Patents by Inventor Shinya Omura

Shinya Omura 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: 12166191
    Abstract: Battery module includes a plurality of batteries (secondary batteries), one or more bus bars that electrically connect the plurality of batteries, and cooling plate that is in contact with bus bar and has one or more passages through which a coolant flows. Each of the plurality of batteries has: an electrode body; an outer can that accommodates the electrode body; a lid that seals an opening of the outer can; and positive electrode terminal and negative electrode terminal that are individually inserted through a pair of through holes provided on the lid, are insulated from the lid, and are electrically connected to the electrode body. One of positive electrode terminal and negative electrode terminal is connected to bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Omura, Toshiya Gotou, Shinya Motokawa
  • Patent number: 12103829
    Abstract: A chain inlet/outlet, from which a load chain on a load side is hauled in or paid out, has a first guide groove having a first longitudinal groove and a first lateral groove. The chain inlet/outlet also has a second guide groove that is provided on a deeper side of a body part than the first guide groove is and has a second longitudinal groove and a second lateral groove. The first guide groove has narrowed parts that determine, when each link of the load chain is pulled in, into which of the first longitudinal groove and the first lateral groove the link is introduced, and expanded groove parts having a width larger than the groove width of the narrowed parts and provided on the outer side, farther away from the center of the chain inlet/outlet than the narrowed parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: KITO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Omura
  • Patent number: 12091295
    Abstract: An electric chain block comprising: a main body part; a bucket-mounting bracket including a bucket-mounting part to which a chain bucket for housing a load chain is mounted, wherein: the main body part is provided with a side surface chain entry/exit port, and a shaft recessed part in which a shaft hole for inserting a linking shaft for mounting the upper hook to the main body part opens, and which is recessed from the side surface; the bucket-mounting bracket is provided with a fixing flange part, and a bucket-mounting part which projects to an opposite side to the fixing flange part: and the shaft recessed part is provided with a mounting seat which the fixing flange part is brought into contact with in a direction crossing a first wall surface in which the shaft hole opens and fixed to by a fixer (e.g., a fixing means).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: KITO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Omura
  • Publication number: 20240275189
    Abstract: A power receiving unit incorporating a power receiving coil is provided not on a head but on a front surface of a grip end so that an increase in size of the head due to the provision of the power receiving coil is avoided. In a horizontally installed form in which the code reading device is placed on a stand installed on a horizontal installation surface, the head and the power receiving unit are supported by the stand in the vertical direction. A code reading device can be stably supported by the stand by supporting the code reading device at two positions of the head and the power receiving unit. In addition, the power receiving unit comes close to the power transmitting unit of the stand from the upper side while being supported by the stand in this manner, so that the wireless charging can be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Omura, Shinya Kajimoto
  • Publication number: 20230396127
    Abstract: A clutch-equipped motor comprising: a stator capable of generating a rotating magnetic field; a rotor rotated by the rotating magnetic field; a motor shaft capable of rotating with respect to the rotor via a bearing; and a friction clutch mechanism arranged on an end portion side of the rotor in an axial direction of the motor shaft, wherein the friction clutch mechanism has: a clutch plate rotating integrally with the rotor; a connection member having a cylindrical part, the motor shaft and the drive transmission shaft being inserted into an inner cylindrical portion of the cylindrical part in a state of rotating integrally with the cylindrical part; a clutch receiver rotating integrally with the connection member; and a biasing means for biasing the clutch plate and the clutch receiver in a direction of bringing the clutch plate and the clutch receiver into contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: KITO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya OMURA
  • Publication number: 20230138172
    Abstract: A chain inlet/outlet, from which a load chain on a load side is hauled in or paid out, has a first guide groove having a first longitudinal groove and a first lateral groove. The chain inlet/outlet also has a second guide groove that is provided on a deeper side of a body part than the first guide groove is and has a second longitudinal groove and a second lateral groove. The first guide groove has narrowed parts that determine, when each link of the load chain is pulled in, into which of the first longitudinal groove and the first lateral groove the link is introduced, and expanded groove parts having a width larger than the groove width of the narrowed parts and provided on the outer side, farther away from the center of the chain inlet/outlet than the narrowed parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Kito Corporation
    Inventor: Shinya OMURA
  • Publication number: 20230094932
    Abstract: An electric chain block comprising: a main body part; a bucket-mounting bracket including a bucket-mounting part to which a chain bucket for housing a load chain is mounted, wherein: the main body part is provided with a side surface chain entry/exit port, and a shaft recessed part in which a shaft hole for inserting a linking shaft for mounting the upper hook to the main body part opens, and which is recessed from the side surface; the bucket-mounting bracket is provided with a fixing flange part, and a bucket-mounting part which projects to an opposite side to the fixing flange part: and the shaft recessed part is provided with a mounting seat which the fixing flange part is brought into contact with in a direction crossing a first wall surface in which the shaft hole opens and fixed to by a fixer (e.g., a fixing means).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: KITO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya OMURA
  • Patent number: 10886558
    Abstract: Provided is a battery module that allows suppressing impairment of battery performance, through suitable control of a restraining pressure that is exerted in the stacking direction of a stack, also in a case where unit cells expand/shrink when charged/discharged. The battery module is provided with a stack in which a plurality of unit cells is stacked, and with a pressure regulation member, which is disposed at least at one site from among a gap between the stacked unit cells, and a first end and a second end in the stacking direction, and which regulates a restraining pressure exerted in the stacking direction of the stack. The pressure regulation member is provided with a liquid holding section and a liquid storage section. The liquid holding section is provided with a liquid holding body capable of holding a liquid. The liquid storage section has a space capable of storing the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuma Sakamoto, Satomi Yamamoto, Koichi Tanimoto, Shinya Omura
  • Publication number: 20200295340
    Abstract: A sealed battery disclosed here comprises an electrode body comprising a positive electrode collector and a negative electrode collector, collector tabs for external connection bonded to the corresponding collector, and a case. Both of bonded portions of the positive and the negative electrode collectors and the positive and negative electrode collector tabs are in the case. At least one of the positive and the negative electrode collectors and the collector tab bonded to the corresponding electrode are made of metals different from each other. An intermetallic compound present at a bonded interface between the collector and the connector tab and is made of the metals different from each other has a maximum diameter of smaller than 1 ?m under a transmission electron microscope observation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Shinya OMURA, Masashi KATO, Mizuho MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190229364
    Abstract: Provided is a battery module that allows suppressing impairment of battery performance, through suitable control of a restraining pressure that is exerted in the stacking direction of a stack, also in a case where unit cells expand/shrink when charged/discharged. The battery module is provided with a stack in which a plurality of unit cells is stacked, and with a pressure regulation member, which is disposed at least at one site from among a gap between the stacked unit cells, and a first end and a second end in the stacking direction, and which regulates a restraining pressure exerted in the stacking direction of the stack. The pressure regulation member is provided with a liquid holding section and a liquid storage section. The liquid holding section is provided with a liquid holding body capable of holding a liquid. The liquid storage section has a space capable of storing the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuma SAKAMOTO, Satomi YAMAMOTO, Koichi TANIMOTO, Shinya OMURA
  • Patent number: 10199145
    Abstract: Provided is a rare-earth magnet containing no heavy rare-earth metals such as Dy or Tb in a grain boundary phase, has a modifying alloy for increasing coercivity (in particular, coercivity under a high-temperature atmosphere) infiltrated thereinto at lower temperature than in the conventional rare-earth magnets, has high coercivity, and has relatively high magnetizability, and a production method therefor. The rare-earth magnet RM includes a RE-Fe—B-based main phase MP with a nanocrystalline structure (where RE is at least one of Nd or Pr) and a grain boundary phase BP around the main phase, the grain boundary phase containing a RE-X alloy (where X is a metallic element other than heavy rare-earth elements). Crystal grains of the main phase MP are oriented along the anisotropy axis, and each crystal grain of the main phase, when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the anisotropy axis, has a plane that is quadrilateral in shape or has a close shape thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shoji, Akira Manabe, Noritaka Miyamoto, Motoki Hiraoka, Shinya Omura, Daisuke Ichigozaki, Shinya Nagashima
  • Patent number: 9281105
    Abstract: A permanent magnet has a grain structure that includes a main phase and a grain boundary phase that is primarily composed of a first metal. A second metal that enhances the coercivity of the permanent magnet and a third metal that has a lower standard free energy of oxide formation than the first metal and the second metal are diffused in the permanent magnet, and the third metal is present in the form of an oxide in the grain boundary phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noritaka Miyamoto, Shinya Omura
  • Patent number: 9257227
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a rare-earth magnet with high coercive force, including a first step of pressing-forming powder as a rare-earth magnet material to form a compact S, the powder including a RE-Fe—B main phase MP (RE: at least one type of Nd and Pr) and a RE-X alloy (X: metal element) grain boundary phase surrounding the main phase; and second step of bringing a modifier alloy M into contact with the compact S or a rare-earth magnet precursor C obtained by hot deformation processing of the compact S, followed by heat treatment to penetrant diffuse melt of the modifier alloy M into the compact S or the rare-earth magnet precursor C to manufacture the rare-earth magnet RM, the modifier alloy including a RE-Y (Y: metal element and not including a heavy rare-earth element) alloy having a eutectic or a RE-rich hyper-eutectic composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuaki Haga, Noritaka Miyamoto, Tetsuya Shoji, Noritsugu Sakuma, Shinya Omura, Motoki Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 9230733
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a rare-earth magnet with high coercive force, including a first step of pressing-forming powder as a rare-earth magnet material to form a compact S, the powder including a RE-Fe—B main phase MP (RE: at least one type of Nd and Pr) and a RE-X alloy (X: metal element) grain boundary phase surrounding the main phase; and second step of bringing a modifier alloy M into contact with the compact S or a rare-earth magnet precursor C obtained by hot deformation processing of the compact S, followed by heat treatment to penetrant diffuse melt of the modifier alloy M into the compact S or the rare-earth magnet precursor C to manufacture the rare-earth magnet RM, the modifier alloy including a RE-Y (Y: metal element and not including a heavy rare-earth element) alloy having a eutectic or a RE-rich hyper-eutectic composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuaki Haga, Noritaka Miyamoto, Tetsuya Shoji, Noritsugu Sakuma, Shinya Omura, Motoki Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20150302986
    Abstract: A permanent magnet has a grain structure that includes a main phase and a grain boundary phase that is primarily composed of a first metal. A second metal that enhances the coercivity of the permanent magnet and a third metal that has a lower standard free energy of oxide formation than the first metal and the second metal are diffused in the permanent magnet, and the third metal is present in the form of an oxide in the grain boundary phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noritaka Miyamoto, Shinya Omura
  • Publication number: 20140308441
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing rare-earth magnets includes, a first step of producing a compact C by subjecting a sintered body S, which is formed of a RE—Fe—B main phase MP having a nanocrystalline structure (where RE is at least one of neodymium and praseodymium) and a grain boundary phase BP of an RE—X alloy (where X is a metal element) located around the main phase, to hot plastic processing that imparts anisotropy; and a second step of producing a rare-earth magnet RM by melting a RE—Y—Z alloy which increases the coercive force of the compact C (where Y is a transition metal element, and Z is a heavy rare-earth element), together with the grain boundary phase BP, and liquid-phase infiltrating the RE—Y—Z alloy melt from a surface of the compact C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shoji, Shinya Omura, Motoki Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 8846136
    Abstract: PROBLEM: To provide a production method of an anisotropic rare earth magnet capable of being enhanced in coercivity without adding a large amount of a rare metal such as Dy and Tb. MEANS FOR RESOLUTION: A production method of a rare earth magnet, comprising a step of bringing a compact obtained by applying hot working to impart anisotropy to a sintered body having a rare earth magnet composition into contact with a low-melting-point alloy melt containing a rare earth element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shoji, Noritaka Miyamoto, Shinya Omura, Daisuke Ichigozaki, Takeshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140242267
    Abstract: Provided is a rare-earth magnet containing no heavy rare-earth metals such as Dy or Tb in a grain boundary phase, has a modifying alloy for increasing coercivity (in particular, coercivity under a high-temperature atmosphere) infiltrated thereinto at lower temperature than in the conventional rare-earth magnets, has high coercivity, and has relatively high magnetizability, and a production method therefor. The rare-earth magnet RM includes a RE-Fe—B-based main phase MP with a nanocrystalline structure (where RE is at least one of Nd or Pr) and a grain boundary phase BP around the main phase, the grain boundary phase containing a RE-X alloy (where X is a metallic element other than heavy rare-earth elements). Crystal grains of the main phase MP are oriented along the anisotropy axis, and each crystal grain of the main phase, when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the anisotropy axis, has a plane that is quadrilateral in shape or has a close shape thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shoji, Akira Manabe, Noritaka Miyamoto, Motoki Hiraoka, Shinya Omura, Daisuke Ichigozaki, Shinya Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20130323111
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of production of a rare earth magnet which achieves high magnetization by hot working and at the same time secures high coercivity. A method of production of the present invention is a method for producing an R-T-B-based rare earth magnet comprising: molding a powder of an R-T-B-based rare earth alloy (R: rare earth element, T: Fe or Fe part of which is substituted by Co) to form a bulk; then hot working the bulk; and before the molding, mixing with the powder of an R-T-B-based rare earth alloy either a metal which forms a liquid phase in copresence with R at a temperature lower than the hot working temperature, or an alloy which forms a liquid phase at a temperature lower than the hot working temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noritaka Miyamoto, Tetsuya Shoji, Shinya Omura, Daisuke Ichigozaki, Akira Manabe
  • Patent number: D961184
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: KITO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Omura