Patents by Inventor Yoko Tanaka

Yoko 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: 20240152979
    Abstract: A congestion degree measurement unit measures a congestion degree in each of a plurality of areas in which the electronic currency issued to the user can be used. A value determination unit determines a utility value of the electronic currency in the area, based on the congestion degree measured by the congestion degree measurement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Tsuji, Shintaro Chiku, Naoko Fukushi, Yoko Tanaka, Kazuki Ogata, Kosei Kobayshi, Kei Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20240144300
    Abstract: Estimating means estimates first characteristic information pertaining to persons present within an area for which an estimation is made, based on first information obtained by tallying signals transmitted from terminal devices of users in the area for which the estimation is made and second information which is statistical information of the area for which the estimation is made. Based on the second characteristic information generated by an analyzing apparatus that analyzes an image, verifying means verifies the first characteristic information estimated by the estimating means. Based on the verification result of the verifying means, correcting means corrects the estimation of the first characteristic information estimated by the estimating means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro CHIKU, Yuki TSUJI, Naoko FUKUSHI, Yoko TANAKA, Kazuki OGATA, Kosei KOBAYASHI, Kei YANAGISAWA
  • Patent number: 11966176
    Abstract: A transfer member includes: an inner layer; and an outer layer that is adhered to the inner layer and has a hardness lower than a hardness of the inner layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Tanaka, Tomoaki Yoshioka, Yoko Miyamoto, Toshiaki Baba, Koichiro Yuasa, Kazuyoshi Hagiwara, Kei Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240092366
    Abstract: An on-vehicle apparatus includes an abnormal section determination part that determines a road section having a road surface on which an abnormality is probably present, based on an output value of a sensor mounted on a vehicle, an image selection part that selects an image(s) including the determined road section from a plurality of images shot at predetermined time intervals by a camera mounted on the vehicle, and a transmission part that is able to transmit the selected image(s) to a predetermined server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Ogata, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Kosei Kobayashi, Kei Yanagisawa, Natsumi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20240096110
    Abstract: A data collection apparatus, including: a data reception part that receives sensor data from a vehicle capable of photographing a road surface, the sensor data being acquired by a sensor mounted on the vehicle; and a control part that evaluates a goodness degree of a road surface photographing environment on a basis of the sensor data and control a transmission from the vehicle of a road surface photographed image on a basis of the goodness degree of the road surface photographing environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Ogata, Kosei Kobayashi, Kei Yanagisawa, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Natsumi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20240035239
    Abstract: A road inspection system comprises: a means that creates a road inspection route including a first road managed by a first road manager and a second road managed by a second road manager which is different from the first road manager; a means that receives inspection data from a vehicle that has traveled along a road inspection route, in which the inspection data is obtained by measurement of pre-set items along the road inspection route; a means that diagnoses a first inspection data, that is included in the inspection data and measured on the first road, using first diagnosis criteria of the first road manager; and a means that diagnoses a second inspection data, that is included in the inspection data and measured on the second road, using second diagnosis criteria of the second road manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi YOKOYAMA, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Kosei Kobayashi, Kazuki Ogata, Kei Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 11267341
    Abstract: A front part structure of a vehicle cabin may include: an instrument panel including an air outlet at an end of the instrument panel on a passenger seat side; an air conditioner main body arranged inside the instrument panel at a center in a vehicle width direction; a cross beam arranged inside the instrument panel and connected to a right side and a left side of a vehicle body; and an air duct arranged inside the instrument panel and connecting the air conditioner main body to the air outlet. The air duct may extend in front of the passenger seat at a height lower than the cross beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko Tanaka, Masashi Kawamoto, Naoki Sawada, Takeshi Yokoi
  • Publication number: 20210284093
    Abstract: A front structure of a vehicle cabin may include: an instrument panel arranged in front of a passenger seat; a crossbeam arranged in the instrument panel and connected to right and left sides of a vehicle body; and an airbag bracket fixed to the crossbeam inside the instrument panel and supporting an airbag for the passenger seat. The airbag bracket may extend rearward beyond the airbag and incline upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Yoko TANAKA, Masashi KAWAMOTO, Naoki SAWADA
  • Patent number: 11090318
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical preparation efficaciously promotes tissue wound repair. The wound repair promoter according to the present invention includes at least one active ingredient selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by Formula (1), salts of the compounds, and hydrates of the compounds or the salts. In the formula, R1 and R2 are each, identically or differently, selected from hydrogen and a hydrocarbon group optionally having one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of halogens, —COOR3, —CONR32, —COR3, —CN, —NO2, —NHCOR3, —OR3, —SR3, —OCOR3, —SO3R3, and —SO2NR32, where R3 is, identically or differently in each occurrence, selected from hydrogen and an optionally substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group; and n represents an integer of 1 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: NAHIS CORPORATION CO., LTD., NIHON UNIVERSITY, RIKEN
    Inventors: Ryuzo Yoshioka, Yoko Tanaka, Manabu Yaguchi, Takashi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210245602
    Abstract: A front part structure of a vehicle cabin may include: an instrument panel including an air outlet at an end of the instrument panel on a passenger seat side; an air conditioner main body arranged inside the instrument panel at a center in a vehicle width direction; a cross beam arranged inside the instrument panel and connected to a right side and a left side of a vehicle body; and an air duct arranged inside the instrument panel and connecting the air conditioner main body to the air outlet. The air duct may extend in front of the passenger seat at a height lower than the cross beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Yoko TANAKA, Masashi KAWAMOTO, Naoki SAWADA, Takeshi YOKOI
  • Patent number: 11040599
    Abstract: An air conditioning device for a vehicle includes a foot duct main body portion and a protruding portion. The foot duct main body portion extends in the vehicle width direction inside an instrument panel, and is formed in a substantially tubular shape, one length direction end portion of which is connected to an air conditioning device main body. Blowing apertures that open toward the vehicle lower side of a vehicle cabin interior are formed at each of another length direction end portion and a length direction intermediate portion of the foot duct main body portion. The protruding portion provided at a region of a vehicle upper sidewall portion of the foot duct main body portion corresponds with the blowing aperture formed at the length direction intermediate portion. The protruding portion protrudes toward an opening of this blowing aperture formed at the length direction intermediate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10974768
    Abstract: A vehicle cabin front portion structure has a steering column of a vehicle, an instrument panel in which a face blowout port is formed further toward a vehicle transverse direction outer side than the steering column, an air conditioner main body that is provided within the instrument panel, further toward a vehicle transverse direction central side than the steering column, a knee airbag device that is disposed at a vehicle lower side of the steering column, and that inflates and deploys a knee airbag toward a vehicle lower side of the instrument panel, and a face duct that extends from the air conditioner main body to the face blowout port via a route that passes a vehicle rear side of the knee airbag device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoko Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200121700
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical preparation efficaciously promotes tissue wound repair. The wound repair promoter according to the present invention includes at least one active ingredient selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by Formula (1), salts of the compounds, and hydrates of the compounds or the salts. In the formula, R1 and R2 are each, identically or differently, selected from hydrogen and a hydrocarbon group optionally having one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of halogens, —COOR3, —CONR32, —COR3, —CN, —NO2, —NHCOR3, —OR3, —SR3, —OCOR3, —SO3R3, and —SO2NR32, where R3 is, identically or differently in each occurrence, selected from hydrogen and an optionally substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group; and n represents an integer of 1 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicants: NAHLS CORPORATION CO., LTD., NIHON UNIVERSITY, RIKEN
    Inventors: Ryuzo YOSHIOKA, Yoko TANAKA, Manabu YAGUCHI, Takashi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200047813
    Abstract: A vehicle cabin front portion structure has a steering column of a vehicle, an instrument panel in which a face blowout port is formed further toward a vehicle transverse direction outer side than the steering column, an air conditioner main body that is provided within the instrument panel, further toward a vehicle transverse direction central side than the steering column, a knee airbag device that is disposed at a vehicle lower side of the steering column, and that inflates and deploys a knee airbag toward a vehicle lower side of the instrument panel, and a face duct that extends from the air conditioner main body to the face blowout port via a route that passes a vehicle rear side of the knee airbag device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventor: Yoko Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200047590
    Abstract: An air conditioning device for a vehicle includes a foot duct main body portion and a protruding portion. The foot duct main body portion extends in the vehicle width direction inside an instrument panel, and is formed in a substantially tubular shape, one length direction end portion of which is connected to an air conditioning device main body. Blowing apertures that open toward the vehicle lower side of a vehicle cabin interior are formed at each of another length direction end portion and a length direction intermediate portion of the foot duct main body portion. The protruding portion provided at a region of a vehicle upper sidewall portion of the foot duct main body portion corresponds with the blowing aperture formed at the length direction intermediate portion. The protruding portion protrudes toward an opening of this blowing aperture formed at the length direction intermediate portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventor: Yoko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9884931
    Abstract: Provided is a film for blister packs having barrier capability that is excellent in terms of impact resistance and thermal stability. Also provided is a vinylidene chloride polymer-containing latex that is ideal for producing the film. The coating layer of the film for a blister pack, and the latex, comprise a vinylidene chloride copolymer having a weight-average molecular weight, Mw, between 120,000 and 300,000 that is obtainable by emulsion polymerizing 70 to 95 parts by mass of vinylidene chloride and 30 to 5 parts by mass of one or more other monomer(s) copolymerizable with the vinylidene chloride, with the proviso that the total amount of vinylidene chloride and the other monomer(s) is 100 parts by mass).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Kameyama, Yoko Tanaka, Mitsuyuki Furukawa, Yosuke Yagi, Eiichi Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 9804770
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display controller (100) which includes: a display section (74) operable to display thereon an operation screen (W) at a predetermined reference brightness, wherein the operation screen (W) has one or more instruction images (T1, T2, T3) arranged thereon and each depressable to input a specific operator instruction; a depression detection section (12) operable to detect a depression of each of the instruction images (T1, T2, T3); and a brightness adjustment section (14) operable, when a depression of one (T1) of the instruction images is detected by the depression detection section (12), to change brightness of the operation screen (W) from the reference brightness by a change amount preliminarily associated with the one instruction image (T1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9711383
    Abstract: In aspects of the invention, a holding stage of a pick up system can include a first stage on which a semiconductor chip is mounted with an adhesive sheet put in between, a second stage supporting the first stage, and an evacuation pipe. The first stage can be provided with a plurality of grooves, projections each being formed with side walls of adjacent grooves, and air holes connected to the grooves. The semiconductor chip can be mounted on the first stage so that the whole end portion of the semiconductor chip does not position on one groove. Then, a closed space surrounded by the adhesive sheet and the first and second stages and can be evacuated to make the semiconductor chip held on the projections. Thereafter, the semiconductor chip can be picked up by a collet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9329687
    Abstract: A touch panel device includes a touch panel, a first displacement section, and a second displacement section. The first displacement section is in contact with a reserve surface of the touch panel and displaces the touch panel in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the touch panel based on a first drive signal. The second displacement section is in contact with the reverse surface of the touch panel at a location close to a location where the first displacement section is in contact with the reverse surface of the touch panel and displaces the touch panel in the direction perpendicular to a plane of the touch panel based on a second drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9329550
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operation panel including a display section that displays buttons, a touch panel section, and piezoelectric elements. The image forming apparatus also includes a vibration control section and a determination section. The vibration control section outputs a drive signal to the piezoelectric elements that causes vibration of the piezoelectric elements and the touch panel section. The determination section determines for each maintenance target whether the maintenance target is an inspection target that preferably undergoes maintenance within a preset period of a current time. Upon operation of a button while no inspection target is present, the vibration control section causes the touch panel and the piezoelectric elements to vibrate under a normal vibration condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoko Tanaka