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).

  • Patent number: 11534588
    Abstract: To provide a means which makes it possible to hold a microneedle array without an adhesive sheet and protect tips of microneedles. A foam support sheet for a microneedle array, which has an open cell surface on at least one side, the open cell surface being an arrangement portion for the microneedle array holding the microneedle array with a microneedle side of the microneedle array facing downward; as well as a microneedle array sheet consisting of a microneedle array and a foam support sheet, the foam support sheet having an open cell surface on at least one side, and the microneedle array being arranged on the open cell surface with a microneedle side of the microneedle array facing downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: COSMED PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying-Shu Quan, Hiroshi Tanaka, Fumio Kamiyama
  • Publication number: 20220406622
    Abstract: A gas heating apparatus includes a heating element having a flat plate shape, a heat-resistant enclosure in which a space having a flat plate shape is provided, the heating element being disposed in the space with a gap provided between the heating element and the heat-resistant enclosure, a gas inlet joint connected to the heat-resistant enclosure to allow gas to flow into the space, a gas outlet joint connected to the heat-resistant enclosure to allow the gas that has passed through the space to flow out, and an induction coil disposed in parallel with the heating element on a lower surface of the heat-resistant enclosure, the induction coil inductively heating the heating element on the basis of electric power supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220401714
    Abstract: A nozzle having at least one hole on an end portion having a plane with a size capable of holding a sheet-like water-soluble preparation. The nozzle also has concave-convex portions on a portion of the plane excluding the hole. An applicator for a sheet-like water-soluble preparation, which is composed of a liquid container and the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Ying-shu Quan, Ying-zhe Li, Kiyotsune Higuchi, Hiroshi Tanaka, Fumio Kamiyama
  • Publication number: 20220406832
    Abstract: The sensitivity of an image sensor is improved. The image sensor includes a plurality of pixels and a light-blocking wall. The plurality of pixels included in the image sensor each includes a photoelectric conversion unit disposed on a semiconductor substrate and photoelectrically converting incident light that is irradiated, and an on-chip lens that focuses the incident light onto the photoelectric conversion unit. The light-blocking wall included in the image sensor is disposed adjacent to the semiconductor substrate at a boundary between the plurality of pixels and configured such that a side of the light-blocking wall that is irradiated with the incident light has a tapered-shape cross-section, the light-blocking wall blocking the incident light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: HIROSHI TANAKA, YUSUKE MORIYA, TAKUSHI SHIGETOSHI
  • Patent number: 11518445
    Abstract: An exhaust system member is provided on a vehicle-width-direction outer side relative to a vehicle body structure on the side of a floor, while avoiding widening of the vehicle and preserving small overlap collision resistance. Embodiments include an engine disposed forward of a partition wall defining a front edge of a vehicle cabin, an exhaust apparatus, a side sill extending along the vehicle front-rear direction on the side of a floor forming a floor surface of the vehicle cabin, and a hinge pillar extending vertically from the side sill. A frame member extends toward the vehicle front side from the hinge pillar and has a front end, on the rear side of a vehicle wheel, overlapping with a vehicle-width-direction length area of the wheel. The exhaust system member is in an area on the vehicle-width-direction outer side of the frame member and on the front side of the hinge pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuneki Shimanaka, Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11506108
    Abstract: In a cooling path of a motor, an oil control valve is provided between a motor cooling oil path and a first motor cooling path, a first heat exchanger is provided in the first motor cooling path, and a second heat exchanger is provided in a second motor cooling path. In a motor-drive mode, a valve control unit switches the oil control valve to the first motor cooling path side when an engine temperature is lower than a first threshold, and switches the oil control valve to the second motor cooling path side when the engine temperature is equal to or higher than the first threshold. In the first heat exchanger, motor cooling oil and engine oil exchange heat. In the second heat exchanger, the motor cooling oil and a coolant for the engine exchange heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Satoshi Ueno, Hiroshi Kinoshita, Kei Yonemori
  • Publication number: 20220367222
    Abstract: In a wafer hand, two carry portions are arranged in line in a first direction, the two carry portions are connected via a joint portion, each of the two carry portions extends from the joint portion in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, an interval between inner side surfaces of the two carry portions is 170 mm or more, an interval between outer side surfaces of the two carry portions is 280 mm or less, and when a distance between inner side surfaces of the two carry portions is A (mm), and a length of the inner side surfaces of the two carry portions in the second direction is L (mm), a relationship of L?(3002?A2)0.5 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki TAKEDA, Hiroshi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220368079
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing, an outer shield including a tubular portion, and a terminal surrounded by the tubular portion of the outer shield. The connector is connected to a mating connector by moving toward the mating connector in a predetermined direction relatively with respect to the mating connector. A first end of the tubular portion of the outer shield is located in the predetermined direction in the tubular portion. The tubular portion of the outer shield has an inner circumferential surface facing a hollow space, an outer circumferential surface opposite to the inner circumferential surface, and a distal end surface provided at the first end. At least one of the distal end surface, the outer circumferential surface, and the inner circumferential surface is seamless over an entire circumference of the tubular portion surrounding the hollow space along a circumferential direction of the tubular portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Ryosuke SHIMOMURA, Yoji MIYAZAKI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Kazumasa IIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220346632
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit, an estimation unit, an acquisition unit, a production unit, and a display control unit. The input unit acquires examination information including an endoscope image. The estimation unit estimates an image pickup site based on the endoscope image. The acquisition unit acquires, from the examination information, image pickup information corresponding to the endoscope image and indicating a state of at least one of an endoscope or a subject when the endoscope image is picked up. The production unit produces a model map and associates the image pickup information with a virtual site based on a result of the estimation by the estimation unit. The display control unit controls a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi TANAKA, Takehito HAYAMI, Akihiro KUBOTA, Yamato KANDA, Makoto KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220353605
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a higher performance and higher quality curved diaphragm speaker system that has sufficient performance for hard-of-hearing people and also for hearing people. [Solution] A speaker unit 10 according to the present invention at least includes: a first diaphragm 1 in a cone shape; a blade piece 5 in a plate shape to which a second diaphragm in a sheet shape forming a rounded surface portion that is curved from one end side to the other end side; and a driver unit 3 that drives those cone shaped diaphragm and blade piece together. The blade piece is connected via a center cap attached to a tip end of a voice coil of the driver unit so as to protrude from a small diameter 1a side to a large diameter 1b side of the first diaphragm. In the first diaphragm, the small diameter side is connected to the driver unit, and also the large diameter side is attached to a cone support frame 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi TANAKA, Masahiro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220344876
    Abstract: A connector includes an outer shield, a terminal surrounded by the outer shield, a housing fixed to the outer shield and holding the terminal; and an inner shield surrounded by the outer shield. The outer shield, the inner shield, and two virtual paths that connect the two tip regions of the inner shield to the outer shield by shortest distances, respectively, constitute plural electrically-closed loops surrounding the terminal. The electrically-closed loops include one or more particular electrically-closed loops. Each of the one or more particular electrically-closed loops does not surround any electrically-closed loop among the plurality of electrically-closed loops other than the each of the one or more particular electrically-closed loops. A longest loop length of the one or more loop lengths of the one or more particular electrically-closed loops is shorter than a wavelength of a maximum frequency of a transmission signal flowing through the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Ryosuke SHIMOMURA, Yoji Miyazaki, Hiroshi Tanaka, Kazumasa Iijima
  • Publication number: 20220328328
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a rotation stage that rotates a wafer, a nozzle that supplies a chemical solution to the wafer and a nozzle movement section that moves the nozzle on a scan trajectory, wherein the nozzle movement section moves the nozzle along a first trajectory and a second trajectory on the scan trajectory, the first trajectory is a trajectory to turn around at a first turnaround point on one side and a second turnaround point on the other side with respect to a portion closest to a rotation axis of the rotation stage in the scan trajectory, and the second trajectory is a trajectory to turn around at a third turnaround point and a fourth turnaround point provided on the same side as the third turnaround point with respect to the portion closest to the rotation axis in the scan trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11465491
    Abstract: A drive unit has engines and a motor that are adjacent to each other in a longitudinal direction. The engines are provided with an engine oil path and a coolant path for cooling. The motor is provided with a motor cooling oil path for cooling. A first heat exchanger, in which engine oil and motor cooling oil exchange heat, and a second heat exchanger, in which a coolant and the motor cooling oil exchange heat, are provided. A second size in vertical and lateral directions of the motor is smaller than a first size in the vertical and lateral directions of each of the engines. The second heat exchanger is attached to an upper portion of a side circumferential portion of the motor, and the first heat exchanger is attached to a lower portion of the side circumferential portion of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Satoshi Ueno, Hiroshi Kinoshita, Kei Yonemori
  • Publication number: 20220315127
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel on which a heel of a pedal operator is placed, and a rear floor panel attached to a front seat. The rear floor panel is positioned lower than the front floor panel. At least part of a seat frame of the front seat is positioned lower than an upper surface of the front floor panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki Kimura, Takehiro Kamei, Hiroshi Tanaka, Haruo Ohe, Masaya Hiramatsu, Masanobu Fukushima, Takao Fukuda, Hironobu Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki Baba
  • Publication number: 20220314771
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel provided on a vehicle front side and a rear floor panel provided at the rear of the front floor panel. The front floor panel is positioned higher than the rear floor panel. A first battery arrangement portion is provided long in a vehicle front-rear direction at a center portion of the front floor panel in the vehicle width direction. A second battery arrangement portion is provided outside the first battery arrangement portion in a vehicle width direction below the front floor panel. An upper portion of the first battery arrangement portion is positioned higher than an upper portion of the second battery arrangement portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Haruo OHE, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroyuki BABA
  • Publication number: 20220314774
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel and a rear floor panel provided at the rear of the front floor panel. The front floor panel is positioned higher than the rear floor panel. A front battery that supplies electric power to the traction motor is arranged below the front floor panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Haruo OHE, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroyuki BABA
  • Publication number: 20220314770
    Abstract: A vehicle structure includes side sills, pillars, a first battery arrangement portion provided inside the vicinity of the pillars in a vehicle width direction below a floor panel, and a second battery arrangement portion provided at a center portion in the vehicle width direction below the floor panel in a region inside an outer portion of the first battery arrangement portion in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Haruo OHE, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroyuki BABA
  • Publication number: 20220315130
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel for placing a heel of a pedal operator, a rear floor panel attached to a rear seat, and a middle floor panel extending from the front floor panel to the rear floor panel. The front floor panel and the rear floor panel are positioned higher than the middle floor panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Haruo OHE, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroyuki BABA
  • Publication number: 20220316721
    Abstract: A humidifying device includes a circulation path through which air circulates, an intake section that is provided in the circulation path and takes the air into the circulation path, a blower section that is provided in the circulation path and generates an air flow in the circulation path, a humidifying section that is provided in the circulation path and humidifies the air in the circulation path, and a discharge section that is provided in the circulation path and discharges the humidified air which is humidified by the humidifying section from an inside of the circulation path, and the circulation path has a pipeline for returning the humidified air that has not been discharged from the discharge section upstream of the blower section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroshi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220315128
    Abstract: The vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel, a rear floor panel positioned lower than the front floor panel, and a connection panel extending from a rear portion of the front floor panel to a front portion of the rear floor panel and inclined or curved so as to be positioned downward toward a rear side. At least the front portion of the connection panel is positioned at the front of the front portion of the front seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki Kimura, Takehiro Kamei, Hiroshi Tanaka, Haruo Ohe, Masaya Hiramatsu, Masanobu Fukushima, Takao Fukuda, Hironobu Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki Baba