Patents by Inventor Jun Yoshida
Jun Yoshida 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: 11441260Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet-like material in which a plant-derived raw material of low environmental impact is used. The invention also provides a sheet-like material that ideally has a uniform and refined nap and a sheet-like material that is strong, has excellent shape stability, is lightweight and is very pliable. This sheet-like material is characterized in being made of nonwoven fabric that is made of polyester microfiber containing a 1,2-propanediol-derived component in an amount prescribed in the present application and a polyurethane elastomer resin containing structural monomers prescribed in the present application.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Takanori Furui, Makoto Kaneko, Ryuji Shikuri, Gen Koide, Hirohito Yamamoto, Makoto Nishimura, Jun Yoshida
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Publication number: 20220270796Abstract: A cryocooler includes a second-stage cooling stage, a second cylinder which includes the second-stage cooling stage on a terminal of the second-stage cylinder, a second-stage displacer which includes a magnetic regenerator material and is accommodated in the second-stage cylinder so as to be able to reciprocate in the second-stage cylinder, and a tubular magnetic shield which is installed on the second-stage cooling stage and extends along the second-stage cylinder outside the second-stage cylinder. The magnetic shield is formed of a normal conductor and a product of an electrical conductivity in a temperature range of 10 K (Kelvin) or less and a thickness of the tubular magnetic shield is 60 MS (Mega-Siemens) to 1980 MS.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yosuke MATSUMURA, Takaaki MORIE, Jun YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 11420646Abstract: A driving apparatus is controlled by using a driving command that is obtained by applying an accelerator operation amount to a relation between the accelerator operation amount and the driving command for the driving apparatus, and the relation is set by using a distribution of usage of the driving command by a driver such that a gradient that is a change in the driving command with a change in the accelerator operation amount in a high usage range including a value having a longest usage time among values of the driving command is less than the gradient in a range other than the high usage range.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Yoshida, Ken Imamura
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Patent number: 11380887Abstract: Provided is an anode active material configured to achieve both an increase in the coulombic efficiency during initial charge and discharge of an all-solid-state battery, and suppression of an increase in the resistance of the all-solid-state battery. The anode active material may be an anode active material, wherein the anode active material is an anode active material for use in all-solid-state batteries; wherein the anode active material comprises a lithium-silicon alloy and elemental silicon; and wherein the anode active material has peaks at positions of 2?=20.2°±0.5°, 23.3°±0.5°, 40.5°±0.5°, and 46.0°±0.5° in a XRD spectrum obtained by XRD measurement using CuK? radiation.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Wakasugi, Jun Yoshida
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Publication number: 20220190329Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery with excellent capacity durability when restraining pressure is not applied or even when low restraining pressure is applied thereto. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising layers in the order of a cathode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and an anode layer; wherein the anode layer contains an anode active material including a silicon clathrate II type crystal phase; restraining pressure of 0 MPa or more and less than 5 MPa is applied to the all solid state battery in a layering direction; and when a capacity ratio of anode capacity with respect to cathode capacity is regarded as A, the capacity ratio A is 2.5 or more and 4.8 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsutoshi OTAKI, Jun YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20220190315Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery with excellent capacity durability when restraining pressure is not applied or even when low restraining pressure is applied thereto. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising layers in the order of a cathode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and an anode layer; wherein the anode layer contains an anode active material including a silicon clathrate II type crystal phase; restraining pressure of 0 MPa or more and less than 5 MPa is applied to the all solid state battery in a layering direction; and a specific surface area of the anode active material is 8 m2/g or more and 17 m2/g or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsutoshi OTAKI, Jun YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 11342100Abstract: A cryocooler includes a second-stage cooling stage, a second cylinder which includes the second-stage cooling stage on a terminal of the second-stage cylinder, a second-stage displacer which includes a magnetic regenerator material and is accommodated in the second-stage cylinder so as to be able to reciprocate in the second-stage cylinder, and a tubular magnetic shield which is installed on the second-stage cooling stage and extends along the second-stage cylinder outside the second-stage cylinder. The magnetic shield is formed of a normal conductor and a product of an electrical conductivity in a temperature range of 10 K (Kelvin) or less and a thickness of the tubular magnetic shield is 60 MS (Mega-Siemens) to 1980 MS.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Matsumura, Takaaki Morie, Jun Yoshida
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Publication number: 20220149360Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein the volume variation of an electrode layer during charge/discharge may be suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material used for an all solid state battery, the active material comprising at least Si, and in infrared spectrum, when a maximum peak intensity in 900 cm?1 or more and 950 cm?1 or less is regarded as I1, and a maximum peak intensity in 1000 cm?1 or more and 1100 cm?1 or less is regarded as I2, the I1 and the I2 satisfy 0.55?I2/I1?1.0, and 0.01?I1.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsutoshi Otaki, Jun Yoshida, Tetsuya Waseda, Masanori Harata, Tatsuya Eguchi
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Patent number: 11296315Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a battery with excellent capacity. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a battery comprising a cathode layer, an electrolyte layer, and an anode layer, in this order, and the anode layer includes a silicon clathrate compound, as an anode active material, the silicon clathrate compound has a composition represented by MxSi46, wherein M is a metal element, x satisfies 0<x<46, and includes a crystal phase of a Type I silicon clathrate, and an average primary particle size of the silicon clathrate compound is 50 nm or more and 3000 nm or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Yoshida, Daichi Kosaka, Takamasa Otomo, Hideyuki Nakano
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Publication number: 20210391576Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate II type crystal phase, and having a composition represented by NaxSi136, wherein 1.98<x<2.54.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsutoshi OTAKI, Jun YOSHIDA, Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Masanori HARATA
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Publication number: 20210384499Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for producing an active material with a high productivity. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a method for producing an active material, the method comprising steps of: a preparing step of preparing a dope solution including a metal ion that is an ion of a metal element M, and an aromatic hydrocarbon compound in a reduced condition, a precursor alloy producing step of producing a precursor alloy by doping the metal element M included in the dope solution to a Si raw material including a Si element, and a void forming step of forming a void by extracting the metal element M from the precursor alloy using an extracting agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya WASEDA, Jun YOSHIDA, Hiroyuki KAWAURA, Yasuhito KONDO, Ryo SUZUKI, Hiroyuki NAKANO, Nobuhiro OGIHARA
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Publication number: 20210384498Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising at least Si and Al, including a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and a proportion of the Al to a total of the Si and the Al is 0.1 atm % or more and 1 atm % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Jun YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20210300768Abstract: A method produces a Si-based active material containing a Si-based clathrate compound decreasing a Na element content while maintaining a crystal phase of type II clathrate. The method that produces a Si-based active material containing a Si-based clathrate compound having a crystal phase of type II clathrate, includes: preparing the Si-based clathrate compound by heating an alloy containing a Na element and a Si element at a temperature of 340° C. or more and less than 400° C. (a first heating step), heating the Si-based clathrate compound at a temperature of 340° C. or more and less than 470° C. after the first heating step (a second heating step), cooling the Si-based clathrate compound to a temperature of less than 340° C. after the second heating step (a cooling step), and heating the Si-based clathrate compound at a temperature of 340° C. or more and less than 470° C. after the cooling step (a third heating step).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun YOSHIDA, Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Mitsutoshi OTAKI
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Publication number: 20210305556Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate II type crystal phase, including a void inside a primary particle, and a void amount of the void with a fine pore diameter of 100 nm or less is 0.05 cc/g or more and 0.15 cc/g or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsutoshi OTAKI, Jun YOSHIDA, Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Masanori HARATA
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BLOCK COPOLYMER COMPOSITION, HEAT SHRINK FILM USING SAME, AND PACKAGE PROVIDED WITH HEAT SHRINK FILM
Publication number: 20210284781Abstract: A block copolymer composition containing at least one type of block copolymer component obtained by using a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and a conjugated diene, wherein the block copolymer composition satisfies the conditions (1) to (3) indicated below. (1) The weight-average molecular weight is at least 100000 and at most 300000, and the conjugated diene content is at least 18 mass % and at most 35 mass %. (2) The vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon block percentage is at least 80% and at most 100% relative to the total amount of the vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon. (3) At least 30 mass % and at most 60 mass % of block copolymer components having a conjugated diene content of at least 30 mass % are included.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2019Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Tadashi SAWASATO, Yuya NAKAMURA, Jun YOSHIDA -
Publication number: 20210283541Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a spunbond nonwoven fabric having low pressure loss, high collecting performance, and excellent processability and an air filter fabricated using the spunbond nonwoven fabric, the spunbond nonwoven fabric including fibers formed of a polyolefin-based resin, in which an average single fiber diameter of the fibers is 6.5 ?m or more and 22.0 ?m or less, a hindered amine-based compound represented by Formula (1) is contained at 0.1% by mass or more and 5% by mass or less, a melt flow rate (MFR) of the nonwoven fabric is 32 g/10 minutes or more and 850 g/10 minutes or less, and the nonwoven fabric is processed into an electret.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2019Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: TORAY Industries, Inc.Inventors: Jun YOSHIDA, Koji YAMANO, Yohei NAKANO, Makoto NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 11088367Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a novel active material of which volume change due to charge and discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a method for producing an active material having a composition represented by NaxMySi46 (M is a metal element other than Na, x and y satisfy 0<x, 0?y, y?x, and 0<x+y<8), and a silicon clathrate I type crystal phase, the method comprising: a preparing step of preparing a precursor compound having the silicon clathrate I type crystal phase; and a liquid treatment step of bringing the precursor compound into contact with a polar liquid so as to desorb a Na element from the precursor compound and obtain the active material.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daichi Kosaka, Jun Yoshida, Tetsuya Waseda, Takamasa Otomo
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Patent number: 11075372Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a novel active material whose volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material having a composition represented by NaxMySi46, wherein M is a metal element other than Na, x and y satisfy 0<x, 0?y, y?x and 0<x+y<8, and comprising a crystal phase of a Type I silicon clathrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Yoshida, Daichi Kosaka, Takamasa Otomo, Tetsuya Waseda, Hideyuki Nakano
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Publication number: 20210202987Abstract: A solid-state battery having a low heat generation amount and low resistance, and a method for producing the same. The solid-state battery is a solid-state battery comprising: a cathode comprising a cathode layer that contains an oxide-based cathode active material, an anode comprising an anode layer that contains an anode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer being disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer and containing a solid electrolyte, wherein at least any one of the cathode layer and the solid electrolyte layer contains a sulfide-based solid electrolyte, and wherein the sulfide-based solid electrolyte comprises a high oxygen concentration layer on a contact surface with the oxide-based cathode active material, the high oxygen concentration layer having a higher oxygen element concentration than other parts except the contact surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Jun YOSHIDA, Shinya SHIOTANI, Masaru KUBOTA, Yohei SHINDO, Takeshi USAMI
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Publication number: 20210179126Abstract: A driving apparatus is controlled by using a driving command that is obtained by applying an accelerator operation amount to a relation between the accelerator operation amount and the driving command for the driving apparatus, and the relation is set by using a distribution of usage of the driving command by a driver such that a gradient that is a change in the driving command with a change in the accelerator operation amount in a high usage range including a value having a longest usage time among values of the driving command is less than the gradient in a range other than the high usage range.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun YOSHIDA, Ken IMAMURA