Patents by Inventor Akihiko Miyazaki

Akihiko Miyazaki 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: 20230361360
    Abstract: Provided is an electrode for an electrochemical device that can sufficiently inhibit heat generation in the event of an internal short circuit and reduce IV resistance in an electrochemical device. The electrode includes a current collector and an electrode mixed material layer. The electrode mixed material layer contains an electrode active material, a binder, and a foaming agent having a thermal decomposition temperature of 150° C. to 400° C. In a thickness direction cross-section of the electrode mixed material layer, thermally decomposable sites formed of the foaming agent and having a circumscribed circle diameter of 1.0 ?m to 10.0 ?m are present, and a number A of the thermally decomposable sites per 50 ?m2 in a surface region of the electrode mixed material layer is larger than a number B of the thermally decomposable sites per 50 ?m2 in a deep region of the electrode mixed material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko MIYAZAKI, Shiho MOSAKI
  • Publication number: 20230239379
    Abstract: A data acquisition device includes a valid data acquirer configured to acquire valid data from communication data based on an analysis parameter including an offset from a head of the communication data to the valid data and a data length of the valid data and output the acquired valid data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: NTT Advanced Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta UKON, Masaru KATAYAMA, Akihiko MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230104348
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is an energy storage device including: a negative electrode including a pair of flat portions facing each other and a curved folding portion connecting end portions on one side of the pair of flat portions to each other; and a sheet-like positive electrode disposed between the pair of flat portions of the negative electrode, in which the negative electrode includes a negative electrode substrate and a negative active material layer stacked on a surface of the negative electrode substrate directly or indirectly in a non-pressed or low-pressure pressed state, the negative active material layer contains a negative active material, the negative active material contains solid graphite particles, and the solid graphite particle has an aspect ratio of 1 or more and 5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Kenta OGI, Takayuki KOYAMA, Shota ITO, Akihiko MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11621417
    Abstract: The present embodiment provides a lithium ion secondary battery including a positive electrode containing LiaNixCoyMzO2 (0.9?a?1.2, 0.3?x?0.8, 0.2?y+z?0.7, where M is a metal element other than Li, Ni, and Co) as a positive active material, and a negative electrode containing non-graphitic carbon as a negative active material. In this lithium ion secondary battery, at a portion where the positive electrode and the negative electrode face each other, a basis weight (P) of the positive active material and a basis weight (N) of the negative active material satisfy a relational expression of 0.65?P/N?1.05.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Sumio Mori, Tomonori Kako, Akihiko Miyazaki, Masashi Takano, Ukyo Harinaga
  • Publication number: 20230081610
    Abstract: Provided is an intercell spacer that can maintain intercell distance even in a situation in which a cell has expanded inside a battery module at abnormally high temperature. The intercell spacer is arranged between battery cells that are adjacent to each other and includes a heat-resistant anti-compression portion having a Young's modulus of not less than a specific value at a specific temperature in a direction in which the battery cells are adjacent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko MIYAZAKI, Yasuhiro ISSHIKI, Shiho MOSAKI
  • Publication number: 20230022950
    Abstract: An energy storage device according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a negative electrode including a negative electrode substrate and a negative active material layer layered directly or indirectly on a surface of the negative electrode substrate; and a positive electrode. The negative active material layer contains a negative active material. The negative active material contains non-graphitizable carbon. In one direction of the negative electrode substrate, at least one end edge side of the negative active material layer is thicker than a central portion present between the one end edge side and the other end edge side facing the one end edge side. When a true density of the non-graphitizable carbon is A [g/cm3], an amount of charge B [mAh/g] of the negative electrode in a fully charged state satisfies the following formula 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Kenta OGI, Kei KUMABAYASHI, Akihiko MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11515537
    Abstract: An energy storage device includes a negative electrode having a negative active material layer containing amorphous carbon as an active material, a curve attained by determining a rate of change (dQ/dV) in a potential (V) of the amorphous carbon in a discharge capacity (Q) of the amorphous carbon per unit quantity based on a result attained by measuring the potential (V) with respect to the discharge capacity (Q) and representing the rate of change (dQ/dV) with respect to the potential (V) has one or more peaks in a range in which the potential of the amorphous carbon is 0.8 V or more and 1.5 V or less, and a potential of the negative electrode at time of full charge is 0.25 V or more with respect to a lithium potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonori Kako, Akihiko Miyazaki, Masashi Takano, Kenta Nakai, Ukyo Harinaga
  • Publication number: 20220271287
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is an energy storage device including a negative electrode including a negative electrode substrate and a negative active material layer stacked directly or indirectly on at least one surface of the negative electrode substrate, the negative active material layer containing a negative active material, the negative active material containing hollow graphite particles having a median diameter D1 and solid graphite particles having a median diameter D2 smaller than the median diameter of the hollow graphite particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Kenta OGI, Kei KUMABAYASHI, Akihiko MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11283136
    Abstract: An energy storage device includes a positive electrode provided with a positive composite layer containing a positive active material, a negative electrode provided with a negative composite layer containing a negative active material, and a separator partitioning between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the separator includes a substrate uniaxially drawn into a sheet shape and a coating layer coating at least one of surfaces of the substrate, and the coating layer has an anisotropic structure with orientation in a direction different from a drawing direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Miyazaki, Sumio Mori, Tomonori Kako
  • Patent number: 11258065
    Abstract: An energy storage device includes: a positive electrode plate containing a positive composite layer including a positive active material capable of occluding and releasing a lithium ion; and a negative electrode plate containing a negative composite layer including a negative active material capable of occluding and releasing a lithium ion. A peak pore diameter Rp of the positive composite layer in a pore distribution measured by a mercury penetration method is 0.5 ?m or less, and a peak pore diameter Rn of the negative composite layer in a pore distribution measured by a mercury penetration method is 0.5 ?m or less. A ratio Rp/Rn of the peak pore diameter of the positive composite layer to the peak pore diameter of the negative composite layer is 0.60 or more and 1.70 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Shota Ito, Kenta Nakai, Akihiko Miyazaki, Tomonori Kako, Sumio Mori
  • Patent number: 11114665
    Abstract: There is provided is an energy storage device having improved power performance at a relatively large current. In the present embodiment, an energy storage device is provided, which has a negative active material layer containing particulate amorphous carbon, wherein a distribution curve of differential pore volume in the negative active material layer has a peak appearing within the range from 0.1 ?m to 2 ?m inclusive and the differential pore volume at the peak is 0.9 cm3/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Takano, Akihiko Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20210257618
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is an energy storage device including an electrode assembly that has a negative electrode and a positive electrode, where the negative electrode contains a negative electrode substrate and a negative active material, and has a negative active material layer disposed in an unpressed shape along at least one surface of the negative electrode substrate, the negative active material includes solid graphite particles as a main component, and the solid graphite particles have an aspect ratio of 1 or more and 5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Kenta OGI, Fumiya NAKANO, Ryosuke SHIMOKAWA, Shota ITO, Masaki MASUDA, Taro YAMAFUKU, Kei KUMABAYASHI, Akihiko MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20200388845
    Abstract: An energy storage device includes a negative electrode having a negative active material layer containing amorphous carbon as an active material, a curve attained by determining a rate of change (dQ/dV) in a potential (V) of the amorphous carbon in a discharge capacity (Q) of the amorphous carbon per unit quantity based on a result attained by measuring the potential (V) with respect to the discharge capacity (Q) and representing the rate of change (dQ/dV) with respect to the potential (V) has one or more peaks in a range in which the potential of the amorphous carbon is 0.8 V or more and 1.5 V or less, and a potential of the negative electrode at time of full charge is 0.25 V or more with respect to a lithium potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Tomonori KAKO, Akihiko MIYAZAKI, Masashi TAKANO, Kenta NAKAI, Ukyo HARINAGA
  • Patent number: 10833349
    Abstract: An energy storage device includes: an electrode assembly which includes: an approximately rectangular positive electrode; an approximately rectangular negative electrode which is stacked alternately with the positive electrode; and a strip-like elongated separator having a base material layer and an inorganic layer which is made to overlap with the first base material layer, wherein the elongated separator is arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and the base material layer of the elongated separator faces the negative electrode in an opposed manner between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Nakai, Tomonori Kako, Akihiko Miyazaki, Sumio Mori
  • Publication number: 20200295364
    Abstract: The present embodiment provides a lithium ion secondary battery including a positive electrode containing LiaNixCoyMzO2 (0.9?a?1.2, 0.3?x?0.8, 0.2?y+z?0.7, where M is a metal element other than Li, Ni, and Co) as a positive active material, and a negative electrode containing non-graphitic carbon as a negative active material. In this lithium ion secondary battery, at a portion where the positive electrode and the negative electrode face each other, a basis weight (P) of the positive active material and a basis weight (N) of the negative active material satisfy a relational expression of 0.65?P/N?1.05.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Sumio MORI, Tomonori KAKO, Akihiko MIYAZAKI, Masashi TAKANO, Ukyo HARINAGA
  • Patent number: 10748715
    Abstract: An energy storage device is provided in which a decrease in power caused by repetitive charge-discharge in a high-temperature environment is suppressed. In the present embodiment, an energy storage device and a method for manufacturing the energy storage device are provided, the energy storage device including an electrode which includes: an active material layer including a particulate active material; and a conductive layer layered on the active material layer and including a conduction aid. An average secondary particle diameter of the active material is 2.5 ?m or more and 6.0 ?m or less. A surface roughness Ra of the conductive layer on a side on the active material layer is 0.17 ?m or more and 0.50 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Kawaguchi, Akihiko Miyazaki, Sumio Mori
  • Publication number: 20200144615
    Abstract: There is provided an energy storage device which can have a relatively high initial power and whereby it becomes possible to prevent the occurrence of electrodeposition of lithium even when a charge-discharge procedure is performed repeatedly at a high rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Tomonori KAKO, Akihiko MIYAZAKI, Kenta NAKAI, Shota ITO
  • Publication number: 20190237764
    Abstract: There is provided is an energy storage device having improved power performance at a relatively large current. In the present embodiment, an energy storage device is provided, which has a negative active material layer containing particulate amorphous carbon, wherein a distribution curve of differential pore volume in the negative active material layer has a peak appearing within the range from 0.1 ?m to 2 ?m inclusive and the differential pore volume at the peak is 0.9 cm3/g or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Masashi TAKANO, Akihiko MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20190131080
    Abstract: An energy storage device is provided in which a decrease in power caused by repetitive charge-discharge in a high-temperature environment is suppressed. In the present embodiment, an energy storage device and a method for manufacturing the energy storage device are provided, the energy storage device including an electrode which includes: an active material layer including a particulate active material; and a conductive layer layered on the active material layer and including a conduction aid. An average secondary particle diameter of the active material is 2.5 ?m or more and 6.0 ?m or less. A surface roughness Ra of the conductive layer on a side on the active material layer is 0.17 ?m or more and 0.50 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuki KAWAGUCHI, Akihiko MIYAZAKI, Sumio MORI
  • Publication number: 20190027753
    Abstract: An energy storage device of which endurance capacity retention ratio is improved is provided. An energy storage device 10 includes: a positive electrode plate 12 containing a positive composite layer including a positive active material capable of occluding and releasing a lithium ion; and a negative electrode plate 13 containing a negative composite layer including a negative active material capable of occluding and releasing a lithium ion. A peak pore diameter Rp of the positive composite layer in a pore distribution measured by a mercury penetration method is 0.5 ?m or less, and a peak pore diameter Rn of the negative composite layer in a pore distribution measured by a mercury penetration method is 0.5 ?m or less. A ratio Rp/Rn of the peak pore diameter of the positive composite layer to the peak pore diameter of the negative composite layer is 0.60 or more and 1.70 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Shota ITO, Kenta NAKAI, Akihiko MIYAZAKI, Tomonori KAKO, Sumio MORI