Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Kamine

Hirokazu Kamine 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: 11843092
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a nonaqueous electrolyte solution which contains: a nonaqueous solvent containing acetonitrile and vinylene carbonate; and a compound represented by general formula (1) R1-A-R2 (wherein A represents a divalent group that has a structure represented by one of formulae (1-2) to (1-5); and each of R1 and R2 independently represents an aryl group, an alkyl group which may be substituted by a halogen atom, while having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkyl group, a vinylidene group which may be substituted by a halogen atom, or an aryl group which may be substituted by a halogen atom; or alternatively, R1 and R2 may combine with each other and form, together with A, a ring structure that may have an unsaturated bond).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kamine, Naoki Matsuoka, Makoto Ito, Xun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11532839
    Abstract: To provide a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, a non-aqueous secondary battery, a cell pack, and a hybrid power system, capable of improving desired battery performance in an acetonitrile electrolyte solution, the non-aqueous electrolyte solution contains a non-aqueous solvent, PO2F2 anions, and cyclic acid anhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Hirokazu Kamine, Masaki Takahashi, Kazuyuki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11515567
    Abstract: To provide a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, a non-aqueous secondary battery, a cell pack, and a hybrid power system, capable of improving desired battery performance using acetonitrile, the non-aqueous electrolyte solution contains acetonitrile, lithium salt, and cyclic acid anhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Hirokazu Kamine, Masaki Takahashi, Kazuyuki Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20220293929
    Abstract: Provided is a non-aqueous secondary battery that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes LiNixCoyMnzO2 (0.7<x<0.9, 0<y<0.2, 0<z<0.2) as a lithium-containing metal oxide, and when the positive electrode before and after cycle testing of the non-aqueous secondary battery is analyzed by powder X-ray diffraction using Cu-K? radiation, the rate of change of the c-axis lattice constant is 1.0% or less. The non-aqueous electrolyte includes 5-20% by volume of acetonitrile and has an ion conductivity of at least 10 mS/cm and less than 15 mS/cm at 20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Hirokazu Kamine, Naoki Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20220271338
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte solution which contains: a nonaqueous solvent containing acetonitrile and vinylene carbonate; and a compound represented by general formula (1) R1-A-R2 (wherein A represents a divalent group that has a structure represented by one of formulae (1-2) to (1-5); and each of R1 and R2 independently represents an aryl group, an alkyl group which may be substituted by a halogen atom, while having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkyl group, a vinylidene group which may be substituted by a halogen atom, or an aryl group which may be substituted by a halogen atom; or alternatively, R1 and R2 may combine with each other and form, together with A, a ring structure that may have an unsaturated bond). With respect to this nonaqueous electrolyte solution, the total content of the vinylene carbonate and the compound represented by general formula (1) is not less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kamine, Naoki Matsuoka, Makoto Ito, Xun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210351437
    Abstract: Provided is a nonaqueous secondary battery including: a positive electrode that contains at least one positive electrode active material capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions; a negative electrode that contains a negative electrode active material which is at least one selected from the group consisting of lithium metals and materials capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions; and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, wherein the negative electrode contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by general formulas (1)-(3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kamine, Naoki Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20210344046
    Abstract: Provided is a nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing a nonaqueous solvent, a lithium salt, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by general formula (1): R1—(S)n—R2, general formula (2): X—Si(OR3)(3-m)R4m, general formula (3), general formula (4), and general formula (18): X—Si(OR3?OR3)(3-m)R4m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Hirokazu Kamine
  • Patent number: 11081730
    Abstract: To provide a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, a non-aqueous secondary battery, a cell pack, and a hybrid power system, capable of improving desired battery performance in an acetonitrile electrolyte solution, the non-aqueous electrolyte solution contains a non-aqueous solvent, PO2F2 anions, and cyclic acid anhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Hirokazu Kamine, Masaki Takahashi, Kazuyuki Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20200274198
    Abstract: To provide a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, a non-aqueous secondary battery, a cell pack, and a hybrid power system, capable of improving desired battery performance in an acetonitrile electrolyte solution, the non-aqueous electrolyte solution contains a non-aqueous solvent, PO2F2 anions, and cyclic acid anhydride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Hirokazu Kamine, Masaki Takahashi, Kazuyuki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 10756394
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte that contains acetonitrile having an excellent balance between viscosity and the dielectric constant and a fluorine-containing inorganic lithium salt, wherein the generation of complex cations comprising a transition metal and acetonitrile is suppressed, excellent load characteristics are exhibited, and increases in internal resistance upon repeated charge/discharge cycles are suppressed; a further purpose of the present invention is to provide a nonaqueous secondary battery. The present invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolyte which contains: a nonaqueous solvent comprising acetonitrile; a fluorine-containing inorganic lithium salt; and a specific nitrogenous cyclic compound typified by benzotriazole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Akira Yoshino, Yutaka Natsume, Mitsuhiro Kishimi, Hirokazu Kamine
  • Patent number: 10693189
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte that contains acetonitrile having excellent balance between viscosity and the dielectric constant and a fluorine-containing inorganic lithium salt, wherein the generation of complex cations comprising a transition metal and acetonitrile is suppressed, excellent load characteristics are exhibited, and self-discharge during high-temperature storage is suppressed; a further purpose of the present invention is to provide a nonaqueous secondary battery. The present invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolyte which contains: a nonaqueous solvent comprising 30 to 100 vol % of acetonitrile; a fluorine-containing inorganic lithium salt; and a specific nitrogenous cyclic compound typified by pyridine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Akira Yoshino, Yutaka Natsume, Mitsuhiro Kishimi, Hirokazu Kamine
  • Publication number: 20200091554
    Abstract: To provide a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, a non-aqueous secondary battery, a cell pack, and a hybrid power system, capable of improving desired battery performance in an acetonitrile electrolyte solution, the non-aqueous electrolyte solution contains a non-aqueous solvent, PO2F2 anions, and cyclic acid anhydride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Hirokazu Kamine, Masaki Takahashi, Kazuyuki Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20190393556
    Abstract: To provide a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, a non-aqueous secondary battery, a cell pack, and a hybrid power system, capable of improving desired battery performance using acetonitrile, the non-aqueous electrolyte solution contains acetonitrile, lithium salt, and cyclic acid anhydride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Hirokazu Kamine, Masaki Takahashi, Kazuyuki Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20180191022
    Abstract: Provided are a non-aqueous electrolyte battery that exhibits favorable load characteristics at low temperatures after being stored at a high temperature, and a method for manufacturing the non-aqueous electrolyte battery. A non-aqueous electrolyte battery of the present invention includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: Maxell Holdings, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi HATAKEYAMA, Hidetoshi MORIKAMI, Yasunori MASAOKA, Hirokazu KAMINE, Hiroaki MATSUMOTO, Mitsuhiro KISHIMI
  • Publication number: 20180062213
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte that contains acetonitrile having an excellent balance between viscosity and the dielectric constant and a fluorine-containing inorganic lithium salt, wherein the generation of complex cations comprising a transition metal and acetonitrile is suppressed, excellent load characteristics are exhibited, and increases in internal resistance upon repeated charge/discharge cycles are suppressed; a further purpose of the present invention is to provide a nonaqueous secondary battery. The present invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolyte which contains: a nonaqueous solvent comprising acetonitrile; a fluorine-containing inorganic lithium salt; and a specific nitrogenous cyclic compound typified by benzotriazole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Akira Yoshino, Yutaka Natsume, Mitsuhiro Kishimi, Hirokazu Kamine
  • Publication number: 20180062207
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte that contains acetonitrile having excellent balance between viscosity and the dielectric constant and a fluorine-containing inorganic lithium salt, wherein the generation of complex cations comprising a transition metal and acetonitrile is suppressed, excellent load characteristics are exhibited, and self-discharge during high-temperature storage is suppressed; a further purpose of the present invention is to provide a nonaqueous secondary battery. The present invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolyte which contains: a nonaqueous solvent comprising 30 to 100 vol % of acetonitrile; a fluorine-containing inorganic lithium salt; and a specific nitrogenous cyclic compound typified by pyridine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka, Akira Yoshino, Yutaka Natsume, Mitsuhiro Kishimi, Hirokazu Kamine
  • Patent number: 8877385
    Abstract: The non-aqueous secondary battery of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte and a separator. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode mixture layer containing a positive electrode active material, a conductive polymer, an organic silane compound, a conductive assistant and a binder, the conductive polymer is polythiophene or a derivative thereof, and the content of the conductive polymer is 0.05 to 0.5 mass % with respect to the total mass of the positive electrode mixture layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kamine, Mitsuhiro Kishimi, Fusaji Kita
  • Publication number: 20130252095
    Abstract: The non-aqueous secondary battery of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte and a separator. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode mixture layer containing a positive electrode active material, a conductive polymer, an organic silane compound, a conductive assistant and a binder, the conductive polymer is polythiophene or a derivative thereof, and the content of the conductive polymer is 0.05 to 0.5 mass % with respect to the total mass of the positive electrode mixture layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kamine, Mitsuhiro Kishimi, Fusaji Kita