Patents by Inventor Hideaki Nishimura
Hideaki Nishimura 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: 20200198333Abstract: A liquid discharge head control circuit includes a first wiring for propagating a first reference voltage signal to be supplied to a driving signal selection circuit, a second wiring for propagating a second reference voltage signal to be supplied to a restoration circuit, a third wiring for propagating the second reference voltage signal to be supplied to the restoration circuit, a fourth wiring for propagating one signal of a pair of first differential signals, and a fifth wiring for propagating the other signal of a pair of first differential signals. The fourth wiring and the fifth wiring are arranged side by side. The fourth wiring and the second wiring are located to be adjacent to each other, the fifth wiring and the third wiring are located to be adjacent to each other, and the fourth wiring and the fifth wiring are located between the second wiring and the third wiring.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Sukehiro ITO, Hideaki NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 10688811Abstract: A gas blower includes a supply port, a chamber to which a gas is fed from the supply port, a nozzle communicating with an interior of the chamber to discharge the gas from the nozzle, a partition member disposed in the chamber to partition the interior of the chamber into a first space including the supply port and a second space not including the supply port, the partition member including at least one first opening through which the gas communicates between the first space and the second space, and an air flow guide including a plurality of second openings, disposed in the chamber between the second space and the nozzle. The supply port is disposed on one end in a longitudinal direction of the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Nishimura, Toshihiro Yoshinuma
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Publication number: 20200164663Abstract: A blower includes a blowout port configured to blow air outside the blower, a channel member connected to the blowout port, the channel member configured to guide the air to the blowout port, a first heat insulation member configured to cover an inner wall of the channel member, and a second heat insulation member configured to cover an outer wall of the channel member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Nishimura, Toshihiro Yoshinuma, Ken Onodera
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Patent number: 10665850Abstract: Disclosed is a stacked battery including at least one short-circuit current shunt part and electric elements, wherein: the shunt part includes first and second current collector layers, and an insulating layer provided between the first and second current collector layers, all of these layers being stacked; each power generation element includes a cathode current collector layer, a cathode material layer, an electrolyte layer, an anode material layer, and an anode current collector layer all of these layers being stacked; the first current collector layer is electrically connected to the cathode current collector layer and the second current collector layer to the anode current collector layer; the electric elements are electrically connected in parallel; and the shunt part next to the electric elements includes a PPTC layer between the first current collector layer and the insulating layer and/or between the second current collector layer and the insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Yuki Matsushita, Mitsuru Tateishi, Hideyo Ebisuzaki, Hideaki Nishimura, Yusuke Okuhata, Shigenori Hama, Norihiro Ose
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Patent number: 10651456Abstract: In an all-solid-state battery including at least one short-circuit current shunt part and at least one electric element which are stacked, when the battery is constrained, cracking etc. of the adhesive in the short-circuit current shunt pail is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Yuki Matsushita, Mitsuru Tateishi, Hideaki Nishimura, Hideyo Ebisuzaki, Yusuke Okuhata, Norihiro Ose, Shigenori Hama
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Patent number: 10559845Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a stacked battery in which an unevenness of short circuit resistance among a plurality of cells is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Yuki Matsushita, Hideaki Nishimura, Yusuke Okuhata, Norihiro Ose, Mitsuru Tateishi, Shigetaka Nagamatsu, Takayuki Uchiyama, Shigenori Hama, Dai Kato, Naohiro Mashimo, Hideyo Ebisuzaki, Ayano Kobayashi, Hisataka Fujimaki
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Publication number: 20200035988Abstract: An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer; and wherein a surface roughness Ra of an electrode active material layer-contacting surface of the PTC resistor layer, is 1.1 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro OSE, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kazuo YASO, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20200035990Abstract: An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer; and wherein a porosity of the PTC resistor layer is from 5% to 13%.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro OSE, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kazuo YASO, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20200036009Abstract: An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro OSE, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kazuo YASO, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20200035984Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries which comprises a PTC resistor layer containing an insulating inorganic substance and in which electronic resistance is low. The production method is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the method is a method for producing an electrode for use in a solid-state battery comprising a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode; wherein the electrode is at least one of the cathode and the anode, and the electrode comprises a current collector, an electrode active material layer and a PTC resistor layer disposed between the current collector and the electrode active material layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro OSE, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kazuo YASO, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20200035989Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries, which comprises a PTC resistor layer and in which electronic resistance is low. The production method is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the method is a method for producing an electrode for use in a solid-state battery comprising a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode; wherein the electrode is at least one of the cathode and the anode, and the electrode comprises a current collector, an electrode active material layer and a PTC resistor layer disposed between the current collector and the electrode active material layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro Ose, Tomoya Suzuki, Hajime Hasegawa, Kazuo Yaso, Hideaki Nishimura, Yuki Matsushita
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Publication number: 20200035983Abstract: An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains a carbon-containing electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a fluorine-containing polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro OSE, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kazuo YASO, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20190344589Abstract: A drying device includes a contact heater unit to contact and heat a medium. The contact heater unit includes a plurality of heating members each having a curved contact face to contact the medium among plural heating members of the plurality of heating members to contact a first surface of the medium opposite a second surface of the medium on which liquid is applied. The plurality of heating members includes a first heating member and a plurality of second heating members. The first heating member has a maximum contact distance to contact the medium. The plurality of second heating members is disposed upstream from the first heating member in a direction of conveyance of the medium. Two heating members of the plurality of second heating members immediately upstream from the first heating member in the direction of conveyance of the medium contact the first surface of the medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Ken ONODERA, Sho SAWAHATA, Juni NAKAI, Toshihiro YOSHINUMA, Yasuhisa KATOH, Hirokazu IKENOUE, Satoshi KITAOKA, Hideaki NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20190348663Abstract: To suppress heat generation in a short-circuit current shunt part in a stacked battery that includes the short-circuit current shunt part, in the stacked battery 100 including at least one short-circuit current shunt part 10, and a stack 20 that includes a plurality of electric elements 20a, 20b which are stacked, the short-circuit current shunt part 10 includes a first part 10a that is provided on one end side in a stacking direction of the stack 20, a second part 10b that is provided on another end side therein, and a third part 10c that connects the first part 10a and the second part 10b; at the first part 10a, the first current collector layer 11 and the cathode current collector layer 21 have an electric connection part 14a but the second current collector layer 12 and the anode current collector layer 25 do not have any electric connection part, at the second part 10b, the second current collector layer 12 and the anode current collector layer 25 have an electric connection part 14b but the first currenType: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Norihiro Ose, Hideaki Nishimura, Yuki Matsushita
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Publication number: 20190337307Abstract: A drying device includes a contact heater unit to contact and heat a medium. The contact heater unit includes a plurality of heating members each having a curved contact face to contact the medium among plural heating members of the plurality of heating members to contact a first surface of the medium opposite a second surface of the medium on which liquid is applied. The plurality of heating members includes a first heating member and a plurality of second heating members. The first heating member has a maximum contact distance to contact the medium. The plurality of second heating members is disposed upstream from the first heating member in a direction of conveyance of the medium. Two heating members of the plurality of second heating members immediately upstream from the first heating member in the direction of conveyance of the medium contact the first surface of the medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Ken ONODERA, Sho SAWAHATA, Junji NAKAI, Toshihiro YOSHINUMA, Yasuhisa KATOH, Hirokazu IKENOUE, Satoshi KITAOKA, Hideaki NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 10457079Abstract: An image forming method includes applying an ink for the first time to a recording medium to form an image and rolling up the recording medium in a roll form, wherein the recording medium is continuous paper, the ink includes an organic solvent and a coloring material, and the image recorded matter has a tackiness power of from 80 to 110 nN.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kaori Toyama, Yuuki Yokohama, Hiromi Sakaguchi, Hideaki Nishimura, Masayuki Fukuoka, Shuusuke Someno
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Publication number: 20190319252Abstract: In the stacked battery, a short-circuit current shunt part is electrically connected to the electric elements, and an insulating layer of the short-circuit current shunt part is constituted of material having a predetermined melting point or glass transition temperature. When heat is excessively generated in the battery due to internal short circuits etc. and the temperature of the battery reaches the melting point of the insulating layer, the insulating layer melts and its shape is changed to short-circuit the short-circuit current shunt part, and current flows from the electric elements into the short-circuit current shunt part. To measure the current flowing into the short-circuit current shunt part makes it possible to easily grasp excessive heat generation of the battery to suppress deterioration of the battery due to heat generation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Norihiro OSE, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA
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Patent number: 10442213Abstract: A drying device includes a plurality of blowers to blow air onto an object to be dried, the plurality of blowers being disposed along a direction of conveyance of the object to be dried, and a plurality of heaters to heat air inside the plurality of blowers. Each of the plurality of blowers includes an elongated nozzle arranged along a nozzle direction perpendicular to the direction of conveyance of the object to be dried, and an airflow generator to generate airflow to be blown from the elongated nozzle. The plurality of blowers includes a first blower including the airflow generator at a first end of the first blower in the nozzle direction and a second blower including the airflow generator at a second end of the second blower opposite the first end in the nozzle direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Nishimura, Toshihiro Yoshinuma, Wataru Sakamoto, Sho Sawahata, Ken Onodera
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Patent number: 10439260Abstract: A battery that can inhibit temperature rising when generating heat due to a short circuit etc., while inhibiting degradation of the battery output performance, includes a plurality of unit batteries stacked together; and an endothermic layer arranged between the unit batteries adjacent in a stacking direction, the layer including an endothermic material, wherein each unit battery includes: a pair of current collectors; and at least one electrode body, wherein: the pair of current collectors are arranged to both ends of the unit battery in the stacking direction respectively, the electrode body includes a first pole active material layer, a second pole active material layer which is different from the first pole active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer; the first and second pole active material layer are arranged between the pair of current collectors; and the current collectors have contact with the first or second pole active material layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideyo Ebisuzaki, Hideaki Nishimura, Yuki Matsushita
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Publication number: 20190283463Abstract: A drying device includes a drier, a gas circulator, and a concentration adjuster. The drier warms a liquid composition on a drying target object. The gas circulator circulates a gas containing a volatile component of an organic solvent warmed and volatilized by the drier to reuse the gas for drying. The concentration adjuster adjusts a concentration of the volatile component reused.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Nishimura, Yoshiaki Hoshino, Hirokazu Ikenoue, Yoshiki Yanagawa, Amika Sagara