Patents by Inventor Yuji Tanaka

Yuji 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).

  • Publication number: 20240128880
    Abstract: A power converter includes a capacitor and a substrate on which a plurality of switching elements for power conversion are mounted. The power converter includes a cooler for cooling the plurality of switching elements and a housing that accommodates the capacitor, the substrate, and the cooler. The power converter includes a power connector exposed from the housing and an output connector exposed from the housing. The power converter includes a plurality of lines that include a plurality of power lines each electrically connected to the capacitor, given switching elements, and the power connector. The plurality of lines include a plurality of output lines each electrically connected to given switching elements and the output connector. At least one among the plurality of lines is a line that includes a conductive pattern formed on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji SUZUKI, Motohito HORI, Akio TOBA, Ikuya SATO, Yasuhito TANAKA, Masamichi IWASAKI, Masaaki AJIMA, Nobuaki OHGURI
  • Publication number: 20240109734
    Abstract: A conveyance equipment includes swirl flow-forming body, discharge fluid rectification cover and skirt. The swirl flow-forming body has columnar first body. A columnar recess is inward of lower end face of first body. A pair of fluid passages are formed in columnar first body to extend to inside surface of columnar recess and supply fluid into columnar recess to generate swirling flow. The discharge fluid rectification cover has a second body which includes a disk-shaped base plate and a peripheral wall that extends around the periphery of the base plate. The second body is positioned to cover the columnar recess. A suction port is in the bottom plate. A discharge passage is in the peripheral wall to extend generally tangential to the inside surface of peripheral wall. The skirt is cylindrical and is made of an elastic thin film, a top opening of which is connected to the suction port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: HARMOTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi IWASAKA, Hideyuki TOKUNAGA, Katsuhiro KOSHIISHI, Hidemitsu TANAKA, Yuji KASAI, Naonari IWASAKA
  • Patent number: 11949338
    Abstract: A power converter includes a positive busbar electrically connected to a positive terminal and the first capacitor electrode, and includes a negative busbar electrically connected to a negative terminal and the second capacitor electrode. The power converter includes output busbars each electrically connected to a given output terminal among multiple output terminals, a given high-side switching element among a plurality of high-side switching elements, and a given low-side switching element among a plurality of low-side switching elements. The power converter includes a cooler that cools the high-side switching elements and the low-side switching elements. The power converter includes a housing that accommodates a supply tube and a discharge tube. The positive terminal, the negative terminal, the output terminals, the inlet port, and the outlet port are exposed on the housing. The inlet port, the outlet port, the supply tube, and the discharge tube are separate members from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Suzuki, Motohito Hori, Akio Toba, Ikuya Sato, Yasuhito Tanaka, Masamichi Iwasaki, Masaaki Ajima, Nobuaki Ohguri
  • Patent number: 11942623
    Abstract: Provided are a negative electrode that is for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, includes a porous metal body as a current collector, contains a skeleton-forming agent highly infiltrated in the current collector so that it is less likely to suffer from structural degradation and provides improved cycle durability; and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including such a negative electrode. The negative electrode for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a current collector including a porous metal body; a first negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body and including a conductive aid, a binder, and a negative electrode active material including a silicon-based material; and a second negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body and including a skeleton-forming agent including a silicate having a siloxane bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Tanaami, Toshimitsu Tanaka, Yuji Isogai, Makiko Takahashi, Shintaro Aoyagi, Takashi Mukai, Yuta Ikeuchi, Taichi Sakamoto, Naoto Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11943425
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a transparent screen; one or more imaging units; and a video projection unit that acquires positional information regarding a predetermined subject included in each of captured images obtained by the one or more imaging units and then irradiates the transparent screen with video light on the basis of the positional information to cause predetermined video to appear on the transparent screen for the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Yano, Yuji Nakahata, Akira Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11939642
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 1,180 MPa or more, and specified chemical composition. The steel sheet includes a steel structure in which an area fraction of martensite having a carbon concentration of more than 0.7×[% C] and less than 1.5×[% C] is 55% or more, an area fraction of tempered martensite having a carbon concentration of 0.7×[% C] or less is 5% or more and 40% or less, a ratio of a carbon concentration in retained austenite to a volume fraction of retained austenite is 0.05 or more and 0.40 or less, and the martensite and the tempered martensite each have an average grain size of 5.3 ?m or less, where [% C] represents the content, by mass %, of compositional element C in steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Minami, Yuji Tanaka, Junya Tobata, Takeshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 11931987
    Abstract: A decorative material having a design with an excellent tactile and a visual effect. The decorative material has a texture region on a base material, the texture region is composed of: a plurality of projection regions containing a plurality of particles with a particle size of 5 ?m or more and 60 ?m or less and independent of each other; and a gap region between the projection regions, and the average diameter of the circumscribed circles of the projection regions, when the texture region is viewed in plan view, is 100 ?m or more and 500 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kaida, Yuji Tanaka, Yuki Aoyama, Ryouichi Satou
  • Patent number: 11926881
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet having a high yield ratio and excellent stretch flangeability and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition including, by mass %, C: 0.10 to 0.30%, Si: 0.50 to 2.00%, Mn: 2.5 to 4.0%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.01% or less, Ti: 0.100% or less, and B: 0.0003 to 0.0030%, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities. N and Ti satisfy a specified formula, and the total area fraction of martensite and bainite is 95% or more. The number density of bainite grains having an area of 3 ?m2 or more and a carbon concentration of less than 0.7C is 1200 grains/mm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Tanaka, Hidekazu Minami, Naoki Takayama, Takako Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20240067118
    Abstract: An occupant protection device of a configuration that protects an occupant seated on a seat, in which an airbag is held in a holding body disposed in a periphery of a hip portion of the occupant. The airbag has a bag main body, and a conduit portion that causes an inflating gas discharged from an inflator to flow into the bag main body. The bag main body is held in the holding body in a state of a completely folded body folded using a front-rear reduction folding such that a width dimension in front-rear direction is reduced from a state of a preliminary folded bag. The completely folded body is formed by a lower side rolled region which is formed by a lower side region of the preliminary folded bag being wound from a lower edge side, being stacked on an upper side rolled region which is formed by an upper side region of the preliminary folded bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji MATSUZAKI, Akira YASUDA, Yuto NODA, Motoyuki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11912850
    Abstract: A resin composition for an insulating layer includes: an olefinic resin as a main component; and a metal deactivator, wherein the olefinic resin consists of block polypropylene and polyethylene, and wherein a content of the polyethylene in the olefinic resin is greater than or equal to 1% by mass and less than or equal to 10% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Syota Machinaka, Taro Fujita, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Nayu Yanagawa, Yuji Ochi, Satoshi Okano, Yuto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11915527
    Abstract: A method for controlling one of voting servers in an electronic voting system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a terminal, transaction data including voting data, and determining, by a processor, a block to include the transaction data from among multiple blocks. The method further includes generating, using the processor, the block including the transaction data, and connecting the block to a blockchain, the blockchain being stored in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Junichiro Soeda, Akira Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240020721
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a presentation controller. The presentation controller is configured to present, to a user, a store that is extracted based on route information relating to a route on which a vehicle travels and store information including a period in which a bonus is provided. The store is where the vehicle can arrive in the period in which the bonus is provided. The store information includes at least a start time of the bonus. The presentation controller is configured to present, to the user, the store where the vehicle can arrive within a predetermined time range before the start time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Yuji TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230398140
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an ocular tension increasing agent containing a temperature responsive polymer. Ocular tension can be increased by administering an ocular tension increasing agent according to the present invention to a predetermined region of an eye and ocular tension can be controlled, if necessary, by temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI
    Inventors: Yuji TANAKA, Kenji KASHIWAGI, Shigehito OSAWA
  • Publication number: 20230374622
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet comprises: a chemical composition that contains C, Si, Mn, P, S, N, Al, Ti, Nb, and B with a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, and satisfies [mol % N]/[mol % Ti]<1; and a steel microstructure in which: an area fraction of ferrite is 12% or more and less than 30%; a total area fraction of tempered martensite and bainite is 55% or more and 85% or less; an area fraction of quenched martensite is 15% or less; an area fraction of retained austenite is 1% or more and 10% or less; an area fraction of low-Mn ferrite having a Mn concentration of 0.8×[% Mn] or less is 5% or more and 20% or less; a result of subtracting the area fraction of the low-Mn ferrite from the area fraction of the ferrite is 10% or more; an area fraction of a residual microstructure is less than 3%; and an average grain size of the low-Mn ferrite is 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji TANAKA, Masaki TADA, Yuki TOJI, Shinsuke KOMINE, Yoshie OBATA, Yusuke KIMATA
  • Publication number: 20230380236
    Abstract: The present display device includes a light-emitting element including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an active layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the active layer including quantum dot light-emitting layers, and a light source element that irradiates the quantum dot light-emitting layers with ultraviolet rays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Yuji TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230357745
    Abstract: A medical device that includes: a base part that has an opening part; and a holder that holds the base part on a culture plate. The base part also has a channel that is in fluid communication with the opening part. Biological samples are cultured and embedded in an embedding material at the opening part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI
    Inventor: Yuji TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11810417
    Abstract: A paper sheet storage device includes a storage unit, a conveyance mechanism including a carry-in path and a carry-out path, a gate member switched between a storage state and a passing state, a lock mechanism including a lock member which restricts a movement of the gate member, and an unlock member that unlocks a locked state. The unlock member is disposed so as to project from a side of one of the carry-in path and the carry-out path to outside of the paper sheet storage device. The lock member is disposed so as to project from a side of the other of the carry-in path and the carry-out path to the outside of the paper sheet storage device. When the paper sheet storage device is connected to another paper sheet storage device, the lock member is moved by the unlock member of the another paper sheet storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU FRONTECH LIMITED
    Inventors: Naoto Ikeda, Yuji Tanaka, Mitsutaka Nishida
  • Publication number: 20230320037
    Abstract: To obtain a heatsink having a plurality of components firmly joined together. The heatsink includes a tabular base part having an electronic component contact surface on one side in the thickness direction thereof to make contact with an electronic component, a tabular column portion arranged in parallel on the other side of the base part across a heat dissipation space, and the column portions provided between the base part and the heat dissipating part. The heat dissipating part, the column portions, and the base part are provided with insertion holes that extend therethrough, and the heat dissipating part, the column portions, and the base part are fixed together by an inner member inserted into the insertion holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: KAGA, INC.
    Inventors: Masaaki NOZAKI, Yuji TANAKA, Shu MATSUURA, Yousuke NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230263030
    Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting element layer including a first electrode and a second electrode, and a first quantum dot light-emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a light source element configured to irradiate the light-emitting element layer with ultraviolet light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventor: Yuji TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230235421
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet comprises: a chemical composition that contains C, Si, Mn, P, S, N, Al, Ti, Nb, and B with a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, and satisfies [mol % N]/[mol % Ti]<1; and a steel microstructure in which: an area fraction of ferrite is 30% or more and 60% or less; a total area fraction of tempered martensite and bainite is 35% or more and 65% or less; an area fraction of quenched martensite is 15% or less; an area fraction of retained austenite is 1% or more and 10% or less; an area fraction of low-Mn ferrite having a Mn concentration of 0.8×[% Mn] or less is 5% or more and 40% or less; a result of subtracting the area fraction of the low-Mn ferrite from the area fraction of the ferrite is 10% or more; an area fraction of a residual microstructure is less than 3%; and an average grain size of the low-Mn ferrite is 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji TANAKA, Masaki TADA, Yuki TOJI, Shinsuke KOMINE, Yoshie OBATA, Yusuke KIMATA