Patents by Inventor Satoshi AKASAKA

Satoshi AKASAKA 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: 20240128006
    Abstract: A laminated coil component includes: an element body having a first surface and a second surface facing each other in a first direction; a coil unit formed by laminating a plurality of coil conductors in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction inside the element body; a first lead-out conductor; and a second lead-out conductor. A first coil conductor adjacent to the first lead-out conductor in the second direction includes a first side portion extending along the first surface, on a first surface side. A second coil conductor adjacent to the second lead-out conductor in the second direction includes a second side portion extending along the second surface, on a second surface side. The first side portion has a larger line width than other side portions of the first coil conductor and the second side portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya OSHIMA, Hiroshi ONO, Ryosuke HORIE, Daiki YAMADA, Yuki AKASAKA, Shuichi WATANABE, Satoshi TAKASU, Makoto YOSHINO, Takahiro YATA
  • Patent number: 11936044
    Abstract: A carbon material for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing a graphite capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, and having a cumulative pore volume at pore diameters in a range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m of 0.08 mL/g or more, a roundness, as determined by flow-type particle image analysis, of 0.88 or greater, and a pore diameter to particle diameter ratio (PD/d50 (%)) of 1.8 or less, the ratio being given by equation (1A): PD/d50 (%)=mode pore diameter (PD) in a pore diameter range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m in a pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion/volume-based average particle diameter (d50)×100 is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamada, Nobuyuki Ishiwatari, Satoshi Akasaka, Daigo Nagayama, Shingo Morokuma, Koichi Nishio, Iwao Soga, Hideaki Tanaka, Takashi Kameda, Tooru Fuse, Hiromitsu Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20230352686
    Abstract: A method for producing a carbon material may include: granulating a raw carbon material by applying mechanical energy comprising impact, compression, friction, and/or shear force. The granulating may be carried out in the presence of a granulating agent. The granulating agent may be liquid during the granulating of the raw carbon material. Alternatively or in addition, the granulating agent may include no organic solvent, an organic solvent having no flash point, or no organic solvent having a flash point of 5° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Satoshi AKASAKA, Daigo NAGAYAMA, Shingo MOROKUMA, Koichi NISHIO, Iwao SOGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Takashi KAMEDA, Tooru FUSE, Hiromitsu IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11605810
    Abstract: The invention relates to composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode containing graphite (A) and metal particles (B) capable of alloying with Li, wherein the degree of dispersion of the metal particles (B) in the composite graphite particles is 0.78 or more and the internal void fraction of the composite graphite particles is 3% or more and 40% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Ueda, Satoshi Akasaka, Nobuyuki Ishiwatari, Junko Kagimoto, Shingo Morokuma
  • Publication number: 20220123310
    Abstract: A carbon material may include granulated particles made of a carbonaceous material and satisfying (2L): ? X 1 - X ? / X 1 ? 0.2 , ( 2 ? L ) wherein X is a volume-based average particle diameter determined by laser diffraction, and X1 is an equivalent circular diameter determined from a cross-sectional SEM image, which is a reflected electron image acquired at an acceleration voltage of 10 kV, wherein X and X1 are determined from a cross-sectional SEM image, by drawing grid lines to split the minor axis and the major axis of a target granulated particle each into 20 parts to obtain a grid, and using cells in the grid, compartmentalizing the target granulated particle in a compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Satoshi AKASAKA, Daigo NAGAYAMA, Shingo MOROKUMA, Koichi NISHIO, Iwao SOGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Takashi KAMEDA, Tooru FUSE, Hiromitsu IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220123308
    Abstract: A carbon material may satisfying inequality (1K): 10.914 > 5 ? x k - y k - 0.0087 ? a , ( 1 ? K ) wherein a is a volume-based average particle diameter in um of the carbon material, xk is a true density in g/cm3 of the carbon material, and yk is a value determined by equation (2K): y k = D 100 - D T , ( 2 ? K ) wherein D100 is density in g/cm3 of carbon material under uniaxial load of 100 kgf/3.14 cm2, and DT is tap density of carbon material in g/cm3. Such carbon materials may be used in electrodes and batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Satoshi AKASAKA, Daigo NAGAYAMA, Shingo MOROKUMA, Koichi NISHIO, Iwao SOGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Takashi KAMEDA, Tooru FUSE, Hiromitsu IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220123311
    Abstract: A carbon material may include granulated particles made of a carbonaceous material and satisfying (2L), ? X 1 - X ? / X 1 ? 0.2 , ( 2 ? L ) wherein X is a volume-based average particle diameter determined by laser diffraction, and X1 is an equivalent circular diameter determined from a cross-sectional SEM image, which is a reflected electron image acquired at 10 kV, wherein the carbon material has an average inter-void distance Z of 30 granulated particles randomly selected from a cross-sectional SEM image of the carbon material, as Zave, and wherein the carbon material has volume-based average particle diameter X determined by laser diffraction in a Zave/X ratio of 0.060 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Satoshi AKASAKA, Daigo NAGAYAMA, Shingo MOROKUMA, Koichi NISHIO, Iwao SOGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Takashi KAMEDA, Tooru FUSE, Hiromitsu IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220123309
    Abstract: A carbon material may include granulated particles satisfying (1L) and (2L): (1L) the granulated particles are made of a carbonaceous material; and (2L) the granulated particles satisfy the relationship |X1?X|/X1?0.2, wherein X is a volume-based average particle diameter determined by laser diffraction, and X1 is an equivalent circular diameter as determined from a cross-sectional SEM image, provided that the cross-sectional SEM image is a reflected electron image acquired at an acceleration voltage of 10 kV, wherein the carbon material has an average box-counting dimension relative to void regions of 30 particles of 1.55 or greater, as calculated from images obtained by randomly selecting 30 granulated particles from a cross-sectional SEM image of the carbon material, dividing the cross-sectional SEM image of each granulated particle into void regions and non-void regions, and binarizing the image. Such carbon material may be used in electrodes and batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Satoshi AKASAKA, Daigo NAGAYAMA, Shingo MOROKUMA, Koichi NISHIO, Iwao SOGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Takashi KAMEDA, Tooru FUSE, Hiromitsu IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220102707
    Abstract: The invention relates to composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode containing graphite (A) and metal particles (B) capable of alloying with Li, wherein the degree of dispersion of the metal particles (B) in the composite graphite particles is 0.78 or more and the internal void fraction of the composite graphite particles is 3% or more and 40% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akio UEDA, Satoshi AKASAKA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Junko KAGIMOTO, Shingo MOROKUMA
  • Patent number: 11245108
    Abstract: The invention includes a method to provide composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode, wherein metal particles capable of alloying with Li can be internally present with favorable dispersibility. The present invention relates to composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode containing graphite (A) and metal particles (B) capable of alloying with Li, wherein the degree of dispersion of the metal particles (B) in the composite graphite particles is 0.78 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Ueda, Satoshi Akasaka, Nobuyuki Ishiwatari, Junko Kagimoto, Shingo Morokuma
  • Publication number: 20200287205
    Abstract: The invention includes a method to provide composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode, wherein metal particles capable of alloying with Li can be internally present with favorable dispersibility. The present invention relates to composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode containing graphite (A) and metal particles (B) capable of alloying with Li, wherein the degree of dispersion of the metal particles (B) in the composite graphite particles is 0.78 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akio UEDA, Satoshi AKASAKA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Junko KAGIMOTO, Shingo MOROKUMA
  • Publication number: 20200185721
    Abstract: Provided is a method to manufacture a composite carbon material capable of obtaining a non-aqueous secondary battery, which has high capacity, initial efficiency, and low charging resistance and is excellent in productivity. As a result thereof, a high-performance non-aqueous secondary battery is stably provided with efficiency. A composite carbon material for a non-aqueous secondary battery is provided, which contains at least a bulk mesophase artificial graphite particle (A) and graphite particle (B) having an aspect ratio of 5 or greater, and which is capable of absorbing and releasing lithium ions. A graphite crystal layered structure of the graphite particle (B) is arranged in the same direction as a direction of an outer peripheral surface of the bulk mesophase artificial graphite particle (A) at a part of a surface of the bulk mesophase artificial graphite particle (A), and an average circularity of the composite carbon material is 0.9 or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Satoshi AKASAKA, Iwao SOGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Tooru FUSE, Shingo MOROKUMA, Koichi NISHIO
  • Patent number: 10680238
    Abstract: The invention includes a method to provide composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode, wherein metal particles capable of alloying with Li can be internally present with favorable dispersibility. The present invention relates to composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode containing graphite (A) and metal particles (B) capable of alloying with Li, wherein the degree of dispersion of the metal particles (B) in the composite graphite particles is 0.78 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Ueda, Satoshi Akasaka, Nobuyuki Ishiwatari, Junko Kagimoto, Shingo Morokuma
  • Publication number: 20190088934
    Abstract: The invention includes a method to provide composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode, wherein metal particles capable of alloying with Li can be internally present with favorable dispersibility. The present invention relates to composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode containing graphite (A) and metal particles (B) capable of alloying with Li, wherein the degree of dispersion of the metal particles (B) in the composite graphite particles is 0.78 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akio UEDA, Satoshi AKASAKA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Junko KAGIMOTO, Shingo MOROKUMA
  • Patent number: 10149052
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a vibration generation unit configured to generate vibration and a switching unit configured to perform switching between a first mode for causing the vibration generation unit to generate the vibration on the basis of first vibration information including information indicating an amplitude and a frequency, and a second mode for causing the vibration generation unit to generate the vibration on the basis of second vibration information including information indicating an amplitude and a frequency, wherein the second vibration information is data obtained by reducing an amplitude of a predetermined frequency band in the first vibration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Akasaka, Toshitsugu Il
  • Publication number: 20180013146
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon material capable of obtaining a non-aqueous secondary battery, which has high capacity, initial efficiency, and low charging resistance and is excellent in productivity. As a result thereof, a high-performance non-aqueous secondary battery is stably provided with efficiency. A composite carbon material for a non-aqueous secondary battery is provided, which contains at least a bulk mesophase artificial graphite particle (A) and graphite particle (B) having an aspect ratio of 5 or greater, and which is capable of absorbing and releasing lithium ions. A graphite crystal layered structure of the graphite particle (B) is arranged in the same direction as a direction of an outer peripheral surface of the bulk mesophase artificial graphite particle (A) at a part of a surface of the bulk mesophase artificial graphite particle (A), and an average circularity of the composite carbon material is 0.9 or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: SHUNSUKE YAMADA, NOBUYUKI ISHIWATARI, SATOSHI AKASAKA, IWAO SOGA, HIDEAKI TANAKA, TOORU FUSE, SHINGO MOROKUMA, KOICHI NISHIO
  • Patent number: 9724731
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing having a plurality of surfaces and a plurality of vibration portions provided in the housing so as to be in contact with at least one of the plurality of surfaces. The plurality of vibration portions include a first vibration portion, which vibrates at a frequency included in a first frequency band, and a second vibration portion, which vibrates at a frequency included in a second frequency band that is different from the first frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Akasaka
  • Publication number: 20170187041
    Abstract: A carbon material for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing a graphite capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, and having a cumulative pore volume at pore diameters in a range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m of 0.08 mL/g or more, a roundness, as determined by flow-type particle image analysis, of 0.88 or greater, and a pore diameter to particle diameter ratio (PD/d50 (%)) of 1.8 or less, the ratio being given by equation (1A): PD/d50 (%)=mode pore diameter (PD) in a pore diameter range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m in a pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion/volume-based average particle diameter (d50)×100 is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Satoshi AKASAKA, Daigo NAGAYAMA, Shingo MOROKUMA, Koichi NISHIO, Iwao SOGA, Hideaki TANAKA, Takashi KAMEDA, Tooru FUSE, Hiromitsu IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20170012280
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode, wherein metal particles capable of alloying with Li can be internally present with favorable dispersibility. The present invention relates to composite graphite particles for a nonaqueous secondary battery negative electrode containing graphite (A) and metal particles (B) capable of alloying with Li, wherein the degree of dispersion of the metal particles (B) in the composite graphite particles is 0.78 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akio UEDA, Satoshi Akasaka, Nobuyuki Ishiwatari, Junko Kagimoto, Shingo Morokuma
  • Patent number: 9527110
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a body unit that houses an electronic circuit; a vibration unit that is provided in the body unit, is configured to vibrate in a predetermined direction, and has a variable frequency of vibration; a plurality of resonators that are each provided in a different portion of the body unit and are each configured to resonate with vibration having a different frequency; and a transmission unit that is configured to transmit vibration of the vibration unit to the plurality of resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Akasaka