Patents by Inventor Kazuhide Tozuka

Kazuhide Tozuka 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: 9450236
    Abstract: An electricity-storing device includes a first electrode, a second electrode of opposite polarity as the first electrode, and a separator. The first electrode includes a current collector foil, an active material layer formed on at least one surface of the current collector foil, and an electrical resistance layer formed on the at least one surface of the current collector foil so as to be adjacent to and in direct contact with the active material layer, at least a portion of an interface between the active material layer and the electrical resistance layer including a mixed phase where constituents from the active material layer and the electrical resistance layer intermingle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
  • Patent number: 9379372
    Abstract: A battery includes a battery container containing a power generating element, a lid plate covering a top opening of the battery container, and including a baffling portion, whose upper surface includes at least one of a first projecting portion and a first recessed portion, and an external terminal including a base portion and a second projecting portion that projects upward from the base portion. The base portion is engaged with the baffling portion of the lid plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 9318769
    Abstract: Provided are an electrode assembly including a sheet-shaped current collector that has, on at least one face thereof, a mixture agent layer containing an active material and is spirally wound, in which the current collector has, in a portion on a side of at least one end of a winding axis, a non-mixture agent layer part having no mixture agent layer formed therein, and a mass per unit area of the mixture agent layer is larger in an edge portion on the side of the non-mixture agent layer part by 0.3% or more and 1.0% or less than in a portion other than the edge portion; and an electric storage device including the electrode assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sogo, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka
  • Publication number: 20150270527
    Abstract: A battery includes a battery container containing a power generating element, a lid plate covering a top opening of the battery container, and including a baffling portion, whose upper surface includes at least one of a first projecting portion and a first recessed portion, and an external terminal including a base portion and a second projecting portion that projects upward from the base portion. The base portion is engaged with the baffling portion of the lid plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: TAKESHI SASAKI, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 9118051
    Abstract: A battery includes a power generating element, a battery container containing the power generating element, a lid plate covering a top opening of the battery container, the lid plate including a metal plate and a baffling portion including an integral portion of the lid plate that extends from the lid plate, and an insulating member provided on the lid plate. Corners of the insulating member fit to corners of the baffling portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 9099757
    Abstract: Provided is a battery which has less tendency to experience delamination or loss of short circuit prevention layer and/or active material layer during manufacture and use. A battery comprising a laminated electrode assembly in which a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator are laminated together; wherein an alumina-containing layer containing ?-alumina particles is formed on at least one species selected from among the group consisting of the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator. The fact that alumina-containing layer(s) is or are made to contain ?-alumina particles makes it possible to obtain high bond strength between alumina-containing layer(s) and electrode(s) comprising metal(s), current collector(s) and/or active material(s) making up electrode(s), and/or separator(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
  • Publication number: 20150132659
    Abstract: An electricity-storing device includes a first electrode, a second electrode of opposite polarity as the first electrode, and a separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Kazuaki MATSUO, Kazuhide TOZUKA, Kazuya OKABE
  • Patent number: 8986891
    Abstract: An electricity-storing device electrode includes a current collector foil, an active material layer formed on a surface of the current collector foil, and a high-resistance layer formed on the surface of the current collector foil so as to be adjacent to and in direct contact with the active material layer. At at least a portion of the interface between the active material layer and the high-resistance layer, mixed phase is formed where constituents from the two layers intermingle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
  • Patent number: 8956763
    Abstract: An electricity-storing device electrode includes a current collector foil, an active material layer formed on a surface of the current collector foil, and a high-resistance layer formed on the surface of the current collector foil so as to be adjacent to and in direct contact with the active material layer. At at least a portion of the interface between the active material layer and the high-resistance layer, mixed phase is formed where constituents from the two layers intermingle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
  • Patent number: 8828589
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a battery in which current collecting connector 2 and 3 and groups 1d and 1e of metal foil of a power generating element 1 can be easily connected, respectively, and a method of manufacturing the same. First plate portions 2b and 3b which respective protruding ends of metal foil of the groups 1d and 1e of metal foil of the power generating element 1 come in contact with or close to and second plate portions 2c and 3c protruding from the first plate portions 2b and 3b toward the power generating element 1 and disposed only at one outer side portions of the groups 1d and 1e of metal foil are provided to the other portions of the current collecting connectors 2 and 3 of the invention and the groups 1d and 1e of metal foil are welded to the second plate portions 2c and 3c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Tozuka, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Yoshinori Tanaka, Shinsuke Yoshitake, Takeshi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20140227587
    Abstract: A battery includes a power generating element, a battery container containing the power generating element, a lid plate covering a top opening of the battery container, the lid plate including a metal plate and a baffling portion including an integral portion of the lid plate that extends from the lid plate, and an insulating member provided on the lid plate. Corners of the insulating member fit to corners of the baffling portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 8748034
    Abstract: The present invention provides a battery that includes: a lid plate provided with a terminal pull-out through hole and a baffling portion whose upper surface is configured in a projecting and/or recessed manner; an auxiliary terminal configured such that a lower portion thereof is connected to a metallic foil of a power generating element by being fitted into a battery container through the terminal pull-out through hole, and sealed and fixed to the lid plate by insulating and sealing members; a connecting conductor connected and fixed to an upper portion of the auxiliary terminal; and an external terminal having a bolt portion that projects upward from a base portion, the bolt portion being inserted through the terminal through hole of the connecting conductor from below, and the base portion being engaged with the baffling portion of the lid plate, thereby restricting rotation centering an axial line of the bolt portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20140017534
    Abstract: Provided are an electrode assembly including a sheet-shaped current collector that has, on at least one face thereof, a mixture agent layer containing an active material and is spirally wound, in which the current collector has, in a portion on a side of at least one end of a winding axis, a non-mixture agent layer part having no mixture agent layer formed therein, and a mass per unit area of the mixture agent layer is larger in an edge portion on the side of the non-mixture agent layer part by 0.3% or more and 1.0% or less than in a portion other than the edge portion; and an electric storage device including the electrode assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sogo, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka
  • Publication number: 20120264007
    Abstract: The present invention provides a battery that includes: a lid plate provided with a terminal pull-out through hole and a baffling portion whose upper surface is configured in a projecting and/or recessed manner; an auxiliary terminal configured such that a lower portion thereof is connected to a metallic foil of a power generating element by being fitted into a battery container through the terminal pull-out through hole, and sealed and fixed to the lid plate by insulating and sealing members; a connecting conductor connected and fixed to an upper portion of the auxiliary terminal; and an external terminal having a bolt portion that projects upward from a base portion, the bolt portion being inserted through the terminal through hole of the connecting conductor from below, and the base portion being engaged with the baffling portion of the lid plate, thereby restricting rotation centering an axial line of the bolt portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20120115030
    Abstract: An electricity-storing device electrode comprises a current collector foil, an active material layer formed on a surface of the current collector foil, and a high-resistance layer formed on the surface of the current collector foil so as to be adjacent to and in direct contact with the active material layer. At least a portion of the interface between the active material layer and the high-resistance layer, mixed phase is formed where constituents from the two layers intermingle. Presence of the mixed phase at the interface between the active material layer and the high-resistance layer improves the bond between the two adjacent layers. During manufacture and use, there is therefore reduced tendency to experience delamination or loss of the active material layer, the high-resistance layer, and/or other layer(s), such as layer(s) provided for short circuit prevention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
  • Publication number: 20120058375
    Abstract: Provided is a battery which has less tendency to experience delamination or loss of short circuit prevention layer and/or active material layer during manufacture and use. A battery comprising a laminated electrode assembly in which a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator are laminated together; wherein an alumina-containing layer containing ?-alumina particles is formed on at least one species selected from among the group consisting of the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator. The fact that alumina-containing layer(s) is or are made to contain ?-alumina particles makes it possible to obtain high bond strength between alumina-containing layer(s) and electrode(s) comprising metal(s), current collector(s) and/or active material(s) making up electrode(s), and/or separator(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
  • Publication number: 20110159356
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a battery in which current collecting connector 2 and 3 and groups 1d and 1e of metal foil of a power generating element 1 can be easily connected, respectively, and a method of manufacturing the same. First plate portions 2b and 3b which respective protruding ends of metal foil of the groups 1d and 1e of metal foil of the power generating element 1 come in contact with or close to and second plate portions 2c and 3c protruding from the first plate portions 2b and 3b toward the power generating element 1 and disposed only at one outer side portions of the groups 1d and 1e of metal foil are provided to the other portions of the current collecting connectors 2 and 3 of the invention and the groups 1d and 1e of metal foil are welded to the second plate portions 2c and 3c.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Tozuka, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Yoshinori Tanaka, Shinsuke Yoshitake, Takeshi Sasaki