Patents by Inventor Kenta Tanaka

Kenta 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: 20240250048
    Abstract: In the electronic component, the second portion of the diffusion prevention layer extends parallel to the main surface of the base material. When the electronic component is surface-mounted on the mounting substrate, the conductive bonding material such as solder is interposed between the electrodes of the electronic component and the land electrodes of the mounting substrate. In the case that the bonding surface between the diffusion prevention layer and the substrate is wide, it is difficult for the metal component of the bonding material to reach the body portion of the electrodes through the bonding surface. Therefore, a situation in which metal component of the bonding material diffuse into the body portion is suppressed, and a decrease in strength of the electrodes due to the diffusion is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke TANAKA, Masato SATO, Kenta ONO, Takashi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240250215
    Abstract: In the semiconductor element, a second electrode is higher than a first electrode, and the first electrode and the second electrode have substantially the same height positions of the upper surfaces. In the semiconductor element, since the first electrode and the second electrode can be formed at the same time, it is possible to form the semiconductor element including the first electrode and the second electrode by a small number of processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke TANAKA, Masato SATO, Kenta ONO, Susumu TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 12047026
    Abstract: To provide a controller for AC rotary machine which can detect current of the normal phase certainly when the short circuit failure of one phase occurs, in an apparatus that a current sensor is connected in series to the positive electrode side switching device or the negative electrode side switching device of an inverter. A controller for AC rotary machine, when determining that the short circuit failure of any one phase occurred, calculates voltage command values of normal n?1 phases, and changes the voltage command values of the normal n?1 phases so that on period of the detection object device of each phase of the normal n?1 phases become longer than or equal to a length necessary for current detection at least at a current detection timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroya Natsuhara, Isao Kezobo, Tatsuya Mori, Kenta Tanaka, Yusuke Takarada, Yuya Takeuchi, Atsushi Ito, Mamoru Shiraki
  • Patent number: 12043401
    Abstract: A transmission cooling assembly of a helicopter includes: a transmission including a speed change structure that changes the speed of rotation produced by rotational power input from a prime mover and outputs the resulting rotational power and a housing accommodating the speed change structure; a cowl covering at least a part of an outer surface of the housing, with a gap defined between the cowl and the outer surface; and a flow structure that allows external air to flow through the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta Ogasawara, Akira Hayasaka, Hiroki Yamamoto, Hidenori Arisawa, Yuji Shinoda, Mitsuaki Tanaka, Hironori Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20240068877
    Abstract: The installation structure of a sensor includes a sensor body, a holder provided with a locking part and configured to install the sensor body by locking the sensor body with the locking part, the locking part configured to deform when installing the sensor body to the holder and configured to restore when installation of the sensor body to the holder is completed, and a holder-installation body provided with an installable portion where the holder is to be installed and configured to prevent a deformation of the locking part of the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiraku TANAKA, Tomohiro MATSUSHIMA, Kenta TANAKA, Yusuke YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11892359
    Abstract: An installation structure of a temperature sensor includes a measured object support provided with an installation section, a guide section, and a measured object support section configured to support a measured object; and a temperature sensor provided with a guided section engaged with the guide section of the measured object support, and installed in the installation section of the measured object support by moving in a predetermined direction relative to the measured object support in a manner along one predetermined outer surface of the measured object while engaging the guided section with the guide section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori Sakamoto, Kenta Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230341270
    Abstract: A temperature sensor applied to a wire harness includes a temperature-sensitive element, a main body part that holds the temperature-sensitive element, a clamp part, and a connector. The main body part includes a holding part that holds the temperature-sensitive element on the tip side in an insertion direction and is positioned inside the clamp part by being inserted into the clamp part along that direction. The clamp part includes a pair of window parts that allow the temperature-sensitive element to be exposed to outside of the clamp part. Furthermore, the holding part includes a pair of protection wall parts positioned by sandwiching a window part in a state of being inserted into the clamp part. An end part of the wall part on a tip side in the insertion direction is positioned by protruding more than an end part of the temperature-sensitive element on the tip side does.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Hiraku Tanaka, Tomohiro Matsushima, Kenta Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230030519
    Abstract: A connector (10) includes a set of type 1 contacts (4A) disposed in a type 1 holding area, the type 1 contacts (4A) being disposed facing each other, and a type 2 contact (4B) disposed in each of two type 2 holding areas sandwiching the type 1 holding area. When viewed from above, at least a portion of the type 2 contact (4B) is disposed in a range obtained by extending, in a first direction in which the type 1 holding area and the two type 2 holding areas are arranged, a region in which the set of type 1 contacts (4A) oppose each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Additionally, the type 2 contact (4B) includes a connecting portion that is connected to the circuit of the circuit board, and a contacting portion that is disposed at a position separated, from the connecting portion in a normal direction of an installation surface to the circuit board, and that contacts a terminal of a mating connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: I-PEX Inc.
    Inventors: Takao YAMAUCHI, Sho SUZUKI, Kenta TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11529993
    Abstract: To provide a motor controller and an electric power steering apparatus which can suppress torque fluctuation resulting from low detection resolution of angle, with simple calculation, even in condition where the rotational speed of motor is low. A motor controller estimates an angle error correlation value correlated with the angle detection error based on the current command value when a change frequency of the angle detection value is lower than a cutoff frequency of feedback control system which controls a rotation state; corrects the current command value or the angle detection value based on the estimation value of angle error correlation value; and changes the estimation value of angle error correlation value so that the absolute value of angle detection error increases with respect to increase in the current command value, and the absolute value of angle detection error decreases with respect to decrease in the current command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta Tanaka, Isao Kezobo, Akira Furukawa, Seiji Sawada
  • Publication number: 20220395149
    Abstract: A toilet device includes a toilet seat disposed on an upper side of a toilet; an image sensor provided on a back surface of the toilet seat and configured to image an inner space of a toilet bowl at time of excretion; an open-close acquiring device configured to acquire open-close information of the toilet seat; and an imaging controller configured to determine whether or not to image by the image sensor according to the open-close information of the toilet seat acquired by the open-close acquiring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki SHIMAZU, Emi UEDA, Kenta TANAKA, Nobuhiro TAKI, Hiroshi NISHIGAKI, Masaaki NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20220375080
    Abstract: A determination device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image information of a target image in which excrement is captured and a determination unit configured to determine a characteristic of the excrement in the target image, select a part of the excrement specified according to a time series of excretion, and confirm a representing characteristic for representing the excrement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige AOYAMA, Kenta TANAKA, Hiroto MIWA
  • Publication number: 20220237906
    Abstract: A determination device includes an image information acquirer configured to acquire image information of a subject image obtained by photographing an internal space of a toilet bowl in excretion; an estimator configured to perform estimation regarding a determination matter relating to excretion by inputting the image information to a learned model, the learned model having learned a correspondence relationship between an image for learning and a determination result of the determination matter relating to excretion, the learned model learned by machine learning using a neural network, the image for learning representing an internal space of a toilet bowl in excretion; and a determiner configured to perform determination regarding the determination matter of the subject image based on an estimation result obtained by the estimator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Emi UEDA, Nobuhiro TAKI, Kenta TANAKA, Yasuhiro SHIRAI, Hiroshige AOYAMA, Toshiaki SHIMAZU
  • Patent number: 11364948
    Abstract: There is provided an electric power steering device, including: a reverse steering detection unit configured to determine start of reverse steering when a magnitude of a rotational speed of a motor is equal to or smaller than a set speed, a rotational acceleration of the motor is in a direction of causing the rotational speed of the motor to become 0, and a magnitude of the rotational acceleration of the motor is equal to or larger than a set acceleration; and a current command control unit configured to output a current command for the motor based on the steering torque or the rotational speed of the motor, in which the current command control unit is configured to increase a transfer gain from input to output by the current command control unit when the reverse steering detection unit determines start of the reverse steering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Cornoration
    Inventors: Isao Kezobo, Kenta Tanaka, Akira Furukawa, Masaharu Tanaka, Akiyoshi Takashima
  • Patent number: 11338844
    Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus includes a high-frequency compensation unit that outputs a high-frequency compensation signal obtained by filtering the high-frequency components of an assist torque command signal and multiplying the filtered high-frequency components by a gain; a corrected steering torque signal obtained by negatively or positively feeding back the high-frequency compensation signal to a steering torque signal is inputted to an assist torque command calculation unit; the assist torque command calculation unit outputs the assist torque command signal in accordance with the corrected steering torque signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Cornoration
    Inventors: Isao Kezobo, Kenta Tanaka, Masaharu Tanaka, Akiyoshi Takashima
  • Patent number: 11331744
    Abstract: An electric wire arranging jig (40) has an electric wire arranging groove (16, 31, 41) configured to be inserted the electric wires. The electric wire arranging groove has a pair of arranging surfaces facing each other. The electric wire arranging groove is configured to have a cross-sectional shape, in a section perpendicular to a direction of the electric wires extending within the electric wire arranging groove, having a distance in a width direction of the electric wire arranging groove continuously narrowed from an insertion start portion for the electric wires toward a bottom portion of the electric wire arranging groove and the arranging surfaces each inclining from a vertical direction, at least in a part of a segment between the insertion start portion and the bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shohara, Shinji Goto, Kenta Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11312097
    Abstract: A blank has an upper surface and a reverse surface. The upper surface is printed in a conventional manner and includes outer side panels and inner side panels. Attachment regions are provided on the inner side panels of the outer surface, and corresponding attachment regions are provided on the outer side panels of the reverse surface. During assembly the respective attachment regions are arranged to face one another and an adhesive is provided therebetween. In the present method, the attachment regions of the upper surface initially have a surface tension in the range from around 34 dynes/cm to 60 dynes/cm before the upper surface is printed. The attachment regions are treated in order to maintain a surface tension in the desired range of 34 dynes/cm to 60 dynes/cm, following printing and before any adhesive is applied. This is achieved by applying an auxiliary printing medium to the attachment regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventors: Kenta Tanaka, Dominic Lukasz Latuszek, Mike Clausen
  • Publication number: 20220113196
    Abstract: An installation structure of a temperature sensor includes a measured object support provided with an installation section, a guide section, and a measured object support section configured to support a measured object; and a temperature sensor provided with a guided section engaged with the guide section of the measured object support, and installed in the installation section of the measured object support by moving in a predetermined direction relative to the measured object support in a manner along one predetermined outer surface of the measured object while engaging the guided section with the guide section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Akinori SAKAMOTO, Kenta Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200255067
    Abstract: To provide a motor controller and an electric power steering apparatus which can suppress torque fluctuation resulting from low detection resolution of angle, with simple calculation, even in condition where the rotational speed of motor is low. A motor controller estimates an angle error correlation value correlated with the angle detection error based on the current command value when a change frequency of the angle detection value is lower than a cutoff frequency of feedback control system which controls a rotation state; corrects the current command value or the angle detection value based on the estimation value of angle error correlation value; and changes the estimation value of angle error correlation value so that the absolute value of angle detection error increases with respect to increase in the current command value, and the absolute value of angle detection error decreases with respect to decrease in the current command value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta TANAKA, Isao KEZOBO, Akira FURUKAWA, Seiji SAWADA
  • Patent number: 10589141
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an active exercise apparatus for lower limbs that allows a user to perform on a floor lower limb active exercise highly effective in preventing thrombosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA, NEMOTO SEISAKUSHO CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yukiyo Shimizu, Masashi Yamazaki, Hiroshi Kamada, Kenta Tanaka, Toshiji Mizukoshi, Tsutomu Mizukoshi
  • Publication number: 20200031385
    Abstract: There is provided an electric power steering device, including: a reverse steering detection unit configured to determine start of reverse steering when a magnitude of a rotational speed of a motor is equal to or smaller than a set speed, a rotational acceleration of the motor is in a direction of causing the rotational speed of the motor to become 0, and a magnitude of the rotational acceleration of the motor is equal to or larger than a set acceleration; and a current command control unit configured to output a current command for the motor based on the steering torque or the rotational speed of the motor, in which the current command control unit is configured to increase a transfer gain from input to output by the current command control unit when the reverse steering detection unit determines start of the reverse steering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Isao KEZOBO, Kenta TANAKA, Akira FURUKAWA, Masaharu TANAKA, Akiyoshi TAKASHIMA