Patents by Inventor Nobuaki Tanaka
Nobuaki 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: 20240131818Abstract: A rubber-metal laminate includes: a metal sheet; a fluorinated rubber layer laminated on one surface or both surfaces of the metal sheet; and a surface-coating layer with which the fluorinated rubber layer is coated, wherein the surface-coating layer is a cured film obtained by curing of a coating film of a surface-coating agent containing a silicone emulsion, and the silicone emulsion is contained at 10 mass % or more in the surface-coating agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Masahiro YOKOO, Nobuaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20240128880Abstract: A power converter includes a capacitor and a substrate on which a plurality of switching elements for power conversion are mounted. The power converter includes a cooler for cooling the plurality of switching elements and a housing that accommodates the capacitor, the substrate, and the cooler. The power converter includes a power connector exposed from the housing and an output connector exposed from the housing. The power converter includes a plurality of lines that include a plurality of power lines each electrically connected to the capacitor, given switching elements, and the power connector. The plurality of lines include a plurality of output lines each electrically connected to given switching elements and the output connector. At least one among the plurality of lines is a line that includes a conductive pattern formed on the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Yuji SUZUKI, Motohito HORI, Akio TOBA, Ikuya SATO, Yasuhito TANAKA, Masamichi IWASAKI, Masaaki AJIMA, Nobuaki OHGURI
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Patent number: 11949338Abstract: A power converter includes a positive busbar electrically connected to a positive terminal and the first capacitor electrode, and includes a negative busbar electrically connected to a negative terminal and the second capacitor electrode. The power converter includes output busbars each electrically connected to a given output terminal among multiple output terminals, a given high-side switching element among a plurality of high-side switching elements, and a given low-side switching element among a plurality of low-side switching elements. The power converter includes a cooler that cools the high-side switching elements and the low-side switching elements. The power converter includes a housing that accommodates a supply tube and a discharge tube. The positive terminal, the negative terminal, the output terminals, the inlet port, and the outlet port are exposed on the housing. The inlet port, the outlet port, the supply tube, and the discharge tube are separate members from the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Suzuki, Motohito Hori, Akio Toba, Ikuya Sato, Yasuhito Tanaka, Masamichi Iwasaki, Masaaki Ajima, Nobuaki Ohguri
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Patent number: 11866138Abstract: A trim and tilt device includes: a cylinder; a piston; a rod; and a rod guide. The rod includes a first end to which the piston is fixed, and the piston includes an insertion hole to which the first end of the rod is inserted. Over an entire periphery of the rod guide, a lower end of an outer peripheral surface of the rod guide that is in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder is located closer to a second end of the rod than a lower end of a first inner peripheral surface of the rod guide where the outer peripheral surface of the rod is slidable. An upper end of an outer peripheral surface of the piston is located closer to the second end of the rod than an upper end of the insertion hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astero, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Hayato Tsutsui
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Patent number: 11858142Abstract: Provided are a manipulation system and a driving method of the manipulation system capable of performing manipulation efficiently and suitably while suppressing damage to a minute object at the time of manipulation regardless of the degree of skill and technique of an operator. A sample stage configured such that a minute object is placed thereon, a first manipulator including a first pipette for holding the minute object, a second manipulator including a second pipette for operating the minute object that is held on the first pipette, an imaging unit for imaging the minute object, and a controller that controls the sample stage, the first pipette, the second pipette, and the imaging unit are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Ueda, Manabu Kishida, Nobuaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11762374Abstract: A data generation device includes a large-scale data acquisition unit that obtains large-scale data that is large-scale learning data used in learning of a first determination model for determining a machining state of a workpiece machined by a first machine tool; an adaptive data acquisition unit that obtains adaptive data for use in generation of learning data for use in learning of a second determination model for determining a machining state of a workpiece machined by a second machine tool; and a learning data generation unit that converts the large-scale data based on the adaptive data to generate adapted large-scale data for use in learning of the second determination model.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Teruaki Fukuoka, Nobuaki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20230124877Abstract: A data generation device includes a large-scale data acquisition unit that obtains large-scale data that is large-scale learning data used in learning of a first determination model for determining a machining state of a workpiece machined by a first machine tool; an adaptive data acquisition unit that obtains adaptive data for use in generation of learning data for use in learning of a second determination model for determining a machining state of a workpiece machined by a second machine tool; and a learning data generation unit that converts the large-scale data based on the adaptive data to generate adapted large-scale data for use in learning of the second determination model.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Teruaki FUKUOKA, Nobuaki TANAKA
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Patent number: 11618199Abstract: A twin-screw extruder is provided in which screws have different rotational speeds depending on the process of treating the raw material and in which degradation of the raw material is less likely to occur. Twin-screw extruder 1 has two screws 3, 5 that extend in parallel to each other. Each screw 3, 5 has cylindrical upstream screw 31 and downstream screw 35, wherein upstream screw 31 has shaft hole 315 that extends in longitudinal direction X and screw flight 316 on an outer circumferential surface thereof, and downstream screw 35 includes large diameter portion 353 having screw flight 357 on an outer circumferential surface thereof and small diameter shaft portion 351 that has a smaller diameter than large diameter portion 353, wherein small diameter shaft portion 351 of downstream screw 35 is inserted into shaft hole 315 of upstream screw 31. Upstream screw 31 and downstream screw 35 can be independently rotated.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.Inventors: Kazutoshi Izumiya, Katsumi Sumida, Yoshitaka Kimura, Masashi Tanimoto, Hiroyuki Okuma, Katsuyuki Kaneko, Shizuo Ueshige, Nobuaki Tanaka, Takahiro Nakamaru
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Patent number: 11578435Abstract: It is an object to provide a woven fabric which can stably form a folding shape superior in shape retention and followability and which can be sewn while maintaining the folding structure, and also to provide a method for manufacturing the same. There is provided a woven fabric having pleats, wherein the height of the pleats is 2 to 10 times the average diameter of yarns arranged in the same direction as the pleats.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Yamada, Nobuaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Publication number: 20230020322Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for executing an application program to control a game based on gameplay of a game player; receiving instructions from the game player and forwarding the instructions for controlling the game in order to manipulate the execution of the application program and to affect the game; setting respective viewpoints, from among a plurality of viewpoints, serving as bases for generating respective watching screens for viewing the game during gameplay of the game player, which viewpoints are offered to respective watching players, among a plurality of watching players, different from the game player; and deleting the at least one of the plurality of viewpoints to be the one of the respective positions of the one of the one or more objects when the one of the one or more objects disappears from view due to the gameplay of the game player.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Toshiya Ikenaga, Nobuaki Tanaka, Yasuhiro Watari, Toshiharu Sayano, Hiromasa Ohkubo
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Publication number: 20220383147Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: the distance-matrix calculating unit generates, from a data set including samples, a similarity matrix having columns and rows arranged in accordance with an order of the arranged samples, and stores a similarity between a sample corresponding to one of the columns and a sample corresponding to one of the rows in a field specified by the one of the columns and the one of the rows; the order adjusting unit generates an adjusted similarity matrix by referring to label information indicating a result of labeling each of the samples with labels each having classes and adjusting the order in the similarity matrix so that the samples are arranged by each of the classes in a target label designating in the labels; the visualizing unit generates an evaluation screen image indicating each field of the adjusted similarity matrix in brightness corresponding to the similarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takeru SHIRAGA, Nobuaki TANAKA
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Patent number: 11478703Abstract: Methods and apparatus for controlling a game include: controlling a game based on gameplay of a game player; receiving instructions from the game player and forwarding the instructions for controlling the game; and setting respective viewpoints, from among a plurality of viewpoints, serving as bases for generating respective watching screens for viewing the game offered to respective watching players, among a plurality of watching players, different from the game player, where at least one of: (i) the setting includes employing watching player conditions regarding each of the plurality of watching players for each of the plurality of viewpoints; and (ii) the setting includes employing one or more predetermined conditions in setting one or more of the respective viewpoints.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Toshiya Ikenaga, Nobuaki Tanaka, Yasuhiro Watari, Toshiharu Sayano, Hiromasa Ohkubo
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Publication number: 20220215210Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit (102) that stores a feature vector set, a quality label set, and a plurality of non-quality label sets; a non-quality-label clustering unit (107) that calculates an average clustering accuracy of each of the non-quality label sets to calculate a plurality of the average clustering accuracies corresponding to the non-quality label sets, the average clustering accuracy being an average value of a clustering accuracy of clustering performed on a subset by using the quality label set, the subset being obtained by dividing the feature vectors by each of multiple elements indicated by the non-quality labels; and a processing unit (108) that generates a screen image enabling identification of at least one non-quality label type adversely affecting quality of the multiple pieces of digital data by using the average clustering accuracies.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Nobuaki TANAKA
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Patent number: 11371172Abstract: A tubular woven fabric is useful as a transport hose for a fluid or a powder, as a protective hose for linear bodies such as wires, cables and conduits, as a tubular filter, or as a base material of a vascular prosthesis. The tubular woven fabric includes warp yarns and weft yarns interwoven with each other, the tubular woven fabric having an outer diameter with a variation of within 10% along the warp direction and satisfying the formula: (L2?L1)/L1?0.1.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Satoshi Yamada, Yuichi Koyamatsu, Taisuke Kogawa, Yuka Sakaguchi, Kazuhiro Tanahashi
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Publication number: 20220194537Abstract: A trim and tilt device includes: a cylinder; a piston; a rod; and a rod guide. The rod includes a first end to which the piston is fixed, and the piston includes an insertion hole to which the first end of the rod is inserted. Over an entire periphery of the rod guide, a lower end of an outer peripheral surface of the rod guide that is in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder is located closer to a second end of the rod than a lower end of a first inner peripheral surface of the rod guide where the outer peripheral surface of the rod is slidable. An upper end of an outer peripheral surface of the piston is located closer to the second end of the rod than an upper end of the insertion hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuaki TANAKA, Hayato TSUTSUI
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Patent number: 11366835Abstract: An information processing device (100) includes a memory and processing circuitry. The memory stores a data set (DG) including multiple items of digital data (DD) and a label set (RG) including multiple labels. Each of the multiple labels are added to each of the multiple items of digital data (DD). The processing circuitry generates a feature vector set (BG) by extracting a predetermined feature from each of the multiple items of digital data (DD) and generating feature vectors indicating the extracted features. The feature vector set includes the feature vectors. The processing circuitry determines homogeneity of the data set (DG) by performing a trial of supervised clustering on the feature vector set (BG) by using the label set (RG) and determining the possibility of the clustering.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11351630Abstract: A processing state detecting device for detecting a processing state of a workpiece processed by laser processing includes: a sound collecting unit that measures sound while the workpiece is being processed by laser processing; an installation position evaluating unit that determines whether an installation position of the sound collecting unit needs to be changed, on the basis of the sound measured by the sound collecting unit; and an evaluation result informing unit that provides information on a result of evaluation of the installation position evaluating unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Teruaki Fukuoka
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Patent number: 11299826Abstract: Provided is a tubular fabric that has a homogeneous structure along its outer circumference and excellent shape-stability and that is useful as hoses for transferring a fluid or powder or for protecting linear materials such as a wire, a cable, and a conduit, tubular filters, and medical base materials such as an artificial blood vessel. The tubular fabric includes a wall part that is woven by interlacing a warp yarn and a weft yarn and that has a double weave structure, a weft yarn in an outer layer and a weft yarn in an inner layer being not intersected with each other. The tubular fabric preferably has a circularity c of 0.8 or more and 1.2 or less, the circularity c being represented by the following equation of an outer diameter b perpendicular to an outer diameter a with respect to the outer diameter a, the outer diameter a being obtained by measuring a location corresponding to a fabric width A in weaving of the tubular fabric. Circularity c=a/b.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Satoshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20220062513Abstract: A medical base material for an indwelling cardiovascular device in which a unique knitted structure made of multifilaments containing ultra-fine fibers can maintain the antithrombotic property through the early endothelialization has improved storage property in a sheath catheter and mechanical strength. The medical base material includes a knitted fabric made of multifilaments containing 30 wt % or more of ultra-fine fibers having a single thread diameter of 1 ?m to 10 ?m, and heparin, a heparin derivative, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which is chemically bound to the surface of the ultra-fine fibers, wherein: the knitted fabric has a basis weight of 5 mg/cm2 to 20 mg/cm2, a thickness of 200 ?m or less, and a water permeability of 1000 mL/min/cm2 to 10,000 mL/min/cm2 at a pressure of 120 mmHg.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: So Kakiyama, Satoshi Yamada, Nobuaki Tanaka, Kazuhiro Tanahashi
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Patent number: 11245981Abstract: A microphone array includes first and second microphones (Ma, Mb) placed on a first axis (f), a third microphone (Mc) placed on a plane (fg) formed by the first axis and a second axis (g) and at a position other than on the first axis, and a fourth microphone (Md) placed on a third axis (h), and at a position other than on the plane formed by the first and the second axes, and a processing circuit generates signals (Cx, Cy, Cz) having bidirectionality in first, second and third mutually perpendicular directions (x, y, z), and an omnidirectional signal (Cw), based on signals (Ba to Bd) obtained by sound collection by means of the first to fourth microphones. It is possible to generate signals having bidirectionality in mutually perpendicular directions, and an omnidirectional signal, without using special microphones, and without excessive restrictions with regard to the placement of the microphones.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoharu Awano, Masaru Kimura, Satoru Furuta, Jin Hirano, Atsuyoshi Yano, Nobuaki Tanaka