Patents by Inventor Kentaro Tanaka
Kentaro 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: 20240251460Abstract: A bicycle component is basically provided with a communicator and a controller. The communicator is configured to wirelessly receive a pairing trigger signal generated in response to a user trigger input of a trigger input device, and to wirelessly receive a first pairing demand signal generated in response to a first user input of a first input device. The controller is configured to cause the bicycle component to enter a pairing mode in response to the pairing trigger signal being received by the communicator. The controller is configured to establish wireless communication between the bicycle component and a first remote component that sent the first pairing demand signal in a state where the bicycle component is in the pairing mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Akihiro NOZAKI, Katsuhiro TACHIBANA, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Kentaro TANAKA
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Publication number: 20240246629Abstract: A bicycle component is basically provided with a wireless communication circuit, a user interface and a controller. The wireless communication circuit is configured to wirelessly communicate with a first additional bicycle component in a first pairing state where a first pairing between the bicycle component and the first additional bicycle component is established. The user interface is configured to accept a user input. The controller is electrically connected to the wireless communication circuit and the user interface. The controller is configured to perform a reset operation to reset the first pairing in response to the user input being provided to the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Akihiro NOZAKI, Tomohiro TAKIMOTO, Katsuhiro TACHIBANA, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Kentaro TANAKA
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Publication number: 20240225515Abstract: A state estimation device includes an information acquisition unit acquiring at least one of (i) electrode acquisition information indicating an electromagnetic time series that is a time series of an electromagnetic quantity that is an electromagnetic force, field, or energy applied to an electrode from which a signal indicating a state of a heart of an estimation target is acquirable or (ii) environment information that is information on a time series of an environmental quantity that is an amount related to one or both of a state of motion of the estimation target and an environment in which the estimation target is present; and an estimation unit using at least one of the electrode acquisition information or the environment information to determine whether an electrode event, which is an abnormality in acquisition of a signal indicating the state of the heart of the estimation target by the electrode, has occurred.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: July 11, 2024Inventors: Kentaro TANAKA, Shingo TSUKADA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Toichiro GOTO
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Publication number: 20240164690Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a state estimation device including a cardiac state time series acquisition unit that acquires a cardiac state time series that is a time series of a cardiac state quantity that is a quantity indicating a state of a heart as an estimation target, and a cardiac state estimation unit that estimates a state of the heart as the estimation target based on an occurrence time of out-of-range data, using, as the out-of-range data, a non-responsive period sample whose value is outside a threshold region of processing determined according to a distribution of the non-responsive period sample among non-responsive period samples that are non-responsive period samples among samples of the cardiac state time series acquired by the cardiac state time series acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki OGASAWARA, Shingo TSUKADA, Kentaro TANAKA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Toichiro GOTO
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Publication number: 20240130659Abstract: A state estimation device includes an information acquisition unit acquiring at least one of (i) electrode acquisition information indicating an electromagnetic time series that is a time series of an electromagnetic quantity that is an electromagnetic force, field, or energy applied to an electrode from which a signal indicating a state of a heart of an estimation target is acquirable or (ii) environment information that is information on a time series of an environmental quantity that is an amount related to one or both of a state of motion of the estimation target and an environment in which the estimation target is present; and an estimation unit using at least one of the electrode acquisition information or the environment information to determine whether an electrode event, which is an abnormality in acquisition of a signal indicating the state of the heart of the estimation target by the electrode, has occurred.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Kentaro TANAKA, Shingo TSUKADA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Toichiro GOTO
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Patent number: 11945177Abstract: A first laminated body is worked to form a second laminated body, the first laminated body being formed by laminating prepregs including reinforcing fibers and resin, the second laminated body including a flat portion and a wavy portion, the flat portion being located at at least one of side edge portions of the second laminated body, the wavy portion being located at a portion adjacent to the side edge portion and extending along a longitudinal direction. An intermediate product is formed from the second laminated body by a forming die such that the flat portion becomes a bent portion that is an inside portion whose circumferential length is shorter in a curved portion, and the wavy portion becomes a bent portion that is an outside portion whose circumferential length is longer in the curved portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Shimada, Yoshihiro Nakayama, Sayaka Ochi, Shouhei Kanazawa, Kenshirou Okumura, Takaya Hamamoto, Kentaro Tanaka, Yuya Ouchi
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Patent number: 11927112Abstract: A sealing device according to at least one embodiment includes not less than three arc-shaped fins arranged in an axial direction. The arc-shaped fins include: a first fin which is one of two outermost fins located on an outermost side in the axial direction; a second fin disposed adjacent to the first fin in the axial direction; and at least one third fin disposed opposite to the first fin across the second fin in the axial direction. It is preferable that the third fin is disposed to be inclined with respect to a radial direction such that a tip end portion is located on a side of the first fin in the axial direction relative to a base end portion, and the third fin has a larger inclination angle than the first fin or the second fin with respect to the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Naoto Omura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Eiji Konishi, Kentaro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11897574Abstract: An operating device comprises a base member, a first switch unit, and a first coupling structure. The first switch unit includes a first base and a first operating member. The first coupling structure couples the base member and the first base such that the first base is adjustable relative to the base member in a first direction and is adjustable relative to the first coupling structure in a first additional direction different from the first direction. The first coupling structure includes a first intermediate member and a first fastener. The first intermediate member is at least partially provided between the base member and the first base to guide the first base relative to the base member in at least one of the first direction and the first additional direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Kentaro Kosaka, Kentaro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20240044759Abstract: A method for checking quality of a heat exchanger includes the steps of: performing a liquid pressure test for the heat exchanger including a first flow path and a second flow path adjacent to the first flow path by filling the first flow path and the second flow path with a liquid in a pressurized state; discharging the liquid from the first flow path and the second flow path; and promoting evaporation of the liquid remaining in the first flow path and the second flow path by reducing pressure inside each of the first flow path and the second flow path using a vacuum pump. The step of promoting evaporation of the liquid is performed to feed heated gas into the first flow path and the second flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hiroaki KANAZAWA, Kentaro TANAKA, Hideki TAKAFUJI, Tadashi IKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20230355186Abstract: A motion evaluation method includes: a noise removal step of removing noise in time-series data related to a motion of a person; an extraction step of extracting data of an on-set section in which the motion of the person is performed from the time-series data from which the noise has been removed; a compression step of aligning a length of the extracted data of the on-set section for each on-set section and compressing the data of the on-set section through down-sampling processing; and an evaluation step of evaluating the motion of the person on the basis of the compressed data of the on-set section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2020Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro TANAKA, Shingo TSUKADA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Toichiro GOTO
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Publication number: 20230207114Abstract: A biological information analysis system includes a data reception unit that receives time-series data of biological information from a sensor terminal that acquires biological information, a storage unit that stores the received time-series data, a first representative value acquisition unit that acquires a first representative value based on data in a predetermined period among the received time-series data, and a second representative value acquisition unit that acquires a second representative value based on a plurality of first representative values consecutive on a time axis. In a case where an error occurs in communication between the data reception unit and the sensor terminal and a predetermined condition is satisfied, the first representative value acquisition unit uses pre-error time-series data transmitted before the error occurs and stored in the storage unit and post-error time-series data transmitted from the sensor terminal after the error occurs, to acquire the first representative value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki OGASAWARA, Kentaro TANAKA, Shingo TSUKADA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Toichiro GOTO
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Publication number: 20230131150Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a loss-of-consciousness estimation apparatus including: a ventricular state estimation unit configured to estimate whether or not a ventricular state of an estimation target is normal in a predetermined repetition cycle, based on a cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series, which is a time series of an amount correlated with a cerebral blood flow rate of the estimation target; a measurement reliability estimation unit configured to estimate reliability of the cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series; and a loss-of-consciousness probability acquisition unit configured to, based on the reliability, the estimation result of the ventricular state estimation unit, and elapsed time after a probability acquisition start time, which is a time at which it is first determined by the ventricular state estimation unit that the ventricular state is not normal after an estimation start time, which is a time of starting the repetition cycle, acquire a loss-of-consciouType: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Kentaro TANAKA, Toichiro GOTO
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Publication number: 20230119323Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a loss-of-consciousness estimation apparatus including: an out-of-range data determination unit configured to execute out-of-range data determination processing for, using an amount correlated with a cerebral blood flow rate of an estimation target as a cerebral blood flow correlation amount, a time series of the cerebral blood flow correlation amount as a cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series, and a position in a time axis direction of data of the cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series as a time position, determining whether or not the cerebral blood flow correlation amount indicated by each piece of the data is out of range of a threshold region, which is a range corresponding to the time position of each piece of the data, based on the cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series; and a ventricular state estimation unit configured to estimate a ventricular state of the estimation target based on the determination result of the out-of-rangType: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Kentaro TANAKA, Toichiro GOTO
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Publication number: 20230092731Abstract: In an emotion stabilization support device including a portable vibration generator including an oscillator (36), a motion sensor (37), and a control unit (31), the control unit (31) causes the oscillator (36) to intermittently vibrate, and the control unit (31) measures a state of the portable vibration generator detected by the motion sensor (37) and determines a state of an emotion of a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Kentaro TANAKA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Toichiro GOTO
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Publication number: 20230059586Abstract: This cooling apparatus includes a tube (10) having an opening portion (10a) in one end portion in a longitudinal direction thereof, a cap (30) capable of opening/closing the opening portion (10a), a non-freezing drinkable coolant (20) that fills the tube (10), and a container (50) that contains the tube (10) filled with the coolant (20). The tube has a constricted portion (10d) having a reduced inner diameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Kentaro TANAKA, Toichiro GOTO
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Patent number: 11577823Abstract: A noise reduction apparatus, an aircraft, and a noise reduction method capable of increasing the amount of noise reduction are provided. The noise reduction apparatus 1 includes a porous plate 2 disposed to face a fluid flow, the porous plate 2 including a bend region 5 bent toward an upstream side of the fluid flow. The bend region 5 is provided at the end portion 6 of the porous plate 2, and has a concave R-shape on an upstream side of the fluid flow.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyInventors: Tohru Hirai, Mitsuhiro Murayama, Kazuomi Yamamoto, Yasushi Ito, Kentaro Tanaka, Takehisa Takaishi, Yuzuru Yokokawa
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Publication number: 20230017440Abstract: A sealing device according to at least one embodiment includes not less than three arc-shaped fins arranged in an axial direction. The arc-shaped fins include: a first fin which is one of two outermost fins located on an outermost side in the axial direction; a second fin disposed adjacent to the first fin in the axial direction; and at least one third fin disposed opposite to the first fin across the second fin in the axial direction. It is preferable that the third fin is disposed to be inclined with respect to a radial direction such that a tip end portion is located on a side of the first fin in the axial direction relative to a base end portion, and the third fin has a larger inclination angle than the first fin or the second fin with respect to the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Naoto OMURA, Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Eiji KONISHI, Kentaro TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220305742Abstract: A first laminated body is worked to form a second laminated body, the first laminated body being formed by laminating prepregs including reinforcing fibers and resin, the second laminated body including a flat portion and a wavy portion, the flat portion being located at at least one of side edge portions of the second laminated body, the wavy portion being located at a portion adjacent to the side edge portion and extending along a longitudinal direction. An intermediate product is formed from the second laminated body by a forming die such that the flat portion becomes a bent portion that is an inside portion whose circumferential length is shorter in a curved portion, and the wavy portion becomes a bent portion that is an outside portion whose circumferential length is longer in the curved portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki SHIMADA, Yoshihiro NAKAYAMA, Sayaka OCHI, Shouhei KANAZAWA, Kenshirou OKUMURA, Takaya HAMAMOTO, Kentaro TANAKA, Yuya OUCHI
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Patent number: 11365646Abstract: In a rotary machine and a seal member, a casing, a rotor, a stator blade, a rotor blade, and a seal device disposed between the casing and a tip portion of the rotor blade are provided, in which a blade attachment groove is provided in the inner peripheral portion of the casing, and a caulking groove is provided adjacent to the blade attachment groove, in which a base end portion of the stator blade is mounted in the blade attachment groove and a caulking member is locked to the caulking groove and a blade root portion of the stator blade, so that the stator blade is fixed to the inner peripheral portion of the casing, and in which a seal ring as a seal device is mounted in the inner peripheral portion of the casing, and the seal ring covers at least a part of the caulking groove.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiko Ueta, Hisataka Fukushima, Kentaro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11362362Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fuel cell apparatus in which a stable installation state may be maintained even when a size thereof is reduced. A fuel cell apparatus according to the present disclosure may include a fuel cell module including fuel cells housed in a housing; a plurality of auxiliary machines which operate the fuel cell module; and an exterior case, shaped in a rectangular prism, which houses the fuel cell module and the auxiliary machines. A gravity center of the fuel cell apparatus may be located below a level equal to half a height of the exterior case.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignees: DAINICHI CO., LTD., KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Hiroki Oguro, Shintaro Yanagiuchi, Tomohiro Fukagawa, Kentaro Tanaka, Takashi Ono