Patents by Inventor Hideaki Mizuno
Hideaki Mizuno 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: 8017276Abstract: An output limitation warning lamp is turned on when a possible output Qf of the fuel cell is less than a predetermined value L2. The output limitation warning lamp is provided at a combination meter in an instrument panel. The output limitation warning lamp is also turned on when a possible output Qb of the secondary battery is less than a predetermined value L3. Furthermore, the output limitation warning lamp is also turned on when an allowable drive output Qh, which is the sum of the possible output Qf of the fuel cell and the possible output Qb of the secondary battery, has been less than a required output Ed* calculated at a step before carrying out output limitation to more than a certain extent for longer than a predetermined length of time.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2007Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuya Fujita, Yasuhiko Niimi, Takashi Kotoh, Hideaki Mizuno, Nobuo Watanabe, Tadaichi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8012637Abstract: An output limitation warning lamp is turned on when a possible output Qf of the fuel cell is less than a predetermined value L2. The output limitation warning lamp is provided at a combination meter in an instrument panel. The output limitation warning lamp is also turned on when a possible output Qb of the secondary battery is less than a predetermined value L3. Furthermore, the output limitation warning lamp is also turned on when an allowable drive output Qh, which is the sum of the possible output Qf of the fuel cell and the possible output Qb of the secondary battery, has been less than a required output Ed* calculated at a step before carrying out output limitation to more than a certain extent for longer than a predetermined length of time.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2002Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuya Fujita, Yasuhiko Niimi, Takashi Kotoh, Hideaki Mizuno, Nobuo Watanabe, Tadaichi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8011343Abstract: A multi link type piston-crank mechanism comprises an upper link that has one end pivotally connected to a piston of the engine through a piston pin, a lower link that is pivotally connected to the other end of the upper link through an upper pin and rotatably disposed on a crank pin of a crankshaft of the engine; and a control link that has a base end part swingably held by a body of the engine and a leading end pivotally connected to the lower link through a control pin. An axis of the piston pin is offset relative to an axis of the piston in thrust and counter thrust directions. When the piston comes to BDC, a part of the piston takes a position below a lower edge of a corresponding cylinder of the engine and the upper pin is offset relative to the axis of the piston pin in the same direction as a pin offset direction in which the axis of the piston pin is offset in the thrust and counter thrust directions relative to the axis of the piston.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Kobayashi, Kenshi Ushijima, Hideaki Mizuno, Naoki Takahashi
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Patent number: 7981558Abstract: A fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell, a supply flow passage for flowing a fuel gas supplied from a fuel supply source to the fuel cell, a variable gas supply device for regulating the state of the gas on the upstream side of the supply flow passage to supply the gas to the downstream side, a discharge flow passage for flowing a fuel off gas discharged from the fuel cell, a discharge valve for discharging the gas from the discharge flow passage to the exterior, and a control part for closing the discharge valve when the discharge amount of the gas calculated while the discharge valve is opened exceeds a predetermined target discharge amount. The control part stops the gas supply from the variable gas supply device and simultaneously closes the discharge valve, when the discharge amount of the gas calculated while the discharge valve is opened exceeds the target discharge amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuki Ishigaki, Hideaki Mizuno
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Publication number: 20110152502Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a novel fluorescent protein in which on and off of fluorescence thereof can be controlled by irradiation with lights of two different wavelengths. The present invention provides a fluorescent protein shown in the following (a) or (b); (a) a protein which has the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 3 or 7; or (b) a protein which has an amino acid sequence comprising a deletion, substitution, and/or addition of one or several amino acids with respect to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 3 or 7, and which has fluorescence characteristics of exhibiting a photochromic effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: RIKENInventors: Atsushi MIYAWAKI, Ryoko ANDO, Hideaki MIZUNO, Satoshi KARASAWA
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Patent number: 7911183Abstract: This voltage control system includes a power supply, an accumulator device which is capable of accumulating and discharging electrical power, a voltage control device which is constituted so as, when the electrical power supplied from the power supply is insufficient, to supplement it by discharging electrical power from the accumulator device, so as to keep a system voltage a predetermined value, and a control device which, when it has been recognized that the amount of electrical power required by one electrical power consumption device which is included in the system has decreased, reduces the rate of increase of the system voltage by implementing supply of electrical power from the power supply to the accumulator device.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2006Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideaki Mizuno
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Patent number: 7897385Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a novel fluorescent protein in which on and off of fluorescence thereof can be controlled by irradiation with lights of two different wavelengths. The present invention provides a fluorescent protein shown in the following (a) or (b); (a) a protein which has the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 3 or 7; or (b) a protein which has an amino acid sequence comprising a deletion, substitution, and/or addition of one or several amino acids with respect to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 3 or 7, and which has fluorescence characteristics of exhibiting a photochromic effect.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2005Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: RikenInventors: Atsushi Miyawaki, Ryoko Ando, Hideaki Mizuno, Satoshi Karasawa
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Patent number: 7892791Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel chromoprotein and a novel fluorescent protein. The present invention provides chromoproteins derived from Anthopleura inornata, which have certain property, and fluorescent proteins from Trachyphyllia geoffroyi and Scolymia vitiensis, which have certain fluorescent property.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignees: RIKEN, Medical and Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Miyawaki, Ryoko Ando, Satoshi Karasawa, Hideaki Mizuno
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Publication number: 20110003221Abstract: Provided is a fuel cell system which can properly control a refresh operation. A controller controls the refresh operation so that an output voltage does not exceed an avoidance voltage even after the refresh operation. Specifically, the controller estimates the output voltage after the refresh operation from the output voltage before the refresh operation and controls execution of the refresh operation so that the estimated output voltage after the refresh operation does not exceed the avoidance voltage. For example, if before the refresh operation, when judging that the estimated output voltage after the refresh operation does not exceed the avoidance voltage, the controller executes the refresh operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideaki Mizuno
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Publication number: 20100304497Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel chromoprotein and a novel fluorescent protein. The present invention provides chromoproteins derived from Anthopleura inornata, which have certain property, and fluorescent proteins from Trachyphyllia geoffroyi and Scolymia vitiensis, which have certain fluorescent property.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2009Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicants: RIKEN, MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi MIYAWAKI, Ryoko ANDO, Satoshi KARASAWA, Hideaki MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20100267571Abstract: The present invention aims to develop a method for specimen preparation, which ensures the maintenance of both tissue morphology and nucleic acid quality (particularly RNA quality). The present invention further aims to prepare a specimen by this method, from which desired cells are then collected by microdissection and analyzed for gene expression. A method for specimen preparation from various frozen or unfrozen organs or tissues (excluding hard tissues) of the whole body, which comprises the following steps: 1) fixing a target organ or tissue with PFA fixative; and 2) embedding the same in paraffin by the AMeX method.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2008Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicants: CHUGAI SEIYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PHARMALOGICALS RESEARCH PT. LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Watanabe, Fang Yanting, Masami Suzuki, Hiromichi Terashima, Hideaki Mizuno
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Patent number: 7669559Abstract: In a reciprocating piston engine employing a variable compression ratio mechanism linked to a reciprocating piston for variably adjusting a geometrical compression ratio by varying at least a piston top dead center position, so that the top dead center position obtained at a low geometrical compression ratio is set to be lower than that at a high geometrical compression ratio, responsively to a controlled variable, a controller is configured to set a target compression ratio to a high value at low engine load operation, and to a relatively low value at high engine load operation. A substantially entire area of a crown of the piston, defining a part of a wall surface of a combustion chamber, is formed of a non-metallic material having a higher heat-insulating and heat-reserving property as compared to a base structural material of each of the combustion chamber and the piston.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2007Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunichi Aoyama, Katsuya Moteki, Kenshi Ushijima, Shinichi Takemura, Hideaki Mizuno
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Publication number: 20100015484Abstract: A fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell, a supply flow passage for flowing a fuel gas supplied from a fuel supply source to the fuel cell, a variable gas supply device for regulating the state of the gas on the upstream side of the supply flow passage to supply the gas to the downstream side, a discharge flow passage for flowing a fuel off gas discharged from the fuel cell, a discharge valve for discharging the gas from the discharge flow passage to the exterior, and a control part for closing the discharge valve when the discharge amount of the gas calculated while the discharge valve is opened exceeds a predetermined target discharge amount. The control part stops the gas supply from the variable gas supply device and simultaneously closes the discharge valve, when the discharge amount of the gas calculated while the discharge valve is opened exceeds the target discharge amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuki Ishigaki, Hideaki Mizuno
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Patent number: 7599085Abstract: An image processing system is provided that is capable of performing copying processes by connecting devices which specifications for processing image data are mutually different. In an image processing system comprised of an image reading device for optically reading original documents and converting these into electronic image data and a printing device for printing image data that have been received from the image reading device onto recording media, image processing circuits for processing image data in accordance with specified specifications are respectively incorporated into the scanning device and the printing device, and a device that may be set in accordance with specifications for processing image data based on given circuit arrangement information is used to comprise at least a part of either one of the image processing circuits of these devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2007Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuo Kamei, Hideaki Mizuno, Hideyuki Toriyama, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
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Publication number: 20090220735Abstract: A sealing material for a honeycomb structure includes inorganic fibers, oxide sol, and inorganic particles. The inorganic fibers include at least one of an alkali metal compound, an alkaline earth metal compound and a boron compound. The sealing material has a pH of at least about 4 and at most about 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2008Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki MIZUNO, Akikazu Miyata, Yosuke Fuchi
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Publication number: 20090169935Abstract: There is provided a fuel cell system capable of warming up a fuel cell while inhibiting generation of a rush current. A control device switches the connection/disconnection between a fuel cell and a short circuit by a shorting relay. The control device spends, before switching the shorting relay from disconnection to connection during starting at a low temperature, an oxidizing gas remaining in the cathode of the fuel cell by driving auxiliary devices to generate an oxidizing gas-deficient state. Then, the control device switches FC relays from ON to OFF and the shorting relay from OFF to ON to thereby complete the preparation for supplying a short-circuit current.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2006Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kota Manabe, Kimihide Norio, Hideaki Mizuno, Hironori Noto, Takashi Yamamoto, Tomoya Ogawa
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Publication number: 20090155888Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a novel fluorescent protein in which on and off of fluorescence thereof can be controlled by irradiation with lights of two different wavelengths. The present invention provides a fluorescent protein shown in the following (a) or (b); (a) a protein which has the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 3 or 7; or (b) a protein which has an amino acid sequence comprising a deletion, substitution, and/or addition of one or several amino acids with respect to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 3 or 7, and which has fluorescence characteristics of exhibiting a photochromic effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2005Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicants: RIKEN, MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Miyawaki, Ryoko Ando, Hideaki Mizuno, Satoshi Karasawa
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Patent number: 7547528Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel chromoprotein and a novel fluorescent protein. The present invention provides chromoproteins derived from Anthopleura inornata, which have certain property, and fluorescent proteins from Trachyphyllia geoffroyi and Scolymia vitiensis, which have certain fluorescent property.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2008Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignees: Riken, Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Miyawaki, Ryoko Ando, Satoshi Karasawa, Hideaki Mizuno
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Publication number: 20090039834Abstract: This voltage control system includes a power supply, an accumulator device which is capable of accumulating and discharging electrical power, a voltage control device which is constituted so as, when the electrical power supplied from the power supply is insufficient, to supplement it by discharging electrical power from the accumulator device, so as to keep a system voltage a predetermined value, and a control device which, when it has been recognized that the amount of electrical power required by one electrical power consumption device which is included in the system has decreased, reduces the rate of increase of the system voltage by implementing supply of electrical power from the power supply to the accumulator device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2006Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventor: Hideaki Mizuno
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Publication number: 20090031994Abstract: A multi link type piston-crank mechanism comprises an upper link that has one end pivotally connected to a piston of the engine through a piston pin, a lower link that is pivotally connected to the other end of the upper link through an upper pin and rotatably disposed on a crank pin of a crankshaft of the engine; and a control link that has a base end part swingably held by a body of the engine and a leading end pivotally connected to the lower link through a control pin. An axis of the piston pin is offset relative to an axis of the piston in thrust and counter thrust directions. When the piston comes to BDC, a part of the piston takes a position below a lower edge of a corresponding cylinder of the engine and the upper pin is offset relative to the axis of the piston pin in the same direction as a pin offset direction in which the axis of the piston pin is offset in the thrust and counter thrust directions relative to the axis of the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Makoto Kobayashi, Kenshi Ushijima, Hideaki Mizuno, Naoki Takahashi