Patents by Inventor Takatada Usami

Takatada Usami 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: 20240097160
    Abstract: Provided are a fuel cell system and a vehicle that can improve the power recovery efficiency in a supercharger of a fuel cell vehicle. A fuel cell system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a fuel cell; a supercharger configured to increase a pressure of intake air of the fuel cell by rotating a turbine with an exhaust of the fuel cell; and a heat pump apparatus configured to absorb heat from a predetermined heat source to increase a temperature of the exhaust supplied to the turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Takatada USAMI, Daichi SHIBUYA
  • Patent number: 10559837
    Abstract: A fluid control valve is connected to a wet gas flow passage in order to control a flow of a wet gas, and includes an introduction passage for introducing the wet gas into the fluid control valve, a filter including mesh for removing foreign matter contained in the wet gas flowing through the introduction passage, a discharge passage that includes a valve port disposed above the introduction passage and discharges the wet gas that has passed through the filter from the fluid control valve through the valve port, and a valve portion that opens and closes the valve port using a valve body. In this fluid control valve, the filter is disposed in a lowermost portion of the introduction passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignees: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA SAGINOMIYA SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Takatada Usami, Tsuyoshi Takeda, Ichiro Okawara
  • Patent number: 10363521
    Abstract: [Problem] The object of the invention is to provide the filter device disposed in the moist fluid passage of the fuel cell system in that, water is not adhered and never remains in the filter and when leaving it under the low temperature after the system stops, blockage by freezing the filter can surely be prevented, and the complex control and the heat source such as heaters for the decompression as conventional is unnecessary, and the filter device is cheap and compact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SAGINOMIYA SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Takeda, Kazuhiko Osawa, Daisaku Inamura, Ichiro Okawara, Takatada Usami, Shinichiro Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20160365587
    Abstract: A fluid control valve is connected to a wet gas flow passage in order to control a flow of a wet gas, and includes an introduction passage for introducing the wet gas into the fluid control valve, a filter including mesh for removing foreign matter contained in the wet gas flowing through the introduction passage, a discharge passage that includes a valve port disposed above the introduction passage and discharges the wet gas that has passed through the filter from the fluid control valve through the valve port, and a valve portion that opens and closes the valve port using a valve body. In this fluid control valve, the filter is disposed in a lowermost portion of the introduction passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Takatada USAMI, Tsuyoshi TAKEDA, Ichiro OKAWARA
  • Patent number: 8962204
    Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a heat exchange unit that performs heat exchange between a gas mixture containing source hydrogen and a circulating gas and cooling water used for controlling the temperature of the fuel cell stack. A system controller adjusts the temperature of the cooling water by controlling a temperature control unit on the basis of the temperature of source hydrogen flowing into a junction at which the source hydrogen and a circulating gas are mixed such that the temperature of a source/recirculated hydrogen mixture that is mixed at the junction and that is supplied to the fuel cell stack is kept within a managed temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Yonekura, Masatoshi Iio, Hisashi Niioka, Takatada Usami, Hayato Chikugo, Mitsunori Kumada, Naoto Todoroki, Ikuhiro Taniguchi, Yoshinao Ootake, Hitoshi Igarashi
  • Patent number: 8931661
    Abstract: A pressure vessel structure includes a vessel main body, and a grid layer provided on a periphery of the vessel main body and including a plurality of grid lines formed by intersecting strip-form raw materials so as to overlap alternately. Thus, a burst pressure of the pressure vessel is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Nihon University
    Inventors: Natsuki Kuroiwa, Kentaro Kono, Takatada Usami, Goichi Ben, Kazuhiro Sakata
  • Patent number: 8883363
    Abstract: A fuel gas supply device for supplying fuel gas to a fuel cell stack includes a control valve provided in a fuel gas path connecting a fuel tank and the fuel cell stack, an upstream-side pressure sensor and a downstream-side pressure sensor for detecting an upstream-side pressure and a downstream-side pressure, and a programmable controller. The programmable controller calculates a required opening based on a target fuel gas pressure and the downstream-side pressure and calculates an opening time and a closing time based on the required opening and the upstream-side pressure, or calculates an opening time and a closing time based on the target fuel gas pressure and the downstream-side pressure and calculates a required opening based on the opening time and the upstream-side pressure, and controls the control valve using the calculated required opening, opening time and closing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Odashima, Keisuke Satou, Takatada Usami, Kentaro Kono, Akinobu Moriyama, Masahiro Haruyama, Akira Inoue
  • Publication number: 20140220462
    Abstract: [Problem] The object of the invention is to provide the filter device disposed in the moist fluid passage of the fuel cell system in that, water is not adhered and never remains in the filter and when leaving it under the low temperature after the system stops, blockage by freezing the filter can surely be prevented, and the complex control and the heat source such as heaters for the decompression as conventional is unnecessary, and the filter device is cheap and compact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicants: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA SAGINOMIYA SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Takeda, Kazuhiko Osawa, Daisaku Inamura, Ichiro Okawara, Takatada Usami, Shinichiro Takemoto
  • Patent number: 8394546
    Abstract: A fuel cell system having a fuel cell for causing reactant gas to be electrochemically reacted to generate power, a reactant gas supply path for supplying reactant gas to the fuel cell, a reactant gas recirculation path for recirculating exhaust gas discharged from the fuel cell and combining the recirculating exhaust gas with reactant gas flowing through the reactant gas supply path to the fuel cell, and a pump unit disposed in the reactant gas recirculation path to pump the recirculating exhaust gas through the reactant gas recirculation path. A pump-tempering apparatus increases the temperature of the pump unit and a controller controls the pump-tempering apparatus. After the controller receives a fuel cell system stop signal, the controller controls the pump-tempering apparatus such that the temperature of the pump unit becomes higher than the temperature of piping in the reactant gas recirculation path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Nishimura, Takahito Osada, Takatada Usami, Ken Nakayama, Kotaro Akashi
  • Publication number: 20120070758
    Abstract: A fuel gas supply device for supplying fuel gas to a fuel cell stack includes a control valve provided in a fuel gas path connecting a fuel tank and the fuel cell stack, an upstream-side pressure sensor and a downstream-side pressure sensor for detecting an upstream-side pressure and a downstream-side pressure, and a programmable controller. The programmable controller calculates a required opening based on a target fuel gas pressure and the downstream-side pressure and calculates an opening time and a closing time based on the required opening and the upstream-side pressure, or calculates an opening time and a closing time based on the target fuel gas pressure and the downstream-side pressure and calculates a required opening based on the opening time and the upstream-side pressure, and controls the control valve using the calculated required opening, opening time and closing time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: Masato Odashima, Keisuke Satou, Takatada Usami, Kentaro Kono, Akinobu Moriyama, Masahiro Haruyama, Akira Inoue
  • Publication number: 20100304260
    Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a heat exchange unit that performs heat exchange between a gas mixture containing source hydrogen and a circulating gas and cooling water used for controlling the temperature of the fuel cell stack. A system controller adjusts the temperature of the cooling water by controlling a temperature control unit on the basis of the temperature of source hydrogen flowing into a junction at which the source hydrogen and a circulating gas are mixed such that the temperature of a source/recirculated hydrogen mixture that is mixed at the junction and that is supplied to the fuel cell stack is kept within a managed temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Yonekura, Masatoshi Iio, Hisashi Niioka, Takatada Usami, Hayato Chikugo, Mitsunori Kumada, Naoto Todoroki, Ikuhiro Taniguchi, Yoshinao Ootake, Hitoshi Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20090169928
    Abstract: A fuel cell system having a fuel cell for causing reactant gas to be electrochemically reacted to generate power, a reactant gas supply path for supplying reactant gas to the fuel cell, a reactant gas recirculation path for recirculating exhaust gas discharged from the fuel cell and combining the recirculating exhaust gas with reactant gas flowing through the reactant gas supply path to the fuel cell, and a pump unit disposed in the reactant gas recirculation path to pump the recirculating exhaust gas through the reactant gas recirculation path. A pump-tempering apparatus increases the temperature of the pump unit and a controller controls the pump-tempering apparatus. After the controller receives a fuel cell system stop signal, the controller controls the pump-tempering apparatus such that the temperature of the pump unit becomes higher than the temperature of piping in the reactant gas recirculation path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetaka NISHIMURA, Takahito Osada, Takatada Usami, Ken Nakayama, Kotaro Akashi