Patents by Inventor Takeshi Tanaka
Takeshi 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: 20240146412Abstract: An optical transmission system converts a first electrical signal into an optical signal, transmits the converted optical signal, and converts the transmitted optical signal into a second electrical signal. The optical transmission system includes an electrooptic conversion device, an optical transmission path, and a photoelectric conversion device. The first electrical signal includes a high-frequency communication signal of above 9 MHz and 10 GHz or less. The optical transmission system further includes an additional signal generating device for generating a low-frequency additional signal having a frequency of 1 Hz or more and 9 MHz or less. The electrooptic conversion device converts the first electrical signal including the additional signal generated in the additional signal generating device and the communication signal into the optical signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yugo KASEDA, Yoshinori OSAKI, Takeshi TANAKA
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RELAY DEVICE, VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, VEHICLE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAM
Publication number: 20240146604Abstract: An information of a network to which a new function unit has been added is easily acquired. A relay device installed in a vehicle includes: a detection unit configured to detect a new function unit being a function unit that is newly added to a network including an existing function unit being one or a plurality of function units; a relay unit configured to relay a frame between the function units; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the frame, relayed by the relay unit, between the new function unit detected by the detection unit and the existing function unit, function unit information that includes information regarding a network configuration of a layer of a lower order than an application layer, the function unit information being of at least one of the new function unit and the existing function unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Yojiro SUYAMA, Hideyuki Tanaka, Tatsuya Izumi, Yusuke Yamamoto, Takeshi Hagihara, Darmawan Go, Yosuke Shimizu -
Publication number: 20240140711Abstract: A loading assistance device includes an infeed unit to which a plurality of articles are transported, a work area, a transporter that transports the plurality of articles from the infeed unit to the work area, a reader that reads identification information on the plurality of articles, a writer that writes operation assistance information on a surface of each of the plurality of articles, and a control system. The work area includes a plurality of work sections in which supports are placed. The operation assistance information includes section specification information specifying a work section of the plurality of work sections for each of the plurality of articles to undergo loading. The control system generates the section specification information to be written on each of the plurality of articles based on the identification information to allow articles in a same category to be preferentially loaded onto a same support of the supports.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Tomohito Tanaka, Makoto Sakashita, Takeshi Nakanishi
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Publication number: 20240138456Abstract: This is to provide a composition containing a decomposition product of yeast cell body residue useful as an emulsifier substitute, an emulsion stabilizer substitute or a milk-like substitute, and a method for producing the same, and use thereof. Provided is a composition containing a cell wall lysing enzyme-decomposition product of yeast cell body residue, wherein the decomposition product contains 5% by mass or more of lipid based on a dry mass of the decomposition product.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: ASAHI GROUP FOODS, LTD., ASAHI GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.Inventors: Takahiro KANO, Noboru OTSUSHI, Masayuki TANAKA, Takeshi TANAKA
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Patent number: 11970390Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing a microchannel device, which can form a channel that has high hydrophobicity, high solvent resistance as well, and also resistance to heat and damage, on demand with high accuracy, and produces the microchannel device at a low cost, while having high productivity. The method for producing a microchannel device includes: forming a channel pattern from a hydrophobic resin on a porous substrate by an electrophotographic method; melting the channel pattern by heat to allow the channel pattern to permeate into the porous substrate, thereby forming a channel in the inside of the porous substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Yamamoto, Jun Miura, Keiji Miyazaki, Hiroki Tanaka, Makoto Fukatsu, Akihisa Matsukawa, Takayuki Kanazawa, Keigo Mizusawa, Masanori Seki, Masanori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20240133440Abstract: According to an embodiment, a coil spring is formed of a wire which is helically wound, and includes an end turn portion and an effective portion, and a surface of the wire in the end turn portion includes an area which is softer than a surface of the wire in the effective portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki OKADA, Yuichiro YAMAUCHI, Ryo TANAKA, Takeshi SUZUKI, Kosuke SHIBAIRI
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Patent number: 11964664Abstract: A driving assistance method of assisting driving of a vehicle, includes, by a computer, acquiring biological information of a driver who is driving the vehicle, acquiring environment information of the driver, acquiring operation information of the driver, generating biological index data from the biological information, generating integrated information by aligning and combining time series of the biological index data, the environment information, and the operation information, calculating accident risk information after a predetermined time, by inputting the integrated information to an accident risk prediction model set in advance, and calculating factor information of the accident risk information by inputting the accident risk information, the integrated information, and accident risk judge information set in advance to a factor calculation model set in advance.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Logisteed, Ltd.Inventors: Nao Ito, Takeshi Tanaka, Shunsuke Minusa, Hiroyuki Kuriyama, Kiminori Satoh
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Patent number: 11967904Abstract: A polyphase power-supply device includes first to N-th DC-DC converters connected in parallel to each other between an input terminal and an output terminal and a switching controller configured to perform interleave control on the first to N-th DC-DC converters by supplying first to N-th pulse width modulation (PWM) signals to the first to N-th DC-DC converters, respectively, where N is any integer equal to or greater than two. A switching frequency of the first PWM signal is changed at a change time point at which a cycle of the first PWM signal starts. A length of a cycle of the k-th PWM signal firstly appearing after the change time point is shorter than lengths of subsequent cycles of the k-th PWM signal appearing the first cycle of the k-th PWM signal. This polyphase power-supply device has high reliability.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Tanaka, Takeshi Nakayashiki
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Patent number: 11955360Abstract: A Johnsen-Rahbek force type electrostatic chuck including: a metal substrate; an electrode for electrostatic attraction provided on the metal substrate with an insulating layer interposed between the metal substrate and the electrode for electrostatic attraction; and a dielectric layer constituting an electrostatic attraction surface in contact with a workpiece. The dielectric layer includes a ceramic spray coating and a sealing component with which pores of the ceramic spray coating are filled, and the sealing component contains a metal organic salt containing a rare earth element.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: TOCALO CO., Ltd., HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Takabatake, Tomohiro Nakasuji, Akira Itoh, Kentaro Seto, Yutaka Omoto, Hiroho Kitada, Kazuumi Tanaka
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Patent number: 11956314Abstract: A network of a new configuration is flexibly constructed while maintaining a stable operation in the network. A management device includes: a detection unit that detects addition of a function unit to a network including one or a plurality of on-vehicle function units; an acquisition unit that acquires function unit information of a new function unit that is the function unit the addition of which has been detected by the detection unit and function unit information of each on-vehicle function unit, each piece of function unit information including information regarding network configuration of a layer lower than an application layer; and a generation unit that, based on the pieces of function unit information acquired by the acquisition unit, generates configuration information of a new network that is the network further including the new function unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Yamamoto, Koichi Takayama, Hideyuki Tanaka, Tatsuya Izumi, Junji Yano, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi, Tadashi Matsumoto, Takeshi Hagihara
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Patent number: 11952344Abstract: Provided is a heterocyclic compound that can have an antagonistic action on an NMD A receptor containing the NR2B subunit and that is expected to be useful as a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for depression, bipolar disorder, migraine, pain, peripheral symptoms of dementia and the like. A compound represented by the formula (I), wherein each symbol is as defined in the DESCRIPTION, or a salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company LimitedInventors: Yuya Oguro, Makoto Kamata, Shuhei Ikeda, Takeshi Wakabayashi, Norihito Tokunaga, Taku Kamei, Mitsuhiro Ito, Shigemitsu Matsumoto, Hirotaka Kamitani, Takaharu Hirayama, Toshio Tanaka, Hiroshi Banno, Nobuyuki Takakura, Jinichi Yonemori, Takuya Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20240113576Abstract: A rotor includes core plates, a hole, and a magnet in the hole. The core plates include a first core plate and a second core plate frontward of the first core plate. The first core plate includes a first hole, a first protrusion protruding inward of the first hole, and a first portion located in an opposite direction to a protrusion direction of the first protrusion as viewed from the axial direction and permitting deformation of the first protrusion in the opposite direction. The second core plate includes a second hole, and at least one of a recess recessed in the opposite direction and overlapping the first protrusion as viewed in the axial direction, or a second portion located in the opposite direction with respect to the first protrusion as viewed in the axial direction and permitting deformation of an inner surface of the second hole in the opposite direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yosuke TANAKA, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Hideki TSUJI, Yuya DANJO
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Publication number: 20240113577Abstract: A rotor includes stacked core plates, a hole, and a magnet inserted into the hole. A holding core plate has a through hole as part of the hole, a protrusion protruding inwardly from an inner surface of the through hole and being in contact with the magnet, and a displacement permission portion located in an opposite direction to a protrusion direction of the protrusion and permitting displacement of the protrusion in the opposite direction. The rotor includes at least one of a magnet-side chamfered portion in which the front side edge portion of the magnet is chamfered or a protrusion-side chamfered portion in which the tip end edge portion of the protrusion is chamfered. A sum of lengths of the magnet-side and protrusion-side chamfered portions is equal to or longer than a length of the protrusion in the protrusion direction as the rotor is viewed from the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yosuke TANAKA, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Hideki TSUJI, Yuya DANJO
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Patent number: 11947304Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a cleaning brush that has bristles that rotate and contact a surface, to which toner has adhered, of a cleaning member to be cleaned, the cleaning brush removing the toner adhered to the surface of the cleaning member; a first contact member that contacts the bristles without a position of the first contact member relative to a position of the cleaning brush being changed; and a second contact member that contacts the bristles at a location downstream from the first contact member in a direction of rotation of the cleaning brush and without a position of the second contact member relative to the position of the cleaning brush being changed, and that is disposed on an extension line extended from a line between an axial center of the cleaning brush and a base of the bristles that move away from the first contact member.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Haruyuki Ideura, Daisuke Tanaka, Takeshi Yasuda, Kaoru Matsushita
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Patent number: 11943243Abstract: In an anomaly detection method that determines whether each frame in observation data constituted by a collection of frames sent and received over a communication network system is anomalous, a difference between a data distribution of a feature amount extracted from the frame in the observation data and a data distribution for a collection of frames sent and received over the communication network system, obtained at a different timing from the observation data, is calculated. A frame having a feature amount for which the difference is predetermined value or higher is determined to be an anomalous frame. An anomaly contribution level of feature amounts extracted from the frame determined to be an anomalous frame is calculated, and an anomalous payload part, which is at least one part of the payload corresponding to the feature amount for which the anomaly contribution level is at least the predetermined value, is output.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Takamitsu Sasaki, Tomoyuki Haga, Daiki Tanaka, Makoto Yamada, Hisashi Kashima, Takeshi Kishikawa
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Patent number: 11939642Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 1,180 MPa or more, and specified chemical composition. The steel sheet includes a steel structure in which an area fraction of martensite having a carbon concentration of more than 0.7×[% C] and less than 1.5×[% C] is 55% or more, an area fraction of tempered martensite having a carbon concentration of 0.7×[% C] or less is 5% or more and 40% or less, a ratio of a carbon concentration in retained austenite to a volume fraction of retained austenite is 0.05 or more and 0.40 or less, and the martensite and the tempered martensite each have an average grain size of 5.3 ?m or less, where [% C] represents the content, by mass %, of compositional element C in steel.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hidekazu Minami, Yuji Tanaka, Junya Tobata, Takeshi Yokota
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Patent number: 11935998Abstract: A battery device comprises a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided with an electric power generating element and a pressing member which presses the electric power generating element in the stacking direction. The electric power generating element comprises: a positive electrode with a positive electrode active material layer of a positive electrode active material on the surface of a positive electrode collector; a negative electrode with a negative electrode active material layer of a negative electrode active material on the surface of a negative electrode collector; and a separator which holds an electrolyte solution. This battery device satisfies (1) 0.1<(T1?T2)/T1×100<5, where T1 is the thickness of the thickest portion of the electric power generating element in the stacking direction, and T2 is the thickness of the thinnest portion of the of the electric power generating element in the stacking direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takamasa Nakagawa, Takeshi Nakano, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yusuke Nakashima, Naofumi Shoji
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Patent number: 11929721Abstract: A power amplifier module includes a first amplifier, a power splitter, a second amplifier, a third amplifier, a phase shifter, a combining unit, and a controller. The first amplifier amplifies a first signal and outputs a second signal. The power splitter splits the second signal into a third signal and a fourth signal. The second amplifier amplifies the third signal and outputs a fifth signal. The third amplifier amplifies the fourth signal and outputs a sixth signal. The phase shifter receives the fifth signal and shifts a phase of the fifth signal. The combining unit combines the fifth signal having the phase shifted by the phase shifter and the sixth signal and outputs an amplified signal of the second signal. The controller outputs a first control signal for controlling a power level of the sixth signal output from the third amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Yoshiaki Sukemori, Takeshi Kogure, Shohei Imai
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Patent number: 11929380Abstract: There is provided a solid-state image-capturing element capable of reducing the capacitance by using a hollow region. At least a part of a region between an FD wiring connected to a floating diffusion and a wiring other than the FD wiring is a hollow region. The present disclosure can be applied to a CMOS image sensor having, for example, a floating diffusion, a transfer transistor, an amplifying transistor, a selection transistor, a reset transistor, and a photodiode.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Takashi Nagano, Toshifumi Wakano, Takeshi Matsunuma
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Patent number: 11921449Abstract: A fixing apparatus includes a fixing belt, a slide member, an opposing member, and a retaining member. The retaining member includes, in a groove portion, a bottom surface portion that is in contact with an opposite surface of the slide member from a slide surface, a side surface portion that is formed on a downstream side of the groove portion in a conveyance direction and intersecting the bottom surface portion, and a continuous portion that is formed between the bottom surface portion and the side surface portion. The slide member includes an abutment portion configured to abut against the side surface portion at a position downstream from a downstream edge of the opposite surface when the slide member is slidden against the fixing belt such that the downstream edge of the opposite surface is positioned upstream from the continuous portion in the conveyance direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichi Tanaka, Youichi Chikugo, Hidekazu Tatezawa, Rikiya Takemasa, Takeshi Kozuma, Mikihiko Watanabe, Taku Ashida