Patents by Inventor Masanori Nakanishi

Masanori Nakanishi 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: 20200381775
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery includes an electrode body in which a cathode layer that contains a cathode active material and a solid electrolyte, an electrolyte layer that is formed of the solid electrolyte, and an anode layer that contains an anode active material and the solid electrolyte are stacked in this order in an up-down direction, in which the cathode active material is a compound represented by a chemical formula Li2Fe(1-x)MxP(2-y)AyO7, contains at least one metal of Ti, V, Cr, Ni, and Co as the M in the chemical formula, and contains at least one element of B, C, Al, Si, Ga, and Ge as the A in the chemical formula, the x in the chemical formula satisfies 0.8<x?1, the y in the chemical formula satisfies 0?y?0.07, and the anode active material is an anatase titanium oxide represented by a chemical formula TiO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: FDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinzo Fujii, Yuji Goto, Masakazu Kobayashi, Tomohiro Fujisawa, Yoichiro Kawano, Masanori Nakanishi, Chihiro Yamamoto, Akihiko Kato
  • Publication number: 20160009182
    Abstract: A battery module provided with a memory unit that stores identification information of the battery module, a motor module provided with a memory unit that stores identification information of the motor module, a battery control unit that controls the battery module, a motor control unit that controls the motor module, and a control module provided with the battery control unit and the motor control unit in a single module are provided. The battery control unit and the motor control unit respectively read the identification information of the modules and further load parameters for the battery module and the motor module corresponding to the identification information in response to activation of the control module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masanori Nakanishi, Kazuyoshi Tsukada, Jun Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20140292072
    Abstract: Provided is a battery monitoring system including a plurality of batteries connected in series, a current/voltage measuring unit configured to measure an electric current and a voltage of a first battery in response to a measurement instruction, and a plurality of voltage measuring units configured to measure a voltage of a second battery other than the first battery in response to a measurement instruction. The voltage measuring units are connected to the current/voltage measuring unit with a daisy-chain connection by a communication interface, and the current/voltage measuring unit and the voltage measuring unit transfer the measurement instruction to another voltage measuring unit through the daisy-chain connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicants: TRANSTRON INC, FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masanori Nakanishi, Kazuyoshi Tsukada, Jun Sasaki
  • Patent number: 7725399
    Abstract: A content usage device includes (i) a license management unit that holds license information and (ii) a content output unit that uses a content in compliance with license information and outputs the content in at least one manner of a sound, video and data. The license management unit, upon receiving a request of license information from the content output unit, requests a license management unit of another content usage device to transfer the license information and acquires the license information, and passes the acquired license information to the content output unit. The content output unit uses a content in compliance with the license information passed from the license management unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Nakahara, Masanori Nakanishi, Yasushi Uesaka, Kouji Miura, Akio Higashi, Takaaki Namba
  • Patent number: 7664824
    Abstract: A mail gateway generates an identifier for each attached file included in the e-mail addressed to a user and held in a mail server, and notifies a mail terminal belonging to the user of a list of generated IDs. When the user selects attached files that the user wants to attach to the e-mail from the list of IDs that is notified from the mail gateway, the mail gateway constructs e-mail including the selected attached files and the mail server transmits the constructed e-mail to addresses of the receivers of the e-mail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Kobayashi, Takeshi Ohmura, Masanori Nakanishi, Tetsuji Sumita, Eiji Ueda
  • Patent number: 7608366
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a positive electrode made of a carbonaceous material, an electrolyte containing a lithium salt, and a negative electrode made of metallic lithium or a material capable of occluding and releasing lithium, wherein said positive electrode is formed from a boronized graphitic material containing boron or a boron compound such that the content of boron therein is 0.05-11 wt %. A method for production of the positive electrode of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanori Nakanishi, Yoshiro Harada, Hiroto Sagisaka
  • Patent number: 7452633
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which a positive electrode formed of a graphite powder and an negative electrode formed of a material capable of absorption/desorption of a lithium metal or lithium are placed to face each other in an electrolyte containing lithium salt. The positive electrode of this battery where a Lc (112) which is the size of crystallite in a c axis direction which is calculated from a (112) diffraction line of a graphite crystal and determined by a powder X-ray diffraction method which is from 4 nm to 30 nm, and a charge capacity at the first cycle which is calculated on the basis of a total weight of the graphite material of the positive electrode filled in the battery is 20 to 50 (mAh/g). Preferably, the graphite powder of the positive electrode has an ratio (A/B) which is the ratio of a specific surface area A determined by a nitrogen absorption (BET) method to a surface area B determined on the basis of an area average diameter of 20 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Toshiyuki Miwa, Hiroto Sagisaka, Kenji Nabekura, Masanori Nakanishi, Minoru Inagaki
  • Patent number: 7359883
    Abstract: A management device of a license management system acquires a usage request of a content from an SD card or a printer via a relay device, analyzes the acquired usage request, acquires usage environment information of the SD card or the printer from the relay device, analyzes the acquired usage environment information, generates license information including a usage rule corresponding to the analysis results of the usage request and the usage environment information, generates instruction information indicating how to handle the license information in the relay device based on the analysis result of the usage environment information, embeds the generated instruction information in the license information, and sends the license information to the relay device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Namba, Takashi Matsuo, Akio Higashi, Tohru Nakahara, Hiroki Murakami, Masanori Nakanishi, Yasushi Uesaka, Kouji Miura
  • Patent number: 7238449
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a positive electrode made of a carbonaceous material, an electrolyte containing a lithium salt, and a negative electrode made of metallic lithium or a material capable of occluding and releasing lithium, wherein said positive electrode is formed from a boronized graphitic material containing boron or a boron compound such that the content of boron therein is 0.05-11 wt %. A method for production of the positive electrode of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanori Nakanishi, Yoshiro Harada, Hiroto Sagisaka
  • Publication number: 20070015057
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a positive electrode made of a carbonaceous material, an electrolyte containing a lithium salt, and a negative electrode made of metallic lithium or a material capable of occluding and releasing lithium, wherein said positive electrode is formed from a boronized graphitic material containing boron or a boron compound such that the content of boron therein is 0.05-11 wt %. A method for production of the positive electrode of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanori Nakanishi, Yoshiro Harada, Hiroto Sagisaka
  • Publication number: 20060292447
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which a positive electrode formed of a graphite powder and an negative electrode formed of a material capable of absorption/desorption of a lithium metal or lithium are placed to face each other in an electrolyte containing lithium salt. The positive electrode of this battery where a Lc (112) which is the size of crystallite in a c axis direction which is calculated from a (112) diffraction line of a graphite crystal and determined by a powder X-ray diffraction method which is from 4 nm to 30 nm, and a charge capacity at the first cycle which is calculated on the basis of a total weight of the graphite material of the positive electrode filled in the battery is 20 to 50 (mAh/g). Preferably, the graphite powder of the positive electrode has an ratio (A/B) which is the ratio of a specific surface area A determined by a nitrogen absorption (BET) method to a surface area B determined on the basis of an area average diameter of 20 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: FDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Toshiyuki Miwa, Hiroto Sagisaka, Kenji Nabekura, Masanori Nakanishi, Minoru Inagaki
  • Patent number: 7096504
    Abstract: A distribution server 103 distributes a content via a network, and a KIOSK terminal 105 receives the content via the network and records the content in an SD memory card 100. A customer device 111 receives a content via the SD memory card 100, checks out the content and records a copy on a recording medium. SD-Audio players 122 to 124 receive a copy of the content and play back the copy. Here, the KIOSK terminal 105 records a Usage Rule that certifies the right to control recording of content on the SD memory card 100. Move Control Information showing the number of times that moving of rights is permitted is set in the Usage Rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tagawa, Teruto Hirota, Hideki Matsushima, Masayuki Kozuka, Mitsuhiro Inoue, Yasushi Uesaka, Shunji Harada, Taihei Yugawa, Masaya Miyazaki, Masanori Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20040249759
    Abstract: A content using apparatus (103) for providing content use to a user under a license that grants the content use includes: a content using unit (202) for providing the content use to the user; a content use control unit (212) for controlling the content use on the content using unit (202) under the license; a value information storage unit (213) for obtaining and storing a value information tag block (504) indicating a discount amount (605) indicating a benefit for the user, a value information giving condition (603) for allowing the user to use the discount by the discount amount (605) depending on the content use and a discount ticket applicable condition (604); and a value information using unit (214) for judging whether the value information giving condition (603) and the discount ticket applicable condition (604) are satisfied or not and allowing the user to use the discount amount (605) if the conditions are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Akio Higashi, Katsumi Tokuda, Motoji Ohmori, Mitsuhiro Inoue, Toshihisa Abe, Masanori Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20040143661
    Abstract: The system of the present invention is a system comprising a server device which provides a license and a terminal device which controls content use based on the license provided from the server device, wherein the server device includes the first collecting unit operable to collect the first history logs concerning the content use sent from the terminal device, the second collecting unit operable to collect the second history logs concerning the content use sent from the terminal device separately from the collection by the first collection unit and the verifying unit operable to verify the first history logs collected by the first collection unit and the second history logs collected by the second collection unit, and the terminal device includes the first acquirement unit operable to acquire the first history logs concerning the content use and the second acquirement unit operable to acquire the second history logs concerning the content use and a history log sending unit operable to separately send the fi
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Akio Higashi, Mitsuhiro Inoue, Katsumi Tokuda, Hiroki Murakami, Masanori Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20040131940
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a positive electrode made of a carbonaceous material, an electrolyte containing a lithium salt, and a negative electrode made of metallic lithium or a material capable of occluding and releasing lithium, wherein said positive electrode is formed from a boronized graphitic material containing boron or a boron compound such that the content of boron therein is 0.05-11 wt %. A method for production of the positive electrode of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanori Nakanishi, Yoshiro Harada, Hiroto Sagisaka
  • Publication number: 20040133448
    Abstract: The present invention is a system comprising a server device for providing a license and a terminal device for controlling the content use based on the license to be provided by the server, wherein the server device includes a database unit operable to store collection conditions concerning history logs to be collected in the terminal device, a generation unit operable to dynamically generate indication information that indicates history log collection to the terminal device according to the collection condition to be stored in the database unit, the first sending unit operable to send the generated indication information to the terminal device and the first receiving unit operable to receive the history logs to be sent from the terminal device as a response to the indication information, and the terminal device includes the second receiving unit operable to receive the indication information from the server device, a collection unit operable to collect content history logs according to the received indicatio
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Akio Higashi, Mitsuhiro Inoue, Katsumi Tokuda, Masanori Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20030140009
    Abstract: A management device 10 of a license management system 1 acquires a usage request of a content from an SD card 40 or a printer 50 via a relay device 30, analyzes the acquired usage request, acquires usage environment information of the SD card 40 or the printer 50 from the relay device 30, analyzes the acquired usage environment information, generates license information including a usage rule corresponding to the analysis results of the usage request and the usage environment information, generates instruction information indicating how to handle the license information in the relay device based on the analysis result of the usage environment information, embeds the generated instruction information in the license information, and sends the license information to the relay device 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: Takaaki Namba, Takashi Matsuo, Akio Higashi, Tohru Nakahara, Hiroki Murakami, Masanori Nakanishi, Yasushi Uesaka, Kouji Miura
  • Publication number: 20030018491
    Abstract: A content usage device 1 includes (i) a license management unit 1a that holds license information and (ii) a content output unit 1b that uses a content in compliance with license information and outputs the content in at least one manner of a sound, video and data. The license management unit 1a, upon receiving a request of license information from the content output unit 1b, requests a license management unit of another content usage device to transfer the license information and acquires the license information, and passes the acquired license information to the content output unit 1b. The content output unit 1b uses a content in compliance with the license information passed from the license management unit 1a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Tohru Nakahara, Masanori Nakanishi, Yasushi Uesaka, Kouji Miura, Akio Higashi, Takaaki Namba
  • Patent number: RE41096
    Abstract: A distribution server 103 distributes a content via a network, and a KIOSK terminal 105 receives the content via the network and records the content in an SD memory card 100. A customer device 111 receives a content via the SD memory card 100, checks out the content and records a copy on a recording medium. SD-Audio players 122 to 124 receive a copy of the content and play back the copy. Here, the KIOSK terminal 105 records a Usage Rule that certifies the right to control recording of content on the SD memory card 100. Move Control Information showing the number of times that moving of rights is permitted is set in the Usage Rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Tagawa, Teruto Hirota, Hideki Matsushima, Masayuki Kozuka, Mitsuhiro Inoue, Yasushi Uesaka, Shunji Harada, Taihei Yugawa, Masaya Miyazaki, Masanori Nakanishi
  • Patent number: RE42019
    Abstract: A distribution server 103 distributes a content via a network, and a KIOSK terminal 105 receives the content via the network and records the content in an SD memory card 100. A customer device 111 receives a content via the SD memory card 100, checks out the content and records a copy on a recording medium. SD-Audio players 122 to 124 receive a copy of the content and play back the copy. Here, the KIOSK terminal 105 records a Usage Rule that certifies the right to control recording of content on the SD memory card 100. Move Control Information showing the number of times that moving of rights is permitted is set in the Usage Rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Tagawa, Teruto Hirota, Hideki Matsushima, Masayuki Kozuka, Mitsuhiro Inoue, Yasushi Uesaka, Shunji Harada, Taihei Yugawa, Masaya Miyazaki, Masanori Nakanishi