Patents by Inventor Takenori Tsuchiya

Takenori Tsuchiya 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: 20150372268
    Abstract: A duct holding structure includes insulating resin busbar modules (11a, 11b) which are attached to a battery assembly body (2) in which plural batteries (1) are arranged and connected to each other in series, and hold busbars (9) each of which connects electrodes of adjoining ones of the batteries (1); and an insulating resin duct (3) which is attached to the battery assembly body (2) while covering gas vents that are formed through an electrode surface (6) from which the electrodes of the batteries (1) project. The duct (3) and the busbar modules (11a, 11b) are provided with lock mechanisms (23) which lock the busbar modules (11a, 11b) on the duct (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki ICHIKAWA, Koji KOIZUMI, Takenori TSUCHIYA
  • Patent number: 9196891
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, Masahide Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 9196889
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, Masahide Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 9065125
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus 1 includes: a battery cell assembly 2 including battery cells 3 having a positive terminal 11 at one end and a negative terminal 12 at the other end; a busbar module 5 attached to the assembly 2 and configured to connect the cells 3 in series with each other; and a pair of electric wires 9 connected to electrodes 11, 12 taking out a voltage of the series-connected cells 3. The busbar module 5 includes: bus bars 6 configured to connect the positive terminal 11 and the negative terminal 12 of the mutually adjacent battery cells 3 of the assembly 2; a plate 8 disposed on the assembly 2 with the bus bars 6 attached thereto; and an electric wire holding portion 18 provided on the plate 8 configured to hold one electric wire 9a of the pair of the electric wires 9. The electric wire holding portion 18 extends in the arrangement direction X in which the cells 3 are arranged at a central portion of the plate 8 in the width direction Z orthogonal to the direction X of the battery cells 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Ogasawara, Katsunori Sato, Hideki Inoue, Motoo Nojima, Takenori Tsuchiya, Takao Shoji
  • Patent number: 9040194
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, Masahide Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 9005804
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, Masahide Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 8802277
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, Masahide Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 8784129
    Abstract: Attaching work of a high-voltage cable is improved. In an electric cable connecting construction of battery packs, the high-voltage cable is connected to conductors held in resin busbar modules for connection with the general electrodes by fastening crimp terminals to the conductors. Two ribs are formed on each of the busbar modules where the crimp terminal is held therebetween to limit an entrained rotation of the crimp terminal. A difference between a gap of the two ribs on one of the adjacent battery packs and a width of the crimp terminal connected to the general electrode is set to a first gap dimension L3 and A difference between a gap and a width of the crimp terminal connected to the general electrode of the other of the adjacent battery packs is set to a second gap dimension L6 larger than the first gap dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Ogasawara, Takao Syouji, Akito Toyama, Shinichi Yanagihara, Michio Ota, Takenori Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 8771868
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, Masahide Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 8728654
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, Masahide Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 8623544
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, Masahide Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 8623546
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, Masahide Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 8584779
    Abstract: A structure for mounting a power source apparatus includes a power source apparatus mounted on a vehicle, and a reinforcing member configured to reinforce connection between the power source apparatus and a vehicle body. The power source apparatus has a power source unit and a device fixed to an upper face of the power source unit and having a length in a front-back direction of the vehicle smaller than a length of the power source unit. The reinforcing member extends in a left-right direction of the vehicle and is fixed at different portions to the power source apparatus and the vehicle body in space above the power source unit and adjacent to the device in the front-back direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hajime Oyanagi
  • Publication number: 20130302662
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus 1 includes: a battery cell assembly 2 including battery cells 3 having a positive terminal 11 at one end and a negative terminal 12 at the other end; a busbar module 5 attached to the assembly 2 and configured to connect the cells 3 in series with each other; and a pair of electric wires 9 connected to electrodes 11, 12 taking out a voltage of the series-connected cells 3. The busbar module 5 includes: bus bars 6 configured to connect the positive terminal 11 and the negative terminal 12 of the mutually adjacent battery cells 3 of the assembly 2; a plate 8 disposed on the assembly 2 with the bus bars 6 attached thereto; and an electric wire holding portion 18 provided on the plate 8 configured to hold one electric wire 9a of the pair of the electric wires 9. The electric wire holding portion 18 extends in the arrangement direction X in which the cells 3 are arranged at a central portion of the plate 8 in the width direction Z orthogonal to the direction X of the battery cells 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Ogasawara, Katsunori Sato, Hideki Inoue, Motoo Nojima, Takenori Tsuchiya, Takao Shoji
  • Patent number: 8551647
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, Masahide Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 8551648
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, Masahide Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 8527095
    Abstract: A cooling system constructed to cool down an accumulator mounted on a motor vehicle is herein presented. The cooling system sequentially controls an air blower to restrict the air blow to the accumulator, controls the air blow mode switchover module to switch over the active air blow mode after restriction of the air blow to the accumulator, and controls the air blower to release the restriction of the air blow to the accumulator after the switchover of the active air blow mode by the air blow mode switchover module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Yasumitsu Omi, Shinji Wakao, Takenori Tsuchiya, Mikio Katashima, Kazuhiko Nakashima, Tetsuya Ishihara
  • Patent number: 8446035
    Abstract: A power supply device to be mounted on a vehicle includes a battery module, a power storage casing for accommodating the battery module, a DC/DC converter stepping down an output voltage of the battery module to a first voltage and a DC/DC converter stepping down the output voltage of the battery module into a second voltage. The battery module, DC/DC converter and DC/DC converter are fixed to the power storage casing. This structure provides the power supply device of small sizes capable of supplying electricity of three or more kinds of voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120264006
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Hiroki Nagai, Masahide Hikosaka
  • Publication number: 20120264001
    Abstract: An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Takenori TSUCHIYA, Hiroki NAGAI, Masahide HIKOSAKA