Patents by Inventor Naoki Fujimoto
Naoki Fujimoto 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: 20250105252Abstract: A positive electrode of the present invention for an all-solid-state battery includes a positive electrode mixture that contains a positive electrode active material, a solid electrolyte, and a carbon material. The carbon material contains graphene. The content percentage of the solid electrolyte in the positive electrode mixture is 17 to 46% by mass. The content percentage of the graphene in the positive electrode mixture is 1.5 to 7% by mass. The percentage of the graphene in the carbon material is 70% by mass or more. An all-solid-state battery of the present invention includes an electrode body in which the positive electrode of the present invention for an all-solid-state battery, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode are stacked.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Akihiro Fujimoto, Kazuki Furukawa, Yuta Sato, Yusuke Kawabata
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Patent number: 12151783Abstract: A chain guide comprises a first guide member and a second guide member. The first guide member includes a first guide plate. The second guide member includes a second guide plate and an extending part. The extending part extends from the second guide plate toward the first guide plate. The extending part includes a first extending part and a second extending part. The first extending part has a first end portion, a second end portion, and a first intermediate portion. The second extending part has a third end portion, a fourth end portion, and a second intermediate portion. The first intermediate portion is spaced apart from the second intermediate portion. The first end portion is coupled to the second guide plate. The third end portion is coupled to the second guide plate. The second end portion is coupled to the fourth end portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventor: Naoki Fujimoto
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Patent number: 12151779Abstract: A shifting system for a human-powered vehicle comprises a controller. The controller is configured to receive a driving torque and a cadence of the human-powered vehicle from at least one sensor. The controller is configured to determine a permitted shift timing based on the driving torque and the cadence. The controller is further configured to control a shift mechanism to perform a gear shift during the permitted shift timing in accordance with a permitted cadence range and a first threshold of the driving torque.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventors: Naoki Fujimoto, Takeshi Ueda, Tsuyoshi Fukumori
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Patent number: 12100844Abstract: The present invention has as its technical issue to secure not only mechanical strength but also conductivity by increasing the contact area with the positive electrode active substance or positive electrode mixture while also securing corrosion resistance to alkali or an electrolytic solution when applying stainless steel foil to a current collector for a positive electrode of a secondary battery so as to deal with the increasingly higher capacities and smaller sizes and lighter weights of lithium ion secondary batteries and has as its object the provision of a current collector for a positive electrode of a secondary battery using such stainless steel foil.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Nagata, Hiroto Unno, Masahiro Fukuda, Naoki Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20240254606Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of reducing the cause of etching failure or pinholes as much as possible in an extremely thin ferrous alloy foil that has a thickness of 10-30 ?m and that is applied to a metal mask used for increasing the precision of an electronic component. In order to solve the abovementioned problem, the present invention provides a ferrous alloy foil that has a composition containing at most 0.150% of C, at most 2.00% of Si, at most 10.00% of Mn 2.00-50.00% of Ni, at most 19.00% of Cr, at most 0.20% of N, at most 0.030% of Al, at most 5.00% of Co, at most 0.0005% of Mg, at most 0.0005% of Ca, at most 0.01% of Ti, at most 0.035% of P, and at most 0.0300% of S, with the balance consisting of Fe and impurities. The amount of Al2O3 is at most 30 mass % and the amount of MgO is at most 15 mass % with respect to the total mass of inclusions having a particle diameter of 2.00 ?m or larger, and among the inclusions having a particle diameter of 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL Chemical & Material Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroto UNNO, Atsushi YASHIRO, Hiroaki OHARA, Ayaka SAWADA, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Naoya SAWAKI
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Publication number: 20240246629Abstract: A bicycle component is basically provided with a wireless communication circuit, a user interface and a controller. The wireless communication circuit is configured to wirelessly communicate with a first additional bicycle component in a first pairing state where a first pairing between the bicycle component and the first additional bicycle component is established. The user interface is configured to accept a user input. The controller is electrically connected to the wireless communication circuit and the user interface. The controller is configured to perform a reset operation to reset the first pairing in response to the user input being provided to the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Akihiro NOZAKI, Tomohiro TAKIMOTO, Katsuhiro TACHIBANA, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Kentaro TANAKA
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Publication number: 20240251460Abstract: A bicycle component is basically provided with a communicator and a controller. The communicator is configured to wirelessly receive a pairing trigger signal generated in response to a user trigger input of a trigger input device, and to wirelessly receive a first pairing demand signal generated in response to a first user input of a first input device. The controller is configured to cause the bicycle component to enter a pairing mode in response to the pairing trigger signal being received by the communicator. The controller is configured to establish wireless communication between the bicycle component and a first remote component that sent the first pairing demand signal in a state where the bicycle component is in the pairing mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Akihiro NOZAKI, Katsuhiro TACHIBANA, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Kentaro TANAKA
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Patent number: 12043345Abstract: A bicycle derailleur comprises a base member, a movable member, a motor unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the motor unit to rotate an output shaft of the motor unit at a first maximum voltage during a first shifting operation of the chain in a first shifting direction. The controller is configured to control the motor unit to rotate the output shaft of the motor unit at a second maximum voltage during a second shifting operation of the chain in a second shifting direction. The first maximum voltage is different from the second maximum voltage. The bicycle derailleur is configured to receive electricity from an electric power source configured to supply electricity to an assist driving unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Naoki Fujimoto, Katsuhiro Tachibana, Yutaro Yamada
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Patent number: 12037673Abstract: A metal mask material for OLED use reduced in amount warpage due to etching, a method for manufacturing the same, and a metal mask are provided. The metal mask material and metal mask of the present invention contain, by mass %, Ni: 35.0 to 37.0% and Co: 0.00 to 0.50%, have a balance of Fe and impurities, have thicknesses of 5.00 ?m or more and 50.00 ?m or less, and have amounts of warpage defined as maximum values in amounts of rise of four corners of a square shaped sample of the metal mask material of 100 mm sides when etching the sample from one surface until the thickness of the sample becomes ? and placing the etched sample on a surface plate of 5.0 mm or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuharu Yonemura, Naoki Fujimoto, Keita Kimura, Hiroto Unno
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Patent number: 12009206Abstract: A vapor phase epitaxial growth device comprises a reactor vessel and a wafer holder arranged within the reactor vessel. The wafer holder includes a wafer holding surface configured to hold a wafer with a wafer surface oriented substantially vertically downward. The device comprises a first material gas supply pipe configured to supply a first material gas and arranged below the wafer holding surface. The device comprises a second material gas supply pipe configured to supply a second material gas and arranged below the wafer holding surface. The device comprises a gas exhaust pipe configured to exhaust gases and arranged below the wafer holding surface. A distance between the gas exhaust pipe and an axis line passing through a center of the wafer holding surface is greater than distances between the axis line and each of the first material gas supply pipe and the second material gas supply pipe.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignees: National University Corporation Nagoya University, TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTDInventors: Shugo Nitta, Yoshio Honda, Kentaro Nagamatsu, Hiroshi Amano, Naoki Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20240170680Abstract: The steel foil for a current collector according to the present disclosure includes a base material, and a Ni plating layer formed on the surface of the base material. When an arithmetic average roughness of the surface of the Ni plating layer is defined as “Ra”, a mean distance between peaks formed on the surface of the Ni plating layer and identified by line roughness analysis is defined as “D”, and a mean radius of curvature of peaks formed on the surface of the Ni plating layer and identified by surface roughness analysis is defined as “r”, Ra×D is 0.060 to 0.400 ?m2 and r is 0.010 to 0.500 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL Chemical & Material Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuya OGURA, Tatsuo NAGATA, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Nobumasa KOSUGI
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Publication number: 20240017792Abstract: A chain guide comprises a first guide member and a second guide member. The first guide member includes a first guide plate. The second guide member includes a second guide plate and an extending part. The extending part extends from the second guide plate toward the first guide plate. The extending part includes a first extending part and a second extending part. The first extending part has a first end portion, a second end portion, and a first intermediate portion. The second extending part has a third end portion, a fourth end portion, and a second intermediate portion. The first intermediate portion is spaced apart from the second intermediate portion. The first end portion is coupled to the second guide plate. The third end portion is coupled to the second guide plate. The second end portion is coupled to the fourth end portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: SHIMANO INC.Inventor: Naoki FUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 11869767Abstract: A gallium nitride vapor phase epitaxy apparatus capable of doping magnesium is provided. The apparatus is used in vapor phase epitaxy not using organic metal as a gallium raw material. The apparatus comprises a reactor vessel and a wafer holder. The apparatus comprises a first raw material gas supply pipe configured to supply a first raw material gas containing gallium. The apparatus comprises a second raw material gas supply pipe configured to supply a second raw material gas, which contains nitrogen and configured to react with the first raw material gas. The apparatus comprises a third raw material gas supply pipe configured to supply a third raw material gas containing magnesium. The third raw material gas supply pipe is configured capable of placing a magnesium-based oxide on its supply path. The apparatus comprises a first heating unit configured to heat the magnesium-based oxide in a first temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEMInventors: Shugo Nitta, Kazuki Onishi, Yuki Amano, Naoki Fujimoto, Hiroshi Amano
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Publication number: 20230290580Abstract: A separator for aluminum electrolytic capacitors, the separator being formed of natural cellulose fibers and beaten regenerated cellulose fibers, and having excellent tear strength, short-circuit resistance and impedance characteristics. The separator for aluminum electrolytic capacitors is interposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of an aluminum electrolytic capacitor, and is formed of from 50% by mass to 90% by mass of natural cellulose fibers and from 50% by mass to 10% by mass of beaten regenerated cellulose fibers. The separator for aluminum electrolytic capacitors is configured to have a specific tear strength of from 20 to 100 mN·m2/g and a short-circuit rate of 10% or less during application of 500 V in separator dielectric breakdown testing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: NIPPON KODOSHI CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke TANAKA, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Atsushi IGAWA
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Patent number: 11745828Abstract: A front derailleur comprises a base member, a chain guide, and a linkage structure. The base member includes a mounting hole. The mounting hole has a center axis. The linkage structure comprises a first link member and a second link member. The first link member is pivotally coupled to the base member about a first pivot axis. The second link member is pivotally coupled to the base member about a second pivot axis. The first link member is pivotally coupled to the chain guide about a third pivot axis. The second link member is pivotally coupled to the chain guide about a fourth pivot axis. At least three of the first pivot axis, the second pivot axis, the third pivot axis, and the fourth pivot axis are non-parallel to and non-perpendicular to the center axis of the mounting hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventor: Naoki Fujimoto
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Patent number: 11742148Abstract: A separator for an aluminum electrolytic capacitor. The separator makes it possible to use inexpensive fibers and has excellent impedance characteristics and short-circuit resistance performance. When the separator for an aluminum electrolytic capacitor is interposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of an aluminum electrolytic capacitor and 500 V are applied during separator dielectric breakdown testing, the separator for an aluminum electrolytic capacitor has a short-circuit rate of no more than 10%.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: NIPPON KODOSHI CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke Tanaka, Naoki Fujimoto, Atsushi Igawa
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Publication number: 20230264783Abstract: A shifting system for a human-powered vehicle comprises a controller. The controller is configured to receive a driving torque and a cadence of the human-powered vehicle from at least one sensor. The controller is configured to determine a permitted shift timing based on the driving torque and the cadence. The controller is further configured to control a shift mechanism to perform a gear shift during the permitted shift timing in accordance with a permitted cadence range and a first threshold of the driving torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Naoki Fujimoto, Takeshi Ueda, Tsuyoshi Fukumori
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Patent number: 11705303Abstract: Provided is a sample loading method of loading a cooled sample into a sample exchange chamber of a charged particle beam apparatus includes: attaching the sample container in which a sample and liquid nitrogen are accommodated to the sample exchange chamber via a gate valve; evacuating a space between a liquid surface of the liquid nitrogen and the gate valve in a state in which the gate valve is closed; discharging the liquid nitrogen in the sample container after the space between the liquid surface of the liquid nitrogen and the gate valve has been evacuated; evacuating a space in the sample container after the liquid nitrogen in the sample container has been discharged; and opening the gate valve after the space in the sample container has been evacuated.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: JEOL Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyuki Naganuma, Naoki Fujimoto, Takeshi Kaneko
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Patent number: 11697474Abstract: A bicycle derailleur comprises a base member, a chain guide, a motor unit, and a linkage structure. The base member has at least one first link-pin-receiving opening. The motor unit has at least one second link-pin-receiving opening. The linkage structure comprises at least one link member and at least one link pin. The at least one link member is configured to movably couple the chain guide to the base member. The at least one link member has at least one third link-pin-receiving opening. The at least one link pin is configured to pivotally couple the at least one link member to the base member about at least one link pivot axis. One of the at least one link pin is configured to extend through the at least one first link-pin-receiving opening, the at least one second link-pin-receiving opening, and the at least one third link-pin-receiving opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventor: Naoki Fujimoto
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Patent number: 11685471Abstract: A shifting system for a human-powered vehicle comprises a controller. The controller is configured to receive a driving torque and a cadence of the human-powered vehicle from at least one sensor. The controller is configured to determine a permitted shift timing based on the driving torque and the cadence. The controller is further configured to control a shift mechanism to perform a gear shift during the permitted shift timing in accordance with a permitted cadence range and a first threshold of the driving torque.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventors: Naoki Fujimoto, Takeshi Ueda, Tsuyoshi Fukumori