Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Kojima

Toshiyuki Kojima 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: 11005119
    Abstract: In an electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, having nanofiber unwoven cloth buried in an electrolyte resin, the nanofiber unwoven cloth is disposed being exposed only from one face of the electrolyte membrane. The fuel cell includes a MEA having an anode electrode disposed on one face of the electrolyte membrane and having a cathode electrode disposed on the other face thereof, and a pair of separators holding the MEA by sandwiching the MEA therebetween. Thereby, the electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, the manufacturing method of the electrolyte membrane, and the fuel cell are provided with which the electric power generation property and productivity are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kojima, Masahiro Mori, Shinya Kikuzumi, Yasuhiro Ueyama, Yasushi Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20200212479
    Abstract: An all-solid battery includes a positive-electrode layer, a negative-electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer. The positive-electrode layer includes a positive-electrode current collector, a positive-electrode bonding layer that contains at least a conductive agent comprising non-metal and is formed on the positive-electrode current collector, and a positive-electrode mixture layer that contains at least a positive-electrode active material and a solid electrolyte and is formed on the positive-electrode bonding layer. The negative-electrode layer includes a negative-electrode current collector and a negative-electrode mixture layer that contains at least a negative-electrode active material and the solid electrolyte. The solid electrolyte layer is disposed between the positive-electrode mixture layer and the negative-electrode mixture layer and contains the solid electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: TOSHIYUKI KOJIMA, AKIHIRO HORIKAWA, MOTOHIRO OKOCHI, KAZUFUMI MIYATAKE
  • Publication number: 20200055399
    Abstract: A head-up display apparatus 200 includes: a projection optical system 30 that projects a virtual image; an environment monitor portion 72 as an object detection part that detects an object present in a detection region and detects a distance from the projection optical system 30 to the object as a target distance; an arrangement change apparatus 462 as a projection distance change part that periodically changes a projection distance of a virtual image from the projection optical system 30; and a main control apparatus 90 and a display control portion 18 as an image addition part that adds a related-information image as a virtual image by the projection optical system 30 to the detected object at timing when the target distance substantially matches the projection distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Norihide YAMADA, Junji HASHIMURA, Osamu TANNAI, Toshiyuki KOJIMA, Kazuhiro SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 10551242
    Abstract: The present invention reduces the time required by measuring a sensor object more than before. An input unit (10) includes an acquisition portion (11) that acquires a time sequence signal, a filter portion (12) that filters the time sequence signal according to a frequency, a forwarding portion (13) that forwards a filtered signal by frequency to a control device (90) and a filter switching portion (14). The filter switching portion (14) switches whether the filter portion (12) filters the time sequence signal according to a frequency in the process of acquiring the time sequence signal by the acquisition portion (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Miyake, Toshiyuki Kojima
  • Publication number: 20190156976
    Abstract: A dust core including an iron-based magnetic powder containing iron as a main component, including: a first magnetic powder which has a first peak in a particle size distribution of the iron-based magnetic powder; and a second magnetic powder which has a second peak corresponding to a particle size larger than a particle size corresponding to the first peak in the particle size distribution of the iron-based magnetic powder, and of which a crystal structure is nanocrystal or amorphous, in which a particle of the first magnetic powder and a particle of the second magnetic powder are in a state of being bonded to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: MITSUO SAITOH, YOSHIE TAKAHASHI, TAKAO KUROMIYA, TOSHIYUKI KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 10257000
    Abstract: The invention is adapted to properly suppress noises of various frequency bands. An input unit (10) includes an acquiring element (11) for periodically acquiring signals from a load cell, so as to obtain time series signals; a plurality of frequency filters (121-123) for filtering the time series signals according to frequencies; and a transfer element (13) for transferring the signal filtered by at least one of the frequency filters (121-123) according to the frequency to a control device (90). The suppressed frequency bands of the frequency filters (121-123) are not repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Miyake, Toshiyuki Kojima
  • Publication number: 20190013123
    Abstract: Provided herein is a soft magnetic alloy powder that can exhibit a high saturation flux density and desirable soft magnetic characteristics. A dust core using the soft magnetic alloy powder is also provided. The soft magnetic alloy powder is an Fe-based nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloy powder of a crystallized Fe-based amorphous soft magnetic alloy powder, and has a DSC curve with a first peak that is 15% or less of a first peak of the Fe-based amorphous soft magnetic alloy in terms of a maximum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: TOSHIYUKI KOJIMA, MASATO MAEDE
  • Publication number: 20190013125
    Abstract: Provided herein is a dust core having high mechanical strength and high magnetic permeability. An alloy powder constituting the dust core is also provided. A soft magnetic powder is used that has a plurality of protrusions of 0.1 ?m or more and 5 ?m or less on an alloy powder surface. A dust core is used that contains at least 80 weight % of the soft magnetic alloy powder. A method for producing a soft magnetic powder is used that includes producing an amorphous soft magnetic alloy ribbon by liquid quenching; and pulverizing the amorphous soft magnetic alloy ribbon into a powder having a thickness of 0.1 ?m or more and 40 ?m or less without heat treatment. The pulverization cleaves the amorphous soft magnetic alloy ribbon, and produces a protrusion on a powder surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: TOSHIYUKI KOJIMA, MASATO MAEDE, TAKAO KUROMIYA
  • Publication number: 20190013129
    Abstract: A dust core capable of reducing the eddy-current loss of a soft magnetic powder, and having a small loss, particularly in a high-frequency region includes a powder of a soft magnetic composition having a maximum roundness of 0.5 or more, and a mean roundness of 0.2 or more. The powder includes a pulverized powder and a spherical powder. The pulverized powder has a maximum roundness of 0.5 or more, and a mean roundness of 0.2 or more. The spherical powder has a maximum roundness of 0.9 or more, and a mean roundness of 0.5 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: MASATO MAEDE, TOSHIYUKI KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190013124
    Abstract: Provided herein is a soft magnetic alloy powder that can exhibit a high saturation flux density and desirable soft magnetic characteristics. A dust core using such a soft magnetic alloy powder is also provided. A soft magnetic alloy powder is used that includes an amorphous phase, and an ?Fe crystalline phase residing in the amorphous phase. The ?Fe crystalline phase has a crystallite volume distribution with a mode of 1 nm or more and 15 nm or less, and with a half width of 3 nm or more and 50 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: MASATO MAEDE, TOSHIYUKI KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190013127
    Abstract: A soft magnetic powder that can exhibit desirable soft magnetic characteristics. A dust core using the soft magnetic powder is also provided. The soft magnetic powder includes: a soft magnetic powder layer of an unoxidized soft magnetic material; a second oxide layer as an oxide with iron or boron residing around the soft magnetic powder layer; and a first oxide layer of an iron oxide residing around the second oxide layer. The first oxide layer and the second oxide layer reside in a region of 20 nm or more and 500 nm or less from a surface of the soft magnetic powder, and are absent in a region of more than 500 nm and 1,600 nm or less from the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: MASATO MAEDE, KAZUTO FUKUDA, TOSHIYUKI KOJIMA, MITSUO SAITOH
  • Patent number: 10103400
    Abstract: A membrane-electrode assembly including an electrolyte membrane (1), a pair of catalyst layers (3, 3) facing each other sandwiching the electrolyte membrane (1), and a pair of gas diffusion layers facing each other sandwiching the electrolyte membrane (1) and the pair of catalyst layers (3, 3), wherein at least one of the pair of catalyst layers (3, 3) includes unwoven cloth (6A) including fiber-like structures (6) each having proton conduction performance, and wherein a portion of the unwoven cloth is buried in the electrolyte membrane (1) adjacent to the catalyst layer (3) including the unwoven cloth (6A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Mori, Toshiyuki Kojima, Shinya Kikuzumi
  • Patent number: 9929412
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a supported platinum catalyst, includes: generating a platinum group salt solution using platinum group salts and a complexing agent; mixing the platinum group salt solution and a carbon powder dispersion in which carbon powder is dispersed; and adding a reducing agent to a mixed solution of the platinum group salt solution and the carbon powder dispersion, and reducing the platinum group salts to allow the platinum group particles to be supported on the carbon powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ueyama, Toshiyuki Kojima, Yasushi Taniguchi, Kazunori Kubota, Hideyuki Takahashi, Shun Yokoyama, Kazuyuki Tohji, Shuzo Tsuchida
  • Publication number: 20170219419
    Abstract: The present invention reduces the time required by measuring a sensor object more than before. An input unit (10) includes an acquisition portion (11) that acquires a time sequence signal, a filter portion (12) that filters the time sequence signal according to a frequency, a forwarding portion (13) that forwards a filtered signal by frequency to a control device (90) and a filter switching portion (14). The filter switching portion (14) switches whether the filter portion (12) filters the time sequence signal according to a frequency in the process of acquiring the time sequence signal by the acquisition portion (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MIYAKE, Toshiyuki KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170222839
    Abstract: The invention is adapted to properly suppress noises of various frequency bands. An input unit (10) includes an acquiring element (11) for periodically acquiring signals from a load cell, so as to obtain time series signals; a plurality of frequency filters (121-123) for filtering the time series signals according to frequencies; and a transfer element (13) for transferring the signal filtered by at least one of the frequency filters (121-123) according to the frequency to a control device (90). The suppressed frequency bands of the frequency filters (121-123) are not repeated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MIYAKE, Toshiyuki KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 9723767
    Abstract: On a circuit board configured to transmit a signal, a pulse transformer is provided on a path used for transmitting the signal of the circuit board. A shield member is provided on the circuit board to prevent noise, which is generated due to noise current flowing in a noise line pattern, from entering the pulse transformer. The shield member covers a part of a surface of at least one pulse transformer, the part intersecting concentric circles (which represent a magnetic field generated by the noise current) whose central axis extends along the direction in which the noise current flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kojima, Megumu Asano
  • Publication number: 20170062854
    Abstract: A membrane-electrode assembly including an electrolyte membrane (1), a pair of catalyst layers (3, 3) facing each other sandwiching the electrolyte membrane (1), and a pair of gas diffusion layers facing each other sandwiching the electrolyte membrane (1) and the pair of catalyst layers (3, 3), wherein at least one of the pair of catalyst layers (3, 3) includes unwoven cloth (6A) including fiber-like structures (6) each having proton conduction performance, and wherein a portion of the unwoven cloth is buried in the electrolyte membrane (1) adjacent to the catalyst layer (3) including the unwoven cloth (6A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro MORI, Toshiyuki KOJIMA, Shinya KIKUZUMI
  • Patent number: 9531025
    Abstract: A membrane-electrode assembly including an electrolyte membrane (1), a pair of catalyst layers (3, 3) facing each other sandwiching the electrolyte membrane (1), and a pair of gas diffusion layers facing each other sandwiching the electrolyte membrane (1) and the pair of catalyst layers (3, 3), wherein at least one of the pair of catalyst layers (3, 3) includes unwoven cloth (6A) including fiber-like structures (6) each having proton conduction performance, and wherein a portion of the unwoven cloth is buried in the electrolyte membrane (1) adjacent to the catalyst layer (3) including the unwoven cloth (6A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Mori, Toshiyuki Kojima, Shinya Kikuzumi
  • Publication number: 20160372759
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a supported platinum catalyst, includes: generating a platinum group salt solution using platinum group salts and a complexing agent; mixing the platinum group salt solution and a carbon powder dispersion in which carbon powder is dispersed; and adding a reducing agent to a mixed solution of the platinum group salt solution and the carbon powder dispersion, and reducing the platinum group salts to allow the platinum group particles to be supported on the carbon powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: YASUHIRO UEYAMA, TOSHIYUKI KOJIMA, YASUSHI TANIGUCHI, KAZUNORI KUBOTA, HIDEYUKI TAKAHASHI, SHUN YOKOYAMA, KAZUYUKI TOHJI, SHUZO TSUCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20160028100
    Abstract: In an electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, having nanofiber unwoven cloth buried in an electrolyte resin, the nanofiber unwoven cloth is disposed being exposed only from one face of the electrolyte membrane. The fuel cell includes a MEA having an anode electrode disposed on one face of the electrolyte membrane and having a cathode electrode disposed on the other face thereof, and a pair of separators holding the MEA by sandwiching the MEA therebetween. Thereby, the electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, the manufacturing method of the electrolyte membrane, and the fuel cell are provided with which the electric power generation property and productivity are improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KOJIMA, Masahiro MORI, Shinya KIKUZUMI, Yasuhiro UEYAMA, Yasushi TANIGUCHI