Patents by Inventor Hirofumi TAGAWA

Hirofumi TAGAWA 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: 11075420
    Abstract: When a coin-type battery is manufactured using a sealing can in which a fold portion is not provided in a side wall portion, a coin-type battery with excellent reliability, which has excellent mass productivity and sealing properties and a capacity of which has been increased by increasing a housing space in which an electrode body is housed is manufactured. An open end portion of a side wall portion of a sealing can is formed not to bend toward an inner circumference side and an outer circumference side, an edge of the open end portion is formed not to have a sharp angle, a cut off portion is formed in an inner circumference side of an upper end portion, the sealing can is fitted to a gasket an inner diameter of which is made smaller than an external diameter of the side wall portion of the sealing can, an exterior can is caulked, thereby manufacturing a coin-type battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Maxell Holdings, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Koyama, Hirofumi Tagawa, Toshihiko Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20190252648
    Abstract: When a coin-type battery is manufactured using a sealing can in which a fold portion is not provided in a side wall portion, a coin-type battery with excellent reliability, which has excellent mass productivity and sealing properties and a capacity of which has been increased by increasing a housing space in which an electrode body is housed is manufactured. An open end portion of a side wall portion of a sealing can is formed not to bend toward an inner circumference side and an outer circumference side, an edge of the open end portion is formed not to have a sharp angle, a cut off portion is formed in an inner circumference side of an upper end portion, the sealing can is fitted to a gasket an inner diameter of which is made smaller than an external diameter of the side wall portion of the sealing can, an exterior can is caulked, thereby manufacturing a coin-type battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Kunihiko KOYAMA, Hirofumi TAGAWA, Toshihiko ISHIHARA