Patents by Inventor Seiji Maeda

Seiji Maeda 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).

  • Publication number: 20230416083
    Abstract: A hydrogen supply system supplying hydrogen, the hydrogen supply system including: a dehydrogenation reaction unit acquiring a hydrogen-containing gas by performing a dehydrogenation reaction of a raw material containing a hydride; and a control unit controlling the hydrogen supply system, in which in a case in which generation of the hydrogen-containing gas in the dehydrogenation reaction unit stops, the control unit causes the hydrogen supply unit to supply hydrogen to the dehydrogenation reaction unit, and the hydrogen supply unit supplies at least one of the hydrogen-containing gas between the dehydrogenation reaction unit and a vapor-liquid separating unit separating a dehydrogenation product from the hydrogen-containing gas and the hydrogen-containing gas separated by the vapor-liquid separating unit separating a dehydrogenation product from the hydrogen-containing gas to the dehydrogenation reaction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: ENEOS Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi SEIKE, Hideshi IKI, Seiji MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230313397
    Abstract: A hydrogen station includes a water electrolysis device that produces hydrogen gas by an electrolytic reaction consuming power supplied from a commercial power network, a compressor that compresses the hydrogen gas produced by the water electrolysis device, an accumulator that accumulates the hydrogen gas compressed by the compressor, a dispenser that fills a fuel cell vehicle with the hydrogen gas accumulated in the accumulator, and a control device that controls a power consumption amount of the water electrolysis device on the basis of a command for adjusting supply and demand of power of the commercial power network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: ENEOS Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi SEIKE, Ai MINODA, Seiji MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230135291
    Abstract: Provided is a hydrogen supply system that supplies hydrogen. The hydrogen supply system includes: a dehydrogenation reaction unit that subjects a raw material including a hydride to a dehydrogenation reaction to obtain a hydrogen-containing gas; a hydrogen purification unit that removes a dehydrogenation product from the hydrogen-containing gas obtained in the dehydrogenation reaction unit to obtain a purified gas including high-purity hydrogen; and a degassing unit that removes an inorganic gas contained in the raw material on an upstream side of the dehydrogenation reaction unit in a flow of the raw material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi SEIKE, Hideshi IKI, Seiji MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230126144
    Abstract: Provided is an operation management system configured to manage delivery of a raw material from a raw material production base where the raw material including a hydride is produced to a plurality of dehydrogenation bases where the raw material is subjected to a dehydrogenation reaction to obtain a hydrogen-containing gas. The operation management system includes: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first information on a dehydrogenation status in the plurality of dehydrogenation bases; and a delivery plan creation unit configured to create a delivery plan for delivering the raw material to the plurality of dehydrogenation bases on the basis of the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi SEIKE, Hideshi IKI, Seiji MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230111727
    Abstract: Provided is a hydrogen supply system that supplies hydrogen. The hydrogen supply system includes: a dehydrogenation reaction unit that subjects a raw material including a hydride to a dehydrogenation reaction to obtain a hydrogen-containing gas; a circulation system that circulates a reaction inactive fluid to the dehydrogenation reaction unit; and a control unit that controls the hydrogen supply system. The control unit circulates the reaction inactive fluid with the circulation system in a case where production of the hydrogen-containing gas in the dehydrogenation reaction unit is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi SEIKE, Hideshi IKI, Seiji MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230110000
    Abstract: Provided is an accommodation body that accommodates a raw material including a hydride from which a hydrogen-containing gas is capable of being obtained by subjecting the raw material to a dehydrogenation reaction. The raw material and a dehydrogenation product produced in combination with the hydrogen-containing gas by the dehydrogenation reaction are capable of being loaded together in an internal space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi SEIKE, Hideshi IKI, Seiji MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230103874
    Abstract: Provided is a hydrogen supply system that supplies hydrogen. The hydrogen supply system includes: a dehydrogenation reaction unit that subjects a raw material including a hydride to a dehydrogenation reaction to obtain a hydrogen-containing gas; a heating mechanism that heats the dehydrogenation reaction unit by using electric power; and an electric power supply unit that supplies at least one of electric power based on renewable energy and electric power based on thermal power generation equipped with carbon dioxide capture and storage to the heating mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi SEIKE, Hideshi IKI, Seiji MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220018498
    Abstract: A hydrogen gas inventory acquisition system configured to acquire an inventory of a hydrogen gas in a plurality of off-site hydrogen stations, includes a log data creation device configured to create log data obtained by recording each parameter data sampled at an individual sampling timing set to each hydrogen station of the plurality of off-site hydrogen stations in combination with identification information of each of the plurality of off-site hydrogen stations from a plurality of parameter data measured by a plurality of meters disposed in the each hydrogen station to calculate an inventory of the hydrogen gas in the each hydrogen station; an inventory calculation device configured to calculate the inventory of the hydrogen gas at an individual calculation timing set to the each hydrogen station by using the log data; and a sorting device configured to acquire inventory data of the hydrogen gas in the each hydrogen station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru ASAI, Tadashi SEIKE, Shuuichi SUZUKI, Nanako OBATA, Takayuki ITABASHI, Seiji MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20200368667
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) device includes an adsorption tower configured to introduce hydrogen gas and adsorb impurity components in the hydrogen gas by using a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) method, an adsorbent of one layer made of activated carbon or an adsorbent of two layers in which activated carbon and zeolite are stacked being disposed in the adsorption tower, the hydrogen gas containing carbon monoxide (CO) of 0.5 vol % or more and 6.0 vol % or less and methane (CH4) of 0.4 vol % or more and 10 vol % or less as the impurity components; and a densitometer configured to detect a concentration of CO in the hydrogen gas discharged from the adsorption tower, wherein the impurity components are adsorbed and removed to cause the CO concentration measured by the densitometer to fall below a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: ENEOS Corporation
    Inventors: Nanako OBATA, Tadashi SEIKE, Seiji MAEDA, Daisaku TATEISHI, Ai MINODA
  • Patent number: 10255208
    Abstract: A data transfer apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a first main memory configured to store first data to be used by a first processor; a first hash table in which a hash value and address information of the first data stored in the first main memory are registered; and a data transfer unit configured to transfer data having a hash value not registered in the first hash table from among second data stored in a second main memory from the second main memory to the first main memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Maeda, Hiroyuki Usui
  • Patent number: 10223264
    Abstract: A data access control apparatus of an embodiment includes an update region management apparatus including an update region management unit configured to record, in response to a writing request for data from an input apparatus, management information of a first address region in which the data is stored, a reading request management unit configured to record a second address specified in a reading request from a storage apparatus and a control unit configured to receive the writing request and the reading request, and control processing of the reading request and updating of the update region management unit and the reading request management unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventor: Seiji Maeda
  • Patent number: 10191846
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a cache unit includes: a first memory configured to temporarily hold data and an address of the data, a second memory configured to temporarily hold an address of particular data set in advance, and a controller configured to, when an instruction to load the data is made for a first specified address, search for a storage destination of the first specified address, output the data of the first specified address if the storage destination is the first memory, and output the particular data if the storage destination is the second memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Maeda
  • Publication number: 20180253378
    Abstract: A data access control apparatus of an embodiment includes an update region management apparatus including an update region management unit configured to record, in response to a writing request for data from an input apparatus, management information of a first address region in which the data is stored, a reading request management unit configured to record a second address specified in a reading request from a storage apparatus and a control unit configured to receive the writing request and the reading request, and control processing of the reading request and updating of the update region management unit and the reading request management unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventor: Seiji Maeda
  • Patent number: 10019375
    Abstract: A cache device has a data memory capable of storing a piece of first cache line data and a piece of second cache line data for first and second ways in compressed form, and a tag memory configured to store, for each of the pieces of cache line data, a piece of tag data including uncompressed data writing state information, an absence flag, and a compression information field. In case of modifying only part of a cache line, i.e., a partial write, a request converter converts a write request into a read request, and a read-out piece of data is decompressed and written in a write status buffer. Data may be written from the write status buffer to the data memory without being compressed, which eliminates a need for decompression and compression for every writing or modifying operation of a piece of partial data, thereby reducing latency and power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Usui, Seiji Maeda
  • Patent number: 9990288
    Abstract: An information processing device of an embodiment has an input unit, a storage unit, a read control unit, and a write control unit. A read request and a write request are input to the input unit. The storage unit stores management information. When the read request is input, the read control unit reads read data including the management information from the storage unit, references the management information, and outputs only non-zero data included in a predetermined range of a block row. The write control unit writes only non-zero data to the storage unit and updates the management information immediately before a start position of the continuous non-zero data started from a largest position in the continuous non-zero data started from a position smaller than the predetermined range, a last management information stored in the predetermined range, and the last management information in the predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Usui, Seiji Maeda
  • Patent number: 9990285
    Abstract: A data access control apparatus of an embodiment includes an update region management apparatus including an update region management unit configured to record, in response to a writing request for data from an input apparatus, management information of a first address region in which the data is stored, a reading request management unit configured to record a second address specified in a reading request from a storage apparatus and a control unit configured to receive the writing request and the reading request, and control processing of the reading request and updating of the update region management unit and the reading request management unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventor: Seiji Maeda
  • Publication number: 20180129605
    Abstract: An information processing device of an embodiment has an input unit, a storage unit, a read control unit, and a write control unit. A read request and a write request are input to the input unit. The storage unit stores management information. When the read request is input, the read control unit reads read data including the management information from the storage unit, references the management information, and outputs only non-zero data included in a predetermined range of a block row. The write control unit writes only non-zero data to the storage unit and updates the management information immediately before a start position of the continuous non-zero data started from a largest position in the continuous non-zero data started from a position smaller than the predetermined range, a last management information stored in the predetermined range, and the last management information in the predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyuki USUI, Seiji MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20180004672
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a cache unit includes: a first memory configured to temporarily hold data and an address of the data, a second memory configured to temporarily hold an address of particular data set in advance, and a controller configured to, when an instruction to load the data is made for a first specified address, search for a storage destination of the first specified address, output the data of the first specified address if the storage destination is the first memory, and output the particular data if the storage destination is the second memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Seiji MAEDA
  • Patent number: 9792214
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a cache unit includes: a first memory configured to temporarily hold data and an address of the data, a second memory configured to temporarily hold an address of particular data set in advance, and a controller configured to, when an instruction to load the data is made for a first specified address, search for a storage destination of the first specified address, output the data of the first specified address if the storage destination is the first memory, and output the particular data if the storage destination is the second memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventor: Seiji Maeda
  • Publication number: 20170255577
    Abstract: A data transfer apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a first main memory configured to store first data to be used by a first processor; a first hash table in which a hash value and address information of the first data stored in the first main memory are registered; and a data transfer unit configured to transfer data having a hash value not registered in the first hash table from among second data stored in a second main memory from the second main memory to the first main memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Seiji Maeda, Hiroyuki Usui