Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Tanaka
Hiroshi 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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Patent number: 11964495Abstract: Provided is an ink set including: an ink containing a cyan pigment; an ink containing a magenta pigment; and an ink containing a yellow pigment, wherein the proportion of the cyan pigment is 0.70% by mass or greater but 1.40% by mass or less, and wherein the proportion of the magenta pigment and the proportion of the yellow pigment are both higher than the proportion of the cyan pigment.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiromi Sakaguchi, Itsuro Sasaki, Ayaka Tanaka, Naoto Shimura, Shunsuke Horie, Hiroshi Gotou, Yuta Nakamura
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Patent number: 11960224Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless belt, a rotatable pressing member, a pad member inside of the belt, and a sliding member held by the pad member and sliding on an inner circumferential surface of the belt in a nip. The rotatable pressing member nips and feeds a recording material in the nip in cooperation with the belt and fixes a toner image on the recording material by applying heat and pressure. The sliding member includes a base material layer on which a plurality of projections projecting toward the rotatable pressing member are formed on a side sliding with the belt and a sliding layer provided on an outer surface of the plurality of projections. A leading end of the plurality of projections is a plane and an average roughness (Ra) of the plane satisfies 0.13 ?m?Ra?1.67 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akiyoshi Shinagawa, Yasuharu Toratani, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Daigo Matsuura, Hiroki Kawai, Ayano Ogata, Masanobu Tanaka, Asuna Fukamachi, Misa Kawashima
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Patent number: 11952344Abstract: Provided is a heterocyclic compound that can have an antagonistic action on an NMD A receptor containing the NR2B subunit and that is expected to be useful as a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for depression, bipolar disorder, migraine, pain, peripheral symptoms of dementia and the like. A compound represented by the formula (I), wherein each symbol is as defined in the DESCRIPTION, or a salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company LimitedInventors: Yuya Oguro, Makoto Kamata, Shuhei Ikeda, Takeshi Wakabayashi, Norihito Tokunaga, Taku Kamei, Mitsuhiro Ito, Shigemitsu Matsumoto, Hirotaka Kamitani, Takaharu Hirayama, Toshio Tanaka, Hiroshi Banno, Nobuyuki Takakura, Jinichi Yonemori, Takuya Fujimoto
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Patent number: 11954962Abstract: A main unit includes a cassette shelf, at least one transporting cassette holder that temporarily holds a cassette removed from the cassette shelf and to be transported to a drug receiver, at least one returning cassette holder that temporarily holds the cassette received from the drug receiver and to be returned to the cassette shelf, and a main cassette transporter that transports the cassette between the cassette shelf and the at least one transporting cassette holder, and between the cassette shelf and the at least one returning cassette holder.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Akifumi Tanaka, Hidenori Tsuji, Satoshi Gotou, Hiroshi Ieda
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Patent number: 11954509Abstract: In a case where an active system virtual server detects stopping of a heartbeat received from a standby system virtual server, the active system virtual server notifies a coordination apparatus of the detection of the stopping of a heartbeat. In addition, the active system virtual server reports whether or not a service is operating to the coordination apparatus. The coordination apparatus instructs the standby system virtual server to restart the system in a case where the stopping of a heartbeat and the operation of a service are received. The standby system virtual server restarts the service, restarts an operating system, or restarts the operating system in a case where the restart of the service is not successful, in response to an instruction for restarting the system.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Nobuo Onai, Naoyuki Tanji, Naoki Take, Kensuke Takahashi, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Hiroshi Kato, Hiroyuki Yazaki
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Patent number: 11952423Abstract: A novel antibody that can be used as an anti-tumor agent and an anti-tumor agent that comprises, as an active ingredient, a molecule containing such an antibody.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: MIE UNIVERSITY, DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hiroshi Shiku, Yasushi Akahori, Kento Tanaka, Ayaka Yatsu, Junya Ichikawa, Toshiaki Ohtsuka, Shiho Kozuma, Ryuji Hashimoto, Makiko Nakayama, Naoya Shinozaki, Kensuke Nakamura, Ichiro Watanabe, Shinji Furuzono
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Patent number: 11949111Abstract: In a lithium ion secondary battery (1), a positive electrode (2) and a negative electrode (3) are alternately adjacent to each other via separators (4) and (5). The positive electrode (2) includes a positive electrode current collector composed of a metal porous body, a first positive electrode active material (21) held on one side of the positive electrode current collector, and a second positive electrode active material (22) held on the other side. The negative electrode (3) includes a negative electrode current collector composed of a metal porous body, a first negative electrode active material (31) held on one side of the negative electrode current collector, and a second negative electrode active material (32) held on the other side. The first positive electrode active material (21) faces the first negative electrode active material (31), and the positive electrode active material (22) faces the second negative electrode active material (32).Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kiyoshi Tanaami, Akihisa Tanaka, Shintaro Aoyagi, Kazuki Okuno, Akihisa Hosoe, Kikuo Senoo, Hiroshi Takebayashi
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Publication number: 20240100305Abstract: A guide wire is provided with a core shaft, a coil portion, a sound source, and wiring. The coil portion is coupled to a distal end portion of the core shaft and is helically wound around a periphery of the core shaft to the rearward. The coil portion includes an open portion in which an interval of element wires constituting the coil portion itself is larger than that in another portion. The sound source is provided in an inner side of the open portion. The wiring extends along an extending direction of the core shaft, and a distal end of the wiring is positioned at an inner side of the coil portion. The wiring supplies energy to the sound source.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Hirozumi Takeshima, Tomohiko Tanaka, Hiroshi Kuribara, Hironori Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20240103415Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an image forming unit to form a toner image on a first sheet and a fixing unit configured to heat the first sheet to fix the image to the first sheet. A control unit begins a cooling process for cooling the fixing unit when an overheating condition is met, then permits the image forming unit to form a toner image on a second sheet after the cooling process ends according to a first cooling condition if a person is detected near the image forming apparatus or after the cooling process ends according to a second cooling condition if a person not detected near the image forming apparatus. The cooling process under the first cooling condition ends in less time than under the second cooling condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Masaya TANAKA, Hiroshi OTA
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Patent number: 11940430Abstract: The suppressor system is provided with: a suppressor which has an eluent flow path and a suppression solution flow path, the eluent flow path and the suppression solution flow path being separated from each other by an ion exchange membrane; a circulation flow path which connects the inlet and the outlet of the suppression solution flow path of the suppressor, and circulates a suppression solution; an ion exchange resin column which is provided on the circulation flow path, and is equipped with a resin accommodation unit through which the suppression solution flowing out of the suppressor is passed, an acidic or alkaline ion exchange resin being accommodated in the resin accommodation unit; and a life detector which determines the life of the ion exchange resin in the ion exchange resin column.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Yukio Oikawa, Hiroshi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20240096531Abstract: There is provided a non-oriented electrical steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition, in which an area fraction of a crystal structure A composed of crystal grains having a grain size of 100 ?m or more is 1% to 30% in a cross section parallel to a rolled plane of the non-oriented electrical steel sheet, an average grain size of a crystal structure B which is a crystal structure other than the crystal structure A is 40 ?m or less, and a Vickers hardness HvA of the crystal structure A and a Vickers hardness HvB of the crystal structure B satisfy Equation 1 ((HvA2+HvB2)/2?(HvA+HvB)2/4?7.0).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro TANAKA, Takeaki WAKISAKA, Tesshu MURAKAWA, Yoshiaki NATORI, Hiroshi FUJIMURA
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Publication number: 20240097366Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to reduce noise caused by a return current. Connector assembly includes first connector and second connector to which first connector is fitted from above. First connector includes first shield and first specific terminal. Second connector includes second specific terminal. First shield has first opposed portion facing first specific terminal on second axis in the fitted state. The first specific terminal includes first terminal proximity portion in which a distance to first opposed portion on second axis is smaller than a distance between the second specific terminal and the first opposed portion on second axis in the fitted state. A projected area obtained by projecting the first wide face onto virtual plane orthogonal to second axis is greater than a projected area obtained by projecting the first narrow face onto the virtual plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: RYOSUKE SHIMOMURA, HIROSHI TANAKA, KAZUMASA IIJIMA
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Publication number: 20240096966Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode located between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first semiconductor layer connected to the first electrode, a second semiconductor layer connected to the second electrode, a third semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, and a fourth semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type. The third electrode includes first and second portions. The first semiconductor layer faces the first portion via an insulating layer. The first and second semiconductor layers are of a first conductivity type and include silicon and carbon. A carrier concentration of the fourth semiconductor layer is greater than a carrier concentration of the third semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Katsuhisa TANAKA, Hiroshi KONO
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Publication number: 20240097382Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to improve a shielding property against the electromagnetic waves. Connector assembly includes first connector and second connector to which first connector is fitted from above. First connector includes first shield. Second connector includes second shield that comes into contact with first shield in a fitted state in which first connector and second connector are fitted. First shield includes first curved portion connected to a lower end of first side wall extending along the vertical axis and curved in a direction along the horizontal axis, and protrusion protruding along the horizontal axis. Second shield has second side wall extending in the vertical axis. In the fitted state, the lower end of second side wall is positioned above protrusion, and second side wall is in contact with first side wall above protrusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: RYOSUKE SHIMOMURA, YOJI MIYAZAKI, HIROSHI TANAKA, KAZUMASA IIJIMA
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Publication number: 20240098889Abstract: A printed circuit board includes: an insulating base film; and a plurality of wiring portions foamed on a surface of the base film. The wiring portions include a seed layer directly or indirectly layered on the surface of the base film and a metal layer layered on the seed layer. The base film has a wiring area including the plurality of wiring portions and a non-wiring area not including the wiring portions. The plurality of wiring portions include at least one outermost boundary wiring portion and a plurality of inner wiring portions. The outermost boundary wiring portion is formed on an outermost-side of the base film in the wiring area and at a boundary between the wiring area and the non-wiring area. An average thickness of the outermost boundary wiring portion is 40?m or more. An average width of the outermost boundary wiring portion is 30 ?m or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Hiroshi UEDA, Ippei TANAKA, Takashi KASUGA, Masamichi YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 11934022Abstract: A photoelectric fiber includes a fiber including a core through which light is guided; an electrical unit formed continuously with the fiber, the electrical unit being configured to house a photoelectric conversion chip including a photoelectric conversion element; and an external electrode formed on a front surface of at least one of the fiber or the electrical unit, wherein the photoelectric conversion chip is optically connected to the core and electrically connected to the external electrode.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Norio Sato, Atsushi Aratake, Makoto Abe, Takuya Tanaka, Kota Shikama, Takao Fukumitsu, Hiroshi Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20240087312Abstract: An information processing device includes a first authentication controlling unit that causes an authentication device to execute first facial 5 authentication or facial registration of a first photographed image capturing a user at a first store, a presenting unit that presents recommendation information related to a second store to the user in response to a success of the first facial authentication or in response to the facial registration, a second authentication controlling unit that causes the authentication device to execute second facial 10 authentication of a second photographed image capturing the user at the second store, and a bonus applying unit that causes a bonus to be applied to a settlement process of the user at the second store based on a history of the first facial authentication or the facial registration, if the user has been authenticated successfully in the second facial authentication.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Takanori Tanaka, Hiroshi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240087313Abstract: An information processing device includes a first authentication controlling unit that causes an authentication device to execute first facial authentication or facial registration of a first photographed image capturing a user at a first store, a presenting unit that presents recommendation information related to a second store to the user in response to a success of the first facial authentication or in response to the facial registration, a second authentication controlling unit that causes the authentication device to execute second facial authentication of a second photographed image capturing the user at the second store, and a bonus applying unit that causes a bonus to be applied to a settlement process of the user at the second store based on a history of the first facial authentication or the facial registration, if the user has been authenticated successfully in the second facial authentication.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Takanori TANAKA, Hiroshi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240089864Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device capable of improving a system throughput. Provided is a communication device including a control unit that transmits a second signal including a transmission request for a first signal for measuring reception power or propagation loss to another communication device, receives the first signal transmitted from the other communication device, measures the reception power or the propagation loss on the basis of the received first signal, and controls transmission power on the basis of the measured reception power or propagation loss. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a wireless LAN system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yusuke TANAKA, Hiroshi SHIGENO, Takanobu OHNUMA, Koki IWAI, Riku INADA
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Patent number: 11929689Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a dead time application unit which applies a dead time to only one of a pair of pulse signals; a current polarity detection unit which detects a polarity of an output current; and a gate signal selection unit which, if the polarity of the output current is positive, selects the one pulse signal, to which the dead time has been applied, as a gate signal for a positive arm and selects the other pulse signal as a gate signal for a negative arm, and, if the polarity of the output current is negative, selects the one pulse signal, to which the dead time has been applied, as the gate signal for the negative arm and selects the other pulse signal as the gate signal for the positive arm.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoji Tsuruta, Hiroshi Masunaga, Tomohiro Tanaka