Patents by Inventor Kuniaki Tanaka
Kuniaki 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: 11784521Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core including a pair of accommodation holes, and a pair of magnets accommodated in the pair of accommodation holes. The pair of magnets extend in directions away from each other in a circumferential direction from the radially inside toward the radially outside. A flux barrier is radially outside the magnet. The rotor core includes a first gap between magnetic poles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The first gap is sandwiched between the flux barriers of the magnetic poles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A radially outside surface of the rotor core includes a pair of core recesses provided in a portion located on the radially outside of the flux barrier and a core protrusion located between the pair of core recesses in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventor: Kuniaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11784524Abstract: A rotor includes an axially extending in an axial direction, a rotor core including a central hole through which the shaft passes and accommodation holes radially outside the central hole, and magnets accommodated in the accommodation holes. The accommodation holes include a pair of accommodation holes extends in a direction away from each other in a circumferential direction from a radially inside toward a radially outside when viewed in the axial direction. The magnets include a pair of magnets accommodated in the pair of accommodation holes. The rotor core includes through-holes made at intervals in the circumferential direction, and is configured by laminating plates. The through-holes are located radially outside the central hole and radially inside the accommodation hole. The stacked plates are fixed to each other by a caulking portion in which a portion of the plate is caulked.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventor: Kuniaki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20230102659Abstract: In a rotor, magnetic poles having a pair of first magnets and second magnets are provided along a circumferential direction. The magnetic pole includes a pair of first flux barrier portions radially outside the first magnets, and a pair of second flux barrier portions between the pair of first flux barrier portions in the circumferential direction. The first flux barrier portion has a first end close to the adjacent second flux barrier portion. The second flux barrier portion has a second end close to the adjacent first flux barrier portion. A relative position of the first end in the circumferential direction with respect to a circumferential center of the magnetic pole is different between the adjacent magnetic poles. A relative position of the second end in the circumferential direction with respect to the circumferential center of the magnetic pole is different between the adjacent magnetic poles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventor: Kuniaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20230079337Abstract: Provided is a wet atomizer for processing all-solid-state battery raw materials while ensuring sealing property, operability after completion of processing, and maintenance property. The wet atomizer includes a liquid supply pump for supplying the all-solid-state battery raw materials, a pressure intensifier for pressurizing the all-solid-state battery raw materials supplied from the liquid supply pump, a high-pressure filter for filtering the all-solid-state battery raw materials pressurized by the pressure intensifier, a chamber for injecting the all-solid-state battery raw materials filtered by the high-pressure filter, a sealing member for sealing the space for processing the all-solid-state battery raw materials, and an inert gas supply unit for supplying an inert gas to the sealing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Yuuya YAMADA, Kenichi HARASHIMA, Kuniaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220368203Abstract: A motor includes a rotor with a rotor core formed of stacked electromagnetic steel sheets and rotor magnets, and a stator surrounding the rotor. The rotor core includes pairs of magnet insertion hole portions with an opposing distance sequentially increasing radially outwardly. The rotor magnets are in the magnet insertion hole portions. The rotor core includes first blocks arranged by dividing the rotor core into two blocks in the axial direction, and a second block between the two first blocks. An angle formed by the rotor magnets in the pair of magnet insertion hole portions in the first block is a first magnet opening angle ?1. An angle formed by the rotor magnets in the pair of magnet insertion hole portions in the second block is a second magnet opening angle ?2. The second magnet opening angle ?2 is larger than the first magnet opening angle ?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventor: Kuniaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220352799Abstract: A motor includes a stator and a rotor, the rotor includes a frame coupled to a rotation shaft and a magnet fixed to the frame, with a direction from the stator toward the rotor as a first direction, the magnet includes a plurality of lower part main pole magnets having a magnetization direction in the first direction and pluralities of lower part second rightward sub-magnets and lower part second leftward sub-magnets having a magnetization direction in a direction different from the first direction, the lower part main pole magnet includes a lower part first upward main magnet placed at a negative side in the first direction and a lower part second upward main magnet fixed to the frame, when the magnet is seen along the first direction, the lower part first upward main magnet and the lower part second rightward sub-magnet and lower part second leftward sub-magnet partially overlap.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Hideaki NISHIDA, Kuniaki TANAKA
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Patent number: 11482662Abstract: Provided is an aluminum nitride film in which, aluminum nitride crystal grains containing a metal element differing from aluminum and substituting for aluminum are main crystal grains of a polycrystalline film formed of crystal grains, and a concentration of the metal element in a grain boundary between the aluminum nitride crystal grains in at least one region of first and second regions corresponding to both end portions of the polycrystalline film in a film thickness direction of the polycrystalline film is higher than a concentration of the metal element in a center region of the aluminum nitride crystal grain in the at least one region, and is higher than a concentration of the metal element in a grain boundary between the aluminum nitride crystal grains in a third region located between the first region and the second region in the film thickness direction of the polycrystalline film.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuniaki Tanaka, Tokihiro Nishihara, Tomonori Yamatoh
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Publication number: 20220239207Abstract: A lower part first main magnet, a lower part first sub-magnet, a lower part second main magnet, and a lower part second sub-magnet of a motor are sequentially repeatedly placed along a circumference of a rotation axis for relative rotation, a magnetization direction of the lower part first main magnet is a lower part first direction, a magnetization direction of the lower part second main magnet is a lower part second direction, magnetization directions of the lower part first sub-magnet and the lower part second sub-magnet are circumferential directions, the lower part first sub-magnet and the lower part second sub-magnet have recessed portions in parts facing a first stator and facing the lower part first main magnet or the lower part second main magnet, and lower part first auxiliary magnet to lower part fourth auxiliary magnet in magnetization directions different from the lower part first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Hideaki NISHIDA, Kuniaki TANAKA, Shigekazu TAKAGI, Hiroshi KOEDA, Hiroshi WADA
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Publication number: 20220166272Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core including a pair of accommodation holes, and a pair of magnets accommodated in the pair of accommodation holes. The pair of magnets extend in directions away from each other in a circumferential direction from the radially inside toward the radially outside. A flux barrier is radially outside the magnet. The rotor core includes a first gap between magnetic poles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The first gap is sandwiched between the flux barriers of the magnetic poles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A radially outside surface of the rotor core includes a pair of core recesses provided in a portion located on the radially outside of the flux barrier and a core protrusion located between the pair of core recesses in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventor: Kuniaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220166276Abstract: A rotor includes an axially extending in an axial direction, a rotor core including a central hole through which the shaft passes and accommodation holes radially outside the central hole, and magnets accommodated in the accommodation holes. The accommodation holes include a pair of accommodation holes extends in a direction away from each other in a circumferential direction from a radially inside toward a radially outside when viewed in the axial direction. The magnets include a pair of magnets accommodated in the pair of accommodation holes. The rotor core includes through-holes made at intervals in the circumferential direction, and is configured by laminating plates. The through-holes are located radially outside the central hole and radially inside the accommodation hole. The stacked plates are fixed to each other by a caulking portion in which a portion of the plate is caulked.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventor: Kuniaki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20220149683Abstract: A rotary motor includes a stator and a rotor configured to rotate around a rotation axis. The rotor includes a frame including a first surface facing the stator and a plurality of first recesses arrayed along a circumferential direction around the rotation axis and opened on the first surface, the frame being formed in an annular shape, main magnets disposed in the first recesses or among the first recesses, and sub-magnets disposed in the first recesses when the main magnets are disposed among the first recesses and disposed among the first recesses when the main magnets are disposed in the first recesses.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Hiroshi KOEDA, Kuniaki TANAKA, Shigekazu TAKAGI, Hiroshi WADA, Michio SATO, Hideaki NISHIDA, Makoto MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20220149684Abstract: An axial gap motor includes a stator including a coil and a rotor disposed to be separated from the stator and configured to rotate around a rotating shaft. The rotor includes a first magnet and a second magnet adjacent to the first magnet. The first magnet includes a projection provided at an end portion in a circumferential direction in a plan view from an axial direction of the rotating shaft. The second magnet includes a recess provided at an end portion in the circumferential direction in the plan view from the axial direction and fitting with the projection.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventor: Kuniaki TANAKA
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Patent number: 10886887Abstract: An aluminum nitride film contains a Group IV element and a Group II or Group XII element, and an atomic composition ratio of the Group II or Group XII element to the Group IV element is less than 1.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuniaki Tanaka, Tokihiro Nishihara
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Patent number: 10868891Abstract: A vehicle information transmission system that carries out communication with a management server that manages a vehicle includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to acquire vehicle information in accordance with a third sampling pattern that is a combination of a first sampling pattern and a second sampling pattern. The vehicle information is transferred within an in-vehicle network installed in the vehicle. The first sampling pattern is a sampling pattern in which the vehicle information is sampled at a change point at which a predetermined change has occurred. The second sampling pattern is a sampling pattern in which the vehicle information is sampled at intervals of a predetermined period. The electronic control unit is configured to transmit the acquired vehicle information to the management server.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashige Hori, Kuniaki Tanaka, Eiji Murata, Masatoshi Takahara, Kouji Maeno, Toshio Kato, Shoji Kamiya
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Publication number: 20200312257Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate unit, a second substrate unit, and a display panel. The first substrate unit is a substrate unit on which a driver circuit is mounted. The driver circuit outputs multiple driver output signals. The second substrate unit includes branching lines, through which one driver output signal is caused to branch to multiple branching signals, for each of the driver output signals. The display panel receives the branching signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: KOHJI NAGASAKA, KUNIAKI TANAKA, FUMIKAZU SHIMOSHIKIRYOH
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Patent number: 10761178Abstract: An in-vehicle system includes: a position information reception unit configured to receive position information from a satellite positioning system; a first control unit; a communication line connected to the first control unit; and a second control unit that is connected to the first control unit through the communication line and has a first conversion process unit configured to convert a datum of the position information. The first control unit is configured to transmit the position information received by the position information reception unit to the second control unit through the communication line, and the second control unit is configured to convert a datum of the position information received from the first control unit by the first conversion process unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kuniaki Tanaka, Kentaro Asai
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Publication number: 20190363243Abstract: Provided is an aluminum nitride film in which, aluminum nitride crystal grains containing a metal element differing from aluminum and substituting for aluminum are main crystal grains of a polycrystalline film formed of crystal grains, and a concentration of the metal element in a grain boundary between the aluminum nitride crystal grains in at least one region of first and second regions corresponding to both end portions of the polycrystalline film in a film thickness direction of the polycrystalline film is higher than a concentration of the metal element in a center region of the aluminum nitride crystal grain in the at least one region, and is higher than a concentration of the metal element in a grain boundary between the aluminum nitride crystal grains in a third region located between the first region and the second region in the film thickness direction of the polycrystalline film.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuniaki TANAKA, Tokihiro NISHIHARA, Tomonori YAMATOH
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Patent number: 10479362Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance systems, methods, and programs obtain lane information of a road on which a vehicle is traveling, and set a planned target section for which a lane change plan of the vehicle is to be created. The systems, methods, and programs obtain, for each lane, an obstructive factor present on the road on which the vehicle is traveling and that obstructs continuation of autonomous driving assistance executed on the vehicle, and set, for each obtained obstructive factor, an avoidance route that passes through a lane avoiding the obstructive factor. The systems, methods, and programs create a lane change route that defines the lane change plan of the vehicle in the planned target section and that is set so as to preferentially pass through the avoidance route set for each obtained obstructive factor, and execute the autonomous driving assistance of the vehicle based on the lane change route.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohiko Goto, Yuji Sato, Kuniaki Tanaka, Masaki Takano
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Patent number: 10399571Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance systems, methods, and programs obtain road information that specifies classification of lanes located ahead in a direction in which a vehicle is traveling and road connection for each lane. The systems, methods, and programs specify, based on the road information, a planned route that is to be taken by the vehicle on a presumption that the vehicle travels without changing lanes, when the vehicle travels with autonomous driving assistance, and execute the autonomous driving assistance for the vehicle according to the specified planned route.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohiko Goto, Yuji Sato, Kuniaki Tanaka, Masaki Takano
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Publication number: 20190170850Abstract: An in-vehicle system includes: a position information reception unit configured to receive position information from a satellite positioning system; a first control unit; a communication line connected to the first control unit; and a second control unit that is connected to the first control unit through the communication line and has a first conversion process unit configured to convert a datum of the position information. The first control unit is configured to transmit the position information received by the position information reception unit to the second control unit through the communication line, and the second control unit is configured to convert a datum of the position information received from the first control unit by the first conversion process unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kuniaki TANAKA, Kentaro ASAI