Patents by Inventor Motohiro Suzuki
Motohiro Suzuki 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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Publication number: 20240128448Abstract: An electrode mixture for batteries according to one embodiment contains a binder and an active material which is capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ions. This electrode mixture additionally contains a layered silicate salt compound; and the content of the layered silicate salt compound is more than 0.1% by mass, and preferably less than 0.9% by mass relative to the mass of the active material. One example of the layered silicate salt compound is at least one kind of smectite. In addition, it is preferable that this electrode mixture additionally contains carbon nanotubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirotetsu Suzuki, Motohiro Sakata
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Patent number: 11284294Abstract: A determination unit of a communication apparatus determines whether or not there has been a change of trend in the communication volume. This determination is performed based on a communication volume per session of a plurality of non-management access destination sessions in a first unit period, and a transition trend of a communication volume per session of a plurality of non-management access destination sessions in a first period. A specifying unit specifies, when it is determined that there has been a change of trend in the communication volume, an access destination that is newly set as a traffic control target access destination among a plurality of non-management access destinations that correspond to the plurality of respective non-management access destination sessions. This specification is performed based on increase rates of the communication volumes for the respective non-management access destination sessions in the first unit period and a second period.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Motohiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 11268003Abstract: Provided is a heat storage device (10) of the present disclosure comprises a heat storage material (12) containing sodium acetate trihydrate; a first electrode having a surface which is in contact with the heat storage material and formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of silver, a silver alloy, and a silver compound; a second electrode in contact with the heat storage material; an inorganic porous material contained in the heat storage material; and a power supply (14) for applying a voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode. The inorganic porous material has an average pore diameter of not more than 50 nanometers. The present invention provides a heat storage device capable of releasing heat by releasing a supercooled state by voltage application. The heat storage device can be used repeatedly.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Kubo, Motohiro Suzuki, Hironobu Machida, Shinsuke Takeguchi, Kentaro Shii, Naoyuki Tani, Tatsuya Nakamura
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Publication number: 20210292631Abstract: A cold storage material composition contains tetra-n-butylammonium bromide, water, and 1-propanol. The weight ratio of tetra-n-butylammonium bromide to water is greater than or equal to 37.5/62.5 and less than or equal to 40/60. The molar ratio of 1-propanol to water is greater than or equal to 0.043 and less than or equal to 0.065. The cold storage material composition has a fusion heat of greater than or equal to 135 J/g within a range of higher than or equal to 2 degrees Celsius and lower than or equal to 8 degrees Celsius and has a heat flow peak within a range of higher than or equal to 2 degrees Celsius and lower than or equal to 8 degrees Celsius.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: MOTOHIRO SUZUKI, HIRONOBU MACHIDA
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Patent number: 11028302Abstract: Provided is a cold storage medium according to the present invention contains tetra-n-butylammonium ions, silver ions, at least one kind of halide ions selected from the group consisting of fluoride ions, chloride ions, and bromide ions, water, and at least one kind of carboxylic acid ions each represented by the following chemical formula R—COO? (where R represents a hydrocarbon group).Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hironobu Machida, Motohiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 10921064Abstract: A heat storage apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a heat storage material and a member. The heat storage material forms a clathrate hydrate by cooling. The member has a surface with a plurality of holes. In the case that the lattice constant of the clathrate hydrate is denoted by L and the outside diameter of a cage included in the clathrate hydrate is denoted by D, the plurality of holes are spaced at intervals of 1L to 10L, and each of the plurality of holes has a hole diameter of 1D to 20D.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hironobu Machida, Motohiro Suzuki, Shinsuke Takeguchi, Kentaro Shii
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Patent number: 10897416Abstract: A transmitting side device generates a plurality of measurement packets of which the packet size is successively increased or decreased by a fixed number each time, includes in each measurement packet at least a packet number, a packet size, and a transmission time, to create a packet train, and transmits the packet train at predetermined equal intervals. A receiving side device measures the time of arrival of each of the measurement packets constituting the packet train, and extracts as a valid packet a series of measurement packets at a location where a change in the measured time of arrival matches an arrival time change model having a predetermined pattern. A network available band is computed using a measurement packet, among a series of measurement packets having equal arrival times, that has a maximum packet size.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Motohiro Suzuki, Yuki Ohno
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Publication number: 20200351706Abstract: A determination unit of a communication apparatus determines whether or not there has been a change of trend in the communication volume. This determination is performed based on a communication volume per session of a plurality of non-management access destination sessions in a first unit period, and a transition trend of a communication volume per session of a plurality of non-management access destination sessions in a first period. A specifying unit specifies, when it is determined that there has been a change of trend in the communication volume, an access destination that is newly set as a traffic control target access destination among a plurality of non-management access destinations that correspond to the plurality of respective non-management access destination sessions. This specification is performed based on increase rates of the communication volumes for the respective non-management access destination sessions in the first unit period and a second period.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2018Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Motohiro SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10674392Abstract: A reception unit 11 receives transmitted packets. A first available band calculation unit 12 and a second available band calculation unit 13 calculate an available band for a transmission source of the packets. A calculation means determination unit 14 determines, on the basis of the reception states of the packets transmitted at predetermined time intervals in the reception unit 11, whether the first available band calculation unit 12 calculates the available band or the second available band calculation unit 13 calculates the available band. The first available band calculation unit 12 calculates the available band on the basis of a reception interval between the packets. The second available band calculation unit 13 calculates the available band on the basis of a time required for the reception of the transmitted series of packets and the sizes of the series of the packets.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Motohiro Suzuki, Yuki Ohno
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Publication number: 20200102485Abstract: Provided is a cold storage medium according to the present invention contains tetra-n-butylammonium ions, silver ions, at least one kind of halide ions selected from the group consisting of fluoride ions, chloride ions, and bromide ions, water, and at least one kind of carboxylic acid ions each represented by the following chemical formula R—COO? (where R represents a hydrocarbon group).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: HIRONOBU MACHIDA, MOTOHIRO SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20200063012Abstract: Provided is a heat storage device (10) of the present disclosure comprises a heat storage material (12) containing sodium acetate trihydrate; a first electrode having a surface which is in contact with the heat storage material and formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of silver, a silver alloy, and a silver compound; a second electrode in contact with the heat storage material; an inorganic porous material contained in the heat storage material; and a power supply (14) for applying a voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode. The inorganic porous material has an average pore diameter of not more than 50 nanometers. The present invention provides a heat storage device capable of releasing heat by releasing a supercooled state by voltage application. The heat storage device can be used repeatedly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: TAKASHI KUBO, MOTOHIRO SUZUKI, HIRONOBU MACHIDA, SHINSUKE TAKEGUCHI, KENTARO SHII, NAOYUKI TANI, TATSUYA NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 10571202Abstract: The heat storage apparatus of the present disclosure includes a casing, a heat storage material that is located in the casing, a stirrer that is located in the casing, that is in contact with the heat storage material, and that rotates to stir the heat storage material, and a projection that is in contact with the heat storage material, that projects from the stirrer, and that rotates with rotation of the stirrer. The projection is continuously in contact with an inner face of the casing while the stirrer rotates.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hironobu Machida, Motohiro Suzuki, Shinsuke Takeguchi, Takashi Kubo, Kentaro Shii, Naoyuki Tani, Tatsuya Nakamura
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Patent number: 10337805Abstract: A heat storage device (1) of the present disclosure includes: a heat storage container (10) having an inlet (2) and an outlet (3) for a heat medium; a plate-like heat storage body (4) disposed in the heat storage container (10) and having a heat storage material (4a) and an envelope (4b) containing the heat storage material (4a); a plate-like spacer (6) placed on the heat storage body (4) in the heat storage container (10) and having a plurality of contact portions (6a) that are in contact with the heat storage body (4) and a plurality of non-contact portions (6b) that are spaced from the heat storage body (4), the contact portions (6a) and the non-contact portions (6b) being alternately formed in a specific direction; and a plurality of flow paths (5) for leading the heat medium from the inlet (2) to the outlet (3), the flow paths being formed by a surface of the heat storage body (4) and the non-contact portions (6b) and extending in a direction intersecting the specific direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Motohiro Suzuki, Hironori Tomita, Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Atsunori Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20190190807Abstract: A transmitting side device generates a plurality of measurement packets of which the packet size is successively increased or decreased by a fixed number each time, includes in each measurement packet at least a packet number, a packet size, and a transmission time, to create a packet train, and transmits the packet train at predetermined equal intervals. A receiving side device measures the time of arrival of each of the measurement packets constituting the packet train, and extracts as a valid packet a series of measurement packets at a location where a change in the measured time of arrival matches an arrival time change model having a predetermined pattern. A network available band is computed using a measurement packet, among a series of measurement packets having equal arrival times, that has a maximum packet size.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Motohiro SUZUKI, Yuki OHNO
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Patent number: 10326677Abstract: A communication device includes: a receiver unit that receives a plurality of measurement packets among a plurality of measurement packets that respectively have consecutive numbers and are scheduled to be received; an extraction unit that extracts a valid packet group including a plurality of measurement packets having consecutive numbers from among the plurality of received measurement packets; and a calculation unit that calculates an available bandwidth using the extracted valid packet group.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Motohiro Suzuki, Kanako Anetai
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Publication number: 20190078845Abstract: A heat storage apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a heat storage material and a member. The heat storage material forms a clathrate hydrate by cooling. The member has a surface with a plurality of holes. In the case that the lattice constant of the clathrate hydrate is denoted by L and the outside diameter of a cage included in the clathrate hydrate is denoted by D, the plurality of holes are spaced at intervals of 1L to 10L, and each of the plurality of holes has a hole diameter of 1D to 20D.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Hironobu MACHIDA, Motohiro SUZUKI, Shinsuke TAKEGUCHI, Kentaro SHII
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Patent number: 10230606Abstract: A communication device performs communication with an external device. The communication device includes: a measurement packet transmission unit that transmits a measurement packet at a first transmission time point; a return packet reception unit that receives a return packet at a second reception time point, the return packet being transmitted at a second transmission time point, the return packet including information relating to a processing time indicating a duration from a first reception time point at which the measurement packet is received by the external device, to the second transmission time point, the return packet having a same packet size as the measurement packet; and a delay time specification unit that specifies, as a round-trip delay time, a duration obtained by subtracting the processing time from a duration from the first transmission time point to the second reception time point.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Motohiro Suzuki, Kanako Anetai
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Publication number: 20190075481Abstract: A reception unit 11 receives transmitted packets. A first available band calculation unit 12 and a second available band calculation unit 13 calculate an available band for a transmission source of the packets. A calculation means determination unit 14 determines, on the basis of the reception states of the packets transmitted at predetermined time intervals in the reception unit 11, whether the first available band calculation unit 12 calculates the available band or the second available band calculation unit 13 calculates the available band. The first available band calculation unit 12 calculates the available band on the basis of a reception interval between the packets. The second available band calculation unit 13 calculates the available band on the basis of a time required for the reception of the transmitted series of packets and the sizes of the series of the packets.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2017Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Motohiro SUZUKI, Yuki OHNO
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Patent number: 10222095Abstract: A heat storage apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a casing, a heat storage material, and movable components. An internal space in the casing is partitioned into a plurality of spaces. The heat storage material is located in each of the plurality of spaces. At least one movable component is disposed in contact with the heat storage material in each of the plurality of spaces, and is capable of changing a position thereof relative to a position of the casing as time proceeds.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hironobu Machida, Motohiro Suzuki, Shinsuke Takeguchi, Kentaro Shii, Masaaki Nagai
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Patent number: 10161688Abstract: A heat storage apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a heat storage material and a member. The heat storage material forms a clathrate hydrate by cooling. The member has a surface with a plurality of holes. In the case that the lattice constant of the clathrate hydrate is denoted by L and the outside diameter of a cage included in the clathrate hydrate is denoted by D, the plurality of holes are spaced at intervals of 1L to 10L, and each of the plurality of holes has a hole diameter of 1D to 20D.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hironobu Machida, Motohiro Suzuki, Shinsuke Takeguchi, Kentaro Shii