Patents by Inventor Hideaki Tanaka

Hideaki 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: 20230234365
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20230197340
    Abstract: An electronic component includes a laminate in which a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes are alternately laminated and external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrodes. A side margin portion as a region in which the plurality of internal electrodes is not provided when a section of the laminate having the length direction and the width direction is viewed from the laminating direction includes a plurality of side margin layers laminated in the width direction. An outer layer portion as a region in which the plurality of internal electrodes is not provided except for the side margin portion when a section of the laminate including the laminating direction and the width direction is viewed from the length direction includes a plurality of layer-margin layers laminated in the laminating direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiki FUKUNAGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Masahiro WAKASHIMA, Daisuke HAMADA, Hironori TSUTSUMI, Satoshi MAENO, Ryota ASO, Koji MORIYAMA, Akihiro TSURU
  • Publication number: 20230198013
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte to be used in a lithium-ion secondary battery, including an argyrodite crystal, in which the crystal is represented by a composition formula Lia—M—Zb—Hac; M is at least one element selected from Na, K, and elements each of which exists as any of divalent to pentavalent cations in the crystal; Z is at least one element selected from elements that exists as a divalent anion in the crystal; Z includes S; Ha is at least one element selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I; a, b, and c in the composition formula indicate a ratio among contents (unit: at%) of the respective elements and satisfy 5 < a < 7, 4 < b < 6, and 0 < c < 2; and a maximum distance between Li ions in the crystal is 2.54 ? or shorter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kosho AKATSUKA, Naoki FUJII, Tetsushi SHOBUDANI, Manabu NISHIZAWA, Hiroaki TANAKA, Shinji TERAZONO, Hideaki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230197984
    Abstract: Provided is an air-cooled fuel cell system, wherein the air-cooled fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell, an oxidant gas system and a cooling gas system; wherein the fuel cell comprises a fuel cell stack comprising stacked unit fuel cells; wherein each of the unit fuel cells comprises a cathode separator having an oxidant gas flow path in a wavy plate form, a membrane electrode gas diffusion layer assembly, an anode separator having a fuel gas flow path in a wavy plate form, and a cooling fin having a cooling gas flow path in a wavy plate form; and wherein the air-cooled fuel cell system has a cooling ability distribution in an oxidant gas flow direction of the oxidant gas flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Hironori OHIRA, Hideaki TANAKA, Nobuaki NONOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230178799
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a sulfide solid electrolyte, includes: heat-treating a starting material containing a lithium element, a sulfur element, and a phosphorous element to obtain an intermediate; and heating and melting the intermediate in an atmosphere of a gas comprising a sulfur element. In the heat treatment, the starting material may be heated at a temperature in a range of 250° C. to 500° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki FUJII, Hiroaki TANAKA, Shinji TERAZONO, Hideaki HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11610736
    Abstract: An electronic component includes a laminate in which a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes are alternately laminated and external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrodes. A side margin portion as a region in which the plurality of internal electrodes is not provided when a section of the laminate having the length direction and the width direction is viewed from the laminating direction includes a plurality of side margin layers laminated in the width direction. An outer layer portion as a region in which the plurality of internal electrodes is not provided except for the side margin portion when a section of the laminate including the laminating direction and the width direction is viewed from the length direction includes a plurality of layer-margin layers laminated in the laminating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daiki Fukunaga, Hideaki Tanaka, Masahiro Wakashima, Daisuke Hamada, Hironori Tsutsumi, Satoshi Maeno, Ryota Aso, Koji Moriyama, Akihiro Tsuru
  • Publication number: 20230039873
    Abstract: Provided is a running device including a frame (11) and a first wheel part (15) and a second wheel part (35) arranged with an appropriate distance therebetween along a running direction (R). The first wheel part (15) includes a first left support arm (17) and a first right support arm (26) arranged on the frame (11) in a manner to be swingable within a plane extending along the running direction (R). The second wheel part (35) includes a second support arm (36) arranged on the frame (11) in a manner to be swingable within a plane perpendicular to the running direction (R). The first left support arm (17) has first left wheels (19, 21) respectively on both sides thereof, and the first right support arm (26) has first right wheels (28, 30) respectively on both sides thereof. The second support arm (36) has a second left wheel (38) and a second right wheel (40) respectively on both sides thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: DMG MORI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki NAGASUE, Ryota MAEDA, Masaaki NAKAGAWA, Hideaki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11547769
    Abstract: To provide a light source module device capable of controlling the light distribution of ultraviolet light with a small and simple structure. A light source module device 7 includes a substrate 4, a light source 3 mounted on the substrate 4 and emitting ultraviolet light, a reflector 8 mounted on the substrate 4 so as to surround the light source 3 and reflecting the ultraviolet light by its inner surface to guide the ultraviolet light toward an irradiation target, and a cap-like optical member 9 mounted so as to cover the outer circumference of the reflector 8 and condensing or diffusing the ultraviolet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Kato, Kazuhisa Shinno
  • Publication number: 20230003851
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus mounted to a vehicle includes a light emitting unit, at least one light receiving element, a measurement unit, a monitor circuit, and an adjustment unit. An adjustment unit adjusts the sensitivity of the at least one light receiving element, based on a monitor signal generated by the monitor circuit based on a light reception signal from the at least one light receiving element having received reference light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: Hideaki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220362419
    Abstract: A fluid sterilization device includes a cylindrical body of a housing having a flow passage through which fluid flows in an axial direction, an inflow port through which the fluid flows into the cylindrical body, an outflow port on the outer circumference of the cylindrical body, a light source provided on an end section on an opposite side to the inflow port, and a quartz cap including a cylindrical section and a leading end section. The quartz cap transmits, collects, or scatters ultraviolet light. The cylindrical section of the quartz cap is fitted to an inner wall of the cylindrical body, and a boundary section of the quartz cap is disposed a position coinciding with an end surface of the outflow port on a side close to the first light source or at a position where the boundary section protrudes beyond the end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki TANAKA, Hiroyuki KATO, Kazuhisa SHINNO
  • Publication number: 20220348182
    Abstract: A structure equipped with a fuel cell system, wherein the structure comprises: a skirt configured to form an accumulation space between a bottom of the structure and the ground, an air supplier configured to supply off-gas, which is discharged from the fuel cell system, to at least one space selected from the group consisting of the accumulation space and an internal space of the skirt, and a pressure discharger configured to discharge pressure accumulated in the accumulation space to outside of the skirt from a lower end of the skirt, and wherein lift is imparted to the structure by supplying a predetermined amount of the off-gas from the air supplier to at least one space selected from the group consisting of the accumulation space and the internal space of the skirt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kusakari, Hideaki Tanaka, Takahiro Umehara, Kenjo Miyashita, Shinya Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro Tamura, Kaisei Hino, Riyo Hiraiso
  • Publication number: 20220280902
    Abstract: A slurry storage device that stores an aqueous slurry containing a high nickel material prepared by a dispersion device which mixes a powder and a solvent, the device includes a holding unit that holds the aqueous slurry, and a pH value rise suppressing unit that suppresses a rise in a pH value of the aqueous slurry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keiichiro Onishi, Keiichi Asami, Takashi Mukai, Taichi Sakamoto, Hideaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Senoh, Masahiro Yanagida
  • Patent number: 11386354
    Abstract: A plurality of feature values are extracted from input data as document data, distributed representations of words that correspond to the respective extracted plurality of feature values is obtained, and the extracted plurality of feature values are aggregated into a plurality of classifications based on the obtained distributed representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NS SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Sonobe, Takashi Mitsubuchi, Hideaki Tanaka, Hiroaki Takasu, Kazuhiro Yamada, Yasuhiro Mitsuno
  • Patent number: 11367629
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus for cleaning a cleaning tool that scrub-cleans a substrate includes a cleaning body. The cleaning body includes a contact portion configured to come into contact with the cleaning tool, and the contact portion includes a suction area configured to remove foreign matter from the cleaning tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideaki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220134577
    Abstract: A system includes a machine tool 10, a robot 25 having a camera 31, and a transportation device 35 having the robot 25 mounted thereon, and an identification figure is arranged in a machining area of the machine tool 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicants: DMG MORI CO., LTD., Skylla Technologies
    Inventors: Yuta OBA, Tsutomu SAKURAI, Hideki NAGASUE, Masaaki NAKAGAWA, Hideaki TANAKA, Kota WEAVER, Anand PARWAL
  • Publication number: 20220123309
    Abstract: A carbon material may include granulated particles satisfying (1L) and (2L): (1L) the granulated particles are made of a carbonaceous material; and (2L) the granulated particles satisfy the relationship |X1?X|/X1?0.2, wherein X is a volume-based average particle diameter determined by laser diffraction, and X1 is an equivalent circular diameter as determined from a cross-sectional SEM image, provided that the cross-sectional SEM image is a reflected electron image acquired at an acceleration voltage of 10 kV, wherein the carbon material has an average box-counting dimension relative to void regions of 30 particles of 1.55 or greater, as calculated from images obtained by randomly selecting 30 granulated particles from a cross-sectional SEM image of the carbon material, dividing the cross-sectional SEM image of each granulated particle into void regions and non-void regions, and binarizing the image. Such carbon material may be used in electrodes and batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Satoshi AKASAKA, Daigo NAGAYAMA, Shingo MOROKUMA, Koichi NISHIO, Iwao SOGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Takashi KAMEDA, Tooru FUSE, Hiromitsu IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220123308
    Abstract: A carbon material may satisfying inequality (1K): 10.914 > 5 ? x k - y k - 0.0087 ? a , ( 1 ? K ) wherein a is a volume-based average particle diameter in um of the carbon material, xk is a true density in g/cm3 of the carbon material, and yk is a value determined by equation (2K): y k = D 100 - D T , ( 2 ? K ) wherein D100 is density in g/cm3 of carbon material under uniaxial load of 100 kgf/3.14 cm2, and DT is tap density of carbon material in g/cm3. Such carbon materials may be used in electrodes and batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Satoshi AKASAKA, Daigo NAGAYAMA, Shingo MOROKUMA, Koichi NISHIO, Iwao SOGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Takashi KAMEDA, Tooru FUSE, Hiromitsu IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220123310
    Abstract: A carbon material may include granulated particles made of a carbonaceous material and satisfying (2L): ? X 1 - X ? / X 1 ? 0.2 , ( 2 ? L ) wherein X is a volume-based average particle diameter determined by laser diffraction, and X1 is an equivalent circular diameter determined from a cross-sectional SEM image, which is a reflected electron image acquired at an acceleration voltage of 10 kV, wherein X and X1 are determined from a cross-sectional SEM image, by drawing grid lines to split the minor axis and the major axis of a target granulated particle each into 20 parts to obtain a grid, and using cells in the grid, compartmentalizing the target granulated particle in a compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Satoshi AKASAKA, Daigo NAGAYAMA, Shingo MOROKUMA, Koichi NISHIO, Iwao SOGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Takashi KAMEDA, Tooru FUSE, Hiromitsu IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220123311
    Abstract: A carbon material may include granulated particles made of a carbonaceous material and satisfying (2L), ? X 1 - X ? / X 1 ? 0.2 , ( 2 ? L ) wherein X is a volume-based average particle diameter determined by laser diffraction, and X1 is an equivalent circular diameter determined from a cross-sectional SEM image, which is a reflected electron image acquired at 10 kV, wherein the carbon material has an average inter-void distance Z of 30 granulated particles randomly selected from a cross-sectional SEM image of the carbon material, as Zave, and wherein the carbon material has volume-based average particle diameter X determined by laser diffraction in a Zave/X ratio of 0.060 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Satoshi AKASAKA, Daigo NAGAYAMA, Shingo MOROKUMA, Koichi NISHIO, Iwao SOGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Takashi KAMEDA, Tooru FUSE, Hiromitsu IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11285517
    Abstract: A substrate cleaning apparatus for cleaning a substrate while rotating the substrate and placing a cleaning member in contact with the rotating substrate is disclosed. The substrate cleaning apparatus comprises: a self-cleaning member mounted to an arm supporting the cleaning member, the self-cleaning member being configured to come into contact with the cleaning member to perform self-cleaning of the cleaning member; and a moving mechanism mounted to the arm supporting the cleaning member, the moving mechanism being configured to move the self-cleaning member between a position where the self-cleaning member is in contact with the cleaning member and a position where the self-cleaning member is separated from the cleaning member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideaki Tanaka