Patents by Inventor Shintaro Utsumi

Shintaro Utsumi 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: 20250112292
    Abstract: A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells each including a metal layer and a heat seal layer, the plurality of battery cells having a laminate film in which an electrode body is accommodated and a heat seal layer in a peripheral edge portion is joined; a case in which the battery cells are accommodated in a state of being laminated in a thickness direction; and a heat conductive member provided on an inner wall of the case so as to be in contact with the metal layer exposed from the peripheral edge portion and configured to dissipate heat from the battery cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhito Kato, Atsushi Yamanaka, Shintaro Utsumi, Masato Ono, Yusuke Kintsu, Takaaki Goto, Hiroki Awano
  • Publication number: 20250112291
    Abstract: A battery module comprising: a plurality of battery cells; and a container containing the battery cells, wherein the container includes a housing containing the battery cells; and a plate-shaped member thermally connected to the housing and partitioning a space in which the battery cells of the housing are accommodated into a plurality of spaces, wherein the plate-shaped member includes a thermally conductive elastic body and a thermally conductive plate disposed on one or both sides of the thermally conductive elastic body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamanaka, Masato Ono, Shintaro Utsumi, Kazuhito Kato, Yusuke Kintsu, Takaaki Goto, Hiroki Awano
  • Publication number: 20250112295
    Abstract: A case constituting an outer shape of a second cooler disposed between the battery cells and containing a second fluid having a lower thermal conductivity than the first fluid therein is constituted by a buffer member capable of expanding and contracting in accordance with a flow rate of the second fluid in the case, and the control unit increases a flow rate of the second fluid to be supplied to the second cooler when the temperature of the battery cell is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value than when the temperature of the battery cell is lower than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shintaro UTSUMI, Masato Ono, Kazuhito Kato, Yusuke Kintsu, Atsushi Yamanaka, Takaaki Goto, Hiroki Awano
  • Publication number: 20250038292
    Abstract: A battery module includes a battery cell and a heat dissipation member that is in contact with a battery cell case. The battery cell includes an electrode body including plural layered structures layered one on another, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and the battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. The battery cell case includes at least a metal layer and a fusion resin layer disposed at the inner face side of the metal layer and has an exposed portion, at which the metal layer is exposed, at at least part of the outer face of the battery cell case. The heat dissipation member is in contact with the exposed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhito KATO, Masato ONO, Yusuke KINTSU, Atsushi YAMANAKA, Takaaki GOTO, Shintaro UTSUMI, Hiroki AWANO
  • Publication number: 20250030033
    Abstract: A battery cell includes: an electrode body including plural layered structures, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. At least one of the current collector in the positive electrode or the current collector in the negative electrode has, on a peripheral portion of a surface thereof, an uncoated portion at which the mix is not coated. A current collector of which the distance from the surface of the battery cell case is the greatest among current collectors each having an uncoated portion has a first uncoated portion, and the first uncoated portion extends to the outside of the battery cell case, thereby forming a first exposed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato ONO, Shintaro UTSUMI, Kazuhito KATO, Yusuke KINTSU, Atsushi YAMANAKA, Takaaki GOTO, Hiroki AWANO
  • Publication number: 20240154276
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bipolar battery with which thermal deterioration of the electrode body due to the generation of heat of tabs can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Shintaro UTSUMI, Kazushige NOMOTO
  • Patent number: 11745113
    Abstract: In a model coupler that detachably couples vehicles, energization between the vehicles in train organization is stabled regardless of curvature of a rail. A support member is swingable in line with the coupling part by extending from an attachment base side attached to a model vehicle toward a front end side facing the coupling partner and providing a front end under the coupling part. One energization part is attached to the support member and includes a first contact point formed on the attachment base side and a second contact point formed on the front end side. The first contact point is in contact with a first power collection member of the model vehicle, and the second contact point is in contact with a fourth contact point of the other energization part of the coupling partner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOMYTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shintaro Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20230261275
    Abstract: A battery pack case, including: a battery cell housing part made of metal, the battery cell housing part being configured to accommodate, from one side in a second direction, a battery cell in a state in which a plurality of the battery cells are stacked in a first direction perpendicularly intersecting the second direction and are compressed in the first direction, and the battery cell housing part being configured to support a restoring force of the battery cell; and a flow path forming part made of resin, the flow path forming part being provided integrally with the battery cell housing part, the flow path forming part being disposed at another side, in the second direction, of the battery cell, and the flow path forming part configuring a part of a cooling air flow path part through which battery cell cooling air flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shintaro UTSUMI, Isao TAKAHASHI, Kenichi KOHASHI, Tomohiro SEGAWA, Shunsuke TAKAHASHI, Koichi UENO, Shunsuke NAGATA, Tatsuhiko ADACHI, Hitoshi NADA, Hiroki OHTSUBO
  • Publication number: 20230207993
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bipolar battery with which thermal deterioration of the electrode body due to the generation of heat of tabs can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Shintaro UTSUMI, Kazushige NOMOTO
  • Patent number: 11621463
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bipolar battery with which thermal deterioration of the electrode body due to the generation of heat of tabs can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shintaro Utsumi, Kazushige Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20220399606
    Abstract: A battery case includes a housing configured to accommodate a battery stack, and an abutting wall portion that is cast integrally with the housing on an inner side of the housing. The abutting wall portion is configured to bear a load from the battery stack accommodated in the housing. The battery case further includes a reinforcing part that is made of a material more rigid than the abutting wall portion and that is cast into the abutting wall portion by enveloped casting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shintaro UTSUMI, Yuya KUMASAKA, Shunsuke NAGATA, Hiroshi ENDO, Yuko AZUMA, Nobuyoshi FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20220384887
    Abstract: A battery case configured to accommodate one or a plurality of battery cells, and includes a metal plate portion and a resin portion. The metal plate portion is made up of a plurality of metal plates that is part of the battery case. The resin portion that is another part of the battery case connects the metal plates by being interposed between the metal plates. The metal plates include a first metal plate and a second metal plate. The first metal plate includes a first overlapping portion and the second metal plate includes a second overlapping portion, the first overlapping portion and the second overlapping portion being overlapped with each other across the resin portion. The first overlapping portion includes one or more contact protrusions protruding toward the second overlapping portion. The second overlapping portion is in direct contact with the one or more contact protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shintaro UTSUMI, Yuya Kumasaka, Shunsuke Nagata, Kento Masumura
  • Publication number: 20220384895
    Abstract: A cell case includes (i) first and second metal plates constituting a first part of the cell case and placed such that the first and second metal plates are separated from each other (ii) a resin portion provided between the metal plates such that the resin portion connects the first and second metal plates. The first metal plate and the second metal plate include a first overlapped portion and a second overlapped portion, respectively, such that the first overlapped portion and the second overlapped portion overlap with each other via the resin portion. The first overlapped portion includes a hook. The second overlapped portion has an opening. The hook is formed to be caught on the opening to restrict relative displacement between the first metal plate and the second metal plate along a direction where the first metal plate and the second metal plate are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shintaro UTSUMI, Yuya Kumasaka, Shunsuke Nagata, Kento Masumura
  • Publication number: 20210265711
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bipolar battery with which thermal deterioration of the electrode body due to the generation of heat of tabs can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Shintaro UTSUMI, Kazushige NOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200070059
    Abstract: In a model coupler that detachably couples vehicles, energization between the vehicles in train organization is stabled regardless of curvature of a rail. A support member is swingable in line with the coupling part by extending from an attachment base side attached to a model vehicle toward a front end side facing the coupling partner and providing a front end under the coupling part. One energization part is attached to the support member and includes a first contact point formed on the attachment base side and a second contact point formed on the front end side. The first contact point is in contact with a first power collection member of the model vehicle, and the second contact point is in contact with a fourth contact point of the other energization part of the coupling partner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventor: Shintaro UTSUMI
  • Patent number: 10072605
    Abstract: A low-temperature cooling water channel formed in the internal combustion engine includes a water jacket that covers at least one portion of a wall surface of an intake port. The intake port has a cooled wall surface that is covered by the water jacket, and a non-cooled wall surface that is not covered by the water jacket. An airflow control valve is provided on an intake-air upstream side of the cooled wall surface. The airflow control valve is configured to be capable of changing a ratio between a flow rate of intake air that flows along the side of the cooled wall surface and a flow rate of intake air that flows along the side of the non-cooled wall surface. The airflow control valve is preferably configured as a tumble control valve (TCV).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei Kodama, Shintaro Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20180173828
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium has stored therein a simulation program that causes a computer to execute a process including arranging an agent in a virtual space that includes one or a plurality of places where guide information is set, the agent having perception information and behaving according to the perception information in the virtual space; updating the perception information of the agent according to guide information that is provided according to the position of the agent in the virtual space; and deteriorating the perception information, degree of the deteriorating being determined on the basis of at least any one of a behavior of the agent and an attribute of the agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kotaro Ohori, Hirokazu Anai, Shingo Takahashi, Shintaro Utsumi
  • Patent number: 9533378
    Abstract: A cylinder block (10) includes an inter-bore flow passage (14) between adjacent bores (12). Each inter-bore flow passage (14) is formed by closing an opening-side groove portion (15) continuous from a cylinder block deck face and a bottom-side groove portion (16) with the use of a lid member (20) made of copper, and the lid member (20 is laser-welded to a groove wall face of the opening-side groove portion (15). Before the laser-welding, the lid member (20) has recesses (26) that are interspersed in a direction, in which a laser beam travels, at any one of connected portions at which the lid member (20 is connected to the groove wall face of the opening-side groove portion (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Kawasaki, Kazuhito Sakai, Shintaro Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20160363033
    Abstract: To provide a controller that can slow down progression of deterioration of an internal combustion engine caused by repeated occurrence of LSPI. An index value of the degree of deterioration of the internal combustion engine caused by LSPI is calculated. If the index value exceeds a first threshold, when the temperature of cooling water that cools a part of the peripheral wall of a cylinder that is close to a combustion chamber is lower than a threshold temperature, and the internal combustion engine is running in a determined operational region set in a low speed and high load region, the proportion of fuel injection by an in-cylinder injection valve is reduced to increase the proportion of fuel injection by a port injection valve compared with before the index value exceeds the first threshold, thereby suppressing occurrence of LSPI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi KITAYAMA, Shintaro UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20160348610
    Abstract: A low-temperature cooling water channel formed in the internal combustion engine includes a water jacket that covers at least one portion of a wall surface of an intake port. The intake port has a cooled wall surface that is covered by the water jacket, and a non-cooled wall surface that is not covered by the water jacket. An airflow control valve is provided on an intake-air upstream side of the cooled wall surface. The airflow control valve is configured to be capable of changing a ratio between a flow rate of intake air that flows along the side of the cooled wall surface and a flow rate of intake air that flows along the side of the non-cooled wall surface. The airflow control valve is preferably configured as a tumble control valve (TCV).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei KODAMA, Shintaro UTSUMI