Patents by Inventor Yasuo Tanahashi

Yasuo Tanahashi 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: 11757258
    Abstract: A light source device including: a first light source configured to coaxially combine a plurality of first laser beams, each having a peak wavelength within a first wavelength range, to thereby generate and emit a first wavelength-combined beam; a second light source configured to coaxially combine a plurality of second laser beams, each having a peak wavelength within a second wavelength range that defines a range of peak wavelengths shorter than the peak wavelengths in the first wavelength range, to thereby generate and emit a second wavelength-combined beam; and a wavelength filter configured to coaxially combine the first wavelength-combined beam and the second wavelength-combined beam to thereby generate and emit a third wavelength-combined beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Tanahashi, Masaki Omori
  • Publication number: 20210265821
    Abstract: A light source device including: a first light source configured to coaxially combine a plurality of first laser beams, each having a peak wavelength within a first wavelength range, to thereby generate and emit a first wavelength-combined beam; a second light source configured to coaxially combine a plurality of second laser beams, each having a peak wavelength within a second wavelength range that defines a range of peak wavelengths shorter than the peak wavelengths in the first wavelength range, to thereby generate and emit a second wavelength-combined beam; and a wavelength filter configured to coaxially combine the first wavelength-combined beam and the second wavelength-combined beam to thereby generate and emit a third wavelength-combined beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo TANAHASHI, Masaki OMORI
  • Publication number: 20200191922
    Abstract: A measurement device 100 is provided with a MEMS mirror 4 which radiates projection light L1 while changing the radiating direction of the projection light L1, a convex mirror 6A which reflects the projection light L1 radiated during a first time period in a cycle, and a concave mirror 6B which reflects the projection light L1 radiated during a second time period in the cycle. At this time, the projection light L1 reflected by the convex mirror 6A and the return light L2 reflected by the concave mirror 6B are radiated towards different heights that are different in a predetermined direction (Z axis direction).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventor: Yasuo TANAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9810908
    Abstract: A virtual image display device includes: an image forming element which forms an image to be displayed; and an optical element which reflects a light emitted from the image forming element to display a virtual image. The optical element has a concave shape opposite to a traveling direction of the light emitted from the image forming element. The light emitted from the image forming element enters the optical element without being reflected by other optical element. The image forming element is arranged in a direction substantially orthogonal to a direction of viewing the virtual image through the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuo Tanahashi
  • Publication number: 20140218804
    Abstract: A virtual image display device includes: an image forming element which forms an image to be displayed; and an optical element which reflects a light emitted from the image forming element to display a virtual image. The optical element has a concave shape opposite to a traveling direction of the light emitted from the image forming element. The light emitted from the image forming element enters the optical element without being reflected by other optical element. The image forming element is arranged in a direction substantially orthogonal to a direction of viewing the virtual image through the optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuo Tanahashi
  • Publication number: 20140145913
    Abstract: The display device includes: an image forming element which forms an image to be displayed; and an optical element which reflects a light emitted by the image forming element to display a virtual image. A first angle of the image forming element with respect to a traveling direction of the light traveling from a center of the image forming element to a center of the optical element is set in accordance with a second angle of the optical element with respect to the traveling direction of the light such that distortion of the virtual image displayed by the optical element becomes small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventor: Yasuo Tanahashi
  • Patent number: 7835237
    Abstract: There are obtainable reliable and proper tracking correction and CTC even when fluctuations occur in an irradiation position of a sub-beam in a track at the time of performing tracking correction and CTC using three beams. Five beams (a main beam, sub-beams inA and inB, and sub-beams outA and outB) are generated. Reflection beams of the five beams are received, and a differential push pull signal DPPin corresponding to the sub-beams “in” as ± first-order beams and a differential push pull signal DPPout corresponding to the sub-beams “out” as ± second-order beams are generated. By assigning weights to the differential push pull signals DPPin and DPPout and computing the sum of the weighted signals, a tracking error signal Ste having an amplitude value which can perform tracking correction is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Tanahashi, Takuma Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 7835250
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to accurately and adequately adjust the position where sub beams are shone when performing tracking correction or CTC using three beams. The invention adjusts the positions where the sub beams are shone onto the surface of an optical disc DK by changing the angle of a diffraction grating 211 that is mounted inside an optical pickup. When performing adjustment, the angle of the diffraction grating 211 is performed in three stages: (i) rough adjustment, (ii) initial fine adjustment and (iii) continuous fine adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Takuma Yanagisawa, Yasuo Tanahashi
  • Publication number: 20090103417
    Abstract: There are obtainable reliable and proper tracking correction and CTC even when fluctuations occur in an irradiation position of a sub-beam in a track at the time of performing tracking correction and CTC using three beams. Five beams (a main beam, sub-beams inA and inB, and sub-beams outA and outB) are generated. Reflection beams of the five beams are received, and a differential push pull signal DPPin corresponding to the sub-beams “in” as ± first-order beams and a differential push pull signal DPPout corresponding to the sub-beams “out” as ± second-order beams are generated. By assigning weights to the differential push pull signals DPPin and DPPout and computing the sum of the weighted signals, a tracking error signal Ste having an amplitude value which can perform tracking correction is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Tanahashi, Takuma Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20090092029
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to accurately and adequately adjust the position where sub beams are shone when performing tracking correction or CTC using three beams. The invention adjusts the positions where the sub beams are shone onto the surface of an optical disc DK by changing the angle of a diffraction grating 211 that is mounted inside an optical pickup. When performing adjustment, the angle of the diffraction grating 211 is performed in three stages: (i) rough adjustment, (ii) initial fine adjustment and (iii) continuous fine adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Yanagisawa, Yasuo Tanahashi
  • Patent number: 5283749
    Abstract: A control device for outputting a selected one of machine control programs in response to program selection signals received from an external device, the device including a memory for storing the programs in relation to respective program identification numbers, a signal input portion having terminals for receiving the respective program selection signals, an arrangement for correlating the identification numbers of selected ones of the programs with respective code values corresponding to respective combinations of states of the program selection signals, a correlation memory for storing a relationship between the identification numbers of the selected programs and the code values, an encoder for encoding the combination of states of the program selection signals received at the terminals into the corresponding code value, an arrangement for reading one of the program identification numbers which corresponds to the code value obtained by the encoder, and an arrangement for outputting to the machine one of th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuo Tanahashi
  • Patent number: 5031106
    Abstract: A machine tool includes a spindle head (4) movable in a predetermined direction, a spindle (9) attached to the spindle head (4) for undergoing machining of a workpiece, a column (3) supporting the spindle head (4), the column (3) being movable over a predetermined plane (X-Y plane) perpendicular to the predetermined direction so that the spindle head (4) is movable over a plurality of machining regions (22L, 22R), a plurality of palettes (23L, 23R) each detachably mounting the workpiece and movable into and away from its associated machining region, and a table (13) mounting the plurality of palettes (23L, 23R) thereon. In one aspect of the invention, an external operation box (101) is provided from which a selected program number is entered and is impressed on an input port of a CPU (100). The CPU (100) calls a machining program identified by the selected program number to thus perform machining of the palette loaded on the associated machining region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuo Tanahashi, Shouki Yasuda, Kouichi Yasumoto