Patents by Inventor Futoshi Utsuno

Futoshi Utsuno 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: 11916191
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte having an argyrodite-type crystal structure may involve: mixing a raw material containing elemental phosphorus at an integrated power of 0.5 kWh/kg or more, and heat-treating a precursor obtained in the mixing at 350 to 500° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Kambara, Minoru Senga, Katsuhito Kondo, Naoya Masuda, Hironari Kimpara, Futoshi Utsuno, Hiroyuki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20240051838
    Abstract: A method of producing lithium hydroxide using a variety of aqueous solutions as a source liquid. The method includes: providing a lithium ion extraction liquid, including a first mixing of an aqueous solution containing lithium and at least one kind of an element other than lithium and a base in a reaction tank, with a pH regulated to 6 or more and 10 or less, a second mixing of the aqueous solution and the base, with a pH regulated to 12 or more, and removal of a hydroxide of the element other than lithium formed through the first and second mixing; recovering only lithium ion from the lithium ion extraction liquid to a recovery liquid with an electrochemical device including a Li-selectively permeable membrane; and performing the regulation of pH by returning the lithium ion extraction liquid after recovering lithium ion with the electrochemical device to the reaction tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Shota HOSHI, Daisuke MORI, Futoshi UTSUNO, Atsushi SATO, Satoshi KATSUMATA
  • Publication number: 20240010813
    Abstract: A resin composition containing a compound including phosphorus and sulfur as constituent elements and having a disulfide bond, and a thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD., OSAKA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Atsutaka KATO, Mari YAMAMOTO, Masanari TAKAHASHI, Futoshi UTSUNO, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230406718
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium hydroxide production method for producing high-purity lithium hydroxide efficiently and at a lower energy, wherein Li ions alone are recovered in a recovery liquid from a lithium ion extract extracted from a processed member of a lithium secondary battery, using a Li permselective membrane, and lithium hydroxide is produced from the recovery liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke MORI, Masashi MACHIDA, Futoshi UTSUNO, Tsuyoshi HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20230282876
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte that contains lithium, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine and bromine, wherein in powder X-ray diffraction analysis using CuK? rays, it has a diffraction peak A at 2?=25.2±0.5 deg and a diffraction peak B at 2?=29.7±0.5 deg, the diffraction peak A and the diffraction peak B satisfy the following formula (A), and a molar ratio of the chlorine to the phosphorus “c (Cl/P)” and a molar ratio of the bromine to the phosphorus “d (Br/P)” satisfies the following formula (1): 1.2<c+d<1.9??(1) 0.845<SA/SB<1.200??(A) where SA is an area of the diffraction peak A and SB is an area of the diffraction peak B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi UTSUNO, Kota TERAI, Takashi UMEKI, Masaru NAKAGAWA, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230183876
    Abstract: A Li ion recovery member and a Li recovery device may prevent occurrence of breakage of a permselective membrane and implement stable Li ion recovery for a long period of time even when a size of a Li recovery device is increased. The Li ion recovery member may include: a permselective membrane including a Li ion conductor made of an inorganic substance; electrodes; and a reticular elastic body, in which the electrodes are provided on at least one main surface side of the permselective membrane, at least one electrode of the electrodes is a porous electrode or a membrane electrode, and the porous electrode or the membrane electrode is sandwiched between the reticular elastic body and the permselective membrane. The Li recovery device may include a Li ion recovery electrolytic cell including the Li ion recovery member and configured to recover Li ions by electrodialysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi UTSUNO, Satoshi KATSUMATA, Tsuyoshi HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20230178794
    Abstract: To provide an electrode composite material that is excellent in conductivity through the excellent contact state of a solid electrolyte and an electrode active material, and is capable of exhibiting a high battery capability, containing the sulfide solid electrolyte and the electrode active material, having an electron conductivity parameter X represented by the prescribed expression satisfying 0.30?X?2.10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya MASUDA, Futoshi UTSUNO, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230155244
    Abstract: An ion recovery device including an ion selective permeable membrane with an ion conductive layer containing a lithium ion conductor formed of an inorganic substance, and a support layer is formed of a porous body wherein the ion selective permeable membrane has a configuration (I). In configuration (I) the ion conductive layer is provided in contact with one principal surface side of a support layer, and an electrode is provided in contact with another principal surface side opposite to the one principal surface side on which the ion conductive layer is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi UTSUNO, Qingxin JIA, Ichitaro WAKI, Hiroshi TOMITA
  • Patent number: 11652236
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte may include lithium, phosphorus and sulfur, and the sulfide solid electrolyte may have a diffraction peak A at 2?=25.2±0.5 deg and a diffraction peak B at 29.7±0.5 deg in powder X-ray diffraction using CuK? rays, and a crystallite diameter in a range of from 5 to 20 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Terai, Atsushi Sato, Futoshi Utsuno
  • Patent number: 11637312
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte containing the following (A) and (B): (A) a sulfide solid electrolyte having an argyrodite-type crystal structure; and (B) a sulfide solid electrolyte having a crystal structure different from the argyrodite-type crystal structure of the above-mentioned (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sato, Kota Terai, Futoshi Utsuno
  • Patent number: 11626616
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte that contains lithium, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine and bromine, wherein in powder X-ray diffraction analysis using CuK? rays, it has a diffraction peak A at 2?=25.2±0.5 deg and a diffraction peak B at 2?=29.7±0.5 deg, the diffraction peak A and the diffraction peak B satisfy the following formula (A), and a molar ratio of the chlorine to the phosphorus “c (Cl/P)” and a molar ratio of the bromine to the phosphorus “d (Br/P)” satisfies the following formula (1): 1.2<c+d<1.9??(1) 0.845<SA/SB<1.200??(A) where SA is an area of the diffraction peak A and SB is an area of the diffraction peak B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi Utsuno, Kota Terai, Takashi Umeki, Masaru Nakagawa, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220376291
    Abstract: A compound comprising phosphorus atoms and sulfur atoms as constituent elements and having a peak in Raman spectroscopy, the peak being attributable to a disulfide bond bonding between two phosphorus atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicants: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD., OSAKA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Atsutaka KATO, Mari YAMAMOTO, Masanari TAKAHASHI, Futoshi UTSUNO, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220367907
    Abstract: Provided is a sulfide solid electrolyte containing lithium, phosphorus, sulfur and chlorine, in which a molar ratio of the chlorine to the phosphorus, c (Cl/P), is greater than 1.0 and 1.9 or less, the sulfide solid electrolyte includes an argyrodite-type crystal structure, and a lattice constant of the argyrodite-type crystal structure is 9.820 ? or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi UTSUNO, Akiko NAKATA, Kota TERAI, Masaru NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11444317
    Abstract: Provided is a sulfide solid electrolyte containing lithium, phosphorus, sulfur and chlorine, in which a molar ratio of the chlorine to the phosphorus, c (Cl/P), is greater than 1.0 and 1.9 or less, the sulfide solid electrolyte includes an argyrodite-type crystal structure, and a lattice constant of the argyrodite-type crystal structure is 9.820 ? or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi Utsuno, Akiko Nakata, Kota Terai, Masaru Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20220255062
    Abstract: To provide an electrode composite material capable of exhibiting a high battery capability, containing a particular crystalline sulfide solid electrolyte and an electrode active material, and a method for producing an electrode composite material, including; firstly mixing a raw material inclusion containing at least one kind of a lithium element, a sulfur element, and a phosphorus element, with a complexing agent, so as to form an electrolyte precursor; heating to decomplex the electrolyte precursor; and secondly mixing a decomplexed material obtained through the decomplexing, with an electrode active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya MASUDA, Futoshi UTSUNO
  • Patent number: 11387486
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte comprising lithium, phosphorus and sulfur, wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte has a diffraction peak A at 2?=25.2±0.5 deg and a diffraction peak B at 29.7±0.5 deg in powder X-ray diffraction using CuK? rays, an area ratio of a peak derived from PS43? glass to the total area of peaks derived from glass observed in solid 31P-NMR measurement is 90% or more and 100% or less, and an area ratio of peaks derived from glass to the total area of all peaks at 60 to 120 ppm observed in solid 31P-NMR measurement is 1% or more and 45% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi Utsuno, Toshiaki Tsuno, Kota Terai, Atsushi Sato
  • Patent number: 11355780
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte particles comprising lithium, phosphorus and sulfur, having a volume-based average particle size measured by laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement of 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m, having a diffraction peak having 2? of 29.0 to 31.0 deg in powder X-ray diffraction measurement using CuK? ray, and an intensity ratio (Ib/Ip) of a peak intensity Ib at a high angle-side low part of the diffraction peak to a peak intensity Ip of the diffraction peak is less than 0.09.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi Utsuno, Toshiaki Tsuno, Kota Terai, Hironari Kimpara, Atsushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20220158230
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte may include lithium, phosphorus and sulfur, and the sulfide solid electrolyte may have a diffraction peak A at 2?=25.2±0.5 deg and a diffraction peak B at 29.7±0.5 deg in powder X-ray diffraction using CuK? rays, and a crystallite diameter in a range of from 5 to 20 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Kota TERAI, Atsushi SATO, Futoshi UTSUNO
  • Publication number: 20220131185
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte that contains lithium, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine and bromine, wherein in powder X-ray diffraction analysis using CuK? rays, it has a diffraction peak A at 2?=25.2±0.5 deg and a diffraction peak B at 2?=29.7±0.5 deg, the diffraction peak A and the diffraction peak B satisfy the following formula (A), and a molar ratio of the chlorine to the phosphorus “c (Cl/P)” and a molar ratio of the bromine to the phosphorus “d (Br/P)” satisfies the following formula (1): 1.2<c+d<1.9??(1) 0.845<SA/SB<1.200??(A) where SA is an area of the diffraction peak A and SB is an area of the diffraction peak B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi UTSUNO, Kota TERAI, Takashi UMEKI, Masaru NAKAGAWA, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11276881
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide sulfide solid electrolytes having good processability at the time of manufacturing a battery and high ionic conductivity. The present invention relates to a sulfide solid electrolyte containing lithium, phosphorus and sulfur, having a diffraction peak A at 2?=25.2±0.5 deg and a diffraction peak B at 29.7±0.5 deg in powder X-ray diffraction using CuK? rays, and the half-value width of at least one peak obtained by separating the peaks observed in a range of 60 to 120 ppm in solid-state 31P-NMR measurements is 500 to 800 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Terai, Atsushi Sato, Futoshi Utsuno