Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Tani

Yoshiyuki Tani 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).

  • Patent number: 11507088
    Abstract: A feature is realized with which it is possible to determine the work entity by which each load should be transported. A simulator (1) is provided with a transport capacity acquisition portion (6) for acquiring the transport capacity of one or a plurality of types of work entity, a load information acquisition portion (5), a map information acquisition portion (4), a work entity situation acquisition portion (7), and a work entity determination portion (2) for determining a work entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Kasai, Hiromasa Takatsuka, Junichi Wada, Hiroyuki Inoue, Yoshiyuki Tani, Masahiro Ohara
  • Publication number: 20200159219
    Abstract: A feature is realized with which it is possible to determine the work entity by which each load should be transported. A simulator (1) is provided with a transport capacity acquisition portion (6) for acquiring the transport capacity of one or a plurality of types of work entity, a load information acquisition portion (5), a map information acquisition portion (4), a work entity situation acquisition portion (7), and a work entity determination portion (2) for determining a work entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki KASAI, Hiromasa TAKATSUKA, Junichi WADA, Hiroyuki INOUE, Yoshiyuki TANI, Masahiro OHARA
  • Patent number: 8621738
    Abstract: A glass cutting apparatus (101) includes a pair of cutters (13a, 13b) installed oppositely to each other in such a way as to sandwich, therebetween, a glass plate with surfaces of the glass plate thereof being along a vertical direction; a first pressing unit (14a) which presses one of the cutters to one of the surfaces of the glass plate in a horizontal direction with a pressing force P; a second pressing unit (14b) which is placed oppositely to the first pressing unit and presses the other one of the cutters to the other surface of the glass plate in the horizontal direction with the pressing force P; and a moving unit (20) which moves the pair of cutters pressing the glass plate with the pressing force P.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Yoshiyuki Tani, Fumio Yamazaki, Takao Hisazumi
  • Patent number: 8250730
    Abstract: In the disassembling method of a display device of the present invention, the display device has a display panel, and metal plate unit having a panel member formed of a chassis member disposed on the back surface of the display panel and a circuit board as an electric circuit member attached to the chassis member through an attaching member. The disassembling method has a mounting step of mounting metal plate unit on stage whose tilt angle can be adjusted by mechanism section and a cutting step of cutting the attaching member in parallel with the surface of stage with saw blade that abuts on the attaching member by the own weight of metal plate unit based on the tilt angle of stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tani, Hiroshi Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 8142610
    Abstract: A film peeling device is provided that can easily peel off a film that has been firmly stuck on a display panel. The film peeling device is configured from a cylindrical motor roller (3) that has an effective length longer than the length of the short side of a face panel (7a) constituting a bulb (7) of a cathode ray tube and has a self-rotating function, a contact plate (4) disposed such that it fits closely with the surface of the motor roller (3), and toggle clamps (5) provided outside of the effective length of the motor roller (3), that press the contact plate (4) against the surface of the motor roller (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tani, Hiromitsu Sugiura, Takao Hisazumi
  • Publication number: 20110167615
    Abstract: In the disassembling method of a display device of the present invention, the display device has a display panel, and metal plate unit having a panel member formed of a chassis member disposed on the back surface of the display panel and a circuit board as an electric circuit member attached to the chassis member through an attaching member. The disassembling method has a mounting step of mounting metal plate unit on stage whose tilt angle can be adjusted by mechanism section and a cutting step of cutting the attaching member in parallel with the surface of stage with saw blade that abuts on the attaching member by the own weight of metal plate unit based on the tilt angle of stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tani, Hiroshi Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 7948247
    Abstract: A metal identifying device precisely identifies a metal material in a metal member having a plurality of through-hole portions penetrating through the metal member. The metal identifying device of the present invention includes a measurement unit that obtains a measurement value by measuring an electrical property and/or optical property of a test object, a threshold value determination unit that determines a threshold value with use of a reference value obtained by measuring the property of a metal member having a metal composition to be identified and information indicating a ratio of the through-hole portions to a measurement area in the test object and/or information indicating a configuration of the through-hole portion, and a comparison/identification unit that identifies a metal composition of the test object by comparing the measurement value and the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Norie Araki, Hirofumi Iwakawa, Yoshiyuki Tani, Hiroshi Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20100288101
    Abstract: A glass cutting apparatus (101) includes a pair of cutters (13a, 13b) installed oppositely to each other in such a way as to sandwich, therebetween, a glass plate with surfaces of the glass plate thereof being along a vertical direction; a first pressing unit (14a) which presses one of the cutters to one of the surfaces of the glass plate in a horizontal direction with a pressing force P; a second pressing unit (14b) which is placed oppositely to the first pressing unit and presses the other one of the cutters to the other surface of the glass plate in the horizontal direction with the pressing force P; and a moving unit (20) which moves the pair of cutters pressing the glass plate with the pressing force P.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Yoshiyuki Tani, Fumio Yamazaki, Takao Hisazumi
  • Patent number: 7750069
    Abstract: At least one resin component which is selected from a biodegradable resin and a plant-based resin, and a flame retardancy-imparting component are kneaded to obtain a resin composition having flame retardancy. This resin composition makes it possible to apply the environment-friendly resin such as the biodegradable resin and the plant-based resin, for example, polylactic acid and polybutylene succinate to exterior bodies of home appliances. Particularly, in the case where polylactic acid is used with the acetylacetonatoiron as the flame-retardant component, a resin composition having excellent flame retardancy can be provided as a non-halogen material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiko Yamashita, Kunihiko Takeda, Yoshiyuki Tani, Takao Hisazumi
  • Patent number: 7720193
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to shorten the time required by processing, and to simplify the work and increase the number of samples processed, in the X-ray analysis of a specific substance contained in a sample. To achieve the object, a method for assaying the content of a specific substance in a sample 106, comprises a measurement step (S3) of irradiating the sample 106 with X-rays, and measuring the spectrum of the sample 106, and an assay step (S4) of comparing the components of the specific substance in the spectrum of the sample 106 and in a reference spectrum that has been pre-stored for the sample 106, and determining whether the specific substance is contained in the sample 106 in an amount equal to or greater than a specific value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tani, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takao Hisazumi, Yukihiro Iwata
  • Publication number: 20100022152
    Abstract: The present invention provides a material recovering method in which an attached member attached to at least one surface of a glass substrate is removed from the glass substrate so that the glass substrate is recovered. The method includes: a step A of crushing part of the glass substrate so that a glass fragment is formed; and a step B of allowing the glass fragment to impact against the attached member so as to detach and remove the attached member from the glass substrate. This method allows an attached member attached to a glass substrate to be removed at low cost and achieves an improved yield of the glass substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Yoshiyuki Tani
  • Publication number: 20090262890
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to shorten the time required by processing, and to simplify the work and increase the number of samples processed, in the X-ray analysis of a specific substance contained in a sample. To achieve the object, a method for assaying the content of a specific substance in a sample 106, comprises a measurement step (S3) of irradiating the sample 106 with X-rays, and measuring the spectrum of the sample 106, and an assay step (S4) of comparing the components of the specific substance in the spectrum of the sample 106 and in a reference spectrum that has been pre-stored for the sample 106, and determining whether the specific substance is contained in the sample 106 in an amount equal to or greater than a specific value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tani, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takao Hisazumi, Yukihiro Iwata
  • Publication number: 20090261848
    Abstract: A metal identifying device precisely identifies a metal material in a metal member having a plurality of through-hole portions penetrating through the metal member. The metal identifying device of the present invention includes a measurement unit that obtains a measurement value by measuring an electrical property and/or optical property of a test object, a threshold value determination unit that determines a threshold value with use of a reference value obtained by measuring the property of a metal member having a metal composition to be identified and information indicating a ratio of the through-hole portions to a measurement area in the test object and/or information indicating a configuration of the through-hole portion, and a comparison/identification unit that identifies a metal composition of the test object by comparing the measurement value and the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norie Araki, Hirofumi Iwakawa, Yoshiyuki Tani, Hiroshi Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 7515685
    Abstract: In a fluorescent X-ray analysis method, a sample (1) is set on a sample stage (2) on an upper side of an X-ray irradiation chamber (7) and a sample cover (6) is closed from the upper part of the sample (1) to surround the sample (1), and then, a lower plane of the sample (1) is irradiated with X-ray for analysis. When the sample (1) is set on the sample stage (2) and the sample cover (6) is closed, a cover detecting means (8) detects that the sample cover (6) is closed and X-ray is automatically projected from an X-ray source (3) to start analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Yoshiyuki Tani, Takao Hisazumi, Yukihiro Iwata, Etsuyoshi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 7450684
    Abstract: In a recycling process, the homogeneity of glass cullet decreases and the quality of the recycled glass is diminished. To solve this problem, the present involves using a fluorescent X-ray analyzer to analyze the glass composition of display substrates prior to crushing, and thereby identifying glass of the same composition, converting the same into cullet, and recovering the glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tani, Takao Hisazumi
  • Publication number: 20080192888
    Abstract: In a fluorescent X-ray analysis method, a sample (1) is set on a sample stage (2) on an upper side of an X-ray irradiation chamber (7) and a sample cover (6) is closed from the upper part of the sample (1) to surround the sample (1), and then, a lower plane of the sample (1) is irradiated with X-ray for analysis. When the sample (1) is set on the sample stage (2) and the sample cover (6) is closed, a cover detecting means (8) detects that the sample cover (6) is closed and X-ray is automatically projected from an X-ray source (3) to start analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Yoshiyuki Tani, Takao Hisazumi, Yukihiro Iwata, Etsuyoshi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 7382855
    Abstract: It is possible to solve the problem of the conventional fluorescent X-ray analysis that a concentration calculation result can be obtained only after elapse of a time set as a measurement time. In the fluorescent X-ray analysis method and fluorescent X-ray analysis device according to the present invention, a sample measurement condition is set before starting the measurement and the measurement concentration of the element contained in the sample and the measurement accuracy are calculated. When the measurement accuracy has become a value satisfying the predetermined measurement condition, the measurement is terminated and the concentration at that moment is outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tani, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takao Hisazumi, Yukihiro Iwata, Etsuyoshi Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20070248211
    Abstract: It is possible to solve the problem of the conventional fluorescent X-ray analysis that a concentration calculation result can be obtained only after elapse of a time set as a measurement time. In the fluorescent X-ray analysis method and fluorescent X-ray analysis device according to the present invention, a sample measurement condition is set before starting the measurement and the measurement concentration of the element contained in the sample and the measurement accuracy are calculated. When the measurement accuracy has become a value satisfying the predetermined measurement condition, the measurement is terminated and the concentration at that moment is outputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tani, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takao Hisazumi, Yukihiro Iwata, Etsuyoshi Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20070189435
    Abstract: In a recycling process, the homogeneity of glass cullet decreases and the quality of the recycled glass is diminished. To solve this problem, the present invention involves using a fluorescent X-ray analyzer to analyze the glass composition of display substrates prior to crushing, and thereby identifying glass of the same composition, converting the same into cullet, and recovering the glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tani, Takao Hisazumi
  • Publication number: 20070151667
    Abstract: A film peeling device is provided that can easily peel off a film that has been firmly stuck on a display panel. The film peeling device is configured from a cylindrical motor roller (3) that has an effective length longer than the length of the short side of a face panel (7a) constituting a bulb (7) of a cathode ray tube and has a self-rotating function, a contact plate (4) disposed such that it fits closely with the surface of the motor roller (3), and toggle clamps (5) provided outside of the effective length of the motor roller (3), that press the contact plate (4) against the surface of the motor roller (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tani, Hiromitsu Sugiura, Takao Hisazumi