Patents by Inventor Shigeki Tanaka

Shigeki 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).

  • Patent number: 11931811
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool comprising a substrate containing a cubic boron nitride-containing sintered body, and a coating layer formed on the substrate, wherein the coating layer comprises a lowermost layer and an alternating laminate structure in this order, the lowermost layer comprises (Al1-xCrx)N, an average thickness of the lowermost layer is 0.01 ?m or more and 0.2 ?m or less, the alternating laminate structure includes mutually different two kinds of compound layers of a first compound layer containing (Al1-y1Cry1)N and a second compound layer containing (Al1-y2Cry2)N alternately laminated repeatedly twice or more, an average thickness of the entire alternating laminate structure is 0.1 ?m or more and 1.2 ?m or less, an average thickness of the entire coating layer is 0.2 ?m or more and 1.3 ?m or less, and a compressive residual stress at the cubic crystal (111) plane is 3.0 GPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240063096
    Abstract: In one example, a semiconductor device includes a conductive structure having a conductive structure upper side. A roughening is on the conductive structure upper side and a groove is in the conductive structure extending partially into the conductive structure from the conductive structure upper side. An electronic component is attached to the conductive structure upper side with an attachment film. An encapsulant covers the electronic component, at least portions of the roughening, and at least portions of the conductive structure upper side. The groove has smoothed sidewalls that include substantially planarized portions of the roughening. The smooth sidewalls reduce flow of the attachment film across the conductive structure upper side to improve adhesion of the encapsulant to the conductive structure. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Amkor Technology Singapore Holding Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki TANAKA, Hideharu KAMATA, Katsunori WAKO
  • Publication number: 20240051260
    Abstract: A decorated molded body includes a decorated layer B and a support layer A, wherein the support layer A is any of a non-woven fabric (a) including at least two types of thermoplastic resin fibers, a non-woven fabric (b) including a thermoplastic resin fiber and an inorganic fiber, or a thermoplastic resin composition layer (c) having a thermoplastic resin in which an inorganic fiber is contained, the decorated layer B includes a thermoformable thermoplastic resin and is any of an easily-moldable polyester film (d), a non-woven fabric (e) including a composite fiber made from at least two types of thermoplastic resins having different melting points, the non-woven fabric (e) having a surface with projections and recesses, or a synthetic leather (f) having an organic fiber as a base material, and the decorated layer B and the support layer A are combined with each other via a heat-bonding resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO MC Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230289863
    Abstract: A recommendation system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire order history information indicating an order history in the middle of a series of orders placed by a user, and a determination unit configured to predict a value related to a total amount of the series of orders placed by the user on the basis of the order history information acquired by the acquisition unit and determine an item to be recommended to the user on the basis of the order history information and the predicted value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryoki WAKAMOTO, Shigeki TANAKA, Yusuke FUKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230244737
    Abstract: A recommendation system is a system that performs recommendation for a user over a plurality of different types of services and includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire use history information indicating use histories of a user in a time series in the plurality of different types of services; a feature quantity converting unit configured to convert a continuous use history in which use of another service has not intervened and that is temporally continuous for the same service out of use histories indicated by the use history information acquired by the acquisition unit to a feature quantity with a fixed length using the continuous use history as a unit; and a determination unit configured to determine information to be recommended for the user based on the feature quantity with the fixed length acquired through conversion by the feature quantity converting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryoki WAKAMOTO, Shigeki TANAKA, Yusuke FUKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230215406
    Abstract: A recommendation information provision device includes at least one processor that is configured to acquire a result of scoring relating to a user's singing of a musical piece for each section in time; acquire pitch information representing pitches of notes configuring the musical piece in the section; build a learning model predicting a result of scoring relating to the user's singing of a musical piece from the pitch information using the result of scoring and the pitch information as training data; acquire a result of scoring relating to a user's singing of a target musical piece by inputting the pitch information to the learning model while changing pitches of notes into a plurality of types; and output a setting detail of the pitches of the notes as the recommendation information on the basis of results of scoring for the pitch information of the plurality of types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shigeki TANAKA, Yusuke FUKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230205814
    Abstract: An object is to improve accuracy of prediction of a result of scoring relating to user's singing of a new musical piece. A prediction device is a device that acquires a result of scoring relating to a user's singing of a musical piece in the past for each section of the musical piece in time, acquires pitch information representing pitches of notes configuring the musical piece and aligned in a time series in the section, builds a learning model predicting a result of scoring relating to the user's singing of a musical piece from the pitch information using the result of scoring and the pitch information as training data, and acquires a result of scoring relating to the user's singing of a new musical piece on the basis of an output of the learning model by inputting the pitch information about the new musical piece to the learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shigeki TANAKA, Yusuke FUKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 11583935
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool is provided which allows for satisfactory machining over a long period of time, particularly in the machining of difficult-to-machine materials with low thermal conductivity. The coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating layer formed on a surface of the substrate, wherein: at least one layer of the coating layer comprises a predetermined layer containing a compound having a composition represented by the formula: (AlXTi1-X)N [wherein x denotes an atomic ratio of the Al element based on a total of the Al element and the Ti element, and x satisfies 0.60?x?0.85]; a value of an orientation index TC (311) of a cubic (311) plane of the predetermined layer is from 2.5 or more to 4.2 or less; and an average thickness of the predetermined layer is from 1.0 ?m or more to 12.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220399000
    Abstract: A system of generating a model for estimation is a system that generates the model for estimation used for estimation based on information about musical pieces, the system including: a learning data acquiring unit configured to acquire learning information in which information about audio data of a plurality of musical pieces having sequences is aligned in a dimension of the sequences in order of the sequences that is learning data used for machine learning; and a model generating unit configured to generate the model for estimation by performing machine learning using the learning information as an input to the model for estimation performing convolution using a kernel in the dimension of the sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shigeki TANAKA, Yusuke FUKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220351050
    Abstract: A type estimation model generation system is a system that generates a type estimation model used for type estimation of estimating one of a plurality of types to which a user belongs, the system including: a learning data acquiring unit configured to acquire learning time series information that is information of a time series about a plurality of used musical pieces and learning type information representing types to which users who have used the plurality of musical pieces belong that are learning data used for machine learning; and a model generating unit configured to generate the type estimation model by performing machine learning using information based on the learning time series information as an input for the type estimation model in units of musical pieces in order of the time series and information based on the learning type information as an output of the type estimation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shigeki TANAKA, Yusuke FUKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220297198
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool comprising a substrate containing a cubic boron nitride-containing sintered body, and a coating layer formed on the substrate, wherein the coating layer comprises a lowermost layer and an alternating laminate structure in this order, the lowermost layer comprises (Al1-xCrx)N, an average thickness of the lowermost layer is 0.01 ?m or more and 0.2 ?m or less, the alternating laminate structure includes mutually different two kinds of compound layers of a first compound layer containing (Al1-y1Cry1)N and a second compound layer containing (Al1-y2Cry2)N alternately laminated repeatedly twice or more, an average thickness of the entire alternating laminate structure is 0.1 ?m or more and 1.2 ?m or less, an average thickness of the entire coating layer is 0.2 ?m or more and 1.3 ?m or less, and a compressive residual stress at the cubic crystal (111) plane is 3.0 GPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220167755
    Abstract: Sleeping equipment includes a mat body and a plurality of air bags. The mat body includes a middle support portion, an upper support portion, and a lower support portion. The mat body is configured to switch between a bed mode and a chair mode. The air bags are arranged in the mat body in a mat length direction from the upper support portion toward the lower support portion. At least a part of the air bags is divided into right and left bag portions in a mat width direction, and the right bag portion and the left bag portion are configured to be independently inflated and deflated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Gen FUKUYAMA, Mikio INOUE, Reiko YAMAMATO, Hayato WAKATSUKI, Tsutomu HANASE, Shigeki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220167754
    Abstract: Sleeping equipment includes: a mat body including a middle support portion configured to support buttocks of a user, an upper support portion configured to support a back and head of the user, and a lower support portion configured to support thighs of the user; a movable mechanism configured to switch the mat body between a bed mode in which the mat body has a flat shape in which the middle support portion, the upper support portion, and the lower support portion are continuous with each other and a comfortable mode in which the upper support portion and the lower support portion are tilted upward with respect to the middle support portion; and a lower back pressing mechanism configured to cause a part of the upper support portion corresponding to a lower back of the user in the comfortable mode to bulge out toward the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Gen FUKUYAMA, Mikio INOUE, Reiko YAMAMATO, Hayato WAKATSUKI, Tsutomu HANASE, Shigeki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220034012
    Abstract: A nonwoven fabric structure according to the present invention is a nonwoven fabric structure comprising a long-fiber nonwoven fabric as a main constituent, wherein the nonwoven fabric structure has a basis weight of 250 to 2000 g/m2, a Frazier permeability of 0 to 20 cc/cm2·s, and an apparent density of 0.5 to 1.3 g/cm3, and therefore has excellent shaping properties and excellent mechanical strength properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Tanaka, Yukinari Okuyama, Hideo Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11084103
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating layer formed on a surface of the substrate, the coating layer including an alternating laminate structure in which two or more compound layers of each of two or three or more kinds, each kind having a different composition, are laminated in an alternating manner, wherein: the alternating laminate structure is constituted by: a compound layer containing a compound having a composition represented by formula (1) below: (TixMySiz)N??(1) [wherein M denotes an element of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W and Al, x denotes an atomic ratio of Ti based on a total of Ti, an element denoted by M and Si, y denotes an atomic ratio of the element denoted by M based on a total of Ti, the element denoted by M and Si, z denotes an atomic ratio of Si based on a total of Ti, the element denoted by M and Si, x satisfies 0.20?x?0.50, y satisfies 0.20?y?0.50, z satisfies 0.03?z?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Hirano, Shigeki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200333657
    Abstract: A display panel includes paired substrates including plate faces each divided into an active area and a non-active area and facing each other across an interior space, a sealing portion interposed between the paired substrates and arranged in the non-active area in such a manner as to surround the interior space for sealing the interior space, an alignment film disposed on at least the display area on one of the paired substrates, an insulating film disposed on the one of the paired substrates farther from the interior space than the alignment film and arranged across the active area and the non-active area, and a recess portion disposed in the non-active area on the insulating film in such a manner as to overlap the sealing portion and including at least a first recess and a second recess configured to extend in such a manner as to surround the first recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: RYOSUKE TAKAHASHI, SHIGEKI TANAKA, YUKIO KUROZUMI, RYOH UEDA
  • Patent number: 10765138
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped food product is a sheet-shaped food product molded by containing a raw food material and a binding agent, in which the sheet-shaped food product is provided with a surface layer at both sides and an inner side layer, which is present between the surface layers and has lower density than each surface layer, and mass ratio (WA/WB) of dry mass of the raw food material (WA) to dry mass of the binding agent 3 (WB) is 4.9 to 7.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: TANAKA FOODS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Tanaka, Yoshiharu Fujinaka, Fumio Nishimoto, Shin Iguchi
  • Patent number: 10754203
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates, a seal part between the pair of substrates and in a non-display region to surround and seal the liquid crystal layer, a planarizing film and a second interlayer insulating film being insulating films on the array substrate across a display region and the non-display region, an alignment film on the array substrate closer to the liquid crystal layer than the planarizing film and the second interlayer insulating film are, the alignment film being disposed across the display region and the non-display region, and a defining part formed of the planarizing film and the second interlayer insulating film, which are insulating films, the defining part being disposed at a position overlapping with the seal part in the non-display region, to define an alignment film non-disposed region where the alignment film is not disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeki Tanaka, Ryoh Ueda, Yukio Kurozumi, Seiji Hamada, Ryosuke Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200265230
    Abstract: An information supplying program includes: an authentication step of performing authentication for accessing an AR library causing a camera to operate as an AR camera; a photography step of photographing an item packaging design of merchandise by the camera; a selection step of selecting a photoframe image based on the item packaging design of merchandise that was photographed from among a plurality of sets of information related to the merchandise; and a display step of displaying the selected photoframe image on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: TANAKA FOODS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10710169
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating layer formed on a surface of the substrate, the coating layer comprising a first laminate structure and a second laminate structure, wherein: the first laminate structure has a laminate structure in which predetermined compound layers of two kinds, each having a different composition, are laminated in an alternating manner; the first laminate structure satisfies a predetermined condition; the second laminate structure has a laminate structure in which a first compound layer comprising a predetermined oxide and/or oxynitride and a second compound layer having a predetermined composition are laminated in an alternating manner; and an average thickness of each compound layer which constitutes the first laminate structure, an average thickness of each compound layer which constitutes the second laminate structure, and a thickness of the coating layer in its entirety each fall within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeki Tanaka