Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Tanaka

Tomohiro 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).

  • Publication number: 20240385051
    Abstract: A temperature sensor includes a sensor part that is attached to a flexible thin sheet-shaped electric wire and detects a temperature of a part to be measured. Further, the temperature sensor includes a heat collecting part that is formed of a member with high thermal conductivity, that contacts the part to be measured, and that can transfer heat generated by the part to be measured to the sensor part. The heat collecting part includes a peripheral wall arranged to surround at least a part of sides of the sensor part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro MATSUSHIMA, Kenta Tanaka, Akinori Sakamoto, Hiraku Tanaka, Kohei Oshiba
  • Patent number: 12148418
    Abstract: A voice recognition device 10 includes: a phonological awareness feature amount extraction unit 11 that transforms an acoustic feature amount sequence of input voice into a phonological awareness feature amount sequence for the language 1 using a first model parameter group; a phonological awareness feature amount extraction unit 12 that transforms the acoustic feature amount sequence of the input voice into a phonological awareness feature amount sequence for the language 2 using a second model parameter group; a phonological recognition unit 13 that generates a posterior probability sequence from the acoustic feature amount sequence of the input voice, the phonological awareness feature amount sequence for the language 1, and the phonological awareness feature amount sequence for the language 2 using a third model parameter group; and a voice text transformation unit 14 that performs voice recognition based on the posterior probability sequence to output text of a voice recognition result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12142258
    Abstract: Without dividing speech into a unit such as a word or a character, text corresponding to the speech is labeled. A speech distributed representation sequence converting unit 11 converts an acoustic feature sequence into a speech distributed representation. A symbol distributed representation converting unit 12 converts each symbol included in the symbol sequence corresponding to the acoustic feature sequence into a symbol distributed representation. A label estimation unit 13 estimates a label corresponding to the symbol from the fixed-length vector of the symbol generated using the speech distributed representation, the symbol distributed representation, and fixed-length vectors of previous and next symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tanaka, Ryo Masumura, Takanobu Oba
  • Publication number: 20240364674
    Abstract: An in-vehicle relay device to be connected to a plurality of in-vehicle devices mounted on a vehicle and an authentication device performing authentication of the in-vehicle device, to relay communication between the plurality of in-vehicle devices, the device including a control unit controlling the relay of the communication, in which the control unit relays authentication communication data for the authentication between the in-vehicle device and the authentication device before the authentication of the in-vehicle device connected to the in-vehicle relay device is completed, transmits and receives setting data for setting an in-vehicle network with the authentication device and the in-vehicle device, in parallel with the relay of the authentication communication data, acquires setting information of the in-vehicle network according to the transmitted setting data, from the authentication device, and starts relay based on the acquired setting information after the authentication is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Hirofumi URAYAMA, Darmawan GO, Tomohiro OTSU, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hideki MAEDA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Hideyuki TANAKA, Yusuke YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12131729
    Abstract: A language model score calculation apparatus calculates a prediction probability of a word wi as a language model score of a language model based on a recurrent neural network. The language model score calculation apparatus includes a memory; and a processor configured to execute converting a word wi-1 that is observed immediately before the word wi into a word vector ?(wi-1); converting a speaker label ri-1 corresponding to the word wi-1 and a speaker label ri corresponding to the word wi into a speaker vector ?(ri-1) and a speaker vector ?(ri), respectively; calculating a word history vector si by using the word vector ?(wi-1), the speaker vector ?(ri-1), and a word history vector si-1 that is obtained when a prediction probability of the word wi-1 is calculated; and calculating a prediction probability of the word wi by using the word history vector si-1 and the speaker vector ?(ri).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12131730
    Abstract: A keyword is extracted robustly despite a voice recognition result including an error. A model storage unit 10 stores a keyword extraction model that accepts word vector representations of a plurality of words as an input and extracts and outputs a word vector representation of a word to be extracted as a keyword. A speech detection unit 11 detects a speech part from a voice signal. A voice recognition unit 12 executes voice recognition on the speech part of the voice signal and outputs a confusion network which is a voice recognition result. A word vector representation generating unit 13 generates a word vector representation including reliability of voice recognition with regard to each candidate word for each confusion set. A keyword extraction unit 14 inputs the word vector representation of the candidate word to the keyword extraction model in descending order of the reliability and obtains the word vector representation of the keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Nakamura, Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240344894
    Abstract: A temperature sensor includes an FPC, a surface-mounted chip thermistor on the FPC, a metallic heat receiving component for contact with a cell upper surface, and an elastic element integrated to the heat receiving component. The case includes a facing wall and standing walls and, the facing wall facing the cell upper surface, wherein the standing walls and extend from the facing wall toward a plate portion of the elastic element. The elastic element serves for pressing the heat receiving component such that the heat receiving component comes into contact with the upper surface of the battery cell with an appropriate pressure, wherein the elastic element is formed with a rubber material. The elastic element includes a press-fit lock portion press-fitted into a holding hole in the facing wall, a plate portion with the FPC interposed between the plate portion and the heat receiving component, and an intermediate portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsushima, Kenta Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240344895
    Abstract: A temperature sensor is integrated to a case to form a busbar module. The temperature sensor includes an FPC, a chip thermistor mounted on the FPC via surface mounting, a metallic heat receiving component configured to come into contact with an upper surface of a battery cell, and an elastic element integrated to the heat receiving component with the FPC interposed between the elastic element and the heat receiving component. The elastic element serves for pressing the heat receiving component such that the heat receiving component comes into contact with the upper surface of the battery cell with an appropriate pressure, wherein the elastic element is formed with a rubber material. The elastic element has a cavity formed therein such that the elastic element is not in contact with a portion of the FPC having the chip thermistor mounted thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro MATSUSHIMA, Kenta TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240333597
    Abstract: A management device includes: a specification information acquisition unit configured to acquire specification information indicating a specification of a configuration of an in-vehicle network; a state information acquisition unit configured to acquire state information indicating an assembly state, in the in-vehicle network, of a plurality of in-vehicle devices forming the in-vehicle network; and a comparison unit configured to compare the specification indicated by the specification information acquired by the specification information acquisition unit with the assembly state indicated by the state information acquired by the state information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke YAMAMOTO, Hideyuki TANAKA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Kenta OGATA, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Darmawan GO, Tomohiro OTSU, Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Hideki GOTO, Yasuhiro YAMASAKI, Takashi YASUDA
  • Patent number: 12090746
    Abstract: A radio wave absorbing material including a fluoropolymer. The fluoropolymer contains a vinylidene fluoride unit, and the radio wave absorbing material absorbs a radio wave having a frequency in a range of 1 MHz to 100 MHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hazama, Nobuyuki Komatsu, Kouji Yokotani, Mayuko Tatemichi, Akio Higaki, Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12087902
    Abstract: An all-solid lithium ion secondary battery includes a laminate including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer which is alternately laminated with the positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte which is interposed at least between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, and an insulating outermost layer which is positioned at both ends in a lamination direction and does not contain lithium ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Yano, Teiichi Tanaka, Taisuke Masuko
  • Publication number: 20240291946
    Abstract: There are provided a trailer tracking apparatus, a trailer tracking method, and a trailer tracking system. The trailer tracking apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from at least one camera configured to capture an image of a predetermined movement path of a trailer in a yard, a captured image of the camera; a database configured to store identification information on the trailer and information on a position of the trailer in the yard based on the captured image of the camera in association with each other; and a visualization processing unit configured to output information on a current position of the trailer specified by a visualization instruction from an external browser apparatus to the external browser apparatus based on the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi NAKAMURA, Tadanori TEZUKA, Yoshiteru TANAKA, Takeshi YOSHIHARA, Tomohiro MORIKAWA, Masao HAMADA, Maiko TARUKI, Hiroto TOMITA, Shuzo NORIDOMI
  • Publication number: 20240290344
    Abstract: A tag estimation device capable of estimating, for an utterance made among several persons, a tag representing a result of analyzing the utterance is provided. The tag estimation device includes an utterance sequence information vector generation unit that adds a t-th utterance word feature vector and a t-th speaker vector to a (t?1)-th utterance sequence information vector ut?1 that includes an utterance word feature vector that precedes the t-th utterance word feature vector and a speaker vector that precedes the t-th speaker vector to generate a t-th utterance sequence information vector ut, where t is a natural number, and a tagging unit that determines a tag lt that represents a result of analyzing a t-th utterance from a model parameter set in advance and the t-th utterance sequence information vector ut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo MASUMURA, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240261970
    Abstract: A jig positioning system includes a robot arm and a control unit. The robot arm grips an assembly jig designed to be positioned on an assembly table. The control unit controls motion of the robot arm. The control unit causes the robot arm: to grip one or more assembly jigs including the assembly jig that are to be selected in sequence for assembly components; and to adjust position and orientation of each of the one or more assembly jigs in accordance with shapes of the assembly components in course of positioning of the assembly jigs on the one or more assembly table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji MURAI, Kenji SAITO, Tomohiro MIYAUCHI, Yudai MIYAWAKI, Yohei MATSUMOTO, Kaito TANAKA
  • Patent number: 12057105
    Abstract: Provided is a speech recognition device capable of implementing end-to-end speech recognition considering a context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka, Takanobu Oba
  • Publication number: 20240254911
    Abstract: A cooling device of a vehicle is provided, which includes a transmission, a first coolant circuit where a first coolant which cools the internal combustion engine circulates, a second coolant circuit independent from the first coolant circuit, where a second coolant which cools the electric drive system circulates, and a fluid circuit where fluid which lubricates and cools friction engagement elements in the transmission circulates. The fluid circuit includes a first heat exchanger which exchanges heat between the fluid and the first coolant, a second heat exchanger in-series with the first heat exchanger which exchanges heat between the fluid and the second coolant, a first adjuster which changes a flow rate of the fluid passing through the first heat exchanger, and a second adjuster which changes a flow rate of the fluid passing through the second heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Keitaro Kageyama, Shinichi Hikitani, Tomohiro Koguchi, Yukio Jo, Daisuke Shimo, Masahiro Miyazaki, Daisuke Fukuda, Akira Tsuda, Kenji Tanaka, Kazufumi Kumakura, Hiroaki Gotan, Takahiro Okazaki, Kenta Honda, Yoshie Kakuda, Toshiaki Tohoda, Kenta Kobayashi, Aki Murai, Michiyuki Miura, Yusaku Takahashi, Masaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240260266
    Abstract: A memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, such that a first electrically conductive layer of the electrically conductive layers is in contact with an underlying silicon oxycarbide liner and with an overlying silicon oxycarbide liner, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack, and a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and including a vertical semiconductor channel and a memory film containing a continuous memory material layer which continuously extends through the entire alternating stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Naohiro HOSODA, Masanori TSUTSUMI, Shunsuke TAKUMA, Seiji SHIMABUKURO, Tatsuya HINOUE, Takashi KASHIMURA, Tomohiro KUBO, Hisakazu OTOI, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Takumi MORIYAMA, Ryota SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240252403
    Abstract: Provided are a means for crystallizing a valuable substance that is unstable in an aqueous solution state and stably dispersing the substance in an oily medium, an aqueous medium, or an emulsified medium in which the oily medium and the aqueous medium are mixed, and to a composition for application to skin with which a crystallized s absorbed through the skin. A skin care composition for application to skin, including a valuable substance that is dispersed in a crystalline state, and a method for producing a skin care composition for application to skin, the method including a step of preparing a solution of a valuable substance at a supersaturation concentration, adding the solution to a composition for application to skin, and precipitating crystals while stirring under cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Ying-shu Quan, Hiroshi Tanaka, Tomohiro Murayama, Fumio Kamiyama
  • Publication number: 20240250845
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted control device to be mounted in a vehicle, includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire calculation information to be used to calculate a setting change timing of a vehicle-mounted network from an electronic device in the vehicle-mounted network; a calculation unit configured to calculate the setting change timing based on the calculation information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit configured to perform processing for executing a setting change of the vehicle-mounted network at the setting change timing calculated by the calculation unit, wherein the calculation information includes at least one of a topology of the vehicle-mounted network, a service of a system to which the electronic device belongs, a travel state of the vehicle, and a power supply state of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshitaka KIKUCHI, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Darmawan GO, Tomohiro OTSU, Hideyuki TANAKA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Yusuke YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240246629
    Abstract: A bicycle component is basically provided with a wireless communication circuit, a user interface and a controller. The wireless communication circuit is configured to wirelessly communicate with a first additional bicycle component in a first pairing state where a first pairing between the bicycle component and the first additional bicycle component is established. The user interface is configured to accept a user input. The controller is electrically connected to the wireless communication circuit and the user interface. The controller is configured to perform a reset operation to reset the first pairing in response to the user input being provided to the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro NOZAKI, Tomohiro TAKIMOTO, Katsuhiro TACHIBANA, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Kentaro TANAKA