Patents by Inventor Hayato Koguchi

Hayato Koguchi 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).

  • Publication number: 20170338448
    Abstract: A prismatic secondary battery includes a battery case in a prismatic shape and a battery cover which seals up an opening part of the battery case. The battery cover has a convex part which projects toward the inside of the battery case, faces an inner surface of a side wall part of the battery case, and extends continuously along the entire periphery of the side wall part. Cover thickness of a contact part of the battery cover which is in contact with the upper end of the side wall part of the battery case at a position outside the convex part is greater than ½ of cover thickness of a blockage part blocking up an opening part at a position inside the convex part and is less than the cover thickness of the blockage part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi KAJIWARA, Hayato KOGUCHI, Takeshi HIZONO, Hiroaki EGAWA
  • Patent number: 9812676
    Abstract: A prismatic secondary battery includes a battery case in a prismatic shape and a battery cover which seals up an opening part of the battery case. The battery cover has a convex part which projects toward the inside of the battery case, faces an inner surface of a side wall part of the battery case, and extends continuously along the entire periphery of the side wall part. Cover thickness of a contact part of the battery cover which is in contact with the upper end of the side wall part of the battery case at a position outside the convex part is greater than ½ of cover thickness of a blockage part blocking up an opening part at a position inside the convex part and is less than the cover thickness of the blockage part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Kajiwara, Hayato Koguchi, Takeshi Hizono, Hiroaki Egawa
  • Publication number: 20170250388
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to obtain a rectangular secondary battery in which an outer surface of the battery has an insulating property and watertightness, and a short-circuit due to dew condensation water or the like does not occur between battery containers of adjacent batteries or between a battery container and a housing of a battery pack. A rectangular secondary battery (90) of the present invention for solving the foregoing problems is a rectangular secondary battery in which six faces of a battery container are covered with one sheet of insulating film (50). The rectangular secondary battery (90) is characterized in that, ends of the insulating film are overlapped with each other, and the insulating film continuously covers mutually adjacent faces having each of ridges between the faces of the battery container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira UNNO, Hayato KOGUCHI, Hiroaki EGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170229700
    Abstract: A prismatic secondary battery has a problem of providing a highly reliable the prismatic secondary battery by securing both mechanical strength and electrical characteristics between a metal body to which a bus bar of an external terminal is welded and a connection terminal which is joined with the metal body. In a prismatic secondary battery of the present invention to solve the above-described problem, external terminals of a positive electrode and a negative electrode are disposed on one surface of a prismatic battery container and a flat wound group is housed in the battery container. One external terminal has a connection terminal, which passes through the battery container and is electrically connected to the flat wound group and a metal body which is joined with the connection terminal, and joints between the connection terminal and the metal body include a mechanical joint and a metallurgical joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sho MATSUMOTO, Hayato KOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9722218
    Abstract: A plating layer 4 is formed on a surface of a battery cover 3, and a peripheral edge part 37b of a cover case 37 is arranged on an upper surface of the plating layer 4. A welding part 40 is formed at a tip part of the peripheral edge part 37b. The welding part 40 includes a melted part 41 in which the tip of the peripheral edge part 37b is melted, and an elution part 42 flowing from the tip onto the plating layer 4, and the melted part 41 and the elution part 42 are welded to the plating layer 4 in the upper surface of the plating layer 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohtaro Ikeda, Eiichi Isono, Shin Onose, Hayato Koguchi
  • Publication number: 20150228936
    Abstract: A prismatic secondary battery includes a battery case in a prismatic shape and a battery cover which seals up an opening part of the battery case. The battery cover has a convex part which projects toward the inside of the battery case, faces an inner surface of a side wall part of the battery case, and extends continuously along the entire periphery of the side wall part. Cover thickness of a contact part of the battery cover which is in contact with the upper end of the side wall part of the battery case at a position outside the convex part is greater than ½ of cover thickness of a blockage part blocking up an opening part at a position inside the convex part and is less than the cover thickness of the blockage part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Kajiwara, Hayato Koguchi, Takeshi Hizono, Hiroaki Egawa
  • Publication number: 20140349148
    Abstract: A plating layer 4 is formed on a surface of a battery cover 3, and a peripheral edge part 37b of a cover case 37 is arranged on an upper surface of the plating layer 4. A welding part 40 is formed at a tip part of the peripheral edge part 37b. The welding part 40 includes a melted part 41 in which the tip of the peripheral edge part 37b is melted, and an elution part 42 flowing from the tip onto the plating layer 4, and the melted part 41 and the elution part 42 are welded to the plating layer 4 in the upper surface of the plating layer 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Kohtaro Ikeda, Eiichi Isono, Shin Onose, Hayato Koguchi
  • Publication number: 20120040239
    Abstract: The present invention is a sealing construction for a secondary cell in which an electrode terminal member is disposed inside an opening of a cell container with interposition of a seal member, with a circumferential portion of the cell container around its opening being bent inwards together with the seal member and the cell container and the electrode terminal member being swaged together, wherein: on outer surface of the cell container, between a bent portion where the cell container is bent and the opening, an edged summit portion and a protruding portion having a sloping portion that ranges from an edge portion facing the opening of the cell container to the summit portion are formed in an annular shape around circumferential direction of the opening of the cell container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKAHASHI, Hayato Koguchi, Koji Higashimoto
  • Patent number: 6448878
    Abstract: An ignition coil assembly is disclosed for a spark plug of the type used in internal combustion engines. The ignition assembly includes a housing, a tubular and cylindrical primary coil, and a tubular and cylindrical secondary coil. The primary and secondary coils are each wound on their individual bobbins and the bobbins are mounted in the housing such that the primary coil is coaxially positioned inside the secondary coil. The ignition coil assembly further includes a magnetic core having a first portion which extends through the interior of both the primary and secondary coil and a second portion which extends exteriorly of the primary and secondary coils. The first portion of the coil is substantially circular in cross sectional shape thus matching the circular interior of the primary bobbin. In order to construct the primary coil and secondary coil subassembly, the primary bobbin is first positioned on a winding machine and the primary wire is wound on the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Products (USA), Inc.
    Inventors: David H. Mullins, Hayato Koguchi
  • Patent number: 5558074
    Abstract: An ignition device for an internal-combustion engine, in which a pocket section is provided in a case for holding primary and secondary coils, and an ignition module is built in the pocket section. In the ignition module a relay member is secured on a heat sink, a connecting terminal electrically connected to an internal terminal is installed to the relay member, and the connecting terminal and a hybrid IC substrate are electrically connected by an aluminum wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Fukatsu, Noboru Sugiura, Hayato Koguchi, Yoichi Anzo