Patents by Inventor Yoichi Miyajima

Yoichi Miyajima 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: 8790807
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery device including a battery enclosure incorporating a battery cell. The battery device further includes an output terminal that outputs power of the battery cell. The battery enclosure includes a first surface, a second surface, a first step surface, a second step surface, a first engaging portion, a second engaging portion, a first groove, and a second groove formed in the second step surface and the second engaging portion, and a recess is provided in at least one of the first step surface and the second step surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mieko Hara, Toshio Takeshita, Yoichi Miyajima, Hiroaki Sato, Tomonori Watanabe, Naoki Kamaya
  • Publication number: 20140205880
    Abstract: Erroneous insertion of a battery into an imaging device resulting from downsizing of the battery is prevented. In a battery loading and unloading mechanism for loading and unloading a battery 2 formed in a flat rectangular parallelepiped and having an almost square main surface to and from a device (an imaging device 1) to be detachably equipped with the battery 2, the battery 2 is formed with projecting portions 26, 27 at longitudinal both ends of a back surface thereof and along the back surface, the back surface being a surface opposite to an insertion surface of the battery inserted into the device, whereby even the battery formed in a flat rectangular parallelepiped and having the almost-square main surface can be prevented from being erroneously inserted into the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Yamasaki, Hiroaki Sato, Toshiaki Ueda, Tomonori Watanabe, Yoichi Miyajima, Osamu Nagashima, Mieko Hara
  • Patent number: 8785022
    Abstract: A secondary battery for an electronic appliance, including a battery cell. The battery cell has a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte in a pack. A positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are led out from the same side face of the pack. A metallic battery can accommodates the battery cell therein such that the side face from which the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are lead out is faced towards the opening side. A lid, made of a synthetic resin, in which terminal parts to be connected to the electrodes of the electronic appliance upon being connected to the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are faced outwardly, plugs the opening of the battery can, the battery cell being accommodated in the battery can upon being adhered onto an inner face thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sato, Yoichi Miyajima, Shoichi Shintani, Toshio Takeshita, Atsushi Takahashi, Kei Tashiro, Hideki Kamiya, Hisashi Aoki, Osamu Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20140199576
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery device including a battery enclosure incorporating a battery cell. The battery device further includes an output terminal that outputs power of the battery cell. The battery enclosure includes a first surface, a second surface, a first step surface, a second step surface, a first engaging portion, a second engaging portion, a first groove, and a second groove formed in the second step surface and the second engaging portion, and a recess is provided in at least one of the first step surface and the second step surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mieko HARA, Toshio TAKESHITA, Yoichi MIYAJIMA, Hiroaki SATO, Tomonori WATANABE, Naoki KAMAYA
  • Publication number: 20140178733
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery device including a battery enclosure incorporating a battery cell. The battery device further includes an output terminal that outputs power of the battery cell. The battery enclosure includes a first surface, a second surface, a first step surface, a second step surface, a first engaging portion, a second engaging portion, a first groove, and a second groove formed in the second step surface and the second engaging portion, and a recess is provided in at least one of the first step surface and the second step surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mieko HARA, Toshio TAKESHITA, Yoichi MIYAJIMA, Hiroaki SATO, Tomonori WATANABE, Naoki KAMAYA
  • Patent number: 8709634
    Abstract: In a battery loading and unloading mechanism, a battery formed in a flat rectangular parallelepiped and having an almost square main surface is loaded and unloaded to and from a device. The battery is formed with projecting portions at longitudinal both ends of a back surface thereof and along the back surface, whereby the battery can be prevented from being erroneously inserted into the device. The projecting portion has an inclined surface acutely inclined with respect to the back surface, and when the battery is unloaded from the device, unloading of the battery from the device is accelerated by the inclined surface undergoing contact pressure of the retaining means. The device is formed with a notched portion which is adapted to expose the other projecting portion of the battery when the battery is loaded, thereby facilitating unloading of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Yamasaki, Hiroaki Sato, Toshiaki Ueda, Tomonori Watanabe, Yoichi Miyajima, Osamu Nagashima, Mieko Hara
  • Patent number: 8709633
    Abstract: In a battery loading and unloading mechanism, a battery formed in a flat rectangular parallelepiped and having an almost square main surface is loaded and unloaded to and from a device. The battery is formed with projecting portions at longitudinal both ends of a back surface thereof and along the back surface, whereby the battery can be prevented from being erroneously inserted into the device. The projecting portion has an inclined surface acutely inclined with respect to the back surface, and when the battery is unloaded from the device, unloading of the battery from the device is accelerated by the inclined surface undergoing contact pressure of the retaining means. The device is formed with a notched portion which is adapted to expose the other projecting portion of the battery when the battery is loaded, thereby facilitating unloading of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Yamasaki, Hiroaki Sato, Toshiaki Ueda, Tomonori Watanabe, Yoichi Miyajima, Osamu Nagashima, Mieko Hara
  • Publication number: 20140023902
    Abstract: A battery apparatus including a case, a battery cell, a battery-side terminal, and an engaging piece. The case has a width, a thickness, and a length. The battery cell is housed in an inside of the case. The battery-side terminal is disposed on a side surface at one end of the case in a length direction and electrically connected to the battery cell. The engaging piece is disposed at the one end of the case at which the battery-side terminal is positioned such that the engaging piece extends in a length direction a same distance as the case at the one end portion. The engaging piece is at an edge of the case in a width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio TAKESHITA, Yoichi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20130280592
    Abstract: A secondary battery for an electronic appliance, including a battery cell. The battery cell has a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte in a pack. A positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are led out from the same side face of the pack. A metallic battery can accommodates the battery cell therein such that the side face from which the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are lead out is faced towards the opening side. A lid, made of a synthetic resin, in which terminal parts to be connected to the electrodes of the electronic appliance upon being connected to the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are faced outwardly, plugs the opening of the battery can, the battery cell being accommodated in the battery can upon being adhered onto an inner face thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroaki SATO, Yoichi MIYAJIMA, Shoichi SHINTANI, Toshio TAKESHITA, Atsushi TAKAHASHI, Kei TASHIRO, Hideki KAMIYA, Hisashi AOKI, Osamu NAGASHIMA
  • Patent number: 8563167
    Abstract: A battery apparatus including a case, a battery cell, a battery-side terminal, and an engaging piece. The case has a width, a thickness, and a length. The battery cell is housed in an inside of the case. The battery-side terminal is disposed on a side surface at one end of the case in a length direction and electrically connected to the battery cell. The engaging piece is disposed at the one end of the case at which the battery-side terminal is positioned such that the engaging piece extends in a length direction a same distance as the case at the one end portion. The engaging piece is at an edge of the case in a width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Takeshita, Yoichi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 8557424
    Abstract: A secondary battery for an electronic appliance, including a battery cell. The battery cell has a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte in a pack. A positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are lead out from the same side face of the pack. A metallic battery can accommodates the battery cell therein such that the side face from which the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are lead out is faced towards the opening side. A lid, made of a synthetic resin, in which terminal parts to be connected to the electrodes of the electronic appliance upon being connected to the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are faced outwardly, plugs the opening of the battery can, the battery cell being accommodated in the battery can upon being adhered onto an inner face thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sato, Yoichi Miyajima, Shoichi Shintani, Toshio Takeshita, Atsushi Takahashi, Kei Tashiro, Hideki Kamiya, Hisashi Aoki, Osamu Nagashima
  • Patent number: 8551643
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery housing, a battery cell having a tubular negative electrode having an opening part at one end and a positive electrode fixed to the negative electrode in such a way as to close the opening part, the battery cell being housed in the battery housing, and a protrusion disposed between the battery cell and the inner wall of the battery housing in an area other than an area where the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the battery cell are fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Takeshita, Mieko Hara, Atsuhiro Kumagai, Yoichi Miyajima, Shoichi Shintani
  • Patent number: 8470465
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery device including a battery enclosure incorporating a battery cell. The battery device further includes an output terminal that outputs power of the battery cell. The battery enclosure includes a first surface, a second surface, a first step surface, a second step surface, a first engaging portion, a second engaging portion, a first groove, and a second groove formed in the second step surface and the second engaging portion, and a recess is provided in at least one of the first step surface and the second step surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mieko Hara, Toshio Takeshita, Yoichi Miyajima, Hiroaki Sato, Tomonori Watanabe, Naoki Kamaya
  • Patent number: 8415045
    Abstract: A secondary battery for electronic appliance to be installed in an electronic appliance, thereby feeding an electric power to the electronic appliance is disclosed, which includes a battery cell in which a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte are accommodated in a pack, and a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal from the positive electrode and the negative electrode, respectively are lead out from one side face of the pack; a metallic battery can in which an opening is formed in the both end sides in an insertion direction of the battery cell and which accommodates the battery cell therein such that one side face from which the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are lead out is faced towards the side of one of the openings; and a pair of lids made of a synthetic resin, each plugging the opening of the battery can, at least one of the lids plugging one of the openings towards which one side face from which the positive electrode termi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Miyajima, Toshio Takeshita, Hiroaki Sato, Atsushi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8414028
    Abstract: A seatbelt device comprises a seatbelt including a shoulder belt to restrain a passenger's upper body and a lap belt to restrain a passenger's waist portion, a tongue fixed to the seatbelt and parting the seatbelt into the shoulder belt and the lap belt, a first retractor fixed to a pillar and coupled to a tip of the shoulder belt, a second D ring attached to a position of an inner panel of a side sill below the pillar and supporting the lap belt so as to let the lap belt slide therein, and a second retractor fixed to another position of the inner panel of the side sill located in front of the second D ring and below a seat slide rail, the second retractor being coupled to a tip of the lap belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Miyajima, Hiroaki Takeshita
  • Patent number: 8409748
    Abstract: A battery and an electronic apparatus are disclosed by which it can be discriminated with a simple configuration whether or not the battery is of a thin type. The battery is configured such that a wall portion for discrimination of a battery characteristic which is swollen in a lengthwise direction and connects to a connector section is formed at a location of one of end faces positioned rather near to an end portion in a widthwise direction of a case of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Hagiwara, Michihito Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Konno, Shoichi Shintani, Yoichi Miyajima, Tsugio Sameshima, Tomohiro Tsumura, Kazuhiro Kitagawa, Kiyoshi Miyamori, Toshio Takeshita, Atsushi Takahashi, Naoto Hosoya, Yoshihisa Tsuchida, Seiya Amatatsu, Nobutatsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8353531
    Abstract: A passenger protection apparatus comprises an airbag having a concaved receiving portion at its specified position which corresponds to a face of a small-sized passenger seated in a passenger's seat when the airbag inflates in a vehicle collision, an inflator supplying gas to the airbag in a collision of a vehicle to inflate the airbag before the passenger's seat, a position sensor detecting a longitudinal sitting position of the passenger seated in the passenger's seat, and a seatbelt device, an airbag unit for pop-up seat, and a knee airbag unit which adjust a restraint position of the passenger in accordance with the longitudinal sitting position of the passenger so that the face f the small-sized passenger is received at said receiving portion of the airbag in the vehicle collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Yoichi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 8334987
    Abstract: A camera-integrated VTR system including a printer embodying a data processing device of the invention is provided, wherein various external data supplied from an external device and internal data generated or recorded internally are enabled to be exchanged selectively, easily and directly between respective components of the system without use of any additional component therebetween so as to be printed instantaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Komatsu, Seiichi Morikawa, Yukihiro Kato, Keikichi Chiba, Junya Ishihara, Yoshinari Higuchi, Hajime Ishimitsu, Toshimitsu Kubodera, Masato Yamaguchi, Yoichi Miyajima, Hiroyuki Ohyama
  • Patent number: 8313856
    Abstract: To provide a thinner, lighter battery pack and to reduce the cost by eliminating the need for a battery case. A thin battery pack structure using an outer packaging film (battery pack) is constructed by a flat and rectangular shaped battery cell, a flat and rectangular shaped frame portion accommodating the battery cell, a circuit board unit disposed on the outer side surface of the frame portion, a cap portion mounted on one ends of the frame portion and the battery cell so as to sandwich the circuit board unit with the outer side surface of the frame portion, and an outer packaging film for integrally covering the rectangular battery cell and the frame portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Takeshita, Hiroaki Sato, Yoichi Miyajima, Hideyuki Sato
  • Patent number: D688198
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Takeshita, Yoichi Miyajima, Atsushi Takahashi, Hiroaki Sato