Patents by Inventor Atsushi Nakajima

Atsushi Nakajima 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: 20210119231
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an energy management system capable of improving energy efficiency. The energy management system includes: a fuel cell configured to supply energy used in a facility; a first hydrogen supply unit configured to supply hydrogen to the fuel cell by causing a power generation apparatus that uses renewable energy to perform water electrolysis; a second hydrogen supply unit configured to supply hydrogen to the fuel cell by reforming natural gas supplied via a pipeline; and a control unit configured to determine a ratio between hydrogen supplied from the first hydrogen supply unit to the fuel cell and hydrogen supplied from the second hydrogen supply unit to the fuel cell. The control unit determines the ratio in accordance with a percentage of heat energy and energy other than the heat energy with respect to the energy used in the facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kei NAKAMUTA, Hideshi MIZUTANI, Keisuke KIKUCHI, Nobuyuki ORIHASHI, Tomio YAMANAKA, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Shinichi YATSUZUKA, Masayuki SUZUKI, Hiroshi TOGE
  • Publication number: 20210066734
    Abstract: A redox flow battery system includes a redox flow battery cell, a first circulation mechanism, and a second circulation mechanism. The redox flow battery cell includes a positive electrode chamber housing a positive electrode, a negative electrode chamber housing a negative electrode, and a separator separating the positive electrode chamber and the negative electrode chamber. The first circulation mechanism and the second circulation mechanisms circulate electrolytic solutions into the positive electrode chamber and the negative electrode chamber, respectively. The separator is a porous body. Each of the electrolytic solutions contains an active material and a mediator that has a diameter larger than pore distribution d50 of the separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Kan KITAGAWA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Hiroaki YOTOU, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Kenichi OYAIZU, Kan HATAKEYAMA, Yota SUGAI
  • Publication number: 20210024227
    Abstract: To provide a workload calculation system capable of suppressing the possibility of the cargo handling work not being performed as planned in the work schedule at the arrival airport. A workload calculation system according to the present disclosure includes: an image pick-up unit configured to acquire an image of a cargo loaded aboard an airplane prior to the arrival of the airplane at an arrival airport; a characteristics detection unit configured to detect characteristics of the cargo by recognizing the image of the cargo acquired by the image pick-up unit; and a workload calculation unit configured to calculate a workload required to convey the cargo at the arrival airport by checking the characteristics of the cargo detected by the characteristics detection unit against pre-recorded workload information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Ikuo OHTA, Hideshi MIZUTANI, Atsushi SAJIKI, Takao INATA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Atsuo KOMATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20210023959
    Abstract: A charging and discharging management system according to the present disclosure is a system for, in regard to a vehicle on which a battery capable of being charged and discharged is mounted, charging and discharging the battery, the charging and discharging management system including: an information collection unit configured to collect boarding information indicating an aircraft which a driver of the vehicle plans to board, the vehicle being parked in a parking lot in an airport; a parking period acquisition unit configured to acquire a parking period of the vehicle based on the boarding information pieces collected by the information collection unit; and a determination unit configured to determine a timing at which the battery mounted on the vehicle is charged and discharged based on the parking period acquired by the parking period acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Ikuo OHTA, Hideshi MIZUTANI, Atsushi SAJIKI, Takao INATA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Atsuo KOMATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20210027342
    Abstract: An advertisement display management system includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a terminal device at a client company, an amount of electricity to be purchased for a prescribed period from the electricity generating facility where a renewable energy source is used and which is installed at an airport and data of an advertisement to be displayed at the airport during the prescribed period; a calculation unit configured to calculate an emission reduction amount of CO2 equivalent to the amount of electricity to be purchased; and a display unit installed at the airport and configured to display the data of the advertisement, the amount of electricity to be purchased, and the emission reduction amount of CO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideshi MIZUTANI, Ikuo OHTA, Atsushi SAJIKI, Takao INATA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Atsuo KOMATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20210027399
    Abstract: An energy management system capable of optimizing a distribution of energy storage between a battery and a hydrogen energy storage system is provided. An energy management system includes a collection unit configured to collect arrival and departure information and information about weather, a prediction unit configured to predict a demand fluctuation in an amount of electric power used in an airport based on the information collected by the collection unit, and a determination unit configured to determine a distribution of energy storage between a battery and a hydrogen energy storage system based on the demand fluctuation predicted by the prediction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Hideshi MIZUTANI, Ikuo OHTA, Atsushi SAJIKI, Takao INATA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Atsuo KOMATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20210023963
    Abstract: A charging management system according to the present disclosure is a system for charging a plurality of batteries that are respectively mounted on a plurality of electric automobiles connected to a charging facility, the charging management system including: a collection unit configured to collect charging characteristics of the plurality of batteries; and a determination unit configured to determine a distribution of an amount of charging power to be supplied to the plurality of batteries from the charging facility based on the charging characteristics collected by the collection unit. The determination unit determines to supply the batteries having the same charging characteristics as each other with the same amount of charging power as each other, and determines to supply the batteries having charging characteristics different from each other with amounts of charging power different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Ikuo OHTA, Hideshi MIZUTANI, Atsushi SAJIKI, Takao INATA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Atsuo KOMATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20210023953
    Abstract: A charging system according to the present disclosure is a charging system for charging a battery of a vehicle including a power reception unit configured to be able to receive power in a non-contact manner and a battery charged by the power received by the power reception unit. The charging system according to the present disclosure includes: a charging apparatus including a plurality of power feed units that are arranged along a predetermined route, each of the power feed unit being configured to be able to feed electric power to the power reception unit in a non-contact manner; a detection unit configured to detect a current position of the vehicle; and a charging control unit configured to feed electric power from the power feed unit to the power reception unit in a non-contact manner based on the current position of the vehicle detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Ikuo OHTA, Hideshi MIZUTANI, Atsushi SAJIKI, Takao INATA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Atsuo KOMATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20210024146
    Abstract: An automotive vehicle according to the present disclosure is an automotive vehicle deployed at an airport, the automotive vehicle including: an information collection unit configured to collect arrival and departure information of an aircraft which a user boards; a derivation unit configured to derive a boarding place and a boarding time for the user to board the aircraft based on the arrival and departure information pieces; a user recognition unit configured to recognize the user; a distance measurement unit configured to measure a distance between the automotive vehicle and the user; and a traveling control unit configured to control traveling of the automotive vehicle. The traveling control unit controls the automotive vehicle to travel to the boarding place by the boarding time while guiding the user and preventing the automotive vehicle and the user from being spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Ikuo OHTA, Hideshi MIZUTANI, Atsushi SAJIKI, Takao INATA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Atsuo KOMATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20210027227
    Abstract: An energy management system for enabling an airport including a power storage facility to prepare an electric power purchase plan in order to purchase a predetermined amount of electric power from an electric power company for a predetermined period and to cover electric power to be used at the airport. The energy management system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire arrival and departure information and information about climate change, a prediction unit configured to predict a fluctuation in the demand for the electric power at the airport based on the arrival and departure information and the information about climate change, and a determination unit configured to determine the predetermined amount of electric power and the predetermined period based on the fluctuation in demand for electric power and a power storage capacity of the power storage facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Takao INATA, Ikuo OHTA, Hideshi MIZUTANI, Atsushi SAJIKI, Yohei TANIGAWA, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Atsuo KOMATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20210027457
    Abstract: A semiconductor image processing apparatus has an image input unit inputs a first semiconductor image, an exposure condition input unit configured to input exposure conditions, a generator performs a process of extracting a feature amount in consideration of the exposure conditions while reducing resolution of the first semiconductor image and thereafter use the extracted feature amount to increase the resolution to generate a second semiconductor image, and a discriminator configured to discriminate whether the input image is the second semiconductor image or a third semiconductor image provided in advance. The generator performs learning so that the discriminator erroneously discriminates the second semiconductor image as the third semiconductor image based on a result discriminated by the discriminator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Youyang NG, Yuko Kono, Takuji Ohashi, Chihiro Ida
  • Publication number: 20210012258
    Abstract: An airport logistics management system capable of reducing working resources in logistics in an airport is provided. The airport logistics management system includes: a collection unit configured to collect departure and arrival information, information regarding accommodation capacities of departing and arriving flights, and information regarding a record of past amounts of loads; a prediction unit configured to predict a workload in logistics at the airport based on the information collected by the collection unit; and a determination unit configured to determine an amount of working resources that are necessary based on the workload predicted by the prediction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Ikuo Ohta, Hideshi Mizutani, Atsushi Sajiki, Takao Inata, Yohei Tanigawa, Atsushi Nakajima, Atsuo Komatsubara
  • Publication number: 20210011486
    Abstract: A charging management system capable of reducing congestion of charging electric vehicles in an airport and improving the working efficiency in the airport is provided. A charging management system includes: a collection unit configured to collect departure and arrival information and information regarding amounts of loads of departing and arriving flights; a planning unit configured to create a working plan of electric vehicles working in the airport based on the information collected by the collection unit; and a determination unit configured to determine charging timings of the respective electric vehicles based on the working plan created by the planning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Ikuo OHTA, Hideshi MIZUTANI, Atsushi SAJIKI, Takao INATA, Yohei TANIGAWA, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Atsuo KOMATSUBARA
  • Patent number: 10845341
    Abstract: A method includes: an arrangement step of arranging a phased array probe including a plurality of oscillators each of which is capable of emitting ultrasonic waves on an end surface of the rotor disc, in a parallel state in which the plurality of oscillators are arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor disc; a first transmission step of emitting ultrasonic waves from the plurality of oscillators in the parallel state, while a timing of emitting the ultrasonic waves from each of the oscillators is controlled in a first emission pattern, and receiving reflection waves of the ultrasonic waves; and a second transmission step of emitting ultrasonic waves from the plurality of oscillators in the parallel state, while the timing of emitting the ultrasonic waves from each of the oscillators is controlled in a second emission pattern different from the first emission pattern, and receiving reflection waves of the ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mikiyasu Urata, Seiichi Kawanami, Kiyotaka Aoki, Yoshikazu Yamada, Daisuke Takemura, Atsushi Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20200289605
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition for preventing or improving fat deposition on the liver in spite of the alcohol intake history of a level that a liver disease is not caused. The inventors found that glutathione has an effect of preventing or improving fat deposition on the liver, which is not caused by alcohol, and completed the present invention. Among nonalcoholic fat diseases, the present invention is particularly effective in an early stage of the treatment or in a case where treatment for another disease is not performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: KOHJIN LIFE SCIENCES CO., LTD., PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY, KYOTO PREFECTURAL PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, SAGA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takaomi KESSOKU, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Yoshio SUMIDA, Yuichiro EGUCHI, Susumu SAITO, Yusuke SAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200237720
    Abstract: An object he present invention is to provide a medicament for therapy of alcohol use disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicants: SANWA KAGAKU KENKYUSHO CO., LTD., UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Tokuyuki YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20200189401
    Abstract: An electrolyte station is used for electrolyte replacement in a redox flow battery that is mounted to a vehicle. The electrolyte station includes: a stand that includes a connector that connects to a connection socket that connects to an electrolyte tank in the redox flow battery; a recovery tank that stores a recovered electrolyte; a filling tank that stores a charged electrolyte; a recovery line that connects the connector in the stand and the recovery tank; and a filling line that connects the connector in the stand and the filling tank. In response to the connector being connected to the connection socket, the electrolyte station enables the used electrolyte removed from an electrolyte tank to be recovered to the recovery tank through the recovery line, and enables the charged electrolyte stored in the filling tank to be supplied the electrolyte tank through the filling line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroomi FUNAKOSHI, Atsushi NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200173046
    Abstract: [Problem to be solved] Provided is an ion exchange membrane having both excellent electrolytic characteristics and excellent gas zone damage resistance. [Solution] An ion exchange membrane comprising: a layer A comprising a fluorine-containing polymer having a sulfonic acid group; and a layer B comprising a fluorine-containing polymer having a carboxylic acid group, wherein the layer B has a thickness of 5 to 30 ?m, and the layer B has an ion cluster diameter of 1.8 to 2.48 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Takuya MORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200002850
    Abstract: A first aspect of the present invention is carbon fiber wherein the surface of a monofilament has a center line average roughness Ra of 6.0 nm or more and 13 nm or less, and the monofilament has a long diameter/short diameter ratio of 1.11 or more and 1.245 or less. A second aspect of the present invention is carbon fiber precursor acrylic fiber wherein the surface of a monofilament has a center line average roughness Ra of 18 nm or more and 27 nm or less, and the monofilament has a long diameter/short diameter ratio of 1.11 or more and 1.245 or less. The carbon fiber according to the first aspect is obtained by stabilizing and carbonizing under specific conditions the carbon fiber precursor acrylic fiber according to the second aspect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Naomasa Matsuyama, Yuutarou Nakamura, Norifumi Hirota, Hiroko Matsumura, Katsuhiko Ikeda, Kouki Wakabayashi, Tadashi Ootani, Akihiro Itou, Kenji Hirano, Akito Hatayama, Kenji Kaneta, Atsushi Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10518258
    Abstract: The ion exchange membrane according to the present invention comprises a layer A comprising a fluorine-containing polymer having a sulfonic acid group and a layer B comprising a fluorine-containing polymer having a carboxylic acid group, wherein the layer B has a value of an ion cluster diameter distribution M represented by the following formula (B) of greater than 10: M=(a0)2/(?)2??(B) wherein M represents an ion cluster diameter distribution, a0 represents an average ion cluster radius, and ? represents a standard deviation of an ion cluster radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakajima, Naoki Sakamoto, Takuya Morikawa