Patents by Inventor Kenshin Kitoh

Kenshin Kitoh 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: 20010053477
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes: a battery case, and an internal electrode body 1 contained in the battery case and including a positive electrode 2, a negative electrode 3, and a separator 4 made of porous polymer. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are wound and laminated through the separator so that the positive electrode and the negative electrode are not brought into direct contact with each other. The battery case is composed of pure aluminum or aluminum alloy in which one or more components selected from manganese, magnesium, silicon and copper is added in aluminum. The lithium secondary battery has high weight energy density, is superior in safety, and is used for, particularly, an electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 1998
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventors: KENSHIN KITOH, HIROSHI NEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20010051297
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery comprises a case, an internal electrode body positioned inside the case, the internal electrode body comprising at least one positive electrode, at least one negative electrode and at least one separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the positive electrode and the negative electrode being electrically insulated from each other, at least one electrolyte contained inside the case, a first terminal electrically connected to the negative electrode, a second terminal electrically connected to the positive electrode, and at least one insulator positioned either between the case and at least one of the first and second terminals, the insulator comprising ethylene-propylene rubber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nemoto, Teruhisa Kurokawa, Kenshin Kitoh
  • Publication number: 20010049054
    Abstract: To provide a lithium secondary cell, which is excellent in productivity since a cell structure is simple and easy for assembly. Provided is a lithium secondary cell having: an internal electrode body including a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate being wound and laminated around an external periphery wall of a hollow cylindrical winding core, and inside the internal electrode body a nonaqueous electrolyte solution being impregnated, a cylindrical cell case contained in this internal electrode body 1 with both ends being opened, and two electrode caps sealing the above described internal electrode body 1 at both the open ends of this cell case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2001
    Publication date: December 6, 2001
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Enomoto, Kenji Kawamura, Kenshin Kitoh, Toshihiro Yoshida, Hiroshi Nemoto, Shinji Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20010038945
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes a battery case, an internal electrode body contained in the battery case and including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator made of porous polymer. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are wound or laminated so that the positive electrode and negative electrode are not brought into direct contact with each other via the separator. The respective resistance value of multiple tabs for electricity collection to be connected with to the positive electrode and negative electrode was set to remain within the range of ±20% of the averaged resistance value of the tabs. The lithium secondary battery maintains a good charge-discharge characteristic even during high-output cycle operation and in particular may be preferably used for a drive motor of an electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 1999
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Inventors: KENSHIN KITOH, TERUHISA KUROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20010026885
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes a battery case, an internal electrode body contained in the battery case and including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator made of porous polymer, the positive electrode and the negative electrode are wound or laminated. A working volume ratio of the positive active material and the negative active material obtained by the positive active material weight being divided by the negative active material weight is within the range from 40% to 90% of the theoretical working volume ratio. The lithium secondary battery has high safety as well as high energy density by controlling the working volume of an electrode active material and the dispersion of the distribution of the working volume and in particular is preferably used for a drive motor of an electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenshin Kitoh, Hiroshi Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20010007729
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes an internal electrode body including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, the positive electrode and the negative electrode being wound via the separator so that the positive electrode and the negative electrode are not brought into direct contact with each other, an organic electrolyte, and a battery case containing the internal electrode body. A pipe is used as the battery case. The lithium secondary battery is excellent in reliability and can be produced at low processing costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 1999
    Publication date: July 12, 2001
    Inventors: KENSHIN KITOH, TERUHISA KUROKAWA, HIROSHI NEMOTO
  • Patent number: 6258487
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes: a battery case, and an internal electrode body 1 contained in the battery case and including a positive electrode 2, a negative electrode 3, and a separator 4 made of porous polymer. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are wound through the separator so that the positive electrode and the negative electrode are not brought into contact with each other. At least one of the positive electrode 2 and negative electrode 3 has two or more divided electrodes. The lithium secondary battery is excellent in the charging/discharging cycle characteristics, has high reliability, and is used particularly as a battery for driving a motor of an electric vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenshin Kitoh, Teruhisa Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 6258485
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes: an internal electrode body including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator, the positive electrode and the negative electrode being wound via the separator so that the positive electrode and the negative electrode are not brought into direct contact with each other, and an organic electrolyte. An average current collecting area obtained by dividing a positive electrode area (cm2) by the number of current-collecting tabs to be attached to the positive and negative electrodes is 360 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, LTD
    Inventor: Kenshin Kitoh
  • Patent number: 6228529
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery, including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, an internal electrode body, and an organic electrolyte, the positive electrode and the negative electrode being wound through the separator so that the positive electrode and the negative electrode are not brought into direct contact with each other, wherein when the number of turns of the positive electrode or the negative electrode per unit length (turns/cm) along the direction of diameter of the internal electrode body is multiplied by total thickness (cm) of the electrode active material layers, being designated as a correction winding density (turns), the correction winding density is not less than 0.73 (turns).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenshin Kitoh