Patents by Inventor Kenta Kimura
Kenta Kimura 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: 20260163161Abstract: A power storage device includes a plurality of power storage elements, a heat exchange plate disposed between the plurality of power storage cells so as to face respective long side surfaces of the plurality of power storage cells and extending in a long-side direction of the long side surface, a main supply pipe through which a coolant flows to the heat exchange plate, and a housing case that houses the plurality of power storage cells, the heat exchange plate, and the main supply pipe. The housing case is provided with a partition wall disposed between the main supply pipe connected to the heat exchange plate and the power storage cell when viewed in an up-down direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2025Publication date: June 11, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu YAMASHITA, Shinichiro MORI, Koji Shimizu, Seigo Fujishima, Sumiko Kito, Shinya Ishikawa, Shintaro Tomita, Yuji Yamashita, Kenta Kimura
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Publication number: 20260155480Abstract: A power storage device includes: a plurality of power storage cells; and a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger that cool the plurality of power storage cells and extend in an extension direction. The first heat exchanger includes: a first heat medium path that extends in the extension direction and allows a heat medium to flow in the first heat exchanger; and a first recess formed to decrease a flow path area of the first heat medium path. The second heat exchanger includes: a second heat medium path that extends in the extension direction and allows the heat medium to flow in the second heat exchanger; and a second recess formed to decrease a flow path area of the second heat medium path. A depth of the first recess is different from a depth of the second recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2025Publication date: June 4, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu YAMASHITA, Shinichiro MORI, Koji SHIMIZU, Seigo FUJISHIMA, Sumiko KITO, Shinya ISHIKAWA, Shintaro TOMITA, Yuji YAMASHITA, Kenta KIMURA
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Publication number: 20260155477Abstract: An energy storage device includes: a plurality of energy storage cells; and two plate-shaped heat exchange plates extending in the longitudinal direction of long side surfaces of the energy storage elements. A connector having an opening is provided at an end of one of the heat exchange plates. The connector protrudes toward an end of the other heat exchange plate. A connector having an opening is provided at the end of the other heat exchange plate. The connector protrudes toward the end of the one heat exchange plate. The energy storage device further includes a connection pipe configured to contract upon heating. The connection pipe covers each of the connectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2025Publication date: June 4, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu YAMASHITA, Shinichiro MORI, Koji SHIMIZU, Seigo FUJISHIMA, Sumiko KITO, Shinya ISHIKAWA, Shintaro TOMITA, Yuji YAMASHITA, Kenta KIMURA
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Publication number: 20260149081Abstract: An energy storage device includes a plurality of energy storage elements and a heat exchange plate. The heat exchange plate includes: a first member defining a first surface that faces a long side surface of one of the energy storage elements; a second member defining a second surface located opposite to the first surface; and a plurality of partition walls that define, between the first member and the second member, a channel configured to circulate a cooling medium. The partition walls include: a separating wall that divides the channel into a channel on the first member side and a channel on the second member side; and a separating wall that divides the channel in the width direction of the long side surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2025Publication date: May 28, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu YAMASHITA, Shinichiro MORI, Koji SHIMIZU, Seigo FUJISHIMA, Sumiko KITO, Shinya ISHIKAWA, Shintaro TOMITA, Yuji YAMASHITA, Kenta KIMURA
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Publication number: 20260149082Abstract: A power storage device includes a plurality of power storage cells, and a heat exchange plate disposed between the plurality of power storage cells so as to face respective long side surfaces of the plurality of power storage cells and extending in a long-side direction of the long side surface. In the heat exchanger, Young's modulus of a central portion in a short-side direction of the long side surface is smaller than Young's modulus of an end portion in the short-side direction of the long side surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2025Publication date: May 28, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu YAMASHITA, Shinichiro MORI, Koji SHIMIZU, Seigo FUJISHIMA, Sumiko KITO, Shinya ISHIKAWA, Shintaro TOMITA, Yuji YAMASHITA, Kenta KIMURA
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Publication number: 20260106265Abstract: A power storage device includes: an accommodation case that accommodates a power storage cell; a heat exchanger disposed in the accommodation case; and a coolant pipe through which a coolant flows, the coolant pipe being disposed in the accommodation case, the coolant pipe being connected to the heat exchanger, wherein the coolant pipe includes a first portion and a second portion that cools surrounding air more greatly than the first portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2025Publication date: April 16, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu YAMASHITA, Shinichiro MORI, Koji SHIMIZU, Seigo FUJISHIMA, Sumiko KITO, Shinya ISHIKAWA, Shintaro TOMITA, Yuji YAMASHITA, Kenta KIMURA
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Publication number: 20260106286Abstract: A power storage device includes: a cylinder-shaped casing that houses an electrode assembly inside and has a central axis extending along a first direction; a safety valve arranged so as to overlap with the central axis when viewed along the first direction; a lid fixed at the casing by a crimped section crimping the casing from a first side in the first direction of the casing, wherein the lid includes a ring-shaped partition wall extending toward the first side and provided further to a radial direction outer side than the safety valve and further to a radial direction inner side than the crimped section; and a seal member that seals the crimped section at the radial direction outer side of the partition wall, the seal member being arranged at a second side in the first direction of the casing than an end portion of the casing at the first side.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2025Publication date: April 16, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukhiko Ideshio, Taro Matsushita, Kenta Kimura, Tomoaki Koshikawa
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Publication number: 20260094738Abstract: An insulated wire includes a conductor, and an insulation including a fluorine rubber and directly or indirectly covering the conductor, wherein the insulation has a water content of 0.4 wt% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2025Publication date: April 2, 2026Inventors: Kenta KIMURA, Masamichi IDONUMA, Takanobu WATANABE, Detian HUANG
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Publication number: 20260088413Abstract: An electric storage apparatus capable of reducing, even when a shared case is used, the number of occurrences of condensation inside the case is provided. An electric storage apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: battery modules each of which includes a plurality of battery cells; and a case configured to house the battery modules, in which the electric storage apparatus includes: reinforcement members disposed between the battery modules; and filling members disposed between the case and each of the battery modules. Each of the reinforcement members includes a protrusion part configured to protrude toward an outside of the electric storage apparatus from an end part of each of the battery modules. The filling members overlap with the corresponding protrusion parts of the reinforcement members.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2025Publication date: March 26, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoya KAWAMOTO, Shigeyuki INOUE, Nobuyoshi FUJIWARA, Kenta KIMURA
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Patent number: 12567507Abstract: To provide an electrical penetration capable of being used in nuclear power plants which are designed assuming operation under conditions of the severe accident. An electrical penetration includes: a tubular sleeve member 10; two or more insulating seal members 20A and 20B arranged inside the sleeve member 10 so as to be spaced from each other; wiring members 60, 60 disposed along the longitudinal direction of the sleeve member 10 so as to extend across two insulating seal members of the two or more insulating seal members 20A and 20B; and outer seal members provided inside the sleeve member 10 and at the outermost portions of the two insulating seal members 20A and 20B. The wiring members 60, 60 are each covered with an insulator made of the same material as those of the outer seal members 21A and 21B.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2023Date of Patent: March 3, 2026Assignee: Hitachi GE Vernova Nuclear Energy, Ltd.Inventors: Shingo Ito, Yasuyuki Goto, Yukiharu Sato, Teppei Kubota, Masayuki Shimizu, Susumu Kumagai, Atsushi Warigaya, Masamichi Idonuma, Kenta Kimura
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Publication number: 20260004259Abstract: An information processing device that manages a transaction of a battery member of an in-vehicle battery. A registration of information on a first battery member that is a recycled battery member is received from a first business, a value of the first battery member is calculated based at least on an appraised value of a right the recycled battery member has, and the first business that provides the first battery member and the second business to which the first battery member is to be transferred are matched based on the value of the first battery member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2025Publication date: January 1, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Isomura, Tatsuhiko Sasaki, Iwao Nitta, Aya Ohkubo, Sotaro Hayashi, Masahiro Kagami, Makoto Mizuguchi, Kenta Kimura, Yasuhiro Kobatake
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Publication number: 20260004007Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller, the controller being configured to execute: determining, for a battery apparatus mountable on a vehicle, whether predetermined information for tracking a location of the battery apparatus is registered with a predetermined management apparatus or not; and disabling at least part of functions provided by the battery apparatus mounted on the vehicle when it is determined that the predetermined information is not registered.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2025Publication date: January 1, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke ISOMURA, Tatsuhiko SASAKI, Iwao NITTA, Aya OHKUBO, Sotaro HAYASHI, Masahiro KAGAMI, Hiroshi YAMASAKI, Makoto MIZUGUCHI, Kenta KIMURA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE
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Publication number: 20260004257Abstract: A control unit of an information processing device determines whether registration information for tracking the location of a battery mounted on a vehicle is registered in a predetermined management device. When the registration information is registered, the control unit of the information processing device outputs data that permits removal of the battery from the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2025Publication date: January 1, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke ISOMURA, Tatsuhiko SASAKI, Iwao NITTA, Aya OHKUBO, Sotaro HAYASHI, Masahiro KAGAMI, Hiroshi YAMASAKI, Makoto MIZUGUCHI, Kenta KIMURA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE
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Publication number: 20260004265Abstract: An information processing apparatus managing information for a battery component constituting an on-board battery, the information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute: accepting registration of information about a first battery component from a first user, the first battery component being a recycled battery component; accepting registration of information about a second battery component from a second user, the second battery component being a new battery component; and assigning an identifier as a new product to the information about the first battery component and assigning an identifier as a recycled product to the information about the second battery component when a transaction has been concluded between the first user and the second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2025Publication date: January 1, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke ISOMURA, Tatsuhiko SASAKI, Iwao NITTA, Aya OHKUBO, Sotaro HAYASHI, Masahiro KAGAMI, Makoto MIZUGUCHI, Kenta KIMURA, Yasuhiro KOBATAKE
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Publication number: 20250329846Abstract: The size of an electric storage apparatus is reduced. An electric storage apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a first cover; a plurality of battery cells including a pair of electrode terminals disposed above the first cover; a reinforcement member disposed between the plurality of battery cells; and a second cover disposed below the first cover, in which the electric storage apparatus includes a first connection member configured to connect the first cover to the second cover, the first connection member being disposed between the first cover and the second cover, and at least a part of the first connection member overlaps with the reinforcement member as viewed from an up-and-down direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2025Publication date: October 23, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoya KAWAMOTO, Shigeyuki INOUE, Nobuyoshi FUJIWARA, Kenta KIMURA
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Publication number: 20250323339Abstract: An energy storage device includes an energy storage module, and a cooler disposed above the energy storage module. The cooler includes a cooler body (first portion) extending along an upper surface (first upper surface) of the energy storage module, and a blocking portion (second portion) provided so as to protrude upward from the cooler body. The blocking portion is provided so as to block the condensation water generated on the upper surface (second upper surface) of the cooler body from flowing toward the outer peripheral edge of the cooler body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2025Publication date: October 16, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shintaro UTSUMI, Takeru Hara, Masataka Ogushi, Yuji Nishi, Naofumi Nomura, Nariaki Miki, Kenta Kimura
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Publication number: 20250300277Abstract: The power storage device includes a power storage module including a power storage cell, a cooler disposed above the power storage module, and a thermally insulating member. The power storage cell has a short side surface and a short side surface, a positive electrode terminal disposed on the short side surface, and a negative electrode terminal disposed on the short side surface. The thermally insulating member is provided below the cooler and above each of the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2024Publication date: September 25, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shintaro UTSUMI, Takeru HARA, Masataka OGUSHI, Yuji NISHI, Naofumi NOMURA, Nariaki MIKI, Kenta KIMURA
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Publication number: 20250293371Abstract: An electric storage apparatus which contributes to the improvement of maintainability of the inside of the electric storage apparatus is provided. An electric storage apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a battery module including a plurality of battery cells; a case configured to house at least a part of the battery module; an apparatus component positioned between the battery module and the case; and an adhesive member configured to bond the apparatus component to the battery module, in which the electric storage apparatus includes a wire rod including a first part disposed inside the electric storage apparatus and a second part disposed outside the electric storage apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2025Publication date: September 18, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoya KAWAMOTO, Shigeyuki INOUE, Nobuyoshi FUJIWARA, Kenta KIMURA
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Publication number: 20250273797Abstract: A battery pack, which contributes to improvement in accuracy in detecting water infiltrating inside the battery pack, is realized. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a battery pack includes: a battery module including a plurality of battery cells stacked in a first direction, and a case for housing the battery module, in which the case includes a lower case arranged below the battery module which is on one side of the battery pack in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction, and the lower case includes a groove part extending in the first direction and a reservoir part arranged so as to be capable of storing water in at least one end part of the groove part in the first direction, and a water detection unit is arranged in the reservoir part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2025Publication date: August 28, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoya KAWAMOTO, Shigeyuki INOUE, Nobuyoshi FUJIWARA, Kenta KIMURA
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Publication number: 20250246705Abstract: A power storage device includes: a power storage module that includes a power storage cell and an electrode terminal disposed on the power storage cell; and a cooler that cools the power storage cell. The electrode terminal is disposed on an end surface of the power storage cell in a Y direction intersecting a Z direction. The cooler includes an upper portion disposed above the power storage module. Further, the cooler includes a protruding portion protruding from the upper portion in the Y direction, in a direction in which the protruding portion is more spaced apart from the power storage cell than the electrode terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2024Publication date: July 31, 2025Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shintaro UTSUMI, Takeru Hara, Masataka Ogushi, Yuji Nishi, Naofumi Nomura, Nariaki Miki, Kenta Kimura