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).

  • Patent number: 11966154
    Abstract: An optical unit includes a movable body including an optical element, a support body swingably supporting the movable body, and a suction mechanism. The optical element reflects light traveling in a first direction to an intersecting second direction. The suction mechanism generates suction force in the movable body between the movable body and the support body, and includes a magnet and a magnetic member. One of the magnet and the magnetic member is in the movable body, while the other is in the support body. The magnet and the magnetic member overlap each other when viewed from a predetermined direction, which is one of the first direction, the second direction, and a third direction. The third direction intersects the first and second directions. When viewed from the predetermined direction, a center of the magnet and a center of the magnetic member are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Iwase, Tomohiro Egawa, Genki Tanaka, Soichiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 11965060
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing epoxy resin for an electronic component represented by the following formula (E) wherein n is an integer of 0 or greater, an average value of n is 0.18 or smaller, and M is a group represented by the following formula (E1), a group represented by the following formula (E2), or a group represented by the following formula (E3) wherein Z is hydrogen or a C2-C10 fluoroalkyl group. The formula (E) being: the formula (E1) being: the formula (E2) being: the formula (E3) being: Also disclosed is a method for producing the fluorine-containing epoxy resin as well as a curable composition containing the fluorine-containing epoxy resin and a curing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshito Tanaka, Tomohiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11955360
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: TOCALO CO., Ltd., HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Takabatake, Tomohiro Nakasuji, Akira Itoh, Kentaro Seto, Yutaka Omoto, Hiroho Kitada, Kazuumi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240096547
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a coil device that can be reduced in height, has a small installation area of a case, and is excellent in heat dissipation. A coil device according to the present disclosure includes: a device body including a bobbin and a coil unit of a wire wound around the bobbin; a terminal block arranging a lead portion drawn out from a wire of the coil unit thereon; and a case capable of accommodating the device body. The case includes a support arm extending outside the case, and the terminal block is held by the support arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro FURUICHI, Masaru KUMAGAI, Takuma TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240097411
    Abstract: There is provided an electric junction box unit including: an electric junction box having a plurality of stud bolts; a plurality of electric wire with terminals each including a terminal and an electric wire and fastened to a corresponding one of the plurality of stud bolts; and a cover to which at least one of the plurality of electric wire with terminals is assembled. The electric junction box includes an interference portion that interferes with at least a part of the cover when the electric wire with terminals assembled to the cover are disposed at a position different from a normal position where one of the electric wire with terminals is fastened to the corresponding stud bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshiya Miyazaki, Hirotaka Kurita, Nobutaka Kaneko, Tomohiro Nagata, Ginga Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11935801
    Abstract: An electronic component built-in wiring board includes a substrate having a cavity, an electronic component accommodated in the cavity of the substrate and having pads on a surface of the component, a coating insulating layer formed on the substrate such that the insulating layer is covering the component and has via holes, via conductors formed in the via holes such that the via conductors are penetrating through the insulating layer, and a resin coating formed between the component and the insulating layer and having through holes such that the through holes are partially exposing the pads in the via holes and that the coating has adhesion to the component that is stronger than adhesion of the insulating layer to the component. The via conductors are formed in the via holes and the through holes such that the via conductors are connected to the pads on the surface of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Tomohiro Futatsugi, Yuichi Nakamura, Yoshiki Matsui, Keinosuke Ino, Tomohiro Fuwa, Seiji Izawa
  • Publication number: 20240083418
    Abstract: A collision avoidance support device that is applied to a vehicle equipped with clutch-type front and rear stabilizers controlled in coupled and uncoupled states and an automatic steering device, and comprises a control unit that is configured to, when it is determined that a collision with an obstacle in front of the vehicle needs to be avoided, calculate a target control amount for causing the vehicle to run along a target trajectory for avoiding the collision and control the automatic steering device based on the target control amount, and the control unit is further configured to, when it is determined that a collision needs to be avoided in a situation in which at least one of the stabilizers is in the uncoupled state, calculate a target control amount for causing the vehicle to run along the target trajectory based on a steer characteristic of the vehicle at that time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11929689
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a dead time application unit which applies a dead time to only one of a pair of pulse signals; a current polarity detection unit which detects a polarity of an output current; and a gate signal selection unit which, if the polarity of the output current is positive, selects the one pulse signal, to which the dead time has been applied, as a gate signal for a positive arm and selects the other pulse signal as a gate signal for a negative arm, and, if the polarity of the output current is negative, selects the one pulse signal, to which the dead time has been applied, as the gate signal for the negative arm and selects the other pulse signal as the gate signal for the positive arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoji Tsuruta, Hiroshi Masunaga, Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240068877
    Abstract: The installation structure of a sensor includes a sensor body, a holder provided with a locking part and configured to install the sensor body by locking the sensor body with the locking part, the locking part configured to deform when installing the sensor body to the holder and configured to restore when installation of the sensor body to the holder is completed, and a holder-installation body provided with an installable portion where the holder is to be installed and configured to prevent a deformation of the locking part of the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiraku TANAKA, Tomohiro MATSUSHIMA, Kenta TANAKA, Yusuke YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240069671
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, one or more embodiments relate to an input device that includes a proximity sensing panel including sensor electrodes, and a proximity sensing circuit. The proximity sensing circuit configured to receive an indication of a transition from a first image refresh rate to a second image refresh rate, wherein the first image refresh rate is greater than a beacon signal rate and the second image refresh rate is equal to or lower than the beacon signal rate. The proximity sensing panel is also configured to align transmitting a beacon signal on the proximity sensing panel to a non-refresh period corresponding to the second refresh rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Masaaki Shiomura, Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Takayuki Noto, Nobukazu Tanaka, Daisuke Ito, Tomohiro Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 11887620
    Abstract: The present invention improves the accuracy of language prediction. A history speech meta-information understanding unit 11 obtains a history speech meta-information vector from a word string of a preceding speech using a meta-information understanding device. A history speech embedding unit 12 converts the word string of the preceding speech and a speaker label into a history speech embedding vector. A speech unit combination vector construction unit 13 obtains a speech unit combination vector by combining the history speech meta-information vector and the history speech embedding vector. A speech sequence embedding vector calculation unit 14 converts a plurality of speech unit combination vectors obtained for the past speech sequences to a speech sequence embedding vector. A language model score calculation unit 15 calculates a language model score of a current speech from a word string of the current speech, a speaker label, and a speech sequence embedding vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka, Takanobu Oba
  • Patent number: 11845839
    Abstract: A film having a dielectric dissipation factor at a frequency of 1 kHz and 160° C. of 0.02% or lower and a dielectric breakdown strength at 160° C. of 400 V/?m or higher. Also disclosed is a film including at least one fluoropolymer selected from a tetrafluoroethylene/perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) copolymer and a tetrafluoroethylene/hexafluoropropylene copolymer, the fluoropolymer having a crystallinity of 65% or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mayuko Tatemichi, Takeshi Hazama, Nobuyuki Komatsu, Tatsuya Higuchi, Kouji Yokotani, Akio Higaki, Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11843327
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes: an inverter that includes a switching element and converts DC power into AC power; a current detector that detects an output current of the inverter; and a controller that controls the inverter to allow the output current detected by the current detector to follow a current command value having a sinusoidal waveform. The controller compares a current deviation of the output current from the current command value with a hysteresis band to control switching of the switching element. The controller sets the hysteresis band so that a hysteresis band in a zero-crossing area of the current command value is smaller than a hysteresis band in a peak area of the current command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Momochi, Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230388430
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, having a medium storage, a medium conveyer, an image forming device, a user input interface, and a controller, is provided. The controller operates the image forming device and the medium conveyer to perform a first action to form an image composed of image data in an area on a sheet-formed medium from one side of the image in a lengthwise direction, which corresponds to the predetermined conveying direction. On a condition where the first action is aborted, the controller operates the image forming device and the medium conveyer to perform a second action to form an image composed of the image data in another area on the sheet-formed medium different from the area in which the image was formed in the first action until a time point instructed by input from a user accepted through the user input interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230353841
    Abstract: A terminal of a viewer who views a live-stream includes one or more processors, and memory storing one or more computer programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors. The one or more computer programs includes instructions for: causing transition from a live-stream screen to a post-stream screen when a distributor of the live-stream ends the live-stream, the live-stream screen showing a video image generated by a terminal of the distributor, the post-stream screen showing a predetermined image; and accepting an instruction to use a gift from the viewer on the post-stream screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventor: Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230240283
    Abstract: A freezing apparatus includes a tube that stores a freezing target, an electric pipetter that is actuated for injection and discharge of a liquid into and from a tube and for movement of the tube, and a liquid nitrogen tank that stores refrigerant for freezing the freezing target. The tube has, at a bottom thereof, an opening smaller in size than the freezing target. The electric pipetter discharges the liquid from the tube through the opening after the injection of the liquid into the tube, and moves the tube to the liquid nitrogen tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro TANAKA, Fumitoshi KOGA
  • Publication number: 20230134153
    Abstract: A plurality of UPSs are connected in parallel between an AC power supply and a load. The UPSs each include a first switch connected between the AC power supply and an AC node. During the first power feeding mode, a control device turns on the first switch, and controls a power conversion device so as to receive AC power from the AC node and generate AC power. During a second power feeding mode, the control device turns off the first switch, and controls the power conversion device so as to receive DC power from a power storage device and generate AC power. When the AC power supply recovers during the second power feeding mode, the control device successively switches the plurality of UPSs to the first power feeding mode by successively turning on a plurality of the first switches each of which corresponds to each of the plurality of UPSs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki YAMASHITA, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220385066
    Abstract: A DC power feeding device includes a power feed line connected to a DC load, a first DC/DC converter provided between a solar battery and the power feed line, and a second DC/DC converter provided between a battery and the power feed line. A first controller controls the first DC/DC converter such that maximum power tracking control of the solar battery is performed in a normal state of a commercial AC power source. The first controller controls the first DC/DC converter such that the solar battery outputs a power smaller than a load power in a power failure. A second controller controls the second DC/DC converter such that the battery is charged in the normal state of the commercial AC power source. The second controller controls the second DC/DC converter such that DC voltage on the power feed line attains a reference voltage in the power failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11474490
    Abstract: An air condition control device includes a calculating circuitry to calculate a control influence degree, intended for controlling air condition changing devices, at each of control points in a room space on the basis of positional information that indicates a position where each of the air condition changing devices is located, influence degree information that indicates an influence degree of an air condition exerted on each of locations by each of the air condition changing devices, and running condition information that indicates a running condition of each of the air condition changing devices. The control influence degree is an influence degree of an air condition exerted by the air condition changing devices. The air condition control device also includes a controlling circuit to control the air condition changing devices to increase the control influence degree at a control point, which is relatively low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220316569
    Abstract: A fluid coupling includes a cover, an impeller, a turbine, an output hub, a lock-up piston, and a wall member. The impeller is fixed to the cover. The turbine is disposed opposite to the impeller. The output hub outputs a torque transmitted thereto from the turbine. The lock-up piston is disposed between the cover and the turbine. The lock-up piston is disposed to be axially slidable on the output hub. The lock-up piston is configured to be engaged by friction with the cover. The wall member is attached to the output hub. The wall member defines a hydraulic chamber in cooperation with the lock-up piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Kouzou Mori, Keisuke Kishihara, Tomohiro Tanaka, Shota Fukui