Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Tanabe

Hiroaki Tanabe 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: 20240123876
    Abstract: A conveyance seat capable of ensuring the rigidity of a reclining device and suppressing manufacturing cost includes a reclining device that rotatably connects a seat back to a seat cushion. The reclining device includes rotating shafts disposed on right and left sides in a seat width direction and serving as a rotation center of the seat back, and a connecting member having a plate shape, extending the seat width direction, and connecting the right and left rotating shafts. The connecting member includes a connecting body portion extending long in the seat width direction, and shaft attachment portions provided at extending end portions of the connecting body portion and used for attaching the rotating shafts. The shaft attachment portions have an open cross-sectional shape in which opening portions are formed on upper sides of the shaft attachment portions, and support extending portions of the rotating shafts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroaki WADA, Hironori WATANABE, Soichiro KAMEI, Jinichi TANABE
  • Patent number: 11945230
    Abstract: An image-recording apparatus includes: a first tank defining a first storage chamber; a second tank defining a second storage chamber; a conveying mechanism for conveying sheets along a conveying path extending in a depthwise direction and a widthwise direction perpendicular to a vertical direction and the depthwise direction; and a recording head including a nozzle. Liquid in the first storage chamber is supplied through a communication port to the second storage chamber and then to the recording head through a liquid outlet port. The second storage chamber is positioned further in a first depthwise direction relative to the nozzle and further in a first widthwise direction relative to the conveying path. A volume of a prescribed space above a liquid level equal to a height of the communication port in the second storage chamber is greater than that of a liquid channel between the liquid outlet port and the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayashi, Akinari Ishibe, Yuma Tanabe, Masatake Sato, Akihito Kobayashi, Hiroaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240086951
    Abstract: A satisfaction level calculation device (10) acquires environmental data detected by each of a plurality of environment sensors (20). The satisfaction level calculation device (10) sets each of a plurality of indexes about a space environment as a target index. The satisfaction level calculation device (10) calculates, from the environmental data acquired by measuring the target index, an individual satisfaction level, which is a satisfaction level of the target index. The satisfaction level calculation device (10) calculates, from the individual satisfaction level about each of the plurality of indexes, an overall satisfaction level, which is an overall satisfaction level about the space environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, WASEDA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Noriko TAKAHASHI, Kazuki HAMADA, Masanori HASHIMOTO, Yosuke KANEKO, Shinichi TANABE, Hiroaki NAGASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230203872
    Abstract: The object detection sensor includes: a sensing unit to detect to-be-detected rays from a target object to output a sensing signal, a control unit to command output of a predetermined detection signal in response to input of sensing signal, a sensor output to output predetermined detection signal in response to command, a test signal reception to receive a test signal, and a test signal response to output a test response signal in response to reception of test signal, and further includes: a learning mode transition input to start a learning mode, a test signal determination to determine a state of received test signal in learning mode, a test signal estimation to estimate a characteristic of test signal from determined state of test signal, and a test signal verification to verify whether estimated characteristic of test signal is included in test signal received by test signal reception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: OPTEX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki TANABE, Hironobu TAKAHASHI, Shuji YOSHIKAI
  • Publication number: 20100152826
    Abstract: Two through holes are formed in a first electrode part 10 to penetrate the first electrode part 10 in the extending direction of a substrate 30. The same two through holes are also formed in a second electrode part 20. A first lead 40 is inserted in and connected to one of the through holes of the first electrode part 10. A second lead 50 is inserted in the other through hole of the first electrode part 10 while it is insulated from the first electrode part 10 and engaged with an opening edge of the other through hole. An end of the second lead 50 is inserted in and connected to one of the through holes of the second electrode part 20. An interval between the first electrode part 10 and the second electrode part 20 is determined by the second lead 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: JMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tanabe, Shuro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7150742
    Abstract: A graft grasping device includes a graft grasping member including a soft tubular grasping portion having a substantially C-shaped cross section and a suction tube which communicates with a lumen of the grasping portion and is connected to a side wall of the grasping portion. A recessed portion including at least a communication port which communicates with a lumen of the suction tube and the lumen of the grasping portion is formed on an inner wall of the grasping portion. The recessed portion is covered with a porous sheet and a mesh sheet is interposed between the recessed portion and the porous sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Nipro Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Takamoto, Yoshihiro Suematsu, Hiroaki Tanabe, Hideaki Kataoka, Katsuya Miyagawa, Akifumi Yoneda
  • Publication number: 20040138649
    Abstract: A graft grasping device includes a graft grasping member including a soft tubular grasping portion having a substantially C-shaped cross section and a suction tube which communicates with a lumen of the grasping portion and is connected to a side wall of the grasping portion. A recessed portion including at least a communication port which communicates with a lumen of the suction tube and the lumen of the grasping portion is formed on an inner wall of the grasping portion. The recessed portion is covered with a porous sheet and a mesh sheet is interposed between the recessed portion and the porous sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Shinichi Takamoto, Yoshihiro Suematsu, Hiroaki Tanabe, Hideaki Kataoka, Katsuya Miyagawa, Akifumi Yoneda
  • Patent number: D559979
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Nipro Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Suematsu, Hiroaki Tanabe, Hideaki Kataoka, Katsuya Miyagawa, Akifumi Yoneda