Patents by Inventor Osamu Shimamura

Osamu Shimamura 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).

  • Battery and gas effluent system therefor
    Patent number: 6284404
    Abstract: A vehicle (V) includes a battery enclosure (152) enclosing a battery system (B). Each battery (Bn) includes a cell (1) that comprises a rolled lamination (LM) of a positive sheet electrode (11) having layers (13) of positive-pole-oriented active substance coated on both side of a charge collecting sheet (12), a negative sheet electrode (21) having layers (23) of negative-pole-oriented active substance coated on both sides of another charge collecting sheet (22), and electrolyte-containing separator (31) between the layers of active substances. The batter further includes a cell enclosure (2) totally enclosing the cell. A gas effluent system (100) for the battery system comprises a gas release system (RSn) for generated gas in the cell of each battery to be released outside the cell enclosure, and a gas discharge system (DS) for released gas to be discharged outside the battery enclosure. The gas release system comprises gas release circuitry including a network (NT) of blanks (Cp: P=1,2, . . . , q, . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Horie, Mikio Kawai, Yasuhiko Ohsawa, Takaaki Abe, Toyoaki Nakagawa, Osamu Shimamura, Yuuji Tanjo, Ken Iwai