Patents by Inventor Norihito Togashi

Norihito Togashi 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: 9543597
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a fuel-cell power generation system includes a fuel cell that generates electricity by electrochemical reaction using fuel and an oxidizer and a resin module that includes a flow path through which fuel, air, or water flows, inner walls defining the flow path being made of resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Fuel Cell Power Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Arai, Takayuki Shinohara, Jun Udagawa, Kenzo Tonoki, Norihito Togashi
  • Patent number: 8247099
    Abstract: A gas exhaust structure of a battery includes a rupture valve formed in a battery body, and a pipe unit composed by integrating a coupling pipe and an exhaust pipe with each other. A one-side opening of the coupling pipe is coupled to the rupture valve. The exhaust pipe is coupled to an other-side opening of the coupling pipe, guides gas that spouts out from an inside of the battery body through the rupture valve and the one-side opening of the coupling pipe, and exhausts the gas to an outside. The exhaust pipe is arranged to be offset with respect to the rupture valve without allowing an extended line that passes through a center of the rupture valve and a centerline of the exhaust pipe to be perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takafumi Nakahama, Takeo Kakuchi, Nobumitsu Tada, Taihei Koyama, Norihito Togashi, Kenya Kurokawa, Tadashi Shudo, Mami Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20100081039
    Abstract: A gas exhaust structure of a battery includes a rupture valve formed in a battery body, and a pipe unit composed by integrating a coupling pipe and an exhaust pipe with each other. A one-side opening of the coupling pipe is coupled to the rupture valve. The exhaust pipe is coupled to an other-side opening of the coupling pipe, guides gas that spouts out from an inside of the battery body through the rupture valve and the one-side opening of the coupling pipe, and exhausts the gas to an outside. The exhaust pipe is arranged to be offset with respect to the rupture valve without allowing an extended line that passes through a center of the rupture valve and a centerline of the exhaust pipe to be perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takafumi NAKAHAMA, Takeo Kakuchi, Nobumitsu Tada, Taihei Koyama, Norihito Togashi, Kenya Kurokawa, Tadashi Shudo, Mami Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20090274956
    Abstract: There is provided a bus bar which electrically connects two terminals respectively provided to two batteries with each other and is formed of at least one tabular conductor, the bus bar including two connecting portions which are connected with the two terminals, and a convex portion formed into a convex shape between the two connecting portions by curving the tabular conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Shinichiro KOSUGI, Shun Egusa, Yoshinobu Makino, Masahiro Sekino, Takeo Kakuchi, Tamon Ozaki, Takafumi Nakahama, Nagaaki Muro, Yuusaku Hata, Norihito Togashi, Kenji Sato, Kenji Shigehisa, Tsutomu Kanetsuna
  • Publication number: 20090246616
    Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of batteries provided adjacent to one another. Each battery includes a case, which has a frame-shaped peripheral wall having open ends and a sidewall provided at one end of the peripheral wall, and a cell which is contained in the case and exposed at the other end of the peripheral wall. In two adjacent batteries of the batteries, the other end of a peripheral wall of one battery and one end of a peripheral wall of the other battery are opposed to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Taihei KOYAMA, Takeo Kakuchi, Yosuke Tonami, Takafumi Nakahama, Norihito Togashi, Kenji Sato
  • Publication number: 20090239137
    Abstract: A battery pack provided with a battery module including a projection, a support which holds the respective projections of a plurality of the battery modules disposed so that the projections are arranged in a straight line, and a fixing member for fixing the support to the projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Takeo Kakuchi, Taihei Koyama, Yosuke Tonami, Takafumi Nakahama, Norihito Togashi, Kenji Sato
  • Publication number: 20090233169
    Abstract: A battery module provided with a cell which contains an electrode group and a non-aqueous electrolyte and a case including a cell containing portion which contains the cell and a hollow portion which communicates with the cell containing portion and configured so that an outlet is formed in each of a pair of sidewalls thereof which face each other with the hollow portion therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Takeo KAKUCHI, Taihei KOYAMA, Yosuke TONAMI, Takafumi NAKAHAMA, Norihito TOGASHI, Kenji SATO
  • Patent number: 7243760
    Abstract: An elevator door unit includes cage doors, a cage door lock unit, hall doors, and a lock release unit. The cage doors are provided in a cage which moves in a shaft. The cage door lock unit limits and locks the opening width of the cage doors to the width not to permit passing of passengers. The hall doors are provided in a landing hall, and opened interlocking with the cage doors, when the cage stops in a range of facing to the cage doors. The lock release unit releases the cage door lock unit within the opening width by opening the cage doors by manual operation, when the cage stops in a range that the cage doors face to the hall doors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenzo Tonoki, Yoshiaki Fujita, Shin Murakami, Norihito Togashi
  • Patent number: 7178638
    Abstract: A car door apparatus of an elevator includes a pair of door panels, a door drive device, and a door-opening mechanism. The pair of door panels open and close a doorway of the car of the elevator. The door drive device drives the door panels to open and close the doorway using electric power. When the car is stopped in an emergency in which a power source for driving the elevator is shut off, the door-opening mechanism starts up the door drive device using a secondary battery to move the door panels in the opening direction by a predetermined distance respectively to make a predetermined clearance between the door panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Fujita, Kenzo Tonoki, Norihito Togashi
  • Publication number: 20060175143
    Abstract: A car door apparatus of an elevator includes a pair of door panels, a door drive device, and a door-opening mechanism. The pair of door panels open and close a doorway of the car of the elevator. The door drive device drives the door panels to open and close the doorway using electric power. When the car is stopped in an emergency in which a power source for driving the elevator is shut off, the door-opening mechanism starts up the door drive device using a secondary battery to move the door panels in the opening direction by a predetermined distance respectively to make a predetermined clearance between the door panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Fujita, Kenzo Tonoki, Norihito Togashi
  • Publication number: 20040222048
    Abstract: An elevator system comprises an air supply fan and an air exhaust fan which changes atmospheric pressure in a car according to an ascending and descending process, and a controller which rotates the air supply fan and the air exhaust fan in a normal direction or a reverse direction according to the ascending and descending process to pressurize or depressurize an inside of the car.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Sueyoshi Mizuno, Yoshiaki Fujita, Norihito Togashi
  • Publication number: 20040206582
    Abstract: An elevator door unit comprises cage doors, a cage door lock unit, hall doors, and a lock release unit. The cage doors are provided in a cage which moves in a shaft. The cage door lock unit limits and locks the opening width of the cage doors to the width not to permit passing of passengers. The hall doors are provided in a landing hall, and opened interlocking with the cage doors, when the cage stops in a range of facing to the cage doors. The lock release unit releases the cage door lock unit within the opening width by opening the cage doors by manual operation, when the cage stops in a range that the cage doors face to the hall doors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Kenzo Tonoki, Yoshiaki Fujita, Shin Murakami, Norihito Togashi
  • Patent number: 5969531
    Abstract: The inspection apparatus for inspecting performance of a structure such as stator windings of an electric rotating machine of the invention comprises a probe including a measuring element, an arm unit and a cylinder face circumferential moving apparatus. The arm unit has an arm link section supporting the probe (mainly comprising a leading end link assembly and an arm posture keeping mechanism), an arm housing section (mainly comprising a guide rail) regarding driving of this arm link section, and an arm driving mechanism. The arm driving mechanism causes the leading end link assembly to project from the guide rail at an angle toward a measuring position side of the stator windings relative to the axial direction of the rotor unit, while causing the arm link section to travel along the guide rail. The arm posture keeping mechanism is provided with a link wire and a spring, and maintains a straight arm posture of the leading end link assembly after projection from the guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shin Murakami, Tadashi Munakata, Norihito Togashi, Satoshi Suzuki, Sueyoshi Mizuno, Yoshikata Kobayashi, Satoshi Irie, Masanori Sotodate, Katsune Zaitsu, Shinji Takahashi, Hideyuki Shimada