Patents by Inventor Takanobu Hayakawa

Takanobu Hayakawa 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: 9140762
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a mobile electronic device which can accurately judge the service life of a cell even when the cell is replaced. Provided is also a method for controlling the mobile electronic device. A control block (48) includes: a voltage measurement unit (100) which is connected to a charge cell (32) and measures a voltage value of the charge cell (32); and a control unit (101) which performs control to measure a voltage of the charge cell (32) by the voltage measuring unit (100) upon each start and end of charge of the charge cell (32), stores in a storage unit (42), information on a number of charge/discharge times identified by the measured voltage value, and outputs information on the service life of the charge cell (32) according to the information on the number of charge/discharge times from an output unit (equivalent to a display (21) a speaker (45)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Takanobu Hayakawa, Akira Koyama, Masayoshi Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8392131
    Abstract: Provided are a portable electronic device which accurately judges service life of a battery even when the battery is replaced, and a method for controlling such portable electronic device. A control block (48) is provided with a voltage measuring section (100), which is connected to a rechargeable battery (32) and measures a voltage value of the rechargeable battery (32); and a control section (101), which measures the voltage of the rechargeable battery (32) by means of the voltage measuring section (100) each time recharging of the rechargeable battery (32) is started and ended, and controls to store recharge count information specified based on the measured voltage value in a storage section (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Nakajima, Akira Koyama, Takanobu Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20100280776
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a mobile electronic device which can accurately judge the service life of a cell even when the cell is replaced. Provided is also a method for controlling the mobile electronic device. A control block (48) includes: a voltage measurement unit (100) which is connected to a charge cell (32) and measures a voltage value of the charge cell (32); and a control unit (101) which performs control to measure a voltage of the charge cell (32) by the voltage measuring unit (100) upon each start and end of charge of the charge cell (32), stores in a storage unit (42), information on a number of charge/discharge times identified by the measured voltage value, and outputs information on the service life of the charge cell (32) according to the information on the number of charge/discharge times from an output unit (equivalent to a display (21) a speaker (45)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanobu Hayakawa, Akira Koyama, Masayoshi Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20100274508
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a mobile electronic device which can accurately and clearly display a cell service life and a method for controlling the device. The mobile electronic device includes: a charge cell (32); a voltage measuring unit (system IC 64) which is connected to the charge cell (32) and measures a voltage of the charge cell (32); an output unit (display 21) which outputs various information; a memory (63) which stores a weighting value for each of voltage values; and a control unit (system IC 64) which measures a voltage of the charge cell (32) by the voltage measuring unit upon each start and end of charge of the charge cell (32), extracts a weighting value corresponding to the measured voltage value from the memory (63), successively adds the extracted weighting values so as to identify information on a number of charge times, and stores the information in the memory (63).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Koyama, Takanobu Hayakawa, Masayoshi Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20100274509
    Abstract: Provided are a portable electronic device which accurately judges service life of a battery even when the battery is replaced, and a method for controlling such portable electronic device. A control block (48) is provided with a voltage measuring section (100), which is connected to a rechargeable battery (32) and measures a voltage value of the rechargeable battery (32); and a control section (101), which measures the voltage of the rechargeable battery (32) by means of the voltage measuring section (100) each time recharging of the rechargeable battery (32) is started and ended, and controls to store recharge count information specified based on the measured voltage value in a storage section (42).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayoshi Nakajima, Akira Koyama, Takanobu Hayakawa