Patents by Inventor Akira Nakasuga

Akira Nakasuga 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).

  • Patent number: 11673994
    Abstract: Provided is a photosensitizer that can make a compound having a polymerizable group be efficiently cured by irradiation with an active energy ray. A photosensitizer comprising graphene, the graphene having a number average molecular weight (Mn) in terms of polystyrene of 500 or more and 1,000,000 or less, the number average molecular weight measured by gel permeation chromatography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Akira Nakasuga, Hiroji Fukui, Takeharu Haino, Ryo Sekiya
  • Patent number: 11479716
    Abstract: A light-modulating material of which the light transmittance can be controlled over a wide region from visible light to infrared light by voltage application is provided. The light-modulating material comprises a graphene-like carbon material having an aspect ratio of 3 or more and 330 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Rende Sun, Akira Nakasuga, Shoji Nozato, Keigo Oowashi, Hiroji Fukui, Takeharu Haino, Ryo Sekiya
  • Publication number: 20220293964
    Abstract: Provided is a metal sheet having a carbon material capable of stably exhibiting excellent characteristics when used for an electrode of an electricity storage device. A metal sheet having a carbon material includes a porous metal sheet provided with a transition metal present on a surface and a carbon material of at least one of a carbon fiber and a carbon particle, the carbon material being formed from the porous metal sheet, the carbon material being disposed in a pore of the porous metal sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigekatsu OONISHI, Akira NAKASUGA, Rende SUN, Naoki SASAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220266222
    Abstract: The present invention provides a column filler for liquid chromatography that has a great adsorption capacity, adjustable adsorption selectivity, and high shape retainability and therefore is usable for measurement of various substances and capable of achieving excellent separation performance and a high filling rate in a column when used as a column filler for liquid chromatography. Provided is a column filler for liquid chromatography including carbon-coated porous particles, the carbon-coated porous particles including porous particles each having a coating layer containing an amorphous carbon on a surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicants: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ren-de SUN, Shoji NOZATO, Akira NAKASUGA, Hirotaka IHARA, Makoto TAKAFUJI, Yutaka KUWAHARA, Hiroki NOGUCHI, Tianhang LIU
  • Patent number: 11404686
    Abstract: The present invention provides a negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries which has high adhesiveness and followability to a negative electrode active material in volume expansion and contraction during charging and discharging, excellent contact and adhesiveness to a conductive aid, a binder, and a current collector, and a high suppressing effect on decomposition of an electrolyte solution. Due to these features, the negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries is capable of achieving excellent cycle characteristics and rate characteristics and high coulombic efficiency. The present invention also provides a negative electrode for lithium ion secondary batteries and a lithium ion secondary battery each including the negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries, and a method for producing a negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren-de Sun, Shoji Nozato, Akira Nakasuga
  • Publication number: 20220169864
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition having a high optical density and capable of providing a high-quality color filter excellent in long-term stability and insulation properties. The present invention also provides a cured product of the resin composition, a black matrix, a color filter, a liquid crystal display device, an organic electroluminescent display device, and a method for producing the resin composition. Provided is a resin composition including: amorphous carbon-containing black particles; and a curable compound, the black particles having a specific gravity of 1.75 or lower and an oil absorption as set forth in JIS K 51C1-13-1 of 30 ml/100 g or higher and 120 ml/100 g or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren-de SUN, Masahiro ISHII, Hiroji FUKUI, Akira NAKASUGA
  • Publication number: 20220119265
    Abstract: Provided are exfoliated graphite that rarely folds, rarely curls, and rarely causes corrosion of an electrode when used as the electrode material, and a method for manufacturing the exfoliated graphite. Exfoliated graphite being graphene or a laminate of graphene sheets, the exfoliated graphite having a ratio 2 D/G of 0.5 or more and 5.0 or less, the ratio 2 D/G being a peak area ratio of a 2 D band to a G band in a Raman. spectrum measured. using Raman spectroscopy, and a halogen content of 1,000 ppm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicants: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD., OITA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroji FUKUI, Akira NAKASUGA, Masahiro TOYODA
  • Publication number: 20220109155
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon material-resin composite material that can enhance the capacitor capacitance or the battery capacity when used as an electrode material for an electricity storage device. A carbon material-resin composite material including a carbon material and a resin that is at least partially grafted onto the carbon material, the carbon material-resin composite material having an ionic equivalent of 0.1 mmol/g or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi YOSHITANI, Akira NAKASUGA, Naoki SASAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11261321
    Abstract: Provided is a gas barrier material having superior gas barrier properties. This gas barrier material 1 comprises a matrix resin 2, and a carbon material 3 disposed in the matrix resin 2, wherein the carbon material 3 contains a partially exfoliated graphite having a structure in which graphite is partially exfoliated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikitoshi Suematsu, Hiroji Fukui, Akira Nakasuga, Shoji Nozato
  • Publication number: 20210408544
    Abstract: The present invention provides an active material for all-solid-state batteries that enables production of all-solid-state batteries having excellent battery characteristics. The present invention also provides an electrode for all-solid-state batteries and an all-solid-state battery each including the active material for all-solid-state batteries. Provided is an active material for all-solid-state batteries, including: an active material; and a coating layer containing amorphous carbon and coating a surface of the active material, the coating layer coating at least part of the surface of the active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren-de SUN, Hiroji FUKUI, Akira NAKASUGA, Yuuki SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20210367228
    Abstract: A negative electrode material for a secondary battery is provided that can prevent deterioration of the cycle characteristic during the charge and discharge of the secondary battery and can enhance the initial coulombic efficiency. A negative electrode material for a secondary battery, including: a negative electrode active material containing a metal or a metal compound that can absorb and release an alkali metal ion or an alkaline earth metal ion, and containing a first carbon material that can absorb and release the alkali metal ion or the alkaline earth metal ion; and a conductive auxiliary containing a second carbon material different from the first carbon material, the negative electrode material having a capacity of 400 mAh/g or more, and the second carbon material being partially exfoliated graphite having a graphite structure in which graphite is partially exfoliated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rende SUN, Shoji NOZATO, Akira NAKASUGA
  • Publication number: 20210283576
    Abstract: The present invention provides a column filler for liquid chromatography that has a great adsorption capacity, adjustable adsorption selectivity, and high shape retainability and therefore is usable for measurement of various substances and capable of achieving excellent separation performance and a high filling rate in a column when used as a column filler for liquid chromatography. Provided is a column filler for liquid chromatography including carbon-coated porous particles, the carbon-coated porous particles including porous particles each having a coating layer containing an amorphous carbon on a surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicants: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ren-de SUN, Shoji NOZATO, Akira NAKASUGA, Hirotaka IHARA, Makoto TAKAFUJI, Yutaka KUWAHARA, Hiroki NOGUCHI, Tianhang LIU
  • Patent number: 11078209
    Abstract: Provided is a new polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon derivative. The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon derivative is a derivative of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having 6 or more aromatic rings and has a substituent represented by the following formula (1). (In the formula (1), R1 and R2 are carbon atoms of the aromatic rings in the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, and R3 to R5 are carbon atoms of an aromatic ring or a heterocyclic ring in a group having the aromatic ring or the heterocyclic ring. n is 0 or 1, and m is the number of substituents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Akira Nakasuga, Shoji Nozato, Hiroji Fukui, Takeharu Haino, Ryo Sekiya
  • Publication number: 20210193347
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composite material having excellent dispersibility in a solvent and increased conductivity. The composite material comprises a carbon material and a conductive dispersant physically or chemically bonded to the carbon material, the conductive dispersant is constituted by a conductive polymer, and the conductive polymer has a number average molecular weight of 2000 or more and 100000 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Tatsuo Maruyama, Hiroki Iguchi, Atsunori Mori, Akira Nakasuga
  • Patent number: 10998551
    Abstract: There is provided an electrode material for electricity storage devices, which enables suppression of heat generation in charge and discharge at large currents. The electrode material for electricity storage devices comprises a first carbon material having a graphite structure wherein graphite is partially exfoliated, and a second carbon material different from the first carbon material, wherein the ratio A/B, where A represents a weight of the first carbon material and B represents a weight of the second carbon material, is within the range of 0.01 or higher and 100 or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuki Sawada, Hiroki Masuda, Akira Nakasuga, Akihiko Fujiwara, Takuya Wada
  • Patent number: 10984921
    Abstract: Provided is a conductive paste which makes it possible to form a conductive layer having excellent conductivity even when spherical copper powder having a small particle diameter is used. Disclosed is a conductive paste containing a conductive filler and a binder resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ishii, Akira Nakasuga, Shoji Nozato, Shigekatsu Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20200388826
    Abstract: The present invention provides a negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries which has high adhesiveness and followability to a negative electrode active material in volume expansion and contraction during charging and discharging, excellent contact and adhesiveness to a conductive aid, a binder, and a current collector, and a high suppressing effect on decomposition of an electrolyte solution. Due to these features, the negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries is capable of achieving excellent cycle characteristics and rate characteristics and high coulombic efficiency. The present invention also provides a negative electrode for lithium ion secondary batteries and a lithium ion secondary battery each including the negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries, and a method for producing a negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren-de SUN, Shoji NOZATO, Akira NAKASUGA
  • Publication number: 20200385516
    Abstract: Provided is a photosensitizer that can make a compound having a polymerizable group be efficiently cured by irradiation with an active energy ray. A photosensitizer comprising graphene, the graphene having a number average molecular weight (Mn) in terms of polystyrene of 500 or more and 1,000,000 or less, the number average molecular weight measured by gel permeation chromatography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Akira Nakasuga, Hiroji Fukui, Takeharu Haino, Ryo Sekiya
  • Patent number: 10741832
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium ion battery includes a coating layer comprising amorphous carbon on a surface of a positive electrode active material, wherein the amorphous carbon is derived from carbon contained in an oxazine resin, a ratio of a peak intensity of a G band to a peak intensity of a D band is 1.0 or greater when the amorphous carbon is measured by Raman spectroscopy, an average film thickness of the coating layer is 100 nm or less, and a coefficient of variation (CV value) of a film thickness of the coating layer is 10% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren-de Sun, Shoji Nozato, Akira Nakasuga, Masanori Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200207777
    Abstract: Provided is a new polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon derivative. The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon derivative is a derivative of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having 6 or more aromatic rings and has a substituent represented by the following formula (1). (In the formula (1), R1 and R2 are carbon atoms of the aromatic rings in the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, and R3 to R5 are carbon atoms of an aromatic ring or a heterocyclic ring in a group having the aromatic ring or the heterocyclic ring. n is 0 or 1, and m is the number of substituents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Akira Nakasuga, Shoji Nozato, Hiroji Fukui, Takeharu Haino, Ryo Sekiya