Patents by Inventor Masami Kurimoto
Masami Kurimoto 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: 11962050Abstract: A method for producing a resin frame equipped membrane electrode assembly includes: a first conveyance step of supporting a sheet-shaped member having a cathode and an electrolyte membrane by a resin frame member to which the sheet-shaped member is joined and linearly conveying the supported sheet-shaped member to a pressure bonding device; a second conveyance step of conveying an anode to the pressure bonding device by way of a rotary table; and a pressure bonding step of heating and pressing the cathode and the anode from above and below by the pressure bonding device to thereby integrate the cathode and the anode together.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Yoshida, Kensuke Namba, Yosuke Konno, Masami Kurimoto, Yusuke Wada
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Patent number: 11508950Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode sheet by using an electrode sheet manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing the electrode sheet includes a feeding step of feeding out a sheet body from a roll on which the sheet body is wound, the sheet body including an active layer containing a catalyst laminated on a support layer, and a cutting step of forming the electrode sheet by punching the sheet body by pressing a cutting blade from a side of the support layer against the sheet body that was fed out in the feeding step.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignees: TORAY ENGINEERING CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Katayama, Takuto Hayakawa, Yusuke Wada, Masami Kurimoto
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Publication number: 20210296672Abstract: A method for producing a resin frame equipped membrane electrode assembly includes: a first conveyance step of supporting a sheet-shaped member having a cathode and an electrolyte membrane by a resin frame member to which the sheet-shaped member is joined and linearly conveying the supported sheet-shaped member to a pressure bonding device; a second conveyance step of conveying an anode to the pressure bonding device by way of a rotary table; and a pressure bonding step of heating and pressing the cathode and the anode from above and below by the pressure bonding device to thereby integrate the cathode and the anode together.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Kohei Yoshida, Kensuke Namba, Yosuke Konno, Masami Kurimoto, Yusuke Wada
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Patent number: 11043685Abstract: A method for producing a resin frame equipped membrane electrode assembly includes: a first conveyance step of supporting a sheet-shaped member having a cathode and an electrolyte membrane by a resin frame member to which the sheet-shaped member is joined and linearly conveying the supported sheet-shaped member to a pressure bonding device; a second conveyance step of conveying an anode to the pressure bonding device by way of a rotary table; and a pressure bonding step of heating and pressing the cathode and the anode from above and below by the pressure bonding device to thereby integrate the cathode and the anode together.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Yoshida, Kensuke Namba, Yosuke Konno, Masami Kurimoto, Yusuke Wada
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Patent number: 11018366Abstract: A frame equipped membrane electrode assembly or a frame equipped MEA of a fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly or an MEA and a frame member provided on an outer peripheral portion of the MEA. A method of producing the frame equipped MEA includes a first joining step of joining a first resin frame film and a second resin frame film together in a thickness direction to form a film joint body, a welding step of spot welding a first resin sheet to a portion of the first resin frame film facing a second inlet buffer when the fuel cell is formed, to form the frame member, and a second joining step of joining the frame member to the outer peripheral portion of the MEA.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Ishida, Matthew Beutel, Yutaka Ebato, Masami Kurimoto, Kohei Yoshida
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Publication number: 20200235416Abstract: A frame equipped membrane electrode assembly or a frame equipped MEA of a fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly or an MEA and a frame member provided on an outer peripheral portion of the MEA. A method of producing the frame equipped MEA includes a first joining step of joining a first resin frame film and a second resin frame film together in a thickness direction to form a film joint body, a welding step of spot welding a first resin sheet to a portion of the first resin frame film facing a second inlet buffer when the fuel cell is formed, to form the frame member, and a second joining step of joining the frame member to the outer peripheral portion of the MEA.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Kentaro ISHIDA, Matthew BEUTEL, Yutaka EBATO, Masami KURIMOTO, Kohei YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20200014017Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode sheet by using an electrode sheet manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing the electrode sheet includes a feeding step of feeding out a sheet body from a roll on which the sheet body is wound, the sheet body including an active layer containing a catalyst laminated on a support layer, and a cutting step of forming the electrode sheet by punching the sheet body by pressing a cutting blade from a side of the support layer against the sheet body that was fed out in the feeding step.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Keisuke Katayama, Takuto Hayakawa, Yusuke Wada, Masami Kurimoto
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Publication number: 20180316034Abstract: A method for producing a resin frame equipped membrane electrode assembly includes: a first conveyance step of supporting a sheet-shaped member having a cathode and an electrolyte membrane by a resin frame member to which the sheet-shaped member is joined and linearly conveying the supported sheet-shaped member to a pressure bonding device; a second conveyance step of conveying an anode to the pressure bonding device by way of a rotary table; and a pressure bonding step of heating and pressing the cathode and the anode from above and below by the pressure bonding device to thereby integrate the cathode and the anode together.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Kohei Yoshida, Kensuke Namba, Yosuke Konno, Masami Kurimoto, Yusuke Wada
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Patent number: 9240609Abstract: A fuel cell is formed by stacking membrane electrode assemblies and metal separators. The metal separator is formed by adhering and joining together an anode separator and a cathode separator. In the metal separator, a step is provided on an outer circumferential end of the cathode separator, the step being spaced from an outer circumferential end of the anode separator. An adhesive layer is formed on the step between the outer circumferential end of the cathode separator and the outer circumferential end of the anode separator.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Fukuta, Yasuhide Fukushima, Masami Kurimoto, Yohei Kataoka
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Publication number: 20150380746Abstract: A frame equipped membrane electrode assembly is formed by joining a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) having different sizes of components together with a resin frame member. A frame shaped adhesive sheet is provided between an inner extension of the resin frame member and an outer marginal portion of the MEA. An inner marginal portion of the adhesive sheet includes an overlapped portion, which overlaps in an electrode thickness direction with the surface of an outer marginal portion of a second gas diffusion layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Masahiro FUKUTA, Masami KURIMOTO, Yohei KATAOKA, Yasuhide FUKUSHIMA, Junichi NAKAMURA, Takahiro TANAKA, Kohei YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 8649075Abstract: An apparatus includes a contact image sensor (CIS) configured to parallelly output image signals of a plurality of pixels via a plurality of signal lines, an analog frontend (AFE) configured to serially output the image signals of the plurality of pixels output from the CIS by converting the image signal into a plurality pieces of pixel data, an input/output control circuit configured to add reading position information and reading color information to each of the plurality pieces of pixel data, and a direct memory access controller (DMAC) configured to transfer each of the plurality pieces of pixel data to a storage position corresponding to the reading position information and the reading color information such that the plurality pieces of pixel data is stored in consecutive storage positions in an external memory.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2010Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masami Kurimoto, Yasuyuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20120258379Abstract: A fuel cell is formed by stacking membrane electrode assemblies and metal separators. The metal separator is formed by adhering and joining together an anode separator and a cathode separator. In the metal separator, a step is provided on an outer circumferential end of the cathode separator, the step being spaced from an outer circumferential end of the anode separator. An adhesive layer is formed on the step between the outer circumferential end of the cathode separator and the outer circumferential end of the anode separator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro FUKUTA, Yasuhide FUKUSHIMA, Masami KURIMOTO, Yohei KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20100253985Abstract: An apparatus includes a contact image sensor (CIS) configured to parallelly output image signals of a plurality of pixels via a plurality of signal lines, an analog frontend (AFE) configured to serially output the image signals of the plurality of pixels output from the CIS by converting the image signal into a plurality pieces of pixel data, an input/output control circuit configured to add reading position information and reading color information to each of the plurality pieces of pixel data, and a direct memory access controller (DMAC) configured to transfer each of the plurality pieces of pixel data to a storage position corresponding to the reading position information and the reading color information such that the plurality pieces of pixel data is stored in consecutive storage positions in an external memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masami Kurimoto
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Print apparatus, print control method, storage medium storing computer-readable program, and program
Patent number: 7589859Abstract: A print apparatus comprises a memory for storing compressed print information of at least two or more pages transmitted from a host computer, and executes image formation by extracting the compressed print information read from the memory. When nonconformity between an image size of the page to which the print apparatus is executing the image formation and a paper size fed for the relevant page is detected, the compressed print information, for the page in execution of the image formation, subsequent to the read address on the memory at a point of time of the nonconformity detection is read from the memory, and then extracted and abandoned. Thus, the read address on the memory indicates the head of a page subsequent to the page in execution of the image formation.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2005Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masami Kurimoto -
Print apparatus, print control method, storage medium storing computer-readable program, and program
Publication number: 20050200888Abstract: A print apparatus comprises a memory for storing compressed print information of at least two or more pages transmitted from a host computer, and executes image formation by extracting the compressed print information read from the memory. When nonconformity between an image size of the page to which the print apparatus is executing the image formation and a paper size fed for the relevant page is detected, the compressed print information, for the page in execution of the image formation, subsequent to the read address on the memory at a point of time of the nonconformity detection is read from the memory, and then extracted and abandoned. Thus, the read address on the memory indicates the head of a page subsequent to the page in execution of the image formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2005Publication date: September 15, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masami Kurimoto -
Patent number: 6100996Abstract: When a status change of a printer engine occurs, a status change signal is output to an image data output apparatus. In response to input of the status change signal, the image data output apparatus inquires or confirms the printer engine what kind of status change occurs so that processing to compensate for the status change will be subject to image data to be output to the printer engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1997Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuko Amano, Koichiro Akimoto, Nobuyasu Itoh, Shinichiro Maekawa, Nobuyoshi Kakigi, Masami Kurimoto