Patents by Inventor Masakazu Tsutsumi

Masakazu Tsutsumi 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: 20150318519
    Abstract: Provided is an electric storage device including a first conductive member having a head bulging from an inserted part inserted through a partition wall, and a second conductive member that is formed using a metal material different from a material of the first conductive member and is fixed to the head of the first conductive member by friction stir welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Masakazu TSUTSUMI, Takuma TONARI
  • Patent number: 9161719
    Abstract: A sleep evaluation device includes an obtainment unit configured to obtain audio and a determination unit configured to determine a snoring level in the audio obtained by the obtainment unit based on an amount of time for which the audio occurred. The determination unit is configured to determine a snoring level based on a ratio of a cumulative time in which the obtainment unit obtains the audio to a number of times the audio is obtained by the obtainment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Tsutsumi, Hiroshi Harada, Hirotaka Hara, Hidetaka Togo
  • Publication number: 20150270527
    Abstract: A battery includes a battery container containing a power generating element, a lid plate covering a top opening of the battery container, and including a baffling portion, whose upper surface includes at least one of a first projecting portion and a first recessed portion, and an external terminal including a base portion and a second projecting portion that projects upward from the base portion. The base portion is engaged with the baffling portion of the lid plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: TAKESHI SASAKI, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 9123918
    Abstract: There is provided an electric storage device in which an electrode assembly enclosed in an insulating cover can be smoothly inserted in a case and the electrode assembly is positioned in place inside the case when housed in the case. The electric storage device according to the present invention includes an electrode assembly, an insulating cover covering the electrode assembly, and a case including a case body having a rectangular box shape and having an opening, the case body being configured to house the electrode assembly and the insulating cover, wherein the insulating cover is formed into a rectangular box shape conforming to the case body, and a portion of each of edges at which adjacent side surfaces of the insulating cover meet each other is beveled into a beveled part, the portion being close to the bottom of the insulating cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Tsutsumi, Jun Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9123475
    Abstract: An electric storage device includes a case, an electrode assembly housed in the case and including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate which are wound together while being isolated from each other, an external terminal arranged outside the case and a current collecting member arranged inside the case to electrically connect the electrode assembly with the external terminal. The current collecting member includes a first portion including a first end portion and a second end portion, and electrically connected to the external terminal, and a second portion extending out of the second end portion of the first portion and electrically connected to the electrode assembly. The second portion includes a base portion including a first end portion and a second end portion, the first end portion of the base portion being connected to the second end portion of the first portion, and a twisted portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Tsutsumi, Motoki Hoshino, Jun Nakamura, Shinsuke Yoshitake, Takeshi Sasaki, Akihiko Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 9118051
    Abstract: A battery includes a power generating element, a battery container containing the power generating element, a lid plate covering a top opening of the battery container, the lid plate including a metal plate and a baffling portion including an integral portion of the lid plate that extends from the lid plate, and an insulating member provided on the lid plate. Corners of the insulating member fit to corners of the baffling portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 9072491
    Abstract: With an evaluation device, a sleep level of a person being measured is discriminated based on a signal input from a body motion sensor. With the evaluation device, when a go-to-bed button is operated at time T3, time T3 is stored as the go-to-bed time. When a good-night button is operated at time T4, discrimination of sleep level is started. Thereafter, when the good-night button again is operated at time T5, the discrimination of sleep level ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Togo, Yoko Kanemitsu, Yasuko Emori, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Feilang Tseng, Toshiro Ito
  • Patent number: 9034514
    Abstract: In order to accurately protect current collectors included in an electric storage device, the electric storage device includes an electric storage element 3 arranged inside an electric storage device case BC; an electrode terminal 5 arranged outside the electric storage device case; a current collector 4 including a first posture part FP and a second posture part SP, the first posture part FP extending along a surface of the electric storage device case on which the electrode terminal 5 is arranged, the second posture part SP extending from an end portion of the first posture part toward the side opposite to the electrode terminal, the current collector fixed at the first posture part FP by means of a fixing member 8 penetrating through an opening formed in the electric storage device case, the current collector supporting the electric storage element 3 by the second posture part SP, thereby electrically connecting the electrode terminal 5 and the electric storage element 3; and a reinforcing member 13 arrang
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignees: GS Yuasa International Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yoshitake, Hajime Kawamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Jun Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9017858
    Abstract: A conductor for connecting first and second terminals includes a first plate-shaped part made of a first metal, a second plate-shaped part made of a second metal, a first region with the first metal exposed, and a second region with the second metal exposed. The second metal is also exposed at a third region which is opposite to the second region. A boundary between the first and second regions has no step difference in a thickness direction, and the first plate-shaped part is directly connected to the first terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Yoshinori Tanaka, Shinsuke Yoshitake
  • Publication number: 20150024244
    Abstract: An electric storage device includes a case, an electrode assembly housed in the case and including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate which are wound together while being isolated from each other, an external terminal arranged outside the case and a current collecting member arranged inside the case to electrically connect the electrode assembly with the external terminal. The current collecting member includes a first portion including a first end portion and a second end portion, and electrically connected to the external terminal, and a second portion extending out of the second end portion of the first portion and electrically connected to the electrode assembly. The second portion includes a base portion including a first end portion and a second end portion, the first end portion of the base portion being connected to the second end portion of the first portion, and a twisted portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Masakazu Tsutsumi, Motoki Hoshino, Jun Nakamura, Shinsuke Yoshitake, Takeshi Sasaki, Akihiko Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8933809
    Abstract: A measurement device is provided with a sensor for detecting body motion of a subject and a CPU for executing processing for generating display data. The CPU includes a first discrimination unit for discriminating a sleeping state of the subject for each unit period, based on a sensor signal output from the sensor, a second discrimination unit for discriminating a level of the sleeping state of a predetermined period consisting of a predetermined number of continuous unit periods, based on the sleeping state for each unit period, a decision unit for deciding a display mode for each predetermined period, according to the level of the sleeping state of the predetermined period, and a generation unit for generating display data for displaying the level of the sleeping state of the subject in the predetermined period on a display device with a graph along the time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoko Kanemitsu, Yasuko Emori, Feilang Tseng, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Toshiro Ito, Noboru Shinomiya
  • Publication number: 20140377625
    Abstract: Provided is an electric storage apparatus including: an electric storage device including an external terminal that has a first connection surface; a bus bar having a second connection surface that overlaps the first connection surface; a first weld portion that is formed extending over the external terminal and the bus bar in a region where the first connection surface and the second connection surface are opposed to each other; and a second weld portion that is formed extending over the external terminal and the bus bar in a region where the first connection surface and the second connection surface are opposed to each other, the second weld portion overlapping the first weld portion, wherein the second weld portion is formed such that its weld center is displaced from a weld center of the first weld portion. Also provided is a method for producing the electric storage apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Masakazu Tsutsumi, Hideki Matsushima, Yu Murai
  • Patent number: 8896453
    Abstract: A measurement device is provided with a sensor for detecting body motion of a subject and a CPU for executing processing for generating display data. The CPU includes a first discrimination unit for discriminating a sleeping state of the subject for each unit period, based on a sensor signal output from the sensor, a second discrimination unit for discriminating a level of the sleeping state of a predetermined period consisting of a predetermined number of continuous unit periods, based on the sleeping state for each unit period, a decision unit for deciding a display mode for each predetermined period, according to the level of the sleeping state of the predetermined period, and a generation unit for generating display data for displaying the level of the sleeping state of the subject in the predetermined period on a display device with a graph along the time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoko Kanemitsu, Yasuko Emori, Feilang Tseng, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Toshiro Ito, Noboru Shinomiya
  • Publication number: 20140323919
    Abstract: A sleep evaluation device includes an obtainment unit configured to obtain audio and a determination unit configured to determine a snoring level in the audio obtained by the obtainment unit based on an amount of time for which the audio occurred. The determination unit is configured to determine a snoring level based on a ratio of a cumulative time in which the obtainment unit obtains the audio to a number of times the audio is obtained by the obtainment unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Masakazu Tsutsumi, Hiroshi Harada, Hirotaka Hara, Hidetaka Togo
  • Publication number: 20140315071
    Abstract: An electric storage device according to the present invention includes a case having a case body and a cover plate, the cover plate has a projection to be inserted into the opening of the case body, the projection is in contact with or adjacent to the inner surface of the opening edge of the case body in the second direction, and the projection is locally located in the vicinity of the circumferential edge of the cover plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu TSUTSUMI, Jun Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140276245
    Abstract: A body motion detection device detects a body motion of a subject. A result of detection is transmitted to a server where a determination is made as to a plurality of patterns of sleep (for example, “having difficulty falling asleep,” “awakening too early,” “awakening in the middle of night,” “shortage of sleep,” “sleep rhythm disturbance,” and “uninterrupted sleep”) based on the detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Masakazu Tsutsumi, Yoko Kanemitsu, Yasuko Emori, Masanori Hashizaki, Naoki Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20140255758
    Abstract: The electric storage device according to the present invention includes a case having a case body and a cover plate, the case body includes a step portion at an opening edge, the cover plate includes a projection that is inserted into the opening of the case body, and a portion of the projection opposes the step portion within the case body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Tsutsumi, Hidenori Shishido
  • Patent number: 8828589
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a battery in which current collecting connector 2 and 3 and groups 1d and 1e of metal foil of a power generating element 1 can be easily connected, respectively, and a method of manufacturing the same. First plate portions 2b and 3b which respective protruding ends of metal foil of the groups 1d and 1e of metal foil of the power generating element 1 come in contact with or close to and second plate portions 2c and 3c protruding from the first plate portions 2b and 3b toward the power generating element 1 and disposed only at one outer side portions of the groups 1d and 1e of metal foil are provided to the other portions of the current collecting connectors 2 and 3 of the invention and the groups 1d and 1e of metal foil are welded to the second plate portions 2c and 3c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Tozuka, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Yoshinori Tanaka, Shinsuke Yoshitake, Takeshi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20140227587
    Abstract: A battery includes a power generating element, a battery container containing the power generating element, a lid plate covering a top opening of the battery container, the lid plate including a metal plate and a baffling portion including an integral portion of the lid plate that extends from the lid plate, and an insulating member provided on the lid plate. Corners of the insulating member fit to corners of the baffling portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 8765293
    Abstract: Provided is an electric storage device that can ensure seal in a peripheral area of a portion in a defining wall of a case through which a rivet passes even when a rivet is inserted through the defining wall of the case and the rivet is caulked. The electric storage device includes: an electrode assembly; a case that houses the electrode assembly, the case including a defining wall; and a rivet, wherein a peripheral area of a portion in the defining wall through which the rivet passes has a higher hardness than the remaining area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kawamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Jun Nakamura