Patents Assigned to Calsonic Kansei Corporation
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Publication number: 20190020006Abstract: An assembled battery has improved reliability by facilitating and strengthening adhesive fixation of battery cells to a holder and a case and by accurately positioning electrode terminals. The assembled battery includes a battery cell (150) having a cap surface (151) and an opposing can bottom (155), a holder (120) holding the battery cell (150), a case (110) that engages with the holder (120) and houses the battery cell (150) together with the holder (120), a first adhesive portion (170) adhering the battery cell (150) to the holder (120), and a second adhesive portion (180) adhering the battery cell (150) to the case (110). The first adhesive portion (170) is provided between edges of the cap surface (151) and corresponding portions of the holder (120), and the second adhesive portion (180) is provided between a substantially central portion of the can bottom (155) and a corresponding portion of the case (110).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki MOTOHASHI, Hitoshi ONO, Yoshikazu TAKAMATSU, Takayuki HIRASE
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Patent number: 10173589Abstract: A cup holder includes a cup holder body which has a bottomed container shape and is capable of accommodating a beverage container; a decorative finisher member which is installed in an upper edge portion of the cup holder body; a light guide member which is interposed between a lower portion of the finisher member and an upper edge portion of the cup holder body. A light-guide-member installation part and a finisher-member fixing part are provided in the cup holder body. The finisher-member fixing part fixes the finisher member to the cup holder body in a state where the finisher member is separated with a gap part from an upper side of the light guide member.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshihide Takahama
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Patent number: 10175303Abstract: An apparatus and method for battery parameter estimation estimate the parameters of a battery equivalent circuit model while reducing the computation load. The apparatus includes a charge/discharge current detector (3) that detects a charge/discharge current value of a battery (1); a terminal voltage detector (2) that detects a terminal voltage value of the battery (1); and an estimator (4) that estimates, based on the charge/discharge current value and the terminal voltage value, parameters in a battery equivalent circuit model (41) that approximates the Warburg impedance of the battery (1).Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignees: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION, KEIO UNIVERSITY, KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Atsushi Baba, Shuichi Adachi, Ichiro Maruta
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Publication number: 20190006648Abstract: Productivity of an assembled battery is improved by shortening the takt time for assembly. An assembled battery (100) includes a battery module group (B) including one or more battery cells (150) and a cell holder (120) for holding the one or more battery cells (150), and an auxiliary module group (S) including components (210, 220, 230, 240) and a pedestal (200) on which the components (210, 220, 230, 240) are arranged. The battery module group (B) and the auxiliary module group (S) are attached together by the pedestal (200) being fastened to the cell holder (120) with bus bars (164, 165, 285, 286).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki MOTOHASHI, Hitoshi ONO, Yoshikazu TAKAMATSU, Takayuki HIRASE
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Patent number: 10166842Abstract: To provide a grill installation structure that is capable of firmly supporting an air outlet of a grill body of an air-conditioning grill to a grill installation part of an installation member even when the grill installation part of the installation member is designed to have a notched shape. A finisher of the grill installation part is formed in a notched shape such that an air-conditioning grill unit is insertable in a direction (grill insertion direction Ig) orthogonal to an opening direction of the air outlet, and the finisher includes a grill fixing part on the back. The air-conditioning grill unit includes an outer peripheral flange disposed frontward to a front surface side of the finisher, and the air-conditioning grill unit includes a grill holding plate that is installed in the grill fixing part from a back thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 10153526Abstract: A battery unit, a bottomed case, a plate-shaped cooling plate, and first heat transfer material are included. The cooling plate is fastened to a bottom part of the case from the outside of the case, and can cool the battery unit via the bottom part of the case. The first heat transfer material have a plastic property and are held between the bottom part of the case and the cooling plate. The bottom part of the case has heat transfer material housings that house excess first heat transfer material therein when the cooling plate has been fastened to the case.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Motohashi, Takashi Otsuka, Satoshi Sakuma, Tatsunari Kawaguchi, Hitoshi Shimonosono, Yoshito Sonou, Tomoyuki Hanada
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Publication number: 20180335623Abstract: A head-up display apparatus reduces the trouble caused by horizontal separation of a display image. The head-up display apparatus (1) includes a display source (2) inside an instrument panel (6), an opening (7) on the instrument panel (6), display light from the display source (2) being emitted through the opening (7), and an opening cover (5) provided around the opening (7). At horizontal ends (51, 53) of the opening cover (5), a change in color or reflectance is provided from the opening sides (52a, 54a) towards the outer sides (52b, 54b).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2016Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuo ARAI, Hiromasa MIURA
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Publication number: 20180328226Abstract: In a turbine housing that includes a scroll portion constituting a spiral exhaust gas passage between an exhaust inlet side flange constituting an inlet for exhaust gas and an exhaust outlet side flange constituting an outlet for the exhaust gas, the turbine housing discharging the exhaust gas to an exhaust outlet side through a turbine wheel disposed in a central portion of the scroll portion, a part of a passage face of the exhaust gas passage, in the scroll portion, is formed from a scroll member made of a casting.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru YOKOSHIMA, Toru IIJIMA, Naoki TOBARI, Yasunori KOZUKA, Takaharu YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20180326816Abstract: A heating device includes: a heater that generates heat when electrical power is supplied; and at least two switching elements connected to the heater in series, the switching elements being configured to switch supply and interruption of electrical power to the heater by being switched on and off, wherein a first switching element of the at least two switching elements is kept at on state while switching operation of a second switching element is repeated between on and off.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi OTSUKA
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Publication number: 20180321489Abstract: An illumination structure includes a substrate having a front surface on which a light source is attached, and a reflector arranged on the front surface of the substrate to surround the light source, wherein the reflector includes a reflection wall part having a regular pyramid-like shape, and four inside surfaces of the reflection wall part having the regular pyramid-like shape include steep slope parts, respectively, having an angle larger than 7.5 degrees and smaller than 15 degrees with respect to a direction of an optical axis of the light source as a standard.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventor: Kazunori TOMARU
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Patent number: 10107704Abstract: A torque estimating device of a gas compressor includes a reference torque characteristic storage unit that stores a reference torque characteristic of the gas compressor as a torque characteristic of the gas compressor in a specific operation state, a torque setting unit that sets a torque corresponding to an input speed of rotation of the gas compressor and pressure of a refrigerant discharged from the gas compressor, on the basis of the reference torque characteristic stored in the reference torque characteristic storage unit, and a torque correcting unit that sets a torque at startup of the gas compressor among the torques set by the torque setting unit, by correcting the torque set by the torque setting unit, in accordance with the speed of rotation and an elapsed time from startup.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventor: Keita Satou
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Publication number: 20180301983Abstract: Provided is a power converter including: a power module that converts direct-current electric power from a power storage apparatus and alternating-current electric power to be supplied to a load; a DC/DC converter that converts direct-current voltage from the power storage apparatus; a charger that controls charging of power storage apparatus with electrical power supplied via an external connector; a capacitor module that has a capacitor for smoothing voltage; and a case that accommodates the power module, the DC/DC converter, the charger, and the capacitor module. In the case, the power module, the charger, and the DC/DC converter are arranged around the capacitor module.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2016Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihiro OKAZAKI, Gen OKUZUKA, Yuuichirou NOMURA, Masaharu NAGANO
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Publication number: 20180301984Abstract: A power converter includes: a power module that converts direct-current electric power from a power storage apparatus and alternating-current electrical power to be supplied to a load; a charger that converts alternating-current electrical power supplied via an external connector to direct-current electric power and charges the power storage apparatus therewith; a capacitor module that is arranged between the power module and the charger and that has a capacitor that smoothes voltage; a DC/DC converter that converts direct-current voltage supplied from the power storage apparatus; and a signal line connected to the charger, wherein the power module and the capacitor module are connected by high-voltage wire on one surface side of the capacitor module, and the signal line is connected to the charger by extending via other surface of the capacitor module opposite from the one surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2016Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihiro OKAZAKI, Gen OKUZUKA, Yuuichirou NOMURA, Masaharu NAGANO
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Patent number: 10101584Abstract: A head up display unit can be provided in an inner portion of an instrument panel. A column bracket for mounting a steering column is at a lower portion of a vehicle body strength member and extends in a vehicle width direction in a vehicle rear side of a front wall panel of a vehicle interior. The head up display unit is mounted on the column bracket so as to be movable to a vehicle upward direction by an emergency input load from a vehicle front direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Satou
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Publication number: 20180292462Abstract: A state of charge calculation apparatus and storage battery system improve the estimation accuracy of the state of charge of a secondary battery. A state of charge calculation apparatus (15) for a secondary battery (14) includes a charging/discharging current detector (22) that detects a charging/discharging current of the secondary battery (14), a terminal voltage detector (23) that detects a terminal voltage of the secondary battery (14), a first estimator (24) that integrates the charging/discharging current and estimates a first state of charge, a second estimator (25) that estimates a second state of charge on the basis of the relationship between open circuit voltage and state of charge of the secondary battery (14), and a state of charge calculator (26) that calculates a third state of charge on the basis of the first state of charge and second state of charge respectively weighted by the charging/discharging current.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2016Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventor: Kinnosuke ITABASHI
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Patent number: 10077019Abstract: The vehicle airbag device includes an airbag module, an airbag lid member, and a reinforcing member. The reinforcing member includes at least an attachment flange part having a fixing part such as a welding part and a module accommodation part. The attachment flange part is provided with a module fixing part, the module fixing part being protruded from an under surface of the attachment flange. The module fixing part is provided with, at a lower end thereof, a fragile part that is broken by a force smaller than a welding force (fixing force) of the welding part and a separation prevention part that keeps connecting a portion below the fragile part to the module fixing part when the fragile part is broken.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 10077705Abstract: A flange structure for connecting together two members each having a flow path with different angles which can control an increase in flow resistance and can realize easy and stable manufacture can include a first member and a second member connected to each other through a flange. A central axis of a flow path of the second member can be slanted at a first angle with respect to a central axis of a flow path of the first member. The flow path of the first member and the flow path of the second member are allowed to communicate with each other by an in-flange flow path formed in the flange, and a second angle constituted of an acute angle between a central axis of the in-flange flow path and the central axis of the flow path of the first member is smaller than the first angle.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventor: Shouta Kogure
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Publication number: 20180262122Abstract: A power converter 1 includes: a power module 20 that converts direct-current electric power to three-phase alternating-current electrical power and outputs the three-phase alternating-current electrical power from three-phase terminals; an output bus bar 24 that has motor terminals 26 and a plurality of power module terminals 25 that are connected to the power module 20; a bus bar holder 23 holding the output bus bar 24; and a case 2 that has a through hole 3 through which the output bus bar 24 penetrates and that accommodates the power module 20, the output bus bar 24, and the bus bar holder 23. The three-phase terminals are arranged side-by-side on the power module 20. The plurality of power module terminals 25 are respectively formed on the output bus bar 24 so as to correspond to the three-phase terminals, and the plurality of power module terminals 25 are positioned on the three-phase terminals when the output bus bar 24 and the power module 20 are accommodated in the case 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2016Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihiro OKAZAKI, Gen OKUZUKA, Yuuichirou NOMURA, Masaharu NAGANO
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Publication number: 20180251012Abstract: Achieving a high fogging-removal performance with a defroster duct having a small width in the vehicle width direction. A vehicular defroster duct structure includes a defroster duct unit which includes a left defroster duct and a right defroster duct. The left defrost duct is curved leftward and the right defroster duct is curved rightward from the central line X in the vehicle width direction. At least one of the left and right defroster ducts includes a first guide surface and a second guide surface on an inner wall surface thereof close to the central line X. The first guide surface guides air-conditioning air toward a lower corner are of the windshield. The second guide surface guides the air-conditioning air toward a center upper part of the windshield.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro SANO
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Publication number: 20180252432Abstract: A fluid-heating device for heating fluid with a heater includes: a heating portion that is molded so as to cover the surrounding of the heater; and a support body integrally cast into the heating portion, the heating portion being molded in a state in which the heater is supported by the support body in a die for molding the heating portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: Calsonic Kansei CorporationInventors: Takeshi OGASAWARA, Naohisa KAMIYAMA, Hiroki YOSHIOKA, Takashi OTSUKA, Daiju SUZUKI