Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi Hayashi

Tsuyoshi Hayashi 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: 9821645
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a floor panel, a battery pack, a battery pack-associated component, a first tray, a first flange portion, a second tray, and a second flange portion. The battery pack is arranged on the first tray. The first tray is arranged on the floor panel of the motor vehicle. The first flange portion is provided on a first peripheral edge. The first peripheral edge is a peripheral edge of the first tray. The battery pack-associated component is arranged on the second tray. The second tray is arranged on the floor panel of the motor vehicle. The second flange portion is provided on a second peripheral edge. The second peripheral edge is a peripheral edge of the second tray. The second flange portion is located above the first flange portion in a vertical direction of the motor vehicle. The second flange portion overlaps with the first flange portion in the vertical direction of the motor vehicle. The first flange portion projects toward the second tray side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Atsushi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 9809029
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head which ejects liquid from a nozzle that is disposed on a nozzle surface, and an absorption member which is able to contact the nozzle surface, in which it is possible to perform a first contact operation which causes the absorption member to contact the nozzle surface at a position which corresponds to a nozzle region that includes an opening region of the nozzle, and a second contact operation which causes the absorption member to contact the nozzle surface at a position which corresponds to a non-nozzle region that is a region outside of the nozzle region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Suzuki, Koji Harada, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Kazuhiko Hara, Yasunori Koike, Ryo Oguchi
  • Publication number: 20170226664
    Abstract: A polyamide monofilament is characterized in that the abrasion tension thereof when passed through a ceramic guide is 0.3 cN/dtex or less and in that the amount of static electricity generated at the exit of a chromium round bar guide, which is a frictional body, when the polyamide monofilament is passed through the chromium round bar guide, is 300 V or less. This polyamide monofilament and fiber package provide a gauze woven fabric for which tension is low when passing through a thread path guide when warping warp yarn, for which generation of static electricity is suppressed, and which has excellent weaving productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Morihiko Fujita, Tsuyoshi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20170080714
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head which ejects liquid from a nozzle that is disposed on a nozzle surface, and an absorption member which is able to contact the nozzle surface, in which it is possible to perform a first contact operation which causes the absorption member to contact the nozzle surface at a position which corresponds to a nozzle region that includes an opening region of the nozzle, and a second contact operation which causes the absorption member to contact the nozzle surface at a position which corresponds to a non-nozzle region that is a region outside of the nozzle region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Shigeki SUZUKI, Koji HARADA, Tsuyoshi HAYASHI, Kazuhiko HARA, Yasunori KOIKE, Ryo OGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9566853
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a motor serving as a driving source for running the vehicle, and a high-power assembled battery and a high-capacity assembled battery each capable of supplying an electric power to the motor and placed in a luggage space. The high-power assembled battery is capable of charge and discharge with a current relatively larger than that in the high-capacity assembled battery. The high-capacity assembled battery has an energy capacity relatively larger than that of the high-power assembled battery and has a higher dependence of battery characteristic on temperature than that of the high-power assembled battery. The high-capacity assembled battery is placed over the high-power assembled battery in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Kenji Kimura, Takurou Nakayama, Nobuyoshi Fujiwara, Akihiro Sato, Hirotaka Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20160339774
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a floor panel, a battery pack, a battery pack-associated component, a first tray, a first flange portion, a second tray, and a second flange portion. The battery pack is arranged on the first tray. The first tray is arranged on the floor panel of the motor vehicle. The first flange portion is provided on a first peripheral edge. The first peripheral edge is a peripheral edge of the first tray. The battery pack-associated component is arranged on the second tray. The second tray is arranged on the floor panel of the motor vehicle. The second flange portion is provided on a second peripheral edge. The second peripheral edge is a peripheral edge of the second tray. The second flange portion is located above the first flange portion in a vertical direction of the motor vehicle. The second flange portion overlaps with the first flange portion in the vertical direction of the motor vehicle. The first flange portion projects toward the second tray side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HAYASHI, Atsushi YAMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20160243919
    Abstract: A cooling unit for a vehicle battery pack includes a cooling blower configured to blow cooling air to a battery pack mounted on a vehicle, an inlet duct that is connected with the cooling blower and provided with an inlet port opening upwardly, and a cover member arranged above the inlet port. The cover member has a top plate configured to be separated upwardly from an end face of the inlet port and configured to cover the inlet port, and a side plate configured to be separated from a side surface of the inlet port and that extends below an end face of the inlet port from a side edge of the top plate. An opening communicating with the inlet port is formed between the side surface of the inlet port and an inner wall of the side plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMANAKA, Tsuyoshi HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9278612
    Abstract: A vehicle has a motor and an engine each serving as a driving source for running the vehicle, and assembled batteries each capable of supplying an electric power to the motor. The assembled batteries include a high-power assembled battery and a high-capacity assembled battery. The high-power assembled battery is capable of charge and discharge with current relatively larger than that in the high-capacity assembled battery, and the high-capacity assembled battery has energy capacity relatively larger than that of the high-power assembled battery. In running of the vehicle using output from the motor with the engine stopped, the high-capacity assembled battery supplies more electric power to the motor than that in the high-power assembled battery. The high-power assembled battery is placed in a vehicle-inside space accommodating a passenger or baggage, and the high-capacity assembled battery is placed in a vehicle-outside space located on an outer face of a vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Kenji Kimura, Takurou Nakayama, Hirotaka Watanabe, Nobuyoshi Fujiwara, Akihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9276299
    Abstract: A vehicle having a battery mounted thereon is provided. The battery includes a cell group having a plurality of cells, each of the cells including an electrolytic solution and a power-generating element within a case of cylindrical shape, and a holding member holding each of the cells in a diameter direction of the cell, wherein the cell group is placed in an area inside an edge of the holding member when viewed from a height direction of the vehicle. Each of the cells can be arranged to extend in the height direction of the vehicle. The holding member may be a heat dissipation plate allowing heat exchange between the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Kimura, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Kosuke Kusaba
  • Patent number: 9225044
    Abstract: A vehicle having a battery mounted thereon is provided. The battery includes a cell group having a plurality of cells, each of the cells including an electrolytic solution and a power-generating element within a case of cylindrical shape, and a holding member holding each of the cells in a diameter direction of the cell, wherein the cell group is placed in an area inside an edge of the holding member when viewed from a height direction of the vehicle. Each of the cells can be arranged to extend in the height direction of the vehicle. The holding member may be a heat dissipation plate allowing heat exchange between the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Kimura, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Kosuke Kusaba
  • Publication number: 20150367718
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first cross member 1, a second cross member 2, and a third cross member 3 forming part of a framework of a vehicle and extending in a vehicle width direction. Further, the vehicle body structure 100 accommodates at least part of a battery portion 10a of a power storage device 10 in a space SP1R between a floor in a passenger compartment and a floor panel 4 and between the first cross member 1 and the second cross member 2. Further, the vehicle body structure 100 accommodates at least part of a controlling portion 10c of the power storage device 10 in a space SP2R between the first cross member 1 and the third cross member 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HAYASHI, Atsushi YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 9187052
    Abstract: A vehicle 100 according to the present invention includes a battery pack 2, wherein the battery pack is disposed, in the vehicle, forward Fr of a space S2 formed between a driver's seat 11 and a passenger's seat 12 provided side by side in a vehicle width direction, and rearward Rr of an instrument panel 31 provided forward of the driver's seat 11 and the passenger's seat 12 in the interior of the vehicle. According to the present invention, it is unnecessary to remove the driver's seat and the passenger's seat in removing the battery pack from the vehicle body, and the number of man-hours involved in the removal work of the battery pack can be reduced as compared with the conventional vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Kimura, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Nobuyoshi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20150311484
    Abstract: A battery including a plurality of cells housed in a battery container, wherein the battery container is formed of an insulating material and includes a plurality of housing portions formed by an inner wall portion of the battery container, each of the housing portions housing an associated one of the cells, and a conductive member for use in connecting the plurality of cells is embedded in a wall portion of the battery container. The housing portion has a shape conforming to an outer face of the cell and is in contact with the outer face of the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Kojima Industries Corporation
    Inventors: Junta KATAYAMA, Tsuyoshi HAYASHI, Kenji KIMURA, Masahiro IMAI, Ryogo MURAYAMA, Tomotaka OSAKABE
  • Patent number: 9067502
    Abstract: A vehicle has a motor serving as a driving source for running the vehicle, a high-power assembled battery and a high-capacity assembled battery each capable of supplying an electric power to the motor, and a temperature adjusting mechanism adjusting the temperature of each of the high-power assembled battery and the high-capacity assembled battery. The temperature adjusting mechanism supplies a heat exchange medium for use in the temperature adjustment of the high-power assembled battery and the high-capacity assembled battery to each of the assembled batteries. The high-power assembled battery is capable of charge and discharge with a current relatively larger than that in the high-capacity assembled battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takurou Nakayama, Akihiro Sato, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Hirotaka Watanabe, Kenji Kimura, Nobuyoshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9056484
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head, an ink supply tube that supplies ink to the liquid ejecting head, a pressure control valve that opens as a result of depressurization on the liquid ejecting head side, a check valve provided upstream from the pressure control valve, an ink circulation tube that is connected at both ends to the ink supply tube between the pressure control valve and the check valve, and a tube pump provided in the ink circulation tube; in this configuration, by providing at least one of an ink return tube and a liquid reservoir portion that is capable of holding liquid in a liquid flow channel in a pressurized state, a rise in pressure within a circulating flow channel caused by pump operations can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Ito, Masato Murayama, Ryoji Fujimori, Koji Harada, Tsuyoshi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20150068826
    Abstract: A vehicle having a battery mounted thereon is provided. The battery includes a cell group having a plurality of cells, each of the cells including an electrolytic solution and a power-generating element within a case of cylindrical shape, and a holding member holding each of the cells in a diameter direction of the cell, wherein the cell group is placed in an area inside an edge of the holding member when viewed from a height direction of the vehicle. Each of the cells can be arranged to extend in the height direction of the vehicle. The holding member may be a heat dissipation plate allowing heat exchange between the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Kimura, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Kosuke Kusaba
  • Publication number: 20140345961
    Abstract: A vehicle 100 according to the present invention includes a battery pack 2, wherein the battery pack is disposed, in the vehicle, forward Fr of a space S2 formed between a driver's seat 11 and a passenger's seat 12 provided side by side in a vehicle width direction, and rearward Rr of an instrument panel 31 provided forward of the driver's seat 11 and the passenger's seat 12 in the interior of the vehicle. According to the present invention, it is unnecessary to remove the driver's seat and the passenger's seat in removing the battery pack from the vehicle body, and the number of man-hours involved in the removal work of the battery pack can be reduced as compared with the conventional vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Kimura, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Nobuyoshi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20140285589
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head, an ink supply tube that supplies ink to the liquid ejecting head, a pressure control valve that opens as a result of depressurization on the liquid ejecting head side, a check valve provided upstream from the pressure control valve, an ink circulation tube that is connected at both ends to the ink supply tube between the pressure control valve and the check valve, and a tube pump provided in the ink circulation tube; in this configuration, by providing at least one of an ink return tube and a liquid reservoir portion that is capable of holding liquid in a liquid flow channel in a pressurized state, a rise in pressure within a circulating flow channel caused by pump operations can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Koji ITO, Masato MURAYAMA, Ryoji FUJIMORI, Koji HARADA, Tsuyoshi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140216842
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a motor serving as a driving source for running the vehicle, and a high-power assembled battery and a high-capacity assembled battery each capable of supplying an electric power to the motor and placed in a luggage space. The high-power assembled battery is capable of charge and discharge with a current relatively larger than that in the high-capacity assembled battery. The high-capacity assembled battery has an energy capacity relatively larger than that of the high-power assembled battery and has a higher dependence of battery characteristic on temperature than that of the high-power assembled battery. The high-capacity assembled battery is placed over the high-power assembled battery in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Kenji Kimura, Takurou Nakayama, Nobuyoshi Fujiwara, Akihiro Sato, Hirotaka Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20140210209
    Abstract: A vehicle has a motor serving as a driving source for running the vehicle, a high-power assembled battery and a high-capacity assembled battery each capable of supplying an electric power to the motor, and a temperature adjusting mechanism adjusting the temperature of each of the high-power assembled battery and the high-capacity assembled battery. The temperature adjusting mechanism supplies a heat exchange medium for use in the temperature adjustment of the high-power assembled battery and the high-capacity assembled battery to each of the assembled batteries. The high-power assembled battery is capable of charge and discharge with a current relatively larger than that in the high-capacity assembled battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Takurou Nakayama, Akihiro Sato, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Hirotaka Watanabe, Kenji Kimura, Nobuyoshi Fujiwara