Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Matsui
Tsutomu Matsui 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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Publication number: 20240110991Abstract: The insulation resistance testing device of the present disclosure includes a first magnetic current sensor disposed between the control unit and the ground, and a first damping resistor disposed in series with the first magnetic current sensor between the control unit and the ground. The insulation resistance testing device of the present disclosure includes a second magnetic current sensor disposed between the positive terminal and the ground of the battery pack, and a second damping resistor disposed in series with the second magnetic current sensor between the positive terminal and the ground.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichiro MORI, Naoya HATAKEYAMA, Hidenori MATSUTOH, Takuro FUCHIGAMI, Tsutomu KAWASAKI, Yuki MATSUI
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Patent number: 11158898Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a battery. The battery includes a metallic outer can, a wound electrode group, a positive electrode-lead, a negative electrode-lead, a positive electrode insulating cover, and a negative electrode insulating cover.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tatsuya Shinoda, Hideyuki Ishii, Kengo Kurata, Yoshiaki Asami, Tsutomu Matsui, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Kenichi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20200044205Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a battery. The battery includes a metallic outer can, a wound electrode group, a positive electrode-lead, a negative electrode-lead, a positive electrode insulating cover, and a negative electrode insulating cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tatsuya Shinoda, Hideyuki Ishii, Kengo Kurata, Yoshiaki Asami, Tsutomu Matsui, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Kenichi Takahashi
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Patent number: 10468641Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a battery. The battery includes a metallic outer can, a wound electrode group, a positive electrode-lead, a negative electrode-lead, a positive electrode insulating cover, and a negative electrode insulating cover.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tatsuya Shinoda, Hideyuki Ishii, Kengo Kurata, Yoshiaki Asami, Tsutomu Matsui, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Kenichi Takahashi
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Patent number: 10115937Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery includes an electrode group, a tab, a conductive nipping member, a case, a lid and a lead. The conductive nipping member includes first and second nipping sections. The first and second nipping sections divide the tab into two bundles in which portions of the tab are laminated onto each other in a thickness direction of the electrode group. The lead includes a connecting section connected electrically to a terminal, and current collecting sections which are two sections branched from the connecting section and sandwiching the nipping member.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hideyuki Ishii, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Kengo Kurata, Tatsuya Shinoda, Tsutomu Matsui, Yoshiaki Asami
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Publication number: 20180130979Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a battery. The battery includes a metallic outer can, a wound electrode group, a positive electrode-lead, a negative electrode-lead, a positive electrode insulating cover, and a negative electrode insulating cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2018Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tatsuya SHINODA, Hideyuki Ishii, Kengo Kurata, Yoshiaki Asami, Tsutomu Matsui, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Kenichi Takahashi
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Patent number: 9899641Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a battery. The battery includes a metallic outer can, a wound electrode group, a positive electrode-lead, a negative electrode-lead, a positive electrode insulating cover, and a negative electrode insulating cover.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2014Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tatsuya Shinoda, Hideyuki Ishii, Kengo Kurata, Yoshiaki Asami, Tsutomu Matsui, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Kenichi Takahashi
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Patent number: 9601734Abstract: In general, according to one embodiment, there is provided a battery. This battery includes a container, a lid, a gas-relief vent, an electrode group, an intermediate lead, and a terminal lead. The gas-relief vent is provided in the lid. The intermediate lead includes a first lead-joint part, an electrode-group-joint part, and a leg part. The leg part connects the first lead-joint part and the electrode-group-joint part to each other. The first lead-joint part and the electrode-group-joint part are located on planes different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Haruchika Ishii, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Souichi Hanafusa, Natsuki Toyota, Tsutomu Matsui, Tatsuya Shinoda
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Patent number: 9203059Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery includes a case, an electrode group, a lid, an external terminal and an insulating member. The external terminal includes a head section and an axial section extended from the head section. The axial section is caulked and fixed into a through hole in the lid. The insulating member is arranged between the lid and the external terminal. The insulating member includes a bus bar-fixing section.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kengo Kurata, Tsutomu Matsui, Soichi Hanafusa, Hideyuki Ishii, Tatsuya Shinoda, Tsutomu Kanetsuna
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Publication number: 20150214513Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery includes an electrode group, a tab, a conductive nipping member, a case, a lid and a lead. The conductive nipping member includes first and second nipping sections. The first and second nipping sections divide the tab into two bundles in which portions of the tab are laminated onto each other in a thickness direction of the electrode group. The lead includes a connecting section connected electrically to a terminal, and current collecting sections which are two sections branched from the connecting section and sandwiching the nipping member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hideyuki ISHII, Eiki KASHIWAZAKI, Kengo KURATA, Tatsuya SHINODA, Tsutomu MATSUI, Yoshiaki ASAMI
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Patent number: 9034499Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery includes an electrode group, a tab, a conductive nipping member, a case, a lid and a lead. The conductive nipping member includes first and second nipping sections. The first and second nipping sections divide the tab into two bundles in which portions of the tab are laminated onto each other in a thickness direction of the electrode group. The lead includes a connecting section connected electrically to a terminal, and current collecting sections which are two sections branched from the connecting section and sandwiching the nipping member.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hideyuki Ishii, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Kengo Kurata, Tatsuya Shinoda, Tsutomu Matsui, Yoshiaki Asami
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Publication number: 20140322578Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a battery. The battery includes a metallic outer can, a wound electrode group, a positive electrode-lead, a negative electrode-lead, a positive electrode insulating cover, and a negative electrode insulating cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tatsuya SHINODA, Hideyuki ISHII, Kengo KURATA, Yoshiaki ASAMI, Tsutomu MATSUI, Eiki KASHIWAZAKI, Kenichi TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20140272487Abstract: In general, according to one embodiment, there is provided a battery. This battery includes a container, a lid, a gas-relief vent, an electrode group, an intermediate lead, and a terminal lead. The gas-relief vent is provided in the lid. The intermediate lead includes a first lead-joint part, an electrode-group-joint part, and a leg part. The leg part connects the first lead-joint part and the electrode-group-joint part to each other. The first lead-joint part and the electrode-group-joint part are located on planes different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Haruchika ISHII, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Souichi Hanafusa, Natsuki Toyota, Tsutomu Matsui, Tatsuya Shinoda
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Patent number: 8808903Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a battery. The battery includes a metallic outer can, a wound electrode group, a positive electrode-lead, a negative electrode-lead, a positive electrode insulating cover, and a negative electrode insulating cover.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tatsuya Shinoda, Hideyuki Ishii, Kengo Kurata, Yoshiaki Asami, Tsutomu Matsui, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Kenichi Takahashi
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Patent number: 8722236Abstract: In one embodiment, a battery includes an exterior can, an electrode group, a lid attached to an opening of the exterior can, and anode and cathode terminal portions arranged in the lid. At least one of the terminal portions includes an insulating gasket having a cylindrical portion, an external insulator having a pedestal portion, an external terminal including a head portion and the axial portion extended from the head portion, an electrode lead located in the exterior can and connected to the external terminal, and an internal insulator to isolate the lid and the electrode lead. The cylindrical portion of the external terminal is fixed to a through hole of the lid and an attachment hole of the electrode lead by a caulking. The insulating gasket is formed of a resin in which the melting point is higher than those of the internal insulator and the external insulator.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kengo Kurata, Tsutomu Matsui, Soichi Hanafusa, Hideyuki Ishii, Tatsuya Shinoda
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Publication number: 20140030562Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery includes an electrode group, a tab, a conductive nipping member, a case, a lid and a lead. The conductive nipping member includes first and second nipping sections. The first and second nipping sections divide the tab into two bundles in which portions of the tab are laminated onto each other in a thickness direction of the electrode group. The lead includes a connecting section connected electrically to a terminal, and current collecting sections which are two sections branched from the connecting section and sandwiching the nipping member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hideyuki Ishii, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Kengo Kurata, Tatsuya Shinoda, Tsutomu Matsui, Yoshiaki Asami
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Patent number: 8574753Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery includes an electrode group, a tab, a conductive nipping member, a case, a lid and a lead. The conductive nipping member includes first and second nipping sections. The first and second nipping sections divide the tab into two bundles in which portions of the tab are laminated onto each other in a thickness direction of the electrode group. The lead includes a connecting section connected electrically to a terminal, and current collecting sections which are two sections branched from the connecting section and sandwiching the nipping member.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hideyuki Ishii, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Kengo Kurata, Tatsuya Shinoda, Tsutomu Matsui, Yoshiaki Asami
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Patent number: 8568868Abstract: Disclosed is a gas-barrier film laminate having at least two gas-barrier film layers laminated via an adhesive layer, wherein the gas-barrier film layer has a substrate film, and at least one constitutive unit layer comprising an anchor coat layer and an inorganic thin film layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate film in that order, and wherein the number of the bubbles having a diameter of at least 0.5 mm and the impurities having a diameter of at least 0.5 mm existing between the gas-barrier film layers is at most 3 in total per 100 cm2.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.Inventors: Tsutomu Matsui, Shigenobu Yoshida
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Patent number: 8343623Abstract: Disclosed is a gas-barrier film laminate having at least two gas-barrier film layers laminated via an adhesive layer, wherein the gas-barrier film layer has a substrate film, and at least one constitutive unit layer comprising an anchor coat layer and an inorganic thin film layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate film in that order, and wherein the number of the bubbles having a diameter of at least 0.5 mm and the impurities having a diameter of at least 0.5 mm existing between the gas-barrier film layers is at most 3 in total per 100 cm2.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2007Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.Inventors: Tsutomu Matsui, Shigenobu Yoshida
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Publication number: 20120315462Abstract: Disclosed is a gas-barrier film laminate having at least two gas-barrier film layers laminated via an adhesive layer, wherein the gas-barrier film layer has a substrate film, and at least one constitutive unit layer comprising an anchor coat layer and an inorganic thin film layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate film in that order, and wherein the number of the bubbles having a diameter of at least 0.5 mm and the impurities having a diameter of at least 0.5 mm existing between the gas-barrier film layers is at most 3 in total per 100 cm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.Inventors: Tsutomu Matsui, Shigenobu Yoshida