Patents by Inventor Kazumasa Tanaka

Kazumasa 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).

  • Publication number: 20220052383
    Abstract: An all-solid-state secondary battery includes a laminated body in which a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer are laminated via a solid electrolyte layer, a first external terminal, and a second external terminal, the laminated body has a first side surface parallel to a laminating direction and a second side surface parallel to the laminating direction and perpendicular to the first side surface, the first external terminal and the second external terminal are connected to the first side surface, and the laminated body has a warp in the laminating direction satisfying Equations (1) and (2): 0.5°?((A1+A2)/2)?5°??(1) A1?8.0°??(2) here, A1 is a warp angle of the laminated body when seen from a side of the first side surface, and A2 is a warp angle of the laminated body when seen from a side of the second side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazumasa TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220029169
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery including a laminated body in which a positive electrode having a positive electrode current collector layer and a positive electrode active material layer and a negative electrode having a negative electrode current collector layer and a negative electrode active material layer, are laminated with a solid electrolyte layer therebetween; a pair of a positive external electrode and a negative external electrode provided on one of pairs of side surfaces of the laminated body facing each other; wherein the positive electrode current collector layer is bonded to the positive external electrode and the negative electrode current collector layer is bonded to the negative external electrode; the thickness of a portion of at least one of the positive electrode current collector layer and the negative electrode current collector layer which is bonded to the positive external electrode or the negative external electrode is thicker than the other portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazumasa TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220021022
    Abstract: An all-solid-state lithium secondary battery includes a laminated body which has a positive electrode layer including a positive electrode current collector layer and a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode layer including a negative electrode current collector layer and a negative electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer containing a solid electrolyte, and a margin layer that is disposed side by side with each of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer and contains a solid electrolyte, in which the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer are alternately laminated with the solid electrolyte layer containing the solid electrolyte interposed therebetween, and the laminated body includes metal particles having an oxide film in the positive electrode active material layer, the negative electrode active material layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the margin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa TANAKA, Tomohiro YANO
  • Publication number: 20220017721
    Abstract: Provided are: a stabilizer composition that can not only impart excellent thermal stability, coloration resistance, thermal coloration resistance, and the like to a vinyl chloride resin, but also impart excellent transparency to a vinyl chloride resin when used in an application where transparency is required; a vinyl chloride resin composition containing the same; and a molded body thereof. The stabilizer composition contains 5 to 2,500 parts by mass of a component (B) with respect to 100 parts by mass of a component (A). The component (A) is at least one organic acid zinc salt, and the component (B) is at least one epoxy compound having a glycidyl ether group and/or a glycidyl ester group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota UNO, Yohei HARADA, Yuto ISHIZUKA, Kazumasa TANAKA, Hiroshi NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200362145
    Abstract: Provided are: a stabilizer composition capable of imparting a vinyl chloride resin with excellent thermal stability, coloration resistance, and thermal coloration resistance; a vinyl chloride resin composition containing the same and a molded article of the composition. The stabilizer composition contains, with respect to 100 parts by mass of a component (A): 5 to 700 parts by mass of a component (B) and 5 to 200 parts by mass of a component (C). The component (A) is at least one organic acid zinc salt, the component (B) is at least one selected from the group consisting of organic acid barium salts, overbased barium carbonates, organic acid calcium salts and overbased calcium carbonates, and the component (C) is at least one hindered amine-based light stabilizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryusuke MITAMURA, Hiroshi NISHIMURA, Kazumasa TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200174384
    Abstract: Provided is a lithography apparatus capable of detecting the abnormal holding of an original in a shorter period of time. The lithography apparatus is configured to form a pattern on a substrate through use of the original, and includes: a holding unit configured to hold the original on which a first mark is formed; a measuring unit configured to pick up an image of the first mark; and a control unit configured to: cause the measuring unit to obtain the image of the first mark on the original held by the holding unit with a focus position of the measuring unit being adjusted to a reference position; and determine that the original is being abnormally held by the holding unit when a change in a first contrast, which is a contrast of the image of the first mark with respect to a reference contrast, falls out of an allowable range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Koshiro Arahara, Kazumasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10600447
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a plurality of feature amount extraction parts which extract, from content, a plurality of feature amounts that contain information concerning a camera motion in a frame of the content. A display control part displays frames of the content and a GUI on the displayed content frame. The GUI corresponds to an operation concerning the camera motion on the basis of the extracted camera motion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka, Yukihiro Nakamura, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kentaro Fukazawa, Kyosuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10193157
    Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, which has high energy density and which can suppress a crease (form change) of a negative electrode active material layer and a negative electrode current collector caused by the expansion and contraction occurring along with the quick charging and discharging and also suppress the falloff of the negative electrode active material layer after the quick charging and discharging cycle, and a lithium ion secondary battery using the negative electrode. The negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery and the lithium ion secondary battery include: a negative electrode active material including 5% or more of silicon or silicon oxide; a binder that is polyacrylate whose carboxylic groups at terminals of side chains of polyacrylic acid are cross-linked with magnesium or alkaline earth metal; and a negative electrode current collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Hosaka, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Kazumasa Tanaka, Atsushi Sano
  • Patent number: 10114492
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a pressure sensor configured to be capable of detecting a pressure position which is a position of a pressure portion subjected to a pressure manipulation by a user and a pressure force which is a pressure at a time of the pressure manipulation, and to have a cylindrical shape, and a position specifying unit configured to specify a position in a three-dimensional space according to the pressure position and the pressure force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Takagi, Seiko Maehara, Naoyuki Hirota, Hitoshi Mukai, Kazumasa Tanaka, Kunio Kawaguchi, Hiroyuki Morisaki, Ichiro Ogata
  • Publication number: 20180030243
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vinyl chloride-based resin composition having excellent weather resistance, coloration resistance, and thermal stability as well as excellent transparency, and a molded article using this vinyl chloride-based resin composition. Specifically, the vinyl chloride-based resin composition contains a vinyl chloride-based resin in an amount of 100 parts by mass, an organic acid zinc salt as a component (A) in an amount of 0.01 to 10.0 parts by mass, a ?-diketone compound as a component (B) in an amount of 0.01 to 10.0 parts by mass, and one or more triazine-based compounds as a component (C) represented by Formula (1) in an amount of 0.01 to 20.0 parts by mass. (In Formula (1), R1 to R3 represent a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms or the like, and R4 to R6 represent an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Ryusuke MITAMURA, Yuto ISHIZUKA, Masaru NAGAHAMA, Kazumasa TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9881215
    Abstract: Apparatus for identifying one or more still images in one or more moving image contents. An identifying unit is configured to identify one or more still images included in the moving image contents having one or more features that closely resemble particular features. A display controller is configured to cause the display on a timeline associated with the moving image contents of the location of an identified still image in at least one of the moving image contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka, Yoshihiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170283594
    Abstract: The present invention is a stabilizer composition for vinyl chloride resins comprising: (A) an organic acid calcium salt and/or an organic acid zinc salt, (B) a ?-diketone compound and (C) a blue pigment, wherein the ratio by mass (A):(B) of said components (A) and (B) ranges from 99.9:0.1 to 15.0:85.0 and the content of said component (C) ranges from 0.1 to 5.0 parts by mass relative to the total of 100 parts by mass of said components (A) and (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryusuke MITAMURA, Taro MITSUDERA, Kazumasa TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9699501
    Abstract: An information processing device that includes circuitry that selects content including at least one name specified by a user; selects a plurality of contents in which the name possibly occurs; acquires a plurality of face groups by grouping, per person, face images occurring in the plurality of contents selected by the circuitry; calculates a number of similar face groups appearing in other content for each of the plurality of face groups; acquires, as a candidate face group, a face group having a greatest number of similar face groups appearing in other content; and determines a face group to associate with the name from face groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Fukazawa, Kenji Tanaka, Kyosuke Yoshida, Kazumasa Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170140226
    Abstract: Apparatus for identifying one or more still images in one or more moving image contents. An identifying unit is configured to identify one or more still images included in the moving image contents having one or more features that closely resemble particular features. A display controller is configured to cause the display on a timeline associated with the moving image contents of the location of an identified still image in at least one of the moving image contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka, Yoshihiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9594957
    Abstract: Apparatus for identifying one or more still images in one or more moving image contents. An identifying unit is configured to identify one or more still images included in the moving image contents having one or more features that closely resemble particular features. A display controller is configured to cause the display on a timeline associated with the moving image contents of the location of an identified still image in at least one of the moving image contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka, Yoshihiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170069352
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a plurality of feature amount extraction parts which extract, from content, a plurality of feature amounts that contain information concerning a camera motion in a frame of the content. A display control part displays frames of the content and a GUI on the displayed content frame. The GUI corresponds to an operation concerning the camera motion on the basis of the extracted camera motion information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka, Yukihiro Nakamura, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kentaro Fukazawa, Kyosuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9549162
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display control unit that causes a content view which displays statistic information of characters appearing in video content and a relationship view which displays character-relation information of the characters appearing in the video content, to be displayed on a predetermined display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyosuke Yoshida, Kenji Tanaka, Yukihiro Nakamura, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kentaro Fukazawa, Kazumasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9529506
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a plurality of feature amount extraction parts which extract, from content, a plurality of feature amounts containing that contain information concerning a camera motion in a frame of the content. A display control part displays frames of the content and a GUI on the displayed frame. The GUI corresponds to an operation concerning the camera motion on the basis of the extracted camera motion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka, Yukihiro Nakamura, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kentaro Fukazawa, Kyosuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9489594
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an evaluation unit which acquires a search pattern which is an appearance pattern of a person in a scene of a video content containing the scene, where a similar scene is to be searched, and a search target pattern which is an appearance pattern of a person in a video content which is to be a search target of the similar scene, calculates a degree of similarity between the search pattern and the search target pattern, and determines the similar scene on a basis of the calculated degree of similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyosuke Yoshida, Kenji Tanaka, Yukihiro Nakamura, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kentaro Fukazawa, Kazumasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9382406
    Abstract: A vinyl chloride resin composition for transparent products, comprising 100 parts by mass of the vinyl chloride resin, 0.01 to 10 parts by mass of the following component (A), 0.01 to 10 parts by mass of the following component (B) and 0.01 to 3 parts by mass of the following component (C); (A) At least one kind of salt selected from organic acid zinc salts. (B) At least one kind of compound selected from zinc-modified hydrotalcite compounds. (C) At least one kind of compound selected from phosphite ester compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryusuke Mitamura, Tadashi Sengoku, Kazumasa Tanaka