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).
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Patent number: 11966435Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Yaeko Yonezawa, Akiko Kubo, Hiroki Iiduka
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Patent number: 10658704Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kengo Haga, Junichiro Nishino, Norihiro Ose, Hajime Hasegawa, Mitsutoshi Otaki, Hiroki Kubo, Keisuke Omori
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Patent number: 10340505Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Inoue, Hitoshi Sato, Hiroki Kubo
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Publication number: 20170092987Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Kengo Haga, Junichiro Nishino, Norihiro Ose, Hajime Hasegawa, Mitsutoshi Otaki, Hiroki Kubo, Keisuke Omori
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Publication number: 20170092988Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Kengo Haga, Junichiro Nishino, Norihiro Ose, Hajime Hasegawa, Mitsutoshi Otaki, Hiroki Kubo, Keisuke Omori
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Patent number: 9595735Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Sugiura, Hiroki Kubo, Yuichi Hashimoto, Takayuki Koyama
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Publication number: 20160329554Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Hiroyuki Inoue, Hitoshi Sato, Hiroki Kubo
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Publication number: 20160028107Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Hiroki KUBO, Yuichi HASHIMOTO, Yuki MATSUSHITA, Keisuke WATANABE, Yoshiyuki NAGASAWA
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Patent number: 9236158Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 2012Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki Kubo, Keisuke Omori, Yuichi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9128399Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Norihiro Fukuri, Osamu Yamashita, Hiroki Kubo, Shoichi Murata, Takahiro Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 9005481Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Yoshida, Hiroki Kubo, Masahiro Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20150096169Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: April 9, 2015Applicants: KUREHA CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Hiroki Kubo, Yuichi Hashimoto, Daichi Kosaka, Keisuke Watanabe, Tamito Igarashi, Mitsuyasu Sakuma
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Publication number: 20150084546Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventor: Hiroki Kubo
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Patent number: 8951600Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Kubo, Yuichi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20140141339Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Sugiura, Hiroki Kubo, Yuichi Hashimoto, Takayuki Koyama
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Patent number: 8691438Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 27, 2009Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Kubo, Yasushi Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20140004257Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki Kubo, Keisuke Omori, Yuichi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20130273470Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Norihiro Fukuri, Osamu Yamashita, Hiroki Kubo, Shoichi Murata, Takahiro Yoshikawa
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Publication number: 20130146819Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Yoshida, Hiroki Kubo, Masahiro Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20130142943Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventors: Hiroki Kubo, Yuichi Hashimoto