Patents by Inventor Takeshi Inoue

Takeshi Inoue 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: 10147983
    Abstract: A secondary battery system capable of acquiring an SOC of a battery with a simple computation without acquiring battery characteristics is to be provided. The secondary battery system according to the present invention is adapted to acquire a momentary SOC (charging SOC) by obtaining an initial value of an SOC from a CCV acquired during a charging period and adding an integrated value of a charge or discharge current to the initial value of the SOC, acquire a momentary SOC (discharging SOC) by obtaining an initial value of an SOC from a CCV acquired during a discharging period and adding an integrated value of a charge or discharge current to the initial value of the SOC, and acquire an SOC close to a true value by averaging the charging SOC and the discharging SOC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Youhei Kawahara, Takeshi Inoue, Mutsumi Kikuchi, Keiichiro Ohkawa
  • Publication number: 20180314027
    Abstract: A photoelectric composite cable includes an optical fiber unit including at least one optical fiber and a cylindrical member, the cylindrical member including a resin tape wrapped to cover a periphery of the optical fiber, the resin tape being loosely wrapped with respect to the optical fiber, a plurality of electric wires arranged on an outer side of the cylindrical member, and a sheath covering outer peripheries of the optical fiber unit and the electric wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki ISHIKAWA, Yasuhiro MAEDA, Manabu IZAKI, Takeshi INOUE
  • Patent number: 10028049
    Abstract: Provided are headphones with left and right sliders in linkage with each other. The headphones includes: a head band; a first slider that is provided on one end side of the head band and slides with respect to the head band; a second slider that is provided on the other end side of the head band and slides with respect to the head band; a connecting portion that connects the first slider and the second slider and slides the second slider in linkage with a slide operation of the first slider; and a pair of housings that are provided on the first slide portion and the second slide portion, respectively, and each house a sound output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Inoue, Tomohiro Ito, Hideto Yamamoto, Hisahiro Tanaka, Hirokazu Nishihara, Kenji Yamada, Eiji Kuwahara, Kenichi Harada
  • Publication number: 20180121374
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a connection device includes a cable unit, first and second connector units, and a circuit board. The first connector unit is provided at a first end of the cable unit and is connectable to a host device. The second connector unit is provided at a second end of the cable unit and is connectable to a terminal device. The circuit board includes a control unit and is provided in one of the first and second connector units. The control unit includes a storage unit and a management unit. The storage unit stores operation data indicating operation content of the connection device. The management unit manages the operation data, and changes the operation data on the basis of instruction data received from the host device if the connection device is connected to the host device and the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20180100897
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit is capable of being supplied with battery current information and battery voltage information. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a memory function, a current integrating function, a voltage-based state of charge operating function, a current-based state of charge operating function, a comparison determination function, a correcting function, and a resistance deterioration coefficient output function. The memory function stores the relation between a state of charge of a battery and an internal resistance deterioration coefficient thereof. The full charge capacity outputted from the correcting function and the internal resistance deterioration coefficient outputted from the resistance deterioration coefficient output function are stored in the memory function when a voltage-based state of charge and a current-based state of charge compared by the comparison determination function are determined to substantially coincide with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Yoko Nakayama, Takeshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9846201
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit is capable of being supplied with battery current information and battery voltage information. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a memory function, a current integrating function, a voltage-based state of charge operating function, a current-based state of charge operating function, a comparison determination function, a correcting function, and a resistance deterioration coefficient output function. The memory function stores the relation between a state of charge of a battery and an internal resistance deterioration coefficient thereof. The full charge capacity outputted from the correcting function and the internal resistance deterioration coefficient outputted from the resistance deterioration coefficient output function are stored in the memory function when a voltage-based state of charge and a current-based state of charge compared by the comparison determination function are determined to substantially coincide with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yoko Nakayama, Takeshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20170262719
    Abstract: A biometric authentication system includes an information terminal having ID information, an acquisition terminal that acquires biometric information, and an authentication processing apparatus. The processing apparatus includes: a first part that acquires the ID and location information on the information terminal; a second part that communicates with the acquisition terminal to acquire the biometric information; a first storage part for storing an indication that the information terminal is located within a predetermined range; a second storage part that stores the ID and biometric reference information; and a controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki YAMAZAKI, Keiji KITANE, Takeshi INOUE, Shinichirou FUKUSHIMA, Hiroyuki HAGAKI
  • Patent number: 9745723
    Abstract: Construction machine including: an inverter; a battery; a battery controller; a main controller controlling the inverter based on limited power modes prescribed; and a display device displaying a remaining battery electric power. The main controller calculates open circuit voltage and battery resistance values of the battery at the state of energy of the battery based on the specification information about the battery and state of energy of the battery which are input from the battery controller, calculates an amount of electric power stored in the battery in each of the limited power modes based on the open circuit voltage value and battery resistance value of the battery as well as limited power and operating voltage prescribed for each of the limited power modes, and outputs a display signal for displaying the amount of electric power stored in the battery in each of the limited power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Inoue, Motoo Futami, Ken Takeuchi, Kei Sakabe
  • Patent number: 9735593
    Abstract: A battery system includes a plurality of battery packs connected in parallel each including a switch and a battery connected to the switch in series and a battery state determining unit determining a state of the battery. The battery state determining unit includes a disconnection determining unit controlling disconnection of the switch and a switch controller controlling open and close of the switch in accordance with a result of determining the state. The disconnection determining unit calculates allowable stop and demanded stop periods of the battery packs on the basis of the past data, season data, and allowable currents of the batteries and transmits data to the switch controller when the demanded stop period is smaller than the allowable stop period, and the switch controller makes the switch in an open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Honda, Takeshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20170201820
    Abstract: Provided are headphones with left and right sliders in linkage with each other. The headphones includes: a head band; a first slider that is provided on one end side of the head band and slides with respect to the head band; a second slider that is provided on the other end side of the head band and slides with respect to the head band; a connecting portion that connects the first slider and the second slider and slides the second slider in linkage with a slide operation of the first slider; and a pair of housings that are provided on the first slide portion and the second slide portion, respectively, and each house a sound output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Takeshi INOUE, Tomohiro ITO, Hideto YAMAMOTO, Hisahiro TANAKA, Hirokazu NISHIHARA, Kenji YAMADA, Eiji KUWAHARA, Kenichi HARADA
  • Publication number: 20170141589
    Abstract: In a battery system that connects a plurality of types of batteries through a switch SW, when the switch SW is switched at a voltage (charge rate), it has been possible to increase a stored charge during charging, depending on the DC resistance of the battery. An object of the present invention is to provide switch SW switching control so that the stored charge can further be increased. A first feature of the present invention is to provide a battery system in which a first battery and a second battery are connected in parallel through the switch SW, including an estimator which estimates the charging current by measuring the resistance and OCV of each battery. The battery system can further increase the stored charge by switching to a switch SW combination that can increase the stored charge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Takeshi INOUE, Keizo YAMADA, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170082694
    Abstract: A secondary-battery monitoring device includes: a use-state memory device that stores a transition of a load parameter indicating a use state of a secondary battery; and a battery capacity prediction device that predicts a temporal change of a battery capacity of the secondary battery on the basis of a prediction function. The prediction function is derived from a relation between growth of a film formed in an electrode surface of the secondary battery and a reduction of a precursor component of the film which is contained in an electrolyte of the secondary battery. The battery capacity prediction device determines a coefficient of the prediction function on the basis of the transition of the load parameter which is stored in the use-state memory device, and predicts the temporal change of the battery capacity of the secondary battery on the basis of the prediction function which uses the coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro YONEMOTO, Youhei KAWAHARA, Takeshi INOUE, Keiichiro OHKAWA
  • Patent number: 9590616
    Abstract: A drive control device for two semiconductor elements having a transistor structure and a diode structure with a common energization electrode includes: a current detection device outputting a current detection signal of the semiconductor elements; and a first control device outputting a gate drive signal from when a first time period has elapsed from a starting time to when a second time period has elapsed from the starting time, at which an off-command signal is input after it is determined that a current flows through the semiconductor elements in a forward direction of the diode structure during a time period for which an on-command signal is input to the semiconductor elements. The first and the second time periods are preliminary set not to generate an arm short-circuit between two semiconductor elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Inoue, Takahiro Iwamura, Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9517808
    Abstract: A handlebar switch can include a switch case housing switches, and manipulation members arranged on the switch case and configured to be manipulated by a driver to operate the respective switches. A center portion of the switch case 66 on which the manipulation members are arranged is formed as an expanded section expanded in radial directions of a main body section beyond a right end portion, and a left an end portion of the main body section. The manipulation members are arranged in a center part of the expanded section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kikuchi, Daisuke Kuriki, Takeshi Inoue, Tomoki Yamauchi, Miku Otsuji, Makoto Hattori
  • Publication number: 20160351976
    Abstract: A secondary battery system capable of acquiring an SOC of a battery with a simple computation without acquiring battery characteristics is to be provided. The secondary battery system according to the present invention is adapted to acquire a momentary SOC (charging SOC) by obtaining an initial value of an SOC from a CCV acquired during a charging period and adding an integrated value of a charge or discharge current to the initial value of the SOC, acquire a momentary SOC (discharging SOC) by obtaining an initial value of an SOC from a CCV acquired during a discharging period and adding an integrated value of a charge or discharge current to the initial value of the SOC, and acquire an SOC close to a true value by averaging the charging SOC and the discharging SOC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Youhei KAWAHARA, Takeshi INOUE, Mutsumi KIKUCHI, Keiichiro OHKAWA
  • Patent number: 9482822
    Abstract: A wavelength selective switch 1A includes a light input/output unit 10, a dispersive element 20, and a light deflection element 30 disposed side by side on a predetermined axis C. The light input/output unit 10 has a first portion 10a in which light enters and exits a light input/output port 11 by an optical axis inclined with respect to the predetermined axis C, and a second portion 10b in which light enters and exits a light input/output port 12 by an optical axis inclined with respect to the predetermined axis C. A light entry/exit angle of the light input/output port 11 with the predetermined axis C as a reference and a light entry/exit angle of the light input/output port 12 with the predetermined axis C as a reference differ from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Suzuki, Hidehisa Tazawa, Takafumi Ohtsuka, Takeshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20160308524
    Abstract: A drive control device for two semiconductor elements having a transistor structure and a diode structure with a common energization electrode includes: a current detection device outputting a current detection signal of the semiconductor elements; and a first control device outputting a gate drive signal from when a first time period has elapsed from a starting time to when a second time period has elapsed from the starting time, at which an off-command signal is input after it is determined that a current flows through the semiconductor elements in a forward direction of the diode structure during a time period for which an on-command signal is input to the semiconductor elements. The first and the second time periods are preliminary set not to generate an arm short-circuit between two semiconductor elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Takeshi Inoue, Takahiro Iwamura, Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9441695
    Abstract: High cleanliness spring steel useful in manufacturing a spring with SiO2-based inclusions being extremely controlled and excellent in fatigue properties is provided. High cleanliness spring steel which is steel containing; C: 1.2% (means mass %, hereafter the same with respect to the component) or below (not inclusive of 0%), Si: 1.2-4%, Mn: 0.1-2.0%, Al: 0.01% or below (not inclusive of 0%), and the balance comprising iron with inevitable impurities, wherein; the total of oxide-based inclusions of 4 or above of L (the large diameter of an inclusion)/D (the short diameter of an inclusion) and 25 ?m or above of D and oxide-based inclusions of less than 4 L/D and 25 ?m or above of L, in the oxide-based inclusions of 25 mass % or above of oxygen concentration and 70% (means mass %, hereafter the same with respect to inclusions) or above of SiO2 content when Al2O3+MgO+CaO+SiO2+MnO=100% is presumed, out of inclusions in the steel, is 20 nos./500 g or below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoko Sugimura, Sei Kimura, Koichi Sakamoto, Atsuhiko Yoshida, Takeshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20160216452
    Abstract: A wavelength selective switch 1A includes a light input/output unit 10, a dispersive element 20, and a light deflection element 30 disposed side by side on a predetermined axis C. The light input/output unit 10 has a first portion 10a in which light enters and exits a light input/output port 11 by an optical axis inclined with respect to the predetermined axis C, and a second portion 10b in which light enters and exits a light input/output port 12 by an optical axis inclined with respect to the predetermined axis C. A light entry/exit angle of the light input/output port 11 with the predetermined axis C as a reference and a light entry/exit angle of the light input/output port 12 with the predetermined axis C as a reference differ from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Masaki SUZUKI, Hidehisa TAZAWA, Takafumi OHTSUKA, Takeshi INOUE
  • Patent number: 9326050
    Abstract: An light input/output unit has at least three first ports, including a first input port for inputting light and a first output port for outputting light; at least three second ports, including a second input port for inputting light and a second output port for outputting light; and an alignment port for inputting and outputting alignment light. An optical axis of the input/output light of the first port and an optical axis of the input/output light of the second port differ from each other. The dispersive element changes the optical axes of input/output lights of the first and second ports by an angle corresponding to a wavelength. The light deflective element has a first part for directing the light from the first input port to the first output port and a second part for directing the light from the second input port to the second output port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Suzuki, Takafumi Ohtsuka, Takeshi Inoue