Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Munakata

Hirokazu Munakata 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: 11139534
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium secondary battery separator including a laminate of a substrate and a porous heat-resistant polyimide film which covers at least one surface of the substrate. The porous heat-resistant polyimide film has pores which are regularly arrayed three-dimensionally and a film thickness of 5-20 ?m. Penetration damage to the separator by growth of dendrite-shaped lithium is avoided, and it is also possible to meet a request which is demanded of the lithium secondary battery separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, 3DOM INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kanamura, Hirokazu Munakata, Yongcheng Jin
  • Publication number: 20210151788
    Abstract: To provide: an electrolyte film having a practical film thickness, an excellent mechanical strength, and electrochemical characteristics; an electrolyte composition making it possible to obtain the electrolyte film; and a cell in which the electrolyte film is used. [Solution] An electrolyte composition characterized in comprising an electrolyte powder, a binder, and an ion-conductive material; the electrolyte powder being an oxide-based ceramic electrolyte powder; the binder being a polymer compound that is stable with respect to metal ions; the ion-conductive material being a solvated ion-conductive material or an ion-conductive solution having a metal ion-based compound. An electrolyte film characterized in being provided with an electrolyte powder and a composite material in which a binder and an ion-conductive material are made into a composite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicants: TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, 3DOM INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kanamura, Hirokazu Munakata, Takeshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10930911
    Abstract: Provided is a separator which can make the electric field on the surface of a negative electrode for a metal secondary battery homogeneous to thereby prevent the formation of dendrites. A porous separator for metal secondary batteries, which has a polymer electrolyte layer formed on the surface layer of at least one main surface of a porous polyimide film. It is preferred that the polymer electrolyte layer is composed of both a polymer electrolyte material which is supported on at least one main surface of the porous polyimide film and a polymer electrolyte material which is supported in voids in a layered region that extends from the main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD., TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, 3DOM INC
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Sago, Kiyoshi Kanamura, Hirokazu Munakata, Kazuhiro Imazawa
  • Publication number: 20200119354
    Abstract: To provide an electrode which can sufficiently exhibit the battery characteristics necessary for a solid-state battery, a production method therefor, an electrode composition for producing said electrode, and a battery using the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicants: TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, 3DOM INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kanamura, Hirokazu Munakata, Mao Shoji
  • Patent number: 10096809
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing, a secondary battery separator including a porous resin film in which pores have three-dimensionally ordered structure and are in mutual communication via through-holes. The method includes: uniformly dispersing spherical microparticles having narrow particle size distribution in a dispersion medium to prepare a microparticles-dispersed slurry; drying slurry to obtain a spherical microparticles-dispersed film; heat-treating the film to form a microparticles-resin film in which the microparticles are regularly arrayed in three-dimensions in a resin matrix; and contacting the microparticles-resin film with an organic acid, water, an alkaline solution or an inorganic acid other than hydrofluoric acid to dissolve and remove the microparticles, or heating the microparticles-resin film to remove the microparticles, to form pores which are in mutual communication and regularly arrayed in the resin matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignees: TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, 3DOM INC., TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kanamura, Hirokazu Munakata, Kazuhiro Imazawa, Hiroyoshi Sago
  • Publication number: 20170279101
    Abstract: Provided is a separator which can make the electric field on the surface of a negative electrode for a metal secondary battery homogeneous to thereby prevent the formation of dendrites. A porous separator for metal secondary batteries, which has a polymer electrolyte layer formed on the surface layer of at least one main surface of a porous polyimide film. It is preferred that the polymer electrolyte layer is composed of both a polymer electrolyte material which is supported on at least one main surface of the porous polyimide film and a polymer electrolyte material which is supported in voids in a layered region that extends from the main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicants: TOKYO OHKO KOGYO CO., LTD., TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, 3DOM INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi SAGO, Kiyoshi KANAMURA, Hirokazu MUNAKATA, Kazuhiro IMAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160294016
    Abstract: A nonaqueous secondary battery, a manufacturing method thereof, and an electrolyte. The battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a substrate and an electrolyte, in which respective end surfaces of the positive electrode and the negative electrode face each other at a distance, the positive electrode and the negative electrode are arranged in substantially the same plane, the substrate fixingly supports the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the electrolyte is present between the facing end surfaces of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the electrolyte is involved in a battery reaction between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and the electrolyte contains ion conductive inorganic solid electrolyte particles and a liquid electrolyte component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Takahiro ASAI, Kiyoshi KANAMURA, Hirokazu MUNAKATA, Shigenori INOUE
  • Publication number: 20160111695
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing, a secondary battery separator including a porous resin film in which pores have three-dimensionally ordered structure and are in mutual communication via through-holes. The method includes: uniformly dispersing spherical microparticles having narrow particle size distribution in a dispersion medium to prepare a microparticles-dispersed slurry; drying slurry to obtain a spherical microparticles-dispersed film; heat-treating the film to form a microparticles-resin film in which the microparticles are regularly arrayed in three-dimensions in a resin matrix; and contacting the microparticles-resin film with an organic acid, water, an alkaline solution or an inorganic acid other than hydrofluoric acid to dissolve and remove the microparticles, or heating the microparticles-resin film to remove the microparticles, to form pores which are in mutual communication and regularly arrayed in the resin matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicants: TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, 3DOM INC., TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi KANAMURA, Hirokazu MUNAKATA, Kazuhiro IMAZAWA, Hiroyoshi SAGO
  • Patent number: 9196897
    Abstract: An electrode having excellent charge/discharge cycle characteristics and which is capable of improving a secondary battery capacity. An electrode is formed on the surface of a collector as an assembly of multiple porous domain structures that are apart from each other, the porous domain structures each having a polygonal shape without an acute angle in a planar view, the polygonal shape having a maximum diameter of 120 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignees: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD., TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takahiro Asai, Takashi Ono, Kiyoshi Kanamura, Hirokazu Munakata
  • Publication number: 20140329130
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium secondary battery separator including a laminate of a substrate and a porous heat-resistant polyimide film which covers at least one surface of the substrate. The porous heat-resistant polyimide film has pores which are regularly arrayed three-dimensionally and a film thickness of 5-20 ?m. Penetration damage to the separator by growth of dendrite-shaped lithium is avoided, and it is also possible to meet a request which is demanded of the lithium secondary battery separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kanamura, Hirokazu Munakata, Yongcheng Jin
  • Publication number: 20130209872
    Abstract: An electrode having excellent charge/discharge cycle characteristics and which is capable of improving a secondary battery capacity. An electrode is formed on the surface of a collector as an assembly of multiple porous domain structures that are apart from each other, the porous domain structures each having a polygonal shape without an acute angle in a planar view, the polygonal shape having a maximum diameter of 120 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicants: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD., TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takahiro Asai, Takashi Ono, Kiyoshi Kanamura, Hirokazu Munakata
  • Patent number: 8389204
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing a comb-shaped electrode capable of precisely carrying a large amount of active materials on a surface of current collectors with a fine shape. The method for producing comb-shaped electrodes 1a, 1b of the present invention includes a current collector forming step of forming a pair of comb-shaped current collectors 2a, 2b on a surface of a substrate 4, a resist coating step of forming a resist layer 6 on the surface of the substrate 4, and a guide hole forming step of forming guide holes 7a, 7b for forming a positive electrode 1a or a negative electrode 1b, in which a cationic polymerization type resist composition (i), a novolak type resist composition (ii), a chemically-amplified type resist composition (iii), or a radical polymerization type resist composition (iv), is used as a resist composition for forming the resist layer 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignees: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo Metropolitan University
    Inventors: Takahiro Asai, Koichi Misumi, Takashi Ono, Kiyoshi Kanamura, Hirokazu Munakata
  • Publication number: 20110256484
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing a comb-shaped electrode capable of precisely carrying a large amount of active materials on a surface of current collectors with a fine shape. The method for producing comb-shaped electrodes 1a, 1b of the present invention includes a current collector forming step of forming a pair of comb-shaped current collectors 2a, 2b on a surface of a substrate 4, a resist coating step of forming a resist layer 6 on the surface of the substrate 4, and a guide hole forming step of forming guide holes 7a, 7b for forming a positive electrode 1a or a negative electrode 1b, in which a cationic polymerization type resist composition (i), a novolak type resist composition (ii), a chemically-amplified type resist composition (iii), or a radical polymerization type resist composition (iv), is used as a resist composition for forming the resist layer 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicants: TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro ASAI, Koichi MISUMI, Takashi ONO, Kiyoshi KANAMURA, Hirokazu MUNAKATA