Patents by Inventor Koki MAEDA

Koki MAEDA 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: 20260121192
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes an energy storage device, an end plate arranged in a first direction of the energy storage device, and a side plate extending in the first direction and joined to the end plate, in which in at least one of the end plate or the side plate, a protruding portion is provided in at least one corner portion at which the first direction and a second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction intersect each other, and the protruding portion is configured such that a space, which opens on a side of the energy storage device, is defined by a deformation portion of at least one of the end plate or the side plate projected toward an outer side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2025
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventor: Koki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20260011856
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes a plurality of energy storage devices, and a spacer located between the plurality of energy storage devices in a first direction. The spacer includes a spacer main body, a first convex portion projecting from the spacer main body toward one side in the first direction, and a second convex portion projecting from the spacer main body toward another side in the first direction. The first convex portion and the second convex portion are located at different positions in at least one of a second direction or a third direction that are two directions perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first direction and perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2025
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Inventors: Koki MAEDA, Shohei YAMAO, Junpei YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250391979
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes an energy storage device unit that includes a plurality of energy storage devices arrayed in a first direction and an outer case accommodating the energy storage device unit. The outer case includes an opening at an end in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The outer case includes a bottom wall opposite to the opening and a side wall connected to the bottom wall. The side wall is opposite to the energy storage device unit in the first direction, and is inclined in a direction away from the energy storage device unit as the side wall extends farther from the bottom wall. The side wall includes a first vertical surface that is a plane perpendicular to the first direction on at least a part of the inside surface in the second direction. The inside surface is opposite to the energy storage device unit in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Inventors: Koki MAEDA, Atsuyuki KONISHI, Yasuyuki IWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20250369794
    Abstract: A vibration detection device includes a housing, a substrate, a case, a detection element, a metal foil, and a sealing member. The housing includes a first opening portion and a second opening portion which is formed on a bottom surface of the first opening portion in a manner to open smaller than the first opening portion. The substrate is fixed to the bottom surface of the first opening portion to close the second opening portion. The case is fixed on a back surface of the substrate and is accommodated in the second opening portion with a bottom surface thereof opened. The detection element is fixed on the back surface of the substrate and is accommodated in the case. The metal foil is attached to the case to lid the bottom surface of the case. The sealing member seals the first opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Applicant: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki NIHO, Koki MAEDA
  • Patent number: 12365382
    Abstract: A steering device includes a first steering column, a second steering column, an actuator device, a first attachment portion, and a second attachment portion. The first attachment portion includes an opening portion and a housing portion including a second arc portion. A protrusion portion has a first arc portion and a linear portion, and the first attachment portion has the opening portion and the housing portion. A minimum width of the opening portion in the first attachment portion is defined as a first distance, and a minimum distance between two intersections of a straight line passing through a center of the housing portion and an edge of the housing portion is defined as a second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: NSK STEERING & CONTROL, INC.
    Inventor: Koki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20250229826
    Abstract: A steering device includes a first steering column, a second steering column, an actuator device, a first attachment portion, and a second attachment portion. The first attachment portion includes an opening portion and a housing portion including a second arc portion. A protrusion portion has a first arc portion and a linear portion, and the first attachment portion has the opening portion and the housing portion. A minimum width of the opening portion in the first attachment portion is defined as a first distance, and a minimum distance between two intersections of a straight line passing through a center of the housing portion and an edge of the housing portion is defined as a second distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: NSK STEERING & CONTROL, INC.
    Inventor: Koki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20250192305
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes an energy storage device, a holder that holds the energy storage device, and an outer case that accommodates the energy storage device and the holder. The outer case includes an outer case main body having an opening portion and a lid body that closes the opening portion. The lid body includes a projecting portion that projects toward the holder and is brought into contact with or presses the holder in a projecting direction of the projecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori OKUNO, Yasuyuki IWASHIMA, Koki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20250192334
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes an energy storage, and first, second, and third members positioned in a first direction relative to the energy storage and aligned in the first direction. The second member is between the first and third members, at least one of the first or second member includes a first rib protruding towards the other of the first or second member in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the first rib being in contact with the other of the first or second member in the second direction, and at least one of the second or third member includes a second rib protruding towards the other of the second or third member in the second direction or in a third direction intersecting the first and second directions, the second rib being in contact with the other of the second or third member in the second or third direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Koki MAEDA, Yasunori OKUNO, Yasuyuki IWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20250183453
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes: an energy storage unit including an energy storage device and an outer case accommodating the energy storage device; and a control unit including a control device that is connected to a main current path of the energy storage device and controls the energy storage device. The control unit is removably attached to the outer case in a state of being in contact with the outer case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Atsuyuki KONISHI, Yasuyuki IWASHIMA, Koki MAEDA, Takeyuki SHIRAISHI, Haruyuki ONODA
  • Publication number: 20250167371
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes an energy storage element, a metallic exterior body, and a holding member. The energy storage element includes a side surface and a bottom surface, and the side surface is oriented in a first direction and the bottom surface is oriented in a second direction. The exterior body includes a bottom wall portion opposed to the bottom surface. The holding member includes a holding body portion extending along the side surface and a bottom surface cover portion connected to an end portion of the holding body portion and covers the bottom surface of the energy storage element. At least one of the exterior body and the holding member is provided with a protruding portion separating the bottom wall portion and the bottom surface cover portion, and size of the protruding portion fits within an array range of the bottom surface cover portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki IWASHIMA, Koki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20250087703
    Abstract: An energy storage device includes an electrode terminal, an electrode assembly, and a current collector connecting the electrode terminal and the electrode assembly. The current collector includes a terminal connecting portion connected to the electrode terminal, an electrode connecting portion connected to the electrode assembly in a first direction, and an intermediate portion that connects the terminal connecting portion and the electrode connecting portion. The intermediate portion is positioned at a position overlapping the terminal connecting portion when viewed in the first direction. The intermediate portion includes an intermediate portion first surface opposite to a surface facing the terminal connecting portion of the intermediate portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Satoru KAWAKAMI, Hironori AIDA, Koki MAEDA, Yudai KATO
  • Patent number: 12183929
    Abstract: An energy storage device includes a positive electrode terminal, an electrode assembly, and a positive electrode current collector connecting the positive electrode terminal and the electrode assembly, in which the positive electrode current collector has a terminal connecting portion connected to the positive electrode terminal, an electrode connecting portion connected to the electrode assembly in the first direction, and an intermediate portion connecting the terminal connecting portion and the electrode connecting portion, the intermediate portion is arranged at a position overlapping the terminal connecting portion when viewed in the first direction, and the electrode connecting portion and the terminal connecting portion are arranged on one side of the intermediate portion in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Kawakami, Hironori Aida, Koki Maeda, Yudai Kato
  • Publication number: 20240372204
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus including an energy storage device and an outer case in which the energy storage device is accommodated, wherein the outer case includes a first outer case and a second outer case which are disposed side by side in a first direction and are joined to each other, the energy storage device is interposed and restrained between the first outer case and the second outer case in the first direction, the first outer case and the second outer case include a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion which are disposed on outer peripheral portions of the first outer case and the second outer case and are joined in a state of being in contact with each other when viewed from the first direction, and a third connecting portion and a fourth connecting portion which are disposed more inside than the outer peripheral portions and are joined to each other when viewed from the first direction, and the third connecting portion and the fourth connecting portion are joined by a joining
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Koki MAEDA, Takuma KAWAI, Shun SASAKI, Yasuyuki IWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240274947
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes an energy storage device including a case, an outer case in which the energy storage device is accommodated, and a plate-shaped first plate-shaped member aligned with the energy storage device in a first direction and disposed along the outer case, in which the case includes a case body and a case lid body that are joined to each other, the case body and the case lid body are disposed and aligned in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and the first plate-shaped member includes a plate-shaped member protrusion that protrudes in the first direction and extends toward an end edge of the plate-shaped member in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Koki MAEDA, Yasuyuki IWASHIMA, Atsuyuki KONISHI, Takuma KAWAI
  • Patent number: 12049689
    Abstract: The present invention solves a novel problem of corrosive wear that occurs in the use of a valve seat in an internal combustion engine using a hydrogen gas fuel. The problem is solved by an iron-based sintered alloy valve seat used in an internal combustion engine using a hydrogen gas fuel, in which the Cr content is 6% by mass to 23% by mass, the Mo content is 5% by mass to 20% by mass, the Cu content is 10% by mass to 23% by mass, the Co content is 3% by mass or more, and a total content of Cr, Mo, and Co is 14% by mass to 47% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: TPR Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koki Maeda, Fukutoshi Uchida
  • Publication number: 20240191332
    Abstract: The present invention solves a novel problem of corrosive wear that occurs in the use of a valve seat in an internal combustion engine using a hydrogen gas fuel. The problem is solved by an iron-based sintered alloy valve seat used in an internal combustion engine using a hydrogen gas fuel, in which the Cr content is 6% by mass to 23% by mass, the Mo content is 5% by mass to 20% by mass, the Cu content is 10% by mass to 23% by mass, the Co content is 3% by mass or more, and a total content of Cr, Mo, and Co is 14% by mass to 47% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Koki Maeda, Fukutoshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 11715407
    Abstract: A control section according to an embodiment of the present invention is configured to: set, as a first temperature, a temperature obtained from a thermal image at a first position contained in a first infrared image corresponding to a surrounding environment in the thermal image, and set, as a second temperature, a temperature obtained from the thermal image at a second position contained in a second infrared image corresponding to a duct or the like in the thermal image; calculate an upper limit and a lower limit of a temperature range by using the first temperature and the second temperature; and control a display section to display the thermal image such that temperature distribution on the subject is represented by colors within the temperature range having the upper limit and the lower limit that have been calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Koki Maeda, Takashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230074531
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a controller derives, on the basis of a scheduled traveling route of a vehicle provided with a safekeeping apparatus storing baggage of a user and position information of the user, a rejoining point and a rejoining timing at which the vehicle and the user are capable of rejoining together. The controller also proposes the rejoining point and the rejoining timing to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomo Sasaki, Kenichi Yamada, Koki Maeda, Tsuyoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20230067211
    Abstract: A polyrotaxane of high heat resistance contains a linear molecule, a cyclic molecule enclosing the linear molecule such that the cyclic molecule is skewered with the linear molecule, and 5 blocking groups disposed at both ends of the linear molecule. The cyclic molecule contains an aromatic ring having, on a side chain, a phenolic hydroxyl group. The polyrotaxane can be produced by dissolving, in a methanol-containing solvent, a linear molecule and a cyclic 10 molecule containing an aromatic ring having, on a side chain, a phenolic hydroxyl group, to yield a pseudo polyrotaxane in which the cyclic molecule encloses the linear molecule such that the cyclic molecule is skewered with the linear molecule; and dissolving the pseudo polyrotaxane and a blocking group 15 material in a solvent, to dispose blocking groups at both ends of the linear molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hideki TAMAI, Takanori NAKAI, Hideyuki IMAI, Makoto ISHIDA, Tomoki OGOSHI, Koki MAEDA, Katsuto ONISHI, Tada-Aki YAMAGISHI, Takahiro KAKUTA, Masafumi YAGYU
  • Publication number: 20230055139
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus has a controller configured to obtain a first image. The first image is an image of the interior of a specific compartment of a storage apparatus that is a candidate compartment in which baggage of a user is to be stored. The controller sends the first image to a user terminal associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Tomo Sasaki, Kenichi Yamada, Koki Maeda, Tsuyoshi Okada