Patents by Inventor Yukiko Kinoshita

Yukiko Kinoshita 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).

  • Publication number: 20230402695
    Abstract: A multilayer, flexible, impact and puncture resistant, impervious, dielectric insulator sheet and mounting arrangement therewith for an electric vehicle battery pack includes a textile layer having generally planar opposite first and second sides and a fluid impervious film fixed to the first side with an adhesive laminate. The adhesive laminate includes a polymeric film sandwiched between opposite first and second layers of adhesive material. The first layer of adhesive material is bonded to the textile layer and the second layer of adhesive material is bonded to the fluid impervious film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Kazuto Kitagawa, Tetsuaki Ogawa, Naoto Todoroki, Shunsuke Arima, Yukiko Kinoshita, Kentaro Hatta
  • Patent number: 9321416
    Abstract: In an in-vehicle battery of the present invention, a second battery module (13C) and a third battery module (13R) higher than the second battery module (13C) are disposed below a floor panel of a vehicle. The third battery module (13R) is provided adjacent to a rear side of the second battery module (13C) in a vehicle front-rear direction. The in-vehicle battery also includes a thin heater module (24) provided in each of two end regions, which are located above the third battery module (13R) in a vehicle up-down direction and include no middle region in a vehicle width direction, and configured to heat the third battery module (13R).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukiko Kinoshita, Naoto Todoroki
  • Patent number: 9257730
    Abstract: A heater module (22L, 22R) of the present invention is provided along a heated surface (13CLa) of an object to be heated (13CL, 13CR). The heater module includes: a plate-like heater body (34) that faces the heated surface of the object to be heated; an L-shaped member (31) including a module main surface (31m) to which the plate-like heater body is provided, and a bent arm portion (31c) bent with respect to the module main surface; and a power source connection terminal (35) provided in the bent arm portion and connected to the plate-like heater body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukiko Kinoshita, Naoto Todoroki
  • Patent number: 9252408
    Abstract: The heater module wire connection structure for a battery pack includes a battery pack (11), and first and second heater modules (22L, 23L) which warm the inside of the battery pack and have lead wires (44L, 45L) connected thereto. Further, the heater module wire connection structure includes a power supply cable (42) to which the lead wires of the first and second heater modules are crimped and connected, and a temperature sensor (43C) which is placed inside of the battery pack and detects the temperature of the first heater module (23L). The lead wire (45L) of the first heater module, the temperature of which is detectable by the temperature sensor, and the lead wire (44L) of the second heater module (22L), the temperature of which is not detectable by the temperature sensor, are simultaneously crimped and connected to the same position on the power supply cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukiko Kinoshita, Naoto Todoroki
  • Patent number: 8993937
    Abstract: A heater module (22L, 22R) of the present invention is provided along a heated surface (13CLa) of an object to be heated (13CL, 13CR). The heater module includes a plate-like heater body (34) that faces the heated surface of the object to be heated, and an insulating holder (31) that holds the plate-like heater body in a manner as to face the heated surface of the object to be heated. The insulating holder is fixed, at one edge thereof, to a mounting surface (14a) on which the object to be heated is mounted, and located on one side of the plate-like heater body away from the heated surface of the object to be heated. The insulating holder is provided, at another edge opposite to the one edge, with a regulation member (31a) that projects toward the heated surface of the object to be heated from the plate-like heater body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Todoroki, Yukiko Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20140004404
    Abstract: In a vehicle battery of the invention, a second battery module (13C) and another battery module having a greater height than the second battery module (13C) are placed below a floor panel (8) of a vehicle and adjacent to each other in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. Thin heater modules (22, 23) configured to heat the second battery module (13C) are provided in front of and behind the second battery module (13C) in the front-rear direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Yukiko Kinoshita, Naoto Todoroki
  • Publication number: 20130344371
    Abstract: In a vehicle-mounted battery of the present invention, thin heater modules (21, 22, 23) are arranged in such a way as to face a side surface including a side along a stacking direction of battery shells (12), of a battery module (13) including the plural battery shells (12) stacked one on top of another and each having the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped having three sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Yukiko Kinoshita, Naoto Todoroki
  • Publication number: 20130341319
    Abstract: A heater module (22L, 22R) of the present invention is provided along a heated surface (13CLa) of an object to be heated (13CL, 13CR). The heater module includes a plate-like heater body (34) that faces the heated surface of the object to be heated, and an insulating holder (31) that holds the plate-like heater body in a manner as to face the heated surface of the object to be heated. The insulating holder is fixed, at one edge thereof, to a mounting surface (14a) on which the object to be heated is mounted, and located on one side of the plate-like heater body away from the heated surface of the object to be heated. The insulating holder is provided, at another edge opposite to the one edge, with a regulation member (31a) that projects toward the heated surface of the object to be heated from the plate-like heater body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Naoto Todoroki, Yukiko Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20130344370
    Abstract: A heater module (22L, 22R) of the present invention is provided along a heated surface (13CLa) of an object to be heated (13CL, 13CR). The heater module includes: a plate-like heater body (34) that faces the heated surface of the object to be heated; an L-shaped member (31) including a module main surface (31m) to which the plate-like heater body is provided, and a bent arm portion (31c) bent with respect to the module main surface; and a power source connection terminal (35) provided in the bent arm portion and connected to the plate-like heater body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Yukiko Kinoshita, Naoto Todoroki
  • Publication number: 20130162026
    Abstract: In an in-vehicle battery of the present invention, a second battery module (13C) and a third battery module (13R) higher than the second battery module (13C) are disposed below a floor panel of a vehicle. The third battery module (13R) is provided adjacent to a rear side of the second battery module (13C) in a vehicle front-rear direction. The in-vehicle battery also includes a thin heater module (24) provided in each of two end regions, which are located above the third battery module (13R) in a vehicle up-down direction and include no middle region in a vehicle width direction, and configured to heat the third battery module (13R).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO.,LTD
    Inventors: Yukiko Kinoshita, Naoto Todoroki
  • Publication number: 20130161310
    Abstract: The heater module wire connection structure for a battery pack includes a battery pack (11), and first and second heater modules (22L, 23L) which warm the inside of the battery pack and have lead wires (44L, 45L) connected thereto. Further, the heater module wire connection structure includes a power supply cable (42) to which the lead wires of the first and second heater modules are crimped and connected, and a temperature sensor (43C) which is placed inside of the battery pack and detects the temperature of the first heater module (23L). The lead wire (45L) of the first heater module, the temperature of which is detectable by the temperature sensor, and the lead wire (44L) of the second heater module (22L), the temperature of which is not detectable by the temperature sensor, are simultaneously crimped and connected to the same position on the power supply cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Yukiko Kinoshita, Naoto Todoroki