Patents by Inventor Yoji Minami

Yoji Minami 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: 8541978
    Abstract: A feed control device includes a contact device, an output detector, a contact weld sensor, and an alarm device. The output detector is configured to detect the presence of power feeding into the side of an electrically-powered car from an external power supply. The contact weld sensor is configured to sense that the contact device is welded based on a detection result of the output detector if detecting the presence of power feeding from the external power supply to a feed line for the contact device when a state signal representing charge permission is not entered. The alarm device is configured, if the contact weld sensor senses that the contact device is welded, to indicate the occurrence of weld to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Toyoya Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Fukuo, Tatsuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Shinichi Nakamura, Kouji Kakiuchi, Yoji Minami, Kazuhiro Kondou, Kiyosi Gotou
  • Patent number: 8369067
    Abstract: An electricity feeding control device is provided with an air hole (31c) which is formed by penetrating a part of a peripheral wall of a body (31) constituting a part of a housing case (3). The housing case (3) is provided in its inside with an inner pressure adjusting sheet (5), formed with a breathable and waterproof member, and arranged so as to cover the air hole (31c) from the inside of the housing case (3). The air hole (31c) comprises a long recess (31c2) formed in an outer surface of the body (31), a communicating hole (31c1) consecutively formed in one end of a longi-tudinal direction of the recess (31c2) and communicated with an inner surface of the body (31), and a shielding plate (33) attached in the outer surface of the body (31) so as to cover a region other than the other end of the longitudinal direction of the recess (31c2), in a region of an opening section (31c3) of the recess (31c2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Kouji Kakiuchi, Tatsuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Naoki Fukuo, Yoji Minami, Kazuhiro Kondou
  • Publication number: 20110122548
    Abstract: An electricity feeding control device is provided with an air hole (31c) which is formed by penetrating a part of a peripheral wall of a body (31) constituting a part of a housing case (3). The housing case (3) is provided in its inside with an inner pressure adjusting sheet (5), formed with a breathable and waterproof member, and arranged so as to cover the air hole (31c) from the inside of the housing case (3). The air hole (31c) comprises a long recess (31c2) formed in an outer surface of the body (31), a communicating hole (31c1) consecutively formed in one end of a longi-tudinal direction of the recess (31c2) and communicated with an inner surface of the body (31), and a shielding plate (33) attached in the outer surface of the body (31) so as to cover a region other than the other end of the longitudinal direction of the recess (31c2), in a region of an opening section (31c3) of the recess (31c2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Kouji Kakiuchi, Tatsuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Naoki Fukuo, Yoji Minami, Kazuhiro Kondou
  • Patent number: 6977518
    Abstract: An electrical leak detecting apparatus for detecting electrical leak of a power supply device includes two voltage division elements which have an identical impedance value and are connected to each other in series between input terminals or output terminals of a DC/AC conversion circuit of the power supply device, a detection element which has one end connected to a junction of the voltage division elements, a capacitor which is inserted between the other end of the detection element and ground and a decision member which receives a voltage drop across the detection element as a detection signal and processes the detection signal so as to judge occurrence of the electrical leak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotada Higashihama, Hisashi Usui, Koji Soshin, Toshiaki Saito, Yoji Minami
  • Publication number: 20040227521
    Abstract: An electrical leak detecting apparatus for detecting electrical leak of a power supply device includes two voltage division elements which have an identical impedance value and are connected to each other in series between input terminals or output terminals of a DC/AC conversion circuit of the power supply device, a detection element which has one end connected to a junction of the voltage division elements, a capacitor which is inserted between the other end of the detection element and ground and a decision member which receives a voltage drop across the detection element as a detection signal and processes the detection signal so as to judge occurrence of the electrical leak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotada Higashihama, Hisashi Usui, Koji Soshin, Yoji Minami
  • Patent number: D680065
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Shibamura, Tatsuya Mukai, Noboru Inagaki, Naoki Fukuo, Takao Akioka, Hironobu Oe, Shinichi Nakamura, Yoji Minami, Hironobu Kusafuka, Masaru Sasaki