Patents by Inventor Makoto Taguchi

Makoto Taguchi 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: 9208958
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium ion capacitor having a low internal resistance, a high energy density, and a high capacity retention rate. The lithium ion capacitor includes a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material layer formed on a roughened positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer containing graphite-based particles formed on a negative electrode current collector, and an electrolytic solution containing a solution of a lithium salt in an aprotic organic solvent, wherein the total thickness of the positive electrode active material layer is 50 ?m to 140 ?m, and the ratio of mass of the positive electrode active material layer to the sum of the mass of the positive electrode active material layer and that of the negative electrode active material layer is 0.4 to 0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: JM Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Teruaki Tezuka, Toshihiro Hayashi, Nobuo Ando, Yuu Watanabe, Makoto Taguchi, Naoshi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 9202637
    Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of a lithium ion capacitor having high capacity and high output characteristics and also having high safety that allows suppression of an increase in surface temperature even when an internal short circuit accidentally occurs. The lithium ion capacitor of the present invention comprises: a lithium ion capacitor element formed by overlaying a positive electrode sheet and a negative electrode sheet on top of one another with a separator interposed therebetween; an electrolyte solution; and an outer container that contains the lithium ion capacitor element and the electrolyte solution, a porous layer is formed on an outer surface of the lithium ion capacitor element, and the lithium ion capacitor satisfies following relational expressions (1) and (2): 35?T×R/C??relational expression (1): 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: JM Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Nansaka, Makoto Taguchi
  • Patent number: 9180894
    Abstract: Provided is a floor structure of a railcar in which thickness of a heat insulating material can be reduced while having predetermined heat resistance. The floor structure of the railcar includes a underframe having a pair of side sills extending in a railcar longitudinal direction and a cross beam arranged between the side sills and extending in a railcar width direction, a structural floor provided on an upper surface of the underframe, and a first heat insulating material arranged on a lower side of the structural floor via an air layer for the structural floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Taguchi, Atsushi Sano, Toshiyuki Yamada, Osamu Muragishi, Masashi Kawamura, Yuji Kamei, Shuichi Mizuma
  • Patent number: 9108647
    Abstract: A bodyshell structure of a railcar, includes a plurality of side window opening portions formed on a side bodyshell along a railcar longitudinal direction, and the side window opening portions include a plurality of large window opening portions arranged on a railcar-longitudinal-direction center portion of the side bodyshell and a plurality of small window opening portions arranged on both railcar-longitudinal-direction sides of the large window opening portions and each having a smaller opening area than the large window opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Taguchi, Atsushi Sano, Toshiyuki Yamada, Hideki Kumamoto, Seiichiro Yagi, Masayuki Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 9108649
    Abstract: An underframe structure of a railcar capable of reducing a deformation amount of a cross beam supporting an underfloor equipment upon underfloor fire. The underframe structure of the railcar includes an underframe having a pair of side sills extending in a railcar longitudinal direction and a cross beam arranged between the side sills and extending in a railcar width direction, a structural floor provided on an upper surface of the underframe, and an underfloor equipment suspended down in a center part in the railcar width direction of the cross beam. The underframe structure includes a passenger cabin floor provided on an upper side of the structural floor, the passenger cabin floor forming a lower surface of a passenger cabin S, and floor receiving members supporting the passenger cabin floor and extending in the railcar longitudinal direction between the structural floor and the passenger cabin floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Taguchi, Atsushi Sano, Toshiyuki Yamada, Osamu Muragishi, Masashi Kawamura, Yuji Kamei, Shuichi Mizuma
  • Patent number: 9102992
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for improving fatigue strength that is capable of improving the fatigue strength of cast iron, specifically spherical graphite cast iron, to the same level as that of carbon steel subjected 10 carburizing and quenching. To this end, this method contains a step for performing first, second and third shot peenings using shot of a prescribed diameter for each on spherical graphite cast iron on which a tempering heat treatment has been performed at 150-300° C. and tensile strength made to be 800 MPa or more, the spherical graphite cast iron containing the following elements in the following mass percentages: C=2.0-4.0%, Si=1.5-4.5%, Mn=2.0% or less, P=0.08% or less, 8=0.03% or less, Mg=0.02-0.1%, and Cu=1.8-4.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: UD Trucks Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Nozaki, Makoto Taguchi, Kazuhiro Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 9067606
    Abstract: There is provided a railcar including a under frame, paired side bodyshell parts, and a roof bodyshell part. Strap bar receiving parts hanging downward from the roof bodyshell part are fixed to the roof bodyshell part. An upper horizontal member and a lower horizontal member are provided like bridges between the paired side bodyshell parts. The upper horizontal member and the lower horizontal member are disposed at an interval in a vertical direction and connected by connection pipes. The upper horizontal member is formed by a plurality of reinforcement pipes and the lower horizontal member is formed by a plurality of reinforcement pipes. At least one ends of the plurality of reinforcement pipes are fixed to the strap bar receiving parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignees: EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JAPAN TRANSPORT ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Makoto Taguchi, Jin Kato, Aya Kojima, Keisuke Mizutani, Kenichi Koyama, Tetsuya Asaka, Takashi Ono, Takashi Azuma
  • Patent number: 9027485
    Abstract: An obstacle deflector provided at a front portion of an underframe of a carbody of a railcar includes an obstacle deflecting plate configured to protect the carbody from an obstacle on a railway track when the railcar is traveling. The obstacle deflecting plate includes a main plate portion provided to receive the obstacle by a surface thereof and having a curved shape that is convex toward a front side in a traveling direction in plan view and a sub plate portion projecting toward a rear side from the main plate portion and is continuously provided along the main plate portion so as to extend from a convex, curved front end portion of the main plate portion toward a pair of left and right side portions of the main plate portion, the left and right side portions being located at the rear side in the traveling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Taguchi, Atsushi Sano, Toshiyuki Yamada, Hideki Kumamoto, Seiichiro Yagi, Masayuki Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20150103944
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus configured to transmit four OFDM signals from four transmission antennas includes: a pilot signal insertion unit configured to generate four types of OFDM symbols by inserting pilot signals of different patterns into four types of transmission signals; and an OFDM signal generation unit configured to generate four OFDM signals by modulating respective carriers of the four types of OFDM symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
    Inventors: Takuya SHITOMI, Kenichi MURAYAMA, Makoto TAGUCHI, Shingo ASAKURA, Kazuhiko SHIBUYA
  • Patent number: 8931418
    Abstract: A bodyshell of a railcar includes side outside plates, end bodyshells, and guiding plates. The side outside plate are located at both end portions of a carbody in a vehicle width direction. The end bodyshell includes an end outside plate and a corner post. The end outside plates are located at both end portions of the carbody in the longitudinal direction. The corner posts are located at four corners of the carbody. The corner post is joined to the adjacent end outside plate and the adjacent side outside plate. The guiding plate is provided at the side outside plate so as to cover the corner post from a vehicle exterior. The guiding plate includes an inclined portion and a joining portion. The inclined portion is provided in front of the corner post and inclined to the rear side toward the side outside plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignees: West Japan Railway Company, Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayasu Matsuoka, Hiroyuki Kido, Taro Hayashi, Makoto Taguchi, Toshiyuki Yamada, Naoaki Kawakami, Yasufumi Minamimoto, Akira Ukita, Masami Hayashida
  • Publication number: 20140321575
    Abstract: In a MIMO system performing MIMO transmission using a plurality of antennas, BER characteristics are improved. A transmission device includes a mapping unit that maps a transmission signal onto the IQ plane to generate carrier-modulated carrier symbols, a frequency/transmit antenna interleaving unit (frequency/polarized wave interleaving unit) that interleaves the carrier symbols in the frequency domain and between transmit antennas to generate interleaved data for each transmit antenna, and an output processing unit that constructs an OFDM frame for the interleaved data for each transmit antenna and transmits an OFDM signal via the transmit antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Shingo Asakura, Kenichi Murayama, Makoto Taguchi, Takuya Shitomi, Kazuhiko Shibuya
  • Publication number: 20140150688
    Abstract: There is provided a railcar including a under frame, paired side bodyshell parts, and a roof bodyshell part. Strap bar receiving parts hanging downward from the roof bodyshell part are fixed to the roof bodyshell part. An upper horizontal member and a lower horizontal member are provided like bridges between the paired side bodyshell parts. The upper horizontal member and the lower horizontal member are disposed at an interval in a vertical direction and connected by connection pipes. The upper horizontal member is formed by a plurality of reinforcement pipes and the lower horizontal member is formed by a plurality of reinforcement pipes. At least one ends of the plurality of reinforcement pipes are fixed to the strap bar receiving parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicants: EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, JAPAN TRANSPORT ENGINEERING COMPANY, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Taguchi, Jin Kato, Aya Kojima, Keisuke Mizutani, Kenichi Koyama, Tetsuya Asaka, Takashi Ono, Takashi Azuma
  • Patent number: 8707873
    Abstract: A bodyshell of a railcar includes side outside plates and end bodyshells. The side outside plates are respectively provided at both end portions of an underframe in a vehicle width direction. The end bodyshell includes end outside plates and corner posts. The end outside plates are respectively provided at front and rear end portions of the underframe. The corner posts are respectively provided at four corners of the underframe and are joined to the end outside plates and the side outside plates. Moreover, the corner post includes a side plate joining portion. The side plate joining portion overlaps a front end portion of the side outside plates from an outer side in the vehicle width direction and is joined to the side outside plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignees: West Japan Railway Company, Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayasu Matsuoka, Hiroyuki Kido, Taro Hayashi, Makoto Taguchi, Toshiyuki Yamada, Naoaki Kawakami, Yasufumi Minamimoto, Taro Oka, Yoshiyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8701566
    Abstract: A railcar that includes an underframe, a front surface frame located at a front surface portion of a carbody and having a lower end portion coupled to the underframe, and a buffer member coupled to the front surface frame and extending toward a vehicle interior side. Then, the buffer member is provided at a position higher than the underframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignees: West Japan Railway Company, Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayasu Matsuoka, Hiroyuki Kido, Taro Hayashi, Makoto Taguchi, Yasufumi Minamimoto, Akira Ukita
  • Patent number: 8658298
    Abstract: A laminate-packaged electric storage device includes an outer package, an electric storage device element, and an electrolyte solution, the outer package formed by stacking and seal-tight bonding outer package films along a bonding section formed in an outer edge area of the outer package films, the electric storage device element and the electrolyte solution being held in a receiving section formed inside the outer package. A non-bonding section surrounded by the bonding section and communicating with the receiving section is formed in the outer edge area, an opening is formed through at least one outer package film, and a seal section is formed to surround the opening formed in an area of the non-bonding section, the outer package films bonded in the seal section, and the opening formed in the area of the non-bonding section at a position other than a center position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: JM Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Yuu Watanabe, Naoshi Yasuda, Nobuo Ando, Makoto Taguchi
  • Patent number: 8656841
    Abstract: The present invention is a bodyshell structure of a railcar, the bodyshell structure including: a side bodyshell including an outside plate portion, an inside plate portion, and a joint portion configured to join the outside plate portion and the inside plate portion; an inside window opening formed on the inside plate portion and provided inside the railcar; and an outside window opening formed on the outside plate portion and having a smaller opening area than the inside window opening, and at least one of the inside window opening and the outside window opening has an oval shape extending in the railcar longitudinal direction or a circular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Taguchi, Masashi Ishizuka, Atsushi Sano, Toshiyuki Yamada, Hideki Kumamoto, Seiichiro Yagi, Masayuki Tomizawa, Atsushi Sano
  • Publication number: 20140002959
    Abstract: An accumulator device which provides a high energy density and high output power is provided. The accumulator device (D) includes a positive electrode in which a positive electrode layer (A) is formed, a negative electrode in which a negative electrode layer (B) is formed, and an electrolytic solution (C). The accumulator device is characterized by satisfying that 1.02?WA/WB?2.08 and that 390 ?m?TA?750 ?m, where WA is the weight of the positive electrode layer (A), WB is the weight of the negative electrode layer (B), and TA is the thickness of the positive electrode in which the positive electrode layer (A) is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: JM Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Ando, Teruaki Tezuka, Yuu Watanabe, Makoto Taguchi, Kenji Kojima, Takashi Chiba, Hirobumi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140002960
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium ion capacitor having a low internal resistance, a high energy density, and a high capacity retention rate. The lithium ion capacitor includes a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material layer formed on a roughened positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer containing graphite-based particles formed on a negative electrode current collector, and an electrolytic solution containing a solution of a lithium salt in an aprotic organic solvent, wherein the total thickness of the positive electrode active material layer is 50 ?m to 140 ?m, and the ratio of mass of the positive electrode active material layer to the sum of the mass of the positive electrode active material layer and that of the negative electrode active material layer is 0.4 to 0.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: JM Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Teruaki Tezuka, Toshihiro Hayashi, Nobuo Ando, Yuu Watanabe, Makoto Taguchi, Naoshi Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20130263980
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for improving fatigue strength that is capable of improving the fatigue strength of cast iron, specifically spherical graphite cast iron, to the same level as that of carbon steel subjected 10 carburizing and quenching. To this end, this method contains a step for performing first, second and third shot peenings using shot of a prescribed diameter for each on spherical graphite cast iron on which a quenching and tempering heat treatment or austempering heat treatment has been performed and tensile strength made to be 1200 MPa or more, the spherical graphite cast iron containing the following elements in the following mass percentages: C=2.0-4.0%, Si=1.5-4.5%, Mn=2.0% or less, P=O.08% or less, 8=0.03% or less, Mg=0.02-0.1%, and Cu=1.8-4.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: UD Trucks Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Nozaki, Makoto Taguchi, Kazuhiro Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20130247634
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for improving fatigue strength that is capable of improving the fatigue strength of cast iron, specifically spherical graphite cast iron, to the same level as that of carbon steel subjected 10 carburizing and quenching. To this end, this method contains a step for performing first, second and third shot peenings using shot of a prescribed diameter for each on spherical graphite cast iron on which a tempering heat treatment has been performed at 150-300° C. and tensile strength made to be 800 MPa or more, the spherical graphite cast iron containing the following elements in the following mass percentages: C=2.0-4.0%, Si=1.5-4.5%, Mn=2.0% or less, P=0.08% or less, 8=0.03% or less, Mg=0.02-0.1%, and Cu=1.8-4.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: UD TRUCKS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Nozaki, Makoto Taguchi, Kazuhiro Hirakawa