Patents by Inventor Seiichi Sakuramoto

Seiichi Sakuramoto 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: 20220384839
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a battery pack of the present disclosure stacks a plurality of battery cells such that one surfaces face the same direction and compresses the battery cells from both sides, inserts the compressed battery cells into the case such that the one surfaces are positioned on an open end side of the case, disposes a plurality of bus bars on the one surfaces of the battery cells so as to overlap the corresponding terminal, moves a pressurizing jig so as to press the bus bars toward a bottom surface of the case from a pressurization start position corresponding to a height position of the terminal of the battery cell farthest from the bottom surface, and bonds each of the plurality of bus bars to the corresponding terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Shintaro Miyata, Yoshinori Shibata, Nobuyuki Yamazaki, Hirotoshi Kondo, Seiichi Sakuramoto
  • Publication number: 20220344782
    Abstract: A battery pack manufacturing method according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes stacking battery cells, pressurizing a battery cell group provided by stacking the battery cells in a stacking direction, measuring positions of cell terminals of the battery cells included in the pressurized battery cell group, finding a center straight line passing through a center of a distribution of the positions of the cell terminals, positioning a welding jig configured to decide a position where a bus bar is pressed against at least one of the cell terminals with reference to the center straight line, and welding the bus bar that is pressed against the at least one of the cell terminals, to the at least one of the cell terminals by the welding jig.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Yamazaki, Yoshinori Shibata, Seiichi Sakuramoto
  • Publication number: 20220263182
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a power storage module includes: stacking a plurality of power storage cells along a first direction; compressing the plurality of power storage cells along the first direction; aligning the plurality of power storage cells in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction after relieving pressing force of the compressing; compressing the plurality of power storage cells along the first direction after aligning the plurality of power storage cells in the second direction; disposing a restraint portion on both sides in the first direction with respect to the plurality of power storage cells under application of pressing force of the compressing; and restraining the plurality of power storage cells by the restraint portion along the first direction by relieving, after disposing the restraint portion, the pressing force of the compressing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Wataru OKADA, Seiichi SAKURAMOTO
  • Patent number: 7419819
    Abstract: Apparatus for cell culture occupying little space, providing economical efficiency, reducing working labor, faulty manipulation, and promoting the prevention of contamination, which is suitable for small scale cell culture . The apparatus permits the execution of at least a medium replacement process and a passage culture process, and includes an aspirator unit for drawing a liquid, a chemical liquid supply unit for supplying a medium, a liquid for detachment, a washing liquid, a pipetting unit for quantitatively aspirating and discharging the liquid, a centrifugal unit for separating cells from the cell suspension in a centrifuge tube, and a handling unit for moving a culture vessel and the centrifuge tube to each unit. All units being constructed for storage in a clean bench. The apparatus may include a clean bench having a sterile operation space, and the aforementioned units may be removably stored within the sterile operation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignees: Mitsutech Co., Ltd., Gene Medicine Japan Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishimoto, Yoshiaki Hamada, Seiichi Sakuramoto, Keiichi Yokouchi, Akinobu Goto, Toshiro Shirakawa
  • Publication number: 20050176138
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for cell culture exhibiting favorable property to occupy little space and economical efficiency, capable of reducing the working labor, faulty manipulation and the like, and of promoting the prevention of contamination, which is suitable for small scale cell culture at an experimental level on research, in particular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishimoto, Yoshiaki Hamada, Seiichi Sakuramoto, Keiichi Yokouchi, Akinobu Goto, Toshiro Shirakawa