Patents by Inventor Oose Okutani
Oose Okutani 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: 20240145883Abstract: A cylindrical battery comprises: an outer can having a bottomed cylinder shape; an electrode body that is accommodated inside the outer can, and in which an elongated positive electrode and an elongated negative electrode having different polarities from each other are wound with a separator interposed therebetween; a metal plate that is disposed between the electrode body and a bottom part of the outer can; and a plurality of negative electrode lead parts that extend from the negative electrode towards the bottom part. A tip part of each negative electrode lead part is sandwiched between the metal plate and the bottom part, and is electrically connected to the bottom part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shin Haraguchi, Oose Okutani, Ryota Okimoto
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Publication number: 20240136675Abstract: A cylindrical battery having a bottomed tubular exterior can; an electrode body in the exterior can and around which a long positive electrode and a long negative electrode are wound with a separator therebetween; a plurality of negative-electrode lead parts extending from a long negative-electrode current collector of the negative electrode toward the bottom part of the exterior can; a first current-collector plate that is disposed on the bottom part side of the electrode body and that has at least two through-holes at the positions different from each other in the radial direction; and a second current-collector plate disposed between the first current-collector plate and the bottom part. The negative-electrode lead parts each pass through any one of the through-holes. Leading-end portions of the plurality of negative-electrode lead parts are sandwiched between the first current-collector plate and the second current-collector plate, and are electrically connected to the second current-collector plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shin Haraguchi, Oose Okutani, Ryota Okimoto
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Publication number: 20240055719Abstract: This sealed battery is provided with a bottomed tubular outer can for accommodating an electrode body, and a sealing body for sealing an opening part of the outer can. The outer can has a gas exhaust valve which ruptures when the pressure inside the battery reaches a predetermined value. The gas exhaust valve includes a plurality of linear grooves. The sealed battery is characterized in that; the cross-sectional shape of the grooves is a tapering shape in which the width of open ends on the side of the surface of the outer can is shorter than the width of the bottom; the grooves have at least one crossing part; and the crossing part has a flat section in the bottom.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicants: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd., Panasonic Holdings CorporationInventors: Oose Okutani, Kazutoshi Kohira
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Patent number: 11881550Abstract: A battery including: a battery can having a cylindrical portion, a bottom wall closing one end of the cylindrical portion, and an open rim continuous with the other end of the cylindrical portion; an electrode body housed in the cylindrical portion; and a sealing body fixed to the open rim so as to seal an opening defined by the open rim. The sealing body includes a sealing plate and a gasket disposed at a peripheral portion of the sealing plate. The gasket has at least one protruding portion configured to restrict insertion of the sealing body into the open rim.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignees: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD., PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATIONInventors: Oose Okutani, Shinya Geshi
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Patent number: 11876245Abstract: A sealed battery including a battery case that includes a cylindrical exterior can having a bottom and an opening sealing body that closes an opening of the outer can; a gasket that is arranged between the exterior can and the opening sealing body; and an electrode body. The opening sealing body includes: a metal plate with an annular part to which an electrode lead is electrically connected, and a disconnecting part that is separated from the annular part when the inner pressure of the battery case exceeds a predetermined threshold; a valve body that is arranged further to the outside of the battery case than the metal plate; and an insulating plate that is arranged between the metal plate and the valve body. The insulating plate or the gasket is provided with an elastic deformation part that deforms in the direction of the valve body.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayoshi Yoshida, Oose Okutani, Takahiro Nogami, Akira Takano
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Publication number: 20240006726Abstract: A secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is characterized by comprising a metal case main body, and an electrode body that is accommodated in the case main body and formed by winding a positive electrode and negative electrode with a separator interposed therebetween, wherein: the negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode active material layer formed on the negative electrode current collector, and a negative electrode current collector exposed section where the negative electrode current collector is exposed; the negative electrode current collector exposed section is disposed on a winding ending section of the electrode body and makes more than one lap circling in the winding starting direction L from the winding ending section of the electrode body, thereby forming a laminated part comprising the negative electrode exposed section, the laminated part and the case main body being welded together.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Takano, Oose Okutani
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Patent number: 11817547Abstract: A wound-type battery includes a wound electrode group having a first electrode and a second electrode with polarity opposite to the first electrode, an electrolyte, a battery case, a sealing plate that seals an opening of the battery case, an insulating plate that is disposed between the electrode group and the sealing plate and that has a hole, and a first tab that passes through the hole to electrically connect the first electrode and the sealing plate to each other. At least a part of a region of the first tab that extends through the hole to a sealing plate side is covered with a tab tape on a side facing the insulating plate. The tab tape includes at least a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer on a side opposite the first adhesive layer and is in contact with the first tab through the first adhesive layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayoshi Yoshida, Oose Okutani, Takeshi Enomoto, Akira Takano
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Patent number: 11699834Abstract: A sealed battery, which is an exemplary embodiment, comprises a battery case including a bottomed cylindrical outer can and a sealing body that closes an opening of the outer can, a gasket disposed between the outer can and the sealing body, and an electrode body including an electrode and housed in the battery case. The sealing body includes a metal plate, and the metal plate has a thin portion formed in an annular shape, a valve portion having a convex shape inside the battery case, and an annular portion to which the electrode lead is connected. The gasket is provided with an elastically deformable portion that abuts against the inner surface of the valve portion and urges the valve portion to the outside of the battery case.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Yoshida, Oose Okutani, Takahiro Nogami, Akira Takano
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Patent number: 11695162Abstract: A secondary battery according to an embodiment includes: an electrode body which contains a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and at least one separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; a case main body which receives the electrode body; a sealing body which seals an opening portion of the case main body; and a sealing body-side insulating member provided between the sealing body and one end portion of the electrode body and a case main body-side insulating member; the one end portion and the other end portion of the electrode body each form a protruding section; and the sealing body-side insulating member includes a base material and an adhesive layer which is disposed on the base material and which contains a cured object of a curable resin, and the protruding section of the one end portion of the electrode body is adhered to the adhesive layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Oose Okutani
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Patent number: 11670771Abstract: A battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a positive electrode tab electrically connected to the positive electrode; a negative electrode tab electrically connected to the negative electrode; a positive electrode tab tape covering the positive electrode tab: and a negative electrode tab tape covering the negative electrode tab. In the battery described above, at least one tab tape of the positive electrode tab tape and the negative electrode tab tape has a multilayer structure in which an adhesive layer and a substrate layer primarily formed from an organic material are laminated in this order from an electrode tab side, and the adhesive layer contains an adhesive material and a reactive material which generates an endothermic reaction at a temperature lower than a heat resistance temperature of the organic material.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Yoshida, Oose Okutani
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Patent number: 11664549Abstract: A metal case has a cylindrical body section, an opening section at one end of the body section, the opening section having an opening, and a bottom section closing the other end of the body section. At least one of the body section and the opening section has a protrusion sticking outward in the direction of the radius of the body section.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Takano, Oose Okutani, Takeshi Enomoto, Masayoshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 11621450Abstract: A battery can has a cylindrical body section, an opening section at one end of the body section, and a bottom section closing the other end of the body section. An annularly grooved portion is formed by constriction near the open end of the opening section. The annularly grooved portion has an upper-groove section as the section closer to the open end than the narrowest section, which is positioned farthest inside, of the grooved portion, and also has a lower-groove section as the section closer to the bottom section than the narrowest section. The wall thickness T1 of the lower-groove section is larger than the wall thickness T2 of the body section.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Oose Okutani, Takeshi Enomoto, Masayoshi Yoshida, Akira Takano
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Publication number: 20230095106Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a sealed battery that can expand a joint area of an electrode lead with respect to a sealing body or the like without using a large-width electrode lead. A sealed battery, which is an example of an embodiment, comprises: an electrode body having an electrode lead; a bottomed tubular exterior can that accommodates the electrode body; and a sealing body that plugs an opening section of the exterior can. The electrode lead is welded, with energy beams, to the inner surface of the sealing body. In addition, the electrode lead includes: a first main surface making contact with the inner surface of the sealing body; and a second main surface on the opposite side of the first main surface, wherein the first main surface and the second main surface are formed in no-parallel with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Oose Okutani
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Publication number: 20220231357Abstract: A cylindrical battery having a bottomed cylindrical outer can including a bottom surface part and a side surface part; a sealing body that closes an opening part of the outer can; and a gasket disposed between the outer can and the sealing body. The outer can has: a groove part that is formed such that a side surface section thereof extends from the outside to the inside and supports the sealing body with the gasket therebetween; and a shoulder part that is formed to face the groove part with the sealing body and the gasket therebetween and sandwiches the sealing body together with the groove part. At least a portion of the shoulder part extends radially inward of the sealing body from an inner end of the groove part, and an easily deformable part is formed on the shoulder part along the circumferential direction of the outer can.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryota Okimoto, Oose Okutani
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Publication number: 20220115756Abstract: A sealed battery, which is an exemplary embodiment, comprises a battery case including a bottomed cylindrical outer can and a sealing body that closes an opening of the outer can, a gasket disposed between the outer can and the sealing body, and an electrode body including an electrode and housed in the battery case. The sealing body includes a metal plate, and the metal plate has a thin portion formed in an annular shape, a valve portion having a convex shape inside the battery case, and an annular portion to which the electrode lead is connected. The gasket is provided with an elastically deformable portion that abuts against the inner surface of the valve portion and urges the valve portion to the outside of the battery case.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Yoshida, Oose Okutani, Takahiro Nogami, Akira Takano
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Publication number: 20220069392Abstract: A gasket of a cylindrical battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a cylindrical part, and a ring part which extends from one end part of the cylindrical part in the axial direction toward an inner side thereof in the radial direction. A surface of the ring part which is opposite the cylindrical part side in the axial direction has, an approximately flat surface, A protrusion is provided on the side of the ring part which is toward the cylindrical part in the axial direction. Said protrusion: is positioned with gaps in the radial direction in relation to both the cylindrical part and an inner end of the ring part in the radial direction; and protrudes in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2019Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryota Okimoto, Oose Okutani, Shin Haraguchi
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Publication number: 20220069408Abstract: A sealed battery including a battery case that includes a cylindrical exterior can having a bottom and an opening sealing body that closes an opening of the outer can; a gasket that is arranged between the exterior can and the opening sealing body; and an electrode body. The opening sealing body includes: a metal plate with an annular part to which an electrode lead is electrically connected, and a disconnecting part that is separated from the annular part when the inner pressure of the battery case exceeds a predetermined threshold; a valve body that is arranged further to the outside of the battery case than the metal plate; and an insulating plate that is arranged between the metal plate and the valve body. The insulating plate or the gasket is provided with an elastic deformation part that deforms in the direction of the valve body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2019Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Yoshida, Oose Okutani, Takahiro Nogami, Akira Takano
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Publication number: 20220052406Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a cylindrical battery in which a short circuit between an outer can and a sealing body can be suppressed. In a cylindrical battery (10) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a gasket (28) includes an extension part (29) extending from between a sealing body (17) and a tip (33a) on a radially inward side of a shoulder (33) of an outer can (16). The extension part (29) is arranged so that the gasket (28) intersects any straight lines connecting an upper surface (47) of the shoulder (33) opposite to the electrode body side in the axial direction and an upper surface (41) of an inner portion (40) opposite to the electrode body side in the axial direction, the inner portion (40) being located radially inward of the shoulder (33) in the sealing body (17).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shin Haraguchi, Oose Okutani
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Publication number: 20220029232Abstract: A cylindrical battery wherein a central part of a sealing plate, fixed by swaging to an opening of an external packaging can, is configured to be warped toward the inner part of the battery. One embodiment is provided with: an electrode body in which a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are rolled with a separator being disposed therebetween; an electrolytic solution; an external packaging can which has a bottomed cylindrical shape and which houses the electrode body and the electrolytic solution; and a sealing plate which is fixed by swaging to an opening of the external packaging can with a gasket therebetween. In the sealing plate, prior to the swage fixing, an outer peripheral edge to be fixed by swaging to the external packaging can is formed inclined so as to be directed to the inner part of the battery, toward radially outward.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicants: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Panasonic CorporationInventors: Ryo Kashimura, Oose Okutani, Shinya Geshi
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Publication number: 20220021072Abstract: A sealed battery with a battery case that includes a bottomed cylindrical outer can and an opening-sealing body that closes an opening section of the outer can; and an electrode body that is accommodated inside the battery case. The opening-sealing body includes a metal plate, and the metal plate includes a protruding section that bulges toward the outside of the battery cast, and a flange section that is formed on the circumference of the protruding section. The protruding section includes an inclination section that inclines inward from the radial outside of the opening sealing body so as to be progressively separated from the electrode body, wherein a thin wall section, which has a thickness less than portions other than the inclination section and is preferably broken when the inner pressure of the battery case exceeds a predetermined threshold, is formed in at least a portion of the inclination section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nogami, Masayoshi Yoshida, Oose Okutani, Akira Takano