Patents by Inventor Yuichi Tanaka
Yuichi 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: 20210124884Abstract: An RFID tag includes an RFID device and a controller. The RFID device includes a storage into which data is writable from a writing apparatus through wireless communication. The controller reads object information of output stored in the storage and causes an output device to output the read object information. In response to the object information being written into the storage, the controller reads the object information after an elapse of a set waiting time. The storage includes a storage region into which setting data of the waiting time is writable from the writing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Katsuhiko FUKUMOTO, Yuichi TANAKA
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Patent number: 10917534Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a transport unit, a reader, a detector, and a controller. The transport unit transports a document. The reader reads the transported document. The detector detects whether or not a document bundle prior to being transported is present. While a document in a first document bundle corresponding to a first job is being transported, if the detector detects that a document in a second document bundle corresponding to a second job as a subsequent job is loaded, the controller actuates the transport unit until all documents in the first document bundle are output.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunobu Sato, Hosana Kimura, Hiromichi Sawamura, Kaoru Furusawa, Atsuhiro Itoh, Akari Fukuda, Minoru Aizumi, Yuichi Tanaka, Taketo Kondo
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Publication number: 20210035825Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a processing tub configured to store therein a processing liquid in which multiple substrates are to be immersed; multiple liquid supplies each of which includes a supply line through which the processing liquid is supplied to an inside of a water tank of the processing tub and a heating device configured to heat the processing liquid at a portion of the supply line; and multiple in-tank temperature sensors configured to measure a temperature of the processing liquid at multiple positions within the water tank of the processing tub.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Kazushige Sano, Yuichi Tanaka, Yoshihiro Kai
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Publication number: 20200329164Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a transport unit, a reader, a detector, and a controller. The transport unit transports a document. The reader reads the transported document. The detector detects whether or not a document bundle prior to being transported is present. While a document in a first document bundle corresponding to a first job is being transported, if the detector detects that a document in a second document bundle corresponding to a second job as a subsequent job is loaded, the controller actuates the transport unit until all documents in the first document bundle are output.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2019Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunobu SATO, Hosana KIMURA, Hiromichi SAWAMURA, Kaoru FURUSAWA, Atsuhiro ITOH, Akari FUKUDA, Minoru AIZUMI, Yuichi TANAKA, Taketo KONDO
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Patent number: 10800397Abstract: A control apparatus for hybrid electric vehicle includes a shift operation detector and an electric motor controller. The shift operation detector detects an input of a shift operation. The electric motor controller controls an electric motor of the hybrid electric vehicle to generate motor torque directed to decreasing of torque difference, on a condition that: the input of the shift operation from a first stage into a second stage is detected by the shift operation detector; and first torque and second torque are different in magnitude from each other by the torque difference. The first torque is torque that is to be transmitted to a drive wheel during shifting of the automatic transmission. The second torque is torque that is to be transmitted to the drive wheel after the shifting of the automatic transmission is completed.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Fumiyuki Moriya, Yuichi Tanaka
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Patent number: 10764454Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a transport unit, a reader, a detector, and a controller. The transport unit transports a document. The reader reads the transported document. The detector detects whether or not a document bundle prior to being transported is present. While a document in a first document bundle corresponding to a first job is being transported, if the detector detects that a document in a second document bundle corresponding to a second job as a subsequent job is loaded, the controller changes pre-feeding operation for preliminarily pulling a document in the second document bundle into the image reading apparatus in accordance with a pull-in position of the document in the image reading apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunobu Sato, Hiromichi Sawamura, Kaoru Furusawa, Hosana Kimura, Atsuhiro Itoh, Minoru Aizumi, Yuichi Tanaka, Taketo Kondo, Akari Fukuda
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Publication number: 20200168965Abstract: A passive battery cooler for a battery mounted on a vehicle, includes a battery case that accommodates the battery and attaches to a lower side of a floor panel of the vehicle. The battery cooler also includes a fixing bracket that fixes the battery case to the floor panel of the vehicle, wherein the fixing bracket and a bottom surface of the battery case constitute a ventilation passage that extends in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. [Selected Drawing] FIG.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Yuichi TANAKA, Sho SAKAGAMI, Taisuke HAZAMA, Katsumasa YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 10449873Abstract: A cooling apparatus for an in-vehicle device includes a cooler, a traffic congestion determining unit, a cooling amount calculator, and a cooler controller. The cooling amount calculator calculates first and second cooling amounts respectively based on a heat-generation amount of a heat-generating device and a noise level inside a vehicle. The cooler controller controls the cooler on the basis of a set cooling amount. The cooler controller controls the cooler to cool the heat-generating device on the basis of the set cooling amount larger than the first cooling amount and equal to or smaller than the second cooling amount and limits a decrease rate of the set cooling amount to be smaller than an increase rate of the set cooling amount, on a condition that the traveling road is determined by the traffic congestion determining unit as being congested and the first cooling amount is smaller than the second cooling amount.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Fumiyuki Moriya, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Ienaga
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Patent number: 10398380Abstract: A drowsiness detection device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to calculate a respiration variation period based on heartbeat interval data which is generated based on data that is obtained from a heartbeat sensor; predict a subsequent period structure of the respiration variation based on the calculated respiration variation period; determine whether or not an abnormal signal is mixed in the heartbeat interval data by comparing the heartbeat interval data during sequential update and the predicted subsequent period structure; and replace the respiration variation period which corresponds to the heartbeat interval data that includes the abnormal signal with the predicted subsequent period structure in a case where it is determined that the abnormal signal is mixed.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Satoshi Sano, Yasuhiko Nakano, Yuichi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20190119790Abstract: An aluminum-alloy foil that enables to satisfy both of high elongation and high strength even in the case of reducing the foil thickness. The chemical composition of the aluminum-alloy foil contains, in mass %, Fe: 1.0% or more and 2.0% or less, Cu: 0.1% or more and 0.5% or less, and Mn: 0.05% or less, the remainder being Al and unavoidable impurities. The aluminum-alloy foil has a foil thickness of 20 ?m or less, and satisfies the relation El?100×t/UTS. Here, t represents a foil thickness (?m), UTS represents a tensile strength (MPa), and El represents an elongation (%).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: UACJ CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi TANAKA, Tetsuya MOTOI
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Publication number: 20190077274Abstract: A cooling apparatus for an in-vehicle device includes a cooler, a traffic congestion determining unit, a cooling amount calculator, and a cooler controller. The cooling amount calculator calculates first and second cooling amounts respectively based on a heat-generation amount of a heat-generating device and a noise level inside a vehicle. The cooler controller controls the cooler on the basis of a set cooling amount. The cooler controller controls the cooler to cool the heat-generating device on the basis of the set cooling amount larger than the first cooling amount and equal to or smaller than the second cooling amount and limits a decrease rate of the set cooling amount to be smaller than an increase rate of the set cooling amount, on a condition that the traveling road is determined by the traffic congestion determining unit as being congested and the first cooling amount is smaller than the second cooling amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Fumiyuki MORIYA, Yuichi TANAKA, Hiroshi IENAGA
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Patent number: 10197568Abstract: This invention provides a base material comprising a plastic-containing support and, on its surface, a hydrophilic layer comprising an ethylene glycol chain (an EG chain) composed of one or more ethylene glycol units, as well as a method for producing such base material. A polysiloxane-containing primer layer is provided on the support comprising a plastic material on its surface, and the EG chain is covalently bound to a polysiloxane side chain of the primer layer. Thus, a hydrophilic layer comprising the EG chain can be provided on the surface of the plastic-containing support.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2012Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norihiko Ookouchi, Hirohito Ayame, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroko Watanabe
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Publication number: 20190024218Abstract: A high-strength, highly-elongatable aluminum-alloy foil contains, in mass %, Fe: 1.0% or more and 2.0% or less and Mn: 0.05% or less, and unavoidable impurities. The aluminum-alloy foil has an average crystal-grain size at a foil surface of 2.5 ?m or less, and a ratio of the surface-area percentages of the crystal orientations A{112}<111>/A{101}<121> is 3.0 or more. A{112}<111> is the percentage, with respect to the total surface area, of the surface areas of crystal grains in which the crystal orientation is in a range within 15° from {112}<111> in an orientation-mapping image of the foil surface produced by electron backscatter diffraction. A{101}<121> is the percentage, with respect to the total surface area, of the surface areas of the crystal grains in which the crystal orientation is in a range within 15° from {101}<121> in the orientation-mapping image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: UACJ CorporationInventors: Yuichi TANAKA, Tetsuya MOTOI
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Publication number: 20180354490Abstract: A control apparatus for hybrid electric vehicle includes a shift operation detector and an electric motor controller. The shift operation detector detects an input of a shift operation. The electric motor controller controls an electric motor of the hybrid electric vehicle to generate motor torque directed to decreasing of torque difference, on a condition that: the input of the shift operation from a first stage into a second stage is detected by the shift operation detector; and first torque and second torque are different in magnitude from each other by the torque difference. The first torque is torque that is to be transmitted to a drive wheel during shifting of the automatic transmission. The second torque is torque that is to be transmitted to the drive wheel after the shifting of the automatic transmission is completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventors: Fumiyuki MORIYA, Yuichi TANAKA
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Patent number: 10076773Abstract: The method for cleaning a reactor of the present invention comprises passing a solvent through a wax-fraction hydrocracking apparatus which is charged with a catalyst and to which supply of a wax fraction is stopped, wherein the solvent comprising at least one oil selected from a group consisting of hydrocarbon and vegetable oils, and having a sulfur content of less than 5 ppm and being in a liquid state at 15° C.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignees: JAPAN OIL, GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION, INPEX CORPORATION, JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION, JAPAN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION CO., LTD., COSMO OIL CO., LTD., NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya Takahashi, Kazuhiko Tasaka, Yuichi Tanaka, Marie Iwama
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Patent number: 9920256Abstract: There is provided a hydrocarbon distillation separation apparatus for fractionally distilling hydrocarbon compounds discharged from a Fisher-Tropsch synthesis reactor synthesizing hydrocarbon compounds, comprising a heavy hydrocarbon fractionator configured to fractionally distil liquid heavy components of the hydrocarbon compounds discharged from the reactor into a first middle distillate and a wax fraction, a light hydrocarbon fractionator configured to fractionally distil gaseous light components of the hydrocarbon compounds discharged from the reactor into a second middle distillate and a light gas fraction, a light hydrocarbon separator configured to separate hydrocarbon compounds equivalent to naphtha from the light gas fraction; and a mixing section configured to mix the first and second middle distillates, and the hydrocarbon compounds equivalent to naphtha separated from the light gas fraction by the light hydrocarbon separator.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignees: JAPAN OIL, GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION, INPEX CORPORATION, JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION, JAPAN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION CO., LTD., COSMO OIL CO., LTD., NIPPON STEEL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Tanaka, Yasumasa Morita, Kenichi Kawazuishi
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Patent number: 9896102Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a camera unit that detects driving conditions of a preceding vehicle; a re-acceleration determiner that determines based on the driving conditions of the preceding vehicle whether or not a re-acceleration state in which the preceding vehicle decelerates and then accelerates occurs; and a rotation controller that, if it is determined that the vehicle is in a re-acceleration state, maintains the engine speed of the engine not less than a lower limit.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yuichi Tanaka
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DROWSINESS DETECTION PROGRAM MEDIUM, DROWSINESS DETECTION METHOD, AND DROWSINESS DETECTION APPARATUS
Publication number: 20180028104Abstract: A drowsiness detection method that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes: performing frequency analysis on heartbeat data obtained from a subject; and determining a state of the subject by calculating entropy in a predetermined frequency bandwidth with a peak as a reference, where the peak is within a predetermined frequency range of frequency distribution obtained from the frequency analysis result, determining that the subject is in a relaxation state in a case where the calculated entropy is less than a predetermined threshold value, and determining that the subject is in a drowsiness state in a case where the entropy is equal to or greater than the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yasuhiko Nakano, Satoshi Sano, Satoshi Senokuchi, Yuichi Tanaka, Eiichiro KUBOTA -
Patent number: 9685246Abstract: A control system allows controlling a nuclear facility in an evacuation area. The control system includes a control device in ordinary use disposed in a non-evacuation area, an emergency control device—for emergency in the evacuation area, a plant control facility connectable to the control device—and the emergency control device, a signal switching unit that switches from a normal coupling to an emergency coupling based on an emergency switch signal, a first selector switch in the non-evacuation area, a second selector switch-in the evacuation area, an AND circuit configured to output the emergency switch signal to the signal switching unit in the case where the emergency switch signal is input from the first selector switch and the emergency switch signal is input from the second selector switch.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimoto, Hironobu Shinohara, Yasutake Akizuki, Toshiki Fukui, Yuichi Tanaka, Shinji Kiuchi, Hiroshi Shirasawa
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Patent number: 9676290Abstract: A vehicle controller includes an electric motor connected to wheels, a power storage device connected to the electric motor, a charge/discharge controller that controls charge/discharge of the power storage device, a first traveling controller that controls the electric motor in accordance with a driver's operation, and a second traveling controller that controls the electric motor in accordance with a cruise function that automatically controls a vehicle speed. When the first traveling controller controls the electric motor, the charge/discharge controller controls charge/discharge power of the power storage device within a first charge/discharge range. When the second traveling controller controls the electric motor, the charge/discharge controller controls charge/discharge power of the power storage device within a second charge/discharge range that is wider than the first charge/discharge range.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Tanaka, Kazuki Furuta