Patents by Inventor Atsushi Mitani

Atsushi Mitani 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: 11909057
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery including a casing including cells housed therein and a terminal part including a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus, in which in the casing, a functional groove having a predetermined function in which a longitudinal direction coincides with a connection direction of the connection terminal and the electrode terminal is formed, and the functional groove includes a plurality of functional units having different lengths which are continuously formed. Accordingly, since there is no part that divides a functional unit between a plurality of functional units having different lengths, a size of the functional groove in a direction in which the functional units are continuous is a sum of sizes of a plurality of functional units, and thus it is possible to reduce the size of the battery while securing high functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20240021937
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery including a casing including cells housed therein and a terminal part including a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus, in which in the casing, a functional groove having a predetermined function in which a longitudinal direction coincides with a connection direction of the connection terminal and the electrode terminal is formed, and the functional groove includes a plurality of functional units having different lengths which are continuously formed. Accordingly, since there is no part that divides a functional unit between a plurality of functional units having different lengths, a size of the functional groove in a direction in which the functional units are continuous is a sum of sizes of a plurality of functional units, and thus it is possible to reduce the size of the battery while securing high functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20230335843
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery including a casing including cells housed therein and a terminal part including a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus, in which in the casing, a functional groove having a predetermined function in which a longitudinal direction coincides with a connection direction of the connection terminal and the electrode terminal is formed, and the functional groove includes a plurality of functional units having different lengths which are continuously formed. Accordingly, since there is no part that divides a functional unit between a plurality of functional units having different lengths, a size of the functional groove in a direction in which the functional units are continuous is a sum of sizes of a plurality of functional units, and thus it is possible to reduce the size of the battery while securing high functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20230107954
    Abstract: A battery includes: a casing that includes a plurality of exterior faces having outer faces facing mutually-different directions and has an arrangement concave part formed; a cell that is housed inside the casing; and a connector that includes a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus and is arranged in the arrangement concave part, in which a face forming the arrangement concave part of the casing is formed as a concave part forming face, and the concave part forming face is present between the exterior faces and the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
  • Patent number: 11581608
    Abstract: A battery includes: a casing that includes a plurality of exterior faces having outer faces facing mutually-different directions and has an arrangement concave part formed; a cell that is housed inside the casing; and a connector that includes a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus and is arranged in the arrangement concave part, in which a face forming the arrangement concave part of the casing is formed as a concave part forming face, and the concave part forming face is present between the exterior faces and the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20210210816
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery including a casing including cells housed therein and a terminal part including a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus, in which in the casing, a functional groove having a predetermined function in which a longitudinal direction coincides with a connection direction of the connection terminal and the electrode terminal is formed, and the functional groove includes a plurality of functional units having different lengths which are continuously formed. Accordingly, since there is no part that divides a functional unit between a plurality of functional units having different lengths, a size of the functional groove in a direction in which the functional units are continuous is a sum of sizes of a plurality of functional units, and thus it is possible to reduce the size of the battery while securing high functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
  • Patent number: 10938001
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery including a casing including cells housed therein and a terminal part including a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus, in which in the casing, a functional groove having a predetermined function in which a longitudinal direction coincides with a connection direction of the connection terminal and the electrode terminal is formed, and the functional groove includes a plurality of functional units having different lengths which are continuously formed. Accordingly, since there is no part that divides a functional unit between a plurality of functional units having different lengths, a size of the functional groove in a direction in which the functional units are continuous is a sum of sizes of a plurality of functional units, and thus it is possible to reduce the size of the battery while securing high functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20200358052
    Abstract: A battery includes: a casing that includes a plurality of exterior faces having outer faces facing mutually-different directions and has an arrangement concave part formed; a cell that is housed inside the casing; and a connector that includes a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus and is arranged in the arrangement concave part, in which a face forming the arrangement concave part of the casing is formed as a concave part forming face, and the concave part forming face is present between the exterior faces and the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
  • Patent number: 10763470
    Abstract: A battery includes: a casing that includes a plurality of exterior faces having outer faces facing mutually-different directions and has an arrangement concave part formed; a cell that is housed inside the casing; and a connector that includes a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus and is arranged in the arrangement concave part, in which a face forming the arrangement concave part of the casing is formed as a concave part forming face, and the concave part forming face is present between the exterior faces and the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20200194748
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery including a casing including cells housed therein and a terminal part including a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus, in which in the casing, a functional groove having a predetermined function in which a longitudinal direction coincides with a connection direction of the connection terminal and the electrode terminal is formed, and the functional groove includes a plurality of functional units having different lengths which are continuously formed. Accordingly, since there is no part that divides a functional unit between a plurality of functional units having different lengths, a size of the functional groove in a direction in which the functional units are continuous is a sum of sizes of a plurality of functional units, and thus it is possible to reduce the size of the battery while securing high functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
  • Patent number: 10615384
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery including a casing including cells housed therein and a terminal part including a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus, in which in the casing, a functional groove having a predetermined function in which a longitudinal direction coincides with a connection direction of the connection terminal and the electrode terminal is formed, and the functional groove includes a plurality of functional units having different lengths which are continuously formed. Accordingly, since there is no part that divides a functional unit between a plurality of functional units having different lengths, a size of the functional groove in a direction in which the functional units are continuous is a sum of sizes of a plurality of functional units, and thus it is possible to reduce the size of the battery while securing high functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20180233717
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery including a casing including cells housed therein and a terminal part including a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus, in which in the casing, a functional groove having a predetermined function in which a longitudinal direction coincides with a connection direction of the connection terminal and the electrode terminal is formed, and the functional groove includes a plurality of functional units having different lengths which are continuously formed. Accordingly, since there is no part that divides a functional unit between a plurality of functional units having different lengths, a size of the functional groove in a direction in which the functional units are continuous is a sum of sizes of a plurality of functional units, and thus it is possible to reduce the size of the battery while securing high functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20180233718
    Abstract: A battery includes: a casing that houses a cell inside; and a terminal part that has connection terminals connected to electrode terminals of a connection apparatus, in which the casing includes a top face and a bottom face positioned on opposite sides in a height direction and two side faces positioned between the top face and the bottom face on opposite sides in a widthwise direction, a notch is formed by a level difference face that is continuous from the side face and a groove forming face that is continuous from the bottom face, and a guided groove that is open to the groove forming face is formed in the casing, and the guided groove is positioned on a further bottom face side than the level difference face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Atsushi Mitani
  • Publication number: 20180233719
    Abstract: A battery includes: a casing that includes a plurality of exterior faces having outer faces facing mutually-different directions and has an arrangement concave part formed; a cell that is housed inside the casing; and a connector that includes a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus and is arranged in the arrangement concave part, in which a face forming the arrangement concave part of the casing is formed as a concave part forming face, and the concave part forming face is present between the exterior faces and the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
  • Patent number: 9972812
    Abstract: A battery includes: a casing that includes a plurality of exterior faces having outer faces facing mutually-different directions and has an arrangement concave part formed; a cell that is housed inside the casing; and a connector that includes a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus and is arranged in the arrangement concave part, in which a face forming the arrangement concave part of the casing is formed as a concave part forming face, and the concave part forming face is present between the exterior faces and the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
  • Patent number: 9917285
    Abstract: A battery includes: a casing that houses a cell inside; and a terminal part that has connection terminals connected to electrode terminals of a connection apparatus, in which the casing includes a top face and a bottom face positioned on opposite sides in a height direction and two side faces positioned between the top face and the bottom face on opposite sides in a widthwise direction, a notch is formed by a level difference face that is continuous from the side face and a groove forming face that is continuous from the bottom face, and a guided groove that is open to the groove forming face is formed in the casing, and the guided groove is positioned on a further bottom face side than the level difference face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Atsushi Mitani
  • Patent number: 7252257
    Abstract: The invention proposes a tape drive apparatus, tape extraction apparatus and tape cartridge that enable a reliable chucking and chucking release, and a stable carrying of a tape being extracted from a cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiya Kurokawa, Joichi Daiba, Katsumi Maekawa, Yasuaki Kano, Atsushi Mitani
  • Patent number: 7019931
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tape drive apparatus enabled to directly and accurately detect dew condensation on a rotary head drum. Tape serving as a recording medium is drawn out of a cartridge. The drawn tape runs in such a way as to be wound on a tape takeup reel provided in a tape drive apparatus body. Signals are recorded on and reproduced from the tape by winding the drawn tape around the rotary head drum. This tape drive apparatus has a prethreading mechanism that brings the tape into slight contact with the rotary head drum before the tape is completely wound therearound. Dew condensation on the rotary head drum is detected by rotating the rotary head drum during a status in which the tape is brought by the prethreading mechanism into contact with the rotary head drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki Kano, Atsushi Mitani, Masaki Yoshizawa, Toshiya Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 6991193
    Abstract: A tape drive apparatus, tape extraction apparatus and tape cartridge that enable a reliable chucking and chucking release, and a stable carrying of a tape being extracted from a cartridge. The apparatus includes a carrying mechanism for extracting the tape as a recording medium from the cartridge where the magnetic tape is stored, and for carrying the magnetic tape to be wound up onto a takeup reel provided on the drive apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiya Kurokawa, Joichi Daiba, Katsumi Maekawa, Yasuaki Kano, Atsushi Mitani
  • Patent number: D938903
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Miyake, Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani