Patents by Inventor Norihisa Kobayashi
Norihisa Kobayashi 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: 20170113531Abstract: A stack case includes a lower surface and at least one through hole. The lower surface is at a bottom of the stack case in a vehicle height direction of the vehicle. The at least one through hole opens to an inside of the stack case. An outer opening opens to an outside of a vehicle. The at least one vent pipe has one end and another end opposite to the one end along a length of the at least one vent pipe. The one end is connected to the at least one through hole provided in the stack case. The another end is connected to the outer opening in the vehicle body. The drain hole is provided in the lower surface of the stack case to be open to an inside of a motor compartment. The drain hole is located below the outer opening in the vehicle height direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki IMAMURA, Choichi ISHIKAWA, Norihisa KOBAYASHI, Toshinobu MITO, Mitsunori MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 9599873Abstract: A light control method for a light control element which can be used even as a transmission-type one, has a high-quality mirror state enabling a high contrast ratio, and enables a display in multiple colors. To this end, in this light control method for a light control element, with respect to a light control element containing a pair of substrates, a pair of electrodes formed on opposed surfaces of the pair of substrates, and an electrolyte layer sandwiched between the pair of electrodes and including an electrochromic material containing silver and a mediator, the applied voltage to be applied between the pair of electrodes is changed in one light control period.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITYInventors: Norihisa Kobayashi, Kazuki Nakamura, Ayako Tsuboi
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Patent number: 9588394Abstract: An optical apparatus includes first and second substrates disposed to oppose each other, the first substrate having a first electrode provided on a surface of the first substrate nearer to the second substrate, and the second substrate having a second electrode provided on a surface of the second substrate nearer to the first substrate, and an electrolyte layer sandwiched between the first and the second substrates, and containing electro-deposition material including silver, wherein when potential of the first electrode is used as reference, a first voltage of positive polarity is applied in a first period to the second electrode, and a second voltage of positive polarity lower than the first voltage is applied in a second period after the first period to the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto Fukushima, Yasuo Toko, Norihisa Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20160230856Abstract: Construction is achieved whereby durability is maintained while size and weight are reduced. Installation plate sections are provided on the top and bottom end sections of a pair of support columns. Bolts are inserted through through-holes that penetrate through the installation plate sections in the axial direction; the bolts are then screwed into screw holes provided in the axial direction of anchor sections of an actuator body and a connecting plate, and the bolts are further tightened, whereby the support columns are securely joined and fastened to the actuator body and the connecting plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: Nagao Dohi, Hiroki Nishii, Norihisa Kobayashi, Tomohiro Inoue, Masahiro Kita
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Patent number: 9399213Abstract: Provided is a practical method for dry-separating arsenic compounds from a used NOx removal catalyst contaminated with arsenic. The method for removing arsenic compounds comprises heat-treating a NOx removal catalyst contaminated with arsenic compounds at a predetermined temperature in a reducing atmosphere while exposing the catalyst to hydrocarbon compounds (except CH4) or oxygen-containing carbon compound.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Masashi Kiyosawa, Norihisa Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20160054632Abstract: An electrodeposition element is provided which includes a first substrate including a first member and an electrode arranged above the first member, a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate and including an electrode, and an electrolyte layer arranged between the electrodes of the first substrate and the second substrate, and including an electrodeposition material that contains silver. When a voltage is applied between the electrodes of the first substrate and the second substrate such that the first substrate side is negative and the second substrate side is positive, a reflective surface made of a silver thin film and reflecting light, which is incident from a direction normal to the first and second substrates, in a direction not parallel to the incident direction of the light is formed above the electrode of the first substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY, STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuo TOKO, Manabu YATABE, Norihisa KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20160026054Abstract: Provided is a light control method for a light control element which can be used even as a transmission-type one, has a high-quality mirror state enabling a high contrast ratio, and enables display in multiple colors. To this end, in this light control method for a light control element, with respect to a light control element comprising a pair of substrates, a pair of electrodes formed on opposed surfaces of the pair of substrates, and an electrolyte layer sandwiched between the pair of electrodes and including an electrochromic material containing silver and a mediator, the applied voltage to be applied between the pair of electrodes is changed in one light control period.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2013Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Norihisa KOBAYASHI, Kazuki NAKAMURA, Ayako TSUBOI
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Patent number: 9188826Abstract: Provided are a light-adjusting element and a product containing the same. The light-adjusting element usable even with a transmission display device, and has a high-quality mirror state capable of a high contrast ratio. A light-adjusting element, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is characterized by including: a pair of substrates; a pair of electrodes formed on opposing surfaces of the pair of substrates, with one electrode being a transparent electrode that has nanometer-scale depressions and protrusions; and en electrolyte layer, interposed between the pair of electrodes, which has electrolyte as well as a mediator and an electrochromic material that has silver. Furthermore, a device according to one embodiment of the present invention at least partially includes the light-adjusting element.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITYInventors: Norihisa Kobayashi, Kazuki Nakamura, Shingo Araki
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Publication number: 20150306593Abstract: Provided is a practical method for dry-separating arsenic compounds from a used NOx removal catalyst contaminated with arsenic. The method for removing arsenic compounds comprises heat-treating a NOx removal catalyst contaminated with arsenic compounds at a predetermined temperature in a reducing atmosphere while exposing the catalyst to hydrocarbon compounds (except CH4) or oxygen-containing carbon compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Masashi Kiyosawa, Norihisa Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9114391Abstract: Provided is a practical method for dry-separating arsenic compounds from a used NOx removal catalyst contaminated with arsenic. The method for removing arsenic compounds comprises heat-treating a NOx removal catalyst contaminated with arsenic compounds at a predetermined temperature in a reducing atmosphere while exposing the catalyst to hydrocarbon compounds (except CH4) or oxygen-containing carbon compound.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Masashi Kiyosawa, Norihisa Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20150117041Abstract: An optical apparatus includes first and second substrates disposed to oppose each other, the first substrate having a first electrode provided on a surface of the first substrate nearer to the second substrate, and the second substrate having a second electrode provided on a surface of the second substrate nearer to the first substrate, and an electrolyte layer sandwiched between the first and the second substrates, and containing electro-deposition material including silver, wherein when potential of the first electrode is used as reference, a first voltage of positive polarity is applied in a first period to the second electrode, and a second voltage of positive polarity lower than the first voltage is applied in a second period after the first period to the second electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY, STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto FUKUSHIMA, Yasuo TOKO, Norihisa KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 8920535Abstract: A separation and recovery method that enables titanium and tungsten to be separated and recovered from a used DeNOx catalyst in high yield. Specifically, a method of separating and recovering metal elements that includes a first heating step of heating a DeNOx catalyst containing titanium, tungsten, vanadium and iron in a chlorine atmosphere, thereby removing the vanadium and the iron from the DeNOx catalyst, and a second heating step, performed after the first heating step, of heating the DeNOx catalyst in a chlorine atmosphere while the catalyst is exposed to a gas of a hydrocarbon compound (excluding CH4) or an oxygen-containing carbon compound, thereby volatilizing the tungsten and the titanium from the DeNOx catalyst, and recovering the tungsten and the titanium from the DeNOx catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., National University Corporation Akita UniversityInventors: Masashi Kiyosawa, Katsumi Nochi, Norihisa Kobayashi, Kozo Iida, Katsuyasu Sugawara, Yuuki Mochizuki
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Patent number: 8846260Abstract: Coolant supply passages and coolant discharge passages, for example, two respectively thereof, are disposed on upper and lower side portions of a first end plate of a fuel cell stack. Grooves are formed on a surface of the first end plate for establishing communication between each of the coolant supply passages and the coolant discharge passages. Air, which is introduced upwardly of the coolant discharge passages, is discharged to the coolant supply passages.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideharu Naito, Norihisa Kobayashi, Ryoichi Yoshitomi, Masaaki Sakano, Keisuke Suda, Yasuhiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20140218781Abstract: Provided are a light-adjusting element and a product containing the same. The light-adjusting element usable even with a transmission display device, and has a high-quality mirror state capable of a high contrast ratio. A light-adjusting element, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is characterized by including: a pair of substrates; a pair of electrodes formed on opposing surfaces of the pair of substrates, with one electrode being a transparent electrode that has nanometer-scale depressions and protrusions; and en electrolyte layer, interposed between the pair of electrodes, which has electrolyte as well as a mediator and an electrochromic material that has silver. Furthermore, a device according to one embodiment of the present invention at least partially includes the light-adjusting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: National University Corporation Chiba UniversityInventors: Norihisa Kobayashi, Kazuki Nakamura, Shingo Araki
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Publication number: 20140018231Abstract: Provided is a practical method for dry-separating arsenic compounds from a used NOx removal catalyst contaminated with arsenic. The method for removing arsenic compounds comprises heat-treating a NOx removal catalyst contaminated with arsenic compounds at a predetermined temperature in a reducing atmosphere while exposing the catalyst to hydrocarbon compounds (except CH4) or oxygen-containing carbon compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masashi Kiyosawa, Norihisa Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8617756Abstract: A coolant supply manifold and a coolant discharge manifold are provided on a first end plate of a fuel cell stack. The coolant supply manifold includes a pair of supply manifold sections and a supply coupling section coupling upper portions of the pair of supply manifold sections together. The supply manifold sections are connected to a pair of coolant supply passages of a first end plate. The width of the coupling section is smaller than the width of the pair of supply manifold sections in a longitudinal direction along the long sides of the first end plate. A supply pipe extending to the outside of the first end plate is formed integrally with one of the supply manifold sections.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norihisa Kobayashi, Masaharu Suzuki
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Publication number: 20130283975Abstract: A separation and recovery method that enables titanium and tungsten to be separated and recovered from a used DeNOx catalyst in high yield. Specifically, a method of separating and recovering metal elements that includes a first heating step of heating a DeNOx catalyst containing titanium, tungsten, vanadium and iron in a chlorine atmosphere, thereby removing the vanadium and the iron from the DeNOx catalyst, and a second heating step, performed after the first heating step, of heating the DeNOx catalyst in a chlorine atmosphere while the catalyst is exposed to a gas of a hydrocarbon compound (excluding CH4) or an oxygen-containing carbon compound, thereby volatilizing the tungsten and the titanium from the DeNOx catalyst, and recovering the tungsten and the titanium from the DeNOx catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: Masashi Kiyosawa, Katsumi Nochi, Norihisa Kobayashi, Kozo Iida, Katsuyasu Sugawara, Yuuki Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20130141916Abstract: Disclosed is a high quality display device which avoids complicated element structure, and does not unnecessarily reduce portability. The display device comprises: a pair of substrates which are disposed facing each other, and on each of which electrodes are formed; and a material layer which is sandwiched between the pair of substrates. The material layer contains: a coloring material which changes color upon the application of a voltage; and a light-emitting material which emits light upon photoexcitation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITYInventors: Norihisa Kobayashi, Kazuki Nakamura, Yuichi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20120189367Abstract: In a mechanism for conveying a carriage by a belt wound over a drive pulley and a driven pulley, the tension of the belt weakens and pull out occurs between the belt and the carriage. Provided is a printer in which a belt is wound over a drive pulley and a driven pulley and a carriage attached to the belt is operated, wherein the driven pulley is provided with a movement stopper for stopping the movement of the carriage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Norihisa KOBAYASHI, Kosaku NOBUTA
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Patent number: 8167760Abstract: In this toroidal continuously variable transmission unit, a carrier 100 and a disc 2 is brought into direct friction contact with each other, and power transmission between the carrier 100 and the disc 2 is implemented by friction force. Because of this, the necessity of machining a gear or claw on the disc or carrier, which has conventionally be done, is obviated, whereby a manufacturing process can be shortened and manufacturing costs can largely be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Nishii, Eiji Inoue, Norihisa Kobayashi, Toshiro Toyoda