Patents by Inventor Katsuji SUMIMOTO

Katsuji SUMIMOTO 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: 11764406
    Abstract: An all-solid battery is formed by laminating a first current collector, a positive-electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative-electrode layer, and a second current collector in this order. The positive-electrode fine particle layer contains positive-electrode active material fine particles having a particle diameter smaller than that of the positive-electrode active material and is formed on a side surface of the positive-electrode layer. The negative-electrode fine particle layer contains negative-electrode active material fine particles having a particle diameter smaller than that of the negative-electrode active material and is formed on a side surface of the negative-electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Kitamura, Katsuji Sumimoto, Akihiro Horikawa
  • Patent number: 11557794
    Abstract: Provided herein is a solid-state battery having high volume energy density, as well as a method of manufacture of such a solid-state battery. A solid-state battery 100 is a laminate including a first collector layer 1, a positive electrode layer 2, a solid electrolyte layer 5, a negative electrode layer 4, and a second collector layer 3, in this order from the top. The solid-state battery 100 satisfies ?>90°, ?>90°, and ?>?, where ? is the angle formed in the positive electrode layer 2 by a side surface 2A of the positive electrode layer 2 and the top surface of the solid electrolyte layer 5 underlying the positive electrode layer 2, and ? is the angle formed in the negative electrode layer 4 by a side surface 4A of the negative electrode layer 4 and the top surface of the second collector layer 3 underlying the negative electrode layer 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Kitamura, Katsuji Sumimoto, Masahiro Mori
  • Publication number: 20200212498
    Abstract: An all-solid battery is formed by laminating a first current collector, a positive-electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative-electrode layer, and a second current collector in this order. The positive-electrode fine particle layer contains positive-electrode active material fine particles having a particle diameter smaller than that of the positive-electrode active material and is formed on a side surface of the positive-electrode layer. The negative-electrode fine particle layer contains negative-electrode active material fine particles having a particle diameter smaller than that of the negative-electrode active material and is formed on a side surface of the negative-electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: YOSHIRO KITAMURA, KATSUJI SUMIMOTO, AKIHIRO HORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200212497
    Abstract: Provided herein is a solid-state battery having high volume energy density, as well as a method of manufacture of such a solid-state battery. A solid-state battery 100 is a laminate including a first collector layer 1, a positive electrode layer 2, a solid electrolyte layer 5, a negative electrode layer 4, and a second collector layer 3, in this order from the top. The solid-state battery 100 satisfies ?>90°, ?>90°, and ?>?, where ? is the angle formed in the positive electrode layer 2 by a side surface 2A of the positive electrode layer 2 and the top surface of the solid electrolyte layer 5 underlying the positive electrode layer 2, and ? is the angle formed in the negative electrode layer 4 by a side surface 4A of the negative electrode layer 4 and the top surface of the second collector layer 3 underlying the negative electrode layer 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: YOSHIRO KITAMURA, KATSUJI SUMIMOTO, MASAHIRO MORI
  • Publication number: 20190232433
    Abstract: Provided are a slicing method and a slicing apparatus, which prevent a trouble that occurs when a workpiece having a modified layer formed therein is separated at the modified layer as a boundary. Separation apparatus 200 includes: heating apparatus 12 for melting modified layer 8 of workpiece 1 formed by collection of a laser beam, by heating modified layer 8 at a temperature that is less than a melting point of workpiece 1 and equal to or more than a melting point of modified layer 8; and separation jig 11 for separating workpiece 1 at melted modified layer 8 as a boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiro KITAMURA, Kazuki FUJIWARA, Katsuji SUMIMOTO, Takeshi OHMORI
  • Publication number: 20190224784
    Abstract: A laser slicing apparatus for dividing a workpiece with a laser beam, including: a light shielding area detection section that detects light shielding areas existing on a side of a first surface of the workpiece; and a control section that radiates a first laser beam from the side of the first surface so as to scan across a whole area of the first surface of the workpiece and form a first modified layer in a to-be-sliced plane inside the workpiece, and that radiates a second laser beam to the light shielding areas of the workpiece from a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface and form a second modified layer in such a manner that the second modified layer is continuous with the first modified layer in the to-be-sliced plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuki FUJIWARA, Yoshiro KITAMURA, Katsuji SUMIMOTO