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).
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Publication number: 20230282876Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.Inventors: Futoshi UTSUNO, Kota TERAI, Takashi UMEKI, Masaru NAKAGAWA, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230183876Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.Inventors: Futoshi UTSUNO, Satoshi KATSUMATA, Tsuyoshi HOSHINO
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Publication number: 20230178794Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.Inventors: Naoya MASUDA, Futoshi UTSUNO, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230155244Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.Inventors: Futoshi UTSUNO, Qingxin JIA, Ichitaro WAKI, Hiroshi TOMITA
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Patent number: 11652236Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Kota Terai, Atsushi Sato, Futoshi Utsuno
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Patent number: 11637312Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Sato, Kota Terai, Futoshi Utsuno
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Patent number: 11626616Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Futoshi Utsuno, Kota Terai, Takashi Umeki, Masaru Nakagawa, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20220376291Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicants: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD., OSAKA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Atsutaka KATO, Mari YAMAMOTO, Masanari TAKAHASHI, Futoshi UTSUNO, Hiroyuki HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220367907Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.Inventors: Futoshi UTSUNO, Akiko NAKATA, Kota TERAI, Masaru NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 11444317Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Futoshi Utsuno, Akiko Nakata, Kota Terai, Masaru Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20220255062Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoya MASUDA, Futoshi UTSUNO
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Patent number: 11387486Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Futoshi Utsuno, Toshiaki Tsuno, Kota Terai, Atsushi Sato
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Patent number: 11355780Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Futoshi Utsuno, Toshiaki Tsuno, Kota Terai, Hironari Kimpara, Atsushi Sato
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Publication number: 20220158230Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.Inventors: Kota TERAI, Atsushi SATO, Futoshi UTSUNO
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Publication number: 20220131185Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.Inventors: Futoshi UTSUNO, Kota TERAI, Takashi UMEKI, Masaru NAKAGAWA, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11276881Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Kota Terai, Atsushi Sato, Futoshi Utsuno
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Patent number: 11271246Abstract: 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 peek 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Futoshi Utsuno, Kota Terai, Takashi Umeki, Masaru Nakagawa, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11264642Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte containing lithium, phosphorus, sulfur; and one or more of elements X selected from the group consisting of halogen elements and chalcogen elements excluding sulfur, wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte includes an argyrodite-type crystal structure, and wherein a molar ratio of the lithium to the phosphorus, a (Li/P), a molar ratio of the sulfur to the phosphorus, b (S/P), and a molar ratio of the element X to the phosphorus, c (X/P), satisfy formulas (1) to (3): 5.0?a?7.1 (1) 1.0<a?b?1.5 (2) 6.5?a+c<7.1 (3) wherein b>0 and c>0 are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Futoshi Utsuno, Kota Terai
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Publication number: 20210355033Abstract: An oxide sintered body is characterized in that it comprises an oxide including an In element, a Zn element, a Sn element and a Y element and that a sintered body density is equal to or more than 100.00% of a theoretical density.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuyoshi INOUE, Futoshi UTSUNO, Shigekazu TOMAI, Masatoshi SHIBATA, Mami ITOSE
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Patent number: 11078120Abstract: An oxide sintered body is characterized in that it comprises an oxide including an In element, a Zn element, a Sn element and a Y element and that a sintered body density is equal to or more than 100.00% of a theoretical density.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Inoue, Futoshi Utsuno, Shigekazu Tomai, Masatoshi Shibata, Mami Itose