Patents by Inventor Takahiro Fukuoka

Takahiro Fukuoka 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: 9806323
    Abstract: A sealing body according to the present invention is sealing body for a sealed battery including conductive terminal cap, a conductive explosion-proof valve electrically connected to the terminal cap, a conductive terminal plate having an abutting surface abutting the explosion-proof valve, and an insulating plate disposed between the explosion-proof valve and the terminal plate. A welded part between the explosion-proof valve and the terminal plate is formed in the inner part of the abutting surface, and the plan-view shape of the welded part is a shape defining an enclosed region, a C-shape, or a spiral shape. A notch part surrounding the welded part is formed in the terminal plate. The breaking pressure of the welded part is higher than the breaking pressure of the notch part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Fukuoka, Shuichi Yamashita, Yuma Yamaguchi, Yuki Iida
  • Publication number: 20170271092
    Abstract: Provided is a gas permeable member including a gas permeable sheet configured to allow a gas to permeate therethrough; and a holder configured to hold the gas permeable sheet, wherein the gas permeable member is mounted in a container body having a surface on which a through hole communicating with an internal space is open by being inserted through the opening, so as to allow the gas to permeate therethrough between the internal space and the outer space of the container body via the gas permeable sheet, and the gas permeable member further includes a pressing part that contacts with an inner wall of the through hole and that presses the inner wall toward the open side at the contact position when a force is applied in a pull-out direction from the open side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyouko Ishii, Kouji Furuuchi, Yozou Yano, Takahiro Fukuoka, Yoshiko Kira
  • Patent number: 9714053
    Abstract: A front end portion of a connecting member is fixed to a front apron, and a rear end portion of the connecting member is located vertically higher than the front end portion, and is fixed to a rear portion of a cowl. Therefore, when a rear portion of the front apron is elastically deformed rearward, the front end portion of the connecting member is moved rearward. As a result, upward force is applied obliquely upward, to the front end portion of the connecting member, via the connecting member, and a so-called cancelling moment is applied to the rear portion of the cowl. Thus, rotation of the cowl is curbed, and movement of a suspension tower plate in the vertical direction is curbed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20170189895
    Abstract: Organic-inorganic composite particles that can be dispersed in a solvent and/or a resin as primary particles having an organic group on the surface of inorganic particles, the organic-inorganic composite particles having negative birefringence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiharu HATAKEYAMA, Takahiro FUKUOKA, Junichi NAGASE, Shusaku SHIBATA, Tatsuki NAGATSUKA, Saori FUKUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170133647
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hydrogen-releasing film and a hydrogen-releasing laminated film that is free from defects even when the amount of hydrogen release is increased due to a large quantity of hydrogen gas generated within the electrochemical element, or an electrochemical element is used for a long period of time. The hydrogen-releasing film containing an alloy having Pd as an essential metal, wherein the hydrogen storage quantity when measured at 50° C. and a hydrogen partial pressure of 0.01 MPa is 0.4 (H/M) or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro FUKUOKA, Yoshiko KIRA, Kyoko ISHII, Kenta HATA, Hiroshi YUKAWA, Tomonori NANBU
  • Publication number: 20170133648
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a hydrogen-releasing film, a composite hydrogen-releasing film and a hydrogen-releasing laminated film that are not prone to embrittlement in the usage environmental temperatures of electrochemical elements. The hydrogen-releasing film containing an alloy, wherein the alloy is a Pd—Au alloy, and the Au content in the Pd—Au alloy is 15 mol % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro FUKUOKA, Kyoko ISHII, Shunsuke MASAKI, Kenta HATA, Hiroshi YUKAWA, Tomonori NANBU
  • Publication number: 20170133646
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hydrogen-releasing film and a hydrogen-releasing laminated film that have high reliability as a safety valve since defects such as cracks do not occur before the internal pressure of an electrochemical element reaches a predetermined pressure. The hydrogen-releasing film contains an alloy having Pd as an essential metal, and the size of the crystal grains in the alloy is 0.028 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro FUKUOKA, Yoshiko KIRA, Kyoko ISHII, Kenta HATA, Hiroshi YUKAWA, Tomonori NANBU
  • Patent number: 9634298
    Abstract: A sealed battery including: an electrode group 4 formed by winding or stacking a positive electrode plate 1 and a negative electrode plate 2 with a separator 3 interposed between the positive electrode plate 1 and the negative electrode plate 2, and housed in a battery case 5, an opening of the battery case 5 being sealed with a sealing plate, wherein a lead 11 extending from one of the electrode plates in the electrode group 4 is laser-welded to the sealing plate 10, and a melting width of an end section 13 of a welded portion 9 between the lead 11 and the sealing plate 10 is smaller than a melting width of a center section of the welded portion 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Harima, Koji Funami, Seiji Kumazawa, Kyosuke Miyata, Takahiro Fukuoka, Seiichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20170077472
    Abstract: A gas permeable member includes: a gas permeable sheet configured to allow a gas to permeate therethrough; a holder including a gas flow hole that allows the gas to circulate therethrough and configured to hold the gas permeable sheet inside the gas flow hole; a cover mounted on the holder so as to cover an opening of the gas flow hole on a side on which the gas is discharged; and a gas discharge path formed between the cover and the holder and configured to discharge the gas discharged from the gas flow hole between the cover and the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyouko Ishii, Yozou Yano, Kouji Furuuchi, Takahiro Fukuoka, Yoshiko Kira
  • Publication number: 20170069891
    Abstract: Provided is a gas permeable member including a gas permeable sheet configured to allow a gas to permeate therethrough and a holder configured to hold the gas permeable sheet, wherein the holder includes an insertion part into which the discharge part of the container body can be inserted, and a discharge opening through which the gas discharged into the holder from the discharge part inserted in the insertion part can be discharged to the outside of the holder, and the gas permeable sheet is held so as to intersect a gas flow path formed between the discharge opening and the discharge part inserted in the insertion part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyouko Ishii, Yozou Yano, Kouji Furuuchi, Takahiro Fukuoka, Yoshiko Kira
  • Publication number: 20170069890
    Abstract: A cover for gas permeable container which is mounted on a container body having an internal space and an opening communicating with the internal space includes: a closing part configured to close the opening; and a gas permeable part configured to be permeable to a gas, thereby allowing the gas to flow between the internal space and an outer space of the container body, wherein the gas permeable part is constituted by a gas permeable member having a gas permeable sheet, and the gas permeable member is integrally formed with a material constituting the closing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyouko Ishii, Kouji Furuuchi, Yozou Yano, Takahiro Fukuoka, Yoshiko Kira
  • Publication number: 20170005306
    Abstract: A cylindrical lithium ion battery in which an electrode group formed by winding a positive electrode and a negative electrode is housed in a battery case is disclosed. A sealing plate seals an opening of the battery case. An insulating plate having a plurality of openings is provided on a side of the electrode group closer to the sealing plate. The plurality of openings include a first hole with a largest opening area, and a plurality of second holes with opening areas smaller than the opening area of the first hole. An opening ratio of the first hole is 12% or more and 40% or less; a sum of opening ratios of the second holes is 0.3% or more and 10% or less; and a total opening ratio of all the openings is 20% or more and 50% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Tomohiko YOKOYAMA, Yoshiyuki MURAOKA, Takahiro FUKUOKA, Kyosuke MIYATA
  • Patent number: 9472795
    Abstract: A cylindrical lithium ion battery in which an electrode group formed by winding a positive electrode and a negative electrode is housed in a battery case is disclosed. A sealing plate seals an opening of the battery case. An insulating plate having a plurality of openings is provided on a side of the electrode group closer to the sealing plate. The plurality of openings include a first hole with a largest opening area, and a plurality of second holes with opening areas smaller than the opening area of the first hole. An opening ratio of the first hole is 12% or more and 40% or less; a sum of opening ratios of the second holes is 0.3% or more and 10% or less; and a total opening ratio of all the openings is 20% or more and 50% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Yokoyama, Yoshiyuki Muraoka, Takahiro Fukuoka, Kyosuke Miyata
  • Publication number: 20160288839
    Abstract: A front end portion of a connecting member is fixed to a front apron, and a rear end portion of the connecting member is located vertically higher than the front end portion, and is fixed to a rear portion of a cowl. Therefore, when a rear portion of the front apron is elastically deformed rearward, the front end portion of the connecting member is moved rearward. As a result, upward force is applied obliquely upward, to the front end portion of the connecting member, via the connecting member, and a so-called cancelling moment is applied to the rear portion of the cowl. Thus, rotation of the cowl is curbed, and movement of a suspension tower plate in the vertical direction is curbed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro FUKUOKA
  • Publication number: 20160285071
    Abstract: A sealing body according to the present invention is sealing body for a sealed battery including conductive terminal cap, a conductive explosion-proof valve electrically connected to the terminal cap, a conductive terminal plate having an abutting surface abutting the explosion-proof valve, and an insulating plate disposed between the explosion-proof valve and the terminal plate. welded part between the explosion-proof valve and the terminal plate is formed in the inner part of the abutting surface, and the plan-view shape of the welded part is a shape defining an enclosed region, a C-shape, or a spiral shape. A notch part surrounding the welded part is formed in the terminal plate. The breaking pressure of the welded part is higher than the breaking pressure of the notch part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro FUKUOKA, Shuichi YAMASHITA, Yuma YAMAGUCHI, Yuki IIDA
  • Publication number: 20160222194
    Abstract: Organic-inorganic composite particles that can be dispersed in a solvent and/or a resin as primary particles having an organic group on the surface of inorganic particles, the organic-inorganic composite particles having negative birefringence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiharu HATAKEYAMA, Takahiro FUKUOKA, Junichi NAGASE, Shusaku SHIBATA, Tatsuki NAGATSUKA, Saori FUKUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160181583
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a hydrogen-releasing film and a hydrogen-releasing laminated film which are less susceptible to embrittling at an ambient operating temperature of an electrochemical element. This hydrogen-releasing film is characterized by containing a Pd—Cu alloy, and the Cu content in the Pd—Cu alloy being at least 30 mol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicants: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF NATIONAL COLLEGES OF TECHNOLOGY, JAPAN
    Inventors: Takahiro FUKUOKA, Yoshiko KIRA, Kyoko ISHII, Kenta HATA, Hiroshi YUKAWA, Tomonori NANBU
  • Publication number: 20160152397
    Abstract: Provided is a ventilation member including: a permeable member that includes a permeable sheet material that selectively allows a certain gas to pass therethrough, and a first frame body that supports a peripheral edge portion of the permeable sheet material; and a protection member that includes a protection sheet material, and a second frame body that supports a peripheral edge portion of the protection sheet material, wherein the permeable member and the protection member are integrally configured by the first frame body and the second frame body coupled to each other, and wherein the protection sheet material is disposed on at least one side of the permeable sheet material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyouko Ishii, Yozou Yano, Kouji Furuuchi, Takahiro Fukuoka, Yoshiko Kira
  • Publication number: 20150333313
    Abstract: A sealing body of a battery includes a positive electrode cap, a safety valve electrically connected to the positive electrode cap, a plurality of protrusions that are disposed annularly and intermittently on the outer peripheral side of a conductive contact part of the safety valve and that are each formed so as to be inclined toward the center of the sealing body, and an insulating member that covers at least top parts of the plurality of protrusions, side surfaces thereof on the center side, and a surface of the safety valve on the center side, that is fitted to the center side of the plurality of protrusions, whose vertical sectional shape is bent in a Z-shape. A terminal plate is fitted and fixed to the center side of the insulating member and is connected by welding to the conductive contact portion through a central opening of the insulating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Yamato, Shuichi Yamashita, Yuma Yamaguchi, Takahiro Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20150325380
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a hydrogen-releasing film and a hydrogen-releasing laminated film which are less susceptible to embrittling at an ambient operating temperature of an electrochemical element. This hydrogen-releasing film comprises a Pd—Ag alloy and is characterized in that the content of Ag in the Pd—Ag alloy is 20 mol % or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicants: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, INSTITUTE OF NATIONAL COLLEGES OF TECHNOLOGY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takahiro FUKUOKA, Yoshiko KIRA, Kyoko ISHII, Kenta HATA, Hiroshi YUKAWA, Tomonori NANBU