Patents by Inventor Toru Taguchi
Toru Taguchi 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: 20240077363Abstract: A thermoelectric element that contains a plate shaped thermoelectric material that exhibits an anomalous Nernst effect, the thermoelectric element having an average thickness of 10 ?m to 100 ?m, and an average cross-sectional area of 0.008 mm2 to 1 mm2 as measured in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the thermoelectric element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Takahiro TAGUCHI, Toru TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240068881Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion device that includes an element body including a plurality of stacked; and a meandering wire inside the element body and that has a stacked structure. The meandering wire includes a thermoelectric material that has an anomalous Nernst effect, and a thermal conductivity of the plurality of stacked substrates is lower than that of the thermoelectric material. A thermoelectric conversion device that includes a winding core; and a winding wire wound around the winding core. The winding wire consists only of a thermoelectric material that has an anomalous Nernst effect. A thermoelectric conversion device that includes a plurality of substrates and meandering wires on main surfaces of the respective substrates. The meandering wires include a thermoelectric material that has an anomalous Nernst effect, and the substrates adjacent to each other are arranged at an angle that is larger than 0 degrees and smaller than 180 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Eiichi MAEDA, Masashi HATTORI, Mitsuru ODAHARA, Toru TAKAHASHI, Kojiro KOMAGAKI, Takahiro TAGUCHI
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Patent number: 8325872Abstract: A working apparatus has: a working equipment for doing works on a structure; a folding/unfolding mechanism for conveying the working equipment to the working position in a folded state; a conveyance mechanism (such as a horizontal thruster) for conveying the working equipment and the folding/unfolding mechanism to the working position; a pressing mechanism (such as a ballast tank) for pressing the working equipment against the lower surface of the structure; and a traveling mechanism including a wheel for traveling along the lower surface of the structure and positioning the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Mitsuaki Shimamura, Takeshi Maehara, Ikuko Kameyama, Hiroyuki Adachi, Yasuhiro Yuguchi, Toru Taguchi
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Publication number: 20100232562Abstract: A working apparatus has: a working equipment for doing works on a structure; a folding/unfolding mechanism for conveying the working equipment to the working position in a folded state; a conveyance mechanism (such as a horizontal thruster) for conveying the working equipment and the folding/unfolding mechanism to the working position; a pressing mechanism (such as a ballast tank) for pressing the working equipment against the lower surface of the structure; and a traveling mechanism including a wheel for traveling along the lower surface of the structure and positioning the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventors: Mitsuaki SHIMAMURA, Takeshi Maehara, Ikuko Kameyama, Hiroyuki Adachi, Yasuhiro Yuguchi, Toru Taguchi
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Patent number: 7720190Abstract: A working apparatus has: a working equipment for doing works on a structure; a folding/unfolding mechanism for conveying the working equipment to the working position in a folded state; a conveyance mechanism (such as a horizontal thruster) for conveying the working equipment and the folding/unfolding mechanism to the working position; a pressing mechanism (such as a ballast tank) for pressing the working equipment against the lower surface of the structure; and a traveling mechanism including a wheel for traveling along the lower surface of the structure and positioning the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Mitsuaki Shimamura, Takeshi Maehara, Ikuko Kameyama, Hiroyuki Adachi, Yasuhiro Yuguchi, Toru Taguchi
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Publication number: 20070253518Abstract: A working apparatus has: a working equipment for doing works on a structure; a folding/unfolding mechanism for conveying the working equipment to the working position in a folded state; a conveyance mechanism (such as a horizontal thruster) for conveying the working equipment and the folding/unfolding mechanism to the working position; a pressing mechanism (such as a ballast tank) for pressing the working equipment against the lower surface of the structure; and a traveling mechanism including a wheel for traveling along the lower surface of the structure and positioning the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2005Publication date: November 1, 2007Inventors: Mitsuaki Shimamura, Takeshi Maehara, Ikuko Kameyama, Hiroyuki Adachi, Yasuhiro Yuguchi, Toru Taguchi
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Patent number: 7270021Abstract: A working apparatus has: a working equipment for doing works on a structure; an operation mechanism adapted to actively move the working equipment relative to the structure; and an adhering/traveling module coupled to the operation mechanism and adapted to adhere to the structure so as to have the weight of the working apparatus borne by the structure and travel/move on the structure for positioning. With this arrangement, the working apparatus can perform accurate positioning operations in a narrow environment and complex scanning operations by means of various pieces of the working equipment such as inspection sensors, and can secure a large working area within a short period of time and reduce the overall working hours.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Mitsuaki Shimamura, Motohiko Kimura, Tomoyuki Ito, Yasuhiro Yuguchi, Toru Taguchi
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Publication number: 20060222138Abstract: A working apparatus has: a working equipment for doing works on a structure; an operation mechanism adapted to actively move the working equipment relative to the structure; and an adhering/traveling module coupled to the operation mechanism and adapted to adhere to the structure so as to have the weight of the working apparatus borne by the structure and travel/move on the structure for positioning. With this arrangement, the working apparatus can perform accurate positioning operations in a narrow environment and complex scanning operations by means of various pieces of the working equipment such as inspection sensors, and can secure a large working area within a short period of time and reduce the overall working hours.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2005Publication date: October 5, 2006Inventors: Mitsuaki Shimamura, Motohiko Kimura, Tomoyuki Ito, Yasuhiro Yuguchi, Toru Taguchi
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Publication number: 20040010795Abstract: A device driver installing program and a device driver installing apparatus for enhancing functions of a client/server system, by dynamically installing device drivers adapted to hardware of a client when the client is started, and also dynamically installing device drivers of external storages adapted to an authorization for a user group when user's log-in is made.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2003Publication date: January 15, 2004Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takashi Sasaki, Masanori Sakai, Toru Taguchi, Emiko Kawai, Mitsuhiro Kemmotsu
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Patent number: 5824829Abstract: An inhibitor to suppress or inhibit the viscosity increase of a hydrocarbon, e.g. in a bottom section of an oil quench tower, featuring the use of a sulfonic acid and/or its salt as an effective inhibitor composition, which may optionally contain a polymerization inhibitor including one or more inhibitors selected from the group of aromatic amines, phenols and dialkyl hydroxyl amines. Furthermore, the method to inhibit the increasing viscosity of hydrocarbon, e.g. in a bottom section of a tower, may be accomplished by adding the hydrocarbon viscosity inhibitor to the feed oil, reflux oil or directly to the tower bottom oil in the tower. Such an oil quench tower is used for an olefin production process in which the hydrocarbon may include naphtha, light oil, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, etc. in the raw material.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1997Date of Patent: October 20, 1998Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Noriaki Maeda, Toru Taguchi, Seiji Tanizaki, Nobumitsu Kumazawa, Yutaka Takeuchi
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Patent number: 4996372Abstract: In a process for producing 2,6-dihydroxynaphthalene from 2,6-diisopropylnaphthalene, 2,6-diisopropylnaphthalene is oxidized in the presence of a specific proportion of a basic compound to hydroxylate or hydroperoxylate 2,6-diisopropylnaphthalene in a high conversion, and the resulting intermediate is then subjected to acid cleavage in the presence of hydrogen peroxide to produce 2,6-dihydroxynaphthalene in a high yield. The yield of 2,6-dihydroxynaphthalene increases by subjecting the reaction mixture containing the above intermediate to a purifying operation or dehydrating operation or adding acetone to it before it is submitted to the acid cleavage. 2,6-Dihydroxynaphthalene may be reacted with acetic anhydride to obtain 2,6-diacetoxynaphthalene.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1990Date of Patent: February 26, 1991Assignee: Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Saeki, Hiroshi Fukuhara, Tokinori Agoo, Toru Taguchi, Hisaya Miki, Yutaka Haneda, Sadao Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 4273623Abstract: In the process for obtaining a concentrate of resorcin by acid-decomposing m-diisopropylbenzene hydroperoxide in an inert solvent in the presence of an acidic solid catalyst and distilling off acetone and the inert solvent from the resulting acid-decomposition reaction mixture, if water is added to this reaction mixture in an amount of 20 to 70% by weight based on resorcin and the reaction mixture is then subjected to distillation, resorcin can be obtained at a high recovery yield.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1979Date of Patent: June 16, 1981Assignee: Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Isao Hashimoto, Toru Taguchi, Hirohiko Nambu
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Patent number: 4239921Abstract: In a process for purification of crude resorcinol derived from an acid-cleavage product of m-diisopropylbenzene dihydroperoxide and containing impurities having higher boiling points than resorcinol is, the recrystallization of said crude resorcinol from a mixed solvent consisting of(a) about 0.5 to about 5 times the weight of resorcinol of an aromatic hydrocarbon which contains 6 to 10 carbon atoms and is liquid at 20.degree. C., and(b) about 0.1 to about 0.7 time the weight of resorcinol of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of alkyl phenols having a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group and acyl phenols derived from C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 aliphatic monocarboxylic acids.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1979Date of Patent: December 16, 1980Assignee: Mitsu, Petrochemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Isao Hashimoto, Hiroaki Nakagawa, Toru Taguchi, Hirohiko Nambu