Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Tanaka

Yoshinori 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).

  • Cleaning element and cleaning tool
    Patent number: 9526393
    Abstract: A cleaning element includes a fiber assembly having a plurality of fibers extending in a predetermined direction and a nonwoven fabric provided on the fiber assembly. A first fusion bonded part extends in a cross direction traversing the predetermined direction to fusion-bond the fiber assembly and the nonwoven fabric, and a plurality of second fusion bonded parts is provided discontinuously in the cross direction to fusion-bond the fiber assembly and the nonwoven fabric. Each of the second fusion bonded parts has a first area and a second area. A length in the predetermined direction from the first fusion bonded part to the first area is different from a length in the predetermined direction from the first fusion bonded part to the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akemi Tsuchiya, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • ENGINE
    Publication number: 20160363017
    Abstract: There is provided an engine capable of reducing oil consumption. The engine includes a cylinder head, a cylinder head cover mounted above the cylinder head, a rocker arm covered by the cylinder head cover, and a breather chamber provided inside the cylinder head cover. As a front-rear direction is defined by a longitudinal direction of the cylinder head cover, the breather chamber has a blow-by gas inlet at one side in the front-rear direction, a blow-by gas outlet at another side in the front-rear direction, and an oil discharging guide chamber at an intermediate part in the front-rear direction. The blow-by gas inlet is opened on a bottom wall of the breather chamber, and a peripheral wall of the oil discharging guide chamber is protruded downwardly from the bottom wall of the breather chamber toward between the rocker arm provided at a side of the blow-by gas outlet and the blow-by gas inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Kentaro NAGAI, Takahiro YAMAZAKI, Takahito HAMASAKI, Hideyuki GOTO, Hiroki OSO, Hideyuki KOYAMA, Akira TANAKA, Yoshinori TANAKA
  • Communication duration configuring method, relay station, base station, and mobile communication system
    Patent number: 9516515
    Abstract: A communication duration configuring method is used in a mobile communication system with a relay station for relaying wireless communications between a base station and a mobile station. The method includes: configuring at least one of a downlink communication duration in which the relay station receives a transmission signal from the base station while limiting a transmission of a signal from the relay station to the mobile station, and an uplink communication duration in which the relay station transmits the transmission signal to the base station while limiting a transmission of a signal from the mobile station to the relay station; measuring a self-interference amount in the relay station; and controlling a configuration of the communication duration according to the self-interference amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta, Yoshihiro Kawasaki, Katsumasa Sugiyama, Yoshiharu Tajima, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • SEAL STRUCTURE AND ROTATING MACHINE
    Publication number: 20160341058
    Abstract: A seal structure (2) for sealing a gap between a first structure body (10) and a second structure body (51). The seal structure includes: a peripheral surface formed on one of the first structure body and the second structure body; a plurality of seal fins (5) provided at intervals in the axial direction so as to form clearances (m) together with the peripheral surface and protrusions that form re-adhesion edges between pairs of axially adjacent seal fins; the re-adhesion edges being locations at which leak currents (SL) re-adhere that have passed through a clearance (mA) of an upstream seal fin; and the protrusions forming first cavities in which eddies (B1) are created that flow along the upstream seal fin toward the second structure body, and second cavities in which currents (B2) are created that cause a contraction current effect on a clearance (mB) of a downstream seal fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Toyoharu NISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Hiroharu OYAMA, Yoshinori TANAKA, Shin NISHIMOTO, Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO, Hidekazu UEHARA
  • Base station, communication system, and communication method
    Patent number: 9504094
    Abstract: A base station includes plural communication units that each includes a first processing unit that executes physical layer and data link layer processes of radio communication between the base station and a mobile station, and a second processing unit that executes network layer processes of the radio communication; and a third processing unit that is of a network layer and controls a series of radio communication sessions between the base station and the mobile station, based on carrier aggregation using the first processing unit of each of the communication units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Tajima, Yoshinori Tanaka, Yoshihiro Kawasaki, Yoshiaki Ohta, Katsumasa Sugiyama
  • Photoelectric composite connector
    Patent number: 9500812
    Abstract: A photoelectric composite connector includes a first fitting member including a first holding member holding at least one first optical fiber, and at least one first electric connecting portion, and a second fitting member including a second holding member holding at least one second optical fiber, and at least one second electric connecting portion. The first and second fitting members are constituted as to fit into and onto each other so that the first and second optical fibers are optically connected and the first and second electric connecting portions are electrically connected. The first and second fitting members includes a protecting section to prevent foreign materials generated during fitting of the first and second fitting members from entering into at least the first and second holding members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tanaka, Satoshi Ohara
  • SEALING STRUCTURE AND ROTARY MACHINE
    Publication number: 20160333714
    Abstract: A sealing structure that seals a clearance between an outer peripheral surface of a rotor and an inner peripheral surface of a stator. The sealing structure includes: a plurality of step portions that are provided on a first surface which is one of the outer peripheral surface of the rotor and the inner peripheral surface of the stator so as to be arranged in the axial direction, and that protrude from the first surface toward a second surface which is the other of the outer peripheral surface of the rotor and the inner peripheral surface of the stator; and a seal fin that is provided on the second surface, and that forms a small clearance between a corresponding peripheral surface of the step portions. A portion in the vicinity of a tip of the seal fin in the radial direction is inclined toward the upstream side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Hiroharu OYAMA, Yoshinori TANAKA
  • DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20160306297
    Abstract: Provided is a developing device including a container that accommodates a developer, a developer holding member that develops the electrostatic latent image on the image holding member by delivering the developer to a position facing the image holding member, while rotating, a first transport member that extends in a direction of a rotary shaft of the developer holding member, and that transports the developer inside the container in a first direction, and a pushing-back member that pushes back the developer transported in the first direction by the first transport member in a direction opposite to the first direction, and that allows an amount of the developer beyond pushing-back capacity within the developer transported in the first direction, to exit from the container, wherein the container includes a control wall that controls passage of the developer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Tomio ONUKI, Masanori KATO, Yoshinori TANAKA
  • Mobile station, base station, and communication method
    Patent number: 9467904
    Abstract: A mobile station includes a notifying unit configured to transmit a notification signal to a base station forming a serving cell, when a certain condition used to determine whether or not to perform a handover is satisfied, and a handover processing unit configured to start a handover process according to presence or absence of first communication data after transmission of the notification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Tajima, Yoshinori Tanaka, Yoshiaki Ohta, Katsumasa Sugiyama
  • MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR
    Publication number: 20160293331
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes an element body of roughly rectangular solid shape which is constituted by dielectric layers alternately stacked with internal electrode layers having different polarities, with a pair of cover layers formed on it to cover the top and bottom faces in the direction of lamination of the foregoing, and which has a pair of principal faces, a pair of end faces, and a pair of side faces, wherein external electrodes are formed on the pair of end faces and at least one of the pair of principal faces of the element body, and Tt representing the thickness of the external electrode and Tc representing the thickness of the cover layer satisfy the relationship of Tt?Tc. The multilayer ceramic capacitor has large capacitance and also exhibits excellent thermal shock resistance while sufficiently suppressing generation of cracks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Shohei KITAMURA, Yukihiro KONISHI, Kotaro MIZUNO, Yoichi KATO, Yusuke KOWASE, Toru MAKINO, Yoshinori TANAKA
  • MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR
    Publication number: 20160293332
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes an element body which is constituted by dielectric layers stacked alternately with internal electrode layers having different polarities and whose shape is roughly a rectangular solid having a pair of principle faces, a pair of end faces, and a pair of side faces, wherein the multilayer ceramic capacitor is such that the pair of side faces of the element body has a pair of side margins whose thickness is 30 ?m or less, and external electrodes are formed on the pair of end faces, and at least one of the pair of principle faces, of the element body. Despite the multilayer ceramic capacitor whose side margins are as thin as 30 ?m or less, leak current can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Yoichi KATO, Kotaro MIZUNO, Yukihiro KONISHI, Yoshinori TANAKA, Yusuke KOWASE, Shohei KITAMURA, Toru MAKINO
  • Mobile station, base station, wireless communication system, and wireless communication method
    Patent number: 9462546
    Abstract: A mobile station that performs wireless communication by using a plurality of wireless carriers, the mobile station includes a transmission managing unit that detects a transmission timing of communication data of a predetermined wireless carrier, and a state managing unit that makes the predetermined wireless carrier an activated state when the transmission managing unit detects the transmission timing of the communication data, and makes the predetermined wireless carrier a deactivated state after the communication data is transmitted and received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta, Yoshinori Tanaka, Yoshiharu Tajima, Yoshihiro Kawasaki
  • Developing device and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 9459558
    Abstract: Provided is a developing device including a container that accommodates a developer, a developer holding member that develops the electrostatic latent image on the image holding member by delivering the developer to a position facing the image holding member, while rotating, a first transport member that extends in a direction of a rotary shaft of the developer holding member, and that transports the developer inside the container in a first direction, and a pushing-back member that pushes back the developer transported in the first direction by the first transport member in a direction opposite to the first direction, and that allows an amount of the developer beyond pushing-back capacity within the developer transported in the first direction, to exit from the container, wherein the container includes a control wall that controls passage of the developer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomio Onuki, Masanori Kato, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR
    Publication number: 20160284471
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes an element body of roughly rectangular solid shape which is constituted by dielectric layers alternately stacked with internal electrode layers having different polarities and which has a pair of principle faces, a pair of end faces, and a pair of side faces, wherein the multilayer ceramic capacitor is such that: external electrodes are formed on the pair of end faces and one principle face of the element body; and on a cross section taken in parallel with one end face of the multilayer ceramic capacitor near the end face, the ratio of area A constituted by the internal electrode layers connected to the external electrode on this end face side and the dielectric layers present between the internal electrode layers, and area B covering the part of the section excluding the external electrodes, A/B, is 0.75 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Kotaro MIZUNO, Yukihiro KONISHI, Shohei KITAMURA, Yoichi KATO, Yusuke KOWASE, Toru MAKINO, Yoshinori TANAKA
  • Wireless terminal and base station
    Patent number: 9451610
    Abstract: A communicating unit of a base station performs a plurality of periodic communication services with a wireless terminal. A communication control unit of the base station includes, in a control channel, identification information for distinguishing the periodic communication services one from the other to thereby allow the wireless terminal to control at least one of activation and release of each of the periodic communication services. A communicating unit of the wireless terminal performs the plurality of periodic communication services with the base station. A communication control unit of the wireless terminal controls at least one of the activation and the release of each of the periodic communication services using the identification information included in the control channel transmitted from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta, Yoshihiro Kawasaki, Yoshiharu Tajima, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SURFACE-EMITTING LASER
    Publication number: 20160261093
    Abstract: A two-dimensional photonic crystal surface emitting laser has a laminated structure including: a two-dimensional photonic crystal (2DPC) layer in which refractive index distribution is formed by two-dimensionally arranging air holes in a plate-shaped base member; and an active layer for generating light with wavelength ?L by receiving an injection of electric current. The two-dimensional photonic crystal surface emitting laser emits a laser beam in the direction of an inclination angle ? from normal to the 2DPC layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Susumu Noda, Tsuyoshi Okino, Kyoko Kitamura, Yoshinori Tanaka, Yong Liang
  • Subchamber type combustion chamber for diesel engine
    Patent number: 9429066
    Abstract: A subchamber type combustion chamber for a diesel engine, which reduces fuel consumption rate and combustion noise. To achieve the object, a subchamber type combustion chamber is communicated with a main combustion chamber through a nozzle hole, a fuel injection nozzle faces into the subchamber, and a glow plug extends into the subchamber. A heat generating portion of the glow plug includes a rod-shaped portion and a projecting portion projecting from an end of the rod-shaped portion. The projecting portion is provided with a convex curved surface projecting from a circular peripheral edge at the end of the rod-shaped portion while the convex curved surface is reduced in diameter. The percentage of value P/D obtained by dividing projection dimension P of the projecting portion from the end of the rod-shaped portion by diameter dimension D at the end of the rod-shaped portion is 3% to 23%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Kuwayama, Takahiro Yamazaki, Yutaka Ishigaki, Hideyuki Koyama, Manabu Miyazaki, Katsunori Ikemachi, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Steam turbine
    Patent number: 9429022
    Abstract: A turbine includes an annular turbine blade body disposed on a flow path, a diaphragm outer ring installed at a tip side of the annular turbine blade body via a clearance, and seal fins formed to protrude from the diaphragm outer ring and configured to form small clearances with the annular turbine blade body, wherein dead water region-filling sections are formed in cavities in which main vortexes are generated, such that a dead water region that the main vortexes cannot reach is filled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Yukinori Machida, Asaharu Matsuo
  • TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SURFACE-EMITTING LASER
    Publication number: 20160248224
    Abstract: A two-dimensional photonic crystal surface emitting laser has a laminated structure including: a two-dimensional photonic crystal (2DPC) layer in which refractive index distribution is formed by two-dimensionally arranging air holes in a plate-shaped base member; and an active layer for generating light with wavelength ?L by receiving an injection of electric current. The two-dimensional photonic crystal surface emitting laser emits a laser beam in the direction of an inclination angle ? from normal to the 2DPC layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Susumu NODA, Tsuyoshi OKINO, Kyoko KITAMURA, Yoshinori TANAKA, Yong LIANG, Daiki YASUDA
  • VEHICLE PANEL STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF VEHICLE PANEL STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20160229464
    Abstract: The present invention includes a metal outer panel configuring an outer panel of a vehicle, a metal reinforcing member that is disposed at an end portion of the outer panel and that is joined to the outer panel further toward an inner side of the vehicle than the outer panel, and a resin inner panel that is disposed further toward an inner side of the vehicle than the reinforcing member and that is joined to the reinforcing member, wherein a closed cross-section is formed between the inner panel and the reinforcing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshinori TANAKA, Yoshitsugu MUKAIYAMA