Patents by Inventor Kazuki Takimoto

Kazuki Takimoto 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: 11735737
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a binder which exhibits excellent dispersibility of a conductive assistant; a slurry composition and an electrode, each of which uses this binder; and an electricity storage device which is provided with this electrode. The present invention relates to a binder for an electricity storage device, in which a loss tangent tan ? in a linear region of an aqueous dispersion liquid of 0.5% by mass of the binder and 4.6% by mass of a conductive assistant satisfies tan ?>1 in a strain dispersion measurement under measurement conditions of a measurement temperature of 25° C. and a frequency of 1 Hz, and the conductive assistant is an acetylene black having an average particle diameter of 30 nm or more and 40 nm or less and a specific surface area of 65 m2/g or more and 70 m2/g or less; a slurry composition and an electrode, each of which uses this binder; an electricity storage device which is provided with this electrode; and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM WAKO PURE CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaho Mori, Tomoyuki Mori, Kazuki Takimoto, Masahiro Takano, Kei Kawano
  • Publication number: 20230261198
    Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery binder composition containing a water-soluble crosslinked polymer obtained by crosslinking a copolymer containing a (meth)acrylic acid component and a (meth)acrylic acid ester component as constitutional components by an aziridine compound, and water. Also provided are an electrode composition, an electrode sheet, a secondary battery, a production method for the electrode sheet, and a production method for the secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Kei KAWANO, Kazuki TAKIMOTO, Kaho MORI, Tomonori MIMURA, Ikuo KINOSHITA, Atsushi SUGASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220190343
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a binder which exhibits excellent dispersibility of a conductive assistant; a slurry composition and an electrode, each of which uses this binder; and an electricity storage device which is provided with this electrode. The present invention relates to a binder for an electricity storage device, in which a loss tangent tan ? in a linear region of an aqueous dispersion liquid of 0.5% by mass of the binder and 4.6% by mass of a conductive assistant satisfies tan ?>1 in a strain dispersion measurement under measurement conditions of a measurement temperature of 25° C. and a frequency of 1 Hz, and the conductive assistant is an acetylene black having an average particle diameter of 30 nm or more and 40 nm or less and a specific surface area of 65 m2/g or more and 70 m2/g or less; a slurry composition and an electrode, each of which uses this binder; an electricity storage device which is provided with this electrode; and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Kaho MORI, Tomoyuki MORI, Kazuki TAKIMOTO, Masahiro TAKANO, Kei KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20220181633
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a binder for electricity storage devices containing a salt of a polymer containing structural units derived from (i) an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer and (ii) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least one group selected from a hydroxy group, a dialkylamino group, an acetyl group, a sulfo group, a phosphate group, or a cyano group and neutralized with a monoamine, a polyvalent amine having an amine value of less than 21, and/or an onium hydroxide; a slurry composition and an electrode, each of which uses this binder; an electricity storage device which is provided with this electrode; and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicants: FUJIFILM Corporation, FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kei KAWANO, Kazuki TAKIMOTO, Kaho MORI
  • Patent number: 11258066
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an excellent binder agent composition solving problems such as the decrease in a charge/discharge capacity that occurs in a case where a silicon-containing active material is used, a slurry composition and an electrode in which the binder agent composition is used, and a method for preparing the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Mizuta, Kazuki Takimoto, Hiromi Watahiki, Kaho Sugimoto, Takatoshi Matsuura, Kuniaki Okamoto, Nobutaka Shimamura
  • Publication number: 20200235396
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an excellent binder agent composition solving problems such as the decrease in a charge/discharge capacity that occurs in a case where a silicon-containing active material is used, a slurry composition and an electrode in which the binder agent composition is used, and a method for preparing the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Hironori MIZUTA, Kazuki TAKIMOTO, Hiromi WATAHIKI, Kaho SUGIMOTO, Takatoshi MATSUURA, Kuniaki OKAMOTO, Nobutaka SHIMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190367657
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an excellent binder agent composition solving problems such as the decrease in a charge/discharge capacity, a slurry composition and an electrode in which the binder agent composition is used, and a method for preparing the electrode. The present invention relates to “a binder agent composition containing a copolymer containing a monomer unit derived from acrylic acid and one or two kinds of monomer units derived from a compound represented by the following general formula (I) or the like as constituent components, a bivalent to decavalent alcohol, and water; [in the formula, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, in a case where R2 is a hydrogen atom, R1 represents a methyl group, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom; an alkyl group; an alkyl group substituted with a fluorine atom or a hydroxy group, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Hironori MIZUTA, Kazuki TAKIMOTO, Hiromi WATAHIKI, Kaho SUGIMOTO, Takatoshi MATSUURA, Kuniaki OKAMOTO, Nobutaka SHIMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180366729
    Abstract: An electric storage device is provided with a positive electrode having a positive-electrode mixture layer including a positive-electrode active material. The positive-electrode active material includes a lithium-vanadium-phosphate from 8% to 70% by mass and a lithium-nickel complex oxide from 20% to 82% by mass. A coating concentration of the positive-electrode mixture layer is from 4 mg/cm2 to 20 mg/cm2. The lithium-nickel complex oxide includes a nickel element from 0.3 mol to 0.8 mol with respect to a lithium element of 1 mol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Yanagita, Kazuki Takimoto, Takahito Sakuraba, Ken Baba, Yasuyuki Kiya, Tsutomu Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9437866
    Abstract: A process for producing a lithium vanadium phosphate-carbon composite includes a first step that includes mixing a lithium source, a tetravalent or pentavalent vanadium compound, a phosphorus source, and a conductive carbon material source that produces carbon through pyrolysis, in an aqueous solvent to prepare a raw material mixture, a second step that includes heating the raw material mixture to effect a precipitation reaction to obtain a reaction mixture that includes a precipitate, a third step that includes subjecting the reaction mixture that includes the precipitate to wet grinding using a media mill to obtain a slurry that includes ground particles, a fourth step that includes spray-drying the slurry that includes the ground particles to obtain a reaction precursor, and a fifth step that includes calcining the reaction precursor at 600 to 1300° C. in an inert gas atmosphere or a reducing atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: NIPPON CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kikuchi, Kazuki Takimoto, Hideo Yanagita
  • Publication number: 20150140432
    Abstract: To provide an electric storage device that has excellent charging characteristics, particularly at a low temperature. Provided is a nonaqueous solvent-based electric storage device containing as positive electrode active materials, at least one of a lithium nickel aluminum complex oxides and a spinel-type lithium manganese oxide active material having LiMn2O4 as a basic structure, and lithium vanadium phosphate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Hideo Yanagita, Kazuki Takimoto
  • Patent number: 8802293
    Abstract: A positive-electrode material includes lithium vanadium phosphate particles having an average primary particle diameter from 0.3 ?m to 2.6 ?m and crystallite sizes from 24 nm to 33 nm. The lithium vanadium phosphate particles are coated with a conductive carbon of a range of 0.5 mass % to 2.4 mass % with respect to a total lithium vanadium phosphate particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takimoto, Hideo Yanagita, Tsutomu Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20130214462
    Abstract: A process for producing a lithium vanadium phosphate-carbon composite includes a first step that includes mixing a lithium source, a tetravalent or pentavalent vanadium compound, a phosphorus source, and a conductive carbon material source that produces carbon through pyrolysis, in an aqueous solvent to prepare a raw material mixture, a second step that includes heating the raw material mixture to effect a precipitation reaction to obtain a reaction mixture that includes a precipitate, a third step that includes subjecting the reaction mixture that includes the precipitate to wet grinding using a media mill to obtain a slurry that includes ground particles, a fourth step that includes spray-drying the slurry that includes the ground particles to obtain a reaction precursor, and a fifth step that includes calcining the reaction precursor at 600 to 1300° C. in an inert gas atmosphere or a reducing atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicants: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NIPPON CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kikuchi, Kazuki Takimoto, Hideo Yanagita
  • Publication number: 20130084499
    Abstract: In a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a positive electrode active material includes a carbon-coated lithium vanadium phosphate and a lithium nickel composite oxide. A negative electrode active material includes a carbon-based active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions. When a first charge capacity of a negative electrode per unit area is “x” (mAh/cm2), and a first charge capacity of a positive electrode per unit area is “y” (mAh/cm2), a relation of “x” and “y” satisfies 0.6?y/x?0.92.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo Yanagita, Kazuki Takimoto
  • Publication number: 20130084500
    Abstract: A positive-electrode material includes lithium vanadium phosphate particles having an average primary particle diameter from 0.3 ?m to 2.6 ?m and crystallite sizes from 24 nm to 33 nm. The lithium vanadium phosphate particles are coated with a conductive carbon of a range of 0.5 mass % to 2.4 mass % with respect to a total lithium vanadium phosphate particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicants: NIPPON CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Takimoto, Hideo Yanagita, Tsutomu Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20130084492
    Abstract: In a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a first active material of a positive electrode includes at least one of carbon-coated LiFePO4, LiMnPO4 and Li3V2(PO4)3. A second active material of the positive electrode includes lithium nickel composite oxide. An electrolytic solution includes fluorinated ethylene carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo YANAGITA, Kazuki TAKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130078522
    Abstract: There is provided is a lithium ion secondary battery. The lithium ion secondary battery includes: a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material containing a vanadium-based compound; and a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer containing a negative electrode active material into which lithium ions can be inserted/deinserted reversibly. A vanadium-based compound is dispersed in the negative electrode active material layer. As a result, a vanadium-based compound, corresponding to the vanadium-based compound contained in the positive electrode active material is dispersed in the negative electrode active material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo YANAGITA, Kazuki Takimoto
  • Publication number: 20120295163
    Abstract: An electric storage device is provided with a positive electrode having a positive-electrode mixture layer including a positive-electrode active material. The positive-electrode active material includes a lithium-vanadium-phosphate from 8% to 70% by mass and a lithium-nickel complex oxide from 20% to 82% by mass. A coating concentration of the positive-electrode mixture layer is from 4 mg/cm2 to 20 mg/cm2. The lithium-nickel complex oxide includes a nickel element from 0.3 mol to 0.8 mol with respect to a lithium element of 1 mol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicants: NIPPON CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL CO.,LTD., FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo Yanagita, Kazuki Takimoto, Takahito Sakuraba, Ken Baba, Yasuyuki Kiya, Tsutomu Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20120213920
    Abstract: Provided are a positive electrode active material, a lithium ion electric storage device using the same, and a manufacturing method thereof. The positive electrode active material contains (1) lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide, and at least one type of a lithium ion acceptance capacity adjustment compound selected from (2a) lithium vanadium composite oxide, vanadium oxide, lithium vanadium phosphate, and lithium vanadium fluorophosphate and (2b) Nb2O5, TiO2, Li3/4Ti5/3O4, WO2, MoO2, and Fe2O3. The lithium ion electric storage device contains this positive electrode active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo Yanagita, Kazuki Takimoto