Patents by Inventor Manabu Tanaka

Manabu 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: 12193980
    Abstract: Provided is a fixing member used in a support structure (100) for a bed. The support structure includes a lower frame (10), an upper frame (20), a raising/lowering mechanism (30) configured to raise and lower the upper frame with respect to the lower frame and including a support shaft (312) extending in a width direction of the bed, and a supported member (221, 222) fixed to the upper frame and supported by the support shaft. The support shaft moves in a longitudinal direction of the bed while supporting the supported member when the upper frame is raised and lowered. The fixing member includes a plurality of fixing tools (S11 to S14) configured to fix the supported member to the upper frame. Each of the plurality of fixing tools includes a flexure element (SB) fixed to the upper frame at one end and fixed to the supported member at the other end, and a strain gauge (SG) attached to the flexure element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Kui Li, Manabu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240398640
    Abstract: Provided is a fixing member used in a support structure (100) for a bed. The support structure includes a lower frame (10), an upper frame (20), a raising/lowering mechanism (30) configured to raise and lower the upper frame with respect to the lower frame and including a support shaft (312) extending in a width direction of the bed, and a supported member (221, 222) fixed to the upper frame and supported by the support shaft. The support shaft moves in a longitudinal direction of the bed while supporting the supported member when the upper frame is raised and lowered. The fixing member includes a plurality of fixing tools (S11 to S14) configured to fix the supported member to the upper frame. Each of the plurality of fixing tools includes a flexure element (SB) fixed to the upper frame at one end and fixed to the supported member at the other end, and a strain gauge (SG) attached to the flexure element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Kui LI, Manabu TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240369428
    Abstract: A load detection device (100, 200) installed under a caster of a bed includes a placement unit (30, 230), the caster being placed on the placement unit, a load detection unit (10, 20) configured to detect a load applied to the placement unit, and a guide plate (40) having an annular shape and surrounding the placement unit. The guide plate is provided with a slope (SL) configured to guide the caster to the placement unit and a handle (HD) for moving the load detection device. The slope includes a first slope provided adjacent to the placement unit in a predetermined direction and a second slope provided adjacent to the placement unit in a direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Shinya OGUCHI, Manabu TANAKA
  • Patent number: 12097579
    Abstract: The present invention enables even a beginner to acquire the technique easily and perform suitable spot welding, and achieves improved workability, improved welding quality, improved productivity, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA WELDING LABORATORIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Akihisa Murata, Tadasuke Murata, Manabu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240286980
    Abstract: Provided is a production method that enables simple and efficient production of a fluorinated hydrocarbon by a gas phase flow method without using a catalyst. The method of producing a fluorinated hydrocarbon includes continuously supplying a gaseous fluorine-containing inorganic compound to an electrical discharge zone in a plasma apparatus and subsequently causing migration to outside of the electrical discharge zone in the plasma apparatus, continuously supplying a feedstock gas containing an inert gas and a compound represented by formula 1: CH3—R (R is a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom, a bromine atom, an iodine atom, or an organic group other than a hydrocarbon group) to outside of the electrical discharge zone in the plasma apparatus, and subsequently continuously releasing, to outside of the plasma apparatus, gas that is contained outside of the electrical discharge zone in the plasma apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicants: ZEON CORPORATION, KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Go MATSUURA, Keita INADA, Takayuki WATANABE, Manabu TANAKA, Kazuki MATSUI
  • Patent number: 11957498
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray source, an X-ray detector, an arm, and processing circuitry. The arm supports the X-ray source and the X-ray detector. The processing circuitry identifies a three-dimensional running direction of a blood vessel of an object from a plurality of images that are obtained by using the X-ray source and the X-ray detector to image the object from at least two different angles, and controls positions of the X-ray source and the X-ray detector by using the arm in such a manner that a target position of the blood vessel is imaged from the at least two different directions determined depending on the three-dimensional running direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato Takemoto, Manabu Tanaka, Yuichiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240030486
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte having excellent productivity and having a particularly small particle size, including mixing a raw material inclusion containing a lithium atom, a sulfur atom, a phosphorus atom, and a halogen atom to obtain an electrolyte precursor, and heating the electrolyte precursor in the presence of a solvent and a dispersant having 8 or more carbon atoms in a molecule thereof in a sealed pressure resistant vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: TARO YAMAKI, Yoshikatsu SEINO, Shota TOTSUKA, Manabu TANAKA, Hironari KIMPARA
  • Patent number: 11833468
    Abstract: Provided is a method for separating ammonia gas using zeolite membrane having excellent separation stability at a high temperature capable of separating ammonia gas from a mixed gas composed of multiple components including ammonia gas, hydrogen gas, and nitrogen gas to the permeation side with high selectivity and high permeability. Also provided is a method for separating ammonia by selectively permeating ammonia gas from a mixed gas containing at least ammonia gas, hydrogen gas, and nitrogen gas using a zeolite membrane, wherein the ammonia gas concentration in the mixed gas is 1.0% by volume or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Tanaka, Takeshi Matsuo, Takayuki Aoshima
  • Patent number: 11628395
    Abstract: Provided is a method for separating ammonia gas using zeolite membrane having excellent separation stability at a high temperature capable of separating ammonia gas from a mixed gas composed of multiple components including ammonia gas, hydrogen gas, and nitrogen gas to the permeation side with high selectivity and high permeability. Also provided is a method for separating ammonia by selectively permeating ammonia gas from a mixed gas containing at least ammonia gas, hydrogen gas, and nitrogen gas using a zeolite membrane, wherein the ammonia gas concentration in the mixed gas is 1.0% by volume or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Tanaka, Takeshi Matsuo, Takayuki Aoshima
  • Patent number: 11588061
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion module (10) comprises a photoelectric conversion cell (12) and a grid electrode (31) provided in the photoelectric conversion cell (12) on a substrate. The photoelectric conversion cell (12) includes a first electrode layer (22), a second electrode layer (24), a photoelectric conversion layer (26) between the first electrode layer (22) and the second electrode layer (24). The second electrode layer (24) is formed of a transparent electrode layer located on opposite side of the photoelectric conversion layer (26) to the substrate (20). The grid electrode (31) is provided between the photoelectric conversion layer (26) and the transparent electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Yoneyama, Mikio Hamano, Yoshihide Miyagawa, Toshiaki Yamaura, Akihiko Asano, Manabu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11518351
    Abstract: This braking control device pumps a brake fluid from a reservoir to each wheel cylinder by one fluid pump and includes an electric motor which drives the fluid pump; and a controller which controls the electric motor. The controller calculates a target fluid pressure on the basis of at least one among the vehicle wheel speed, the vehicle deceleration state, and the turning state of the vehicle, calculates a target discharge amount for the fluid pump on the basis of the target fluid pressure, and controls the electric motor on the basis of the target discharge amount. The controller has a front wheel calculation map of the relationship between the fluid pressure and the inflow volume of the brake fluid corresponding to a front wheel cylinder, and a rear wheel calculation map corresponding to a rear wheel cylinder, and calculates the target discharge amount on the basis of the maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Tanaka, Shunya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11480483
    Abstract: A load detector for detecting a load of a subject on a bed (BD) having a caster (CT) includes: a plate portion (1) which is one-fold and which is to be supported above an installation surface (F), on which the load detector is installed, separately from the installation surface; and a slope portion (SL1, SL2, SL3, SL4) which is provided around the plate portion and which is inclined relative to a surface of the plate portion so as to extend between the surface of the plate portion and the installation surface. The plate portion includes: a peripheral part (13); a placing part (11) on which the caster is to be placed, and which is provided inside relative to the peripheral part separately from the peripheral part; and a linking part (12) which links the placing part and the peripheral part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventor: Manabu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11478216
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes at least one of memory and processing circuitry. The memory stores a first medical image of a heart area acquired in a plurality of directions and a second medical image of the heart area acquired in real time. The processing circuitry is configured to set, based on the first medical image, each of a valve boundary line indicating a boundary between leaflets of a heart valve and an insertion point on an inner wall through which a catheter is inserted, generate a navigation graphic including the valve boundary line and the safety lines by generating a plurality of safety lines individually connecting the insertion point to ends of the valve boundary line, and superimpose the navigation graphic on the second medical image to generate a superimposed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Smalling, Andrew Kuhls-Gilcrist, Takuya Sakaguchi, Manabu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220288529
    Abstract: Provided is a method for separating ammonia gas using zeolite membrane having excellent separation stability at a high temperature capable of separating ammonia gas from a mixed gas composed of multiple components including ammonia gas, hydrogen gas, and nitrogen gas to the permeation side with high selectivity and high permeability. Also provided is a method for separating ammonia by selectively permeating ammonia gas from a mixed gas containing at least ammonia gas, hydrogen gas, and nitrogen gas using a zeolite membrane, wherein the ammonia gas concentration in the mixed gas is 1.0% by volume or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu TANAKA, Takeshi MATSUO, Takayuki AOSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220063012
    Abstract: The present invention enables even a beginner to acquire the technique easily and perform suitable spot welding, and achieves improved workability, improved welding quality, improved productivity, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: MURATA WELDING LABORATORIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Akihisa MURATA, Tadasuke MURATA, Manabu TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11219422
    Abstract: An image displaying system according to an embodiment includes an observation target device, a display device and processing circuitry. The display device is configured to display an image. The processing circuitry is configured to: arrange a three-dimensional model relating to the observation target device in a virtual space; acquire data indicating a relative positional relationship between an operator and the observation target device; generate an image of a three-dimensional model included in a blind area when viewed from the operator, based on the data indicating the relative positional relationship and on the three-dimensional model arranged in the virtual space; and display the image on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Kobayashi, Hisato Takemoto, Toru Takahashi, Tomio Maehama, Hideaki Tanaka, Naoya Fujita, Manabu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11084025
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an inexpensive, high-performance AEI type zeolite and an AEI type zeolite having a Si/Al ratio of 6.5 or less and an acidity of 1.2 mmol/g or more and 3.0 mmol/g or less, by using neither an expensive Y type zeolite as a raw material nor dangerous hydrofluoric acid. The method for producing an AEI type zeolite having a Si/Al ratio of 50 or less includes: preparing a mixture including a silicon atom material, an aluminum atom material, an alkali metal atom material, an organic structure-directing agent, and water; and performing hydrothermal synthesis of the obtained mixture, in which a compound having a Si content of 20% by weight or less and containing aluminum is used as the aluminum atom material; and the mixture includes a zeolite having a framework density of 14 T/1000 ?3 or more in an amount of 0.1% by weight or more with respect to SiO2 assuming that all Si atoms in the mixture are formed in SiO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Tanaka, Takahiko Takewaki, Takeshi Matsuo, Masahiro Hara
  • Publication number: 20210239547
    Abstract: A load detector for detecting a load of a subject on a bed (BD) having a caster (CT) includes: a plate portion (1) which is one-fold and which is to be supported above an installation surface (F), on which the load detector is installed, separately from the installation surface; and a slope portion (SL1, SL2, SL3, SL4) which is provided around the plate portion and which is inclined relative to a surface of the plate portion so as to extend between the surface of the plate portion and the installation surface. The plate portion includes: a peripheral part (13); a placing part (11) on which the caster is to be placed, and which is provided inside relative to the peripheral part separately from the peripheral part; and a linking part (12) which links the placing part and the peripheral part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Manabu TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11052355
    Abstract: A gas separation membrane containing a matrix resin and hyperbranched polymer- or dendrimer-bound, heteromorphous shaped silica nanoparticles, which are formed of heteromorphous shaped silica nanoparticles having surfaces onto which a hyperbranched polymer or a dendrimer is chemically added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignees: NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION, TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kawakami, Manabu Tanaka, Yuri Kameyama, Yuki Kudo, Hiroto Mikami, Tadayuki Isaji, Kazutoshi Odaka, Takamasa Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20210138393
    Abstract: Provided is a method for separating ammonia gas using zeolite membrane having excellent separation stability at a high temperature capable of separating ammonia gas from a mixed gas composed of multiple components including ammonia gas, hydrogen gas, and nitrogen gas to the permeation side with high selectivity and high permeability. Also provided is a method for separating ammonia by selectively permeating ammonia gas from a mixed gas containing at least ammonia gas, hydrogen gas, and nitrogen gas using a zeolite membrane, wherein the ammonia gas concentration in the mixed gas is 1.0% by volume or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: MANABU TANAKA, Takeshi Matsuo, Takayuki Aoshima