Patents by Inventor Takashi Asahina
Takashi Asahina 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).
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Publication number: 20040248002Abstract: A sealed battery includes a metal case which functions as a connection terminal of one polarity and an electrode post which is mounted to the case in an insulated manner and functions as a connection terminal of the other polarity. A sealing section with electrical insulation properties is disposed between the electrode post formed from a hollow cylinder with one closed end and an electrode post through-hole provided in the case. A compression deformation section is produced by deforming the closed end of the electrode post radially outward, for compressing and sealing the sealing section, and for securing the electrode post to the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Applicants: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Asahina, Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto, Shinichi Yuasa
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Publication number: 20040170891Abstract: A prismatic sealed battery has a prismatic battery case (3) which includes a plurality of prismatic containers (4) coupled in a row via partitions (5), electrode plate assemblies (8), and collectors (10) which are joined to lead portions on both sides of the electrode plate assemblies (8). Each container (4) contains the electrode plate assembly (8) to which said collectors 10 are joined. An opening (21) is formed in at least one side wall (20) of the prismatic battery case (3) and in a position where each partition (5) is disposed, in such a manner as to face the containers (4) on both sides, and a conductive connection member (23) disposed in the opening (21) is connected to the collectors (10, 10) on both sides of the partition (5). Since the current-carrying path between the electrode plate assemblies (8) becomes short, internal resistance decreases, and hence internal resistance per cell (2) is reduced. Even and full use of the whole electrode plate assembly (8) achieves higher power output.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2004Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventors: Hiromi Kajiya, Shoji Karasawa, Masato Onishi, Takashi Asahina, Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto
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Publication number: 20040142238Abstract: A prismatic sealed rechargeable battery includes a substantially prismatic battery case that accommodates an electrode plate assembly and an electrolyte solution. The battery case is formed of metal. On a side face of the battery case, a thin plate is provided which has a plurality of protruding portions formed in parallel at appropriate intervals. The protruding portion and the side face form spaces opened at both ends therebetween. The thin plate is bonded to the side face of the battery case by making flat portions between the protruding portions into surface-contact with the side face, thereby improving cooling capability of the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2003Publication date: July 22, 2004Applicants: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Asahina, Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto
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Publication number: 20040004461Abstract: In a battery pack including a plurality of prismatic rechargeable batteries arranged in parallel with ventilation spaces being provided therebetween, the battery pack is constituted so that cooling air is downwardly sent from above the battery pack through the ventilation spaces. In accordance with a temperature detected with a temperature detection sensor attached to the lower end of the rechargeable battery, a blower fan is controlled by a control section. Moreover, a sensor placement concave, which is separated from a space inside a battery case through a thin partition wall, is provided on a bottom wall of the battery case of the rechargeable battery. The temperature detection sensor is placed in the sensor placement concave so as to be pressed against the partition wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2003Publication date: January 8, 2004Applicants: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinji Hamada, Takashi Asahina, Toyohiki Eto, Ko Watanabe
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Publication number: 20030157402Abstract: A sealed prismatic battery having a battery case made of a plurality of prismatic cell cases coupled together via partition walls, electrode plate groups, and collectors bonded to lead portions on both sides of the electrode plate groups. In at least one side wall of the battery case is formed openings at locations corresponding to the partition walls such as to open to the cell cases on both sides of the partition walls. Pairs of conductive connection plates are connected to each other through the partition walls and formed with connection pieces that face the openings. The collectors are connected together via the conductive connection plates, i.e., they are connected to the connection pieces after the electrode plate groups are encased in the cell cases, and the openings are sealed by sealing plates in a manner that separates the cell cases.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2003Publication date: August 21, 2003Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto, Takashi Asahina
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Publication number: 20030143458Abstract: A sealed prismatic battery includes an electrode plate group having positive and negative electrode plates stacked upon one another with a separator interposed therebetween, collectors each connected to a lead portion on either side of the electrode plate group and having one or more connection bosses formed in a middle part thereof, and a battery case, generally rectangular in shape, for accommodating the electrode plate group connected with the collectors. The battery case has a through-hole for the connection boss of the collector to penetrate therethrough via a rubber seal. A battery module includes a plurality of the sealed prismatic batteries, the connection bosses of which are connected to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2003Publication date: July 31, 2003Inventors: Takashi Asahina, Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto
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Publication number: 20030138692Abstract: A sealed prismatic battery has a battery case made of a plurality of prismatic cell cases coupled together via partition walls. Electrode plate groups are accommodated together with liquid electrolyte in each of the cell cases. Each electrode plate group consists of alternately stacked-up positive and negative electrode plates with separators interposed therebetween, lead portions of positive and negative electrode plates being protruded on opposite sides. Collectors are bonded to these lead portions. Between the collectors and end walls (and/or partition walls) of the battery case are provided conductive plates that are connected to the collectors one or more than one location in their middle part so as to decrease the resistance between connection terminals and the electrode plate groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Takashi Asahina, Hiromi Kajiya, Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto
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Publication number: 20030077508Abstract: A prismatic battery module includes a prismatic battery case having a plurality of prismatic cell cases connected to one another through separation walls, a planar electroconductive connector forming part of the separation wall between the cell cases, an electrode plate group arranged in each cell case, and an electrolyte placed in each cell case. Lead portions of positive electrode plates and negative electrode plates of the electrode plate group are directly connected to the electroconductive connector. The prismatic battery module requires fewer connection points and provides shorter electrical communication paths, thereby reducing internal resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2001Publication date: April 24, 2003Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Asahina, Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto, Shinsuke Fukuda
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Publication number: 20030027044Abstract: A prismatic sealed battery module includes: a prismatic battery case; an electrode plate group constituted by alternately layering positive and negative electrode plates with a separator arranged therebetween; and an electrolyte. The positive or negative electrode plates protruding from each end face of the electrode plate group are bonded to a collector member. A metal connector is fixed to the central part of the collector member facing the inner surface of the side end wall of the battery case. The collector member is connected, at the metal connector, to an external terminal using an externally connecting bolt.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Takashi Asahina, Shinji Hamada, Shinsuke Fukuda, Toyohiko Eto
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Publication number: 20030027040Abstract: A cell includes an electrode plate group which is formed by laminating a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate with a separator interposed between them, and includes leads protruding toward directions opposite to each other from one side of the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate, collectors which are joined to the leads on both sides of the electrode plate group, and include connection protrusions formed so as to protrude outside, and a bag-shape battery case containing the electrode plate group joined to the collectors such that only the connection protrusions of the collectors are protruded outside. A battery module is constituted by placing a plurality of the cells in a prismatic battery case while the connection protrusions of the collectors of the cells are connected with each other, thereby making the current-carrying path between the electrode plate groups straight and short and increasing the output.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Takashi Asahina, Shinsuke Fukuda, Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto, Masato Onishi
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Publication number: 20030027041Abstract: In a prismatic sealed battery module which includes a plurality of electrode plate groups, collectors joined to leads on both sides of the electrode plate group, and a prismatic battery case for storing the plurality of electrode plate groups, a connected-electrode-plate-group body is constituted by connecting the plurality of electrode groups with collectors interposed between them. A sheet covering both side surfaces and a bottom surface of the peripheral surfaces of the connected-electrode-plate-group body is provided. After gaps between the sheet and outer edges of the collectors are sealed, the connected-electrode-plate-group body is placed in the prismatic battery case. Thereby, the current-carrying paths between the electrode plate groups are short and straight, resulting in reduced internal resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Shinji Hamada, Takashi Asahina, Toyohiko Eto
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Patent number: 6495972Abstract: A dielectric barrier discharge lamp light source device having a discharge space filled with a discharge gas that emits light through dielectric barrier discharge. The device is provided with a dielectric barrier discharge lamp having a structure in which dielectrics are interposed between at least one of two electrodes to induce a discharge phenomenon in the discharge gas, and a power supply device for providing alternating current high voltage to the electrodes of the dielectric barrier discharge lamp. The power supply device further includes an abnormal discharge detection circuit for detecting an abnormal discharge occurring within transformers in the power supply device or within a section from the secondary side output terminal of a transformer to the electrodes, the power supply device acting to halt the supply of alternating current high voltage from the power supply device to the dielectric barrier discharge lamp when the abnormal discharge detection circuit detects abnormal discharge.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2000Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masashi Okamoto, Takashi Asahina, Hiroyuki Kushida
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Patent number: 6483253Abstract: A light source device for use in image readout devices capable of light emission in which a dielectric barrier discharge fluorescent lamp is synchronized with an external synchronization signal without attendant fluctuation in optical power. A phase comparator compares the oscillation signal phase of a variable frequency oscillator divided by a frequency divider with an external synchronization signal. The phase comparator controls the oscillation frequency of a variable frequency oscillator as a function of the phase difference. Consequently, the oscillation phase of the variable frequency oscillator is phase locked by the external synchronization signal. The oscillation signal of the variable frequency oscillator is input to the gate signal generation circuit, and the switch devices of an inverter circuit are opened and closed by the output of a gate signal generation circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masashi Okamoto, Takashi Asahina
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Patent number: 6445137Abstract: Dielectric-barrier discharge lamp light source equipment having a plurality of dielectric-barrier discharge lamps (B), each of which has a discharge plasma space (G) filled with a discharge gas in which a dielectric-barrier discharge will produce excimer molecules and a dielectric (D) located between the discharge gas and at least one of two electrodes (E) to induce the discharge phenomenon in the discharge gas, and also a power supply to impress a high voltage on the electrodes (E) of the dielectric-barrier discharge lamps, in which the power supply means is divided into a single power supply front stage (M) and multiple power supply back stages (S), one for each of the dielectric-barrier discharge lamps (B), with the power supply front stage (M) providing a common direct current power supply voltage (1) to each of the power supply back stages (S) and each of the power supply back stages (S) transforming the direct current power supply voltage (1) to an alternating current high voltage (H) of roughly periodiType: GrantFiled: July 20, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masashi Okamoto, Kenichi Hirose, Takashi Asahina
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Publication number: 20020064708Abstract: A prismatic battery module employs a prismatic battery case having a single space formed by connecting a plurality of prismatic cell cases in series. Positive and negative electrode plates are alternately stacked via a separator, and lead portions are formed by projecting side portions of the positive and negative electrode plates opposite to each other. Collectors are connected to the lead portions on both sides of the electrode plate group, and adjacent collectors of associated electrode plate groups are connected to each other by using an electroconductive adhesive or the like. Then, the electrode plate groups being connected in series are disposed in the prismatic battery case. Thereafter, a sealing material is applied to each space between each of the outer peripheries of the adjacent collectors and the wall surface of the prismatic battery case to partition the plurality of cell cases from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2001Publication date: May 30, 2002Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO.Inventors: Takashi Asahina, Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto, Toshiyuki Sekimori
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Patent number: 6356033Abstract: A dielectric-barrier discharge lamp light source with a dielectric-barrier discharge lamp, the light source including a discharge plasma space filled with a discharge gas in which excimer molecules are formed by dielectric-barrier discharge, two electrodes adapted to induce a discharge phenomenon in the discharge gas, at least one of the two electrodes being separated from the discharge gas by a dielectric, and a power supply for impressing a substantially cyclical, high-voltage alternating current on the two electrodes of the dielectric-barrier discharge lamp in a manner that when the power supply completes a discharge in the dielectric-barrier discharge lamp and the voltage impressed on the dielectric-barrier discharge lamp changes for a subsequent discharge, there is a period of gradual change in a lamp voltage waveform (Vs(t)) before reaching a voltage required for beginning of the subsequent discharge, wherein subsequent to the period of gradual change, the voltage impressed on the dielectric-barrier disType: GrantFiled: February 14, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masashi Okamoto, Takashi Asahina, Masaki Yoshioka, Takafumi Mizojiri, Kenichi Hirose
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Patent number: 6259704Abstract: A digital transmission network comprises a plurality of transmission terminals and receiving terminals, which are all connected with each other by a transmission line of a metal cable or optical fiber cable in the form of loop. Signals are transmitted by timeshare multiplexing in one direction. An individual time slot which is defined for each transmission terminal by time sharing multiplexing is allocated to each of all transmitted signals. A timing device is inserted into the loop for retransmitting a signal so that the delay time is corrected to the delay time of one frame including the delay time caused by the transmission line, cable and the like so that the consecutive frames are continuous. The transmission line is in single or dual loop. In case of the single loop, the transmission terminal includes a bypass circuit for bypassing a signal input to the transmission line if necessary.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1997Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: Hitachi Denshi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Asahina, Hiroyuki Hisatomi, Suguru Hirono, Nobuo Murata
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Patent number: 6252898Abstract: A spread spectrum communication method includes the steps of measuring a parameter indicative of a C/N value of a received signal at one station during a communication between stations remote from each other in accordance with a spread spectrum communications scheme, and changing the data rate of a signal to be transmitted from another station when the C/N value changes by a predetermined value or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1996Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Hitachi Denshi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshizumi Eto, Takashi Asahina
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Patent number: 5936358Abstract: A dielectric barrier discharge device in which uniformity of the light irradiation energy density is achieved, even if dielectric barrier discharge lamps have variations with respect to the lamp material and the processing. The dielectric barrier discharge device has at least one dielectric barrier discharge lamps and a feeder device for applying an AC high voltage to the electrodes of the dielectric barrier discharge lamp, the dielectric barrier discharge lamp having a discharge gas-filled discharge gap which produces excimer molecules by a dielectric barrier discharge and one dielectric between at least one of the electrodes and the discharge gap for inducing the discharge phenomenon in the discharge gas.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1997Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masashi Okamoto, Takashi Asahina
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Patent number: 5581152Abstract: In a dielectric barrier discharge lamp, in which a discharge vessel, in which a discharge gas forming "excimer" molecules is encapsulated, is provided with a dielectric provided with a netlike electrode and a window, through which the light goes, the first object of the invention is achieved by an arrangement in which a thickness of ends of the above-described netlike electrodes is greater than the average thickness of the entire electrode. Another object of the invention is achieved by an arrangement in which a holder incorporated in the discharge vessel has an outer dimension that is less than/equal to an outer dimension of the netlike electrodes. A further object of the invention is achieved by an arrangement by which the discharge vessel has a hollow cylindrical shape formed from an external tube and an internal tube and a means for hermetic sealing is arranged inside the internal tube.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1994Date of Patent: December 3, 1996Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromitsu Matsuno, Tatsushi Igarashi, Tatsumi Hiramoto, Fumitoshi Takemoto, Nobuyuki Hishinuma, Yasuo Oonishi, Kunio Kasagi, Takashi Asahina, Yasuhiko Wakahata