Patents Assigned to APB CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 12164005
    Abstract: An examination method includes bringing conductor probes into contact with surfaces of an examination target to measure voltage or electric resistance at points on the surfaces of the examination target, and determining whether or not the voltage or the electric resistance is out of an allowable range at any of the points. The examination target is a resin current collector, an electrode sheet having an active material layer laminated on a resin current collector, a separator-attached electrode sheet in which a separator is combined with an electrode sheet, or a unit cell including one set of a positive electrode resin current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, a separator, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode resin current collector, which are laminated in order. With the examination method, a defect such as a short circuit can be easily found and production yield can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakashima, Shinya Kobayashi, Hideaki Horie
  • Patent number: 12003000
    Abstract: A lithium ion battery including a cell formed by sequentially stacking a positive current collector, a positive active material layer, a separator, a negative active material layer, and a negative current collector, the lithium ion battery being characterized by including a frame member disposed between the positive current collector and the negative current collector to seal the positive active material layer, the separator, and the negative active material layer, the frame member having, disposed therein, an electronic component for detecting an internal condition of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Horie, Keiichiro Higashi, Yohji Kawasaki, Yusuke Mizuno, Kotaro Nasu
  • Publication number: 20230358813
    Abstract: An examination method of the present invention is characterized by including a step of bringing conductor probes into contact with surfaces of an examination target to measure voltage or electric resistance at a plurality of points on the surfaces of the examination target, the examination target being a resin current collector, an electrode sheet having an active material layer laminated on the resin current collector, a separator-attached electrode sheet in which a separator is combined with the electrode sheet, or a unit cell including one set of a positive electrode resin current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, a separator, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode resin current collector, which are laminated in order, and a step of determining whether or not a point at which the voltage or the electric resistance is out of an allowable range is present in the examination target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKASHIMA, Shinya KOBAYASHI, Hideaki HORIE
  • Publication number: 20230317953
    Abstract: Coated negative electrode active material particles for lithium ion batteries in which at least a part of the surface of negative electrode active material particles is covered with a coating layer containing a polymer compound and a compound (A), the polymer compound is a polymer including (meth)acrylic acid as a constituent monomer, the weight proportion of (meth)acrylic acid in the polymer based on the weight of the polymer is 70 to 95 wt %, and the compound (A) is at least one selected from the group consisting of tetrahydrothiophene 1,1-dioxide, ethylene carbonate and vinylene carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki HORIE, Toshiaki YAMAGUCHI, Hideki NISHIMURA, Kenichi KAWAKITA, Kazuya MINAMI
  • Publication number: 20230299260
    Abstract: A manufacturing device for an electrode of a lithium-ion battery, comprising: a placing section for placing an electrode material for a lithium-ion battery on a substrate, the electrode material for a lithium-ion battery consisting of an electrode composition including electrode active material particles and a frame-like member placed annularly so as to surround the electrode composition; a pressure reduction packaging section for reducing pressure and packaging the electrode material for a lithium-ion battery together with the substrate so as to fix the electrode composition by the frame-like member and a packaging material; and a pressure molding section for roll-pressing the electrode composition fixed by the frame-like member and the packaging material
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichiro YOKOYAMA, Takahiro IMAISHI, Masaaki MORIZANE, Shinya KOBAYASHI, Yusuke NAKASHIMA, Hideaki HORIE
  • Patent number: 11637334
    Abstract: A cell system includes: a stacked-type cell module (100) having a plurality of lithium ion unit cells (1) being stacked and having through holes (3a, 3b) formed therein; a gas supply part (31); a cooling liquid supply part (32); a temperature sensor (35); and a control part (36) that controls switching between a normal control mode and a high-temperature control mode based on a signal from the temperature sensor (35). In the normal control mode, the control part (36) controls the gas supply part (31) to supply a gas to the through holes (3a, 3b), and at the same time, controls the cooling liquid supply part (32) to stop supply of a cooling liquid, and in the high-temperature control mode, the control part (36) controls the cooling liquid supply part (32) to supply the cooling liquid to the through holes (3a, 3b) to which the gas is supplied, and at the same time, controls the gas supply part (31) to stop supply of the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Horie, Yasuhiro Shindo, Yusuke Mizuno, Ryosuke Kusano, Yuki Nekohashi, Yusuke Nakashima, Kotaro Nasu, Naoya Omae
  • Publication number: 20230107979
    Abstract: An electrode for a lithium-ion battery, comprising a resin current collector; and an electrode active material layer formed on the resin current collector, and containing coated electrode active material particles in which at least a part of a surface of an electrode active material particle is coated with a coating layer including a polymer compound, wherein the resin current collector has a recess on a principal surface that comes into contact with the electrode active material layer, the relationship between the maximum depth (D) of the recess and the D50 particle size (R) of the electrode active material particles satisfies 1.0R?D?6.5R, and the relationship between the length (S) of the shortest part of the length passing through the center of gravity of the recess and the D50 particle size (R) of the electrode active material particles satisfies 1.5R?S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki NISHIMURA, Moe KITABA, Yuki NEKOHASHI, Yusuke MIZUNO, Kazuya MINAMI, Hideaki HORIE
  • Publication number: 20230060509
    Abstract: A positive electrode for a lithium-ion battery comprising a current collector and a positive electrode composition layer disposed on a surface of the current collector, wherein the current collector and the positive electrode composition layer are not adhered to each other, the positive electrode composition layer contains coated positive electrode active material particles in which at least a part of a surface of each positive electrode active material particle is coated with a coating layer containing a polymer compound (A), and a conductive auxiliary agent, the polymer compound (A) is any one of a copolymer (A1) having methacrylic acid, lauryl methacrylate and 1,6-hexanediol dimethacrylate as constituent monomers, a copolymer (A2) having isobornyl methacrylate and 1,6-hexanediol dimethacrylate as constituent monomers, or a copolymer (A3) having lauryl methacrylate, 2-ethylhexyl methacrylate and 1,6-hexanediol dimethacrylate as constituent monomers, the weight proportion of 1,6-hexanediol dimethacrylate con
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi OKURA, Kenichi KAWAKITA, Yusuke NAKASHIMA, Hideaki HORIE
  • Publication number: 20230033163
    Abstract: Coated positive electrode active material particles for a lithium-ion battery includes positive electrode active material particles; and a coating layer that contains a polymer coating compound and a conductive additive and at least partially covers a surface of the positive electrode active material particles, wherein a coverage of the positive electrode active material particles with the coating layer as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is 65% to 96%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo ISOMURA, Yasuhiro TSUDO, Yuya SHIMOMOTO, Kenichi KAWAKITA, Kazuya MINAMI, Shun KUDO, Yuichiro YOKOYAMA, Takahiro IMAISHI, Hideaki HORIE
  • Publication number: 20220407082
    Abstract: A lithium ion battery current collector which is used in a lithium ion battery in contact with an electrode active material at one principal surface, characterized in that the current collector is provided with a surface layer on the principal surface in contact with the electrode active material, and an uneven structure is provided on a surface in which the surface layer is in contact with the electrode active material, the uneven structure is any of a plurality of recesses composed of closed figures as seen from above, a network structure, or a pattern of recesses and protrusions, which is provided in an outermost layer of the surface layer, and a depth of the recess is 10 to 45 ?m, a length of a shortest portion of lengths passing through a centroid of the recess is 30 to 105 ?m, and a proportion of an area of the recess as seen from above is 19% to 61% with respect to an area of a surface of the current collector provided with the recess as seen from above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki NISHIMURA, Yuki NEKOHASHI, Yusuke MIZUNO, Kazuya MINAMI, Moe KITABA, Hideaki HORIE
  • Publication number: 20220336818
    Abstract: A lithium ion battery module includes a first metal sheet, a power storage element, and a second metal sheet in this order, in which the power storage element includes a lithium ion cell in which a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, a separator, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector are laminated in this order, the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector are provided as outermost layers, and an electrolytic solution is enclosed by sealing outer peripheries of the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer, a conductive elastic member is arranged between the positive electrode current collector of the outermost layer of the power storage element and the first metal sheet, and/or between the negative electrode current collector of the outermost layer of the power storage element and the second metal sheet, and the first metal she
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kotaro NASU, Yusuke MIZUNO, Yuya TANAKA, Yusuke NAKASHIMA, Masatoshi OKURA, Kenichi KAWAKITA, Kazuya TSUCHIDA, Makoto NISHIGUCHI, Hideaki HORIE
  • Publication number: 20220328894
    Abstract: There is provided a production method for a recyclable electrode active material for a lithium ion battery, the lithium ion battery having a charge storage element including a first electrode that has a first current collector and a first electrode active material layer formed on the first current collector and consisting of a first electrode composition containing a first electrode active material, a second electrode that has a second current collector and a second electrode active material layer formed on the second current collector and consisting of a second electrode composition containing a second electrode active material, and a separator disposed between the first electrode active material layer and the second electrode active material layer, in which the first current collector is a first resin current collector, the production method including an isolation step of isolating the first electrode active material from the lithium ion battery in which a first current collector is a first resin current co
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaho SUZUKI, Yusuke NAKASHIMA, Shinya KOBAYASHI, Hideaki HORIE
  • Publication number: 20220263064
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a lithium ion battery having a set of a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, a separator, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector laminated in this order, and having a configuration in which outer peripheries of the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer are sealed with a sealing material and an electrolytic solution is enclosed, the method including: a step of manufacturing a positive electrode and/or a negative electrode by an electrode manufacturing step including a supply step of preparing a frame-shaped sealing material and a bottom member, and supplying an electrode active material composition containing electrode active material particles and an electrolytic solution to a space surrounded by the sealing material and the bottom member, and a compression step of compressing the electrode active material co
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKASHIMA, Ryosuke KUSANO, Yuichiro YOKOYAMA, Yuki NEKOHASHI, Kenichiro ENOKI, Yuya TANAKA, Hideaki HORIE
  • Publication number: 20220190348
    Abstract: There is provided a lithium ion battery having a current collector and an electrode composition layer formed on a surface of the current collector, where the electrode composition layer contains coated electrode active material particles, each of which is obtained by coating at least a part of a surface of an electrode active material particle with a coating layer containing a polymer compound, the current collector has a conductive base material and a conductive composition layer containing a polymer compound and a conductive filler, on a surface of the conductive base material, the surface being in contact with the electrode composition layer, and the polymer compound contained in the conductive composition layer and the polymer compound contained in the coating layer have the same composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke KUSANO, Hideaki HORIE
  • Patent number: 11355794
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a secondary battery module capable of optically transmitting measurement data on characteristics of cells forming a battery pack and further reducing a complicated procedure of wiring. The secondary battery module of the present disclosure includes: a battery pack in which a plurality of cell units are connected, each of the cell units including a cell and a light-emitting unit, the cell including a stacked unit and an electrolyte, the light-emitting unit being configured to measure characteristics of the cell and generate an optical signal according to the characteristics; and an optical waveguide into which an optical signal is introduced from the light-emitting unit of each of the cell units, wherein the number of optical waveguides is less than the number of optical signals, and the optical waveguide provides a common optical path through which optical signals are propagated from the light-emitting units provided in the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohji Kawasaki, Yusuke Mizuno, Hideaki Horie
  • Patent number: 11309537
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a lithium-ion battery member including an electrode composition layer that includes electrode active material particles and an electrolyte solution on a current collector or a separator, the method including: forming the electrode composition layer on a surface of a support different from either the current collector or the separator; and relocating the electrode composition layer from the surface of the support to the current collector or the separator, wherein a weight percent of the electrolyte solution in the electrode composition layer is 10 wt % or less based on the weight of the electrode composition layer, in the forming the electrode composition layer on a surface of a support and in the relocating the electrode composition layer from the surface of the support to the current collector or the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohji Kawasaki, Yuichiro Yokoyama, Hideaki Horie
  • Publication number: 20210313560
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a lithium-ion battery member including an electrode composition layer that includes electrode active material particles and an electrolyte solution on a current collector or a separator, the method including: forming the electrode composition layer on a surface of a support different from either the current collector or the separator; and relocating the electrode composition layer from the surface of the support to the current collector or the separator, wherein a weight percent of the electrolyte solution in the electrode composition layer is 10 wt % or less based on the weight of the electrode composition layer, in the forming the electrode composition layer on a surface of a support and in the relocating the electrode composition layer from the surface of the support to the current collector or the separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohji KAWASAKI, Yuichiro YOKOYAMA, Hideaki HORIE