Patents by Inventor Daigo Ito

Daigo Ito 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: 20210376376
    Abstract: Solid electrolyte includes a first solid electrolyte that is a phosphate salt including Li and Ta, and a second solid electrolyte that is NASICON type solid electrolyte. In a cross section of the solid electrolyte, an area ratio of the first solid electrolyte is more than 10% and an area ratio of the second solid electrolyte is more than 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daigo ITO
  • Publication number: 20210328263
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer; a positive electrode layer provided on a first face of the solid electrolyte layer, a part of the positive electrode layer extending to a first edge portion of the solid electrolyte layer; a first margin layer that is provided on an area of the solid electrolyte layer where the positive electrode is not provided; a negative electrolyte layer provided on a second face of the solid electrolyte layer, a part of the negative electrolyte layer extending to a second edge portion of the solid electrolyte layer; a second margin layer that is provided on an area of the second face of the solid electrolyte layer where the negative electrolyte layer is not provided; wherein a main component of the first margin layer and the second margin layer is solid electrolyte of which ionic conductivity is lower than that of the solid electrolyte layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Daigo ITO, Takato SATOH, Sachie TOMIZAWA, Chie KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 11127975
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer including solid electrolyte; a first electrode layer that is formed on a first main face of the solid electrolyte layer and includes an active material; and a second electrode layer that is formed on a second main face of the solid electrolyte layer and includes an active material, wherein the solid electrolyte layer includes polymer solid electrolyte including lithium salt, in a clearance of a sintered compact of phosphoric acid salt-based solid electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takato Satoh, Daigo Ito, Sachie Tomizawa, Chie Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20210280915
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes a multilayer structure in which solid electrolyte layers and internal electrodes are alternately stacked, the plurality of internal electrodes including an electrode active material and a carbon material, the multilayer structure having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, the plurality of internal electrodes being alternately exposed to two different faces of the multilayer structure, a first cover layer provided on an upper face of the multilayer structure in a stacking direction, and a second cover layer provided on a lower face of the multilayer structure in the stacking direction. Each thickness of the plurality of internal electrodes is equal to or more than each thickness of the plurality of solid electrolyte layers. Vickers hardness of the plurality of solid electrolyte layers and Vickers hardness of the first and second cover layers are larger than Vickers hardness of the plurality of internal electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi SEKIGUCHI, Daigo ITO
  • Patent number: 11101386
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having favorable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes an oxide; a first conductor and a second conductor over the oxide; a third conductor over the oxide; a first insulator provided between the oxide and the third conductor and covering a side surface of the third conductor; a second insulator over the third conductor and the first insulator; a third insulator positioned over the first conductor and at a side surface of the second insulator; a fourth insulator positioned over the second conductor and at a side surface of the second insulator; a fourth conductor being in contact with a top surface and a side surface of the third insulator and electrically connected to the first conductor; and a fifth conductor being in contact with a top surface and a side surface of the fourth insulator and electrically connected to the second conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Ryota Hodo, Daigo Ito, Hiroaki Honda, Satoru Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20210242207
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that can be miniaturized or highly integrated is provided. A first conductor to a fourth conductor, a first insulator and a second insulator, and a first oxide and a second oxide are included, the first insulator is positioned over the first conductor, the first oxide is positioned over the first insulator, a first opening that reaches the first conductor is provided in the first insulator and the first oxide, the second conductor and the third conductor isolated from each other are positioned over the first oxide, at least part of the third conductor overlaps with the first opening and is in contact with a top surface of the first conductor, the second oxide is positioned over the first oxide so as to at least partly overlap with a region between the second conductor and the third conductor, the second insulator is positioned over the second oxide, and the fourth conductor is positioned over the second insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Daigo ITO, Ryota HODO, Yoshinori ANDO, Tetsuya KAKEHATA
  • Patent number: 11075368
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer including an oxide-based electrolyte; a first electrode layer that is formed on a first face of the solid electrolyte layer and includes a ceramic grain; and a second electrode layer that is formed on a second face of the solid electrolyte layer and includes a ceramic grain, wherein at least one of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer includes a micro particle carbon and a board-shaped carbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sachie Tomizawa, Daigo Ito
  • Patent number: 11056716
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer; a positive electrode layer provided on a first face of the solid electrolyte layer, a part of the positive electrode layer extending to a first edge portion of the solid electrolyte layer; a first margin layer that is provided on an area of the solid electrolyte layer where the positive electrode is not provided; a negative electrolyte layer provided on a second face of the solid electrolyte layer, a part of the negative electrolyte layer extending to a second edge portion of the solid electrolyte layer; a second margin layer that is provided on an area of the second face of the solid electrolyte layer where the negative electrolyte layer is not provided; wherein a main component of the first margin layer and the second margin layer is solid electrolyte of which ionic conductivity is lower than that of the solid electrolyte layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo Ito, Takato Satoh, Sachie Tomizawa, Chie Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20210202985
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes a solid electrolyte layer of which a main component is a Li—Al-M-PO4-based phosphoric acid salt, a first electrode layer that is provided on a first main face of the solid electrolyte layer and includes an active material, and a second electrode layer that is provided on a second main face of the solid electrolyte layer and includes an active material. “M” is at least one of Ge, Ti, and Zr. A region in which a ratio of MO2 with respect to Li—Al-M-PO4 is 5% or more is unevenly distributed from a center in a thickness of the solid electrolyte layer to 0.4 A downward and to 0.4 A upward, when the thickness of the solid electrolyte layer is expressed by “A”.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takato SATO, Daigo ITO, Sachie TOMIZAWA, Chie KAWAMURA, Masashi SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210202986
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes a multilayer chip in which each of a plurality of solid electrolyte layers including solid electrolyte and each of a plurality of internal electrodes including an electrode active material are alternately stacked, the multilayer chip having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, the plurality of internal electrodes being alternately exposed to two side faces of the multilayer chip other than two end faces of a stacking direction of the multilayer chip, and a pair of external electrodes that contacts the two side faces. At least one of the pair of external electrodes includes an electrode active material of which a pole is a same as that of an electrode active material of the internal electrode which contacts the one of the pair of external electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo ITO, Kotaro MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20210203005
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes a multilayer chip in which each of a plurality of solid electrolyte layers including solid electrolyte and each of a plurality of internal electrodes including an electrode active material are alternately stacked, the multilayer chip having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, the plurality of internal electrodes being alternately exposed to two side faces of the multilayer chip other than two end faces of a stacking direction of the multilayer chip, and a pair of external electrodes that contacts the two side faces and include solid electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo ITO, Kotaro MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20210159538
    Abstract: An all-solid battery includes a multilayer structure that includes pairs of positive electrode layers and pairs of negative electrode layers, first solid electrolyte layers, second solid electrolyte layers, and third solid electrolyte layers, the pairs of positive electrode layers and the pairs of negative electrode layers being alternately stacked, each of the first solid electrolyte layers being interposed between each of the pairs of positive electrode layers, each of the second solid electrolyte layers being interposed between each of the pairs of negative electrode layers, each of the third solid electrolyte layers being interposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, wherein a thickness of the third solid electrolyte layer is different from at least one of a thickness of the first electrolyte layer and a thickness of the second electrolyte layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daigo ITO
  • Publication number: 20210135196
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes a solid electrolyte layer, a positive electrode layer that includes a positive electrode active material and a negative electrode active material, and a negative electrode layer that includes a positive electrode active material and a negative electrode active material, wherein a relationship “SCathode>SAnode” is satisfied, when a ratio of the positive electrode active material of the positive electrode layer is a ratio A1, a ratio of the negative electrode active material of the positive electrode layer is a ratio B1, a ratio of the positive electrode active material of the negative electrode layer is a ratio A2, a ratio of the negative electrode active material of the negative electrode layer is a ratio B2, SCathode is A1/(A1+B1), and SAnode is A2/(A2+B2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takato SATO, Daigo ITO
  • Publication number: 20210083321
    Abstract: An all-solid battery includes: a multilayer structure that includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, and has a first side face and a second side face adjacent to each other, the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes being alternately stacked with solid electrolyte layers interposed between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes; a first extraction part exposed on the first side face, the first extraction part being a part of the first electrode; a second extraction part exposed on the second side face, the second extraction part being a part of the second electrode; a first external electrode coupled to the first extraction part on the first side face; and a second external electrode coupled to the second extraction part on the second side face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo ITO, Takato SATOH, Sachie TOMIZAWA, Chie KAWAMURA, Masashi SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210057781
    Abstract: An all-solid battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer mainly composed of oxide-based solid electrolyte; a first electrode layer formed on a first principal face of the solid electrolyte layer, the first electrode layer containing an active material; a second electrode layer formed on a second principal face of the solid electrolyte layer, the second electrode layer containing another active material, wherein no collector layer that is in contact with the second electrode layer is provided in a direction in which the solid electrolyte layer, the first electrode layer, and the second electrode layer are stacked, and the second electrode layer includes board-shaped carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sachie TOMIZAWA, Daigo ITO, Chie KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200403274
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer of which a main component is oxide-based solid electrolyte; a first electrode layer that is provided on a first main face of the solid electrolyte layer and includes an active material; and a second electrode layer that is provided on a second main face of the solid electrolyte layer and includes an active material, wherein at least one of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer includes an aggregate of carbon particles and a cavity, wherein the aggregate demarcates at least a part of the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sachie TOMIZAWA, Daigo ITO, Chie KAWAMURA, Kotaro MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20200365937
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes: an oxide-based solid electrolyte layer; a first electrode provided on a first main face of the solid electrolyte layer; a second electrode provided on a second main face of the solid electrolyte layer, wherein the solid electrolyte layer is a sintered structure of solid electrolyte powder, wherein the solid electrolyte powder has D10% diameter of 0.05 ?m or more and 0.6 ?m or less, D50% diameter of 0.08 ?m or more and 1.5 ?m or less, D90% diameter of 4 ?m or less, and a BET value of 3 m2/g or more and 20 m2/g or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chie KAWAMURA, Daigo ITO, Sachie TOMIZAWA
  • Patent number: 10797180
    Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a first insulating layer; a first oxide insulating layer over the first insulating layer; an oxide semiconductor layer over the first oxide insulating layer; a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer over the oxide semiconductor layer; a second oxide insulating layer over the oxide semiconductor layer, the source electrode layer, and the drain electrode layer; a gate insulating layer over the second oxide insulating layer; a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating layer; a second insulating layer over the first insulating layer the source electrode layer, the drain electrode layer, the second oxide insulating layer, the gate insulating layer, and the gate electrode layer, and a third insulating layer over the first insulating layer, the source electrode layer, the drain electrode layer, and the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daigo Ito, Takahisa Ishiyama, Katsuaki Tochibayashi, Kazuya Hanaoka
  • Publication number: 20200313232
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes: a multilayer chip in which each of solid electrolyte layers and each of electrodes are alternately stacked, a main component of the solid electrolyte layers being phosphoric acid salt-based solid electrolyte, the plurality of electrodes being alternately exposed to a first end face and a second end face of the multilayer chip, a first external electrode provided on the first end face; a second external electrode provided on the second end face; and wherein L/W is 0.2 or more and 1.1 or less, when a length of the multilayer chip in a first direction in which the first end face faces with the second end face is L, and a width of the multilayer chip in a second direction that is vertical to the first direction and a stacking direction of the multilayer chip is W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chie Kawamura, Masashi Sekiguchi, Daigo Ito, Takato Satoh, Sachie Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20200313233
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer including a glass component, a main component of the solid electrolyte layer being phosphoric acid salt-based solid electrolyte; and electrode layers that are provided on both main faces of the solid electrolyte layer, wherein the electrode layers include a carbon material having an average particle diameter of 40 nm or more and 120 nm or less, wherein a DBP oil absorption of the carbon material is 200 mL/100 g or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sachie TOMIZAWA, Daigo ITO, Chie KAWAMURA, Masashi SEKIGUCHI, Takato SATOH