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).

  • Publication number: 20170008406
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer system includes: a power receiving apparatus having a power supply secondary coil, and a power supply apparatus having a power supply primary coil, and a drive circuit that drives the power supply primary coil. The power supply primary coil and the power supply secondary coil are arranged such that a first magnetic flux direction line that is a linear virtual line extending in accordance with a direction of a magnetic flux of a magnetic field generated in a central part of the power supply primary coil and a second magnetic flux direction line that is a linear virtual line extending in accordance with a direction of a magnetic flux of a magnetic field generated in a center of the power supply secondary coil substantially intersect, and electric power is capable of being supplied to the power supply secondary coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji TAKATSU, Susumu TOKURA, Akio UEDA, Sho HASHIZUME, Kei AKUNE, Tooru HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170001531
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji TAKATSU, Sho HASHIZUME, Susumu TOKURA, Akio UEDA, Kei AKUNE, Tooru HAYASHI, Shohei SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20160375784
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji TAKATSU, Sho HASHIZUME, Susumu TOKURA, Akio UEDA, Kei AKUNE, Tooru HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160381829
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motonao NIIZUMA, Akio UEDA
  • Publication number: 20160049799
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji TAKATSU, Akio UEDA, Motonao NIIZUMA, Kei AKUNE, Tooru HAYASHI, Akihiko TSUCHIYAMA, Kazushi SEDOKUBO, Masaki KAWAKITA, Mai KANDA, Gongwei LI, Ryota KOKUBU
  • Publication number: 20160046192
    Abstract: A movement mechanism includes a plurality of primary power-supplying coils each serving as a power-supplying coil that is able to supply power to another power-supplying coil in a wireless manner and arranged along an imaginary line parallel to the movement path, a secondary power-supplying coil serving as a power-supplying coil configured to receive power from another power-supplying coil in a wireless manner; and a movement structure serving as a structure configured to support the secondary power-supplying coil and to move along the movement path, wherein power is able to be supplied in a wireless manner to the secondary power-supplying coil from one or more of the primary power-supplying coils sequentially selected from among the plurality of primary power-supplying coils depending on an arrangement sequence when the movement structure moves along the movement path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji TAKATSU, Akio UEDA, Motonao NIIZUMA, Kei AKUNE, Tooru HAYASHI, Akihiko TSUCHIYAMA, Kazushi SEDOKUBO, Masaki KAWAKITA, Mai KANDA, Gongwei LI, Ryota KOKUBU
  • Publication number: 20160033288
    Abstract: A movable vehicle power-supplying system of the present disclosure includes power-supplying coils configured to wirelessly supply power to a movable vehicle and provided in a place in which the movable vehicle can stop, a positioning mark provided at a position at predetermined distances from the power-supplying coils, a power-receiving coil provided in the movable vehicle and configured to receive power from the power-supplying coils, a distance identification means provided in the movable vehicle and configured to identify distances between the power-supplying coils and the movable vehicle by detecting the positioning mark, and a control unit configured to assist running of the movable vehicle to the power-supplying coils based on the distances between the power-supplying coils and the movable vehicle identified by the distance identification means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio UEDA
  • Publication number: 20150375631
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio UEDA
  • Patent number: 9199346
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus that manufactures flattened tube fins, in which cutaway portions for inserting flattened tubes for heat exchanging are formed, includes: a press apparatus provided with a mold apparatus that forms the cutaway portions in an unmachined metal thin plate to produce a metal strip; an inter-row slit apparatus cutting the metal strip into predetermined widths to form a plurality of metal strips of a product width; a cutoff apparatus cutting each metal strip of the product width into predetermined lengths; a holding apparatus that holds a plurality of metal strips of the product width that protrude from a downstream side in the conveying direction of the cutoff apparatus; and a stacker apparatus for stacking the flattened tube fins that have been cut into predetermined lengths by the cutoff apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: HIDAKA SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanao Karasawa, Toshiyuki Nanaarashi, Akio Ueda, Yasuyuki Morimoto, Takatoshi Mori
  • Publication number: 20150243989
    Abstract: An objet of the invention is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery superior in input-output characteristics even at a low temperature. To achieve the object, hybrid particles (carbon material) satisfying certain conditions, and composed of graphite particles and carbon particles with a primary particle size from 3 nm to 500 nm, preferably as well as amorphous carbon, are used as a negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, so that the input-output characteristics of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery at a low temperature can be improved remarkably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: SHUNSUKE YAMADA, Nobuyuki Ishiwatari, Akio Ueda, Tooru Fuse, Masakazu Yokomizo, Akihiro Katou
  • Publication number: 20150195012
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji TAKATSU, Motonao NIIZUMA, Akio UEDA, Kei AKUNE, Tooru HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150194668
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide composite graphite particles (C) for nonaqueous-secondary-battery negative electrode, wherein metallic particle (B) capable of alloying with Li are present in inner parts thereof in a large amount. The invention relates to a composite graphite particle (C) for nonaqueous-secondary-battery negative electrode, the composite graphite particle (C) comprising a graphite (A) and a metallic particle (B) capable of alloying with Li, wherein when a section of the composite graphite particle (C) is examined with a scanning electron microscope, a folded structure of the graphite (A) is observed and a presence ratio of the metallic particle (B) in the composite graphite particle (C), as calculated by a specific measuring method, is 0.2 or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio UEDA, Satoshi Akasaka, Nobuyuki Ishiwatari, Tooru Fuse, Takashi Kameda, Harumi Asami, Takahide Kimura, Shunsuke Yamada
  • Patent number: 9009953
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus manufactures flattened tube fins in which cutaway portions for inserting flattened tubes for heat exchanging are formed. The manufacturing apparatus includes: a press apparatus with a mold apparatus that forms the cutaway portions in an unmachined metal thin plate to produce a metal strip; an inter-row slit apparatus cutting the metal strip with the formed cutaway portions into predetermined widths to form metal strips of product width arranged in the width direction; and a cutoff apparatus cutting each metal strip of the product width formed by the inter-row slit apparatus into predetermined lengths. A plurality of box-like magazines whose upper surfaces are open are arranged in the width direction downstream of the cutoff apparatus to stack the flattened tube fins formed by the cutoff apparatus cutting into lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Hidaka Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Ueda, Toshiyuki Nanaarashi
  • Patent number: 8875626
    Abstract: A machining oil applying apparatus that applies machining oil onto a thin metal plate that is being conveyed toward a press apparatus includes: an upper surface applying unit that is impregnated with machining oil, contacts an upper surface of the thin plate and applies the machining oil onto the upper surface; a lower surface applying unit that is impregnated with the machining oil, contacts an lower surface of the thin plate and applies the machining oil onto the lower surface; and an applying unit moving portion that causes the upper surface applying unit and the lower surface applying unit to move reciprocally in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of the thin plate, wherein the upper surface applying unit and the lower surface applying unit always move in respectively opposite directions perpendicular to the conveying direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Hidaka Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiichi Morishita, Masaki Uehara, Toshiyuki Nanaarashi, Akio Ueda
  • Publication number: 20120222293
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus manufactures flattened tube fins in which cutaway portions for inserting flattened tubes for heat exchanging are formed. The manufacturing apparatus includes: a press apparatus with a mold apparatus that forms the cutaway portions in an unmachined metal thin plate to produce a metal strip; an inter-row slit apparatus cutting the metal strip with the formed cutaway portions into predetermined widths to form metal strips of product width arranged in the width direction; and a cutoff apparatus cutting each metal strip of the product width formed by the inter-row slit apparatus into predetermined lengths. A plurality of box-like magazines whose upper surfaces are open are arranged in the width direction downstream of the cutoff apparatus to stack the flattened tube fins formed by the cutoff apparatus cutting into lengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventors: Akio UEDA, Toshiyuki NANAARASHI
  • Patent number: 8170464
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus to form an image on a sheet media, including: a memory section which memorizes a position of holes previously punched on the sheet media; an operation section via which the sheet media to be used for image formation, a double-surface print operation and a binding direction are selected; and a control section which determines whether the position of the holes previously punched on the selected sheet media is the same as the binding direction selected via the operation section, after the sheet media carrying the holes and the double-surface print are selected via the operation section, wherein the control section interrupts starting operation of the image formation, if the position of the holes previously punched on the selected sheet media is not the same as the selected binding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Akio Ueda
  • Patent number: 7969590
    Abstract: According to this invention, there is provided an image printing system which causes a plurality of image printing apparatuses to share and concurrently process an image printing job for outputting a plurality of prints based on image printing conditions and image information supplied from an information processing apparatus. In the image printing system of the invention, each of the image printing apparatuses interactively connected to each other has a proof/wait selection function of selecting a proof mode of outputting a single print or a wait mode of displaying image printing conditions and waiting. A master machine to which image printing conditions and image information are supplied from an information processing apparatus executes image printing operation in the proof mode or wait mode, and transfers the image printing conditions and image information to another image printing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Junji Sato, Akio Ueda, Jun Yokobori
  • Publication number: 20110088572
    Abstract: A machining oil applying apparatus that applies machining oil onto a thin metal plate that is being conveyed toward a press apparatus includes: an upper surface applying unit that is impregnated with machining oil, contacts an upper surface of the thin plate and applies the machining oil onto the upper surface; a lower surface applying unit that is impregnated with the machining oil, contacts an lower surface of the thin plate and applies the machining oil onto the lower surface; and an applying unit moving portion that causes the upper surface applying unit and the lower surface applying unit to move reciprocally in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of the thin plate, wherein the upper surface applying unit and the lower surface applying unit always move in respectively opposite directions perpendicular to the conveying direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Keiichi Morishita, Masaki Uehara, Toshiyuki Nanaarashi, Akio Ueda
  • Patent number: 7826788
    Abstract: Based on the image size and folding setting, a recording medium storing device is selected among a plurality of the recording medium storing devices, an image is formed on a recording medium in the selected recording medium storing device based on image information, and the recording medium on which the images is formed is folded by a folding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Ueda, Junji Sato, Shoichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100076601
    Abstract: The frog-leg-arm robot is provided with a torque motor connected to a wrist rotation shaft to supply torque to a rotation shaft to which the torque motor itself is connected and a control unit in which, when each of arms constituting the frog-leg-arm robot is able to shift from the present posture to any plurality of postures including a targeted posture by a driving device, the torque motor is electrically controlled so that the torque is supplied to the wrist rotation shaft in a direction in which each of the arms is able to shift to the targeted posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Kengo Matsuo, Hiroaki Imaizumi, Akio Ueda, Ichiro Yasuzumi, Hiroki Murakami, Hiroyuki Amada