Patents by Inventor Taro Matsushita
Taro Matsushita 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: 11894579Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode, a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode current collector, a positive electrode terminal, a negative electrode terminal, and an insulating plate. The positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal each have a main side surface and a sub side surface having an area smaller than that of the main side surface. The positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are arranged so that the main side surface of the positive electrode terminal and the main side surface of the negative electrode terminal face each other. The insulating plate is arranged between the main side surface of the positive electrode terminal and the main side surface of the negative electrode terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuhiko Sasaki, Taro Matsushita, Kenta Watanabe, Shotaro Ishikawa, Koichiro Kishi
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Publication number: 20240014529Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a single positive electrode terminal formed in a flat plate shape, a single negative electrode terminal formed in a flat plate shape, a holder holding the single positive and negative electrode terminals, and a laminate exterior body. The single positive and negative electrode terminals each have a single protruding portion protruding from the laminate exterior body in one direction. An insulating plate is arranged between main side surfaces of the single protruding portions of the terminals. On one side of the insulating plate in a facing direction, only the single protruding portion of the positive terminal protrudes from the laminate exterior body, and on the other side of the insulating plate in the facing direction, only the single protruding portion of the negative terminal protrudes from the laminate exterior body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuhiko SASAKI, Taro MATSUSHITA, Kenta WATANABE, Shotaro ISHIKAWA, Koichiro KISHI
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Publication number: 20230411738Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells and a plurality of separator portions. The battery cells are stacked together in a first direction and each configured to include a first end portion located at one end in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a second end portion located at the other end in the second direction, and an intermediate portion provided between the first end portion and the second end portion. The separator portions each include a heat insulating member provided between the intermediate portions adjacent to each other in the first direction and a first shielding plate provided between the first end portions adjacent to each other in the first direction, and are each provided between the battery cells adjacent to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryo MATSUDA, Yoshihiko HIROE, Taro MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20230387497Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells stacked together, and a case that accommodates the battery cells. The battery cells include an endmost cell disposed at a farthest end on one side in a stacking direction, a first cell disposed adjacent to the endmost cell, and a second cell disposed adjacent to the first cell. Further, the case is configured such that a thermal resistance between an endmost contact portion that is a portion in contact with the endmost cell and a first contact portion that is a portion in contact with the first cell is higher than a thermal resistance between a second contact portion that is a portion in contact with the second cell and the first contact portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryo MATSUDA, Yoshihiko HIROE, Taro MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20220085472Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode, a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode current collector, a positive electrode terminal, a negative electrode terminal, and an insulating plate. The positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal each have a main side surface and a sub side surface having an area smaller than that of the main side surface. The positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are arranged so that the main side surface of the positive electrode terminal and the main side surface of the negative electrode terminal face each other. The insulating plate is arranged between the main side surface of the positive electrode terminal and the main side surface of the negative electrode terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuhiko SASAKI, Taro MATSUSHITA, Kenta WATANABE, Shotaro ISHIKAWA, Koichiro KISHI
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Publication number: 20210376421Abstract: A power storage device includes a power storage stack and a housing case. In the power storage stack, a plurality of unit cells and a plurality of spacers are alternately stacked in a first direction. A first support surface of each spacer among the plurality of spacers is angled corresponding to and is in contact with a first tapered surface of the unit cell that is adjacent to the spacer in the first direction. A second support surface of each spacer among the plurality of spacers is angled corresponding to and is in contact with a second tapered surface of the unit cell that is adjacent to the spacer in the first direction. The plurality of spacers are each formed of a thermoplastic resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taro MATSUSHITA, Tadahiro Kondo, Shotaro Ishikawa, Koichiro Kishi, Kenta Watanabe
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Patent number: 11011792Abstract: A power storage device includes a holder that includes a plurality of hole rows having a plurality of insertion holes and is provided to be longer in a longitudinal direction than in a width direction. The holder includes a first long side surface, a second long side surface, a first fragile portion, and a second fragile portion. A first thin portion of the holder is disposed adjacent to a fourth insertion hole in the width direction. A second thin portion of the holder is disposed adjacent to the first insertion hole in the width direction. When a virtual straight line passing through the first thin portion and the second thin portion is taken as a virtual breaking line, the first fragile portion and the second fragile portion are disposed at positions through which the virtual breaking line passes or in a vicinity of the virtual breaking line.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Taro Matsushita
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Publication number: 20190288253Abstract: A power storage device includes a holder that includes a plurality of hole rows having a plurality of insertion holes and is provided to be longer in a longitudinal direction than in a width direction. The holder includes a first long side surface, a second long side surface, a first fragile portion, and a second fragile portion. A first thin portion of the holder is disposed adjacent to a fourth insertion hole in the width direction. A second thin portion of the holder is disposed adjacent to the first insertion hole in the width direction. When a virtual straight line passing through the first thin portion and the second thin portion is taken as a virtual breaking line, the first fragile portion and the second fragile portion are disposed at positions through which the virtual breaking line passes or in a vicinity of the virtual breaking line.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Taro Matsushita
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Patent number: 4105501Abstract: With the use of low-fluidity blended raw material coal fines having a maximum fluidity of up to 20 d.d.p.m. as an inner core material, and coal fines having a maximum fluidity of at least 30 d.d.p.m. or a bituminous material having a C/H ratio of from 0.7 to 1.9 as an outer envelope material, green composite briquettes are formed by covering said inner core material with said outer envelope material. Said green composite briquettes thus formed are charged into a conventional coke oven battery and carbonized by an ordinary process, whereby a high-strength metallurgical formed coke in a slight mutual agglomeration is produced.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1976Date of Patent: August 8, 1978Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Gyoichi Suzuki, Mitsutoshi Miura, Takashi Miyazu, Taro Matsushita, Yasuo Okuyama
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Patent number: 4045292Abstract: In the operation of a conventional coke oven battery, a target flue temperature for each oven group is set on the basis of details of coal charge consisting of the weight, the particle size, the moisture content, the volatile matter content and the timing of charging of the coal charge, so as to achieve a target net coking time and a target soaking time given by a coke production schedule. Then, the temperature is measured for individual flues at certain intervals of time and deviations of thus measured flue temperatures from said target flue temperature are calculated by computer, to set a flow rate and a calorific value of the fuel gas for each oven group. A stack draft is set and controlled by computer so that an optimum combustion may take place in response to changes in the flow rate and the calorific value of the fuel gas.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1976Date of Patent: August 30, 1977Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Taro Matsushita, Masahiro Hiraki, Takeo Fujimura, Shinji Hasebe