Patents by Inventor Koichi Goto
Koichi Goto 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: 20220216548Abstract: A battery case and method of production of the same realizing smaller size, higher mountability, longer service life, and lower cost than in the past, that is, a battery case comprising a container body and a container cover, in which battery case, one or both of the container body and the container cover are made from a laminated steel sheet comprised of a plated steel sheet on which a film having a polyolefin-based resin as a main constituent is laminated, a joined part of the container body and the container cover has a welded part of the plated steel sheet, a melt bonded part of the film, and a gap part between the welded part and the melt bonded part, where a length of gap part/thickness of plated steel sheet ?10.0 and a length of gap part/length of joined part <0.50, and at least part of the inside surface of the battery case is covered by the film, and a method of production of the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Akinobu KOBAYASHI, Koichi NOSE, Yasuto GOTO, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Tatsuo NAGATA, Masaharu IBARAGI
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Patent number: 11377385Abstract: A glass tube for sealing a metal includes a glass that contains, in terms of mass %, 50% or more of SiO2+B2O3, 0% to 10% of Al2O3, 3% to 20% of RO (R is an alkaline earth metal), and 11% to 22% of R?2O (R? is an alkali metal), and that has 10 ?l/g or less of an amount of CO2 emitted when heated from a room temperature to 1100° C.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Goto, Kakumi Shiraishi, Kiyoyuki Okunaga, Koichi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20190177810Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet includes, by mass %: C: 0.020% or more and 0.080% or less; Si: 0.20% or more and 1.00% or less; Mn: 0.80% or more and 2.30% or less; and Al: 0.010% or more and 0.100% or less; and further includes: one or more of Nb and Ti which satisfy a requirement of 0.005%?Nb+Ti<0.030%, in which a structure consists of, ferrite, bainite, and other phases, an area ratio of the ferrite is 80% or more and less than 95%, an area ratio of a non-recrystallization ferrite in the ferrite is 1% or more and less than 10%, an area ratio of the bainite is 5% or more and 20% or less, a total amount of the other phases is less than 8%, an equivalent circle diameter of a carbonitride including one or both of Nb and Ti is 1 nm or more and 10 nm or less, and a tensile strength is 590 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke KONDO, Kunio HAYASHI, Toshio OGAWA, Naoki MATSUTANI, Koichi GOTO
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Patent number: 10253384Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet includes, by mass %: C: 0.020% or more and 0.080% or less; Si: 0.20% or more and 1.00% or less; Mn: 0.80% or more and 2.30% or less; and Al: 0.010% or more and 0.100% or less; and further includes: one or more of Nb and Ti which satisfy a requirement of 0.005%?Nb+Ti<0.030%, in which a structure consists of, ferrite, bainite, and other phases, an area ratio of the ferrite is 80% or more and less than 95%, an area ratio of a non-recrystallization ferrite in the ferrite is 1% or more and less than 10%, an area ratio of the bainite is 5% or more and 20% or less, a total amount of the other phases is less than 8%, an equivalent circle diameter of a carbonitride including one or both of Nb and Ti is 1 nm or more and 10 nm or less, and a tensile strength is 590 MPa or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2013Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Kondo, Kunio Hayashi, Toshio Ogawa, Naoki Matsutani, Koichi Goto
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Patent number: 9719151Abstract: A steel sheet includes, by mass %: C: 0.020% to 0.080%; Si: 0.01% to 0.10%; Mn: 0.80% to 1.80%; and Al: more than 0.10% and less than 0.40%; and further includes: Nb: 0.005% to 0.095%; and Ti: 0.005% to 0.095%, in which a total amount of Nb and Ti is 0.030% to 0.100%, and the steel sheet includes, as a metallographic structure, ferrite, bainite, and other phases, an area fraction of the ferrite is 80% to 95%, an area fraction of the bainite is 5% to 20%, a total fraction of the other phases is less than 3%, a tensile strength is 590 MPa or more, and a fatigue strength ratio as a fatigue strength to the tensile strength is 0.45 or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kunio Hayashi, Toshio Ogawa, Koichi Goto, Kazuaki Nakano
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Patent number: 9664071Abstract: A steam turbine plant of one embodiment includes at least one heater configured to change water into steam to produce high pressure steam and low pressure steam having a lower pressure than the high pressure steam, a high pressure turbine including a turbine or turbines connected to each other in series, and having a first inlet to supply the high pressure steam, a second inlet to supply the low pressure steam and located at a downstream of the first inlet, and an exhaust port located at a downstream of the second inlet, the high pressure turbine being configured to be driven by the steam supplied from the first and second inlets, a reheater configured to heat the steam exhausted from the exhaust port, and a reheat turbine configured to be driven by the steam from the reheater.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2011Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Koichi Goto, Nobuo Okita
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Publication number: 20170122623Abstract: In one embodiment, a solar heat collecting system includes a heat collector configured to heat a heat medium by a sunray. The system further includes a heater configured to heat a heating target fluid by the heat medium. The system further includes a heat medium pipe configured to circulate the heat medium between the heat collector and the heater. The system further includes a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the heat medium flowing from the heat collector toward the heater, at a position located upstream of an initial bent portion of the heat medium pipe in a region where the heat medium pipe extends from the heat collector toward the heater. The system further includes a controller configured to control heating of the heat medium in accordance with the temperature of the heat medium measured by the temperature sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Koichi GOTO, Masahiko TAKAHASHI, Katsuya YAMASHITA, Nobuo OKITA
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Publication number: 20170101900Abstract: In one embodiment, an exhaust heat collecting system of collecting exhaust heat in a fluid treatment system. The fluid treatment system includes a fluid path to convey at least an operating fluid or a cooled fluid among first and second heat source fluids, the operating fluid and the cooled fluid. The fluid treatment system further includes a fluid treatment module including an expansion module, a power generator and a condenser for the operating fluid, or including a heat absorbing module and a heat releasing module for the cooled fluid. The exhaust heat collecting system includes a water path to heat water by using the condenser or the heat releasing module, and a heater to heat the water from the water path by using the first or second heat source fluid or the operating fluid to produce the water to be used as hot water or to produce steam.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Koichi GOTO, Kazuo TAKAHATA, Takahiro KOSUGA
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Patent number: 9458739Abstract: A steam turbine plant of one embodiment includes a boiler to change water into steam, an upstream turbine including plural stages of rotor vanes and plural stages of stator vanes and to be driven by the steam from the boiler, a downstream turbine including plural stages of rotor vanes and plural stages of stator vanes and to be driven by the steam from the upstream turbine, a condenser to change the steam exhausted from the downstream turbine into water, a collector to collect water from, for example, the steam which exists upstream of an inlet of the final-stage rotor vane in the upstream turbine, and a collected matter path to cause collected matter in the collector to flow into, for example, the steam between an outlet of the final-stage rotor vane of the upstream turbine and an inlet of the final-stage rotor vane of the downstream turbine.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2011Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Koichi Goto, Nobuo Okita
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Publication number: 20160273807Abstract: In one embodiment, a solar heat collecting system includes a heat collector configured to heat a heat medium by a sunray, a heating device configured to heat a heat utilizing fluid by heat of the heat medium, and a heat medium flow path configured to circulate the heat medium between the heat collector and the heating device. The system further includes a controller configured to control circulation of the heat medium in the heat collector in accordance with an amount of solar radiation of the sunray, or in accordance with a temperature difference between a first temperature of the heat medium at a first position and a second temperature of the heat medium at a second position located downstream of the first position with respect to the heat medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Koichi GOTO, Kazuo TAKAHATA, Takahiro KOSUGA
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Patent number: 9399929Abstract: A steam turbine plant of one embodiment includes a boiler to change water into steam, a high pressure turbine including plural stages of rotor and stator vanes and to be driven by the steam from the boiler, a reheater to heat the steam from the high pressure turbine, a reheat turbine including plural stages of rotor and stator vanes and to be driven by the steam from the reheater, a condenser to change the steam from the reheat turbine into water, a collector to collect water from, for example, the steam existing upstream of an inlet of the final-stage rotor vane in the high pressure turbine, and a path to cause collected matter in the collector to flow into, for example, the steam between an outlet of the final-stage rotor vane of the high pressure turbine and an inlet of the final-stage rotor vane of the reheat turbine.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2011Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Koichi Goto, Nobuo Okita
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Publication number: 20150189002Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a search unit configured to access a server storing a plurality of contents therein, and search for a desired content from among the plurality of contents, a recognition unit configured to recognize a reproduction apparatus which is capable of reproducing a content stored in the server, an instruction unit configured to instruct the reproduction apparatus to reproduce the content having been searched for by the search unit, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire reproduction information relating to the content having been reproduced by the reproduction apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2015Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventor: Koichi GOTO
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Patent number: 9009128Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a search unit configured to access a server storing a plurality of contents therein, and search for a desired content from among the plurality of contents, a recognition unit configured to recognize a reproduction apparatus which is capable of reproducing a content stored in the server, an instruction unit configured to instruct the reproduction apparatus to reproduce the content having been searched for by the search unit, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire reproduction information relating to the content having been reproduced by the reproduction apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2010Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Koichi Goto
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Patent number: 9001069Abstract: A touch panel is constructed by a display/sensor unit which is slightly larger than a display screen of an LCD and a sensor unit which is projected to the outside from one side, for example, from one side on the right. A finger of the user is touched to a selection item such as desired button, icon, or the like on the display/sensor unit and vertically moved on the sensor unit. A selection display constructed by a plurality of buttons is displayed along the side of the display screen by the LCD. A button beside the finger is highlighted. When the finger is released, the highlighted button is selected. If there are no buttons adjacent to the finger, the button is not highlighted. Even if the finger is released, the state is not changed. When finger is moved to the display/sensor unit, the selection display disappears.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koichi Goto, Mikiko Sakurai, Akio Yoshioka, Tatsushi Nashida
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Patent number: 8988203Abstract: A vehicle presence notification apparatus includes a speaker and a disconnection determination section. The speaker generates a notification sound to outside a vehicle when a driving condition to notify of presence of the vehicle is satisfied. The disconnection determination section determines a disconnection state of the speaker based on an electromotive force generated by the speaker at a time when a vehicle horn mounted in the vehicle is activated.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Koichi Goto
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Publication number: 20150068205Abstract: The object of the present invention is to carry out a highly efficient power generation or to efficiently use an exhaust heat of a low temperature. A steam turbine plant includes a steam turbine 1 and a heating unit configured to heat a working fluid to be supplied to the steam turbine 1. The heating unit includes a first heat source 14 using a fossil fuel or a second heat source 8 using an extracted steam from the steam turbine 1, and a third heat source 44 not using a fossil fuel but using a waste exhaust combustion gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Koichi GOTO, Nobuo OKITA, Kazuo TAKAHATA, Masahiko TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20150004433Abstract: A steel sheet includes, by mass %: C: 0.020% to 0.080%; Si: 0.01% to 0.10%; Mn: 0.80% to 1.80%; and Al: more than 0.10% and less than 0.40%; and further includes: Nb: 0.005% to 0.095%; and Ti: 0.005% to 0.095%, in which a total amount of Nb and Ti is 0.030% to 0.100%, and the steel sheet includes, as a metallographic structure, ferrite, bainite, and other phases, an area fraction of the ferrite is 80% to 95%, an area fraction of the bainite is 5% to 20%, a total fraction of the other phases is less than 3%, a tensile strength is 590 MPa or more, and a fatigue strength ratio as a fatigue strength to the tensile strength is 0.45 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kunio Hayashi, Toshio Ogawa, Koichi Goto, Kazuaki Nakano
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Patent number: 8911567Abstract: The high-strength steel sheet includes, by mass %: C: 0.01% to 0.10%; Si: 0.15% or less; Mn: 0.80% to 1.80%; P: 0.10% or less; S: 0.015% or less; Al: 0.10% to 0.80%; Cr: 0.01% to 1.50%; N: 0.0100% or less; and a balance consisting of iron and inevitable impurities, in which a metallic structure is composed of ferrite and a hard second phase, the area fraction of the ferrite is 80% or more, the area fraction of the hard second phase is 1% to 20%, the fraction of unrecrystallized ferrite in the ferrite is less than 10%, the ferrite grain sizes are 5 ?m to 20 ?m, and the fraction of the ferrite crystal grains having an aspect ratio of 1.2 or less in the entire ferrite crystal grains is 60% or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Toshio Ogawa, Naoki Matsutani, Koichi Goto, Shinichiro Watanabe, Nobuhiro Fujita, Toshiki Nonaka
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Publication number: 20140352850Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet includes, by mass %: C: 0.020% or more and 0.080% or less, Si: 0.20% or more and 1.00% or less; Mn: 0.80% or more and 2.30% or less: and Al: 0.010% or more and 0.100% or less; and further includes: one or more of Nb and Ti which satisfy a requirement of 0.005%?Nb+Ti<0.030%, in which a structure consists of, ferrite, bainite, and other phases, an area ratio of the ferrite is 80% or more and less than 95%, an area ratio of a non-recrystallization ferrite in the ferrite is 1% or more and less than 10%, an area ratio of the bainite is 5% or more and 20% or less, a total amount of the other phases is less than 8%, an equivalent circle diameter of a carbonitride including one or both of Nb and Ti is 1 nm or more and 10 nm or less, and a tensile strength is 590 MPa or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Yusuke Kondo, Kunio Hayashi, Toshio Ogawa, Naoki Matsutani, Koichi Goto
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Patent number: 8888933Abstract: This high-strength steel sheet includes: in terms of percent by mass, 0.03 to 0.10% of C; 0.01 to 1.5% of Si; 1.0 to 2.5% of Mn; 0.1% or less of P; 0.02% or less of S; 0.01 to 1.2% of Al; 0.06 to 0.15% of Ti; and 0.01% or less of N; and contains as the balance, iron and inevitable impurities, wherein a tensile strength is in a range of 590 MPa or more, and a ratio between the tensile strength and a yield strength is in a range of 0.80 or more, a microstructure includes bainite at an area ratio of 40% or more and the balance being either one or both of ferrite and martensite, a density of Ti(C,N) precipitates having sizes of 10 nm or smaller is in a range of 1010 precipitates/mm3 or more, and a ratio (Hvs/Hvc) of a hardness (Hvs) at a depth of 20 ?m from a surface to a hardness (Hvc) at a center of a sheet thickness is in a range of 0.85 or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2010Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Kunio Hayashi, Toshimasa Tomokiyo, Nobuhiro Fujita, Naoki Matsutani, Koichi Goto