Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Takahashi
Hirofumi Takahashi 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: 20240101199Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a cab disposed on an upper side of the vehicle body frame, brackets connected to the cab, limiting sections and buffering devices. The limiting sections are disposed between the brackets and the vehicle body frame. The limiting sections limit a movement range of the cab with respect to the vehicle body frame. The buffering devices are disposed between the brackets and the vehicle body frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Souichirou MURAKAMI, Hirofumi KOTAKI, Daisuke OKAMOTO, Kouji NAGAMI, Yohei TAKAHASHI, Osamu YATSUDA, Hironori YAMAMITSU
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Publication number: 20240087393Abstract: The present disclosure provides a medium processing apparatus, including: a housing provided with a surface facing a customer operating the medium processing apparatus; and a rolled coin device housed in the housing and configured to process rolled coins formed by bundling a plurality of loose coins. The surface of the housing includes a designated area located in a height range conforming to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standard with respect to a height direction of the medium processing apparatus, and a rolled coin dispensing port of the rolled coin device for dispensing the rolled coins is arranged in the designated area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Glory Ltd.Inventors: Hirofumi Tougo, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenta Takahashi, Takayuki Kuroda, Tomohiro Yokoo
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Patent number: 11928940Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medium processing apparatus, including: a banknote device configured to process a banknote, including a banknote device door arranged at an opening of a safe box and being movable between an open position and a closed position; a banknote device lock configured to switch the banknote device door between a locked state and an unlocked state, a loose coin device configured to process a loose coin, including a loose coin device door arranged at an opening of a safe box and being movable between an open position and a closed position; a loose coin device lock configured to switch the loose coin device door between a locked state and an unlocked state, wherein the banknote device lock and the loose coin device lock perform a switching between the locked state and the unlocked state independently from each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Glory Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Takaaki Imoto, Hirofumi Tougo, Hitoshi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11923950Abstract: A relay device that relays between a plurality of radio devices that perform radio communication with terminals, and at least one radio control device that controls the radio devices, the relay device including: a replication necessity determination unit that determines whether or not to replicate a downlink signal received from the radio control device; a signal replicating unit that makes the same number of copies of a downlink signal as the number of destination radio devices only when the replication necessity determination unit determines that the downlink signal is to be replicated; and a downlink signal assignment unit that transfers a downlink signal that has been determined by the replication necessity determination unit as a signal that is not to be replicated, and downlink signals replicated by the signal replicating unit, to the radio devices respectively corresponding thereto.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Naotaka Shibata, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Keita Takahashi, Noriyuki Ota, Jun Terada
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Patent number: 11923519Abstract: A temperature rising between unit cells in a cell group is suppressed. A battery pack disclosed in the invention includes a case, a cell group which connects a plurality of unit cells and is disposed to abut on a bottom surface of the case, and a fixing member which fixes the cell group. The fixing member includes a heat path that links from the upper surface of a battery to the side surface of the case.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Vehicle Energy Japan Inc.Inventor: Hirofumi Takahashi
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Patent number: 11843101Abstract: Provided is a battery pack including: a first battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces face each other; a second battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces are face each other; and a case housing the first battery group and the second battery group, wherein the facing surfaces of the first battery group and the second battery group are directly or indirectly thermally connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Vehicle Energy Japan Inc.Inventors: Masanari Oda, Hirofumi Takahashi, Shigeki Makino, Wataru Sato, Hitoshi Nishimori
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Publication number: 20230221519Abstract: A vibrator includes an electromechanical transducer which is a piezoelectric ceramic made of sodium-potassium niobate metal oxides and whose temperature characteristics of a relative permittivity is 500 [ppm/° C.] or less in absolute value in a temperature range from ?40° C. to 170° C., wherein excitation of the electromechanical transducer produces a vibration wave. Another vibrator includes an electromechanical transducer which is a piezoelectric ceramic made of sodium-potassium niobate metal oxides and whose temperature characteristics of a relative permittivity is 390 [ppm/° C.] or less in absolute value in a temperature range from 0° C. to 60° C., wherein excitation of the electromechanical transducer produces a vibration wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takatoshi ASHIZAWA, Kazutaka WATANABE, Hirofumi TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11572632Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing high purity tin including: depositing electrodeposited tin on the surface of a cathode by electrowinning in an electrolytic bath in which a diaphragm is placed between an anode and the cathode, by using a raw material for tin as the anode and a leachate obtained by electrolytically leaching the raw material for tin in a sulfuric acid solution as an electrolytic solution, the electrolytic solution containing a smoothing agent for improving a surface property of the electrodeposited tin; discharging the electrolytic solution from the electrolytic bath such that lead in the discharged electrolytic solution is removed; and putting the electrolytic solution from which lead is removed back into the electrolytic bath.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals CorporationInventors: Kouichi Takemoto, Toru Imori, Takashi Ouchi, Hirofumi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20220013829Abstract: Provided is a battery pack including: a first battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces face each other; a second battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces are face each other; and a case housing the first battery group and the second battery group, wherein the facing surfaces of the first battery group and the second battery group are directly or indirectly thermally connected to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Masanari ODA, Hirofumi Takahashi, Shigeki Makino, Wataru Sato, Hitoshi Nishimori
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Publication number: 20220013828Abstract: Provided is a battery pack including: a first battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces face each other; a second battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces are face each other; and a case housing the first battery group and the second battery group, wherein the facing surfaces of the first battery group and the second battery group are directly or indirectly thermally connected to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Masanari Oda, Hirofumi Takahashi, Shigeki Makino, Wataru Sato, Hitoshi Nishimori
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Patent number: 11133541Abstract: Provided is a battery pack including: a first battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces face each other; a second battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces are face each other; and a case housing the first battery group and the second battery group, wherein the facing surfaces of the first battery group and the second battery group are directly or indirectly thermally connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Vehicle Energy Japan Inc.Inventors: Masanari Oda, Hirofumi Takahashi, Shigeki Makino, Wataru Sato, Hitoshi Nishimori
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Publication number: 20200071842Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing high purity tin including: depositing electrodeposited tin on the surface of a cathode by electrowinning in an electrolytic bath in which a diaphragm is placed between an anode and the cathode, by using a raw material for tin as the anode and a leachate obtained by electrolytically leaching the raw material for tin in a sulfuric acid solution as an electrolytic solution, the electrolytic solution containing a smoothing agent for improving a surface property of the electrodeposited tin; discharging the electrolytic solution from the electrolytic bath such that lead in the discharged electrolytic solution is removed; and putting the electrolytic solution from which lead is removed back into the electrolytic bath.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: JX Nippon Mining & Metals CorporationInventors: Kouichi Takemoto, Toru Imori, Takashi Ouchi, Hirofumi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20190386511Abstract: A power management system is provided with: a power supply facility equipped with an electricity storage unit; a user facility using stored power; and an integrated control device for controlling the supply of the stored power on the basis of stored-power use request information from the user facility. The power supply facility specifies the available capacity and time zone of the electricity storage unit to the integrated control device. The user facility specifies, to the integrated control device, a use request amount and a use request time zone when using the stored power. The integrated control device controls the use of the electricity storage unit so as to satisfy the use request amount and the use request time zone specified by the user and the available capacity and time zone specified by the provider.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2017Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Hirofumi TAKAHASHI, Youhei KAWAHARA, Kohei HONKURA, Masatoshi SUGIMASA, Shinsuke ANDOU
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Publication number: 20190386268Abstract: A temperature rising between unit cells in a cell group is suppressed. A battery pack disclosed in the invention includes a case, a cell group which connects a plurality of unit cells and is disposed to abut on a bottom surface of the case, and a fixing member which fixes the cell group. The fixing member includes a heat path that links from the upper surface of a battery to the side surface of the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventor: Hirofumi TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20190207279Abstract: Provided is a battery pack including: a first battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces face each other; a second battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces are face each other; and a case housing the first battery group and the second battery group, wherein the facing surfaces of the first battery group and the second battery group are directly or indirectly thermally connected to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Masanari ODA, Hirofumi TAKAHASHI, Shigeki MAKINO, Wataru SATO, Hitoshi NISHIMORI
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Patent number: 9935477Abstract: In a charge/discharge control method of a lithium ion battery having a negative electrode active material and connected to a charge/discharge control device, battery information regarding a charge/discharge state of the lithium ion battery is acquired by the charge/discharge control device, a degradation state of the lithium ion battery is determined on the basis of the battery information, by the charge/discharge control device, and a voltage range for charge/discharge of the lithium ion battery is changed on the basis of a determination result of the degradation state, by the charge/discharge control device.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Chieko Araki, Hirofumi Takahashi, Masahiro Yonemoto
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Patent number: 9787119Abstract: Provided are: an electric storage device having improved reliability in charging a storage battery; and a charging method. This electric storage device is provided with: an SOC calculation section which calculates a charge rate when a battery voltage reached a predetermined value, in the cases where the battery voltage reached the predetermined value when a lithium ion storage battery is being charged; a voltage difference calculation section, which calculates a battery voltage difference corresponding to a difference between the charge rate and a charge rate at which lithium is deposited; a charge complete voltage calculation means, which calculates a charge complete voltage by adding the voltage difference to the battery voltage obtained when the battery voltage reached the predetermined value; and a charge control means, which completes the charging of the lithium ion storage battery in the cases where the battery voltage reached the charge complete voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Hitachi Maxwell, Ltd.Inventors: Shin Yamauchi, Kohei Honkura, Hirofumi Takahashi, Takashi Kamijoh, Mitsuhiro Kishimi
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Patent number: 9722284Abstract: A nonaqueous secondary battery includes an ion supply unit which supplies ions identical to ions in an electrolyte into the electrolyte at a reaction potential higher than the uncharged potential of a positive electrode. The ion supply unit includes an ion supply source which elutes the ions into the electrolyte by being in contact with the electrolyte in a state of being electrically connected to the positive electrode, and a first covering portion which covers at least a part of the ion supply source. Then, the first covering portion maintains the ion supply source and the positive electrode in an electrically disconnected state by being interposed between the ion supply source and the positive electrode, and is dissolved or disappears at the reaction potential.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Takahashi, Kan Kitagawa
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Publication number: 20160181833Abstract: In a charge/discharge control method of a lithium ion battery having a negative electrode active material and connected to a charge/discharge control device, battery information regarding a charge/discharge state of the lithium ion battery is acquired by the charge/discharge control device, a degradation state of the lithium ion battery is determined on the basis of the battery information, by the charge/discharge control device, and a voltage range for charge/discharge of the lithium ion battery is changed on the basis of a determination result of the degradation state, by the charge/discharge control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2013Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Chieko ARAKI, Hirofumi TAKAHASHI, Masahiro YONEMOTO
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Patent number: 9325034Abstract: Disclosed herein is a highly reliable secondary battery with organic electrolytic solution. The secondary battery has a set of plates for the positive and negative electrodes, with a separator interposed between them, and an organic electrolytic solution composed of an organic solvent and an electrolyte dissolved therein. The organic electrolytic solution contains polyethylene glycol and bis-(3-Sulfopropyl)disulfide.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2010Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Hara, Tatsuhiko Kawasaki, Hirofumi Takahashi