Patents by Inventor Sokichi OKUBO
Sokichi OKUBO 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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Patent number: 11929489Abstract: A manufacturing method for an electrode plate and an electrode plate are provided. The method includes deposition-layer forming to form a deposition layer in which active material particles and binder particles are deposited on a surface of a current collecting foil and heat pressing to form an electrode layer on the surface of the current collecting foil by heating and compressing a deposition-layer-formed current collecting foil having the deposition layer on the surface of the current collecting foil. The deposition layer includes a first deposition layer placed on a side of the current collecting foil and a second deposition layer constituting a surface of the deposition layer. The deposition-layer forming includes forming the deposition layer in which a content rate of the binder particles in the second deposition layer is lower than a content rate of the binder particles in the first deposition layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sokichi Okubo, Tomoyuki Uezono, Momoka Miyajima, Nagisa Shimasaki, Masaki Watanabe, Miyuki Matsuyama
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Publication number: 20240079552Abstract: An electrode to be used for a battery, the electrode including: a current collector, a first electrode layer arranged on the current collector, and a second electrode layer arranged on the first electrode layer, wherein the first electrode layer includes a first active material, and a first binder covering a surface of the first active material; the second electrode layer includes a second active material, and a second binder covering a surface of the second active material; and when C1 (%) designates a coverage of the first binder with respect to the first active material, and C2 (%) designates a coverage of the second binder with respect to the second active material, the C1 is larger than the C2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masashi UEDA, Shinji Kojima, Takuo Yanagi, Sokichi Okubo
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Publication number: 20240079562Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an electrode capable of reducing the resistance of a battery and also capable of improving resistance to high temperature storage. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an electrode to be used for a battery, the electrode including a current collector and an electrode layer, wherein the electrode layer includes layers in the order of a first layer and a second layer; the first layer contains a first binder, the second layer contains a second binder, and a degree of swelling of the first binder is lower than a degree of swelling of the second binder.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masashi UEDA, Takuo Yanagi, Shinji Kojima, Sokichi Okubo
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Patent number: 11791452Abstract: Provided are: a positive electrode for solid-state batteries, which enables the achievement of high energy density, rate characteristics and durability; a solid-state battery; and a method for producing a solid-state battery. A positive electrode for solid-state batteries, which is provided with a collector and a positive electrode active material layer that contains a positive electrode active material, and which is configured such that: the ratio of the positive electrode active material, which is composed of primary particles, in the positive electrode active material layer is 60% by mass or more; the void fraction in the positive electrode active material layer is less than 20% by volume; and portions of the positive electrode active material layer other than the positive electrode active material, which is composed of primary particles, contain a solid electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto Maeyama, Ushio Harada, Noriaki Kamaya, Sokichi Okubo, Toru Sukigara
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Publication number: 20230223520Abstract: In this disclosure, a battery is provided. The electrode includes an electrode current collector and an electrode active material layer, wherein the electrode active material layer includes a single crystal electrode active material and a polycrystalline electrode active material, and the single crystal electrode active material and the polycrystalline electrode active material are each a lithium transition metal composite oxide, and the electrode active material layer includes a first layer including a first surface opposite to the electrode current collector and a second layer including a second surface on the electrode current collector side, wherein the first layer includes the single crystal electrode active material as a main component of the electrode active material, and the second layer includes the polycrystalline electrode active material as a main component of the electrode active material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Ryosuke OHSAWA, Masashi UEDA, Takuo YANAGI, Sokichi OKUBO
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Publication number: 20230178738Abstract: An electrode for a lithium ion battery includes a current collector foil, binder particle groups, and an active material layer. The binder particle groups are attached to a surface of the current collector foil. The active material layer is arranged on the surface of the current collector foil. The active material layer contains active material particle groups. The binder particle groups are scattered within an interface between the active material layer and the current collector foil.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masashi UEDA, Sokichi OKUBO, Takuo YANAGI
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Publication number: 20220352490Abstract: A method for producing an electrode sheet includes roll-pressing an uncompressed electrode sheet including a current collecting foil and an uncompressed electrode layer formed thereon and made from composite particles including active material particles and binder particles, by feeding the uncompressed electrode sheet to pass through a gap between first and second rolls to compress, and heating the sheet so that the active material particles are bonded to each other and also to the current collecting foil. A first outer peripheral surface temperature of the first roll contacting the foil falls within a temperature range from a binder-resin melting start temperature +5° C. to +25° C., and a second outer peripheral surface temperature of the second roll contacting the uncompressed electrode layer is lower than the first outer peripheral surface temperature and further falls within a temperature range not exceeding the melting start temperature +5° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Sokichi OKUBO, Tomoyuki UEZONO, Momoka MIYAJIMA, Nagisa SHIMASAKI, Miyuki MATSUYAMA
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Publication number: 20220320521Abstract: A negative electrode plate is provided with a current collecting foil and an active material layer. The active material layer formed on the current collecting foil includes flake graphite particles and a binder resin in a manner that the flake graphite particles are bound to one another and the flake graphite particles and the current collecting foil are bound by the heat-melted binder resin, and a peak intensity ratio by an XRD analysis of the active material layer is 130 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Tomoyuki UEZONO, Sokichi OKUBO, Momoka MIYAJIMA
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Publication number: 20220271270Abstract: A manufacturing method for an electrode plate and an electrode plate are provided. The method includes deposition-layer forming to form a deposition layer in which active material particles and binder particles are deposited on a surface of a current collecting foil and heat pressing to form an electrode layer on the surface of the current collecting foil by heating and compressing a deposition-layer-formed current collecting foil having the deposition layer on the surface of the current collecting foil. The deposition layer includes a first deposition layer placed on a side of the current collecting foil and a second deposition layer constituting a surface of the deposition layer. The deposition-layer forming includes forming the deposition layer in which a content rate of the binder particles in the second deposition layer is lower than a content rate of the binder particles in the first deposition layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Sokichi OKUBO, Tomoyuki UEZONO, Momoka MIYAJIMA, Nagisa SHIMASAKI, Masaki WATANABE, Miyuki MATSUYAMA
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Publication number: 20220246916Abstract: A positive active material composite particle of the present disclosure includes a positive active material particle, a conductive particle existing on a surface of the positive active material particle and having a smaller diameter than the positive active material particle, and a binder resin bonding the surface of the positive active material particle and the conductive particle on the surface of the positive active material particle. A positive electrode sheet of the present disclosure includes a positive active material mixture layer formed on a current collecting member by a dry process using the positive active material composite particle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Tomoyuki UEZONO, Sokichi OKUBO, Momoka MIYAJIMA
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Patent number: 11394070Abstract: The invention provides an all-solid-state battery stack with high voltage. The all-solid-state battery stack of the disclosure has a plurality of monopolar battery units stacked together via insulator layers. The monopolar battery unit also has a first current collector layer, a first active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a second active material layer, a second current collector layer, a second active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a first active material layer and a first current collector layer, stacked in that order. The plurality of monopolar battery units are connected together in series.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takumi Tanaka, Hajime Hasegawa, Satomi Yamamoto, Koichi Tanimoto, Sokichi Okubo
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Publication number: 20220190309Abstract: A method for producing an electrode sheet includes heating before pressing to heat the electrode sheet to soften or melt binder particles contained in an electrode mixture layer and roll-pressing the electrode sheet heated in the heating before pressing by use of first and second rolls. In the roll-pressing, the temperature of an outer peripheral surface of a first roll with which an outer surface of the electrode mixture layer of the electrode sheet contacts is set lower than the temperature of an outer peripheral surface of the second roll, and the electrode sheet is roll-pressed so that an adhesive strength of binder particles in the electrode mixture layer to the first roll is reduced lower than an adhesive strength of the binder particles to a current collecting foil.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Tomoyuki UEZONO, Sokichi OKUBO, Momoka MIYAJIMA, Nagisa SHIMASAKI, Masaki WATANABE, Miyuki MATSUYAMA
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Patent number: 11271268Abstract: A cell holder (1) for holding a secondary battery cell (9) including a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode active material, and an electrolyte which is disposed between the positive electrode active material and the negative electrode active material and is in contact with both the positive electrode active material and the negative electrode active material, and for outputting power from the secondary battery cell (9), includes a cell holder body (30), and a pressing portion (10) which is supported by the cell holder body (30) and includes a disc spring (11) being in contact with a first end face of the secondary battery cell (9) in a first direction and pressing the first end face of the secondary battery cell (9) in a second direction opposite to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ushio Harada, Masahiro Ohta, Tadashi Tsunoda, Sokichi Okubo, Hiroto Maeyama, Noriaki Kamaya, Toru Sukigara
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Publication number: 20220045536Abstract: A charging system includes a power transfer device and a rapid charging battery. The power transfer device includes a first power transfer unit being compatible with a first charging standard specifying that the rapid charging battery is to be charged at a predetermined current value. The rapid charging battery includes a first charging unit being compatible with the first charging standard, and a second power transfer unit being compatible with a second charging standard specifying that power is to be transferred at a predetermined current value that is lower than the predetermined current value specified by the first charging standard.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Kodai NAGANO, Atsushi SUGIHARA, Shizuka MASUOKA, Sokichi OKUBO, Hiroyuki OBATA, Hiroshi TEMMYO, Yuki YOSHIKAWA, Jun NISHIKAWA, Wataru OKADA, Iwao NITTA
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Publication number: 20210104774Abstract: The present invention provides: a solid-state battery which is not susceptible to decrease of the discharging capacity even if charge and discharge are repeated; and a method for producing a solid-state battery, which enables the achievement of a good bonded interface between a solid electrolyte layer and a anode layer by a simple process. A solid-state battery 1 according to the present invention is provided with a cathode layer 20, a anode layer 30 and a solid electrolyte layer 40 that is arranged between the cathode layer 20 and the anode layer 30. The anode layer 30 is provided with an aluminum layer 31 that is in contact with the solid electrolyte layer 40, a lithium layer 32, and an aluminum-lithium alloy layer 33 that is arranged between the aluminum layer 31 and the lithium layer 32.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Noriaki KAMAYA, Hiroto MAEYAMA, Ushio HARADA, Sokichi OKUBO, Toru SUKIGARA
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Publication number: 20210043918Abstract: Provided are: a positive electrode for solid-state batteries, which enables the achievement of high energy density, rate characteristics and durability; a solid-state battery; and a method for producing a solid-state battery. A positive electrode for solid-state batteries, which is provided with a collector and a positive electrode active material layer that contains a positive electrode active material, and which is configured such that: the ratio of the positive electrode active material, which is composed of primary particles, in the positive electrode active material layer is 60% by mass or more; the void fraction in the positive electrode active material layer is less than 20% by volume; and portions of the positive electrode active material layer other than the positive electrode active material, which is composed of primary particles, contain a solid electrolyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2018Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Hiroto MAEYAMA, Ushio HARADA, Noriaki KAMAYA, Sokichi OKUBO, Toru SUKIGARA
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Publication number: 20200295320Abstract: A cell holder (1) for holding a secondary battery cell (9) including a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode active material, and an electrolyte which is disposed between the positive electrode active material and the negative electrode active material and is in contact with both the positive electrode active material and the negative electrode active material, and for outputting power from the secondary battery cell (9), includes a cell holder body (30), and a pressing portion (10) which is supported by the cell holder body (30) and includes a disc spring (11) being in contact with a first end face of the secondary battery cell (9) in a first direction and pressing the first end face of the secondary battery cell (9) in a second direction opposite to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2017Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Ushio HARADA, Masahiro OHTA, Tadashi TSUNODA, Sokichi OKUBO, Hiroto MAEYAMA, Noriaki KAMAYA, Toru SUKIGARA
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Publication number: 20200259128Abstract: The invention provides an all-solid-state battery stack with high voltage. The all-solid-state battery stack of the disclosure has a plurality of monopolar battery units stacked together via insulator layers. The monopolar battery unit also has a first current collector layer, a first active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a second active material layer, a second current collector layer, a second active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a first active material layer and a first current collector layer, stacked in that order. The plurality of monopolar battery units are connected together in series.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takumi TANAKA, Hajime Hasegawa, Satomi Yamamoto, Koichi Tanimoto, Sokichi Okubo
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Patent number: 10637066Abstract: The current collector plate arrangement structure of the bipolar solid-state battery includes a battery cell stack formed by stacking a plurality of solid-state battery cells each including a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer and in contact with the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer. The bipolar solid-state battery includes a positive electrode current collector and a negative electrode current collector on a side surface with respect to a stacking direction. Current collector plates and of the solid-state battery cells are arranged on at least one of a front surface serving as one end surface in the stacking direction and a rear surface serving as the other end surface in the stacking direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sokichi Okubo, Hiroto Maeyama, Noriaki Kamaya, Ushio Harada, Toru Sukigara
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Publication number: 20190088952Abstract: The current collector plate arrangement structure of the bipolar solid-state battery includes a battery cell stack formed by stacking a plurality of solid-state battery cells each including a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer and in contact with the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer. The bipolar solid-state battery includes a positive electrode current collector and a negative electrode current collector on a side surface with respect to a stacking direction. Current collector plates and of the solid-state battery cells are arranged on at least one of a front surface serving as one end surface in the stacking direction and a rear surface serving as the other end surface in the stacking direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.Inventors: Sokichi OKUBO, Hiroto MAEYAMA, Noriaki KAMAYA, Ushio HARADA, Toru SUKIGARA