Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Abe
Tomohiro Abe 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: 20160341263Abstract: A selectable one-way clutch adapted to prevent an undesirable engagement is provided. The selectable one-way clutch comprises a drag increasing device that increases a drag of oil acting between the pocket plate and the selector plate against a force rotating the selector plate in a direction to bring the selectable one-way clutch into the engagement mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki SHIOIRI, Hideaki KOMADA, Yuki KUROSAKI, Hiroyuki SHIBATA, Hiroki YASUI, Tomohiro ABE
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Publication number: 20160336571Abstract: A battery is provided. The battery includes a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material layer provided on a positive electrode current collector; a negative electrode; and a separator at least including a porous film, wherein the porous film has a porosity ? [%] and an air permeability t [sec/100 cc] which satisfy formulae of: t=a×Ln(?)?4.02a+100 and ?1.87×1010×S?4.96?a??40 wherein S is the area density of the positive electrode active material layer [mg/cm2] and Ln is natural logarithm.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Tomohiro ABE, Motomi SUZUKI
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Patent number: 9412997Abstract: There is provided a battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator at least including a porous film, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector having a pair of surfaces, and a positive electrode active material layer provided on each of the surfaces of the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode active material layer contains a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material layer has an area density S [mg/cm2] more than or equal to 30 mg/cm2. The porous film included in the separator has a porosity ? [%] and an air permeability t [sec/100 cc] which satisfy a predetermined formula.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Abe, Motomi Suzuki
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Patent number: 9406936Abstract: A carbon material containing boron atom in an amount of 0.001 to 0.5 mass %, in which the average interplanar spacing (d002) of plane (002) is 0.337 nm or less. By observing optical structures in cross-section of formed bodies made of the carbon material, when areas are accumulated from a smallest structure in an ascending order, SOP represents an area of an optical structure whose accumulated area corresponds to 60% of the total area of all optical structures; when the structures are counted from a structure of a smallest aspect ratio in an ascending order, AROP represents the aspect ratio of the structure which ranks at the position of 60% in total number of all the structures; and when D50 represents an average particle diameter; SOP, AROP and D50 satisfy the following relationship: 1.5?AROP?6 and 0.2×D50?(SOP×AROP)1/2<2×D50. Also disclosed is a secondary battery using the carbon material as an electrode material.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Yasuaki Wakizaka, Yuichi Kamijo, Tomohiro Abe, Yoshiki Shimodaira, Akinori Sudoh, Chiaki Sotowa, Yoshihito Yokoyama, Takashi Terashima, Naoto Kawaguchi
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Publication number: 20150311493Abstract: Provided is a battery in which an area density S (mg/cm2) of a positive electrode active material layer is 27 mg/cm2 or greater, and a porous film included in a separator has a structure satisfying the following Expressions. 0.04?Ri??0.07L?0.09×S+4.99 Ri=?2L/?? ??=[{(L×?/100)?Rz×0.46/3}/L]×100 ?={(1.216×??Td×10?4)/L}0.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro ABE, Kentaro TAKAGI
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Publication number: 20150263348Abstract: A carbon material containing boron atom in an amount of 0.001 to 0.5 mass %, in which the average interplanar spacing (d002) of plane (002) is 0.337 nm or less. By observing optical structures in cross-section of formed bodies made of the carbon material, when areas are accumulated from a smallest structure in an ascending order, SOP represents an area of an optical structure whose accumulated area corresponds to 60% of the total area of all optical structures; when the structures are counted from a structure of a smallest aspect ratio in an ascending order, AROP represents the aspect ratio of the structure which ranks at the position of 60% in total number of all the structures; and when D50 represents an average particle diameter; SOP, AROP and D50 satisfy the following relationship: 1.5?AROP?6 and 0.2×D50?(SOP×AROP)1/2<2×D50. Also disclosed is a secondary battery using the carbon material as an electrode material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Yasuaki Wakizaka, Yuichi Kamijo, Tomohiro Abe, Yoshiki Shimodaira, Akinori Sudoh, Chiaki Sotowa, Yoshihito Yokoyama, Takashi Terashima, Naoto Kawaguchi
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Publication number: 20150225623Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide compositions which have low-temperature heat sealing properties, are free from stickiness, may achieve a heat seal strength controlled within a certain definite range when heat sealing takes place at low temperatures, have small changes in heat seal strength with time, and are such that in the packaging applications, the strength required to open the packages may be easily controlled within a certain definite range, and high-performance packages may be designed. The invention resides in a 1-butene ?-olefin copolymer composition including 99 to 1 parts by mass of at least one olefin polymer (X) selected from propylene polymers (X-1) and ethylene polymers (X-2), and 1 to 99 parts by mass of a 1-butene ?-olefin copolymer (Y) containing 0.1 to 30 mol % of one or more ?-olefins selected from ?-olefins and having a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 1.0 to 3.5 [wherein the total of (X) and (Y) in the composition is 100 parts by mass].Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2013Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Ikuo Akai, Tomohiro Abe, Koya Yoshimoto, Masayoshi Yamaguchi, Shinya Tanaka, Koji Matsunaga, Makoto Egawa
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Publication number: 20150162600Abstract: A scale-like carbon material and carbon material for a battery electrode suitable for use as an electrode material for an aqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, wherein the ratio IG/ID (G value) between the peak area (ID) in a range of 1300 to 1400 cm?1 and the peak area (IG) in a range of 1580 to 1620 cm?1 by Raman spectroscopy spectra when an edge surface of the particle of the scale-like carbon material is measured with by Raman microspectrometer is 5.2 to 100 and the average interplanar spacing d002 of plane (d002) by the X-ray diffraction method is 0.337 nm or less and optical structures of the carbon material have a specific shape; the method for producing the same; a carbon material for a battery electrode and a paste for an electrode containing the material; and a secondary battery having excellent charge/discharge cycle characteristics and high current load characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Yasuaki Wakizaka, Yuichi Kamijo, Tomohiro Abe, Yoshiki Shimodaira, Akinori Sudoh, Chiaki Sotowa, Yoshihito Yokoyama, Takashi Terashima
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Patent number: 9028980Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent element which comprises two or more hole injection/transport layers each formed by a wet film formation method using a composition containing, as a hole-injecting/transporting compound, an arylamine polymer compound that has a repeating unit having a triarylamine structure therein, in which when the number of atoms present on the path which is the smallest in the number of atoms present thereon, of the paths which each connect the nonaromatic tertiary nitrogen atoms contained in any two triarylamine structures present in each polymer compound, is taken as N: the minimum number of atoms between nitrogen atoms in the compound, then the N in each hole injection/transport layer is in a specific state.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Abe, Futoshi Tanaka, Kazuki Okabe, Atsushi Takahashi, Koichiro Iida, Ichiro Imada
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Patent number: 8920765Abstract: A graphite material suitable as an electrode material for non-aqueous electrolytic secondary batteries; a method for producing the same and a carbon material for battery electrodes; and a secondary battery. The graphite material includes crystallite graphite particles wherein an oxygen amount (a) (mass %) in a region from a particle surface of the graphite material to a depth of 40 nm is within a range of 0.010?(a)?0.04 as determined by a peak intensity of O1s obtained by HAX-PES measurement using a hard X-ray of 7,940 eV.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Akinori Sudoh, Yuuichi Kamijou, Masako Tanaka, Tomohiro Abe
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Publication number: 20140356695Abstract: There is provided a battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator at least including a porous film, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector having a pair of surfaces, and a positive electrode active material layer provided on each of the surfaces of the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode active material layer contains a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material layer has an area density S [mg/cm2] more than or equal to 30 mg/cm2. The porous film included in the separator has a porosity ? [%] and an air permeability t [sec/100 cc] which satisfy a predetermined formula.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomohiro ABE, Motomi SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20140231707Abstract: A graphite material suitable as an electrode material for non-aqueous electrolytic secondary batteries; a method for producing the same and a carbon material for battery electrodes; and a secondary battery. The graphite material includes crystallite graphite particles wherein an oxygen amount (a) (mass %) in a region from a particle surface of the graphite material to a depth of 40 nm is within a range of 0.010?(a)?0.04 as determined by a peak intensity of O1s obtained by HAX-PES measurement using a hard X-ray of 7,940 eV.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventors: Akinori Sudoh, Yuuichi Kamijou, Masako Tanaka, Tomohiro Abe
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Publication number: 20140160274Abstract: An omnidirectional camera comprises a camera mounting frame 6 of cylindrical hollow body, a plurality of horizontal camera units 7 each of which is provided on a horizontal plane orthogonal to a center line of the camera mounting frame 6 and adapted to acquire an image in a horizontal direction, a vertical camera unit 8 provided so as to coincide with the center line of the camera mounting frame 6 and adapted to acquire an image in a zenith direction, and a ring-like GPS antenna 19 provided so as to surround the vertical camera unit 8.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCONInventors: Takeshi Ishida, Jun Sasagawa, Tomohiro Abe, Hirokazu Yamada, Tetsuya Akimoto
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Publication number: 20130334512Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent element which comprises two or more hole injection/transport layers each formed by a wet film formation method using a composition containing, as a hole-injecting/transporting compound, an arylamine polymer compound that has a repeating unit having a triarylamine structure therein, in which when the number of atoms present on the path which is the smallest in the number of atoms present thereon, of the paths which each connect the nonaromatic tertiary nitrogen atoms contained in any two triarylamine structures present in each polymer compound, is taken as N: the minimum number of atoms between nitrogen atoms in the compound, then the N in each hole injection/transport layer is in a specific state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro ABE, Futoshi Tanaka, Kazuki Okabe, Atsushi Takahashi, Koichiro Iida, Ichiro Imada
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Patent number: 8604972Abstract: In a position measuring method, GPS ranging data obtained at a reference station 1 and an observation station 2 is inputted to four solution calculating sections 12, RTK solutions such as a fix solution at the observation station 2 are calculated in the solution calculating sections 12 according to the RTK system, and the RTK solutions are inputted to a solution obtaining unit 13. Further, it is decided whether or not the RTK solutions include multiple fix solutions. When it is decided that the RTK solutions include multiple fix solutions, deviations between the fix solutions are determined and it is decided whether or not the deviations exceed an allowable value. When it is decided that none of the deviations exceed the allowable value, predetermined arithmetic processing is performed on the fix solutions to obtain a normal fix solution. Moreover, the solution calculating sections are sequentially restarted at predetermined time intervals.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2009Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Zosen CorporationInventors: Toshihide Miyake, Haruhiko Yoshida, Tomohiro Abe
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Publication number: 20130202864Abstract: The polyolefin composite film is excellent in low-temperature heat sealability, heat-sealing strength and transparency, and at least has surface layer [i]//intermediate layer [iii]//core layer [ii], wherein the surface layer [i] includes a propylene resin composition including 0-50 wt % of a specific propylene/?-olefin random copolymer (A) and/or a specific 1-butene/?-olefin copolymer (E), and 50-100 wt % of a propylene polymer (B) having a melting point of 120-170° C. ((A), (E) and (B) in the surface layer totals 100 wt %); the core layer [ii] includes a propylene resin composition including 70-100 wt % of a crystalline polypropylene (C) having a melting point of 150-170° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2011Publication date: August 8, 2013Inventors: Ikuo Akai, Tomohiro Abe, Takayuki Kuroki
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Patent number: 8380340Abstract: A numerical control apparatus provides for manual shift operation involving feed shafts of a machine tool in terms of a work coordinate system easily and readily understood by an operator. The numerical control apparatus includes a manual shift amount input unit for receiving an amount of manual shift involving linear feed shafts as operator-input data in terms of a work coordinate system defined on the work revolved or rotated by a rotary feed shaft. The numerical control apparatus further includes a manual shift amount cumulative storage for cumulatively storing the received amount of manual shift in terms of a work coordinate system. Also included is a cumulative shift amount coordinate converter for converting the cumulative amount of shift from the work coordinate system data to data in terms of machine coordinate system defined on the machine tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2008Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Okuma CorporationInventor: Tomohiro Abe
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Publication number: 20120286653Abstract: An electron affinity and an ionization potential of a luminescent material and a charge transport material contained in a luminescent layer and those of hole transport layer satisfy a specific relationship, and a hole transport layer comprises a compound which has a specific partial structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro ABE, Atsushi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20110205109Abstract: In a position measuring method, GPS ranging data obtained at a reference station 1 and an observation station 2 is inputted to four solution calculating sections 12, RTK solutions such as a fix solution at the observation station 2 are calculated in the solution calculating sections 12 according to the RTK system, and the RTK solutions are inputted to a solution obtaining unit 13. Further, it is decided whether or not the RTK solutions include multiple fix solutions. When it is decided that the RTK solutions include multiple fix solutions, deviations between the fix solutions are determined and it is decided whether or not the deviations exceed an allowable value. When it is decided that none of the deviations exceed the allowable value, predetermined arithmetic processing is performed on the fix solutions to obtain a normal fix solution. Moreover, the solution calculating sections are sequentially restarted at predetermined time intervals.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: Toshihide Miyake, Haruhiko Yoshida, Tomohiro Abe
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Publication number: 20110114926Abstract: To provide an organic electroluminescent element having a low driving voltage, high current efficiency and high voltage efficiency. An organic electroluminescent element comprising an anode, a cathode and an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the organic layer comprises a mixed layer containing a light-emitting low molecular compound and/or a charge-transporting low molecular compound in a film containing an insolubilized polymer obtained by insolubilizing an insolubilizing polymer, and, adjacent to the mixed layer, a layer containing a light-emitting low molecular compound and a charge-transporting low molecular compound and not containing an insolubilized polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Inventors: Kazuki Okabe, Atsushi Takahashi, Tomohiro Abe, Yasuyuki Tsurutani, Hideki Sato