Patents by Inventor Akihiro Hori
Akihiro Hori 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: 20240097146Abstract: A fuel cell electrode catalyst in which catalytic metal particles made of Pt or a Pt alloy are supported on a carbon carrier, wherein the number of the catalytic metal particles per unit surface area of the carbon carrier is 4.3/100 nm2 to 16.0/100 nm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro HORI, Yuko MATSUMURA
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Publication number: 20240085828Abstract: An intermediate transfer member including a base layer, wherein the base layer contains a thermoplastic resin and an electroconductive filler dispersed in the thermoplastic resin, and wherein the base layer has a volume resistivity of 1×106 to 1×1013 ?·cm, and the base layer has an electroconductive path index of 0.20 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: ATSUSHI HORI, AKIHIRO TAYA, MEGUMI UCHINO, KOJI SATO
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Patent number: 11901567Abstract: This anode catalyst layer for a fuel cell contains electrode catalyst particles, a carbon carrier on which the electrode catalyst particles are loaded, water electrolysis catalyst particles, a proton-conducting binder, and graphitized carbon. At least part of the carbon carrier has a crystallite size La of 3.0 nm or more.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Hori, Yosuke Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20240013481Abstract: To support creation of an editable information expression of a predetermined language in a virtual reality space, an information expression creation support device is provided. The device supports creation of an editable information expression source code of the predetermined language in the virtual reality space by tracking a movement trajectory of an action of a creator and selecting an information expression from candidates of the information expression, which are prepared in advance, based on an acquired movement trajectory of an action of the creator, and the selected information expression is arranged at a predetermined position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Hori, Masumi Kawakami
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Patent number: 11853198Abstract: A program development assistance system includes an automatic execution process server that accepts a commit completion notification indicating that a source code has been registered, commit information that includes source code information and ticket information is acquired, a ticket identifier is extracted from the commit information, attribute information pertaining to a ticket is acquired on the basis of the extracted ticket identifier, information to be executed that corresponds to the source code to be processed by automatic execution is stored in an automatic execution queue, the sequence of to-be-executed information in the automatic execution queue is altered on the basis of the acquired attribute information pertaining to the ticket, the source code and a test case that are to be processed by automatic execution are acquired, and an automatic execution process is performed using the source code and the test case on the basis of the sequence of to-be-executed information.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Noboru Wakabayashi, Masumi Kawakami, Kosuke Oshima, Akihiro Hori, Ryosuke Yasuoka
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Patent number: 11823097Abstract: Provided is a test facility management system that can evaluate, in a software development process requiring use of test facilities, progress of a process caused by increasing or decreasing a count of the test facilities. The test facility management system can include: a project progress forecast unit that stores a process information database, a facility reservation information database, a process progress history information database, and facility count proposed change information, calculates facility usage remaining time period for the software development process based on process progress history information, specifies a time range during which facilities of the count of proposed change are available, and forecasts, based on the available time range, the progress of the software development process when work for the facility usage remaining time period is carried out by the facilities of the count of the proposed change; and a user interface that outputs the forecasted progress information.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kosuke Oshima, Masumi Kawakami, Makoto Ichii, Akihiro Hori, Yasufumi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20230352699Abstract: A catalyst for a fuel cell includes a carbon support including a micropore, and a metal supported on the carbon support. The metal is at least one of platinum and a platinum alloy, a specific surface area of the carbon support is 250 m2/g-carbon or more and 338 m2/g-carbon or less, and an area of the micropore of the carbon support is 48 m2/g-carbon or more and 74 m2/g-carbon or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Ryo SHIMIZU, Akihiro HORI, Mikihiro KATAOKA, Kenji YAMAMOTO, Michihisa UMEZAWA
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Publication number: 20230343971Abstract: To provide a carbon support for catalysts for fuel cells, which increases the power generation performance of fuel cells, a catalyst for fuel cells, a catalyst layer for fuel cells, and a method for producing the carbon support. A carbon support for catalysts for fuel cells, wherein the carbon support includes at least one pore; wherein a thickness of a carbon wall of the carbon support, which is derived from a three-dimensional pore structure of a silica mold obtained by pore volume measurement of the silica mold by nitrogen adsorption analysis, is 3.3 nm or more and 11.2 nm or less; and wherein a carbon wall content is more than 60.3 ml/g and less than 190.8 ml/g.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Yunan WANG, Rui IMOTO, Kumiko NOMURA, Naoki HASEGAWA, Tomohiro TAKESHITA, Kazuhisa YANO, Hironobu NANBU, Yuuki KASAMA, Keisuke ASAKURA, Takanobu KUROKI, Hitohiko SATO, Tsubasa YONEUCHI, Akihiro HORI
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Patent number: 11710833Abstract: This anode catalyst layer for a fuel cell contains electrode catalyst particles, a carbon carrier on which the electrode catalyst particles are loaded, water electrolysis catalyst particles, a proton-conducting binder, and graphitized carbon. The graphitized carbon has a bulk density of 0.50/cm3 or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Hori, Yosuke Horiuchi
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Patent number: 11693653Abstract: Provided is a system that enables a user to easily analyze software. A software analysis support system 1 that supports analysis of a structure of software includes at least one computer. The computer acquires software component information 12 indicating a relationship and an attribute of each software component, acquires display element setting information 13 in which a first display element 41 corresponding to an attribute of each software component and a second display element 42 corresponding to a relationship between the respective software components are set, the display element setting information 13 being editable, and arranges each of the first display element and the second display element at a predetermined position of a virtual space 40 that displays the relationship of each software component on the basis of a plurality of predetermined attributes selected in advance among attributes of each software component.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Hori, Masumi Kawakami, Makoto Ichii, Yasufumi Suzuki, Noboru Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 11640296Abstract: Provided is a system that enables a user to easily analyze software. A software analysis support system 1 that supports analysis of a structure of software includes at least one computer. The computer acquires software component information 12 indicating a relationship and an attribute of each software component, acquires display element setting information 13 in which a first display element 41 corresponding to an attribute of each software component and a second display element 42 corresponding to a relationship between the respective software components are set, the display element setting information 13 being editable, and arranges each of the first display element and the second display element at a predetermined position of a virtual space 40 that displays the relationship of each software component on the basis of a plurality of predetermined attributes selected in advance among attributes of each software component.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Hori, Masumi Kawakami, Makoto Ichii, Yasufumi Suzuki, Noboru Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 11621428Abstract: An anode catalyst layer for a fuel cell includes: electrode catalyst particles; a carbon carrier carrying the electrode catalyst particles; water electrolysis catalyst particles; a proton-conductive binder; and a graphitized carbon, wherein the content of the graphitized carbon in the anode catalyst layer for a fuel cell is 3-70 mass % with respect to the total mass of the electrode catalyst particles, the carbon carrier, and the graphitized carbon.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Hori, Yosuke Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20230081100Abstract: A risk evaluation system includes a processor unit and a storage unit. In the risk evaluation system, the storage unit stores: demand information indicating a demand for software to be developed in a software development project that is a risk evaluation target; past demand information indicating a demand for software developed in a past software development project; and a source code change history in the past software development project, and the processor unit is configured to: calculate a similarity between the demand information and the past demand information; extract a change history of a source code corresponding to the past demand information based on the past demand information and the source code change history; and evaluate a risk in software development for realizing the demand information based on the similarity and the change history of the source code corresponding to the past demand information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Kosuke OSHIMA, Masumi KAWAKAMI, Kenji KITAGAWA, Makoto ICHII, Akihiro HORI, Yuhao WU
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Publication number: 20220327047Abstract: A program development assistance system includes an automatic execution process server that accepts a commit completion notification indicating that a source code has been registered, commit information that includes source code information and ticket information is acquired, a ticket identifier is extracted from the commit information, attribute information pertaining to a ticket is acquired on the basis of the extracted ticket identifier, information to be executed that corresponds to the source code to be processed by automatic execution is stored in an automatic execution queue, the sequence of to-be-executed information in the automatic execution queue is altered on the basis of the acquired attribute information pertaining to the ticket, the source code and a test case that are to be processed by automatic execution are acquired, and an automatic execution process is performed using the source code and the test case on the basis of the sequence of to-be-executed information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Noboru WAKABAYASHI, Masumi KAWAKAMI, Kosuke OSHIMA, Akihiro HORI, Ryosuke YASUOKA
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Publication number: 20220308864Abstract: Provided is a system that enables a user to easily analyze software. A software analysis support system 1 that supports analysis of a structure of software includes at least one computer. The computer acquires software component information 12 indicating a relationship and an attribute of each software component, acquires display element setting information 13 in which a first display element 41 corresponding to an attribute of each software component and a second display element 42 corresponding to a relationship between the respective software components are set, the display element setting information 13 being editable, and arranges each of the first display element and the second display element at a predetermined position of a virtual space 40 that displays the relationship of each software component on the basis of a plurality of predetermined attributes selected in advance among attributes of each software component.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2020Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Akihiro HORI, Masumi KAWAKAMI, Makoto ICHII, Yasufumi SUZUKI, Noboru WAKABAYASHI
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Patent number: 11450861Abstract: An anode catalyst layer for a fuel cell according to the present invention includes: electrode catalyst particles; a carbon carrier carrying the electrode catalyst particles; water electrolysis catalyst particles; a proton-conductive binder; and a graphitized carbon, wherein the content of graphitized carbon in the anode catalyst layer for a fuel cell is 15-70 volume % with respect to the total volume of the electrode catalyst particles, the carbon carrier, and the graphitized carbon.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Hori, Yosuke Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20220051148Abstract: Provided is a test facility management system that can evaluate, in a software development process requiring use of test facilities, progress of a process caused by increasing or decreasing a count of the test facilities. The test facility management system can include: a project progress forecast unit that stores a process information database, a facility reservation information database, a process progress history information database, and facility count proposed change information, calculates facility usage remaining time period for the software development process based on process progress history information, specifies a time range during which facilities of the count of proposed change are available, and forecasts, based on the available time range, the progress of the software development process when work for the facility usage remaining time period is carried out by the facilities of the count of the proposed change; and a user interface that outputs the forecasted progress information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kosuke Oshima, Masumi Kawakami, Makoto Ichii, Akihiro Hori, Yasufumi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20220032265Abstract: To provide a gas storage material and gas separation system capable of regulating the storage pressure and release pressure of a gas. A gas storage material which has two cubic lattice-shaped organometallic complexes, wherein the two organometallic complexes form an interpenetrating structure in which one apex portion of a unit cell of one of the organometallic complexes is positioned in a space inside one unit cell of the other organometallic complex.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Bruno FONTAINE, Patrick GINET, Akihiro HORI, Nobuhiko HOSONO, Shinpei KUSAKA, Susumu KITAGAWA, Christophe LAVENN, Yunsheng MA, Ryotaro MATSUDA, Mickaele BONNEAU
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Publication number: 20210351419Abstract: An anode catalyst layer for a fuel cell includes: electrode catalyst particles; a carbon carrier carrying the electrode catalyst particles; water electrolysis catalyst particles; a proton-conductive binder; and a graphitized carbon, wherein the content of the graphitized carbon in the anode catalyst layer for a fuel cell is 3-70 mass % with respect to the total mass of the electrode catalyst particles, the carbon carrier, and the graphitized carbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicant: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro HORI, Yosuke HORIUCHI
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Publication number: 20210336278Abstract: This anode catalyst layer for a fuel cell contains electrode catalyst particles, a carbon carrier on which the electrode catalyst particles are loaded, water electrolysis catalyst particles, a proton-conducting binder, and graphitized carbon. At least part of the carbon carrier has a crystallite size La of 3.0 nm or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro HORI, Yosuke HORIUCHI