Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Kito

Masatoshi Kito 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: 20220271392
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a substrate for lithium ion battery separators which has high adhesion to an inorganic particle layer, can be made thin and is excellent in tensile strength and cuttability and a lithium ion battery separator including the substrate for lithium ion battery separators. The substrate for lithium ion battery separators which contains heat-resistant fibers and synthetic resin short fibers contains fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml as the heat-resistant fibers and has a content of the fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml of not less than 1.0 mass % to less than 5.0 mass % based on the total of all the fiber components contained in the substrate. The modified freeness is a value measured in accordance with JIS P8121-2:2012 except that an 80-mesh wire net having a wire diameter of 0.14 mm and an opening of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshihiro SHIGEMATSU, Tomohiro SATO, Makoto KATO, Masatoshi KITO, Noriko KASAI, Kukjin YOON, Wakana AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210288382
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a substrate for lithium ion battery separators which has high adhesion to an inorganic particle layer, can be made thin and is excellent in tensile strength and cuttability and a lithium ion battery separator including the substrate for lithium ion battery separators. The substrate for lithium ion battery separators which contains heat-resistant fibers and synthetic resin short fibers contains fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml as the heat-resistant fibers and has a content of the fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml of not less than 1.0 mass % to less than 5.0 mass % based on the total of all the fiber components contained in the substrate. The modified freeness is a value measured in accordance with JIS P8121-2:2012 except that an 80-mesh wire net having a wire diameter of 0.14 mm and an opening of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshihiro SHIGEMATSU, Tomohiro SATO, Makoto KATO, Masatoshi KITO, Noriko KASAI, Kukjin YOON, Wakana AIZAWA
  • Patent number: 10818898
    Abstract: A separator for electrochemical elements includes beaten solvent-spun cellulose fibers and rayon fibers having a fiber diameter of 9.5 ?m or less. More preferably, the separator for electrochemical elements has a content of the rayon fibers relative to all fibers of 10 to 25% by mass, and can be applied to electrochemical elements such as electric double layer capacitors, hybrid capacitors, redox capacitors, and lithium secondary batteries. The separator can provide low internal short circuit failure rates and high surface strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshihiro Shigematsu, Masatoshi Kito, Keisuke Ooyama
  • Publication number: 20190148697
    Abstract: A separator for electrochemical elements includes beaten solvent-spun cellulose fibers and rayon fibers having a fiber diameter of 9.5 ?m or less. More preferably, the separator for electrochemical elements has a content of the rayon fibers relative to all fibers of 10 to 25% by mass, and can be applied to electrochemical elements such as electric double layer capacitors, hybrid capacitors, redox capacitors, and lithium secondary batteries. The separator can provide low internal short circuit failure rates and high surface strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Toshihiro SHIGEMATSU, Masatoshi KITO, Keisuke OOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170294637
    Abstract: A separator for an electrochemical device which includes a nonwoven fabric base material and an inorganic particle layer is provided. The nonwoven fabric base material includes a synthetic resin fiber with an average fiber diameter of 1 to 20 ?m. The inorganic particle layer includes an inorganic particle layer A that contains magnesium hydroxide with an average particle size of 2.0 to 4.0 ?m, and an inorganic particle layer B that contains magnesium hydroxide with an average particle size of not less than 0.5 ?m and less than 2.0 ?m. The inorganic particle layer A and the inorganic particle layer B are stacked in this order on a surface of the nonwoven fabric base material. Alternatively, the inorganic particle layer A is disposed on a surface of the nonwoven fabric base material and the inorganic particle layer B is disposed on the other surface of the nonwoven fabric base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro SATO, Masatoshi KITO
  • Patent number: 7897012
    Abstract: This invention is to provide a sheet product that is excellent in moisture absorption amount, moisture absorption speed and moisture release speed and is capable of keeping a powder from falling off and that can have a large content of a moisture adsorbent, and the sheet product of this invention contains (a) a moisture adsorbent formed of a tubular or fibrous metal oxide, (b) a cellulosic fibrillated fiber, and (c) an organic fiber having a fineness of 0.01 dtex to 0.45 dtex and is characteristically produced by a paper-making method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Kazuchiyo Takaoka, Masanobu Matsuoka, Masatoshi Kito
  • Publication number: 20090321028
    Abstract: This invention is to provide a sheet product that is excellent in moisture absorption amount, moisture absorption speed and moisture release speed and is capable of keeping a powder from falling off and that can have a large content of a moisture adsorbent, and the sheet product of this invention contains (a) a moisture adsorbent formed of a tubular or fibrous metal oxide, (b) a cellulosic fibrillated fiber, and (c) an organic fiber having a fineness of 0.01 dtex to 0.45 dtex and is characteristically produced by a paper-making method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Kazuchiyo Takaoka, Masanobu Matsuoka, Masatoshi Kito
  • Patent number: 7211527
    Abstract: A resin-impregnated substrate is obtained by a method comprising the steps of immersing a sheet comprising an aromatic liquid crystalline polyester fiber in an aromatic liquid crystalline polyester solution containing 100 parts by weight of a solvent and 0.5 to 100 parts by weight of an aromatic liquid crystalline polyester and removing the solvent, the solvent containing on a weight basis with respect to the solvent 30% or more of a phenol compound. The resin-impregnated substrate has a high heat resistance in soldering conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Okamoto, Shiro Katagiri, Wakana Aizawa, Masatoshi Kito
  • Publication number: 20050181692
    Abstract: A resin-impregnated substrate is obtained by a method comprising the steps of immersing a sheet comprising an aromatic liquid crystalline polyester fiber in an aromatic liquid crystalline polyester solution containing 100 parts by weight of a solvent and 0.5 to 100 parts by weight of an aromatic liquid crystalline polyester and removing the solvent, the solvent containing on a weight basis with respect to the solvent 30% or more of a phenol compound. The resin-impregnated substrate has a high heat resistance in soldering conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Satoshi Okamoto, Shiro Katagiri, Wakana Aizawa, Masatoshi Kito