Patents by Inventor Makoto Ochi

Makoto Ochi 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: 20170125869
    Abstract: A first power storage section and a second power storage section are connected in parallel. The first power storage section includes a first non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The second power storage section includes parallel-connected second non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries. Each of the second non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries has a higher energy density than that of the first non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. In a case where the second power storage section is discharged at a current value corresponding to a first assumed maximum discharge current value, the parallel-connected number of the second non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries is set such that a discharge rate of each of the second non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries becomes the preset reference discharge rate or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: MAKOTO OCHI, HIROMASA SUGII, KAZUNOBU YOKOTANI, FUMIO YASUTOMI, NORITAKE OKADA
  • Publication number: 20170106758
    Abstract: A hybrid power source connects a secondary battery and an EDLC. A first switch connects the hybrid power source and a lead acid battery in parallel. A power source controlling portion controls power supply to the hybrid power source and the lead acid battery. The hybrid power source is connected to a starter for starting an engine for a vehicle, and also connected to an electric device except for the starter through the first switch, and the lead acid battery is connected to the electric device, and also connected to the starter through the first switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Toshihiro SAKATANI, Hiromasa SUGII, Makoto OCHI, Kazuki MORITA, Takumi YAMAGUCHI, Yohsuke MITANI
  • Patent number: 9533595
    Abstract: In a battery system for a vehicle, a lead battery is connected in parallel to a sub-battery, and a charging resistance r2 of the sub-battery 2 is lower than a charging resistance r1 of the lead battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sakatani, Hiromasa Sugii, Makoto Ochi, Ryuuji Kawase
  • Publication number: 20160241741
    Abstract: A display input device includes a display portion, a touch panel portion and a control portion, and when in a login state, a predetermined processing start time is reached, reduction processing is performed in which in a screen being presently displaced, a display size of a logout key is maintained and in which a display size of a reduction target element that is a screen element other than the logout key is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto OCHI
  • Patent number: 9209457
    Abstract: [Problem] To suppress increases in the resistance of nickel positive electrodes and assure sufficient battery capacity even after repeated pulse charging and discharging cycles with a large current. [Solution] This alkaline storage battery (10) contains aluminum (Al) in a hydrogen storage alloy negative electrode (12) and also includes Al in a nickel positive electrode (11). In a state where a prescribed charging and discharging cycle has completed, the Al content in the nickel positive electrode (11) is 0.25% by mass or greater of that in the positive electrode active material, and in powder x-ray diffraction of the positive electrode active material using Cu—K?, the half-width of the (101) plane peak for Ni(OH)2 is controlled so as to be 0.5 (°/2?) or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsunori Tokuda, Makoto Ochi, Kazuhiro Kitaoka, Masao Takee
  • Publication number: 20150321575
    Abstract: In a battery system for a vehicle, a lead battery is connected in parallel to a sub-battery, and a charging resistance r2 of the sub-battery 2 is lower than a charging resistance r1 of the lead battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Toshihiro SAKATANI, Hiromasa SUGII, Makoto OCHI, Ryuuji KAWASE
  • Publication number: 20150280285
    Abstract: In the storage battery system, from the same temperature and the same voltage as both batteries a decrease per day of an open-circuit voltage of the lead-acid storage battery by a self-discharge is ?V1(V/day) and a decrease per day of an open-circuit voltage of the sub-battery by a self-discharge is ?V2(V/day), and a relation of ?V1??V2 is satisfied. The sub-battery is a nickel hydride storage battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Kenji Fujita, Toshihiro Sakatani, Hiromasa Sugii, Makoto Ochi, Ryuji Kawase, Etsuko Ogasawara, Kazuhiro Sugie
  • Patent number: 9105947
    Abstract: To provide a hydrogen storage alloy for an alkaline storage battery that improves output power by pulverization of the alloy in the initial stage of partial charge and discharge cycles and that maintains its surface condition to improve the amount of lifetime work (Wh), and an alkaline storage battery and battery system. A hydrogen storage alloy for an alkaline storage battery includes a composition expressed by LaxReyMg1-x-yNin-m-vAlmTv (Re: rare earth element(s) including Y; T: Co, Mn, Zn; 0.17?x?0.64, 3.5?n?3.8, 0.06?m?0.22, v?0), and a main phase of an A5B19 type crystal structure. A ratio of X/Y of the concentration ratio X of Al to Ni in a surface layer and the concentration ratio Y of Al to Ni in a bulk layer is 0.36?X/Y?0.85. An alkaline storage battery includes the hydrogen storage alloy in its negative electrode. An alkaline storage battery system performs partial charge and discharge control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Sugii, Makoto Ochi, Shuuhei Yoshida, Yoshinobu Katayama, Kazuhiro Kitaoka, Masao Takee
  • Publication number: 20150180101
    Abstract: An alkaline storage battery comprises a nickel positive electrode having nickel hydroxide as the main positive electrode active material, a hydrogen absorbing alloy negative electrode having a hydrogen absorbing alloy as the negative electrode active material, a separator, an alkaline electrolyte, and an outer can storing the nickel positive electrode, the hydrogen absorbing alloy negative electrode, the separator, and the alkaline electrolyte, and the hydrogen absorbing alloy is expressed by general formula LaxReyMg1-x-yNin-aMa (Re is at least one element selected from rare earth elements including Y, Re is not La, M is at least one element selected from elements other than Co and Mn), and the alkaline electrolyte contains at least one type of compound selected from a tungsten compound, a molybdenum compound, and a niobium compound, and in a system, the alkaline storage battery and a lead battery are connected in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Momoko Harada, Toshihiro Sakatani, Hiromasa Sugii, Makoto Ochi, Ryuji Kawase
  • Patent number: 8914579
    Abstract: Provided is a method that, in the case of managing areas of a non-volatile memory of an information recording module by a file system, increases the speed of processing for writing file data and file system management information, and furthermore prevents a decrease in the rewriting lifetime of the non-volatile memory. The information recording module (2) is provided with a page cache control unit (217) that stores page cache information (224) in the non-volatile memory (22) of the information recording module (2) and performs control such that a specific physical block is used as a cache when writing small-sized data. Also, an access module (1) is provided with a page cache information setting unit (104) that sets information necessary for page cache control in the information recording module (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takuji Maeda, Shigekazu Kogita, Shinji Inoue, Hiroki Etoh, Makoto Ochi, Masahiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8589617
    Abstract: An access device 1 internally includes a logical-physical empty capacity management part 16 for obtaining information of a remaining capacity on a write once memory from a write once recording device 2A. In addition, the write once recording device 2A internally includes a physical empty capacity management part 27 for managing a remaining capacity on the write once memory and notifying the access device of the capacity. Prior to recording of file data, the access device 1 can know an accurate remaining capacity of the write once recording device by: obtaining a remaining capacity of the write once memory from the write once recording device 2A; and comparing the capacity with a remaining capacity on an FAT to decide an actually-recordable remaining capacity for file data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takuji Maeda, Shinji Inoue, Hiroki Etoh, Masahiro Nakamura, Makoto Ochi, Yukiko Okamoto, Masahiro Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20130295460
    Abstract: [Problem] To suppress increases in the resistance of nickel positive electrodes and assure sufficient battery capacity even after repeated pulse charging and discharging cycles with a large current. [Solution] This alkaline storage battery (10) contains aluminum (Al) in a hydrogen storage alloy negative electrode (12) and also includes Al in a nickel positive electrode (11). In a state where a prescribed charging and discharging cycle has completed, the Al content in the nickel positive electrode (11) is 0.25% by mass or greater of that in the positive electrode active material, and in powder x-ray diffraction of the positive electrode active material using Cu—K?, the half-width of the (101) plane peak for Ni(OH)2 is controlled so as to be 0.5 (°/2?) or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsunori Tokuda, Makoto Ochi, Kazuhiro Kitaoka, Masao Takee
  • Patent number: 8397303
    Abstract: In a memory controller according to the present invention, an external I/F unit receives ID information associated with data from the outside of a non-volatile memory, and a recording controller manages a recording position of the data in the non-volatile memory based on the ID information, so that an amount of time necessary for the retrieval of rights information based on the ID information is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ochi, Hiroki Etoh, Masahiro Nakanishi, Hirokazu So, Hiroshi Sakurai, Masato Suto
  • Patent number: 8393005
    Abstract: A recording medium (100) for storing content that can be read and written by a host device stores a content key (a key that is used for encrypting content) (805a) encrypted in a first format, and a content key (805b) that is encrypted in a second format for content that is the same as the content related to the content key (805a) encrypted in the first format. The first format is, for example, a format used for distributed content, and the second format is a format used with local content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ochi, Hirokazu So, Shinji Inoue, Kazuya Fujimura, Takuji Maeda, Masato Suto, Yukiko Inoue
  • Patent number: 8279470
    Abstract: To reduce a load required for data transfer and data processing to improve processing speed of those. A display data memory stores as display data a configuration image simulating an overall configuration of a combination of a main body and an attachment. An image display device provided on either one of the main body and the attachment includes a display screen having a display area divided into a plurality of divisional areas for displaying the configuration image. A CPU determines displaying and non-displaying on each of the plurality of divisional areas, and controls the image display device to allow a part of the configuration image to be displayed on a divisional area which is determined to be displayed in accordance with display data, and to allow an other part of the configuration image not to be displayed to on a divisional area which is determined not to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Nishikawa, Makoto Ochi
  • Patent number: 8257862
    Abstract: Disclosed is an alkaline storage battery comprising a negative electrode, a positive electrode, a separator and an alkaline electrolyte solution in a package can. The negative electrode contains a hydrogen storage alloy represented by the following general formula: Ln1-xMgx(Ni1-yTy)z (wherein Ln represents at least one element selected from lanthanoid elements, Ca, Sr, Sc, Y, Ti, Zr and Hf; T represents at least one element selected from V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, Mn, Fe, Co, Al, Ga, Zn, Sn, In, Cu, Si, P and B; and 0<x?1, 0?y?0.5 and 2.5?z?4.5) as a negative electrode active material. In this alkaline storage battery, the hydrogen equilibrium pressure (P) is regulated to satisfy 0.02 MPa?P?0.11 MPa when the hydrogen amount stored in the hydrogen storage alloy (H/M (atomic ratio)) at 40° C. is 0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Katayama, Shuhei Yoshida, Hiromasa Sugii, Yasuyuki Harada, Yoshihiro Masuda, Makoto Ochi, Masao Takee
  • Patent number: 8227107
    Abstract: A cylindrical secondary battery comprises a current collector assembly that electrically connects the sealing cover with a core of one of the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate. The current collector assembly is composed of a combination of a current collector plate having a plate shape that is provided on an upper part of the electrode assembly and a current collector lead including a cylindrical part having opposed top and bottom parts and an axis along a main surface of the current collector plate, the top part is joined to a sealing plate that is a bottom surface of the sealing cover, and the bottom part is joined to the current collector plate The current collector lead further includes at least one rectangular tab part extending from an opening edge of the cylindrical part in a direction of the axis, and electrically connected with the current collector plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsutoshi Akou, Ryu Yamashita, Makoto Ochi, Kazuhiro Kitaoka, Yuuji Shinohara, Hiromasa Sugii
  • Patent number: 8185746
    Abstract: In a target apparatus which stores at least one piece of domain key information in a first area and a plurality of pieces of content key information each associated with any one of the domain key information in a second area, a method for generating data for detecting tampering of the content key information. The method comprises the steps of encrypting the content key information associated with one of the domain key information using a chain encryption technique, extracting data at predetermined positions in the encrypted content key information, concatenating the pieces of data extracted at the predetermined positions in the encrypted content key information to obtain concatenated data, performing a hash calculation with respect to the concatenated data to obtain a hash value, storing check values corresponding to the data at the predetermined positions in plain text, in the target apparatus, and storing the hash value in the target apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya Satou, Makoto Fujiwara, Kentarou Shiomi, Yusuke Nemoto, Yuishi Torisaki, Kazuya Shimzu, Shinji Inoue, Kazuya Fujimura, Makoto Ochi
  • Patent number: 8161225
    Abstract: A card information-storing portion is provided in a semiconductor memory card, and information relating to access performance such as access condition and access rate is held in the storing portion. Further, an access device acquires the held information from the semiconductor memory card to make it possible that the information can be used for control of a file system. This optimizes processing of the access device and the semiconductor memory card independent of differences in characteristics of semiconductor memory cards and management methods used, realizing high-rate access from the access device to a semiconductor memory card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takuji Maeda, Shinji Inoue, Yoshiho Gotoh, Jun Ohara, Masahiro Nakanishi, Shoichi Tsujita, Tomoaki Izumi, Tetsushi Kasahara, Kazuaki Tamura, Kiminori Matsuno, Koichi Horiuchi, Manabu Inoue, Makoto Ochi
  • Publication number: 20120052353
    Abstract: The invention is directed to provide a cylindrical nickel-hydrogen storage battery having high discharge power densities both at SOC 50% and at SOC 20%. In an alkaline storage battery according to an embodiment of the invention, a nickel positive electrode formed into a rectangular shape has a short side length of X and a long side length of Y, the ratio (Y/X) of the long side length to the short side length is 25 or more and 40 or less (25?Y/X?40), the short side length is 25 mm or more and 45 mm or less (25 mm?X?45 mm), and the battery capacity is 3 Ah or more and 7 Ah or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Sugii, Makoto Ochi, Akira Nishida, Kazuhiro Kitaoka