Patents by Inventor Minoru Tanaka

Minoru 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: 20170086327
    Abstract: A movement management device specifies, when a data center includes separated areas of a first area in which a server rack is installed and a second area in which a worker works, a worker who enters the second area. The movement management device specifies a target server rack to be operated by the specified worker from among a plurality of server racks installed in the first area. The movement management device moves the specified target server rack from the first area to the second area that the worker enters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicants: FUJITSU LIMITED, FUJITSU FIP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi MATSUMURA, Minoru TANAKA, Yuji TOMIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20170063567
    Abstract: A heating cooking system includes a cooking device (100), servers (400, 500) for communicating with the cooking device (100) via a communication network and an information terminal (300) for communicating with the servers (400, 500) via the communication network. The servers (400, 500) have a communication tool manager (400) for managing communication tools of the information terminal (300) for users. The cooking device (100) has posting sections for posting information relating to executed cooking menus to the communication tool manager (400) of the servers (400, 500) via the communication network (N).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Minoru TANAKA, Masaya UCHIYAMA, Mari NISHIDE
  • Publication number: 20170049263
    Abstract: In an electric milling machine, when a milling operation is completed, a “milling prohibition timer” is set. With the timer being set, the electric milling machine does not perform a milling operation until countdown of the timer ends and the timer is cleared even though the electric milling machine is instructed to perform the milling operation. Even when supply of electric power from an external power supply to the electric milling machine is stopped, countdown of the timer is continued by using electric power supplied from an auxiliary power supply within the electric milling machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Aya CHIBA, Keisuke MORISHITA, Minoru TANAKA, Masaya UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170018586
    Abstract: A photoelectric sensor includes a current division control circuit that sequentially sets a reference voltage for each current divider circuit along one of the arrangement directions of photodiodes so that the reference voltage for the current divider circuit is equal to or larger than the voltage value of the reference voltage set for a current divider circuit in the preceding stage, and sets one common control voltage for all of the current divider circuits, the common control voltage falling within a range that includes all of the reference voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi HATANAKA, Minoru TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20160377718
    Abstract: A photoelectric sensor includes the following components. A disturbance detection unit detects a disturbance by comparing a light reception result obtained by a light receiver with a first threshold and with a second threshold for a predetermined period in a state where no light is transmitted by a light transmitter. The second threshold takes a value of a sign opposite to that of the first threshold relative to a no-signal state. A waiting unit waits for the light reception result obtained by the light receiver to become within a range from the first threshold to the second threshold upon detection of a disturbance. A disturbance type determination unit causes detection of a disturbance to be performed again after the waiting. A light transmission instruction unit instructs the light transmitter to transmit light when no disturbance is detected for a predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru TANAKA, Hiroshi Hatanaka, Takayuki Hosoi
  • Publication number: 20160332993
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula (II) (e.g., compounds of Formula (I)), and pharmaceutically compositions thereof. Compounds of Formula (II) are believed to be binders of bromodomains and/or bromodomain-containing proteins (e.g., bromo and extra terminal (BET) proteins). Also provided are methods, uses, and kits using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting the activity (e.g., increased activity) of bromodomains and/or bromodomain-containing proteins and for treating and/or preventing in a subject diseases associated with bromodomains or bromodomain-containing proteins (e.g., proliferative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, viral infections, fibrotic diseases, metabolic diseases, endocrine diseases, and radiation poisoning). The compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits are also useful for male contraception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. BRADNER, Jun QI, Minoru TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20160299028
    Abstract: A stylus support portion moveable in an X direction is arranged separate from a fixed portion. A plate spring has a first end fixated to an end portion of the stylus support portion in an X (+) direction, a second end fixated to the fixed portion, and a principal surface facing the X direction. A plate spring has a first end fixated to an end portion of the stylus support portion in an X (?) direction, a second end fixated to the fixed portion, and a principal surface facing the X direction. A first permanent magnet is provided on the end portion of the stylus support portion in the X (+) direction. A second permanent magnet is provided on the end portion of the stylus support portion in the X (?) direction. A third permanent magnet is provided to the fixed portion so that a magnetic force in the X direction acts on an area between the first permanent magnet and the third permanent magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki ARAI, Kazuhiko HIDAKA, Minoru TANAKA, Tomoyuki MIYAZAKI, Takeshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160230259
    Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having a good appearance and good adhesion to a coating, the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having a composition containing, on a mass basis: C: 0.08% or more and less than 0.20%, Si: 0.1% to 3.0%, Mn: 0.5% to 3.0%, P: 0.001% to 0.10%, Al: 0.01% to 3.00%, and S: 0.200% or less, a remainder being Fe and incidental impurities, wherein the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes an internal oxidation layer and a decarburized layer, the internal oxidation layer having a thickness of 5 ?m or less, the decarburized layer having a thickness of 20 ?m or less, and 50% or more by area of the internal oxidation layer is composed of a Si oxide containing Fe and/or Mn represented by Fe2XMn2-2XSiOY, wherein X ranges from 0 to 1, and Y is 3 or 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Tanaka, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20160222500
    Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having a good appearance and good adhesion to a coating, the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having a composition including, on a mass basis: C: 0.20% to 0.50%, Si: 0.1% to 3.0%, Mn: 0.5% to 3.0%, P: 0.001% to 0.10%, Al: 0.01% to 3.00%, and S: 0.200% or less, a remainder being Fe and incidental impurities, wherein the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes an internal oxidation layer and a decarburized layer, the internal oxidation layer having a thickness of 4 ?m or less on a ferrite side from an interface between ferrite and a galvanized layer, the decarburized layer having a thickness of 16 ?m or less on the ferrite side from the interface between the ferrite and the galvanized layer, and 50% or more by area of the internal oxidation layer is composed of a Si oxide containing Fe and/or Mn represented by Fe2XMn2-2XSiOY, wherein X ranges from 0 to 1, and Y is 3 or 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Tanaka, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20150315692
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a galvanized steel sheet includes heating a base steel sheet in a heating zone such that the surface of the base steel sheet is heated at a temperature of 600° C. or higher and 790° C. or lower while a furnace temperature T° C. in the heating zone of an annealing furnace is controlled based on the water vapor partial pressure PH2Oin Air of air fed into the heating zone, the base steel sheet having a chemical composition consisting of, by mass %, C: 0.05% or more and 0.25% or less, Si: 0.1% or more and 3.0% or less, Mn: 0.5% or more and 3.0% or less, P: 0.001% or more and 0.10% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 3.00% or less, S: 0.200% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, heating the base steel sheet in the heating zone such that the surface of the base steel sheet is heated at a temperature of 630° C. or higher and 850° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Tanaka, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Mai Miyata, Yasunobu Nagataki
  • Publication number: 20150276435
    Abstract: An optical encoder includes a scale having bar-like scale marks; a detection head having a light source fiber emitting coherent light at the scale and a photoreceiver fiber receiving light reflected off the scale; electronic components connected to the detection head via the light source fiber and the photoreceiver fiber; and a protector covering the scale marks at a predetermined distance from the scale marks. The protector is a member configured with light-transmissive material and includes a top surface that is inclined with respect to a principal surface of the scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroatsu MORI, Minoru TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9030763
    Abstract: A lens device is used with an imaging device having a imaging-lens and an aperture stop device. The lens device includes a lens barrel that houses the imaging-lens and the aperture stop device, a first operation ring that is on an outer circumferential portion of the lens barrel and that is rotatable in a circumferential direction of the outer circumferential portion about an axis line of the lens barrel in order to adjust the aperture-area of the aperture stop device, and a second operation ring that is parallel with the first operation ring and is rotatable in the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential portion about the axis line of the lens barrel in order to adjust a transmittance of a variable light transmission filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shigehiro Kanayama, Minoru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8879165
    Abstract: An outer tube body of a device for changing operating force is connected to a gear part of a zoom ring of a lens barrel to rotate the outer tube body together with the zoom ring. The outer tube body has a cylindrical shape and includes a hollow part into which an inner tube body whose rotation is restricted is arranged. Grease is interposed in a gap is formed between an inner peripheral surface of the outer tube body and an outer peripheral surface of the inner tube body. A load caused by viscosity resistance of the grease is applied against rotation of the outer tube body together with the zoom ring. The inner tube body can be displaced in a direction of the center axis so that area of a sliding contact region between the outer tube body and the inner tube body is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Tanaka, Atsushi Misawa
  • Publication number: 20140313600
    Abstract: A lens device for an imaging device having a imaging-lens and an aperture stop device that adjusts an aperture-area, the lens device including: a lens barrel that houses the imaging-lens and the aperture stop device; a first operation ring that is provided on an outer circumferential portion of the lens barrel at a desired position and is provided to be rotatable in a circumferential direction of the outer circumferential portion about an axis line of the lens barrel as a rotation axis in order to adjust the aperture-area of the aperture stop device; a second operation ring that is provided in parallel with the first operation ring and provided to be rotatable in the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential portion about the axis line of the lens barrel as the rotation axis in order to adjust a transmittance of a variable light transmission filter; and a mechanism section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shigehiro KANAYAMA, Minoru TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20140268375
    Abstract: An outer tube body of a device for changing operating force is connected to a gear part of a zoom ring of a lens barrel to rotate the outer tube body together with the zoom ring. The outer tube body has a cylindrical shape and includes a hollow part into which an inner tube body whose rotation is restricted is arranged. Grease is interposed in a gap is formed between an inner peripheral surface of the outer tube body and an outer peripheral surface of the inner tube body. A load caused by viscosity resistance of the grease is applied against rotation of the outer tube body together with the zoom ring. The inner tube body can be displaced in a direction of the center axis so that area of a sliding contact region between the outer tube body and the inner tube body is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru TANAKA, Atsushi MISAWA
  • Patent number: 8824883
    Abstract: A lens device (2) is provided with a first operating ring (11) for adjusting the opening surface area of an aperture device (15) and a second operating ring (12) for adjusting the transmittance of a variable light transmittance filter (16). The correspondence relation between the operational amount for the first operating ring and the rate of change in the amount of light transmitted by the aperture device and correspondence relation between the operational amount for the second operating ring and the rate of change in the amount of light transmitted by the variable light transmittance filter are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Arihiro Saita, Shigehiro Kanayama, Minoru Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20140178060
    Abstract: A lens device (2) is provided with a first operating ring (11) for adjusting the opening surface area of an aperture device (15) and a second operating ring (12) for adjusting the transmittance of a variable light transmittance filter (16). The correspondence relation between the operational amount for the first operating ring and the rate of change in the amount of light transmitted by the aperture device and correspondence relation between the operational amount for the second operating ring and the rate of change in the amount of light transmitted by the variable light transmittance filter are the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Arihiro SAITA, Shigehiro KANAYAMA, Minoru TANAKA
  • Patent number: 8694552
    Abstract: A management system includes an electronic instrument that uses a managed article, and a management server. The electronic instrument is configured to acquire identification information from the managed article used by the electronic instrument with the identification information being read-only information, and to transmit information including the identification information to the management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Koike, Minoru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8602090
    Abstract: A heat exchange module 12 is formed by stacking pipe groups obtained by fixing a plurality of pipes 1 with use of pipe array holding members 9a to 9d. Flow path forming members 50 are arranged on pipe groups in the uppermost and lowermost layers, and walls 51 and 52 are provided so as to protrude from the outer-side pipe array holding members and the inner-side pipe array holding members. Flow path members 63 are provided between the walls 51 and 52 adjacent to each other so as to allow through holes 53 and 54 to communicate with each other. The heat exchange module 12 is housed in the housing 2, and while rotating the housing 2, a resin material 24 is filled into a space enclosed by the two inner-side pipe array holding members of each pipe group in the housing 2, interstices around the pipes present between an opening 15a of the housing and the outer-side pipe array holding members, and interstices around the pipes present between an opening 15b of the housing and the outer-side pipe array holding members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: JMS Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Niitsuma, Minoru Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130323373
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to remove or reduce iodine contained in a marine natural product extract, while maintaining the original flavor, taste, appearance, etc. of the marine natural product extract before processing. A first anion exchange membrane (5) and a second anion exchange membrane (6) are sequentially arranged from the anode (3) side. Between the anion exchange membranes (5, 6), an extract receiving compartment (9) is formed and fed with a marine natural product extract (21). An iodine recovery compartment (8) is formed on the anode side of the first anion exchange membrane (5). A replenisher receiving compartment (10) is formed on the cathode side of the second anion exchange membrane (6) and fed with a replenisher containing chlorine ions (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: Minoru Tanaka, Haruka Unno, Hiroaki Kanayama