Patents by Inventor Takuro Ueda

Takuro Ueda 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).

  • Patent number: 11916183
    Abstract: The power storage device includes power storage units arranged with a conductive plate interposed therebetween in the vertical direction, each of the power storage units includes an electrode stack including bipolar electrodes stacked with a separator interposed therebetween, and a sealing member provided around the electrode stack so as to seal a housing space formed between adjacent electrodes of the electrode stack. At least one of the power storage units is provided with an overhang member on an outer peripheral surface of the sealing member. The overhang member includes an inclined portion that extends from the outer peripheral surface of the sealing member toward the outside of the power storage unit and inclines downward as it leaves away from the outer peripheral surface of the sealing member, and a top portion formed at a lower end of the inclined portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Daiki Terashima, Satoshi Morioka, Takuro Kikuchi, Motoyoshi Okumura, Kojiro Tamaru, Hiromi Ueda, Satoshi Hamaoka, Masahiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 8496742
    Abstract: In an absorbing tower including an absorption unit of relatively small diameter capable of absorption and removal by an absorbent slurry for exhaust gas purification and a tank unit of relatively large diameter for temporarily storing the absorbent slurry flowing down from the absorption unit, the tank unit and the absorption unit are joined together by a conical member. By disposing an entrance flue at the conical member, a distance from an upper portion of the conical member to a spray header is shortened, and a height of the absorbing tower can be reduced accordingly. By extending a front end of the entrance flue to the absorption unit into which droplets of the absorbent slurry fall, a high-temperature exhaust gas from a boiler, etc., that has passed through the entrance flue, is made to pass through a circumference of the conical member so that an inexpensive material can be used in the conical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Konishi, Takanori Nakamoto, Kouji Muramoto, Hiroyuki Nosaka, Atsushi Katagawa, Takuro Ueda
  • Patent number: 8172931
    Abstract: An absorbing tower is provided in its side wall with a gas entrance for introducing a combustion exhaust gas into the absorbing tower, and an absorbing liquid is sprayed from the nozzles of a spray header into the exhaust gas introduced to rise from the gas entrance. A trough is arranged in the side wall of the absorbing tower and above the gas entrance, and a nose having a horseshoe shape in a top plan view and extending into tower is disposed in the tower side wall portion of the gas entrance other than the portion arranging the trough and at the same or at substantially the same height as the portion of the trough. The absorbing liquid, which is sprayed from the nozzle and drops along the absorbing tower wall portion, is rescattered to the center portion of the absorbing tower excepting the entrance of the absorbing tower, so that the gas-liquid contact efficiency is improved while suppressing an increase in pressure loss, thereby to prevent the drift of the gas at the tower wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuro Ueda, Takanori Nakamoto, Atsushi Katagawa, Hajime Okura, Hiroshi Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 8092582
    Abstract: An absorbing tower provided with plural spray headers (3) which each have a plurality of spray nozzles (5) and are arranged in a multi-stage state in the flow direction of exhaust gas, in which an absorption liquid containing a slurry of limestone or lime is sprayed through the nozzles (5) to absorb and remove sulfur oxide contained in exhaust gas, wherein each spray nozzle (5) is of an annular spray type (a hollow cone type) and the spray nozzles (5) in the neighborhood of the tower wall have such a structure that the fluid is sprayed radially at spray angles of 50 to 80° with the direction counter to the flow of exhaust gas as the center, while the nozzles (5) in the central part of the tower have such a structure that the fluid is sprayed radially at spray angles of 80 to 130° with the direction counter to the flow thereof as the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuro Ueda, Atsushi Katagawa, Hiroshi Ishizaka
  • Publication number: 20100077925
    Abstract: In an absorbing tower including an absorption unit of relatively small diameter capable of absorption and removal by an absorbent slurry for exhaust gas purification and a tank unit of relatively large diameter for temporarily storing the absorbent slurry flowing down from the absorption unit, the tank unit and the absorption unit are joined together by a conical member. By disposing an entrance flue at the conical member, a distance from an upper portion of the conical member to a spray header is shortened, and a height of the absorbing tower can be reduced accordingly. By extending a front end of the entrance flue to the absorption unit into which droplets of the absorbent slurry fall, a high-temperature exhaust gas from a boiler, etc., that has passed through the entrance flue, is made to pass through a circumference of the conical member so that an inexpensive material can be used in the conical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: BABCOCK-HITACHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KONISHI, Takanori NAKAMOTO, Kouji MURAMOTO, Hiroyuki NOSAKA, Atsushi KATAGAWA, Takuro UEDA
  • Publication number: 20090320687
    Abstract: An absorbing tower is provided in its side wall with a gas entrance for introducing a combustion exhaust gas into the absorbing tower, and an absorbing liquid is sprayed from the nozzles of a spray header into the exhaust gas introduced to rise from the gas entrance. A trough is arranged in the side wall of the absorbing tower and above the gas entrance, and a nose having a horseshoe shape in a top plan view and extending into tower is disposed in the tower side wall portion of the gas entrance other than the portion arranging the trough and at the same or at substantially the same height as the portion of the trough. The absorbing liquid, which is sprayed from the nozzle and drops along the absorbing tower wall portion, is rescattered to the center portion of the absorbing tower excepting the entrance of the absorbing tower, so that the gas-liquid contact efficiency is improved while suppressing an increase in pressure loss, thereby to prevent the drift of the gas at the tower wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: BABCOCK-HITACHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuro Ueda, Takanori Nakamoto, Atsushi Katagawa, Hajime Okura, Hiroshi Ishizaka
  • Publication number: 20090173234
    Abstract: An absorbing tower provided with plural spray headers (3) which each have a plurality of spray nozzles (5) and are arranged in a multi-stage state in the flow direction of exhaust gas, in which an absorption liquid containing a slurry of limestone or lime is sprayed through the nozzles (5) to absorb and remove sulfur oxide contained in exhaust gas, wherein each spray nozzle (5) is of an annular spray type (a hollow cone type) and the spray nozzles (5) in the neighborhood of the tower wall have such a structure that the fluid is sprayed radially at spray angles of 50 to 80° with the direction counter to the flow of exhaust gas as the center, while the nozzles (5) in the central part of the tower have such a structure that the fluid is sprayed radially at spray angles of 80 to 130° with the direction counter to the flow thereof as the center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: BABCOCK-HITACHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuro Ueda, Atsushi Katagawa, Hiroshi Ishizaka