Patents by Inventor Koichi Koga

Koichi Koga 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: 20240384195
    Abstract: An agent for forming a solid lubricating coating film on a thread portion of oil country tubular goods, in which a binder resin contains a prepolymer and a curing agent, the prepolymer is formed of one or more epoxy resins, 70 parts by weight or more of the prepolymer is contained with respect to 100 parts by weight of the binder resin, the epoxy resin constituting the prepolymer has an epoxy equivalent of 100 or more and 500 or less, the solid lubricant contains boron nitride (BN) in an amount of 80% by weight or more, BN has an average particle size of 10 ?m or less, and a total weight of the solid lubricant is 0.1 times or more and two times or less a total weight of the binder resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, TOYO DRILUBE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhide ISHIGURO, Seigo GOTO, Takashi KOGA, Takamasa KAWAI, Seiji OZAKI, Hideo SATO, Sachiko FUJIMOTO, Koichi SHODA, Akira OKUBO, Ryota KOBAYASHI, Ryota KUBO, Kota TOYOSAWA
  • Publication number: 20240363978
    Abstract: A battery includes: a power generating element having a stacked structure of power generating layers and current collectors; and a counter electrode terminal. Each of the power generating layers is sandwiched between two adjacent ones of the current collectors. The current collectors are not in contact with each other. At least one of the current collectors includes a protruding portion protruding beyond an end surface of the power generating layer in a side surface portion of the power generating element and a stacked portion in which the power generating layers are stacked. When the protruding portion and the stacked portion are projected onto a projection plane perpendicular to the main surfaces of the power generating layers, the projected area of the protruding portion is larger than the projected area of the stacked portion. The counter electrode terminal is connected to a main surface of the protruding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HONDA, Koichi HIRANO, Eiichi KOGA, Kazuhiro MORIOKA, Tsutomu KOSHIZUKA, Akira KAWASE
  • Publication number: 20240304850
    Abstract: A battery of the present disclosure includes a power generation element. Each of the plurality of unit cells includes an electrode layer, a counter electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the electrode layer and the counter electrode layer. The power generation element includes a first principal, a second principal opposite to the first principal, and a side surface connecting the first principal and the second principal. The side surface includes: a first inclined surface that connects to the first principal and forms an obtuse angle with the first principal; and a second inclined surface that connects to the second principal and forms an obtuse angle with the second principal. At least one of the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface is provided across two or more of the plurality of unit cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: KAZUYOSHI HONDA, AKIRA KAWASE, KAZUHIRO MORIOKA, KOICHI HIRANO, TSUTOMU KOSHIZUKA, EIICHI KOGA
  • Publication number: 20240274860
    Abstract: A battery includes: a power generation element including at least one battery cell each having a laminated structure of a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, in which the at least one battery cell is each provided with a through hole penetrating in a direction of lamination, a sectional area of the through hole in the positive electrode layer in a direction perpendicular to the direction of lamination is larger than a sectional area of the through hole in the negative electrode layer in the direction perpendicular to the direction of lamination, and an inner wall of the through hole is inclined with respect to the direction of lamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: KAZUYOSHI HONDA, AKIRA KAWASE, KAZUHIRO MORIOKA, EIICHI KOGA, KOICHI HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240266610
    Abstract: A battery includes: a power generation element including a plurality of battery cells each having an electrode layer, a counter electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the electrode layer and the counter electrode layer, the plurality of battery cells being laminated while being connected in parallel; an electrode insulating member; and a counter electrode conductive member, in which each of the plurality of battery cells is provided with a through hole penetrating in a direction of lamination, the electrode insulating member covers the electrode layer of each of the plurality of battery cells on an inner wall of the through hole of each of the plurality of battery cells, and the counter electrode conductive member is connected to the counter electrode layer of each of the plurality of battery cells on the inner wall of the through hole of each of the plurality of battery cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: KAZUYOSHI HONDA, AKIRA KAWASE, KAZUHIRO MORIOKA, EIICHI KOGA, KOICHI HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240266687
    Abstract: A battery includes: a power generation element including a plurality of battery cells each having an electrode layer, a counter electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the electrode layer and the counter electrode layer, the plurality of battery cells being laminated; a first conductive member; and a second conductive member, in which at least a portion of the plurality of battery cells are electrically connected in parallel, the parallel connection is carried out by an insulating layer and a connecting portion provided on a side surface of the power generation element, at least a portion of the plurality of battery cells are electrically connected in series, the power generation element is provided with at least one through hole that penetrates at least a portion of the plurality of battery cells in a direction of lamination and is open on at least any of a first principal surface and a second principal surface located on an opposite side to the first principal surface of the power gen
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: KAZUYOSHI HONDA, AKIRA KAWASE, KAZUHIRO MORIOKA, EIICHI KOGA, KOICHI HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240258666
    Abstract: A battery according to the present disclosure includes a power-generating element having a plurality of parallel laminates electrically series-connected and laminated. The parallel laminates each include an odd number of battery cells electrically connected in parallel and laminated. The battery cells each include an electrode layer, a counter electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer positioned therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: KAZUYOSHI HONDA, AKIRA KAWASE, KAZUHIRO MORIOKA, KOICHI HIRANO, TSUTOMU KOSHIZUKA, EIICHI KOGA
  • Publication number: 20240254404
    Abstract: A solid lubricating coating film capable of imparting favorable lubricity and corrosion resistance to a connection for oil country tubular goods. Two or more solid lubricants are dispersed in a binder resin. Graphite is contained in an amount of 50% or more and 90% or less of a total weight of the solid lubricants, and the graphite has a scaly shape and an average particle diameter of 10.0 ?m or less. A solid lubricant made of one or more materials selected from BN, mica, talc, MCA, MoS2, PTFE, PFA, and FEP is further contained as other solid lubricants of the two or more types of solid lubricants. The binder resin contains a PEEK resin having an average particle diameter of 20 ?m or less as a main component, and the PEEK resin is contained in an amount of 70% or more of a total weight of the binder resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, TOYO DRILUBE CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhide ISHIGURO, Seigo GOTO, Takashi KOGA, Takamasa KAWAI, Seiji OZAKI, Hideo SATO, Sachiko FUJIMOTO, Koichi SHODA, Akira OKUBO, Ryota KOBAYASHI, Ryota KUBO, Kota TOYOSAWA
  • Publication number: 20240254405
    Abstract: An agent for forming a solid lubricating coating film on a tightening surface of a thread portion, in which a solid lubricant is dispersed in a binder resin as a matrix component, a main component of the solid lubricant is melamine cyanurate, and an average particle diameter of the melamine cyanurate is 0.1 ?m or more and 10.0 ?m or less, the binder resin contains an alkyd resin and nitrocellulose, and the alkyd resin and nitrocellulose are contained in an amount of 85 wt % or more of the total binder resin component weight, and a total weight of the solid lubricant is 10 parts by weight or more and 100 parts by weight or less based on 100 parts by weight of a total weight of the binder resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, TOYO DRILUBE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhide ISHIGURO, Seigo GOTO, Takashi KOGA, Takamasa KAWAI, Seiji OZAKI, Hideo SATO, Sachiko FUJIMOTO, Koichi SHODA, Akira OKUBO, Ryota KOBAYASHI, Ryota KUBO, Kota TOYOSAWA
  • Publication number: 20240052505
    Abstract: A water electrolysis cell includes an anode, a cathode, and an anion-exchange membrane disposed between the anode and the cathode. The anode includes a catalyst layer disposed on the anion-exchange membrane and an anode gas diffusion layer disposed on the catalyst layer. The anode gas diffusion layer includes metal fiber. In the metal fiber, a section constituting a surface of the metal fiber is composed of nickel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: KOICHIRO ASAZAWA, HIROSHI SHIRATAKI, HIDEAKI MURASE, TAKAO HAYASHI, KOICHI KOGA
  • Publication number: 20210207529
    Abstract: A gasifier wall is formed of a plurality of pipes through which a cooling medium flows. The plurality of pipes are made of a first material and arranged side by side. At least a part of the gasifier wall includes an outer peripheral portion stacked on a periphery of each of the pipes and made of a second material having higher corrosion resistance than the pipes; a board disposed between the outer peripheral portion and an adjacent outer peripheral portion; and a welded portion coupling the outer peripheral portion and the board. The outer peripheral portion and the board constitute a wall surface that separates an internal space and an external space from each other. The outer peripheral portion covers an entire region of the pipe in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Haari, Yasunari Shibata, Masashi Kitada, Fumihiro Chuman, Kenichiro Minato, Koichi Koga, Masakazu Matsui, Yuzo Imagawa
  • Patent number: 10511033
    Abstract: An interconnector made of a lanthanum chromite is provided on a fuel electrode of an SOFC, and a P-type semiconductor film which is a conductive ceramics film is formed on a surface of the interconnector. When a maximum value (maximum joining width) of the “lengths of a plurality of portions at which the interconnector and the P-type semiconductor film are brought into contact with each other” on a “line (boundary line) corresponding to an interface between the interconnector and the P-type semiconductor film in a cross section including the interconnector and the P-type semiconductor film” is 40 ?m or less, peeling becomes less liable to occur in a portion corresponding to the maximum joining width at the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Koga, Makoto Ohmori
  • Patent number: 10181605
    Abstract: A plurality of insertion holes for inserting one end of each of a plurality of cells is formed on the surface of a support substrate. One end of each of the cells is loosely fitted in the corresponding insertion hole. A joining material is provided so as to fill at least a gap present between the inner wall of the insertion hole and the outer wall of the one end of the cell in each joining portion between each of the insertion holes and one end of the corresponding cell. As the joining material, crystallized glass which includes a plurality of kinds of crystal phases generated when the crystallization of amorphous glass heated up to a crystallization temperature proceeds is used, and a volume reduction ratio (crystallization shrinkage ratio) of the joining material caused by the crystallization at the crystallization temperature is 0.78% or more and 12% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ohmori, Tomohiro Usui, Koichi Koga, Masayuki Shinkai, Genta Terazawa
  • Patent number: 8883369
    Abstract: Provided is a connected body connecting electrically between power generation parts of SOFCs, which has high connection strength and high reliability of electric connection. Adjacent two segmented-in-series type SOFCs (100), (100) are connected to each other with a metallic connecting member (300). A “left side end portion of the connecting member (300)” and an “interconnector (30) electrically connected to an air electrode (60) provided on the SOFC (100) on the left side” are electrically connected to each other with a connecting material (80), and a “right side end portion of the connecting member (300)” and the “interconnector (30) electrically connected to a fuel electrode (20) provided on the SOFC (100) on the right side” are electrically connected to each other with the connecting material (80). Both of the interconnectors (30), (30) to be respectively connected to both ends of the metallic connecting member (300) with the connecting material (80) are formed of dense conductive materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ohmori, Koichi Koga
  • Patent number: 8748650
    Abstract: A method for production of an N-carboxy amino acid anhydride with efficiency is provided. The method for production of an N-carboxy amino acid anhydride includes a step of reaction of an amino acid organic salt compound with a carbonic acid diester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: JSR Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Endo, Koichi Koga, Atsushi Sudo
  • Publication number: 20140004439
    Abstract: A plurality of insertion holes for inserting one end of each of a plurality of cells is formed on the surface of a support substrate. One end of each of the cells is loosely fitted in the corresponding insertion hole. A joining material is provided so as to fill at least a gap present between the inner wall of the insertion hole and the outer wall of the one end of the cell in each joining portion between each of the insertion holes and one end of the corresponding cell. As the joining material, crystallized glass which includes a plurality of kinds of crystal phases generated when the crystallization of amorphous glass heated up to a crystallization temperature proceeds is used, and a volume reduction ratio (crystallization shrinkage ratio) of the joining material caused by the crystallization at the crystallization temperature is 0.78% or more and 12% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Makoto OHMORI, Tomohiro USUI, Koichi KOGA, Masayuki SHINKAI, Genta TERAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20130266889
    Abstract: An interconnector made of a lanthanum chromite is provided on a fuel electrode of an SOFC, and a P-type semiconductor film which is a conductive ceramics film is formed on a surface of the interconnector. When a maximum value (maximum joining width) of the “lengths of a plurality of portions at which the interconnector and the P-type semiconductor film are brought into contact with each other” on a “line (boundary line) corresponding to an interface between the interconnector and the P-type semiconductor film in a cross section including the interconnector and the P-type semiconductor film” is 40 ?m or less, peeling becomes less liable to occur in a portion corresponding to the maximum joining width at the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi KOGA, Makoto OHMORI
  • Publication number: 20120164550
    Abstract: Provided is a connected body connecting electrically between power generation parts of SOFCs, which has high connection strength and high reliability of electric connection. Adjacent two segmented-in-series type SOFCs (100), (100) are connected to each other with a metallic connecting member (300). A “left side end portion of the connecting member (300)” and an “interconnector (30) electrically connected to an air electrode (60) provided on the SOFC (100) on the left side” are electrically connected to each other with a connecting material (80), and a “right side end portion of the connecting member (300)” and the “interconnector (30) electrically connected to a fuel electrode (20) provided on the SOFC (100) on the right side” are electrically connected to each other with the connecting material (80). Both of the interconnectors (30), (30) to be respectively connected to both ends of the metallic connecting member (300) with the connecting material (80) are formed of dense conductive materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto OHMORI, Koichi KOGA
  • Publication number: 20110152561
    Abstract: A method for production of an N-carboxy amino acid anhydride with efficiency is provided. The method for production of an N-carboxy amino acid anhydride includes a step of reaction of an amino acid organic salt compound with a carbonic acid diester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: JSR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Endo, Koichi Koga, Atsushi Sudo
  • Patent number: 7202845
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which divides a pixel into a plurality of sub-pixels. In the liquid crystal display device, a gradation and a brightness in each of the sub-pixels have a non-linear relation to each other, and a desired brightness for the pixel is selected by selecting a gradation in each of the sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Koga, Tohru Kume