Patents by Inventor Takashi Tanaka

Takashi 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).

  • Patent number: 11993835
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet which does not have an inorganic coating containing forsterite as a main component and which includes: a base steel sheet containing a prescribed chemical component; a silicon-containing oxide layer provided on the base steel sheet; an iron-based oxide layer provided on the silicon-containing oxide layer; and a tension-insulation coating provided on the iron-based oxide layer, having a thickness of 1 to 3 ?m, and containing phosphate and colloidal silica as main components. When the tension-insulation coating undergoes elemental analysis using a glow discharge optical emission spectrometry in a sheet thickness direction from a surface of the tension-insulation coating, a peak Si emission intensity satisfies a prescribed requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Takeda, Ichiro Tanaka, Takashi Kataoka, Tomoya Suenaga, Yuki Kunita
  • Patent number: 11997787
    Abstract: A wiring substrate includes: a wiring layer; an insulating layer that is laminated on the wiring layer; an opening portion that passes through the insulating layer to the wiring layer; and an electric conductor film that is formed at the opening portion of the insulating layer. A surface of the insulating layer includes a smoothed portion that is not covered by the electric conductor film, and a roughened portion that includes an inner wall surface of the opening portion covered by the electric conductor film and that have surface roughness that is greater than surface roughness of the smoothed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hikaru Tanaka, Takashi Kasuga
  • Patent number: 11988821
    Abstract: A zoom lens consisting of, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group that has a positive refractive power; a second lens group that has a negative refractive power; an intermediate lens group that consists of one or two lens groups; and a final lens group, wherein during zooming, the second lens group moves along an optical axis, and all distances between adjacent lens groups change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutaka Shimada, Takuya Tanaka, Takashi Kunugise
  • Publication number: 20240160049
    Abstract: To provide an optical laminate that exhibits an achromatic silver color even when observed from any angle in the case of using an optical laminate including a cholesteric liquid crystal layer exhibiting a silver color, and a polarizing lens and eyewear using the same. An optical laminate for eyewear includes a light reflecting layer comprising at least one cholesteric liquid crystal layer; and a support sandwiching the light reflecting layer, in which a reflection hue of the light reflecting layer exhibits a silver color, the light reflecting layer has a reflection characteristic over a wavelength range of at least 380 nm to 900 nm, and an absolute value of a difference (?R1?R2) between an average reflectance (R1) at 500 nm to 700 nm and an average reflectance (R2) at 701 nm to 900 nm of the light reflecting layer is 10 points or less in the wavelength range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicants: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MGC FILSHEET CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Yosuke NUMA, Takashi KAWASHIMA, Junichi SEGAWA, Koichi TANAKA, Yuka KAKINUMA
  • Patent number: 11983495
    Abstract: An evaluation device includes a first calculation unit configured to calculate feature quantities of respective words, the feature quantities corresponding to text data in which a target of any goal of the SDGs is described and text data in which an outline of one or more first services for which a contribution to the goal that is clear is described, a generation unit configured to generate a sentence feature matrix based on the feature quantities of the respective words, a second calculation unit configured to calculate, when text data in which an outline of a second service is described is input, feature quantities of respective words, and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a degree of a contribution of the second service to the goal based on the feature quantities of the respective words relevant to the second service and the sentence feature matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Furutani, Machiko Shinozuka, Xiaoxi Zhang, Hiroki Oka, Katsuya Hayashi, Yuriko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11982441
    Abstract: A light-emitting module includes: first and second light-emitting devices each including semiconductor laser elements that emit laser beams with an interval in a slow axis direction of the laser beams; a first optical unit that includes one or more first reflective members provided with reflective surfaces on which laser beams are incident and that makes the interval of the laser beams smaller and emits the laser beams; a second optical unit that includes second reflective members provided with reflective surfaces on which laser beams are incident and that reflects, two times or more, laser beams emitted with an interval in a fast axis direction and emits the laser beams with a smaller interval and with a smaller width in the fast axis direction of the laser beams; and a condenser lens that gathers laser beams having traveled through the first optical unit and the second optical unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Namie, Tatsuya Kanazawa, Masanobu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11984270
    Abstract: A mold includes a pair of first mold parts, a pair of second mold parts, and a pair of third mold parts that define six surfaces of a molded body substantially having a rectangular parallelepiped shape. At least one of the pair of third mold parts includes an upper mold part and a lower mold part. The upper mold part defines an upper space of a molding space, and the lower mold part defines a lower space of the molding space. The upper mold part and the lower mold part are individually slidable. The lower mold part protrudes toward the molding space with respect to the upper mold part so that a step portion is formed. The upper mold part is slidable in cooperation with the lower mold part in a state in which the step portion is formed or absent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Tanaka, Takashi Sato, Hayato Kato, Kazuhito Odane
  • Publication number: 20240150874
    Abstract: This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, a glass coating formed on the base steel sheet, and a tension-applied insulation coating formed on the glass coating, in the base steel sheet, a plurality of linear strains that extend continuously or intermittently in a direction intersecting with a rolling direction are present, and intervals in the rolling direction of the plurality of linear strains adjacent to each other are 10 mm or less, in a region where the strains are present, a closure domain is present, a length d of the closure domain in a sheet thickness direction from a surface of the base steel sheet is 30 to 60 ?m, a length w in the rolling direction is 200 ?m or less, and a ratio mid of a depth m from the surface of the base steel sheet where a compressive strain in the rolling direction present in the closure domain exhibits a maximum value to the length d is in a range of more than 0.30 and less than 0.90.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohito TANAKA, Masataka IWAKI, Nobusato MORISHIGE, Takashi KATAOKA, Hideyuki HAMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11974837
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes an outer case; a base; a pump provided on the base such that the pump is shifted from a center of the outer case and located on one side as viewed in a circumferential direction of a living body; a drive unit provided on the base and located on one side of the pump as viewed in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; an on-off valve provided on another side of the pump as viewed in the direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; a pressure sensor provided on said another side of the pump as viewed in the direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; and packing provided between the on-off valve and the pressure sensor and the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Mizuno, Noboru Kohara, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tomoyuki Nishida, Takashi Ono, Takanori Nishioka
  • Patent number: 11978993
    Abstract: To prevent both increase in impedance and a short circuit, a connector cable is configured such that a connector and a shielded cable are connected via a relay substrate. The shielded cable includes at least an inner conductor, a dielectric covering the inner conductor, and a shield member covering the dielectric. The inner conductor is connected to a contact of the connector at a part where the shield member and the dielectric are removed to expose the inner conductor. At least directly under a part where the shield member is removed to expose the dielectric, a ground (GND) conductor layer on a front surface of the relay substrate is arranged. The GND conductor layer on the front surface of the relay substrate, which is arranged directly under the part where the shield member is removed, is covered with an insulating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideki Kiuchi, Yoshihide Kuroki, Yukitaka Tanaka, Takashi Nemoto
  • Patent number: 11975946
    Abstract: An elevator rope monitoring device, provided with: line sensor cameras 1a, 1b for imaging the entire circumference of the traveling elevator rope 5; a speed/position detecting device 4 for detecting the traveling speed and traveling position of the elevator rope 5; an image recording part 3a for inputting the image acquired by the line sensor cameras 1a, 1b in association with the traveling position of the elevator rope 5 detected by the speed/position detecting means 4; an image creating part 3b for creating an entire circumferential image of the elevator rope 5 from the image imaged by the line sensor cameras 1a, 1b; and an image processing part 3c for detecting an abnormality in the elevator rope 5 by analyzing the entire circumferential image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: MEIDENSHA CORPORATION, OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Yusuke Watabe, Makoto Niwakawa, Mitsuru Kato, Ryuji Onoda, Hirotomo Tanaka, Takashi Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20240142084
    Abstract: A light-emitting module includes: first and second light-emitting devices each including semiconductor laser elements that emit laser beams with an interval in a slow axis direction of the laser beams; a first optical unit that includes one or more first reflective members provided with reflective surfaces on which laser beams are incident and that makes the interval of the laser beams smaller and emits the laser beams; a second optical unit that includes second reflective members provided with reflective surfaces on which laser beams are incident and that reflects, two times or more, laser beams emitted with an interval in a fast axis direction and emits the laser beams with a smaller interval and with a smaller width in the fast axis direction of the laser beams; and a condenser lens that gathers laser beams having traveled through the first optical unit and the second optical unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi NAMIE, Tatsuya KANAZAWA, Masanobu TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11971567
    Abstract: Provided is an optical film that can eliminate rainbow unevenness when viewed with the naked eyes and provide favorable color tone uniformity when viewed at an oblique angle. This optical film has a low-refractive index layer on a plastic film, the plastic film has a slow axis that is an axis with the largest refractive index in a plane, and a fast axis that is an axis orthogonal to the slow axis in the plane of the plastic film, and the low-refractive index layer is located on the surface of the optical film. Linearly polarized light is incident, under predetermined conditions, from a surface on a side opposite to the low-refractive index layer of the optical film, and transmitted light of the linearly polarized light is used to measure the a* value and b* value of the L*a*b* color system at 11 measurement points with different angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shosei Kubota, Hikaru Hotta, Yoshiko Tanaka, Takashi Kuroda, Akinobu Ushiyama
  • Patent number: 11971633
    Abstract: An electrode structure includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged separately from each other; and a plurality of dielectric layers laminated in a first direction with respect to the plurality of pixel electrodes, in which the plurality of dielectric layers includes: a first dielectric layer that spreads over the plurality of pixel electrodes in a direction intersecting with the first direction; and a second dielectric layer that includes dielectric material having a refractive index higher than that of the first dielectric layer, sandwiches the first dielectric layer together with the plurality of pixel electrodes, and has a slit at a position overlapping space between pixel electrodes adjacent when viewed from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Sakairi, Tomoaki Honda, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Keiichi Maeda, Chiho Araki, Katsunori Dai, Shunsuke Narui, Kunihiko Hikichi, Kouta Fukumoto, Toshiaki Okada, Takuma Matsuno, Yuu Kawaguchi, Yuuji Adachi, Koichi Amari, Hideki Kawaguchi, Seiya Haraguchi, Takayoshi Masaki, Takuya Fujino, Tadayuki Dofuku, Yosuke Takita, Kazuhiro Tamura, Atsushi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11969237
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes an outer case; a base; a pump provided on a surface of the base such that the pump is shifted from a center of the outer case and located on one side as viewed in a circumferential direction of a living body; a first pressure sensor and a second pressure sensor that are provided such that the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor are arranged side by side in the circumferential direction and located on one side as viewed in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; and a first on-off valve and a second on-off valve that are provided such that the first on-off valve and the second on-off valve are arranged side by side in the circumferential direction with reference to the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Mizuno, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tomoyuki Nishida, Noboru Kohara, Kotaro Kitajo, Takashi Ono, Takanori Nishioka, Yoshihiko Sano
  • Patent number: 11973210
    Abstract: To provide a negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, by which the structural deterioration of the electrode is suppressed and cycle characteristics can be improved by absorbing the expansion and contraction of a silicon-based active material placed in the inside of a current collector made of porous metal, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including the same. A negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, having a current collector made of porous metal, and a negative electrode material placed in pores of the porous metal, the negative electrode material including a negative electrode active material including a silicon-based material; a skeleton forming agent including a silicate having a siloxane bond; a conductive additive; a binder; and a fibrous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Tanaka, Kiyoshi Tanaami, Takashi Mukai, Yuta Ikeuchi, Taichi Sakamoto, Naoto Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20240134474
    Abstract: A display driver includes a driver circuit and a sensing controller. The driver circuit is configured to drive a display panel according to display information. The display panel defines a sensing region. The sensing controller interface circuit is configured to transmit an output vertical sync signal to a proximity sensing controller. The proximity sensing controller is configured to generate positional information of an input object based at least in part on a resulting signal received from a sensor electrode disposed in the sensing region. The output vertical sync signal comprises encoding the display information in the output vertical sync signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Hirokazu Hatayama, Masaaki Shiomura, Nobukazu Tanaka, Daisuke Ito, Takayuki Noto, Takashi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20240134596
    Abstract: The content output device includes an information acquisition unit, a content generation unit and an output unit. The information acquisition unit acquires driving state information which is information related to a current driving state of a vehicle. The content generation unit acquires one or more content elements corresponding to a trigger condition, from among a plurality of content elements combinable with each other, when the driving state information satisfies the trigger condition, and generates an output content using the acquired content elements. The output unit outputs the output content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi IIZAWA, Keita KURAMOCHI, Atsuhiro YAMANAKA, Hideki NAGATA, Kazuaki TANAKA, Kyoichi TERAO, Takashi KAMIMURA, Daiki WAGURI, Yuya ISHIZAKI, Kei SUZUKI, Takayuki SHIMAZU
  • Publication number: 20240134100
    Abstract: Provided are a lens device, an imaging apparatus, and a filter unit capable of suppressing occurrence of ghosts and flares. The lens device includes a first optical filter and a second optical filter in order from an object side in an optical path. The first optical filter is composed of an optical filter (for example, a band-pass filter) that has a light transmission band in a specific wavelength region. The second optical filter is composed of an optical filter (band-stop filter) that has a light absorption band in a wavelength region which is different from the light transmission band of the first optical filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi OKADA, Yasunobu KISHINE, Yuya HIRAKAWA, Koichi TANAKA, Takashi KUNUGISE, Tatsuro IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240136239
    Abstract: Provided is a curable composition for inkjet and air cavity formation, the curable composition capable of forming a cured product layer having a high aspect ratio and capable of enhancing adhesiveness and sealability. A curable composition for inkjet and air cavity formation according to the present invention contains a photocurable compound having a (meth)acryloyl group or a vinyl group and having no cyclic ether group, and a thermosetting compound having no (meth)acryloyl group and having a cyclic ether group, in which a content of the thermosetting compound in 100 wt % of the curable composition for inkjet and air cavity formation is 5 wt % or more, and when a B-staged product is obtained by irradiating the curable composition for inkjet and air cavity formation with light having a wavelength of 365 nm at an illuminance of 2000 mW/cm2, a viscosity at 40° C. of the B-staged product is 2.5×102 Pa·s or more and 3.0×10? Pa·s or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke FUJITA, Takashi WATANABE, Mitsuru TANIKAWA, Yoshifumi SUGISAWA, Tomoya TANAKA, Takanori INOUE, Taichi HAMADA