Patents by Inventor Katsunori Tanaka
Katsunori 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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Publication number: 20220118966Abstract: A drive system of an electric vehicle includes: an internal combustion engine; a generating motor provided so as to be able to generate electricity by receiving motive force from the internal combustion engine; and a travel motor provided so as to be able to be driven by electric power generated by the generating motor, and the drive system is configured so as to be able to switch a series hybrid mode and an engine direct connected mode, the series hybrid mode being a mode in which, while the internal combustion engine and the drive wheel are linked via a first clutch so as to be unlinkable/linkable, the travel motor and the drive wheel are linked via a second clutch different from the first clutch so as to be unlinkable/linkable, and the travel motor is used as a drive power source such that the electric vehicle travels by transmitting motive force from the travel motor to the drive wheel, the engine direct connected mode being a mode in which at least one of the internal combustion engine and the generatorType: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Kagaya, Masato Koga, Yuuki Nakajima, Katsunori Tanaka, Tetsuya Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20220121096Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a light source apparatus, a first reflective optical element that reflects the light outputted by the light source apparatus, a second reflective optical element that reflects the light reflected off the first reflective optical element, and a projection optical apparatus that enters the light from the second reflective optical element. The projection optical apparatus has an entrance optical path, a deflection member that deflects the direction of the light traveling along the entrance optical path, and a passage optical path along which the light that exits out of the deflection member travels. The extension of the light exiting optical axis of the light source apparatus does not coincide with the extension of the optical axis of the entrance optical path and intersects with the extension containing the optical axis of the passage optical path.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Nobuyuki OTSUKI, Makoto ZAKOJI, Katsunori TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220121099Abstract: An image generation apparatus includes a first reflective optical element that reflects at least part of the light outputted from a light source apparatus and a second reflective optical element disposed in the optical path of the light reflected off the first reflective optical element. A projection. optical apparatus has an entrance optical path located in the light exiting optical axis of the image generation apparatus, a deflection member that deflects light having traveled along the entrance optical path, and a passage optical path along which the light deflected by the deflection member travels. The light exiting optical axis of the light source apparatus is parallel to the light incident optical axis of the projection optical apparatus, and the extension of the light exiting optical axis of the light source apparatus intersects with the passage optical path.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Nobuyuki OTSUKI, Makoto ZAKOJI, Katsunori TANAKA
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Patent number: 11304350Abstract: In a component mounter provided with a holding tool configured to hold leaded component, a moving device configured to move the holding tool, and an imaging device configured to image a leaded component held by the holding tool, the lengths of the pair of leads of leaded component are different. With respect to this, operation of the moving devices is controlled based on imaging data of the leaded component captured by the imaging device, and the tip section of long lead of the pair of leads of the leaded component held by the holding tool is inserted in a through-hole. Next, leaded component is moved such that short lead is positioned above a through-hole, and the short lead is inserted into the through-hole. That is, the pair of leads are inserted into the through-holes in order of proximity of the tips to circuit board, closer leads being inserted earlier.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Katsunori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20220048494Abstract: A power transmission device of the present invention is a power transmission device for a vehicle, including: a generator configured to be driven by power of an internal combustion engine; a travel motor configured to be driven by electric power generated by the generator and to drive a drive wheels; and the drive wheels configured to be driven by the power of the internal combustion engine or power of the travel motor. The power transmission device includes: a first power transmission path configured to transmit power between the travel motor and the drive wheels; and a first clutch mechanism configured to allow or interrupt power transmission through the first power transmission path.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2018Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka MIURA, Masato KOGA, Takayuki KAGAYA, Yuuki NAKAJIMA, Katsunori TANAKA
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Publication number: 20210332032Abstract: A compound represented by formula (I). In formula (I), each L independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group, n indicates the number of L groups, and is either 1 or 2, each Q independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted 3,6-di-t-butyl-9H-carbazol-9-yl group, a substituted or unsubstituted 3,6-diphenyl-9H-carbazol-9-yl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted 3-phenyl-6-t-butyl-9H-carbazol-9-yl group, and in indicates the number of Q groups, and has a value of 5?n.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicants: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, NIPPON SODA CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuma YASUDA, In Seob PARK, Katsunori TANAKA, Yasuhiro MIYASHITA, Yasuhiko ASHIKARI
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Patent number: 11064639Abstract: In a component mounter including a component holding tool configured to hold lead of a lead component, a position of mark given to the component holding tool and a position of a distal end of the lead are calculated based on captured image data, and when a distance between the position of the mark and the position of the distal end of the lead is smaller than a threshold, mounting work is performed, whereas when the distance is equal to or greater than the threshold, the mounting work is not performed. As a result, for example, mounting work on a lead component having a lead which is greatly bent can be avoided, thereby ensuring proper mounting work.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Katsunori Tanaka
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Patent number: 11056068Abstract: The display device is provided with a precharge power source that supplies only precharge voltages (precharge voltages corresponding to the maximum gradation value for each of the positive polarity and the negative polarity) corresponding to one gradation value. The source driver includes a data voltage generation circuit configured to generate data voltage depending on input data and an output circuit configured to apply the data voltage to each source bus line after applying precharge voltage. The output circuit changes the length of the precharging period during which the precharge voltage is applied to each source bus line, depending on input data.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya Toyota, Katsunori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20210179853Abstract: Provided are, for example, (i) a drug that reacts with acrolein and (ii) a use thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2019Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Katsunori TANAKA, Ambara Rachmat Pradipta XY
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Patent number: 10968977Abstract: A torsional vibration damper whose vibration damping performance will not be reduced in a high speed range. In the torsional vibration damper, a planetary gear is oscillated within a first oscillating range when a torsional torque is smaller than a reference torque, and within a second oscillating range when the torsional torque is greater than the reference torque. Each backlash between the pinion gear and at least one of a sun gear and a ring gear within the second oscillating range is individually wider than each backlash between the pinion gear and the sun gear and each backlash between the pinion gear and the ring gear within the first oscillating range.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD., AISIN AW INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Ishibashi, Hideyuki Nishida, Isamu Hachisuwa, Yoichi Oi, Takuya Yoshikawa, Ryosuke Otsuka, Katsunori Tanaka, Tomoyuki Hiramoto
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Patent number: 10910235Abstract: A control device is provided which, at a time of upper surface treatment for treating an upper surface of a substrate with a treating device, supplies a treating liquid from a treating liquid supply source and operates a first control valve to supply a gas at a first flow rate from a gas nozzle, while operating a rotary drive device to spin the substrate at a first rotational frequency, and at a time of drying treatment, after completion of the upper surface treatment, for drying the substrate by increasing the rotational frequency of the rotary drive device to spin the substrate at a second rotational frequency, operates the first control valve and second control valve to supply the gas at a higher flow rate than the first flow rate from the gas nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Inventors: Kazuki Nakamura, Katsunori Tanaka, Masahiro Nonomura
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Patent number: 10892174Abstract: A substrate cleaning brush for cleaning a wafer includes a brush main body, a brush holding unit, and a main flow path forming body. The brush main body has a liquid permeable structure and includes a lower surface that comes into contact with a substrate. The brush holding unit holds the brush main body while exposing a distal end portion in a vertical direction of the brush main body to the outside. The main flow path forming body includes a main flow path and a plurality of sub flow paths. The main flow path is formed to allow a processing liquid supplied from the outside to pass therethrough. The plurality of sub flow paths branch off from the main flow path, extend outward in a width direction perpendicular to the vertical direction of the brush main body, and are connected to an upper surface of the brush main body.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyasu Hiraoka, Wataru Yano, Takashi Shinohara, Katsunori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20200384181Abstract: An artificial heart and lung apparatus (100) includes a roller pump (120); a blood removal line (101); a first blood transfer line (104); a blood removal rate sensor (111); a control unit (140) that performs the linked control of the roller pump (120) in correspondence with a blood removal rate; and a blood transfer rate adjustment unit (160) that instructs the roller pump (120) to transfer a blood transfer rate. The blood transfer rate adjustment unit (160) includes an operation amount input unit to which an operation amount from an arbitrary circumferential position can be input, and which outputs a pulse signal according to the input operation amount, and a counter that adds and subtracts pulse signals output from the operation amount input unit, and outputs a resultant as blood transfer rate adjustment data, and the counter performs a counting operation with respect to the circumferential position of the operation amount input unit when blood transfer control transitions to the normal control.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Yoshinari NIIMI, Katsunori TANAKA, Masahiro KIHARA, Munehiro KISHI, Taku MARUYA, Masanori YOSHIHARA, Masahiro KAMIYA
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Publication number: 20200355252Abstract: A torsional vibration damper that a torsional vibration damper having a planetary gear unit, and a manufacturing method of the torsional vibration damper for limiting damages on gears of the planetary gear unit due to dimension errors. In the planetary gear unit, at least one of a sun gear, a ring gear, and a set of planetary gears is/are formed by a press forming method. The gear formed by the press forming method is engaged with the remaining gears in such a manner that a thinner portion of each tooth is individually engaged with a thicker portion of the adjacent teeth of the remaining gears.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD., AISIN AW INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki ISHIBASHI, Hideyuki NISHIDA, Yoichi OI, Takuya YOSHIKAWA, Katsunori TANAKA, Tomoyuki HIRAMOTO
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Patent number: 10834861Abstract: A component determination device and a component determination method for an electronic component, the component including a reference section formed as a different member to the multiple electrodes. The component determination device includes: a measuring device configured to measure positions of multiple reference points set on the reference section and a position of a measurement point set on each of the multiple electrodes; a plane calculating section configured to calculate a reference plane representing a position of the upper surface of the circuit board with respect to the component main body when the electronic component is mounted on the circuit board based on the positions of the multiple reference points; and a suitability determining section configured to determine whether the electronic component is suitable based on a distance between the reference plane and the multiple measurement points.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki Ishikawa, Katsunori Tanaka
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Patent number: 10786617Abstract: The preset invention discloses an artificial heart and lung apparatus (100) including a roller pump (120); a blood removal line (101); a first blood transfer line (104); a blood removal rate sensor (111) and a control unit (140) that performs linked control of the roller pump (120) in correspondence with a blood removal rate. The control unit (140) is capable of detecting that the blood removal rate deviates from a blood removal condition set in advance, and out-of-set condition blood removal is performed.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: SENKO MEDICAL INSTRUMENT MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinari Niimi, Katsunori Tanaka, Masahiro Kihara, Munehiro Kishi, Taku Maruya, Masanori Yoshihara, Masahiro Kamiya
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Publication number: 20200278008Abstract: A torsional vibration damper whose vibration damping performance will not be reduced in a high speed range. In the torsional vibration damper, a planetary gear is oscillated within a first oscillating range when a torsional torque is smaller than a reference torque, and within a second oscillating range when the torsional torque is greater than the reference torque. Each backlash between the pinion gear and at least one of a sun gear and a ring gear within the second oscillating range is individually wider than each backlash between the pinion gear and the sun gear and each backlash between the pinion gear and the ring gear within the first oscillating range.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD., AISIN AW INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki ISHIBASHI, Hideyuki NISHIDA, lsamu HACHISUWA, Yoichi OI, Takuya YOSHIKAWA, Ryosuke OTSUKA, Katsunori TANAKA, Tomoyuki HIRAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200275655Abstract: A compound represented by formula (I) or formula (II): wherein, A represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; X1 represents a halogeno group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-6 alkyl group and so on; m represents the number of X1 and is any integer of 0 to 5; any two of X1 may be bound together to form a bivalent hydrocarbon group; Y represents a single bond or a substituted or unsubstituted C2-6 alkenylene group; Q1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted C6-10 arylene group or a substituted or unsubstituted 6- to 10-membered heteroarylene group; Q2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted C6-10 aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted 5- to 6-membered heteroaryl group; Zq? represents a counter ion; and q represents a valence of the counter ion and is 1 or 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2018Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takao IWASA, Katsunori TANAKA, Atsuko NABETA, Riho TAGUCHI, Kotaro SHIBAYAMA, Hiroto SUZUKI, Rie SAKAMOTO, Miho TAKAHASHI, Tsuyoshi HOYA
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Patent number: 10751463Abstract: An artificial heart and lung apparatus includes a roller pump; a blood removal line; a first blood transfer line; a blood removal rate sensor; a control unit that performs the linked control of the roller pump in correspondence with a blood removal rate; and a blood transfer rate adjustment unit that instructs the roller pump to transfer a blood transfer rate. The blood transfer rate adjustment unit includes an operation amount input unit to which an operation amount from an arbitrary circumferential position can be input, and which outputs a pulse signal according to the input operation amount. A counter adds and subtracts pulse signals output from the operation amount input unit, and outputs a resultant as blood transfer rate adjustment data. The counter performs a counting operation with respect to the circumferential position of the operation amount input unit when blood transfer control transitions to the normal control.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: SENKO MEDICAL INSTRUMENT MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinari Niimi, Katsunori Tanaka, Masahiro Kihara, Munehiro Kishi, Taku Maruya, Masanori Yoshihara, Masahiro Kamiya
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Publication number: 20200263762Abstract: A torsional vibration damper that damps torsional vibration effectively in a low-speed range. In the torsional vibration damper, a spring holder is formed by apertures of an input element and an output element, and an elastic member is held in the spring holder. A first moveable range of a planetary element extending from an initial position in a drive direction is wider than a second movable range of the planetary element extending from the initial position in a counter direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD., AISIN AW INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomo IWAGAKI, Hideyuki Nishida, Masayuki Ishibashi, Yoichi Ol, Yu Mizukami, Takuya Yoshikawa, Katsunori Tanaka, Tomoyuki Hiramoto