Patents by Inventor Masaru Kawabe

Masaru Kawabe 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: 11588343
    Abstract: A power storage device includes: a cell; and a controller that: causes the cell to discharge from a full charge capacity to a set capacity that is set in advance, and executes a full charge capacity correction mode including a remaining capacity calculation operation and capacity consumption calculation operation. In the remaining capacity calculation operation, the controller: acquires a first voltage of the cell at the set capacity in response to the cell discharging from the full charge capacity to the set capacity, and calculates an actual remaining capacity of the cell based on the first voltage and one of a plurality of correlations between a voltage of the cell and a cell capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Kawabe, Takashi Matsuda, Yukinari Sato
  • Publication number: 20200335998
    Abstract: A power storage device includes: a cell; and a controller that: causes the cell to discharge from a full charge capacity to a set capacity that is set in advance, and executes a full charge capacity correction mode including a remaining capacity calculation operation and capacity consumption calculation operation. In the remaining capacity calculation operation, the controller: acquires a first voltage of the cell at the set capacity in response to the cell discharging from the full charge capacity to the set capacity, and calculates an actual remaining capacity of the cell based on the first voltage and one of a plurality of correlations between a voltage of the cell and a cell capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Kawabe, Takashi Matsuda, Yukinari Sato
  • Publication number: 20190219639
    Abstract: An electricity storage device, an electricity storage system and a power supply system capable of setting a full charge capacity corresponding to an actual full charge capacity are developed. The electricity storage device includes a battery part and a control part for controlling charge and discharge of the battery part. The battery part is capable of discharging from a full charge capacity to a preset set capacity. The control part is capable of executing a full charge capacity correction mode, which executes a remaining capacity calculation operation and a consumed capacity calculation operation. The full charge capacity is a sum of a remaining capacity corresponding to a first voltage of the battery part in a state of having discharged to the set capacity and a consumed capacity consumed from the full charge capacity to the set capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaru KAWABE
  • Patent number: 7560901
    Abstract: A secondary-battery internal short detection apparatus is provided which is capable of precisely detecting an internal short being generated in a secondary-battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujikawa, Masaru Kawabe, Mikinari Shimada
  • Publication number: 20060186859
    Abstract: A secondary-battery internal short detection apparatus is provided which is capable of precisely detecting an internal short being generated in a secondary-battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Masato Fujikawa, Masaru Kawabe, Mikinari Shimada
  • Publication number: 20060048576
    Abstract: A first object is to provide a method for evaluating large-sized inclusions in a bearing steel. The method enables quantitative evaluation of large-sized inclusions even if the steel has a high degree of cleanliness. Further, a second object is to provide an appropriate bearing steel evaluated by the method for evaluating large-sized inclusions. Further, a third object is to provide a rolling bearing capable of eliminating short life products and cracked products and providing longer lifetime for entire bearings. In order to achieve the first object, a round bar formed of a bearing steel to be evaluated and an ultrasonic probe are placed in an ultrasonic transmission medium, and the size and number of large-sized inclusions that are present in the flaw detection volume are measured to estimate the existence probability of large-sized inclusions in the bearing steel to be evaluated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Akihiro Kiuchi, Yutaka Ishii, Youichi Matsumoto, Masaru Kawabe, Hiroshi Narai, Naoko Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 6893753
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery is integrated with a battery protection circuit that protects the rechargeable battery from overcharging, over discharging, and so forth. A circuit board (9) on which are formed a battery protection circuit, a positive input and output terminal (4), and a temperature detection terminal (6) is disposed on a rechargeable battery (10) via a spacer (13), and the positive and negative electrodes of the rechargeable battery (10) are connected to the circuit board (9). This assembly is enveloped by a cover cap (15) and a cover plate (14), such that the positive input and output terminal (4) and the temperature detection terminal (6) are exposed to the outside through openings provided in the cover plate (14), and one end of the cover cap (15) in the same plane as these is used for connection as a negative input and output terminal (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Iwaizono, Shoji Konishi, Shigeru Kajiwara, Takeshi Ishimaru, Masaru Kawabe, Katsuyuki Shirasawa
  • Patent number: 6759152
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery pack includes a rechargeable battery having a first electrode and a second electrode; a circuit assembly disposed at one end on a side of a sealing portion of the rechargeable battery; a battery protection circuit for protecting the rechargeable battery from overcharging, the battery protection circuit arranged on a side of the circuit assembly which faces the sealing portion of the rechargeable battery; a plurality of input and output terminals arranged on another side of the circuit assembly, said input and output terminals to which said first electrode and said second electrode are respectively each connected via the battery protection circuit, thereby constituting an intermediate unit in which the rechargeable battery and the circuit assembly are integrated; and an outer case for sealing therein said intermediate unit, the outer case having openings formed at locations corresponding to the input and output terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Iwaizono, Shoji Konishi, Shigeru Kajiwara, Takeshi Ishimaru, Masaru Kawabe, Katsuyuki Shirasawa
  • Publication number: 20030108780
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery is integrated with a battery protection circuit that protects the rechargeable battery from overcharging, overdischarging, and so forth. A circuit board (9) on which are formed a battery protection circuit, a positive input and output terminal (4), and a temperature detection terminal (6) is disposed on a rechargeable battery (10) via a spacer (13), and the positive and negative electrodes of the rechargeable battery (10) are connected to the circuit board (9). This assembly is enveloped by a cover cap (15) and a cover plate (14), such that the positive input and output terminal (4) and the temperature detection terminal (6) are exposed to the outside through openings provided in the cover plate (14), and one end of the cover cap (15) in the same plane as these is used for connection as a negative input and output terminal (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Iwaizono, Shoji Konishi, Shigeru Kajiwara, Takeshi Ishimaru, Masaru Kawabe, Katsuyuki Shirasawa
  • Publication number: 20030077486
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery pack includes a rechargeable battery having a first electrode and a second electrode; a circuit assembly disposed at one end on a side of a sealing portion of the rechargeable battery; a battery protection circuit for protecting the rechargeable battery from overcharging, the battery protection circuit arranged on a side of the circuit assembly which faces the sealing portion of the rechargeable battery; a plurality of input and output terminals arranged on another side of the circuit assembly, said input and output terminals to which said first electrode and said second electrode are respectively each connected via the battery protection circuit, thereby constituting an intermediate unit in which the rechargeable battery and the circuit assembly are integrated; and an outer case for sealing therein said intermediate unit, the outer case having openings formed at locations corresponding to the input and output terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Iwaizono, Shoji Konishi, Shigeru Kajiwara, Takeshi Ishimaru, Masaru Kawabe, Katsuyuki Shirasawa
  • Patent number: 6524732
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery is integrated with a battery protection circuit that protects the rechargeable battery from overcharging, overdischarging, and so forth. A circuit board (9) on which are formed a battery protection circuit, a positive input and output terminal (4), and a temperature detection terminal (6) is disposed on a rechargeable battery (10) via a spacer (13), and the positive and negative electrodes of the rechargeable battery (10) are connected to the circuit board (9). This assembly is enveloped by a cover cap (15) and a cover plate (14), such that the positive input and output terminal (4) and the temperature detection terminal (6) are exposed to the outside through openings provided in the cover plate (14), and one end of the cover cap (15) in the same plane as these is used for connection as a negative input and output terminal (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Iwaizono, Shoji Konishi, Shigeru Kajiwara, Takeshi Ishimaru, Masaru Kawabe, Katsuyuki Shirasawa
  • Patent number: 5111201
    Abstract: System for radio transmission of level data of liquid contained in a tank and for converting to the level data to volume data to be indicated. A transmitter includes a cell for supplying electric power, a microcomputer connected to the cell and normally dept in a standby state in which it consumes a small amount of electric power. A timer is connected to the cell and the microcomputer to provide the latter with activation signals to place it in a activated state at a predetermined interval. A level detector if supplied with electric power from the cell only when the microcomputer is activated to provide the level data. A memory is continuously supplied with the electric power from the cell to memorize the level data, and a modulator supplied with the electric power from the cell only when the microcomputer is activated to transmit the level data in the memory by carrier waves through an antenna, whereby the system saves power consumption of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: Tokyo Tatsuno Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsumura, Norio Shimamura, Yasuto Ohta, Masaru Kawabe, Makoto Shimizu, Naoaki Natori, Naohiko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 4938315
    Abstract: Apparatus for exchanging waste oil with fresh oil in a device such as torque converter, based on a new finding that extracting waste oil from the pan thereof, supplying fresh oil thereinto and after the lapse of some pause time such extract and supply are repeated during said torque converter is kept to operate to circulate oil between the converter proper and the oil pan. The repetition of extract, supply and pause is automatically done according to the operation design stored in the computer with determining the total amount of extracted waste oil and fresh oil to be supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Tokyo Tatsuno Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto Ohta, Masaru Kawabe, Fumitaka Uemura, Yoshiyuki Satoh, Naohiko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 4589069
    Abstract: A data input/output system for gasoline stations which has a console arranged in an office cabin and electrically connected to each of a plurality of outdoor fuel dispensers, said console comprising a fuel dispensation control panel which has a fuel dispensation permission key to be operated for actuating the dispenser, in response to an order from a customer or an operator, a key board for inputing sales data on a dispensed fuel and other merchandise, a display for indicating operation instructions and input data, a printer for printing the data on a slip, a cash box, and a control unit connected to each of said elements to control the same. The system may have a card reader and a recording unit to allow and conduct credit sales.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: Tokyo Tatsuno Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keizo Endo, Hiroshi Matsumura, Norio Shimamura, Masaru Kawabe