Patents by Inventor Masato Kamiya

Masato Kamiya 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: 20240140581
    Abstract: A ship launching support system configured to support launching work of a ship of disengaging the ship from a trailer on which the ship is loaded, the ship including an actuator having a function of generating propulsion power of the ship and a function of generating a moment on the ship, and a ship control device configured to actuate the actuator, during the launching work of the ship, the ship control device causing the actuator to generate backward propulsion power of the ship, and executing feedback control of a bow azimuth of the ship on the basis of a deviation between an actual bow azimuth that is a bow azimuth of the ship in actuality and a target bow azimuth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NHK SPRING Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato SHIRAO, Marino SATO, Jun TOKUSHIGE, Takafumi KAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20240132196
    Abstract: A ship including an engine, a jet propulsion device, a ship controller, and a ship position detection unit, in which the jet propulsion device includes a nozzle that ejects a jet stream generated by the driving force output from the engine, and a bucket that changes a direction of the jet stream, the position of the bucket includes at least a forward-side intermediate position between the forward position and the neutral position, the ship controller has a ship fixed point holding mode in which feedback control of the engine and the jet propulsion device is performed based on a deviation between a preset target ship position and the actual ship position, and both control of the position of the bucket including the forward-side intermediate position and control of a rotational speed of the engine are performed in the ship fixed point holding mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Masato SHIRAO, Takafumi KAMIYA, Jun TOKUSHIGE, Marino SATO
  • Publication number: 20240091771
    Abstract: An assay device and an assay method are each capable of ensuring the accuracy of a target substance detection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke FUCHIWAKI, Masato TANAKA, Shohei YAMAMURA, Naoki MORISHITA, Kumiko KAMIYA, Seiichiro MATSUZAKI
  • Patent number: 11745618
    Abstract: Provided is a control system of an all-solid-state lithium ion battery which is capable of improving safety. The control system of an all-solid-state lithium ion battery installed in a vehicle includes: an all-solid-state lithium ion battery connected to a motor for driving a vehicle; and a control unit controlling input and output of a current to the all-solid-state lithium ion battery, wherein the all-solid-state lithium ion battery includes an anode containing lithium titanate, and the control unit adds the number of seconds or a current value whenever the charged capacity of the all-solid-state lithium ion battery exceeds 100% of SOC due to an overcurrent, calculates the decreased amount of the SOC limit based on a value obtained from the addition, calculates the second specified SOC based on the decreased amount of the SOC limit, and controls the all-solid-state lithium ion battery based on the second specified SOC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Kamiya, Satomi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220305953
    Abstract: Provided is a control system of an all-solid-state lithium ion battery which is capable of improving safety. The control system of an all-solid-state lithium ion battery installed in a vehicle includes: an all-solid-state lithium ion battery connected to a motor for driving a vehicle; and a control unit controlling input and output of a current to the all-solid-state lithium ion battery, wherein the all-solid-state lithium ion battery includes an anode containing lithium titanate, and the control unit adds the number of seconds or a current value whenever the charged capacity of the all-solid-state lithium ion battery exceeds 100% of SOC due to an overcurrent, calculates the decreased amount of the SOC limit based on a value obtained from the addition, calculates the second specified SOC based on the decreased amount of the SOC limit, and controls the all-solid-state lithium ion battery based on the second specified SOC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Masato Kamiya, Satomi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11404715
    Abstract: An assembled battery disclosed here includes a plurality of single cell array units each including single cells that are arranged in a lamination direction of a positive electrode and a negative electrode of an electrode body as an arrangement direction. The single cell array units are disposed parallel to each other such that arrangement directions of the single cells constituting the units are parallel to each other. Then, in the assembled battery, none of the single cells included in each of the single cell array units is directly electrically connected to adjacent single cells in the same unit, but is directly electrically connected to any one of the single cells constituting another single cell array unit through a bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaru Ishii, Masato Kamiya, Takayuki Hojo, Tetsuya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20220181609
    Abstract: An all solid state battery includes a cathode, an anode, an opposing region, a non-opposing region, and a solid electrolyte layer, and an anode active material layer includes an anode active material, and a sulfide solid electrolyte, the anode current collector is a current collector that react with the sulfide solid electrolyte at an open circuit potential of the anode active material, the anode current collector includes a coating layer including lithium titanate, on a surface of the anode active material layer side, in plan view, the coating layer includes one or two or more of an existence portion and non-existence portion respectively, in the region specified by an outer edge of the anode current collector, and in plan view, the coating layer includes the existence portion in at least a part of the opposing region, and includes the non-existence portion in at least a part of the non-opposing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Masato KAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20210263969
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus in embodiments includes a feature extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of features from a data group supplied from a device and generate a group of feature vectors obtained by representing the plurality of features with vectors, a hierarchical shaping unit configured to perform clustering according to a distance between feature vectors on the group of feature vectors generated by the feature extraction unit to generate a cluster tree obtained by hierarchizing cluster groups generated by the clustering according to a distance between the clusters, a metadata annotation unit configured to generate a metadata tree, the metadata tree including, for each of the clusters, metadata obtained by annotating a synopsis obtained by summarizing information under each of the clusters, based on the cluster tree generated by the hierarchical shaping unit, and a metadata search unit configured to search the metadata tree generated by the metadata annotation unit for metadata of
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jingyu SUN, Masato KAMIYA, Susumu TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 10985413
    Abstract: A method for testing an all solid state battery with which the presence of short circuit or the presence of defect causing short circuit can be detected with high accuracy by a method in which a voltage is applied to a battery and the current value thereof is measured. The method includes the steps of: a resistance increasing step of increasing resistance of an all solid state battery to 3.2*105 ?·cm2 or more; a voltage applying step of applying voltage to an all solid state battery of which the resistance is increased; and a judging step of judging acceptability of the all solid state battery based on a current value measured in the voltage applying step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Kamiya, Katsuhiko Nagaya, Norihiro Yamada, Shinobu Okayama, Takayuki Hojo
  • Patent number: 10797293
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of unit cells, each including an electrode body having a structure in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are stacked, and a busbar that electrically connects a positive electrode terminal to a negative electrode terminal between the unit cells. The unit cells are stacked adjacent to one another in the same direction as a direction in which the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the electrode body are stacked. The busbar electrically connects the unit cells disposed apart from each other among the unit cells excluding the unit cells disposed adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Kamiya, Masaru Ishii, Takayuki Hojo, Tetsuya Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10753978
    Abstract: A method for testing an all solid state battery with which the presence of short circuit or the presence of defect causing short circuit can be detected with high accuracy by a comparatively simple method in which a voltage is applied to a battery and the current value thereof is measured. The method comprising steps of: a resistance increasing step of increasing resistance of an all solid state battery to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Nagaya, Masato Kamiya, Shinobu Okayama
  • Patent number: 10530014
    Abstract: There is provided an assembled battery including a plurality of single cells and a plurality of bus bars connecting the plurality of single cells in series. The plurality of single cells is arranged such that a pair of flat side surfaces faces each other. The single cells each include a battery case, a positive electrode sheet, a negative electrode sheet, a positive electrode terminal, a negative electrode terminal, an electrical resistor disposed in a conductive path between the positive electrode sheet and the positive electrode terminal, and a pressure operative type current interruption mechanism disposed in a conductive path between the negative electrode sheet and the negative electrode terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Hojo, Masaru Ishii, Masato Kamiya, Tetsuya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20190331736
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for testing an all solid state battery with which the presence of short circuit or the presence of defect causing short circuit can be detected with high accuracy by a comparatively simple method in which a voltage is applied to a battery and the current value thereof is measured. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a method for testing an all solid state battery, the method comprising steps of: a resistance increasing step of increasing resistance of an all solid state battery to 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Nagaya, Masato Kamiya, Shinobu Okayama
  • Publication number: 20190280350
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for testing an all solid state battery with which the presence of short circuit or the presence of defect causing short circuit can be detected with high accuracy by a comparatively simple method in which a voltage is applied to a battery and the current value thereof is measured. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a method for testing an all solid state battery, the method comprising steps of: a resistance increasing step of increasing resistance of an all solid state battery to 3.2*105 ?·cm2 or more; a voltage applying step of applying voltage to an all solid state battery of which the resistance is increased; and a judging step of judging acceptability of the all solid state battery based on a current value measured in the voltage applying step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato KAMIYA, Katsuhiko NAGAYA, Norihiro YAMADA, Shinobu OKAYAMA, Takayuki HOJO
  • Patent number: 9991499
    Abstract: A flat electrode body of a battery has a first-side curved end positioned on a first side of an electrode body width direction and a second-side curved end positioned on a second side. A positive electrode innermost curved portion of a positive electrode sheet is disposed inside the first-side curved end. When the dimension from a positive electrode connecting portion to the end on the first side of the electrode body is defined as a distance and the dimension from the positive electrode connecting portion to the end on the second side of the electrode body is defined as a distance, the positive electrode connecting portion being in the positive electrode protrusion wound portion and connected to a terminal connecting portion of a positive terminal member, the terminal connecting portion is connected to the positive electrode connecting portion at a position satisfying the condition Ha?1.1Hb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Taira Saito, Masato Kamiya, Junpei Terashima, Ayumu Kamakura, Shinji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180138487
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of unit cells, each including an electrode body having a structure in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are stacked, and a busbar that electrically connects a positive electrode terminal to a negative electrode terminal between the unit cells. The unit cells are stacked adjacent to one another in the same direction as a direction in which the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the electrode body are stacked. The busbar electrically connects the unit cells disposed apart from each other among the unit cells excluding the unit cells disposed adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato KAMIYA, Masaru ISHII, Takayuki HOJO, Tetsuya KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20180131035
    Abstract: There is provided an assembled battery including a plurality of single cells and a plurality of bus bars connecting the plurality of single cells in series. The plurality of single cells is arranged such that a pair of flat side surfaces faces each other. The single cells each include a battery case, a positive electrode sheet, a negative electrode sheet, a positive electrode terminal, a negative electrode terminal, an electrical resistor disposed in a conductive path between the positive electrode sheet and the positive electrode terminal, and a pressure operative type current interruption mechanism disposed in a conductive path between the negative electrode sheet and the negative electrode terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki HOJO, Masaru ISHII, Masato KAMIYA, Tetsuya KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20180131032
    Abstract: An assembled battery disclosed here includes a plurality of single cell array units each including single cells that are arranged in a lamination direction of a positive electrode and a negative electrode of an electrode body as an arrangement direction. The single cell array units are disposed parallel to each other such that arrangement directions of the single cells constituting the units are parallel to each other. Then, in the assembled battery, none of the single cells included in each of the single cell array units is directly electrically connected to adjacent single cells in the same unit, but is directly electrically connected to any one of the single cells constituting another single cell array unit through a bus bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaru ISHII, Masato KAMIYA, Takayuki HOJO, Tetsuya KANEKO
  • Patent number: 9893327
    Abstract: An electric storage apparatus includes a plurality of electric storage elements placed side by side along a predetermined direction and a restraint plate placed between two of the electric storage elements adjacent to each other in the predetermined direction. The electric storage element has a power-generating element performing charge and discharge and a case housing the power-generating element. The restraint plate has protruding portions which give a restraint force to the electric storage element and form a space between the restraint plate and the electric storage element. The power-generating element has a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a separator placed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate. The power-generating element includes a reaction area where a chemical reaction associated with the charge and discharge occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiichiro Kobayashi, Taira Saito, Masaru Ishii, Masato Kamiya
  • Patent number: 9755206
    Abstract: Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery 10 which, in cases where separators 70 each having a heat-resistant layer 74 on only one face thereof are used, has an excellent thermal stability and thus a higher safety and reliability when the battery 10 reaches a high temperature. Such a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery 10 includes a positive electrode 30 in which a positive electrode active material layer 34 is provided on both faces of a positive electrode current collector 32, a negative electrode 50 in which a negative electrode active material layer 54 is provided on both faces of a negative electrode current collector 52, at least two separators 70 each having a heat-resistant layer 74 on one face of a base material 72, and an electrolyte. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery has an electrode assembly 20 in which the positive electrode 30 and the negative electrode 50 are stacked on top of one another with the separators 70 interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki Nagai, Hiroyuki Akita, Takumi Tamaki, Katsushi Saito, Masato Kamiya, Shinji Suzuki