Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Abe

Toshihiro 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).

  • Publication number: 20080034674
    Abstract: A cargo storage device, comprising lift parts (4) and (4?) for raising in which a plurality of load carrying horizontal frames (6, . . . ) and (6?, . . . ) are disposed at roughly equal intervals, a lift part (5) for lowering formed adjacent to and parallel with the lift parts for raising, and upright columnar support members (7) and (7?) horizontally swingably supporting the horizontal frames (6, . . . ) and (6?, . . . ) between these lift parts which are stored in a vertically installed housing (1). The support members (7) and (7?) comprise movable parts formed by stacking, independently of each other, a plurality of cylindrical units swingable by 180° horizontally and fixed parts having support shaft bodies supporting the cylindrical units and forming a rotating axis for swinging the support members horizontally. The horizontal frames (6, . . . ) and (6?, . . .
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventor: Toshihiro Abe
  • Publication number: 20070264577
    Abstract: An electrochemical device having excellent safety at high temperature is provided by using a separator for an electrochemical device, which is made of a porous film comprising: a porous base (5) having a heat-resistant temperature of 150° C. or higher and including filler particles (3); at least one kind of shutdown resin (6) selected from the group consisting of resin A that has a melting point in a range of 80° C. to 130° C. and resin B that absorbs an electrolyte and swells due to heating, and the swelling degree is increased as the temperature rises; and a binder (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Inventors: Hideaki Katayama, Toshihiro Abe, Nobuaki Matsumoto, Fusaji Kita, Shigeo Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20070234351
    Abstract: A system resource manager of a site management server registers a server domain as a group of servers having a uniform physical wire connection. A software RM of the site management server and a software sub RM of a domain management server install, in cooperation with each other, a software used by a server that belongs to a registered server domain in a storage connected via a SAN, and causes the server to use installed software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Satoshi Iyoda, Yoshinobu Hibi, Masayuki Naitou, Shigehiro Yoshikawa, Toshihiro Abe
  • Publication number: 20070224493
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte battery having an wound electrode body including a positive electrode having a layer of a positive electrode active material formed on a current collector, a negative electrode having a layer of a negative electrode active material formed on a current collector and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, where the positive electrode has an exposed portion having no layer of the positive electrode active material at least at one of a winding-start edge and a winding-finish edge of the positive electrode so as to provide a lead member connected to an external terminal, an insulating layer of plural resins is formed on the exposed portion of the current collector of the positive electrode in a part in which the exposed portion of the current collector of the positive electrode faces that of the negative electrode via the separator, and the winding-start edge or the winding-finish edge of the positive electrode havi
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hayato Higuchi, Toshihiro Abe
  • Publication number: 20070039308
    Abstract: A combustion system which comprises a combustion chamber (1) wherein the supply of air is intercepted and a fluid (L) formed by mixing combustibles with water is supplied, water in the fluid (L) is thermally decomposed, combustibles are burnt, and a gas after combustion is discharged, a fluid storage tank (40) for storing the fluid (L) formed by mixing combustibles with water, a fluid supply section (50) for supplying the fluid (L) in the fluid storage tank (40) to the combustion chamber (1), and a gas recovery section (60) for recovering a gas discharged from the combustion chamber (1). The above combustion system inhibits the formation of nitrogen oxides, since the system is almost free from the contamination of nitrogen in air, and produces an exhaust gas containing hydrogen and carbon dioxide as main components, which results in the production of a clean exhaust gas and east recovery of an exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventor: Toshihiro Abe
  • Publication number: 20060289462
    Abstract: A purpose is to provide an air heater unit for a vehicle and an air heater system for a vehicle, capable of easily controlling energization to an air heater. An air heater system 200 for a vehicle includes an air heater 101 having an electrothermal heating element 120 and a semiconductor switch connected to the electrothermal heating element 120 in series to control the energization to the electrothermal heating element. The semiconductor switch 110 is a semiconductor switch having a current detecting function provided with a fourth connector pin 114 (a terminal for current detection) to detect a current which flows in the electrothermal heating element 120.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Seigo Muramatsu, Takahito Inagaki, Toshihiro Abe
  • Publication number: 20060216609
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte battery according to the present invention is a non-aqueous electrolyte battery including: a positive electrode including a positive collector and a positive active material containing layer formed on the positive collector; a negative electrode including a negative collector and a negative active material containing layer formed on the negative collector; and a separator provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrode has a positive collector exposed portion at a part of the positive collector, on which the positive active material containing layer is not formed. An insulating resin film formed of a base substance of a heat resistant resin having a heat resistant temperature of 150° C. or more, the resin film containing a thermoplastic resin therein, is provided at a portion where the positive collector exposed portion and the negative active material containing layer are opposed to each other with the separator positioned therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Toshihiro Abe, Hayato Hicuchi, Hideaki Katayama
  • Publication number: 20060162543
    Abstract: A hydraulic circuit for a hydraulic working machine is composed of a main pump 21, a boom cylinder 11 arranged for extension or contraction by pressure oil from the main pump 21, a directional control valve 22 for controlling flows of pressure oil to be fed from the main pump 21 to a bottom chamber 11a and rod chamber 12b of the boom cylinder 11, a control unit 23 for performing a change-over control of the directional control valve 22, a pilot pump 24, a jack-up selector valve 25 for controlling a flow of pressure oil delivered from the pilot pump 24, a flow control valve 26 connected on an upstream side of the directional control valve 22 to a meter-in port of the directional control valve 22 such that the flow control valve 26 can be changed over by the jack-up selector valve 25, and a center bypass selector valve 27 connected on a downstream side of the directional control valve 22 to a center bypass port of the directional control valve 22 such that the center bypass selector valve 27 can be changed over
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Toshihiro Abe, Yusuke Kajita, Kazunori Nakamura, Kouji Ishikawa, Hideo Karasawa
  • Patent number: 6959365
    Abstract: A microcomputer with a built-in flash memory is obtained in which the flash memory can be properly rewritten with a rewrite program kept placed on the flash memory and without requiring additional complicated control circuitry. On accepting an erase/write command which constitutes a rewrite command, a flash memory module (2) outputs to a flash memory control circuit (3) a ready status signal RYIBY indicative of a busy state during execution of the series of processing. When the ready status signal RYIBY indicates the busy state, the flash memory control circuit (3) outputs a hold signal HOLD at active “H,” in order to inhibit a CPU (1) from accessing the flash memory module (2). When the ready status signal RYIBY has recovered the ready state, the flash memory control circuit (3) outputs the hold signal HOLD at “L” to allow the CPU (1) to access the flash memory module (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Naoki Ootani, Yoshio Kasai, Toshihiro Abe, Mitsuru Sugita
  • Patent number: 6904849
    Abstract: The present invention is a waste incinerating method and a device for the method, characterized in that, using a combustion furnace (111) incorporating a high temperature resistant coil-shaped flue (117) and having flue heating means and a thermo sensor (128), while maintaining the temperature inside the flue at a high temperature by suppressing an air feed amount and a temperature of the heating means, exhaust smoke produced by the combustion of waste is passed through the flue for complete combustion to completely eliminate the exhaust smoke. Because any harmful substance such as dioxin is not exhausted, the method and device are suitable as the incinerating method and incinerating device for inflammable waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Inventor: Toshihiro Abe
  • Publication number: 20040241553
    Abstract: An ion-conductive electrolyte which comprises a compound having in the molecule a structure represented by the following chemical formula and an electrolyte salt; and a cell employing the ion-conductive electrolyte. The ion-conductive electrolyte has a low vapor pressure, has a high ion conductivity even at room temperature, and has a high lithium ion transport number. With this ion-conductive electrolyte, a highly safe cell having excellent discharge characteristics can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Toshihiro Abe, Shoji Saibara, Hideaki Katayama, Shigeo Aoyama, Keigo Aoi, Makito Yokoe, Masahiko Okada
  • Patent number: 6757195
    Abstract: Redundant circuits 11 to 15 are provided in correspondence to memory blocks 1 to 5, respectively. Bit lines BL0 to BL15 are located across the memory blocks. Spare bit lines SBL1 and SBL2 are located across the redundant circuits 11 to 15. When a memory cell failure occurs in the memory block 5 except a predetermined memory block (for example, a boot block) 2 and when the bit line BL8 corresponding to the memory cell failure is replaced with the spare bit line SBL1, each of switches 56 and 76 is put into an on state in correspondence to the spare bit line SBL1. Furthermore, each of switches 48 and 88 is put into the on state in correspondence to the bit line BL8. As a result, the spare bit line SBL1 turns the redundant circuit 12 corresponding to the memory block 2, to be connected to the memory block 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Abe, Yoshio Kasai, Naoki Ootani, Mitsuru Sugita
  • Publication number: 20040060489
    Abstract: The present invention is a waste incinerating method and a device for the method, characterized in that, using a combustion furnace (111) incorporating a high temperature resistant coil-shaped flue (117) and having flue heating means and a thermo sensor (128), while maintaining the temperature inside the flue at a high temperature by suppressing an air feed amount and a temperature of the heating means, exhaust smoke produced by the combustion of waste is passed through the flue for complete combustion to completely eliminate the exhaust smoke. Because any harmful substance such as dioxin is not exhausted, the method and device are suitable as the incinerating method and incinerating device for inflammable waste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Toshihiro Abe
  • Patent number: 6681576
    Abstract: A method for improving the efficiency of power generation in a method for power generation comprising forcefully forming an ascending gas flow channel and a descending gas flow channel within a closed zone with a gas sealed therein, generating a whirling flow by the synergistic interaction of both and rotating a turbine by the whirling flow to generate electric power as well as a device for realizing the same. A whirling flow to rotate fans (3,4) is generated by installing a cylindrical rotor (2) between the ascending gas flow channel and the descending gas flow channel. Optionally, a second cylindrical rotor (12) is further installed between the ascending gas flow channel and the partition wall isolating the closed zone from outside so as to reduce the friction between the ascending gas flow and the descending gas flow. And, the present invention is suitable as a method for power generation by utilizing, for example, a temperature difference occurring in nature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Inventor: Toshihiro Abe
  • Patent number: 6674623
    Abstract: In a microcomputer equipped with a built-in temperature sensor, diodes as a temperature sensor are incorporated in a pair of circuit blocks, respectively, and placed in opposite polarity connection to each other. When detecting a temperature of the microcomputer, a constant current If is supplied to the diodes through terminals commonly connected to both the diodes. A voltage Vf generated at each diode is read through terminals located at more adjacent nodes to the diode when compared in position with the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Abe, Shintaro Mori, Fumihiko Terayama, Masahiro Kitamura, Seiichi Yamazaki, Yasuo Moriguchi
  • Patent number: 6600137
    Abstract: The quantity of supply heat of heated gas is controlled so that a supply heat quantity of the heated gas when no heat treatment of solder or the like is needed is made smaller than a supply heat quantity of the heated gas when heat treatment of solder or the like is needed, reducing consumption power when no heat treatment is needed for a board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Nonomura, Toshihiro Abe, Nobuyasu Nagafuku, Kuniyo Matsumoto, Takashi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20030093612
    Abstract: A microcomputer with a built-in flash memory is obtained in which the flash memory can be properly rewritten with a rewrite program kept placed on the flash memory and without requiring additional complicated control circuitry. On accepting an erase/write command which constitutes a rewrite command, a flash memory module (2) outputs to a flash memory control circuit (3) a ready status signal RYIBY indicative of a busy state during execution of the series of processing. When the ready status signal RYIBY indicates the busy state, the flash memory control circuit (3) outputs a hold signal HOLD at active “H,” in order to inhibit a CPU (1) from accessing the flash memory module (2). When the ready status signal RYIBY has recovered the ready state, the flash memory control circuit (3) outputs the hold signal HOLD at “L” to allow the CPU (1) to access the flash memory module (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Ootani, Yoshio Kasai, Toshihiro Abe, Mitsuru Sugita
  • Publication number: 20030043626
    Abstract: Redundant circuits 11 to 15 are provided in correspondence to memory blocks 1 to 5, respectively. Bit lines BL0 to BL15 are located across the memory blocks. Spare bit lines SBL1 and SBL2 m are located across the redundant circuits 11 to 15. When a memory cell failure occurs in the memory block 5 except a predetermined memory block (for example, a boot block) 2 and when the bit line BL8 corresponding to the memory cell failure is replaced with the spare bit line SBL1, each of switches 56 and 76 is put into an on state in correspondence to the spare bit line SBL1. Furthermore, each of switches 48 and 88 is put into the on state in correspondence to the bit line BL8. As a result, the spare bit line SBL1 turns the redundant circuit 12 corresponding to the memory block 2, to be connected to the memory block 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Toshihiro Abe, Yoshio Kasai, Naoki Ootani, Mitsuru Sugita
  • Patent number: 6413340
    Abstract: In the method for the preparation of a laminated ferrite inductor device comprising the steps of: laminating a ferrite green sheet lined with and supported by a substrate film of, for example, polyethylene terephthalate provided with a penetrating through-hole and a coil pattern to a second ferrite green sheet followed by removal of the substrate film by peeling to form a laminate of ferrite green sheets to be subjected to sintering, peelability of the substrate film from the ferrite green sheet can be improved to prevent the ferrite green sheet from occurrence of defects such as breaking, crease formation and stretching by providing a snap groove of an adequate incision depth having a rectangular profile of a frame and, along the outer periphery of the snap groove, a peel-facilitating reinforcement pattern by printing with a printing paste to have a specified line width and printing thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Anbo, Fumio Uchikoba, Toshihiro Abe, Akihiro Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5658848
    Abstract: An image-recording transparent film comprising a flexible film transparent to visible light and a recording layer on which an image is formable with an image-forming apparatus and which is provided on a surface of said flexible film, in which at least a part of the film has an absorption peak in a wavelength range between 250 nm and 400 nm, an absorption peak in a wavelength range between 700 nm and 1200 nm, and an IR light transmission of 40% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Abe, Kanryo Terasawa, Kazushi Miyata, Hirotaka Kameyama