Patents by Inventor Yozo Uchida

Yozo Uchida 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: 12658531
    Abstract: A busbar disclosed herein includes: a first metallic member including a first plate portion; a second metallic member including a second plate portion; a swaged joint formed by plastically deforming the first plate portion of the first metallic member and the second plate portion of the second metallic member such that the first plate portion and the second plate portion are swaged together; and a metal joint formed by metal-joining the first plate portion of the first metallic member to the second plate portion of the second metallic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yozo Uchida, Yuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20260149105
    Abstract: An electricity storage module 100 includes plural electricity storage devices, a restriction member 110, and a spacer 120. The plural electricity storage devices include a pair of opposed wide width surfaces 11b1, 11b2, and the wide width surfaces 11b1, 11b2 are arranged to be opposed to each other. The restriction member 110 is configured to restrict the plural electricity storage devices in a direction along which the wide width surfaces 11b1, 11b2 of plural electricity storage devices are arranged to be opposed to each other. The spacer 120 is arranged between an electricity storage device arranged at a first end part 2a in a direction along which the plural devices are arranged and the restriction member 110, and a thickness becomes smaller when a load being larger than a predetermined load is applied along the direction in which the electricity storage devices are arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Inventor: Yozo UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 12592435
    Abstract: In a sealed power storage device, a device case includes a resin case body with an opening and a resin lid closing the opening. The resin lid is made of electrical insulation resin. A metal terminal member is extended from inside to outside of the device case, penetrating through the resin lid. The resin lid is hermetically molded together with the metal terminal member so that the resin lid is directly joined to the outer peripheral surface of the metal terminal member without interposing another member between the resin lid and the metal terminal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignees: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA BATTERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yozo Uchida, Tsuyoshi Ehara, Yuki Sato, Syoichi Tsuchiya, Masataka Asai, Tsuyoshi Asano, Masahiro Uchimura, Shigeru Matsumoto, Yasuaki Nagano
  • Publication number: 20260031423
    Abstract: A method for disassembling a laminated battery includes: preparing a laminated battery including a laminate, an electrode body enclosed in the laminate, and an electrolyte enclosed in the laminate; and heating the laminated battery until at least the laminate is unsealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2025
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Inventors: Yozo UCHIDA, Taku KITAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20260031422
    Abstract: A method for disassembling a power storage device includes: preparing a power storage device in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are housed in a case, the negative electrode is electrically connected to the case, and the positive electrode is insulated from the case; separating a portion of the case where the case is electrically connected to the negative electrode, from the case; and cutting another portion of the case after the separating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2025
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Inventors: Yozo UCHIDA, Kazuhiko HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20260018747
    Abstract: A device interconnection member for connecting a first electrode terminal made of first metal in one power storage device and a second electrode terminal made of second metal in another power storage device includes a first conductive member made of the first metal and to be connected to the first electrode terminal, a second conductive member made of the second metal and to be connected to the second electrode terminal, a joint portion where a first joined portion of the first conductive member and a second joined portion of the second conductive member are joined, and a resin seal member hermetically sealing the joint portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 15, 2026
    Applicant: Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA
  • Publication number: 20260011803
    Abstract: A disassembly method for a battery disclosed herein includes a removal step of removing an electrode assembly from the battery. The method also includes an immersion step of immersing at least a part of the removed electrode assembly in a liquid. The method further includes a separation step of separating the positive electrode current collector foil and the negative electrode current collector foil from each other by pulling at least one of the positive electrode current collector foil and the negative electrode current collector foil, which are immersed in the liquid, so as to displace the positive electrode current collector foil and the negative electrode current collector foil in a direction intersecting the laminating direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2025
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Inventor: Yozo UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250391960
    Abstract: The secondary battery includes a battery case. This battery case includes a battery case main body and includes a sealing plate. This battery case main body includes a pair of wide width side surfaces that are opposed mutually, and includes a pair of narrow width side surfaces that are opposed mutually. The sealing plate includes a peripheral part and a central part that is flat. Regarding the sealing plate, an end surface of a peripheral edge of the peripheral part is joined to end surfaces of the pair of wide width side surfaces and joined to end surfaces of the pair of narrow width side surfaces. The peripheral part is bent over a whole circumference of it to make the battery outer surface side from the central part of the sealing plate toward the end surface of the peripheral edge of the peripheral part be a convex surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Inventor: Yozo UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250391943
    Abstract: A process of separating an electrode body includes an immersing step and an ultrasonic wave applying step. In the immersing step, the stacked electrode body is immersed in a solution containing hydrofluoric acid. Thereafter, in the ultrasonic wave applying step, an ultrasonic wave is applied to the solution. In the ultrasonic wave applying step, the ultrasonic wave is applied in a state where a positive electrode tab and a negative electrode tab of the stacked electrode body are gripped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Inventors: Yozo UCHIDA, Taku KITAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250392008
    Abstract: To provide a technology allowing a bus bar to be mounted more strongly on an electrode external terminal using a simpler structure. An electricity storage module disclosed herein includes aligned electricity storage device, and a bus bar. The bus bar has two non-through holes formed at the same surface of the bus bar. A positive electrode external terminal of one electricity storage device of the adjacent two electricity storage devices is fitted in one non-through hole of the two non-through holes, and a negative electrode external terminal of the other electricity storage device of the adjacent two electricity storage devices is fitted in the other non-through hole of the two non-through holes. By this, the bus bar forms the electrical connection between the adjacent two electricity storage devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Inventor: Yozo UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250391944
    Abstract: A recovery method for recovering an electrolytic solution 15 of a lithium-ion secondary battery 10 includes an installing step S2 and a hole forming step S3. In the installing step S2, the lithium-ion secondary battery 10 is installed in a chamber 110 such that a projecting pin 161 is located immediately under a hole forming portion 42a of a case 41. In the hole forming step S3, the table 140 is lowered to pierce into the hole forming portion 42a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Inventors: Yozo UCHIDA, Masayuki KUROTAKI
  • Publication number: 20250379322
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a metal case with a safety valve part. The safety valve part includes a hole surrounding edge portion that forms a valve hole penetrating through the case and a valve member hermetically sealing this valve hole. The valve member includes a plate circumferential edge portion and a ring-shaped resin valve member that is made of thermoplastic resin and hermetically seals a space between the plate circumferential edge portion of the metal seal plate and the hole surrounding edge portion of the case. The safety valve part is a first safety valve part of a temperature opening type to be opened by softening or melting of the resin valve member by heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2025
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Inventors: Satoshi FUJIMURA, Yozo UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 12469938
    Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes an insert-molding step of making a resin member by insert-molding with respect to a terminal member inserted in an insertion hole of a lid. In this insert-molding step, the insertion hole of the lid is placed in front of a gate, and a molten resin is injected through the gate to flow in an opposite gate-side space in a cavity through the insertion hole, allowing the molten resin to spread over the entire cavity, to form the resin member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2025
    Assignees: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA BATTERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ehara, Yozo Uchida, Yuki Sato, Syoichi Tsuchiya, Masataka Asai, Tsuyoshi Asano, Masahiro Uchimura, Shigeru Matsumoto, Yasuaki Nagano
  • Patent number: 12469914
    Abstract: A lid body includes a terminal member of at least one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode, a sealing plate including an attachment hole for attaching the terminal member, and a sealing material containing a thermoplastic resin and an inorganic filler. The terminal member is inserted into the attachment hole and attached to the sealing plate in a state in which the sealing material is joined to a peripheral portion of the attachment hole. Here, as the inorganic filler, an inorganic substance having a volume change rate of 20% or less after being immersed for 7 days in a test electrolyte, which is prepared at 65° C., and which contains 1200 ppm of water and 1 M of LiPF6, and moreover in which a volume ratio of a solvent thereof satisfies a relationship of ethylene carbonate:diethyl carbonate:dimethyl carbonate=1:1:1, is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2025
    Assignees: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Sato, Yozo Uchida, Hideki Asadachi, Syoichi Tsuchiya, Masataka Asai, Tsuyoshi Asano, Masahiro Uchimura, Nozomi Tateyama
  • Publication number: 20250323398
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes a battery case, an electrode body housed in the battery case, and a current collector terminal including an outer terminal inserted in a terminal through hole of the battery case and fixed to the battery case via an insulating resin member and an inner terminal formed to be energized to the outer terminal and connected to the electrode body. The current collector terminal is provided with a current interrupt mechanism configured such that when the battery temperature rises above a predetermined temperature, the outer terminal and the inner terminal are separated by the biasing force of a spring member biasing the outer terminal or/and the inner terminal and placed into a de-energized state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2025
    Publication date: October 16, 2025
    Inventors: Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA
  • Publication number: 20250253456
    Abstract: A battery includes a case member, a terminal member, and a resin member. The case member has a through-hole. The resin member includes an inner portion that contacts an inner surface of the case member, an inside-hole portion that fills space between a wall of the through-hole and the terminal member, and an outer portion that contacts an outer surface of the case member and has a smaller volume than the inner portion. One of a first condition that the thermal expansion coefficient of the case member is larger than that of the inner portion and the tensile strength of the inner portion is lower than that of the outer portion and a second condition that the thermal expansion coefficient of the case member is smaller than that of the inner portion and the tensile strength of the outer portion is lower than that of the inner portion is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Satoshi FUJIMURA, Yozo UCHIDA, Yuki SATO, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Keitaro MACHIDA, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Shigeru MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250246732
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a case member, a terminal member, and a resin member that is hermetically joined to these members while insulating them from each other. The resin member includes a thermoplastic main resin and a fibrous filler consisting of numerous fibers. The resin member has a resin inner portion and a resin outer portion, and at least one of a resin inner surface facing the inside and a resin joint surface facing the outside of the resin inner portion is provided with an uneven region, and molding of the uneven region causes variation in the direction of the fibers of the filler included in the resin inner portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA
  • Publication number: 20250233260
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a case having a case member made of metal and including a valve hole, a safety valve member made of metal and including a safety valve portion of a pressure relief type which fractures and opens when the internal pressure of the case exceeds a valve opening pressure, and a valve fixing resin member made of resin and encircling the safety valve member. The valve fixing resin member is interposed between a hole surrounding portion of the case member surrounding the valve hole and a peripheral portion of the safety valve member to be hermetically joined to these portions over the entire circumferences and fix the safety valve member to the case member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Yozo UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250210811
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a safety valve in a case member made of metal. The case member has a valve periphery roughened portion around the safety valve on a case inner surface The power storage device includes a blockage preventing resin protrusion that is a protrusion made of resin and protruding to the inside. The blockage preventing resin protrusion is joined to the valve periphery roughened portion and reduces the possibility of a piece of the electrode body blocking the safety valve. Nanocolumns stand numerously on the valve periphery roughened portion, and the blockage preventing resin protrusion is joined to the valve periphery roughened portion such that a resin material fills gaps between the nanocolumns standing numerously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Yozo UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20250158182
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a case member having a terminal insertion hole, a terminal member inserted through the terminal insertion hole, and a resin member made of an insulating resin material and hermetically adhering to the case member and the terminal member to fix the terminal member to the case member while insulating the members from each other. The terminal member has an encircling band-shaped first roughened portion that has a roughened surface and surrounds the terminal member, and a second roughened portion that is spaced apart from the first roughened portion and has a roughened surface. The resin member is insert-molded integrally with the case member and the terminal member, and has an encircling band-shaped terminal seal portion that hermetically adheres to the first roughened portion, and a stress reducing portion that adheres to the second roughened portion and reduces stress generated in the terminal seal portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Satoshi FUJIMURA, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Masataka ASAI, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Takashi TAKIMOTO, Shunsuke NAKAMURA, Keitaro MACHIDA