Patents by Inventor Kazuki Tanaka
Kazuki 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: 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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Patent number: 11945332Abstract: A vehicle includes: an instrument panel; and an ECU that controls the instrument panel so that the instrument panel displays an icon representing a status of a battery. The icon represents one of a first indication and a second indication by an increase or decrease of a scale in a display region of the icon, and the other one of the first indication and the second indication by an amount indicated by a size of a display area of the icon, the first indication representing SOC of the battery, the second indication representing a full charge capacity of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiki Sugino, Yoshihiro Uchida, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Junta Izumi, Kazuki Kubo
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Publication number: 20240096110Abstract: A data collection apparatus, including: a data reception part that receives sensor data from a vehicle capable of photographing a road surface, the sensor data being acquired by a sensor mounted on the vehicle; and a control part that evaluates a goodness degree of a road surface photographing environment on a basis of the sensor data and control a transmission from the vehicle of a road surface photographed image on a basis of the goodness degree of the road surface photographing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kazuki Ogata, Kosei Kobayashi, Kei Yanagisawa, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Natsumi Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20240092366Abstract: An on-vehicle apparatus includes an abnormal section determination part that determines a road section having a road surface on which an abnormality is probably present, based on an output value of a sensor mounted on a vehicle, an image selection part that selects an image(s) including the determined road section from a plurality of images shot at predetermined time intervals by a camera mounted on the vehicle, and a transmission part that is able to transmit the selected image(s) to a predetermined server.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kazuki Ogata, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Kosei Kobayashi, Kei Yanagisawa, Natsumi Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11932141Abstract: Provided is vehicle seat with a seat cushion and a seat back, the vehicle seat comprising: a pair of cushion side frames; a duct extending from the seat cushion along a rear side of a cushion frame toward the seat back and connecting an air passage and a blower, the air passage being formed in at least one of the seat cushion and the seat back; and a side frame cover configured to cover at least part of the cushion side frame. The side frame cover includes a duct cover portion configured to cover part of the duct at the rear side of the cushion frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichiro Hoshi, Kazuki Kobayashi, Tomohisa Tanaka
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Publication number: 20240087433Abstract: A lighting system includes a plurality of lighting devices and a control device. The plurality of lighting devices are installed in a facility. The control device controls the plurality of lighting devices. The control device controls lighting light projected by at least one lighting device, belonging to the plurality of lighting devices, into colored lighting light, of which a color is different from a color white, to give, upon acquiring information about an event in question, a sign depending on the event in question.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Takanori AKETA, Kenichiro TANAKA, Jin YOSHIZAWA, Shingo NAGATOMO, Kazuki KITAMURA, Tatsuya TAKAHASHI, Tatsuo KOGA, Tomonori YAMADA, Kazuto URA
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Publication number: 20240083258Abstract: A vehicle including: a battery; a voltage control unit that boosts an output voltage of the battery; a main drive unit, including a main drive motor driven by electric power with a boosted voltage, that outputs a main driving force for driving one of a front wheel and a rear wheel; a sub drive unit, including a sub drive motor driven by the electric power with the boosted voltage, that outputs a sub driving force for driving another of the front wheel and the rear wheel; and a control unit, in which the control unit increases the boosted voltage when a temperature of the sub drive unit reaches a predetermined value, compared to before the temperature of the sub drive unit reaches the predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki SATO, Kenzo TANAKA
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Patent number: 11919528Abstract: A first vehicle includes a communication device configured to send and receive V2V information, a memory configured to store the V2V information, and a processor configured to perform abnormal traveling determination processing. A second vehicle includes a communication device configured to send and receive the V2V information, a memory configured to store the V2V information and driving environment information on the second vehicle, and a processor configured to perform objective determination processing. In the objective determination processing, whether the first vehicle is traveling abnormally is objectively determined based on the driving environment information on the second vehicle. The determination result of the objective determination processing is sent to the first vehicle. In the abnormal traveling determination processing, whether the first vehicle is traveling abnormally is determined based on this determination result.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuki Nemoto, Shin Tanaka, Satoshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 11916547Abstract: A semiconductor relay device includes a conversion circuit configured to receive an input signal from outside and pass a first current to a first node based on the input signal. A zener diode has an anode coupled to a second node and a cathode coupled to the first node. A resistor is coupled between the second node and a third node. A number n of diodes are serially coupled. A thyristor has an anode coupled to the first node, a cathode coupled to the second node, and a control terminal coupled to the third node. A transistor has a gate coupled to the first node. An anode of a diode at a first end of the n diodes is coupled to the first node, and a cathode of a diode at a second end of the n diodes is coupled to a third node.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage CorporationInventors: Naoya Takai, Yukihiro Takifuji, Keita Saito, Kazuki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20230371390Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric element layered in a pillar shape, and electrode plates located on side surfaces of the piezoelectric element and electrically connected to internal electrode layers of the piezoelectric element. Each of the electrode plates includes a body portion extending in a layering direction of the piezoelectric element and a lead portion that extends in a direction intersecting the layering direction and is electrically connected to a lead terminal. The lead portion includes, in at least one side portion, a recessed portion recessed in a width direction of the lead portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Kazuki TANAKA
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Patent number: 11731156Abstract: A painting system includes painting unit including a first painting robot and a second painting robot, a cartridge carrier, and a cleaning tank. The painting robots each include a robot arm including a painting machine. The cartridge carrier includes a cartridge grip part. A first region is a region where a movable region of the painting machine of the first painting robot overlaps with a movable region of the cartridge grip part. A second region is a region where the movable region of the painting machine of the second painting robot overlaps with the movable region of the cartridge grip part. The cleaning tank is provided in a position including at least a part of the first region and at least a part of the second region.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji Tani, Akira Numasato, Kazuki Tanaka, Takufumi Kimura
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Patent number: 11642688Abstract: A paint system includes a paint unit having a first paint robot and a second paint robot. The first paint robot includes a first robot base and a first robot arm operably mounted on the first robot base. The second paint robot includes a second robot base and a second robot arm operably mounted on the second robot base. When a virtual plane extending in a vertical direction and along a direction of relative movement between an object to be painted and the paint unit is defined as a reference plane, a distance between the first robot base and the reference plane is set to be shorter than a distance between the second robot base and the reference plane. A passage range allowing passage of the second robot arm is provided under the first robot base.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji Tani, Akira Numasato, Kazuki Tanaka, Takufumi Kimura
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Patent number: 11642689Abstract: A coating apparatus includes a first module and a second module constituting a coating area where a coating target is coated. The first module includes a first frame and a coating robot. The second module includes a second frame. When the first module and the second module are arranged to adjoin each other in a movement path direction in which the coating target relatively moves along the coating area, the first frame of the first module and the second frame of the second module that are arranged to adjoin each other are configured to be coupled together.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji Tani, Akira Numasato, Kazuki Tanaka, Takufumi Kimura
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Publication number: 20230091175Abstract: Disclosed is a method for improving an affinity of an anti-cytokine antibody for an antigen, the method comprising: in an anti-cytokine antibody whose electrical characteristic of a complementarity determining region (CDR) is negatively charged, changing at least 3 amino acid residues of light chain framework region 3 to arginine residues or lysine residues, thereby improving an affinity for an antigen as compared with that of an antibody before the at least 3 amino acid residues are changed to arginine residues or lysine residues, wherein the at least 3 amino acid residues comprise residues at least 3 positions selected from the group consisting of positions 63, 65, 67, 70 and 72 of a light chain defined by Chothia method.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Yuriko EGASHIRA, Shivani Dixit, Kazuki Tanaka, Shingo Maeta
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Patent number: 11609373Abstract: An optical coupling device includes a light receiving element including a first output terminal and a second output terminal, a light emitting element provided on the light receiving element, a first switching element, a first electrode plate, and a sealing member. The first switching element includes a first main terminal connected to the first output terminal, a first control terminal connected to the second output terminal, and a second main terminal. An upper surface of the first electrode plate is connected to the second main terminal. The sealing member covers the light receiving element, the light emitting element, and the first switching element. A lower surface of the first electrode plate is exposed on a lower surface of the sealing member. The lower surface of the first electrode plate and the lower surface of the sealing member form the same plane.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Mami Fujihara, Naoya Takai, Kazuki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20230025587Abstract: A painting target surface of a resin bumper is painted by discharging a paint mist from a spray gun toward the painting target surface with a charged conductor arranged in contact with an opposite side to the painting target surface. The paint mist is uncharged or is charged with electric charges having an opposite polarity to that of the conductor and at a potential having a lower absolute value than that of the conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuki TANAKA, Shinji TANI, Tsuyoshi YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230010598Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric element having a longitudinal direction, a case including a lid portion, a bottom portion, and a tubular portion and housing the piezoelectric element inside, and a strain gauge positioned at the tubular portion. The tubular portion includes a plurality of bent portions in the longitudinal direction, each of the plurality of bent portions bending in response to extension and contraction of the piezoelectric element. The strain gauge is positioned at the bent portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Satoshi TAKEUCHI, Kazuki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220416787Abstract: A semiconductor relay device includes a conversion circuit configured to receive an input signal from outside and pass a first current to a first node based on the input signal. A zener diode has an anode coupled to a second node and a cathode coupled to the first node. A resistor is coupled between the second node and a third node. A number n of diodes are serially coupled. A thyristor has an anode coupled to the first node, a cathode coupled to the second node, and a control terminal coupled to the third node. A transistor has a gate coupled to the first node. An anode of a diode at a first end of the n diodes is coupled to the first node, and a cathode of a diode at a second end of the n diodes is coupled to a third node.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Naoya TAKAI, Yukihiro TAKIFUJI, Keita SAITO, Kazuki TANAKA
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Patent number: 11476850Abstract: A semiconductor relay device includes a conversion circuit configured to receive an input signal from outside and pass a first current to a first node based on the input signal. A zener diode has an anode coupled to a second node and a cathode coupled to the first node. A resistor is coupled between the second node and a third node. A number n of diodes are serially coupled. A thyristor has an anode coupled to the first node, a cathode coupled to the second node, and a control terminal coupled to the third node. A transistor has a gate coupled to the first node. An anode of a diode at a first end of the n diodes is coupled to the first node, and a cathode of a diode at a second end of the n diodes is coupled to a third node.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Naoya Takai, Yukihiro Takifuji, Keita Saito, Kazuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11462525Abstract: An optical coupling device includes a light receiving element provided with a first output terminal and a second output terminal, a light emitting element provided on the light receiving element, a first switching element, a first electrode plate, and a sealing member. The first switching element is provided side by side on the light receiving element. A first main terminal and a control terminal are provided on an upper surface of the first switching element. A second main terminal is provided on a lower surface of the first switching element. The first main terminal is connected to the first output terminal. The control terminal is connected to the second output terminal. An upper surface of the first electrode plate is connected to the second main terminal. The sealing member covers the light receiving element, the light emitting element, and the first switching element.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Mami Fujihara, Naoya Takai, Kazuki Tanaka, Takenori Yasuzumi, Yoshio Noguchi, Tsuyoshi Tokiwa