Patents by Inventor Masaaki Minami

Masaaki Minami 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: 12078627
    Abstract: The present invention suppresses an adverse effect caused when an additional gas such as water vapor is mixed in a sample gas or the like that is subjected to gas measurement. In an embodiment of the present invention, in gas measurement for analyzing sensor output signals obtained by alternately supplying a sample gas and a reference gas to a sensor element while alternately switching between the sample gas and the reference gas, the sample gas and the reference gas pass through a humidity equilibration device partitioned by a water vapor permeable membrane, and then are supplied to the sensor element. As a result, since both gases have substantially the same value of humidity at the time of being supplied to the sensor element, influences of water vapor are substantially cancelled out in signals output from the sensor element by the alternate supply of the sample gas and the reference gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventors: Genki Yoshikawa, Takahiro Nemoto, Masaaki Matoba, Kosuke Minami
  • Patent number: 10455701
    Abstract: A resin board structure includes a first member including a first metal film and one thermoplastic resin layer or a stack which includes two or more thermoplastic resin layers, and a second member including a second metal film. The first and second metal films are bonded together, and at least a portion the first metal film and at least a portion of the second metal film overlap each other. The first and second metal films are metallurgically bonded at an interface between the first metal film and the second metal film. The first member includes a first junction resin covering portion defined by a portion of a thermoplastic resin layer and overlapping a portion at which the first metal film and the second metal film overlap each other, and the first junction resin covering portion includes an uneven surface to reduce or prevent slippage due to ultrasonic vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Otsubo, Masaaki Minami
  • Publication number: 20180192518
    Abstract: A resin board structure includes a first member including a first metal film and one thermoplastic resin layer or a stack which includes two or more thermoplastic resin layers, and a second member including a second metal film. The first and second metal films are bonded together, and at least a portion the first metal film and at least a portion of the second metal film overlap each other. The first and second metal films are metallurgically bonded at an interface between the first metal film and the second metal film. The first member includes a first junction resin covering portion defined by a portion of a thermoplastic resin layer and overlapping a portion at which the first metal film and the second metal film overlap each other, and the first junction resin covering portion includes an uneven surface to reduce or prevent slippage due to ultrasonic vibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshihito OTSUBO, Masaaki MINAMI
  • Patent number: 8963501
    Abstract: A voltage equalization device of a power storage device provided with battery packs in which a plurality of secondary cells are connected, power converters provided in association with the battery packs, and controllers that control the power converters, and in which the battery packs are connected in parallel via the individual power converters includes a decision portion and a voltage-adjusting portion. The decision portion obtains battery-pack information regarding the states of charge/discharge of the individual battery packs and decides, for each battery pack, whether or not to perform voltage adjustment on the basis of the battery-pack information. When the decision portion decides that the voltage adjustment is to be performed, the voltage-adjusting portion generates offset instructions for adjusting the states of charge/discharge and outputs the offset instructions to the controllers of the power converters associated with the battery packs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc
    Inventors: Tetsuro Shigemizu, Takehiko Nishida, Katsuo Hashizaki, Masaaki Minami, Keiichiro Tanaka, Kazuyuki Adachi, Shinji Murakami, Kouji Kurayama, Hirofumi Fujita
  • Patent number: 8247917
    Abstract: A control method for a wind turbine generator and storage battery unit connected to a power grid in parallel, includes calculating total active power and total reactive power, and switching between: a first mode in which the generator outputs turbine required active power and reactive power that can be outputted by the generator and the battery unit outputs battery required active power and battery required reactive power which correspond to a difference between the total active power and the turbine required active power and a difference between the total reactive power and the turbine required reactive power respectively; and a second mode in which the battery required active power is maintained and the battery required reactive power is reduced while the turbine reactive power is increased by an amount of the reduction of the battery required reactive power wherein apparent power exceeds a set battery unit apparent power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Yasugi, Masaaki Minami
  • Publication number: 20120061959
    Abstract: A control method for a wind turbine generator and storage battery unit connected to a power grid in parallel, includes calculating total active power and total reactive power, and switching between: a first mode in which the generator outputs turbine required active power and reactive power that can be outputted by the generator and the battery unit outputs battery required active power and battery required reactive power which correspond to a difference between the total active power and the turbine required active power and a difference between the total reactive power and the turbine required reactive power respectively; and a second mode in which the battery required active power is maintained and the battery required reactive power is reduced while the turbine reactive power is increased by an amount of the reduction of the battery required reactive power wherein apparent power exceeds a set battery unit apparent power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTIRES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira YASUGI, Masaaki MINAMI
  • Publication number: 20110279085
    Abstract: A voltage equalization device of a power storage device provided with battery packs in which a plurality of secondary cells are connected, power converters provided in association with the battery packs, and controllers that control the power converters, and in which the battery packs are connected in parallel via the individual power converters includes a decision portion and a voltage-adjusting portion. The decision portion obtains battery-pack information regarding the states of charge/discharge of the individual battery packs and decides, for each battery pack, whether or not to perform voltage adjustment on the basis of the battery-pack information. When the decision portion decides that the voltage adjustment is to be performed, the voltage-adjusting portion generates offset instructions for adjusting the states of charge/discharge and outputs the offset instructions to the controllers of the power converters associated with the battery packs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicants: KYUSHU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Shigemizu, Takehiko Nishida, Katsuo Hashizaki, Masaaki Minami, Keiichiro Tanaka, Kazuyuki Adachi, Shinji Murakami, Kouji Kurayama, Hirofumi Fujita
  • Publication number: 20060194748
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of disorders induced, caused, and/or mediated by Helicobacter pylori infection, as well as methods of treating the same by administering the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: National University Corporation Nagoya University
    Inventors: Masaaki Minami, Takafumi Ando, Hidemi Goto, Michio Ohta
  • Patent number: 6586278
    Abstract: A method for mounting an electronic component on a substrate is shown, which involves positioning an electronic component 1 on wiring electrodes 5 of a substrate 4 via bumps 3, application of ultrasonic oscillation to the electronic component 1 where the ultrasonic oscillation of the top portion of an ultrasonic-oscillation applying unit (a collet) 8 is larger than the oscillating amplitude of the electronic component 1. After heating the bumps 3 and an area in proximity thereto, the bumps 3 and the wiring electrodes 5 on the substrate 4 are metallically bonded, thereby mounting the electronic component 1 on the substrate 4 via the bumps 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Osaka, Mototsugu Okamura, Masaaki Minami