Patents by Inventor Tomikazu Watanabe

Tomikazu Watanabe 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: 7060381
    Abstract: An electrical energy generating device which is able to supply oxygen in atmospheric air efficiently to an oxygen electrode and to vaporize water yielded off efficiently, and which has superior waterproof characteristic. The device includes a number of cells each having a hydrogen electrode plate, a proton conductor film and an oxygen electrode plate, and a sheet cover 5 which is air-permeable and waterproofed and which shrouds each cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Miyakoshi, Hiroshi Miyazawa, Tomikazu Watanabe, Kiyoshi Yamaura, Ryuichiro Maruyama, Shuichi Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20050116143
    Abstract: A photovoltaic device, which is applied as a power supply of a versatile electric or electronic apparatus as a substitute for a standard cell, while attaining, by using flexible photoelectric converting devices, availability as the power supply of the electric or electronic apparatus normally requiring light energy such as sunlight, a photovoltaic device attachment using the photovoltaic device and the electric or electronic apparatus using the photovoltaic device attachment are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Haruo Watanabe, Shinichiro Yamada, Tomikazu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20040183500
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a photoelectric charging secondary battery durable enough to be repeatedly used which is obtained by combining a photoelectric conversion sheet including a photoelectric conversion element formed having a flexibility and a durability with a storage battery. The photoelectric charging secondary battery includes a cylindrical coil core part (2), a photoelectric conversion element (11) having a flexibility coiled and disposed so as to be freely withdrawn out relative to the coil core part, a storage battery (4) capable of being charged and discharged, and a control circuit part (5) for controlling the charge and discharge of the storage battery. While the photoelectric conversion element is coiled on the coil core part, the photoelectric charging secondary battery is entirely formed in a substantially cylindrical form. The storage battery is detachably attached to the coil core part. The photoelectric conversion element is folded along a direction to be withdrawn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Haruo Watanabe, Ritsuko Inoue, Koichiro Hinokuma, Tomikazu Watanabe, Hiroshi Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20030064276
    Abstract: A fuel cell including at least one unit fuel cell including a hydrogen gas path forming plate (6) having a plurality of openings (9), (12) and (13), an oxygen electrode plate (1) having a proton conductor film (45) and a plurality of openings (22), (23) and an air flow path forming plate (26) having a plurality of openings (21), the hydrogen gas path forming plate, oxygen electrode plate and the air flow path forming plate layered together in this order; at least two selectively disconnectable interconnection pins A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H being formed on a peripheral portion of the hydrogen electrode plate (1) and on a peripheral portion of the oxygen electrode plate (21). A fuel cell for generating desired electromotive force is formed by severing plural interconnection pins and by internally connecting plural unit fuel cells through other interconnection pins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Miyakoshi, Hiroshi Miyazawa, Tomikazu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20030039878
    Abstract: An electrical energy generating device is disclosed Which is able to supply oxygen in atmospheric air efficiently to an oxygen electrode and to vaporize water yielded off efficiently, and which is superior in waterproofness. The device includes a plurality of cells each having a hydrogen electrode plate, a proton conductor film and an oxygen electrode plate, and a sheet cover 5 which is air-permeable and waterproofed and which shrouds each cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Miyakoshi, Hiroshi Miyazawa, Tomikazu Watanabe, Kiyoshi Yamaura, Ryuichiro Maruyama, Shuichi Takizawa
  • Patent number: 6471929
    Abstract: A photocatalyst having superior durability; a manufacturing method for the photocatalyst and a method and apparatus for decomposing a gas, where a film which is fullerene-based but different from the evaporated fullerene film is used. The photocatalyst has a fullerene polymer film layered on a substrate. There may be carried fine metal particles on the fullerene polymer film. These fine metal particles are carried by sputtering, evaporation or coating on the fullerene polymer film. The apparatus for decomposing the gas includes a light source and a fullerene polymer film. In effecting gas decomposition, the gas to be processed is contacted with the fullerene polymer film under light illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Misao Kusunoki, Tomikazu Watanabe, Shigehide Yamamichi, Masafumi Ata, Shinichi Mizuno, Matthias Ramm
  • Patent number: 6380710
    Abstract: A photovoltaic-charged secondary battery device has a cylindrical core, a flexible photoelectric transducer sheet extractably rolled on the core, a chargeable/dischargeable storage battery, and a control circuit for controlling the charging and discharging operations of the storage battery. The photovoltaic-charged secondary battery device with the photoelectric transducer sheet fully rolled on the core generally exhibiting a substantially cylindrical form. The photovoltaic-charged secondary battery device further has a polymeric cover film formed on the light-receiving surface of the photoelectric transducer sheet. The polymeric cover film improves the durability of the photoelectric transducer sheet against repeated bending and sliding actions caused on the photoelectric transducer sheet. The photoelectric transducer sheet may be so arranged that, when the photoelectric transducer sheet is rolled on the core, the light-receiving surface faces outward of the roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Watanabe, Ritsuko Inoue, Koichiro Hinokuma, Tomikazu Watanabe, Hiroshi Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 6188197
    Abstract: Light energy is to be utilized as the power source for a customary electrical equipment. A flexible photo-electric transducer 3 is arranged so as to be wound about a cylindrically-shaped winding core 2. When charging the storage battery 4, housed on the winding core 2, the photo-electric transducer 3 wound about the winding core 2 is pulled out to receive the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Watanabe, Tomikazu Watanabe, Koichiro Hinokuma, Ritsuko Inoue
  • Patent number: 4755780
    Abstract: A ferrimagnetic resonator is disclosed which is stabilized upon temperature deviation and operable over a wide frequency range. The resonator comprises a ferrimagnetic thin film resonance element, a temperature detector for the resonance element a bias magnetic field generating coil, a compensation coil and a compensation circuit. The compensation circuit has a pre-coded compensation data upon operation temperature range and generates a compensation signal in response a detected temperature of the resonance element. The compensation signal is then fed to the compensation coil to generate an additional magnetic field to the resonance element thus the resonance frequency of the resonance element is stabilized upon temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1988
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seigo Ito, Yoshikazu Murakami, Tomikazu Watanabe, Takahiro Ohgihara