Patents by Inventor Yasunari Tanaka
Yasunari 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: 20240136309Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device with higher reliability and longer life which can suppress an increase in production costs. A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor element; a top electrode on an upper surface of the semiconductor element; and a conductive metal plate containing copper as a main component and solid-state diffusion bonded to the top electrode of the semiconductor element.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yasunari HINO, Junichi YAMASHITA, Koji TANAKA, Tomohide TERASHIMA, Shinichi IZUO
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Publication number: 20240056189Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an optical communication device includes: a detection unit that is connected to a user device and detects light which is output from the connected user device; a connection unit that connects the user device and a control transceiver in a case where light is detected by the detection unit; an acquisition unit that acquires, via the control transceiver, communication destination information indicating a communication destination to which the user device requests connection; an assignment unit that assigns a wavelength to the user device according to the communication destination information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a notification unit that notifies the user device of wavelength information indicating the wavelength assigned by the assignment unit via the control transceiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunari TANAKA, Shin KANEKO, Yumiko SENOO, Kazuaki HONDA
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Publication number: 20240045152Abstract: The present disclosure has an object to provide a multicore optical connector that can achieve size reduction and pitch reduction without performing highly accurate machining of V-grooves or the like. The present disclosure is a multicore optical connector including a holding member 11 having a flat bottom surface 14B, and provided with a groove that enables a plurality of optical fibers 91 to be arranged along the bottom surface 14B, the plurality of optical fibers 91 stored in a row on the bottom surface of the groove, and a lid 15 that is in contact with all the plurality of optical fibers 91 and is fixed to the plurality of optical fibers 91 and the holding member 11 in a state in which the plurality of optical fibers 91 are pressed against the bottom surface 14B of the groove to form a long hole 12 at the groove 14.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunari TANAKA, Ryo KOYAMA, Masaaki TAKAYA, Yoshiteru ABE, Chisato FUKAI
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Publication number: 20230361876Abstract: An optical communication system includes: an optical fiber including a plurality of cores formed in parallel to a longitudinal direction; a first optical communication device including an optical transmission unit and an optical reception unit, and provided with connection ends of the optical transmission unit and the optical reception unit each connected to one end of any one of the cores on an interface surface; and a second optical communication device including an optical transmission unit and an optical reception unit, and provided with connection ends of the optical transmission unit and the optical reception unit each connected to another end of any one of the cores on an interface surface, in which the connection ends are provided in an arrangement in which a type of transmission and reception of one of the connection ends of the first optical communication device and a type of transmission and reception of one of the connection ends of the second optical communication device are a transmission and reType: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunari TANAKA, Junichi KANI, Hiroo SUZUKI, Takuya KANAI
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Publication number: 20230333329Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to reduce the size and pitch of a multi-core optical connector which connects a planar waveguide in which a multi-channel core is disposed or a plurality of optical fibers to the plurality of optical fibers. According to the present disclosure, there is provided a multi-core optical connector which connects a plurality of cores disposed in a row and a plurality of optical fibers, in which the multi-core optical connector includes a holding unit which holds the plurality of cores and the plurality of optical fibers, the holding unit includes an elongated hole in which the plurality of optical fibers are disposed in a row, and the plurality of optical fibers and the plurality of cores are connected inside the elongated hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunari TANAKA, Ryo KOYAMA
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Publication number: 20230308174Abstract: The optical communication system includes the optical distribution device (100) provided between the wavelength routing device (30) and the optical multiplexing/demultiplexing device (40). The wavelength routing device outputs the optical signal input from the port on the wavelength variable subscriber device side to the port uniquely determined by a combination of the wavelength of the optical signal and the port to which the optical signal is inputted. The wavelength variable subscriber device can execute the first protection for switching the wavelength of the optical signal to be transmitted and received to the spare wavelength different from the operating wavelength when the wavelength variable subscriber device and the wavelength variable communication device (10) are disconnected.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2020Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shin KANEKO, Kazuaki HONDA, Hiroo SUZUKI, Junichi KANI, Takuya KANAI, Yasunari TANAKA
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Patent number: 11548647Abstract: An air-conditioning duct structure of an aircraft includes an air-conditioning duct that is provided on each of a starboard side and a port side and guides conditioned air to a vicinity of a ceiling of a cabin in the aircraft. The air-conditioning duct includes a blowout portion and a blowout upstream portion. The blowout portion blows out the conditioned air to the cabin from an outboard side of the ceiling to an inboard side of the ceiling and toward a lower part than the ceiling, and the blowout upstream portion communicates with an upstream side of the blowout portion. In addition, the blowout portion or the blowout upstream portion is curved to cause a terminal end side of the blowout portion to be inclined downward with respect to a horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Aircraft CorporationInventors: Satoshi Hirotsu, Takashi Ishimaru, Yuichiro Shimura, Yasunari Tanaka, Fumio Kondo
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Patent number: 10984794Abstract: An information processing system according to an embodiment includes a storage, a plurality of conversationers, and a selector. The storage stores a regulation rule indicating a generation rule of a speech in a conversation. Each of the plurality of conversationers makes conversation with a user on the basis of the regulation rule. The selector selects some or all of the plurality of conversationers to cause a conversation to be performed.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions CorporationInventors: Yuki Kaneko, Yasunari Tanaka, Masahisa Shinozaki, Hideo Umeki, Hisako Yoshida, Ai Matsui, Kenryo Kanaya, Keiji Kubota, Kazuho Igoshi, Motokazu Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20200269986Abstract: To provide an air conditioning piping structure for an aircraft which can promote mixing of temperature adjusted air and recirculated air flowing into a mixing chamber forming an air conditioning system. An air conditioning piping structure causes temperature adjusted air obtained by an air conditioning apparatus of an aircraft and recirculated air discharged from a pressurized compartment to flow into a mixing chamber which mixes the temperature adjusted air and the recirculated air. This air conditioning piping structure includes a first pipe through which the temperature adjusted air flows, a second pipe through which the recirculated air flows, and which is connected to the first pipe, and a flow passage restricting part configured to apply a resistance to at least one of the temperature adjusted air and the recirculated air in a vicinity of a merging position where the temperature adjusted air and the recirculated air are merged.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Aircraft CorporationInventors: Takashi Ishimaru, Yasunari Tanaka, Satoshi Hirotsu
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Publication number: 20200231287Abstract: An air-conditioning duct structure of an aircraft includes an air-conditioning duct that is provided on each of a starboard side and a port side and guides conditioned air to a vicinity of a ceiling of a cabin in the aircraft. The air-conditioning duct includes a blowout portion and a blowout upstream portion. The blowout portion blows out the conditioned air to the cabin from an outboard side of the ceiling to an inboard side of the ceiling and toward a lower part than the ceiling, and the blowout upstream portion communicates with an upstream side of the blowout portion. In addition, the blowout portion or the blowout upstream portion is curved to cause a terminal end side of the blowout portion to be inclined downward with respect to a horizontal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Aircraft CorporationInventors: Satoshi Hirotsu, Takashi Ishimaru, Yuichiro Shimura, Yasunari Tanaka, Fumio Kondo
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Publication number: 20190228760Abstract: An information processing system according to an embodiment includes a conversationer, a storage, and a system-user conversationer. The conversationer performs conversation with a user by generating a speech. The storage stores conversation information indicating a conversation rule of the speech. The system-user conversationer converts the speech generated by the conversationer into a mode according to the user by using the conversion information stored in the storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions CorporationInventors: Yuki KANEKO, Yasunari TANAKA, Masahisa SHINOZAKI, Hisako YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 10315775Abstract: An aircraft duct structure includes a first duct through which exhaust air from a front-side equipment compartment flows, and a second duct through which exhaust air from a rear-side equipment compartment flows. The first duct has a terminal end part where the exhaust air inside the second duct flows into the exhaust air inside the first duct at a substantially right angle, and a flow straightening plate located inside the terminal end part. The terminal end part has a jet opening which faces, across a clearance, an air pressure regulating port where an air pressure regulating valve is disposed. The inside of the terminal end part is divided by the flow straightening plate into an upper region and a lower region. The exhaust air inside the first duct and the exhaust air inside the second duct merge together in the upper region.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Masatoshi Morishita, Yoichi Uefuji, Toshiyuki Ishida, Gento Ichikawa, Yasunari Tanaka, Fumio Kondo
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Patent number: 9845157Abstract: An aircraft includes: a cockpit, the inside of which is pressurized; equipment which is at least partially disposed on the outside of the cockpit (external space) where the pressure is lower than the inside of the cockpit (internal space); a forced air delivery mechanism which discharges air from a peripheral space of the equipment on the outside of the cockpit by an exhaust fan to supply a branch flow divided from a main flow of air-conditioning exhaust, which has air-conditioned the inside of the cockpit, as cooling air to the equipment; and a natural air delivery mechanism which uses a differential pressure between the inside of the cockpit and the outside of the cockpit to supply air inside the cockpit as cooling air to the equipment through a ventilation opening putting in communication the peripheral space and the inside of the cockpit with one another.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Ishida, Yoichi Uefuji, Masatoshi Morishita, Gento Ichikawa, Yasunari Tanaka, Fumio Kondo
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Publication number: 20160311541Abstract: An aircraft duct structure includes a first duct through which exhaust air from a front-side equipment compartment flows, and a second duct through which exhaust air from a rear-side equipment compartment flows. The first duct has a terminal end part where the exhaust air inside the second duct flows into the exhaust air inside the first duct at a substantially right angle, and a flow straightening plate located inside the terminal end part. The terminal end part has a jet opening which faces, across a clearance, an air pressure regulating port where an air pressure regulating valve is disposed. The inside of the terminal end part is divided by the flow straightening plate into an upper region and a lower region. The exhaust air inside the first duct and the exhaust air inside the second duct merge together in the upper region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Masatoshi Morishita, Yoichi Uefuji, Toshiyuki Ishida, Gento Ichikawa, Yasunari Tanaka, Fumio Kondo
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Publication number: 20160244171Abstract: An aircraft includes: a cockpit, the inside of which is pressurized; equipment which is at least partially disposed on the outside of the cockpit (external space) where the pressure is lower than the inside of the cockpit (internal space); a forced air delivery mechanism which discharges air from a peripheral space of the equipment on the outside of the cockpit by an exhaust fan to supply a branch flow divided from a main flow of air-conditioning exhaust, which has air-conditioned the inside of the cockpit, as cooling air to the equipment; and a natural air delivery mechanism which uses a differential pressure between the inside of the cockpit and the outside of the cockpit to supply air inside the cockpit as cooling air to the equipment through a ventilation opening putting in communication the peripheral space and the inside of the cockpit with one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2015Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Toshiyuki ISHIDA, Yoichi UEFUJI, Masatoshi MORISHITA, Gento ICHIKAWA, Yasunari TANAKA, Fumio KONDO
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Patent number: 8540014Abstract: In a vehicle air conditioner (1) employing an air-mix method, airflow which passed through a bypass channel (14) and airflow which passed through a heated air channel (13) are mixed in an air-mix area (15) located downstream of an air-mix damper (6) and the airflow is guided to a foot outlet (19) through a foot channel (18) provided on the back side of a partition wall (2A) constituting the heated air channel (13). The vehicle air conditioner includes a mixing enhancement portion (50) that makes airflow flowing along the partition wall (2A) flow toward the air-mix area (15) and an introduction portion (60) that is continuous with the mixing enhancement portion (50) and smoothly guides the airflow after air mixing to the foot channel (18) are provided at an end (30) of the partition wall (2A) constituting an outlet of the heated air channel (13).Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2008Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Noriyuki Chikagawa, Shiro Matsubara, Yasunari Tanaka
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Patent number: 8480462Abstract: There are provided a blowing-mode door for a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus in which leakage of temperature-adjusted air can be prevented to improve independent temperature-adjusting performance by minimizing the gap between the mode door and a partition plate and increasing the rigidity of the mode door, as well as a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus using the same. A blowing-mode door applied to a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus with an independent temperature-adjusting system is provided in which the blowing-mode door includes a rotating shaft having a predetermined length and a pair of left and right plate-like doors that are molded integrally with the rotating shaft, with a gap for preventing interference with a partition plate therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2008Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yasunari Tanaka, Tomohiko Sibata
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Patent number: 8046038Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a portable wireless apparatus capable of maintaining high quality of a communication in various using configurations obtained by a two-axis hinge mechanism. A portable wireless apparatus (100) having a two-axis hinge portion includes a first antenna (102) which is suitable for a talking state and a second antenna (104) which is suitable for a waiting state. The first antenna (102) or the second antenna (104) is selected based on a result of opening/closing detection decided from an angle ? of a first axis (106) and the result of opening/closing detection decided from an angle ? of a second axis (107). Consequently, it is possible to select either of the antennas which is not influenced by hands or fingers of a user.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2004Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenya Nagano, Tadashi Ooga, Yasunari Tanaka, Yutaka Saitou, Tomoaki Nishikido
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Publication number: 20100120348Abstract: There are provided a blowing-mode door for a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus in which leakage of temperature-adjusted air can be prevented to improve independent temperature-adjusting performance by minimizing the gap between the mode door and a partition plate and increasing the rigidity of the mode door, as well as a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus using the same. A blowing-mode door applied to a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus with an independent temperature-adjusting system is provided in which the blowing-mode door includes a rotating shaft having a predetermined length and a pair of left and right plate-like doors that are molded integrally with the rotating shaft, with a gap for preventing interference with a partition plate therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasunari Tanaka, Tomohiko Sibata
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Publication number: 20100025011Abstract: Provided is a vehicle air conditioner capable of maintaining comfortable temperature-controlling properties by improving the air mixing performance while reducing separation in the air channel to increase the air flow rate and reduce noise.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2009Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Chikagawa, Shiro Matsubara, Yasunari Tanaka