Patents by Inventor Kenichi KAKISHITA

Kenichi KAKISHITA 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: 20240195033
    Abstract: A battery including: an electrode body; a terminal that is electrically connected to the electrode body; a laminate film that covers an entire surface of the electrode body and a surface of a portion of the terminal, and that includes at least a metal layer; and a fusing resin layer, serving as a resin layer, which is interposed between the terminal and the metal layer, the fusing resin layer including insulating particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenichi KAKISHITA
  • Publication number: 20240178489
    Abstract: A laminated battery has an electrode body and a laminate sheet covering the electrode body, and has a fused portion at which one end side and another end side of the laminate sheet that covers the electrode body are fused together. The fused portion has a step portion at which a thickness of a region near the electrode body side is thinner than a thickness of a region far from the electrode body side. Ratio (LS1/LE) of outer peripheral length LE of the electrode body and inner peripheral length LS1 of the laminate sheet that covers the electrode body is greater than or equal to 1.00 and less than or equal to 1.05.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenichi KAKISHITA
  • Publication number: 20240162543
    Abstract: A laminated battery has a battery element and a laminate exterior body that seals the battery element. The laminate exterior body includes at least a resin layer and a metal layer that are laminated. The battery element includes substantially right-angled portions, and horizontal portions that are horizontal shaped. At 80% or more of areas of the metal layer that face the substantially right-angled portions of the battery element, a thickness T1 of the metal layer, with respect to a thickness T2 of the metal layer of the laminate exterior body that faces the horizontal portions of the battery element, satisfies a relationship of formula |T1?T2|/T2×100(%)?10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi CHIHARA, Yutaka HIDAKA, Kenichi KAKISHITA
  • Publication number: 20240162582
    Abstract: A power storage cell comprises an electrode assembly, a cell case accommodating the electrode assembly, and an external terminal secured to an upper surface of the cell case. The external terminal has a terminal plate located above the cell case, and an insulating plate interposed between the cell case and the terminal plate. The insulating plate supports the terminal plate in such a manner that a gap is formed between the insulating plate and the terminal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato ONO, Kosuke SUZUKI, Shinya ISHIKAWA, Kenichi KAKISHITA, Hiroki AWANO
  • Publication number: 20240154175
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a secondary battery includes: a conveying section that conveys a laminate-type secondary battery having a laminate outer package; plural contact rollers provided on a conveying path of the conveying section, the plural contact rollers having different contact angles with respect to an edge seal part of the laminate outer package being conveyed; and opposition rollers respectively disposed in opposition to the contact rollers, which, together with the contact rollers, fold the edge seal part of the laminate outer package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi CHIHARA, Norihiro OSE, Kenichi KAKISHITA, Sumiko KITO
  • Publication number: 20240072241
    Abstract: An electrode for a battery includes a laminate including an active material layer and a current collector, and a sealing portion covering an end portion surface of the laminate. The laminate includes two principal faces facing each other, and an end face. The end portion surface includes the end face, and an adjacent face on each of the two principal faces. The adjacent face includes one or more asperities. The sealing portion includes a first sealing portion covering the end face, and a second sealing portion covering at least part of the adjacent face. The second sealing portion is present in one or more recessed portions of the one or more asperities of the adjacent face and does not include a portion higher than a height position of the one or more asperities that is highest. The first sealing portion and the second sealing portion are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIK KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi KAKISHITA, Yusuke IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230395867
    Abstract: This disclosure achieves the object by providing a manufacturing method for an electrode body, the manufacturing method including: a preparing step of preparing an electrode sheet including one separator, a plurality of first electrodes placed on a first surface of the separator, and a plurality of second electrodes placed on a second surface opposite from the first surface of the separator; and a laminating step of laminating the first electrodes and the second electrodes in the electrode sheet alternately via the separator. The electrode sheet satisfies predetermined conditions (i) to (iii) in a plan view in the thickness direction of the electrode sheet. In the laminating step, the first electrodes and the second electrodes are laminated alternately via the separator while the separator placed on a side surface of each of the first electrodes is brought into contact with a wall portion inclined from the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventor: Kenichi KAKISHITA
  • Patent number: 11766742
    Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a feeding mechanism including at least one feeding roller and winds the electrode sheet around an outer circumferential surface of the feeding roller to feed the electrode sheet in a feeding direction. When an imaginary contact plane surface contacted with a first surface of the electrode sheet on the laser processing points generated on the electrode sheet by a laser irradiation mechanism is determined as a boundary, a region on a side where the electrode sheet is contacted with the imaginary contact plane surface is defined as a first region and a region on an opposite side is defined as a second region. A peripheral edge of an opening portion of the dust collection hood is placed in the first region with respect to the imaginary contact plane surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Kenichi Kakishita
  • Publication number: 20220352538
    Abstract: An electrode body producing apparatus is provided with a rotary base body, stacking table portions provided on its outer peripheral end portion, and a workpiece transferring section to transfer an unplaced workpiece on an object placement surface of a post-placed laminated body and others. A height adjusting portion of the stacking table portion changes a radial height of a table surface so that a radial height of the object placement surface becomes a predetermined radial height at least at a workpiece transferring angular position, and the workpiece transferring section transfers and places the unplaced workpiece on the object placement surface in synchronization with rotation movement of the object placement surface at the workpiece transferring angular position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventor: Kenichi KAKISHITA
  • Publication number: 20220168843
    Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a feeding mechanism including at least one feeding roller and winds the electrode sheet around an outer circumferential surface of the feeding roller to feed the electrode sheet in a feeding direction. When an imaginary contact plane surface contacted with a first surface of the electrode sheet on the laser processing points generated on the electrode sheet by a laser irradiation mechanism is determined as a boundary, a region on a side where the electrode sheet is contacted with the imaginary contact plane surface is defined as a first region and a region on an opposite side is defined as a second region. A peripheral edge of an opening portion of the dust collection hood is placed in the first region with respect to the imaginary contact plane surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Kenichi KAKISHITA
  • Publication number: 20210388258
    Abstract: A phosphor-containing film including a phosphor such as a quantum dot and is capable of suppressing the deterioration of the phosphor even where the film is formed into a laminated structure; and a backlight unit including the phosphor-containing film as a wavelength converting member. The film includes a phosphor-containing layer in which a plurality of fluorescent regions, each of which contains a phosphor that deteriorates through reaction with oxygen when exposed to oxygen, are discretely arranged and a resin layer having impermeability to oxygen is arranged among the plurality of the discretely arranged fluorescent regions; and a first substrate film and a second substrate film, which are respectively laminated on the both main surfaces of the phosphor-containing layer, in which the resin layer has a Knoop hardness of 115 N/mm2 to 285 N/mm2, a creep recovery rate of 22% or less, and an elastic recovery rate of 60% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Megumi SEKIGUCHI, Tatsuya OBA, Kenichi KAKISHITA, Masayuki KUSUMOTO, Natsuru CHIKUSHI
  • Patent number: 11136496
    Abstract: A phosphor-containing film contains a phosphor such as a quantum dot and is capable of suppressing deterioration of phosphor even where the film is formed into a laminated structure; and a backlight unit including the phosphor-containing film as a wavelength converting member. The film includes: a phosphor-containing layer in which a plurality of fluorescent regions, each of which contains a phosphor that deteriorates through reaction with oxygen when exposed to oxygen, are discretely arranged and a resin layer having impermeability to oxygen is arranged among the plurality of the discretely arranged fluorescent regions; and a first substrate film and a second substrate film, which are respectively laminated on both main surfaces of the phosphor-containing layer, in which the resin layer has a Knoop hardness of 115 N/mm2 to 285 N/mm2, a creep recovery rate of 22% or less, and an elastic recovery rate of 60% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Megumi Sekiguchi, Tatsuya Oba, Kenichi Kakishita, Masayuki Kusumoto, Natsuru Chikushi
  • Patent number: 10982135
    Abstract: A phosphor-containing film capable of suppressing deterioration of phosphor and capable of suppressing generation of luminescent spots and the reduction in luminance due to a defect of the resin layer. The film includes: a phosphor-containing layer having a resin layer which has impermeability to oxygen and is provided with a plurality of discretely arranged concave portions, and a plurality of fluorescent regions, each of which is arranged in the concave portion of the resin layer and contains a phosphor that deteriorates through a reaction with oxygen when exposed to oxygen; and a first substrate film and a second substrate film, which are respectively laminated on one main surface and the other main surface of the phosphor-containing layer, in which the fluorescent regions contain a binder and quantum dots serving as the phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oba, Natsuru Chikushi, Kenichi Kakishita, Masayuki Kusumoto, Ryo Satake, Megumi Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 10948767
    Abstract: A phosphor-containing film suppresses deterioration of a phosphor and generation of luminescent spots and the reduction in luminance, and a backlight unit. The phosphor-containing film includes: a phosphor-containing layer having a resin layer which has oxygen impermeability and discrete concave portions, and fluorescent regions arranged in the concave portions, and a first substrate film laminated on one surface of the phosphor-containing layer and a second substrate film laminated on the opposing surface, in which the fluorescent regions contain the phosphor that deteriorates through a reaction with oxygen, and a binder, the first substrate film includes a support film and an inorganic layer provided on a surface of the support film on a side facing the phosphor-containing layer, the resin layer has a modulus of elasticity of 0.5 to 10 GPa, and a thickness of the bottom of the concave portion of the resin layer is 0.1 to 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oba, Hirofumi Toyama, Kenichi Kakishita
  • Publication number: 20190258098
    Abstract: A phosphor-containing film suppresses deterioration of a phosphor and generation of luminescent spots and the reduction in luminance, and a backlight unit. The phosphor-containing film includes: a phosphor-containing layer having a resin layer which has oxygen impermeability and discrete concave portions, and fluorescent regions arranged in the concave portions, and a first substrate film laminated on one surface of the phosphor-containing layer and a second substrate film laminated on the opposing surface, in which the fluorescent regions contain the phosphor that deteriorates through a reaction with oxygen, and a binder, the first substrate film includes a support film and an inorganic layer provided on a surface of the support film on a side facing the phosphor-containing layer, the resin layer has a modulus of elasticity of 0.5 to 10 GPa, and a thickness of the bottom of the concave portion of the resin layer is 0.1 to 20 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya OBA, Hirofumi TOYAMA, Kenichi KAKISHITA
  • Publication number: 20190252640
    Abstract: Provided are a functional film that can exhibit high gas barrier properties by forming separate regions and an organic EL device. The functional film includes: a resin layer having impermeability to oxygen in which a plurality of recess portions are formed to be discretely disposed, in which a modulus of elasticity of the resin layer is 0.5 GPa to 10 GPa, and an oxygen permeability of the resin layer is 10 cc/(m2·day·atm) or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi KAKISHITA, Kyohisa UCHIUMI
  • Patent number: 10366876
    Abstract: Provided are a phosphor-containing capable of suppressing deterioration of phosphors and can be manufactured with high efficiency and a backlight unit. Specifically, provided is a phosphor-containing film, including a first substrate film; and a phosphor-containing layer at which a plurality of regions containing phosphors, which, if exposed to oxygen, deteriorate by reacting with the oxygen, are discretely disposed on the first substrate film, and at which a resin layer having an impermeability to oxygen is disposed between the discretely disposed regions containing phosphors, in which a width S of the resin layer between the regions containing phosphors is 0.01?S<0.5 mm, and wherein a ratio of a volume Vp of the regions containing phosphors, to a sum of the volume Vp and a volume Vb of the resin layer in the phosphor-containing layer, is 0.1?Vp/(Vp+Vb)<0.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Oku, Kenichi Kakishita, Tatsuya Oba
  • Publication number: 20190194530
    Abstract: A phosphor-containing film contains a phosphor such as a quantum dot and is capable of suppressing deterioration of phosphor even where the film is formed into a laminated structure; and a backlight unit including the phosphor-containing film as a wavelength converting member. The film includes: a phosphor-containing layer in which a plurality of fluorescent regions, each of which contains a phosphor that deteriorates through reaction with oxygen when exposed to oxygen, are discretely arranged and a resin layer having impermeability to oxygen is arranged among the plurality of the discretely arranged fluorescent regions; and a first substrate film and a second substrate film, which are respectively laminated on both main surfaces of the phosphor-containing layer, in which the resin layer has a Knoop hardness of 115 N/mm2 to 285 N/mm2, a creep recovery rate of 22% or less, and an elastic recovery rate of 60% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Megumi SEKIGUCHI, Tatsuya OBA, Kenichi KAKISHITA, Masayuki KUSUMOTO, Natsuru CHIKUSHI
  • Publication number: 20190194531
    Abstract: A phosphor-containing film capable of suppressing deterioration of phosphor and capable of suppressing generation of luminescent spots and the reduction in luminance due to a defect of the resin layer. The film includes: a phosphor-containing layer having a resin layer which has impermeability to oxygen and is provided with a plurality of discretely arranged concave portions, and a plurality of fluorescent regions, each of which is arranged in the concave portion of the resin layer and contains a phosphor that deteriorates through a reaction with oxygen when exposed to oxygen; and a first substrate film and a second substrate film, which are respectively laminated on one main surface and the other main surface of the phosphor-containing layer, in which the fluorescent regions contain a binder and quantum dots serving as the phosphor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya OBA, Natsuru CHIKUSHI, Kenichi KAKISHITA, Masayuki KUSUMOTO, Ryo SATAKE, Megumi SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190080897
    Abstract: Provided are a phosphor-containing capable of suppressing deterioration of phosphors and can be manufactured with high efficiency and a backlight unit. Specifically, provided is a phosphor-containing film, including a first substrate film; and a phosphor-containing layer at which a plurality of regions containing phosphors, which, if exposed to oxygen, deteriorate by reacting with the oxygen, are discretely disposed on the first substrate film, and at which a resin layer having an impermeability to oxygen is disposed between the discretely disposed regions containing phosphors, in which a width S of the resin layer between the regions containing phosphors is 0.01?S<0.5 mm, and wherein a ratio of a volume Vp of the regions containing phosphors, to a sum of the volume Vp and a volume Vb of the resin layer in the phosphor-containing layer, is 0.1?Vp/(Vp+Vb)<0.9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke OKU, Kenichi KAKISHITA, Tatsuya OBA