Patents by Inventor Kunihiro Fukushima
Kunihiro Fukushima 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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Publication number: 20240170667Abstract: A battery in which a decrease in discharge capacity retention rate in charge and discharge cycle tests is inhibited is provided. The battery includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode is used as a positive electrode of a test battery in which a negative electrode includes a lithium metal. When a test of 50 repetitions of a cycle of charge and discharge in which, after constant current charge is performed at a charge rate of 1 C (1 C=200 mA/g) until a voltage of 4.6 V is reached, constant voltage charge is performed at a voltage of 4.6 V until the charge rate reaches 0.1 C, and constant current discharge is then performed at a discharge rate of 1 C until a voltage of 2.5 V is reached is performed in a 25° C. environment or a 45° C. environment and discharge capacity is measured in each cycle, a discharge capacity value measured in a 50th cycle accounts for higher than or equal to 90% and lower than 100% of a maximum discharge capacity value in all 50 cycles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Tetsuya KAKEHATA, Yohei MOMMA, Yumiko YONEDA, Kazutaka KURIKI, Tatsuyoshi TAKAHASHI, Kunihiro FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20240092655Abstract: A novel method for forming a positive electrode active material is provided. In the method for forming a positive electrode active material, a cobalt source and an additive element source are mixed to form an acidic solution; the acidic solution and an alkaline solution are made to react to form a cobalt compound; the cobalt compound and a lithium source are mixed to form a mixture; and the mixture is heated. The additive element source is a compound containing one or more selected from gallium, aluminum, boron, nickel, and indium.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Yusuke YOSHITANI, Yohei MOMMA, Kunihiro FUKUSHIMA, Tetsuya KAKEHATA
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Publication number: 20240047691Abstract: A secondary battery with little deterioration is provided. A highly reliable secondary battery is provided. A positive electrode active material included in the secondary battery includes a crystal of lithium cobalt oxide. The positive electrode active material includes a first region including a surface parallel to the (00l) plane of the crystal and a second region including a surface parallel to a plane intersecting with the (00l) plane. The positive electrode active material contains magnesium. The first region includes a portion with a magnesium concentration that is higher than or equal to 0.5 atomic % and lower than or equal to 10 atomic %. The second region includes a portion with a magnesium concentration that is higher than the magnesium concentration in the first region and is higher than or equal to 4 atomic % and lower than or equal to 30 atomic %.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Jo SAITO, Yohei MOMMA, Kunihiro FUKUSHIMA, Teppei OGUNI
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Publication number: 20230262952Abstract: A semiconductor device with a small variation in transistor characteristics can be provided. A step of forming an opening in a structure body including an oxide semiconductor device to reach the oxide semiconductor device, a step of embedding a first conductor in the opening, a step of forming a second conductor in contact with a top surface of the first conductor, a step of forming a first barrier insulating film by a sputtering method to cover the structure body, the first conductor, and the second conductor, and a step of forming a second barrier insulating film over the first barrier insulating film by an ALD method are included. The first barrier insulating film and the second barrier insulating film each have a function of inhibiting hydrogen diffusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Motomu KURATA, Tsutomu MURAKAWA, Ryo ARASAWA, Kunihiro FUKUSHIMA, Yasumasa YAMANE, Shinya SASAGAWA
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Publication number: 20220359870Abstract: A positive electrode active material in which a discharge capacity decrease due to charge and discharge cycles is suppressed and a secondary battery including the positive electrode active material are provided. A positive electrode active material in which a change in a crystal structure, e.g., a shift in CoO2 layers is small between a discharged state and a high-voltage charged state is provided. For example, a positive electrode active material that has a layered rock-salt crystal structure belonging to the space group R-3m in a discharged state and a crystal structure belonging to the space group P2/m in a charged state where x in LixCoO2 is greater than 0.1 and less than or equal to 0.24 is provided. When the positive electrode active material is analyzed by powder X-ray diffraction, a diffraction pattern has at least diffraction peaks at 2? of 19.47±0.10° and 2? of 45.62±0.05°.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Mayumi MIKAMI, Jo SAITO, Kazuki TANEMURA, Tatsuyoshi TAKAHASHI, Yohei MOMMA, Kazuya SHIMADA, Kunihiro FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20220131146Abstract: The present invention relates to a secondary battery and an electronic device. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode active material which exhibits a broad peak at around 4.55 V in a dQ/dVvsV curve obtained when the charge depth is increased. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode active material which, even when the charge voltage is greater than or equal to 4.6 V and less than or equal to 4.8 V and the charge depth is greater than or equal to 0.8 and less than 0.9, does not have the H1-3 type structure and can maintain a crystal structure where a shift in CoO2 layers is inhibited. The broad peak at around 4.55 V in the dQ/dVvsV curve indicates that a change in the energy necessary for extraction of lithium at around the voltage is small and a change in the crystal structure is small. Accordingly, the positive electrode active material hardly suffers a shift in CoO2 layers and a volume change and is relatively stable even when the charge depth is large.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Jo SAITO, Yohei MOMMA, Kunihiro FUKUSHIMA, Shunsuke HOSOUMI, Kazuki TANEMURA, Tetsuya KAKEHATA, Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Toshikazu OHNO, Mayumi MIKAMI, Tatsuyoshi TAKAHASHI, Kazuya SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20210384326Abstract: A semiconductor device with high reliability is provided by the following steps: forming an oxide semiconductor; forming a first insulator in contact with the oxide semiconductor; forming a second insulator over the first insulator, forming a third insulator over the second insulator; forming an opening in the third insulator, the second insulator, and the first insulator, cleaning the inside of the opening; embedding a conductor in the cleaned opening; forming the first insulator to include an excess-oxygen region; forming the second insulator to have a higher barrier property against oxygen, hydrogen, or water than the first insulator, and processing the opening to have a cylindrical shape or an inverted cone shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Erika TAKAHASHI, Kunihiro FUKUSHIMA, Katsuaki TOCHIBAYASHI, Ryota HODO
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Publication number: 20060113932Abstract: A vibrating device that can be applied to various purposes other than as a vibrator and that can achieve cost reduction, size reduction, and space saving by a reduction in the number of components, and a mobile phone using this vibrating device are provided. The vibrating device has a housing supported by a base and capable of oscillating in a vibration frequency range of a vibrator, and an expandable rod that can expand and contract, one end of which is fixed to the housing, and the other end of which is a free end contacting the base. The base is resonated by oscillation of the housing in the vibration frequency range of a vibrator, while the base is vibrated by expansion and contraction of the expandable rod in a sound frequency range other than the vibration frequency range of a vibrator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2004Publication date: June 1, 2006Inventors: Teruo Mori, Toshio Chamura, Kunihiro Fukushima
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Patent number: 6478483Abstract: There are disclosed a processing apparatus for a photosensitive material having a coating device of a processing liquid to a photosensitive material, which comprises using a slot die having a manifold and a slot at the inside of the die as a coating device, and a processing apparatus for a photosensitive material which comprises a photosensitive material transferring device, a photosensitive material detecting device, a slot die for coating a processing liquid to the photosensitive material and having a manifold and a slot at the inside of the die, and a device for supplying a predetermined amount of the processing liquid to the slot die, wherein a detection result at the detecting device of the photosensitive material is fed back to the supplying device of the processing liquid to control operation of the processing liquid supplying device.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2000Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills LimitedInventors: Toshihito Maruyama, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Sadao Kuriu, Yasuo Tsubai, Shin Nakagawa, Kunihiro Fukushima, Masayoshi Otsuka
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Publication number: 20010004422Abstract: There are disclosed a processing apparatus for a photosensitive material having a coating device of a processing liquid to a photosensitive material, which comprises using a slot die having a manifold and a slot at the inside of the die as a coating device, and a processing apparatus for a photosensitive material which comprises a photosensitive material transferring device, a photosensitive material detecting device, a slot die for coating a processing liquid to the photosensitive material and having a manifold and a slot at the inside of the die, and a device for supplying a predetermined amount of the processing liquid to the slot die, wherein a detection result at the detecting device of the photosensitive material is fed back to the supplying device of the processing liquid to control operation of the processing liquid supplying device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2000Publication date: June 21, 2001Inventors: Toshihito Maruyama, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Sadao Kuriu, Yasuo Tsubai, Shin Nakagawa, Kunihiro Fukushima, Masayoshi Otsuka