Patents by Inventor Koji Kawamoto

Koji Kawamoto 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: 9105941
    Abstract: A lithium ion conducting material includes a sulfide-based solid electrolyte material that contains Li, an element that belongs to group 13 to group 15 and S, and that contains an MSx unit, wherein M is an element that belongs to group 13 to group 15, S is a sulfur element, and x is the maximum number of S atoms that can be bonded with M, and an inhibitor that is in contact with the sulfide-based solid electrolyte material and that contains a metal element having an ionization tendency lower than that of hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamasa Ohtomo, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama
  • Patent number: 9064615
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with less hydrogen sulfide generation amount. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material obtained by using a raw material composition containing Li2S and sulfide of an element of the fourteenth family or the fifteenth family, characterized by not substantially containing cross-linking sulfur and Li2S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Tatsumisago, Akitoshi Hayashi, Shigenori Hama, Koji Kawamoto, Yasushi Tsuchida, Hiroshi Nagase, Yukiyoshi Ueno, Masato Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20150147597
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a battery system in which reductive decomposition of a Ge-containing solid electrolyte material is restricted. The present invention attains the object by providing a battery system including a battery and a control apparatus, wherein the battery has a cathode active material layer containing a cathode active material, an anode active material layer containing a Si-containing anode active material, and an electrolyte layer formed between the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer, at least one of the anode active material layer and the electrolyte layer contains a Ge-containing solid electrolyte material, and the control apparatus is an apparatus to control an electric potential of the Si-containing anode active material so as to be reduction potential or less of the Ge-containing solid electrolyte material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamasa Otomo, Koji Kawamoto, Yuki Kato
  • Patent number: 8993176
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte glass producing a tiny amount of hydrogen sulfide. The present invention attains the above-mentioned object by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte glass including Li3PS4, characterized in that Li4P2S7 is not detected by 31P NMR measurement and the content of Li2S as determined by XPS measurement is 3% by mol or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuki Kato, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama, Takamasa Otomo
  • Patent number: 8968939
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte material that can react with an electrode active material to forms a high-resistance portion includes fluorine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Tsuchida, Koji Kawamoto, Yukiyoshi Ueno, Shigenori Hama, Masato Kamiya, Hiroshi Nagase
  • Publication number: 20140363745
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with favorable ion conductivity. The present invention attains the object by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material including an M1 element (such as a Li element), an M2 element (such as a Ge element and a P element), a S element and an O element, and having a peak at a position of 2?=29.58°±0.50° in an X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? ray, characterized in that when a diffraction intensity at the peak of 2?=29.58°±0.50° is regarded as IA and a diffraction intensity at a peak of 2?=27.33°±0.50° is regarded as IB, a value of IB/IA is less than 0.50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Masaaki Hirayama, Ryoji Kanno, Yuki Kato, Koji Kawamoto, Takamasa Otomo
  • Publication number: 20140218186
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a detection device 100 for a vehicle, which can prevent damage to the vehicle by detecting occurrence of abnormality before the vehicle is damaged, and can accurately detect abnormality inside and outside the vehicle. The detection device 100 for a vehicle of the present invention includes: a transmission antenna 1, installed inside a vehicle 50, for transmitting a radio wave; reception antennae 2, 3, 4, and 5, installed inside the vehicle 50, for receiving the radio wave; and an abnormality detection calculation section 6 that calculates a spatial feature amount P(t) based on the radio wave received by each of the reception antennae 2, 3, 4, and 5, and detects, based on the calculated spatial feature amount P(t), a motion of a person outside the vehicle 50 and a motion of a person intruding into the vehicle 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 8753770
    Abstract: An electrode body used for an all solid state battery element, having a bipolar electrode basic structure having: a current collector, a cathode active material layer formed on one surface of the above-mentioned current collector, an anode active material layer formed on a surface of the above-mentioned current collector and formed in a position not overlapping with the above-mentioned cathode active material layer in a plan view, and a current collector exposed portion, formed between the above-mentioned cathode active material layer and the above-mentioned anode active material layer, and exposing both surfaces of the above-mentioned current collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koji Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20140150961
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a solid battery by which a high-power solid battery can be manufactured. The present invention is a method for manufacturing a solid battery having a pair of electrode layers, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the pair of electrode layers, the method including a preparing step to prepare a foil-electrolyte laminated body having a foil and a solid electrolyte layer which contains a binder and is disposed on at least one face of the foil, an electrode layer forming step to form an electrode layer by laminating an electrode material on a surface of the solid electrolyte layer of the foil-electrolyte laminated body prepared by the preparing step and pressing them, and a foil removing step to remove the foil after the electrode layer forming step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigenori Hama, Shiyo Tadokoro, Koji Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20140141341
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte material contains glass ceramics that contains Li, A, X, and S, and has peaks at 2?=20.2° and 23.6° in X-ray diffraction measurement with CuK? line. A is at least one kind of P, Si, Ge, Al, and B, and X is a halogen. A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte material includes amorphizing a raw material composition containing Li2S, a sulfide of A, and LiX to synthesize sulfide glass, and heating the sulfide glass at a heat treatment temperature equal to or more than a crystallization temperature thereof to synthesize glass ceramics having peaks at 2?=20.2° and 23.6° in X-ray diffraction measurement with CuK? line, in which a ratio of the LiX contained in the raw material composition and the heat treatment temperature are controlled to obtain the glass ceramics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamasa Ohtomo, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama, Yuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20140125291
    Abstract: The invention provides a solid secondary battery system including a solid secondary battery having a cathode active material layer, an anode active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer, and an overdischarge processing unit for discharging the solid secondary battery until a SOC of the solid secondary battery becomes less than 0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigenori Hama, Koji Kawamoto, Masashi Kodama
  • Patent number: 8697292
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material having excellent ion conductivity. The present invention solves the problem by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising an M1 element (such as a Li element), an M2 element (such as a Ge element and a P element), and an S element; having a peak in a position of 2?=29.58°±0.50° in an X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? line; and having an IB/IA value of less than 0.50 when a diffraction intensity at the peak of 2?=29.58°±0.50° is represented by IA and a diffraction intensity at a peak of 2?=27.33°±0.50° is represented by IB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignees: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryoji Kanno, Masaaki Hirayama, Yuki Kato, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama, Takamasa Otomo, Kunihiro Nobuhara
  • Publication number: 20140093785
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of producing a solid sulfide electrolyte material, with this method including a microparticulation step in which a sulfide glass containing Li, S, and P is mixed with an adhesive polymer and the sulfide glass is ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Sugiura, Koji Kawamoto, Takayuki Koyama
  • Patent number: 8574772
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide a solid electrolyte with intergranular resistance decreased. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by providing a solid electrolyte comprising a garnet-type compound with Li ion conductivity as the main component, characterized in that a phosphate group-containing Li ion conductor is provided between particles of the above-mentioned garnet-type compound, and the phosphate group-containing Li ion conductor has a smaller particle diameter than a particle diameter of the above-mentioned garnet-type compound and makes face contact with the above-mentioned garnet-type compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suyama, Koji Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20130288134
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte glass with high Li ion conductivity. The present invention achieves the above-mentioned object by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte glass comprising Li4P2S6, characterized by having a glass transition point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigenori Hama, Takamasa Ohtomo, Yuki Kato, Koji Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 8518584
    Abstract: A production method for an electrode for a battery includes preparing a conductive substrate, and electrode material particles having ion conduction anisotropy; and producing an electrode by attaching the electrode material particles onto the conductive substrate, and applying a magnetic field in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventors: Koji Kawamoto, Masato Hozumi, Yoshio Sakka, Tetsuo Uchikoshi, Tohru Suzuki, Hideto Yamada
  • Publication number: 20130164631
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with high Li ion conductivity. The present invention solves the problem by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising an ion conductor with an ortho-composition, and LiI, characterized in that the sulfide solid electrolyte material is glass with a glass transition point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamasa Ohtomo, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama, Yasushi Tsuchida, Yuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20130164632
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte glass producing a tiny amount of hydrogen sulfide. The present invention attains the above-mentioned object by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte glass including Li3PS4, characterized in that Li4P2S7 is not detected by 31P NMR measurement and the content of Li2S as determined by XPS measurement is 3% by mol or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Kato, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama, Takamasa Otomo
  • Publication number: 20130097854
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte material having a small amount of hydrogen sulfide generation and a high Li ion conductivity. To achieve the above, a method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte material is provided, including steps of: a providing step for providing a crystallized sulfide solid electrolyte material prepared by using a raw material composition containing Li2S and P2S5; and an amorphizing step for applying amorphization treatment to the crystallized sulfide solid electrolyte material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Kato, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama, Takamasa Otomo
  • Publication number: 20130065135
    Abstract: An Object of the invention is to obtain an all solid lithium battery having an excellent output performance. To achieve the object, a sulfide based solid electrolyte is used as an electrolyte; an oxide containing lithium, a metal element that acts as a redox couple, and a metal element that forms an electron-insulating oxide is used as a cathode active material; and the concentration of the metal element that forms the electron-insulating oxide on the surface of the cathode active material (oxide) that is in contact with the sulfide solid electrolyte is made high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventors: Kazunori Takada, Xiaoxiong Xu, Tsuyoshi Ohnishi, Isao Sakaguchi, Ken Watanabe, Yasushi Tsuchida, Yukiyoshi Ueno, Koji Kawamoto