Patents by Inventor Takeshi TERAYAMA
Takeshi TERAYAMA 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).
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Publication number: 20230067326Abstract: A fuel cell system including: an electrochemical pump including a first anode, a first cathode, and a first electrolyte membrane including a proton conductive oxide, the electrochemical pump separating hydrogen from a gas containing the hydrogen, and a solid oxide fuel cell that includes a second anode, a second cathode, and a second electrolyte membrane including a solid oxide electrolyte, and that generates electricity by reacting a fuel gas and an oxidant gas with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: YUICHI MIKAMI, TAKEHITO GOTO, TAKESHI TERAYAMA, KOSUKE NUNOO, TOMOHIRO KUROHA
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Publication number: 20230006235Abstract: An electrode material of the present disclosure is an electrode material that includes a compound represented by the chemical formula BaZr1-x-yMxCoyO3-?. M is In or Yb, and the chemical formula satisfies 0<x<1, 0<y<1, 0<(x+y)<1, and 0<?<1. A membrane electrode assembly of the present disclosure includes a first electrode including the electrode material, and an electrolyte membrane provided on a first main surface of the first electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: YUICHI MIKAMI, KOSUKE NUNOO, TAKEHITO GOTO, HIROSHI ASANO, TAKESHI TERAYAMA, TOMOHIRO KUROHA, HIDEAKI MURASE
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Publication number: 20220311030Abstract: The fuel cell system of the present disclosure includes: a fuel cell that includes a membrane electrode assembly including a proton conducting ceramic electrolyte membrane, a cathode disposed on a first surface of the electrolyte membrane, and an anode disposed on a second surface of the electrolyte membrane, the fuel cell generating electric power through an electrochemical reaction using a fuel gas and an oxidant gas; a power source that applies a voltage to the fuel cell; and a controller. In a shutdown process, the controller controls the power source to apply the voltage to the fuel cell such that a terminal voltage of the fuel cell is equal to or higher than an open circuit voltage of the fuel cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: TAKESHI TERAYAMA, TOMOHIRO KUROHA, KYOHEI KAWADA
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Patent number: 11335930Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel feeder that supplies fuel, a fuel cell stack that generates power through an electrochemical reaction using air and a hydrogen-containing gas generated from the fuel, a first temperature sensor that senses the temperature of the fuel cell stack, and a controller. The fuel cell stack has a membrane electrode assembly including an electrolyte membrane through which protons can pass, a cathode on one side of the electrolyte membrane, and an anode on the other side of the electrolyte membrane. The controller defines an upper limit of current output from the fuel cell stack on the basis of the temperature of the fuel cell stack, the supply of the fuel, and the hydrogen consumption of the fuel cell stack associated with internal leakage current and keeps the current output from the fuel cell stack at or below the upper limit.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukimune Kani, Yuichi Mikami, Takeshi Terayama
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Publication number: 20220109172Abstract: A fuel cell system according to the present disclosure includes: a solid oxide fuel cell that produces electricity from an electrochemical reaction by using a fuel and air and that includes a membrane electrode assembly including a proton-conductive electrolyte membrane, a cathode disposed on a first main surface of the electrolyte membrane, and an anode disposed on a second main surface of the electrolyte membrane; and a controller. In the operation stop process for stopping operation of the fuel cell system, the controller is configured to control supply of the fuel at a higher flow rate than the flow rate of the fuel consumed in the solid oxide fuel cell in an open circuit state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: TAKESHI TERAYAMA, TOMOHIRO KUROHA, KYOHEI KAWADA
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Publication number: 20220056597Abstract: The electrochemical apparatus of the present disclosure includes a first stack that includes an oxide ion conductor as an electrolyte and decomposes water vapor to generate hydrogen and oxygen, a second stack that includes a proton conductor as an electrolyte and separates the hydrogen generated in the first stack from a gas mixture of the hydrogen and the water vapor that has not been decomposed in the first stack, and a heat insulation material that covers the first stack and the second stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: YUICHI MIKAMI, TOMOHIRO KUROHA, TAKASHI KAKUWA, TAKESHI TERAYAMA, SHIGENORI ONUMA, KOSUKE NUNOO, TAKEHITO GOTO, KYOHEI KAWADA
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Publication number: 20220045348Abstract: An electrochemical cell of the present disclosure includes a first cell and a second cell. The first cell includes a first electrolyte layer containing an oxide ion conductor. The second cell includes a second electrolyte layer containing a proton conductor, and the second cell is disposed to face the first cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: TAKEHITO GOTO, TOMOHIRO KUROHA, TAKASHI KAKUWA, TAKESHI TERAYAMA, SHIGENORI ONUMA, YUICHI MIKAMI, KOSUKE NUNOO, KYOHEI KAWADA
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Publication number: 20220029195Abstract: An electrochemical cell includes a first electrolyte layer containing an oxide-ion conductor, a second electrolyte layer containing a proton conductor, a first electrode which is disposed between the first electrolyte layer and the second electrolyte layer and in contact with a first principal surface of the first electrolyte layer and a first principal surface of the second electrolyte layer and into which a gas flows, a second electrode which is provided on a second principal surface of the first electrolyte layer and which generates oxygen, and a third electrode which is provided on a second principal surface of the second electrolyte layer and which generates hydrogen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: KOSUKE NUNOO, TAKEHITO GOTO, YUICHI MIKAMI, TAKESHI TERAYAMA, SHIGENORI ONUMA, TAKASHI KAKUWA, KYOHEI KAWADA, TOMOHIRO KUROHA
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Publication number: 20210320314Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly according to the present disclosure is a membrane electrode assembly including: a solid electrolyte membrane containing an electrolyte material; and an electrode in contact with a reactant gas, wherein the electrode includes a structural support including a ceramic member, and a pore extending from a boundary surface in contact with the reactant gas toward the solid electrolyte membrane in the structural support and filled with a filler having at least one selected from the group consisting of hydrogen oxidation activity, oxygen reduction activity, proton reduction activity, steam decomposition activity, and oxide ion oxidation activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: KOSUKE NUNOO, TAKEHITO GOTO, YUICHI MIKAMI, TAKESHI TERAYAMA, TOMOHIRO KUROHA
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Publication number: 20190363377Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel feeder that supplies fuel, a fuel cell stack that generates power through an electrochemical reaction using air and a hydrogen-containing gas generated from the fuel, a first temperature sensor that senses the temperature of the fuel cell stack, and a controller. The fuel cell stack has a membrane electrode assembly including an electrolyte membrane through which protons can pass, a cathode on one side of the electrolyte membrane, and an anode on the other side of the electrolyte membrane. The controller defines an upper limit of current output from the fuel cell stack on the basis of the temperature of the fuel cell stack, the supply of the fuel, and the hydrogen consumption of the fuel cell stack associated with internal leakage current and keeps the current output from the fuel cell stack at or below the upper limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: YUKIMUNE KANI, YUICHI MIKAMI, TAKESHI TERAYAMA
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Patent number: 9125220Abstract: A radio network controller includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a radio communication state of a neighboring cell located around a cell formed by a base station which the mobile station camps on among base stations, and a level determination unit configured to determine the in-out reception level based on an acquisition result of the radio communication state by the acquisition unit. The level determination unit calculates an estimated reception level of the radio channel in a reception level tie point P in which the reception level of the radio channel transmitted by a base station 200 and the reception of the radio channel transmitted by a target base station 202 become substantially equal to each other, and determines the in-out reception level based on the calculated estimated reception level ?.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2011Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Takeshi Terayama, Takeshi Okamoto
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Patent number: 9078185Abstract: A mobile communication system 100 includes a selection unit 25 configured to select a transition target frequency from the plurality of frequencies when a condition under which a mobile communication terminal not utilize a transition source frequency being any of the plurality of frequencies is fulfilled, and an instruction unit 22 configured to instruct the mobile communication terminal to perform a transition to the transition target frequency selected by the selection unit. The selection unit 25 excludes the transition source frequency from a frequency candidate to be utilized by the mobile communication terminal until an elapsed time after the instruction of the transition to the transition target frequency exceeds a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Takayuki Tsuneda, Hiroyuki Hosono, Takaaki Sato, Takeshi Terayama, Masafumi Masuda
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Patent number: 8996010Abstract: A radio controller 100 includes a transmission power acquisition unit 111 configured to acquire a neighboring cell transmission power value that is a transmission power value of a radio signal transmitted from a base station forming the neighboring cell, an offset determination unit 115 configured to determine a power offset of the neighboring cell to be added to the predetermined transmission power value, based on a difference between the predetermined transmission power value and the neighboring cell transmission power value acquired by the transmission power acquisition unit, and an offset notification unit 117 configured to notify the power offset determined by the offset determination unit to the mobile station.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Rie Nagato, Takeshi Terayama, Takeshi Okamoto
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Patent number: 8983474Abstract: A radio controller 100 includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a radio communication state of a neighboring cell around the cell formed by a base station 200, and a threshold determination unit configured to determine an in-out threshold based on an acquisition result of the radio communication state by the acquisition unit. The threshold determination unit calculates an estimated overall reception level within a frequency band at a point at which the reception level of the common control channel transmitted by the base station 200 becomes the highest in the cell formed by the base station 200, based on the reception level of the common control channel and the overall reception level, and determines the in-out threshold based on the calculated estimated overall reception level.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Takeshi Terayama, Takeshi Okamoto
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Patent number: 8831673Abstract: A base station outputs annunciation information which corresponds to a plurality of radio cells established by a 3G public base station and an LTE public base station and which is different from annunciation information output from the 3G public base station and the LTE public base station into a target region X and forms a radio cell. A mobile station that enters the radio cell receives the annunciation information of the radio cell and executes a position registration process. An information administration device can thereby find the mobile station based on the position registration process even in the environment where a plurality of radio cells to which different frequencies are assigned are established geographically overlapping with one another.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Takeshi Okamoto, Hiroyuki Hosono, Takeshi Terayama, Takaaki Sato
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Patent number: 8565808Abstract: A transmission power determination system configured to control a transmission power of a radio signal transmitted by a small base station in a mobile communication network including a general base station forming a predetermined cell and the small base station forming a small cell smaller in size than the predetermined cell, the transmission power determination system comprising: a reception power acquisition unit configured to acquire a reception power of a radio signal from one of a different small base station or the general base station, which can be received by the small base station; a determination unit configured to determine one of the different small base station and the general base station which transmits the radio signal acquired by the reception power acquisition unit; a pathloss value calculation unit configured to calculate, when it is determined by the determination unit that the radio signal is transmitted from the different small base station, pathloss value between the different small basType: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Takeshi Terayama, Takahiro Hayashi
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Publication number: 20130150069Abstract: A radio network controller includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a radio communication state of a neighboring cell located around a cell formed by a base station which the mobile station camps on among base stations, and a level determination unit configured to determine the in-out reception level based on an acquisition result of the radio communication state by the acquisition unit. The level determination unit calculates an estimated reception level of the radio channel in a reception level tie point P in which the reception level of the radio channel transmitted by a base station 200 and the reception of the radio channel transmitted by a target base station 202 become substantially equal to each other, and determines the in-out reception level based on the calculated estimated reception level a.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Takeshi Terayama, Takeshi Okamoto
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Publication number: 20130142171Abstract: A radio network controller 100 detects a plurality of handover candidate cells set to have the same ScC based on the acquired ScC, and determines as a handover target cell a cell whose correlation between the reception level acquired regularly from mobile station 300 and the radio communication state acquired from the mobile station 300 at handover is the highest among the plurality of handover candidate cells detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Takeshi Terayama, Takeshi Okamoto
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Publication number: 20130143567Abstract: A radio controller 100 includes a transmission power acquisition unit 111 configured to acquire a neighboring cell transmission power value that is a transmission power value of a radio signal transmitted from a base station forming the neighboring cell, an offset determination unit 115 configured to determine a power offset of the neighboring cell to be added to the predetermined transmission power value, based on a difference between the predetermined transmission power value and the neighboring cell transmission power value acquired by the transmission power acquisition unit, and an offset notification unit 117 configured to notify the power offset determined by the offset determination unit to the mobile station.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Rie Nagato, Takeshi Terayama, Takeshi Okamoto
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Publication number: 20130130696Abstract: A radio controller 100 includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a radio communication state of a neighboring cell around the cell formed by a base station 200, and a threshold determination unit configured to determine an in-out threshold based on an acquisition result of the radio communication state by the acquisition unit. The threshold determination unit calculates an estimated overall reception level within a frequency band at a point at which the reception level of the common control channel transmitted by the base station 200 becomes the highest in the cell formed by the base station 200, based on the reception level of the common control channel and the overall reception level, and determines the in-out threshold based on the calculated estimated overall reception level.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Takeshi Terayama, Takeshi Okamoto