Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Tanaka

Hiroyuki 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: 10533732
    Abstract: A headlight (1) for a healthcare worker includes: a base part (10), which has a U-shape, is configured to come into abutment, at a center part of the base part (10), with a back side of a head and neck part of a wearer, and includes a right end part (11) and a left end part (11), each of which is configured to be hung on an upper part of an ear so that the base part (10) is retained on a head; a light source device (20), which extends from both or any one of a vicinity of the end parts (11), includes LEDs as light sources, and is configured to illuminate a region in front of the head; and a controller (30) configured to control an illumination state of the light source device (20). The controller (30) is configured to light the light source device (20) when the base part (10) reaches a predetermined depression angle with a standing state of the wearer serving as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: National University Corporation Shimane University, Do Light Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morihiko Nakamura, Makie Yano, Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200014365
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave (SAW) device includes a piezoelectric substrate, an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode located on an upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a cover covering the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate from above the IDT electrode, at least one first via conductor extending through at least part of the cover from the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate to an upper surface of the cover, at least one second via conductor located, on the piezoelectric substrate, inward from the first via conductor in a plan view, extending through at least part of the cover from the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate to the upper surface of the cover, and having a smaller diameter than the first via conductor, and a conductive layer located on the upper surface of the cover and extending over an upper end of the second via conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Masaki NAMBU, Hiroyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200004400
    Abstract: A touch panel driving device is provided for sequentially performing a scanning of selecting a pair of transmission signal lines from N number of transmission signal lines and a pair of reception signal lines from M number of reception signal lines. The touch panel driving device includes a reception circuit for respectively receiving, from the pair of reception signal lines, reception signals whose waveforms are changed due to a capacitance change caused by a touch operation and for generating a detection value for detecting the touch operation by comparing the received reception signals, and a plurality of noise filters provided in signal paths from the M number of reception signal lines to the reception circuit for performing a filtering operation of the same filtering characteristics on each of the reception signals supplied to the reception circuit from the pair of reception signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi MUGURUMA, Terukazu SUGIMOTO, Katsumi TAKAYAMA, Hiroyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200002613
    Abstract: A compound represented by Formula (1): R1 is hydrogen or an alkyl group that may be substituted; rings A1 to A2 are cyclohexylene or phenylene that may be substituted; a is 0 to 4; Z1 is a single bond or an alkylene group that may be substituted; Sp1 to Sp3 are a single bond or an alkylene that may be substituted; M1 to M4 are H, F, Cl, or an alkyl group that may be substituted; R2 and R3 are hydrogen, a group represented by Formula (1-a), or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms that may be substituted; and at least one of R2 and R3 is a group represented by Formula (1-a); Sp4 is a single bond or an alkylene group that may be substituted; R4 and R5 are hydrogen or an alkyl group; and at least one of R4 and R5 is an alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicants: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro TAKATA, Hiroyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190388974
    Abstract: A process for producing nickel powder capable of obtaining fine nickel powder in wet process and capable of decreasing content of impurities by medicament used in crystallization of nickel powder. A process for producing nickel powder, including a crystallization step for obtaining nickel crystal powder by reduction reaction in reaction solution in which water-soluble nickel salt, alkali hydroxide and the sulfur-containing compound is a compound having any of sulfur-containing functional group structure represented by —SH, sulfur-containing functional group structure represented by —S—S—, sulfur-containing functional group structure, and a ratio of substance quantity of the sulfur-containing compound and nickel in the reaction solution, a multiplication factor of the sulfur-containing functional group of the sulfur-containing compound, and a ratio of substance quantity of the metal salt of metal more noble than nickel and nickel is in a range of 0.1?A*B?0.75C+30 (0?C?100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junji ISHII, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Masaya YUKINOBU
  • Publication number: 20190390115
    Abstract: To provide a polar compound having high chemical stability, a high ability to align liquid crystal molecules, and high solubility in a liquid crystal composition, and a high voltage holding ratio of a liquid crystal display element. A compound represented by Formula (1): R1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group that may be substituted; a is 2 to 12; and R2 is Formula (1-a), Formula (1-b), and Formula (1-c); Sp1 to Sp3 are a single bond or an alkylene group that may be substituted; M1 and M2 are H, F, Cl, or an alkyl group that may be substituted; and X1 is —OH, —NH2, —OR3, —N(R3)2, —COOH, —SH or —Si(R3)3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicants: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190384214
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided that is capable of facilitating visual recognition, from a front surface side and a lateral side of an apparatus body, of a sheet discharged on a discharge portion. In an image forming apparatus described herein, on a discharge portion is provided that protrudes upward beyond an upper surface of the discharge portion and lifts a corner portion of a sheet. The lifting piece has a loading surface that is inclined upward toward a downstream side in a discharge direction and the front surface side and on which the sheet is loaded, and a rear surface that is disposed on an opposite side to the loading surface, and the rear surface is formed in a dark color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TANAKA, Motoyuki FUKUDA, Takashi NAMII
  • Publication number: 20190362803
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of sharing error correction memory on an interface chip are described. An example apparatus includes: at least one memory chip having a plurality of first memory cells and an interface chip coupled to the at least one memory chip and having a control circuit and a storage area. The control circuit detects one or more defective memory cells of the first memory cells of the at least one memory chip. The control circuit further stores first defective address information of the one or more defective memory cells of the first memory cells into the storage area. The interface chip responds to the first defective address information and an access request to access the storage area in place of the at least one memory chip when the access request has been provided with respect to the one or more defective memory cells of the first memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Shibata, Chikara Kondo, Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190352523
    Abstract: A water-based ink for ink-jet recording includes: a first resin-dispersed pigment, a second resin-dispersed pigment, and water, wherein the following conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied, Q1?1.2 ??Condition (1): Q2<1.2 ??Condition (2): in the conditions (1) and (2), Q1 and Q2 are represented by the following formulae (i) and (ii), respectively. Q1=D1a/D1p ??(i) Q2=D2a/D2p ??(ii) D1a: an average particle size (nm) of the first resin-dispersed pigment after being mixed with an aqueous solution of calcium ions; D1p: an average particle size (nm) of the first resin-dispersed pigment after being mixed with pure water; D2a: an average particle size (nm) of the second resin-dispersed pigment after being mixed with an aqueous solution of calcium ions; D2p: an average particle size (nm) of the second resin-dispersed pigment after being mixed with pure water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Takefumi Kawakami, Akihiko Taniguchi, Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190336956
    Abstract: Provided is a catalyst that can exhibit high activity. The catalyst is an electrode catalyst having catalytic metals supported on a catalyst support, in which the catalytic metals include platinum and a metal component other than platinum; the electrode catalyst has mesopores having a mode radius of pore distribution of mesopores having a radius of 1 nm or more, of 1 nm or more and less than 2.5 nm; alloy microparticles of platinum and the metal component other than platinum are supported inside the mesopores; and a molar content ratio of platinum with respect to the metal component other than platinum in the alloy microparticles supported inside the mesopores is 1.0 to 10.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicants: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO K.K., NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori SUZUE, Kazuki ARIHARA, Tetsuya MASHIO, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Katsuichiro HAYAKAWA, Koichi MATSUTANI, Hitoshi NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10459092
    Abstract: A muographic observation instrument is constructed with a ground unit in which six gaseous detectors are attached to six detector sockets arranged to be parallel to a flat surface with a certain distance between them, and a pair out of ten radiation shields is placed between each detector socket mounted the shield sockets. Since the gaseous detectors have smaller spatial resolution compared to a usual scintillator detector, the thickness of lead plates used for eliminating the noise caused by electromagnetic shower from the horizontal direction can be made ? smaller, and therefore the weight of the whole device is decreased substantially. Furthermore, since only the gaseous detectors and radiation shields have to be mounted to the sockets of the ground unit, the installation of the device is simple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Wagner Research Center for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Science
    Inventors: Dezso Varga, Laszlo Olah, Gergo Hamar, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Tarou Kusagaya
  • Publication number: 20190305459
    Abstract: A first terminal housing chamber of a terminal body includes a first elastic contact part that contacts the first counterpart terminal while imparting resilient force in a direction orthogonal to an insertion direction of the first counterpart terminal, and gaps with respect to the first counterpart terminal in a direction orthogonal to the insertion direction of the first counterpart terminal and the resilient force imparting direction of the first elastic contact part. A second terminal housing chamber of the terminal body includes a second elastic contact part that contacts the second counterpart terminal while imparting resilient force in a direction orthogonal to an insertion direction of the second counterpart terminal, and gaps with respect to the second counterpart terminal in a direction orthogonal to the insertion direction of the second counterpart terminal and the resilient force imparting direction of the second elastic contact part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Shigeo Mori, Fuminori Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190305650
    Abstract: A motor includes a motor case including a bottomed tubular first case portion and a bottomed tubular second case portion axially opposed to the first case portion, a stator sandwiched between the first and second case portions, and a rotor including a shaft radially opposed to the stator and extending along a central axis. A bearing provided in each of the first and second case portions and rotatably supporting the shaft about the central axis, a circuit board between the bearing provided either one of the first and second case portions and the stator, and electrically connected to a coil of the stator, and an impeller provided on the shaft inside the motor case and including blades in a circumferential direction around the central axis are included. The circuit board includes a shaft opening through which the shaft extends and a notch portion serially extending radially outward from the shaft opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190306444
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging control apparatus and method, and a vehicle, capable of efficiently analyzing an image. Among a short accumulation signal and a long accumulation signal of a photographed image, the short accumulation signal of a preceding frame is set to correspond to the short accumulation signal of a succeeding frame. The signal of the succeeding frame is processed by using the short accumulation signal of the preceding frame. The present technology is applicable to control imaging in an apparatus that supports driving of a vehicle by performing various processing, in each of frames of an N-frame sequence, for example, of recognizing various target objects necessary in supporting the driving of the vehicle, such as an obstacle, a guidance object, and other target objects, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: DAISUKE KAWAMATA, HIROYUKI TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190305656
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor and a stator, a substrate electrically connected to the stator, a sheet-metal cover accommodating the stator and the substrate, and a wiring electrically connected to the substrate. The cover includes a through-hole open to a wall of the cover and communicating an outside and an inside of the cover. The wiring includes cables extending from the inside to the outside of the cover through the through-hole, and a bush with a tubular shape into which the cables are inserted, the bush being attached to the through-hole and elastically deformable. The cover includes a first cup body accommodating the stator and a second cup body accommodating the substrate. The bush is located radially between the second cup body and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Toru KOBAYASHI, Hiroyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190300734
    Abstract: There is provided a water-based ink for ink-jet recording including: a self-dispersible black pigment; a resin-dispersed chromatic pigment including a resin-dispersed magenta pigment and a resin-dispersed cyan pigment; and water. A ratio (Col/Bk) of a solid content mass (Col) of the resin-dispersed chromatic pigment to a solid content mass (Bk) of the self-dispersible black pigment is in a range of 0.24 to 0.73 and a mean particle diameter of the self-dispersible black pigment is greater than a mean particle diameter of the resin-dispersed chromatic pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiko Taniguchi, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takefumi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 10412309
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image capture device, a method of image capture, a signal processing device, a method of signal processing, and a program capable of capturing reliably a blinking image capture target. A predetermined image capture timing of an image capture unit is controlled so that image capture is performed N times during an exposure time in which at least a part of a turn-on period in which an image capture target is on overlaps with an exposure time of image capture of at least one time at a timing of dividing a blinking cycle in which the image capture target to be captured by the image capture unit configured to perform image capture at the image capture timing blinks into N equal parts where N represents more than one. The present technology is applicable to, in one example, a camera unit or the like used to capture an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Koizumi, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Jun Ono, Daisuke Kawamata, Masakatsu Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20190273269
    Abstract: A frame equipped membrane electrode assembly includes a membrane electrode assembly and a frame member. The frame member includes a first frame shaped sheet and a second frame shaped sheet. An inner peripheral portion of the first frame shaped sheet is joined to an outer peripheral portion of the membrane electrode assembly. The inner peripheral portion of the first frame shaped sheet is positioned between an outer peripheral portion of an anode and an outer peripheral portion of a cathode. An inner end of the second frame shaped sheet is positioned outside an outer end of the anode over the entire periphery. The outer end of the cathode is positioned outside the inner end of the second frame shaped sheet over the entire periphery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Yutaka EBATO, Kentaro ISHIDA, Kenji SASAKI, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Takaaki SHIKANO
  • Patent number: D859409
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Fujitsu Frontech Limited
    Inventors: Akinori Tsujikawa, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takumi Kaiya
  • Patent number: D859410
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Fujitsu Frontech Limited
    Inventors: Akinori Tsujikawa, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takumi Kaiya