Patents by Inventor Ryo Tabata
Ryo Tabata 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: 20240123782Abstract: A suspension arm includes a main body. The main body includes a curved portion curved along a longitudinal direction and has a closed section. The main body includes an inner side wall, an outer side wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall. The inner side wall corresponds to an inner side of a curve of the curved portion. The outer side wall corresponds to an outer side of the curve of the curved portion. A thickness of the inner side wall is larger than a thickness of the outer side wall. In sectional view of the main body perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each of a length of the first side wall and a length of the second side wall is longer than each of a length of the inner side wall and a length of the outer side wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA, Koichi HAMADA, Ryo TABATA, Ryo URUSHIBATA, Yuki KITAHARA
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Publication number: 20240100583Abstract: Provided is a burring processing method, which is a method for forming a buffing processed portion including a raised portion and a curved portion in a metal component having a pilot hole formed therein, the method being characterized by including: a preforming step of enlarging a diameter of the pilot hole, moving an edge portion of the pilot hole relative to the metal component in a first direction of a thickness direction of the metal component in a first range around the pilot hole of the metal component, and forming the whole first range into a preformed portion raised from the metal component in the first direction; and a main forming step of deforming the preformed portion in a second direction opposite to the first direction, forming a second range on an outer diameter side of the preformed portion to have the same height as the first range in the first direction, and forming part of a third range on an inner diameter side of the preformed portion from the second range to be part of the curved portionType: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA, Koichi HAMADA, Ryo TABATA, Ryo URUSHIBATA, Yuuki KITAHARA
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Publication number: 20240096145Abstract: A noise generation cause identifying method and a noise generation cause identifying device are provided. A response correcting process corrects a sound signal obtained through a sound signal obtaining process based on obtained model information so that a frequency response of the obtained sound signal approaches a frequency response of a learning sound signal. A variable obtaining process obtains a variable output from a map by inputting the corrected sound signal to the map. A cause identifying process identifies a generation cause of a sound picked up by a microphone using the variable obtained through the variable obtaining process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichi TAKEUCHI, Atsushi TABATA, Mitsuo OKUBO, Shingo NORITAKE, Akira MURAKAMI, Ryo YANAGAWA
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Publication number: 20230399729Abstract: As a burring processed member able to suppress the formation of fatigue cracks in a burring part, one having a structure satisfying the following relations (1) to (3) is disclosed: 3?Ra?100 . . . (1), 3.0<h . . . (2), 24+r?[TS/(40+0.28×Ra)]<h . . . (3), where, “Ra” is an arithmetic mean roughness (?m) of the burring end face, “h” is a height (mm) from the first surface to the burring end face, “r” is a radius of curvature (mm) of the curved wall part, and “TS” is the tensile strength (MPa) of the sheet-shaped part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei NAKADA, Ryo TABATA, Takeshi KAWACHI, Takeshi TOYODA
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Patent number: 11804202Abstract: An electronic wind instrument includes a breath sensor, an operating element, a speaker, and an acoustic tube. The operating element receives an instruction related to a pitch. The speaker outputs a sound based on musical performance information obtained from at least one of the breath sensor and the operating element. The speaker has an inner space therein. The acoustic tube that has an inner space therein. The inner space of the acoustic tube is continuous with the inner space of the speaker. The acoustic tube extends in a direction away from the speaker.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Kazuki Kashiwase, Ryo Tabata, Hiroshi Miyazaki
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Patent number: 11772147Abstract: A strength flanging method which improves the method of stretch flanging by press forming so as to disperse strain generated during a forming operation in a blank and in turn prevent the formation of cracks at the center of an arc part, which strength flanging method performs stretch flanging using a stretch flanging tool provided with a top surface part having a protruding part in a top view, straight wall parts, a main slanted wall part between the top surface part and the straight wall parts positioned forming an angle with the top surface part of more than 0° and less than 90° and with the straight wall parts of 10° or more and less than 90° and having two intersecting ridgelines at the straight wall part sides, a first sub slanted wall part sharing one ridgeline among the two ridgelines with the main slanted wall part and positioned forming angles with the top surface part and a straight wall part of more than 0° and less than 90°, and a second sub slanted wall part sharing the other ridgeline among theType: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Tabata, Masahiro Saito
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Patent number: 11712730Abstract: This manufacturing method of a structural member includes an intermediate step and a bending step. A height difference is provided on a bottom wall of a groove part between an intermediate position and both end positions sandwiching the intermediate position therebetween in a longitudinal sectional view in an extending direction of the groove part by the pressing in the intermediate step, and thereby at least one of a first curved part which has a concave curved shape in a plan view and a convex curved shape in the longitudinal sectional view and a second curved part which has a convex curved shape in the plan view and a concave curved shape in the longitudinal sectional view is formed on the bottom wall.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Tabata, Yasuhiro Ito
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Publication number: 20220250132Abstract: This manufacturing method of a structural member includes an intermediate step and a bending step. A height difference is provided on a bottom wall of a groove part between an intermediate position and both end positions sandwiching the intermediate position therebetween in a longitudinal sectional view in an extending direction of the groove part by the pressing in the intermediate step, and thereby at least one of a first curved part which has a concave curved shape in a plan view and a convex curved shape in the longitudinal sectional view and a second curved part which has a convex curved shape in the plan view and a concave curved shape in the longitudinal sectional view is formed on the bottom wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo TABATA, Yasuhiro ITO
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Publication number: 20220241838Abstract: The present invention has as its technical problem to provide a punching method able to stably secure a stretch-flangeability equal to or greater than the case of using a punch having a flat blade at its bottom surface. The punching method of the present invention is a method of punching a metal sheet using a punching and shearing device provided with a punch having an upper blade having a horizontal part with respect to the cutting line in part and having parts other than the horizontal part comprised of inclined parts and a die having a lower blade wherein the upper blade used for the punching process has a shape where the inclined parts first contact the metal sheet at the time of a punching process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun NITTA, Takashi YASUTOMI, Ryo TABATA
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Publication number: 20210268566Abstract: A strength flanging method which improves the method of stretch flanging by press forming so as to disperse strain generated during a forming operation in a blank and in turn prevent the formation of cracks at the center of an arc part, which strength flanging method performs stretch flanging using a stretch flanging tool provided with a top surface part having a protruding part in a top view, straight wall parts, a main slanted wall part between the top surface part and the straight wall parts positioned forming an angle with the top surface part of more than 0° and less than 90° and with the straight wall parts of 10° or more and less than 90° and having two intersecting ridgelines at the straight wall part sides, a first sub slanted wall part sharing one ridgeline among the two ridgelines with the main slanted wall part and positioned forming angles with the top surface part and a straight wall part of more than 0° and less than 90°, and a second sub slanted wall part sharing the other ridgeline among theType: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2018Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo TABATA, Masahiro SAITO
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Publication number: 20210272544Abstract: An electronic wind instrument includes a breath sensor, an operating element, a speaker, and an acoustic tube. The operating element receives an instruction related to a pitch. The speaker outputs a sound based on musical performance information obtained from at least one of the breath sensor and the operating element. The speaker has an inner space therein. The acoustic tube that has an inner space therein. The inner space of the acoustic tube is continuous with the inner space of the speaker. The acoustic tube extends in a direction away from the speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Kazuki KASHIWASE, Ryo TABATA, Hiroshi MIYAZAKI
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Patent number: 10354630Abstract: Performance information of a music performance executed by a user is received, and temporarily stored into a buffer for each given time period. The performance information is recorded into a recording section in response to a recording instruction by the user. Second performance information having a definite time period is reproduced repeatedly, and the user ad-libs a desired musical performance while listening to the repeatedly reproduced tones of the second performance information. The given time period is set to coincide with the definite time period of the second performance information. Temporarily-stored performance information for the given time period is recorded in one of a plurality of recording tracks. In response to a plurality of user's recording instructions, a plurality of different segments of performance information for the given time period are recorded into respective ones of the recording tracks, and these different segments are reproduced repeatedly in synchronized fashion.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Tabata, Jun Usui, Emi Tanabe, Takahiro Yanagawa, Yuji Yamada
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Publication number: 20170278501Abstract: Performance information of a music performance executed by a user is received, and temporarily stored into a buffer for each given time period. The performance information is recorded into a recording section in response to a recording instruction by the user. Second performance information having a definite time period is reproduced repeatedly, and the user ad-libs a desired musical performance while listening to the repeatedly reproduced tones of the second performance information. The given time period is set to coincide with the definite time period of the second performance information. Temporarily-stored performance information for the given time period is recorded in one of a plurality of recording tracks. In response to a plurality of user's recording instructions, a plurality of different segments of performance information for the given time period are recorded into respective ones of the recording tracks, and these different segments are reproduced repeatedly in synchronized fashion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2015Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Ryo TABATA, Jun USUI, Emi TANABE, Takahiro YANAGAWA, Yuji YAMADA
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Patent number: 8571275Abstract: A device for automatically creating a photo album is disclosed. A face detection unit detects faces from an inputted image, an inclination determining unit determines an inclination of the inputted image based on inclinations of the faces, a temporary trimming reference area determining unit determines a trimming reference area containing one or more of the faces, a temporary trimming reference point determining unit determines a trimming reference point in the trimming reference area, an image rotating unit rotates the inputted image depending on the inclination of the inputted image, a trimming unit sets in the inputted image a layout frame of an image insertion area of a photo album template such that the layout reference point is positioned on the trimming reference point and the trimming reference area is contained within the layout frame and carries out trimming, and a template composition unit combines the trimmed area with the template.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masayuki Ryuto, Kei Yamaji, Sakiko Narumi, Ryo Tabata
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Publication number: 20120148121Abstract: A device for automatically creating a photo album is disclosed. A face detection unit detects faces from an inputted image, an inclination determining unit determines an inclination of the inputted image based on inclinations of the faces, a temporary trimming reference area determining unit determines a trimming reference area containing one or more of the faces, a temporary trimming reference point determining unit determines a trimming reference point in the trimming reference area, an image rotating unit rotates the inputted image depending on the inclination of the inputted image, a trimming unit sets in the inputted image a layout frame of an image insertion area of a photo album template such that the layout reference point is positioned on the trimming reference point and the trimming reference area is contained within the layout frame and carries out trimming, and a template composition unit combines the trimmed area with the template.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masayuki RYUTO, Kei Yamaji, Sakiko Narumi, Ryo Tabata
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Patent number: 8139826Abstract: A device for automatically creating a photo album is disclosed. A face detection unit detects faces from an inputted image, an inclination determining unit determines an inclination of the inputted image based on inclinations of the faces, a temporary trimming reference area determining unit determines a trimming reference area containing one or more of the faces, a temporary trimming reference point determining unit determines a trimming reference point in the trimming reference area, an image rotating unit rotates the inputted image depending on the inclination of the inputted image, a trimming unit sets in the inputted image a layout frame of an image insertion area of a photo album template such that the layout reference point is positioned on the trimming reference point and the trimming reference area is contained within the layout frame and carries out trimming, and a template composition unit combines the trimmed area with the template.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Masayuki Ryuto, Kei Yamaji, Sakiko Narumi, Ryo Tabata
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Publication number: 20080304718Abstract: A device for automatically creating a photo album is disclosed. A face detection unit detects faces from an inputted image, an inclination determining unit determines an inclination of the inputted image based on inclinations of the faces, a temporary trimming reference area determining unit determines a trimming reference area containing one or more of the faces, a temporary trimming reference point determining unit determines a trimming reference point in the trimming reference area, an image rotating unit rotates the inputted image depending on the inclination of the inputted image, a trimming unit sets in the inputted image a layout frame of an image insertion area of a photo album template such that the layout reference point is positioned on the trimming reference point and the trimming reference area is contained within the layout frame and carries out trimming, and a template composition unit combines the trimmed area with the template.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masayuki Ryuto, Kei Yamaji, Sakiko Narumi, Ryo Tabata