Patents by Inventor Masataka TOMITA

Masataka TOMITA 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: 11962005
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a positive electrode active material having a spinel-type crystal structure that can reduce an increase in resistance and a decrease in capacity retention rate due to repeated charging and discharging of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The positive electrode active material disclosed herein is configured of a lithium manganese composite oxide having a spinel-type crystal structure, wherein the lithium manganese composite oxide includes secondary particles in which a plurality of primary particles are aggregated, an average particle diameter of the secondary particles based on a SEM image is 10 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less, an average particle diameter of the primary particles based on a SEM image is 4 ?m or more and 8 ?m or less, and nickel atoms are provided in the surface layer portion of the secondary particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Makimura, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Masataka Tomita
  • Publication number: 20230318143
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the separator includes a first surface facing the positive electrode and a second surface facing the negative electrode, an adhesive layer is formed on the second surface or each of the first surface and the second surface, the adhesive layer includes inorganic particles and an organic binder, and a ratio of a peeling strength between the separator and the adhesive layer to a peeling strength between the negative electrode and the adhesive layer is more than 0 and 4.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventor: Masataka TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20220328819
    Abstract: Provided is a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using a spinel-type manganese-containing composite oxide, in which the capacity deterioration in repeated charging and discharging at a high temperature is suppressed. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery disclosed herein includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material includes a lithium composite oxide having a spinel-type crystal structure and including Mn. The positive electrode active material layer includes 0.05% by mass or more and 1.0% by mass or less of orthophosphoric acid with respect to the positive electrode active material. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material layer containing a negative electrode active material. The negative electrode active material is graphite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMAGUCHI, Masataka TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20220328818
    Abstract: Provided is a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using a spinel-type manganese-containing composite oxide, in which the capacity deterioration in repeated charging and discharging at a high temperature is suppressed. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery disclosed herein includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material includes a lithium composite oxide having a spinel-type crystal structure and including Mn. The positive electrode active material layer includes 0.05% by mass or more and 1.0% by mass or less of phosphonic acid with respect to the positive electrode active material. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material layer containing a negative electrode active material. The negative electrode active material is graphite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMAGUCHI, Masataka TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20220293937
    Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode using a spinel-type lithium-manganese-based composite oxide, which can impart, to a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, excellent capacity deterioration resistance upon repeated charging and discharging. The positive electrode disclosed herein includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer supported by the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode active material layer includes a lithium-manganese-based composite oxide having a spinel-type crystal structure and including Mn, a lithium-nickel-based composite oxide including Li and Ni, and lithium phosphate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Masataka TOMITA, Hiroyuki YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220293928
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided which is suppressed in capacity deterioration upon repeating charging and discharging irrespective of cracks being formed in a lithium manganese oxide particle having a spinel type crystal structure. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery herein disclosed includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer includes lithium manganese oxide particles having a spinel type crystal structure as the positive electrode active material. At least a part of the lithium manganese oxide particles has a cracked part. The lithium manganese oxide particles have a coating film on the particle surface including the surface of the cracked part. The coating film contains a P component including a LiMnPO4 component, and a F component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Masataka TOMITA, Hiroyuki YAMAGUCHI, Yoshinari MAKIMURA
  • Patent number: 11387439
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an anode layer with little resistance increase due to charge and discharge. In the present disclosure, the above object is achieved by providing an anode layer comprising: an anode active material including a Nb element, a W element, and an O element; and a solid electrolyte, and an expansion coefficient of the anode active material when charged to 200 mAh per 1 g is 1.4% or more and 5% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Hideaki Nishimura, Shigenori Hama, Satoshi Mizutani, Masataka Tomita
  • Publication number: 20220123292
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a positive electrode active material having a spinel-type crystal structure that can reduce an increase in resistance and a decrease in capacity retention rate due to repeated charging and discharging of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The positive electrode active material disclosed herein is configured of a lithium manganese composite oxide having a spinel-type crystal structure, wherein the lithium manganese composite oxide includes secondary particles in which a plurality of primary particles are aggregated, an average particle diameter of the secondary particles based on a SEM image is 10 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less, an average particle diameter of the primary particles based on a SEM image is 4 ?m or more and 8 ?m or less, and nickel atoms are provided in the surface layer portion of the secondary particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshinari MAKIMURA, Hiroyuki YAMAGUCHI, Masataka TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20210226194
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an anode layer with little resistance increase due to charge and discharge. In the present disclosure, the above object is achieved by providing an anode layer comprising: an anode active material including a Nb element, a W element, and an O element; and a solid electrolyte, and an expansion coefficient of the anode active material when charged to 200 mAh per 1 g is 1.4% or more and 5% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Shigenori HAMA, Satoshi MIZUTANI, Masataka TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20200251717
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an anode layer with high capacity durability. In the present disclosure, the above object is achieved by providing an anode layer comprising: an anode active material including a Nb element, a W element, and an O element; and a sulfide solid electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Shigenori HAMA, Satoshi MIZUTANI, Masataka TOMITA
  • Patent number: 10249905
    Abstract: An all-solid-state secondary battery, including: a solid electrolyte layer; a positive electrode layer including a positive electrode active material layer and a first current collector layer; a negative electrode layer including a second current collector layer, the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer sandwiching the solid electrolyte layer; and external electrodes connected respectively to the first current collector layer and the second current collector layer, wherein the positive electrode active material layer is formed of an olivine-type active material, wherein the solid electrolyte layer is formed of a phosphate having a NASICON-type structure, and wherein the solid electrolyte layer contains particulate precipitate having an olivine-type crystal structure that includes a same element as an element forming the positive electrode active material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo Ito, Masaki Mochigi, Masataka Tomita, Toshimasa Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180090784
    Abstract: An all-solid-state secondary battery, including: a solid electrolyte layer; a positive electrode layer including a positive electrode active material layer and a first current collector layer; a negative electrode layer including a second current collector layer, the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer sandwiching the solid electrolyte layer; and external electrodes connected respectively to the first current collector layer and the second current collector layer, wherein the positive electrode active material layer is formed of an olivine-type active material, wherein the solid electrolyte layer is formed of a phosphate having a NASICON-type structure, and wherein the solid electrolyte layer contains particulate precipitate having an olivine-type crystal structure that includes a same element as an element forming the positive electrode active material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo ITO, Masaki MOCHIGI, Masataka TOMITA, Toshimasa SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9865899
    Abstract: An all-solid-state secondary battery, including: a solid electrolyte layer; a positive electrode layer including a positive electrode active material layer and a first current collector layer; a negative electrode layer including a second current collector layer, the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer sandwiching the solid electrolyte layer; and external electrodes connected respectively to the first current collector layer and the second current collector layer, wherein the positive electrode active material layer is formed of an olivine-type active material, wherein the solid electrolyte layer is formed of a phosphate having a NASICON-type structure, and wherein the solid electrolyte layer contains particulate precipitate having an olivine-type crystal structure that includes a same element as an element forming the positive electrode active material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo Ito, Masaki Mochigi, Masataka Tomita, Toshimasa Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20160141716
    Abstract: An all-solid-state secondary battery, including: a solid electrolyte layer; a positive electrode layer including a positive electrode active material layer and a first current collector layer; a negative electrode layer including a second current collector layer, the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer sandwiching the solid electrolyte layer; and external electrodes connected respectively to the first current collector layer and the second current collector layer, wherein the positive electrode active material layer is formed of an olivine-type active material, wherein the solid electrolyte layer is formed of a phosphate having a NASICON-type structure, and wherein the solid electrolyte layer contains particulate precipitate having an olivine-type crystal structure that includes a same element as an element forming the positive electrode active material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo ITO, Masaki MOCHIGI, Masataka TOMITA, Toshimasa SUZUKI