Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Matsuoka
Toshiyuki Matsuoka 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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Patent number: 6931878Abstract: An arrangement of a cooling apparatus installed in a vehicle for cooling with an air refrigerant an electricity storing apparatus for storing electricity generated in the vehicle, comprises an inlet port, a discharge duct and a fan. The inlet port let in therefrom the air refrigerant to the electricity storing apparatus. The discharge duct is disposed below a floor surface of a trunk of the vehicle for causing the air refrigerant discharged from the electricity storing apparatus to flow therethrough. The fan is situated in the discharge duct for discharging the air refrigerant. The fan is disposed outwardly of an interior material provided on a side of the trunk of the vehicle. The arrangement of a cooling apparatus can prevent the operating noise of a fan from entering a passenger compartment and which can facilitate the installation of luggage in a trunk.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2003Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinya Kubota, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Yoshinori Mita
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Publication number: 20050111167Abstract: A cooling device for a high voltage electrical unit for a motor of a vehicle, includes: an inverter for controlling the motor that drives the vehicle; an electrical energy storing device for supplying electrical energy to the motor via the inverter; a downverter for decreasing source voltage of the electrical energy storing device, the downverter, the inverter, and the electrical energy storing device disposed under a seat of the vehicle in a concentrated manner; a fan, disposed under the seat, for moving cooling air to the electrical energy storing device and the inverter; an air inlet disposed under the seat and at an end of the seat as viewed in a width direction of the vehicle; and an air outlet disposed under the seat and at the other end of the seat as viewed in a width direction of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2004Publication date: May 26, 2005Inventors: Hiroo Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Ohtsuka, Osamu Hasegawa, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Koshiro Fuchibe, Kunio Hasegawa, Hiromitsu Sato
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Patent number: 6868929Abstract: A vibration-proof structure for a metallic electrical packaging case includes a metallic electrical packaging case and a coupling member. The coupling member connects an outer wall of the metallic electrical packaging case and a member forming a side wall of a vehicle. Also, the coupling member may include an engaging portion at one end of the coupling member, which is used for temporarily fixing the coupling member, and an insertion engaging portion, which is engaged with a portion of the member forming the side wall of the vehicle, formed at another end of the coupling member.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2002Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Harumi Takedomi, Osamu Hasegawa, Toshiyuki Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20050004204Abstract: A 2-iminopyrrolidine derivative represented by the formula: {wherein ring B represents a benzene ring, pyridine ring, etc.; R101-R103 represent hydrogen, halogen, C1-6 alkyl, etc.; R5 represents hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl, C1-6 alkoxy-C1-6 alkyl, etc.; R6 represents hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl, C1-6 alkyloxycarbonyl, etc.; Y1 represents a single bond, —CH2—, etc.; Y2 represents a single bond, —CO—, etc.; and Ar represents hydrogen, a group represented by the formula: [wherein R10—R14 represent hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl, hydroxyl, C1-6 alkoxy, etc.; and R11 and R12 or R12 and R13 may bond together to form a 5- to 8-membered heterocyclic ring], etc.}, or a salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2002Publication date: January 6, 2005Inventors: Shuichi Suzuki, Makoto Kotake, Mitsuaki Miyamoto, Tetsuya Kawahara, Akiharu Kajiwara, Ieharu Hishinuma, Kazuo Okano, Syuhei Miyazawa, Richard Clark, Fumihiro Ozaki, Nobuaki Sato, Masanobu Shinoda, Atsushi Kamada, Itaru Tsukada, Fumiyoshi Matsuura, Yoshimitsu Naoe, Taro Terauchi, Yoshiaki Oohashi, Osamu Ito, Hiroshi Tanaka, Takashi Musha, Motoji Kogushi, Tsutomu Kawata, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Hiroko Kobayashi, Ken-ichi Chiba, Akifumi Kimura, Naoto Ono
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Publication number: 20050004197Abstract: A 2-iminoimidazole derivative represented by the formula: {wherein R1, R2 and R3 represent hydrogen, optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, etc.; R6 represents hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl, C1-6 alkyloxycarbonyl, etc.; Y1 represents a single bond, —CH2—, etc.; Y2 represents a single bond, —CO—, etc.; and Ar represents hydrogen, a group represented by the formula: [wherein R10-R14 represent hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl, hydroxyl, C1-6 alkoxy, etc., and R11 and R12 or R12 and R13 may bond together to form a 5- to 8-membered heterocycle], etc.} or salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2002Publication date: January 6, 2005Inventors: Shichi Suzuki, Makoto Kotake, Mitsuaki Miyamoto, Tetsuya Kawahara, Akiharu Kajiwara, Ieharu Hishinuma, Kazuo Okano, Syuhei Miyazawa, Richard Clark, Fumuhiro Ozaki, Nobuaki Sato, Masanobu Shinoda, Atsushi Kamada, Itaru Tsukuda, Fumiyoshi Maatsuura, Yoshimitsu Naoe, Taro Terauchi, Yoshiaki Oohashi, Osamu Ito, Hiroshi Tanaka, Takashi Musha, Motoji Kogushi, Tsutomu Kawata, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Hiroko Kobayashi, Ken-Ichi Chiba, Akifumi Kimura, Naoto Ono
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Publication number: 20040254376Abstract: A cyclic amidine derivative represented by the formula: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Shuichi Suzuki, Makoto Kotake, Mitsuaki Miyamoto, Tetsuya Kawara, Akiharu Kajiwara, Ieharu Hishinuma, Kazuo Okano, Syuhei Miyazawa, Richard Clark, Fumihiro Ozaki, Nobuaki Sato, Masanobu Shinoda, Atsushi Kamada, Itaru Tsukada, Fumiyoshi Matsuura, Yoshimitsu Naoe, Taro Terauchi, Yoshiaki Oohashi, Osamu Ito, Hiroshi Tanaka, Takashi Musha, Motoji Kogushi, Tsutomu Kawata, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Hiroko Kobayashi, Ken-ichi Chiba, Akifumi Kimura, Naoto Ono
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Publication number: 20040242627Abstract: A 2-iminoimidazole derivative represented by the formula: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Inventors: Shuichi Suzuki, Makoto Kotake, Mitsuaki Miyamoto, Tetsuya Kawahara, Akiharu Kajiwara, Ieharu Hishinuma, Kazuo Okano, Syuhei Miyazawa, Richard Clark, Fumihiro Ozaki, Nobuaki Sato, Masanobu Shinoda, Atsushi Kamada, Itaru Tsukada, Fumiyoshi Matsuura, Yoshimitsu Naoe, Taro Terauchi, Yoshiaki Oohashi, Osamu Ito, Hiroshi Tanaka, Takashi Musha, Motoji Kogushi, Tsutomu Kawata, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Hiroko Kobayashi, Ken-ichi Chiba, Akifumi Kimura, Naoto Ono
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Publication number: 20040062955Abstract: In a fuel cell powered electric vehicle having a fuel cell system and an electricity storing device for storing electricity generated by the fuel cell system, the fuel cell system and the electricity storing device stored in a box are fixed to a lower side of a floor of a cabin. A plate is provided to separate the fuel cell system and the electricity storing device in the interior of the box from each other. In addition, through holes are provided in the floor of the cabin for connecting between a refrigerant inlet port and a refrigerant outlet port of the electricity storing device and the cabin.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinya Kubota, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Yoshinori Mita
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Patent number: 6709786Abstract: A cell module structure comprises a bus bar plate and plural cylindrical cells. The bus bar plate including plural bus bars each having a positive bus bar terminal, a negative bus bar terminal, and a screw formed in one of the terminals, the bus bars being serially connected to each other with the positive bus bar terminal corresponding to the negative bus bar terminal; and a control substrate integrally provided to the bus bar and connected to the bus bars. The cell includes a positive cell terminal and a negative cell terminal coaxially aligned at an end thereof, and a screw formed in the terminal having the same polarity as that of the bus bar terminal which is formed with the screw to which the above screw is screwed. The screw of the cell is screwed to the screw of the bus bar, so that different terminals with no screw are brought into contact with each other, whereby the plural cells are serially connected.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2001Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoru Asaka, Kenji Matsumoto, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Koichi Yamamoto, Osamu Hasegawa, Mitsuru Ikeo
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Patent number: 6682846Abstract: A charging element device comprises a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal which are located at one end of a cylindrical battery case having a positive electrode and a negative electrode equipped therein and which are respectively connected to the positive electrode and the negative electrode, with an electrolyte solution charging opening being formed at the other end of the battery case. The electrolyte solution charging opening is sealed by a plug having a safety valve, and the safety plug reduces an inner pressure of the battery case when the inner pressure is not less than a predetermined pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2001Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Kenji Matsumoto, Harumi Takedomi, Osamu Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20040010357Abstract: An arrangement of a cooling apparatus installed in a vehicle for cooling with an air refrigerant an electricity storing apparatus for storing electricity generated in the vehicle, comprises an inlet port, a discharge duct and a fan. The inlet port let in therefrom the air refrigerant to the electricity storing apparatus. The discharge duct is disposed below a floor surface of a trunk of the vehicle for causing the air refrigerant discharged from the electricity storing apparatus to flow there through. The fan is situated in the discharge duct for discharging the air refrigerant. The fan is disposed outwardly of an interior material provided on a side of the trunk of the vehicle. The arrangement of a cooling apparatus can prevent the operating noise of a fan from entering a passenger compartment and which can facilitate the installation of luggage in a trunk.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2003Publication date: January 15, 2004Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinya Kubota, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Yoshinori Mita
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Patent number: 6656632Abstract: A cell module structure in which cylindrical cells are connected to each other via a terminal connecting portion of a bus bar plate. An inner cell terminal and an outer cell terminal having different polarities are coaxially aligned at an end of the cell. An inner connecting terminal and an outer connecting terminal corresponding to the inner cell terminal and the outer cell terminal of the cell are coaxially aligned in the terminal connecting portion of the bus bar plate. The inner cell terminal and the outer cell terminal of the cell are connected to the terminal connecting portion of the bus bar plate in a connected condition in which the outer cell terminal of the cell contacts the outer connecting terminal of the terminal connecting portion, and the inner cell terminal contacts the inner connecting terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2001Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoru Asaka, Kenji Matsumoto, Toshiyuki Matsuoka
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Patent number: 6603653Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor having an electrode rolled body contained in an outer packaging can. The electrode rolled body includes a positive electrode plate having a positive electrode foil, on both sides of which an active substance is applied, a negative electrode plate having a negative electrode foil, on both sides which the active substance is applied, and a separator interposed between these electrode plates, and is obtained by winding the above parts. The negative electrode foil is electrically connected directly to a bottom of the outer packaging can so that heat generated in an interior of the electric double layer capacitor is efficiently transferred to the outer packaging can from the negative electrode foil. The negative electrode foil has a greater thickness than that of the positive electrode foil, which is not electrically connected to the outer packaging can, so that heat quantity transferred is made large.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2002Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Kenji Matsumoto, Tomokazu Shohoji, Kentaro Shibuya, Yoshio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20030128500Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor having an electrode rolled body contained in an outer packaging can is disclosed. The electrode rolled body comprises a positive electrode plate having a positive electrode foil, on both sides of which an active substance is applied, a negative electrode plate having a negative electrode foil, on both sides of which the active substance is applied, and a separator interposed between these electrode plates, and is obtained by winding the above parts. The negative electrode foil is electrically connected directly to a bottom of the outer packaging can so that heat generated in an interior of the electric double layer capacitor is efficiently transferred to the outer packaging can from the negative electrode foil. The negative electrode foil has a greater thickness than that of the positive electrode foil, which is not electrically connected to the outer packaging can, so that heat quantity transferred is made large.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2002Publication date: July 10, 2003Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Kenji Matsumoto, Tomokazu Shohoji, Kentaro Shibuya, Yoshio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20030098191Abstract: A vibration-proof structure for a metallic electrical packaging case includes a metallic electrical packaging case and a coupling member. The coupling member connects an outer wall of the metallic electrical packaging case and a member forming a side wall of a vehicle. Also, the coupling member may include an engaging portion at one end of the coupling member, which is used for temporarily fixing the coupling member, and an insertion engaging portion, which is engaged with a portion of the member forming the side wall of the vehicle, formed at another end of the coupling member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2002Publication date: May 29, 2003Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Harumi Takedomi, Osamu Hasegawa, Toshiyuki Matsuoka
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Patent number: 6552894Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor having an electrode rolled body contained in an outer packaging can is disclosed. The electrode rolled body includes a positive electrode plate having a positive electrode foil, on both sides of which an active substance is applied, a negative electrode plate having a negative electrode foil, on both sides of which the active substance is applied, and a separator interposed between these electrode plates, and is obtained by winding the above parts. The negative electrode foil is electrically connected directly to a bottom of the outer packaging can so that heat generated in an interior of the electric double layer capacitor is efficiently transferred to the outer packaging can from the negative electrode foil. The negative electrode foil has a greater thickness than that of the positive electrode foil, which is not electrically connected to the outer packaging can, so that heat quantity transferred is made large.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2002Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Kenji Matsumoto, Tomokazu Shohoji, Kentaro Shibuya, Yoshio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20020191370Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor having an electrode rolled body contained in an outer packaging can is disclosed. The electrode rolled body comprises a positive electrode plate having a positive electrode foil, on both sides of which an active substance is applied, a negative electrode plate having a negative electrode foil, on both sides of which the active substance is applied, and a separator interposed between these electrode plates, and is obtained by winding the above parts. The negative electrode foil is electrically connected directly to a bottom of the outer packaging can so that heat generated in an interior of the electric double layer capacitor is efficiently transferred to the outer packaging can from the negative electrode foil. The negative electrode foil has a greater thickness than that of the positive electrode foil, which is not electrically connected to the outer packaging can, so that heat quantity transferred is made large.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2002Publication date: December 19, 2002Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Kenji Matsumoto, Tomokazu Shohoji, Kentaro Shibuya, Yoshio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 6456484Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor having an electrode rolled body contained in an outer packaging can. The electrode rolled body includes a positive electrode plate having a positive electrode foil, on both sides of which an active substance is applied, a negative electrode plate having a negative electrode foil, on both sides of which the active substance is applied, and a separator interposed between these electrode plates, and is obtained by winding the above parts. The negative electrode foil is electrically connected directly to a bottom of the outer packaging can so that heat generated in an interior of the electric double layer capacitor is efficiently transferred to the outer packaging can from the negative electode foil. The negative electrode foil has a greater thickness than that of the positive electrode foil, which is not electrically connected to the outer packaging can, so that heat quantity transferred is made large.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2000Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Kenji Matsumoto, Tomokazu Shohoji, Kentaro Shibuya, Yoshio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 6445567Abstract: A cap member 4 having electrode terminals 10, 11 which are arranged in an opening 2a, and an insulating seal member 12 insert-molded between both the electrode terminals 10, 11. The electrode terminals 10, 11 are provided with ribs 14, 17, and chemically bond to the layer of an organic compound formed on the surface of the terminals 10, 11. The bottom surface of the rib 17 is placed upwardly of the bottom surface of the rib 14. The resin-molded article 12 contains therein the ribs 14 and 17 formed on both the electrode terminals 10, 11 and chemically bonds to the organic compound layers formed on the surfaces of both the electrode terminals 10, 11.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2002Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masato Komatsuki, Toshiyuki Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20020105776Abstract: A cap member 4 comprises electrode terminals 10, 11 which are arranged in an opening 2a, and an insulating seal member 12 insert-molded between both the electrode terminals 10, 11. The electrode terminals 10, 11 are provided with ribs 14, 17, and chemically bond to the layer of an organic compound formed on the surface of the terminals 10, 11. The bottom surface of the rib 17 is placed upwardly of the bottom surface of the rib 14. The resin-molded article 12 contains therein the ribs 14 and 17 formed on both the electrode terminals 10, 11 and chemically bonds to the organic compound layers formed on the surfaces of both the electrode terminals 10, 11.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2002Publication date: August 8, 2002Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato Komatsuki, Toshiyuki Matsuoka