Patents by Inventor Takamasa Maeda

Takamasa Maeda 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: 20240039094
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery including an electrode body, a current collector terminal disposed on a side surface of the electrode body, and a laminate film covering the electrode body and the current collector terminal. The current collector terminal has a first surface opposed to the electrode body, a second surface opposed to the first surface, a third surface extending from an outer edge of the first surface toward the second surface side, and a first connecting surface connecting the third surface and the second surface. When the battery is viewed in the thickness direction, the boundary between the third surface and the first connecting surface is set to B1, and the boundary between the first connecting surface and the second surface is set to B2, the B2 is located inside the B1 in the thickness direction. The laminate film covers the third surface and the first connecting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takamasa MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230352775
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a battery in which degrade in sealing performance is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a battery including: an electrode body; a side surface member arranged in a side surface part of the electrode body; and a laminate film that covers the electrode body, wherein; when the battery is viewed from a side surface of the side surface member, an outer periphery of the side surface member is positioned in inner side on the basis of an outer periphery of the electrode body; the laminate film is arranged to cover a surface configuring the outer periphery of the side surface member and a surface configuring the outer periphery of the electrode body; and on the side surface member, a fused part, in which inner surfaces of the laminate film are fused, is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yuka NAGATA, Takamasa MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230142994
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a battery case with which excellent volume density is obtained. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a battery case for storing an electrode body, the battery case including: a hollow structure; the hollow structure includes a first surface, a second surface facing the first surface, a third surface connecting the first surface and the second surface, and a fourth surface facing the third surface; and in a side view of an axis direction of the hollow structure, when B1 designates a boarder part between the third surface and the first surface, B2 designates a boarder part between the third surface and the second surface, and L12 designates a line segment connecting the B1 and the B2, the third surface includes a convex structure of which top is positioned closer to the fourth surface side compared to the L12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Takamasa MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20230120632
    Abstract: To provide a battery that can prevent a gap from being generated at a joined portion to prevent structural reliability from being reduced, the battery includes: a battery element that is a hexahedron as a whole; and a package including a laminate sheet and side face members, the battery element being sealed in the package, the laminate sheet covering four faces of the hexahedron of the battery element, having at least one joined portion of end parts thereof to form a tube, the side face members facing other two faces of the hexahedron of the battery element, and being arranged to cover openings of the tube of the laminate sheet, wherein each of the side face members is a hexahedron as a whole, and has a protrusion at a portion thereof which is located at the joined portion of the laminate sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takamasa Maeda
  • Publication number: 20230017625
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a battery in which wrinkles in its outer package is prevented from generating. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a battery including: an internal element including at least a power generating element, and a laminate-type outer package in which the internal element is sealed; wherein the internal element includes a groove structure; and the battery includes a storing part where a part of the outer package is stored in the groove structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Nishibu, Takamasa Maeda
  • Patent number: 9818504
    Abstract: A wire harness including: an electrically conducting path including an electrical wire having a front end portion to which a terminal fitting is fixed; a corrugated tube configured to enclose the electrical wire; a rubber boot that is attached to a front end portion of the corrugated tube and is configured to enclose the electrical wire; and an electrical wire holder that is provided with: a holding part configured to hold the electrical wire; and a locking part configured to be locked to a circumferential surface of the corrugated tube. It is possible to stabilize the positional relationship between the front end portion of the electrically conducting path and the front end portion of the rubber boot by holding the electrical wire with the electrical wire holder and locking the electrical wire holder to the circumferential surface of the corrugated tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takamasa Maeda
  • Patent number: 9706691
    Abstract: A reduction in the weight of a low-voltage wire is achieved. A high-voltage battery and an inverter are connected to each other by a high-voltage wire, and a low-voltage wire connecting a low-voltage battery and a relay box to each other is routed parallel to the high-voltage wire. Intermediate portions of the high-voltage wire and the low-voltage wire are inserted into a shielding pipe made of metal. The low-voltage wire is inserted into a braided wire for low voltage within the shielding pipe and thus shielded so that propagation of noise from the high-voltage wire to the low-voltage wire within the shielding pipe is prevented. Crimped portions are extended from both end portions of the braided wire for low voltage and fastened to an outer circumferential surface of the shielding pipe together with corresponding braided wires for high voltage by crimping using crimp rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hakcheol Lee, Noriyuki Sakagami, Takamasa Maeda
  • Publication number: 20170148542
    Abstract: A wire harness including: an electrically conducting path including an electrical wire having a front end portion to which a terminal fitting is fixed; a corrugated tube configured to enclose the electrical wire; a rubber boot that is attached to a front end portion of the corrugated tube and is configured to enclose the electrical wire; and an electrical wire holder that is provided with: a holding part configured to hold the electrical wire; and a locking part configured to be locked to a circumferential surface of the corrugated tube. It is possible to stabilize the positional relationship between the front end portion of the electrically conducting path and the front end portion of the rubber boot by holding the electrical wire with the electrical wire holder and locking the electrical wire holder to the circumferential surface of the corrugated tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventor: Takamasa MAEDA
  • Patent number: 9472931
    Abstract: Sealing ability with respect to a shield pipe is ensured. A wire harness is inserted in the inside of a shield pipe and a braid portion, and furthermore, a corrugated tube is disposed on the outer side of the braid portion. A sealing grommet is disposed to extend across a connecting portion between the shield pipe and the braid portion. A seal member made of rubber is pushed into an end portion of the shield pipe. A wire insertion hole in which a conductive wire of the wire harness is inserted penetrates the seal member, and a wire insertion path is formed in an outer circumferential surface of the seal member toward the wire insertion hole. Thus, the conductive wire can be inserted into the wire insertion hole from a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takamasa Maeda
  • Publication number: 20160295755
    Abstract: A reduction in the weight of a low-voltage wire is achieved. A high-voltage battery and an inverter are connected to each other by a high-voltage wire, and a low-voltage wire connecting a low-voltage battery and a relay box to each other is routed parallel to the high-voltage wire. Intermediate portions of the high-voltage wire and the low-voltage wire are inserted into a shielding pipe made of metal. The low-voltage wire is inserted into a braided wire for low voltage within the shielding pipe and thus shielded so that propagation of noise from the high-voltage wire to the low-voltage wire within the shielding pipe is prevented. Crimped portions are extended from both end portions of the braided wire for low voltage and fastened to an outer circumferential surface of the shielding pipe together with corresponding braided wires for high voltage by crimping using crimp rings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hakcheol LEE, Noriyuki SAKAGAMI, Takamasa MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20160125976
    Abstract: A conductive wire includes a core formed of a plurality of conductive metal strands, a coating portion formed of an insulating material and configured to cover the core and seal portions arranged at intermediate positions in a coating portion and configured to hold clearances between the strands and between the core and the coating portion in a water-tight state. A sealant is supplied before the respective strands are twisted. By doing so, the sealant can be spread to a central part of the core and the clearances between the strands can be filled with the sealant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventor: Takamasa MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20160126709
    Abstract: Sealing ability with respect to a shield pipe is ensured. A wire harness is inserted in the inside of a shield pipe and a braid portion, and furthermore, a corrugated tube is disposed on the outer side of the braid portion. A sealing grommet is disposed to extend across a connecting portion between the shield pipe and the braid portion. A seal member made of rubber is pushed into an end portion of the shield pipe. A wire insertion hole in which a conductive wire of the wire harness is inserted penetrates the seal member, and a wire insertion path is formed in an outer circumferential surface of the seal member toward the wire insertion hole. Thus, the conductive wire can be inserted into the wire insertion hole from a radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takamasa MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20150243411
    Abstract: Described are electrical wires accommodated inside a shield tube to be cooled down. A plurality of electrical wires 3 connecting a motor 1 and an inverter 2, and cooling tubes 7 thorough which coolant flows are inserted through a shield tube 4. The electrical wires 3 are gathered at the center of the shield tube 4, and three cooling tubes 7 are arranged so as to surround the electrical wires 3 from the outer side. Furthermore, the cooling tubes 7 are connected to a circulating circuit C of coolant for cooling down an engine 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventor: Takamasa MAEDA
  • Patent number: 4941207
    Abstract: A structure for wireless communication in an electromagnetically shielded building has an outer wall made of an electromagnetically shielding material such as concrete or an electrically conductive material. The outer wall has a window composed of a glass pane with an electromagnetically shielding material coated thereon or mixed therein. The outer wall and the window are grounded, and jointly define an electromagnetically shielded space in which wireless transmission/reception devices are disposed. Wireless communication is effected between the wireless transmission/reception devices by radio waves in a selected frequency range and of a selected power output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1990
    Assignee: Nihon Musen Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takamasa Maeda, Hisashi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 3975730
    Abstract: A radar data selection equipment comprising: a quantizer for quantizing analog data supplied from a radar, a target data detector for detecting target data according to the signal quantized by the quantizer, a gate disposed between the target data detector and a follow-up computer capable of inhibiting the output of specific signals among the data from the radar, and a data quantity monitor for detecting the quantity of signals supplied from the target data detector and transmitting to the gate a control command to cause the gate to inhibit the output of the specific signals when the quantity of the signals detected exceeds a predetermined set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1976
    Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takamasa Maeda, Yasuhiko Kamata, Shyozo Shimaya, Taiji Tatsuta, Takamasa Yamashita, Hiromi Kawakami, Takeshi Matsuki, Yoshiaki Yato, Michinori Yokouchi, Takeshi Kijima
  • Patent number: D1003324
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamasa Maeda, Norita Tottori, Shinji Fujimoto, Ryosuke Tanaka, Maho Yamanaka