Patents by Inventor Takashi Iijima

Takashi Iijima 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: 20180123154
    Abstract: A support carbon material able to support a catalyst metal in a highly dispersed state and resistant to the flooding phenomenon and with little voltage drop even at the time of large current power generation under high humidity conditions and a catalyst using the same, specifically, a support carbon material for solid polymer type fuel cell use comprised of a porous carbon material which has a pore volume and a pore area found by the BJH analysis method from a nitrogen adsorption isotherm in an adsorption process of a radius 2 nm to 50 nm pore volume VA of 1 ml/g to 5 ml/g and a radius 2 nm to 50 nm pore area S2-50 of 300 m2/g to 1500 m2/g and a ratio (V5-25/VA) of radius 5 nm to 25 nm pore volume V5-25 (ml/g) to said pore volume VA (ml/g) of 0.4 to 0.7 and a ratio (V2-5/VA) of radius 2 nm to 5 nm pore volume V2-5 (ml/g) to the same of 0.2 to 0.5 and a catalyst using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicants: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Chemical Co., Lid.
    Inventors: Shinya FURUKAWA, Takashi IIJIMA, Masataka HIYOSHI, Katsumasa MATSUMOTO, Noriyuki NEGI, Hiroyuki HAYASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20180069247
    Abstract: A carbon material for catalyst carrier use excellent in both durability and power generation performance under operating conditions at the time of low humidity, in particular both durability of a carbon material for catalyst carrier use with respect to repeated load fluctuations due to startup and shutdown and power generation performance under operating conditions at the time of low humidity, and a catalyst for solid-polymer fuel cell use prepared using the same etc. are provided. To solve this technical problem, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a carbon material for catalyst carrier use satisfying the following (A) to (D): (A) an oxygen content OICP of 0.1 to 3.0 mass % contained in the carbon material for catalyst carrier use; (B) a residual amount of oxygen O1200° C. of 0.1 to 1.5 mass % remaining after heat treatment in an inert gas (or vacuum) atmosphere at 1200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi IIJIMA, Noriyuki NEGI, Masataka HIYOSHI, Katsumasa MATSUMOTO, Shinya FURUKAWA, Kenichiro TADOKORO, Takumi NISHIMOTO, Hiroyuki HAYASHIDA, Takumi KOUNO, Kazuhiko MIZUUCHI
  • Patent number: 9900413
    Abstract: An housing of electronic device, includes a resin molded housing with an opening there through, a sheet metal positioned within the opening and a water proofing tape positioned on a side of the sheet metal, wherein a periphery of the sheet metal and an entirety of the water proofing tape are encased within the resin molded housing so as to seal the opening in a water tight manner, and, a front central portion of the sheet metal and a rear central portion of the sheet metal are exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Takashi Iijima
  • Patent number: 9886061
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a housing including a stepped portion on an outer surface; a cover configured to cover at least a part of the outer surface; a lock member movable between a lock position at which the cover is locked with respect to the housing and an unlock position at which the cover is unlocked with respect to the housing; and an operation member, disposed at the stepped portion, configured to move the lock member between the lock position and the unlock position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Takashi Iijima
  • Patent number: 9870883
    Abstract: An input device includes a housing which has an opening, button parts which are exposed from the opening and which are pressed down in a first direction, a support component which has a support part to support the button parts, a first surface to face the housing, a second surface provided opposite to the first surface, and fixation parts provided at a first distance from the support part and fixed to the housing on a side of the first surface, a substrate which is provided so as to face the second surface of the support component, and a component which is inserted into the substrate in the first direction and which presses a specified area of the second surface, positioned at a second distance shorter than the first distance from the support part, toward the housing in a direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Abe, Masaki Ishikawa, Takashi Iijima
  • Patent number: 9851754
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a case; a base member that includes an attachment hole and a positioning hole, and that is provided inside the case; a switch that is fixed to the base member; a button member that includes an operation button that moves toward and away from the switch; an anchor member that is provided at the button member, and that includes an insertion tab that is inserted into the attachment hole and a claw that projects out from a leading end side of the insertion tab and that is hooked onto an edge portion of the attachment hole; and a positioning protrusion that is provided at the button member, and that is inserted into the positioning hole, the positioning hole being formed in an elongated hole shape extending along a projection direction of the claw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Abe, Takashi Iijima, Shinya Matsushita
  • Patent number: 9786925
    Abstract: A fuel cell comprised of a proton conductive electrolyte film sandwiched between a pair of catalyst layers, wherein the catalyst layer of at least the cathode is comprised of a mixture including a catalyst ingredient, an electrolytic material, and a carbon material, the carbon material is comprised of a catalyst-carrying carbon material carrying the catalyst ingredient and a gas-diffusing carbon material not carrying the catalyst ingredient, and the catalyst-carrying carbon material has an amount of adsorption of water vapor at 25° C. and a relative humidity of 90% of 50 ml/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Tadokoro, Takashi Iijima, Hiroshi Kajiro, Hideaki Sawada, Yoichi Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 9735433
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel cell exhibiting a high performance regardless of the humidification conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Tadokoro, Kazumi Mizukami, Takashi Iijima, Hideaki Sawada, Tomohiro Hada
  • Patent number: 9718688
    Abstract: A thin-plate-like flexible carbon plate having flexibility, excellent compressive strength, and even electrical conductivity is provided. A carbon plate 1 is a carbon plate having a thickness of 0.05 to 2.0 mm obtained by compression molding of a mixture of (a) 97 to 80 wt % carbon powder composed of 95 to 30 wt % expanded graphite powder and 5 to 70 wt % graphite powder, and (b) 3 to 20 wt % phenolic resin that do not contain ammonia, wherein a compressive strength is 3 MPa or more, a bending strain is 0.6% or more without a crack, and a contact resistance is 6 m?·cm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Materials Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Tsushima, Shinkichi Murakami, Jun Nakatsuka, Kenichi Uemura, Takashi Iijima
  • Publication number: 20170194652
    Abstract: Provided are: a supporting carbon material for a solid polymer fuel cell, said supporting carbon material making it possible to produce a high-performance solid polymer fuel cell in which there is little decrease in power generation performance as a result of repeated battery load fluctuation that inevitably occurs during operation of the solid polymer fuel cell; and a catalyst metal particle-supporting carbon material. The present invention relates to: a supporting carbon material for a solid polymer fuel cell, said supporting carbon material being a porous carbon material in which the specific surface area of mesopores having a pore diameter of 2-50 nm according to nitrogen adsorption measurement is 600-1,600 m2/g, the relative intensity ratio (IG?/IG) of the peak intensity (IG?) of the G-band 2,650-2,700 cm?1 range to the peak intensity (IG) of the G-band 1,550-1,650 cm?1 range in the Raman spectrum is 0.8-2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi IIJIMA, Masataka HIYOSHI, Katsumasa MATSUMOTO, Hiroyuki HAYASHIDA, Kazuhiko MIZUUCHI, Takumi KOUNO, Masakazu HIGUCHI, Masakazu KATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170053755
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a case; a base member that includes an attachment hole and a positioning hole, and that is provided inside the case; a switch that is fixed to the base member; a button member that includes an operation button that moves toward and away from the switch; an anchor member that is provided at the button member, and that includes an insertion tab that is inserted into the attachment hole and a claw that projects out from a leading end side of the insertion tab and that is hooked onto an edge portion of the attachment hole; and a positioning protrusion that is provided at the button member, and that is inserted into the positioning hole, the positioning hole being formed in an elongated hole shape extending along a projection direction of the claw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Takashi Abe, Takashi Iijima, Shinya Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20170052569
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a housing including a stepped portion on an outer surface; a cover configured to cover at least a part of the outer surface; a lock member movable between a lock position at which the cover is locked with respect to the housing and an unlock position at which the cover is unlocked with respect to the housing; and an operation member, disposed at the stepped portion, configured to move the lock member between the lock position and the unlock position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: TAKASHI IIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170052567
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a display unit; a circuit board; a power supply cable coupled to the circuit board; a coupling cable including an overlapping portion that overlaps with the power supply cable as viewed in a thicknesswise direction of the circuit board and coupled to the display unit; and a projection projecting from the circuit board and disposed between the power supply cable and the overlapping portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: TAKASHI ABE, TAKASHI IIJIMA, Shinya Matsushita
  • Patent number: 9543501
    Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric material excellent in piezoelectricity. The piezoelectric material includes a perovskite-type complex oxide represented by the following General Formula (1). A(ZnxTi(1-x))yM(1-y)O3??(1) wherein A represents at least one kind of element containing at least a Bi element and selected from a trivalent metal element; M represents at least one kind of element of Fe, Al, Sc, Mn, Y, Ga, and Yb; x represents a numerical value satisfying 0.4?x?0.6; and y represents a numerical value satisfying 0.1?y?0.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Kyoto University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Sophia University, University of Yamanashi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science Educational Foundation Administrative Organization
    Inventors: Makoto Kubota, Kaoru Miura, Toshihiro Ifuku, Jumpei Hayashi, Masaki Azuma, Olga Alexandrovna Smirnova, Hiroshi Funakubo, Hiroshi Uchida, Nobuhiro Kumada, Satoshi Wada, Takashi Iijima, Soichiro Okamura
  • Publication number: 20160336600
    Abstract: A composite metal foil in which the surface of a titanium foil or a titanium alloy foil is coated with an electrically conductive layer; in the composite metal foil, an electrically conductive film in which TiO is dispersed in an oxide film and the TiO composition ratio [ITiO/(ITi+ITiO)] found from the maximum intensity of the diffraction peaks of TiO (ITiO) and the maximum intensity of the diffraction peaks of metal titanium (ITi) out of the X-ray diffraction peaks of the surface of the titanium foil or the titanium alloy foil is 0.5% or more is formed on the surface of the titanium foil or the titanium alloy foil, and the electrically conductive layer consists of, in mass %, silver particles with an average particle size of not less than 10 nm and not more than 500 nm: 20% to 90%, a dispersant: 0.2% to 1.0%, and the balance: an acrylic resin or an epoxy resin, and has a thickness of 5 to 50 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku KAGAWA, Kazuhiro TAKAHASHI, Takashi IIJIMA, Masanari KIMOTO, Junko IMAMURA, Kiyonori TOKUNO, Atsuhiko KURODA
  • Publication number: 20160329571
    Abstract: Provided are a supporting carbon material for a solid polymer fuel cell and a metal-catalyst-particle-supporting carbon material that, when used as a carrier for a solid polymer fuel cell catalyst, have excellent power generation performance in high-humidity conditions, which are conditions in which solid polymer fuel cells are operated. A supporting carbon material for a solid polymer fuel cell and a metal-catalyst-particle-supporting carbon material characterized in being a porous carbon material, the hydrogen content being 0.004-0.010% by mass, the nitrogen adsorption BET specific surface area being 600 m2/g-1500 m2/g, and the relative intensity ratio (ID/IG) between the peak intensity (ID) in the range of 1200-1400 cm?1 known as the D-band and the peak intensity (IG) in the range of 1500-1700 cm?1 known as the G-band, obtained from the Raman spectrum, being 1.0-2.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumasa MATSUMOTO, Takashi IIJIMA, Masataka HIYOSHI, Hiroyuki HAYASHIDA, Kazuhiko MIZUUCHI, Takumi KOUNO, Masakazu HIGUCHI, Masakazu KATAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9362482
    Abstract: Provided are a bismuth-based piezoelectric material whose insulation property is improved while its performance as a piezoelectric body is not impaired and a piezoelectric device using the piezoelectric material. The piezoelectric material includes a perovskite-type metal oxide represented by the following general formula (1): Bix(Fe1-yCoy)O3??(1) where 0.95?x?1.25 and 0?y?0.30, and a root mean square roughness Rq (nm) of a surface of the piezoelectric material satisfies a relationship of 0<Rq?25y+2 (0?y?0.30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignees: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KYOTO UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Makoto Kubota, Kenji Takashima, Masaki Azuma, Yoshitaka Nakamura, Yuichi Shimakawa, Takashi Iijima, Bong-Yeon Lee
  • Publication number: 20160052787
    Abstract: A thin-plate-like flexible carbon plate having flexibility, excellent compressive strength, and even electrical conductivity is provided. A carbon plate 1 is a carbon plate having a thickness of 0.05 to 2.0 mm obtained by compression molding of a mixture of (a) 97 to 80 wt % carbon powder composed of 95 to 30 wt % expanded graphite powder and 5 to 70 wt % graphite powder, and (b) 3 to 20 wt % phenolic resin that do not contain ammonia, wherein a compressive strength is 3 MPa or more, a bending strain is 0.6% or more without a crack, and a contact resistance is 6 m?·cm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Eiki TSUSHIMA, Shinkichi MURAKAMI, Jun NAKATSUKA, Kenichi UEMURA, Takashi IIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20160027597
    Abstract: An input device includes a housing which has an opening, button parts which are exposed from the opening and which are pressed down in a first direction, a support component which has a support part to support the button parts, a first surface to face the housing, a second surface provided opposite to the first surface, and fixation parts provided at a first distance from the support part and fixed to the housing on a side of the first surface, a substrate which is provided so as to face the second surface of the support component, and a component which is inserted into the substrate in the first direction and which presses a specified area of the second surface, positioned at a second distance shorter than the first distance from the support part, toward the housing in a direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: TAKASHI ABE, MASAKI ISHIKAWA, TAKASHI IIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20150352522
    Abstract: A carbon material for catalyst support use which, when used as a catalyst support, maintains a high porosity while being stable chemically, having electrical conductivity, being excellent in durability, and being excellent in diffusibility of the reaction starting materials and reaction products is provided. It is characterized by comprising dendritic carbon mesoporous structures which have 3D structures of branched carbon-containing rod shapes or carbon-containing ring shapes, having a pore size of 1 to 20 nm and a cumulative pore volume of 0.2 to 1.5 cc/g found by analyzing a nitrogen adsorption isotherm by the Dollimore-Heal method, and having a powder X-ray diffraction spectrum which has a peak corresponding to a 002 diffraction line of graphite between diffraction angles (2?: degrees) of 20 to 30 degrees and has a peak with a half value width of 0.1 degree to 1.0 degree at 25.5 to 26.5 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko MIZUUCHI, Takumi KOUNO, Masakazu KATAYAMA, Masakazu HIGUCHI, Nobuyuki NISHI, Takashi IIJIMA, Masataka HIYOSHI, Katsumasa MATSUMOTO