Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Fujino

Hiroshi Fujino 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: 11845674
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium titanate powder for an electrode of an energy storage device, the lithium titanate powder comprising Li4Ti5O12 as a main component, having a specific surface area of 4 m2/g or more, and containing at least one localized element selected from the group consisting of boron (B), Ln (where Ln is at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Hb, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Y, and Sc), and M1 (where M1 is at least one metal element selected from W and Mo), wherein boron (B), Ln, and M1 as the localized element are localized on or near surfaces of lithium titanate particles forming the lithium titanate powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: UBE Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kurihara, Atsuyoshi Nakagawa, Hiroshi Fujino, Chisen Hashimoto, Hirofumi Takemoto, Koji Abe
  • Patent number: 10759673
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium titanate powder for an electrode of an energy storage device, wherein the lithium titanate powder includes Li4Ti5O12 as a main component and has a specific surface area of 5 to 50 m2/g, a total-fine pore volume of the lithium titanate powder is 0.03 to 0.5 ml/g and the lithium titanate powder includes a phosphorus atom in an amount of 0.03 to 1% by mass, an active material containing the lithium titanate powder, an electrode sheet containing the active material, and an energy storage device using the electrode sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Miyoshi, Hirofumi Takemoto, Hiroshi Fujino
  • Publication number: 20200117784
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first specifying unit for specifying identification information on a user who operates the information processing device and identification information on each of one or more other users who use the information processing device while sharing the information processing device with the user, and a second specifying unit for referring to a first storage unit which has stored a range of operable information corresponding to a combination of identification information on users, to specify a range of operable information to a combination of the identification information specified by the first specifying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU CONNECTED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Junya Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Fujino
  • Publication number: 20200087160
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium titanate powder for an electrode of an energy storage device, the lithium titanate powder comprising Li4Ti5O12 as a main component, having a specific surface area of 4 m2/g or more, and containing at least one localized element selected from the group consisting of boron (B), Ln (where Ln is at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Hb, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Y, and Sc), and M1 (where M1 is at least one metal element selected from W and Mo), wherein boron (B), Ln, and M1 as the localized element are localized on or near surfaces of lithium titanate particles forming the lithium titanate powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiki KURIHARA, Atsuyoshi NAKAGAWA, Hiroshi FUJINO, Chisen HASHIMOTO, Hirofumi TAKEMOTO, Koji ABE
  • Publication number: 20200006761
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a lithium titanate powder and an active material which, in the case of being applied as an electrode material of an energy storage device, can suppress the gas generation at high temperatures and the capacity reduction in high-temperature charge and discharge cycles and besides can also suppress the resistance rise in the high-temperature charge and discharge cycles, an electrode sheet, of an energy storage device, containing these, and an energy storage device using the electrode sheet. The lithium titanate powder contains Li4Ti5O12 as a main component, wherein the powder contains secondary particles being aggregates of primary particles composed of lithium titanate, and has a DBET of 0.03 ?m or more and 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJINO, Hirofumi TAKEMOTO, Kazuhiro MIYOSHI, Chisen HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190114071
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to perform first executing first display control with respect to a screen, corresponding to a moving quantity of a first operation on a sensor, changing an operation mode with respect to the screen when detecting a second operation different from the first operation on the sensor, and second executing second display control with respect to the screen, corresponding to the moving quantity of the first operation on the screen, after changing the operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU CONNECTED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujino, Miho Kyoya, Takeshi Ueno, Takanori Harada, Hirofumi Endo
  • Publication number: 20180190982
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium titanate powder for an electrode of an energy storage device containing Li4Ti5O12 as its main component, wherein, the specific surface area determined by a BET method is 5 m2/g or more, as peak intensity obtained by X-ray diffraction measurement of the lithium titanate powder, when a peak intensity that derives from a (111) plane of Li4/3Ti5/3O4 is considered to be 100, a sum of a peak intensity that derives from a (101) plane of anatase-type titanium dioxide, a peak intensity that derives from a (110) plane of rutile-type titanium dioxide, and a value calculated by multiplying 100/80 to a peak intensity that derives from the (?133) plane of Li2TiO3 is 1 or less, and a ratio I/I0, a ratio of diffraction integrated intensity I of a (111) plane of Li4Ti5O12 to diffraction integrated intensity I0 of a (111) plane of Si, which are obtained by X-ray diffraction measurement of a lithium titanate powder containing a silicon powder obtained by adding the silicon powder (NIST standard reference m
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJINO, Kazuhiro MIYOSHI, Yasumasa IWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180060556
    Abstract: An authentication method executed by a processor included in a mobile device having a camera, the authentication method includes displaying an image captured by the camera and including irises of a user on a screen of the mobile device based on a position of a displayed guide image specifying positions of eyes; calculating, based on positional relationships between light spots and the regions of the irises, when the light spots included in the image overlap regions of the irises, shift vectors of the light spots when the light spots are shifted until the light spots do not overlap the regions of the irises; and moving the displayed guide image in a movement direction determined based on the shift vectors and executing authentication on the user using the irises displayed based on the position of the displayed guide image after the movement of the guide image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroshi FUJINO
  • Publication number: 20180037467
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium titanate powder for an electrode of an energy storage device, wherein the lithium titanate powder includes Li4Ti5O12 as a main component and has a specific surface area of 5 to 50 m2/g, a total-fine pore volume of the lithium titanate powder is 0.03 to 0.5 ml/g and the lithium titanate powder includes a phosphorus atom in an amount of 0.03 to 1% by mass, an active material containing the lithium titanate powder, an electrode sheet containing the active material, and an energy storage device using the electrode sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro MIYOSHI, Hirofumi TAKEMOTO, Hiroshi FUJINO
  • Patent number: 9850139
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium titanate powder for an electrode of an energy storage device, an active material containing the same, and an energy storage device using the active material. The lithium titanate powder comprises Li4Ti5O12 as a main component, and wherein, when a volume surface diameter calculated from specific surface area determined by the BET method is DBET and a crystallite diameter calculated from half-peak width of (111) plane of Li4Ti5O12 by the Scherrer equation is DX, DBET is 0.1 to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Takemoto, Yoshizumi Tanaka, Hiroshi Fujino, Yasumasa Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 9771273
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium titanate powder for an electrode of an energy storage device, the lithium titanate powder comprising Li4Ti5O12 as a main component, wherein, when the volume surface diameter calculated from the specific surface area determined by the BET method is represented as DBET and the crystallite diameter calculated from the half-peak width of the peak of the (111) plane of Li4Ti5O12 by the Scherrer equation is represented as DX, DBET is 0.1 to 0.6 ?m, DX is greater than 80 nm, and (DBET/DX (?m/?m)) the ratio of DBET to DX is 3 or less. Also provided are an active material including the lithium titanate powder and an energy storage device using the active material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Takemoto, Yoshizumi Tanaka, Hiroshi Fujino, Yasumasa Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20170243063
    Abstract: An authentication method executed by a processor included in an electronic device, the authentication method includes setting a plurality of gaze points on a screen of the electronic device such that an order for the gaze points is determined; capturing a plurality of images of an eye at the gaze points, when the eye gazes at the gaze points according to the order; detecting an iris from each of the images of the eye; calculating an exposure amount of the iris in each of the images of the eye; and releasing restriction of operation on the electronic device, when it is determined that a pattern of the iris agrees with a previously registered template and the exposure amount of the iris agrees with a previously registered value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuji KANEKO, Kota ARIYAMA, Hiroshi FUJINO
  • Publication number: 20170107117
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium titanate powder for an electrode of an energy storage device, an active material containing the same, and an energy storage device using the active material. The lithium titanate powder comprises Li4Ti5O12 as a main component, and wherein, when a volume surface diameter calculated from specific surface area determined by the BET method is DBET and a crystallite diameter calculated from half-peak width of (111) plane of Li4Ti5O12 by the Scherrer equation is DX, DBET is 0.1 to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES. LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi TAKEMOTO, Yoshizumi TANAKA, Hiroshi FUJINO, Yasumasa IWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170068427
    Abstract: A control method executed by a computer having a display that has at least a first display region and a second display region, a plurality of icons being displayed at least in the second display region, includes changing a display surface area of a screen displayed in the first display region in a width direction parallel to an axis on which at least the plurality of icons are aligned, while the first display region maintains a state of abutting the second display region when a change instruction to change the display surface area of the first display region is received; and displaying the plurality of icons displayed in the second display region so as to be displayed inside the second display region which corresponds to the length in the width direction of the screen displayed in the first display region, in response to the change of the display surface area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamada, Junya Yamaguchi, Mai Takahashi, Hiroshi Fujino
  • Publication number: 20160204433
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium titanate powder for an electrode of an energy storage device, the lithium titanate powder comprising Li4Ti5O12 as a main component, wherein, when the volume surface diameter calculated from the specific surface area determined by the BET method is represented as DBET and the crystallite diameter calculated from the half-peak width of the peak of the (111) plane of Li4Ti5O12 by the Scherrer equation is represented as DX, DBET is 0.1 to 0.6 ?m, DX is greater than 80 nm, and (DBET/DX (?m/?m)) the ratio of DBET to DX is 3 or less. Also provided are an active material including the lithium titanate powder and an energy storage device using the active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi TAKEMOTO, Yoshizumi TANAKA, Hiroshi FUJINO, Yasumasa IWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8497624
    Abstract: An Li-containing ?-sialon phosphor particle by mixing a silicon nitride or nitrogen-containing silicon compound powder, an AlN-containing aluminum source, an Li source and an Eu source, firing the mixture at 1,500 to 1,800° C. in a nitrogen-containing inert gas atmosphere under atmospheric pressure to obtain a lithium-containing ?-sialon powder working out to a starting material, adding and mixing an additional lithium source to the powder, and re-firing the obtained mixture at a temperature lower than the above firing temperature or at a temperature of 1,100° C. to less than 1,600° C., at 1,100° C. to less than 1,600° C., in a nitrogen-containing inert gas atmosphere under atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Sakata, Hiroshi Oda, Hiroshi Fujino
  • Publication number: 20130111318
    Abstract: A communication terminal apparatus includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit stores an obtained file and identification information in association with each other. The identification information identifies a source of the obtained file. The processor displays, in a display unit, a screen including a link character string associated with the identification information. The processor displays in the display unit, when a plurality of target files exist in the storage unit, options used to select one of the plurality of target files. Each of the plurality of target files is associated with the identification information which is associated with the link character string included in the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJINO, Katsuaki AKAMA
  • Publication number: 20120319566
    Abstract: An Li-containing ?-sialon phosphor particle by mixing a silicon nitride or nitrogen-containing silicon compound powder, an AlN-containing aluminum source, an Li source and an Eu source, firing the mixture at 1,500 to 1,800° C. in a nitrogen-containing inert gas atmosphere under atmospheric pressure to obtain a lithium-containing ?-sialon powder working out to a starting material, adding and mixing an additional lithium source to the powder, and re-firing the obtained mixture at a temperature lower than the above firing temperature or at a temperature of 1,100° C. to less than 1,600° C., at 1,100° C. to less than 1,600° C., in a nitrogen-containing inert gas atmosphere under atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Sakata, Hiroshi Oda, Hiroshi Fujino