Patents by Inventor Minoru Yagi

Minoru Yagi 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: 20240097221
    Abstract: There is provided a nickel-zinc secondary battery including, in a sealed container, a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. An oxygen absorber is provided in a position where oxygen generated in the positive electrode in the sealed container is absorbable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Minoru TANIMOTO, Takeshi YAGI
  • Publication number: 20210257684
    Abstract: Provided is a gas adsorption sheet for a secondary battery, which contains gas adsorbent particles excellent in gas adsorption property, and allows the gas adsorption performance of the gas adsorbent particles to be sufficiently exhibited. According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a gas adsorption sheet for a secondary battery, including: a heat-resistant base material; and a gas adsorption layer arranged on at least one surface of the heat-resistant base material, wherein the gas adsorption layer contains: a binder resin; and gas adsorbent particles each of which is formed of an inorganic porous material having pores, and is capable of adsorbing a gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota NAKAO, Daisuke SHIMOKAWA, Shigeki KAWABE, Mitsuru NOZUE, Minoru YAGI
  • Patent number: 11053144
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the installation load, or the maintenance or the management load of a measurement device for ballast water that is measured for plural times, and to simplify the linkage between ballast water process equipment and a ballast water measurement device that are installed in a ship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Fukuzawa, Kaname Harada, Kazuhiko Tsunoda, Minoru Yagi
  • Patent number: 10544606
    Abstract: A door lock control system includes a first device including a first transmitter, a first receiver, and a first controller configured to measure first signal strengths of radio signals received from a plurality of surrounding devices by the first receiver, and control the first transmitter to transmit the measured first signal strengths to a second device. The system further includes the second device including a second receiver and a second controller configured to measure second signal strengths of radio signals received from a plurality of surrounding devices by the second receiver, control the second receiver to receive the first signal strengths from the first device, compare the first signal strengths with the second signal strengths, and control a door lock based on the comparison of the first and the second signal strengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kai Sasadate, Masaki Jono, Hiroaki Sugita, Tetsuro Oishi, Minoru Yagi
  • Publication number: 20200010344
    Abstract: An equipment management system for a ship includes a communicating part that acquires from the ship by radio notification information including one piece of state information, or two or more pieces of state information selected from pieces of state information on at least ballast water process equipment, boiler equipment, and water desalination process equipment loaded on the ship, and a processing part that extracts the pieces of state information on the ballast water process equipment, the boiler equipment, or the water desalination process equipment from the notification information acquired from the ship, produces management information including drug information at least necessary for the ballast water process equipment, the boiler equipment, or the water desalination process equipment, and causes the communicating part to send out the management information to the ship sending out at least the notification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Kotaro FUKUZAWA, Kaname HARADA, Kazuhiko TSUNODA, Minoru YAGI
  • Publication number: 20190359509
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the installation load, or the maintenance or the management load of a measurement device for ballast water that is measured for plural times, and to simplify the linkage between ballast water process equipment and a ballast water measurement device that are installed in a ship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kotaro FUKUZAWA, Kaname HARADA, Kazuhiko TSUNODA, Minoru YAGI
  • Publication number: 20190277066
    Abstract: A door lock control system includes a first device including a first transmitter, a first receiver, and a first controller configured to measure first signal strengths of radio signals received from a plurality of surrounding devices by the first receiver, and control the first transmitter to transmit the measured first signal strengths to a second device. The system further includes the second device including a second receiver and a second controller configured to measure second signal strengths of radio signals received from a plurality of surrounding devices by the second receiver, control the second receiver to receive the first signal strengths from the first device, compare the first signal strengths with the second signal strengths, and control a door lock based on the comparison of the first and the second signal strengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Kai SASADATE, Masaki JONO, Hiroaki SUGITA, Tetsuro OISHI, Minoru YAGI
  • Publication number: 20190190057
    Abstract: A lithium ion battery E comprises a positive electrode terminal, a negative electrode terminal, and a battery case, which is an airtight container, and an electrode body is accommodated inside the battery case. The electrode body has a positive electrode current collector, a positive-electrode electrode plate, a negative electrode current collector, and a negative-electrode electrode plate, and the positive-electrode electrode plate and the negative-electrode electrode plate form a laminated structure via a separator. Further, a metal ion removal agent is placed in a gap portion in the battery case. The metal ion removal agent has a transition metal ion adsorption capability, and preferably has a moisture removal capability, and is preferably made of a zeolite, in particular, an A-type zeolite ion-exchanged with Ca. Such a lithium ion battery is capable of capturing transition metal ions dissolved from a positive electrode active material, which improves battery lifetime properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Mitsuru NOZUE, Minoru YAGI
  • Publication number: 20180170704
    Abstract: Provided is a method for conveying a sheet member while the sheet member is supported by a roller member, the method including: detecting forces applied, by the sheet member supported by the roller member, to regions at both ends in a width direction of the roller member, respectively, as force components in a plurality of mutually different directions; and adjusting the force components in the regions at both ends in the width direction to a specific balance based on the detection results for the plurality of force components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Yagi, Sonjin Ryu, Hirofumi Nomoto, Koji Fujii, Daigoro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9172072
    Abstract: [PROBLEM] In space-conservative fashion, at low cost, and with high efficiency, to carry out absorption of gas produced at the interior of a battery. [SOLUTION MEANS] Secondary battery 21 is provided with case 3 in which positive electrode 10 and negative electrode 11 are sealed together with electrolyte, and with explosion prevention valve 4 for allowing escape of high-pressure gas present at the interior of case 3 when pressure within case 3 rises; and is further provided with gas absorber 13 or 14 for absorbing high-pressure gas. Gas absorber 13, includes gas-absorbent material 6 and capsule 5, which comprises hot-melt material, and is provided within case 3, this capsule 5 including, at the interior thereof, gas-absorbent material 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: GS Yuasa International Ltd, KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Shibata, Yoshinobu Yasunaga, Tsutomu Watanabe, Tokuo Inamasu, Ryoichi Okuyama, Minoru Yagi, Hiroshi Obuse, Shinichi Wada
  • Publication number: 20150266054
    Abstract: Provided is a coating apparatus that included a coating unit that coats a target to be coated with a coating liquid; a housing unit that houses the coating liquid to be supplied to the coating unit; and a conduit that supplies the coating liquid from above into the housing unit, in which the conduit has an end portion on a side through which the coating liquid is discharged, the end portion being provided with an opening portion through which the coating liquid is discharged, and a bent portion that is bent so as to have the opening portion directed upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Komatsubara, Masashi Miyake, Minoru Yagi
  • Patent number: 9061312
    Abstract: An inner deckle for a die includes a shaft-shaped deckle main body and a sheet- or film-shaped deckle auxiliary portion extending from the deckle main body. The inner deckle is arranged at each end of a die. The die includes a die piece and is formed with a manifold and a slit. The deckle main body includes a seal reinforcing portion. A liquid material is supplied into the manifold. The seal reinforcing portion includes at least one sealing member having two or more films. The films slide and are simultaneously elastically deformed against an inner wall of the manifold when a position of the inner deckle is moved with respect to the die. The films cooperate with each other and are closely attached to the inner wall by an elastic restoring force when the position of the inner deckle is fixed with respect to the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kitani, Minoru Yagi, Yoshihiro Kitamura, Isao Hirose, Hiroshi Matsuo, Tetsuo Nasu, Tadao Horie, Shogo Sasaki, Hiroo Igarashi
  • Patent number: 9020219
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes at least a parallax image generation unit and a display unit. The parallax image generation unit generates combined data of a three-dimensional medical image data and a text information, and generates a plurality of parallax image data by performing projection processing on the combined data along a corresponding plurality of parallax directions. The display unit displays a plurality of parallax images, based on the plurality of the parallax image data, in the corresponding plurality of parallax directions such that a three-dimensional medical image based on the three-dimensional medical image data and a text plane based on the text information are perceived stereoscopically viewable by an observer. The parallax image generation unit changes orientation of a display region for the text information in generating the combined data according to each of the parallax directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yagi, Shinya Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 8819175
    Abstract: A medical-information management system, connected via a network to multiple servers including medical-information memories storing medical information, which manages the medical information by distributing the medical information of multiple medical facilities to the multiple servers, comprises operating-time-information memory, operational-status analysis part, and medical-information transmission part. The operating-time-information memory stores respective operating times of each of multiple servers. The management-information memory stores management information indicating servers in which the medical information is stored. The operational-status analysis part provides notification of other servers other than a first server based on information indicating operating times. The medical-information transmission part determines a second server for temporarily saving the medical information from among the notified other servers, and transmits the medical information to the second server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Longxun Piao, Masaaki Nagashima, Kousuke Sakaue, Minoru Yagi, Satoshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8755170
    Abstract: A metal electrolytic capacitor capable of quickly absorbing and immobilizing a belching vapor of a driving electrolyte and widely reducing leakage when an explosion-proof valve operates. An aluminum electrolytic capacitor body is configured by housing a capacitor element in a cylindrical aluminum case, a pair of leads extend from the capacitor body, an explosion-proof valve. is formed on a top panel portion of the metal case, a cylindrical cap as a casing is attached from above to the capacitor body, a plurality of small openings are formed on a top panel portion (bottom portion) of the cap, and an absorbent or a mixture of an absorbent and a water molecular compound wrapped in a permeable fiber material, such as unwoven fabric and filter paper, is placed in a space between the cap and the top panel portion of the capacitor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Mori, Mitsuru Nozue, Minoru Yagi
  • Publication number: 20140102360
    Abstract: An inner deckle for a die includes a shaft-shaped deckle main body and a sheet- or film-shaped deckle auxiliary portion extending from the deckle main body. The inner deckle is arranged at each end of a die. The die includes a die piece and is formed with a manifold and a slit. The deckle main body includes a seal reinforcing portion. A liquid material is supplied into the manifold. The seal reinforcing portion includes at least one sealing member having two or more films. The films slide and are simultaneously elastically deformed against an inner wall of the manifold when a position of the inner deckle is moved with respect to the die. The films cooperate with each other and are closely attached to the inner wall by an elastic restoring force when the position of the inner deckle is fixed with respect to the die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kitani, Minoru Yagi, Yoshihiro Kitamura, Isao Hirose, Hiroshi Matsuo, Tetsuo Nasu, Tadao Horie, Shogo Sasaki, Hiroo Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20130171483
    Abstract: [PROBLEM] In space-conservative fashion, at low cost, and with high efficiency, to carry out absorption of gas produced at the interior of a battery. [SOLUTION MEANS] Secondary battery 21 is provided with case 3 in which positive electrode 10 and negative electrode 11 are sealed together with electrolyte, and with explosion prevention valve 4 for allowing escape of high-pressure gas present at the interior of case 3 when pressure within case 3 rises; and is further provided with gas absorber 13 or 14 for absorbing high-pressure gas. Gas absorber 13, includes gas-absorbent material 6 and capsule 5, which comprises hot-melt material, and is provided within case 3, this capsule 5 including, at the interior thereof, gas-absorbent material 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicants: KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD., GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Shibata, Yoshinobu Yasunaga, Tsutomu Watanabe, Tokuo Inamasu, Ryoichi Okuyama, Minoru Yagi, Hiroshi Obuse, Shinichi Wada
  • Patent number: 8420164
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid type rubber-based pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, which is prepared by adding a tackifier, a softener, and an isocyanate-based crosslinking agent reactable with active hydrogen into an acrylic rubber containing a monomer having an active hydrogen-containing functional group as a copolymerization component to thereby obtain a solventless and nonaqueous pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, and particularly it relates to a solid type rubber-based pressure-sensitive adhesive composition having the above-mentioned constitution, in which the above-mentioned acrylic rubber includes a copolymer containing butyl acrylate as a main component, and as the copolymerization component a monomer having a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group as the active hydrogen-containing functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoo Yamaguchi, Yasunobu Ina, Tomoaki Uchiyama, Minoru Yagi
  • Publication number: 20130058072
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-source device that allows for the color recognition and can prevent a UV (ultraviolet)-sensitive illuminated object from becoming exposed. A user can freely select the wavelength of said light-source device in accordance with the intended use. The light-source device is provided with a light-source unit comprising a combination of a plurality of light-emitting diode elements that emit different wavelengths of light; a control unit that controls the output of each of the various light-emitting diode elements in the light-source unit independently of each other; and a power supply unit that supplies power to the light-source unit and the control unit. The plurality of light-emitting diode elements include, at least, a blue light-emitting diode element. The blue light-emitting diode element emits a blue light with a wavelength of at least above 420 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Intexs Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Yagi
  • Publication number: 20120281893
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes at least a parallax image generation unit and a display unit. The parallax image generation unit generates combined data of a three-dimensional medical image data and a text information, and generates a plurality of parallax image data by performing projection processing on the combined data along a corresponding plurality of parallax directions. The display unit displays a plurality of parallax images, based on the plurality of the parallax image data, in the corresponding plurality of parallax directions such that a three-dimensional medical image based on the three-dimensional medical image data and a text plane based on the text information are perceived stereoscopically viewable by an observer. The parallax image generation unit changes orientation of a display region for the text information in generating the combined data according to each of the parallax directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Minoru YAGI, Shinya Sugiyama