Patents by Inventor Kazuya Hashimoto

Kazuya Hashimoto 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: 11961677
    Abstract: A capacitor module includes a capacitor element, a plurality of connection terminals for electrically connecting the capacitor element to a semiconductor module and a power supply that are another equipment, and an exterior coating that includes a resin film having electrical insulating property and wraps the capacitor element except the plurality of connection terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru Kuwahara, Yuta Hashimoto, Kazuya Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20240113294
    Abstract: The positive electrode active material includes a complex oxide represented by Formula (1): LiNixMe1-xO2 where x satisfies 0.5?x<1, and Me is at least one selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn, Al, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, B, Ga, Y, Ce, Sm, Gd, Er, Ti, Zr, V, Nb, Ta, Sb, Bi, Cr, Mo, and W. In an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by X-ray diffraction measurement of the positive electrode active material using Cu-K? rays, the ratio of the value of the full width at half maximum of a peak having the highest intensity within a diffraction angle 2? range of 40° or more and 50° or less to the value of the full width at half maximum of a peak corresponding to the (111) plane of a crystalline Si powder measured under the same conditions is less than or equal to 2.00.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: YUSUKE NISHIO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240094644
    Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus includes: a plurality of solution treatment modules stacked at multiple stages, each configured to perform a treatment using a treatment solution on a substrate; and a solution supply unit configured to supply the treatment solution to the plurality of solution treatment modules, wherein: the solution supply unit includes supply pipelines provided with a solution feeder corresponding to the solution treatment modules; and the solution feeder includes a pump configured to pressure-feed the treatment solution to the corresponding solution treatment module and a filter configured to filtrate the treatment solution, and is arranged adjacent to the corresponding solution treatment module in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Makoto OGATA, Katsuya HASHIMOTO, Katsunori ICHINO, Masataka TANAKA, Kazuya KUDO
  • Publication number: 20240088360
    Abstract: The coated active material of the present disclosure includes an active material and a coating layer coating at least a part of the surface of the active material. The coated active material has a supernatant transmittance of greater than 64% and less than 93%. The supernatant transmittance is a transmittance of light with a wavelength of 550 nm measured for a supernatant liquid obtained by dispersing and precipitating the coated active material in a solvent. The supernatant liquid is placed in a quartz cell with a 10 mm optical path length and devoted to measurement of the transmittance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, YUTA SUGIMOTO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240088435
    Abstract: A positive electrode material includes a positive electrode active material, a coating layer, and a second solid electrolyte. The coating layer contains a first solid electrolyte and coats at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The first solid electrolyte contains Li, M, and X, where M is at least one selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than Li, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I. The second solid electrolyte is in indirect contact with the positive electrode active material with the coating layer disposed therebetween. A ratio of a volume of the first solid electrolyte to a total volume of the first solid electrolyte and the second solid electrolyte is greater than or equal to 4% and less than or equal to 60%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: YUTA SUGIMOTO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, AKINOBU MIYAZAKI, KENJI NAGAO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11927524
    Abstract: To provide a technology of optimizing a suction condition of a microparticle. The present technology provides an optimizing method of a suction condition of a microparticle including: a particle number counting step of detecting a time point when a microparticle passes through a predetermined position on a main flow path through which liquid containing the microparticle flows, sucking the microparticle from the main flow path to a microparticle suction flow path by the microparticle suction flow path with a predetermined suction force, and counting the number of microparticles sucked into the microparticle suction flow path; and a step of determining an elapsed time from passage through the predetermined position with which the suction by the microparticle suction flow path should be performed on the basis of a time from the time point when the microparticle passes through the predetermined position on the main flow path until the suction is performed and the number of counted microparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Gakuji Hashimoto, Tatsumi Ito, Kazuya Takahashi, Junji Kajihara
  • Publication number: 20240079646
    Abstract: A coated active material includes a positive electrode active material and a coating layer coating at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The coating layer includes a first coating layer and a second coating layer. The first coating layer is located outside of the second coating layer. A percentage of change in specific surface area from a specific surface area of the positive electrode active material coated with the second coating layer to a specific surface area of the coated active material is greater than or equal to ?62.8% and less than or equal to +3.79%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: KENJI NAGAO, YUTA SUGIMOTO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240079570
    Abstract: A coated active material includes a positive electrode active material and a coating layer coating at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The coating layer includes a first coating layer, which contains a first solid electrolyte, and a second coating layer, which contains a base material. The first coating layer is located outside of the second coating layer. The first solid electrolyte contains Li, M, and X, where M is at least one selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than Li, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I. A ratio of a specific surface area of the coated active material to a specific surface area of the positive electrode active material coated with the second coating layer is less than or equal to 42%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: YUTA SUGIMOTO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, AKINOBU MIYAZAKI, KENJI NAGAO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240079571
    Abstract: A coated active material of the present disclosure includes an active material and a coating layer coating at least a part of the surface of the active material. The coating layer includes a first coating material. The coated active material has a supernatant NV rate of less than 23%, where the supernatant NV rate is a ratio of the NV value of a supernatant liquid to the mass content ratio of the first coating material in a dispersing liquid obtained by dispersing the coated active material in a solvent, and the NV value of the supernatant liquid is a ratio of the mass of a non-volatile component to the mass of the supernatant liquid obtained by precipitating the coated active material by leaving the dispersing liquid to stand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, YUTA SUGIMOTO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240079569
    Abstract: A coated active material including: a positive electrode active material; a second coating layer; and a first coating layer outside the second coating layer, in which a percentage of change from S1 to S2 is ?78.0% or greater and ?15.0% or less and/or a percentage of change from S3 to S4 is ?77.0% or greater and ?12.0% or less, where S1 is a sum of dV/dD over a range of pore diameters of 2 nm to 100 nm of the active material coated with the second coating layer; S2 is a sum of dV/dD over a range of pore diameters of 2 nm to 100 nm of the coated active material; S3 is dV/dD at a pore diameter of 3 nm of the active material coated with the second coating layer; and S4 is dV/dD at a pore diameter of 3 nm of the coated active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: KENJI NAGAO, YUTA SUGIMOTO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11912225
    Abstract: A side airbag device capable of restricting an occupant from moving to the inner side in the vehicle width direction while restraining the head of the occupant is inflatable and deployable in a space beside an occupant seated in a vehicle seat. The side airbag device includes an inflator configured to generate a gas and a bag-shaped airbag inflatable and deployable in response to the gas upon activation of the inflator to protect a lateral portion of the occupant. The airbag includes a torso protection portion, and a head protection portion configured to be provided above the torso protection portion and inflatable and deployable between an upper portion of a shoulder of the occupant and a lateral portion of a head of the occupant. The head protection portion is bendable at an acute angle relative to the torso protection portion in an inflated and deployed state of the airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ASHIMORI INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Azuma, Yuta Minami, Yoshitaka Okagami, Kazuya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20240063374
    Abstract: A coated active material of the present disclosure includes an active material and a coating layer coating at least a part of the surface of the active material. The log differential pore volume of the coated active material at a pore diameter of 1.2 ?m is within a range of greater than or equal to 55 ?L/g and less than 152 ?L/g. The electrode material of the present disclosure includes a coating material and a solid electrolyte. A battery of the present disclosure includes a positive electrode including the electrode material, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240063375
    Abstract: The coated active material of the present disclosure includes an active material and a coating layer coating at least a part of the surface of the active material. The coating layer includes a first coating material. When a coarse powder and a fine powder included in the powder of the coated active material are classified by airflow classification such that the mass ratio of the coarse powder and the fine powder is 9:1, the value of R2/R1 is less than 7.1, where R1 represents the mass content ratio of the first coating material in the coarse powder, and R2 represents the mass content ratio of the first coating material in the fine powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, IZURU SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240047656
    Abstract: An electrode includes an active material layer. The active material layer includes a composite particle and an imidazoline-based compound. The composite particle includes a core particle and a covering layer. The covering layer covers at least part of a surface of the core particle. The core particle includes an active material. The covering layer includes a first layer and a second layer. At least part of the first layer is interposed between the core particle and the second layer. The first layer includes a first solid electrolyte. The second layer includes a second solid electrolyte. The first solid electrolyte is a fluoride. The second solid electrolyte is a sulfide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya HASHIMOTO, Hiroki YABE, Izuru SASAKI, Hiroki KAMITAKE, Yuta SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240038972
    Abstract: An electrode material comprises a composite particle. The composite particle includes a core particle and a covering layer. The covering layer covers at least part of a surface of the core particle. The core particle includes an active material. The covering layer includes a first layer and a second layer. At least part of the first layer is interposed between the core particle and the second layer. The first layer includes a first solid electrolyte. The second layer includes a second solid electrolyte. The first solid electrolyte is a fluoride. The second solid electrolyte is a sulfide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki YABE, Izuru Sasaki, Kazuya Hashimoto, Yuta Sugimoto, Yusuke Nishio
  • Publication number: 20240030487
    Abstract: An electrode for an all-solid state battery contains composite particles of 100 parts by mass and an imidazoline-based compound of more than 0 parts by mass and 0.3 parts by mass or less. The composite particle includes a core particle and a coating layer. The coating layer covers at least a part of a surface of the core particle. The core particle contains an active material. The coating layer contains a fluoride solid electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro IWASAKI, Kazuya HASHIMOTO, Izuru SASAKI, Yuta SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11830531
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium that can exhibit good traveling performance during use is provided. This magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, and includes a substrate, a base layer disposed on the substrate, and a magnetic layer disposed on the base layer. The substrate includes a polyester as a main component. The average thickness of the base layer is 0.9 ?m or less. The base layer and the magnetic layer each include a lubricant. The magnetic layer has a surface having a large number of holes, and the arithmetic average roughness Ra of the surface is 2.5 nm or less. The BET specific surface area of the entire magnetic recording medium is 3.5 m2/g or more in a state where the lubricant has been removed from the magnetic recording medium and the magnetic recording medium has been dried. The squareness ratio in the perpendicular direction is 65% or more. The average thickness of the magnetic layer is 90 nm or less. The average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Hashimoto, Minoru Yamaga, Takanobu Iwama, Jun Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11749305
    Abstract: To provide a magnetic recording medium that has excellent traveling stability in spite of having a thin total thickness and a thin thickness of an underlayer, and is suitable for use in a recording/reproducing device for adjusting the width of the magnetic recording medium by adjusting a tension of the magnetic recording medium in a longitudinal direction thereof. The present technology provides a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium including: a magnetic layer; an underlayer; a base layer; and a back layer, in which the underlayer has a thickness of 0.5 ?m or more and 0.9 ?m or less, the magnetic recording medium has an average thickness tT of 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yamaga, Kazuya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20230197960
    Abstract: A positive-electrode material includes a positive-electrode active material and a coating layer coating at least partially the surface of the positive-electrode active material and containing a first solid electrolyte. The first solid electrolyte is represented by Composition formula (1): Li?1M1?1X1?1 . . . Formula (1) where, in Composition formula (1), ?1, ?1, and ?1 are each independently a positive real number, M1 includes calcium, yttrium, and at least one rare-earth element other than yttrium, and X1 includes at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: IZURU SASAKI, TAKASHI KUBO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230156952
    Abstract: A holding device, includes: a holding portion configured to hold a shunt resistor; a spacer portion extending from the holding portion and abutting on a front surface of a substrate on which a monitoring unit configured to monitor a current value of a current flowing through the shunt resistor is mounted; and an engaging portion extending from the holding portion and having an engaging claw to be engaged with a back surface of the substrate. The spacer portion separates the holding portion and the substrate from each other such that a connection portion which electrically connects the shunt resistor and the monitoring unit is visible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Kazuya HASHIMOTO, Hitoshi ENOMOTO