Patents by Inventor Takao Kitagawa

Takao Kitagawa 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: 20180277846
    Abstract: A cathode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery of the present invention includes active material secondary particles formed by aggregating central particles including primary particles of a cathode active material represented by General Formula LiaAxBO4 (here, A represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni, B represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of P, Si, and S, 0?a<4, and 0<x<1.5) and a carbonaceous film, wherein at least a portion of surfaces of the primary particles are coated with the carbonaceous film, and the carbonaceous film is obtained by thermal decomposition of an organic compound, in which, in a charge and discharge cycle test at 60° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Kouji OONO, Hirofumi Yasumiishi, Masataka OYAMA, Takao KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180248188
    Abstract: An electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery including an electrode mixture layer made of a mixture including a first electrode active material including a compound represented by General Formula LiaAbPO4, a second electrode active material including at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by LicBdO2, a lithium cobaltate-based compound, a lithium manganate-based compound, and a lithium nickelate-based compound, a conductive auxiliary agent, and a binder, in which a thermal conductivity of the electrode for the lithium-ion secondary battery, which is derived from Expression (1) using a thermal diffusivity, a constant pressure specific heat, and an electrode density of the electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery, is 0.9 W/(m·K) or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Takao KITAGAWA, Hirofumi YASUMIISHI
  • Patent number: 10014522
    Abstract: A cathode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery including cathode active material particles which have central particles made of LixAyMzPO4 (0?x?1.1, 0.8?y?1.1, and 0?z?0.2; here, A represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Mn, Co, and Ni, and M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Co, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, and rare earth elements) and a carbonaceous film that coats surfaces of the central particles; and inorganic phosphate salt particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka Oyama, Takao Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 9979013
    Abstract: An electrode material includes Fe-containing olivine-structured LixAyDzPO4 (wherein A represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn, Ni, Cu, and Cr; D represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sc, Y, and rare earth elements; 0<x?2; 0<y?1; and 0?z?1.5) particles that are coated with a carbon coating film, in which an abundance of Fe is 0.01 to 0.1 mol with respect to 1 mol of LixAyDzPO4, and an abundance ratio (Fe/(Fe+A+D)) of Fe on surfaces of the LixAyDzPO4 particles is 0.02 to 0.25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Ooishi, Takao Kitagawa, Kouji Oono, Satoru Oshitari
  • Patent number: 9960416
    Abstract: The present invention provides a positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which the charge/discharge rate of a secondary battery is increased by increasing the discharge/discharge rate of the positive electrode as a result of increasing the rate of incorporation and release of lithium ions in olivine-type phosphorous complex compound particles, a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided with this positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and a battery module provided with this non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomitaro Hara, Takao Fukunaga, Takayasu Iguchi, Takao Kitagawa, Yoshitaka Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9941510
    Abstract: An electrode material is provided in which a carbon coating film containing an ion-conductive material is formed on surfaces of electrode-active material particles, and at least a portion of a surface of the ion-conductive material is exposed without being coated with the carbon coating film or the ion-conductive material is surrounded by the carbon coating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Kitagawa, Tetsuya Nakabeppu
  • Publication number: 20180097231
    Abstract: A cathode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery of the present invention is active material particles including central particles represented by LixAyMzPO4 and a carbonaceous film that coats surfaces of the central particles, in which a median diameter is 0.50 ?m or more and 0.80 ?m or less, and a chromaticity b* in an L*a*b* color space is 1.9 or more and 2.3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Masataka OYAMA, Takao KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180097230
    Abstract: A cathode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery of the present invention includes central particles represented by LixAyMzPO4 and a carbonaceous film that coats surfaces of the central particles, an average value of R values (I1580/I1360), which are ratios of a peak intensity (I1580) of a spectrum at a frequency band of 1,580±50 cm?1 to a peak intensity (I1360) of the spectrum at a frequency band of 1,360±50 cm?1 in a Raman spectrum analysis, measured at five points is 0.80 or more and 1.10 or less, and a standard deviation of the R values measured at five points is 0.010 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Masataka OYAMA, Takao KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9923207
    Abstract: An electrode material which can improve the mobility of electrons and the mobility of ions at the same time, and, furthermore, does not have a problem of the impairment of the diffusion of lithium ions in a thin layer containing a carbonaceous electron-conductive substance so as to be excellent in terms of load characteristics and energy density, and an electrode and a lithium ion battery are provided. The electrode material of the invention is produced by forming a thin layer made of a carbonaceous electron-conductive substance on surfaces of primary particles made of an electrode active material, in which the carbonaceous electron-conductive substance contains nitrogen atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Oono, Takao Kitagawa, Tatsuya Nakabeppu, Kazuyo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20180062165
    Abstract: An electrode material made of a carbonaceous-coated electrode active material having primary particles of an electrode active material and aggregates of the primary particles and a carbonaceous film that coats the primary particles of the electrode active material and the aggregates of the primary particles, in which an average particle diameter of the carbonaceous-coated electrode active material is 30 nm or more and 200 nm or less, a crystallite diameter obtained from a full width at half maximum of a (020) plane in an X-ray diffraction measurement is 30 nm or more and 100 nm or less, a specific surface area obtained using a BET method is 10 m2/g or more and 25 m2/g or less, and a carbon content is 0.5% by mass or more and 2.5% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Kouji OONO, Takao KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9865876
    Abstract: An electrode material, an electrode, and a lithium ion battery in which it is possible to improve not only the amount of gas generated in the battery during charge and discharge but also the deterioration of battery components without reducing the charge and discharge capacity are provided. The electrode material is an electrode material including carbonaceous electrode active material complex particles which include a carbonaceous material on surfaces of electrode active material particles, in which an oxygen content rate in the carbonaceous material is 5.0% by mass or less, and a coating ratio of the carbonaceous material on the surfaces of the carbonaceous electrode active material complex particles is 60% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mine, Takao Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20170288212
    Abstract: A cathode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery including cathode active material particles which have central particles made of LixAyMzPO4 (0?x?1.1, 0.8?y?1.1, and 0?z?0.2; here, A represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Fs, Mn, Co, and Ni, and M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Co, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, and rare earth elements) and a carbonaceous film that coats surfaces of the central particles; and inorganic phosphate salt particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Masataka OYAMA, Takao KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170288226
    Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary battery including a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte, in which the lithium-ion secondary battery includes inorganic phosphate particles, and the cathode includes cathode active material particles which include central particles made of LixAyMzPO4 (0?x?1.1, 0.8?y?1.1, and 0?z?0.2; here, A represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Mn, Co, and Ni, and M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Co, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, and rare earth elements) and a carbonaceous film that coats surfaces of the central particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Masataka OYAMA, Takao KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170250399
    Abstract: A cathode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes a cathode material A which includes central particles of a cathode active material represented by LixAyMzPO4 and a carbonaceous film with which surfaces of the central particles are coated and a cathode material B which is represented by LixAyMzPO4 and is made of primary particles of a cathode active material having an olivine structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: MASATAKA OYAMA, TAKAO KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9748563
    Abstract: An electrode material of the present invention includes surface-coated LixAyDzPO4 particles obtained by coating surfaces of LixAyDzPO4 (in which, A represents one or more selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn, Ni, Fe, Cu and Cr, D represents one or more selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sc, Y and rare earth elements, 0<x?2, 0<y?1, and 0?z?1.5) particles with a carbonaceous coat, and an elution amount of Li is in a range of 200 ppm to 700 ppm and an elution amount of P is in a range of 500 ppm to 2000 ppm when the surface-coated LixAyDzPO4 particles are immersed in a sulfuric acid solution having a hydrogen-ion exponent of 4 for 24 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akinori Yamazaki, Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Takao Kitagawa, Hirofumi Yasumiishi
  • Publication number: 20170237064
    Abstract: An electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes an electrode active material and a carbonaceous film with which a surface of the electrode active material is coated, in which a powder resistance under compression at a pressure of 45 MPa is 130 ?·cm or lower and a lithium-ion secondary battery including a cathode including the electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery and an anode made of lithium metal exhibits battery characteristics that a difference between a sum of a charge capacity thereof obtained when constant current charged with an upper limit voltage with respect to the anode set to 4.20 V and a charge capacity thereof obtained when constant voltage charged at 4.20 V for ten days after the constant current charge and a discharge capacity thereof obtained when constant current discharged to 2 V after the constant voltage charge is set to 20 mAh/g or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: TAKAO KITAGAWA, MASATAKA OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170237121
    Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary battery of the present invention includes a cathode including an electrode material having electrode active material particles and an oxide coat and a carbonaceous film which coat surfaces of the electrode active material particles, an anode including a carbon-based active material, and an electrolytic solution, and the electrolytic solution does not substantially include additives for stabilizing a coat formed on a surface of the anode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: KOUJI OONO, TAKAO KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9722250
    Abstract: An electrode material including electrode active material particles and a carbonaceous film layer coating surfaces of the electrode active material particles and including a metal oxide, a content ratio of the metal oxide in the carbonaceous film layer being 5% by mass to 70% by mass. A method for manufacturing an electrode material, in which electrode active material particles, a metal salt or metal alkoxide containing any one or more metal atoms selected from a group consisting of Al, Zr, Si, and Ti, and an organic compound which is a precursor of carbon are mixed so that a total blending amount of the metal salt or metal alkoxide satisfies that an amount of a metal oxide in the carbonaceous film layer when the metal salt or metal alkoxide is all changed to the metal oxide is 5% by mass to 70% by mass, and are heated in a non-oxidative atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji Oono, Kenta Ooishi, Takao Kitagawa, Masataka Oyama, Satoru Oshitari, Ryuuta Yamaya
  • Patent number: 9716269
    Abstract: An electrode material is provided in which a coating of a carbonaceous material is formed efficiently, uniformly and strongly on the surfaces of electrode active material particles, and therefore electron conductivity and the charge and discharge capacity of batteries are improved. The electrode material includes composite particles, which includes a carbonaceous substance and an electrode active material, wherein a carbonaceous material is provided on surfaces of electrode active material particles, and a standard rate constant of a redox reaction of ferrocene occurring on the surfaces of the composite particles is 1×10?5 cm/s or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mine, Takao Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 9716270
    Abstract: An electrode material including electrode active material particles having a carbonaceous film formed on the surfaces thereof in which the coatability of the carbonaceous film can be guaranteed even when a crushing process is carried out, and the rate characteristics and the like are not degraded during charge and discharge, an electrode and a lithium ion battery having excellent charge and discharge characteristics for which the electrode material is used are provided. The electrode material includes electrode active material particles having a carbonaceous film formed on surfaces thereof, and an affinity value to N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone measured through pulse NMR is in a range of 5000 to 20000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kenta Ooishi, Takao Kitagawa