Patents by Inventor Jun Yokoyama

Jun Yokoyama 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: 20190064865
    Abstract: To ensure the electricity storage amount of a power storage device in preparation for the peak period of power consumption when supplying power to a plurality of devices, a power management apparatus includes a controller that controls the plurality of devices that receive a distribution of total power supplied from the power storage device and another power supply, an acquirer that acquires the remaining electric energy of the power storage device, and a determiner that determines whether the remaining electric energy of the power storage device is not more than a first predetermined value. If the remaining electric energy of the power storage device is not more than the first predetermined value, the controller controls the plurality of devices such that the power from the other power supply is distributed to the power storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun YOKOYAMA, Hitoshi TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20190020023
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries has a high charge/discharge capacity and produces high output, as well as has high filling ability. The positive electrode active material includes lithium-nickel composite oxide particles are formed by agglomeration of multiple primary particles, include pores, and have a layered crystal structure. The lithium-nickel composite oxide particles have an average particle size of 15 ?m or more and 30 ?m or less. The percentage of an area of the pores measured by a cross-sectional observation of the lithium-nickel composite oxide particles with respect to a cross-sectional area of the lithium-nickel composite oxide particles is 1.0% or more and 5.0% or less. A lithium-tungsten compound containing tungsten and lithium is present on the surface of and inside the secondary particles. The lithium-tungsten compound is present on at least part of the surface of the primary particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Yokoyama, Yuki Furuichi, Tetsufumi Komukai
  • Patent number: 10177373
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including primary particles of a lithium nickel composite oxide represented by the formula: LibNi1-x-yCoxMyO2 wherein M represents at least one element selected from Mg, Al, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Nb, Zr and Mo; b represents a number satisfying 0.95?b?1.03; and x represents a number satisfying 0<x?0.15 and y represents a number satisfying 0<y?0.07, wherein the sum total of x and y is 0.16 or smaller, i.e., x+y?0.16) and secondary particles that are aggregates of the primary particles, wherein microparticles containing W and Li are present on the surface of each of the primary particles, and the length of axis-c of the lithium nickel composite oxide is 14.183 angstroms or more as determined by a Rietveld analysis of X-ray diffraction data on the oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Yokoyama, Yuki Furuichi, Tomoko Nakayama, Tetsufumi Komukai, Kensaku Mori, Mitsuru Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 10146241
    Abstract: To ensure the electricity storage amount of a power storage device in preparation for the peak period of power consumption when supplying power to a plurality of devices, a power management apparatus includes a controller that controls the plurality of devices that receive a distribution of total power supplied from the power storage device and another power supply, an acquirer that acquires the remaining electric energy of the power storage device, and a determiner that determines whether the remaining electric energy of the power storage device is not more than a first predetermined value. If the remaining electric energy of the power storage device is not more than the first predetermined value, the controller controls the plurality of devices such that the power from the other power supply is distributed to the power storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Yokoyama, Hitoshi Takagi
  • Publication number: 20180315997
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method for producing a positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, includes mixing first lithium nickel composite oxide particles containing lithium tungstate and second lithium nickel composite oxide particles not containing lithium tungstate. The first lithium nickel composite oxide particles have a composition represented by Liz1Ni1-x1-y1Cox1M1y1O2, and include a core material containing secondary particles each corresponding to an aggregation of a plurality of primary particles, and the lithium tungstate existing on at least a part of a surface of the primary particles on a surface of and inside the first lithium nickel composite oxide particles. The second lithium nickel composite oxide particles have a composition represented by Liz2Ni1-x2-y2Cox2M2y2O2, and include secondary particles each corresponding to an aggregation of a plurality of primary particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kondo, Jun Yokoyama, Yuki Furuichi
  • Patent number: 10117363
    Abstract: A server device having a plurality of server modules and a plurality of cooling fans in a chassis includes: a management unit configured to control the server modules; and a temperature measurement part configured to perform measurement of temperatures of the server modules. The management unit is configured to decide a server module to run on a basis of a result of the measurement by the temperature measurement part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Yokoyama, Kazuya Uchida
  • Publication number: 20180287143
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, the method including: a mixing step of obtaining a W-containing mixture of Li metal composite oxide particles represented by the formula: LizNi1-x-yCOxMyO2 and composed of primary particles and secondary particles formed by aggregation of the primary particles, 2 mass % or more of water with respect to the oxide particles, and a W compound or a W compound and a Li compound, the W-containing mixture having a molar ratio of the total amount of Li contained in water and the solid W compound or the W compound and the Li compound of 3 to 5 with respect to the amount of W contained therein; and a heat treatment step of heating the W-containing mixture to form lithium tungstate on the surface of the primary particles of the Li metal composite oxide particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi Ozaki, Yuki Furuichi, Jun Yokoyama, Tetsufumi Komukai
  • Patent number: 10091914
    Abstract: A rotation number deciding unit decides a rotation number of a cooling fan based on the result of detection by an intake air temperature sensor. A determining unit determines whether the degree of increase of intake air temperature is equal to or more than a threshold based on the result of detection by the intake air temperature sensor. When the determining unit determines the degree of increase of intake air temperature is equal to or more than the threshold, the controlling unit determines whether there is a possibility of occurrence of condensation based on the result of detection by the intake air temperature sensor and the result of detection by an intake air humidity sensor. When determining there is a possibility of occurrence of condensation, the controlling means causes the cooling fan to rotate at a rotation number lower than the rotation number decided by the rotation number deciding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20180275910
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus 100 is configured to include a selection unit 110 configured to select a storage device to be moved from a first place associated with a first storage device to a second place associated with a second storage device connected with the first storage device over a network, based on travel information 120 including the origin and the destination of the storage device. The storage device is selected as a third storage device to be used for storing transport target data stored in the first storage device and transporting the data to the second storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180262562
    Abstract: A selection device includes a storage part in which connection path information indicating a connection path of a device is stored, and a selection part configured to select a device for executing a process from among a plurality of devices. The selection part is configured to select a group of devices for executing processes related with each other on the basis of the connection path information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180262395
    Abstract: A system management device includes: a storage part for storing at least one of a device configuration of a device and a network configuration of a network to which the device belongs; and a control part configured to, from among a plurality of devices belonging to a system, determine the device for executing a process on a basis of at least one of the device configuration and the network configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180262569
    Abstract: A selection device includes: a storage part in which connection path information indicating a connection path of a device is stored; and a selection part configured to select the device for executing a process from among the plurality of devices. The selection part is configured to select, as the devices for executing a process, the devices whose paths from a place to store data used in the process to the devices are at least partly common on the basis of the connection path information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9976563
    Abstract: An electric device having a casing with an air-outlet, and a main unit disposed inside the casing, includes a first temperature sensor configured to detect the temperature inside the casing, a second temperature sensor installed in the vicinity of the air-outlet, and an electric fan configured to generate an airflow from the air-outlet toward the inside of the casing at the time of the low-temperature startup such that the temperature detected by the first temperature sensor is lower than a preset first threshold value, and the temperature detected by the second temperature sensor is higher than the temperature detected by the first temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumiko Suzuki, Jun Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9938459
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide: an alkaline earth metal silicate phosphor to which Eu is added as an activator, and which has an emission peak wavelength of 600 nm or more, high luminance and excellent color rendering properties; and a method for producing the alkaline earth metal silicate phosphor. An alkaline earth metal silicate phosphor of the present invention is represented by composition formula (1) and having an emission peak wavelength of 600 nm or more and a circularity of 85% or more. Composition formula (1): (SraCabBacEud)2SieOf (in the formula, a, b, c, d, e and f satisfy 0.4<a<0.6, 0.4<b<0.6, 0.01<c<0.05, 0.01?d<0.4,0.7?e?1.3, 3.0?f?5.0 and a+b+c+d=1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tetsufumi Komukai, Jun Yokoyama, Masato Kakihana, Satoko Tezuka, Hideki Kato
  • Patent number: 9910486
    Abstract: This invention provides a server system in which a plurality of servers are divided into a plurality of groups in accordance with a physical arrangement. The server system includes at least one system power provider that distributes and provides system power to each of the plurality of groups, a battery that corresponds to each of the plurality of groups and provides stored power to at least two servers included in the group, and a controller that controls each of the servers included in one group based on power providable by the system power provider and the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takagi, Jun Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20170352885
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, including: a water-washing step of mixing, with water, Li—Ni composite oxide particles represented by the formula: LizNi1-x-yCoxMyO2 and composed of primary particles and secondary particles formed by aggregation of the primary particles to water-wash it, and performing solid-liquid separation to obtain a washed cake; a mixing step of mixing a W compound powder free from Li with the washed cake to obtain a W-containing mixture; and a heat treatment step of heating the W-containing mixture, the heat treatment step including: a first heat treatment step of heating the W-containing mixture to disperse W on the surface of the primary particles; and subsequently, a second heat treatment step of heating it at a higher temperature than in the first heat treatment step to form a lithium tungstate compound on the surface of the primary particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Kentaro Kondo, Jun Yokoyama, Yuki Furuichi, Tetsufumi Komukai
  • Patent number: 9825469
    Abstract: An equipment power management system in accordance with the present invention has a plurality of electrical devices and a control device. The electrical devices can operate in any one of multiple operational states different from each other in power consumption of a commercial power source. The control device switches the operational state of an electrical device to that of a smaller power consumption of the commercial power source in ascending order from the electrical device of the lowest priority when a receiving power amount of the whole equipment including the plurality of electrical devices exceeds a first threshold value until the receiving power amount falls below a second threshold value which is lower than or equal to the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20170277236
    Abstract: A server device having a plurality of server modules and a plurality of cooling fans in a chassis includes: a management unit configured to control the server modules; and a temperature measurement part configured to perform measurement of temperatures of the server modules. The management unit is configured to decide a server module to run on a basis of a result of the measurement by the temperature measurement part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun YOKOYAMA, Kazuya UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170277233
    Abstract: A server device having a server module and a cooling fan in a chassis includes: a single management unit configured to control the server module and the cooling fan; and a monitoring unit configured to monitor the running status of the management unit. The monitoring unit is configured to execute thermal control of the inside of the chassis on the basis of the result of monitoring of the management unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170054147
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including primary particles of a lithium nickel composite oxide represented by the formula: LibNi1-x-yCoxMyO2 wherein M represents at least one element selected from Mg, Al, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Nb, Zr and Mo; b represents a number satisfying 0.95?b?1.03; and x represents a number satisfying 0<x?0.15 and y represents a number satisfying 0<y?0.07, wherein the sum total of x and y is 0.16 or smaller, i.e., x+y?0.16) and secondary particles that are aggregates of the primary particles, wherein microparticles containing W and Li are present on the surface of each of the primary particles, and the length of axis-c of the lithium nickel composite oxide is 14.183 angstroms or more as determined by a Rietveld analysis of X-ray diffraction data on the oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Yokoyama, Yuki Furuichi, Tomoko Nakayama, Tetsufumi Komukai, Kensaku Mori, Mitsuru Yamauchi