Patents by Inventor Hiroki Maemoto

Hiroki Maemoto 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: 20250030087
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery case, battery cells, and coolant jackets. A cell joined body formed of the battery cells joined in a row and the coolant jacket are alternately arranged in surface contact with each other in a first direction. Each coolant jacket is connected to coolant circulation pipes provided on both sides in a second direction. At least apart of the coolant jackets is a reinforcing plate-type coolant jacket configured such that upper parts of both end parts in the second direction of the reinforcing plate-type coolant jacket are extended and are joined to upper parts of end plates of the battery case while avoiding the coolant circulation pipes to enhance a rigidity of the battery case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio SATO, Hiroki MAEMOTO, Masashi MACHIDA, Koichiro KINUGAWA
  • Publication number: 20250015391
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery case, battery cells, and coolant jackets. The coolant jacket includes two thin plates having plasticity that are surface-joined to each other, and a coolant inlet, a coolant passage, and a coolant outlet that are formed as gap portions. The battery cell and the coolant jacket are alternately arranged in surface contact with each other in the battery case. By flowing a non-compressed fluid at a predetermined pressure into the coolant passage of the coolant jacket to expand the coolant jacket by plastic deformation, the battery cells and the coolant jackets are clamped and fixed between two end plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio SATO, Hiroki MAEMOTO, Masashi MACHIDA, Koichiro KINUGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240413469
    Abstract: A battery module includes: a stacked body in which a plurality of secondary batteries are stacked; and a side restraint member which faces a first surface of the stacked body, and which extends in a stacked direction of the stacked body. The first surface is a surface in a vertical direction with respect to a lower surface of the stacked body, and is a surface along the stacked direction, and the first surface and the side restraint member are joined with each other by a joining member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKADA, Takahiro TAKAI, Shinya NAKAYAMA, Yuki MATSUSHIMA, Eiji YAMADA, Hiroki MAEMOTO, Fumio SATO, Noriaki SHIGEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20190079537
    Abstract: A virtual guide sensor processing unit of an automatic guided vehicle (AGV) computes the position of a virtual guide tape on the basis of the position of the AGV which a vehicle body coordinate value calculation processing unit has computed, and virtual guide tape layout data. A guide sensor switching processing unit outputs to a vehicle body deviation degree calculation processing unit the position of a magnetic guide tape which a magnetic guide sensor has detected, or the position of the virtual guide tape which the virtual guide sensor processing unit has computed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Toru Yoshida, Jun Araki, Michiaki Okubo, Hiroki Maemoto, Atsushi Nakajima, Hiroaki Akimoto