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: 20200038751Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Toshiya Ikenaga, Nobuaki Tanaka, Yasuhiro Watari, Toshiharu Sayano, Hiromasa Ohkubo
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Publication number: 20200035214Abstract: A filter coefficient vector generating unit (3) generates a filter coefficient vector used for forming directivity in a target direction by using beamforming, while suppressing the filter coefficient vector in such a way that the filter coefficient vector has a value equal to or less than a setting value. A beamforming unit (4) performs the beamforming on the basis of both observation signals acquired from a microphone array (2), and the filter coefficient vector generated by the filter coefficient vector generating unit (3), to form directivity in the target direction, and outputs a signal in which a sound having the formed directivity is emphasized.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Nobuaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20200022799Abstract: A tubular structure has succeeded in achieving excellent puncture resistance as well as maintenance of flexibility in a base by covering the base with a cover having excellent flexibility. The tubular structure includes a tubular base and a cover which covers the base, wherein the cover includes a copolymer containing a silicone monomer and a polymerizable monomer having a fluoroalkyl group(s) as monomer units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Kyohei Yamashita, Koji Kadowaki, Kazuhiro Tanahashi, Nobuaki Tanaka, Satoshi Yamada, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
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Publication number: 20190381495Abstract: A collection pipette that collects a microscopic object includes a first tube part, a second tube part connected to an end of the first tube part, and a third tube part connected to the other end of the first tube part. The longitudinal direction of the third tube part intersects with the longitudinal direction of the first tube part, and is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the second tube part. For example, the length in the longitudinal direction of the third tube part is shorter than the length in the longitudinal direction of the first tube part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Nobuaki TANAKA, Sumio SUGITA, Richard HOUSE
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Patent number: 10471354Abstract: In a game system, a game managing server includes: a game controlling unit that controls a game; a game player instruction receiving unit that receives an instruction from a game player and forwards the instruction to the game controlling unit; and a watching point setting unit that sets a viewpoint position for generating a watching screen for viewing the game, the watching screen being offered to a plurality of watching players different from the game player.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Toshiya Ikenaga, Nobuaki Tanaka, Yasuhiro Watari, Toshiharu Sayano, Hiromasa Ohkubo
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Publication number: 20190149912Abstract: A noise eliminating device including: an acoustic sensor array including a first acoustic sensor at a vertex forming a vertex angle of an isosceles triangle, and second and third acoustic sensors at the other vertexes of the isosceles triangle, the first sensor being arranged on a bisector between two boundaries between a direction range in which a target sound source can exist and a direction range in which a noise source can exist; and the second and third sensors being arranged so that the boundaries coincide with a direction of a perpendicular bisector of a line segment connecting the first and second sensors, and a direction of a perpendicular bisector of a line segment connecting the first and third sensors; and a processor to use signals output from the sensors to output a signal obtained by enhancing sound from the target sound source and eliminating noise from the noise source.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2016Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Nobuaki TANAKA
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Patent number: 10280869Abstract: A rubber-metal laminated gasket material comprising a metal plate, a surface treating agent layer, an adhesive layer, and a rubber layer, the layers being sequentially laminated on the metal plate; wherein the surface treating agent layer is formed by applying a surface treating agent so that the coating amount on one surface is 30 to 1,000 mg/m2, and the surface treating agent is free from chromium, has a mixing ratio of 20 to 90 wt. % of a fluorine-free titanium compound and 10 to 80 wt. % of alumina, and has a metal titanium content of 1 to 20 wt. %. The rubber-metal laminated gasket material has excellent LLC resistance under high temperature conditions.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Takeshi Sato, Katsumi Abe
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Patent number: 10273982Abstract: A first case accommodating a first check valve of a switching valve switching a flow of hydraulic fluid to one of a first chamber and a second chamber of a cylinder device, an inside of which is segmented into the first chamber and the second chamber by a piston, and a second case which is stacked on the first case and in which a first actuation valve of the switching valve is accommodated to be displaced in a direction of stacking the first case are provided. A first valve chamber, accommodating the first actuation valve, of the second case has a pressure receiving surface on which pressure of hydraulic fluid that acts on the first valve chamber acts toward the first case.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATIONInventors: Hayato Tsutsui, Nobuaki Tanaka, Takeshi Ueki
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Patent number: 10245734Abstract: A manipulation system includes: a manipulator that operates a microscopic object; a first input unit that generates a first movement command signal for moving the manipulator to a manipulator position corresponding to an input operation position; and a second input unit that generates a second movement command signal for moving the manipulator to a manipulator stored position stored in a storage. When the input operation position of the first input unit is a predetermined input operation position, the manipulator is enabled to be moved by an operation of the first input unit, or the manipulator is enabled to be moved by an operation of the second input unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventor: Nobuaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 10239481Abstract: A polyester base fabric for airbags woven from polyester fiber has an energy absorption amount in a warp direction (EW) when the polyester base fabric is elongated up to a stress of 118 N/cm and subsequently relaxed to a stress of 0 N/cm of 1.0 to 3.0 J/cm2; an energy absorption amount in a weft direction (EF) when the polyester base fabric is elongated up to a stress of 118 N/cm and subsequently relaxed to a stress of 0 N/cm of 1.0 to 3.0 J/cm2; and a ratio (EW/EF) of the energy absorption amount in the warp direction (EW) to the energy absorption amount in the weft direction (EF) of 0.5 to 2.0.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Riku Yamada, Nobuaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 10071315Abstract: Disclosed herein is a content providing method for a content providing server to provide contents to client terminals via a network. The method includes: obtaining play data indicating progress conditions of a computer game progressing according to user operation on the client terminals; evaluating game plays by each predetermined evaluation item on a basis of the play data; obtaining data of a moving image of a game play extracted according to an evaluation result; and distributing the data of the moving image to the client terminals via the network.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiro Watari, Nobuaki Tanaka, Toshiharu Sayano, Toshiya Ikenaga
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Patent number: 9943424Abstract: An artificial blood vessel includes a tubular woven fabric composed of a multifilament yarn A including a first polyester and a multifilament yarn B including a second polyester, and has an inner diameter of 8 mm or less and a layer thickness of 50 ?m or more and 250 ?m or less, wherein the multifilament yarn A has a single fiber fineness of 1.0 dtex or more and a total fineness of 33 dtex or less, the multifilament yarn B has a single fiber fineness of 0.08 dtex or less and a total fineness of 66 dtex or less, and the multifilament yarn B forms loops on an inner wall surface of the tubular woven fabric.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Yamada, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Nobuaki Tanaka, Kazuhiro Tanahashi, Yuka Sakaguchi, Masaki Fujita, Koji Kadowaki
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Publication number: 20180086300Abstract: A polyester base fabric for airbags woven from polyester fiber has an energy absorption amount in a warp direction (EW) when the polyester base fabric is elongated up to a stress of 118 N/cm and subsequently relaxed to a stress of 0 N/cm of 1.0 to 3.0 J/cm2; an energy absorption amount in a weft direction (EF) when the polyester base fabric is elongated up to a stress of 118 N/cm and subsequently relaxed to a stress of 0 N/cm of 1.0 to 3.0 J/cm2; and a ratio (EW/EF) of the energy absorption amount in the warp direction (EW) to the energy absorption amount in the weft direction (EF) of 0.5 to 2.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Riku Yamada, Nobuaki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20180071919Abstract: A manipulation system includes: a manipulator that operates a microscopic object; a first input unit that generates a first movement command signal for moving the manipulator to a manipulator position corresponding to an input operation position; and a second input unit that generates a second movement command signal for moving the manipulator to a manipulator stored position stored in a storage. When the input operation position of the first input unit is a predetermined input operation position, the manipulator is enabled to be moved by an operation of the first input unit, or the manipulator is enabled to be moved by an operation of the second input unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventor: Nobuaki TANAKA
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Patent number: 9878684Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a cloth which, when used as an air bag main body cloth, does not undergo the damage caused by a high-temperature gas generated from an inflater, and therefore has high heat resistance and is suitable for an air bag. The means for solving the problem is a coated cloth for an air bag, which is produced by applying an elastomer resin layer on at least one surface of a three-dimensional woven fabric in an amount of 50 to 500 g/m2 per one surface, said coated cloth being characterized by having void spaces formed therein, wherein the void content in the coated cloth is 15 to 60%. Preferably, the coated cloth is used in applications in which the coated cloth is attached onto the periphery of an inflater connection opening in an air bag.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Satoshi Yamada
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Patent number: 9834167Abstract: An airbag fabric is excellent in slippage amount and strength in a sewn portion. The airbag fabric is made of a synthetic fiber, the fabric having a constant (load of 98 N/30 mm) elongation of 1 to 5% and having a residual strain rate of 0.1 to 1.5%, the residual strain rate being obtained when the fabric is allowed to stand still for 10 minutes from the removal of the 98 N/30 mm load after the retention of the fabric for 10 minutes while the 98 N/30 mm load is applied to the fabric. The strength in the sewn portion is preferably 1200 N or more in each of the warp and the weft.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Satoshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20160369742Abstract: A rubber-metal laminated gasket material comprising a metal plate, a surface treating agent layer, an adhesive layer, and a rubber layer, the layers being sequentially laminated on the metal plate; wherein the surface treating agent layer is formed by applying a surface treating agent so that the coating amount on one surface is 30 to 1,000 mg/m2, and the surface treating agent is free from chromium, has a mixing ratio of 20 to 90 wt. % of a fluorine-free titanium compound and 10 to 80 wt. % of alumina, and has a metal titanium content of 1 to 20 wt. %. The rubber-metal laminated gasket material has excellent LLC resistance under high temperature conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2014Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Takeshi Sato, Katsumi Abe
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Publication number: 20160327522Abstract: Including an invariant interval deciding unit (1) to decide whether operation of a detection target is in an invariant interval; a correction parameter generator (3) to generate, when decided that the operation is in the invariant interval, a correction parameter for correcting an observation signal in a time interval outside the invariant interval from an observation signal obtained from the operation sound in the invariant interval; a feature extracting unit (4) to extract, when decided that the operation is in the time interval outside the invariant interval, a feature value of the operation sound of the detection target in the time interval outside the invariant interval from the observation signal of the detection target in the time interval outside the invariant interval and the correction parameter; and an abnormal sound deciding unit (5) to decide from the feature value extracted whether an abnormal sound occurs in the detection target.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuaki TANAKA, Atsuyoshi YANO, Jin HIRANO, Atsushi HOTTA
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Publication number: 20160250553Abstract: In a game system 1, a game managing server 100 includes: a game controlling unit that controls a game; a game player instruction receiving unit that receives an instruction from a game player and forwards the instruction to the game controlling unit; and a watching point setting unit that sets a viewpoint position for generating a watching screen for viewing the game, the watching screen being offered to a plurality of watching players different from the game player.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2014Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Toshiya Ikenaga, Nobuaki Tanaka, Yasuhiro Watari, Toshiharu Sayano, Hiromasa Ohkubo
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Publication number: 20160222555Abstract: A device is capable of reducing occurrence of cloth fell retreat at a selvage portion of a woven fabric and warp yarn looseness in a base cloth selvage portion when a high-density woven fabric is woven at a high speed. The selvage portion gripping device for a loom has a space where a selvage portion can pass in which the selvage portion formed by weaving additional yarns and weft yarns can pass through in a woven fabric forwarding direction, a small space where the weft yarn can move in which the weft yarn can move in the woven fabric forwarding direction, and a means to maintain a woven condition of the selvage portion even when the weft yarn is cut with a weft yarn cutter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2014Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Nobuaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Koji Shimada