Patents by Inventor Atsushi Shirasawa

Atsushi Shirasawa 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: 9620817
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide: a liquid electrolyte for batteries, which has excellent stability to lithium metals; a method for producing the liquid electrolyte; and a lithium battery comprising the liquid electrolyte. Presented is a liquid electrolyte for lithium batteries, wherein the liquid electrolyte comprises a mesoionic compound represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and R2 is a group represented by any one of the following general formulae (2), (3) and (4): General Formula (2): —ClH2l—(OCH2)m—CnH2n+1; General Formula (3): —CxH2x—(CH2OCH2)y—CzH2z+1; and General Formula (4): —CpH2p—(C2H4OCH2)q—CrH2r+1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignees: NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsunehisa Hirashita, Shuki Araki, Hirofumi Nakamoto, Atsushi Shirasawa
  • Patent number: 9306253
    Abstract: Provided is an electrolyte solution capable of further increasing the output of a lithium air battery, the electrolyte solution for a lithium air battery having a total bonding strength between Li2O2 is no less than 0.14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakamoto, Taishi Shiotsuki, Atsushi Shirasawa, Yushi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20150236377
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide: a liquid electrolyte for batteries, which has excellent stability to lithium metals; a method for producing the liquid electrolyte; and a lithium battery comprising the liquid electrolyte. Presented is a liquid electrolyte for lithium batteries, wherein the liquid electrolyte comprises a mesoionic compound represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and R2 is a group represented by any one of the following general formulae (2), (3) and (4): General Formula (2): —C1H21—(OCH2)m—CnH2n+1; General Formula (3): —CxH2x—(CH2OCH2)y—CzH2z+1; and General Formula (4): —CpH2p—(C2H4OCH2)q—CrH2r+1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Tsunehisa Hirashita, Shuki Araki, Hirofumi Nakamoto, Atsushi Shirasawa
  • Publication number: 20140212772
    Abstract: Provided is an electrolyte solution capable of further increasing the output of a lithium air battery, the electrolyte solution for a lithium air battery having a total bonding strength between Li2O2 is no less than 0.14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakamoto, Taishi Shiotsuki, Atsushi Shirasawa, Yushi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130266832
    Abstract: A battery that includes a battery cell and a case within which the battery cell is housed, and in which a gas that pressurizes the battery cell is filled into the case, also includes a pressure controlling mechanism capable of controlling pressure inside of the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Shirasawa, Shigenori Hama
  • Publication number: 20120290224
    Abstract: A method for determining a cation which is stable to oxygen radical. Specifically, a lithium air cell which includes at least an air electrode, a negative electrode and a non-aqueous electrolyte that is interposed between the air electrode and the negative electrode. The lithium air cell is characterized in that the nonaqueous electrolyte contains an ionic liquid that does not contain atoms having a positive charge larger than that of a hydrogen atom and is composed of cations, which have an average of the charges carried by atoms other that hydrogen atoms of 0 or less, and counter anions of the cations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2010
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidetaka Nishikoori, Noriaki Nishino, Atsushi Shirasawa, Iwao Nitta, Fuminori Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20120208054
    Abstract: A battery system is provided with: an assembled battery having a plurality of solid-state unit cells; an assembled battery case that houses the assembled battery; a gas that fills an interior of the assembled battery case; a pressing section that pressurizes the unit cells with hydrostatic pressure that is generated in the assembled battery case by the gas; a deformation section that is part of the assembled battery case and that, upon occurrence of an anomaly in the assembled battery case, deforms in reaction to the anomaly; and a sensing section that senses deformation of the deformation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi SHIRASAWA, Hiroshi TERANISHI, Hirotoshi IMAI
  • Publication number: 20100116912
    Abstract: A fuel injector inhibiting adhesion of deposits and simultaneously improving durability by a simple configuration is provided. A fuel injector having a valve body provided with a main space receiving fuel and an injection hole and a needle movably supported at the valve body and having a seal part at its front end, in which needle the movement causes the seal part to separate from or contact an inner surface of the valve body and thereby open or close a fuel passage communicating the main space and the injection hole of the valve body, the fuel injector characterized in that the injection hole of the valve body is covered by an injection hole coating comprised of a material with a lower adsorption and reactivity with oxygen compared with the material of the valve body itself, and the seal part of the needle is covered by a seal part coating comprised of a material higher in liquid-repellency compared with the material of the needle itself and not forming a metal surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Motonari Yarino, Tomojiro Sugimoto, Shouji Miyazaki, Takehiro Nitoh, Atsushi Shirasawa, Kazuaki Satoh, Eriko Matsumura
  • Patent number: 6423668
    Abstract: A friction material exhibiting a great coefficient of friction, as compared to that of the conventional friction material, which is produced with the use of an organic paper-like substrate. The friction material is composed of the paper-like substrate of a fibrous material, and an inorganic binder with which said substrate is impregnated. When friction is produced, the inorganic binder exhibits friction characteristics so that a great coefficient of friction can be effected, as compared to the cases organic binders such as phenol resin are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakanishi, Masataka Kawabata, Atsushi Suzuki, Atsushi Shirasawa
  • Patent number: 6154283
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for evaluating a liquid repellent film on parts subjected to liquid repellent treatment, particularly to a method for evaluating the quality of a liquid repellent film comprising a substance absorbing or emitting electromagnetic waves, wherein the transmittance or reflectance ratio of electromagnetic waves, or fluorescence intensity is measured, and the characteristics of the liquid repellent film is evaluated from the graph of the relationship between a film thickness and a contact angle with a liquid having been determined in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Shirasawa, Masatsugu Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 5656751
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dichroic crystal including at least one member selected from the group consisting of phtharocyanine, a phtharocyanine derivative, phtharocyanine with a central metal introduced therein, a phtharocyanine derivative with a central metal introduced therein, and iodine. It is precipitated when the iodine is added to a solution containing the member, and it includes the iodine in a form of I.sub.3.sup.- and I.sub.5.sup.- ions. It not only has a high dichroic property but also superb heat resistance and weatherability, so that it is applicable to suspended particles display devices used in severe environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Tanaka, Hisato Takeuchi, Arimitsu Usuki, Kazuo Tojima, Atsushi Shirasawa, Ai Kobayashi