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).

  • Patent number: 11577823
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Tohru Hirai, Mitsuhiro Murayama, Kazuomi Yamamoto, Yasushi Ito, Kentaro Tanaka, Takehisa Takaishi, Yuzuru Yokokawa
  • Publication number: 20230017440
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Naoto OMURA, Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Eiji KONISHI, Kentaro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220305742
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki SHIMADA, Yoshihiro NAKAYAMA, Sayaka OCHI, Shouhei KANAZAWA, Kenshirou OKUMURA, Takaya HAMAMOTO, Kentaro TANAKA, Yuya OUCHI
  • Patent number: 11365646
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Ueta, Hisataka Fukushima, Kentaro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11362362
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: DAINICHI CO., LTD., KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Oguro, Shintaro Yanagiuchi, Tomohiro Fukagawa, Kentaro Tanaka, Takashi Ono
  • Publication number: 20220074446
    Abstract: An aircraft component coupling assembly includes first and second plate structures placed and a coupler coupling the first and second plate structures. The first plate structure includes a first insertion hole and a first serration located on a first outer surface of the first plate structure and surrounding the first insertion hole. The second plate structure includes a second insertion hole differing in inner diameter from the first insertion hole. The coupler includes: a contact structure including a second serration and a third insertion hole; a shaft structure being fixedly engaged with one of a second outer surface the second plate structure and a third outer surface of the contact structure; and a pressing structure engaged with the shaft structure and pressing an other of the second outer surface of the second plate structure and the third outer surface of the contact structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kentaro TANAKA, Kunio NAWATA, Sachinori ISHIMOTO, Kota NAKAYA, Tatsuro AKASAKA
  • Patent number: 11267256
    Abstract: A recording device provides, when a first mode that is a recording mode for increasing concentration of black is selected, in a first nozzle row including first nozzles capable of discharging a first ink representing black by a single color or a mixed color, and a second nozzle row including second nozzles capable of discharging a second ink having a lower pigment concentration than a black ink and being an achromatic color, a nozzle unused region by a first nozzle not discharging a first ink and a second nozzle not discharging a second ink, between a first nozzle usage region including the first nozzle discharging the first ink onto the recording medium, and a second nozzle used region including the second nozzle for discharging the second ink onto a region of the recording medium onto which the first ink is discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Tanase, Keisuke Morita, Kentaro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220022803
    Abstract: An electromyography processing apparatus 1 includes a storage device 10 that stores electromyography data 11 of a predetermined muscle, an onset detection unit 23 that detects an onset section of the electromyography data 11 in which an electromyography increases by a repetitive exercise performed by an athlete, and an ON/OFF indicator processing unit 25 that calculates a variance a probability distribution acquired by normalizing a root-mean-square value of the electromyography for each onset section, and outputs the calculated variance as an ON/OFF indicator for each onset section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Osamu Saisho, Shingo Tsukada, Kentaro Tanaka, Daigoro Yokozeki
  • Publication number: 20220022802
    Abstract: An electromyography processing apparatus 1 includes a storage device 10 that stores electromyography data 11 of a predetermined muscle, and a balance indicator processing unit 28 that calculates a root-mean-square value of the electromyography for each predetermined time, repeats a process for each of pieces of electromyography data of each of a plurality of muscles, the process being of outputting, as a balance evaluation value of the predetermined muscle, a value acquired by subjecting, to time differentiation, the time course of an average value of the root-mean-square value in a sliding window for calculating balance evaluation value, and outputs a balance indicator based on a balance evaluation value of each of the plurality of muscles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Osamu Saisho, Shingo Tsukada, Kentaro Tanaka, Daigoro Yokozeki
  • Patent number: 11221673
    Abstract: An analysis device according to the present invention includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to analyze data indicating a biosignal by using a predetermined analysis technique and an updated parameter corresponding to the predetermined analysis technique every time the parameter is updated, control a display to display an analysis result obtained together with an interface capable of changing display modes in response to user's operation, and update the parameter based on change in the display modes for the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Saisho, Shingo Tsukada, Kentaro Tanaka, Makoto Nakayama, Takashi Okada
  • Publication number: 20210386358
    Abstract: An electromyography processing apparatus 1 includes a storage device 10 that stores electromyography data 11 of a predetermined muscle, a pre-processing unit 22 that calculates a root-mean-square value in the electromyography data 11 for each predetermined time and generates root-mean-square value data including the root-mean-square value for each time, and an onset detection unit 23 that sets a sliding window for onset detection to a predetermined time of the root-mean-square value data and determines that a predetermined time is an onset portion if the average of the root-mean-square values in the sliding window is higher than a threshold value, and the onset detection unit 23 further includes a threshold value determination unit 24 that sets a sliding window for threshold value detection to the predetermined time and determines a threshold value based on the average of the root-mean-square values in the sliding window for threshold value detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Osamu Saisho, Shingo Tsukada, Kentaro Tanaka, Daigoro Yokozeki
  • Publication number: 20210362097
    Abstract: Stable maintenance of high separation performance of a separation membrane having a separation layer comprising a compact carbon layer is described in addition to a separation membrane having a separation layer comprising a compact carbon layer, wherein particles are attached to the compact carbon layer, recesses are present in the compact carbon layer, and the particles are at least partially stuck in the recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuki Yamashita, Kentaro Tanaka, Takaaki Mihara, Tomoyuki Horiguchi
  • Publication number: 20210293153
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Ueta, Hisataka Fukushima, Kentaro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210200312
    Abstract: An analysis device according to the present invention includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to analyze data indicating a biosignal by using a predetermined analysis technique and an updated parameter corresponding to the predetermined analysis technique every time the parameter is updated, control a display to display an analysis result obtained together with an interface capable of changing display modes in response to user's operation, and update the parameter based on change in the display modes for the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu SAISHO, Shingo TSUKADA, Kentaro TANAKA, Makoto NAKAYAMA, Takashi OKADA
  • Patent number: 11038191
    Abstract: In accordance with a fuel cell module, a cell stack is housed in a housing including a box and a lid, and the lid is provided with a first gas flow channel through which either one of oxygen containing gas and exhaust gas flows. Therefore, the configuration of the housing can be simplified. Since the lid is provided with the gas flow channel, an accommodation space inside the box can be enlarged, the cell stack can be easily housed inside the housing through an opening, and the fuel cell module can be easily assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignees: KYOCERA Corporation, DAINICHI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kanbayashi, Kentaro Tanaka, Takayuki Maruyama, Akinori Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20210039773
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a noise reduction apparatus, an aircraft, and a noise reduction method capable of increasing the amount of noise reduction. [Solving Means] 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. Although the direction of the fluid flow is typically deflected toward the outside from the center of the porous plate 2 due to the porous plate 2, the deflected fluid easily passes through the porous plate 2 since the porous plate has the bend region 5. Thus, the shear layer of the fluid flow is weakened, the noise induced by the vortex is reduced, and it is possible to increase the reduction amount of noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Tohru HIRAI, Mitsuhiro MURAYAMA, Kazuomi YAMAMOTO, Yasushi ITO, Kentaro TANAKA, Takehisa TAKAISHI, Yuzuru YOKOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200391161
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fluid separation membrane that can maintain separation performance for a long period of time. The present invention provides a fluid separation membrane including a separation layer including a dense layer, wherein 2 to 10,000 ppm of a total of a monocyclic or bicyclic aromatic compound being liquid or solid at 16° C. under atmospheric pressure and 10 to 250,000 ppm of water are adsorbed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro TANAKA, Yuki YAMASHITA, Dai KONDO, Kosaku TAKEUCHI, Takaaki MIHARA, Tomoyuki HORIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10835874
    Abstract: A fluid separation membrane has high compression strength in the fiber cross-section direction (direction orthogonal to the fiber axis). The fluid separation membrane is obtained by an organic polymer layer being formed on the surface of porous carbon fibers having a co-continuous porous structure. A fluid separation membrane module and porous carbon fibers having a fully co-continuous porous structure are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kosaku Takeuchi, Dai Kondo, Kentaro Tanaka, Takaaki Mihara, Tomoyuki Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 10821743
    Abstract: A recording device includes a head including a plurality of nozzles discharging ink droplets and a head including a plurality of nozzles discharging ink droplets of a color identical to that of the ink droplets, a driving circuit configured to drive the former head at a drive voltage and drive the latter head by another drive voltage, an input unit configured to receive an input of selection information selected, based on comparison between a print image printed by the former head and a plurality of other print images G2 printed by the latter head, with the other drive voltage being changed individually, and a control unit configured to control the drive voltage and the other drive voltage, based on the selection information input from the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10787934
    Abstract: A steam turbine plant includes a high-medium pressure turbine having a high-pressure turbine section provided at one end portion in an axial direction and a medium-pressure turbine section provided at the other end portion; a low-pressure turbine disposed coaxially with the high-medium pressure turbine; a condenser configured to cool steam used in the low-pressure turbine to condense the steam into condensate; and a feed-water heater configured to heat the condensate with steam discharged from the high-pressure turbine section. The plant also includes a low-pressure moisture separating and heating device configured to remove moisture of steam discharged from the medium-pressure turbine section, and to heat the steam with a part of steam to be sent to an inlet portion of the high-pressure turbine section and a part of steam to be sent to an inlet portion of the medium-pressure turbine section from an outlet portion of the high-pressure turbine section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Takahashi, Issaku Fujita, Kentaro Tanaka