Patents by Inventor Keitaro MACHIDA

Keitaro MACHIDA 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: 20250253456
    Abstract: A battery includes a case member, a terminal member, and a resin member. The case member has a through-hole. The resin member includes an inner portion that contacts an inner surface of the case member, an inside-hole portion that fills space between a wall of the through-hole and the terminal member, and an outer portion that contacts an outer surface of the case member and has a smaller volume than the inner portion. One of a first condition that the thermal expansion coefficient of the case member is larger than that of the inner portion and the tensile strength of the inner portion is lower than that of the outer portion and a second condition that the thermal expansion coefficient of the case member is smaller than that of the inner portion and the tensile strength of the outer portion is lower than that of the inner portion is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Satoshi FUJIMURA, Yozo UCHIDA, Yuki SATO, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Keitaro MACHIDA, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Shigeru MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250158182
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a case member having a terminal insertion hole, a terminal member inserted through the terminal insertion hole, and a resin member made of an insulating resin material and hermetically adhering to the case member and the terminal member to fix the terminal member to the case member while insulating the members from each other. The terminal member has an encircling band-shaped first roughened portion that has a roughened surface and surrounds the terminal member, and a second roughened portion that is spaced apart from the first roughened portion and has a roughened surface. The resin member is insert-molded integrally with the case member and the terminal member, and has an encircling band-shaped terminal seal portion that hermetically adheres to the first roughened portion, and a stress reducing portion that adheres to the second roughened portion and reduces stress generated in the terminal seal portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250141000
    Abstract: A metal-resin joint includes a metal member having a continuous band-shaped resin joined portion on a metal surface, and a resin member joined and fixed to the resin joined portion over the entire periphery in a circumferential direction. The resin joined portion has a continuous band-shaped recess arranged portion in which numerous bowl-shaped recesses are arranged while partially overlapping, and the recess arranged portion includes a continuous band-shaped nano-roughened portion on which high nanocolumns stand numerously, and a non-nano-roughened portion. The resin member is joined to the nano-roughened portion over the entire periphery with a resin material filling gaps between the high nanocolumns standing numerously on the nano-roughened portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Yozo UCHIDA, Yuki SATO, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250141001
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a case member, a terminal member, and a resin member that fixes the terminal member to the case member. At least one of a case seal portion and a terminal seal portion has a plurality of first seal portions each of which extends continuously over the entire periphery in a circumferential direction and is subjected to cohesive failure when a joint with the resin member breaks down, and a second seal portion that is disposed between the first seal portions adjacent to each other, extends continuously over the entire periphery in the circumferential direction, and is subjected to interfacial failure when a joint with the resin member breaks down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Satoshi FUJIMURA, Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250087836
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a case lid with a terminal inserting hole, a current collecting terminal having a hole insertion portion inserted in the terminal inserting hole and an external connection portion placed on a front surface side of the case lid, and an insulating resin member integrally molded with the current collecting terminal and the case lid. The insulating resin member includes an outer-periphery-side insulating resin portion and a back-surface side insulating resin portion connecting the current collecting terminal and the case lid. The back-surface side insulating resin portion is formed with a hollow portion penetrating through a back surface of the back-surface side insulating resin portion to a back surface of the outer connecting portion. The back surface of the outer connecting portion is formed with an annular band-shaped sealing portion along the outer edge portion of the hollow portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Yuki SATO, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250087858
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a case lid with a terminal inserting hole, a current collecting terminal having a hole insertion portion inserted in the terminal inserting hole in a case front-back direction and an external connection portion continuous with the hole insertion portion and placed in parallel to the case lid on the case front-surface side, and an insulating resin member integrally molded with the current collecting terminal and the case lid to connect the hole insertion portion and the external connection portion to a hole outer edge portion and a hole surrounding portion. The insulating resin member includes a back-surface side insulating resin portion connecting a back surface of the external connection portion and the hole insertion portion to the hole outer edge portion and the hole surrounding portion. The back-surface side insulating resin portion is formed with a recessed portion opening on a case back-surface side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Yuki SATO, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250087800
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a case lid member, a terminal member, and a resin member. The resin member includes a resin outer portion, a resin inner portion, and a resin inside-hole portion. The case lid member and the resin member are configured that, when the power storage device is placed under a temperature environment of ?40° C., the resin member forms an outward convex warp in a lid thickness direction with respect to a lid longitudinal direction so that a pair of longitudinal joint faces of the resin inner portion press the terminal member in the lid longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yozo UCHIDA, Yuki SATO, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250070424
    Abstract: In a battery, a lid member of a battery case is provided with a terminal part and a resin member. The terminal part has a terminal plate-shaped portion located inside the battery case, which extends wider than a through hole along an inner surface of the lid member. The resin member has an inner resin plate-shaped portion located between the inner surface of the lid member and the terminal plate-shaped portion. The lid member, on the inner surface side around the through hole, includes a protruding portion defined by a protruding inner surface joined to the inner resin plate-shaped portion and protruding toward the inside of the battery case relative to a non-protruding inner surface farther from the through hole than the protruding inner surface. Side surfaces of the protruding portion and the terminal plate-shaped portion do not project outward beyond a side surface of the inner resin plate-shaped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Satoshi FUJIMURA, Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250055099
    Abstract: A power storage device has a case member, a first terminal member, a second terminal member, a first resin member hermetically joined to the case member and the first terminal member, and a second resin member hermetically joined to the case member and the second terminal member. The first resin member is made of a first resin material having a resin material linear expansion coefficient ? within the range of 1.6×10?5 to 2.7×10?5 (1/K), and the second resin member is made of a second resin material that is different from the first resin material and has a resin material flexural modulus E of 17 GPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250055093
    Abstract: A power storage device has a case member, a terminal member, and a resin member subjected to insert molding to fix the terminal member to the case member. The resin member is made of a resin material including a thermoplastic main resin having a first glass transition temperature equal to or higher than 70° C., a thermoplastic elastomer, and a filler. The elastomer has a second glass transition temperature that is equal to or higher than ?10° C. and equal to or lower than 20° C. and a third glass transition temperature equal to or lower than ?40° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250055090
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a power storage device includes a laser welding step in which a laser beam is irradiated to an opening portion of a case body and a peripheral portion of a case lid member of a lid assembly over the entire circumference to laser weld them while the opening portion of the case body is closed by the case lid member, a shielding step, prior to the laser welding step, in which a shield member is placed in position on the lid assembly to prevent scattered light of the laser beam from reaching a resin member, and a removing step, after the laser welding step, in which the shield member is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yozo UCHIDA, Yuki SATO, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Yuki NAGAE, Daisuke SUZUKI, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250055160
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a current collecting terminal, a case member having a terminal insertion hole, and an insulating resin member connecting the current collecting terminal with a hole periphery and a hole surrounding portion of the terminal insertion hole. The current collecting terminal and the case member have seal portions that ensure airtightness in a case, at connecting portions connecting with the insulating resin member, and each of the seal portions is a roughened surface. The insulating resin member has a thermoplastic resin material including high molecular weight particles with a molecular weight of 10,000 or more and low molecular weight particles with a molecular weight of 500 to 5,000, and the low molecular weight particles are included 5 to 15% by weight in the thermoplastic resin material and are unevenly distributed closer to the roughened surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240152788
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of facilitating the understanding of an explanation regarding AI processing. The information processing system includes an evaluation portion that evaluates multiple choices according to two or more evaluation criteria based on parameters obtained during a process or a result of machine learning, and an explanation portion that generates explanatory text regarding each of the choices by using a phrase associated with a corresponding one of the evaluation criteria. For example, the present technology is applicable to hardware and software performing various processes with the use of AI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: KEITARO MACHIDA, ITARU SHIMIZU, SUGURU AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240079741
    Abstract: In a battery, a terminal member includes: a columnar portion; a head portion, outside an outer casing, having a larger diameter than a through hole of a lid; and an umbrella-shaped portion, more inside than a current collecting member, having a larger diameter than a through hole of the current collecting member to closely contact an inside surface thereof. A gasket includes: a plate-shaped portion between the lid and the head portion; and a cylindrical portion between a wall surface of the through hole of the lid and the columnar portion. An insulator includes: a plate-shaped portion between the lid and the current collecting member; and a cylindrical portion between the wall surface of the through hole of the lid and the columnar portion. Leading ends of the cylindrical portions close contact each other between the wall surface of the through hole of the lid and the columnar portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicants: PRIMEARTH EV ENERGY CO., LTD., PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keitaro MACHIDA, Tomoki MIZUNO, Koichi TANIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240079742
    Abstract: A battery includes a current collecting member connected to a power generating element housed in an outer casing with a lid, and a rivet placed outside the outer casing. The current collecting member includes a plate-shaped portion placed along the lid. The rivet includes a through part extending through the lid, and a contact part contacting a first surface of the plate-shaped portion. A part of a peripheral end portion of the contact part is joined to the first surface. An edge portion of a non-joined portion of the peripheral end portion, facing the first surface, includes a tapered surface generating a gap smaller at a position closer to the through part. The tapered surface has a maximum size of 0.1 mm or more in a direction from the peripheral end portion to the through part and 0.03 mm or more in a thickness direction of the peripheral end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicants: PRIMEARTH EV ENERGY CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Keitaro MACHIDA, Masaya OGURA, Akinori KOKUBO, Yuya TANAKA, Koichi TANIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230033828
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of outputting a behavior in consideration of benefits or moral codes of other systems. A first evaluation unit configured to evaluate a behavior from a self-viewpoint, a second evaluation unit configured to evaluate the behavior from another's viewpoint, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the behavior is performed from a first evaluation result in the first evaluation unit and a second evaluation result in the second evaluation unit are included. A third evaluation unit configured to evaluate the behavior from an objective viewpoint is further included. The determination unit performs the determination using a third evaluation result in the third evaluation. The present technology may be applied to an information processing device that determines a self-behavior in consideration of benefits or moral codes of other systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: KEITARO MACHIDA, TOMOMITSU HERAI, HIROKI MORIYA, MASARU SHIRASUNA, ITARU SHIMIZU, SUGURU AOKI, KAZUHITO IWASA, YOSHIYUKI KOBAYASHI, KENTA KAWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220391246
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program that enable task processing to be implemented by creative and highly flexible processing. A task is processed on the basis of information regarding the task, and the task is further processed on the basis of information having low relevance to the task on the basis of the evaluation of the processing result. The present disclosure can be applied to a task processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki MORIYA, Keitaro MACHIDA, Itaru SHIMIZU, Kenta KAWAMOTO, Suguru AOKI
  • Publication number: 20220301035
    Abstract: To enable control of a user's action in a manner more suitable for the personality of the user. A method for controlling an action of a user is set on the basis of the power of the user. For example, the magnitude of the power of the user is determined on the basis of at least one of the status or assets of the user, and the method is set on the basis of the determined magnitude of the power. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus, an electronic device, an information processing method, or a program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke KAWANA, Akane KONDO, Itaru SHIMIZU, Tetsuo SAKAMOTO, Keitaro MACHIDA