Patents by Inventor Shinichiro SHICHI

Shinichiro SHICHI 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: 20230170534
    Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery including a power generation unit including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, a porous separator, and an electrolytic solution. The negative electrode layer is a dissolution-deposition electrode. When viewed in plan view, a functional region, identified as a region where the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the electrolytic solution, and the porous separator overlap, is divided into power generation regions and a linear non-power generation region demarcating each power generation region. The power generation regions have a value ? of 30 or less, the value ? being defined by the equation: ?=?P/wt, wherein ? represents an area equivalent diameter (mm) per region of the power generation regions, P represents a thickness (mm) of the negative electrode layer, w represents a line width (mm) of the non-power generation region, and t represents a thickness (mm) of the porous separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichiro SHICHI, Kunihiko YOSHIOKA
  • Patent number: 11300538
    Abstract: In a gas sensor assembling apparatus configured to integrate first and second gas sensor components, a posture adjustment part configured to adjust the posture of a first member in a horizontal plane adjusts the posture of the first member to an insertion possible posture determined in advance while holding the first member having been transferred from a conveyance mechanism at a posture adjustment position fixedly determined in advance, and transfers the first member in the insertion possible posture to the conveyance mechanism while maintaining at the posture adjustment position, the conveyance mechanism conveys, to an integration position, the first member in the insertion possible posture, and at the integration position, the first member and the second member are integrated with each other by inserting a sensor element of a second member into an insertion port of the first member in the insertion possible posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Hattori, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Shinichiro Shichi
  • Publication number: 20190086358
    Abstract: In a gas sensor assembling apparatus configured to integrate first and second gas sensor components, a posture adjustment part configured to adjust the posture of a first member in a horizontal plane adjusts the posture of the first member to an insertion possible posture determined in advance while holding the first member having been transferred from a conveyance mechanism at a posture adjustment position fixedly determined in advance, and transfers the first member in the insertion possible posture to the conveyance mechanism while maintaining at the posture adjustment position, the conveyance mechanism conveys, to an integration position, the first member in the insertion possible posture, and at the integration position, the first member and the second member are integrated with each other by inserting a sensor element of a second member into an insertion port of the first member in the insertion possible posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsuya HATTORI, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Shinichiro SHICHI