Patents by Inventor Daisuke Tanaka

Daisuke 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).

  • Publication number: 20240247137
    Abstract: A resin molded article including an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer resin and carbon black as primary components. After the resin molded article is heated from 25 degrees Celsius to 100 degrees Celsius and then cooled to 25 degrees Celsius, the shrinkage factor of the resin molded article at 25 degrees Celsius cooled after heated to 100 degrees Celsius relative to the resin molded article at 25 degrees Celsius before heated is less than or equal to 2.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Akira Yane, Kento Tsuda, Daisuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12045082
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic control device that performs distributed processing using a plurality of microcomputers and can perform highly accurate time synchronization between the microcomputers with less delay without hindering arithmetic processing of each microcomputer. The device includes a plurality of microcomputers, and a waveform generation circuit connected between a master microcomputer serving as a time synchronization source and a slave microcomputer that performs time synchronization, among the plurality of microcomputers, wherein the master microcomputer outputs a reset signal synchronized with time to the waveform generation circuit, the waveform generation circuit outputs a waveform signal corresponding to a change in time of the master microcomputer, to the slave microcomputer, and the slave microcomputer measures a voltage value of the waveform signal and detects time corresponding to the measured voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanaka, Hidetatsu Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240243519
    Abstract: A connector 10 is provided with a first connector housing and a second connector housing to be connected to the first connector housing along a connection direction. The first connector housing includes a resilient deforming portion 35 separate from the first connector housing and to be resiliently deformed along an outer surface of the first connector housing while being mounted on the first connector housing. The second connector housing includes a receptacle 13 to be externally fit to the first connector housing and a lock portion 15 provided inside the receptacle 13 and to be engaged with the resilient deforming portion 35.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Nungna WI, Shinji TANAKA, Tetsuya MIYAMURA, Yasunori ASANO, Daisuke SAITO
  • Publication number: 20240240101
    Abstract: Provided is a composition for a refrigeration machine capable of reducing a friction coefficient in friction between sliding members in a refrigeration machine, and a composition kit for a refrigeration machine for providing the composition for a refrigeration machine. A composition for a refrigeration machine of the present disclosure includes a refrigeration machine oil, nanodiamond particles dispersed in the refrigeration machine oil, and a dispersant. The refrigeration machine oil preferably contains a polyvinyl ether, a polyol ester, a polyalkylene glycol, an alkylbenzene, or a mineral oil. The composition kit for a refrigeration machine of the present disclosure includes a refrigeration machine oil (A) containing a base oil and nanodiamond particles dispersed in the base oil, and a refrigerant (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicants: DAICEL CORPORATION, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Norihiro KIMOTO, Hisayoshi ITO, Kouichi UMEMOTO, Takeru KASHIWAGI, Daisuke SHIRO, Hidekazu TAKEUCHI, Hideki MATSUURA, Shogo MOROE, Arisa KAWAE, Masaru TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240184343
    Abstract: To achieve an electronic module capable of reducing dark current, which is current flowing when the electronic module is turned off, and contributing to prevention of battery wear of a vehicle or the like. Therefore, the electronic module connected to a first electronic module via a communication line includes: a microcomputer; a power supply IC that supplies power to the microcomputer; a power supply control circuit that supplies power from a battery power supply to the power supply IC; a control line connected to the communication line; and a first switch circuit that connects the control line and the power supply control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Daisuke TANAKA, Hidetatsu YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11988807
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical member including an organic polymer. This optical member includes a surface A which has an area of 1 mm2 or more, and in which the flatness of a region having an area of 1 mm2, as measured by a non-contact type optical flatness meter, is 80 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., AHIKO FINETEC, LTD.
    Inventors: Soichiro Ahiko, Daisuke Tanaka, Shinichi Umeda
  • Patent number: 11987691
    Abstract: A resin molded article including an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer resin and carbon black as primary components. After the resin molded article is heated from 25 degrees Celsius to 100 degrees Celsius and then cooled to 25 degrees Celsius, the shrinkage factor of the resin molded article at 25 degrees Celsius cooled after heated to 100 degrees Celsius relative to the resin molded article at 25 degrees Celsius before heated is less than or equal to 2.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Yane, Kento Tsuda, Daisuke Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240151047
    Abstract: To provide a mounting member comprising a ridge that is long in one direction and fixed to a desired position on a formwork in a simple manner, to form a desired groove portion in a concrete flat plate. The mounting member that is mounted on a formwork used to fabricate a concrete flat plate, and the mounting member comprises: a base material; a ridge portion that is provided on the base material and projects against an inner surface of the formwork; and a fixing portion that fixes the ridge portion to the inner surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: FUKUVI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanaka, Naoya Ishida, Hironori Horie, Eiji Koutani
  • Publication number: 20240129368
    Abstract: A server device configured to communicate, via a communication network, with at least one device including a learner configured to perform processing by using a learned model, includes processor, a transmitter, and a storage configured to store a plurality of shared models pre-learned in accordance with environments and conditions of various devices. The processor is configured to acquire device data including information on an environment and conditions from the at least one device, and select an optimum shared model for the at least one device based on the acquired device data. The transmitter is configured to transmit a selected shared model to the at least one device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Preferred Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Keigo Kawaai, Shohei Hido, Nobuyuki Kubota, Daisuke Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240126192
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a circulating member to be made to circulate while carrying a toner image on a peripheral surface; a transfer member configured to nip at a nip part a recording medium that is transported and the circulating member and to transfer the toner image on the circulating member to the recording medium with a voltage being applied to the transfer member; and a controller configured to control a transfer scheme in accordance with which a voltage is to be applied to the transfer member, the controller being capable of switching the transfer scheme between constant-voltage control and constant-current control, the controller causing an image forming section configured to form an image on the circulating member to start an image forming operation under constant-voltage control selected as the transfer scheme if a length ratio defined as a ratio of a length of the recording medium in an axial direction to a length of the nip part in the axial direction is smaller than a predetermined r
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Daisuke TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11947304
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a cleaning brush that has bristles that rotate and contact a surface, to which toner has adhered, of a cleaning member to be cleaned, the cleaning brush removing the toner adhered to the surface of the cleaning member; a first contact member that contacts the bristles without a position of the first contact member relative to a position of the cleaning brush being changed; and a second contact member that contacts the bristles at a location downstream from the first contact member in a direction of rotation of the cleaning brush and without a position of the second contact member relative to the position of the cleaning brush being changed, and that is disposed on an extension line extended from a line between an axial center of the cleaning brush and a base of the bristles that move away from the first contact member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Haruyuki Ideura, Daisuke Tanaka, Takeshi Yasuda, Kaoru Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20240080944
    Abstract: A heater wire that allows for reduced costs by adopting a novel structure capable of preventing localized abnormal temperatures while having a high bending durability and accommodating diameter reduction. The heater wire is provided with a heat-emitting part in which heat-emitting wires are wound in a spiral manner around a fiber core, and a sheath arranged around the heat-emitting part. The heat-emitting wires are configured such that a first heat-emitting wire including a first metal element wire and a second heat-emitting wire including an insulating film provided around a second metal element wire are wound in an alternating manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroaki SUGIMOTO, Takeyasu NAKAYAMA, Daisuke TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11914313
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a toner feed body that is an endless belt holding a toner image, or is a transfer member transferring a toner image to a recording medium nipped between the endless belt and the transfer member; an electric charge imparting member that is provided so as to face a surface of the toner feed body and increases an amount of electric charges of toner adhering to the surface of the toner feed body; and a toner attracting member that is provided at a more downstream part of the toner feed body than the electric charge imparting member in a feed direction of the toner feed body and attracts the toner by being applied with a voltage having a polarity opposite to a polarity of the toner adhering to the surface of the toner feed body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Daisuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11835643
    Abstract: A work machine control method includes: acquiring a detection position of a landmark detected by a non-contact sensor provided in a work machine in traveling of the work machine traveling on a traveling path; calculating a first relative distance between the non-contact sensor and the landmark on a basis of the detection position of the landmark; calculating a second relative distance between the non-contact sensor and the landmark on a basis of a registration position of the landmark; calculating a correction value relating to a relative distance between the non-contact sensor and the landmark on a basis of the first relative distance and the second relative distance; correcting the first relative distance on a basis of the correction value to calculate a corrected relative distance between the non-contact sensor and the landmark; and controlling a traveling state of the work machine on a basis of the corrected relative distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanaka, Tatsuya Shiga
  • Patent number: 11772634
    Abstract: A parking control method executes a control instruction for moving a vehicle along a parking route. The parking route is calculated based on an operation command acquired from an operator located outside the vehicle. The parking control method includes detecting a relative altitude between a first height position of the operator and a second height position of the vehicle and when determining that the relative altitude is not less than a first predetermined value, changing a first speed to a second speed lower than the first speed. The first speed is preliminarily set in the control instruction. The parking control method further includes moving the vehicle in accordance with the control instruction changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Hayakawa, Daisuke Tanaka, Yasuhiro Sakurai, Yasuhiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230305480
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a cleaning brush that has bristles that rotate and contact a surface, to which toner has adhered, of a cleaning member to be cleaned, the cleaning brush removing the toner adhered to the surface of the cleaning member; a first contact member that contacts the bristles without a position of the first contact member relative to a position of the cleaning brush being changed; and a second contact member that contacts the bristles at a location downstream from the first contact member in a direction of rotation of the cleaning brush and without a position of the second contact member relative to the position of the cleaning brush being changed, and that is disposed on an extension line extended from a line between an axial center of the cleaning brush and a base of the bristles that move away from the first contact member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Haruyuki IDEURA, Daisuke TANAKA, Takeshi YASUDA, Kaoru MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230305470
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance section that sequentially conveys a plurality of recording media; a transfer member that transfers an image formed on an image carrier to each of the recording media conveyed by the conveyance section, with a potential difference; a detection section that detects an electrical characteristic value of the transfer member in transferring the image to each of the recording media; and a determination section that determines multi feeding of the recording media, by comparing an electrical characteristic value in transferring the image to each of the recording media with an electrical characteristic value in transferring the image to each of the recording media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiromoto YAMAKI, Daisuke Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230288954
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic control device that performs distributed processing using a plurality of microcomputers and can perform highly accurate time synchronization between the microcomputers with less delay without hindering arithmetic processing of each microcomputer. The device includes a plurality of microcomputers, and a waveform generation circuit connected between a master microcomputer serving as a time synchronization source and a slave microcomputer that performs time synchronization, among the plurality of microcomputers, wherein the master microcomputer outputs a reset signal synchronized with time to the waveform generation circuit, the waveform generation circuit outputs a waveform signal corresponding to a change in time of the master microcomputer, to the slave microcomputer, and the slave microcomputer measures a voltage value of the waveform signal and detects time corresponding to the measured voltage value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke TANAKA, Hidetatsu YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11745767
    Abstract: A work machine control system includes: a position sensor that detects the position of a work machine travelling on a traveling path; a non-contact sensor that detects the position of an object around the work machine; and a map data creation unit that creates map data on the basis of a detection point of the object and detection data of the position sensor, the detection point being detected by the non-contact sensor and satisfying a defined matching condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanaka, Tatsuya Shiga
  • Publication number: 20230232589
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes a housing including a first region in which heat dissipation fins are formed on one side and an electronic component generating the largest amount of heat is in thermal contact with the other side, and a second region in which an electronic component is in thermal contact with the one side and the other side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryujo SUGAHARA, Eiji ICHIKAWA, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO, Daisuke TANAKA, Hidetatsu YAMAMOTO, Michihito WATARAI, Minami TERANISHI