Patents by Inventor Noboru Usami

Noboru Usami 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: 9847540
    Abstract: A fuel cell unit has a structure that enables the maximum use of a cell monitor in the height direction (vertical direction). In order to achieve this, the fuel cell unit comprises a fuel cell stack (3) including a cell stack body in which unit cells are stacked; and a cell monitor (6) for monitoring a voltage of the unit cells, wherein the cell monitor (6) is arranged so as to be inclined relative to a vertical direction. The cell monitor is inclined by providing a part of the cell monitor in the vicinity of a heat-generating part in a fuel cell on an opposite side of the heat-generating part relative to a central part in the vertical direction of the cell monitor and providing a part of the cell monitor in an area other than the heat-generating part in the fuel cell on a heat-generating part side relative to the central part in the vertical direction of the cell monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsutomu Shirakawa, Hiroyuki Imanishi, Noboru Usami
  • Publication number: 20160133968
    Abstract: A fuel cell unit has a structure that enables the maximum use of a cell monitor in the height direction (vertical direction), In order to achieve this, the fuel cell unit comprises a fuel cell stack (3) including a cell stack body in which unit cells are stacked; and a cell monitor (6) for monitoring a voltage of the unit cells, wherein the cell monitor (6) is arranged so as to be inclined relative to a vertical direction. The cell monitor is inclined by providing a part of the cell monitor in the vicinity of a heat-generating part in a fuel cell on an opposite side of the heat-generating part relative to a central part in the vertical direction of the cell monitor and providing a part of the cell monitor in an area other than the heat-generating part in the fuel cell on a heat-generating part side relative to the central part in the vertical direction of the cell monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsutomu SHIRAKAWA, Hiroyuki IMANISHI, Noboru USAMI
  • Patent number: 3944931
    Abstract: A device for frequency-converting multi-channel broadcast signals consists of a local oscillator for generating at a time a single oscillation frequency, a mixer and a frequency discriminator for automatically controlling the oscillation frequency of the local oscillator. The frequency discriminator delivers a dc zero voltage when the frequencies of plural signals applied to the discriminator coincide with those of the carrier waves of the frequency-converted multi-channel broadcast signals. If the frequencies of the plural signals applied to the discriminator differ from those of the carrier waves, the discriminator delivers a dc output voltage whose amplitude depends upon the difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1976
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Usami, Chuichi Sodeyama, Hirozi Shoyama