Patents by Inventor Atsuhiro Kumagai

Atsuhiro Kumagai 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: 12142741
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a battery pack including a pack body and a plurality of terminals. The pack body has first and second main surfaces that are opposed to each other in a first axis direction, first and second end surfaces that are opposed to each other in a second axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction, and first and second side surfaces that are opposed to each other in a third axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction and the second axis direction. The plurality of terminals includes a positive terminal, a negative terminal, a temperature detection terminal, and a control terminal that are arranged on the first end surface along the third axis direction. The negative terminal is arranged between the temperature detection terminal and the control terminal and closer to the control terminal than the temperature detection terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Kumagai, Kiyoshi Yonishi, Shigeji Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20240372175
    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: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Atsushi Mitani
  • Patent number: 12046770
    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: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Motoyama, Atsushi Mitani, Atsuhiro Kumagai
  • 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: 20230361369
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a battery pack including a pack body and a plurality of terminals. The pack body has first and second main surfaces that are opposed to each other in a first axis direction, first and second end surfaces that are opposed to each other in a second axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction, and first and second side surfaces that are opposed to each other in a third axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction and the second axis direction. The plurality of terminals includes a positive terminal, a negative terminal, a temperature detection terminal, and a control terminal that are arranged on the first end surface along the third axis direction. The negative terminal is arranged between the temperature detection terminal and the control terminal and closer to the control terminal than the temperature detection terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro KUMAGAI, Kiyoshi YONISHI, Shigeji IKEDA
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11777155
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a battery pack including a pack body and a plurality of terminals. The pack body has first and second main surfaces that are opposed to each other in a first axis direction, first and second end surfaces that are opposed to each other in a second axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction, and first and second side surfaces that are opposed to each other in a third axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction and the second axis direction. The plurality of terminals includes a positive terminal, a negative terminal, a temperature detection terminal, and a control terminal that are arranged on the first end surface along the third axis direction. The negative terminal is arranged between the temperature detection terminal and the control terminal and closer to the control terminal than the temperature detection terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Kumagai, Kiyoshi Yonishi, Shigeji Ikeda
  • 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: 20220352568
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a battery pack including a pack body and a plurality of terminals. The pack body has first and second main surfaces that are opposed to each other in a first axis direction, first and second end surfaces that are opposed to each other in a second axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction, and first and second side surfaces that are opposed to each other in a third axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction and the second axis direction. The plurality of terminals includes a positive terminal, a negative terminal, a temperature detection terminal, and a control terminal that are arranged on the first end surface along the third axis direction. The negative terminal is arranged between the temperature detection terminal and the control terminal and closer to the control terminal than the temperature detection terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro KUMAGAI, Kiyoshi YONISHI, Shigeji IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11462776
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a battery pack including a pack body and a plurality of terminals. The pack body has first and second main surfaces that are opposed to each other in a first axis direction, first and second end surfaces that are opposed to each other in a second axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction, and first and second side surfaces that are opposed to each other in a third axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction and the second axis direction. The plurality of terminals includes a positive terminal, a negative terminal, a temperature detection terminal, and a control terminal that are arranged on the first end surface along the third axis direction. The negative terminal is arranged between the temperature detection terminal and the control terminal and closer to the control terminal than the temperature detection terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Kumagai, Kiyoshi Yonishi, Shigeji Ikeda
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20200358144
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a battery pack including a pack body and a plurality of terminals. The pack body has first and second main surfaces that are opposed to each other in a first axis direction, first and second end surfaces that are opposed to each other in a second axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction, and first and second side surfaces that are opposed to each other in a third axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction and the second axis direction. The plurality of terminals includes a positive terminal, a negative terminal, a temperature detection terminal, and a control terminal that are arranged on the first end surface along the third axis direction. The negative terminal is arranged between the temperature detection terminal and the control terminal and closer to the control terminal than the temperature detection terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Kumagai, Kiyoshi Yonishi, Shigeji Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10797362
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a battery pack including a pack body and a plurality of terminals. The pack body has first and second main surfaces that are opposed to each other in a first axis direction, first and second end surfaces that are opposed to each other in a second axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction, and first and second side surfaces that are opposed to each other in a third axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction and the second axis direction. The plurality of terminals includes a positive terminal, a negative terminal, a temperature detection terminal, and a control terminal that are arranged on the first end surface along the third axis direction. The negative terminal is arranged between the temperature detection terminal and the control terminal and closer to the control terminal than the temperature detection terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Kumagai, Kiyoshi Yonishi, Shigeji Ikeda
  • 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