Patents by Inventor Kenichiro Tanaka
Kenichiro 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: 8500583Abstract: A starter generator has an electric rotating machine having a rotating shaft and designed to carry two reverse operations—motor and generator. A first clutch is connected between the rotating machine and the first rotating shaft for transmitting rotations of the rotating machine to the first rotating shaft. A second clutch is connected between the rotating machine and the second rotating shaft for transmitting rotations of the second rotating shaft to the rotating machine. A continuously variable transmission is provided for changing the number of rotations transmitted from the second rotating shaft to the rotating machine. The rotating machine is supplied with electric power to rotate the rotating shaft, or the number of rotations of the rotating shaft is kept constant by controlling a transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuhiko Goi, Kenichiro Tanaka, Koji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20130180803Abstract: A lubricating device for a gear train (5) including a plurality of gears meshing with each other includes a shroud (7) configured to cover the gear train (5) and a housing (9) configured to cover the shroud (7). The shroud (7) includes: an oil supply nozzle (25) configured to supply oil (OL) to a meshing position (21) of the gear train (5); and oil-drain ports (41) through which the oil (OL) is discharged from the shroud. The housing (9) includes, at its lower part, a draw-out port (43) through which the oil (OL) discharged from the oil-drain ports (41) is drawn to the outside of the housing. Guide members (47) are provided between the shroud (7) and the housing (9). The guide members (47) guide the oil (OL) discharged from the respective oil-drain ports (41) of the shroud (7) such that the oil (OL) flows downward through space (S) between the shroud (7) and the housing (9).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2011Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichiro Tanaka, Tatsuhiko Goi, Hidenori Arisawa, Motohiko Nishimura
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Patent number: 8449431Abstract: This invention provides an aircraft electric generation system, which can achieve significantly increased capacity of electric generation, while adequately suppressing unwanted increase of a front face area of an aircraft engine as well as successfully dealing with considerably large changes of an engine spool speed. This electric generation system is driven by the engine and includes: a continuously variable transmission (CVT) connected with a rotation shaft of the engine; an electric generator located above the CVT and driven by an output of the CVT; and a lubricating oil pump unit located below the CVT and also driven by the output of the CVT.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuhiko Goi, Kenichiro Tanaka, Masahide Nakamura, Koji Watanabe
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Patent number: 8450146Abstract: A method for manufacturing a transistor assembly includes the steps of: (a) forming a transistor; (b) polishing a base substrate; and (c) securing the transistor of which the base substrate is polished to a support substrate. The step (a) is a step of forming a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer on a principle surface of the base substrate. The step (b) is a step of polishing a surface of the base substrate opposite to the principle surface. The step (c) is a step of securing the transistor on the support substrate in the presence of a stress applied on the base substrate in such a direction that a warp of the base substrate is reduced. The base substrate is made of a material different from that of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a tensile stress is applied on the second semiconductor layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenichiro Tanaka, Tetsuzo Ueda, Hisayoshi Matsuo, Masahiro Hikita
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Patent number: 8405299Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a first light emitter, a second light emitter, and a third light emitter. The first light emitter has a peak wavelength within the range from 600 nm to 660 nm and a wavelength range at half peak intensity wider than the range from 600 nm to 660 nm, the second light emitter has a peak wavelength within the range from 530 nm to 570 nm and a wavelength range at half peak intensity wider than the range from 530 nm to 570 nm, and the third light emitter which a peak wavelength is 420 nm-470 nm in a spectral power distribution thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Naohiro Toda, Hiroki Noguchi, Kenichiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20130070452Abstract: Provided is lead frame in which a wiring pattern supported by a support piece inside of a one-pitch outer frame section comprises a plurality of base units, each of which comprises a die pad on which a solid-state light emitting element is mounted, a heat sink extending from die pad so as to surround die pad electrically connected to one electrode of the element, and a lead electrically connected to the other electrode of the element. Lead of one base unit among adjacent base units and heat sink of the other base unit are coupled and electrically connected in series. Increase in temperature of the element is inhibited, light output is increased, and cost of a light emitting unit in which a plurality of solid-state light emitting elements connected in series are used is reduced. Also provided are wiring board, light emitting unit, and illuminating apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoji Urano, Ryoji Yokotani, Ikko Kuzuhara, Kenichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 8378510Abstract: The invention is a starting and generating apparatus for an engine, including: a rotator configured to be used as a generator driven by an engine as well as used as a starter motor for starting the engine; a power transmission mechanism configured to connect the engine with the rotator; a starter drive unit configured to supply an electricity to the rotator to drive the rotator as the starter motor when the engine is to be started; a clutch mechanism configured to shut off a power transmission from the engine to the power transmission mechanism when the engine is to be started; and a clutch control unit configured to bring the clutch mechanism into a connected state when a rotational speed of the rotator has reached a given rotational speed at which the engine can be started.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenichiro Tanaka, Tatsuhiko Goi, Kazushige Sugimoto, Masahide Nakamura, Yasutaka Hirota, Koji Watanabe
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Patent number: 8330378Abstract: An illumination device is provided for controlling a color temperature of light irradiated from a light source having a plurality of light-emitting elements of different light colors. A control setting module provides a control signal associated with a desired color temperature for the irradiated light. A light quantity determination circuit determines light quantities for each of the light-emitting elements based on a relationship between the control signal from the control setting module and an inverse color temperature. A plurality of driver circuits provide driver signals to the light-emitting elements corresponding to the determined light quantities. In this manner the color temperature for light irradiated from the light source coincides with the desired color temperature.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Minoru Maehara, Kazuyoshi Kadotani, Kenichiro Tanaka, Ichirou Tanimura, Takuya Nobuta
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Patent number: 8277078Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light source unit which has a first and a second LED which are connected in parallel and emit lights of different colors, respectively. The lights of the first and the second LED are mixed to provide an emission light of the light source unit when an operating voltage is applied. The light source unit further has a resistor which is connected in series to the first LED to make forward current changing characteristics of the first and the second LED depending on change in the operating voltage to be different from each other, so that a required luminous flux-color temperature property, in which change in a color temperature of the emission light is made to depend on change in a luminous flux of the emission light, is obtained while the first and the second LED are turned on by applying the operating voltage.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Kenichiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20120153313Abstract: A light emitting device includes a solid light-emitting element; a mounting substrate mounting the solid light-emitting element thereon; an encapsulating member encapsulating the solid light-emitting element; and a lead frame electrically connected to the solid light-emitting element through a wire. The lead frame is arranged on a rear surface of the mounting substrate, and the mounting substrate includes a front mounting surface on which the solid light-emitting element is mounted. The front mounting surface having a smooth surface region covered with the encapsulating member. The mounting substrate further includes a wire hole through which the wire extends from the front mounting surface of the mounting substrate to the rear surface thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryoji YOKOTANI, Yoji Urano, Ikko Kuzuhara, Kenichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 8203157Abstract: A lighting device including an LED chip having a light emitting surface, and being configured to emit a light from the light emitting surface, a mounting substrate being configured to mount the LED chip, a first color conversion member including a first light transmissive material and a first phosphor, the first phosphor being excited by the light which is emitted from the LED chip, thereby giving off a first light having a wavelength which is longer than a wavelength of the light emitted from the LED chip, the first color conversion member being directly disposed on the light emitting surface of the LED chip, a second color conversion member including a second light transmissive material and a second phosphor, the second phosphor being excited by the light which is emitted from the LED chip, thereby giving off a second light having a wavelength which is longer than the wavelength of the light emitted from the LED chip, the second color conversion member being shaped to have a dome-shape, wherein the LED chipType: GrantFiled: March 26, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tomonori Suzuki, Kenichiro Tanaka, Youji Urano
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Publication number: 20120140854Abstract: A radio communication device which when transmitting both a first information sequence, on which ?/4-shift differential phase shift modulation is performed, as a delayed wave and a second information sequence, on which a differential phase shift modulation is performed, as an advance wave by using a PADM method, interchanges signal points respectively belonging to quadrants which are one of a first quadrant and a third quadrant, a second quadrant and a fourth quadrant, the first quadrant and the second quadrant, the first quadrant and the fourth quadrant, the second quadrant and the third quadrant, and the third quadrant and the fourth quadrant, the signal points being included in signal points mapped onto a complex plane which consists of a real number axis and an imaginary number axis, to change the arrangement of the information sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Hamamatsu, Masaru Nobesawa, Koji Tomitsuka, Kenichiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20120106125Abstract: A lighting device is provided in accordance with the present invention having reduced luminance and color unevenness. A plurality of solid-state light emitting elements are mounted on a base substrate. An optical member is further mounted on the substrate and arranged so as to cover light emitting surfaces of the light emitting elements, the optical member having a semicircular or semielliptical cross-sectional surface, and gutter-shaped in a longitudinal direction with respect to the substrate. A wavelength converting member covers the semicircular or semielliptical cross-sectional surface of the optical member, and is excitable by light from the solid-state light emitting elements to thereby emit wavelength-converted light. In various embodiments light diffusion members may be further distributed among the light emitting elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Ryoji Yokotani, Keiji Kiba, Kenichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 8139165Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a television receiver for discriminating a CM broadcast from a received television broadcast and controlling a volume of the CM broadcast without complicating a configuration of a discriminating process of the CM broadcast. The present invention includes a silence detection means, a scene change detection means, a video audio changing point detection means, a first characteristic amount extraction means, a second characteristic amount extraction means, a comparison determining means and a volume control means. The comparison determining means compares the first characteristic amount which is an audio characteristic amount of a television signal before the time when the video audio changing point is detected, and the second characteristic amount which is an audio characteristic amount of a television signal after the time when the video audio changing point is detected, to determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied or not.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2007Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Fumio Abe, Isao Otsuka, Kenichiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20120049170Abstract: The light emitting device includes an organic electroluminescent element (20) and a diffractive optical element (30). The organic electroluminescent element (20) includes an anode layer (21), a cathode layer (22), and plural light emitting layers (231 and 232) interposed between the anode layer (21) and the cathode layer (22) and configured to emit light rays with different wavelengths. The diffractive optical element (30) is positioned in paths of light rays emitted from the organic electroluminescent element (20). The diffractive optical element (30) is designed to have different grating patterns (311 and 312) diffracting the light rays respectively emitted from the light emitting layers (231 and 232) for reducing chromatic aberration.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2010Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC ELECTROC WORKS CO., LTDInventors: Kazuyuki Yamae, Kenichiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20110297960Abstract: A method for manufacturing a transistor assembly includes the steps of: (a) forming a transistor; (b) polishing a base substrate; and (c) securing the transistor of which the base substrate is polished to a support substrate. The step (a) is a step of forming a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer on a principle surface of the base substrate. The step (b) is a step of polishing a surface of the base substrate opposite to the principle surface. The step (c) is a step of securing the transistor on the support substrate in the presence of a stress applied on the base substrate in such a direction that a warp of the base substrate is reduced. The base substrate is made of a material different from that of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a tensile stress is applied on the second semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro Tanaka, Tetsuzo Ueda, Hisayoshi Matsuo, Masahiro Hikita
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Publication number: 20110278540Abstract: Provided is a field-effect transistor which is capable of suppressing current collapse. An HEMT as the field-effect transistor includes: a first semiconductor layer made of a first nitride semiconductor; and a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer and made of a second nitride semiconductor having a greater band gap than a band gap of the first nitride semiconductor, wherein the first semiconductor layer includes a region in which a threading dislocation density increases in a stacking direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenichiro Tanaka, Tetsuzo Ueda, Hisayoshi Matsuo, Masahiro Hikita
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Publication number: 20110272737Abstract: A transistor includes a transistor body, and a stress application section applying stress to the transistor body. The transistor body includes a formation substrate, and a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer which are sequentially stacked on the formation substrate. The second semiconductor layer having a wider bandgap than the first semiconductor layer. The stress application section applies stress to the transistor body so that tensile stress applied to the second semiconductor layer increases in accordance with an increase in a temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenichiro TANAKA, Tetsuzo Ueda
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Publication number: 20110266554Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, first, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a p-type third semiconductor layer are sequentially epitaxially grown on a substrate. After that, the third semiconductor layer is selectively removed. Then, a fourth semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown on the second semiconductor layer. Then, a gate electrode is formed on the third semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro HIKITA, Kenichiro Tanaka, Tetsuzo Ueda
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Publication number: 20110249431Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light source unit which has a first and a second LED which are connected in parallel and emit lights of different colors, respectively. The lights of the first and the second LED are mixed to provide an emission light of the light source unit when an operating voltage is applied. The light source unit further has a resistor which is connected in series to the first LED to make forward current changing characteristics of the first and the second LED depending on change in the operating voltage to be different from each other, so that a required luminous flux-color temperature property, in which change in a color temperature of the emission light is made to depend on change in a luminous flux of the emission light, is obtained while the first and the second LED are turned on by applying the operating voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: Panasonic Electric Work Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenichiro TANAKA