Patents by Inventor Akio Ueda
Akio 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).
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Patent number: 10567594Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section for forming an image on a transfer medium, a conveyance section for conveying the transfer medium, and a control section for controlling image formation and conveyance. The control section is capable of acquiring an image reading result for a transfer medium on which an image is formed and determining whether the transfer medium is faulty, and, if the transfer medium is determined to be faulty and there are a plurality of output destinations for faulty transfer media which are the transfer medium determined to be faulty and transfer media having already been fed after the transfer medium determined to be faulty, gives a warning about removal of the faulty transfer media for each output destination.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Akio Ueda
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Patent number: 10348118Abstract: A wireless power transfer system includes: a power supply primary coil capable of performing wireless power transfer; and a power supply secondary coil capable of performing the wireless power transfer between the power supply primary coil and the power supply secondary coil. The power supply secondary coil contains a secondary coil wire for the wireless power transfer and forms a secondary outer shape having a projecting surface on at least a part of the secondary outer shape, and the power supply primary coil and the power supply secondary coil are capable of performing the wireless power transfer, with the projecting surface of the secondary outer shape directed to the power supply primary coil.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Takatsu, Susumu Tokura, Akio Ueda, Sho Hashizume, Kei Akune, Tooru Hayashi
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Publication number: 20190088934Abstract: The invention includes a method to provide composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode, wherein metal particles capable of alloying with Li can be internally present with favorable dispersibility. The present invention relates to composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode containing graphite (A) and metal particles (B) capable of alloying with Li, wherein the degree of dispersion of the metal particles (B) in the composite graphite particles is 0.78 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Akio UEDA, Satoshi AKASAKA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Junko KAGIMOTO, Shingo MOROKUMA
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Patent number: 10236727Abstract: A wireless power transfer system includes: a primary coil support member provided with a fitting member that is fit with a fit member, the primary coil support member being configured to support the power supply primary coil; a secondary coil support member provided with the fit member with which the fitting member is fit, the secondary coil support member being configured to support the power supply secondary coil; and a posture/position adjustment mechanism capable of adjusting a relative posture or position between the primary coil support member and the secondary coil support member to change the posture between a releasing posture and a fitting posture. When the relative posture is changed from the releasing posture to the fitting posture by the adjustment of the posture/position adjustment mechanism, the power supply apparatus performs wireless power transfer from the power supply primary coil to the power supply secondary coil.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Takatsu, Akio Ueda, Susumu Tokura, Sho Hashizume, Kei Akune, Tooru Hayashi, Shoei Shibata
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Patent number: 10232725Abstract: An electric power supply system program causes a control apparatus capable of controlling an electric power supply system to realize: a pairing information generating function to generate, when receiving an electric power supply request, specific pairing information that is pairing information; a pairing information transmitting function to transmit the specific pairing information to an object that has output the electric power supply request; a pairing information receiving function to receive the pairing information from the object by communication with the object located in the electric power supply space; and an electric power supply function to supply electric power to the object located in the electric power supply space when the received pairing information coincides with the specific pairing information.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Yuji Takatsu, Sho Hashizume, Susumu Tokura, Akio Ueda, Kei Akune, Tooru Hayashi
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Publication number: 20190068007Abstract: A wireless power supply system includes: a primary power-supplying coil which is a power-supplying coil capable of wirelessly supplying electric power to another power-supplying coil; a first machine that supports the primary power-supplying coil; a secondary power-supplying coil which is a power-supplying coil wirelessly supplied with electric power from another power-supplying coil; and a second machine that can move while supporting the secondary power-supplying coil. The relative positional relationship or the relative attitudinal relationship between the first machine and the second machine can be adjusted corresponding to the movement or change in attitude of the second machine so that a state in which electric power is wirelessly supplied from the primary power-supplying coil to the secondary power-supplying coil is maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji TAKATSU, Akio UEDA, Motonao NIIZUMA, Kei AKUNE, Tooru HAYASHI, Akihiko TSUCHIYAMA, Kazushi SEDOKUBO, Masaki KAWAKITA, Mai KANDA, Gongwei LI, Ryota KOKUBU
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Patent number: 10122211Abstract: A wireless power transfer system includes: a station that a vehicle is capable of entering and leaving; and a bottom part detection sensor having a detection unit capable of detecting an object that enters a detection range, provided at the station, and that outputs a bottom part detection signal corresponding to a portion, which enters the detection range, of a bottom part of the vehicle. The wireless power transfer system executes: a detection signal output step in which the bottom part detection sensor outputs a time-series bottom part detection signal when the vehicle moves in the station at a predetermined speed that is a prescribed speed; and a coil position information extraction step of extracting, from the time-series bottom part detection signal, coil position information that is information about a position of an electric power receiving coil in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Takatsu, Susumu Tokura, Akio Ueda, Sho Hashizume, Kei Akune, Tooru Hayashi
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Patent number: 10076058Abstract: A cooling device of the present disclosure is attached to a park station where wireless power supply is performed to a vehicle using a coil and cools a coil provided on the vehicle by spraying a coolant.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Motonao Niizuma, Akio Ueda
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Publication number: 20180254136Abstract: A coil device according to an aspect of this disclosure includes a coil portion including a conductive wire and a holding member that holds the conductive wire, and a cooling flow path through which a cooling fluid flows is provided in the holding member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Akio UEDA, Susumu TOKURA, Kenji NISHIMURA, Motonao NIIZUMA, Jun ARAKI
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Patent number: 10044235Abstract: The wireless power transfer system obtains, by means of data transfer, specific coil position information that is coil position information corresponding to information related to a position of the electric power supply secondary coil in a specific object that is an object that has made an electric power supply request, and electric power is supplied in a wireless manner from the electric power supply primary coil to the electric power supply secondary coil after the posture/position adjustment mechanism adjusts the relative posture or position between the electric power supply primary coil and the electric power supply secondary coil incorporated in the specific object based on the information related to the position of the electric power supply secondary coil in the specific object corresponding to the specific coil position information.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Takatsu, Sho Hashizume, Susumu Tokura, Akio Ueda, Kei Akune, Tooru Hayashi, Shohei Shibata
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Publication number: 20180124257Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section for forming an image on a transfer medium, a conveyance section for conveying the transfer medium, and a control section for controlling image formation and conveyance. The control section is capable of acquiring an image reading result for a transfer medium on which an image is formed and determining whether the transfer medium is faulty, and, if the transfer medium is determined to be faulty and there are a plurality of output destinations for faulty transfer media which are the transfer medium determined to be faulty and transfer media having already been fed after the transfer medium determined to be faulty, gives a warning about removal of the faulty transfer media for each output destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Akio UEDA
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Patent number: 9917620Abstract: A vehicle power-supplying device includes: a power-supplying primary coil provided in a parking space where a vehicle is parked, and configured to supply electric power wirelessly to a power-supplying secondary coil provided in the vehicle and configured to wirelessly receive the electric power from the power-supplying primary coil; and a vehicle stopping member configured to stop the vehicle at a desired position of the parking space at which wireless power supply efficiency from the power-supplying primary coil to the power-supplying secondary coil is high.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Yuji Takatsu, Motonao Niizuma, Akio Ueda, Kei Akune, Tooru Hayashi
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Publication number: 20180025826Abstract: A fixing structure for a coil device according to an aspect of the disclosure is an attachment structure for a coil device which attaches a flat coil device including a coil portion to an attachment portion, the attachment structure including a cylindrical holding portion provided in the attachment portion to hold the coil device, and a cylindrical engaged portion provided in the coil device and engaged with the holding portion, wherein the holding portion and the engaged portion are disposed along an axis extending in a thickness direction of the coil device, and the engaged portion is engaged over an entire circumference thereof with the holding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2015Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji NISHIMURA, Akio UEDA
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Patent number: 9758048Abstract: A vehicle power-supplying system that wirelessly supply power to a vehicle includes a power-supplying coil installed at a location at which the vehicle can be stopped, first and second positioning posts whose positional relationship with the power-supplying coil is fixed, a position-identifying means installed in the vehicle and configured to identify a positional relationship of the power-supplying coil with the vehicle by detecting the first and second positioning posts, and a traveling support means configured to support traveling of the vehicle to the power-supplying coil based on the positional relationship with the power-supplying coil identified by the position-identifying means.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Akio Ueda
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Publication number: 20170076848Abstract: A coil device of solenoid type includes a coil portion having a bobbin and a conductive wire wound around the bobbin, a housing for accommodating the coil portion, and at least one fastener for fastening the bobbin and the housing. The conductive wire includes a plurality of extending portions extending along a wound wire direction on the bobbin and having gaps in a winding axis direction. The fastener is provided between the plurality of extending portions and is obliquely disposed with respect to a plane orthogonal to the winding axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Susumu TOKURA, Akio UEDA, Jun ARAKI
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Publication number: 20170076854Abstract: A coil device of solenoid type includes a coil portion having a bobbin and a conductive wire wound around the bobbin, a housing for accommodating the coil portion, and at least one fastener for fastening the bobbin and the housing. The conductive wire includes a plurality of extending portions extending along a wound wire direction on the bobbin and having gaps in a winding axis direction, and the coil portion includes an enlarged portion in which a gap between extending portions adjacent to each other in the winding axis direction is wider than a gap between other extending portions. The fastener is provided in the enlarged portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Susumu TOKURA, Akio UEDA, Jun ARAKI
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Publication number: 20170018963Abstract: A wireless power transfer system includes: a primary coil support member provided with a fitting member that is fit with a fit member, the primary coil support member being configured to support the power supply primary coil; a secondary coil support member provided with the fit member with which the fitting member is fit, the secondary coil support member being configured to support the power supply secondary coil; and a posture/position adjustment mechanism capable of adjusting a relative posture or position between the primary coil support member and the secondary coil support member to change the posture between a releasing posture and a fitting posture. When the relative posture is changed from the releasing posture to the fitting posture by the adjustment of the posture/position adjustment mechanism, the power supply apparatus performs wireless power transfer from the power supply primary coil to the power supply secondary coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji TAKATSU, Akio UEDA, Susumu TOKURA, Sho HASHIZUME, Kei AKUNE, Tooru HAYASHI, Shoei SHIBATA
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Publication number: 20170012280Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode, wherein metal particles capable of alloying with Li can be internally present with favorable dispersibility. The present invention relates to composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode containing graphite (A) and metal particles (B) capable of alloying with Li, wherein the degree of dispersion of the metal particles (B) in the composite graphite particles is 0.78 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Akio UEDA, Satoshi Akasaka, Nobuyuki Ishiwatari, Junko Kagimoto, Shingo Morokuma
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Publication number: 20170012459Abstract: A wireless power transfer system includes: a power supply primary coil capable of performing wireless power transfer; and a power supply secondary coil capable of performing the wireless power transfer between the power supply primary coil and the power supply secondary coil. The power supply secondary coil contains a secondary coil wire for the wireless power transfer and forms a secondary outer shape having a projecting surface on at least a part of the secondary outer shape, and the power supply primary coil and the power supply secondary coil are capable of performing the wireless power transfer, with the projecting surface of the secondary outer shape directed to the power supply primary coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji TAKATSU, Susumu TOKURA, Akio UEDA, Sho HASHIZUME, Kei AKUNE, Tooru HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170012474Abstract: A wireless power transfer system includes: a station that a vehicle is capable of entering and leaving; and a bottom part detection sensor having a detection unit capable of detecting an object that enters a detection range, provided at the station, and that outputs a bottom part detection signal corresponding to a portion, which enters the detection range, of a bottom part of the vehicle. The wireless power transfer system executes: a detection signal output step in which the bottom part detection sensor outputs a time-series bottom part detection signal when the vehicle moves in the station at a predetermined speed that is a prescribed speed; and a coil position information extraction step of extracting, from the time-series bottom part detection signal, coil position information that is information about a position of an electric power receiving coil in the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji TAKATSU, Susumu TOKURA, Akio UEDA, Sho HASHIZUME, Kei AKUNE, Tooru HAYASHI