Patents by Inventor Koji Hasimoto

Koji Hasimoto 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).

  • Patent number: 5364711
    Abstract: In a fuel cell comprising a stack having superposed a plurality of electromotive parts composed of a fuel electrode, an oxidizing electrode, and an electrolyte layer nipped by the two electrodes and using a liquid fuel as the fuel for the fuel cell, this invention contemplates forming a liquid fuel introducing path destined to be directly exposed to the liquid fuel on terminal surfaces of the component parts of the electromotive parts in a direction perpendicular to the flow of an oxidizing gas along at least one of the outer peripheral surfaces of the stack including the terminal surface of the fuel electrode and lying parallelly to the flow of the oxidizing gas and enabling the liquid fuel in the liquid fuel introducing path to be supplied to the fuel electrodes by a capillary attraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shuji Yamada, Motoya Kanda, Masao Yamamoto, Nobukazu Suzuki, Yoshiko Kanazawa, Akinori Hongu, Yuu Kondou, Ken Uchida, Koji Hasimoto, Hirokazu Niki, Kunihiko Sasaki, Shinji Tsuruta