Patents by Inventor Yoshito Tanaka
Yoshito 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).
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Patent number: 8870301Abstract: A hydraulic brake system includes: a hydraulic pressure source provided for a vehicle, and including a hydraulic-pressure generating device and a reservoir; a plurality of hydraulic brakes provided for respective wheels of the vehicle, and configured to restrain rotations of the respective wheels; and a control valve device including at least one hydraulic-pressure control valve group disposed between the hydraulic-pressure generating device and at least one of brake cylinders of the hydraulic brakes and/or between the reservoir and the at least one of the brake cylinders. Each of the at least one hydraulic-pressure control valve group includes (a) at least one ON/OFF control valve and (b) at least one linear control valve that are disposed in parallel with each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayasu Ohkubo, Yoshito Tanaka, Hiroshi Nakaoka, Takayuki Yamamoto, Tetsuya Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20140205548Abstract: The present invention relates to a direct hit type aerosol for controlling an insect pest exhibiting an excellent controlling effect on an insect pest, more specifically an aerosol for controlling an insect pest, comprising at least one pyrethroid compound, at least one organic solvent and at least one propellant, wherein the aerosol characteristic value calculated from the following formula is 0.5-25, Formula): Aerosol characteristic value=Spray arrival distance (cm)×Spraying amount (g) per second/Weight concentration (%) of Pyrethroid compound; and the pyrethroid compound is preferably represented by the formula (I): and more preferably at least one compound selected from the group consisting of imiprothrin, tetramethrin, prallethrin, transfluthrin, metofluthrin, dimefluthrin, 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-4-methylbenzyl 2,2-dimethyl-3-(1-propenyl)cyclopropanecarboxylate and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masahiro YAMADA, Yoshito TANAKA
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Publication number: 20140197728Abstract: A plasma display panel includes an effective display region and a non-display region disposed outside the effective display region. A front plate includes sustain electrodes and scan electrodes, over a region corresponding to the effective display region and a region corresponding to the non-display region. Each of the plurality of the sustain electrodes includes a first part, a second part disposed away from the first part, and a third part for electrically coupling the first part with the second part. Moreover, the each of the plurality of the sustain electrodes is such that each of the first part and the second part includes a detached part in the region corresponding to the non-display region. The detached parts included in one of the sustain electrodes are disposed at different positions from each other in an extension direction of the sustain electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kazuya Nomoto, Yoshito Tanaka, Yuki Kishi, Shiro Ninomiya, Toru Nakajima, Hidetoshi Hata, Kenji Kiriyama, Kentaro Ueda
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Patent number: 8754140Abstract: A material for solid polyelectrolytes which comprises a polymer comprising two or more fluoropolymer segments differing in monomer composition, wherein at least one of the fluoropolymer segments has sulfonic acid type functional groups.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2008Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Araki, Noritoshi Oka, Yoshito Tanaka, Takayuki Nakamura, Tetsuo Shimizu
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Patent number: 8741033Abstract: An air pollution control apparatus 1 includes: an absorber 2 that serves as a passage for flue gas; an absorbent spraying unit 5 that sprays an absorbent into the absorber 2; and a reservoir tank 3 that reserves therein the absorbent. The air pollution control apparatus 1 brings the flue gas into gas-liquid contact with the absorbent to process the flue gas, while sending the flue gas in the absorber 2. The air pollution control apparatus 1 also collects and reserves therein the absorbent after processing the flue gas in the reservoir tank 3. The air pollution control apparatus 1 also includes a defoaming agent diffusing unit 6 that diffuses a defoaming agent over foams of the absorbent in the reservoir tank 3.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Kagawa, Yoshito Tanaka, Jun Hashimoto, Hiroshi Kawane
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Patent number: 8733849Abstract: In a brake control device and a brake control method, when a shift to a brake mode for backup involving separation of a supply path of working fluid is performed at the time of detection of an abnormality during braking, a differential pressure acting between an outlet opening and an inlet opening of an open-close valve which is provided between a hydraulic pressure source that is used during the backup brake mode and wheel cylinders and which needs to be opened during the backup brake mode is lessened prior to the separation of the supply path of working fluid so that the open-close valve is opened in accordance with a valve-opening command. Therefore, at the time of switch of the control mode, the confinement of wheel cylinder pressure is avoided.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2007Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshito Tanaka, Hiroshi Nakaoka, Yasuji Mizutani, Eiji Nakamura
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Publication number: 20140138304Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a porous polymer membrane that is excellent not only in water permeability and alkali resistance but also in mechanical strength. The porous polymer membrane of the present invention includes a fluoropolymer (A) that includes a vinylidene fluoride unit and a tetrafluoroethylene unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuko Shiotani, Yoshito Tanaka, Jun Miki
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Publication number: 20140142209Abstract: A fluoropolymer including a vinylidene fluoride unit, a tetrafluoroethylene unit, and a unit represented by the following formula (1): —CHX1—CX2(OR)- ??(1) wherein one of X1 and X2 is a hydrogen atom, and the other is a fluorine atom; and R is a hydrogen atom or a C1-C8 alkyl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuko Shiotani, Yoshito Tanaka, Jun Miki
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Publication number: 20140018492Abstract: Provided is a paint composition which can give a coating having excellent stretchability and further having excellent contamination resistance. A solvent-based paint composition comprises a fluorocopolymer (I), and an organic solvent (II), the fluorocopolymer (I) including: a perhaloolefin structural unit (a) that contains two carbon atoms, a vinyl acetate structural unit (b), a hydroxyl group-containing vinyl monomer structural unit (c) represented by the following formula (1): CH2?CH—O—(CH2)n—OH wherein n is an integer of 2 or more, and a carboxyl group-containing monomer structural unit (d) represented by the following formula (2): R1R2C?CR3—(CH2)m—COOH wherein R1, R2, and R3 are the same as or different from one another, and each a hydrogen atom or a C1-C10 linear or branched alkyl group; and m is an integer of 2 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuji Imahori, Hirotoshi Yoshida, Mayumi Iida, Kengo Ito, Yoshito Tanaka, Katsuhiko Imoto, Takuma Kawabe, Akiko Ohya
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Publication number: 20130345266Abstract: The present invention provides a pest control composition containing a combination of (E)-1-(2-chloro-1,3-thiazol-5-ylmethyl)-3-methyl-2-nitroguanidine(clothianidin) and an ester compound represented by formula (I).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2012Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventor: Yoshito Tanaka
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Publication number: 20130207451Abstract: A hydraulic brake system includes: a hydraulic pressure source provided for a vehicle, and including a hydraulic-pressure generating device and a reservoir; a plurality of hydraulic brakes provided for respective wheels of the vehicle, and configured to restrain rotations of the respective wheels; and a control valve device including at least one hydraulic-pressure control valve group disposed between the hydraulic-pressure generating device and at least one of brake cylinders of the hydraulic brakes and/or between the reservoir and the at least one of the brake cylinders. Each of the at least one hydraulic-pressure control valve group includes (a) at least one ON/OFF control valve and (b) at least one linear control valve that are disposed in parallel with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2010Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayasu Ohkubo, Yoshito Tanaka, Hiroshi Nakaoka, Takayuki Yamamoto, Tetsuya Miyazaki
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Patent number: 8506022Abstract: A brake apparatus includes multiple wheel cylinders; multiple maintaining valves; a pressure-regulating control valve; and a control unit that controls the upstream pressure by switching a pressure-control mode between a pressure-regulating mode which is selected when a deviation of the upstream pressure from a target pressure is outside a setting range and in which the upstream pressure is brought to the target pressure using the pressure-regulating control valve and a pressure-maintaining mode that is selected when the deviation is within the setting range. The control unit opens the pressure-regulating control valve before the pressure-control mode is switched from the pressure-maintaining mode to the pressure-regulating mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2008Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Nakaoka, Yoshito Tanaka
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Publication number: 20130172409Abstract: Disclosed is a composition containing an ester compound represented by formula (1), which composition is electrostatically sprayed to pests or to a place where the pests inhabit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Akiko Harada, Yoshito Tanaka, Timothy C. Hadingham
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Publication number: 20120326604Abstract: A plasma display panel has a sealed part where peripheral portions of a front plate and a rear plate are sealed to each other with a sealing member. The sealed part includes bead which regulates any gap formed between the peripheral portions of the front plate and the rear plate. A dielectric layer is formed as far as location of the bead but an insulator layer is formed short of the location of the bead in the sealed part on the side of a direction where display electrodes extend. The insulator layer is formed as far as the location of the bead but the dielectric layer is formed short of the location of the bead in the sealed part on the side of a direction where data electrodes extend. The bead has a diameter larger than a thickness of the dielectric layer and a height of barrier ribs summed with each other and at most twice as large as the thickness of the dielectric layer and the height of the barrier ribs summed with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenji Kiriyama, Masayuki Kimura, Yoshito Tanaka, Koichi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20120235469Abstract: A hydraulic brake system including: (a) a first hydraulic-pressure generating device including a manual hydraulic pressure source; (b) a second hydraulic-pressure generating device including a power hydraulic pressure source; (c) a manual-operation-associated brake line including a communicating device that is to be brought into communication with the manual hydraulic pressure source and brake cylinder or cylinders of the plurality of hydraulic brakes; (d) an output hydraulic-pressure control device and a flow restraining device disposed in parallel with each other between the manual-operation-associated brake line and the second hydraulic-pressure generating device; and (e) a power hydraulic pressure source control device for activating the power hydraulic pressure source such that the hydraulic pressure is supplied to the manual-operation-associated brake line via the flow restraining device, when the output hydraulic-pressure control device cannot control the hydraulic pressure outputted by the second hydrType: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2010Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Miyazaki, Takayuki Yamamoto, Yoshito Tanaka
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Publication number: 20120225917Abstract: The present invention provides a pest control composition having an excellent controlling effect on pests, which comprises a combination of an ester compound represented by the formula (1): and a cyclic compound represented by the formula (2a) and/or a cyclic compound represented by the formula (2b).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2010Publication date: September 6, 2012Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Yoshito Tanaka
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Patent number: 8224545Abstract: A brake control apparatus (20) includes: a hydraulic pressure source (30) that regulates pressure of hydraulic fluid in accordance with a brake operation input (24,25); a wheel cylinder (23) that applies braking force to a wheel (22) in response to a supply of the hydraulic fluid to the wheel cylinder (23); a hydraulic pressure booster mechanism (31) that amplifies the brake operation input by using the hydraulic pressure source (30), and outputs the amplified brake operation input; a hydraulic fluid supply path (63) through which the hydraulic fluid is supplied from the hydraulic pressure source (30) to the wheel cylinder (23); and a controller (70) that shuts off (valve 66) a flow of the hydraulic fluid-through the hydraulic fluid supply path (63), if a malfunction due to hydraulic fluid leakage is detected in the hydraulic fluid supply path (63) during a brake control mode in which the hydraulic fluid is supplied to the wheel cylinder (23) through the hydraulic fluid supply path (63).Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshito Tanaka, Hiroshi Nakaoka, Masaki Nanahara
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Patent number: 8173701Abstract: A pesticidal composition containing: 4-methoxymethyl-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorobenzyl 3-(2-cyano-1-propenyl)-2,2-dimethylcyclopropanecarboxylate, a saturated hydrocarbon having an initial boiling point of 150 C or higher and a 95%-distillation temperature of 300 C or lower, and at least one alkyl carboxylate ester selected from the group consisting of the following esters (i) to (iii): (i) alkyl alkylcarboxylate esters having 12 to 20 carbon atoms, (ii) dialkyl dicarboxylate esters having 12 to 20 carbon atoms, and (iii) trialkyl acetylcitrate esters having 12 to 20 carbon atoms; has an excellent pesticidal activity.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Masahiro Yamada, Yoshito Tanaka
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Patent number: 8173702Abstract: A pesticidal composition containing: 4-methoxymethyl-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorobenzyl 3-(2-cyano-1-propenyl)-2,2-dimethylcyclopropanecarboxylate, a saturated hydrocarbon having an initial boiling point of 150° C. or higher and a 95%-distillation temperature of 300° C. or lower, and at least one alkyl carboxylate ester selected from the group consisting of the following esters (i) to (iii): (i) alkyl alkylcarboxylate esters having 12 to 20 carbon atoms, (ii) dialkyl dicarboxylate esters having 12 to 20 carbon atoms, and (iii) trialkyl acetylcitrate esters having 12 to 20 carbon atoms; has an excellent pesticidal activity.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Masahiro Yamada, Yoshito Tanaka
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Patent number: 8148641Abstract: An anisotropic conductive material prevents conduction resistance from varying among bumps or among linear terminals when connecting an IC chip or a flexible wire to a wiring board via the anisotropic conductive material. The anisotropic conductive material is formed by dispersing conductive particles in an insulating binder. The minimum melt viscosity [?0] thereof is in a range of from 1×102 to 1×106 mPa·sec, and satisfies the following equation (1): 1<[?1]/[?0]?3??(1) where in the equation (1), [?0] represents the minimum melt viscosity of the anisotropic conductive material, and [?1] represents a melt viscosity at a temperature T1 which is 30° C. lower than a temperature T0 at which the minimum melt viscosity is exhibited.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Chemical & Information Device CorporationInventors: Yoshito Tanaka, Jun Yamamoto