Patents by Inventor Shigeki Motoyama
Shigeki Motoyama 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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Patent number: 11909057Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
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Publication number: 20240021937Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
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Publication number: 20230335843Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
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Patent number: 11733235Abstract: In one aspect, disclosed herein is a method for evaluating the immunogenicity of a test substance in a short period of time by using, as an indicator of the immunogenicity of the test substance, the proportion of IL-2-secreting cells in a T cell population (preferably a CD4+ T cell population) at a time point during the early stage of IL-2 secretion after stimulation of the T cell population with the test substance (preferably 24 hours to 72 hours after the stimulation with the test substance).Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Chiyomi Kubo, Shigeki Motoyama, Yoshiyuki Arata
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Publication number: 20230107954Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
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Patent number: 11581608Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
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Publication number: 20210210816Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
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Patent number: 10938001Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
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Publication number: 20200358052Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
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Patent number: 10763470Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
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Publication number: 20200191770Abstract: The present invention has discovered that the immunogenicity of a test substance can be evaluated in a short period of time by using, as an indicator of the immunogenicity of the test substance, the proportion of IL-2-secreting cells in a T cell population (preferably a CD4+ T cell population) at a time point during the early stage of IL-2 secretion after stimulation of the T cell population with the test substance (preferably 24 hours to 72 hours after the stimulation with the test substance).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2017Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Chiyomi KUBO, Shigeki MOTOYAMA, Yoshiyuki ARATA
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Publication number: 20200194748Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
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Patent number: 10615384Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
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Publication number: 20180233718Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Atsushi Mitani
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Publication number: 20180233717Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Nobutaka Saitoh
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Publication number: 20180233719Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
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Patent number: 9972812Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
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Patent number: 9917285Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Atsushi Mitani
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Patent number: D803156Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Shoji Tatehata, Naoto Hosoya
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Patent number: D938903Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Miyake, Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani