Patents by Inventor Yoichi Tanaka

Yoichi 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: 8246768
    Abstract: A high-tensile steel plate of low acoustic anisotropy and high weldability having yield stress of 450 MPa or greater and tensile strength of 570 MPa or greater and a process for producing the steel plate are provided. The steel has an Si content of 0.10% or less, thereby achieving a volume ratio of island martensite of 3% or less, contains Nb?0.025% and Ti?0.005% so as to satisfy 0.045%?[Nb]+2×[Ti]?0.105%, contains Nb, Ti, C and N in ranges such that the value of A=([Nb]+2×[Ti])×([C]+[N]×12/14) is 0.0022 to 0.0055, and has a steel structure wherein bainite volume ratio is 30% or more and pearlite volume ratio is less than 5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Hoshino, Masaaki Fujioka, Yoichi Tanaka, Tatsuya Kumagai
  • Patent number: 8210628
    Abstract: An interface, to which a recording medium storing at least one first setting information item is removably attached to a printer. A storage stores hardware specification data. A reader reads out the at least one first setting information item from the recording medium attached to the interface. A register judges whether the at least one read out first setting information item matches with the hardware specification data, and registers the first setting information item which matches with the hardware specification data as at least one second setting information item. A selector selects one of the at least one second setting information item as a print condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Narusawa, Yoichi Tanaka, Hidetake Nishizawa, Katsumi Komagamine
  • Patent number: 8196295
    Abstract: There is provided a control means for controlling movement positions and movement timings of a nozzle elevating means and a nozzle moving means. The control means stores positions and heights of obstacles located between a component supply unit and a circuit board in advance. The control means moves down a nozzle in sync with the time when the nozzle has finished passing over each obstacle after an electronic component has been photographed by a component camera. Alternatively, the control means moves the nozzle in a path to avoid the obstacles. In addition, in a component mounting region, the nozzle moves at a component mounting region movement height and the component is mounted by the nozzle moved down from the component mounting region movement height. Accordingly, it is possible to shorten an elevating stroke of the nozzle (5). In addition, the nozzle can be elevated in an arc trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Imafuku, Takeyuki Kawase, Yoichi Tanaka, Osamu Okuda, Takanori Yoshitake, Toshiyuki Kino
  • Patent number: 8134731
    Abstract: Provided is a printing device for preparing print data from image data and sequentially printing the print data, the printing device including: a print instruction receiving unit which receives a print instruction with the selection of the image data; and a print data preparing unit which, when the print instruction is received by the print instruction receiving unit with the selection of a plurality of pieces of image data including JPEG data and RAW data before a development process, performs a process of preparing the print data from the JPEG data among the plurality of pieces of selected image data prior to a process for performing the development process with respect to the RAW data and preparing the print data if at least a predetermined amount of print data in a print standby state, in which printing is not completed by the printing device, is not present, and performs the process for performing the development process with respect to the RAW data and preparing the print data prior to the process of pr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Tanaka, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 8043447
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a high tensile strength thick steel plate, a steel slab contains 0.03-0.055% of C, 3.0-3.5% of Mn, and 0.002-0.10% of Al, the amount of Mo is limited to 0.03% or less, the amount of Si is limited to 0.09% or less, the amount of V is limited to 0.01% or less, the amount of Ti is limited to 0.003% or less, the amount of B is limited to 0.0003% or less, and of which Pcm value representing a weld cracking parameter is fallen within the range of 0.20-0.24% and DI value representing a hardenability index is fallen within the range of 1.00-2.60, is heated to 950-1100° C. The steel slab is subjected to a rolling process with a cumulative draft of 70-90% when a temperature is in a range of 850° C. or more, and then, the steel slab is subjected to a rolling process at 780° C. or higher with a cumulative draft of 10-40% when a temperature is in a range of 780-830° C., and subsequently, accelerated cooling at a cooling rate of 8-80° C./sec is started from 700° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Hoshino, Masaaki Fujioka, Yoichi Tanaka, Masanori Minagawa
  • Publication number: 20100108202
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a high tensile strength thick steel plate, a steel slab contains 0.03-0.055% of C, 3.0-3.5% of Mn, and 0.002-0.10% of Al, the amount of Mo is limited to 0.03% or less, the amount of Si is limited to 0.09% or less, the amount of V is limited to 0.01% or less, the amount of Ti is limited to 0.003% or less, the amount of B is limited to 0.0003% or less, and of which Pcm value representing a weld cracking parameter is fallen within the range of 0.20-0.24% and DI value representing a hardenability index is fallen within the range of 1.00-2.60, is heated to 950-1100° C. The steel slab is subjected to a rolling process with a cumulative draft of 70-90% when a temperature is in a range of 850° C. or more, and then, the steel slab is subjected to a rolling process at 780° C. or higher with a cumulative draft of 10-40% when a temperature is in a range of 780-830° C., and subsequently, accelerated cooling at a cooling rate of 8-80° C./sec is started from 700° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: NIPPON STEET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Hoshino, Masaaki Fujioka, Yoichi Tanaka, Masanori Minagawa
  • Patent number: 7681976
    Abstract: An interface, to which a recording medium storing at least one first setting information item is removably attached to a printer. A storage stores hardware specification data. A reader reads out the at least one first setting information item from the recording medium attached to the interface. A register judges whether the at least one read out first setting information item matches with the hardware specification data, and registers the first setting information item which matches with the hardware specification data as at least one second setting information item. A selector selects one of the at least one second setting information item as a print condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Narusawa, Yoichi Tanaka, Hidetake Nishizawa, Katsumi Komagamine
  • Patent number: 7672053
    Abstract: A print medium of the present invention has a structure in which a substrate 30 has an extending portion 10b extending from the portion fixed to a lenticular sheet 10a to the right in the drawing and adjacent to the rectangular lenticular sheet 10a. Printing “parallactic images”, “an addressee”, and “a fold” on an ink permeating layer 50, a print paper 60, and the ink permeating layer 50 of the print medium 10, respectively, and folding the extending portion 10b with respect to the “fold” facilitates bonding the portion on which the addressee is printed to the back surface of the lenticular sheet 10a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhito Suzuki, Fumiaki Mukaiyama, Yoichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20090107591
    Abstract: A high-tensile steel plate of low acoustic anisotropy and high weldability having yield stress of 450 MPa or greater and tensile strength of 570 MPa or greater and a process for producing the steel plate are provided. The steel has an Si content of 0.10% or less, thereby achieving a volume ratio of island martensite of 3% or less, contains Nb?0.025% and Ti?0.005% so as to satisfy 0.045%?[Nb]+2×[Ti]?0.105%, contains Nb, Ti, C and N in ranges such that the value of A=([Nb]+2×[Ti])×([C]+[N]×12/14) is 0.0022 to 0.0055, and has a steel structure wherein bainite volume ratio is 30% or more and pearlite volume ratio is less than 5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Manabu Hoshino, Masaaki Fujioka, Yoichi Tanaka, Tatsuya Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20090091628
    Abstract: An interface, to which a recording medium storing at least one first setting information item is removably attached to a printer. A storage stores hardware specification data. A reader reads out the at least one first setting information item from the recording medium attached to the interface. A register judges whether the at least one read out first setting information item matches with the hardware specification data, and registers the first setting information item which matches with the hardware specification data as at least one second setting information item. A selector selects one of the at least one second setting information item as a print condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki NARUSAWA, Yoichi Tanaka, Hidetake Nishizawa, Katsumi Komagamine
  • Publication number: 20090080807
    Abstract: A raw image data creating unit that creates a raw image data; an image file creating unit capable of creating an image file conforming to a predetermined format based on the created raw image data; and a control unit for determining based on a predetermined criterion whether an external apparatus is caused to execute at least part of a process for creating the image file based on the raw image data, outputting the raw image data or halfway processed data obtained when the image file creating unit is caused to execute the process halfway to the external apparatus, instructing the external apparatus to create the image file based on the raw image data or the halfway processed data if the control unit determines that the external apparatus is caused to execute it, and causing the image file creating unit to execute creating the image file if the control unit determines that the external apparatus is not caused to execute it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi KOJIMA, Yoichi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20090040552
    Abstract: Provided is a printing device for preparing print data from image data and sequentially printing the print data, the printing device including: a print instruction receiving unit which receives a print instruction with the selection of the image data; and a print data preparing unit which, when the print instruction is received by the print instruction receiving unit with the selection of a plurality of pieces of image data including JPEG data and RAW data before a development process, performs a process of preparing the print data from the JPEG data among the plurality of pieces of selected image data prior to a process for performing the development process with respect to the RAW data and preparing the print data if at least a predetermined amount of print data in a print standby state, in which printing is not completed by the printing device, is not present, and performs the process for performing the development process with respect to the RAW data and preparing the print data prior to the process of pr
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Tanaka, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 7337533
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a component mounting apparatus and a component mounting method in which a movement time of a nozzle can be shortened so that production efficiency can be improved. There is provided a control means for controlling movement positions and movement timings of a nozzle elevating means and a nozzle moving means. The control means stores positions and heights of obstacles located between a component supply unit and a circuit board in advance. The control means moves down a nozzle in sync with the time when the nozzle has finished passing over each obstacle after an electronic component has been photographed by a component camera. Alternatively, the control means moves the nozzle in a path to avoid the obstacles. In addition, in a component mounting region, the nozzle moves at a component mounting region movement height and the component is mounted by the nozzle moved down from the component mounting region movement height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
    Inventors: Shigeki Imafuku, Takeyuki Kawase, Yoichi Tanaka, Osamu Okuda, Takanori Yoshitake, Toshiyuki Kino
  • Publication number: 20070263296
    Abstract: A print medium of the present invention has a structure in which a substrate 30 has an extending portion 10b extending from the portion fixed to a lenticular sheet 10a to the right in the drawing and adjacent to the rectangular lenticular sheet 10a. Printing “parallactic images”, “an addressee”, and “a fold” on an ink permeating layer 50, a print paper 60, and the ink permeating layer 50 of the print medium 10, respectively, and folding the extending portion 10b with respect to the “fold” facilitates bonding the portion on which the addressee is printed to the back surface of the lenticular sheet 10a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhito Suzuki, Fumiaki Mukaiyama, Yoichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20070214629
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a component mounting apparatus and a component mounting method in which a movement time of a nozzle can be shortened so that production efficiency can be improved. There is provided a control means for controlling movement positions and movement timings of a nozzle elevating means and a nozzle moving means. The control means stores positions and heights of obstacles located between a component supply unit and a circuit board in advance. The control means moves down a nozzle in sync with the time when the nozzle has finished passing over each obstacle after an electronic component has been photographed by a component camera. Alternatively, the control means moves the nozzle in a path to avoid the obstacles. In addition, in a component mounting region, the nozzle moves at a component mounting region movement height and the component is mounted by the nozzle moved down from the component mounting region movement height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Imafuku, Takeyuki Kawase, Yoichi Tanaka, Osamu Okuda, Takanori Yoshitake, Toshiyuki Kino
  • Publication number: 20070181223
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength thick steel plate having a plate thickness of 50 to 80 mm and a tensile strength of 490 to 570 MPa which is able to realize an excellent HAZ toughness even when welding with a heat input of 20 to 100 kJ/mm is conducted and is characterized by containing, by wt %, 0.03-0.14% of C, 0.30% or less of Si, 0.8-2.0% of Mn, 0.02% or less of P, 0.005% or less of S, 0.8-4.0% of Ni, 0.003-0.040% of Nb, 0.001-0.040% of Al, 0.0010-0.0100% of N, and 0.005-0.030% of Ti, where Ni and Mn satisfy equation [1], and the balance of iron and unavoidable impurities: Ni/Mn?10×Ceq?3 (0.36<Ceq<0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Minoru Ito, Akihiko Kojima, Masanori Minagawa, Yoichi Tanaka, Toshiei Hasegawa, Jun Otani
  • Publication number: 20070163066
    Abstract: A core for a cleaning sponge roller and a cleaning sponge roller set include a core and a cleaning sponge roller mounted on the core. The core for the cleaning sponge roller is in a substantially cylindrical shape including a bore extending in an axial direction and a plurality of small holes communicating between the bore and a circumferential outer surface of the core. The diameter of the bore is 10 mm or more. The diameter of the small holes is 2.5 mm or more. A total of cross-sectional areas of openings of all the small holes is larger than a cross-sectional area of the bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: AION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Okuzono, Hiroshi Miyaji, Yoichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7114481
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a split crankcase with spaced-apart journal walls. Each journal wall has a bearing hole formed therein. The engine also includes rotary bearings for supporting rotary movement of a crankshaft. A backlash-absorbing mechanism is situated proximate a first one of the rotary bearings, for cushioning radial movement of an outer bearing race. Axial movement-restraining structure is also provided adjacent the outer race, for limiting axial movement thereof. The axial movement-restraining structure may include an engaging groove provided in an inner circumferential surface of the outer race, and a restraining clamp member operatively attached to a surface of the crankcase. The restraining clamp member may include a hook portion which engages with the engaging groove of the outer race. The axial movement-restraining structure allows at least one of the crankshaft support bearings to be a roller bearing or a needle bearing, instead of a ball bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Teruo Kihara, Yoichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20060200973
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a component mounting apparatus and a component mounting method in which a movement time of a nozzle can be shortened so that production efficiency can be improved. There is provided a control means for controlling movement positions and movement timings of a nozzle elevating means and a nozzle moving means. The control means stores positions and heights of obstacles located between a component supply unit and a circuit board in advance. The control means moves down a nozzle in sync with the time when the nozzle has finished passing over each obstacle after an electronic component has been photographed by a component camera. Alternatively, the control means moves the nozzle in a path to avoid the obstacles. In addition, in a component mounting region, the nozzle moves at a component mounting region movement height and the component is mounted by the nozzle moved down from the component mounting region movement height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Imafuku, Takeyuki Kawase, Yoichi Tanaka, Osamu Okuda, Takanori Yoshitake, Toshiyuki Kino
  • Patent number: 7062334
    Abstract: There are provided a positioning control method and a positioning control device, which enables high speed positioning with low power consumption without repeating two or more acceleration and deceleration operations during travel from an original position to a target position. There is also provided an electronic component mounting apparatus, which enables high speed positioning with low power consumption and enables mounting of electronic components in a short period of time. When a movable body is moved from the original position to the target position, there is set an operational passing position for avoiding a passing avoidance region, and driving of a drive unit having a smaller travel distance from the original position to a coordinate of the operational passing position is started later than driving start timing of a drive unit having a longer travel distance, from the original position to another coordinate of the operational passing position, by a specified period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Tanaka, Takahiro Kurokawa, Seiichi Matsuo