Patents by Inventor Koichi Tanaka

Koichi 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: 8932172
    Abstract: A differential includes a pinion shaft holder, a differential case, a first side gear, a second side gear, a first spring and a second spring. The differential case includes a first side boss portion and a second side boss portion. The first spring is interposed between the first side boss portion and the first side gear. The second spring is interposed between the second side boss portion and the second side gear. A recessed portion is provided on the pinion shaft holder and is configured to avoid interference with an auxiliary tool. The auxiliary tool maintains one of the first spring and the second spring in the compressed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Tanaka, Tatsuya Kawamura, Hiroya Mizuta, Koichi Nakamura, Rikiya Kubo, Yoshihiko Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20150010247
    Abstract: A transformed image, that is transformed by making a position of an image of a same subject correspond to a reference image, is generated for a non-reference image, and noise reduction is carried out on the reference image so as to generate a noise reduced image, and a weighting coefficient of the reference image with respect to the transformed image is set, and combining processing of the reference image and the transformed image is carried out so as to generate an intermediate composite image, and a weighting coefficient of the noise reduced image with respect to the intermediate composite image is set and combining processing of the intermediate composite image and the noise reduced image is carried out so as to generate a final image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20150003432
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a request module, a transmission module, and a connection module. The request module requests a tethering start for a terminal equipped with a tethering feature. The transmission module transmits a password for tethering to the terminal. The connection module connects the electronic device to a network via a tethering terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Koichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8910618
    Abstract: A reflux structure for blow-by gas that returns blow-by gas generated in an engine to a clean side of an air cleaner to reflux the blow-by gas to the engine, the reflux structure for blow-by gas includes: a communication pipe that has a flow path introducing the blow-by gas from the engine to the clean side of the air cleaner; and an air funnel that is mounted on the clean side of the air cleaner and introduces intake air from a dirty side into the engine, wherein the communication pipe has a discharge port formed to discharge the blow-by gas to a side closer to a bottom than to an umbrella part of the air funnel around the air funnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20140331801
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a speed reduction device including a first gear and a second gear meshing each other. A ratio between teeth of the first gear and teeth of the second gear is an integer. One of the first gear and the second gear has a large diameter, and the other has a small diameter. The entire gear or the teeth of the gear having the large diameter is formed of a material having a higher modulus of longitudinal elasticity than a modulus of longitudinal elasticity of the gear having the small diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventor: Koichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8881883
    Abstract: A park lock of a transmission, including a park gear; a park pawl rotating about a pawl shaft, the park pawl having a pawl portion locking the park gear, the park pawl including a cam contact portion; a park rod responsive to an operation of a controller, the park rod having a cam portion pressing the cam contact portion to have park pawl engage the park gear; a park sleeve receiving the cam portion and defining a first contact point providing a reactive force to the cam contact portion of the park pawl pressing against the cam portion at a second contact point; a pawl torsional spring biasing the park pawl towards disengagement; and a pawl stopper limiting the rotation of the park pawl wherein motions are constrained within a plane of the transmission and components are rotatingly disposed in parallel axis bores in one half of a transmission case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignees: Tesla Motors, Inc., Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Augusto E. Barton, William Randall Fong, Gary Allen Pinkley, Edwin Marcum Pearce, Jr., Kunio Morisawa, Kazunori Kaneko, Koichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20140318499
    Abstract: A motorcycle engine having cylinders arranged in parallel in a vehicle width direction, an air cleaner, a fuel tank arranged above the engine to cover the air cleaner, and a fuel injection device. The fuel injection device includes an electronic control throttle body unit electrically controlling a throttle body of the engine; an intake passage of down draft intake structure connecting the air cleaner and a combustion chamber of the engine in each of the cylinders; fuel injectors provided at the intake passage including a first fuel injector located on an intake downstream side and a second fuel injector located on an intake upstream side; and a drive motor of the electronic control throttle body unit arranged between the intake passage and the fuel tank and arranged on a same side as the first fuel injector and the second fuel injector and between the first and second fuel injectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20140313681
    Abstract: An electronic part embedded substrate is disclosed. The electronic part embedded substrate includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an electronic part, an electrically connecting member, and a sealing member. A method of producing an electronic part embedded substrate is also disclosed. The method includes mounting an electronic part onto a first substrate, laminating a second substrate on the first substrate through an electrically connecting member; and filling a space between the first substrate and the second substrate with a sealing member to seal the electronic part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Takaharu YAMANO, Hajime IIZUKA, Hideaki SAKAGUCHI, Toshio KOBAYASHI, Tadashi ARAI, Tsuyoshi KOBAYASHI, Tetsuya KOYAMA, Kiyoaki IIDA, Tomoaki MASHIMA, Koichi TANAKA, Yuji KUNIMOTO, Takashi YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20140305114
    Abstract: An automatic transmission device for an automobile includes a torque converter accommodated in a torque converter housing, a stator shaft supporting a stator of the torque converter, a torque converter housing, a stator shaft supporting a stator of the torque converter, a torque converter sleeve provided concentrically with the stator shaft and coupled with an inner periphery side of an impeller shell of the torque converter, a first bearing provided between an inner peripheral surface of the torque converter sleeve and an outer peripheral surface of the stator shaft, and a second bearing provided between an outer peripheral surface of the torque converter sleeve and an inner surface of the torque converter housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro MIZUNO, Koichi Tanaka, Yusuke Ogata
  • Patent number: 8860848
    Abstract: When a blurring process is performed for an image, noise is reduced according to the characteristics of a blurring process filter in a target region of the blurring process. Accordingly, a difference occurs in noise amount with a non-target region of the blurring process. In view of such situations, an image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention adds noise to the blurring target region. Accordingly, the difference in noise amount can be reduced, and a blurring-emphasized image with a natural texture can be created. Furthermore, the image processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention determines the noise amount according to the blurring amount by the blurring process filter while considering that, the larger the blurring amount is, the more greatly the noise is reduced by the blurring process, and adds the noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8793868
    Abstract: A method of producing a chip embedded substrate is disclosed. This method comprises a first step of mounting a semiconductor chip on a first substrate on which a first wiring is formed; and a second step of joining the first substrate with a second substrate on which a second wiring is formed. In the second step, the semiconductor chip is encapsulated between the first substrate and the second substrate and electrical connection is made between the first wiring and the second wiring so as to form multilayered wirings connected to the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaharu Yamano, Hajime Iizuka, Hideaki Sakaguchi, Toshio Kobayashi, Tadashi Arai, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Tetsuya Koyama, Kiyoaki Iida, Tomoaki Mashima, Koichi Tanaka, Yuji Kunimoto, Takashi Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20140211034
    Abstract: When a blurring process is performed for an image, noise is reduced according to the characteristics of a blurring process filter in a target region of the blurring process. Accordingly, a difference occurs in noise amount with a non-target region of the blurring process. In view of such situations, an image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention adds noise to the blurring target region. Accordingly, the difference in noise amount can be reduced, and a blurring-emphasized image with a natural texture can be created. Furthermore, the image processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention determines the noise amount according to the blurring amount by the blurring process filter while considering that, the larger the blurring amount is, the more greatly the noise is reduced by the blurring process, and adds the noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20140210963
    Abstract: A parallax adjustment is facilitated. A stereoscopic image is displayed and the parallax between a left-viewpoint image and a right-viewpoint image, which form the stereoscopic image, is calculated. If the parallax of the stereoscopic image exceeds a prescribed allowable amount of parallax, a determination to reduce the size of the stereoscopic image is made. A parallax adjustment is carried out based upon a stereoscopic image, which has been reduced in size. Since parallax is adjusted using the stereoscopic image that has a parallax that falls within the allowable amount of parallax, parallax is easy to adjust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi TANAKA, Koichi YAHAGI
  • Publication number: 20140212980
    Abstract: The present invention provides a probe that further promotes ionization in proteomic analysis using mass spectrometry, and a high-sensitive mass spectrometry method for a protein using such a probe. Further, the present invention provides an ionization-enhancing probe that can be used even for a protein that has a high degree of hydrophobicity and quickly turns over, and a high-sensitive mass spectrometry method for a protein using such a probe. A thiol probe for a protein, which is represented by the following formula (I): [Chemical Formula 1] wherein R1 represents a linker group, and R2 represents a substituted ammonium group or a substituted amino group. A mass spectrometry method for a protein, comprising the steps of: obtaining a modified protein by reacting the thiol probe with a protein to be subjected to mass spectrometry; and subjecting the modified protein to mass spectrometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Takashi Shimada, Taka-Aki Sato, Koichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20140210109
    Abstract: A built-in electronic component substrate includes a first substrate, an electronic component including side surfaces and mounted on the first substrate, a first resin provided on the first substrate and covering the side surfaces of the electronic component, a second substrate provided above the electronic component and the first resin and layered on the first substrate, a substrate connection member provided between the first and the second substrates and electrically connecting the first and the second substrates, a second resin filling in between the electronic component and the second substrate and in between the first resin and the second substrate, and a third resin filling in between the first and the second substrates and encapsulating the substrate connection member, the electronic component, the first resin, and the second resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi TANAKA, Nobuyuki KURASHIMA, Hajime IIZUKA, Satoshi SHIRAKI
  • Patent number: 8790280
    Abstract: To provide a human state estimating device which accurately estimates a human state. The human state estimating device includes: a storage unit (16) which stores reference data (17) in which a human state and a reference profile including a horizontal component of a standard microsaccade in the human state are corresponded to each other, for each of plural personal attribute information; a video obtaining unit (11) which obtains video of a user's eyeball, with an eyeball rotation angle accuracy of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyomi Sakamoto, Shoichi Aoyama, Shigeo Asahara, Xiaolin Zhang, Hirohiko Kaneko, Keiji Uchikawa, Haruki Mizushina, Naofumi Murata, Koichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8780224
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that acquires plural images including an image in which a main subject is in focus, by discretely moving a focus position and successively capturing the images; an image processing unit that executes image processing to at least one of a reference image and a non-reference image to bring degrees of blur thereof closer to one another, the reference image being an image in which the main subject is in focus; a detection unit that detects corresponding points of subjects in the image-processed reference image and non-reference image, a deformation unit that deforms the non-reference image before the image processing such that the positions of the corresponding points coincide, a generation unit that generates a blur-adjusted image on the basis of the reference image and the deformed non-reference image; and a recording unit that stores the blur-adjusted image at a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8772044
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for obtaining structural information conveniently and rapidly by generating a negative ion without adding an acidic substance to matrix, thereby improving sensitivity of measurement by a mass spectrometer, and by generating structural specific ions with high reproducibility, and a method for screening disease marker and a method for analyzing a sample containing a biomolecule. A method for mass spectrometry of a sugar chain comprising the steps of: preparing a sample containing a sugar chain; labeling the sugar chain with a labeling compound, to obtain a labeled sugar chain; and subjecting the labeled sugar chain to measurement of negative ions by using a MALDI mass spectrometer, thereby conducting analysis of the sugar chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignees: The Noguchi Institute, Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Junko Amano, Koichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8765576
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminated substrate is provided. The method includes: forming an oxide film on at least a surface of a first substrate having a hardness of equal to or more than 150 GPa in Young's modulus, and then smoothing the oxide film; implanting hydrogen ions or rare gas ions, or mixed gas ions thereof from a surface of a second substrate to form an ion-implanted layer inside the substrate, laminating the first substrate and the second substrate through at least the oxide film, and then detaching the second substrate in the ion-implanted layer to form a laminated substrate; heat-treating the laminated substrate and diffusing outwardly the oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Akiyama, Atsuo Ito, Yoshihiro Kubota, Koichi Tanaka, Makoto Kawai, Yuuji Tobisaka
  • Publication number: 20140160537
    Abstract: A scanner device according to one aspect of the present disclosure has a first mode for reading a normal object placed on a document table, and a second mode for reading a self-luminous object placed on the document table. The scanner device has a light detecting portion and a control portion. The light detecting portion detects light of an object placed on the document table. The control portion switches the reading mode between the first mode and the second mode on the basis of a detection result of the light detecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koichi Tanaka