Patents by Inventor Toru Tanaka

Toru 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: 20240132186
    Abstract: In a ship control system of one embodiment, a route command unit outputs a route command including a target ship position and a target bow direction of a ship. An information detector detects ship information including an actual ship position and an actual bow direction of a ship. An external force vector estimation unit estimates an external force vector received by a ship, using the ship information and a hull motion model related to a hull motion of the ship. A control command unit controls both rotational frequency of a main engine and a rudder angle of a ship, based on the route command, the ship information, and the external force vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Toru KAWATANI, Hiroki TANAKA, Takatsugu SAKAKIBARA, Naoyuki KAWASAKI, Ryo YAMAGUCHI, Hironobu UETAKE, Naoki SHIMADA, Kenta ABE
  • Publication number: 20240134377
    Abstract: In a ship control system of one embodiment, a main engine controller performs, when controlling the rotational frequency of a main engine based on a target ship speed of a ship, feedback control of an actual ship speed of the ship to perform ship speed control for bringing the actual ship speed closer to the target ship speed. A turning judgment unit judges whether or not the ship will turn. A control change unit performs, when the turning judgment unit has judged that the ship will turn, lowering processing for lowering the responsiveness of the ship speed control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Toru KAWATANI, Hiroki TANAKA, Takatsugu SAKAKIBARA, Naoyuki KAWASAKI, Ryo YAMAGUCHI, Hironobu UETAKE, Naoki SHIMADA, Kenta ABE
  • Publication number: 20240132187
    Abstract: A ship monitoring system includes: a shipboard information processing apparatus and including a shipboard communication unit and an information acquisition unit; and a support information processing apparatus and including: a support side communication unit capable of communicating with the shipboard communication unit; a time lag identification unit; and a state prediction unit. The time lag identification unit identifies a time from transmission of the ship motion information from the shipboard communication unit to reception of the ship motion information by the support side communication unit as a reception time lag. The state prediction unit inputs the ship motion information and the reception time lag to a ship motion model related to the ship motion of the ship to predict a motion state of the ship ahead of a motion state of the ship indicated by the ship motion information by a period of time based on the reception time lag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Toru KAWATANI, Hiroki TANAKA, Takatsugu SAKAKIBARA, Naoyuki KAWASAKI, Ryo YAMAGUCHI, Hironobu UETAKE, Naoki SHIMADA, Kenta ABE
  • Patent number: 11957487
    Abstract: A cover for covering an oral device that includes a first sheet member made of a first resin, and a second sheet member made of a second resin and facing the first sheet member, wherein when a first direction is a direction along a surface of the first sheet member and a second direction is a direction along the surface of the first sheet member and orthogonal to the first direction, the first sheet member and the second sheet member are joined to each other in a bag shape so as to define an opening at a first side in the first direction. A protruding portion protrudes from the second sheet member and past an outer edge of the first sheet member at the opening in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Shimuta, Kenji Tanaka, Jun Takagi
  • Publication number: 20240110533
    Abstract: An engine malfunction determination system includes a vehicle engine, an engine sensor system, an engine control module and an electronic display device. The engine sensor system has at least one sensor configured to detect an operation condition of the vehicle engine. The engine control module is in electrical communication with the sensor system to receive a detection signal from the engine sensor system regarding the operation condition of the vehicle engine. The engine control module is programmed to determine an anomaly in the detection signal. The electronic display device is programmed to display an indication of engine malfunction when the engine control module determines that the anomaly in the detection signal exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Vikram KRISHNAMURTHY, Wenying LI, Yasuhiro TANAKA, Toru TAKAGI, Shota YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11905437
    Abstract: A water-based paint composition has performance to decompose ozone. The water-based paint composition includes a manganese oxide-based catalyst, an activated carbon, a polyacrylate-based dispersant, a water-soluble resin, a pH adjuster, and a water-based solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: AISIN KAKO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi Takahira, Toru Tanaka, Yasunari Iwata
  • Patent number: 11836923
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention calculates, even in a case where a region of a part as an observation target included in an image capturing range is different between a plurality of medical images in different time phases, a degree of slippage of the region of the part as the observation target with high accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Tanaka, Ryo Ishikawa, Tatsuya Kimoto, Hiroshi Moriya
  • Patent number: 11838011
    Abstract: A system comprises a gate driver that is configured to couple to a transistor disposed in a transistor module via a first pin. The gate driver comprises a duty cycle measurement circuit having a first input terminal and a first output terminal, the first input terminal coupled to a second pin via an isolator. The duty cycle measurement circuit comprises a flip-flop, a counter, a shift register, and a comparator. The system comprises an analog to digital converter circuit having a second input terminal, a second output terminal, and a reference terminal, the second input terminal coupled to a third pin configured to couple to a temperature-sensitive device disposed in the transistor module, the second output terminal coupled to a fourth pin via the isolator, and the reference terminal coupled to the first output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiong Li, Toru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11823111
    Abstract: A work instruction system includes: a production progress management device including a communication unit configured to communicate with a work instruction device, a product signal storage unit that stores a product signal including position information of a product, a product in-progress process estimation unit configured to estimate an in-progress process of the product using the position information, and a production progress estimation and update unit configured to estimate production progress of the product in accordance with a change in the position information and update production progress information; and the work instruction device including a communication unit configured to communicate with the production progress management device, a production progress storage unit that stores the production progress information, a data collection unit configured to obtain progress management information updated from the production progress management device, a recommended work generation unit configured to gen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Suginishi, Toru Tanaka, Shinichi Kawamoto, Katsuhiko Tsunehara
  • Publication number: 20230311212
    Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing a turbine component which enables obtaining a single crystal structure more easily and manufacturing a good turbine component. In the seed crystal placing step, the seed crystal is placed on the surface of the base in a manner that a first direction along <001> of the seed crystal has an angle within 15 degrees in absolute value in relation to a laminating direction. In the shaped layer forming step, scanning is performed in a manner that the scan direction has an angle within 20 degrees in absolute value in relation to a second direction being <001> orthogonal to the first direction of the seed crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicants: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventors: Takehisa HINO, Hiroshi HARADA, Kyoko KAWAGISHI, Toshio OSADA, Tadaharu YOKOKAWA, Yutaka KOIZUMI, Makoto OSAWA, Toru TANAKA, Hideshi NAKANO, Rie SUMIYA, Kazuhiro KITAYAMA, Yoshiaki SAKAI, Akihiro SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230316513
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires an input image including a region of interest of a subject. The processing circuitry acquires information on an existence probability of the region of interest on the basis of the input image. The processing circuitry calculates an estimated value of a shape of the region of interest on the basis of the input image and the information on the existence probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicants: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiteru MASUDA, Ryo ISHIKAWA, Toru TANAKA, Gakuto AOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230290020
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a region obtaining unit configured to obtain a first region in a tomographic image included in a three-dimensional image, and a second region different from the first region; a setting unit configured to set a first slab having a first slab thickness for the first region, and a second slab having a second slab thickness, which is different from the first slab thickness, for the second region; and a generation unit configured to generate a projection image regarding the tomographic image using the first slab and the second slab.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventor: Toru TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11753823
    Abstract: A concrete structure includes a continuous fiber-reinforced polymer material arranged as a main reinforcing material or a tendon. A short fiber reinforcing material consisting of an organic fiber is mixed in 0.5% or more with respect to an entire volume. The continuous fiber-reinforced polymer material is shaped like a rod or a stranded wire. A ratio Lf/Gm between a fiber length Lf of the organic fiber of the short fiber reinforcing material and a maximum aggregate diameter Gm of a concrete composition is 1.2 to 3.7, and an aspect ratio Lf/De, in which De is an equivalent diameter that is a cross-sectional area of the organic fiber converted into a circle diameter, is 30 to 69.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: TOKYO ROPE MFG. CO., LTD., ORIENTAL SHIRAISHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Tanaka, Eiji Koda, Toru Tanaka, Meguru Tsunomoto, Hiroshi Watase, Tomohiro Ishii
  • Publication number: 20230275271
    Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a nonaqueous electrolytic solution for a nonaqueous electrolytic solution battery in which even if the nonaqueous electrolytic solution is applied to a positive electrode having a content of nickel of 30% by mass to 100% by mass in a metal contained in a positive electrode active material, an effect of improving output characteristics after cycle and an effect of reducing a deposition amount of a negative electrode current collector metal on a surface of a negative electrode after initial charging and discharging can be exerted in a well-balanced manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Katsutoshi SUZUKI, Arata TAKAHASHI, Ryota ESAKI, Wataru KAWABATA, Toru TANAKA, Tsubasa ITAKURA, Takayoshi MORINAKA, Mikihiro TAKAHASHI, Shuji HARADA
  • Publication number: 20230257273
    Abstract: Provided are porous spherical silica particles whose oil absorption is suppressed while the porous spherical silica particles have a large specific surface area; and a method for manufacturing such spherical silica particles. According to the present invention, provided are spherical silica particles whose specific surface area obtained by employing a BET method is 300 m2/g or more, total pore volume is 0.3 ml/g or less, and oil absorption is 50 ml/100 g or less, the spherical silica particles obtained by subjecting silica gel particles obtained by employing a sol-gel method, for example, in which an alkali silicate is emulsified and coagulated, to only drying at a low temperature without subjecting the silica gel particles to calcination at a high temperature; and a method for manufacturing such spherical silica particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: TAYCA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki KANDA, Daisuke OOSAKI, Toru TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230250310
    Abstract: A water-based paint composition includes a manganese oxide-based catalyst, activated carbon, at least one water-soluble resin selected from a group consisting of acrylic resin, modified acrylic resin, and fluorocarbon resin, a polyacrylate-based dispersant, and a water-based solvent. The water-based paint composition, although including the manganese oxide-based catalyst, allows a coating film to be resistant to chalking and weather.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi TAKAHIRA, Seiji HORII, Toshiki SAWAUE, Toru TANAKA, Hidetaka ASANO
  • Publication number: 20230212439
    Abstract: An adhesive set includes a main agent containing a decomplexing agent and an initiator containing an organoborane complex. At least one of the main agent and the initiator further contains a compound having a radically polymerizable group. At least one of the main agent and the initiator further contains a polymerization control agent. At least one of the main agent and the initiator further contains a peroxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Toru TANAKA, Takashi KAWAMORI, Masahiro MATSUNAGA, Yosuke FUJIYASU
  • Publication number: 20230212430
    Abstract: An adhesive set includes a main agent containing a decomplexing agent and an initiator containing an organoborane complex. At least one of the main agent and the initiator further contains a compound having a radically polymerizable group. At least one of the main agent and the initiator further contains a compound having a thiocarbonylthio structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Toru TANAKA, Takashi KAWAMORI, Masahiro MATSUNAGA, Yosuke FUJIYASU
  • Publication number: 20230203325
    Abstract: A water-based paint composition has performance to decompose ozone. The water-based paint composition includes a manganese oxide-based catalyst, an activated carbon, a polyacrylate-based dispersant, a water-soluble resin, a pH adjuster, and a water-based solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicants: AISIN KAKO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi Takahira, Toru Tanaka, Yasunari Iwata
  • Publication number: 20230101484
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compound having a PDGF receptor kinase inhibitory activity. Examples of the present invention may include, for example, a compound represented by the following formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof. The compound of the present invention has an inhibitory activity against the PDGF receptor kinase. In addition, since the compound of the present invention has an inhibitory activity against the PDGF receptor kinase, it is useful as a therapeutic agent for respiratory diseases, cancers, smooth muscle proliferative diseases, vasoproliferative diseases, autoimmune/inflammatory diseases, metabolic diseases, vasoocclusive diseases, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON SHINYAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junshi ASADA, Yoshinari HARUTA, Hiroyuki YAKUSHIJI, Toru TANAKA, Kazuya KURAMOTO, Keiji KOSUGI, Chiaki FUCHIKAMI