Patents by Inventor Naoki Tani

Naoki Tani 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: 20150330428
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a catch portion includes a thick-wall portion, a recessed portion, a first block and a second block. The thick-wall portion is formed inside an outer circumferential frame of a case configured to be open on at least one side. The recessed portion is provided in the thick-wall portion, and includes a first plane configured to face away from the open side of the case and a second plane configured to face toward the open side of the case. The first block protrudes from the thick-wall portion along the first plane. The second block protrudes more than the first block along the second plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroaki Hirao, Tetsuo Okazaki, Naoki Tani
  • Publication number: 20150155613
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing having a conductive portion in at least a part of the housing, a component which is accommodated in the housing and emits noise, an antenna which overlaps the component in a thickness direction of the housing, and a conductive member which electrically connects a ground of the antenna and the conductive portion of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hotta, Koichi Sato, Hiroaki Hirao, Naoki Tani
  • Patent number: 8894292
    Abstract: A split outer ring of a split rolling bearing, which splits in a radial direction, includes a pair of split outer ring members which are each formed into a semi-cylindrical shape and which are formed into a cylindrical shape by being butted against each other at circumferential end portions. A pair of first flat plane portions which extend from both axial end edges of the end portions towards a center in parallel with an axis and a V-shaped recess portion, positioned between the first flat plane portions and is recessed in a circumferential direction relative to the pair of first flat plane portions, are formed at one end portion of the circumferential end portions which are butted against each other, and a pair of second flat plane portions which extend from the both axial end edges in parallel with the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Jtekt Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Yamakawa, Junji Murata, Toshiyuki Saito, Takashi Sada, Naoki Tani
  • Publication number: 20140177143
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a first member, a second member, and a supporting member. The second member includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is spaced apart from the first member. The second portion inclines in a direction approaching the first member and includes an end adjacent to the first member. The supporting member is attached to an inner surface of the second portion of the second member by an adhesive agent. The supporting member includes a projection contacting with the inner surface of the second portion between the end of the second portion and the adhesive agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Issei TAKAHASHI, Naoki TANI
  • Publication number: 20140009012
    Abstract: A control device of a motor unit includes a housing, and a circuit board that is housed in the housing. The circuit board includes a first substrate portion which is fixed to a side wall and in which heat dissipation components are fitted onto a first main surface, a second substrate portion in which a second main surface faces the first main surface of the first substrate portion, and heating elements are fitted onto the second main surface, and a first connecting portion that connects an end portion of the first substrate portion with an end portion of the second substrate portion. The heating elements and the heat dissipation components face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki TANI
  • Patent number: 8576573
    Abstract: A controller includes: a circuit board; a retaining member; a bus bar that has an embedded portion embedded in and retained by the retaining member and an exposed portion that is exposed from the retaining member and that is electrically connected to the circuit board; and an electrical element that has a terminal connected to the exposed portion. The bus bar is formed in such a manner that a metal plate of which an outer surface is plated with a plating layer is cut along a predetermined cutting plane. The cutting plane at the exposed portion has a parallel portion that is arranged substantially parallel to a principal surface of the circuit board. The parallel portion and the terminal are joined to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Tani
  • Publication number: 20130285513
    Abstract: A control device for a motor unit includes: a housing including a bottom wall, a side wall and an accommodation space formed so as to be surrounded by the side wall; a heat sink including a first heat dissipation wall portion upright from the bottom wall in the accommodation space, the first heat dissipation wall portion upright having a first heat dissipation principal surface; a first board portion mounted on the first heat dissipation principal surface and having a first principal surface; and a circuit board including a power element mounted on the first principal surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki TANI, Shigeki NAGASE
  • Patent number: 8416580
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a first housing comprising a first wall and a second wall located on an opposite side of the first wall; a second housing; a hinge configured to connect the first housing to the second housing so that the first housing and the second housing can be pivoted relative to each other; a component housed in a component housing portion formed at the first wall; and a fixing member comprising a housing fixing portion fixed to the first housing, a hinge fixing portion to which the hinge is fixed, and a supporting portion configured to support the component at a location close to the first wall, the supporting portion being located between the first wall and the second wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuo Matsumoto, Naoki Tani
  • Publication number: 20130070169
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a television receiver includes: a housing accommodating at least a part of a display device, and comprising a mask comprising an opening through which a display screen is exposed and a cover covering the display device from a side opposite to the display screen; a support supporting the housing and comprising an area facing faces an external placement surface when placed on the external placement surface; a hinge fixed to the housing and the support, and comprising a rotating shaft, the housing and the support being rotatably connected to the hinge about the rotating shaft; a first electrical component in the housing; a second electrical component in the support; and a wire electrically connecting the first and electrical components, and fixed to the rotating shaft of the hinge with a tape at a position near the support in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuo MATSUMOTO, Naoki TANI
  • Publication number: 20130057776
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a television includes: a display part; a tuner part; an electronic component; a casing including: a first wall provided with an opening part and configured to cover the electronic component; a second wall provided with a second opening part and configured to cover the electronic component; and a third wall provided with a third opening part over the first wall and the second wall; a stand part configured to support the casing; a fan accommodated within the casing; and a radiating member including regions facing the first opening part, the second opening part and the third opening part, and positioned between the fan and the third wall, wherein the second wall includes a recessed part and a projection projected toward the outside of the casing; and a part of the fan faces the recessed part from the inside of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akifumi Yamaguchi, Nobuto Fujiwara, Hiroaki Itakura, Atsushi Tatemichi, Issei Takahashi, Naoki Tani
  • Publication number: 20130057782
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a television receiver including: a first casing having a first opening part; a second casing having a second opening part; a board positioned between the first casing and the second casing, the board having a third opening part, the board further having a tubular surrounding part surrounding a periphery of the third opening part and projected toward an internal face of the second casing; a projected part inserted from the internal face of the second casing toward the inside of the surrounding part; a fixed member passing through the first to third opening pars from the first casing side, and fixed at the projected part; and a covering member provided on the first casing, and covering the first opening part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Inventors: Issei Takahashi, Naoki Tani
  • Publication number: 20120236515
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a first housing comprising a first wall and a second wall located on an opposite side of the first wall; a second housing; a hinge configured to connect the first housing to the second housing so that the first housing and the second housing can be pivoted relative to each other; a component housed in a component housing portion formed at the first wall; and a fixing member comprising a housing fixing portion fixed to the first housing, a hinge fixing portion to which the hinge is fixed, and a supporting portion configured to support the component at a location close to the first wall, the supporting portion being located between the first wall and the second wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Yasuo Matsumoto, Naoki Tani
  • Patent number: 8172462
    Abstract: There is provided a rolling bearing including an inner ring having an inner ring raceway surface, an outer ring having an outer ring raceway surface and a shoulder portion formed on one axial side of the outer ring raceway surface, a plurality of rolling elements which roll between the inner ring raceway surface and the outer ring raceway surface, and a cage adapted to hold the plurality of rolling elements at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction and having a guided surface which confronts the shoulder portion of the outer ring in such a manner as to be brought into sliding contact therewith. The rotation of the cage is guided through sliding contact of the guided surface of the cage with a guiding surface of the shoulder portion of the outer ring. A guiding space which is a radial space between the guiding surface of the shoulder portion of the outer ring and the guided surface of the cage is made to increase as approaching the rolling elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Suzuki, Naoki Tani, Junji Murata, Kazuyoshi Yamakawa
  • Publication number: 20110242773
    Abstract: A controller includes: a circuit board; a retaining member; a bus bar that has an embedded portion embedded in and retained by the retaining member and an exposed portion that is exposed from the retaining member and that is electrically connected to the circuit board; and an electrical element that has a terminal connected to the exposed portion. The bus bar is formed in such a manner that a metal plate of which an outer surface is plated with a plating layer is cut along a predetermined cutting plane. The cutting plane at the exposed portion has a parallel portion that is arranged substantially parallel to a principal surface of the circuit board. The parallel portion and the terminal are joined to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki TANI
  • Publication number: 20110064350
    Abstract: There are provided a split outer ring which can suppress the reduction in durability and which can suppress largely the generation of noise or vibration which is caused in association with the passage of rolling elements over a mating surface and a split rolling bearing which employs the same outer ring. A split outer ring 2 according to the invention has first and second split outer ring members 5, 6 which are formed into a cylindrical shape by being butted against each other at circumferential end portions. First flat plane portions 7 and a V-shaped recess portion 8 which is recessed in a circumferential direction are formed at one end portion 5a of the circumferential end portions which are butted against each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Yamakawa, Junji Murata, Toshiyuki Saito, Takashi Sada, Naoki Tani
  • Publication number: 20100182737
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a housing; a heating member in the housing; and a display device in the housing, the display device having a display screen. The housing has: a mask portion including an opening, the opening configured to expose the display screen therethrough; a cover portion provided opposing to the mask portion with respect to the display device; and at least two connecting portions configured to connect the mask portion and the cover portion, and to sandwich the heating member. Each of the at least two connecting portions includes a gap portion that allows expansion and contraction of the housing due to thermal expansion between the connecting portion and at least one of the mask portion and the cover portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Naoki Tani, Hiroyuki Minaguchi, Toshikazu Shiroishi, Masataka Tokoro, Naohiro Yokoyama, Motoki Tomita
  • Publication number: 20100172607
    Abstract: To provide a bearing structure in which the processing is easy, and the manufacturing cost can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Yamakawa, Masahiro Suzuki, Takashi Sada, Kazuya Suzuki, Naoki Tani
  • Publication number: 20090148087
    Abstract: There is provided a rolling bearing including an inner ring having an inner ring raceway surface, an outer ring having an outer ring raceway surface and a shoulder portion formed on one axial side of the outer ring raceway surface, a plurality of rolling elements which roll between the inner ring raceway surface and the outer ring raceway surface, and a cage adapted to hold the plurality of rolling elements at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction and having a guided surface which confronts the shoulder portion of the outer ring in such a manner as to be brought into sliding contact therewith. The rotation of the cage is guided through sliding contact of the guided surface of the cage with a guiding surface of the shoulder portion of the outer ring. A guiding space which is a radial space between the guiding surface of the shoulder portion of the outer ring and the guided surface of the cage is made to increase as approaching the rolling elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Suzuki, Naoki Tani, Junji Murata, Kazuyoshi Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 6902789
    Abstract: A carpet which is suitable for use in a vehicular passageway, includes a backing fabric that is woven by using the multi-filament yarns for the warps and wefts. A binding resin is applied to the filaments which compose the weft. The filaments which make up the weft are partially fixed to one another through the binding resin. The warp and the weft are partially fixed through the binding resin sticking on the filament of the weft before the tufting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignees: Ohno Co. Ltd., Kawashima-Orimono Co., Ltd, Toyota-Tsusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Funasako, Tomihisa Nadabe, Naoki Tani
  • Publication number: 20030143907
    Abstract: A carpet which is suitable for use in a vehicular passageway, includes a backing fabric that is woven by using the multi-filament yams for the warps and wefts. A binding resin is applied to the filaments which compose the weft. The filaments which make up the weft are partially fixed to one another through the binding resin. The warp and the weft are partially fixed through the binding resin sticking on the filament of the weft before the tufting process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: OHNO CO., LTD.; KAWASHIMA-ORIMONO CO., LTD.; AND TOYOTA-TSUUSHOO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Funasako, Tomihisa Nadabe, Naoki Tani