Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Tanabe
Yoshinori Tanabe 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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Patent number: 7937959Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control system, an integrated control apparatus, and a control program that are capable of well maintaining freshness and quality of food articles, by reducing time for performing a recovery operation following a frost removing operation of cooling devices. In response to a start of the frost removing operation of a first showcase, an integrated control apparatus provides a second device controller (device control unit) with a “lower limit cooling instruction (increase instruction)” to increase the refrigerant supplied to a second showcase to an amount larger than that before the frost removing operation starts. In response to the “lower limit cooling instruction (increase instruction),” the second device controller (device control unit) increases the amount of the refrigerant supplied to the second showcase.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2009Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Tanabe, Atsushi Ouchi, Yoshio Ozawa
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Publication number: 20090308089Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control system, an integrated control apparatus, and a control program that are capable of well maintaining freshness and quality of food articles, by reducing time for performing a recovery operation following a frost removing operation of cooling devices. In response to a start of the frost removing operation of a first showcase, an integrated control apparatus provides a second device controller (device control unit) with a “lower limit cooling instruction (increase instruction)” to increase the refrigerant supplied to a second showcase to an amount larger than that before the frost removing operation starts. In response to the “lower limit cooling instruction (increase instruction),” the second device controller (device control unit) increases the amount of the refrigerant supplied to the second showcase.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2009Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Tanabe, Atsushi Ouchi, Yoshio Ozawa
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Patent number: 7430905Abstract: An acceleration sensor measures accelerations of the subject which act in directions of axes x, y, and z orthogonal to each other when the subject walks. A leg strength calculation unit calculates leg strength of the subject based on values of the accelerations measured by the acceleration sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2006Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Non-Profit Organization Jukunen Taiiku Daigaku Research CenterInventors: Hiroshi Nose, Hirokazu Genno, Yoshinori Tanabe
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Patent number: 7194524Abstract: An information processing system that can create a page easily by the use of contents disclosed from information disclosing servers. A contents storing section stores contents to be provided. In this information processing system, an additional information storing section stores additional information consisting of information indicating the respective attributes of contents stored in the contents storing section and relations among the contents. An additional information obtaining section obtains additional information from an information disclosing server. An additional information storage section stores additional information obtained. An editing section edits additional information stored in the additional information storage section according to an administrator's intention or a user's taste. A display data creating section creates display data for displaying a page from additional information stored in the additional information storage section at the request of a client.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2001Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hiroyuki Suzuki, Koji Wakio, Masaharu Koyabu, Tsuneichi Yoshizawa, Yoshinori Tanabe, Masashi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20060191335Abstract: An acceleration sensor measures accelerations of the subject which act in directions of axes x, y, and z orthogonal to each other when the subject walks. A leg strength calculation unit calculates leg strength of the subject based on values of the accelerations measured by the acceleration sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2006Publication date: August 31, 2006Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., JUKUNEN TAIIKU DAIGAKU RESEARCH CENTERInventors: Hiroshi Nose, Hirokazu Genno, Yoshinori Tanabe
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Patent number: 6981943Abstract: Disclosed is a respiration leading system which can leads a living body to respire so that relaxation is effectively induced without any physiological load even if a respiration exercise feedback is not employed. This system comprises a control unit and a sense-stimulating unit. The control unit makes the sense-stimulating unit change the output energy for stimulating a sense of the living body so that the living body is induced to inhale and exhale as a physiological reaction. The energy change is done within the range of a respiration period x(sec) and a parameter y defined as 2 sec<x<12 sec and 0.85<y<1.45 (a region x?4 sec and y?1.3 is excluded). The parameter y is a ratio of exhaling time to inhaling time. The energy output in the first half period corresponding to either inhaling or exhaling and the energy output in the latter half corresponding to the other, induce the living body to respire.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2002Date of Patent: January 3, 2006Assignees: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Noguchi, Manabu Inoue, Wataru Iwai, Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Katsushige Amano, Tadashi Yano, Yoshinori Tanabe
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Patent number: 6868173Abstract: The truth of a paper type to be examined is judged by measuring, with respect to each of true paper types previously prepared, a plurality of types of characteristic amounts by a plurality of types of sensors for each of a plurality of portions for examination previously determined, analyzing principal components on the basis of obtained results of the measurement, to find an equation of straight line corresponding to the predetermined principal component, and producing reference data composed of a value relating to the predetermined principal component for the portion for examination on the basis of the foundation of straight line.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2000Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidetaka Sakai, Yoshinori Tanabe
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Publication number: 20040242973Abstract: A medical question presenting module regularly presents a medical question on a user terminal. An advice selection module selects any of a plurality of advice algorithms recorded in an algorithm database based on physiological amount data, an answer to the medical question, and a personal set value, and presents on the user terminal the selected advice algorithm as an automatic advice, while requesting a doctor terminal for a judgment when the automatic advice cannot be presented. The doctor terminal presents an individual advice on the user terminal via a personal board in an individual advice module. An advice construction module extracts a Q&A history from a Q&A history database, to generate an advice algorithm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTDInventors: Yoshinori Tanabe, Hirokazu Genno
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Patent number: 6720743Abstract: In a lighting system capable of varying luminance of the light emitting surface periodically used for adjusting rhythm of breathing of an observer when he wishes to fall asleep, a light source is controlled in a manner so that variation of the luminance “L” per a unit time in the vicinity at a time tMAX when the luminance “L” takes the largest value in one period becomes larger than the variation of the luminance “L” per the unit time in the vicinity at a time tMIN when the luminance “L” takes the smallest value.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Yano, Katsushige Amano, Yoshinori Tanabe, Hiroki Noguchi, Manabu Inoue, Wataru Iwai
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Publication number: 20030175666Abstract: A nutritional guidance system has a terminal 40 for a patient for transmitting menu information to a server 10, a terminal 30 for a dietitian for accessing the menu information managed by the server 10 and for transmitting, to the server 10, nutritional intake information based on the menu information and nutritional guidance information based on the nutritional intake information, and a terminal 20 for a doctor for transmitting, to the server 10, an access permission to the nutritional guidance information for the terminal 40 for a patient. The server 10 limits access to the nutritional guidance information, which is managed by the server 10, by the terminal 40 for a patient, based on the existence of an access permission from the terminal 20 for a doctor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2003Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Tanabe, Hirokazu Genno
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Publication number: 20030171643Abstract: Disclosed is a respiration leading system which can leads a living body to respire so that relaxation is effectively induced without any physiological load even if a respiration exercise feedback is not employed. This system comprises a control unit and a sense-stimulating unit. The control unit makes the sense-stimulating unit change the output energy for stimulating a sense of the living body so that the living body is induced to inhale and exhale as a physiological reaction. The energy change is done within the range of a respiration period x(sec) and a parameter y defined as 2 sec<x<12 sec and 0.85<y<1.45 (a region x≦4 sec and y≧1.3 is excluded). The parameter y is a ratio of exhaling time to inhaling time. The energy output in the first half period corresponding to either inhaling or exhaling and the energy output in the latter half corresponding to the other, induce the living body to respire.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2002Publication date: September 11, 2003Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Noguchi, Manabu Inoue, Wataru Iwai, Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Katsushige Amano, Tadashi Yano, Yoshinori Tanabe
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Patent number: 6570342Abstract: A fluorescent lamp includes: an emission tube for generating a luminous flux; a first filament provided at one end of the emission tube; a second filament provided at another end of the emission tube; first current regulator having a first impedance; a first electrode pin coupled to one end of the first filament via the first current regulator; a first switch coupled in parallel to the first current regulator; a second switch; a second electrode pin coupled to another end of the first filament via the second switch; and a control circuit for controlling the first switch and the second switch so as to be opened or closed. The control circuit doses the first switch and the second switch before the fluorescent lamp is lit and during a nominal lighting period after the fluorescent lamp is lit, and opens the first switch and the second switch during a power conservation lighting period following the nominal lighting period.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Okubo, Yoshinori Tanabe, Masanori Shimizu, Takeshi Arakawa, Yoko Shimomura
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Publication number: 20030074224Abstract: A pet terminal feeds to a server vital data acquired in a vital data acquisition device and the results of doctor's questions obtained by speech synthesis and speech recognition. The server manages the vital data and the results of doctor's questions for each user. A doctor Y makes connection from a doctor terminal placed in an examination room of a hospital to the server, reads, when a user attends the hospital, the vital data or the like related to the user, and uses the vital data for medical care. Further, the pet terminal automatically makes Net connection when a Net connection request is recognized by speech, and provides data acquired on a Net to the user by speech.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2002Publication date: April 17, 2003Inventors: Yoshinori Tanabe, Hirokazu Genno, Masakazu Asano, Fumiiki Yoneda, Kunihiko Hori
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Publication number: 20030062856Abstract: In a lighting system capable of varying luminance of the light emitting surface periodically used for adjusting rhythm of breathing of an observer when he wishes to fall asleep, a light source is controlled in a manner so that variation of the luminance “L” per a unit time in the vicinity at a time tMAX when the luminance “L” takes the largest value in one period becomes larger than the variation of the luminance “L” per the unit time in the vicinity at a time tMIN when the luminance “L” takes the smallest value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Yano, Katsushige Amano, Yoshinori Tanabe, Hiroki Noguchi, Manabu Inoue, Wataru Iwai
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Patent number: 6504305Abstract: A fluorescent lamp is capable of easily achieving a reduction of power consumption only be being mounted on a conventional lighting apparatus, whether or not the lighting apparatus has a dimming function. The fluorescent lamp includes an arc tube; and a current suppressing section for suppressing a lamp current which flows in the arc tube, after the elapse of a predetermined time after the power is turned on, and during an operation of the fluorescent lamp.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2000Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Ohkubo, Yoshinori Tanabe, Masanori Shimizu, Takeshi Arakawa
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Patent number: 6445118Abstract: A fluorescent lamp of the present invention includes: a first electrode section having a first filament; a second electrode section having a second filament; a fluorescent tube in which a fluorescent substance Is applied on an inner wall of the fluorescent tube; a first structure of a nonconductor provided in the fluorescent tube: and a second structure of a conductor provided in the fluorescent tube. The first structure and the second structure are provided between the first filament and the second filament.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Shimizu, Kazuaki Ohkubo, Takeshi Arakawa, Yoshinori Tanabe, Kenjiro Hashimoto, Yoko Shimomura
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Publication number: 20020072922Abstract: An information processing system that can create a page easily by the use of contents disclosed from information disclosing servers. A contents storing section stores contents to be provided. In this information processing system, an additional information storing section stores additional information consisting of information indicating the respective attributes of contents stored in the contents storing section and relations among the contents. An additional information obtaining section obtains additional information from an information disclosing server. An additional information storage section stores additional information obtained. An editing section edits additional information stored in the additional information storage section according to an administrator's intention or a user's taste. A display data creating section creates display data for displaying a page from additional information stored in the additional information storage section at the request of a client.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2001Publication date: June 13, 2002Inventors: Hiroyuki Suzuki, Koji Wakio, Masaharu Koyabu, Tsuneichi Yoshizawa, Yoshinori Tanabe, Masashi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20020067137Abstract: A fluorescent lamp includes: an emission tube for generating a luminous flux; a first filament provided at one end of the emission tube; a second filament provided at another end of the emission tube; first current regulation means having a first impedance; a first electrode pin coupled to one end of the first filament via the first current regulation means; a first switch coupled in parallel to the first current regulation means; a second switch; a second electrode pin coupled to another end of the first filament via the second switch; and a control circuit for controlling the first switch and the second switch so as to be opened or closed. The control circuit closes the first switch and the second switch before the fluorescent lamp is lit and during a nominal lighting period after the fluorescent lamp is lit, and opens the first switch and the second switch during a power conservation lighting period following the nominal lighting period.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2001Publication date: June 6, 2002Inventors: Kazuaki Okubo, Yoshinori Tanabe, Masanori Shimizu, Takeshi Arakawa, Yoko Shimomura
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Publication number: 20020053868Abstract: A two-wavelength band light emitting type fluorescent lamp the main light emission of which is obtained by fluorescent substances in which the ranges of the wavelength peak of light emission are located from 470 to 540 nm and from 600 to 650 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 1999Publication date: May 9, 2002Inventors: MASANORI SHIMIZU, YOKO SHIMOMURA, YOSHINORI TANABE
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Publication number: 20020035580Abstract: Even if an extended HTML document incorporating an extended tag is converted by an HTML editor into a document contrary to the original intent of the operator, an HTML document generation device 3 performs preprocessing on the converted document and restores the document to a state which reflects the intent of the operator. Moreover, the generation device 3 generates a normal HTML document containing no extended tags by searching a database 22 in accordance with the specifications of any extended tags included in the HTML document.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Inventor: Yoshinori Tanabe