Patents by Inventor Wataru Tachikawa

Wataru Tachikawa 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: 20240072282
    Abstract: The present disclosure stabilizes power generation of a fuel cell stack in an environment in which an oxygen concentration in a fuel cell system readily decreases. In a case where it is detected that the oxygen concentration is lower than a predetermined concentration or where a phenomenon caused by the oxygen concentration being lower than the predetermined concentration is detected, processing to increase a flow rate of air supplied to the fuel cell stack or processing to ventilate the interior of the fuel cell stack by controlling an operation of a ventilation unit is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Naoya TOMIMOTO, Yosuke KAKIMI, Ken NAKAMURA, Katsuyuki TACHIKAWA, Wataru AKIMOTO
  • Patent number: 6817606
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to clear the packaging material and the presence/absence detecting method of the residual photothermographic image recording sheet, which are improved so that the concave section or the notched section provided on the bottom plate does not exercise a bad influence, caused by the exhalation of the organic solvent, on the recording sheet stacked on the lowermost position. Packaging material of the recording sheets, having a detecting means of the recording sheet, wherein there is provided the concave section or the notched section on a section where a part of a vacuum head comes into contact with a bottom plate located on a bottom section of the packaging material, and wherein there is arranged a filler formed with a soft material having air permeability and neither absorbs nor transmits organic solvent, in the concave section or the notched section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunori Goi, Mamoru Umeki, Wataru Tachikawa
  • Publication number: 20030049573
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to clear the packaging material and the presence/absence detecting method of the residual photothermographic image recording sheet, which are improved so that the concave section or the notched section provided on the bottom plate does not exercise a bad influence, caused by the exhalation of the organic solvent, on the recording sheet stacked on the lowermost position. Packaging material of the recording sheets, having a detecting means of the recording sheet, wherein there is provided the concave section or the notched section on a section where a part of a vacuum head comes into contact with a bottom plate located on a bottom section of the packaging material, and wherein there is arranged a filler formed with a soft material having air permeability and neither absorbs nor transmits organic solvent, in the concave section or the notched section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Applicant: KONICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsunori Goi, Mamoru Umeki, Wataru Tachikawa
  • Publication number: 20020157352
    Abstract: A photosensitive sheet film package, comprises a container including a floor plate having at least four sides, and side walls, wherein each of the four sides of the floor plate is connected to at least one of the side walls; and wherein the top of the space surrounded by the side walls is opened, a stack of photosensitive sheet films in said container; and a light-shielding bag in which the stack of photosensitive sheet films and the container are packaged light-tightly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2002
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Wataru Tachikawa, Mamoru Umeki