Patents by Inventor Manabu Takahashi
Manabu Takahashi 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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Patent number: 10336037Abstract: A galvanized steel sheet according to the present invention includes a steel sheet and a galvanizing layer which is formed on a surface of the steel sheet. The steel sheet includes as a chemical component, by mass %, C: more than 0.100% to 0.500%, Si: 0.0001% to less than 0.20%, Mn: more than 0.20% to 3.00%, Al: 3.0% to 10.0%, N: 0.0030% to 0.0100%, Ti: more than 0.100% to 1.000%, P: 0.00001% to 0.0200%, S: 0.00001% to 0.0100% and a remainder including Fe and impurities. The galvanizing layer includes as a chemical composition, by mass %, Fe: 0.01% to 15% and a remainder including Zn and impurities. The galvanized steel sheet has a specific gravity of 5.5 to less than 7.5.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Masaharu Oka, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi, Riki Okamoto, Kenichiroh Matsumura
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Patent number: 10294551Abstract: A steel sheet including, by mass %, C: more than 0.100% and 0.500% or less, Si: 0.0001% or more and less than 0.20%, Mn: more than 0.20% and 0.50% or less, Al: 3.0% or more and 10.0% or less, N: 0.0030% or more and 0.0100% or less, Ti: more than 0.100% and 1.000% or less, P: 0.00001% or more and 0.0200% or less, S: 0.00001% or more and 0.0100% or less, and a remainder including Fe and impurities, in which a sum of a C content and a Ti content satisfies 0.200<C+Ti?1.500 by mass %, a product of an Al content and an Si content satisfies Al×Si?0.8 by mass %, and a specific gravity is 5.5 to less than 7.5.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Masaharu Oka, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi, Riki Okamoto, Chisato Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20190020046Abstract: A fuel cell system comprises: a fuel cell stack having a plurality of unit cells in which anode gas flow paths are formed; an anode gas supply unit configured to supply anode gas to the fuel cell stack via an anode gas supply port of the fuel cell stack; a pressure sensor provided between the anode gas supply port and the anode gas supply unit to measure anode gas supply pressure; a current sensor configured to measure electric current of the fuel cell stack; and a controller configured to control anode gas supply quantity of the anode gas supply unit to thereby control the anode gas supply pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Manabu TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20180375119Abstract: The inspection method for a fuel cell stack including a plurality of unit cells comprises: (a) operating a fuel cell system, including the fuel cell stack and an anode gas circulation flow path that is connected between an anode gas discharge port and an anode gas supply port of the fuel cell stack to circulate anode gas, under a predetermined liquid water accumulation condition to accumulate liquid water in the anode gas circulation flow path; (b) causing, after the step (a), the fuel cell system to stop and stand by until a predetermined restarting condition is satisfied; and (c) restarting, after the step (b), the fuel cell system to implement power generation by the fuel cell stack, and measuring voltage of each of the unit cells to detect a unit cell having negative voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Manabu Takahashi
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Publication number: 20180282187Abstract: A wastewater treatment system including, storing in a storage unit, a wastewater storage tank for storing wastewater containing organic matter, an ozone treatment device for treating wastewater with ozone, thereby reducing the molecular weight of organic matter contained in wastewater, a wastewater circulating structure for conveying wastewater stored in the wastewater storage tank to the ozone treatment device and circulating the ozone-treated wastewater back into the wastewater storage tank, and a biological treatment tank for bringing aerobic microorganisms into contact with wastewater, conveyed from the wastewater storage tank, which contains the ozone-treated wastewater, thereby reducing organic matter contained in wastewater.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2015Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Moriyoshi SHITARA, Manabu TAKAHASHI, Yuusuke NAKAHATA
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Patent number: 9970092Abstract: A galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet and a plating layer on the surface of the steel sheet, in which the steel sheet includes, as a steel chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.5 to 3.0% and Mn: 1.5 to 3.0%, a microstructure of the steel sheet includes ferrite, bainite, by volume fraction, 30% or more of a tempered martensite, and 8% or more of an austenite, and tensile strength of the steel sheet is 980 MPa or more, and the plating layer includes an oxide including at least one chemical element selected from Si, Mn and Al, and when seen at a cross section including the steel sheet and the plating layer in a plate thickness direction, a projection area fraction of the oxide is 10% or more.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Nozaki, Manabu Takahashi, Nobuhiro Fujita, Masafumi Azuma, Chisato Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 9941063Abstract: A limit switch having a housing having a box, an attachment hold made in a side surface of the box, having a cylindrical bearing section, a rotating shaft rotatably inserted through the cylindrical bearing section, a cam unit provided in a leading end portion of the rotating shaft, and an operation lever provided in the other end portion of the rotating shaft. Rotational action of the operation lever is converted into vertical action by the cam unit in the box. A contact of a switch main body accommodated in and fixed to the housing is opened and closed. An outer diameter of the cam unit is smaller than an inner diameter of the attachment hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Manabu Takahashi, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Shigenobu Fukui, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Yuichi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 9865414Abstract: A limit switch is provided that is returned to an original position even if a turning angle of a turning lever becomes 90 degrees. In a section perpendicular to a turning shaft, a cam is formed such that a whole contact surface of the cam with a cam receiver is located on a side of the cam receiver with respect to a shaft center of the turning shaft when the external force does not act on the turning lever.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Manabu Takahashi, Yuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9697960Abstract: A switch has a rotary shaft that rotates in response to an external force, a cam provided on the rotary shaft and including a cam action section, wherein the cam rotates in response to the rotation of the rotary shaft, a displacement member including a cam support section that contacts the cam action section, wherein the displacement member is displaced in response to the cam support section being pressed by the cam action section rotating, and a switch module that performs an on-off action in response to the displacement of the displacement member. The cam action section is made of a metal. The cam support section is made of a resin softer than the cam action section.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Manabu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Shinya Katsube, Yuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9670569Abstract: This is a cold-rolled steel sheet includes, by mass %, C: 0.02% to 0.4%, Si: 0.001% to 2.5%, Mn: 0.001% to 4.0%, and Al: 0.001% to 2.0%. The sum of the Si content and the Al content is 1.0% to 4.5%. An average pole density of an orientation group from {100}<011> to {223}<110> is 1.0 to 6.5, and a pole density of a crystal orientation {332}<113> is 1.0 to 5.0. A microstructure includes, by an area ratio %, 5% to 80% of ferrite, 5% to 80% of bainite, and 2% to 30% of retained austenite. In the microstructure, by an area ratio %, martensite is limited to 20% or less, pearlite is limited to 10% or less, and tempered martensite is limited to 60% or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Nozaki, Manabu Takahashi, Nobuhiro Fujita, Hiroshi Yoshida, Shinichiro Watanabe, Takeshi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9587319Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet has an average value of the X-ray random intensity ratio of a {100} <011> to {223} <110> orientation group at least in a sheet thickness central portion that is in a sheet thickness range of ? to ? from a steel sheet surface of 1.0 to 6.0, an X-ray random intensity ratio of a {332} <113> crystal orientation of 1.0 to 5.0, rC which is an r value in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction of 0.70 to 1.10, and r30 which is an r value in a direction that forms an angle of 30° with respect to the rolling direction of 0.70 to 1.10.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuhiro Fujita, Kunio Hayashi, Riki Okamoto, Manabu Takahashi, Tetsuo Kishimoto, Hiroshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 9553322Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel processor; a fuel cell stack; a first water tank; a combustor; a water discharge passage connected to a water drain port formed in the first water tank to discharge the water from inside of the first water tank; a water filling detector configured to detect that at least one of the water drain port and the water discharge passage is filled with water; a water supply unit for supplying the water to the first water tank; and a controller configured to execute a water filling step of supplying the water to the first water, supply the combustible gas to the combustor via the first water tank and cause the combustor to combust the combustible gas, when the water filling detector detects that at least one of the water drain port and the water discharge passage is filled with water.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Takahashi, Motomichi Katou
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Patent number: 9546413Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-rolled steel sheet including, by mass %, C:0.02% to 0.5% of C, and the sum of the content of Si and the content of Al is 1.0% to 4.0%. An average pole density of an orientation group from {100}<011> to {223}<110> is 1.0 to 6.5, and a pole density of a crystal orientation {332}<113> is 1.0 to 5.0. A microstructure includes, by of an area ratio, 2% to 30% of retained austenite, 20% to 50% of ferrite, and 10% to 60% of bainite. rC that is a Lankford value in a direction orthogonal to a rolling direction is 0.70 to 1.10, and r30 that is a Lankford value in a direction forming an angle of 30° with the rolling direction is 0.70 to 1.10.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Nozaki, Manabu Takahashi, Nobuhiro Fujita, Hiroshi Yoshida, Shinichiro Watanabe, Takeshi Yamamoto, Chisato Wakabayashi, Riki Okamoto, Kohichi Sano
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Patent number: 9540720Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having small material anisotropy and excellent formability with an ultimate tensile strength of 980 MPa or more. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes a hot-dip galvanized layer formed on a surface of a base steel plate. The base steel plate contains C, Si, Mn, O, P, S, Al and N within predetermined ranges and a balance including Fe and inevitable impurities. The hot-dip galvanized layer contains Fe at less than 7 mass % or 7 to 15 mass % and a balance including Zn, Al, and inevitable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi Azuma, Chisato Wakabayashi, Takayuki Nozaki, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi
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Patent number: 9520603Abstract: A fuel cell system (100) includes: a fuel cell (60); a fuel processor (41) including a reformer (43) and a CO reducer (44, 45); a combustor (42); a first air supply device (46); an electric heater (50); a power supply device (200); a power outage detector (11); and a controller (10). The controller is configured such that, in a power outage state where the power outage detector has detected the power outage before the fuel cell generates electric power, the controller performs at least one of: increasing a supply amount of the combustion air to be greater than in a power supplied state where the power outage detector does not detect the power outage; and decreasing a supply amount of the combustible gas to be less than in the power supplied state, and decreases an amount of heating by the electric heater.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Takahashi, Motomichi Katou, Masato Kihara
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Patent number: 9490081Abstract: A limit switch has a housing having an opening in a front surface of the housing, and a connection hole in which a lead wire is drawn made in a bottom surface of the housing, a switch main body fixed in the housing, a front surface of which is vertically partitioned into a plurality of stages, a pair of fixed contact terminals embedded at each of the stages, an operation shaft exposed from a ceiling surface of the switch main body, a contact that is opened and closed by driving the operation shaft in a shaft center direction, and a projection provided between the fixed contact terminals embedded at the stages of the front surface of the switch main body.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Manabu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Shigenobu Fukui
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Publication number: 20160189894Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a limit switch that is returned to an original position even if a turning angle of a turning lever becomes 90 degrees. In a section perpendicular to a turning shaft, a cam is formed such that a whole contact surface of the cam with a cam receiver is located on a side of the cam receiver with respect to a shaft center of the turning shaft when the external force does not act on the turning lever.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventors: Kazuyuki TSUKIMORI, Manabu TAKAHASHI, Yuki YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: D777120Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Takahashi, Shinya Katsube, Yuki Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Kokichi Tobita, Kazuyuki Tsukimori
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Patent number: D778842Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Manabu Takahashi, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Shinya Katsube, Kokichi Tobita, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Yuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: D859322Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Manabu Takahashi, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Shinya Katsube, Kokichi Tobita, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Yuki Yamamoto