Patents by Inventor Satoru Baba

Satoru Baba 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).

  • Patent number: 12643495
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a power conversion device, a battery unit that is electrically connected to the power conversion device via a wiring, and a case. The case includes a first case portion that defines a first internal space for housing the power conversion device, a second case portion that defines a second internal space for housing the battery unit, and a partition wall portion that separates the first internal space and the second internal space from each other and has a connecting hole that connects the first internal space and the second internal space to each other. The first case portion has an opening portion that opens downward. The connecting hole is positioned above the opening portion. The power supply system further comprising a lid member that is capable of opening and closing the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Satoru Baba, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240383418
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a power conversion device, a battery unit that is electrically connected to the power conversion device via a wiring, and a case. The case includes a first case portion that defines a first internal space for housing the power conversion device, a second case portion that defines a second internal space for housing the battery unit, and a partition wall portion that separates the first internal space and the second internal space from each other and has a connecting hole that connects the first internal space and the second internal space to each other. The first case portion has an opening portion that opens downward. The connecting hole is positioned above the opening portion. The power supply system further comprising a lid member that is capable of opening and closing the opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Satoru BABA, Takahiro SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10431948
    Abstract: A rotary connector includes a rod-shaped rotating side electrode rotatably supported by an external shell case and a fixed side electrode supported by the external shell case. Rotating side electrode and the fixed side electrode are disposed so that one end parts of the electrodes face each other spaced apart to form a clearance therebetween, the rotary connector further has a cylindrical liquid impregnated member, disposed so as to surround the outer peripheral surface close to the one end part of the fixed side electrode, that covers the clearance formed between the fixed side electrode and the rotating side electrode from outer peripheral sides of the fixed side electrode and the rotating side electrode, and the region formed by one end part of the rotating side electrode, one end part of the fixed side electrode, and the inner peripheral surface of the liquid impregnated member is filled with liquid metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: AUPAC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Ashimura, Satoru Baba
  • Publication number: 20170331241
    Abstract: A rotary connector includes a rod-shaped rotating side electrode rotatably supported by an external shell case and a fixed side electrode supported by the external shell case. Rotating side electrode and the fixed side electrode are disposed so that one end parts of the electrodes face each other spaced apart to form a clearance therebetween, the rotary connector further has a cylindrical liquid impregnated member, disposed so as to surround the outer peripheral surface close to the one end part of the fixed side electrode, that covers the clearance formed between the fixed side electrode and the rotating side electrode from outer peripheral sides of the fixed side electrode and the rotating side electrode, and the region formed by one end part of the rotating side electrode, one end part of the fixed side electrode, and the inner peripheral surface of the liquid impregnated member is filled with liquid metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Shinya Ashimura, Satoru Baba
  • Patent number: 9130416
    Abstract: A coil including a first winding portion and a second winding portion arranged on a stator of a rotary electrical machine. The first winding portion is formed by edgewise-winding a conductive rectangular wire. The second winding portion is formed by edgewise-winding a conductive rectangular wire, which is connected to the first winding portion. Coil end parts of the first and second winding portions each include a crank-shaped section. The first and second winding portions are formed so that when slot insertion parts of the first and second windings are arranged in slots of the stator, a long side of a cross-section of the rectangular wire extends in the circumferential direction of the stator and a short side of the cross-section of the rectangular wire extends in a radial direction of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Satoru Baba, Yasuyuki Satake
  • Patent number: 8704420
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stator for an electric machine. The stator is provided with a stator core, and first and second series of coils each formed into a predetermined shape. Each of the coils in the first series is provided with a pair of first coil ends which respectively protrude from both end faces of the stator core. Each of the first coil ends is provided with a pair of bent portions which extend outward in the radial direction of the stator, and a bridge portion which connects the bent portions. Each second coil end is provided with a pair of upright portions and a bridge portion which connects the upright portions. The bridge portions of the coils in the first series are disposed outside the bridge portions of the coils in the second series in the radial direction of the stator. The bridge portion of each of the coils in the second series extends across the bent portions of two adjacent coils in the first series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawano, Hirohito Hayashi, Satoru Baba
  • Publication number: 20120200191
    Abstract: A coil including a first winding portion and a second winding portion arranged on a stator of a rotary electrical machine. The first winding portion is formed by edgewise-winding a conductive rectangular wire. The second winding portion is formed by edgewise-winding a conductive rectangular wire, which is connected to the first winding portion. Coil end parts of the first and second winding portions each include a crank-shaped section. The first and second winding portions are formed so that when slot insertion parts of the first and second windings are arranged in slots of the stator, a long side of a cross-section of the rectangular wire extends in the circumferential direction of the stator and a short side of the cross-section of the rectangular wire extends in a radial direction of the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Satoru BABA, Yasuyuki SATAKE
  • Publication number: 20120001513
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stator for an electric machine. The stator is provided with a stator core, and first and second series of coils each formed into a predetermined shape. Each of the coils in the first series is provided with a pair of first coil ends which respectively protrude from both end faces of the stator core. Each of the first coil ends is provided with a pair of bent portions which extend outward in the radial direction of the stator, and a bridge portion which connects the bent portions. Each second coil end is provided with a pair of upright portions and a bridge portion which connects the upright portions. The bridge portions of the coils in the first series are disposed outside the bridge portions of the coils in the second series in the radial direction of the stator. The bridge portion of each of the coils in the second series extends across the bent portions of two adjacent coils in the first series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawano, Hirohito Hayashi, Satoru Baba
  • Patent number: 6190593
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a false nail chip (1), the method comprising: building an impression material (21) on a tray (20) having a size for holding a fingertip shape; pressing a fingertip (4) including a nail (6) portion against the impression material to take a precise impression of the nail portion; injecting ground plaster mud (38) into the precise impression of the nail portion taken and forming a fingertip plaster model (33) for a false nail chip including a nail portion comprising a nail plate (9), a nailtip and a nail plate margin (10) by hardening; shaving the precise impression at the extreme end from the nailtip of the fingertip plaster model to form an enlarged cavity (28); injecting the plaster mud into the enlarged cavity to integrally add a plaster coarse pattern (30) of a nailtip extending portion to the fingertip plaster model to form a false plaster coarse pattern; removing the false nail plaster coarse pattern from the precise impression; adjusting the nail chip shape of the nail chip sid
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Inventor: Satoru Baba
  • Patent number: 4358319
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing commutator for use in rotary electric machines, in which a shaping material prepared from electrically conductive metal powder material or a mixture of the metal powder material and additive powder material such as carbon, molybdenum disulfide, etc. is placed in a shaping mold and subjected to compression-molding into annular or cylindrical shaped electrically conductive body, then an electrically insulative synthetic resin material is coated around, or filled in, the hollow cavity of the annular or hollow cylindrical body, and thereafter this annular or cylindrical body is machined to be divided into a plurality of segments for constituting the commutator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1982
    Assignee: Aupac Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Yoshida, Satoru Baba