Patents by Inventor Mitsunobu Yoshida

Mitsunobu Yoshida 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: 10338144
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a calculation apparatus includes a first calculator, a second calculator and a third calculator. The first calculator performs a regression analysis to calculate internal state parameters including a quantity of active material and an initial charged capacity of at least the first electrode. The second calculator calculates, based on the internal state parameters, an upper limit charged capacity in a predetermined range based a charged capacity at which an open circuit voltage of the rechargeable battery reaches an upper limit voltage. The third calculator changes the quantity of active material of the first electrode to a fixed value, and recalculates the initial charged capacity of the first electrode used on the fixed value and the upper limit charged capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Ena Ishii, Tomokazu Morita, Mitsunobu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10340564
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a vehicular storage battery device includes a housing, battery boxes, and a common cooling passage. The battery boxes are disposed in the housing. Each of the battery boxes houses an electric cell as a vehicle power source and includes a heat transporting part transporting heat generated in the battery box to outside of the battery box. The common cooling passage is disposed in the housing. The common cooling passage is provided with an inlet for taking in a fluid and an outlet for discharging the fluid having passed through the passage. The inlet and the outlet are open in a direction different from a traveling direction of the vehicle. The heat transporting part of each of the battery boxes is exposed to inside of the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akinobu Nishikawa, Shigeki Kono, Masaki Sato, Tatsuya Arai, Kotaro Ogawa, Shinichiro Kosugi, Masahiro Sekino, Kazuto Kuroda, Hideaki Yasui, Mai Honda, Tomonao Takamatsu, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Takafumi Nakahama, Akihiko Ujiie, Atsumi Kondo, Masahiro Kurosu
  • Publication number: 20190171865
    Abstract: A design support system for permitting a design that easily meets desired conditions regarding an entire item group is provided. An automatic estimation system acting as the design support system comprises: an item recognition section that recognizes each of the items included in the item group by individually recognizing elements making up the item; a designated condition recognition section that recognizes a designated condition from the manufacturing conditions; and a recommended-to-be-examined element recognition section that recognizes, with respect to the designated condition recognized, the element corresponding to any of the manufacturing conditions that is recommended to be examined for changes. The recommended-to-be-examined element recognition section displays a model of the item group by highlighting the element for which the manufacturing condition is recommended to be examined for changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: MISUMI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki WADA, Mitsunobu YOSHIDA, Kenji NAKAGAWA, Atsushi SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 10309763
    Abstract: A rail position measurement device that measures a three-dimensional position of a rail using a measurement vehicle includes: a position posture measurement device to measure a position and a posture of the measurement vehicle; and a laser scanner that is a sensor installed on the measurement vehicle so as to be capable of irradiating at least a web and a bottom of a side surface of the rail with laser light and used for measuring the three-dimensional position of the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shiraishi, Katsuyuki Kamei, Kenichi Sugo, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Masashi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10274545
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a calculation apparatus includes a calculator. The calculator calculates a relationship between a charge amount and a potential according to an arbitrary initial charge amount based on a relationship between a charge amount and a potential of an electrode of a secondary battery on a charge side and a relationship between a charge amount and a potential of the electrode on a discharge side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Ena Ishii, Tomokazu Morita, Mitsunobu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10224585
    Abstract: Each of the plurality of battery heat radiation units includes, a battery module, at least one heat pipe thermally connected at a first end of the heat pipe to one surface of the battery module and protruding from the battery module at a second end of the heat pipe, at least one metal heat exchanger plate thermally connected to one surface of the battery module, and at least one heat radiation portion provided at the second end of the heat pipe, the air blowing portion blows air to the heat radiation portion, and one heat radiation portion in the plurality of battery heat radiation units is misaligned with other heat radiation portions in the plurality of battery heat radiation units as viewed from the air blowing portion side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomonao Takamatsu, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Ryosuke Yagi, Norihiro Tomimatsu, Katsumi Hisano, Hideo Shimizu, Masahiro Sekino, Toshinori Uchida, Nagaaki Muro
  • Patent number: 10190924
    Abstract: A pressure-sensing device including a pressed component that has a contact surface to which pressure is applied by contact from a presser; a polymeric piezoelectric element that is disposed at an opposite side from the contact surface of the pressed component and that has a piezoelectric constant d14 of 1 pC/N or more as measured at 25° C. using a stress-charge method; a curable resin layer that includes at least one selected from the group consisting of cold-setting resins, thermosetting resins, and actinic radiation-curable resins and that is in contact with at least part of a surface of the polymeric piezoelectric element; and an electrode that is in contact with at least part of a surface of the polymeric piezoelectric element or of a surface of the curable resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tanimoto, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Shigeo Nishikawa, Masamichi Ando, Hidekazu Kano
  • Publication number: 20190003905
    Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric substrate including: an elongate conductor; and an elongate first piezoelectric material helically wound in one direction around the conductor, in which the first piezoelectric material includes an optically active helical chiral polymer (A), the lengthwise direction of the first piezoelectric material and the principal orientation direction of the helical chiral polymer (A) included in the first piezoelectric material are substantially parallel to each other, and the first piezoelectric material has an orientation degree of F in a range of from 0.5 to less than 1.0, determined from X-ray diffraction measurement by the following Formula (a): orientation degree F.=(180°??)/180°??(a) (in Formula (a), ? represents a half width of a peak derived from orientation).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsunobu YOSHIDA, Kazuhiro TANIMOTO, Katsuki ONISHI, Shigeo NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180373910
    Abstract: A three-dimensional position information generation unit generates three-dimensional position information using measured data acquired by a measurement instrument. An additional information acquisition unit acquires, as additional information, at least any one of authenticated user information, instrument information, and measurement information. An information encryption unit encrypts a set of the generated three-dimensional position information and the acquired additional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuneo SATO, Mitsunobu YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10126473
    Abstract: Provided is a display device containing a crystalline piezoelectric polymer layer having a helical chiral polymer (A) that has a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000 and has optical activity, an optical compensation layer satisfying the following expression (1), and a linear polarizer. In expression (1), Xc represents a degree of crystallinity (%) of the crystalline piezoelectric polymer layer obtained by a DSC method; MORc represents a standardized molecular orientation of the crystalline piezoelectric polymer layer measured by a microwave transmission molecular orientation meter when a reference thickness is 50 ?m; d represents a thickness (?m) of the crystalline piezoelectric polymer layer; and Rth represents a phase difference (nm) in a thickness direction of the optical compensation layer at a wavelength of 550 nm. |0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tanimoto, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Shigeo Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20180269377
    Abstract: A layered body including: a crystalline polymeric piezoelectric body having a standardized molecular orientation MORc of from 2.0 to 10.0 measured by a microwave transmission-type molecular orientation meter based on a reference thickness of 50 ?m; and a surface layer which is disposed so that at least a part of the surface layer contacts the crystalline polymeric piezoelectric body, which has a surface resistivity of from 1×106 ?/sq to 1×1012 ?/sq, and which contains an electroconductive material (A) and a polymer (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro TANIMOTO, Mitsunobu YOSHIDA, Shigeo NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10031606
    Abstract: The invention provides a pressure detecting device containing a pressurized member having a contact surface that is subjected to pressure due to contact with a pressurizing means; and a piezoelectric member that is arranged facing the pressurized member and that includes a polymeric piezoelectric material having a piezoelectric constant d14 of 1 pm/V or more as measured by a displacement method at 25° C., and a ratio IEb/IEa between a product IEb of a cross-sectional secondary moment Ib and a Young's modulus Eb of the pressurized member, and a product IEa of a cross-sectional secondary moment Ia and a Young's modulus Ea of the piezoelectric member, is in a range of from 102 to 1010.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignees: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsunobu Yoshida, Kazuhiro Tanimoto, Shigeo Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 9966526
    Abstract: A piezoelectric device is provided that includes a polymer piezoelectric material having at least one film-like layer; a first electric conductor provided on a principal surface of the polymer piezoelectric material; a second electric conductor provided on a surface of the polymer piezoelectric material at an opposite side from the first electric conductor on the principal surface; a first end surface electric conductor provided on one end surface in a width direction of the polymer piezoelectric material and disposed so as to be conductively connected to the first electric conductor and so as not to be in contact with the second electric conductor; and a second end surface electric conductor provided on any other end surface that is not the one end surface of the polymer piezoelectric material and disposed in a defined manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC., MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tanimoto, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Masaki Shimizu, Shigeo Nishikawa, Yoshiro Tajitsu
  • Patent number: 9905750
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing a polymeric piezoelectric material including a first step of heating a sheet in an amorphous state containing the helical chiral polymer to obtain a pre-crystallized sheet, and a second step of stretching the pre-crystallized sheet in biaxial directions, wherein the polymeric piezoelectric material includes a helical chiral polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000 and having optical activity, wherein a crystallinity of the material measured by a DSC method is from 20% to 80%, and a product of a standardized molecular orientation MORc measured by a microwave transmission type molecular orientation meter based on a reference thickness of 50 ?m and the crystallinity is from 25 to 250.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Mitsunobu Yoshida, Shigeo Nishikawa, Masaki Shimizu, Hiroshi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20170282820
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a vehicle-use storage battery system includes a storage battery, a main circuit, a circuit breaker, a storage battery management unit, a first determiner, and a second determiner. The main circuit is electrically connected to the storage battery. The circuit breaker is disposed between the storage battery and the main circuit to make or break the electrical connection therebetween. The storage battery management unit manages an operating state of the storage battery. The first determiner determines whether to break the electrical connection between the storage battery and the main circuit by means of the circuit breaker. The second determiner determines, on the basis of at least one of operating states of the storage battery management unit, the first determiner, and the circuit breaker, whether to break the electrical connection between the storage battery and the main circuit by means of the circuit breaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Atsumi KONDO, Kazuto KURODA, Tatsuya ARAI, Masaki SATO, Akinobu NISHIKAWA, Shinichiro KOSUGI, Masahiro SEKINO, Hideaki YASUI, Mai HONDA, Masahiro KUROSU, Kotaro OGAWA, Tomonao TAKAMATSU, Mitsunobu YOSHIDA, Takafumi NAKAHAMA, Akihiko UJIIE
  • Publication number: 20170270124
    Abstract: A data management device has a knowledge graph data generator to generate knowledge graph data by relating spatial data concerning space within a building in which a maintenance facility is installed, facility data concerning the maintenance facility, and measurement data obtained by measuring an operational status of the maintenance facility in accordance with ontology transformation rules, a search information input unit to input a search keyword including a character string representing an incident, a data search unit to search the knowledge graph data based on the search keyword, and a search result output unit to relate and output the spatial data, facility data, and measurement data matching with the search keyword, based on search results obtained by the data search unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Shinichi NAGANO, Mamiko Abe, Eiichi Sunagawa, Mitsunobu Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20170270479
    Abstract: An automatic estimation method comprises a first step (STEP 01) of introducing a shape data on an item, a second step (STEP 02) of recognizing a shape of the item on the basis of the shape data, a third step (STEP 06) of acquiring a manufacturing condition which can be selected on the basis of the recognized shape, a fourth step (STEP 08) of displaying the manufacturing condition and corresponding price and delivery time, and a fifth step (STEP 09, STEP 10) of updating the displayed price and delivery time depending on change of the manufacturing condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Takaaki WADA, Mitsunobu YOSHIDA, Kenji NAKAGAWA, Atsushi SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20170263985
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a vehicular storage battery device includes a housing, battery boxes, and a common cooling passage. The battery boxes are disposed in the housing. Each of the battery boxes houses an electric cell as a vehicle power source and includes a heat transporting part transporting heat generated in the battery box to outside of the battery box. The common cooling passage is disposed in the housing. The common cooling passage is provided with an inlet for taking in a fluid and an outlet for discharging the fluid having passed through the passage. The inlet and the outlet are open in a direction different from a traveling direction of the vehicle. The heat transporting part of each of the battery boxes is exposed to inside of the passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akinobu NISHIKAWA, Shigeki KONO, Masaki SATO, Tatsuya ARAI, Kotaro OGAWA, Shinichiro KOSUGI, Masahiro SEKINO, Kazuto KURODA, Hideaki YASUI, Mai HONDA, Tomonao TAKAMATSU, Mitsunobu YOSHIDA, Takafumi NAKAHAMA, Akihiko UJIIE, Atsumi KONDO, Masahiro KUROSU
  • Publication number: 20170250336
    Abstract: A polymeric piezoelectric material, comprising at least two regions: a region H, which is an oriented polymeric piezoelectric region that includes an optically active helical chiral polymer (A) having a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000, the region H having a crystallinity of from 20% to 80% and having a standardized molecular orientation-of from 3.5 to 15.0; and a region L, which is a low orientation region that includes the optically active helical chiral polymer (A) having a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000, the region L being present near at least part of an end portion of the region H, having an average width when viewed from a normal direction with respect to the principal plane of the region H of from 10 ?m to 300 ?m, and having a retardation is 100 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro TANIMOTO, Mitsunobu YOSHIDA, Shigeo NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9740545
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an equipment evaluation system includes: an estimator, an acquirer, a hardware storage and an evaluator. The estimator is implemented by the computer, to estimate a probability density distribution of a parameter representing performance of subject equipment based on measurement data of the subject equipment, the measurement data resulting from a measurement performed at each of a plurality of times. The acquirer acquires a use pattern of the subject equipment. The hardware storage stores the use pattern in association with the probability density distribution for the subject equipment. The evaluator identifies a use pattern of the subject equipment, the use pattern being similar to a use pattern of a first equipment that is different from the subject equipment, and evaluates future performance degradation of the first equipment using probability density distributions corresponding to the identified use pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hideyuki Aisu, Toshimitsu Kumazawa, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Mikito Iwamasa