Patents by Inventor Kunihiko Hayashi

Kunihiko Hayashi 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: 20190277184
    Abstract: A temperature control apparatus of a vehicle of the invention flows a cooling medium in an engine circulation circuit and a battery circulation circuit and an activation of an engine heat exchanging system so as not to perform an engine heat exchanging when an engine temperature is lower than an engine warming end temperature and a battery temperature is lower than a predetermined battery temperature lower than a battery warming end temperature, and flows the cooling medium in the engine circulation circuit and the battery circulation circuit and the activation of the engine heat exchanging system so as to perform the engine heat exchanging when the engine temperature is lower than the engine warming end temperature, and the battery temperature is equal to or higher than the predetermined battery temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi OGURA, Kunihiko Hayashi, Yuji Miyoshi, Masatoshi Yano, Yu Ofune
  • Publication number: 20190280270
    Abstract: A battery includes at least an electrode array and an electrolyte solution. The electrolyte solution contains at least a solvent and a supporting salt. The electrode array includes at least a positive electrode, a porous insulating layer, and a negative electrode. The porous insulating layer is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The porous insulating layer contains at least a group of inorganic nanoparticles and a group of polymer particles. Each inorganic nanoparticle in the group of inorganic nanoparticles is a dielectric. Each inorganic nanoparticle in the group of inorganic nanoparticles is in contact with the electrolyte solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiko HAYASHI, Ryuta Sugiura, Hiroto Asano, Tsuyoshi Sasaki, Chikaaki Okuda
  • Publication number: 20190214621
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having high safety to reliably prevent the progress of successive heat generation when battery temperature rises caused by abnormalities such as internal short-circuits. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery disclosed herein is provided with an electrode body 20 in which a sheet-shaped positive electrode 50 and a sheet-shaped negative electrode 60 oppose each other across separators 70. In the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery disclosed herein, the peel strength of a boundary A between each separator 70 and a positive electrode mix layer 54 is greater than the peel strength of a boundary B between the positive electrode mix layer 54 and a positive electrode collector 52.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kunihiko HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190214686
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology that allows supplying stably a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a high capacity retention rate and being excellent in resistance to deterioration. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery disclosed herein is provided with a wound electrode body resulting from winding a stack 10 having a stacking of a positive electrode 50 and a negative electrode 60 across separators 70. The positive electrode 50 has a foil-shaped positive electrode collector 52 and a positive electrode mix layer 54. Each separator 70 has a resin substrate layer 72 and a heat resistance layer 74. In the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery disclosed herein, the peel strength of a boundary between the resin substrate layer and the heat resistance layer is 16 N/m or more and 155 N/m or less, and the density of the positive electrode mix layer is 2.3 g/cc or more and 2.6 g/cc or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kunihiko HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190190017
    Abstract: Active material particles, a conductive material, a binder, and a solvent are mixed to prepare composite particles. The composite particles are mixed with metal short fibers to make the metal short fibers adhere to surfaces of the composite particles. After the adhesion of the metal short fibers, the composite particles are brought together and compacted to produce an electrode for electric storage devices. Each of the composite particles contains at least the active material particles, the conductive material, and the binder. The total content of the metal short fibers in the electrode for electric storage devices is not lower than 15 mass % and not higher than 35 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventor: Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10067404
    Abstract: Embodiments of a novel control device and associated techniques for controlling a light path length of a resonator to allow resonance in a mode of higher strength are described herein. The control device includes: a drive section that moves at least one reflecting unit in the resonator; and a control section that controls a light path length of the resonator, by causing the drive section to move the at least one reflecting unit so that the laser light that enters into the resonator changes from a state in which the laser light resonates in a first mode of the plurality of modes to a state in which the laser light resonates in a second mode different from the first mode, on the basis of a detection result of a reflected light from the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Goro Fujita, Kenji Tanaka, Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180141484
    Abstract: A road surface display device mounted to an own vehicle includes: a road surface image control portion generating a road surface image which is displayed on a road surface ahead of the own vehicle and includes images each indicating an expected arrival zone where the own vehicle is expected to arrive at an expected arrival time; a detection portion obtaining display states of a different vehicle image, which is a road surface image displayed by a different vehicle, and an own vehicle image, which is the road surface image displayed by the own vehicle, and detecting a presence of overlapping or proximity between the two images; and a display adjustment portion, when the presence of overlapping or proximity is detected, displaying an image indicating a shorter expected arrival time in a region where the presence of overlapping or proximity is detected on the road surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Narihiro HANEDA, Kunihiko HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9965485
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first display controller, an accepting unit, a grouping unit, and a memory controller. The first display controller controls a display to display plural images representing respective files. The accepting unit accepts an operation for selecting at least two or more images from among the plural images. The grouping unit forms a group by associating plural files represented by the at least two or more images with one another with the at least two or more images kept displayed on the display in a case where the accepting unit has accepted the operation. The memory controller controls a memory to store information indicating display positions of the at least two or more images on a screen in association with the group that has been formed by the grouping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Sato, Masaya Kojima, Kosuke Kubota, Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180120686
    Abstract: A road surface displaying device capable of performing a display having high visibility is provided. The road surface displaying device includes a light projecting unit that projects light toward a road surface and performs a display by the light on the road surface, and a polarization controlling unit that sets a ratio of P-polarized light and S-polarized light in the light. The road surface displaying device includes a target position detecting unit that detects a position of a target. The polarization controlling unit sets the ratio according to the position of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Kunihiko Hayashi, Narihiro Haneda
  • Patent number: 9947959
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes a battery device in which a positive electrode is faced to negative electrode through a separator; a non-aqueous electrolyte; a laminate film which is formed by laminating a metal layer, an outside resin layer formed in outer face of the metal layer, and an inside resin layer formed in the metal layer, and in which the battery device and the non-aqueous electrolyte is packaged by heat welding and housed; a positive electrode lead which is electrically connected to the positive electrode, and drawn from portion heat-welded of the laminate film to an exterior thereof; a negative electrode lead which is electrically connected to the negative electrode, and drawn from portion heat-welded of the laminate film to an exterior thereof; and a porous polymer layer containing, as a component, vinylidene fluoride formed between the laminate film and the battery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nakamura, Hiroshi Takabayashi, Kunihiko Hayashi, Yosuke Konishi, Tetsuya Makino
  • Patent number: 9935305
    Abstract: There is provided a secondary battery including a battery device that has a thickness of 3 to 20 mm, and a battery discharge capacity of 3 to 50 Ah, and an exterior material that packages the battery device. The battery device includes a positive electrode that has a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode that has a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer, a separator that is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode that are alternately laminated, a positive electrode tab that is electrically connected to a positive electrode current collector exposed portion and is led-out to the outside of the exterior material, and a negative electrode tab that is electrically connected to a negative electrode current collector exposed portion and is led-out to the outside of the exterior material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Makino, Hiroshi Takabayashi, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Kunihiko Hayashi, Yosuke Konishi, Akira Sasaki, Akira Saito
  • Publication number: 20180076490
    Abstract: A battery is provided including an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte; wherein the electrolyte includes one or both of fluoro ethylene carbonate and difluoro ethylene carbonate in an amount of 0.5% by mass or more and 10% by mass or less, wherein the anode includes an anode active material layer provided on an anode current collector, and wherein a thickness of the anode active material layer, after charging the battery, is 58 um or more and 75 um or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Akira Yamaguchi, Kunihiko Hayashi, Tadahiko Kubota, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Akira Ichihashi, Yuzuru Fukushima, Hironori Sato, Masaki Kuratsuka, Hideto Watanabe, Kimio Tajima, Masahiro Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9831532
    Abstract: The present application provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes, a cathode capable of being electrochemically doped/dedoped with lithium, an anode capable of being electrochemically doped/dedoped with lithium, and an electrolyte placed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the electrolyte contains at least one of fluoro ethylene carbonate represented by Chemical Formula (1) and difluoro ethylene carbonate represented by Chemical Formula (2) as a solvent and the ratio of a discharge capacity B during discharging at a 5C rate to a discharge capacity A during discharging at a 0.2C rate ((B/A)×100) is 80% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Yamaguchi, Kunihiko Hayashi, Tadahiko Kubota, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Akira Ichihashi, Yuzuru Fukushima, Hironori Sato, Masaki Kuratsuka, Hideto Watanabe, Kimio Tajima, Masahiro Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9823946
    Abstract: A processor executes a plurality of tasks by switching a timeslot and iterating a plurality of timeslots. The processor includes a table in which tasks are defined in correspondence with timeslots. In the table, the number of timeslots to be held in one iteration is defined, for each of the timeslots a total time period during the predetermined number of iterations is designated, and a plurality of tasks are defined in correspondence with at least one of the timeslots. A timeslot is switched every time a predetermined period elapses. One task is selected and executed by referring to the table in correspondence with switching of timeslot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Kazushi Kurata, Kazuya Furukawa, Tetsuya Tanaka, Nobuo Higaki, Kunihiko Hayashi, Hiroshi Kadota, Tokuzo Kiyohara, Kozo Kimura, Hideshi Nishida, Shigeki Fujii, Toshio Sugimura
  • Patent number: 9825337
    Abstract: A battery is composed of a positive electrode in which a positive electrode active material layer including a positive electrode active material is formed on a positive electrode collector, a negative electrode in which a negative electrode active material layer including a negative electrode active material is formed on a negative electrode collector, a separator provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte impregnated in the separator. The battery further includes at least one of a heteropoly acid and a heteropoly acid compound as an additive at least in one of the positive electrode, the negative electrode, the separator, and the electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Watanabe, Tomoyo Ooyama, Shunsuke Saito, Shinichi Katayama, Hideki Nakai, Yoshihiro Kudo, Yoshikazu Kato, Muneaki Ando, Koji Morita, Ichiro Yamada, Nobuya Okano, Noritoshi Araki, Shuhei Sugita, Kunihiko Hayashi, Yosuke Hosoya, Tadahiko Kubota, Shigeru Fujita
  • Publication number: 20170263918
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a lithium ion secondary battery includes: forming a first mixture by mixing powder of a first electrode material, which is one of the active material and the conductive material, with powder of trilithium phosphate; forming a second mixture by mixing the first mixture with powder of a second electrode material which is the other one of the active material and the conductive material; forming a wet granulated body by mixing the second mixture with the binder and a solvent; and forming the active material layer by attaching the wet granulated body to the surface of the current collector foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki UEZONO, Tomoya MESUDA, Kunihiko HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170237062
    Abstract: An electrode plate is produced by a wet granule forming process and a film forming process. In the wet granule forming process, wet granules are formed by mixing electrode mixture materials including at least an active material and a binder with a solvent. In the film forming process, a sheet-shaped electrode mixture layer is formed by causing the wet granules to pass through a gap between a pair of rolls so as to be rolled, and the electrode mixture layer is adhered onto a current collector foil. In the wet granule forming process, a powder of copper having an average particle size of 100 nm or smaller is used as one of the electrode mixture materials, and the amount of the powder of copper added in a range of 0.05 wt % to 2.00 wt % with respect to the total weight of the electrode mixture materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Kunihiko HAYASHI, Tomoyuki UEZONO
  • Patent number: 9647298
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery is provided. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes an anode; a cathode; a separator; an electrolytic solution including a solvent and an electrolyte salt; wherein the solvent includes a fluoro ethylene carbonate, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte battery has a discharge capacity ratio of a discharge capacity B when discharging at a 5 C rate to a discharge capacity A when discharging at a 0.2 C rate ((B/A)×100%), and wherein the discharge capacity ratio is 80% or more. An electrical apparatus including a nonaqueous electrolyte battery is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Yamaguchi, Kunihiko Hayashi, Tadahiko Kubota, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Akira Ichihashi, Yuzuru Fukushima, Hironori Sato, Masaki Kuratsuka, Hideto Watanabe, Kimio Tajima, Masahiro Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9644507
    Abstract: An oil pan structure (1) includes a lower structure (2) fixed to a lower portion of an engine block, a main oil pan (3) provided under an engine block with the lower structure being between the main oil pan and the engine block, a sub oil pan (5) that is provided in the main oil pan (3) and forms a first chamber (6) and a second chamber (7) inside the main oil pan (3). The sub oil pan (5) is separated into an upper body (5a) and a lower body (5b). The upper body (5a) is formed together with the lower structure (2) by injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Yamada, Hideo Kobayashi, Katuhiko Arisawa, Toshihisa Sugiyama, Kunihiko Hayashi, Ryo Michikawauchi
  • Publication number: 20160377955
    Abstract: [Object] To propose a new and improved control device, a control method, and a program, which are capable of controlling a light path length of a resonator to allow resonance in a mode capable of obtaining a laser light of higher strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Goro Fujita, Kenji Tanaka, Kunihiko Hayashi