Patents by Inventor Masaki Tanaka

Masaki 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: 11143999
    Abstract: An image-forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet includes an image-forming unit that forms the image on the sheet, and a conveying unit that conveys the sheet on which the image is formed by the image-forming unit. The conveying unit includes a pair of first rollers that discharges the sheet to the outside of the image-forming apparatus and a pair of second rollers that conveys the sheet in a direction in which the sheet is discharged to the outside of the image-forming apparatus and that subsequently switches a conveyance direction of the sheet to an opposite direction to convey the sheet again to the image-forming unit. The pair of the first rollers and the pair of the second rollers partially overlap when viewed in a width direction of the sheet that is perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junya Akatsuka, Masaki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210202851
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device containing both a compound represented by the following general formula (1) and a compound represented by the following general formula (2) has a high light emission efficiency. The rings a to c each are a benzene ring that can be optionally condensed, R1 and R2 each represent a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, etc., four of R31 to R35 each are a substituted or unsubstituted carbazol-9-yl group, but all of these four are not the same, and the remaining one is a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Hajime NAKANOTANI, Takuji HATAKEYAMA, Yasuhiro KONDO, Yasuyuki SASADA, Motoki YANAI, Chin-Yiu CHAN, Masaki TANAKA, Hiroki NODA, Chihaya ADACHI, Yoshitake SUZUKI, Naoto NOTSUKA
  • Patent number: 10966604
    Abstract: A subjective optometry apparatus includes a subjective measurement portion which subjectively measures optical characteristics of an subject eye, an objective measurement portion which objectively measures optical characteristics of the subject eye, a control portion which causes the objective measurement portion to objectively measure the optical characteristics during the measurement by the subjective measurement portion, and a display control portion which performs a control to display an eye diagram representing the subject eye and an imaging position of a target light flux incident on the subject eye. The display control portion performs a control to display the imaging position based on the objectively measured optical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michihiro Takii, Masaki Tanaka, Masaaki Hanebuchi
  • Publication number: 20210088360
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a data acquisition part that acquires correction data indicating a content regarding a correction process which corrects an error of an angle at which a rotation angle sensor that measures a rotation angle of a rotor included in an electric motor is attached; a determination part that determines, based on the correction data, whether or not the correction process has been performed; and a control method determination part that determines, in a case where it is determined that the correction process has not been performed, that an inverter which supplies an AC current to the electric motor is controlled under a pulse-width modulation control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Masaki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210086624
    Abstract: A control apparatus controls an inverter which outputs electric power to an electric motor. The control apparatus calculates a magnitude of a drive current at a one-pulse control time based on an electric motor drive torque, a rotation number of the electric motor, and a DC voltage of the electric motor and thereby determines which one of a one-pulse control and a pulse-width modulation control is employed as a control method of the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Masaki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210087985
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a data acquisition part that is configured to acquire torque data indicating a drive torque of an electric motor, rotation number data indicating a rotation number of the electric motor, and DC voltage data indicating a DC voltage supplied to an inverter which supplies an AC current to the electric motor; a determination basis derivation part that is configured to derive a determination basis based on a drive efficiency of the electric motor by using the torque data, the rotation number data, and the DC voltage data; and a control method determination part that is configured to determine, based on the determination basis, which one of a one-pulse control and a pulse-width modulation control is employed as a control method of the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Masaki Tanaka, Yoichi Yamashiro
  • Publication number: 20210091702
    Abstract: A control apparatus controls an inverter which outputs electric power to an electric motor. The control apparatus determines which one of a one-pulse control and a pulse-width modulation control is employed as a control method of the inverter in accordance with a predetermined condition based on an electric motor drive torque of the electric motor, a rotation number of the electric motor, and a DC voltage of the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Masaki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210041824
    Abstract: A driving device for photosensitive members and developing rollers includes a clutch for selectively transmitting a rotational force from a driving source to the rollers. The clutch includes a rotatable driving member having a first engaging portion together with the first portion, a follower having a second engaging portion engageable with the first portion, and a rotatable member changeable, by rotation in a direction opposite from a rotational direction of the driving member, from a first state in which the driving force from the driving source is not transmitted without engagement between the first portion and the second engaging portion to a second state in which the rotor rotates by engagement therebetween. The rotor urges the follower in the opposite direction when the first engageable member and the second engageable member are not engaged with each other, by the opposite rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Masaki Tanaka, Noritomo Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210021618
    Abstract: To provide a data communication control device, data communication control program, and vehicle control system which control data communication in an in-vehicle network when attack data is detected in the in-vehicle network. The data communication control device and so forth according to the present invention identify, in advance, first discard candidate data which causes trouble to occur in vehicle control when first data transmitted in the in-vehicle network is discarded, and store first discard information, which is information indicating the first discard candidate data, and first data identification information, which is information indicating the first data, in association.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10876630
    Abstract: In one surface of a ring member, a plurality of incision grooves incised in a radial direction from an inner peripheral edge up to an appropriate position and those incised from an outer peripheral edge to an appropriate position are alternately formed, and in the other surface, incision grooves continuing from the inner peripheral edge up to the outer peripheral edge are formed. In order to adapt to the expansion and the contraction due to a temperature change and a change in shape and dimension due to abrasion, the inner incision grooves and the outer incision grooves increase/decrease in width, causing the packing to expand/contract in the circumferential direction, so that the packing is capable of maintaining its contact state with a shaft to minimize the leakage of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUI E&S MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200358238
    Abstract: The present invention provides a terminal extraction jig configured to release a locking state of a female terminal caused by a lance configured to lock the female terminal accommodated in a terminal accommodation chamber of a housing. The terminal extraction jig includes: a release pin configured to be inserted into the housing, abut against a locking release piece of the lance, and cause the locking release piece to displace in a locking release direction opposite to a locking direction of the female terminal; and a guide pin that is provided below and in parallel with the release pin, and is configured to guide the release pin to the locking release piece of the lance by being inserted into a fitting groove formed in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Masaki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200313336
    Abstract: A housing includes a terminal accommodating chamber and a lance. The lance includes a locking portion configured to lock the abutting edge of the terminal, a clearance portion, and a boundary portion between the locking portion and the escape portion. The locking portion is provided on one side of the boundary portion toward which the lance deflects in the first direction, and the clearance portion being provided on another side of the boundary portion toward which the lance returns in the second direction. An edge of the locking portion on a side opposite to the boundary portion and an edge of the clearance portion on a side opposite to the boundary portion are disposed away from the boundary portion toward the rear side of the housing from which the terminal is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Masaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10682669
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a laminate that exhibits visible light transparency and ultraviolet light shielding properties while maintaining an extremely high degree of scratch resistance, and that has all the necessary weather resistance and durability properties for withstanding long-term outdoor exposure. This method for manufacturing a laminate having the abovementioned properties includes: (1) using active energy rays to cure, on an organic resin substrate, an acrylic silicone resin composition having an inorganic component percentage X of 0.2 to 0.8 to form an intermediate layer, (2) dry-etching the surface of the intermediate layer obtained at step (1) using a non-oxidizing gas plasma of a plasma irradiation amount Y correlated with the inorganic component percentage X; and (3) plasma-polymerizing an organosilicon compound to form a hard coat layer on the surface of the intermediate layer obtained at step (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignees: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD., TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Kohei Masuda, Masaki Tanaka, Takashi Yoda, Tatsuya Ekinaka
  • Publication number: 20200168814
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compounds of Formula (I) as useful materials for OLED's. R is hydrogen or phenyl substituted with at least one alkyl; and D, D? and D? independently have diarylamino or indolyl moiety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitake SUZUKI, YuSeok YANG, Shuo-Hsien CHENG, Jorge AGUILERA-IPARRAGUIRRE, Minki HONG, Naoto NOTSUKA, Cheok-Lam WONG, Makoto YOSHIZAKI, Hayato ENDO, Chin-Yiu CHAN, Masaki TANAKA, Hajime NAKANOTANI, Chihaya ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200165772
    Abstract: Functional agent-containing fibers according to an embodiment of the present invention, wherein a functional agent is supported by silicone fixed to the fibers. The silicone includes an acrylic-modified organopolysiloxane having two or more acrylic groups per molecule. A rate of decrease in the functional agent after the functional agent-containing fibers are washed 10 times is less than 40%. In the present invention, the functional agent-containing fibers may be produced, e.g., by irradiating fibers impregnated with a fiber treatment agent A containing silicone with an electron beam so that the silicone is fixed to the fibers, and impregnating the fibers to which the silicone has been fixed with a fiber treatment agent B containing a functional agent. The functional agent-containing fibers may be produced, e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Shinji IRIFUNE, Tomoya KANAI, Masaki TANAKA, Minoru SUGIYAMA, Hidenobu MORISHIMA, Kazuhiro SATO
  • Patent number: 10649400
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a cartridge including an image carrying member and a positioning portion, and an apparatus main body. The apparatus main body including an opening portion, a rotatable opening and closing member, the opening and closing member including an engaging portion and being rotatable between a first position and a second position, an engaged portion, an abutment portion that determines a position of the attached cartridge, and a pressing portion applying pressing force to the cartridge. The opening and closing member rotates from the first position to the second position against counterforce of the pressing force, and the engaging portion is provided in an area of the opening and closing member that is closer to the rotational axis than an area of the opening and closing member that receives the counterforce.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Tanaka, Shunsuke Hijikata
  • Publication number: 20200140659
    Abstract: A cellulose nanofiber-supporting inorganic powder includes a cellulose nanofiber and an inorganic powder, wherein the cellulose nanofiber is supported on the inorganic powder. Thus, the cellulose nanofiber may be readily and uniformly dispersed in a resin or rubber composition, and, by adding to the composition, a cellulose nanofiber-supporting inorganic powder is capable of improving the physical properties of a resin or a rubber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakatsu HOTTA, Masanobu NISHIMINE, Tomoya OGATA, Susumu UENO, Masaki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10641974
    Abstract: Provided a two-dimensional photonic crystal device in which are inserted three waveguides and one resonant cavity by the creation of linear and local defects. Due to the photonic band gap related to the photonic crystal, electromagnetic signals are confined to the interior of waveguides and resonant cavity. By exciting dipole modes in the resonant cavity, with orientation that depends on the intensity of the applied DC magnetic field, the present circulator device can provide the nonreciprocal transmission of signals in the clockwise and counterclockwise directions. It can fulfill the isolation function and it is fork-shaped, providing greater flexibility in the design of integrated optical communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARÁ
    Inventors: Victor Dmitriev, Leno Rodrigues Martins, Gianni Masaki Tanaka Portela
  • Publication number: 20200088298
    Abstract: The invention provides a rod packing that is capable of minimizing the leakage of a fluid, by fully maintaining its contact state with a shaft at a shaft seal part even when the rod packing abrades and even when it expands/contracts due to a temperature change. In one surface of a ring member, a plurality of incision grooves incised in a radial direction from an inner peripheral edge up to an appropriate position and those incised from an outer peripheral edge to an appropriate position are alternately formed, and in the other surface, incision grooves continuing from the inner peripheral edge up to the outer peripheral edge are formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Masaki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10587677
    Abstract: Upon acceptance of a setting instruction for communication equipment (110), a first control apparatus (200) transmits a first setting command to the communication equipment, and updates first management information to information associated with first setting. When an event is detected, a second control apparatus (300) transmits a second setting command to the communication equipment and transmits a second setting notification to the first control apparatus. When the first control apparatus receives the second setting notification, the first control apparatus updates the first management information to information associated with second setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Tanaka, Eiichi Horiuchi