769Abstract: A holding structure configured to hold connectors in a completely fitted state with a first lock holding portion and a second lock holding portion, and a secure member configured to secure the completely fitted state are provided. A lock holding body provided with the first lock holding portion includes a pressed movement portion configured to receive cancel force in a separation direction and move the first lock holding portion relative to the second lock holding portion in the separation direction. The secure member includes an operation portion configured to receive lock cancel operation when a lockable state of the first lock holding portion and the second lock holding portion is to be canceled.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Noboru Hayasaka, Shotaro Shibata
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Publication number: 20200136296Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Toshiaki Nozawa, Noboru Hayasaka, Takeaki Kaneko