Patents by Inventor Takumi Kawabata

Takumi Kawabata 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: 11955600
    Abstract: A solid-state battery is provided that allows the exterior can to be sufficiently crimped onto the seal can without leading to improper crimping, thus preventing entry of water from the outside. The solid-state battery 1 includes an exterior can 2, a seal can 3, facing the exterior can 2 and a power generation element 4 contained in the space between the exterior can 2 and seal can 3. The seal can 3 includes a flat portion 31 and a peripheral wall 32 that are contiguous to each other with a curved-surface portion 33 provided therebetween. A first clearance g1 is defined between the upper edge of the outer peripheral surface of the power generation element 4 and the border 10 between the inner surface of the flat portion 31 and the inner surface of the curved-surface portion 33, the first clearance having a radial dimension not larger than 2.0 mm at a position where its dimension is at its largest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kawabata, Akihiro Fujimoto, Takumi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 5945024
    Abstract: A heat cooker includes a generally box-like cooker body having ventholes at a bottom board thereof, a heating room disposed in the cooker body, a heat source disposed in the cooker body for heating foods in the heating room and an accessory storage section disposed under the bottom board of the cooker body,wherein the accessory storage section comprises a pair of leg bodies which support the cooker body and are attached on both sides of the bottom board and a plate-like accessory storage body which is supported by the leg bodies and inserted between the leg bodies to be capable of being pulled out forward, andwherein the leg bodies are further provided with ventilation slits that form an airway between an inside of the cooker body and an outside through the ventholes of the bottom board and an area above the plate-like accessory storage body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Fukunaga, Takaaki Hyodo, Katsunao Takahashi, Yuichi Otsuki, Takumi Kawabata