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).
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Patent number: 8277971Abstract: In a battery including a battery cell formed in a flattened substantially parallelepiped shape and a terminal contacting section electrically connected to the battery cell, at one end in the longitudinal direction of a face of the battery opposing to the face on which the terminal contacting section is provided, a projecting portion which projects in the longitudinal direction of the face is provided. Meanwhile, another projecting portion which projects in the longitudinal direction of the face is provided at the other end. The projecting portions may have projecting lengths different from each other or may have projecting lengths and projecting thicknesses different from each other. A charging apparatus into which the battery is to be installed includes an accommodating section for the battery which in turn includes projection accommodating portions configured to individually accommodate the projecting portions.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Yamasaki, Hiroaki Sato, Toshiaki Ueda, Tomonori Watanabe, Yoichi Miyajima, Masayuki Ishii, Shoichi Shintani, Yoshihiro Sato
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Publication number: 20120214052Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Mieko HARA, Toshio Takeshita, Yoichi Miyajima, Hiroaki Sato, Tomonori Watanabe, Naoki Kamaya
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Patent number: 8241774Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mieko Hara, Toshio Takeshita, Yoichi Miyajima, Hiroaki Sato, Tomonori Watanabe, Naoki Kamaya
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Patent number: 8207705Abstract: The present invention provides a charging apparatus capable of efficiently charging battery in view of power consumption and a charging method. The charging apparatus has a charging unit which charges a battery, a remaining capacity detecting unit which detects remaining capacity of the battery, a necessary charging capacity obtaining unit which obtains charging capacity necessary for use after completion of the charging of the battery, an additional charging capacity calculating unit which calculates additional charging capacity for additionally charging the battery based on the remaining capacity and the necessary charging capacity of the battery, a charging current determining unit which determines a charging current at the time when the charging unit charges for the additional charging capacity based on power consumption generated at the time of charging for the additional charging capacity, and a control unit which controls the charging unit based on the determined charging current.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Osamu Nagashima, Kei Tashiro, Yoichi Miyajima, Toshio Takeshita
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Patent number: 8124269Abstract: A secondary battery for electronic appliance to be accommodated 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 the same side face of the pack; a metallic battery can in which one opening from which the battery cell is inserted is formed 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 opening side; and a lid made of a synthetic resin in which a positive electrode terminal part and a negative electrode terminal part to be connected to the electrodes of the electronic appliance upon being connected to the positive electrode terminal and the nType: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Takahashi, Toshio Takeshita, Hideki Kamiya, Yoichi Miyajima, Hiroaki Sato, Hisashi Aoki, Kinya Kuboya
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Patent number: 8098326Abstract: A connector on an electronic device includes a pair of locking plates, a guide groove, and a space. Each locking plate has, on its edge, a first concave portion, a first convex portion, a second concave portion, and a second convex portion. An intermediate surface for determining a position of an accessory device below the guide groove is provided below the second concave portions and the second convex portions. A contact mounting surface provided with plural contacts is provided below the first convex portions. Guide surfaces for determining a position of the accessory device in the width direction of the guide groove are provided below the first concave portions and the first convex portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2008Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Yoichi Miyajima, Yoshitake Takahashi, Nobutatsu Takahashi, Yuichiro Nogo, Kiyoshi Miyamori, Masayoshi Iida, Nobuhito Ebine
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Publication number: 20110287306Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Inventors: Takayoshi Yamasaki, Hiroaki Sato, Toshiaki Ueda, Tomonori Watanabe, Yoichi Miyajima, Osamu Nagashima, Mieko Hara
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Patent number: 8045050Abstract: A cradle device on which a camera device is mounted can be mounted on a printer device. There is provided a printing system that includes a camera device having an imaging unit and a memory for storing image data photographed by the imaging unit, a cradle device having a camera mounting section mounted in the state that the camera device is electrically connected and a terminal unit or an operating unit that is provided on the back surface and is electrically connected to other electronic devices, and a printer device that has a cradle mounting section mounted in the state that the cradle device is electrically connected and prints image data inputted from the cradle device, wherein the cradle mounting section has a covering portion that covers the terminal unit or the operating unit provided on the back surface of the cradle device.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2005Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Nogo, Yoichi Miyajima, Masatsugu Honma
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Patent number: 8039142Abstract: The present invention provides a battery including a case, a connector, the holding member, and a resilient conductive plate. In the case, two battery cells each in the form of a flattened rectangular plate are accommodated. The connector is exposed from the case. The holding member is for holding the two battery cells in the case. The holding member is made of a nonconductive resilient material and has a first battery accommodating section and a second battery accommodating section in which the battery cells each in the form of a flattened rectangular plate are accommodated in a juxtaposed relationship so as to form a rectangular shape as viewed in plan. The resilient conductive plate extends on the holding member for electrically connecting the two battery cells accommodated in the first and second battery accommodating sections and the connector to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Takahashi, Toshio Takeshita, Yoichi Miyajima
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Publication number: 20110241328Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi MIYAJIMA, Hiroaki TAKESHITA
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Publication number: 20110241318Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Yoichi MIYAJIMA
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Publication number: 20110244276Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Toshio Takeshita, Hiroaki Sato, Yoichi Miyajima, Hideyuki Sato
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Publication number: 20110223473Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Mieko HARA, Toshio TAKESHITA, Yoichi MIYAJIMA, Hiroaki SATO, Tomonori WATANABE, Naoki KAMAYA
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Patent number: 7989101Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 9, 2007Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mieko Hara, Toshio Takeshita, Yoichi Miyajima, Hiroaki Sato, Tomonori Watanabe, Naoki Kamaya
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Publication number: 20110163726Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery cell, a charge calculator that calculates an amount of charge of the battery cell, a charge setting that sets multiple amounts of charge with different upper limits, a charge selecting switch that selects one of the amounts of charge, and a battery controller having a communication function that sends, to the charging apparatus, charge information about the battery cell and charging command information that instructs charging to be continued to an upper limit for the selected amount of charge.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Osamu Nagashima, Yoichi Miyajima, Shoichi Shintani, Jiro Moriya
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Patent number: 7964303Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2004Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshio Takeshita, Hiroaki Sato, Yoichi Miyajima, Hideyuki Sato
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Publication number: 20110086263Abstract: In a battery including a battery cell formed in a flattened substantially parallelepiped shape and a terminal contacting section electrically connected to the battery cell, at one end in the longitudinal direction of a face of the battery opposing to the face on which the terminal contacting section is provided, a projecting portion which projects in the longitudinal direction of the face is provided. Meanwhile, another projecting portion which projects in the longitudinal direction of the face is provided at the other end. The projecting portions may have projecting lengths different from each other or may have projecting lengths and projecting thicknesses different from each other. A charging apparatus into which the battery is to be installed includes an accommodating section for the battery which in turn includes projection accommodating portions configured to individually accommodate the projecting portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventors: Takayoshi Yamasaki, Hiroaki Sato, Toshiaki Ueda, Tomonori Watanabe, Yoichi Miyajima, Masayuki Ishii, Shoichi Shintani, Yoshihiro Sato
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Publication number: 20110020698Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshio TAKESHITA, Yoichi Miyajima
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Patent number: 7875385Abstract: In a battery including a battery cell formed in a flattened substantially parallelepiped shape and a terminal contacting section electrically connected to the battery cell, at one end in the longitudinal direction of a face of the battery opposing to the face on which the terminal contacting section is provided, a projecting portion which projects in the longitudinal direction of the face is provided. Meanwhile, another projecting portion which projects in the longitudinal direction of the face is provided at the other end. The projecting portions may have projecting lengths different from each other or may have projecting lengths and projecting thicknesses different from each other. A charging apparatus into which the battery is to be installed includes an accommodating section for the battery which in turn includes projection accommodating portions configured to individually accommodate the projecting portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Yamasaki, Hiroaki Sato, Toshiaki Ueda, Tomonori Watanabe, Yoichi Miyajima, Masayuki Ishii, Shoichi Shintani, Yoshihiro Sato
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Publication number: 20100323238Abstract: A secondary battery for electronic appliance to be accommodated 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 the same side face of the pack; a metallic battery can in which one opening from which the battery cell is inserted is formed 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 opening side; and a lid made of a synthetic resin in which a positive electrode terminal part and a negative electrode terminal part to be connected to the electrodes of the electronic appliance upon being connected to the positive electrode terminal and the nType: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi TAKAHASHI, Toshio Takeshita, Hideki Kamiya, Yoichi Miyajima, Hiroaki Sato, Hisashi Aoki, Kinya Kuboya