Patents by Inventor Eisuke Sengoku
Eisuke Sengoku 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: 20230275307Abstract: A battery assembly includes a battery body, a plurality of battery cells stacked in the battery body in a stacking direction, a pair of end components, including insulating material, each disposed at an end of the battery body in the stacking direction, and a pair of side plates, including metal, disposed on opposite sides of the battery cells and connecting to the end components. A first end component of the pair of end components includes a fixing portion, which accommodates a fixing body, to install the battery assembly to an installing body. The fixing portion and the side plates are not connected electrically to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: VEHICLE ENERGY JAPAN INC.Inventors: Eisuke SENGOKU, Takuro TSUNAKI, Takashi SUZUKI, Tatsuo SUGAWARA, Tatsuhiko KAWASAKI
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Patent number: 9893342Abstract: An electricity storage module in which a plurality of battery cells are electrically connected via conductive members, wherein: each of the conductive members has a pair of electrode connecting parts that are welded to respective electrode terminals of a pair of adjacent battery cells, a base part that is connected to the pair of electrode connecting parts via a pair of elastically deformable parts, and a voltage detecting terminal that is connected to the base part and detects a terminal voltage of a battery cell.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignees: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Eisuke Sengoku, Hiroshi Hoshi, Takeshi Haga, Shigeyuki Kiyota, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Toyoki Iguchi, Hiroaki Saitou, Masayoshi Saeki
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Patent number: 9627151Abstract: An electrical storage module in which a plurality of electricity storage elements are electrically connected by conductive member, includes: a voltage detection board having voltage detection conductor that detects terminal voltage of the electricity storage element; a first external threaded component that connects the voltage detection conductor of the voltage detection board to the conductive member; and a cover that covers the voltage detection board; wherein: the cover is made from an insulating material; the conductive member has a first internal threaded portion into which the first external threaded component is to be screwingly engaged; and the distance between the inside surface of the cover that faces a head portion of the first external threaded component and an upper surface of the head portion of the first external threaded component is shorter than the distance between an end portion of the first internal threaded portion towards the cover side and an end of shaft portion of the first externalType: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignees: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eisuke Sengoku, Toshikazu Maeshima, Hiroshi Hoshi, Akira Kotaki, Shigeyuki Kiyota, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Toyoki Iguchi, Hiroaki Saitou, Masayoshi Saeki
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Publication number: 20160190542Abstract: An electricity storage module in which a plurality of battery cells are electrically connected via conductive members, wherein: each of the conductive members has a pair of electrode connecting parts that are welded to respective electrode terminals of a pair of adjacent battery cells, a base part that is connected to the pair of electrode connecting parts via a pair of elastically deformable parts, and a voltage detecting terminal that is connected to the base part and detects a terminal voltage of a battery cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2014Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicants: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Eisuke SENGOKU, Hiroshi HOSHI, Takeshi HAGA, Shigeyuki KIYOTA, Yoshiyuki TANAKA, Toyoki IGUCHI, Hiroaki SAITOU, Masayoshi SAEKI
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Publication number: 20160035497Abstract: An electrical storage module in which a plurality of electricity storage elements are electrically connected by conductive member, includes: a voltage detection board having voltage detection conductor that detects terminal voltage of the electricity storage element; a first external threaded component that connects the voltage detection conductor of the voltage detection board to the conductive member; and a cover that covers the voltage detection board; wherein: the cover is made from an insulating material; the conductive member has a first internal threaded portion into which the first external threaded component is to be screwingly engaged; and the distance between the inside surface of the cover that faces a head portion of the first external threaded component and an upper surface of the head portion of the first external threaded component is shorter than the distance between an end portion of the first internal threaded portion towards the cover side and an end of shaft portion of the first externalType: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: February 4, 2016Inventors: Eisuke SENGOKU, Toshikazu MAESHIMA, Hiroshi HOSHI, Akira KOTAKI, Shigeyuki KIYOTA, Yoshiyuki TANAKA, Toyoki IGUCHI, Hiroaki SAITOU, Masayoshi SAEKI
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Publication number: 20090185793Abstract: An information record and reproduction device that records and/or reproduces information from both a hard disk and a card-shaped recording medium, the information record and reproduction device including a housing, a hard disk drive arranged in the housing, and a connector for a card-shaped recording medium, arranged in the housing. A side of the housing defines a grip portion being grasped by a user, and the connector for a card-shaped recording medium is arranged toward the grip portion relative to the hard disk drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventors: Akihiro GOTO, Eisuke Sengoku, Shinichi Ishikuro
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Patent number: 7359199Abstract: In a portable electronic device having two circuit boards having a heat generating electronic device, a frame arranged at a position pinched between the circuit boards, a first heat radiating plate brought into contact with the frame and having a higher thermal conductivity than the frame, and a second heat radiating member transferring a heat between the first heat radiating member and two circuit boards, each of two circuit boards is fixed to the frame and two circuit boards are directly connected by a connector. Accordingly, it is possible to provide the portable electronic device which can improve a heat radiating efficiency and achieve a further thin structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2006Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Eisuke Sengoku, Keiichi Tadokoro
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Publication number: 20070109747Abstract: In a portable electronic device having two circuit boards having a heat generating electronic device, a frame arranged at a position pinched between the circuit boards, a first heat radiating plate brought into contact with the frame and having a higher thermal conductivity than the frame, and a second heat radiating member transferring a heat between the first heat radiating member and two circuit boards, each of two circuit boards is fixed to the frame and two circuit boards are directly connected by a connector. Accordingly, it is possible to provide the portable electronic device which can improve a heat radiating efficiency and achieve a further thin structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2006Publication date: May 17, 2007Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Eisuke Sengoku, Keiichi Tadokoro
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Publication number: 20040126099Abstract: To reduce the size of a filming apparatus for recording information on an optical disc type recording medium, it is constructed such that: supporting portions for mounting a grip belt are provided on two structural members (not a cartridge cover) constituting a main body, respectively arranged on both sides of the filming apparatus; the optical disc is inserted or removed vertically with respect to a filming direction; a round-shaped cartridge is used as a cartridge whose dimension is: 5.2 mm in thickness, 80 mm in length (or width) of the disc plane, and 80 mm+5 mm in width (or length) of the disc plane; the angle between the opened cartridge cover and the filming apparatus to the line along an axis of supporting points of the cartridge cover is within the range from 23° to 34°; and a motor is used to open the cartridge cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Inventors: Koji Mori, Keiici Tadokoro, Eisuke Sengoku
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Patent number: D750558Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Nayuta Yamachi, Eisuke Sengoku, Takashi Kobune, Chikara Kikkawa, Toshikazu Maeshima