Patents by Inventor Masahiro Tanaka

Masahiro 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: 20190246997
    Abstract: A console for an ex-ray imaging apparatus improves operability and includes in combination an operation panel 26 and a recording button 26b on an imaging system operation lever 26a. In use, the operator grips the imaging system operation lever 26a while video imaging allowing the operator to operate a recording button 26b without unlinking a hand from the imaging system operation lever 26a while watching the display element 25 without changing the line of sight to the operation panel 26. Accordingly, the operator can start recording immediately without changing the line of the own sight, so that the scene for diagnosis is accurately recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10374366
    Abstract: An electric wire branching structure (1) branches a shielded electric wire (30) with a plurality of electric wires (10) from a main wire (30A) to a plurality of branch wires (30B, 30C). The electric wire branching structure (1) includes an electroconductive shield member (100) configured to cover the electric wires (10) corresponding to the main wire (30A) and the branch wires (30B, 30C). The shield member (100) has a plurality of electric wire insertion openings (111, 112) for the electric wires (10) corresponding to the branch wires (30B, 30C) to be inserted for each of the branch wires (30B, 30C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Hajime Kato
  • Publication number: 20190126817
    Abstract: An in-vehicle lighting device includes: a panel that has a front surface and a back surface, and has a through-hole penetrating through the front surface and the back surface; a light source disposed on a side of the back surface of the panel; and a button inserted in the through-hole, the button including a front end part protruding from the front surface, an first intermediate part provided continuously with the front end part and located between the front surface and the back surface of the panel, a surface of the first intermediate part containing a material that reflects light emitted from the light source, and a back end part provided continuously with the first intermediate part and protrudes from the back surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro TANAKA, Akimitsu UMEKAWA
  • Patent number: 10267631
    Abstract: An altitude sensor and a temperature sensor are installed at a flying object. The flying object or a control device for controlling an operation of the flying object corrects temperature information acquired by the temperature sensor to temperature information at an altitude by using altitude information acquired by the altitude sensor. The flying object or the control device determines whether an air current is ascending or descending based on temperature changes at the altitude. The temperature changes are obtained from the corrected temperature information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10211570
    Abstract: A lever-fitting type connector includes a lever configured to linearly perform a relative movement with respect to a terminal accommodation member when lever operational force in a straight direction is input, a first guide mechanism configured to convert lever input acting along a lever operation direction that is exerted from the lever on the terminal accommodation member, into force in a connector insertion-removal direction orthogonal to the lever operation direction, and to guide a relative movement between the terminal accommodation member and the lever while performing conversion of a direction of the force, and a second guide mechanism that is a screw mechanism that can exert axial force acting along the lever operation direction, on the lever, and is configured to relatively move the lever with respect to the electrically-connected target object while guiding in the lever operation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroaki Imai, Hajime Kato, Shigeru Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180361523
    Abstract: A production apparatus includes a workbench, a movement apparatus, a conveyance apparatus, a motion detector, and a control unit. The movement apparatus configured to move the workpiece on the workbench to a predetermined delivery position. The conveyance apparatus configured to convey the workpiece moved to the predetermined delivery position to an adjacent production apparatus. The motion detector configured to detect conveyance motion of the conveyance apparatus of the adjacent production apparatus. The control unit configured to operate the movement apparatus to move the workpiece on the workbench to the predetermined delivery position. If conveyance motion of the conveyance apparatus of the adjacent production apparatus is detected by the motion detector, the control unit operates the conveyance apparatus to convey the workpiece to a delivery position of the adjacent production apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Kensuke Uehara, Yoshitaka Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20180316134
    Abstract: A lever-fitting type connector includes a lever configured to linearly perform a relative movement with respect to a terminal accommodation member when lever operational force in a straight direction is input, a first guide mechanism configured to convert lever input acting along a lever operation direction that is exerted from the lever on the terminal accommodation member, into force in a connector insertion-removal direction orthogonal to the lever operation direction, and to guide a relative movement between the terminal accommodation member and the lever while performing conversion of a direction of the force, and a second guide mechanism that is a screw mechanism that can exert axial force acting along the lever operation direction, on the lever, and is configured to relatively move the lever with respect to the electrically-connected target object while guiding in the lever operation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroaki Imai, Hajime Kato, Shigeru Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180294432
    Abstract: An organic electro-luminescence (EL) element includes a first electrode, a light emitting layer, and a second electrode layered in this order above a substrate. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a light transmissive electrode. The light transmissive electrode includes a base metal layer and a silver thin film. The base metal layer is a metal layer including an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal as a material. The silver thin film is silver or a silver alloy including silver as a main component, and is disposed on and in contact with the base metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Jun YAMAGUCHI, Kenji HARADA, Masahiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180246953
    Abstract: A training device includes: a question issuing unit issuing a question stored in a question and expected answer storage unit to a question answering system; an answer candidate filtering unit, an answer candidate determining unit, training data generating/labeling unit, and a training data selecting unit, generating and adding to a training data storage unit training data for a ranking unit of question answering system, from pairs of a question and each of a plurality of answer candidates output with scores from why-question answering system; and an iteration control unit controlling question issuing unit, answer candidate filtering unit, answer candidate determining unit, training data generating/labeling unit and training data selecting unit such that training of the training device, issuance of question and addition of training data are repeated until an end condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Jonghoon OH, Kentaro TORISAWA, Chikara HASHIMOTO, Ryu IIDA, Masahiro TANAKA, Julien KLOETZER
  • Publication number: 20180245710
    Abstract: A valve actuator is a valve actuator that drives opening and closing of a poppet valve and includes a motor and a transmission mechanism that transmits a drive force of the motor to the poppet valve. The transmission mechanism includes a booster mechanism. The booster mechanism is a three-dimensional toggle mechanism that includes a cylinder, an input disc that rotates about an axis in the cylinder, an output disc that reciprocates along an axial direction in the cylinder, and a link that connects the input disc and the output disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei TAYA, Hatsuo MORI, Kenji HIRAI, Yu HIRATA, Masahiro TANAKA, Takeshi TAKAKI
  • Patent number: 10058291
    Abstract: Provided is a radiographic apparatus with safety and time-saved imaging upon inclination of a subject without pulling an external instrument by the subject. In the radiographic apparatus, a top board supporting the subject placed thereon is rotatable and liftable. The characteristic feature of the embodiment is to control a level of an intersection of the top board and a line connecting an X-ray tube to an FPD to be constant in association with operation of a top-board rotation controller. This achieves a constant level of a region of interest (a site to be imaged) of the subject regardless of rotation of the top board. Consequently, an invariable distance is obtainable between the subject and the external instrument on the floor, allowing suppression in pulling of the external instrument due to a vertical movement of the subject. As a result, provision of a radiographic apparatus with safety and time-saved imaging is obtainable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180145147
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a high-voltage insulated gate type bipolar semiconductor device by comparing to a reference structure of the same includes determining a width S of a mesa region in which the gate insulating film and the MOS transistor are formed, and a trench depth DT, based on a scaling ratio K, in comparison with a second width and a second trench depth of the reference structure, and setting a cell width 2W of the high-voltage insulated gate type bipolar semiconductor device to be equal in length to a second length of the reference structure, the scaling ratio K being defined as K=Y/X, where X indicates a size of a target portion to be miniaturized in the high-voltage insulated gate type bipolar semiconductor device, and Y indicates a size of a target portion to be miniaturized in the reference structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ichiro Omura, Masahiro Tanaka, Masanori Tsukuda, Yamato Miki
  • Publication number: 20180085081
    Abstract: A radiation apparatus conducts a subtraction imaging process where a holder 25 begins to shift when a radiation output ends relative to a first radiation in association with the subtraction imaging and then, once the filter is switched by shifting the holder 25 and when switching of the filter is actually measured, the X-ray tube outputs the radiation in association with a second imaging. With this structure, dual filter is not required to be switched and the imaging can be conducted immediately after an operator so instructs regardless the dual filter phase. The second imaging can be performed immediately after confirming the dual filter is switched in fact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: MASAHIRO TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180079844
    Abstract: A conjugated diene polymer having a high content of cis-1,4-structures with a high activity, a conjugated diene polymer and a modified conjugated diene polymer using the same, a rubber composition for a tire, and a rubber composition for a rubber belt. Described are a catalyst for a conjugated diene polymerization including: a non-metallocene type gadolinium compound (A) represented by the general formula (1); an ionic compound (B) formed of a non-coordinating anion and a cation; and an organic metal compound (C) of an element selected from the group consisting of a group 2, a group 12, and a group 13 of the periodic table, a conjugated diene polymer and a modified conjugated diene polymer obtained using the same, a rubber composition for a tire, and a rubber composition for a rubber belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Koji Shiba, Masato Murakami, Michinori Suzuki, Naomi Okamoto, Mitsuharu Anbe, Masahiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9861175
    Abstract: A cosmetic container with application body, a liquid cosmetic accommodated in the container being supplied to an application body provided to a tip of the container through an intermediate core, the liquid cosmetic being applied by the application body, in which the application body is disc-shaped, rotatably provided at an outlet of the liquid cosmetic at the tip of the container, and in contact with the intermediate core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: TOKIWA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180000224
    Abstract: An application body-equipped cosmetic container that feeds a liquid cosmetic accommodated inside a container to a container tip end via a relay wick, which induces a capillary action, in which the liquid cosmetic can be applied to a target application portion in accordance with rotation of an application body, which is disposed in a rotatable manner at an outlet of the container tip end and an outer peripheral surface of which comes into contact with the relay wick, wherein a section of the relay wick that comes into contact with the application body is in a loosened state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: TOKIWA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9849397
    Abstract: A communication device includes a first terminal unit connected to an actuator device having a sensor. Transmission of a steering signal transmitted from a steering wireless device to the actuator device, and transmission of detected signal detected by the sensor in the actuator device are conducted via the first terminal unit. The communication device further includes a control unit. The control unit conducts processing to generate a connection error signal representing that the actuator device are not connected on the basis of a result of determination whether the detected signal is acquired from the actuator device via the first terminal unit, and transmit the connection error signal to the steering wireless device side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: FUTABA CORORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Saegusa, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya, Masahiro Tanaka, Kota Toyotomi
  • Patent number: 9848839
    Abstract: An diagnostic X-ray radiography device and system whereby a subject (M) can be placed on and taken off of an imaging bed safely, easily, and comfortably. In the device and system a placement-accommodating-state memory (21) stores a plurality of placement-accommodating states each consisting of an imaging bed (1) position and orientation and an X-ray tube (4) position that accommodate a given placement state of the subject (M). A placement-accommodating-state control unit (22) is provided that, if a desired placement-accommodating state is specified from among the plurality of placement-accommodating states by means of a control panel (11), makes the position of the imaging bed (1) and the position of the X-ray tube (4) conform to the specified placement-accommodating state. A placement-accommodating state is thus set automatically, so that the subject (M) can be placed and removed from the imaging bed (1) easily without a collimator (4a) attached to the X-ray tube (4) getting in the way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9844352
    Abstract: A radiographic system provide a simple operation for table movement where the table revolves in one direction in accordance with an input of a revolving direction from a console driving the table upward vertically when one end of the table come close to a floor surface. The present invention also includes a system where the table moves downward vertically automatically, interlocking with a revolving of the table when the revolving direction is input to the revolving direction input means. According to the present invention, the table lifted along with revolving can be revolved or moved upward with an input operation in one system. Therefore, the operation of the radiographic apparatus can be easy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170357254
    Abstract: The parameter setting device has a parameter data input unit and a setting control unit which stores parameter data in an empty channel in the steering signal received from the transmitter and sends it to the transmitter. The parameter setting device and the transmitter are connected, and the parameter data is input to the parameter setting device. The parameter setting device stores the parameter data in the empty channel of the steering signal received from the transmitter and sends it back to the transmitter. The transmitter sends its steering signal to the body to be steered. The parameter data of the specific operation object mounted on the object to be steered can be reliably changed while continuing the operation of the operation object mounted on the object to be steered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventor: Masahiro Tanaka