Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Tanaka

Yoshiyuki 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).

  • LIQUID SUPPLY APPARATUS AND LIQUID CONTAINING BODY
    Publication number: 20150225227
    Abstract: A liquid supply apparatus has a liquid containing body and a accommodating section. The liquid containing body includes a liquid containing bag configured and arranged to contain a liquid and a liquid supply portion positioned at one end portion of the liquid containing bag. The accommodating section is connected with a liquid consuming apparatus and contains the liquid containing body so that the liquid containing body is able to be attached and detached. The liquid containing body has a gusset portion at a bottom portion of the liquid containing bag. The accommodating section includes an abutting portion configured and arranged to abut with the gusset portion of the liquid containing body which is contained in the accommodating section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Taku ISHIZAWA, Hiroyuki KAWATE, Tokujiro OKUNO, Yoshiyuki TANAKA
  • IMMUNOLOGICAL ANALYZING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150212102
    Abstract: An automatic analyzer comprises selection means for selecting whether a preparatory operation, specified from a plurality of analysis preparation processes of the automatic analyzer, should be executed in an initial process at the powering on of the analyzer or after the start of the actual analysis (i.e., in parallel with the sample analysis operation). For example, the automatic analyzer is equipped with means which allows the analyzer to execute a “system liquid replacement operation”, a “sample nozzle pressure sensor checking operation”, a “reaction vessel discarding operation” and a “pre-cleaning liquid replacement operation” which among various operations that are executed in the preparation process in conventional immunological analyzing apparatus in processes other than the preparation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Takaaki HAGIWARA, Yoshiyuki TANAKA, Kazunori YAMAZAWA
  • Recording apparatus
    Patent number: 9067419
    Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus including a recording head that can eject an ink onto a sheet, a transport unit that transports the sheet to the recording head, a housing that contains the recording head and the transport unit, a case that is arranged on an outer surface of the housing so that the bottom portion thereof is positioned higher than a bottom surface of the housing, and that serves as a holder which holds an ink container containing an ink, and a supply unit that supplies the ink from the ink container to the recording head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Takaichi Wada, Tetsuya Takamoto, Katsumi Okamoto, Yasuhiro Matsuo, Isao Momose, Yoshisada Aoki, Tomohiro Yasufuku
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20150134990
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processor configured to control a system of the information processing apparatus, a power source controller configured to perform control of power supply to the system and to turn off a power source of the power source controller in standby mode in which a power source of the processor is turned off, a memory configured to store information in standby mode, and a power supply unit configured to perform power supply to the memory in standby mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Takeshi Masuda, Toshimasa Tsuchida, Takahiro Imai, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Kiyotaka Akasaka, Kenichi Onishi, Norifumi Yoshida
  • Method for controlling non-volatile semiconductor memory system
    Patent number: 9009387
    Abstract: In a memory system using a storage medium, which is inserted into an electronic apparatus via a connector to add a memory function thereto, the storage medium has a GROUND terminal, a power supply terminal, a control terminal and a data input/output terminal, and the connector has a function of being sequentially connected to each of the terminals. When the storage medium is inserted into the connector, the GROUND terminal and control terminal of the storage medium are connected to corresponding terminals of the connector before the power supply terminal and data input/output terminal of the storage medium are connected to corresponding terminals of the connector. Thus, it is possible to improve the stability when a memory card is inserted into or ejected from the memory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Makoto Yatabe, Takeaki Sato, Kazuya Kawamoto
  • LIQUID SUPPLY APPARATUS, LIQUID CONTAINER
    Publication number: 20140360596
    Abstract: A liquid supply apparatus is configured to have detachably installed therein a liquid container 51 including an ink bag 82 that is flexible at least in part and a flow channel member 91 that is in communication with the ink bag 82, and to supply a liquid held in the ink bag 82 to a liquid jet apparatus. The liquid supply apparatus includes an ink inlet portion 143 configured to be connected to the flow channel member 91 and to introduce liquid from the flow channel member 91 in a state where the flow channel member 91 is connected, and a first supporting portion 151 configured to support at least the flow channel member 91 of the ink container 51. The first supporting portion 151 is moveable between at least a connected position and a disconnected position of the flow channel member 91 and the ink inlet portion 143.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Katsutomo Tsukahara, Hiroyuki Kawate, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Tokujiro Okuno
  • RECORDING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140362133
    Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus including a recording head that can eject an ink onto a sheet, a transport unit that transports the sheet to the recording head, a housing that contains the recording head and the transport unit, a case that is arranged on an outer surface of the housing so that the bottom portion thereof is positioned higher than a bottom surface of the housing, and that serves as a holder which holds an ink container containing an ink, and a supply unit that supplies the ink from the ink container to the recording head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki TANAKA, Takaichi WADA, Tetsuya TAKAMOTO, Katsumi OKAMOTO, Yasuhiro MATSUO, Isao MOMOSE, Yoshisada AOKI, Tomohiro YASUFUKU
  • LIQUID CONTAINER
    Publication number: 20140362148
    Abstract: A liquid container includes a liquid storage part with which one end portion is constituted of a plurality of film members, and a liquid supply part for supplying a liquid stored in the liquid storage part to a liquid consumption apparatus. The liquid supply part has a bonded part that is bonded to the film member at the one end portion of the liquid storage part, and a liquid supply tube part at which is formed a liquid supply port oriented in a direction intersecting with a bonding surface of the bonded part. The liquid supply tube part is provided so that at least one part of the liquid supply port overlaps with the bonded part as viewed in an axial direction of the liquid supply tube part from a side of the liquid supply port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku ISHIZAWA, Hiroyuki KAWATE, Katsutomo TSUKAHARA, Yoshiyuki TANAKA, Tokujiro OKUNO
  • Semiconductor memory system controlling writing of data to nonvolatile memories using consecutive logical addresses
    Patent number: 8904142
    Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a first nonvolatile memory to store user data of a file, a second nonvolatile memory to store management data of the file, the second nonvolatile memory being different in type from the first nonvolatile memory, and a controller to control read/write of data with respect to the first and second nonvolatile memories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Tanaka
  • Relay system, relay device and synchronization method
    Patent number: 8897200
    Abstract: When no synchronization signal is transmitted over a system bus (115), a master repeater is arbitrarily selected from a plurality of repeaters (1112 to 111n), starts transmitting a synchronization signal over the system bus (115), and transmits information to the system bus (115) in synchronization with the synchronization signal. Other slave repeaters transmit information to the system bus (115) in synchronization with the synchronization signal transmitted by the master repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventors: Shoji Fukuzawa, Yoshiyuki Tanaka
  • Wireless communication system, wireless communication method thereof, repeater devices and wireless terminal devices
    Patent number: 8867429
    Abstract: Plural repeaters (1111 to 111n) are connected one another via a system bus (115), and each of which detects the state of another repeater by checking a signal transmitted over the system bus (115). When stopping the operation of home repeater (e.g., the repeater (1111)) which performs relaying process among wireless terminal devices (TA) to (TH), a secondary repeater (e.g., the repeater (1112)) set beforehand detects that the home repeater breaks down as the secondary repeater becomes unable to detect the signal over the system bus (115). The secondary repeater responds to the detection and bears the relaying process instead of the home repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventors: Shoji Fukuzawa, Yoshiyuki Tanaka
  • Wireless communication system, wireless communication method, wireless communication terminal device, relay device, and relay system
    Patent number: 8824957
    Abstract: Wireless terminal devices (TA) to (TH) each detects whether channel information received from each of repeaters (1111) to (111n) indicates an occupied state or an idle state, and when detecting a channel in an idle state, writes identification information of that channel in a RAM (23). The wireless terminal devices (TA) to (TH) each selects a piece of identification information of a channel among plural pieces of identification information of a channel written in the RAM (23) to start making a call to a channel of the selected identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventors: Shoji Fukuzawa, Yoshiyuki Tanaka
  • SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140189221
    Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a first nonvolatile memory to store user data of a file, a second nonvolatile memory to store management data of the file, the second nonvolatile memory being different in type from the first nonvolatile memory, and a controller to control read/write of data with respect to the first and second nonvolatile memories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki TANAKA
  • Method for controlling non-volatile semiconductor memory system
    Patent number: 8756401
    Abstract: In a memory system using a storage medium, which is inserted into an electronic apparatus via a connector to add a memory function thereto, the storage medium has a GROUND terminal, a power supply terminal, a control terminal and a data input/output terminal, and the connector has a function of being sequentially connected to each of the terminals. When the storage medium is inserted into the connector, the GROUND terminal and control terminal of the storage medium are connected to corresponding terminals of the connector before the power supply terminal and data input/output terminal of the storage medium are connected to corresponding terminals of the connector. Thus, it is possible to improve the stability when a memory card is inserted into or ejected from the memory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Makoto Yatabe, Takeaki Sato, Kazuya Kawamoto
  • Wireless terminal device, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system and program
    Patent number: 8738057
    Abstract: A wireless terminal device (TA) receives a downlink signal that is repeatedly transmitted from a pre registered home repeater when requesting communication, specifies an idle channel based on idle channel information that is included in the downlink signal, and using the frequency of the uplink signal of the idle channel requests communication permission from the relay device that provides the idle channel. When communication permission cannot be received from the relay device from which communication permission was previously requested, the wireless terminal device (TA) uses the same frequency as the frequency of the downlink signal from the home repeater to transmit a signal to the wireless terminal device (TB) of an intended other party requesting communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventors: Shoji Fukuzawa, Yoshiyuki Tanaka
  • Semiconductor storage device having nonvolatile flash and ram with simultaneous data copy and data receive
    Patent number: 8706978
    Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a first nonvolatile memory to store user data of a file, a second nonvolatile memory to store management data of the file, the second nonvolatile memory being different in type from the first nonvolatile memory, and a controller to control read/write of data with respect to the first and second nonvolatile memories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Tanaka
  • Method for separating arsenic mineral from copper-bearing material with high arsenic grade
    Patent number: 8685350
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for separating an arsenic mineral from a copper-bearing material, including the steps of grinding a copper-bearing material containing arsenic, adding water to the copper-bearing material to prepare a slurry, and adding a flotation agent including a depressant, a frother, and a collector to the slurry and blowing air into the slurry for performing flotation to obtain a copper concentrate, wherein the depressant is a chelator. As the chelator, a polyethyleneamine or the like is used. Particularly, when triethylenetetramine is used as the chelator, the amount of triethylenetetramine to be added is preferably 1 to 10 equivalents relative to the amount of soluble copper generated by oxidation of the copper-bearing material, and the pH of the slurry is more preferably adjusted to 7 or more but 8 or less before the slurry is subjected to the flotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd., Kyushu University, National University Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Okamoto, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Hirajima, Keiko Sasaki
  • Relay device, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system
    Patent number: 8654700
    Abstract: A frequency band of 12.5 kHz that two repeaters (2A), (2B) are allowed to utilize is divided into two frequency bands, divisional frequency bands of 6.25 kHz are allocated to respective repeaters (2A), (2B), the repeater (2A) which is one specific repeater suspends transmission of a signal at a certain time set beforehand, another repeater (2B) is instructed to suspend transmission of a signal, and after signal transmission at individual repeaters (2A), (2B) are suspended, the repeater (2A) transmits a defined CW-ID signal which is a call signal given to the whole two repeaters (2A), (2B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventors: Shoji Fukuzawa, Yoshiyuki Tanaka
  • Surge absorber
    Patent number: 8610351
    Abstract: [Problems] Disclosed is a surge absorber which can absorb a surge having a long wave tail, wherein a stable sparkover voltage is obtained without applying a discharging aid to electrodes. [Means for Solving the Problems] The surge absorber is comprised of a pair of terminal electrode members (2) which are opposed to each other; and the insulation tube (3) on which the pair of terminal electrode members (2) are disposed on opposite ends thereof and that has a discharge control gas sealed therein. Bulging electrode elements (4) having an expanded center portion (4a) are formed on the inner surfaces of the terminal electrode members (2). The bulging electrode elements (4) contain metal which can emit more electrons than the terminal electrode members (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Ogi
  • Memory device storing identifying information and memory card including the same
    Patent number: RE44503
    Abstract: In a memory system using a removable recording medium and data stored in the recording medium, identifying information for identifying each recording medium from others is held in the recording medium, and when data stored in the recording medium is used, the identifying information of the recording medium is required. As a result, when a flash memory card, etc. is used, a copyright is reliably protected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Hiroshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Sukegawa, Mikito Nakabayashi, Kazuya Kawamoto