Patents by Inventor Yuji Tanaka

Yuji 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: 11462894
    Abstract: A wire harness, including: a plurality of tubes that each include a tubular shape-retaining conductor having a conductive property and a shape-retaining property, the plurality of tubes being routed in parallel, wherein: a conductive tube, that includes an insulating cover that covers the shape-retaining conductor, is included among the plurality of tubes, and thicknesses of the shape-retaining conductors that are included in at least two tubes among the plurality of tubes are different to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuji Iwama, Yuji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11458910
    Abstract: A wire harness unit includes a first electrical cable, a first tubular member that covers the first electrical cable, a rubber member that is attached to an outer circumferential surface of the first tubular member, a bracket that includes a first fixing portion supporting the first tubular member with the rubber member in between, and a fastening member that surrounds and fastens the rubber member and the first fixing portion. The first tubular member is made of a metal that contains a first metal as a major component. The bracket is made of a metal that contains a second metal, which is different from the first metal, as a major component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiya Tanji, Yuji Tanaka, Hiroki Yuasa, Isamu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20220249572
    Abstract: Provided is a composite comprising a neural retina, a retinal pigment epithelial cell sheet, and a hydrogel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicants: Riken, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yuji Tanaka, Michiko Mandai, Masayo Takahashi, Suguru Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11408058
    Abstract: There is provided a high-strength steel sheet and a method for producing the same. The steel sheet has a specified chemical composition and a microstructure including, in terms of area percentage, 20.0% or more and 60.0% or less ferrite, 40.0% or more and 80.0% or less of a hard phase composed of bainitic ferrite, tempered martensite, fresh martensite, and retained austenite, 35.0% or more and 55.0% or less bainitic ferrite with respect to the entire hard phase, 20.0% or more and 40.0% or less tempered martensite with respect to the entire hard phase, 3.0% or more and 15.0% or less fresh martensite with respect to the entire hard phase, and 5.0% or more and 20.0% or less retained austenite with respect to the entire hard phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Minami, Takashi Kobayashi, Shinjiro Kaneko, Yuji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11408044
    Abstract: There is provided a high-strength steel sheet and a method for producing the same. The high-strength steel sheet has a specified chemical composition and a steel microstructure including, by area fraction, 75.0% or more tempered martensite, 1.0% or more and 20.0% or less fresh martensite, and 5.0% or more and 20.0% or less retained austenite. A hardness ratio of the fresh martensite to the tempered martensite is 1.5 or more and 3.0 or less, the ratio of the maximum KAM value in the tempered martensite in the vicinity of the heterophase interface between the tempered martensite and the fresh martensite to the average KAM value in the tempered martensite is 1.5 or more and 30.0 or less, and the average of ratios of grain sizes of prior austenite grains in the rolling direction to those in the thickness direction is 2.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Minami, Fusae Shiimori, Shinjiro Kaneko, Takashi Kobayashi, Yuji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11407368
    Abstract: A wire protection member includes a pipe and a protector that define a routing pathway of a wire. The protector has a body part and a cover part that are connected to each other in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the pipe and cover an end part of the pipe. A protector-side locking part is provided at at least one of the body part or the cover part. At the pipe, a pipe-side locking part is provided that (i) when the body part and the cover part are connected, fits together with the protector-side locking part from the direction intersecting the axial direction and (ii) restricts positional deviation of the protector in a circumferential direction of the pipe and in the axial direction of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuyama, Yuji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220195552
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet comprises: a chemical composition containing C, Si, Mn, P, S, Al, N, Mo, Cr, Ca, and Sb with a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein [% Si], [% Mn], [% P], [% Mo], and [% Cr] satisfy a predetermined relationship; a steel microstructure that contains ferrite, hard phase, and retained austenite and in which a carbon concentration in the retained austenite is 0.55% or more and 1.10% or less, an amount of diffusible hydrogen in the steel sheet is 0.80 mass ppm or less, a surface layer softening thickness is 5 ?m or more and 150 ?m or less, and a corresponding grain boundary frequency in a surface layer of the steel sheet after a high-temperature tensile test is 0.45 or less; and a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu MINAMI, Yuji TANAKA, Takeshi YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20220154118
    Abstract: It was difficult to create a thin bio sample embedded in an embedding material without using an expensive microtome. The present invention provides a medical device having a space for assisting in the embedding of a bio sample in an embedding material, the medical device being provided with a cover part and a base part having a recessed section in which the space is created by covering the cover part, wherein the base part is provided with a flow passage having an inlet section that is in fluid communication with the space, and the flow passage is configured such that when a force is applied to the medical device so that the volume of the space decreases, the embedding material flows out while preventing a positional misalignment of the bio sample inside the embedding material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI
    Inventor: Yuji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11322271
    Abstract: A wire harness including: a wire; a cover that covers an outer circumference of a portion of the wire in a length direction thereof; an electromagnetic wave absorber mounted on an outer circumference of the cover; and a fixing member that fixes one end of the cover in a length direction thereof to the wire, wherein: the electromagnetic wave absorber includes a ring-shaped magnetic substance core, and a ring-shaped case in which the magnetic substance core is housed, the cover includes a first latch formed on an outer circumferential surface of the cover, and the case includes a second latch that latches to the first latch in the length direction of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Tanaka, Yoshihide Koshino
  • Publication number: 20220115781
    Abstract: An adaptive array antenna system receives a desired wave arriving through K time slots each allocated to one of K transmitting stations. In the adaptive array antenna system, an adaptive control device includes a correlation matrix calculating unit, a correlation matrix storing unit, an inverse matrix calculating unit, and a weighting factor calculating unit. The inverse matrix calculating unit acquires a correlation matrix having been calculated at previous time for another time slot other than the current time slot from the correlation matrix storing unit, regards the acquired correlation matrix as an interference noise correlation matrix, and calculates an inverse matrix of the interference noise correlation matrix. The weighting factor calculating unit calculates values of a plurality of weighting factors used by a beamforming unit using the inverse matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji TANAKA, Yoshiki TAKAHASHI, Ryuhei TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11281108
    Abstract: An exposure device has a cylindrical peripheral wall member. The peripheral wall member forms a processing space in which a substrate is storable and has an upper opening and a lower opening. Further, a light emitter is provided in an upper portion of the peripheral wall member to close the upper opening. A lower lid member that is provided to be movable in an up-and-down direction and configured to be capable of closing and opening the lower opening is provided below the peripheral wall member. The atmosphere in the processing space is replaced with an inert gas with the substrate stored in the processing space and the lower opening closed by the lower lid member. In this state, vacuum ultraviolet rays are emitted to the substrate from the light emitter, and the substrate is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventors: You Arisawa, Masaya Asai, Masahiko Harumoto, Yuji Tanaka, Chisayo Mori, Tomohiro Motono, Shuji Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20220041122
    Abstract: A wire harness unit includes a first electrical cable, a first tubular member that covers the first electrical cable, a rubber member that is attached to an outer circumferential surface of the first tubular member, a bracket that includes a first fixing portion supporting the first tubular member with the rubber member in between, and a fastening member that surrounds and fastens the rubber member and the first fixing portion. The first tubular member is made of a metal that contains a first metal as a major component. The bracket is made of a metal that contains a second metal, which is different from the first metal, as a major component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Seiya TANJI, Yuji TANAKA, Hiroki YUASA, Isamu TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11243469
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a development processor and a reversal film former, and processes a substrate having one surface on which a resist film made of a photosensitive material is formed. The development processor forms a resist pattern on the one surface of the substrate by performing development processing on a resist film using a development liquid. A reversal film former forms a reversal film having etch resistance higher than that of the resist film on the one surface of the substrate to cover the resist pattern while regulating a temperature of the substrate in a certain range after the development processing is performed by the development processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiko Harumoto, Koji Kaneyama, Yuji Tanaka, Masaya Asai
  • Publication number: 20220006273
    Abstract: A wire harness, including: a plurality of tubes that each include a tubular shape-retaining conductor having a conductive property and a shape-retaining property, the plurality of tubes being routed in parallel, wherein: a conductive tube, that includes an insulating cover that covers the shape-retaining conductor, is included among the plurality of tubes, and thicknesses of the shape-retaining conductors that are included in at least two tubes among the plurality of tubes are different to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuji IWAMA, Yuji TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11203201
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a recording head including a plurality of nozzles from which ink is ejected, a memory, and one or more hardware processors coupled to the recording head and the memory. The one or more hardware processors are configured to: determine, for each of the plurality of nozzles, whether a position of the corresponding nozzle is a position to eject ink; determine whether a successive ejection operation is necessary for a nozzle out of the plurality of nozzles, whose position is determined as the position to eject ink; and cause ink to be successively ejected at the position to eject ink at a predetermined successive ejection frequency from the nozzle that is determined to have the necessity of the successive ejection operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Shiori, Takuya Murata, Takahisa Koike, Hiroyuki Kiguchi, Ko Tokumaru, Yuji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210381075
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 1,180 MPa or more, and specified chemical composition. The steel sheet includes a steel structure in which an area fraction of martensite having a carbon concentration of more than 0.7×[% C] and less than 1.5×[% C] is 55% or more, an area fraction of tempered martensite having a carbon concentration of 0.7×[% C] or less is 5% or more and 40% or less, a ratio of a carbon concentration in retained austenite to a volume fraction of retained austenite is 0.05 or more and 0.40 or less, and the martensite and the tempered martensite each have an average grain size of 5.3 ?m or less, where [% C] represents the content, by mass %, of compositional element C in steel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu MINAMI, Yuji TANAKA, Junya TOBATA, Takeshi YOKOTA
  • Patent number: 11173821
    Abstract: Disclosed is a headrest fore-aft position adjuster including a displaceable body which receives load of an occupant's head and which displaces in a fore-aft direction with respect to a headrest pillar and a lock mechanism which locks and unlocks the displaceable body at a plurality of positions along the fore-aft direction, and the lock mechanism includes an engaging part which displaces in the fore-aft direction integrally with the displaceable body, a plurality of engaged part which is provided along a trajectory of the engaging part and which the engaging part is engaged with in a locked state and the engaging part is configured to engage with the engaged parts from a lateral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Shimizu, Yuji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210349022
    Abstract: An analysis device 1 is provided with: a flow channel 12c; a suction mechanism connected to one end of the flow channel, the suction mechanism being configured to introduce a trace amount of a liquid sample L from the other end of the flow channel 12c into an inside of the flow channel 12c and hold the liquid sample L in a part of the flow channel 12c; and a measurement unit 40 configured such that a light irradiation unit 41 for irradiating the liquid sample L held by the part of the flow channel member 12 with light and a light reception unit for receiving the light from the liquid sample L are disposed around the liquid sample L. The measurement unit 40 is provided with an aperture member 46 to limit the light directed from the light irradiation unit 41 toward the liquid sample L, the aperture member 46 including an opening having an opening width L2 shorter than a liquid length L1 of the liquid sample L held by the flow channel 12c in the flow channel 12c.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuo TSUKUDA, Takahide HIRAMATSU, Toshiro KIMURA, Masayoshi ITO, Yoshihide HAYASHIZAKI, Yuji TANAKA, Yoshihiro YUU, Taku MATSUDERA, Atsushi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210331608
    Abstract: Provided is a conveyance seat capable of reducing the number of components and reducing swing of a seat cushion while a vehicle is travelling. The conveyance seat is a seat including a cushion lock apparatus turnably coupling a seat cushion to a seat back and configured switchable between a seatable state and a housing state. The cushion lock apparatus includes a lock member attached to a seat cushion side, a lock target member attached to a seat back side and engaging with the lock member to lock turning motion of the seat cushion, and a position holding member holding at least one of the positions of the lock member and the lock target member to hold a state in which a clearance is, in the seatable state, formed between an engagement portion provided at the lock member and an engagement target portion provided at the lock target member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji TANAKA, Masao HAYASHI, Yuji UENO, Takamasa KUBO
  • Patent number: 11143964
    Abstract: A substrate treating method for performing a heat treatment of a substrate that has a treated film formed thereon in a heat treating space of a heat treating chamber. The method includes an exhaust step of exhausting gas within the heat treating space formed by a cover enclosing surroundings of a heat treating plate; an inert gas supply step of supplying inert gas from an upper portion of the heat treating space into the heat treating space and supplying inert gas into a gap between an outer peripheral surface of the heat treating plate and an inner wall of the cover; and a heat treating step of performing the heat treatment of the substrate in the heat treating space. The heat treating step is performed after the exhaust step and the inert gas supply step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fukumoto, Yuji Tanaka, Takeharu Ishii, Tomohiro Matsuo