Patents by Inventor Keiichiro Onishi

Keiichiro Onishi 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: 11925909
    Abstract: Provided is a slurry manufacturing apparatus including: a mixing unit that mixes a predetermined powder and a solvent in a mixing chamber to produce a slurry; a supply unit that supplies a reaction gas to the mixing chamber when the slurry is produced by the mixing unit; and a circulation unit that recovers a surplus of the reaction gas from the mixing chamber and resupplies the surplus of the reaction gas to the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIHON SPINDLE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Onishi, Keiichi Asami
  • Patent number: 11547974
    Abstract: Provided is a slurry manufacturing method in which a decrease in slurry quality, an increase in running cost, and a decrease in maintainability are suppressed. A slurry manufacturing device includes: a mixing device (suction pump mechanism portion) that mixes a liquid and a powder to manufacture a slurry; a powder supply device that supplies the powder to the mixing device; and a powder dry box, in which an opening portion of the powder supply device is accommodated in the powder dry box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NIHON SPINDLE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Onishi, Keiichi Asami, Tatsuaki Oonishi
  • Publication number: 20220331754
    Abstract: A dispersion device includes a stirring and mixing unit that mixes a powder with a liquid, a powder feed unit that feeds the powder to the stirring and mixing unit, and a dry gas generation unit that supplies a dry gas to the powder feed unit. The powder feed unit is sealable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Keiichiro Onishi, Keiichi Asami
  • Patent number: 11458445
    Abstract: Nanoparticles are synthesized by suctioning a liquid under a negative pressure with a negative-pressure suction force caused by the rotation of a rotary blade, causing cavitation by stirring the suctioned liquid by the rotary blade, generating plasma generated by a plasma generation mechanism in air bubbles generated in the liquid, and in that case, consuming an electrode containing elements constituting the nanoparticles to be synthesized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: NIHON SPINDLE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO
    Inventors: Keiichi Asami, Keiichiro Onishi, Yoshihiro Oka
  • Publication number: 20220297154
    Abstract: Provided is a coating device including a coating portion where coating treatment is performed, a partition portion covering the coating portion, and a humidity controller adjusting an amount of moisture in a work space partitioned by the partition portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Keiichiro Onishi, Keiichi Asami, Katsuhiro Masuda, Masafumi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220280902
    Abstract: A slurry storage device that stores an aqueous slurry containing a high nickel material prepared by a dispersion device which mixes a powder and a solvent, the device includes a holding unit that holds the aqueous slurry, and a pH value rise suppressing unit that suppresses a rise in a pH value of the aqueous slurry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keiichiro Onishi, Keiichi Asami, Takashi Mukai, Taichi Sakamoto, Hideaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Senoh, Masahiro Yanagida
  • Patent number: 11433364
    Abstract: A slurry production apparatus includes: a mixing device (including a dispersion mixing section) that mixes a liquid and a powder to produce a slurry; a powder supply device that supplies the powder to the mixing device; a powder dry box that accommodates an opening portion of the powder supply device; and a first dry booth that accommodates the mixing device and the powder dry box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIHON SPINDLE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Onishi, Keiichi Asami
  • Patent number: 11251418
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a slurry for a positive electrode of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing an alkali metal complex oxide, the method making it possible to reliably deaerate surplus carbonic acid gas after an alkali component of a slurry containing the alkali metal complex oxide is neutralized within a short period of time. The method for manufacturing a slurry for a positive electrode of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a step of manufacturing an electrode slurry including a step of performing a neutralization treatment on an alkali component in the slurry by using inorganic carbon dissolved in a solvent of the slurry and a step of deaerating the inorganic carbon in the slurry as carbonic acid gas by causing cavitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: NIHON SPINDLE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Taichi Sakamoto, Takashi Mukai, Yuta Ikeuchi, Naoto Yamashita, Masahiro Yanagida, Keiichi Asami, Keiichiro Onishi
  • Patent number: 11124434
    Abstract: There is provided an in-liquid plasma device including a tubular flow channel in which a liquid flow, and a cavitation generator and a voltage application unit which are disposed in the tubular flow channel. The cavitation generator generates cavitation in the liquid inside the tubular flow channel. The voltage application unit is located in the tubular flow channel so as to generate plasma by applying a voltage to the liquid in which the cavitation is generated. The cavitation generator has a throttle portion whose inner diameter is smaller than other sites in the tubular flow channel. The throttle portion has an upstream side inclined surface located on an upstream side of a narrowest site of the throttle portion, and a downstream side inclined surface located on a downstream side of the narrowest site of the throttle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NIHON SPINDLE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Asami, Keiichiro Onishi
  • Publication number: 20210167355
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an active material mixture, the method including: supplying and dispersing a solid electrolyte in a dispersion medium while circulating the dispersion medium (a first dispersion step); and thereafter supplying and dispersing an active material and a conductive material in the dispersion medium (a second dispersion step), wherein an average rotation speed of the rotor in the second dispersion step is lower than an average rotation speed of the rotor in the first dispersion step. Aggregation of the solid electrolyte can be suppressed by separately performing the first dispersion step and the second dispersion step, and the increase in temperature of the active material mixture can be reduced by lowering the rotation speed of the rotor in the second dispersion step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki ISHIGAKI, Keiichiro ONISHI, Keiichi ASAMI
  • Publication number: 20210086145
    Abstract: Provided is a slurry manufacturing apparatus including: a mixing unit that mixes a predetermined powder and a solvent in a mixing chamber to produce a slurry; a supply unit that supplies a reaction gas to the mixing chamber when the slurry is produced by the mixing unit; and a circulation unit that recovers a surplus of the reaction gas from the mixing chamber and resupplies the surplus of the reaction gas to the mixing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Keiichiro Onishi, Keiichi Asami
  • Publication number: 20200306702
    Abstract: A slurry production apparatus includes: a mixing device (including a dispersion mixing section) that mixes a liquid and a powder to produce a slurry; a powder supply device that supplies the powder to the mixing device; a powder dry box that accommodates an opening portion of the powder supply device; and a first dry booth that accommodates the mixing device and the powder dry box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Keiichiro Onishi, Keiichi Asami
  • Publication number: 20200222863
    Abstract: Provided is a slurry manufacturing method in which a decrease in slurry quality, an increase in running cost, and a decrease in maintainability are suppressed. A slurry manufacturing device includes: a mixing device (suction pump mechanism portion) that mixes a liquid and a powder to manufacture a slurry; a powder supply device that supplies the powder to the mixing device; and a powder dry box, in which an opening portion of the powder supply device is accommodated in the powder dry box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Keiichiro Onishi, Keiichi Asami, Tatsuaki Oonishi
  • Patent number: 10637057
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a slurry for a positive electrode of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using an aqueous solvent containing an alkali metal complex oxide, includes: while causing a raw material slurry containing a solid content and the solvent as slurry raw materials for a positive electrode of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery to flow along a path, performing a neutralization treatment on an alkali component in the raw material slurry by inorganic carbon supplied to the raw material slurry flowing along the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON SPINDLE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Asami, Keiichiro Onishi
  • Patent number: 10494274
    Abstract: Sterilization of a liquid substance is performed by causing cavitation in the liquid substance by stirring the liquid substance with a rotary blade of a suction stirring pump and generating plasma with a plasma generation mechanism in air bubbles generated in the liquid substance by the cavitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignees: NIHON SPINDLE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO
    Inventors: Keiichi Asami, Keiichiro Onishi, Yoshihiro Oka
  • Publication number: 20190322551
    Abstract: There is provided an in-liquid plasma device including a tubular flow channel in which a liquid flow, and a cavitation generator and a voltage application unit which are disposed in the tubular flow channel. The cavitation generator generates cavitation in the liquid inside the tubular flow channel. The voltage application unit is located in the tubular flow channel so as to generate plasma by applying a voltage to the liquid in which the cavitation is generated. The cavitation generator has a throttle portion whose inner diameter is smaller than other sites in the tubular flow channel. The throttle portion has an upstream side inclined surface located on an upstream side of a narrowest site of the throttle portion, and a downstream side inclined surface located on a downstream side of the narrowest site of the throttle portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Keiichi Asami, Keiichiro Onishi
  • Publication number: 20190296355
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a slurry for a positive electrode of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using an aqueous solvent containing an alkali metal complex oxide, includes: while causing a raw material slurry containing a solid content and the solvent as slurry raw materials for a positive electrode of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery to flow along a path, performing a neutralization treatment on an alkali component in the raw material slurry by inorganic carbon supplied to the raw material slurry flowing along the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Keiichi Asami, Keiichiro Onishi
  • Publication number: 20180221832
    Abstract: A slurry manufacturing apparatus includes a rotation-revolution mixing device which mixes and prepares a slurry by rotational movement and revolving movement and a gas injection mechanism which dissolves carbonic acid gas in the slurry prepared by the rotation-revolution mixing device, in which the gas injection mechanism dissolves the carbonic acid gas in the slurry by injecting the carbonic acid gas under pressure in a sealed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Keiichiro Onishi, Keiichi Asami
  • Publication number: 20180183047
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a slurry for a positive electrode of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing an alkali metal complex oxide, the method making it possible to reliably deaerate surplus carbonic acid gas after an alkali component of a slurry containing the alkali metal complex oxide is neutralized within a short period of time. The method for manufacturing a slurry for a positive electrode of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a step of manufacturing an electrode slurry including a step of performing a neutralization treatment on an alkali component in the slurry by using inorganic carbon dissolved in a solvent of the slurry and a step of deaerating the inorganic carbon in the slurry as carbonic acid gas by causing cavitation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Taichi Sakamoto, Takashi Mukai, Yuta Ikeuchi, Naoto Yamashita, Masahiro Yanagida, Keiichi Asami, Keiichiro Onishi
  • Publication number: 20180050317
    Abstract: Nanoparticles are synthesized by suctioning a liquid under a negative pressure with a negative-pressure suction force caused by the rotation of a rotary blade, causing cavitation by stirring the suctioned liquid by the rotary blade, generating plasma generated by a plasma generation mechanism in air bubbles generated in the liquid, and in that case, consuming an electrode containing elements constituting the nanoparticles to be synthesized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Keiichi Asami, Keiichiro Onishi, Yoshihiro Oka