Patents by Inventor Masashi Tanaka
Masashi 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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Publication number: 20230356271Abstract: To save washing water, a container washing facility for washing an inner surface of a can (2) before the can (2) is filled with a material includes a conveyor (9) that conveys the can (2) at least in a posture of being inverted with an opening (2a) of the can (2) facing downward, a cleaning air jetting unit (10) located along a conveying path of the can (2) conveyed by the conveyor (9) to jet cleaning air to the inner surface of the can (2) through the opening (2a) of the can (2) while the can (2) is being conveyed, and a washing water jetting unit (11) located along the conveying path of the can (2) conveyed by the conveyor (9) to jet washing water to the inner surface of the can (2) through the opening (2a) of the can (2) while the can (2) is being conveyed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Naohiko Ogawa, Masashi Tanaka, Takashi Inoue, Toshiki Iwasaki
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Patent number: 11809112Abstract: Provided is an image heating device that heats an image in a nip portion, including: a film; a heater; a roller that forms the nip portion with the film; a backup member; regulating members that regulate a movement of the film and move along with the backup member; and a frame that includes a guide portion to insert the regulating members and a shaft of the roller. The roller includes an elastic layer that is deformed by being pressed from a side which the film is placed, such that a distance between a rotation axis of the roller and the nip portion decreases, and that a volume of the elastic layer decreases. The guide portion guides so that the regulating members move more to a downstream side in a conveying direction of the recording material as the regulating members approach the rotation axis of the roller.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hikaru Osada, Masashi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20230352865Abstract: According to an embodiment, a high-speed transmission device includes a substrate, a control device on the substrate, a first connector, a second connector; and a cable assembly between the first connector and the second connector. The first connector is disposed at a position near the control device on the substrate and electrically connected to the control device via the substrate. The second connector is disposed at a position away from the control device on the substrate and equipped with an apparatus for transmitting / receiving a signal to and from the control device. The cable assembly includes a cable row, a paddle card substrate and a first conductive resin cover. Cables each transmitting a differential signal are arranged side by side in the cable row. The cables each comprise an internal conductor and an external conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Toshiyasu ITO, Osamu SHIMIZU, Yoshihide KUROKI, Keita NOZAWA, Masashi TANAKA, Hiroaki KURIBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230327956Abstract: Provided is a network configuration estimation device for estimating configuration information of an internal network in a target device. The network configuration estimation device includes a processor; and a memory that includes instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to execute the following steps: transmitting a message to an electronic control unit on the internal network by using a diagnostic communication method supported in a standard manner in the electronic control unit on the internal network and receiving a response to the message; and estimating the configuration information of the internal network based on the obtained response.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Masaru MATSUBAYASHI, Takuma KOYAMA, Yasushi OKANO, Masashi TANAKA
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Publication number: 20230247035Abstract: An attack detection apparatus that detects an attack on a network within equipment, improves detection accuracy of an attack on the network within the equipment by including a processor and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to extract a set of two messages that have the same payload from a plurality of messages transmitted in a certain period, and determine whether or not the attack is made on the basis of whether or not another message is transmitted between transmissions of the two messages of the set and an interval of transmission of the two messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2020Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru MATSUBAYASHI, Takuma KOYAMA, Yasushi OKANO, Masashi TANAKA
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Patent number: 11693361Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording material includes a fixing unit and a blower unit to blow air around a roller. The fixing unit includes a tubular shape film, a heating member disposed in a space surrounded by the film, and the roller forming a nip portion with the heating member. The fixing unit heats and fixes the toner image onto the recording material at the nip portion. For printing that forms toner images on continuously conveyed recording materials where a roller surface temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature, fan stop and operation periods are set. During the fan stop period, the blower unit is stopped and an interval between preceding and subsequent recording materials is widened. During the fan operation period, the blower unit is in operation and the interval is narrower than the interval during the fan stop period.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masashi Tanaka, Shingo Ito
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Publication number: 20230205863Abstract: An authentication apparatus that performs authentication of a client terminal by challenge-response authentication, the authentication apparatus includes one or more computers each including a memory and a processor configured to: receive a challenge request from the client terminal; generate a challenge as to the challenge request; and transmit the challenge to the client terminal. The memory and the processor are configured to generate the challenge by one generating method out of a fixed generating method in which a challenge of a fixed value is generated, and a random generating method in which a challenge of a random value is generated, in accordance with a state of the authentication apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru MATSUBAYASHI, Takuma KOYAMA, Yasushi OKANO, Masashi TANAKA
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Publication number: 20230070007Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus communicating with an external apparatus connected via a network, and the communication apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to: calculate a communication interval of data communicated within the communication apparatus; determine whether to perform communication with the external apparatus based on whether the communication interval is within a range set in advance; and transmit, to the external apparatus, communication data including the communication interval determined to perform communication with the external apparatus, latter data in the communication interval, and a transition between former data and the latter data in the communication interval, so that traffic from an apparatus to outside is reduced while suppressing deterioration in detection accuracy of unauthorized communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma KOYAMA, Masashi TANAKA, Yasushi OKANO, Masaru MATSUBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11581678Abstract: A connector comprises a locator configured to position a cable. The locator has a front-end surface, a first surface and a second surface and is formed with a positioning groove. The first surface and the second surface are located at opposite sides of the locator, respectively, in the upper-lower direction (Z-direction). The positioning groove has a front groove, a rear groove and a coupling groove. The front groove is recessed rearward from the front-end surface and extends from the first surface to the coupling groove along the upper-lower direction. The rear groove is recessed from the second surface along the upper-lower direction and extends rearward from the coupling groove. When the locator positions the cable, the front groove receives a front regulated portion of the cable, and the rear groove receives a rear regulated portion of the cable.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Masashi Tanaka
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Patent number: 11561491Abstract: A heating device comprising: a first rotating member having an internal space in which a heating member and a holding member are disposed; a second rotating member that contacts an outer peripheral surface of the first rotating member; and a frame that integrally supports the heating member, the holding member, the first rotating member and the second rotating member, wherein the second rotating member forms a nip portion between the first rotating member and the second rotating member, the holding member holds the heating member such that at least a part of at least one end face of the heating member in a longitudinal direction thereof is exposed in the longitudinal direction, and the frame is configured such that at least the part of the heating member, which is exposed from the holding member, is also exposed out of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masashi Tanaka, Hikaru Osada
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Publication number: 20230015377Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an exposure unit that reflects a laser beam emitted from a light source by a polygon mirror having a plurality of reflection surfaces to form a latent image on a photosensitive member, and a control unit that controls the image forming apparatus in a plurality of operation modes including a normal mode and a low speed mode having a slower process speed than the normal mode. The control unit controls the polygon mirror to use all of the plurality of reflection surfaces to reflect the laser beam when in the normal mode. When in the low speed mode, the control unit makes the process speed faster than 0.5 times that of the normal mode, rotates the polygon mirror faster than in the normal mode, and controls the polygon mirror to use only some of the plurality of reflection surfaces to reflect the laser beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Shingo Ito, Masashi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20220404744Abstract: Provided is an image heating device that heats an image in a nip portion, including: a film; a heater; a roller that forms the nip portion with the film; a backup member; regulating members that regulate a movement of the film and move along with the backup member; and a frame that includes a guide portion to insert the regulating members and a shaft of the roller. The roller includes an elastic layer that is deformed by being pressed from a side which the film is placed, such that a distance between a rotation axis of the roller and the nip portion decreases, and that a volume of the elastic layer decreases. The guide portion guides so that the regulating members move more to a downstream side in a conveying direction of the recording material as the regulating members approach the rotation axis of the roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Hikaru Osada, Masashi Tanaka
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Patent number: 11528325Abstract: A device includes a memory; and a processor configured to execute first determining, for each data item generated in the device, a priority upon transmitting said each data item to an information processing apparatus, based on one or more rules set in advance; second determining, for said each data item, whether or not it is necessary to transmit said each data item to the information processing apparatus, based on the priority determined for said each data item; and transmitting a data item to the information processing apparatus among data items generated in the device for a predetermined period of time, the data item being determined by the second determining that it is necessary to transmit the data item to the information processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Keita Hasegawa, Takuma Koyama, Yasushi Okano, Masashi Tanaka
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Patent number: 11495893Abstract: In a first contact of a connector, an insulation-displacement connection portion has two insulation-displacement blades and has a narrow slit and a wide slit. The insulation-displacement blades are different from each other in position in a first direction and correspond to the narrow slit. The insulation-displacement blades are obliquely intersected with the first direction. The narrow slit and the wide slit extend in the front-rear direction. In the first direction, the insulation-displacement blade is located between the narrow slit 362 and the wide slit 364. In a second direction, a middle of the wide slit 364 is different from a middle of the narrow slit 362 in position. When covered wire is pushed into the narrow slit, it is pressed on the insulation-displacement blades at different timings in order.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Masashi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20220350288Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; an exposure portion configured to expose the photosensitive member to light depending on image information to form a latent image on the photosensitive member; a developing portion configured to develop the latent image into a toner image with toner; and a transfer portion configured to transfer the toner image from the photosensitive member onto a recording material. The image forming apparatus changes a surface movement speed of the photosensitive member at timing prior to predetermined timing, when a moving speed of a recording material at the transfer portion changes, by a predetermined time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Ai Suzuki, Masashi Tanaka, Shoichiro Ikegami, Kensuke Umeda, Sho Taguchi
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Publication number: 20220308524Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording material includes a fixing unit and a blower unit to blow air around a roller. The fixing unit includes a tubular shape film, a heating member disposed in a space surrounded by the film, and the roller forming a nip portion with the heating member. The fixing unit heats and fixes the toner image onto the recording material at the nip portion. For printing that forms toner images on continuously conveyed recording materials where a roller surface temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature, fan stop and operation periods are set. During the fan stop period, the blower unit is stopped and an interval between preceding and subsequent recording materials is widened. During the fan operation period, the blower unit is in operation and the interval is narrower than the interval during the fan stop period.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Masashi Tanaka, Shingo Ito
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Publication number: 20220265603Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a novel liver fibrosis inhibiting agent or brown adipocyte activating agent, and a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis which contains the inhibiting agent or activating agent as an active ingredient. The present invention relates to a liver fibrosis inhibiting agent and a brown adipocyte activating agent, each containing taxifolin as an active ingredient, and a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, containing taxifolin as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicants: NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION, NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER, Advanced Innovation Development Co., Ltd., FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION AT KOBEInventors: Noriko ASAHARA, Takayuki INOUE, Masashi TANAKA, Masafumi IHARA, Satoshi SAITO
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Patent number: 11422497Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; an exposure portion configured to expose the photosensitive member to light depending on image information to form a latent image on the photosensitive member; a developing portion configured to develop the latent image into a toner image with toner; and a transfer portion configured to transfer the toner image from the photosensitive member onto a recording material. The image forming apparatus changes a surface movement speed of the photosensitive member at timing prior to predetermined timing, when a moving speed of a recording material at the transfer portion changes, by a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ai Suzuki, Masashi Tanaka, Shoichiro Ikegami, Kensuke Umeda, Sho Taguchi
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Patent number: 11402799Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording material includes a fixing unit and a blower unit to blow air around a roller. The fixing unit includes a tubular shape film, a heating member disposed in a space surrounded by the film, and the roller forming a nip portion with the heating member. The fixing unit heats and fixes the toner image onto the recording material at the nip portion. For printing that forms toner images on continuously conveyed recording materials where a roller surface temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature, fan stop and operation periods are set. During the fan stop period, the blower unit is stopped and an interval between preceding and subsequent recording materials is widened. During the fan operation period, the blower unit is in operation and the interval is narrower than the interval during the fan stop period.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masashi Tanaka, Shingo Ito
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Publication number: 20220149560Abstract: A connector comprises a locator configured to position a cable. The locator has a front-end surface, a first surface and a second surface and is formed with a positioning groove. The first surface and the second surface are located at opposite sides of the locator, respectively, in the upper-lower direction (Z-direction). The positioning groove has a front groove, a rear groove and a coupling groove. The front groove is recessed rearward from the front-end surface and extends from the first surface to the coupling groove along the upper-lower direction. The rear groove is recessed from the second surface along the upper-lower direction and extends rearward from the coupling groove. When the locator positions the cable, the front groove receives a front regulated portion of the cable, and the rear groove receives a rear regulated portion of the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Masashi TANAKA