Patents by Inventor Kazuyoshi Honda

Kazuyoshi Honda 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: 20240128620
    Abstract: A battery includes an electrode collector, two electrode active material layers, two solid electrolyte layers, two counter-electrode active material layers, and two counter-electrode collectors in this order, and includes a first insulating layer that covers side surfaces of the two counter-electrode collectors, the two counter-electrode active material layers, the two solid electrolyte layers, and the two electrode active material layers. A first region not covered with any of the two electrode active material layers is provided at ends of both principal surfaces of the electrode collector. A second region not covered with any of the two counter-electrode collectors is provided at an end of a principal surface of each of the two counter-electrode active material layers that faces toward a corresponding one of the counter-electrode collectors. The first insulating layer covers the second region. The electrode collector projects from an outer surface of the first insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: TSUTOMU KOSHIZUKA, KAZUHIRO MORIOKA, KAZUYOSHI HONDA
  • Publication number: 20240072381
    Abstract: A battery includes: a power generation element including battery cells which are electrically connected in parallel and stacked, and each of which includes an electrode layer, a counter-electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the electrode layer and the counter-electrode layer; an electrode insulating layer covering an electrode layer among the electrode layers at a side surface of the power generation element; and a counter-electrode terminal covering the side surface and the electrode insulating layer, and electrically connected to a counter-electrode layer among the counter-electrode layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HONDA, Eiichi KOGA, Koichi HIRANO, Akira KAWASE
  • Publication number: 20240072392
    Abstract: A battery includes: a power generation element including battery cells each of which includes an electrode layer, a counter-electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the electrode layer and the counter-electrode layer, and which are electrically connected in parallel and stacked; an insulating member covering an electrode layer at a side surface of the power generation element; and a terminal electrode covering the side surface and the insulating member, and electrically connected to a counter-electrode layer, in which the power generation element includes: a first parallel unit that includes first battery cells and has both ends in a stacking direction at each of which a counter-electrode layer is located; and a second parallel unit that includes second battery cells, has both ends in the stacking direction at each of which an electrode layers is located, and is stacked on the first parallel unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HONDA, Eiichi KOGA, Koichi HIRANO, Akira KAWASE, Kazuhiro MORIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240072376
    Abstract: A battery includes battery cells. A battery cell includes a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer. On a side surface of the battery cell, in a plan view of the side surface of the battery cell, striated cut marks which are inclined with respect to the thickness direction of the battery cell are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HONDA, Koichi HIRANO, Akira KAWASE, Kazuhiro MORIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240063431
    Abstract: A battery includes: a power generation element including a plurality of battery cells each of which includes an electrode layer, a counter-electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the electrode layer and the counter-electrode layer, the plurality of battery cells being electrically connected in parallel and stacked; an interlayer located between a pair of two adjacent battery cells; an electrode insulating layer covering an electrode layer among the electrode layers at a first side surface of the power generation element; and a counter-electrode terminal covering the first side surface and the electrode insulating layer, and electrically connected to a counter-electrode layer among the counter-electrode layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HONDA, Eiichi KOGA, Koichi HIRANO, Akira KAWASE, Kazuhiro MORIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240055740
    Abstract: A battery includes: a power generation element including battery cells each of which includes an electrode layer, a counter-electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the electrode layer and the counter-electrode layer, and which are stacked; an electrode insulating layer covering an electrode layer among the electrode layers at a side surface of the power generation element; and a counter-electrode terminal covering the side surface and the electrode insulating layer, and electrically connected to a counter-electrode layer among the counter-electrode layers. At least some of the battery cells are connected in parallel. At the side surface, the electrode insulating layer covers from an electrode layer among the electrode layers to a part of a corresponding one of the counter-electrode layers along a stacking direction of the power generation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Akira KAWASE, Kazuyoshi HONDA, Koichi HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240021959
    Abstract: A battery includes: a power generation element that includes a plurality of unit cells each including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer. The power generation element includes a first side surface and a second side surface, and in the first side surface, first depressions and first projections are arranged alternately, in the second side surface, second depressions and second projections are arranged alternately, each of the first depressions includes a first inclination surface, and each of the second depressions includes a second inclination surface. The battery further includes: a first insulating member arranged in the first depressions; a second insulating member arranged in the second depressions; a first conductive member; and a second conductive member. The positive electrode layers are electrically connected via the first conductive member, and the negative electrode layers are electrically connected via the second conductive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HONDA, Akira KAWASE, Eiichi KOGA, Koichi HIRANO, Kazuhiro MORIOKA, Kouji NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240021880
    Abstract: The battery includes a power generation element including: a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material and a first inorganic solid electrolyte; a negative electrode active material layer containing a negative electrode active material and a second inorganic solid electrolyte; and a solid electrolyte layer positioned between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer and containing a third inorganic solid electrolyte. There are a plurality of voids inside the power generation element, and an internal pressure of the plurality of voids is lower than 1 atm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HONDA, Eiichi KOGA, Koichi HIRANO, Akira KAWASE
  • Publication number: 20230387473
    Abstract: A battery includes a power generation element that includes a plurality of unit cells each including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer, the unit cells are stacked in a direction normal to a main surface, in a side surface of the power generation element, one electrode layer of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer in each of the unit cells protrudes more than the other electrode layer such that depressions and projections are provided, each of the depressions includes a first inclination surface that is an end surface of the other electrode layer, and the battery further includes: one or more conductive members in contact with a corresponding one of the projections; an insulating member that covers the side surface; and one or more extraction electrodes that are in contact with the one or more conductive members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HONDA, Akira KAWASE, Eiichi KOGA, Koichi HIRANO, Kazuhiro MORIOKA, Kouji NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230387525
    Abstract: The battery includes: a power generation element including a negative electrode active material layer, a positive electrode active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer positioned between the negative electrode active material layer and the positive electrode active material layer; a sealing material that seals a first surface, which is a side surface of the power generation element; and a negative electrode current collector positioned on a side of the negative electrode active material layer in the power generation element. In the battery, a void surrounded by the sealing material, the first surface, and the negative electrode current collector is present, and the internal pressure of the void is lower than 1 atm. The negative electrode current collector includes a first recess curved to be recessed toward the void.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HONDA, Eiichi KOGA, Koichi HIRANO, Akira KAWASE
  • Patent number: 11728516
    Abstract: A battery including a first electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer on the first electrode layer, a second electrode layer which is located on the solid electrolyte layer and which is a counter electrode layer of the first electrode layer, and a space portion, wherein a first thickness portion is located on the first active material layer, the second thickness portion is located on the first electrode layer, the second active material layer is located at a position which faces the first thickness portion and which does not face the first active material layer via the second thickness portion, the second collector extends to the position facing the second thickness portion and a region provided with the second active material layer, the second thickness portion is in contact with the second electrode layer, and the space portion is surrounded by the second electrode layer and the second thickness portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Honda
  • Publication number: 20220416310
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated battery is a method for manufacturing a laminated battery in which a plurality of unit battery cells each having a negative-electrode layer, a positive-electrode layer are laminated, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the negative-electrode layer and the positive-electrode layer. The method includes laminating the plurality of unit battery cells and collectively compressing, in a direction of laminating, the plurality of unit cells laminated in the laminating. In the laminating, the plurality of unit battery cells are laminated in such an arrangement that two unit battery cells located at both ends in the direction of laminating are both lower in degree of compression than a unit battery cell located between the two unit battery cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: KAZUYOSHI HONDA, AKIRA KAWASE, EIICHI KOGA, TSUTOMU KOSHIZUKA, TAKESHI YAMASAKI, MASATOSHI NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220416290
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated battery is a method for manufacturing a laminated battery in which a plurality of unit battery cells each having a negative-electrode layer, a positive-electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the negative-electrode layer and the positive-electrode layer are laminated. The method includes measuring respective characteristics of the plurality of unit battery cells, adjusting respective effective areas of the plurality of unit battery cells on the basis of the respective characteristics of the plurality of unit battery cells measured in the measuring so that respective battery capacities of the plurality of unit battery cells fall within a predetermined range of value, and laminating the plurality of unit battery cells, the effective areas of the plurality of unit battery cells being adjusted in the adjusting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HONDA, Akira KAWASE, Eiichi KOGA
  • Publication number: 20220416309
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated battery in which a plurality of unit battery cells each having a negative-electrode layer, a positive-electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the negative-electrode layer and the positive-electrode layer are laminated, the method including: measuring respective characteristics of the plurality of unit battery cells; laminating the plurality of unit battery cells, the characteristics of the plurality of unit battery cells being measured; and on the basis of the respective characteristics of the plurality of unit battery cells laminated in the laminating, adjusting areas of the plurality of unit battery cells which are laminated by collectively cutting the plurality of unit battery cells which are laminated and thereby so that a battery capacity of the laminated battery falls within a predetermined range of value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: KAZUYOSHI HONDA, AKIRA KAWASE, EIICHI KOGA, KOUJI NISHIDA, KAZUHIRO MORIOKA
  • Patent number: 11508970
    Abstract: A battery includes a first current collector, a first electrode layer, and a first counter electrode layer. The first counter electrode layer is a counter electrode of the first electrode layer, and the first current collector includes a first electroconductive portion, a second electroconductive portion, and a first insulating portion. The first electrode layer is disposed in contact with the first electroconductive portion, and the first counter electrode layer is disposed in contact with the second electroconductive portion. The first insulating portion links the first electroconductive portion and the second electroconductive portion, and the first current collector is folded at the first insulating portion, whereby the first electrode layer and the first counter electrode layer are positioned facing each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Honda
  • Patent number: 11374264
    Abstract: A detection system includes a power generation element; a first outer cover body enveloping the power generation element; a second outer cover body located between the power generation element and the first outer cover body, and enveloping the power generation element; a first space section enclosed by the first outer cover body and the second outer cover body; a second space section enclosed by the second outer cover body; and a detector that detects a gas in the first space section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayumu Fukuoka, Kazuyoshi Honda
  • Publication number: 20220181741
    Abstract: A battery system includes a container including a first outlet; a power generation element contained in the container and disposed inside the container; a measurement unit that measures a gas concentration inside the container; a first opening and closing unit connected to the first outlet; and a control unit that controls the first opening and closing unit. The measurement unit measures the gas concentration while the first opening and closing unit is in a closed state, and the control unit sets the first opening and closing unit to an open state after the gas concentration has exceeded a first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi HONDA
  • Patent number: 11296378
    Abstract: A battery includes: a unit cell including an electrode layer, a counter electrode layer facing the electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the electrode layer and the counter electrode layer; an electrode current collector in contact with the electrode layer; a counter electrode current collector in contact with the counter electrode layer; and a seal disposed between the electrode current collector and the counter electrode current collector. The unit cell is disposed between the electrode current collector and the counter electrode current collector. The seal includes at least one protrusion protruding toward the solid electrolyte layer, and at least part of the at least one protrusion is in contact with the solid electrolyte layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Honda, Akira Kawase, Yasutaka Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20210391599
    Abstract: A laminated battery includes a plurality of battery cells which are laminated and a current collecting lead. Each of the plurality of battery cells has a structure in which a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector are laminated in this order. The plurality of battery cells include first and second battery cells adjacent to each other. The first battery cell has a surface that faces the second battery cell and includes an exposed surface not in contact with the second battery cell. At least part of the exposed surface does not overlap the second battery cell when viewed from a laminating direction of the battery cells. The current collecting lead is connected to the exposed surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: KAZUYOSHI HONDA, EIICHI KOGA, AKIRA KAWASE, NOBORU MASUDA, TAKESHI YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210391617
    Abstract: A laminated battery includes battery cells which are laminated and a current collecting lead. Each of the battery cells has a structure in which a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector are laminated in this order. The battery cells include first and second battery cells adjacent to each other. At least the second battery cell has a side surface inclined with respect to a laminating direction of the battery cells. The first battery cell has a surface facing the second battery cell and including an exposed surface not in contact with the second battery cell. At least part of the exposed surface overlaps at least part of the side surface of the second battery cell viewed from the laminating direction. The current collecting lead is connected to the exposed surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: KAZUYOSHI HONDA, AKIRA KAWASE, EIICHI KOGA, KOUJI NISHIDA, NOBORU MASUDA, TAKESHI YAMASAKI