Patents by Inventor Yasushi Kaneko
Yasushi Kaneko 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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Patent number: 11417784Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a multi-junction light energy conversion element including a material having a band gap suitable for a light energy conversion layer located upstream in an incidence direction of light. The present disclosure provides a light energy conversion element, comprising a first light energy conversion layer containing SrZn2N2 and a second light energy conversion layer containing an light energy conversion material. The light energy conversion material has a narrower band gap than the SrZn2N2.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koki Ueno, Ryosuke Kikuchi, Toru Nakamura, Takahiro Kurabuchi, Yasushi Kaneko, Kazuhito Hato, Fumiyasu Oba, Yu Kumagai
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Publication number: 20210408305Abstract: An inorganic compound semiconductor of the present disclosure contains yttrium, zinc, and nitrogen.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: RYOSUKE KIKUCHI, TORU NAKAMURA, KOKI UENO, TAKAHIRO KURABUCHI, YASUSHI KANEKO, KAZUHITO HATO, FUMIYASU OBA, YU KUMAGAI
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Publication number: 20190305154Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a multi-junction light energy conversion element including a material having a band gap suitable for a light energy conversion layer located upstream in an incidence direction of light. The present disclosure provides a light energy conversion element, comprising a first light energy conversion layer containing SrZn2N2 and a second light energy conversion layer containing an light energy conversion material. The light energy conversion material has a narrower band gap than the SrZn2N2.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2018Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: KOKI UENO, RYOSUKE KIKUCHI, TORU NAKAMURA, TAKAHIRO KURABUCHI, YASUSHI KANEKO, KAZUHITO HATO, FUMIYASU OBA, YU KUMAGAI
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Patent number: 10340537Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a reformer, a raw-material supplier, a desulfurizer, a flow controller, a vapor supplier, a fuel cell, a combustor, and a controller. After the raw-material supplier supplies a raw material at the startup of the fuel cell system, the controller causes the combustor to combust the raw material exhausted as off-gas from the fuel cell, subsequently causes the flow controller to allow gas exhausted from the reformer to flow through a recycle gas passage, and thereafter causes the vapor supplier to supply vapor, or the controller causes the flow controller to allow the gas exhausted from the reformer to flow through the recycle gas passage, subsequently causes the combustor to combust the raw material exhausted as the off-gas from the fuel cell, and thereafter causes the vapor supplier to supply the vapor.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Kaneko, Kunihiro Ukai
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Patent number: 10320016Abstract: A high-temperature fuel cell system includes a fuel cell that includes an anode and a cathode and that generates power by using a fuel gas and an oxidant gas, a fuel-gas path along which the fuel gas flows, an oxidant-gas path along which the oxidant gas flows, an anode-off-gas path along which an anode off-gas flows, a cathode-off-gas path along which a cathode off-gas flows, a combustion space in communication with the anode-off-gas path and the cathode-off-gas path and in which the anode off-gas and the cathode off-gas are burned, a flue-gas path along which a flue gas flows, a cathode-off-gas branch portion disposed on the cathode-off-gas path between the combustion space and the cathode and at which some of the cathode off-gas is branched from the cathode-off-gas path, and a first heat exchanger that enables heat exchange between the oxidant gas, the flue gas, and the cathode off-gas.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu Sakai, Kunihiro Ukai, Yasushi Kaneko, Shigenori Onuma, Takashi Kakuwa
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Patent number: 10096851Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell unit including a solid oxide fuel cell and a mixer, the solid oxide fuel cell including an anode gas passage and a cathode gas passage, the mixer mixing an anode off gas discharged from the anode gas passage and a cathode off gas discharged from the cathode gas passage; a power-generating raw material supply device operative to supply a power-generating raw material to the fuel cell unit; a combustible gas passage, which extends from the power-generating raw material supply device to a downstream end of the anode gas passage; an oxidizing gas supply device operative to supply an oxidizing gas to the cathode gas passage; and a controller operative to, after electric power generation by the fuel cell unit is stopped, control the power-generating raw material supply device to supply the power-generating raw material in a volume more than or equal to a volume of the combustible gas passage to the combustible gas passage, and concurrently control the oxidizing gType: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignees: PANASONIC CORPORATION, TOTO LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Kaneko, Shigenori Onuma, Kunihiro Ukai, Akinori Yukimasa, Hiroshi Shirahama, Toshiharu Otsuka, Hiromi Kita, Taiichiro Sakamoto, Toshiharu Ooe
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Patent number: 10079396Abstract: A solid-oxide fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell unit including a solid-oxide fuel cell including an anode gas channel and a cathode gas channel and a mixer; an electric power generation raw material supplier; a combustible gas channel extending from the electric power generation raw material supplier to a downstream end of the anode gas channel; an oxidizing gas supplier; and a controller operative to, after electric power generation of the fuel cell unit is stopped, control the electric power generation raw material supplier to supply to the combustible gas channel the electric power generation raw material, the amount of which compensates for contraction of gas in the combustible gas channel due to temperature decrease of the fuel cell unit and also control the oxidizing gas supplier to supply the oxidizing gas to the cathode gas channel in accordance with the supply of the electric power generation raw material.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignees: PANASONIC CORPORATION, TOTO LTD.Inventors: Shigenori Onuma, Yasushi Kaneko, Kunihiro Ukai, Akinori Yukimasa, Yosuke Akagi, Takeshi Saito
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Patent number: 10014536Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a reformer generating a reformed gas using a raw material; a fuel cell generating electric power; a raw material supply passage; a hydro-desulfurizer operative to remove sulfur component in the raw material; a recycle passage through which the reformed gas is supplied to the raw material supply passage provided upstream of the hydro-desulfurizer; a temperature detector detecting a temperature of the hydro-desulfurizer; and a controller, wherein: when the temperature of the hydro-desulfurizer reaches a predetermined temperature, the controller increases a flow rate of the raw material from a predetermined flow rate by a flow rate corresponding to a flow rate of the recycled gas, and then, the controller starts supplying the recycled gas to the recycle passage; and after the recycled gas reaches an upstream end of the recycle passage, the controller returns the flow rate of the raw material to the predetermined flow rate.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, TOTO LTD.Inventors: Shigenori Onuma, Noboru Taniguchi, Yasushi Kaneko, Toru Sukawa, Osamu Sakai, Yuichi Mikami, Hiroshi Shirahama, Toshiharu Otsuka
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Publication number: 20170338505Abstract: A high-temperature fuel cell system includes a fuel cell that includes an anode and a cathode and that generates power by using a fuel gas and an oxidant gas, a fuel-gas path along which the fuel gas flows, an oxidant-gas path along which the oxidant gas flows, an anode-off-gas path along which an anode off-gas flows, a cathode-off-gas path along which a cathode off-gas flows, a combustion space in communication with the anode-off-gas path and the cathode-off-gas path and in which the anode off-gas and the cathode off-gas are burned, a flue-gas path along which a flue gas flows, a cathode-off-gas branch portion disposed on the cathode-off-gas path between the combustion space and the cathode and at which some of the cathode off-gas is branched from the cathode-off-gas path, and a first heat exchanger that enables heat exchange between the oxidant gas, the flue gas, and the cathode off-gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: OSAMU SAKAI, KUNIHIRO UKAI, YASUSHI KANEKO, SHIGENORI ONUMA, TAKASHI KAKUWA
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Publication number: 20170092969Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell unit including a solid oxide fuel cell and a mixer, the solid oxide fuel cell including an anode gas passage and a cathode gas passage, the mixer mixing an anode off gas discharged from the anode gas passage and a cathode off gas discharged from the cathode gas passage; a power-generating raw material supply device operative to supply a power-generating raw material to the fuel cell unit; a combustible gas passage, which extends from the power-generating raw material supply device to a downstream end of the anode gas passage; an oxidizing gas supply device operative to supply an oxidizing gas to the cathode gas passage; and a controller operative to, after electric power generation by the fuel cell unit is stopped, control the power-generating raw material supply device to supply the power-generating raw material in a volume more than or equal to a volume of the combustible gas passage to the combustible gas passage, and concurrently control the oxidizing gType: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2015Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Yasushi KANEKO, Shigenori ONUMA, Kunihiro UKAI, Akinori YUKIMASA, Hiroshi SHIRAHAMA, Toshiharu OTSUKA, Hiromi KITA, Taiichiro SAKAMOTO, Toshiharu OOE
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Publication number: 20170047601Abstract: A solid-oxide fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell unit including a solid-oxide fuel cell including an anode gas channel and a cathode gas channel and a mixer; an electric power generation raw material supplier; a combustible gas channel extending from the electric power generation raw material supplier to a downstream end of the anode gas channel; an oxidizing gas supplier; and a controller operative to, after electric power generation of the fuel cell unit is stopped, control the electric power generation raw material supplier to supply to the combustible gas channel the electric power generation raw material, the amount of which compensates for contraction of gas in the combustible gas channel due to temperature decrease of the fuel cell unit and also control the oxidizing gas supplier to supply the oxidizing gas to the cathode gas channel in accordance with the supply of the electric power generation raw material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Shigenori ONUMA, Yasushi KANEKO, Kunihiro UKAI, Akinori YUKIMASA, Yosuke AKAGI, Takeshi SAITO
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Publication number: 20160329584Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a reformer generating a reformed gas using a raw material; a fuel cell generating electric power; a raw material supply passage; a hydro-desulfurizer operative to remove sulfur component in the raw material; a recycle passage through which the reformed gas is supplied to the raw material supply passage provided upstream of the hydro-desulfurizer; a temperature detector detecting a temperature of the hydro-desulfurizer; and a controller, wherein: when the temperature of the hydro-desulfurizer reaches a predetermined temperature, the controller increases a flow rate of the raw material from a predetermined flow rate by a flow rate corresponding to a flow rate of the recycled gas, and then, the controller starts supplying the recycled gas to the recycle passage; and after the recycled gas reaches an upstream end of the recycle passage, the controller returns the flow rate of the raw material to the predetermined flow rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Shigenori ONUMA, Noboru TANIGUCHI, Yasushi KANEKO, Toru SUKAWA, Osamu SAKAI, Yuichi MIKAMI, Hiroshi SHIRAHAMA, Toshiharu OTSUKA
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Publication number: 20160156048Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a reformer, a raw-material supplier, a desulfurizer, a flow controller, a vapor supplier, a fuel cell, a combustor, and a controller. After the raw-material supplier supplies a raw material at the startup of the fuel cell system, the controller causes the combustor to combust the raw material exhausted as off-gas from the fuel cell, subsequently causes the flow controller to allow gas exhausted from the reformer to flow through a recycle gas passage, and thereafter causes the vapor supplier to supply vapor, or the controller causes the flow controller to allow the gas exhausted from the reformer to flow through the recycle gas passage, subsequently causes the combustor to combust the raw material exhausted as the off-gas from the fuel cell, and thereafter causes the vapor supplier to supply the vapor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventors: Yasushi KANEKO, Kunihiro UKAI
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Patent number: 9228475Abstract: An exhaust silencing device connected to an exhaust system of an engine is provided in which two outlet pipes that have at an upstream end thereof an opening portion opening within the silencer main body and that discharge exhaust gas within the silencer main body to an outside thereof are disposed within the silencer main body along a bottom thereof so that the distances thereof from the lowest part of the bottom are substantially equal, and the opening portion of one outlet pipe is directed further toward the bottom of the silencer main body than is the opening portion of the other outlet pipe. Such exhaust silencing device efficiently discharges to the outside the condensed water building up within the silencer main body so as not to impair an effect in reducing exhaust resistance by providing two outlet pipes that guide the exhaust gas to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Yutaka Giken Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teruaki Mukai, Jun Muto, Yasushi Kaneko
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Publication number: 20140291067Abstract: An exhaust silencing device connected to an exhaust system of an engine is provided in which two outlet pipes that have at an upstream end thereof an opening portion opening within the silencer main body and that discharge exhaust gas within the silencer main body to an outside thereof are disposed within the silencer main body along a bottom thereof so that the distances thereof from the lowest part of the bottom are substantially equal, and the opening portion of one outlet pipe is directed further toward the bottom of the silencer main body than is the opening portion of the other outlet pipe. Such exhaust silencing device efficiently discharges to the outside the condensed water building up within the silencer main body so as not to impair an effect in reducing exhaust resistance by providing two outlet pipes that guide the exhaust gas to the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicants: YUTAKA GIKEN CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Teruaki Mukai, Jun Muto, Yasushi Kaneko
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Patent number: 8398741Abstract: Fine composite metal particle comprising a metal core and a coating layer of carbon, and being obtained by reducing metal oxide powder with carbon powder.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2011Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Kaneko, Shigeo Fujii, Hisato Tokoro
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Patent number: 8323374Abstract: Fine composite metal particle comprising a metal core and a coating layer of carbon, and being obtained by reducing metal oxide powder with carbon powder.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Kaneko, Shigeo Fujii, Hisato Tokoro, Takeo Oku
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Patent number: 8252781Abstract: [Object] It is to provide a novel compound useful for preventing and/or treating diseases that involves 11?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 (in particular diabetes, insulin resistance, diabetes complication, obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, fatty liver, or metabolic syndrome). [Means to Solve the Object] A 1,2-diazetidin-3-one derivative represented by the following general formula (1) or salt thereof, or their solvate.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Kowa Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Nakashima, Takaaki Araki, Takahisa Ogamino, Noriaki Gomi, Yasushi Kaneko, Kazutoyo Abe, Tadaaki Ohgiya
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Publication number: 20110185851Abstract: Fine composite metal particle comprising a metal core and a coating layer of carbon, and being obtained by reducing metal oxide powder with carbon powder.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTDInventors: Yasushi KANEKO, Shigeo FUJII, Hisato TOKORO
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Publication number: 20110159181Abstract: Fine composite metal particle comprising a metal core and a coating layer of carbon, and being obtained by reducing metal oxide powder with carbon powder.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2011Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTDInventors: Yasushi KANEKO, Shigeo FUJII, Hisato TOKORO, Takeo OKU