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: 20190263143Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Nishimura, Toshihiro Yoshinuma
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Patent number: 10384472Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ken Onodera, Sho Sawahata, Junji Nakai, Toshihiro Yoshinuma, Yasuhisa Katoh, Hirokazu Ikenoue, Satoshi Kitaoka, Hideaki Nishimura
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Publication number: 20190245190Abstract: To stabilize shunt resistance of a short-circuit current shunt part when the short-circuit current shunt part short-circuits due to nail penetration etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideaki WATANABE, Masaharu Senoue, Hajime Hasegawa, Norihiro Ose, Hideaki Nishimura
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Publication number: 20190140311Abstract: An all-solid state battery including at least one short-circuit current shunt part and a plurality of electric elements, the short-circuit current shunt part and the electric elements being stacked, wherein the shunt part includes a first and a second current collector layers, and an insulating layer between the first and second current collector layers, all being stacked, each of the electric elements includes a cathode current collector layer, a cathode material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, an anode material layer, and an anode current collector layer, all of these layers being stacked, the first current collector layer connected with the cathode current collector layer, the second current collector layer connected with the anode current collector layer, the electric elements are electrically connected with each other in parallel, and a plurality of sheets of metal foil, the one being arranged on a side wherein a nail penetrates in nail penetration testing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Norihiro OSE, Hideaki NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20190123355Abstract: An all-solid-state battery including a laminated body with a cathode current collecting layer, cathode active material layer, solid electrolyte layer, anode active material layer, and anode current collecting layer in this order, and a restraining member that applies a restraining pressure to the laminated body in a laminated direction; containing a conductive material, an insulating inorganic substance, and a polymer, is in at least one of a position between the cathode active material layer and the cathode current collecting layer, and a position between the anode active material layer and the anode current collecting layer; the content of the insulating inorganic substance in the PTC layer is 10 volume % or more and 40 volume % or less; and a proportion of a particle size D90 of the insulating inorganic substance, D90, to a thickness of the PTC layer, TPTC, regarded as D90/TPTC is 0.6 or more and 1.0 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyo EBISUZAKI, Hideaki NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20190111715Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Kaori TOYAMA, Yuuki Yokohama, Hiromi Sakaguchi, Hideaki Nishimura, Masayuki Fukuoka, Shuusuke Someno
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Publication number: 20190100031Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Hideaki NISHIMURA, Toshihiro YOSHINUMA, Wataru SAKAMOTO, Sho SAWAHATA, Ken ONODERA
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Patent number: 10195885Abstract: 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 water, an organic solvent, and a coloring material, and the image has a tackiness power of from 80 to 110 nN.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kaori Toyama, Yuuki Yokohama, Hiromi Sakaguchi, Hideaki Nishimura, Masayuki Fukuoka, Shuusuke Someno
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Publication number: 20180316066Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a stacked battery in which the unevenness of short circuit resistance among a plurality of cells is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: 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: 20180316048Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: 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: 20180316049Abstract: 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. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a stacked battery comprising: a plurality of cells in a thickness direction, wherein the plurality of cells are electrically connected in parallel; each of the plurality of cells includes a cathode current collector, a cathode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, an anode active material layer, and an anode current collector, in this order; the stacked battery includes a surface-side cell that is located on a surface side of the stacked battery, and a center-side cell that is located on a center side rather than the surface-side cell; and a contact resistance between the cathode current collector and the anode current collector in the surface-side cell is more than a contact resistance between the cathode current collector and the anode current collector in the center-side cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: 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: 20180316065Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a stacked battery in which sneak current caused by an unevenness of a short circuit resistance among a plurality of cells, is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: 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: 20180315984Abstract: Disclosed is a stacked battery that can flow a larger rounding current in a short-circuit current shunt part than in an electric element when a short circuit occurs in the short-circuit current shunt part and the electric element in nailing, the stacked battery in which an electrical resistance of a current collector tab of the short-circuit current shunt part is smaller than an electrical resistance of a current collector tab of the electric element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Norihiro OSE, Shigenori HAMA, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA, Yusuke OKUHATA, Mitsuru TATEISHI, Hideyo EBISUZAKI
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Publication number: 20180294468Abstract: Disclosed is an all-solid-state battery that makes it possible for a larger rounding current flow into a short-circuit current shunt part than to each electric element when the short-circuit current shunt part and the electric elements short-circuit in nail penetration testing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Yuki MATSUSHITA, Mitsuru TATEISHI, Hideyo EBISUZAKI, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yusuke OKUHATA, Shigenori HAMA, Norihiro OSE
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Publication number: 20180294469Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Yuki MATSUSHITA, Mitsuru TATEISHI, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Hideyo EBISUZAKI, Yusuke OKUHATA, Norihiro OSE, Shigenori HAMA
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Publication number: 20180294470Abstract: A short-circuit current shunt part does not cause any short circuit during normal battery use, causes stable short circuits in nail penetration, and suppresses sudden temperature rise after nail penetration. A stacked battery includes at least one short-circuit current shunt part including first and second current collector layers, and an insulating layer between the first and second current collector layers, and electric elements each including a cathode current collector layer, a cathode material layer, an electrolyte layer, an anode material layer, and an anode current collector layer, with all layers being stacked. The first current collector layer is electrically connected with the cathode current collector layer, the second current collector layer is electrically connected with the anode current collector layer, the electric elements are electrically connected to each other in parallel, and the short-circuit current shunt part insulating layer formed of a thermosetting resin sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Yuki MATSUSHITA, Mitsuru TATEISHI, Hideyo EBISUZAKI, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yusuke OKUHATA, Shigenori HAMA, Norihiro OSE
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Publication number: 20180294471Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Yuki MATSUSHITA, Mitsuru TATEISHI, Hideyo EBISUZAKI, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yusuke OKUHATA, Shigenori HAMA, Norihiro OSE
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Publication number: 20180244935Abstract: An ink includes an organic solvent and polyethylene wax, wherein the polyethylene wax has a penetration of 1.2 or less as measured according to JIS K2235 format.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Hiromi SAKAGUCHI, Yuuki YOKOHAMA, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Kaori TOYAMA, Hiroshi GOTOU, Masayuki FUKUOKA, Sayuri KOJIMA, Takashi TAMAI, Shun SAITO
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Publication number: 20180141348Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium by discharging liquid droplets onto the medium; and a media heater to heat the medium by contacting a rear surface of the medium opposite a surface of the medium on which the image is formed, in which the media heater includes a contact member with a contact surface having a predetermined curvature that the medium contacts, the contact member is a roller member, and the medium closely contacts the contact surface of the contact member across an entire width of the medium in a direction perpendicular to the media conveyance direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2018Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yoshiaki HOSHINO, Kenji SATO, Hirokazu IKENOUE, Satoshi KITAOKA, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yoko ISHII
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Patent number: 9976432Abstract: Provided is a radial vane with which manufacturing is possible with superior economy, without incurring a cut loss associated with vane separation in a weld part of a thread bundle. With a longitudinal intermediate part of a contiguous bundle of threads being a fold-over part, both end parts of the fold-over part of the thread bundle are opened into radial shapes and superpositioned, leaving a space in the center part of the fold-over part, a ring-shaped fold-over part (12) is formed within the circumference of the space in the center part thereof. The outer part of the ring-shaped fold-over part (12) is welded in a ring shape, forming a ring-shaped core part (13). A through hole (11) is formed in the inner side of the fold-over part (12), and radial vane parts (14) are formed in which a plurality of thread materials (21) extend outward from the core part (13) toward the outer circumference side from all regions of the circumference direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: STB HIGUCHI CO., LTD.Inventors: Izumi Higuchi, Yasushi Ueba, Hideaki Nishimura, Masaki Higuchi