Patents by Inventor Atsushi Tanaka
Atsushi 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: 20230396255Abstract: A combined logic circuit according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a latch circuit and an inverter circuit. The latch circuit includes a single phase clocking circuit that includes a NAND circuit. The inverter circuit inverts an output signal of the latch circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Yoshinori Tanaka, Atsushi Kawakami
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Patent number: 11833835Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium in a first direction toward a recording head for ejecting a liquid, a tank including a containing chamber containing the liquid to be supplied to the recording head, and an injection port through which the liquid is injected into the containing chamber, the tank being disposed downstream of the conveyance unit in the first direction, a rotatable lever that holds a tank cap for closing the injection port, and a cover that rotates about a rotation shaft between an open position for exposing the lever and a closed position for covering the lever, the rotation shaft being disposed upstream of the conveyance unit in the first direction. The cover includes a sliding portion that is provided on a surface facing the lever and comes into contact with the lever while the cover is rotating toward the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Taiji Maruyama, Koya Iwakura, Hideaki Matsumura, Tetsu Hamano, Nobuhiro Toki, Daiju Takeda, Fumie Kameyama, Koki Shimada, Shota Asada, Ken Takenaga, Yusuke Tanaka, Yuta Araki, Atsushi Matsuyama, Yusuke Naratani, Kousuke Tanaka
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Patent number: 11833467Abstract: A boiler plant includes a carbon dioxide capture system. The carbon dioxide capture system has an absorbing-liquid regeneration device and an absorber. The absorbing-liquid regeneration device includes a regenerator, a first circulation line in which the absorbing liquid is taken out from the regenerator and is returned to the regenerator, and a second circulation line in which the absorbing liquid is taken out from the regenerator and is returned to the regenerator, a heat exchanger, a heater, and a switcher. The heat exchanger heats the absorbing liquid by exchanging heat between the absorbing liquid flowing through the first circulation line and steam from the boiler. The heater heats the absorbing liquid flowing in the second circulation line. The switcher switches between a first heating state, in which the absorbing liquid flows in the first circulation line, and a second heating state, in which the absorbing liquid flows in the second circulation line.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Tsutsumi, Hiromi Ishii, Tetsuya Tanaka, Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Takashi Kamijo
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Publication number: 20230387154Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image pickup device and an electronic apparatus that are capable of preventing leakage of charges between adjacent pixels. A plurality of pixels perform photoelectric conversion on light incident from a back surface via different on-chip lenses for each pixel. A pixel separation wall is formed between pixels adjacent to each other, and includes a front-side trench formed from a front surface and a backside trench formed from the back surface. A wiring layer is provided on the front surface. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a backside illuminated CMOS image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi MASAGAKI, Yusuke TANAKA
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Patent number: 11827024Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a liquid storing container including a storage chamber configured to store a liquid supplied to a printing unit that prints an image by discharging the liquid, an outlet portion of the liquid, and a channel configured to connect the storage chamber and the outlet portion. The liquid storing container includes a first side portion on a side of a print region where printing is executed by the printing unit, and a second side portion on an opposite side of the first side portion, and the channel is formed in the second side portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koki Shimada, Nobuhiro Toki, Daiju Takeda, Fumie Kameyama, Shota Asada, Ken Takenaga, Yusuke Tanaka, Yuta Araki, Taiji Maruyama, Atsushi Matsuyama, Yusuke Naratani, Kousuke Tanaka, Koya Iwakura, Hideaki Matsumura, Tetsu Hamano
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Publication number: 20230357070Abstract: Provided is a crystallized glass, which has a high fracture toughness value, and besides, is excellent in transparency. The crystallized glass includes, in terms of mass%, 40% to 70% of SiO2, 5% to 40% of Al2O3, 2% to 25% of B2O3, 0% to 15% of MgO+ZnO, 0% to 20% of CaO+SrO+BaO, 0% to 8% of P2O5+TiO2+ZrO2, 1% to 20% of Na2O+K2O, and 0% to 6% of Li2O, has a crystallinity of from 1% to 50%, and has an average visible-light transmittance of 50% or more at a thickness of 0.8 mm and a wavelength of from 380 nm to 780 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Takahiro MATANO, Yuki YOKOTA, Atsushi TANAKA, Yoshihisa TAKAYAMA
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Patent number: 11806437Abstract: A device capable of stably obtaining gas of a sterilizer containing hydrogen peroxide for a long time is provided. A cleaning device that cleans a heating surface that gasifies a sterilizer of a gasifier for a sterilizer is provided, and after an operation for a fixed time period, the heating surface is cleaned.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Hayakawa, Masatoshi Takagi, Kazufumi Suzuki, Hidenori Tanaka, Hayato Akiyama
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Patent number: 11808577Abstract: An atomic interferometer includes: an optical system including an optical modulating device that includes: an optical fiber for a first laser beam to propagate therein; and a frequency shifter connected to the optical fiber and configured to shift the frequency of the first laser beam, the optical system being configured to generate a moving standing light wave from counter-propagation of the first laser beam from the optical modulating device and a second laser beam; and an interference system for making an atomic beam interact with three or more moving standing light waves including the moving standing light wave.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignees: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Ryotaro Inoue, Mikio Kozuma, Atsushi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20230348223Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet conveyance passage, a sheet circulation passage, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a third conveyor, and circuitry. In the sheet circulation passage, a sheet is circulated to be overlaid with a following sheet in the sheet conveyance passage. The circuitry circulates the sheet in the sheet circulation passage to overlay the sheet with the following sheet conveyed after the sheet in the first sheet conveyance passage, at an upstream position of the first sheet conveyance passage, and adjusts a sheet conveyance speed of the third conveyor to circulate the sheet, based on a reduction amount that is obtained when a preceding amount of a leading end of the following sheet with respect to a leading end of the sheet is reduced while the following sheet is temporarily stopped due to a temporary stop of the first conveyor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Fukuhara, Ken Sawada, Ryoh Suzuki, Kentaroh Fukami, Atsushi Kuriyama, Yusuke Tanaka, Yuuki Nakagawa, Yasuo Ohba, Akikazu Iwata
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Patent number: 11802744Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery boiler includes: a duct casing in which exhaust gas flows; a tubular extending portion extending upward from the duct casing; a heat exchanger tube located in the duct casing; a hammering rod connected to the heat exchanger tube in the duct casing and passing through an inside of the extending portion, the hammering rod including an upper part projecting to an outside of the extending portion; and an annular sleeve attached to the upper part of the hammering rod through a packing. The extending portion includes an upper flat surface which is located at an upper end of the extending portion, realizes a seal between the upper flat surface and a lower surface of the sleeve, and is annular and flat.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryo Nakamura, Yukihiro Takenaka, Takuro Nozoe, Tatsuo Ino, Atsushi Yukioka, Shuji Yamamoto, Toshinori Tanaka, Hao Zhang, Wei Fang
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Patent number: 11795843Abstract: A gas turbine plant includes a gas turbine, an exhaust line, an exhaust heat recovery boiler that generates steam due to heat of exhaust gas and guides the exhaust gas to the exhaust line, a carbon dioxide recovery device that recovers carbon dioxide contained in the exhaust gas, a heat exchanger that cools the exhaust gas to a temperature set in advance, and a circulation line that branches from a position between the carbon dioxide recovery device and the heat exchanger and is connected to an inlet of the gas turbine. The carbon dioxide recovery device has an absorption tower that absorbs carbon dioxide contained in the exhaust gas by causing the exhaust gas at the set temperature and an absorption liquid to come into contact with each other. The heat exchanger is formed of a material having higher corrosion resistance than a material forming the exhaust heat recovery boiler.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBSHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Tsutsumi, Tetsuya Tanaka, Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Takashi Kamijo
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Patent number: 11793659Abstract: This orthosis manufacturing system is designed to manufacture an orthosis to be fitted on a human body and provided with: an orthosis modeling data generation unit (2) for generating orthosis modeling data (D4) for the orthosis on the basis of three-dimensional data (D1) of the human body generated by measuring the shape of a portion of the human body to which the orthosis is to be fitted, a model shape data (D2) for the orthosis, and manufacture history data (D3) relating to other orthoses manufactured in the past; and an orthosis formation unit (3) for three-dimensionally forming the orthosis on the basis of the modeling data (D4).Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Takashi Washizu, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Atsushi Takahashi, Takuya Ishigai
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Patent number: 11798552Abstract: An agent device includes a microphone configured to collect a speech sound inside a vehicle cabin, a speaker configured to output a speech sound inside the vehicle cabin, and a plurality of agent function elements having different functions. Each of the plurality of agent function elements generates a speech sound of an agent that speaks to an occupant of a vehicle on the basis of a meaning of the speech sound collected by the microphone, causes the speaker to output the generated speech sound of the agent. The agent function element serving as a main agent that has a dialogue with the occupant is switched on the basis of content of the speech sound collected by the microphone.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Eisuke Soma, Wataru Endo, Ryosuke Tanaka, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
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Publication number: 20230332893Abstract: An adjuster 500 performs simultaneous irradiation of M laser beams to an atomic beam 131, where M is a predetermined integer satisfying 3?M. The course of each of the M laser beams intersects with an approach path of the atomic beam 131. A component, in a direction perpendicular to the approach path of the atomic beam, of the sum of radiation pressure vectors that the M laser beams respectively have is non-zero. A component, in a direction of the approach path of the atomic beam, of the sum of the radiation pressure vectors that the M laser beams respectively have is negative for atoms having speeds greater than the predetermined speed, and positive for the atoms having speeds smaller than the predetermined speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicants: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kento TANIGUCHI, Ryotaro INOUE, Mikio KOZUMA, Atsushi TANAKA
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Publication number: 20230331269Abstract: A train jolt determination system includes: a portable terminal capable of being held in a train and configured to acquire position information on the train, detect the acceleration of the train, and capture an image of the scene around the train; a storage section configured to associate the position information, acceleration information indicative of a detection result of the acceleration, and image information indicative of the scene and store the position information, the acceleration information, and the image information; and a jolt amount calculation section configured to calculate an amount of jolting of the body based on the acceleration information. In a case where the body is determined to have jolted based on the amount of jolting, position information associated with acceleration information used for the determination of jolting is supplemented with image information associated with the acceleration information, and a position where the body has jolted is estimated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: WEST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANYInventors: Atsushi MATSUDA, Kohei TANAKA
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Publication number: 20230336204Abstract: A radio frequency circuit includes a first radio frequency circuit, a second radio frequency circuit, and a first switch circuit. The first switch circuit includes a first terminal connected to an antenna connection terminal, a second terminal connected to the first radio frequency circuit, and a third terminal connected to the second radio frequency circuit. The first radio frequency circuit includes a first power amplifier circuit supporting a first power class, and a first filter circuit connected to the first power amplifier circuit and having a passband that includes a first band. The second radio frequency circuit includes a second power amplifier circuit supporting a second power class having a maximum output power greater than a maximum output power of the first power class. The second radio frequency circuit includes a second filter circuit connected to the second power amplifier circuit and having a passband that includes the first band.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi ONO, Satoshi TANAKA, Hirotsugu MORI
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Publication number: 20230335788Abstract: Provided are a method for producing an atomization sulfide solid electrolyte, including atomizing a raw material sulfide solid electrolyte together with a specific ketone compound, the raw material sulfide solid electrolyte containing a lithium atom, a sulfur atom, a phosphorus atom and a halogen atom; an atomization sulfide solid electrolyte; an electrode mixture containing the atomization sulfide solid electrolyte and an electrode active material; and a lithium ion battery containing at least one of the atomization sulfide solid electrolyte and the electrode mixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji MORIYAMA, Shinji TANAKA, Katsuhito KONDO, Hironari KIMPARA, Atsushi YAO
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Publication number: 20230332895Abstract: An adjuster performs simultaneous irradiation of M laser beams to an atomic beam, where M is a predetermined integer satisfying 3??M. The course of each of the M laser beams intersects with the course of the atomic beam. A component, in a direction perpendicular to the course of the atomic beam, of the sum of radiation pressure vectors that the M laser beams respectively have is zero.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicants: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Ryotaro INOUE, Mikio KOZUMA, Kento TANIGUCHI, Atsushi TANAKA
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Publication number: 20230322004Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a printing apparatus including: a printing head that includes a nozzle ejecting ink for printing on a printing medium conveyed in a conveyance direction; a carriage on which the printing head is mounted and that reciprocally moves in a main scanning direction; a sliding member attached to the carriage such that the carriage can change a position in a vertical direction; and a guide member that includes a first surface with which the sliding member is brought into contact and a second surface as a back surface of the first surface and guides the movement of the main scanning direction of the carriage, in which the sliding member includes a first regulation unit facing the second surface in a position away from the second surface at a predetermined distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: KOUSUKE TANAKA, NORIO SAKURAI, ATSUSHI KOHNOTOH, TAKASHI ABE, YASUYUKI TAKANAKA, TAIJI MARUYAMA, YUSUKE NARATANI, SHUHEI YAMAGUCHI, SHIMPEI FUJISAKI
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Patent number: 11785774Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, insulating films and first films alternately stacked on the substrate, at least one of the first films including an electrode layer and a charge storage layer provided on a face of the electrode layer via a first insulator, and a semiconductor layer provided on a face of the charge storage layer via a second insulator. The device further includes at least one of a first portion including nitrogen and provided between the first insulator and the charge storage layer with an air gap provided in the first insulator, a second portion including nitrogen, provided between the charge storage layer and the second insulator, and including a portion protruding toward the charge storage layer, and a third portion including nitrogen and provided between the second insulator and the semiconductor layer with an air gap provided in the first insulator.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi Sawa, Kazuhiro Matsuo, Kazuhisa Matsuda, Hiroyuki Yamashita, Yuta Saito, Shinji Mori, Masayuki Tanaka, Kenichiro Toratani, Atsushi Takahashi, Shouji Honda