Patents by Inventor Koh Yoshioka

Koh Yoshioka 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: 20240120581
    Abstract: The present invention provides steel foil for battery containers, the steel foil being characterized in that the maximum value of the maximum principal strain in uniaxial deformation is not less than 0.25 and the maximum value of the maximum principal strain in planar strain deformation is not less than 0.1. The present invention is able to provide steel foil for battery containers that is capable of restraining cracking of a base material when subjected to a severe forming process for battery containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuhiro IWAMOTO, Yasuyuki IKEDA, Shinichi TAKEMATSU, Shinichirou HORIE, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240105960
    Abstract: An electrolytic foil and a battery current collector is provided in which the risk of breakage or tearing during manufacturing presented by reduced thickness can be restrained, and which possess sufficient strength for repeated charging and discharging in a secondary battery. The electrolytic foil and the battery current collector contain a Ni—Fe alloy layer, having a thickness of 1.5 to 10 ?m and having a first surface and a second surface and wherein the value of a three-dimensional surface properties parameter Sv divided by the thickness is equal to or less than 0.5 for the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Michio KAWAMURA, Shinichiro HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Yuma YOSHIZAKI, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230387517
    Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container includes a steel sheet, an iron-nickel diffusion layer formed on the steel sheet, and a nickel layer formed on the iron-nickel diffusion layer and constituting the outermost layer. When the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured from the surface of the surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container along the depth direction with a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, the thickness of the iron-nickel diffusion layer being the difference (D2?D1) between the depth (D1) at which the Fe intensity exhibits a first predetermined value and the depth (D2) at which the Ni intensity exhibits a second predetermined value is 0.04 to 0.31 ?m; and the total amount of the nickel contained in the iron-nickel diffusion layer and the nickel contained in the nickel layer is 10.8 to 26.7 g/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kota SADAKI, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230340685
    Abstract: A roughened plated sheet including a roughened plated layer having a roughened nickel plated layer and a zinc plated layer formed on at least one surface of a metal substrate in this order from the metal substrate side, wherein a ten-point average roughness Rzjis of a surface of the roughened plated layer, according to laser microscope measurement, is 3 ?m or more, and the metal substrate is a steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki YANAGA, Shinichirou HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Masashi ICHISHIMA, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Patent number: 11799156
    Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container includes a steel sheet, an iron-nickel diffusion layer formed on the steel sheet, and a nickel layer formed on the iron-nickel diffusion layer and constituting the outermost layer. When the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured from the surface of the surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container along the depth direction with a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, the thickness of the iron-nickel diffusion layer being the difference (D2?D1) between the depth (D1) at which the Fe intensity exhibits a first predetermined value and the depth (D2) at which the Ni intensity exhibits a second predetermined value is 0.04 to 0.31 ?m; and the total amount of the nickel contained in the iron-nickel diffusion layer and the nickel contained in the nickel layer is 10.8 to 26.7 g/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Sadaki, Koh Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11760063
    Abstract: There is provided a roughened nickel-plated sheet having a roughened nickel layer as an outermost surface layer on at least one surface of a metal base material, wherein the brightness L* of the surface of the roughened nickel layer is 30 to 50, the glossiness of 85° of the surface of the roughened nickel layer is 1.5 to 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichirou Horie, Etsuro Tsutsumi, Toshifumi Koyanagi, Koh Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20230265575
    Abstract: [Object] An object of the present invention is to provide an electrolytic foil and a battery current collector capable of restraining the risk of breakage and tearing during manufacturing due to reduction in film thickness and further exhibiting sufficient strength and elongation during repetitive charging and discharging of a secondary battery. Solving Means An electrolytic iron foil in which the electrolytic iron foil is less than 20 ?m in thickness, the electrolytic iron foil has a first surface and a second surface, and a value obtained by dividing a three-dimensional surface texture parameter Sv by the thickness is equal to or less than 0.27 in both the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Shinichirou HORIE, Michio KAWAMURA, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Yuma YOSHIZAKI, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Patent number: 11732376
    Abstract: Provided is a roughened plated sheet comprising a roughened plated layer having a roughened nickel plated layer and a zinc plated layer formed on at least one surface of a metal substrate in this order from the metal substrate side, wherein a ten-point average roughness Rzjis of a surface of the roughened plated layer, according to laser microscope measurement, is 3 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yanaga, Shinichirou Horie, Etsuro Tsutsumi, Masashi Ichishima, Toshifumi Koyanagi, Koh Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20230243056
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrolytic iron foil and a battery current collector in which the risk of breakage or tearing during manufacture caused by reduction in film thickness can be suppressed and which have thinness as well as strength and elongation sufficient for withstanding repeated charging and discharging in a secondary battery. An electrolytic iron foil in which, in at least either one surface, a crystallite diameter on (110) plane of iron is equal to or more than 45 nm and the electrolytic iron foil is less than 20 ?m in thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Michio KAWAMURA, Shinichiro HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Yuma YOSHIZAKI, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Patent number: 11699824
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nickel-plated heat-treated steel sheet for a battery can (1), having a nickel layer with a nickel amount of 4.4 to 26.7 g/m2 on a steel sheet (11), wherein when the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured along the depth direction from the surface of the nickel-plated heat-treated steel sheet for a battery can, by using a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, the difference (D2-D1) between the depth (D1) at which the Fe intensity exhibits a first predetermined value and the depth (D2) at which the Ni intensity exhibits a second predetermined value is less than 0.04 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Sadaki, Koh Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11637344
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nickel-plated heat-treated steel sheet for a battery can (1), having a nickel layer with a nickel amount of 4.4 to 26.7 g/m2 on a steel sheet (11), wherein when the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured along the depth direction from the surface of the nickel-plated heat-treated steel sheet for a battery can, by using a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, the difference (D2-D1) between the depth (D1) at which the Fe intensity exhibits a first predetermined value and the depth (D2) at which the Ni intensity exhibits a second predetermined value is less than 0.04 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Sadaki, Koh Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20230057775
    Abstract: A roughened nickel-plated sheet including a roughened nickel layer on at least one surface of a metal substrate as the outermost layer thereof, the roughened nickel layer being formed of a plurality of nickel protrusions. When the structure of the roughened nickel-plated sheet is observed at height positions with a focused ion beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM), the absolute value of the change rate of the nickel occupancy is equal to or less than a predetermined value, and the nickel occupancy and the number of nickel protrusions present at a height position located 2.0 ?m from the base position of the roughened nickel layer toward the surface in the height direction are equal to or more than predetermined values, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichirou HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Koh YOSHIOKA, Kyoto TAKANO, Shunki OBATA, Satoko HARADA, Keishi KATSURA, Misato UENO
  • Publication number: 20220282388
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a roughened nickel-plated material in which the formation unevenness such as generation of the unevenness or grooves in a roughened nickel plated layer is restrained. [Solving Means] A roughened nickel-plated material including a base material that is a rolled material, and a roughened nickel plated layer formed on at least one surface of the base material, in which SRzjis of the surface of the roughened nickel plated layer is equal to or more than 2 ?m, and, letting a maximum height of the roughened nickel plated layer be SRz, a valley region B in a given virtual planer region A as observed at a height position of SRz×0.25 satisfies the following (i). (i) The length of the valley region B in the rolling direction RD of the base material is less than 40 ?m in a direct distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichirou HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Shunki OBATA, Michio KAWAMURA, Koh YOSHIOKA, Naoharu HARADA, Tsuyoshi IRIE, Yonosuke YOSHII
  • Publication number: 20220235482
    Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet including: a steel sheet; and a nickel-cobalt-iron diffusion layer formed on the steel sheet as an outermost layer. When the intensities for Ni, Co and Fe are consecutively measured from a surface of the nickel-cobalt-iron diffusion layer in the depth direction by radio frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, and the concentration of Ni, Co and Fe at each of depth positions are determined based on the intensities for Ni, Co, and Fe, a Co concentration gradient APco ranging from a depth position Dco MAX to a depth position DCo_15% is 33% by mass/0.1 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji NAKANO, Koh YOSHIOKA, Kazuhiko ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20220235483
    Abstract: Provided is a roughened plated sheet comprising a roughened plated layer having a roughened nickel plated layer and a zinc plated layer famed on at least one surface of a metal substrate in this order from the metal substrate side, wherein a ten-point average roughness Rzjis of a surface of the roughened plated layer, according to laser microscope measurement, is 3 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki YANAGA, Shinichirou HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Masashi ICHISHIMA, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20220209243
    Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of a surface-treated sheet for an alkaline secondary battery, which has gas evolution suppressing effect and also has resistance to an alkaline electrolyte solution. A surface-treated sheet 100 of the present invention for an alkaline secondary battery has a base material 10, and a metal layer 20 formed on at least one side of the base material 10. The metal layer 20 includes an alloy layer 20M that contains Ni and Zn, the alloy layer includes a first region 20A in which a proportion of Ni is 60% to 85% based on a total content of Ni and Zn, and the first region 20A has a thickness of 0.15 ?m or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Michio KAWAMURA, Shinichiro HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Patent number: 11242591
    Abstract: A surface-treated metal plate including: a metal plate; and a nickel-cobalt binary alloy layer formed on the metal plate. When a part having a content ratio of oxygen atoms of 5 atomic % or more as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis is an oxide coating film, the nickel-cobalt binary alloy layer contains the oxide coating film with a thickness of 0.5 to 30 nm on a surface thereof, and when a pressure cooker test including temperature increasing, retention for 72 hours under a water-vapor atmosphere at a temperature of 105° C. and a relative humidity of 100% RH, and temperature decreasing is performed, the amount of increase in the thickness of the oxide coating film is 28 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Nakano, Daisuke Matsushige, Koh Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20220021000
    Abstract: Provided is a sulfide all-solid battery having an anode current collector of powerful adhesiveness which is difficult to be sulfurized. The sulfide all-solid-state battery including: a cathode layer; an anode layer; and a sulfide solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, wherein the anode layer has an anode mixture layer, and an anode current collector on a face of the anode mixture layer, the face being on an opposite side of the sulfide solid electrolyte layer, the anode current collector is electrolytic iron foil that does not substantially contain other elements, and the anode current collector has surface roughness Ra of 0.2 ?m to 0.6 ?m, and surface roughness Rz of 2 ?m to 6 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Shigetaka Nagamatsu, Shinichirou Horie, Koh Yoshioka, Toshifumi Koyanagi, Etsuro Tsutsumi, Michio Kawamura, Yuma Yoshizaki
  • Patent number: 11223069
    Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet for battery cases is provided which comprises a nickel-cobalt alloy layer formed at the outermost surface of a plane to be an inner surface of a battery case, wherein a Co/Ni value at the surface of the nickel-cobalt alloy layer is within a range of 0.1 to 1.5 as determined by Auger electron spectroscopy analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Tomomori, Eiji Yamane, Shinichirou Horie, Koh Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20210376331
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a current collector for battery, having a strength sufficient to suppress breakage and tears during production feared in association with thinning, and a battery having the current collector. [Solving Means] The current collector for battery according to the present invention has at least a first metal layer containing at least a metal selected from Cu, Fe, and Ni, and a second metal layer laminated on the first metal layer and containing at least a metal selected from Cu, Fe, and Ni other than the metal of the first metal layer. One of the first metal layer and the second metal layer contains the Ni, and a laminate interface between the first metal layer and the second metal layer has a roughness Ra?0.12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Shinichirou HORIE, Hidehiko KOBAYASHI, Koh YOSHIOKA