Patents by Inventor Kenichi Souma
Kenichi Souma 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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Patent number: 11559813Abstract: Provided is a safety cabinet that reduces a temperature change between a storage environment temperature and a temperature in the safety cabinet to reduce damage to cultured microorganisms, cultured cells, or the like. The safety cabinet that includes a front panel and an operation opening in front of an operation space and an operation stage below the operation space and supplies purified air into the operation space from above, in which the operation stage is provided with a temperature-regulatable portion of which a temperature is regulatable.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Souma, Hirotoshi Sato, Takeshi Kaneko
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Patent number: 11514388Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a system which, in a product delivery procedure, monitors and manages, more simply and reliably, a deviation from a managed temperature during shipment. To solve the problem, provided is a logistics system, comprising: an information reading and transmitting device which reads an information code which is provided on a product and transmits data which is included in the information code; a server which accumulates, via a communications network, the data which is transmitted from the information reading and transmitting device; and a terminal device which refers to the data which is accumulated in the server via the communications network. The information code is formed from a pattern which changes with an occurrence of a deviation from a specified temperature. The system employs the information code.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kagawa, Hiroshi Sasaki, Toyotaka Yuasa, Kenichi Souma
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Publication number: 20210001341Abstract: Provided is a safety cabinet that reduces a temperature change between a storage environment temperature and a temperature in the safety cabinet to reduce damage to cultured microorganisms, cultured cells, or the like. The safety cabinet that includes a front panel and an operation opening in front of an operation space and an operation stage below the operation space and supplies purified air into the operation space from above, in which the operation stage is provided with a temperature-regulatable portion of which a temperature is regulatable.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2018Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Kenichi SOUMA, Hirotoshi SATO, Takeshi KANEKO
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Patent number: 10677660Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a temperature traceable indicator capable not only of displaying temperature history, but also adding other additional information. To that end, a temperature traceable indicator according to the present invention is provided with a base material and a temperature indicating laminate disposed on the base material, and is characterized in that the temperature indicating laminate is provided with a coloring layer including a color former, a color developing layer including a color developer for inducing the coloration of the color former, and a barrier layer disposed between the coloring layer and color developing layer, and the barrier layer includes a barrier agent that is immiscible with the color developer, is frozen at a first temperature, and melts beyond a second temperature so as to allow the color developer to become diffused in the coloring layer so that color is produced.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyotaka Yuasa, Hiroyuki Kagawa, Hiroshi Sasaki, Kenichi Souma
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Patent number: 9935510Abstract: An axial-type rotary electric machine that improves a torque and an efficiency relative to a size of a rotor is provided. The axial-type rotary electric machine is provided with a stator having a stator core, and a rotor facing the stator along an axial direction of a rotation axis passing through the stator. The rotor includes a permanent magnet arranged so as to face the stator core in the axial direction of the rotation axis, a yoke arranged so as to face the stator core across the permanent magnet, and a support member supporting the yoke. The support member includes a protrusion protruding so as to face a side surface of the permanent magnet that is on the farther side to the rotation axis.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirooki Tokoi, Yuji Enomoto, Toshifumi Suzuki, Shuichi Takahashi, Kenichi Souma
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Publication number: 20180045582Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a temperature traceable indicator capable not only of displaying temperature history, but also adding other additional information. To that end, a temperature traceable indicator according to the present invention is provided with a base material and a temperature indicating laminate disposed on the base material, and is characterized in that the temperature indicating laminate is provided with a coloring layer including a color former, a color developing layer including a color developer for inducing the coloration of the color former, and a barrier layer disposed between the coloring layer and color developing layer, and the barrier layer includes a barrier agent that is immiscible with the color developer, is frozen at a first temperature, and melts beyond a second temperature so as to allow the color developer to become diffused in the coloring layer so that color is produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Toyotaka YUASA, Hiroyuki KAGAWA, Hiroshi SASAKI, Kenichi SOUMA
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Publication number: 20180018626Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a system which, in a product delivery procedure, monitors and manages, more simply and reliably, a deviation from a managed temperature during shipment. To solve the problem, provided is a logistics system, comprising: an information reading and transmitting device which reads an information code which is provided on a product and transmits data which is included in the information code; a server which accumulates, via a communications network, the data which is transmitted from the information reading and transmitting device; and a terminal device which refers to the data which is accumulated in the server via the communications network. The information code is formed from a pattern which changes with an occurrence of a deviation from a specified temperature. The system employs the information code.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2016Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: Hiroyuki KAGAWA, Hiroshi SASAKI, Toyotaka YUASA, Kenichi SOUMA
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Patent number: 9334415Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to prevent the discoloration of an ink even when the ink is printed on a base to be printed and then exposed to a high-temperature environment. An ink including a glass composite, resin and a conducting agent, wherein the glass composite includes Ag2O in the range of 10 mass % to 60 mass %, V2O5 in the range of 5 mass % to 65 mass %, and TeO2 in the range of 15 mass % to 50 mass %, and the total content ratio of the Ag2O, V2O5, and TeO2 is at least 75 mass %.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Ogino, Yuichi Sawai, Takashi Naito, Naoshi Takahashi, Hiroshi Sasaki, Kenichi Souma
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Publication number: 20160065020Abstract: An axial-type rotary electric machine that improves a torque and an efficiency relative to a size of a rotor is provided. The axial-type rotary electric machine is provided with a stator having a stator core, and a rotor facing the stator along an axial direction of a rotation axis passing through the stator. The rotor includes a permanent magnet arranged so as to face the stator core in the axial direction of the rotation axis, a yoke arranged so as to face the stator core across the permanent magnet, and a support member supporting the yoke. The support member includes a protrusion protruding so as to face a side surface of the permanent magnet that is on the farther side to the rotation axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirooki TOKOI, Yuji ENOMOTO, Toshifumi SUZUKI, Shuichi TAKAHASHI, Kenichi SOUMA
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Patent number: 9211698Abstract: The visibility of a printing object using a photo-curable ink is improved. A charge control type ink jet printer includes a nozzle which continuously forms ink droplets, a charging electrode which charges each of the ink droplets, a deflection electrode which deflects the charged ink droplet, and a print head which discharges the deflected ink droplet to print the droplet onto a printed substrate. The print head has a UV light source. The UV light source has a focusing member which focuses UV light onto at least part of a flying path of the ink droplet between the print head and the printed substrate and onto a landed region of the printed substrate, and a light emission source.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Ogino, Hiroshi Sasaki, Takuya Otowa, Tomoko Maejima, Kenichi Souma
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Publication number: 20150077477Abstract: The visibility of a printing object using a photo-curable ink is improved. A charge control type ink jet printer includes a nozzle which continuously forms ink droplets, a charging electrode which charges each of the ink droplets, a deflection electrode which deflects the charged ink droplet, and a print head which discharges the deflected ink droplet to print the droplet onto a printed substrate. The print head has a UV light source. The UV light source has a focusing member which focuses UV light onto at least part of a flying path of the ink droplet between the print head and the printed substrate and onto a landed region of the printed substrate, and a light emission source.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Masahiko OGINO, Hiroshi SASAKI, Takuya OTOWA, Tomoko MAEJIMA, Kenichi SOUMA
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Publication number: 20140375736Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to prevent the discoloration of an ink even when the ink is printed on a base to be printed and then exposed to a high-temperature environment. An ink comprising a glass composition, wherein the glass composition (1) comprises Ag, V and a vitrescible component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Masahiko Ogino, Yuichi Sawai, Takashi Naito, Naoshi Takahashi, Hiroshi Sasaki, Kenichi Souma
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Patent number: 8309265Abstract: The present invention provides an electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell that has a minute projection cluster on one side or both sides of a polymer electrolyte membrane. Further, the present invention provides a production method of an electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, wherein a mold comprising convex portions having a fixed planar pattern is pressed on one side or both sides of a polymer electrolyte membrane, then while concave portions of the polymer electrolyte membrane formed in the concave portions are being stretched, the mold is removed from the polymer electrolyte membrane for forming a minute projection cluster.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Miyauchi, Kenichi Souma, Shuichi Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Takamori, Masahiko Ogino, Takashi Ando, Hidetoshi Honbo
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Patent number: 8171894Abstract: An engine system in which hydrogen is employed as a fuel, including a reactor configured to cause a reaction using a catalyst, in which the reactor is constituted by alternately disposing plural exhaust passages and plural fuel passageways of the engine system with a wall interposed therebetween; at least one carrier configured to carry the catalyst and to be formed in a substantially rectangular plate shape is fitted in at least one of fuel passageways; and the carrier is provided with a plate portion which has a surface disposed in a fuel flowing direction and is formed in a substantially rectangular plate shape and at least one slit portion which divides the surface of the plate portion in the fuel flowing direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2008Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Sano, Shigenori Togashi, Takao Ishikawa, Atsushi Shimada, Kenichi Souma
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Patent number: 7989111Abstract: A fuel cell includes cell units each composed of a hydrogen ion conductive polymeric electrolyte membrane, a pair of electrodes arranged on the front and rear faces of the hydrogen ion conductive polymeric electrolyte membrane, and a diffusion layer contacting the electrodes to cover the electrodes. The cell units are pushed down by an end plate having a current-collecting metallic plate and a resin substrate for fixing the current-collecting metallic plate. A layer having a humidity-adjusting component is formed on the surface of the resin substrate of the end plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2007Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Kubota, Kenichi Souma
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Patent number: 7855032Abstract: The present invention provides a fuel cell having an anode to oxidize liquid fuel, a cathode to reduce oxygen, and a solid polymer electrolyte membrane formed between said anode and said cathode, wherein: a porous body, which faces the porous anode, having continuous micro pores which form a liquid fuel feed channel by capillary force and continuous micro pores which do not have liquid retentivity is used; and the liquid fuel is supplied by the capillary negative pressure generated at the anode.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2006Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tomoichi Kamo, Kenichi Souma
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Patent number: 7824625Abstract: A dehydrogenation fuel theft prevention system for preventing the theft of dehydrogenation organic fuel containing hydrogen is provided. The dehydrogenation fuel theft prevention system is for systems including a reformer for dehydrogenating organic fuel containing at least hydrogen and a dehydrogenation fuel recovery tank for storing dehydrogenation fuel produced when organic fuel is dehydrogenated in the reformer. The theft prevention system is provided with a means for mixing an odorant as a component with a pungent odor other than the fuel components or a agent for coagulating the fuel components. The odorant or the coagulating agent is mixed when fuel is manufactured, distributed, utilized, recovered, or stored or fuel is about to be stolen.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2009Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masafumi Nojima, Akiyoshi Komura, Takao Ishikawa, Kenichi Souma, Masatoshi Sugimasa, Naoki Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 7803496Abstract: Provided is a fuel cell having a membrane electrode assembly for generating power by oxidizing fuel at an anode electrode and reducing oxygen at a cathode electrode, an anode diffusion layer for allowing fuel to pass therethrough to the outside of the anode electrode of the membrane electrode assembly and transferring electrons generated by the oxidation, a cathode diffusion layer for removing water thus generated and transferring electrons to be used for the reduction to the outside of the cathode electrode, an anode current collector and anode endplate for transferring electrons generated by the oxidation to the outside of the anode diffusion layer, and a cathode current collector and a cathode endplate for transferring electrons to be used for the reduction to the outside of the cathode diffusion layer. The anode endplate or anode current collecting layer is hydrophilic or the end plate on the anode side has a constitution promoting discharge of a gas generated by the reaction.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toru Koyama, Osamu Kubota, Hiroshi Sasaki, Kenichi Souma
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Patent number: D809457Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miki Yamazaki, Manabu Dohi, Eisuke Maruyama, Ryosuke Mikoshiba, Kenichi Souma
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Patent number: D809458Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miki Yamazaki, Manabu Dohi, Eisuke Maruyama, Ryosuke Mikoshiba, Kenichi Souma