Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Tanaka
Nobuyuki 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: 20210045594Abstract: A toilet device disposed at a toilet bowl has a main body fixed to an upper surface of the toilet bowl, a toilet seat supported by the main body, and a reflection-type optical sensor disposed at the toilet seat, the optical sensor having a light emitter configured to emit light from a surface of the toilet seat, and a light receiver configured to receive reflection light of the light.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Takahide ISOMURA, Keishi HORIUCHI, Toru KATAYAMA, Kenji TAKEMURA, Yu TORIKAI, Nobuyuki TANAKA
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Patent number: 10921214Abstract: An air-fuel ratio (A/F) sensor control device includes: an impedance detector detecting an impedance of an A/F sensor; and a pump current controller performing a digital control on a supply of electric current to the A/F sensor. The pump current controller includes a PID calculator calculating an instruction current value according to a difference of two input values, i.e., the difference between a PID control target value and a detection value of an inter-terminal voltage of a Nernst cell; and a protection clamper limiting a supply of electric current to a pump cell based on the instruction current value and the impedance.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki Tanaka, Hiroki Kakui, Yuji Iwama, Satoshi Nishimoto
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Patent number: 10911260Abstract: A link control circuit (10) includes a plurality of hardware processing units serving as an uplink parser unit (11) configured to output, as an event, the contents of link control notified by an uplink control frame, a timer unit (12) configured to start/stop a timer and output a link event in accordance with expiration of the timer, a frame generation unit (13) configured to generate a downlink control frame containing the contents of link control, and a state management unit (15) configured to manage the state of the link in accordance with these events, and instruct the timer unit to start/stop the timer and the frame generation unit to generate the downlink control frame in accordance with the state of the link, thereby controlling connection establishment, maintenance, and disconnection of the link.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Saki Hatta, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Satoshi Shigematsu
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Publication number: 20210023818Abstract: A radio wave absorbing material including a fluoropolymer. The fluoropolymer contains a vinylidene fluoride unit, and the radio wave absorbing material absorbs a radio wave having a frequency in a range of 1 MHz to 100 MHz.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi HAZAMA, Nobuyuki KOMATSU, Kouji YOKOTANI, Mayuko TATEMICHI, Akio HIGAKI, Tomohiro TANAKA
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Publication number: 20210019867Abstract: An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shohei HAYASHI, Toshiya MORI, Tadashi SHIBATA, Nobuyuki NAKANO, Akira TANAKA, Masanaga TSUJI
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Publication number: 20200362127Abstract: A film having a dielectric dissipation factor at a frequency of 1 kHz and 160° C. of 0.02% or lower and a dielectric breakdown strength at 160° C. of 400 V/?m or higher. Also disclosed is a film including at least one fluoropolymer selected from a tetrafluoroethylene/perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) copolymer and a tetrafluoroethylene/hexafluoropropylene copolymer, the fluoropolymer having a crystallinity of 65% or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Mayuko TATEMICHI, Takeshi HAZAMA, Nobuyuki KOMATSU, Tatsuya HIGUCHI, Kouji YOKOTANI, Akio HIGAKI, Tomohiro TANAKA
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Publication number: 20200362130Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a stretched porous film having all of air permeability, water resistance, and flexibility. A stretched porous film in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention contains a resin composition containing a specific polyethylene-based resin and a thermoplastic elastomer at a certain mass ratio, and has a water vapor transmission rate of not less than 1400 g/m·.24 h.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Nobuyuki TANAKA, Tetsuya IMURA, Kunio KAMATA
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Patent number: 10834861Abstract: A component determination device and a component determination method for an electronic component, the component including a reference section formed as a different member to the multiple electrodes. The component determination device includes: a measuring device configured to measure positions of multiple reference points set on the reference section and a position of a measurement point set on each of the multiple electrodes; a plane calculating section configured to calculate a reference plane representing a position of the upper surface of the circuit board with respect to the component main body when the electronic component is mounted on the circuit board based on the positions of the multiple reference points; and a suitability determining section configured to determine whether the electronic component is suitable based on a distance between the reference plane and the multiple measurement points.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki Ishikawa, Katsunori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20200298849Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a vehicle that enable a flow of a vehicle in a lane in which an own vehicle is traveling and a flow of a vehicle in a next lane to be compared.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2018Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventor: NOBUYUKI TANAKA
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Publication number: 20200303787Abstract: A secondary battery system includes an assembled battery that includes a plurality of blocks that are connected in series to one another. Each of the plurality of the blocks includes same number of cells that are connected in parallel to one another. A control device is configured to calculate an internal resistance ratio and a protection current. The internal resistance ratio is a value obtained by dividing the higher one of internal resistances by the lower one of the internal resistances of two of the plurality of the blocks. The protection current is a value obtained by multiplying the internal resistance ratio by a current value of the assembled battery detected by a current sensor. The control device is configured to perform the charge-discharge control based on the protection current.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyohito MACHIDA, Hiroki TASHIRO, Yoshihiro UCHIDA, Nobuyuki TANAKA, Masaki UCHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20200283544Abstract: As antibody variants and isoforms having reduced FVIII mimetic activity than Emicizumab, the antibody variants having some specific amino acid residues in the variable region cleaved out and missing (Q-CDR-Clipped Variants) and the antibody isoforms having inter-heavy chain disulfide bonds less susceptible to reduction under mild reducing conditions (Protected Disulfide Isoforms) are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2018Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kensaku Hosoguchi, Maki Kuwayama, Chifumi Seida, Yosuke Watanabe, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Satoshi Saitoh, Masakazu Fukuda
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Patent number: 10747229Abstract: An environment arrangement robot includes a map creation unit that divides the target space into a plurality of cell spaces and provides an evaluation value to each of the cell spaces, in which the evaluation value indicates a probability of whether or not there is an object in the corresponding cell space, and an environment change unit that changes, among the plurality of cell spaces, a specific cell space having the evaluation value within a range evaluated that the probability of whether or not there is an object in the specific cell is low in such a way that the probability that the object is present will become greater or change a surrounding cell space in such a way that the specific cell space will be excluded from the measurement by the distance sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Matsuno, Hidenori Yabushita, Kazuhito Tanaka, Shintaro Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 10744902Abstract: A cooling device for a battery that is mounted in a vehicle includes: a cooling fan that is configured to suck air in a vehicle interior, and to blow the sucked air to the battery; an intake air temperature sensor that is configured to detect a temperature of the air sucked by the cooling fan; and an electronic control unit that is configured (i) to control the cooling fan, and (ii) to prohibit the cooling fan from being operated when a detected value of the intake air temperature sensor is lower than a first temperature.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiyohito Machida, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Teruo Ishishita, Keiichi Minamiura
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Publication number: 20200259354Abstract: An ECU performs a process routine including a step of acquiring a voltage, a current, and a battery temperature, a step of estimating an SOC, a step of performing a parallel gain calculating process, a step of performing an IWin calculating process, a step of performing DWin/DWout calculating process, a step of performing an NWin/NWout calculating process, and a step of setting Win and Wout.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiro UCHIDA, Kiyohito MACHIDA, Yuki MORIYA, Nobuyuki TANAKA, Kazuki KUBO, Masaki UCHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20200256922Abstract: An ECU sets a SOC estimated from an OCV at the time of activating a system of a vehicle as an initial SOC value in the case where the SOC during a stop of the system is higher than a first SOC, which represents the SOC estimated from the OCV at the time of activating the system by using a discharging curve line, or the SOC during the stop of the system is lower than a second SOC, which represents the SOC estimated from the OCV at the time of activating the system by using a charging curve line. The ECU sets the SOC during the stop of the system as the initial SOC value in the case where the SOC during the stop of the system is equal to or lower than the first SOC and is equal to or higher than the second SOC.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2019Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiro Uchida, Kiyohito Machida, Yuki Moriya, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuki Kubo, Masaki Uchiyama
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Patent number: 10738004Abstract: Provided is a compound, such as ethyl 6-((2-chloro-4-fluorobenzyl)sulfonyl) -3-hydroxycyclohex-1-ene-1-carboxylate or an optical isomer thereof, having a superior Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling inhibitory action, which may be useful as a prophylactic or therapeutic drug for diseases such as autoimmune diseases and/or inflammatory diseases, or chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain (CINP), liver failure, and ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI).Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company LimitedInventors: Toshitake Kobayashi, Morihisa Saitoh, Yasufumi Wada, Nobuyuki Negoro, Masashi Yamasaki, Takahiro Tanaka, Naomi Kitamoto
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Patent number: 10739724Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a main body housing; a drum cartridge; a toner cartridge, which is attachable to and detachable from the drum cartridge and includes a memory having an electrical contact surface; a connector, which is configured to be in contact with the electrical contact surface, and a controller is configured to execute: connection determination processing of determining whether electrical connection with the memory is made, electrical conduction determination processing of determining whether the applying circuit is electrically conducted with the charger, and notification processing of notifying information indicating whether the drum cartridge is mounted to the main body housing and information indicating whether the toner cartridge is mounted to the main body housing, in accordance with results of the connection determination processing and the electrical conduction determination processing.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Tanaka, Masahito Hamaya
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Publication number: 20200241128Abstract: A device control system comprises an object detection circuit configured to detect an object around a device to be controlled, an attribute identification circuit configured to identify an attribute of the device, and a control circuit configured to control the device based on a result of the detection by the object detection circuit and the attribute of the object identified by the attribute identification circuit. According to the above embodiment, it is possible to control the device without the user being aware of it.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Shinichi UCHIDA, Nobuyuki MORIKOSHI, Tomoyuki TANAKA, Yoshiyuki OTA, Ryo YOKOTA, Yuji MOTODA
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Publication number: 20200230137Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a CaMKII inhibitory action, which is expected to be useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of cardiac diseases (particularly catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, postoperative atrial fibrillation, heart failure, fatal arrhythmia) and the like. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: Cardurion Pharmaceuticals, LLCInventors: Nobuyuki MATSUNAGA, Takashi NAKAHATA, Yuta TANAKA, Hiroki TAKAHAGI, Yasufumi MIYAMOTO, Rei OKAMOTO, Takeshi YOSHIKAWA, Yoshito TERAO, Takafumi YUKAWA, Keiko KAKEGAWA, Yoichi NISHIKAWA, Terufumi TAKAGI, Masashi TAKAHASHI, Mallareddy KOMANDLA, Lily KWOK, Joanne MIURA, Mark SABAT, Nicholas SCORAH, Paul TANIS, John TYHONAS, Phong H. VU, Haixia WANG, Xiaolun WANG, Junya SHIRAI, Tomohiro OKAWA, Zenyu SHIOKAWA, Akito SHIBUYA
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Patent number: 10699486Abstract: A display system includes a projector that projects a virtual image onto a target space to allow a target person to visibly recognize the virtual image and a controller that controls display of the virtual image. When the projector projects a virtual image corresponding to a caution object, the controller selects at least one reference point from one or more candidate points existing around the caution object and associates the virtual image with the at least one reference point.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Tadashi Shibata, Nobuyuki Nakano, Masanaga Tsuji, Shohei Hayashi