Patents by Inventor Yukihiro Okada
Yukihiro Okada 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: 11973688Abstract: A control device that controls a communication system in which a network device and a virtual network device on a cloud communicate with each other through a tunnel, the control device including: a calculation unit that calculates a predicted value of the number of future setting entries in the virtual network device; an autoscale execution unit that executes scale-out or scale-in of the virtual network device on the basis of a result of comparison between the predicted value and a threshold; and a control unit that performs routing control between an application and the virtual network device in a service platform on the cloud.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yukihiro Togari, Shingo Okada, Hisashi Kojima, Takafumi Hamano
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Publication number: 20230399655Abstract: A promoter on an AAV vector was changed to an Iba1 promoter, and a configuration that combined a miR-9 complementary sequence (miR-9T) and a miR-129 complementary sequence (miR-129T) was adopted. An exogenous gene was clarified to be efficiently and specifically expressed in microglia by using this vector, resulting in that an AAV vector that could efficiently and specifically express an exogenous gene in microglia of the central nervous system, was found.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GUNMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hirokazu HIRAI, Yukihiro OKADA
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Patent number: 10749167Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery includes at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode contains at least a first positive electrode active material and a second positive electrode active material. The first positive electrode active material is expressed with a formula (I) LiNiaCobMncO2 and the second positive electrode active material is expressed with a formula (II) LiNidCoeMnfO2, where a, b, c, d, e, and f satisfy conditions of a>d, 0.4?a?0.6, 0.2?b?0.5, 0.1?c?0.2, a+b+c=1.0, 0.2?d?0.5, 0.1?e?0.2, 0.4?f?0.6, and d+e+f=1.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryo Hanazaki, Keiichi Takahashi, Naoyuki Wada, Yukihiro Okada
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Patent number: 10522816Abstract: A lithium secondary battery of the present invention has a positive electrode is provided with a positive electrode mix layer that includes a positive electrode active material and a conductive material. The positive electrode mix layer has two peaks, large and small, of differential pore volume over a pore size ranging from 0.01 ?m to 10 ?m in a pore distribution curve measured by a mercury porosimeter. A pore size of the smaller peak B of the differential pore volume is smaller than a pore size of the larger peak A of the differential pore volume.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Nagai, Masahiro Morita, Yukihiro Okada
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Patent number: 10490859Abstract: A positive electrode of a lithium-ion secondary battery contains first positive electrode active material particles and second positive electrode active material particles. The first positive electrode active material particles have a first composition represented by a compositional formula LiNix1Coy1Mnz1O2 (here, x1, y1, and z1 are numerical values satisfying 0<x1<1, 0<y1<1, 0.3<z1<0.5, and x1+y1+z1=1). The second positive electrode active material particles have a second composition represented by a compositional formula LiNix2Coy2Mnz2O2 (here, x2, y2, and z2 are numerical values satisfying 0<x2<1, 0<y2<1, 0<z2<0.2, and x2+y2+z2=1). The surface of at least one of the first positive electrode active material particles and the second positive electrode active material particles is coated with a transition metal oxide.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Tsubouchi, Keiichi Takahashi, Naoyuki Wada, Yukihiro Okada
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Patent number: 10297814Abstract: A positive electrode includes first positive electrode active material particles and second positive electrode active material particles. The first positive electrode active material particles include 0.1% by mass or more and 1% by mass or less of lithium carbonate and a first lithium transition metal oxide as a remainder. The first lithium transition metal oxide is represented by LiM1(1-z1)Mnz1O2 (0.05?z1?0.20). The second positive electrode active material particles include 0.01% by mass or more and 0.05% by mass or less of lithium carbonate and a second lithium transition metal oxide as a remainder. The second lithium transition metal oxide is represented by LiM2(1-z2)Mnz2O2 (0.40?z2?0.60). An electrolytic solution includes 1% by mass or more and 5% by mass or less of an overcharging additive and a solvent and a lithium salt as a remainder.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Tsubouchi, Motoshi Isono, Masaki Kato, Naoyuki Wada, Keiichi Takahashi, Yukihiro Okada, Tatsuya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10263294Abstract: Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery which has a low internal resistance in a low-SOC region and a sufficiently large amount of gas generated during overcharge. The lithium ion secondary battery disclosed herein includes an electrode body having a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. The lithium ion secondary battery further includes a pressure-type safety mechanism. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes a gas generating agent. The positive electrode has a positive electrode active material layer including a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material includes a lithium transition metal composite oxide represented by LiNiaCobMncO2 wherein a, b and c satisfy the following conditions: 0.35?a?0.45, 0.15?b?0.25, 0.35?c?0.45, and a+b+c=1, and a lithium transition metal composite oxide represented by LiNixCoyMnzO2 wherein x, y and z satisfy the following conditions: 0.35?x?0.45, 0.45?y?0.55, 0.05?z?0.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki Saka, Yukihiro Okada, Keiichi Takahashi, Kaoru Inoue
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Publication number: 20190036110Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery includes at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode contains at least a first positive electrode active material and a second positive electrode active material. The first positive electrode active material is expressed with a formula (I) LiNiaCobMncO2 and the second positive electrode active material is expressed with a formula (II) LiNidCoeMnfO2, where a, b, c, d, e, and f satisfy conditions of a>d, 0.4?a?0.6, 0.2?b?0.5, 0.1?c?0.2, a+b+c=1.0, 0.2?d?0.5, 0.1?e?0.2, 0.4?f?0.6, and d+e+f=1.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryo HANAZAKI, Keiichi TAKAHASHI, Naoyuki WADA, Yukihiro OKADA
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Patent number: 10115959Abstract: A method of manufacturing a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte secondary battery is to manufacture a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode mixture layer containing a lithium-containing transition metal oxide as a positive electrode active material. The manufacturing method includes: mixing the positive electrode active material and an aromatic nitrile compound such that a mass ratio of the aromatic nitrile compound to the positive electrode active material is not less than 0.1% by mass and not more than 4% by mass, to prepare a mixture; mixing the mixture, a conductive material, a binder, and a solvent to prepare a granular body; and disposing the granular body on a surface of a positive electrode collector to form at least a part of the positive electrode mixture layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki Saka, Yukihiro Okada
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Publication number: 20180241029Abstract: A lithium secondary battery of the present invention has a positive electrode is provided with a positive electrode mix layer that includes a positive electrode active material and a conductive material. The positive electrode mix layer has two peaks, large and small, of differential pore volume over a pore size ranging from 0.01 ?m to 10 ?m in a pore distribution curve measured by a mercury porosimeter. A pore size of the smaller peak B of the differential pore volume is smaller than a pore size of the larger peak A of the differential pore volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki Nagai, Masahiro Morita, Yukihiro Okada
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Publication number: 20180183111Abstract: A positive electrode of a lithium-ion secondary battery contains first positive electrode active material particles and second positive electrode active material particles. The first positive electrode active material particles have a first composition represented by a compositional formula LiNix1Coy1Mnz1O2 (here, x1, y1, and z1 are numerical values satisfying 0<x1<1, 0<y1<1, 0.3<z1<0.5, and x1+y1+z1=1). The second positive electrode active material particles have a second composition represented by a compositional formula LiNix2Coy2Mnz2O2 (here, x2, y2, and z2 are numerical values satisfying 0<x2<1, 0<y2<1, 0<z2<0.2, and x2+y2+z2=1). The surface of at least one of the first positive electrode active material particles and the second positive electrode active material particles is coated with a transition metal oxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi TSUBOUCHI, Keiichi TAKAHASHI, Naoyuki WADA, Yukihiro OKADA
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Patent number: 9997743Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery with superior high-temperature charge-discharge cycle characteristics as well as superior low-temperature high-rate charge-discharge cycle characteristics. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery 100 according to the present invention has an electrode body 80 which includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and a battery case 50 which houses the electrode body 80 together with a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein among the nonaqueous electrolyte housed in the battery case 50, an electrolyte amount ratio (A/B) between a surplus electrolyte amount (A) that exists outside the electrode body 80 and an intra-electrode body electrolyte amount (B) impregnating the electrode body 80 ranges from 0.05 to 0.2, and DBP absorption of a positive electrode active material that constitutes the positive electrode is equal to or higher than 30 (ml/100 g).Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2011Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Nagai, Masahiro Morita, Takashi Iwao, Yukihiro Okada
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Publication number: 20180159109Abstract: A positive electrode includes first positive electrode active material particles and second positive electrode active material particles. The first positive electrode active material particles include 0.1% by mass or more and 1% by mass or less of lithium carbonate and a first lithium transition metal oxide as a remainder. The first lithium transition metal oxide is represented by LiM1(1-z1)Mnz1O2 (0.05?z1?0.20). The second positive electrode active material particles include 0.01% by mass or more and 0.05% by mass or less of lithium carbonate and a second lithium transition metal oxide as a remainder. The second lithium transition metal oxide is represented by LiM2(1-z2)Mnz2O2 (0.40?z2?0.60). An electrolytic solution includes 1% by mass or more and 5% by mass or less of an overcharging additive and a solvent and a lithium salt as a remainder.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi TSUBOUCHI, Motoshi ISONO, Masaki KATO, Naoyuki WADA, Keiichi TAKAHASHI, Yukihiro OKADA, Tatsuya HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20180115206Abstract: An electric motor element according to the present invention includes a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core constituted by a plurality of punched steel sheets laminated in a rotational shaft direction, magnet positioning holes penetrating the rotor core, and a bonded magnet portion constituting a permanent magnet. The magnet positioning holes are filled with the bonded magnet portion. A length of the rotor core in the rotational shaft direction is larger than a length of a stator core in the rotational shaft direction. The bonded magnet portion is shaped such that a position of the bonded magnet portion, the position being located between both axial ends of the rotor and in a plane facing the stator core, is closer to a rotation shaft holding the rotor, than to a position of the bonded magnet portion, the position being located at one of the axial ends of the rotor in the rotational shaft direction and in the plane facing the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2016Publication date: April 26, 2018Inventors: YUSUKE OKUMURA, YUICHI YOSHIKAWA, HARUHIKO KADO, YUKIHIRO OKADA, SHIZUKA YOKOTE, TAKASHI OGAWA
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Patent number: 9911972Abstract: The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery 10 provided by the present invention comprises a positive electrode 30, a negative electrode 50 and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode 50 includes a negative electrode current collector 52 and a negative electrode active material layer 54 formed on the current collector 52, the negative electrode active material layer 54 containing a negative electrode active material 55 capable of storing and releasing charge carriers and having shape anisotropy so that the charge carriers are stored and released along a predefined direction. The negative electrode active material layer 54 includes, at a bottom thereof contacting the current collector 52, a minute conductive material 57 with granular shape and/or minute conductive material 57 with fibrous shape having an average particle diameter that is smaller than that of the negative electrode active material 55, and includes, at the bottom thereof; a part of the negative electrode active material 55.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Takahata, Tatsuya Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Ozaki, Yukihiro Okada, Kenji Tsuchiya, Masanori Kitayoshi, Naoyuki Wada
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Patent number: 9899709Abstract: A production method for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries includes a conditioning process in which an electrode group having a positive electrode and a negative electrode wound by interposing a separator therebetween is inserted inside a case a non-aqueous electrolyte including an overcharge additive is injected and the case is sealed, after which a restraining pressure is applied to the case, and charge/discharge is performed at least once. After initial charging in the conditioning process, a fracture portion is formed in secondary particles of a positive electrode active material, and then a conductive coating is formed on the fracture portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Oyama, Yukihiro Okada
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Publication number: 20170373352Abstract: Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery which has a low internal resistance in a low-SOC region and a sufficiently large amount of gas generated during overcharge. The lithium ion secondary battery disclosed herein includes an electrode body having a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. The lithium ion secondary battery further includes a pressure-type safety mechanism. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes a gas generating agent. The positive electrode has a positive electrode active material layer including a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material includes a lithium transition metal composite oxide represented by LiNiaCobMncO2 wherein a, b and c satisfy the following conditions: 0.35?a?0.45, 0.15?b?0.25, 0.35?c?0.45, and a+b+c=1, and a lithium transition metal composite oxide represented by LiNixCoyMnzO2 wherein x, y and z satisfy the following conditions: 0.35?x?0.45, 0.45?y?0.55, 0.05?z?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki SAKA, Yukihiro OKADA, Keiichi TAKAHASHI, Kaoru INOUE
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Patent number: 9831525Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrode secondary battery supplied with a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising an overcharge additive. The positive electrode material layer constituting the positive electrode in the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is characterized by having a differential pore volume peak A as well as a peak B located on the smaller pore diameter side than the peak A in a pore diameter range of 0.05 ?m to 2 ?m in a pore size distribution curve measured by a mercury porosimeter, wherein the pore size distribution curve has a minimum C corresponding to a minimum differential pore volume between the peak A and the peak B, such that a ratio (XC/XL) of the minimum C's differential pore volume XC to a differential pore volume XL, which is the larger between the peak A's differential pore volume XA and the peak B's differential pore volume XB is 0.6 or larger.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2012Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Morita, Yutaka Oyama, Takahiro Tsubouchi, Atsushi Saito, Yukihiro Okada
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Patent number: 9780377Abstract: In the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided by the present invention, at or near the positive electrode constituting the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, overcharge-reactive multimers including dimers to higher-order multimers formed by polymerization of an overcharge-reactive compound are present in a larger amount by mole than the overcharge-reactive compound remaining unpolymerized.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Morita, Yutaka Oyama, Yukihiro Okada
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Patent number: 9761860Abstract: Disclosed is a secondary battery capable of preventing damage to a current interrupt device caused by generation and transmission of vibration, and thereby achieving prevention of malfunction of the current interrupt device, and improvement of quality of the secondary battery. In addition, disclosed is a method of manufacturing the secondary battery. Specifically disclosed is a secondary battery, in which a positive electrode terminal is placed on the upper face of a sealing plate, a holder is placed on the lower face of the sealing plate, and the sealing plate is joined to the positive electrode terminal and the holder by a rivet. The secondary battery includes an adhered portion for adhering the holder to the sealing plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kosuke Nakamura, Naoyuki Wada, Ichiro Murata, Yukihiro Okada