Patents by Inventor Akihiko Wada
Akihiko Wada 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: 20240105928Abstract: The composite active material according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an active material including Li, Ti, and O and a first solid electrolyte. The active material is a porous material having a plurality of pores. The first solid electrolyte includes Li, M, and X. M is at least one selected from the group consisting of metal elements and metalloid elements belonging to the 5th or 6th period. X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I. At least a part of the first solid electrolyte is present inside the plurality of pores.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: TAKANORI OMAE, TOMOKATSU WADA, SHOHEI KUSUMOTO, TAKUJI TSUJITA, AKIHIKO SAGARA
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Publication number: 20240097132Abstract: An electrode material includes an active material particle and a solid electrolyte particle. The solid electrolyte particle includes Li, M, and X, wherein M is at least one selected from the group consisting of metal elements excluding Li and metalloid elements, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I. The ratio R1 of the volume of the active material particle to the sum of the volume of the active material particle and the volume of the solid electrolyte particle is greater than or equal to 10% and less than 65% when expressed as percentage. The ratio R2 of the average particle diameter of the active material particle to the average particle diameter of the solid electrolyte particle is greater than or equal to 0.5 and less than or equal to 3.4.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: MASAYOSHI UEMATSU, AKIHIKO SAGARA, HIROSHI ASANO, SHOHEI KUSUMOTO, TOMOKATSU WADA
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Publication number: 20240097123Abstract: The electrode material according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first active material particle, a second active material particle, and a solid electrolyte. The first active material particle and the second active material particle each include Li, Ti, and O. The ratio of the average particle size of the second active material particle to the average particle size of the first active material particle is greater than or equal to 1.5 and less than or equal to 6.0. The battery according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte layer located between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. At least one selected from the group consisting of the positive electrode and the negative electrode includes the electrode material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: TOMOKATSU WADA, YU OTSUKA, AKIHIKO SAGARA, SHOHEI KUSUMOTO, TAKANORI OMAE
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Patent number: 10253777Abstract: The present invention provides a thread groove pump mechanism which suppresses a backflow of the gas in the thread groove pump mechanism and reduces the pressure difference in the pump radial direction near the outlet of the thread groove pump mechanism to thereby improve the exhaust performance and the compression performance. The present invention also provides a vacuum pump including the thread groove pump mechanism, and a rotor, an outer circumference side stator, and an inner circumference side stator used in the thread groove pump mechanism. A thread groove pump mechanism includes an exhaust-performance improving means in an outer-circumference-side thread groove portion engraved on an opposite surface of an outer circumference side stator opposed to a rotor cylinder portion and an inner-circumference-side thread groove portion engraved on an opposite surface of an inner circumference side stator opposed to the rotor cylinder portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Edwards Japan LimitedInventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Akihiko Wada, Takashi Kabasawa
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Patent number: 9416784Abstract: Provided is an exhaust pump that comprises connecting opening portions that can be deburred easily and that are suitable for enhancing gas evacuation performance. A rotor (a cylindrical rotating member) of an exhaust pump comprises a plate body that has a ring-like projection on a reverse side outer peripheral section of the rotor, and a cylindrical body that is fitted into an outer periphery of the ring-like projection. Connecting opening portions of the exhaust pump comprise holes that are formed by notching an outer peripheral section of the plate body and an outer peripheral section of the ring-like projection, and a portion (specifically, a hole) of the holes that opens in the form of a horizontal hole is covered by an outer-peripheral upper end portion of the cylindrical body.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2011Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Edwards Japan LimitedInventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Akihiro Ito, Akihiko Wada
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Publication number: 20160222971Abstract: The present invention provides a thread groove pump mechanism which suppresses a backflow of the gas in the thread groove pump mechanism and reduces the pressure difference in the pump radial direction near the outlet of the thread groove pump mechanism to thereby improve the exhaust performance and the compression performance. The present invention also provides a vacuum pump including the thread groove pump mechanism, and a rotor, an outer circumference side stator, and an inner circumference side stator used in the thread groove pump mechanism. A thread groove pump mechanism includes an exhaust-performance improving means in an outer-circumference-side thread groove portion engraved on an opposite surface of an outer circumference side stator opposed to a rotor cylinder portion and an inner-circumference-side thread groove portion engraved on an opposite surface of an inner circumference side stator opposed to the rotor cylinder portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2014Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: Edwards Japan LimitedInventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Akihiko Wada, Takashi Kabasawa
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Patent number: 9388816Abstract: An object of the present invention is to enhance the capacity of a turbomolecular pump. A turbomolecular pump is a composite-type vacuum pump that combines a blade portion and a thread groove portion. Openings are formed at a joint portion between a rotor blade holding portion that holds rotor blades and a stepped portion that holds a rotor cylinder portion, such that the openings span both the rotor blade holding portion and the stepped portion. Part of the gas that is evacuated by the blade portions is evacuated by a thread groove portion that is formed of the rotor cylinder portion and a stator thread groove, and the rest of the gas is led into the rotor cylinder portion via the openings, and is evacuated by a thread groove portion that is formed of the rotor cylinder portion and another stator thread groove. Stress derived from rotation of a rotor can be withstood when the openings are formed at the joint portion between the rotor blade holding portion and the stepped portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Edwards Japan LimitedInventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Tooru Miwata, Akihiko Wada
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Publication number: 20130170955Abstract: Provided is an exhaust pump that comprises connecting opening portions that can be deburred easily and that are suitable for enhancing gas evacuation performance. A rotor (a cylindrical rotating member) of an exhaust pump comprises a plate body that has a ring-like projection on a reverse side outer peripheral section of the rotor, and a cylindrical body that is fitted into an outer periphery of the ring-like projection. Connecting opening portions of the exhaust pump comprise holes that are formed by notching an outer peripheral section of the plate body and an outer peripheral section of the ring-like projection, and a portion (specifically, a hole) of the holes that opens in the form of a horizontal hole is covered by an outer-peripheral upper end portion of the cylindrical body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: EDWARDS JAPAN LIMITEDInventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Akihiro Ito, Akihiko Wada
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Publication number: 20130149105Abstract: An object of the present invention is to enhance the capacity of a turbomolecular pump. A turbomolecular pump is a composite-type vacuum pump that combines a blade portion and a thread groove portion. Openings are formed at a joint portion between a rotor blade holding portion that holds rotor blades and a stepped portion that holds a rotor cylinder portion, such that the openings span both the rotor blade holding portion and the stepped portion. Part of the gas that is evacuated by the blade portions is evacuated by a thread groove portion that is formed of the rotor cylinder portion and a stator thread groove, and the rest of the gas is led into the rotor cylinder portion via the openings, and is evacuated by a thread groove portion that is formed of the rotor cylinder portion and another stator thread groove. Stress derived from rotation of a rotor can be withstood when the openings are formed at the joint portion between the rotor blade holding portion and the stepped portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: EDWARDS JAPAN LIMITEDInventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Tooru Miwata, Akihiko Wada
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Patent number: 7572096Abstract: A vacuum pump is provided in which gas molecules in a vacuum chamber are sucked and exhausted by the rotational motion of a rotor rotatably supported in a pump case. At least one nickel alloy layer is disposed on a surface of at least one component defining a flow path in the vacuum pump for increasing a resistance of the component to corrosion due to a corrosive effect of a gas flowing through the flowpath. A nickel oxide is formed on a surface of the nickel alloy layer and has a higher emissivity than that of the nickel alloy layer for increasing a quantity of heat radiated from the surface of the component when the component is heated during operation of the vacuum pump.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2005Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: BOC Edwards Japan LimitedInventors: Manabu Nonaka, Akihiko Wada
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Patent number: 7015922Abstract: An image display method for displaying description data having text information and image information described in a predetermined description format. The image display method comprises the steps of extracting attribute values indicating attributes for specifying the image information from the description data (106), listing the extracted attribute values (108, 109), selecting at least one attribute value from among the listed attribute values (111), reading the image information specified by the selected attribute value (112), and displaying the image information (113).Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2001Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiko Wada
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Publication number: 20050249618Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a vacuum pump in which the corrosion resistance to a corrosive gas and the heat releasing property of a heated component are improved. In a rotor 11 incorporated in a pump case 1 of a vacuum pump P, there is provided a surface treatment layer 42 in which a nickel alloy layer 43 is formed by applying nickel with high corrosion resistance onto a base material 41 made of an aluminum alloy and a nickel oxide 44 with high emissivity is formed on the surface of the nickel alloy layer 43 by oxidizing nickel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2005Publication date: November 10, 2005Inventors: Manabu Nonaka, Akihiko Wada
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Publication number: 20030011608Abstract: An image display method for displaying description data having text information and image information described in a predetermined description format. The image display method comprises the steps of extracting attribute values indicating attributes for specifying the image information from the description data (106), listing the extracted attribute values (108, 109), selecting at least one attribute value from among the listed attribute values (111), reading the image information specified by the selected attribute value (112), and displaying the image information (113).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2002Publication date: January 16, 2003Inventor: Akihiko Wada
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Patent number: 6445923Abstract: In a case where a desired radio frequency channel is searched over a plurality of radio frequency channels through manual switching, a received data error detection section 12 detects an error rate of radio data, and an electric field detection section 11 detects a field strength. System information comparison section 6 detects a match or mismatch between the system information of the radio frequency channel and the system information of a wireless selective paging receiver. A display section 3 indicates the result of such detection in the form of an at-a-glance list in decreasing order of receiving probability, thereby enabling the user to select a radio frequency channel having a higher degree of reliability. Further, radio frequency channels which will be covered by a receiving area, system information on each of the radio frequency channels, and area information are stored so as to become associated with one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1999Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Fujimori, Yasushi Abe, Akihiko Wada, Toshihide Abe
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Patent number: 6343219Abstract: A message erasing method for a wireless communications device having a paging function, the method including a step of indicating received messages according to chronological order (on an LCD display); a step in which the user views the display and specifies the position of a message to be erased (by means of a jog dial); and a step of erasing all the messages received before the specified message (by means of a jog dial). By use of this method, the user can readily erase a plurality of unneeded messages.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1999Date of Patent: January 29, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiko Wada
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Patent number: 6327475Abstract: Group identification codes, names of parties to be sent, and telephone numbers of the pagers of the parties to be sent are stored in groups in memory 3 of a selective pager. At the time of transmission of a message, telephone numbers of a specified group and a message to be sent for the group are selected from the memory. The telephone numbers and the message are alternately sent to a DTMF signal generation section 8, which converts the telephone numbers and the message to DTMF signals. The DTMF signals are then converted into acoustic signals by means of a speaker 9 and are continually transmitted by way of a transmitter of a telephone set. As a result, a group call can be implemented without involving laborious operations, such as transmission of the telephone numbers and the message one by one.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1998Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Fujimori, Yasushi Abe, Akihiko Wada, Keiko Ishii
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Patent number: 6249668Abstract: Messages received through information delivery are classified by a message identification section. The thus-classified messages are stored into a specified folder by means of a folder management section and are managed for each level in a hierarchy. When a new message is stored into the specified folder, a folder setting section causes a paging control section to page the user by means of a speaker, a vibrator, or an LED or causes a display control section to display the arrival of a message on an LCD. So long as the folder is set to a shortcut folder, a desired information item can be read in a prioritized manner.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1998Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Abe, Yasushi Abe, Akihiko Wada, Keiko Ishii
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Patent number: 6141729Abstract: A data transfer system comprises a plurality of terminals; a plurality of high-speed data transfer units connected to the terminals through a network, each data transfer unit comprising a plurality of storage devices and a storage device group control device or unit for controlling readout of data from the storage devices, and dividing and storing data requested by the terminals; a virtual storage device group controlling device or unit for controlling readout of data from virtual storage device groups, each virtual storage device group being constructed by selecting a storage device from each high-speed data transfer unit; and an instruction conversion unit or device for receiving a data readout instruction on the basis of data requests output from the terminals, which instruction is given to the virtual storage device groups, from the virtual storage device group control unit or device, and converting the instruction into a data readout instruction to the storage devices from the storage device group controType: GrantFiled: September 23, 1996Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Ishida, Toshiyuki Ochiai, Yutaka Tanaka, Teruto Hirota, Akihiko Wada, Eiichi Toyonaga, Kunihiko Sakoda