Patents by Inventor Shintaro Tanaka
Shintaro 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: 20240144300Abstract: Estimating means estimates first characteristic information pertaining to persons present within an area for which an estimation is made, based on first information obtained by tallying signals transmitted from terminal devices of users in the area for which the estimation is made and second information which is statistical information of the area for which the estimation is made. Based on the second characteristic information generated by an analyzing apparatus that analyzes an image, verifying means verifies the first characteristic information estimated by the estimating means. Based on the verification result of the verifying means, correcting means corrects the estimation of the first characteristic information estimated by the estimating means.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shintaro CHIKU, Yuki TSUJI, Naoko FUKUSHI, Yoko TANAKA, Kazuki OGATA, Kosei KOBAYASHI, Kei YANAGISAWA
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Publication number: 20240147846Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element including, an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode and including a light emitting zone. The organic layer includes a first layer containing a first compound and a second layer containing a second compound. The first layer and the second layer are different layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.Inventors: Shota TANAKA, Shintaro BAN, Satomi TASAKI, Hiroaki ITOI, Tasuku HAKETA, Yuki NAKANO
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Patent number: 11972611Abstract: A controller is provided that is configured to perform: obtaining information about a condition for an image that is provided to a user, and that corresponds to a preference of the user; specifying at least one predetermined position at which an image satisfying the condition can be taken; and generating a command for a moving object to move to the predetermined position and to take an image, and transmitting the command to the moving object.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Komamine, Yurika Tanaka, Kenichi Yamada, Ryuichi Kamaga, Ai Miyata, Yu Nagata, Shintaro Matsutani
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Patent number: 11949111Abstract: In a lithium ion secondary battery (1), a positive electrode (2) and a negative electrode (3) are alternately adjacent to each other via separators (4) and (5). The positive electrode (2) includes a positive electrode current collector composed of a metal porous body, a first positive electrode active material (21) held on one side of the positive electrode current collector, and a second positive electrode active material (22) held on the other side. The negative electrode (3) includes a negative electrode current collector composed of a metal porous body, a first negative electrode active material (31) held on one side of the negative electrode current collector, and a second negative electrode active material (32) held on the other side. The first positive electrode active material (21) faces the first negative electrode active material (31), and the positive electrode active material (22) faces the second negative electrode active material (32).Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kiyoshi Tanaami, Akihisa Tanaka, Shintaro Aoyagi, Kazuki Okuno, Akihisa Hosoe, Kikuo Senoo, Hiroshi Takebayashi
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Patent number: 11942623Abstract: Provided are a negative electrode that is for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, includes a porous metal body as a current collector, contains a skeleton-forming agent highly infiltrated in the current collector so that it is less likely to suffer from structural degradation and provides improved cycle durability; and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including such a negative electrode. The negative electrode for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a current collector including a porous metal body; a first negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body and including a conductive aid, a binder, and a negative electrode active material including a silicon-based material; and a second negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body and including a skeleton-forming agent including a silicate having a siloxane bond.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyoshi Tanaami, Toshimitsu Tanaka, Yuji Isogai, Makiko Takahashi, Shintaro Aoyagi, Takashi Mukai, Yuta Ikeuchi, Taichi Sakamoto, Naoto Yamashita
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Publication number: 20240096110Abstract: A data collection apparatus, including: a data reception part that receives sensor data from a vehicle capable of photographing a road surface, the sensor data being acquired by a sensor mounted on the vehicle; and a control part that evaluates a goodness degree of a road surface photographing environment on a basis of the sensor data and control a transmission from the vehicle of a road surface photographed image on a basis of the goodness degree of the road surface photographing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kazuki Ogata, Kosei Kobayashi, Kei Yanagisawa, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Natsumi Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20240092366Abstract: An on-vehicle apparatus includes an abnormal section determination part that determines a road section having a road surface on which an abnormality is probably present, based on an output value of a sensor mounted on a vehicle, an image selection part that selects an image(s) including the determined road section from a plurality of images shot at predetermined time intervals by a camera mounted on the vehicle, and a transmission part that is able to transmit the selected image(s) to a predetermined server.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kazuki Ogata, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Kosei Kobayashi, Kei Yanagisawa, Natsumi Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20240077553Abstract: According to an embodiment, a cooling device for cooling a constituent element housed in a housing of a unit subjected to an influence of a generated magnetic field includes a water cooling mechanism and at least one air cooling mechanism. The water cooling mechanism cools the constituent element by cooling a cooling plate with a flow of water flowing through a pipe passing through the cooling plate arranged in the housing. The air cooling mechanism is arranged on an outgoing side where the flow of water flowing through the pipe is outgoing from the housing and cools the constituent element by discharging air in the housing along with the water flow in accordance with the water flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunobu SHINDEN, Teruo HASHIMOTO, Toshikazu SHIMMEI, Shintaro INOUE, Kenichi MURATA, Hajime TANAKA
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Patent number: 11894348Abstract: A power semiconductor device includes a first submodule including a first power semiconductor element, a second submodule including a second power semiconductor element, a positive electrode side conductor portion and a negative electrode side conductor portion, an intermediate substrate that forms a negative electrode side facing portion facing the negative electrode side conductor portion with the first submodule sandwiched between them and a positive electrode side facing portion facing the positive electrode side conductor portion with the second submodule sandwiched between them, and a plurality of signal terminals that transmit a signal for controlling the first power semiconductor element or the second power semiconductor element.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Hironori Nagasaki, Toru Kato, Takashi Hirao, Shintaro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11848245Abstract: A power semiconductor apparatus includes a power semiconductor element having low and high potential side electrodes and a sense electrode, high and low potential side conductors electrically connected with the high potential side electrodes, respectively, a sense wiring electrically connected with the sense electrode, and a first metal portion facing the low potential side conductor or the low potential side conductor across the sense wiring. When viewed from an array direction of the sense wiring and the first metal portion, the sense wiring has a facing portion facing the high or low potential side conductor, the first metal portion forms a recess in a part overlapping the facing portion, and a depth of the recess is formed such that a distance between a bottom of the recess and the sense wiring is larger than a distance between the sense wiring and the high or low potential side conductor.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Hironori Nagasaki, Shintaro Tanaka, Takashi Hirao
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Publication number: 20230311712Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit which acquires use history information indicating a use history of a vehicle, a prediction unit which predicts an output decrease amount based on use history information acquired by the acquisition unit and output decrease characteristic information indicating an output decrease characteristic of a fuel cell in the vehicle according to the use history, and a control unit which executes predetermined processing based on the output decrease amount predicted by the prediction unit. The control unit executes processing of predicting a deterioration time at which a rated output of the fuel cell is equal to or smaller than a threshold value based on changes in the output decrease amount from start of use of the vehicle to present, and outputting information indicating the deterioration time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiko YAMAZAKI, Shintaro TANAKA, Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Ryo KOBAYASHI, Masakuni YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 11476534Abstract: An electronic device includes a battery and a housing whose battery compartment has a main surface and a pair of side surfaces. The main surface is configured to face the bottom surface of the battery and the side surfaces are configured to face the respective side surfaces of the battery. Each of the side surfaces has a guide rail for the battery. Each of the guide rails has a first end at a primary end of the housing and a second end. Each of the guide rails is inclined such that the distance between the first end of the guide rail and the main surface of the battery compartment is greater than the distance at the second end.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shintaro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11424072Abstract: A coating tank 1 provided with a net belt passage opening is prepared, a slurry obtained by dispersing a rare-earth-compound powder in a solvent is continuously supplied to the coating tank 1 to cause the coating tank 1 to overflow, and a plurality of sintered magnet bodies 10 are arranged on a net belt conveyor 5, continuously conveyed horizontally thereon, and passed through the slurry in the coating tank 1 via the net belt passage opening, to apply the slurry to the sintered magnet bodies. The slurry is subsequently dried to continuously apply the powder to the plurality of sintered magnet bodies. As a result, the rare-earth-compound powder can be uniformly applied to the surfaces of the sintered magnet bodies, and the application operation can be performed extremely efficiently.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukihiro Kuribayashi, Shogo Kamiya, Harukazu Maegawa, Shintaro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20220157788Abstract: A power semiconductor device includes a first submodule including a first power semiconductor element, a second submodule including a second power semiconductor element, a positive electrode side conductor portion and a negative electrode side conductor portion, an intermediate substrate that forms a negative electrode side facing portion facing the negative electrode side conductor portion with the first submodule sandwiched between them and a positive electrode side facing portion facing the positive electrode side conductor portion with the second submodule sandwiched between them, and a plurality of signal terminals that transmit a signal for controlling the first power semiconductor element or the second power semiconductor element.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Hironori NAGASAKI, Toru KATO, Takashi HIRAO, Shintaro TANAKA
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Patent number: 11296610Abstract: An object of the present invention is to sufficiently reduce a switching loss. A control device causes a positive electrode of a first voltage to appear at a second connection point by switching second and third switching elements to an ON state. Next, the control device causes the positive electrode of the first voltage to appear at a first connection point by switching the second and third switching elements to an OFF state. After that, fifth and eighth switching elements are switched to the OFF state, and sixth and seventh switching elements are switched to the ON state.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kimihisa Furukawa, Shintaro Tanaka, Takae Shimada, Akihiko Kanouda, Mizuki Nakahara, Yuuichi Mabuchi
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Patent number: 11224890Abstract: When a slurry s obtained by dispersing a rare-earth-compound powder in a solvent is applied to sintered magnet bodies m, and dried to remove the solvent in the slurry and cause the surfaces of the sintered magnet bodies to be coated with the powder, and the sintered magnet bodies coated with the powder are heat treated to cause the rare-earth element to be absorbed by the sintered magnet bodies, the sintered magnet bodies m are warmed or heated before the slurry s is applied. As a result, the rare-earth-compound powder can be efficiently and uniformly applied to the surfaces of the sintered magnet bodies.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukihiro Kuribayashi, Shogo Kamiya, Harukazu Maegawa, Shintaro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20210344523Abstract: [Problem] To reduce a setting burden on a media path in a media gateway. [Solution] A MG (1) includes a first interface for connecting to a first network among a plurality of communication networks, a second interface for connecting to a second network among a plurality of communication networks, and a test command issuing unit (13) configured to establish, when a mapping between the first interface and the second interface is set by first setting data for associating a media path ID in the first interface with a termination ID in the first interface and second setting data for associating a media path ID in the second interface with a termination ID in the second interface, a test call for a media path passing through the first interface and the second interface based on the mapping and test, by assigning a resource to the media path that is established, whether data transmission and reception are possible on the media path that is established.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Kosuke Watanabe, Shintaro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20210305903Abstract: An object of the present invention is to sufficiently reduce a switching loss. A control device causes a positive electrode of a first voltage to appear at a second connection point by switching second and third switching elements to an ON state. Next, the control device causes the positive electrode of the first voltage to appear at a first connection point by switching the second and third switching elements to an OFF state. After that, fifth and eighth switching elements are switched to the OFF state, and sixth and seventh switching elements are switched to the ON state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Kimihisa FURUKAWA, Shintaro TANAKA, Takae SHIMADA, Akihiko KANOUDA, Mizuki NAKAHARA, Yuuichi MABUCHI
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Publication number: 20210280483Abstract: A power semiconductor apparatus includes a power semiconductor element having low and high potential side electrodes and a sense electrode, high and low potential side conductors electrically connected with the high potential side electrodes, respectively, a sense wiring electrically connected with the sense electrode, and a first metal portion facing the low potential side conductor or the low potential side conductor across the sense wiring. When viewed from an array direction of the sense wiring and the first metal portion, the sense wiring has a facing portion facing the high or low potential side conductor, the first metal portion forms a recess in a part overlapping the facing portion, and a depth of the recess is formed such that a distance between a bottom of the recess and the sense wiring is larger than a distance between the sense wiring and the high or low potential side conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: September 9, 2021Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Hironori NAGASAKI, Shintaro TANAKA, Takashi HIRAO
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Patent number: 11101739Abstract: A switching loss of a power conversion device is sufficiently reduced. A DC-DC converter includes a switching circuit that converts input first DC power into AC power, a transformer that performs voltage conversion of the AC power, and an output circuit that converts the AC power subjected to the voltage conversion by the transformer into second DC power. The control circuit that controls the DC-DC converter calculates a magnetic flux density value B of the transformer and controls a drive frequency of the switching circuit based on the calculated magnetic flux density value B.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Shintaro Tanaka, Kenji Kubo, Takayuki Ouchi, Yuji Sobu, Naoya Takahashi