Patents by Inventor Shinya Adachi
Shinya Adachi 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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Patent number: 8185306Abstract: The invention purposes to provide a position information transmission method for accurately transmitting a position and a shape on a digital map with a small amount of data.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Shinya Adachi
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Publication number: 20120095672Abstract: A system includes a transmitting apparatus having a first digital map and a receiving apparatus having a second digital map. The second digital map shows a road segment at a different location from the first digital map due to errors. The transmitting apparatus transmits location information to the receiving apparatus. The location information includes coordinates information, attribute information, and relative information. After receiving the location information from the transmitting apparatus, the receiving apparatus identifies the location of a road segment on the second digital map by using the coordinates information and the attribute information and identifies a location of a traffic event on the road segment on the second digital map by using the relative information. The relative information includes a distance from a start point of a road segment on the first digital map to the location on the road segment on the first digital map.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Adachi, Satoko Miyama, Naoki Yamada, Seiji Yoshida, Yukio Ichikawa, Takashi Kawasato, Hiroyuki Maeda
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Publication number: 20120065879Abstract: A method of transmitting position information of a digital map capable of transmitting a position on a digital map efficiently and accurately in which a transmitting side transmits position information including coordinate series information for specifying a vector shape on a digital map and a receiving side execute map matching by the coordinate series information to thereby identify the vector shape on the digital map, the coordinate series information is transmitted by adding azimuth information of a coordinate point included in the coordinate series information thereto. By transmitting shape data by adding the azimuth information thereto, accuracy of matching can be promoted and necessary time for matching can be shortened.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Shinya Adachi
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Publication number: 20120003564Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a polymer electrolyte membrane, which comprises the steps of: removing a part of a salt component produced during polycondensation from a polymerization solution of a polymer electrolyte having a density of an ionic group of 2 mmol/g or more directly by centrifugal separation, thereby preparing a coating solution; applying the coating solution on a substrate by casting; removing a part of a solvent from the coating solution to form a film-shaped material on the substrate; and bringing the film-shaped material on the substrate into contact with water and/or an aqueous acidic solution to remove the salt component produced during the polycondensation. According to the method for producing an electrolyte membrane, even an electrolyte having a high density of an ionic group can be purified. Also disclosed is an electrolyte membrane capable of being used in a fuel cell which is operated at a high temperature higher than 80° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Shinya Adachi, Mayumi Hara, Tomonori Kawakami, Masayuki Kidai
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Patent number: 8086401Abstract: A method of transmitting position information of a digital map capable of transmitting a position on a digital map efficiently and accurately in which a transmitting side transmits position information including coordinate series information for specifying a vector shape on a digital map and a receiving side execute map matching by the coordinate series information to thereby identify the vector shape on the digital map, the coordinate series information is transmitted by adding azimuth information of a coordinate point included in the coordinate series information thereto. By transmitting shape data by adding the azimuth information thereto, accuracy of matching can be promoted and necessary time for matching can be shortened.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2005Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Shinya Adachi
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Patent number: 8078563Abstract: When transmitting an on-road location on a digital map, an information provider transmits, as on-road location information, string of coordinates information representing the road shape of a road section including the on-road location having a predetermined length, additional information including at least one information item chosen from a group of the attribute information on the road including the road location and detailed information on the nodes in the road section, and relative information indicating the on-road location in the road section. Receiving party receiving this on-road location information performs shape matching to identify the road section on a digital map and uses relative data to identify the on-road location in this road section. The receiving party can identify the road shape with high accuracy even when only a small amount of string of coordinates data is available. This makes it possible to reduce the data transmission amount and identify an on-load location with high accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shinya Adachi, Satoko Miyama, Naoki Yamada, Seiji Yoshida, Yukio Ichikawa, Takashi Kawasato, Hiroyuki Maeda
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Patent number: 7838164Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of producing a membrane electrode assembly using an interface resistance reducing composition which can simply reduce the resistance of the interface between an electrode and an electrolyte membrane in a short time at low temperatures at low pressure without polimerization while maintaining an effect of suppressing a fuel crossover even with an electrolyte membrane having high heat resistance, high strength, a high tensile elastic modulus and a low water content.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2005Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Shinya Adachi, Daisuke Izuhara, Masataka Nakamura, Naoki Shimoyama, Takao Uete, Masayuki Kidai
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Publication number: 20100291460Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of producing a membrane electrode assembly using an interface resistance reducing composition which can simply reduce the resistance of the interface between an electrode and an electrolyte membrane in a short time at low temperatures at low pressure without polimerization while maintaining an effect of suppressing a fuel crossover even with an electrolyte membrane having high heat resistance, high strength, a high tensile elastic modulus and a low water content.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2010Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: SHINYA ADACHI, Daisuke Izuhara, Masataka Nakamura, Naoki Shimoyama, Takao Uete, Masayuki Kidai
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Patent number: 7747381Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a traffic information provision system which can arbitrarily set a position resolution and a traffic representation resolution and flexibly support a traffic information prediction service. The traffic information provision system of the invention quantizes the state quantity of traffic information changing along a road, converts said quantized state quantity to a value having statistical deviation, performs encoding of said value, and provides the encoded value to traffic information utilization apparatus such as a car navigation system. The traffic information utilization apparatus decodes said encoded state quantity to reproduce the traffic information on said road.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2008Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Shinya Adachi
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Patent number: 7713449Abstract: A polymer electrolytic material has excellent proton conductivity and excellent fuel shutting property, and accordingly provide a polymer electrolytic fuel cell with a high efficiency. This polymer electrolytic material has an unfreezable water ratio Rw1 defined by the following expression (S1) in a range of 20 to 100% by weight in hydrated state: Rw1=[Wnf/Wfc+Wnf)]×100??(S1) in which Wnf represents the unfreezable water content per 1 g of the polymer electrolytic material in dry state and Wfc represents the low freezing point water content per 1 g of the polymer electrolytic material in dry state.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2004Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Shinya Adachi, Daisuke Izuhara, Masataka Nakamura, Nobuaki Ito
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Publication number: 20100106410Abstract: Location information transmission apparatus for exchanging information about the on-road location on a digital map, characterized in that apparatus at an information provider comprises a location information converter for converting transmit on-road location information to road shape data including the on-road location consisting of a string of coordinates representing the road shape of a road section having a length that depends on the situation and relative data indicating the on-road location in the road section, and that apparatus at a party receiving the on-road location information comprises a shape matching section for performing shape matching by using the road shape data, identifying the road section on a digital map and identifying the on-road location in the road section by using the relative data. This makes it possible to correctly exchange information about the location on a digital map without defining node numbers or link numbers on a road network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Adachi, Satoko Miyama
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Publication number: 20100070170Abstract: When transmitting an on-road location on a digital map, an information provider transmits, as on-road location information, string of coordinates information representing the road shape of a road section including the on-road location having a predetermined length, additional information including at least one information item chosen from a group of the attribute information on the road including the road location and detailed information on the nodes in the road section, and relative information indicating the on-road location in the road section. Receiving party receiving this on-road location information performs shape matching to identify the road section on a digital map and uses relative data to identify the on-road location in this road section. The receiving party can identify the road shape with high accuracy even when only a small amount of string of coordinates data is available. This makes it possible to reduce the data transmission amount and identify an on-load location with high accuracy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Adachi, Satoko Miyama, Naoki Yamada, Seiji Yoshida, Yukio Ichikawa, Takashi Kawasato, Hiroyuki Maeda
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Patent number: 7657372Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a map matching method capable of performing a process operation in a high speed. In the map matching method of the present invention, while employing road network data in which road networks are formed in a plurality of hierarchical layers “a”, “b”, “c”, and a road network of an upper-grade hierarchical layer is established by such a road network which is extracted from a road network having a lower-grade hierarchical layer lower than the road network having the upper-grade hierarchical layer, a road network of the uppermost-grade hierarchical layer “a” is matched with a shape vector indicative of a shape of a objective road in a beginning stage; and when such a candidate road which is matched with the shape vector cannot be obtained in the road network of the uppermost-grade hierarchical layer “a”, since such a road network having another hierarchical layer “b”, or “c” is matched with the shape vector, the objective road is identified.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2003Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shinya Adachi, Makoto Sato
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Publication number: 20100015493Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of producing a membrane electrode assembly using an interface resistance reducing composition which can simply reduce the resistance of the interface between an electrode and an electrolyte membrane in a short time at low temperatures at low pressure without polimerization while maintaining an effect of suppressing a fuel crossover even with an electrolyte membrane having high heat resistance, high strength, a high tensile elastic modulus and a low water content.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2005Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Shinya Adachi, Daisuke Izuhara, Masataka Nakamura, Naoki Shimoyama, Takao Uete, Masayuki Kidai
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Patent number: 7634452Abstract: When transmitting an on-road location on a digital map, an information provider transmits, as on-road location information, string of coordinates information representing the road shape of a road section including the on-road location having a predetermined length, additional information including at least one information item chosen from a group of the attribute information on the road including the road location and detailed information on the nodes in the road section, and relative information indicating the on-road location in the road section. Receiving party receiving this on-road location information performs shape matching to identify the road section on a digital map and uses relative data to identify the on-road location in this road section. The receiving party can identify the road shape with high accuracy even when only a small amount of string of coordinates data is available. This makes it possible to reduce the data transmission amount and identify an on-load location with high accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2002Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shinya Adachi, Satoko Miyama, Naoki Yamada, Seiji Yoshida, Yukio Ichikawa, Takashi Kawasato, Hiroyuki Maeda
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Publication number: 20090208806Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a polymer electrolyte molded article, which comprises forming a polymer electrolyte precursor having a protective group and an ionic group, and deprotecting at least a portion of protective groups contained in the resulting molded article to obtain a polymer electrolyte molded article. According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain a polymer electrolyte material and a polymer electrolyte molded article, which are excellent in proton conductivity and are also excellent in fuel barrier properties, mechanical strength, physical durability, resistance to hot water, resistance to hot methanol, processability and chemical stability. A polymer electrolyte fuel cell using a polymer electrolyte membrane, polymer electrolyte parts or a membrane electrode assembly can achieve high output, high energy density and long-term durability.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2006Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Daisuke Izuhara, Hiroshi Taiko, Yuriko Okada, Shinya Adachi, Masataka Nakamura
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Patent number: 7539348Abstract: It is an object to provide a method of coding the position information of a digital map in a small data volume by utilizing a compressing and coding technique. In a coding method of coding data indicative of a shape vector on a digital map, an arithmetic processing is carried out over position information about a node string and a shape which indicate the shape vector to be represented by data having a statistical deviation, and the data having the statistical deviation are coded to reduce a data volume. It is possible to considerably decrease a transmission data volume in the case in which the vector shape of the digital map is to be transferred.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2007Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Shinya Adachi
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Patent number: 7528746Abstract: In a coded data generation method of resampling a road shape for setting a plurality of nodes, arranging position information of each node represented by a deflection angle from the immediately preceding node to generate a data string of the deflection angles, converting the deflection angles into predicted difference values each indicating the difference from the predicted value, and variable-length coding the data string of the predicted difference values, the data string of the predicted difference values when the deflection angles are converted into the predicted difference values is evaluated and a prediction expression to calculate the predicted value is selected adaptively from among a plurality of prediction expressions ?=1, ?=2, ?=3, and ?=4 based on the evaluation result. The prediction expression to calculate the predicted value is selected adaptively in response to road shape A, B, C, D, so that the data compression effectiveness is enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2007Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Shinya Adachi
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Publication number: 20080215233Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a traffic information provision system which can arbitrarily set a position resolution and a traffic representation resolution and flexibly support a traffic information prediction service. The traffic information provision system of the invention quantizes the state quantity of traffic information changing along a road, converts said quantized state quantity to a value having statistical deviation, performs encoding of said value, and provides the encoded value to traffic information utilization apparatus such as a car navigation system. The traffic information utilization apparatus decodes said encoded state quantity to reproduce the traffic information on said road.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinya Adachi
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Publication number: 20080201073Abstract: Location information transmission apparatus for exchanging information about the on-road location on a digital map, characterized in that apparatus at an information provider comprises a location information converter for converting transmit on-road location information to road shape data including the on-road location consisting of a string of coordinates representing the road shape of a road section having a length that depends on the situation and relative data indicating the on-road location in the road section, and that apparatus at a party receiving the on-road location information comprises a shape matching section for performing shape matching by using the road shape data, identifying the road section on a digital map and identifying the on-road location in the road section by using the relative data. This makes it possible to correctly exchange information about the location on a digital map without defining node numbers or link numbers on a road network.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya Adachi, Satoko Miyama