Patents by Inventor Takahito Tanabe

Takahito Tanabe 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: 9513639
    Abstract: To derive a feasible solution for an operation plan problem for storage tanks for storing liquefied natural gas, which is a complicated mixed-integer non-linear problem, given tank initial state information, reception plan information, and feed plan information, two solving processes are executed alternately two or more times, respectively: a first solving process that replaces a mixed-integer non-linear programming problem with a mixed-integer linear programming problem by linear approximation of a non-linear expression in non-linear constraints containing the non-linear expression, and solves the problem to derive provisional solutions or final solutions for a reception pattern that prescribes a storage tank that is to receive liquefied natural gas, and a discharge pattern that prescribes a storage tank that is to discharge liquefied natural gas, and a second solving process that replaces a mixed-integer non-linear programming problem with a continuous non-linear programming problem by provisionally fixing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: OSAKA GAS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Tsuzaki, Kaoru Kawamoto, Tomohito Okamura, Hiromasa Tani, Tomokazu Ueda, Nobuaki Hashimoto, Keisuke Kawata, Takahito Tanabe, Kouhei Harada, Atsushi Nitanda, Toshihiro Nitta
  • Publication number: 20140303792
    Abstract: To derive a feasible solution for an operation plan problem for storage tanks for storing liquefied natural gas, which is a complicated mixed-integer non-linear problem, given tank initial state information, reception plan information, and feed plan information, two solving processes are executed alternately two or more times, respectively: a first solving process that replaces a mixed-integer non-linear programming problem with a mixed-integer linear programming problem by linear approximation of a non-linear expression in non-linear constraints containing the non-linear expression, and solves the problem to derive provisional solutions or final solutions for a reception pattern that prescribes a storage tank that is to receive liquefied natural gas, and a discharge pattern that prescribes a storage tank that is to discharge liquefied natural gas, and a second solving process that replaces a mixed-integer non-linear programming problem with a continuous non-linear programming problem by provisionally fixing
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: OSAKA GAS Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tsuzaki, Kaoru Kawamoto, Tomohito Okamura, Hiromasa Tani, Tomokazu Ueda, Nobuaki Hashimoto, Keisuke Kawata, Takahito Tanabe, Kouhei Harada, Atsushi Nitanda, Toshihiro Nitta
  • Patent number: 7911695
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reflex-type screen which is wound up by a winding shaft to be retracted and is unwound from the winding shaft in use. The reflex-type screen comprises a reflection layer which reflects an incident light, a transparent surface protective layer provided on a first surface of the reflection layer, and a back surface protective layer provided on a second surface of the reflection layer, wherein as between the surface protective layer and the back surface protective layer, the one that has a higher loop stiffness value, faces inward when the reflex-type screen is wound up by the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Arisawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Maruta, Tadao Matsuki, Shinya Ishida, Takahito Tanabe, Kiyoshi Numata
  • Publication number: 20090141348
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reflex-type screen which is wound up by a winding shaft to be retracted and is unwound from the winding shaft in use. The reflex-type screen comprises a reflection layer which reflects an incident light, a transparent surface protective layer provided on a first surface of the reflection layer, and a back surface protective layer provided on a second surface of the reflection layer, wherein as between the surface protective layer and the back surface protective layer, the one that has a higher loop stiffness value, faces inward when the reflex-type screen is wound up by the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: ARISAWA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HAJIME MARUTA, TADAO MATSUKI, SHINYA ISHIDA, TAKAHITO TANABE, KIYOSHI NUMATA