Patents by Inventor Masaaki Hirayama
Masaaki Hirayama 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).
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Patent number: 11834695Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for simply diagnosing the progress of disease condition of a Parkinson's disease patient. Provided are a method for determining Parkinson's disease using the number of one or more intestinal bacteria selected from the group consisting of Bifidobacterium, Bacteroides fragilis group, Lactobacillus brevis, and Lactobacillus plantarum subgroup and/or the total number of intestinal bacteria as a marker, and a method for determining Parkinson's disease using the blood LPS level and/or the blood LBP level of a Parkinson's disease patient as an indicator.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hirokazu Tsuji, Takashi Asahara, Koji Nomoto, Masaaki Hirayama, Kinji Ohno
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Patent number: 11152641Abstract: Provided is a sulfide solid electrolyte material which has a composition that does not contain Ge, while having a smaller Li content than conventional sulfide solid electrolyte materials, and which has both lithium ion conductivity and chemical stability at the same time. A sulfide solid electrolyte which has a crystal structure represented by composition formula (Li3.45+??4?Sn?)(Si0.36Sn0.09)(P0.55??Si?)S4 (wherein ??0.67, ??0.33 and 0.43<?+? (provided that 0.23<??0.4 when ?=0.2 and 0.13<??0.4 when ?=0.3 may be excluded)), or a crystal structure represented by composition formula Li7+?Si?P1??S6 (wherein 0.1??<0.3).Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Tokyo Institute of TechnologyInventors: Ryoji Kanno, Masaaki Hirayama, Kota Suzuki, Yulong Sun, Satoshi Hori
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Publication number: 20210010052Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for simply diagnosing the progress of disease condition of a Parkinson's disease patient. Provided are a method for determining Parkinson's disease using the number of one or more intestinal bacteria selected from the group consisting of Bifidobacterium, Bacteroides fragilis group, Lactobacillus brevis, and Lactobacillus plantarum subgroup and/or the total number of intestinal bacteria as a marker, and a method for determining Parkinson's disease using the blood LPS level and/or the blood LBP level of a Parkinson's disease patient as an indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hirokazu TSUJI, Takashi ASAHARA, Koji NOMOTO, Masaaki HIRAYAMA, Kinji OHNO
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Patent number: 10461363Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte material has favorable ion conductivity and resistance to reduction. The sulfide solid electrolyte material includes a peak at a position of 2?=29.86°±1.00° in X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? ray, and a composition of Li2y+3PS4 (0.1?y?0.175).Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignees: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoji Kanno, Masaaki Hirayama, Kota Suzuki, Satoshi Hori, Yuki Kato
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Publication number: 20190237801Abstract: Provided is a sulfide solid electrolyte material which has a composition that does not contain Ge, while having a smaller Li content than conventional sulfide solid electrolyte materials, and which has both lithium ion conductivity and chemical stability at the same time. A sulfide solid electrolyte which has a crystal structure represented by composition formula (Li3.45+??4?Sn?)(Si0.36Sn0.09)(P0.55??Si?)S4 (wherein ??0.67, ??0.33 and 0.43<?+? (provided that 0.23<??0.4 when ?=0.2 and 0.13<??0.4 when ?=0.3 may be excluded)), or a crystal structure represented by composition formula Li7+?Si?P1??S6 (wherein 0.1??<0.3).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Tokyo Institute of TechnologyInventors: Ryoji KANNO, Masaaki HIRAYAMA, Kota SUZUKI, Yulong SUN, Satoshi HORI
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Patent number: 10355308Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with favorable ion conductivity, in which charge and discharge efficiency may be inhibited from decreasing. The object is attained by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material, including: a Li element; a P element; and a S element, characterized in that the material has a peak at a position of 2?=30.21°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? ray, and the sulfide solid electrolyte material does not substantially include a metallic element belonging to the third group to the sixteenth group.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoji Kanno, Masaaki Hirayama, Yuki Kato, Takamasa Ohtomo, Hisatsugu Yamasaki
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Publication number: 20190074541Abstract: To provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material which does not include Ge and which has excellent electrochemical stability and high lithium ion conductivity. A sulfide solid electrolyte, including a sulfide-based solid electrolyte represented by the composition formula: Li4-4z-x[SnySi1-y]1+z-xPxS4 (where 0.5?x?0.6, y=0.2, and 0?z??0.2), wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte has a peak at position 2?=29.58°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using CuK? radiation and does not have a peak at position 2?=27.33°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using CuK? radiation, or when the sulfide solid electrolyte has a peak at the position 2?=27.33°±0.50°, the value of IB/IA is less than 0.50 (where IA is the diffraction intensity of the 2?=29.58°±0.50° peak and IB is the diffraction intensity of the 2?=27.33°±0.50° peak).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2017Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: Tokyo Institute of TechnologyInventors: Ryoji Kanno, Masaaki HIRAYAMA, Kota SUZUKI, Yulong SUN
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Patent number: 10033065Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material having favorable ion conductivity and low reduction potential. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material including an M1 element (such as a Li element), an M2 element (such as a Ge element, a Si element and a P element) and a S element, wherein the material has a peak at a position of 2?=29.58°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? line; and when a diffraction intensity at the peak of 2?=29.58°±0.50° is regarded as IA and a diffraction intensity at a peak of 2?=27.33°±0.50° is regarded as IB, a value of IB/IA is less than 0.50, and M2 contains at least P and Si.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignees: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoji Kanno, Masaaki Hirayama, Yuki Kato, Takamasa Otomo, Mitsuru Sakano
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Patent number: 10020537Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with favorable Li ion conductivity. To achieve the above object, the present disclosure provides a sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising a composition of Li(4+x)AlxSi(1?x)S4 (0<x<1), and having a peak at a position of 2?=25.19°±1.00°, 29.62°±1.00°, 30.97°±1.00° in X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? ray.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignees: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoji Kanno, Masaaki Hirayama, Kota Suzuki, Huang Wenze
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Patent number: 9929433Abstract: The problem is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with favorable Li ion conductivity in a low-temperature environment. The problem is overcome by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising an M1 element (such as an Li element and an Mg element), an M2 element (such as a Ge element and a P element) and a S element, wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte material has a peak at a position of 2?=29.58°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? ray, does not have a peak at a position of 2?=27.33°±0.50° or slightly having the peak, and a substituted amount ?(%) of the divalent element in the M1 element is in such a range that the sulfide solid electrolyte material exhibits higher Li ion conductance at 0° C. than the case of ?=0.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignees: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoji Kanno, Masaaki Hirayama, Yuki Kato, Hisatsugu Yamasaki
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Publication number: 20170229732Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with favorable Li ion conductivity. To achieve the above object, the present disclosure provides a sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising a composition of Li(4+x)AlxSi(1?x)S4 (0<x<1), and having a peak at a position of 2?=25.19°±1.00°, 29.62°±1.00°, 30.97°±1.00° in X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? ray.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicants: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoji KANNO, Masaaki HIRAYAMA, Kota SUZUKI, Huang WENZE
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Publication number: 20170155168Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte material has favorable ion conductivity and resistance to reduction. The sulfide solid electrolyte material includes a peak at a position of 2?=29.86°±1.00° in X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? ray, and a composition of Li2y+3PS4 (0.1?y?0.175).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicants: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoji KANNO, Masaaki HIRAYAMA, Kota SUZUKI, Satoshi HORI, Yuki KATO
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Patent number: 9491868Abstract: A conductive resin composition which includes (a) a curable resin and (b) hard spherical carbon formed by coating the surface of a spherical base carbon particle with fine carbon particles and/or pitch-derived fine carbon pieces is used to electrically bond two conductive elements. The conductive resin composition is supplied to a space between areas of at least two works respectively having the areas to be electrically connected to each other, and the conductive resin composition is cured while applying a pressure between the areas.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2011Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Onoue, Masaaki Hirayama, Yoshiki Aburatani
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Publication number: 20160149258Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with favorable ion conductivity, in which charge and discharge efficiency may be inhibited from decreasing. The object is attained by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material, including: a Li element; a P element; and a S element, characterized in that the material has a peak at a position of 2?=30.21°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? ray, and the sulfide solid electrolyte material does not substantially include a metallic element belonging to the third group to the sixteenth group.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryoji KANNO, Masaaki HIRAYAMA, Yuki KATO, Takamasa OHTOMO, Hisatsugu YAMASAKI
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Patent number: 9263763Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with favorable ion conductivity. The present invention attains the object by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material including an M1 element (such as a Li element), an M2 element (such as a Ge element and a P element), a S element and an O element, and having a peak at a position of 2?=29.58°±0.50° in an X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? ray, characterized in that when a diffraction intensity at the peak of 2?=29.58°±0.50° is regarded as IA and a diffraction intensity at a peak of 2?=27.33°±0.50° is regarded as IB, a value of IB/IA is less than 0.50.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Masaaki Hirayama, Ryoji Kanno, Yuki Kato, Koji Kawamoto, Takamasa Otomo
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Publication number: 20150357673Abstract: The problem is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with favorable Li ion conductivity in a low-temperature environment. The problem is overcome by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising an M1 element (such as an Li element and an Mg element), an M2 element (such as a Ge element and a P element) and a S element, wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte material has a peak at a position of 2?=29.58°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? ray, does not have a peak at a position of 2?=27.33°±0.50° or slightly having the peak, and a substituted amount ?(%) of the divalent element in the M1 element is in such a range that the sulfide solid electrolyte material exhibits higher Li ion conductance at 0° C. than the case of ?=0.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2013Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicants: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoji KANNO, Masaaki HIRAYAMA, Yuki KATO, Hisatsugu YAMASAKI
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Publication number: 20150214572Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte whose reduction decomposition potential can be decreased more than a conventional LGPS-based sulfide solid electrolyte. The present invention is a sulfide solid electrolyte comprising Li, Al, Ge, P, and S, wherein M0=M2/M1 is 0<M0<0.323 where M1 is a mole fraction of contained P, and M2 is a mole fraction of contained Al, and in a case where each of X1 and X2 is an element selected from the group consisting of P, Ge, and Al, a crystal structure thereof includes an octahedron O formed by Li and S, a tetrahedron T1 formed by S and X1, and a tetrahedron T2 formed by S and X2, wherein the octahedron O and the tetrahedron T2 share a ridge, and the octahedron O and the tetrahedron T2 share an apex.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Yuki Kato, Takamasa Otomo, Ryoji Kanno, Masaaki Hirayama
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Publication number: 20150037687Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material having favorable ion conductivity and low reduction potential. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material including an M1 element (such as a Li element), an M2 element (such as a Ge element, a Si element and a P element) and a S element, wherein the material has a peak at a position of 2?=29.58°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? line; and when a diffraction intensity at the peak of 2?=29.58°±0.50° is regarded as IA and a diffraction intensity at a peak of 2?=27.33°±0.50° is regarded as IB, a value of IB/IA is less than 0.50, and M2 contains at least P and Si.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Ryoji Kanno, Masaaki Hirayama, Yuki Kato, Takamasa Otomo, Mitsuru Sakano
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Publication number: 20140363745Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with favorable ion conductivity. The present invention attains the object by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material including an M1 element (such as a Li element), an M2 element (such as a Ge element and a P element), a S element and an O element, and having a peak at a position of 2?=29.58°±0.50° in an X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? ray, characterized in that when a diffraction intensity at the peak of 2?=29.58°±0.50° is regarded as IA and a diffraction intensity at a peak of 2?=27.33°±0.50° is regarded as IB, a value of IB/IA is less than 0.50.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Masaaki Hirayama, Ryoji Kanno, Yuki Kato, Koji Kawamoto, Takamasa Otomo
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Patent number: 8697292Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material having excellent ion conductivity. The present invention solves the problem by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising an M1 element (such as a Li element), an M2 element (such as a Ge element and a P element), and an S element; having a peak in a position of 2?=29.58°±0.50° in an X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? line; and having an IB/IA value of less than 0.50 when a diffraction intensity at the peak of 2?=29.58°±0.50° is represented by IA and a diffraction intensity at a peak of 2?=27.33°±0.50° is represented by IB.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignees: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryoji Kanno, Masaaki Hirayama, Yuki Kato, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama, Takamasa Otomo, Kunihiro Nobuhara