Patents by Inventor Makoto Tanaka

Makoto 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: 20210402715
    Abstract: A filament winding apparatus includes a rail extending in a first direction, a core material support device that supports a core material, and a winding device that winds a fiber bundle onto an outer peripheral surface of the core material, the winding device including: a guide unit having an opening through which the core material passes, and guiding the fiber bundle; and a main frame on which the guide unit is mounted; wherein the main frame is movable relative to the core material in the first direction, the main frame is movable in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the main frame is rotatable around a first rotational axis extending in a third direction orthogonal to each of the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Shu Ikezaki, Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Hirotaka Wada, Masatsugu Goyude, Shota Miyaji, Takahiro Miura, Makoto Tanaka, Daigoro Nakamura, Tetsuya Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20210394461
    Abstract: In a filament winding apparatus, a supplying device supplies fiber bundles to a surface of a core material. A moving part is movable relative to the core material, and rotatable around a rotational axis extending in a vertical direction. A small diameter aligning guide part is placed at the moving part and has an opening portion through which the core material can pass. The small diameter aligning guide part guides fiber bundles to an outer peripheral surface of the core material such that the fiber bundles are arranged side by side in a circumferential direction of the core material. The tightening fiber bobbin supporting part is placed at the moving part and rotates around a center of the opening portion. A winding guide rotates with the tightening fiber bobbin supporting part and guides a tightening fiber bundle drawn from a tightening fiber bobbin toward the surface of the core material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Shu Ikezaki, Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Masatsugu Goyude, Shota Miyaji, Hirotaka Wada, Takahiro Miura, Makoto Tanaka, Daigoro Nakamura, Tetsuya Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11197558
    Abstract: A manifold for a body support apparatus is disposed in a frame together with an air source. This manifold for a body support apparatus includes: a first opening through which air from the air source is supplied; multiple second openings which are connected to openings of the frame; a space which communicates with the first opening; and multiple flow passages which connect the space and the multiple second openings to each other and are designed to open and close. The inside of this manifold for a body support apparatus is sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: PARAMOUNT BED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Tominaga, Makoto Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210378415
    Abstract: A mattress including: an elastic body; a sheet that is disposed at least above the elastic body and made of any of a conductive sheet and a conductive fiber; and a measurement unit that is configured to measure a change of capacitance of the sheet observed when the elastic body is deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Kenta OHNO, Makoto TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210378413
    Abstract: A mattress including air cells that are located on both sides of a user, in which the air cells each have a convex shape on a first side surface, and the air cells are arranged so that the convex shapes thereof are respectively located near shoulder blade outer edges of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Kenta OHNO, Makoto TANAKA, Takayuki ARIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20210367390
    Abstract: A gas laser apparatus may include a chamber filled with a laser gas; a window provided in the chamber and through which a laser beam passes; an optical path tube connected to the chamber to surround a position of the window in the chamber; a heated gas supply port configured to supply a heated purge gas into a closed space including a space in the optical path tube; and an exhaust port configured to exhaust a gas in the closed space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Gigaphoton Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke TEI, Osamu WAKABAYASHI, Makoto TANAKA, Miwa IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20210356355
    Abstract: An environmental testing laboratory includes a supply port allowing air-conditioned air at a predetermined temperature supplied through the supply port at a predetermined speed, a discharge port facing the supply port and allowing the air be discharged through the discharge port, a flow passage disposed between the supply port and the discharge port and allowing the air to pass through the flow passage part, an installation part disposed at a center of the flow passage and allowing a measurement target in the installation part, and a flow straightening member which is disposed between a sidewall surface of the flow passage part and the installation part and which is configured to straighten an airflow of the air-conditioned air. The sidewall surface of the flow passage part and the first flow straightening member are disposed in parallel with the airflow of the air-conditioned air from the supply port to the discharge port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT SERVICES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto TANAKA, Satoru SUGITANI, Tsuyoshi YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11164117
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure sets a provisional combination of a driver user and fellow passenger users and acquires attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger users included in the provisional combination. The information processing apparatus transmits the baggage attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger user included in the provisional combination and information inquiring whether or not to agree to the provisional combination to a terminal used by the driver user included in the provisional combination. Upon receiving information indicating agreement to the provisional combination from the terminal of the driver user, the information processing apparatus sets the provisional combination as an official combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Nakanishi, Daigo Fujii, Makoto Tanaka, Kazuki Takeuchi, Chie Koike, Daiki Kaneichi, Tsuyoshi Okada
  • Patent number: 11149598
    Abstract: A fuel injection control device includes an additional energization unit. Concerning an undershoot state caused by a first energization for fuel injection, a return period is an estimated period required for a movable core to return to an initial position from a first energization. An injection interval ranges from the first energization to a second energization that is for a next fuel injection. An allowable period is obtained by subtracting a rise period estimated for the second energization from the return period. The additional energization unit adds an additional energization between the first energization and the second energization when the injection interval is longer than or equal to the allowable period and is shorter than or equal to the return period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Niwa, Makoto Saizen, Makoto Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210293198
    Abstract: A control device includes a drive unit configured to supply electric power to a fuel injection valve to perform valve open drive to supply fuel to a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine; and a correction unit configured to correct a fuel injection amount of the fuel injection valve. The correction unit is configured to learn the fuel injection amount of the fuel injection valve when NOx purge is performed to reduce and purify the NOx occlusion catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Makoto TANAKA, Masatake WADA
  • Publication number: 20210289044
    Abstract: [Object] To provide novel and improved information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system that enable smoother installation of an application on an information terminal. [Solution] According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a control unit configured to perform, in a case in which installation of an application is accepted by a first information terminal, application-installation prompt processing to prompt the installation of the application with respect to a second information terminal. According to the present disclosure, in the case in which the first information terminal accepts installation of an application, the control unit performs application-installation prompt processing with respect to the second information terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: HIDEO NAGASAKA, KATSUTOSHI KUSUMOTO, MAKOTO TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11105650
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure in a mode in which a plurality of users share the same vehicle sets, when determining a combination of a driving user and fellow users, a scheduled traveling route which is a scheduled route along which the vehicle travels from a getting-in spot to a getting-off spot of each of the fellow users. Upon detecting that the vehicle is traveling off a scheduled traveling route while the fellow users are in the vehicle, the information processing apparatus transmits warning information which is information warning a first user terminal of the driving user and a second user terminal of the fellow user that the vehicle is traveling off the scheduled traveling route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Nakanishi, Daigo Fujii, Makoto Tanaka, Kazuki Takeuchi, Chie Koike, Daiki Kaneichi, Tsuyoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20210197501
    Abstract: A helical winding unit is provided with a frame member in which a plurality of nozzle attachment units are provided to be aligned in a circumferential direction about an axis of a liner; nozzle units that each have a guide body movable in a radial direction of the liner and rotatable about a rotating axis extending in the radial direction, and that are attachable to and detachable from the nozzle attachment units; a moving endless toothed annular body that transmits, commonly to one or more nozzle units attached to one or more nozzle attachment units, power for moving the guide body in the radial direction; and a rotating endless toothed annular body that transmits, commonly to one or more nozzle units attached to one or more nozzle attachment units, power for rotating the guide body about the rotating axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Shu Ikezaki, Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Hirotaka Wada, Masatsugu Goyude, Tetsuya Matsuura, Daigoro Nakamura, Takahiro Miura, Makoto Tanaka, Shota Miyaji
  • Publication number: 20210080492
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an output transistor that supplies a power to a load, a sense transistor that detects a load current of the output transistor, first and second transistors connected in parallel to an output of the sense transistor, an amplifier which has an inverting input coupled to an output of the output transistor, a non-inverting input coupled to the output of the sense transistor, and an output coupled to each gate of the first and second transistors, a first voltage converter coupled to an output of the first transistor, and a comparator that compares an output voltage of the first voltage converter with a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Naohiro YOSHIMURA, Makoto TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210059425
    Abstract: A manifold for a body support apparatus is disposed in a frame together with an air source. This manifold for a body support apparatus includes: a first opening through which air from the air source is supplied; multiple second openings which are connected to openings of the frame; a space which communicates with the first opening; and multiple flow passages which connect the space and the multiple second openings to each other and are designed to open and close. The inside of this manifold for a body support apparatus is sealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yusuke TOMINAGA, Makoto TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210047968
    Abstract: A thermal barrier coating includes: a metal bonding layer made of an alloy containing Al; a thermal barrier layer; and an intermediate layer provided between the metal bonding layer and the thermal barrier layer. The thermal barrier layer contains a compound represented by the following general formula (1), LnxTayHfzO(3x+5y+4z)/2 (1) (wherein Ln is an atom of one element selected from among rare earth elements, x is 0 to 1.0, y is 0.8 to 3.0, and z is 0 to 7.0). The intermediate layer contains at least one layer selected from among the following (A) to (C): (A) a layer containing hafnium oxide (HfO2) as a main component; (B) a layer containing, as a main component, a compound consisting of tantalum (Ta), hafnium (Hf), and oxygen (O); and (C) a layer containing, as a main component, a compound consisting of a rare earth element, tantalum (Ta), hafnium (Hf), and oxygen (O).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicants: JAPAN FINE CERAMICS CENTER, TOCALO CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuneaki MATSUDAIRA, Satoshi KITAOKA, Naoki KAWASHIMA, Daisaku YOKOE, Makoto TANAKA, Yoichiro HABU, Mikako NAGAO, Kazuo NODA, Yoshiyasu ITO, Yuhei OHIDE, Kaito TAKAGI
  • Patent number: 10923990
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, an external unit used by being mounted on a bottom part of a motor body having at least two motor terminals has a holder, a PTC thermistor arranged on the holder, a first terminal connected to the PTC thermistor, a part of the first terminal exposed to an outside of the holder, and a second terminal electrically connected to the first terminal through the PTC thermistor and electrically connected to one of the motor terminals. The PTC thermistor is flat-plate shaped, and a surface of the PTC thermistor is directed toward a rotary shaft direction of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventor: Makoto Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210017924
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control device sets a target air-fuel ratio and performs an air-fuel ratio control based on the target air-fuel ratio for an engine of a spark ignition type. The air-fuel ratio control device includes a lean combustion determination unit that determines whether a lean combustion is performed in the engine at the target air-fuel ratio, the target air-fuel ratio being set leaner than the theoretical air-fuel ratio; a target NOx setting unit that sets a target NOx concentration according to an operation state of the engine; an acquisition unit that acquires an actual NOx concentration detected by using a NOx concentration detection unit in an exhaust passage of the engine; and a correction unit that corrects the target air-fuel ratio based on the target NOx concentration and the actual NOx concentration when determination is made that lean combustion is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Makoto TANAKA, Masatake WADA
  • Patent number: 10884615
    Abstract: An inspection assistance device includes a damage drawing input part configured to input a damage drawing, i.e. a drawing illustrating damages of target parts, a display configured to display the damage drawing and target figures illustrating target parts to be overlaid with each other, and a storage configured to store the damage drawing separately from the target figures in connection with the target figures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Koki Tateishi, Makoto Tanaka, Tadakuni Nishio, Ichiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10843954
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a synthetic opaque quartz glass where flame processing can be performed in high purity with a simple way and even a large sized one can be produced, and the synthetic opaque quartz glass. A method for producing a synthetic opaque quartz glass which comprises the step of heating and burning a quartz glass porous body under a pressure of from 0.15 MPa to 1000 MPa at a temperature of from 1200 ° C. The quartz glass porous body is prepared by depositing quartz glass particles which are produced by hydrolyzing a silicon compound with an oxyhydrogen flame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU QUARTZ PRODUCTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Sato, Nobumasa Yoshida, Katsuhide Orikasa, Makoto Tanaka