Patents by Inventor Masaharu Senoue

Masaharu Senoue 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: 20190165357
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide solid-state battery in which, an anode mixture (a) is layered over a surface of an anode current collector, to form an anode mixture layer A1, the anode mixture (a) containing a polyamic acid, and silicon-based active material but not containing a sulfide solid electrolyte; the anode mixture layer A1 is heated to imidize the polyamic acid, to make an anode mixture layer A2; a sulfide solid electrolyte is layered over a surface of the anode mixture layer A2; to be pressed to insert the sulfide solid electrolyte into a void in the anode mixture layer A2, to make an anode mixture layer A3; and thereafter an anode mixture (b) is layered over a surface of the anode mixture layer A3, to form an anode mixture layer B, the anode mixture (b) containing carbonaceous active material and binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventor: Masaharu Senoue
  • Publication number: 20190086596
    Abstract: An optical element is provided includes an optical layer having a flat incident surface on which light is incident and a wavelength-selective reflective layer disposed in the optical layer. Of light incident on the incident surface at an incident angle (?, ?), the optical element selectively directionally reflects light in at least one specific wavelength range in at least one direction other than a specular reflection direction (??, ?+180°) while transmitting light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range, and is transparent to light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu NAGAHAMA, Hironori YOSHIDA, Masaharu SENOUE, Masashi ENOMOTO, Hiroyuki ITOU
  • Patent number: 10132972
    Abstract: An optical element is provided includes an optical layer having a flat incident surface on which light is incident and a wavelength-selective reflective layer disposed in the optical layer. Of light incident on the incident surface at an incident angle (?, ?), the optical element selectively directionally reflects light in at least one specific wavelength range in at least one direction other than a specular reflection direction (??, ?+180°) while transmitting light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range, and is transparent to light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Nagahama, Hironori Yoshida, Masaharu Senoue, Masashi Enomoto, Hiroyuki Itou
  • Patent number: 9960414
    Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode contains a lithium composite oxide. The negative electrode contains a material including at least one of silicon Si and tin Sn as a constituent element. The lithium composite oxide includes lithium Li having a composition ratio a, a first element having a composition ratio b, and a second element having a composition ratio c as a constituent element. The first element including two kinds or more selected from among manganese Mn, nickel Ni, and cobalt Co, and including at least manganese. The second element including at least one kind selected from among aluminum Al, titanium Ti, magnesium Mg, and boron B. The composition ratios a to c satisfy the relationships of 1.1<a<1.3, 0.7<b+c<1.1, 0<c<0.1, and a>b+c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Takamuku, Kazuaki Endoh, Masaharu Senoue, Guohua Li, Yosuke Hosoya, Kenichi Kawase
  • Patent number: 9812709
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution. The positive electrode contains a positive electrode active material including element M2 incorporated in a crystal structure in a surface layer area of a complex oxide, the oxide including the element M1 and being represented by the following formula (1), M2 being different from M1. The element M2 is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of magnesium Mg, calcium Ca, titanium Ti, zirconium Zr, sulfur S, fluorine F, iron Fe, copper Cu, boron B, aluminum Al, phosphorus P, carbon C, manganese Mn, nickel Ni, and cobalt Co. Li1+a(MnbCocNi1?b?c)1?aM1dO2?e??(1) M1 is at least one kind of aluminum, magnesium, zirconium, titanium, barium Ba, boron, silicon Si, and iron, a satisfies 0<a<0.25, b satisfies 0.5?b<0.7, c satisfies 0?c<1?b, d satisfies 0.01?d?0.2, and e satisfies 0?e?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Endoh, Akira Takamuku, Masaharu Senoue, Guohua Li, Kenichi Kawase, Yosuke Hosoya
  • Publication number: 20170176656
    Abstract: An optical element is provided includes an optical layer having a flat incident surface on which light is incident and a wavelength-selective reflective layer disposed in the optical layer. Of light incident on the incident surface at an incident angle (?, ?), the optical element selectively directionally reflects light in at least one specific wavelength range in at least one direction other than a specular reflection direction (??, ?+180°) while transmitting light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range, and is transparent to light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu NAGAHAMA, Hironori YOSHIDA, Masaharu SENOUE, Masashi ENOMOTO, Hiroyuki ITOU
  • Patent number: 9588267
    Abstract: An optical element is provided includes an optical layer having a flat incident surface on which light is incident and a wavelength-selective reflective layer disposed in the optical layer. Of light incident on the incident surface at an incident angle (?, ?), the optical element selectively directionally reflects light in at least one specific wavelength range in at least one direction other than a specular reflection direction (??, ?+180°) while transmitting light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range, and is transparent to light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Nagahama, Hironori Yoshida, Masaharu Senoue, Masashi Enomoto, Hiroyuki Itou
  • Publication number: 20160133923
    Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode contains a lithium composite oxide. The negative electrode contains a material including at least one of silicon Si and tin Sn as a constituent element. The lithium composite oxide includes lithium Li having a composition ratio a, a first element having a composition ratio b, and a second element having a composition ratio c as a constituent element. The first element including two kinds or more selected from among manganese Mn, nickel Ni, and cobalt Co, and including at least manganese. The second element including at least one kind selected from among aluminum Al, titanium Ti, magnesium Mg, and boron B. The composition ratios a to c satisfy the relationships of 1.1<a<1.3, 0.7<b+c<1.1, 0<c<0.1, and a>b+c.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Akira Takamuku, Kazuaki Endoh, Masaharu Senoue, Guohua Li, Yosuke Hosoya, Kenichi Kawase
  • Patent number: 9266444
    Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode contains a lithium composite oxide. The negative electrode contains a material including at least one of silicon Si and tin Sn as a constituent element. The lithium composite oxide includes lithium Li having a composition ratio a, a first element having a composition ratio b, and a second element having a composition ratio c as a constituent element. The first element including two kinds or more selected from among manganese Mn, nickel Ni, and cobalt Co, and including at least manganese. The second element including at least one kind selected from among aluminum Al, titanium Ti, magnesium Mg, and boron B. The composition ratios a to c satisfy the relationships of 1.1<a<1.3, 0.7<b+c<1.1, 0<c<0.1, and a>b+c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Takamuku, Kazuaki Endoh, Masaharu Senoue, Guohua Li, Yosuke Hosoya, Kenichi Kawase
  • Publication number: 20160003992
    Abstract: An optical element is provided includes an optical layer having a flat incident surface on which light is incident and a wavelength-selective reflective layer disposed in the optical layer. Of light incident on the incident surface at an incident angle (?, ?), the optical element selectively directionally reflects light in at least one specific wavelength range in at least one direction other than a specular reflection direction (??, ?+180°) while transmitting light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range, and is transparent to light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Tsutomu NAGAHAMA, Hironori YOSHIDA, Masaharu SENOUE, Masashi ENOMOTO, Hiroyuki ITOU
  • Patent number: 9132608
    Abstract: An optical element is provided includes an optical layer having a flat incident surface on which light is incident and a wavelength-selective reflective layer disposed in the optical layer. Of light incident on the incident surface at an incident angle (?, ?), the optical element selectively directionally reflects light in at least one specific wavelength range in at least one direction other than a specular reflection direction (??, ?+180°) while transmitting light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range, and is transparent to light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Nagahama, Hironori Yoshida, Masaharu Senoue, Masashi Enomoto, Hiroyuki Itou
  • Patent number: 9077036
    Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery including a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode includes a first lithium composite oxide and a second lithium composite oxide expressed by following formula (1) as a positive electrode active material, and wherein the second lithium composite oxide has a charge capacity greater than the first lithium composite oxide Li1+a(NibM1cM21?b?c)1.5?0.5aO2??(1) wherein, M1 represents at least one selected from among elements of group 13 to group 15 in an extended periodic table of elements excluding boron B, or carbon C, or nitrogen N, M2 represents at least one selected from among elements of group 3 to group 12, and a, b, and c satisfy relationships of 0.95?a?1.05, 0<b?0.99, and 0<c?0.15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Senoue, Kenichi Kawase, Takakazu Hirose, Masayuki Ihara
  • Patent number: 8999583
    Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary battery allowed to improve cycle characteristics and initial charge-discharge characteristics is provided. The lithium-ion secondary battery includes a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The anode includes an anode active material layer including a plurality of anode active material particles. The anode active material particles each include a core section and a coating section applied to a part or a whole of a surface of the core section, and the core section includes a silicon-based material (SiOx: 0?x<0.5) and the coating section includes an amorphous or low-crystalline silicon-based material (SiOy: 0.5?y?1.8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takakazu Hirose, Kenichi Kawase, Takashi Fujinaga, Masaharu Senoue, Motoki Endo, Masayuki Iwama
  • Publication number: 20140065450
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution, wherein the anode includes an anode active material layer, the anode active material layer being provided on part of an anode current collector, and a breaking elongation ?2 (percent) of the anode current collector in a second region is larger than a breaking elongation ?1 (percent) of the anode current collector in a first region, the second region not being provided with the anode active material layer, and the first region being provided with the anode active material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Senoue, Masayuki Iwama, Kenichi Kawase
  • Publication number: 20120301786
    Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode contains a lithium composite oxide. The negative electrode contains a material including at least one of silicon Si and tin Sn as a constituent element. The lithium composite oxide includes lithium Li having a composition ratio a, a first element having a composition ratio b, and a second element having a composition ratio c as a constituent element. The first element including two kinds or more selected from among manganese Mn, nickel Ni, and cobalt Co, and including at least manganese. The second element including at least one kind selected from among aluminum Al, titanium Ti, magnesium Mg, and boron B. The composition ratios a to c satisfy the relationships of 1.1<a<1.3, 0.7<b+c<1.1, 0<c<0.1, and a>b+c.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Takamuku, Kazuaki Endoh, Masaharu Senoue, Guohua Li, Yosuke Hosoya, Kenichi Kawase
  • Patent number: 8248555
    Abstract: The present application provides a display apparatus including: a display panel having a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix; a first polarizer; a second polarizer; a surface emitting light source; a third polarizer; and a polarization control element whose orientation of a transmission axis changes according to a control signal. A control section outputs a control signal that controls orientation of the transmission axis of the polarization control element so that a polarization axis of transmission light of the polarization control element is oriented in a direction crossing the transmission axis of the first polarizer in a part corresponding to a pixel position of black display and is oriented in a direction parallel to the transmission axis of the first polarizer in a part corresponding to a pixel position of white display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Senoue, Kentaro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 8223295
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display that can inhibit the coloring of an image when a liquid-crystal panel is viewed from an oblique direction is provided. An optical filter is disposed at the forward end of a liquid-crystal panel and has different transmittances between a light component that travels in an oblique direction and a light component that travels in a direction normal to the multilayer, where both of the light components have a predetermined wavelength range. In the case where a wide-color-gamut light source, such as LEDs, is used as a light sources of a backlight unit, when the liquid-crystal panel is viewed from an oblique direction, the entire image area tends to be reddish, and the color temperature tends to decrease. In this case, the optical filter is configured such that the intensity of a visible red light component is selectively reduced such that the intensity of a visible blue light component is increased, thereby inhibiting the reddening of an image area when viewed from an oblique direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Sato, Satoshi Kawamura, Masaharu Senoue, Norimasa Furukawa, Kenichi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20120164533
    Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery including a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode includes a first lithium composite oxide and a second lithium composite oxide expressed by following formula (1) as a positive electrode active material, and wherein the second lithium composite oxide has a charge capacity greater than the first lithium composite oxide Li1+a(NibM1cM21?b?c)1.5?0.5aO2??(1) wherein, M1 represents at least one selected from among elements of group 13 to group 15 in an extended periodic table of elements excluding boron B, or carbon C, or nitrogen N, M2 represents at least one selected from among elements of group 3 to group 12, and a, b, and c satisfy relationships of 0.95?a?1.05, 0<b?0.99, and 0<c?0.15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Senoue, Kenichi Kawase, Takakazu Hirose, Masayuki Ihara
  • Publication number: 20120164525
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution. The positive electrode contains a positive electrode active material including element M2 incorporated in a crystal structure in a surface layer area of a complex oxide, the oxide including the element M1 and being represented by the following formula (1), M2 being different from M1. The element M2 is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of magnesium Mg, calcium Ca, titanium Ti, zirconium Zr, sulfur S, fluorine F, iron Fe, copper Cu, boron B, aluminum Al, phosphorus P, carbon C, manganese Mn, nickel Ni, and cobalt Co. Li1+a(MnbCocNi1?b?c)1?aM1dO2?e??(1) M1 is at least one kind of aluminum, magnesium, zirconium, titanium, barium Ba, boron, silicon Si, and iron, a satisfies 0<a<0.25, b satisfies 0.5?b<0.7, c satisfies 0?c<1?b, d satisfies 0.01?d?0.2, and e satisfies 0?e?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Endoh, Akira Takamuku, Masaharu Senoue, Guohua Li, Kenichi Kawase, Yosuke Hosoya
  • Publication number: 20120164532
    Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode includes a first lithium composite oxide and a second lithium composite oxide expressed by the following equation (1), as a positive electrode active material, and a charge capacity (vs lithium metal) per unit volume during a charge and discharge of a first cycle is larger in the second lithium composite oxide compared to the first lithium composite oxide, and a discharge voltage (vs lithium metal) during the charge and discharge of the first cycle is lower in the second lithium composite oxide compared to the first lithium composite oxide, Li1+a(MnbCocNi1-b-c)1-aO2 . . . (1), where a, b, and c satisfy relationships of 0<a?0.25, 0.5?b<0.7, and 0?c<1?b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Senoue, Kenichi Kawase, Nozomu Morita, Kazuaki Endoh, Akira Takamuku, Yosuke Hosoya, Guohua Li