Patents by Inventor Yoshihide Ooshima

Yoshihide Ooshima 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: 8389181
    Abstract: A fuel cell stack device that can suppress a damage to fuel cells is provided. A fuel cell stack device includes a fuel cell stack in which a plurality of columnar fuel cells are arranged upright, and are electrically connected via a current-collecting member interposed between adjacent fuel cells, fuel cells stack-supporting members disposed so as to hold the fuel cell stack via an end current-controlling member from both end sides, and a manifold that fixes lower ends of the fuel cells, and that supplies a reactant gas to the fuel cells. The fuel cell stack-supporting member has a lower end fixed to the manifold and is an elastically deformable member, and is disposed such that a fixed portion thereof fixed to the manifold is at a same or lower level than a fixed portion of the fuel cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihide Ooshima, Norimitsu Fukami
  • Patent number: 8026011
    Abstract: A fuel cell assembly in which ends on one side of the cells forming gas passages are gas-tightly fixed to a holding means. Between the peripheries of the ends on one side of the cells and the holding means, there are arranged a fixing member for fixing the cells to the holding means and a sealing member for accomplishing a gas-tight sealing between the ends on one side of the cells and the holding means. The fixing member has a softening temperature of not lower than 1000° C. and the sealing member has a softening temperature of from 700 to 1000° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihide Ooshima, Kazuto Matsukami, Takashi Shigehisa, Akira Kokaji
  • Publication number: 20100203414
    Abstract: A fuel cell stack device that can suppress a damage to fuel cells is provided. A fuel cell stack device includes a fuel cell stack in which a plurality of columnar fuel cells are arranged upright, and are electrically connected via a current-collecting member interposed between adjacent fuel cells, fuel cells stack-supporting members disposed so as to hold the fuel cell stack via an end current-controlling member from both end sides, and a manifold that fixes lower ends of the fuel cells, and that supplies a reactant gas to the fuel cells. The fuel cell stack-supporting member has a lower end fixed to the manifold and is an elastically deformable member, and is disposed such that a fixed portion thereof fixed to the manifold is at a same or lower level than a fixed portion of the fuel cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihide Ooshima, Norimitsu Fukami
  • Publication number: 20050164067
    Abstract: A fuel cell assembly in which ends on one side of the cells forming gas passages are gas-tightly fixed to a holding means. Between the peripheries of the ends on one side of the cells and the holding means, there are arranged a fixing member for fixing the cells to the holding means and a sealing member for accomplishing a gas-tight sealing between the ends on one side of the cells and the holding means. The fixing member has a softening temperature of not lower than 1000° C. and the sealing member has a softening temperature of from 700 to 1000° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Yoshihide Ooshima, Kazuto Matsukami, Takashi Shigehisa, Akira Kokaji