Patents by Inventor Yusuke Nakashima
Yusuke Nakashima 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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Publication number: 20210331750Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a vehicle body frame and a cargo bed supported by the vehicle body frame, the cargo bed including a side wall unit. The side wall unit includes a side wall, a tail lamp mounted on a rear end portion of the side wall, and a bolt including a shaft portion and a head portion. The tail lamp is secured to the side wall by the bolt oriented in a vehicle width direction. The head portion of the bolt is hidden by a part of the side wall unit when viewed from behind.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Tetsuya IWATA, Yusuke NAKASHIMA
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Patent number: 11155304Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a pair of right and left front wheels disposed at a front end of the vehicle body frame, and a pair of right and left rear wheels disposed at a rear end of the vehicle body frame. The vehicle body frame has, at a bottom thereof, a bottom main frame extending in an anteroposterior direction at a center in a vehicle width direction, and a pair of right and left bottom side frames located width direction extending in the anteroposterior direction between the front wheels and the rear wheels at outer ends in the vehicle, and the bottom side frames are located above the bottom main frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazumasa Hisada, Gary Bozych, Nobuyuki Nishiguchi, Takeru Ohshima, Yusuke Nakashima
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Patent number: 11142030Abstract: A protection device of a vehicle suspension device includes a vehicle body frame, a wheel, a knuckle that rotatably supports the wheel, a suspension arm that connects the vehicle body frame and the knuckle and is configured to be swingable up and down along with up-and-down movement of the wheel with an end portion attached to the vehicle body frame being a pivot point, a shock absorber that has an upper end attached to the vehicle body frame and a lower end attached to the suspension arm, and is configured to buffer swinging movement in an up-and-down direction of the suspension arm, and an absorber cover attached to the suspension arm and covering a periphery of the shock absorber.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuki Ishibashi, Yusuke Nakashima
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Publication number: 20210313632Abstract: A cell system includes: a stacked-type cell module (100) having a plurality of lithium ion unit cells (1) being stacked and having through holes (3a, 3b) formed therein; a gas supply part (31); a cooling liquid supply part (32); a temperature sensor (35); and a control part (36) that controls switching between a normal control mode and a high-temperature control mode based on a signal from the temperature sensor (35). In the normal control mode, the control part (36) controls the gas supply part (31) to supply a gas to the through holes (3a, 3b), and at the same time, controls the cooling liquid supply part (32) to stop supply of a cooling liquid, and in the high-temperature control mode, the control part (36) controls the cooling liquid supply part (32) to supply the cooling liquid to the through holes (3a, 3b) to which the gas is supplied, and at the same time, controls the gas supply part (31) to stop supply of the gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Hideaki HORIE, Yasuhiro SHINDO, Yusuke MIZUNO, Ryosuke KUSANO, Yuki NEKOHASHI, Yusuke NAKASHIMA, Kotaro NASU, Naoya OMAE
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Patent number: 11075397Abstract: The bipolar secondary battery includes a power generation element including unit power generation elements stacked together and including bipolar electrodes stacked via separators, and current collecting plates arranged at both ends of the power generation element in the stacked direction of the unit power generation elements so as to be in contact with the power generation element, wherein the current collecting plates each include an electrically conductive layer and a resin film, the electrically conductive layer being formed on the resin film having a thermal shrinkage percentage of 2% or greater at a temperature of 150° C., and the separators have a higher thermal shrinkage start temperature than the resin films.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gentaro Kano, Kazuki Arihara, Atsushi Horai, Eiji Minegishi, Takashi Mori, Yusuke Emori, Yusuke Nakashima
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Publication number: 20210218049Abstract: A battery device comprises a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided with an electric power generating element and a pressing member which presses the electric power generating element in the stacking direction. The electric power generating element comprises: a positive electrode with a positive electrode active material layer of a positive electrode active material on the surface of a positive electrode collector; a negative electrode with a negative electrode active material layer of a negative electrode active material on the surface of a negative electrode collector; and a separator which holds an electrolyte solution. This battery device satisfies (1) 0.1<(T1?T2)/T1×100<5, where T1 is the thickness of the thickest portion of the electric power generating element in the stacking direction, and T2 is the thickness of the thinnest portion of the of the electric power generating element in the stacking direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Takamasa Nakagawa, Takeshi Nakano, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yusuke Nakashima, Naofumi Shoji
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Publication number: 20210188027Abstract: A protection device of a vehicle suspension device includes a vehicle body frame, a wheel, a knuckle that rotatably supports the wheel, a suspension arm that connects the vehicle body frame and the knuckle and is configured to be swingable up and down along with up-and-down movement of the wheel with an end portion attached to the vehicle body frame being a pivot point, a shock absorber that has an upper end attached to the vehicle body frame and a lower end attached to the suspension arm, and buffers swinging movement in an up-and-down direction of the suspension arm, and an absorber cover attached to the suspension arm and covering the periphery of the shock absorber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Kazuki ISHIBASHI, Yusuke NAKASHIMA
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Publication number: 20210175546Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery has a power generating element that includes a positive electrode in which a positive electrode active material layer including a positive electrode active material is formed on a surface of a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode in which a negative electrode active material layer including a negative electrode active material is formed on a surface of a negative electrode current collector, and a separator impregnated with an electrolyte solution. The negative electrode active material includes a Si material that contains silicon and is capable of insertion and removal of lithium ions. The electrolyte solution contains lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) and an inorganic lithium salt other than the LiFSI, and has a feature that a ratio of a concentration (mol/L) of the LiFSI with respect to a concentration (mol/L) of the inorganic lithium salt (LiFSI/inorganic lithium salt) in the electrolyte solution is 1 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shotaro DOI, Noboru YAMAUCHI, Yuki KUSACHI, Hajime SATOU, Hideaki HORIE, Yusuke NAKASHIMA, Naofumi SHOJI, Kazuya TSUCHIDA, Koji SUMIYA, Takumi HATAZOE, Shigehito ASANO, Nobuo ANDO
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Patent number: 11024835Abstract: To provide a positive electrode for a lithium ion battery having high energy density and being capable of rapid discharging. A positive electrode for a lithium ion battery, the positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer formed on the surface of the positive electrode current collector, and a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte including an electrolyte containing lithium ions and a non-aqueous solvent, in which the positive electrode active material layer includes a positive electrode active material and voids, the voids are filled with the non-aqueous liquid electrolyte, and a proportion of the battery capacity based on a total amount of lithium ions in the non-aqueous liquid electrolyte existing in the positive electrode active material layer with respect to the battery capacity based on a total amount of the positive electrode active material is 3.5 to 15%.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Minami, Yusuke Nakashima, Yasuhiko Ohsawa, Yuki Kusachi, Hajime Satou, Hiroshi Akama, Hideaki Horie
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Patent number: 10983464Abstract: A plurality of electric conductors provided on a substrate of a heater of an image heating device has a conductor group A including a plurality of first electric conductors and a conductor group B including a plurality of second electric conductors. The plurality of first electric conductors each have a first portion having a width W1 and a second portion having a width W2 smaller than the width W1, are provided on the substrate to be arranged side by side in a width direction. The plurality of second electric conductors each have a width W3 larger than the width W2, are provided on the substrate to be arranged side by side in a width direction so as to partially overlap the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yusuke Nakashima, Teruhiko Namiki, Takao Kawazu, Ryota Ogura
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Publication number: 20210111389Abstract: A predoping method for a negative electrode active material to dope the negative electrode active material with lithium ions using an electrolyte solution that includes lithium ions. The electrolyte solution includes at least one type of additive having a reduction potential higher than a reduction potential of a solvent contained in the electrolyte solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2019Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicants: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., JSR CorporationInventors: Shotaro DOI, Yuki KUSACHI, Noboru YAMAUCHI, Tomohiro KABURAGI, Hideaki HORIE, Yusuke NAKASHIMA, Kazuya TSUCHIDA, Naofumi SHOJI, Koji SUMIYA, Shigehito ASANO, Yasuyuki KOGA, Nobuo ANDO, Terukazu KOKUBO
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Patent number: 10957908Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an electrode for a lithium ion battery which has excellent electron conductivity even when the thickness of the electrode is increased. The electrode for a lithium ion battery according to the present invention includes a first principal surface located on a separator side of the lithium ion battery, and a second principal surface located on a current collector side, wherein the electrode has a thickness of 50 to 5000 ?m, and the electrode includes, between the first principal surface and the second principal surface, short fibers (A) having an average fiber length of 50 nm or more and less than 100 ?m, long fibers (B) having an average fiber length of 100 ?m or more and 1000 ?m or less, and active material particles (C), and the short fibers (A) and the long fibers (B) are electroconductive fibers.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Mizuno, Yasuhiro Shindo, Yusuke Nakashima, Kenichi Kawakita, Yuki Kusachi, Yasuhiko Ohsawa, Hajime Satou, Hiroshi Akama, Hideaki Horie
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Patent number: 10946707Abstract: A suspension structure of a utility vehicle includes: a shock absorber; and a trailing arm extending in a longitudinal direction of the utility vehicle. A lower end of the shock absorber is supported by a rear end of the trailing arm within a wheel as viewed in a side view of the utility vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Hisamura, Yusuke Nakashima
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Patent number: 10942476Abstract: In an image forming apparatus including an image heating portion that heats an image formed on a recording material using heat of a heater constituted of a substrate and a plurality of heat generating resistors disposed on the substrate, the plurality of heat generating resistors include (i) a first heat generating resistor that has a first temperature coefficient of resistance, and (ii) a second heat generating resistor that has a second temperature coefficient of resistance which is smaller than the first temperature coefficient of resistance, and heats a second heating region of which width in the longitudinal direction of the substrate is narrower than the first heating region which is heated by the first heat generating resistor, among the plurality of heating regions heated by the plurality of heat generating resistors.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryota Ogura, Yusuke Nakashima
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Patent number: 10930920Abstract: To provide a negative electrode for a lithium ion battery having high energy density and excellent rapid charging characteristics. A negative electrode for a lithium ion battery, the negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode active material layer formed on the surface of the negative electrode current collector, and a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte including an electrolyte containing lithium ions and a non-aqueous solvent, in which the negative electrode active material layer includes a negative electrode active material and voids, the voids are filled with the non-aqueous liquid electrolyte, and a proportion of the battery capacity based on a total amount of lithium ions in the non-aqueous liquid electrolyte existing in the negative electrode active material layer with respect to the battery capacity based on a total amount of the negative electrode active material is 3% to 17%.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Minami, Yusuke Nakashima, Yasuhiko Ohsawa, Yuki Kusachi, Hajime Satou, Hiroshi Akama, Hideaki Horie
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Publication number: 20210028436Abstract: A method for producing a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which the internal resistance of the battery is decreased, and which has a high capacity and high cycle durability, is provided. A method for producing a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that comprises a current collector and an electrode active material layer disposed on a surface of the current collector, the electrode active material layer comprising a non-bound body including an electrode active material, the method comprising a step of applying an electrode active material slurry including an electrode active material, a lithium salt, and a non-aqueous solvent on the surface of the current collector and thereby forming a coating film, wherein a water content of the electrode active material slurry is less than 500 ppm by mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takeshi Nakano, Wataru Ogihara, Kenichi Kawakita, Yusuke Nakashima, Ryosuke Kusano
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Publication number: 20200395594Abstract: A predoping method for a negative electrode active material to dope the negative electrode active material with lithium ions. The predoping method for a negative electrode active material includes: a predoping process and a post-doping modification process. In the predoping process, the negative electrode active material is doped with lithium ions, to thereby reduce a potential of the negative electrode active material relative to lithium metal. In the post-doping modification process, after the predoping process, reaction is caused between a reactive compound that is reactive with lithium ions and lithium ions doped into the negative electrode active material, to thereby increase the potential of the negative electrode active material relative to lithium metal. The potential of the negative electrode active material relative to lithium metal is 0.8 V or more at completion of the post-doping modification process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicants: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., JSR CorporationInventors: Shotaro DOI, Yuki KUSACHI, Noboru YAMAUCHI, Tomohiro KABURAGI, Hideaki HORIE, Yusuke NAKASHIMA, Kazuya TSUCHIDA, Naofumi SHOJI, Koji SUMIYA, Shigehito ASANO, Yasuyuki KOGA, Nobuo ANDO, Terukazu KOKUBO
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Publication number: 20200388875Abstract: The bipolar secondary battery includes a power generation element including unit power generation elements stacked together and including bipolar electrodes stacked via separators, and current collecting plates arranged at both ends of the power generation element in the stacked direction of the unit power generation elements so as to be in contact with the power generation element, wherein the current collecting plates each include an electrically conductive layer and a resin film, the electrically conductive layer being formed on the resin film having a thermal shrinkage percentage of 2% or greater at a temperature of 150° C., and the separators have a higher thermal shrinkage start temperature than the resin films.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2018Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gentaro KANO, Kazuki ARIHARA, Atsushi HORAI, Eiji MINEGISHI, Takashi MORI, Yusuke EMORI, Yusuke NAKASHIMA
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Patent number: 10821794Abstract: A suspension structure of a utility vehicle includes: a shock absorber; a knuckle; and an upper arm and a lower arm which connects the knuckle to a vehicle body frame of the utility vehicle, wherein a recessed portion which is recessed downward is formed on the upper arm, and a lower end of the shock absorber is supported by the recessed portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Nakashima, Takashi Hisamura
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Publication number: 20200301329Abstract: A plurality of electric conductors provided on a substrate of a heater of an image heating device has a conductor group A including a plurality of first electric conductors and a conductor group B including a plurality of second electric conductors. The plurality of first electric conductors each have a first portion having a width W1 and a second portion having a width W2 smaller than the width W1, are provided on the substrate to be arranged side by side in a width direction. The plurality of second electric conductors each have a width W3 larger than the width W2, are provided on the substrate to be arranged side by side in a width direction so as to partially overlap the second portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Yusuke Nakashima, Teruhiko Namiki, Takao Kawazu, Ryota Ogura