Patents by Inventor Katsuhiro Nishihara
Katsuhiro Nishihara 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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Publication number: 20140093781Abstract: A modified natural graphite material which provides a negative plate having improved adhesion between a negative electrode mixture and a current collector has a circularity of at least 0.92 and at most 1.0 and an incident angle dependence S60/0 of the peak intensity ratio of at least 0.5 and at most 0.7 as determined by measurement of C K-edge X-ray absorption spectra using synchrotron radiation as an excitation source. It preferably satisfies at least one of the following conditions: an absolute specific gravity of at least 2.25 (g/cm3), a tap density of at least 1.0 g/cm3 and at most 1.4 g/cm3, and linseed oil absorption of at least 20 cm3/100 g and at most 50 cm3/100 g. A carbonaceous material may adhere to at least a portion of the surface of the graphite particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: CHUO DENKI KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiro Nishihara, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Tatsuo Nagata, Noriyuki Negi, Tooru Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20130130117Abstract: Modified natural graphite particles intended for forming a negative electrode material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery are characterized by having a circularity of at least 0.93 and at most 1.0 and a surface roughness of at most 1.5% with respect to the length of the particles. These modified natural graphite particles are obtained by a manufacturing method including a step of applying an impact force to natural graphite particles for pulverization and spheroidization to obtain intermediate particles having a circularity of at least 0.93 and at most 1.0, and a step of carrying out surface smoothing of the resulting intermediate particles by mechanical grinding treatment to obtain the modified natural graphite particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Tatsuo Nagata, Katsuhiro Nishihara, Noriyuki Negi, Akihiro Yauchi, Tooru Fujiwara
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Patent number: 7858201Abstract: A titanium oxide-based photocatalyst which can exhibit excellent photocatalytic properties in response to visible light while maintaining its inherent activity in response to ultraviolet light and which is suitable for mass production contains bismuth as a first additional metal component and at least one metal element selected from silicon, zirconium, aluminum, and hafnium as a second additional metal component in titanium oxide. The Bi/Ti atomic ratio is preferably at least 0.0001 and at most 1.0, the atomic ratio of the second additional metal to Ti is preferably at least 0.0001 and at most 0.8, and a portion of bismuth is preferably present in the form of lower valence (Bi2+ or Bi0). The presence of lower valence bismuth can be ascertained by XPS analysis.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Masaki, Tadashi Fukuda, Katsuhiro Nishihara, Rie Katsui
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Publication number: 20090239738Abstract: Titanium oxide-based photocatalysts which contain a metal halide in titanium oxide and which are prepared from titanium oxide and/or its precursor, which may optionally be heat treated, by contact with a reactive gas containing a metal halide of the formula MXn or MOXn (wherein M=a metal, X=a halogen, and n=an integer) with heating stably develop a high photocatalytic activity with visible light irradiation. The photocatalysts may subsequently be stabilized by contact with water or by heat treatment, and/or promoted by contact with a heteropoly acid and/or an isopoly acid so as to include a metal complex in the titanium oxide. Photocatalysts prepared in this manner exhibit novel ESR features. The present invention also provides methods for preparing these photocatalysts, a photocatalyst dispersion and a photocatalytic coating fluid containing such a photocatalyst, and photocatalytic functional products and methods for their manufacture using the photocatalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2009Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicants: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., OSAKA TITANIUM TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsumi Okada, Katsuhiro Nishihara, Yasuhiro Masaki, Haruhiko Kajimura, Michiyasu Takahashi, Tadashi Yao, Tadashi Ogasawara, Munetoshi Watanabe, Shiji Shimosaki, Kouji Oda, Sadanobu Nagaoka
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Publication number: 20090123769Abstract: A titanium oxide photocatalyst responsive to visible light which can exhibit a high photocatalytic activity in response to visible light is produced by subjecting titanium oxide and/or titanium hydroxide obtained by neutralizing an acidic titanium compound with a nitrogen-containing base to heat treatment in an atmosphere containing a hydrolyzable metal compound (e.g., a titanium halide) and then to additional heat treatment in a gas having a moisture content of 0.5-4.0 volume % at a temperature of 350° C. or above. The photocatalyst which is a nitrogen-containing titanium oxide has no substantial peak at a temperature of 600° C. or above in a mass fragment spectrum obtained by thermal desorption spectroscopy in which the ratio m/e of the mass number m to the electric charged e of ions is 28, and the peak having the smallest half band width is in the range of 400-600° C. in the spectrum. The nitrogen content calculated from the peak appearing at 400 eV±1.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2007Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: SUMITOMO TITANIUM CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Masaki, Katsuhiro Nishihara, Tadashi Fukuda, Katsumi Okada, Masahito Tasaka, Shinji Shimosaki, Hideaki Kanno, Sadanobu Nagaoka, Kazuomi Azuma, Tadashi Ogasawara
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Patent number: 7521133Abstract: Titanium oxide-based photocatalysts which contain a metal halide in titanium oxide and which are prepared from titanium oxide and/or its precursor, which may optionally be heat treated, by contact with a reactive gas containing a metal halide of the formula MXn or MOXn (wherein M=a metal, X=a halogen, and n=an integer) with heating stably develop a high photocatalytic activity with visible light irradiation. The photocatalysts may subsequently be stabilized by contact with water or by heat treatment, and/or promoted by contact with a heteropoly acid and/or an isopoly acid so as to include a metal complex in the titanium oxide. Photocatalysts prepared in this manner exhibit novel ESR features. The present invention also provides methods for preparing these photocatalysts, a photocatalyst dispersion and a photocatalytic coating fluid containing such a photocatalyst, and photocatalytic functional products and methods for their manufacture using the photocatalyst.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2003Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignees: Osaka Titanium Technologies Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Okada, Katsuhiro Nishihara, Yasuhiro Masaki, Haruhiko Kajimura, Michiyasu Takahashi, Tadashi Yao, Tadashi Ogasawara, Munetoshi Watanabe, Shiji Shimosaki, Kouji Oda, Sadanobu Nagaoka
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Publication number: 20080268268Abstract: A titanium oxide-based photocatalyst which can exhibit excellent photocatalytic properties in response to visible light while maintaining its inherent activity in response to ultraviolet light and which is suitable for mass production contains bismuth as a first additional metal component and at least one metal element selected from silicon, zirconium, aluminum, and hafnium as a second additional metal component in titanium oxide. The Bi/Ti atomic ratio is preferably at least 0.0001 and at most 1.0, the atomic ratio of the second additional metal to Ti is preferably at least 0.0001 and at most 0.8, and a portion of bismuth is preferably present in the form of lower valence (Bi2+ or Bi0). The presence of lower valence bismuth can be ascertained by XPS analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Masaki, Tadashi Fukuda, Katsuhiro Nishihara, Rie Katsui
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Publication number: 20070248831Abstract: A highly active titanium oxide photocatalyst of the type responsive to visible light is prepared by subjecting a titanium (hydr)oxide raw material obtained by neutralizing an acidic titanium compound in ammonia or an amine under conditions such that the final pH is 7 or below to heat treatment in an atmosphere containing a hydrolyzable compound followed by contact with water and additional heat treatment at a temperature of at least 350° C. The resulting titanium oxide photocatalyst comprises titanium oxide with a specific surface area of at most 120 m2/g and with the amount of surface hydroxyl groups being at least 600 ?eq/g. Preferably the density of surface hydroxyl groups is at least 8 ?eq/m2, and the ratio of the amount of terminal type hydroxyl groups (T) to the amount of bridge type hydroxyl groups (B) in the surface hydroxyl groups satisfies T/B?0.20. This titanium oxide photocatalyst has an ESR spectrum having two types of triplet signal for which the g values of the main spectra are 1.993-2.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2005Publication date: October 25, 2007Applicant: Sumitomo Titanium CorporationInventors: Katsuhiro Nishihara, Yasuhiro Masaki, Tadashi Fukuda, Katsumi Okada, Shinji Shimosaki, Sadanobu Nagaoka, Hideaki Kanno, Kazuomi Azuma, Tadashi Ogasawara
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Publication number: 20050227008Abstract: Titanium oxide-based photocatalysts which contain a metal halide in titanium oxide and which are prepared from titanium oxide and/or its precursor, which may optionally be heat treated, by contact with a reactive gas containing a metal halide of the formula MXn or MOXn (wherein M=a metal, X=a halogen, and n=an integer) with heating stably develop a high photocatalytic activity with visible light irradiation. The photocatalysts may subsequently be stabilized by contact with water or by heat treatment, and/or promoted by contact with a heteropoly acid and/or an isopoly acid so as to include a metal complex in the titanium oxide. Photocatalysts prepared in this manner exhibit novel ESR features. The present invention also provides methods for preparing these photocatalysts, a photocatalyst dispersion and a photocatalytic coating fluid containing such a photocatalyst, and photocatalytic functional products and methods for their manufacture using the photocatalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2003Publication date: October 13, 2005Inventors: Katsumi Okada, Katsuhiro Nishihara, Yasuhiro Masaki, Haruhiko Kajimura, Michiyasu Takahashi, Tadashi Yao, Tadashi Ogasawara, Munetoshi Watanabe, Shiji Shimosaki, Kouji Oda, Sadanobu Nagaoka