Patents by Inventor Iwao Fukuchi

Iwao Fukuchi 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).

  • Publication number: 20240105949
    Abstract: Provided are a negative electrode binder composition which has excellent slurry stability without using a thickener, such as cellulose, in a negative electrode active material for an LIB secondary battery, and which is suppressed in the resistance to swelling by a solvent, and a negative electrode using the same and a secondary battery. A negative electrode binder composition comprising a copolymer having a hydroxyl group-containing monomer and an acid group-containing monomer as essential components, in which the copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 700,000 or more, as measured using an aqueous GPC measurement apparatus, and in which a dried polymer film of the negative electrode binder composition has a swelling ratio of 0 to 10% by weight, as measured after immersed in a carbonate mixed solvent at 45° C. for 72 hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuhiro OE, Masahiro KAJIKAWA, Takashi MUKAI, Iwao FUKUCHI
  • Patent number: 11575133
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a binder for a non-aqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery including a copolymer (A) and a copolymer (B), wherein the copolymer (A) includes a unit (a-1) derived from a (meth)acrylic acid-based monomer, and a unit (a-2) derived from a (meth)acrylonitrile monomer, and the copolymer (B) includes a unit (b-1) derived from an aromatic vinyl-based monomer; and a unit (b-2) derived from an ethylenic unsaturated monomer which is at least one of an unsaturated carboxylic acid alkylester monomer, a (meth)acrylic acid-based monomer, a unsaturated carboxylic acid amide monomer, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Fukatani, Koji Hoshiba, Iwao Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 11005102
    Abstract: The present application relates to a binder for a secondary battery. The binder includes a first copolymer unit including a carboxyl group-containing acrylic monomer and at least one of an acrylic acid derivative monomer and a substituted or unsubstituted styrene and a second copolymer unit including a residue of a polymer azo initiator. A mass ratio of the second copolymer unit relative to a total mass of the first copolymer unit and the second copolymer unit is 10 mass % to 40 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Iwao Fukuchi
  • Publication number: 20200343556
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a binder for a non-aqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery including a copolymer (A) and a copolymer (B), wherein the copolymer (A) includes a unit (a-1) derived from a (meth)acrylic acid-based monomer, and a unit (a-2) derived from a (meth)acrylonitrile monomer, and the copolymer (B) includes a unit (b-1) derived from an aromatic vinyl-based monomer; and a unit (b-2) derived from an ethylenic unsaturated monomer which is at least one of an unsaturated carboxylic acid alkylester monomer, a (meth)acrylic acid-based monomer, a unsaturated carboxylic acid amide monomer, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Fukatani, Koji Hoshiba, Iwao Fukuchi
  • Publication number: 20190305315
    Abstract: The present application relates to a binder for a secondary battery. The binder includes a first copolymer unit including a carboxyl group-containing acrylic monomer and at least one of an acrylic acid derivative monomer and a substituted or unsubstituted styrene and a second copolymer unit including a residue of a polymer azo initiator. A mass ratio of the second copolymer unit relative to a total mass of the first copolymer unit and the second copolymer unit is 10 mass % to 40 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventor: Iwao Fukuchi
  • Publication number: 20190207219
    Abstract: A negative electrode active mass, a negative electrode, and a rechargeable battery, the active mass including a water-soluble polymer binder; a polymer particle binder; and a negative active material, wherein the water-soluble polymer binder, the polymer particle binder, and the negative active material are included in an amount of about 0.5-2.5:0.5-2.5:95-99, the water-soluble polymer binder includes a copolymer of a carboxyl group-containing acrylic monomer and a water-soluble acrylic acid monomer, repeating units of the water-soluble acrylic acid monomer are included in the copolymer in an amount of about 10 wt % to about 40 wt %, a shear viscosity at 25° C. of an aqueous solution including 1.0 wt % of the copolymer is about 1.0 (Pa·s) to 25 (Pa·s) at a shear rate of 1.0 (1/s), and the negative active material includes graphite particles having a hexagonal interplanar spacing d002 measured by XRD of about 0.3354 nm to 0.3362 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Kunihiko EGUCHI, Iwao FUKUCHI, Isao KOIZUMI, Kenichi KAWASE
  • Patent number: 10319972
    Abstract: A separator for a rechargeable battery includes a substrate and a coating layer on at least one surface of the substrate, wherein the coating layer includes a binder including an acrylic resin, the binder including the acrylic resin includes a carboxyl group-containing acrylic monomer and an acrylic acid derivative monomer, and the carboxyl group-containing acrylic monomer and the acrylic acid derivative monomer are present in a mole ratio of about 20:80 to about 80:20. The binder for a rechargeable battery has high heat resistance and strong adherence, and improves the cycling characteristics of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Iwao Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 10050246
    Abstract: A binder for a rechargeable battery includes an IPN-type acrylic-based resin including a hard segment having a glass transition temperature ranging from greater than or equal to about 50° C. and less than equal to about 200° C. and a soft segment having a glass transition temperature in a range of greater than or equal to about ?100° C. and less than or equal to about 30° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Samsug SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Iwao Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 9634309
    Abstract: A separator for a battery, a battery, and a method of preparing a graft copolymer for a binder, the separator including a porous substrate; a coating layer on at least one surface of the porous substrate, the coating layer including an inorganic oxide; and a binder between the porous substrate and the inorganic oxide or between adjacent particles of the inorganic oxide, the binder including a graft copolymer, wherein the graft copolymer has a backbone of a polyvinylidene fluoride-based polymer or a polyvinylidene fluoride-based copolymer, and a pendant chain grafted to the backbone, the pendant chain including a hydrophilic repeating unit, and fluorine atoms in the backbone of the graft copolymer are partially substituted with at least one of chlorine, bromine, or iodine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: June Park, Takahiro Endo, Jung-Hyun Nam, Jong-Hwan Park, Iwao Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 9437872
    Abstract: A negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery is disclosed. The negative electrode includes a current collector and a negative active material layer positioned on the current collector and including a negative active material and a binder, wherein the negative active material includes a silicon-based material, a tin-based material, or a combination thereof, and the binder includes an organic acid including a carboxyl group-containing polymer and an organic base having a cyclic structure. A method of preparing the same, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Iwao Fukuchi
  • Publication number: 20160190535
    Abstract: A binder for a rechargeable battery includes an IPN-type acrylic-based resin including a hard segment having a glass transition temperature ranging from greater than or equal to about 50° C. and less than equal to about 200° C. and a soft segment having a glass transition temperature in a range of greater than or equal to about ?100° C. and less than or equal to about 30° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventor: Iwao FUKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160149190
    Abstract: A separator for a rechargeable battery includes a substrate and a coating layer on at least one surface of the substrate, wherein the coating layer includes a binder including an acrylic resin, the binder including the acrylic resin includes a carboxyl group-containing acrylic monomer and an acrylic acid derivative monomer, and the carboxyl group-containing acrylic monomer and the acrylic acid derivative monomer are present in a mole ratio of about 20:80 to about 80:20. The binder for a rechargeable battery has high heat resistance and strong adherence, and improves the cycling characteristics of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventor: Iwao Fukuchi
  • Publication number: 20150155539
    Abstract: A separator for a battery, a battery, and a method of preparing a graft copolymer for a binder, the separator including a porous substrate; a coating layer on at least one surface of the porous substrate, the coating layer including an inorganic oxide; and a binder between the porous substrate and the inorganic oxide or between adjacent particles of the inorganic oxide, the binder including a graft copolymer, wherein the graft copolymer has a backbone of a polyvinylidene fluoride-based polymer or a polyvinylidene fluoride-based copolymer, and a pendant chain grafted to the backbone, the pendant chain including a hydrophilic repeating unit, and fluorine atoms in the backbone of the graft copolymer are partially substituted with at least one of chlorine, bromine, or iodine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: June PARK, Takahiro ENDO, Jung-Hyun NAM, Jong-Hwan PARK, Iwao FUKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20140154562
    Abstract: A negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery is disclosed. The negative electrode includes a current collector and a negative active material layer positioned on the current collector and including a negative active material and a binder, wherein the negative active material includes a silicon-based material, a tin-based material, or a combination thereof, and the binder includes an organic acid including a carboxyl group-containing polymer and an organic base having a cyclic structure. A method of preparing the same, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Iwao FUKUCHI
  • Patent number: 8574716
    Abstract: An ionic polymer composite device and methods for fabricating the ionic polymer composite device are provided. The ionic polymer composite device includes two extended electrode layers, each extended electrode layer including at least one ionic polymer with a plurality of electrically conductive particles, and a dielectric layer including at least one sulfonated poly ether sulfone polymer or a derivative between the two extended electrode layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd., Hitachi Chemical Research Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongxian Wu, Bun-ichiro Nakajima, Shinji Takeda, Iwao Fukuchi, Naoki Asano, Anthony H. Tsai
  • Patent number: 8043747
    Abstract: A binder resin composition, and an electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte energy devices and a nonaqueous electrolyte energy device including the binder resin composition. The binder resin composition includes a copolymer that contains a repeat unit derived from a nitrile group-containing monomer; a repeat unit derived from a monomer represented by Formula (I) (wherein R1 is H or CH3; R2 is H or monovalent hydrocarbonyl group; and n is an integer from 1 to 50) and/or a repeat unit derived from a monomer represented by Formula (II) (wherein R3 is H or CH3 and R4 is hydrogen or C4-100 alkyl); and optionally a repeat unit derived from a carboxyl group-containing monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Kiyotaka Mashita, Iwao Fukuchi, Satoshi Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20100141085
    Abstract: An ionic polymer composite device and methods for fabricating the ionic polymer composite device are provided. The ionic polymer composite device includes two extended electrode layers, each extended electrode layer including at least one ionic polymer with a plurality of electrically conductive particles, and a dielectric layer including at least one sulfonated poly ether sulfone polymer or a derivative between the two extended electrode layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicants: HITACHI CHEMICAL CO., LTD., HITACHI CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER, INC.
    Inventors: Yongxian Wu, Bun-ichiro Nakajima, Shinji Takeda, Iwao Fukuchi, Naoki Asano, Anthony H. Tsai
  • Publication number: 20090301875
    Abstract: An ionic polymer composite device and methods for fabricating the ionic polymer composite device are provided. The ionic polymer composite device includes two extended electrode layers, each extended electrode layer including at least one ionic polymer with a plurality of electrically conductive particles, and a dielectric layer including at least one sulfonated poly ether sulfone polymer or a derivative between the two extended electrode layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicants: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd., Hitachi Chemical Research Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongxian Wu, Bun-Ichiro Nakajima, Shinji Takeda, Iwao Fukuchi, Naoki Asano
  • Patent number: 7504471
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a sulfur-containing phenolic resin which comprises an organic group represented by the following formula (1): —R1—S—R2—S—R1—??(1) wherein R1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, R2 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, between a phenolic carbon and a phenolic carbon, phenol derivatives represented by the following formula (5): wherein R5 represents a C2-3 alkylene group, R6 represents a C1-10 alkylene group, G represents H, a C1-10 alkyl group, etc., and an epoxy resin composition containing (A) a curing agent of the above-mentioned formula (5) and (B) an epoxy resin as essential components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruaki Sue, Takashi Kumaki, Hideyasu Tsuiki, Hiroshi Matsutani, Toshihiko Takasaki, Iwao Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 7491789
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a sulfur-containing phenolic resin which comprises an organic group represented by the following formula (1): —R1—S—R2—S—R1—??(1) wherein R1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, R2 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, between a phenolic carbon and a phenolic carbon, phenol derivatives represented by the following formula (5): wherein R5 represents a C2-3 alkylene group, R6 represents a C1-10 alkylene group, G represents H, a C1-10 alkyl group, etc., and an epoxy resin composition containing (A) a curing agent of the above-mentioned formula (5) and (B) an epoxy resin as essential components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd
    Inventors: Haruaki Sue, Takashi Kumaki, Hideyasu Tsuiki, Hiroshi Matsutani, Toshihiko Takasaki, Iwao Fukuchi