Patents by Inventor Masayoshi Haga

Masayoshi Haga 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).

  • Publication number: 20240162585
    Abstract: A power storage cell includes: an electrode assembly; a cell case; and an external terminal. The cell case has a case main body and a lid. The lid has a lid main body charged positively or negatively, an inversion plate that is able to short-circuit the lid main body and the external terminal, and a protrusion protruding from the inversion plate toward the external terminal. The inversion plate is deformable between a steady-state shape and an inversion shape, the steady-state shape being a shape curved to project in a direction away from the external terminal, the inversion shape being a shape curved to project toward the external terminal with the inversion plate being in contact with the external terminal. The external terminal has a holding portion that holds the protrusion when the inversion plate is in the inversion shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi HAGA, Masashi CHIHARA, Takenori IKEDA, Nana KURASHITA
  • Publication number: 20240162537
    Abstract: A power storage cell includes: an electrode assembly constituted of a wound body in which a plurality of positive electrode tabs and a plurality of negative electrode tabs are wound to protrude upward; a cell case; and an insulating member. The cell case has a case main body and a lid. The insulating member has a covering portion that covers an upper surface of the electrode assembly, and the covering portion has a holding portion that holds an electrolyte solution leaked from the electrode assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi Haga, Masashi Chihara, Takenori Ikeda, Nana Kurashita
  • Publication number: 20240154213
    Abstract: A power storage cell includes an electrode assembly, a cell case, and an external terminal. The cell case has a case main body and a lid. The lid has a lid main body, and an inversion plate that is able to short-circuit the lid main body and the external terminal. The inversion plate has: a base portion; an inversion portion connected to inside of the base portion, the inversion portion being able to come into contact with the external terminal; and a low-elastic member made of a conductive material having an elastic modulus smaller than an elastic modulus of the inversion portion, the low-elastic member being provided on a surface of the inversion portion facing the external terminal. The low-elastic member is elastically deformed with the low-elastic member being sandwiched between the inversion portion and the external terminal when the inversion portion is inverted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi HAGA, Masashi CHIHARA, Takenori IKEDA, Nana KURASHITA
  • Publication number: 20240154274
    Abstract: A power storage cell comprises an electrode assembly, a cell case, and an external terminal. The cell case has a case body and a lid. The lid has a lid body electrically charged with the same polarity as that of a positive electrode or a negative electrode, an invertible plate capable of short-circuiting between the lid body and the external terminal, and a prevention part connected to the invertible plate. The invertible plate is deformable between a normal shape and an inverted shape. The lid body has a receiving portion that receives the prevention part when the invertible plate is in the inverted shape. The receiving portion allows the prevention part to pass therethrough when the invertible plate is deforming from the normal shape to the inverted shape, and is in contact with the prevention part when the invertible plate is in the inverted shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi Haga, Masashi Chihara, Takenori Ikeda, Nana Kurashita
  • Publication number: 20240145871
    Abstract: A power storage cell includes: an electrode assembly; and a cell case that accommodates the electrode assembly. The cell case has a case main body provided with an opening that opens upward, a lid connected to the case main body, and an elastic member disposed between the case main body and the electrode assembly. The elastic member has a center-facing portion facing a central portion of the electrode assembly, and the center-facing portion has a shape curved to protrude in a direction away from the electrode assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi HAGA, Masashi CHIHARA, Takenori IKEDA, Nana KURASHITA
  • Publication number: 20240128618
    Abstract: A power storage cell comprises an electrode assembly including a plurality of tabs, a cell case, an external terminal, a connecting member, and an insulating member. The connecting member has a current collector plate connected to the plurality of tabs, and a connecting pin connecting the current collector plate and the external terminal. The insulating member includes an insulator that has a shape surrounding the connecting pin and that insulates the connecting pin from the cell case. The connecting pin has a covered portion covered with the insulator, and the covered portion has a fuse portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi Haga, Masashi Chihara, Takenori Ikeda, Nana Kurashita
  • Publication number: 20240128617
    Abstract: A power storage cell includes an electrode assembly, a cell case, and an external terminal. The cell case has a case main body and a lid. The lid has a lid main body connected to an opening of the case main body and charged positively or negatively in the electrode assembly, and a short-circuit member connected to the lid main body, the short-circuit member being able to short-circuit the lid main body and the external terminal. The external terminal includes a terminal plate. The short-circuit member includes an elastic portion made of a conductive resin. The elastic portion is separated from the terminal plate when an internal pressure of the cell case is less than a predetermined pressure, and is elastically deformed to come into contact with the terminal plate when the internal pressure of the cell case is equal to or more than the predetermined pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi Haga, Masashi Chihara, Takenori Ikeda, Nana Kurashita
  • Publication number: 20240128559
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a power storage cell includes: preparing a case main body, a lid main body, and an inversion plate; welding the inversion plate to the lid main body; and connecting the lid main body to an opening of the case main body. The lid main body prepared in the preparing includes a pressure release valve. In the welding, the welding of the inversion plate to the lid main body is started from an opposite portion of the inversion plate that is located opposite to a side of the inversion plate facing the pressure release valve, and after welding a periphery of the inversion plate, the welding of the inversion plate to the lid main body is ended at the opposite portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satomi YAMAMOTO, Masayoshi Haga, Masashi Chihara, Takenori Ikeda, Nana Kurashita
  • Patent number: 9712010
    Abstract: To provide a motor in which a cage coil formed of a wave winding conductor wire wound in plural turns and with bent portions is inserted in an integral type stator core. The motor including a stator provided with a wave winding coil using a flat conductor and a stator core, and a rotor provided with a rotor shaft is configured such that the wave winding coil includes the cage coil formed of a first wave winding wire assembly wound in plural turns, this assembly being formed of a plurality of bent-end wave winding conductor wires formed in a meandering pattern and overlapped in sequence with displacements from each other, a coil end part of the cage coil at one end is bent toward the rotor with respect to in-slot portions of the stator core, and the coil end part at the one end is positioned closer to an axis of the rotor than an inner peripheral surface of the stator core is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Masayoshi Haga, Shingo Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8587177
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a distributed winding type multi-phase coil. This coil includes unit coils made by winding a flat conductor wire in plural turns. The unit coils are mounted in slots of the stator core and connected with each other. Each unit coil includes an outer-layer coil and an inner-layer coil each being concentrically wound. Those two layer coils are made of a single continuous flat conductor wire. A winding start portion of the outer-layer coil and a winding end portion of the inner-layer coil form first and second connection end portions of the unit coil respectively. The first and second connection end portions are located separately on both edges of the unit coil above an upper end face of the stator core. The first connection end portion is placed close to an inner circumference of the stator core and the second connection end portion is placed close to an outer circumference of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Kitamura, Atsushi Watanabe, Fujio Ando, Masayoshi Haga
  • Patent number: 8427024
    Abstract: To provide a stator capable of achieving downsizing and high output power and a stator manufacturing method, a stator comprises a split stator core and slots formed between the teeth, and protrusion-formed coils each being made of a flat rectangular conductor and placed in the slots. Each protrusion-formed coil has a shape including, in a coil end portion, a lead-side protrusion or a non-lead-side protrusion formed to protrude upward in an axial direction of the stator core from a first oblique side portion, a second oblique side portion, a third oblique side portion, and a fourth oblique side portion, and a first oblique side portion, a second oblique side portion, a third oblique side portion, and a fourth oblique side portion. The lead-side protrusion or the non-lead-side protrusion is designed with a height to avoid interference between the protrusion-formed coils placed in the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Fujio Ando, Masayoshi Haga, Manabu Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20120223611
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stator which can be made compact and can produce high output, and also disclosed is a method for manufacturing the stator. A stator comprises a split stator core provided with teeth portions and slots, and a double coil formed of a flat type conductor, wherein the split stator core has a first block of six slots of U, V and W phases and a second adjoining block, the flat type conductor in the first slot of U phase forms a first loop coil together with the flat type conductor in the second slot of U phase, the flat type conductor in the second slot of U phase forms a second loop coil together with the flat type conductor in the first slot of U phase, and the second loop coil is arranged on the inner circumference of the first loop coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Masayoshi Haga
  • Publication number: 20120217836
    Abstract: To provide a motor in which a cage coil formed of a wave winding conductor wire wound in plural turns and with bent portions is inserted in an integral type stator core. The motor including a stator provided with a wave winding coil using a flat conductor and a stator core, and a rotor provided with a rotor shaft is configured such that the wave winding coil includes the cage coil formed of a first wave winding wire assembly wound in plural turns, this assembly being formed of a plurality of bent-end wave winding conductor wires formed in a meandering pattern and overlapped in sequence with displacements from each other, a coil end part of the cage coil at one end is bent toward the rotor with respect to in-slot portions of the stator core, and the coil end part at the one end is positioned closer to an axis of the rotor than an inner peripheral surface of the stator core is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Masayoshi Haga, Shingo Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20120112595
    Abstract: A cage coil includes a first combined conductor constituted of six first conductors each being formed in a continuous zig-zag pattern, the first conductors being overlapped sequentially with displacement, and a second combined conductor including six second conductors each being formed in a continuous zig-zag pattern, the second conductors being overlapped sequentially with displacement, and the second combined conductor being placed with displacement of one pitch from the first combined conductor, the first and second combined conductors are overlapped into a conductor assembly, the conductor assembly being wound by five turns. A stator includes the above cage coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Masayoshi Haga
  • Publication number: 20120025658
    Abstract: To provide a stator capable of achieving downsizing and high output power and a stator manufacturing method, a stator comprises a split stator core including teeth and slots formed between the teeth, and protrusion-formed coils each being made of a flat rectangular conductor and placed in the slots. Each protrusion-formed coil has a shape including, in a coil end portion, a lead-side protrusion or a non-lead-side protrusion formed to protrude upward in an axial direction of the stator core from a first oblique side portion, a second oblique side portion, a third oblique side portion, and a fourth oblique side portion, and a first oblique side portion, a second oblique side portion, a third oblique side portion, and a fourth oblique side portion. The lead-side protrusion or the non-lead-side protrusion is designed with a height to avoid interference between the protrusion-formed coils placed in the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Fujio Ando, Masayoshi Haga, Manabu Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20120007460
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a distributed winding type multi-phase coil. This coil includes unit coils made by winding a flat conductor wire in plural turns. The unit coils are mounted in slots of the stator core and connected with each other. Each unit coil includes an outer-layer coil and an inner-layer coil each being concentrically wound. Those two layer coils are made of a single continuous flat conductor wire. A winding start portion of the outer-layer coil and a winding end portion of the inner-layer coil form first and second connection end portions of the unit coil respectively. The first and second connection end portions are located separately on both edges of the unit coil above an upper end face of the stator core. The first connection end portion is placed close to an inner circumference of the stator core and the second connection end portion is placed close to an outer circumference of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Manabu Kitamura, Atsushi Watanabe, Fujio Ando, Masayoshi Haga
  • Patent number: D357213
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kevin Hunter, Masayoshi Haga, Akira Yamaguchi, Hideo Karikomi, Tetsuro Hakamada, Yusuke Fukushima
  • Patent number: D369991
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kevin Hunter, Masayoshi Haga, Akira Yamaguchi, Hideo Karikomi, Tetsuro Hakamada, Yusuke Fukushima
  • Patent number: D372211
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kevin Hunter, Masayoshi Haga, Akira Yamaguchi, Hideo Karikomi, Tetsuro Hakamada, Yusuke Fukushima