Patents by Inventor Akira Yasutake
Akira Yasutake 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: 11807363Abstract: An on-vehicle aircraft control system includes a winding device provided on a landing platform, a connecting member connecting the winding device and an aircraft and wound up or drawn out by the winding device, and a controller controlling the winding device and the aircraft. Upon receipt of a landing request to land the aircraft on the landing platform, the controller winds up the connecting member by the winding device and controls an attitude of the aircraft so as to land the aircraft with a photographing unit provided on the aircraft facing in a specified photographing direction determined in advance.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hironobu Hashiguchi, Akira Yasutake, Tsuyoshi Arinaga
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Patent number: 11715374Abstract: When a start condition determined in advance is satisfied while a vehicle is parked, a controller controls an aircraft such that the aircraft takes off from the vehicle, a photographing unit captures a position notification image including at least the vehicle and notifying a parking position of the vehicle, and the position notification image is transmitted to a mobile terminal having a display unit and carried by a user outside the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hironobu Hashiguchi, Takashi Iwase, Akira Yasutake, Tsuyoshi Arinaga
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Publication number: 20210366282Abstract: When a start condition determined in advance is satisfied while a vehicle is parked, a controller controls an aircraft such that the aircraft takes off from the vehicle, a photographing unit captures a position notification image including at least the vehicle and notifying a parking position of the vehicle, and the position notification image is transmitted to a mobile terminal having a display unit and carried by a user outside the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Takashi IWASE, Akira YASUTAKE, Tsuyoshi ARINAGA
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Publication number: 20210362856Abstract: An on-vehicle aircraft control system includes a winding device provided on a landing platform, a connecting member connecting the winding device and an aircraft and wound up or drawn out by the winding device, and a controller controlling the winding device and the aircraft. Upon receipt of a landing request to land the aircraft on the landing platform, the controller winds up the connecting member by the winding device and controls an attitude of the aircraft so as to land the aircraft with a photographing unit provided on the aircraft facing in a specified photographing direction determined in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Akira YASUTAKE, Tsuyoshi ARINAGA
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Publication number: 20210282989Abstract: The wheelchair includes a seating portion, body frames that support the seating portion, wheels that are rotatably supported by the body frames, an engaging portion, a left brake that brakes a left rear wheel, and a coupling portion that couples the engaging portion and the left brake to each other. The engaging portion is capable of switching between an engagement attitude for engaging a vehicle body member that forms an opening of a vehicle and a disengagement attitude for releasing the engagement with the vehicle body member. The coupling portion transmits the movement of the engaging portion to the left brake when the engaging portion makes an attitude change from the disengagement attitude to the engagement attitude. This operates the left brake when the attitude of the engaging portion switches from the disengagement attitude to the engagement attitude and brakes the left rear wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Takashi IWASE, Isao TODA, Akira YASUTAKE, Tsuyoshi ARINAGA
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Patent number: 11069915Abstract: A spring member is used in a fuel cell stack. The spring member includes a planar portion and a spring portion. The planar portion is joined to a separator in a state of surface contact with the separator. The spring portion extends from the planar portion and generates an elastic force for pressing the separator toward a power generation cell by receiving force in a stacking direction of a cell unit and undergoing bending deformation.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Motoki Yaginuma, Akira Yasutake, Norihiro Tajima, Koichi Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20200235417Abstract: A spring member is used in a fuel cell stack. The spring member includes a planar portion and a spring portion. The planar portion is joined to a separator in a state of surface contact with the separator. The spring portion extends from the planar portion and generates an elastic force for pressing the separator toward a power generation cell by receiving force in a stacking direction of a cell unit and undergoing bending deformation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2018Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Motoki YAGINUMA, Akira YASUTAKE, Norihiro TAJIMA, Koichi KAWASAKI
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Patent number: 10411273Abstract: The fuel cell single cell of the present invention includes: a membrane electrode assembly; a low-rigidity frame that supports the membrane electrode assembly; a pair of separators that holds the low-rigidity frame and the membrane electrode assembly therebetween; a gas channel for supplying gas to the membrane electrode assembly between the pair of separators; manifold parts that are formed in the low-rigidity frame and the pair of separators to supply the gas to the gas channel; restraining ribs that restrain the low-rigidity frame near the manifold parts; a projected part of the low-rigidity frame that projects toward the manifold parts beyond the restraining ribs; and a gas flow part that is formed in the projected part to supply the gas from the manifold part to the gas channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiji Ichihara, Motoki Yaginuma, Akira Yasutake
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Patent number: 10396369Abstract: A fuel cell stack FS includes: a plurality of cell modules M each including an integrally stacked plurality of single cells C; a sealing plate P intervened between each of the plurality of cell modules M; a manifold M3 that penetrates the plurality of cell modules M and the sealing plate(s) P in a stacking direction to distribute reaction gas, wherein the sealing plate P includes a sealing member S4 that surrounds and seals the manifold M3 between the sealing plate P and each of the plurality of cell modules M, and the sealing member S4 includes an extended portion E that extends toward the manifold M3 so that an end face F4 of the extended portion E is flush with an inner wall of the manifold M3. Generated water is suitably discharged through the manifold M3 without a decrease of the flowability of the reaction gas and an increase of the production cost.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Motoki Yaginuma, Akira Yasutake
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Publication number: 20190173102Abstract: The fuel cell single cell of the present invention includes: a membrane electrode assembly; a low-rigidity frame that supports the membrane electrode assembly; a pair of separators that holds the low-rigidity frame and the membrane electrode assembly therebetween; a gas channel for supplying gas to the membrane electrode assembly between the pair of separators; manifold parts that are formed in the low-rigidity frame and the pair of separators to supply the gas to the gas channel; restraining ribs that restrain the low-rigidity frame near the manifold parts; a projected part of the low-rigidity frame that projects toward the manifold parts beyond the restraining ribs; and a gas flow part that is formed in the projected part to supply the gas from the manifold part to the gas channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2015Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiji ICHIHARA, Motoki YAGINUMA, Akira YASUTAKE
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Patent number: 10312528Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a stacked plurality of single cells that includes respective membrane electrode assemblies 1 with peripheral frames 51 and respective pairs of separators 2A, 2B holding the frames 51 and the membrane electrode assemblies 1 between them, in which the frames 51 and the separators 2A, 2B of the single cells C include respective distribution holes H3 that continue to each other in the stacked position to form a manifold M3 for distributing reaction gas, at least a part of the inner wall of the manifold M3 is formed in a continuous flat shape that extends in the stacking direction of the single cells C. Generated water is suitably discharged through the manifold M3 without a decrease of the flowability of reaction gas and an increase of the production cost.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Motoki Yaginuma, Akira Yasutake
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Publication number: 20180166708Abstract: A fuel cell stack FS includes: a plurality of cell modules M each including an integrally stacked plurality of single cells C; a sealing plate P intervened between each of the plurality of cell modules M; a manifold M3 that penetrates the plurality of cell modules M and the sealing plate(s) P in a stacking direction to distribute reaction gas, wherein the sealing plate P includes a sealing member S4 that surrounds and seals the manifold M3 between the sealing plate P and each of the plurality of cell modules M, and the sealing member S4 includes an extended portion E that extends toward the manifold M3 so that an end face F4 of the extended portion E is flush with an inner wall of the manifold M3. Generated water is suitably discharged through the manifold M3 without a decrease of the flowability of the reaction gas and an increase of the production cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2015Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Motoki YAGINUMA, Akira YASUTAKE
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Publication number: 20180138524Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a stacked plurality of single cells that includes respective membrane electrode assemblies 1 with peripheral frames 51 and respective pairs of separators 2A, 2B holding the frames 51 and the membrane electrode assemblies 1 between them, in which the frames 51 and the separators 2A, 2B of the single cells C include respective distribution holes H3 that continue to each other in the stacked position to form a manifold M3 for distributing reaction gas, at least a part of the inner wall of the manifold M3 is formed in a continuous flat shape that extends in the stacking direction of the single cells C. Generated water is suitably discharged through the manifold M3 without a decrease of the flowability of reaction gas and an increase of the production cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2015Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Motoki YAGINUMA, Akira YASUTAKE
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Publication number: 20160190610Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly with frame includes a membrane electrode assembly 2 in which an electrolyte membrane 11 is held between a pair of electrode layers 12, 13; and a resin frame 1 disposed around the membrane electrode assembly 2. The frame 1 includes an opening 1A in which the membrane electrode assembly 2 is disposed, a step 1B that is formed along an edge of the opening, and an inner peripheral portion 1C that is deviated to one side of the frame due to the step 1B. The outer peripheral portion of the membrane electrode assembly 2 is joined to the inner peripheral portion 1C on one side opposite the deviated side. In the frame 1, the inner peripheral portion 1C, to which the membrane electrode assembly 2 is joined, has a thickness approximately equal to the thickness of the body, while the step 1B has a larger thickness. This configuration ensures the strength against a force in the thickness direction and thereby prevents the frame 1 from being damaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro KAGEYAMA, Manabu SUGINO, Akira YASUTAKE
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Patent number: 4176917Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a transparent non-conductive front substrate and a rear non-conductive substrate between which is sandwiched a liquid crystal material. The front substrate includes at least one transparent conductive electrode with leads extending therefrom for connection thereto. The rear substrate includes a cooperating electrode assembly. Activating electrical voltage is applied between a selected front electrode and the rear electrode to create an electric field which activates the liquid crystal material. When the liquid crystal material is activated, it either disperses and changes the transmission characteristics of the liquid or it alters its plane of polarization. In either event the phenomenon is used to provide a display. The electrodes are shaped so that the widths of the rear electrodes are less than the front electrodes and no portion of the leads connected thereto overlap with the display.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1978Date of Patent: December 4, 1979Assignee: Omron Tateisi Electronics Co.Inventor: Akira Yasutake
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Patent number: 4094058Abstract: A liquid crystal display assembly including a plurality of individual liquid crystal displays formed on a pair of cooperating substrates with the displays isolated from one another by a sealing pattern served to define individual displays. One method of forming a plurality of liquid crystal displays includes the steps of applying a conductive pattern to one surface each of a pair of substrates, the pattern cooperating when the substrates are face to face to form the plurality of displays, providing sealing means on at least one of the surfaces prior to bringing said surfaces together and in a pattern isolating each of the plurality of displays to form a plurality of displays cells, filling the cells with liquid crystal material, sealing the cells by bringing the substrates together and cutting substrates to form the displays.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1976Date of Patent: June 13, 1978Assignee: Omron Tateisi Electronics Co.Inventors: Akira Yasutake, Shigemitsu Kiso