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).
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Patent number: 9450236Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
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Patent number: 9379372Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 9318769Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Sogo, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka
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Publication number: 20150270527Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: TAKESHI SASAKI, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 9118051Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 16, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 9099757Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
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Publication number: 20150132659Abstract: An electricity-storing device includes a first electrode, a second electrode of opposite polarity as the first electrode, and a separator.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2015Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Kazuaki MATSUO, Kazuhide TOZUKA, Kazuya OKABE
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Patent number: 8986891Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
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Patent number: 8956763Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
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Patent number: 8828589Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhide Tozuka, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Yoshinori Tanaka, Shinsuke Yoshitake, Takeshi Sasaki
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Publication number: 20140227587Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 8748034Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
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Publication number: 20140017534Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Yasuhiro Sogo, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka
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Publication number: 20120264007Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2011Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhide Tozuka, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Masakazu Tsutsumi
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Publication number: 20120115030Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
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Publication number: 20120058375Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
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Publication number: 20110159356Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Kazuhide Tozuka, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Katsuhiko Okamoto, Yoshinori Tanaka, Shinsuke Yoshitake, Takeshi Sasaki