Patents by Inventor Kinuyo Shintani

Kinuyo Shintani 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).

  • Refuelling container for fuelcell, method for refuelling, and holder for refulling container
    Patent number: 8393364
    Abstract: In, for example, a direct methanol type fuelcell, fuel is allowed to be injected little by little when the fuel is injected and supplied from the outside to a fuel receiving part reduced in the amount of remaining fuel on the fuelcell body side and an electromotive part can be prevented from being damaged by keeping the pressure in the fuel receiving part at a fixed level or less when the fuel is injected. Specifically, when a fuel CL filled in a refuelling container C is injected into a fuel receiving part T in several lots, a fuel injecting operation is repeated in which the volume of the refuelling container C is shrunk and reduced to supply the fuel into the fuel receiving part T in a proper amount and then the original volume of the refuelling container is restored to thereby absorb the atmospheric gas in the fuel receiving part T, which makes it possible to inject fuel continuously without any hindrance to the injection of the fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignees: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masayoshi Tanaka, Kenji Yoshihiro, Kenjiro Tanaka, Daisuke Imoda, Kenichi Takahashi, You Yamamori, Koichi Narutaki, Kinuyo Shintani
  • Stainless steel member for a fuel cell
    Patent number: 8075991
    Abstract: A stainless steel material for a fuel cell, used for a fuel cell or a cartridge for the fuel cell, having a magnetic permeability of 1.000 to 2.500, and forming a layer having a value of chromium atomic %/iron atomic % of not less than 3.0 in the most surface thereof, and/or the layer of thickness of not less than 12 nm calculated as SiO2 having an oxygen atomic % of not less than 20%. Even when brought into contact with the content solution exhibiting acidity of the fuel cell, the stainless steel material reliably suppresses the elution of metal ions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouki Kinouchi, Wataru Kurokawa, Shouzou Shintani, Kinuyo Shintani, legal representative, Daisuke Imoda, Kenji Yoshihiro, You Yamamori
  • STAINLESS STEEL MEMBER FOR A FUEL CELL
    Publication number: 20100189997
    Abstract: A stainless steel material for a fuel cell, used for a fuel cell or a cartridge for the fuel cell, having a magnetic permeability of 1.000 to 2.500, and forming a layer having a value of chromium atomic %/iron atomic % of not less than 3.0 in the most surface thereof, and/or the layer of thickness of not less than 12 nm calculated as SiO2 having an oxygen atomic % of not less than 20%. Even when brought into contact with the content solution exhibiting acidity of the fuel cell, the stainless steel material reliably suppresses the elution of metal ions thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouki Kinouchi, Wataru Kurokawa, Shouzou Shintani, Kinuyo Shintani, Daisuke Imoda, Kenji Yoshihiro, You Yamamori