Patents Assigned to APB CORPORATION
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11811023
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium-ion assembled battery in which two or more single cells are laminated and the DC resistance value between the single cells is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: APB Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Horie, Shun Kudoh, Ryosuke Kusano, Yasuhiro Tsudo
  • Publication number: 20230327119
    Abstract: The present invention provides coated positive electrode active material particles for a lithium ion battery, with which electrical conductivity of a coating layer can be improved by optimizing the three-dimensional structure of a conductive assistant in the coating layer to exhibit electrical conductivity. The particles include a positive electrode active material particle and a coating layer that contains a polymer compound and a conductive assistant and that covers at least part of a surface of the positive electrode active material particle, and have a paraffin oil absorption value of 25 to 40 mL/100 g as measured in accordance with JIS K 5101-13-1 (2004).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: APB Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo ISOMURA, 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
  • Publication number: 20230223550
    Abstract: A cell unit includes 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 which are laminated on one another, the cell unit comprising a frame member arranged between the positive electrode current collector and an opposing negative electrode current collector and fixing a peripheral edge portion of the separator, and an electronic component for detecting the state inside the cell unit, wherein the electronic component is arranged in a region between the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector, and the electronic component arranged in the region is electrically connected to the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: APB Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki HORIE, Yohji KAWASAKI, Yusuke MIZUNO, Takuya SUENAGA
  • Publication number: 20230216099
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lithium-ion battery with the configuration where optical signals are output from the light-emitting parts of each unit cell that constitutes the assembled battery, wherein the complexity of wiring can be reduced, and the allowable amount of misalignment can be increased. In a lithium-ion battery (1) in which an assembled battery (50) configured by a plurality of laminated unit cells (30) is accommodated in an outer package (70), each of the unit cell is provided with a light-emitting part (20) that emits light based on the characteristics of the unit cell concerned to output an optical signal, and an optical waveguide (light guide plate) (60) is arranged adjacent or close to a light-emitting surface of the light-emitting part to be a common transmission path of the optical signal from the light-emitting part of the plurality of unit cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: APB Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki HORIE, Yohji KAWASAKI, Yusuke MIZUNO, Kotaro NASU
  • 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: 11355758
    Abstract: A current collector for a lithium ion battery includes a first conductive resin layer and a second conductive resin layer. The first conductive resin layer includes a first conductive filler. The second conductive resin layer is formed on the first conductive resin layer and includes a second conductive filler. The first conductive filler is a conductive carbon. The second conductive filler contains at least one kind of metal element selected from the group consisting of platinum, gold, silver, copper, nickel, and titanium. A volume % of the second conductive filler in the second conductive resin layer on a first surface side, which is a first conductive resin layer side, is higher than that on the second surface side that is opposite to the first conductive resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: GUNZE LIMITED, APB Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Onishi, Masahiro Uchimaru, Ryosuke Kusano, Sonomi Fukuyama, Shun Kudoh, Yasuhiro Tsudo, 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