Patents by Inventor Masataka Tanaka

Masataka 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: 20240094644
    Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus includes: a plurality of solution treatment modules stacked at multiple stages, each configured to perform a treatment using a treatment solution on a substrate; and a solution supply unit configured to supply the treatment solution to the plurality of solution treatment modules, wherein: the solution supply unit includes supply pipelines provided with a solution feeder corresponding to the solution treatment modules; and the solution feeder includes a pump configured to pressure-feed the treatment solution to the corresponding solution treatment module and a filter configured to filtrate the treatment solution, and is arranged adjacent to the corresponding solution treatment module in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Makoto OGATA, Katsuya HASHIMOTO, Katsunori ICHINO, Masataka TANAKA, Kazuya KUDO
  • Patent number: 11930431
    Abstract: A wireless sensor system is provided with: a wireless terminal device which is driven by electric power stored in a power storage unit and transmits measurement information indicating a result of measurement by a sensor; and a management device which receives the measurement information transmitted from the wireless terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka Funaki, Yoshizo Tanaka, Daigo Murata, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11443265
    Abstract: A cause of work loss in a factory that produces high-mix low-volume products is extracted. The analysis system includes: a calculation unit; a storage unit; and an input and output unit. The storage unit stores record information related to operation time of an activity for producing a product, and threshold information for determining whether the activity of producing the product is abnormal based on the operation time. The calculation unit is configured to determine the operation time and non-operation time for each case extracted from the record information, determine abnormality for each case based on the operation time for each case and the threshold information, and output information of comparing the operation time of a case determined to be abnormal with the operation time of a case not determined to be abnormal to the input and output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka Tanaka, Yoshio Mitsuishi, Fumiya Shimizu, Yuma Shiho, Naoaki Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20210405627
    Abstract: A production planning system includes: an influence degree calculation unit that calculates a degree of influence which is applied on a probability distribution of a workload in a predetermined production process of a product by determining an undetermined design specification item of the product; and a display control unit that causes the design specification item and the degree of influence to be displayed in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yuma SHIHO, Masataka TANAKA, Hiroyuki SEYA
  • Patent number: 11042823
    Abstract: Provided is a technique that appropriately predicts the degree of influence of each risk on business indexes according to a production situation and determines risks to be managed. A storage unit stores a table that stores risk propagation model master information and risk information. A processing unit includes a risk correction unit that corrects the risk propagation model master information and the risk information for each product, using at least one of a degree of progress and a degree of pressure and a risk score calculation unit that calculates a risk score on the basis of the corrected risk propagation model master information and the corrected risk information. An output unit outputs the risk score for each product in each process to a screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuma Shiho, Masataka Tanaka, Kouichirou Haro, Tooru Morita, Masanobu Minato
  • Publication number: 20210150640
    Abstract: A cause of work loss in a factory that produces high-mix low-volume products is extracted. The analysis system includes: a calculation unit; a storage unit; and an input and output unit. The storage unit stores record information related to operation time of an activity for producing a product, and threshold information for determining whether the activity of producing the product is abnormal based on the operation time. The calculation unit is configured to determine the operation time and non-operation time for each case extracted from the record information, determine abnormality for each case based on the operation time for each case and the threshold information, and output information of comparing the operation time of a case determined to be abnormal with the operation time of a case not determined to be abnormal to the input and output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Masataka TANAKA, Yoshio MITSUISHI, Fumiya SHIMIZU, Yuma SHIHO, Naoaki KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200074529
    Abstract: Provided is a component ordering device that estimates an order condition that is possible to be accepted by a supplier with higher accuracy. The component ordering device includes: an order condition proposal generation unit that generates a plurality of order condition proposals when negotiating with a supplier for a component to be procured, based on negotiation history information that is established by negotiating with the supplier in the past for another component belonging to the same component classification with the component to be procured, the negotiation history information including an order condition provided with a lot size and a unit price; and an output control unit that outputs the plurality of order condition proposals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Yuma SHIHO, Masataka TANAKA, Tomoyuki KASAHARA, Yoshinori KONUMA, Takehito KAWAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10540912
    Abstract: Provided is an organ model having a property such that each layer suitably peels off, a property such that sliding or a sense of catching is present besides a sense of elasticity that is felt when a surgical knife cuts the organ model open, and a property such that ligation can be performed without burying of a suture thread, and a property such that a knot of the thread gets caught on the organ model. An organ model being a laminated body in which plural layers each formed of a hydrogel material are laminated, and one or more of the layers is each a fiber group-containing layer in which fiber groups are approximately continuously present inside the layer and over the plane of the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignees: SUNARROW LTD
    Inventors: Atsushi Ogawa, Masataka Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200020003
    Abstract: The disclosure can evaluate a relation between a procurement cost and an inventory value of a component on the basis of a future manufacturing plan, and select a more appropriate ordering mode. A device includes: a product design allocation unit configured to allocate a predetermined design pattern to a product constituent element at a predetermined application rate which is based on a future design plan; a procurement cost computation unit configured to compute, for each ordering mode, a procurement cost of a component which is used in the product constituent element; an inventory value computation unit configured to compute, for each ordering mode, an inventory value of the component; and an ordering mode evaluation unit configured to evaluate a ratio of the procurement cost and the inventory value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Masataka TANAKA, Toshihiro MORISAWA, Hiroyuki YANAHIRA, Hiroyuki SEYA
  • Patent number: 10202919
    Abstract: An engine output control device controls engine output at a time of a downshift speed change of a transmission. The engine output control device includes: engine speed detecting means for detecting an actual engine speed NeJ of a crankshaft; and engine output adjusting means capable of adjusting the engine output according to an operation of a rider. The smaller of a requested engine output PA calculated on a basis of the actual engine speed NeJ and a rider requested engine output PB adjusted by the engine output adjusting means is output as the engine output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dai Arai, Junya Niwa, Masataka Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180357582
    Abstract: Provided is a technique that appropriately predicts the degree of influence of each risk on business indexes according to a production situation and determines risks to be managed. A storage unit stores a table that stores risk propagation model master information and risk information. A processing unit includes a risk correction unit that corrects the risk propagation model master information and the risk information for each product, using at least one of a degree of progress and a degree of pressure and a risk score calculation unit that calculates a risk score on the basis of the corrected risk propagation model master information and the corrected risk information. An output unit outputs the risk score for each product in each process to a screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Yuma SHIHO, Masataka TANAKA, Kouichirou HARO, Tooru MORITA, Masanobu MINATO
  • Publication number: 20180243984
    Abstract: Described herein are a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object and a method for preparing data for a nozzle movement path(s) used in the same, and an apparatus for manufacturing the three-dimensional object and a computer for preparing data for nozzle movement paths used in the same. By repeating the step of forming an outer shell material portion constituting part of an outer shell of a three-dimensional object by ejecting a hard shaping material from a nozzle onto a stage, and the step of forming an inner core material portion constituting part of an inner core of the three-dimensional object by ejecting a soft shaping material from a nozzle to an inner region surrounded by the outer shell material portion, the three-dimensional object including the outer shell and the inner core respectively formed from the outer shell material portion and the inner core material portion in plural layers is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicants: JSR Corporation, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY, Sunarrow Ltd.
    Inventors: Taizo HAYASHIDA, Shigeru ABE, Hidemitsu FURUKAWA, Masaru KAWAKAMI, Azusa SAITO, Kei TOBA, Masataka TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180033105
    Abstract: A server of the intellectual-property registration managing the intellectual-property information concerning the industrial-property rights that have been filed with the patent office by the applicant rights-holder. A terminal device of those persons wanting to use the industrial-property rights who have sent the bidding information applies the assignment or the license permission of the industrial-property rights. A terminal device of the rights-holder sends the 3D-form information in an ordered form that allows the forming means to produce the forms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventor: Masataka TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180003117
    Abstract: An engine output control device controls engine output at a time of a downshift speed change of a transmission. The engine output control device includes: engine speed detecting means for detecting an actual engine speed NeJ of a crankshaft; and engine output adjusting means capable of adjusting the engine output according to an operation of a rider. The smaller of a requested engine output PA calculated on a basis of the actual engine speed NeJ and a rider requested engine output PB adjusted by the engine output adjusting means is output as the engine output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Dai ARAI, Junya NIWA, Masataka TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170357925
    Abstract: A production plan making assistance apparatus for a product including a plurality of components, the production plan making assistance apparatus comprising: a storage unit; an input-output unit; and an operation unit; wherein the operation unit reads out the information stored in the storage unit and assigns a start date and a completion date in each process based on a process in which consumption of the production resource lies within the production ability and which synchronizes with the lead time, and wherein the operation unit specifies the completion date assigned to each previous process in a plurality of synchronizing processes, specifies a start date assigned to the process continuing to the specified completion date, calculates a total period between the specified completion date and the specified start date as a total non-synchronization degree and outputs the calculated total non-synchronization degree to the input-output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Masataka TANAKA, Hisaya ISHIBASHI, Toshihiro MORISAWA, Kouichirou HARO, Hiroyuki SEYA
  • Publication number: 20170186340
    Abstract: Provided is an organ model having a property such that each layer suitably peels off, a property such that sliding or a sense of catching is present besides a sense of elasticity that is felt when a surgical knife cuts the organ model open, and a property such that ligation can be performed without burying of a suture thread, and a property such that a knot of the thread gets caught on the organ model. An organ model being a laminated body in which plural layers each formed of a hydrogel material are laminated, and one or more of the layers is each a fiber group-containing layer in which fiber groups are approximately continuously present inside the layer and over the plane of the layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicants: SUNARROW LTD
    Inventors: Atsushi Ogawa, Masataka Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9688242
    Abstract: A seatbelt retractor has: a holding plate arranged at a housing outer side and including a shaft receiving hole which rotatably supports a cylindrical shaped boss portion formed at a take-up drum side end of the driven body; and a restricting member arranged at take-up drum side of the holding plate to restrict movement of the boss portion in radial direction so that the boss portion projecting from the hole is positioned co-axial with the take-up drum. The boss portion which faces an inner peripheral surface of the hole includes a pair of radially projecting portions provided on both sides with reference to rotation axis direction projecting radially outward at full periphery of the boss portion. The pair of radially projecting portions project radially outward over the hole so at least a peripheral edge portion of the hole is inserted in clearance defined by the pair of radially projecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: ASHIMORI INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoe Nakayama, Masataka Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170032983
    Abstract: A thermal catalytic layer is formed on the inner surface of a processing container and heated. Thus, when a sublimate sublimated from a coating film on a wafer W and received within the processing container reaches the vicinity of the thermal catalytic layer, the sublimate is decomposed and removed by the thermal activation of the thermal catalytic layer. In removing a sublimate attached to a light transmission window, a cleaning substrate formed with the thermal catalytic layer on the surface thereof is carried into the processing container and caused to approach the light transmission window. Thereafter, the cleaning substrate is heated so that the sublimate attached to the surface of the light transmission window is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Koshi MUTA, Tsuyoshi MORIYA, Takuya MORI, Kazuhiro TAKESHITA, Tomonori ESAKI, Kouichi MIZUNAGA, Masataka TANAKA, Kouzou KANAGAWA, Keigo NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20150339776
    Abstract: To provide the information showing when the production facility is to be added or changed in order to obtain a larger income, a facility-investment-scenario providing device includes a facility-investment-scenario storage unit for storing a facility investment scenario having a facility investment pattern associated with each of periods obtained by dividing a total period for producing a product by every predetermined interval, and acquires the facility investment scenario corresponding to a selecting-input-received condition from the facility-investment-scenario storage unit and displays the facility investment pattern corresponding to each of the periods based on the acquired facility investment scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hisaya ISHIBASHI, Masataka TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20150144727
    Abstract: A seatbelt retractor has: a holding plate arranged at a housing outer side and including a shaft receiving hole which rotatably supports a cylindrical shaped boss portion formed at a take-up drum side end of the driven body; and a restricting member arranged at take-up drum side of the holding plate to restrict movement of the boss portion in radial direction so that the boss portion projecting from the hole is positioned co-axial with the take-up drum. The boss portion which faces an inner peripheral surface of the hole includes a pair of radially projecting portions provided on both sides with reference to rotation axis direction projecting radially outward at full periphery of the boss portion. The pair of radially projecting portions project radially outward over the hole so at least a peripheral edge portion of the hole is inserted in clearance defined by the pair of radially projecting portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Tomoe Nakayama, Masataka Tanaka