Patents by Inventor Hiroki Kubo

Hiroki Kubo 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: 11966435
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2000) displays, on a display apparatus (60), a first display (30) that represents a partial image (14) where an object contained therein was not recognized as a product. The information processing apparatus (2000) receives input for selecting one or more first displays (30). The information processing apparatus (2000), upon receiving a predetermined input from a user, ends receiving selection of a first display (30). The information processing apparatus (2000) stores, in a storage apparatus (120), product identification information input to a product information input area (54) and feature information based on a partial image(s) (14) corresponding to a selected first display(s) in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaeko Yonezawa, Akiko Kubo, Hiroki Iiduka
  • Patent number: 10658704
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode laminate, which includes an active material layer and a solid electrolyte layer formed on the active material layer, includes: an active material layer forming step of forming an active material layer; and a solid electrolyte layer forming step of forming a solid electrolyte layer on the active material layer by applying a solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry to the active material layer and drying the solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry. In this method, a surface roughness Ra value of the active material layer is 0.29 ?m to 0.98 ?m when calculated using a laser microscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kengo Haga, Junichiro Nishino, Norihiro Ose, Hajime Hasegawa, Mitsutoshi Otaki, Hiroki Kubo, Keisuke Omori
  • Patent number: 10340505
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrode laminate having a current collector layer, an active material layer and a solid electrolyte layer includes applying an active material slurry onto a surface of the current collector to form an active material slurry layer, and applying an electrolyte slurry onto a surface of the active material slurry layer to form an electrolyte slurry layer. The active material slurry contains butyl butyrate and heptane, the electrolyte slurry contains butyl butyrate or contains butyl butyrate and heptane, and the mass % concentration of heptane in a dispersion medium in the active material slurry layer is higher than the mass % concentration of heptane in a dispersion medium in the electrolyte slurry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Inoue, Hitoshi Sato, Hiroki Kubo
  • Publication number: 20170092987
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode laminate, which includes an active material layer and a solid electrolyte layer formed on the active material layer, includes: an active material layer forming step of forming an active material layer; and a solid electrolyte layer forming step of forming a solid electrolyte layer on the active material layer by applying a solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry to the active material layer and drying the solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry. In this method, a surface roughness Ra value of the active material layer is 0.29 ?m to 0.98 ?m when calculated using a laser microscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Kengo Haga, Junichiro Nishino, Norihiro Ose, Hajime Hasegawa, Mitsutoshi Otaki, Hiroki Kubo, Keisuke Omori
  • Publication number: 20170092988
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode laminate, which includes an active material layer and a solid electrolyte layer formed on the active material layer, includes: an active material layer forming step of forming an active material layer; and a solid electrolyte layer forming step of forming a solid electrolyte layer on the active material layer by applying a solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry to the active material layer and drying the solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry. In this method, a product of a filling factor of the active material layer and a volume proportion of an active material in the active material layer is 0.33 to 0.41.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Kengo Haga, Junichiro Nishino, Norihiro Ose, Hajime Hasegawa, Mitsutoshi Otaki, Hiroki Kubo, Keisuke Omori
  • Patent number: 9595735
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte material includes a step of adding an ether compound to a coarse-grained material of a sulfide solid electrolyte material and microparticulating the coarse-grained material by a pulverization treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Sugiura, Hiroki Kubo, Yuichi Hashimoto, Takayuki Koyama
  • Publication number: 20160329554
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrode laminate having a current collector layer, an active material layer and a solid electrolyte layer includes applying an active material slurry onto a surface of the current collector to form an active material slurry layer, and applying an electrolyte slurry onto a surface of the active material slurry layer to form an electrolyte slurry layer. The active material slurry contains butyl butyrate and heptane, the electrolyte slurry contains butyl butyrate or contains butyl butyrate and heptane, and the mass % concentration of heptane in a dispersion medium in the active material slurry layer is higher than the mass % concentration of heptane in a dispersion medium in the electrolyte slurry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Inoue, Hitoshi Sato, Hiroki Kubo
  • Publication number: 20160028107
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a positive electrode for a solid-state battery, the method including: a step of mixing a positive electrode active material, a sulfide solid electrolyte, a binder, and a solvent with each other to prepare a positive electrode slurry; a step of applying the prepared positive electrode slurry to a surface of a solid electrolyte layer of the solid-state battery or a substrate of the positive electrode; and a step of drying the applied positive electrode slurry. In this method, the solvent is butyl butyrate, and the binder is a copolymer containing a vinylidene fluoride (VDF) monomer unit and a hexafluoropropylene (HFP) monomer unit, in which a molar ratio of the HFP monomer unit to a total amount of the VDF monomer unit and the HFP monomer unit is 10% to 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroki KUBO, Yuichi HASHIMOTO, Yuki MATSUSHITA, Keisuke WATANABE, Yoshiyuki NAGASAWA
  • Patent number: 9236158
    Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a practical slurry having a polar solvent as the dispersion medium for a sulfide solid electrolyte material. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by providing a slurry having: a sulfide solid electrolyte material, and a dispersion medium having at least one selected from the group consisting of tertiary amine; ether; thiol; ester having a functional group of a 3 or more carbon number bonded with a carbon atom of an ester bonding and a functional group of a 4 or more carbon number bonded with an oxygen atom of the ester bonding; and ester having a benzene ring bonded with a carbon atom of an ester bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Kubo, Keisuke Omori, Yuichi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9128399
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner for electrophotography including core-shell particles as a resin binder each including a core portion containing an amorphous resin (A) having a softening point of 105° C. or lower which is obtained by polycondensing a carboxylic acid component containing an alkenyl succinic acid with an alcohol component; and a shell portion containing an amorphous resin (B) obtained by polycondensing an alcohol component containing an aliphatic diol having 2 to 6 carbon atoms with a carboxylic acid component containing a trivalent or higher-valent polycarboxylic acid compound in an amount of 20 mol % or less. The toner for electrophotography according to the present invention is excellent in heat resistant storage property, low-temperature fusing property and durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Fukuri, Osamu Yamashita, Hiroki Kubo, Shoichi Murata, Takahiro Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9005481
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a composite positive electrode active material being a composite of a positive electrode active material and carbon nanotubes. The manufacturing method includes preparing an aqueous solution of a starting material of a positive electrode active material containing a starting material of the positive electrode active material, and an aqueous solution of solubilized carbon nanotubes containing the carbon nanotubes and a solubilizing material that is composed of a water-soluble polymer whose solubilization retention rate of carbon nanotubes does not decrease with rising temperature; and synthesizing a positive electrode active material-carbon nanotube composite by mixing the aqueous solution of a starting material of a positive electrode active material and the aqueous solution of solubilized carbon nanotubes, and performing hydrothermal synthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshida, Hiroki Kubo, Masahiro Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20150096169
    Abstract: A slurry for a positive electrode for a sulfide-based solid-state battery contains at least a fluorine-based copolymer containing vinylidene fluoride monomer units, a positive electrode active material, and a solvent or a dispersion medium. When a dry volume of the slurry is set to 100% by volume, a content ratio of the fluorine-based copolymer is 1.5 to 10% by volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicants: KUREHA CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Hiroki Kubo, Yuichi Hashimoto, Daichi Kosaka, Keisuke Watanabe, Tamito Igarashi, Mitsuyasu Sakuma
  • Publication number: 20150084546
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a dimming control system includes a luminaire and a host equipment. The luminaire receives dimming data transmitted using data frames based on a specified communication protocol, and performs dimming control of a lighting load. The host equipment uses the data frames to transmit the dimming data, and uses a part of the data frames to transmit a command to request luminaire information of the luminaire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Kubo
  • Patent number: 8951600
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an electrode for a solid battery which can improve battery performance. The method for producing an electrode for a solid battery comprises the steps of: mixing an active material, a solid electrolyte, a binder, and a solvent to make a slurry-form electrode composition; applying the slurry-form electrode composition made; and drying the slurry-form electrode composition applied, wherein the solvent includes a good solvent for the binder and a poor solvent for the binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki Kubo, Yuichi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20140141339
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte material includes a step of adding an ether compound to a coarse-grained material of a sulfide solid electrolyte material and microparticulating the coarse-grained material by a pulverization treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Sugiura, Hiroki Kubo, Yuichi Hashimoto, Takayuki Koyama
  • Patent number: 8691438
    Abstract: In a cathode active material coated with a resistance-reduction coating layer for preventing formation of a resistive layer, which has a cathode active material and a resistance-reduction coating layer with which a surface of the cathode active material is coated, the resistance-reduction coating layer contains substantially no fine particles of the cathode active material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki Kubo, Yasushi Tsuchida
  • Publication number: 20140004257
    Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a practical slurry having a polar solvent as the dispersion medium for a sulfide solid electrolyte material. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by providing a slurry having: a sulfide solid electrolyte material, and a dispersion medium having at least one selected from the group consisting of tertiary amine; ether; thiol; ester having a functional group of a 3 or more carbon number bonded with a carbon atom of an ester bonding and a functional group of a 4 or more carbon number bonded with an oxygen atom of the ester bonding; and ester having a benzene ring bonded with a carbon atom of an ester bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Kubo, Keisuke Omori, Yuichi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130273470
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner for electrophotography including core-shell particles as a resin binder each including a core portion containing an amorphous resin (A) having a softening point of 105° C. or lower which is obtained by polycondensing a carboxylic acid component containing an alkenyl succinic acid with an alcohol component; and a shell portion containing an amorphous resin (B) obtained by polycondensing an alcohol component containing an aliphatic diol having 2 to 6 carbon atoms with a carboxylic acid component containing a trivalent or higher-valent polycarboxylic acid compound in an amount of 20 mol % or less. The toner for electrophotography according to the present invention is excellent in heat resistant storage property, low-temperature fusing property and durability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiro Fukuri, Osamu Yamashita, Hiroki Kubo, Shoichi Murata, Takahiro Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20130146819
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a composite positive electrode active material being a composite of a positive electrode active material and carbon nanotubes. The manufacturing method includes preparing an aqueous solution of a starting material of a positive electrode active material containing a starting material of the positive electrode active material, and an aqueous solution of solubilized carbon nanotubes containing the carbon nanotubes and a solubilizing material that is composed of a water-soluble polymer whose solubilisation retention rate of carbon nanotubes does not decrease with rising temperature; and synthesizing a positive electrode active material-carbon nanotube composite by mixing the aqueous solution of a starting material of a positive electrode active material and the aqueous solution of solubilized carbon nanotubes, and performing hydrothermal synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshida, Hiroki Kubo, Masahiro Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20130142943
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an electrode for a solid battery which can improve battery performance. The method for producing an electrode for a solid battery comprises the steps of: mixing an active material, a solid electrolyte, a binder, and a solvent to make a slurry-form electrode composition; applying the slurry-form electrode composition made; and drying the slurry-form electrode composition applied, wherein the solvent includes a good solvent for the binder and a poor solvent for the binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroki Kubo, Yuichi Hashimoto