Patents by Inventor Masashi Yagi

Masashi Yagi 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: 20230399531
    Abstract: The surface material according to the present disclosure is a surface material partially comprising prints on at least one main surface of a black fabric, in which brightness difference (?L, ?L=Lp?Lb) between average brightness on the main surface of the black fabric (Lb) and average brightness on the print which exists on the main surface (Lp) is smaller than 0. In other words, in the surface material according to the present disclosure, the print is more darkly represented than a black fabric. In view of the above, according to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide a surface material capable of realizing an automotive interior material having a calm impression and improved design properties by representing a print on a main surface of a black fabric darker (specifically, blacker) than the black fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshinori OTAKI, Kan MATSUSHIMA, Masashi YAGI
  • Patent number: 11209117
    Abstract: A transportation pipe includes a main-body vacuum insulated pipe, a central pipe, and a connecting vacuum insulated pipe. The main-body vacuum insulated pipe including a double pipe structure includes a vacuum part in a region between an inner pipe and an outer pipe. The central pipe through which a fluid to be transported flows, is arranged in the main-body vacuum insulated pipe. The connecting vacuum insulated pipe having a double pipe structure includes a vacuum part in a region between an inner pipe and an outer pipe. In a state in which two main-body vacuum insulated pipes are inserted into the connecting vacuum insulated pipe from respective ends of the connecting vacuum insulated pipe, ends of the main-body vacuum insulated pipes are away from one another, and the main-body vacuum insulated pipes are connected to one another via the connecting vacuum insulated pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Yagi, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Tomohiro Takagi
  • Publication number: 20200199810
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an interior trim surface material with a more excellent texture. The interior trim surface material of the present invention comprises a print layer on at least one main surface of a fiber aggregate, and has a main surface (a main surface on which the print layer is exposed in the interior trim surface material) with a surface roughness (SMD) of less than 2.71 ?m and an average frictional coefficient (MIU) of more than 0.27. When these conditions are satisfied, it is possible to provide an interior trim surface material that has an excellent texture, such as a feeling of high moistness, while still imparting a sensation that feels smooth and fine texture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: JAPAN VILENE COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke MINAMIDE, Masashi YAGI
  • Patent number: 10458592
    Abstract: A double tube is provided, which can reliably prevent buckling and flattening of an inner tube even when bending is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Yagi, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Tomohiro Takagi, Makoto Furukawa
  • Patent number: 10330403
    Abstract: In order to obtain a heating and cooling system capable of localized cooling or heating a given area, a heating and cooling system includes: a supply section configured to supply a heating medium; and a double pipe unit including: an inner pipe, connected to the supply section, through which the heating medium flows, and an outer pipe disposed at an outer peripheral side of the inner pipe, the outer pipe including a space between the inner pipe and the outer pipe, the space being maintained at a vacuum, portions in which a degree of vacuum of the space is different, or in which the degree of vacuum of the space is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Yagi, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Jun Teng, Tomohiro Takagi
  • Publication number: 20190162357
    Abstract: A transportation pipe includes a main-body vacuum insulated pipe, a central pipe, and a connecting vacuum insulated pipe. The main-body vacuum insulated pipe including a double pipe structure includes a vacuum part in a region between an inner pipe and an outer pipe. The central pipe through which a fluid to be transported flows, is arranged in the main-body vacuum insulated pipe. The connecting vacuum insulated pipe having a double pipe structure includes a vacuum part in a region between an inner pipe and an outer pipe. In a state in which two main-body vacuum insulated pipes are inserted into the connecting vacuum insulated pipe from respective ends of the connecting vacuum insulated pipe, ends of the main-body vacuum insulated pipes are away from one another, and the main-body vacuum insulated pipes are connected to one another via the connecting vacuum insulated pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi YAGI, Hiroyuki FUKUSHIMA, Tomohiro TAKAGI
  • Patent number: 10291010
    Abstract: A connection structure is provided for a pair of superconducting cables each including a cable core including a former and a superconductive conductor layer composed of a plurality of superconducting wires arranged along an outer circumference of the former. The superconducting wire has a laminated structure including a base plate and a superconducting layer formed on a side closer to one of principal surfaces of the base plate. One of the superconducting cables and another of the superconducting cables are connected with each other by a first superconducting wire and a second superconducting wire such that the superconducting layers of the first superconducting wire and the second superconducting wire face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaharu Mitsuhashi, Masashi Yagi, Tomoya Nomura, Jun Teng, Jin Liu, Ryou Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10163550
    Abstract: In order to obtain a highly versatile superconducting cable capable of absorbing differences in thermal contraction amounts that arise between three members, these being a cable core, an inner tube, and an outer tube, and to obtain a superconducting cable manufacturing method of the same, a superconducting cable includes a thermal insulation vacuum tube and a cable core. The thermal insulation vacuum tube includes an inner tube fixed at both ends and having a cooling medium filled inside, and an outer tube disposed at an outer peripheral side of the inner tube with a space between the outer tube and the inner tube maintained at a vacuum, and is configured to include a winding section wound with one or more turns. The cable core is fixed at both ends and disposed inside the inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Takagi, Masashi Yagi
  • Publication number: 20180051845
    Abstract: A double tube is provided, which can reliably prevent buckling and flattening of an inner tube even when bending is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi YAGI, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Tomohiro Takagi, Makoto Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20170372819
    Abstract: In order to obtain a highly versatile superconducting cable capable of absorbing differences in thermal contraction amounts that arise between three members, these being a cable core, an inner tube, and an outer tube, and to obtain a superconducting cable manufacturing method of the same, a superconducting cable includes a thermal insulation vacuum tube and a cable core. The thermal insulation vacuum tube includes an inner tube fixed at both ends and having a cooling medium filled inside, and an outer tube disposed at an outer peripheral side of the inner tube with a space between the outer tube and the inner tube maintained at a vacuum, and is configured to include a winding section wound with one or more turns. The cable core is fixed at both ends and disposed inside the inner tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro TAKAGI, Masashi YAGI
  • Publication number: 20170336154
    Abstract: In order to obtain a heating and cooling system capable of localized cooling or heating a given area, a heating and cooling system includes: a supply section configured to supply a heating medium; and a double pipe unit including: an inner pipe, connected to the supply section, through which the heating medium flows, and an outer pipe disposed at an outer peripheral side of the inner pipe, the outer pipe including a space between the inner pipe and the outer pipe, the space being maintained at a vacuum, portions in which a degree of vacuum of the space is different, or in which the degree of vacuum of the space is adjustable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi YAGI, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Jun Teng, Tomohiro Takagi
  • Patent number: 9728950
    Abstract: A cryogenic cable termination connector having a small heat inflow from the outside and stable electrical insulation properties. The cryogenic cable termination connector includes a lead-out conductor led out from a site at a very low temperature to a site at room temperature via a liquid refrigerant layer, a refrigerant gas layer, and an oil layer. The lead-out conductor includes a capacitor-cone insulator in which plural metal foils for dividing an electric field from a high voltage level down to the ground voltage level are stacked through an insulator. Among electric field tilting portions in which voltage changes gradually from the high voltage level to the ground voltage level, an electric field tilting portion positioned at a lower part is located in the liquid refrigerant layer and an electric field tilting portion positioned at an upper part is located in the oil layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Mukoyama, Tokui Yonemura, Shuka Yonemura, Masashi Yagi, Tomoya Nomura
  • Publication number: 20170062097
    Abstract: A superconducting wire rod connection structure can comprise first and second superconducting wire rods, wherein the first and second superconducting wire rods are formed by layering a base material, an intermediate layer, and a superconducting conductor layer. The base materials of the first and second superconducting wire rods can be joined to each other, and the superconducting conductor layers of the first and second superconducting wire rods can be connected by a connection wire rod including a superconducting conductor layer. Further, the superconducting wire rod connection structure can comprise a separating portion in which connection ends of the first and second superconducting wire rods with the base materials joined to each other are separated from the connection wire rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Toshiaki AMANO, Jin LIU, Shinya YASUNAGA, Norio MATSUI, Hideyuki HATAKEYAMA, Kiyoshi YAMAMOTO, Masashi YAGI
  • Patent number: 9570214
    Abstract: In a superconducting cable line in which a superconducting cable is connected to a terminal connecting part or an intermediate connecting part, an offset part in which a superconducting cable is laid in a curved-shape is provided near the terminal connecting part or the intermediate connecting part. Further, when it is assumed that the superconducting cable is movable in the offset part, an external tube of the superconducting cable is fixed such that a maximum amplitude part which maximizes the amount of movement of the superconducting cable following thermal expansion and contraction of a cable core becomes immovable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Yagi, Shinichi Mukoyama, Tokui Yonemura, Shuka Yonemura, Tomoya Nomura
  • Patent number: 9502159
    Abstract: A superconducting wire connection structure comprises a first superconducting wire and a second superconducting wire, ends of which are arranged across from each other, and a third superconducting wire which spans and connects the first superconducting wire and the second superconducting wire along a longitudinal direction of the first superconducting wire and the second superconducting wire. Each of the first superconducting wire, the second superconducting wire and the third superconducting wire is a tape-shaped superconducting wire which includes a substrate laminated with at least a superconductive layer. The third wire is narrower in at least one portion than the first superconducting wire and the second superconducting wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaharu Mitsuhashi, Masashi Yagi
  • Publication number: 20160190788
    Abstract: A connection structure is provided for a pair of superconducting cables each including a cable core including a former and a superconductive conductor layer composed of a plurality of superconducting wires arranged along an outer circumference of the former. The superconducting wire has a laminated structure including a base plate and a superconducting layer formed on a side closer to one of principal surfaces of the base plate. One of the superconducting cables and another of the superconducting cables are connected with each other by a first superconducting wire and a second superconducting wire such that the superconducting layers of the first superconducting wire and the second superconducting wire face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaharu MITSUHASHI, Masashi YAGI, Tomoya NOMURA, Jun TENG, Jin LIU, Ryou NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9312052
    Abstract: Superconducting wire material, superconducting wire material connection structure, superconducting wire material connection method, and treatment method of superconducting wire material end are shown. According to one implementation, a superconducting wire material connection structure includes, a first superconducting wire material, a second superconducting wire material, and a third superconducting wire material. The first superconducting wire material and the second superconducting wire material each include an end provided with a concave section in which at least a superconducting layer is removed and a filling section in which filling material is filled in the concave section. The first superconducting wire material and the second superconducting wire material are positioned so that the ends oppose to each other. A third superconducting wire material is connected to both the first superconducting wire material and the second superconducting wire material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Takaharu Mitsuhashi, Masashi Yagi, Ryo Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9251932
    Abstract: A terminal connecting part has: a low temperature container filled with a cooling medium; a conductor current lead which has one end immersed in the cooling medium and the other end led to a normal temperature part; and a conductor movable connecting terminal which electrically connects a superconductive conductor layer and the conductor current lead of a superconducting cable. The superconductive conductor layer of the superconducting cable stripped stepwise from a front end is connected to the conductor current lead through the conductor movable connecting terminal. The cable core of the superconducting cable is movable in a longitudinal direction and is rotatable in a circumferential direction while maintaining electrical connection between the superconductive conductor layer and the conductor current lead. The cable core is horizontally supported in the low temperature container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Yagi, Takaharu Mitsuhashi, Tomoya Nomura, Shinichi Mukoyama, Hirao Hirata, Tokui Yonemura, Shuka Yonemura
  • Patent number: 9123455
    Abstract: A connection structure for superconducting cables includes: superconducting cables that are connected to each other and include cable cores containing formers and superconducting conductor layers, and each cable core is housed in a thermal insulation tube with a cooling medium, wherein the cable cores include electric insulating layers obtained by winding insulating sheets around the superconducting conductor layers, the electric insulating layers on both sides of a conductor connecting part, in which the formers and the superconducting conductor layers are connected to each other, include taper shape portions each having a diameter reducing towards the conductor connecting part, each taper shape portion is formed so as to have an inclination angle changing in a stepwise fashion by a plurality of tapered portions among which a tapered portion nearer the conductor connecting part has smaller inclination angle, and a reinforcing insulating layer is provided between the taper shape portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Yagi, Tomoya Nomura, Hirao Hirata, Takaharu Mitsuhashi
  • Publication number: 20150200041
    Abstract: Superconducting wire material, superconducting wire material connection structure, superconducting wire material connection method, and treatment method of superconducting wire material end are shown. According to one implementation, a superconducting wire material connection structure includes, a first superconducting wire material, a second superconducting wire material, and a third superconducting wire material. The first superconducting wire material and the second superconducting wire material each include an end provided with a concave section in which at least a superconducting layer is removed and a filling section in which filling material is filled in the concave section. The first superconducting wire material and the second superconducting wire material are positioned so that the ends oppose to each other. A third superconducting wire material is connected to both the first superconducting wire material and the second superconducting wire material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Takaharu Mitsuhashi, Masashi Yagi, Ryo Nakayama