Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Takahashi
Mitsuhiro Takahashi 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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Publication number: 20120290237Abstract: There is provided a battery condition detecting apparatus including a unit for detecting a secondary battery temperature, a unit for calculating a capacity holding rate of the secondary battery, a unit for detecting a secondary battery voltage, a unit for calculating a waiting time between a time point when a current becomes a predetermined current value or smaller and a time point when a voltage variation per a unit time based on a battery property indicative of a relationship among a temperature of the secondary battery, a capacity holding rate, and the waiting time in response to the temperature detected by the unit and a capacity holding rate calculated by the unit, and a unit for estimating a condition of a residual quantity of the secondary battery based on the voltage detected by the unit after the waiting time calculated by the unit elapses.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Yoshihide Majima
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Patent number: 8186987Abstract: Provided is a nano-fiber manufacturing apparatus which manufactures nano-fibers by an electrostatic explosion, and has a low possibility of explosion even when a flammable solvent is used. The nano-fiber manufacturing apparatus (101) having an ejection unit (110) which ejects solution (200) that is raw material liquid for nano-fibers (200) to a manufacturing space in which the nano-fibers (200) are manufactured by an electrostatic explosion of the solution (200), and a charging unit which charges the solution (200). The nano-fiber manufacturing apparatus (101) includes a gas supply source (103) which supplies safety gas to change an atmosphere of the manufacturing space, in which the solution (200) is ejected, into a low oxygen atmosphere, and a partition (102) which maintains the manufacturing space at a lower oxygen atmosphere than an atmosphere of an outside space of the partition (102).Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hiroto Sumida, Takahiro Kurokawa, Kazunori Ishikawa, Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Mikio Takezawa, Yoshiaki Tominaga
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Publication number: 20120130661Abstract: A battery monitoring device includes a detecting unit which detects a voltage value, a current value and a temperature of a secondary battery, a charging time computing unit which computes a charging time of the battery by using the voltage value, the current value and the temperature detected by the detecting unit, and a determining unit which determines a charging state of the battery. The charging time computing unit is configured to compute a fully charged time of the battery based on a first charging ratio, a constant-current charging ratio, and a second charging ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2011Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hitoshi HAGIMORI, Mitsuhiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 8163227Abstract: A nanofiber spinning method and device for producing a high strength and uniform yarn made of nanofibers. The device includes: a nanofiber producing unit (2) which produces nanofibers (11) by extruding polymer solution, prepared by dissolving polymeric substances in a solvent, through small holes (7) and charging the polymer solution, and by allowing the polymer solution to be stretched by an electrostatic explosion, and which allows the nanofibers to travel in a single direction; a collecting electrode unit (3) to which an electric potential different from that of the charged polymer solution is applied, and which attracts the produced nanofibers (11) while simultaneously rotating and twisting the nanofibers, and gathers them for forming a yarn (20) made of the nanofibers (11); and a collecting unit (5) which collects the yarn (20) passed through the center of the collecting electrode unit (3).Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hiroto Sumida, Takahiro Kurokawa, Kazunori Ishikawa, Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Mikio Takezawa, Yoshiaki Tominaga
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Publication number: 20120091606Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fine polymer including: generating superheated steam by a superheated steam generating unit (101); adjusting the pressure of the generated superheated steam by a pressure adjusting unit (102); receiving a polymer by a reception unit (103); heating the received polymer to a predetermined temperature by a heating unit (104); discharging the heated polymer through a first discharge port (111); and discharging the superheated steam through a second discharge port (121) at the same time as the time when the heated polymer is discharged. Here, the second discharge port (121) surrounds the first discharge port (111), and the first discharge port (111) and the second discharge port (121) face the same direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventors: Mitsuhiro TAKAHASHI, Mikio Takezawa, Yoshiaki Tominaga, Takahiro Kurokawa, Hiroto Sumida, Kazunori Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8110136Abstract: Nanofibers are formed from a polymer material by rotating a conductive rotating container having a plurality of small holes while supplying a polymer solution formed by dissolving a polymer material in a solvent into the rotating container, charging the polymer solution discharged from the small holes of the rotating container by charging means, and drawing the discharged filamentous polymer solution by centrifugal force and an electrostatic explosion resulting from evaporation of the solvent. The nanofibers from this production step are oriented and made to flow from one side toward the other side in a shaft center direction of the rotating container by a reflecting electrode and/or blowing means, or those nanofibers are deposited, to produce a polymer web. The nanofibers and the polymer web using these nanofibers can be produced uniformly by a simple configuration with good productivity.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Mikio Takezawa, Yoshiaki Tominaga, Takahiro Kurokawa, Kazunori Ishikawa, Hiroto Sumida
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Publication number: 20110119005Abstract: A battery-state monitoring apparatus includes: a secondary battery 200 supplying an electric power to portable equipment 300; and an operation processing part 50 that can detect a battery state of the secondary battery 200 in a detection mode to detect the battery state of the secondary battery 200, the operation processing part using the secondary battery 200 as a power source, wherein the battery-state monitoring apparatus includes a start-up current detecting part 31 detecting a start-up of the portable equipment 300, and wherein the operation processing part 50 waits for a detection of the battery state in a standby mode in which power consumption is smaller than the detection mode until the start-up is detected by the start-up current detecting part 31, and, on the other hand, the operation processing part 50 detects, by intermittently performing a temporary return from the standby mode to the detection mode, the battery state of the secondary battery in a return period during which the return is made.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicants: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihide Majima, Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Kazuhiko Takeno, Haruo Uemura, Yasuyuki Kanai, Takayuki Kanai
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Publication number: 20110059261Abstract: Nanofibers are manufactured while preventing explosions from occurring due to solvent evaporation. An effusing unit (201) which effuses solution (300) into a space, a first charging unit (202) which electrically charges the solution (300) by applying an electric charge to the solution (300), a guiding unit (206) which forms an air channel for guiding the manufactured nanofibers (301), a gas flow generating unit (203) which generates, inside the guiding unit (206), gas flow for transporting the nanofibers, a diffusing unit (240) which diffusing the nanofibers (301) guided by the guiding unit (206), a collecting apparatus which electrically attracts and collects the nanofibers (301), and a drawing unit (102) which draws the gas flow together with the evaporated component evaporated from the solution (300) are included.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2009Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventors: Hiroto Sumida, Takahiro Kurokawa, Kazunori Ishikawa, Yoshiaki Tominaga, Mikio Takezawa, Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Masahide Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20110014542Abstract: A carried material is carried only on a surface of nano-fibers. It includes a raw material liquid spray step that sprays raw material liquid (300), which is a raw material of nano-fibers (301), into a space, a raw material liquid electrically charging step, which applies an electric charge to the raw material liquid (300) and makes the raw material liquid electrically charged, a nano-fiber manufacturing step that manufactures the nano-fibers (301) by having the electrically'charged and sprayed raw material liquid (300) explode electrostatically, a carried material electrically charging step that electrically charges a carried material (302) carried on the nano-fibers (301) with a polarity opposite to a polarity of the electrically charged nano-fibers (301), and a mixing step that mixes the said manufactured nano-fibers (301) and the electrically charged carried material (302) in a space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Sumida, Takahiro Kurokawa, Kazunori Ishikawa, Yoshiaki Tominaga, Mikio Takezawa, Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Takatoshi Mitsushima
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Publication number: 20100187729Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fine polymer including: generating superheated steam by a superheated steam generating unit (101); adjusting the pressure of the generated superheated steam by a pressure adjusting unit (102); receiving a polymer by a reception unit (103); heating the received polymer to a predetermined temperature by a heating unit (104); discharging the heated polymer through a first discharge port (111); and discharging the superheated steam through a second discharge port (121) at the same time as the time when the heated polymer is discharged. Here, the second discharge port (121) surrounds the first discharge port (111), and the first discharge port (111) and the second discharge port (121) face the same direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2008Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventors: Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Mikio Takezawa, Yoshiaki Tominaga, Takahiro Kurokawa, Hiroto Sumida, Kazunori Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20100148405Abstract: An object of the present invention is to stabilize the properties of nanofibers produced. Solution prepared by dissolving a polymeric substance in a solvent is supplied into a conductive ejection container having a plurality of ejection holes. The ejection container is rotated and electrostatic explosions of the solution discharged through the ejection holes are caused so that nanofibers are produced. In the above method for producing nanofibers, in the case where the amount of the solution contained in the ejection container exceeds a predetermined amount, the amount of the solution exceeding the predetermined amount overflow the ejection container. The overflowed solution is collected and resupplied to the ejection container.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2008Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Hiroto Sumida, Takahiro Kurokawa, Kazunori Ishikawa, Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Mikio Takezawa, Yoshiaki Tominaga
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Publication number: 20100072674Abstract: Nanofibers are formed from a polymer material by rotating a conductive rotating container having a plurality of small holes while supplying a polymer solution formed by dissolving a polymer material in a solvent into the rotating container, charging the polymer solution discharged from the small holes of the rotating container by charging means, and drawing the discharged filamentous polymer solution by centrifugal force and an electrostatic explosion resulting from evaporation of the solvent. The nanofibers from this production step are oriented and made to flow from one side toward the other side in a shaft center direction of the rotating container by a reflecting electrode and/or blowing means, or those nanofibers are deposited, to produce a polymer web. The nanofibers and the polymer web using these nanofibers can be produced uniformly by a simple configuration with good productivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2007Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Mikio Takezawa, Yoshiaki Tominaga, Takahiro Kurokawa, Kazunori Ishikawa, Hiroto Sumida
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Publication number: 20090224437Abstract: An electrostatic spray apparatus configured such that multiple spinning units, each having multiple nozzles arranged two-dimensionally to electrostatically spray a polymer solution and a first collector disposed so as to be opposed to the multiple nozzles via an insulating sheet, are installed on collecting sections for holding a moving collecting sheet, and such that an air stream is formed orthogonal to the spray direction from the nozzles to the first collector and toward the collecting sheet inside the spinning unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2006Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Mitsuhiro Fukuoka, Mitsuhiro Takahashi
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Publication number: 20090127748Abstract: A polymer solution that is prepared by dissolving a polymeric substance in a solvent is supplied into a cylindrical container serving as a rotating container having a plurality of small holes. The cylindrical container is driven to rotate by rotation drive means, and an electric field is applied by high voltage generating means to polymeric filaments discharged from the small holes so that they become electrically charged. Then, primary and secondary electrostatic explosions associated with the centrifugal force and the evaporation of the solvent take place, drawing the polymeric filaments and producing nanofibers made of the polymeric substance. These nanofibers are deposited to produce a polymeric web. Accordingly, by employing a simple structure, nanofibers and a polymeric web utilizing them can be produced evenly with excellent productivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2007Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsuhiro Takahashi
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Publication number: 20010017182Abstract: A lead frame is conveyed on a lead frame conveying rail to a bonding paste coating stage. When the lead frame reaches the bonding paste coating stage, a cylinder containing a paste therein is lowered and the bonding paste is applied in a point-like fashion to an island portion of the lead frame on which a die is bonded. When the application of the bonding paste in a point like fashion is completed, the cylinder is lifted. An ultrasonic vibration generating device is provided directly below the lead frame at the bonding paste coating. The ultrasonic vibration generated device is operated during the application process of the bonding paste to contact into with the understand of the lead frame to apply ultrasonic vibration to it.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2000Publication date: August 30, 2001Inventor: Mitsuhiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 5781183Abstract: Colors of plural pictures are defined by using color pallet data. Predetermined digital data are stored in a memory. The color pallet data are converted to the corresponding digital data stored in the memory. The memory contents are addressed by using an offset address (relative address) established for each picture.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1997Date of Patent: July 14, 1998Assignee: Hudson Soft Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Syouichi Tahata
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Patent number: 5495564Abstract: A background image is composed of a plurality of background pictures to be superimposed on each other. Specific areas of the background pictures are displayed as a transparency so that the back side picture may be displayed through the transparent portion of the front side picture.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1993Date of Patent: February 27, 1996Assignee: Hudson Soft Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mitsuhiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 5459485Abstract: A RAM is accessed for each dot of an image to be displayed in accordance with a dot clock signal, and is accessed for each block in accordance with a system clock signal. These clock signals are selected to be used depending on the type of image data to be displayed in accordance with a microprogram.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1993Date of Patent: October 17, 1995Assignee: Hudson Soft Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahide Tomita, Mitsuhiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 4130686Abstract: In a strapping band comprising a tape-shaped core having continuous reinforcing fibers combined together with a thermosetting resin and an outer layer of thermoplastic resin covering the tape-shaped core, the thermoplastic and thermosetting resins each has polymeric units derived from the same monomer.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1977Date of Patent: December 19, 1978Assignee: Ube-Nitto Kasei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Tadao Senoo, Shigeo Minekawa, Toshiharu Hirai
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Patent number: 3969408Abstract: 2-ALKYL-5-OXIMINOCYCLOPENTANONE USEFUL AS THE RAW MATERIAL OF PERFUME AND OTHER CHEMICALS, THE CHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF WHICH MAY BE EXPRESSED BY THE GENERAL FORMULA: ##EQU1## where R is a lower alkyl group, and the method of preparing the same.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1974Date of Patent: July 13, 1976Assignee: Kobayashi Perfumery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kyomori, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Mitsuhiro Takahashi