Patents by Inventor Masamitsu Suzuki

Masamitsu Suzuki 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: 11710855
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery is provided that includes a cathode layer, an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer, in which a porosity of the solid electrolyte layer is equal to or less than 10%. Moreover, the batter includes a surface roughness Rz1 of the cathode layer and a surface roughness Rz2 of the anode layer, such that Rz1+Rz2?25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mamoru Nakashima, Masayuki Arimochi, Masamitsu Suzuki, Masahiro Morooka, Noriyuki Aoki, Keiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11642971
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery that includes a battery element and an exterior material covering a surface of the battery element, wherein the exterior material includes one or more glass state materials and one or more crystalline state materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kato, Keisuke Shimizu, Masamitsu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11196090
    Abstract: A solid battery including a positive electrode layer; a negative electrode layer; a current collecting layer; a solid electrolyte layer; and an insulating layer. Each of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the current collecting layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the insulating layer contains a material having a glass transition point of 500° C. or less in an amount of 10 vol % to 60 vol %, and among contents of the material having a glass transition point of 500° C. or less in each of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the current collecting layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the insulating layer, a difference between a maximum content and a minimum content is 30 vol % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Tomohiro Kato, Masamitsu Suzuki, Noriyuki Aoki, Masahiro Morooka
  • Patent number: 11165100
    Abstract: A solid battery including a positive electrode layer; a negative electrode layer; a current collecting layer; a solid electrolyte layer; and an insulating layer. Each of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the current collecting layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the insulating layer contains a material having a glass transition point of 500° C. or less in an amount of 10 vol % to 60 vol %, and among contents of the material having a glass transition point of 500° C. or less in each of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the current collecting layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the insulating layer, a difference between a maximum content and a minimum content is 30 vol % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Tomohiro Kato, Masamitsu Suzuki, Noriyuki Aoki, Masahiro Morooka
  • Patent number: 11165095
    Abstract: A solid-state battery that includes a cathode layer which occludes and discharges an electrode reactant ion, an anode layer which occludes and discharges the electrode reactant ion and partially faces the cathode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer between the cathode layer and the anode layer and including a high ion conductivity portion in a first region in which the cathode layer and the anode layer face each other, and a low ion conductivity portion facing the cathode layer in a second region in which the cathode layer and the anode layer do not face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Masamitsu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11050091
    Abstract: A solid battery including at least one first laminate body in which a first electrolyte layer, a first positive electrode layer, a first current collecting layer, and a second positive electrode layer are laminated in this order; at least one second laminate body in which a second electrolyte layer, a first negative electrode layer, a second current collecting layer, and a second negative electrode layer are laminated in this order; a first insulating layer connected to at least part of a side surface portion of the first laminate body; and a second insulating layer connected to at least part of a side surface portion of the second laminate body. Each of the first current collecting layer and the second current collecting layer has ionic conductivity of 10?7 S/cm or lower, and each of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer has ionic conductivity of 10?7 S/cm or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Masamitsu Suzuki, Norio Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 10770750
    Abstract: A lithium ion conductor includes a first lithium ion conductor that contains at least one selected from among oxide crystals and glass ceramics, and a second lithium ion conductor that has a sintering temperature of not more than 600° C. The lithium ion conductivity of the first lithium ion conductor is higher than the lithium ion conductivity of the second lithium ion conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Masamitsu Suzuki, Tatsuya Furuya, Kenji Kishimoto, Go Sudo, Yasushi Tamura, Yumiko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10559849
    Abstract: A glass-ceramic includes an oxide containing lithium (Li), silicon (Si), and boron (B) and has an X-ray diffraction spectrum with two or more peaks appearing in the range 20°?2??25° and with two or more peaks appearing in the range 25°<2??30°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiko Furukawa, Tatsuya Furuya, Hideyuki Kumita, Sae Miyaji, Harumi Shibata, Masamitsu Suzuki, Go Sudo, Keisuke Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200020974
    Abstract: A solid-state battery that includes a cathode layer which occludes and discharges an electrode reactant ion, an anode layer which occludes and discharges the electrode reactant ion and partially faces the cathode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer between the cathode layer and the anode layer and including a high ion conductivity portion in a first region in which the cathode layer and the anode layer face each other, and a low ion conductivity portion facing the cathode layer in a second region in which the cathode layer and the anode layer do not face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Masamitsu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200014071
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery is provided that includes a cathode layer, an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer, in which a porosity of the solid electrolyte layer is equal to or less than 10%. Moreover, the batter includes a surface roughness Rz1 of the cathode layer and a surface roughness Rz2 of the anode layer, such that Rz1+Rz2?25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Mamoru NAKASHIMA, Masayuki ARIMOCHI, Masamitsu SUZUKI, Masahiro MOROOKA, Noriyuki AOKI, Keiko HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190393505
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery that includes a cathode layer, an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer between the cathode layer and the anode layer. The anode layer contains a carbon material, and a volume occupancy of the carbon material in the anode layer is 50 vol % to 95 vol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Masamitsu Suzuki, Keisuke Shimizu, Tomohiro Kato, Norio Fukasawa, Motokazu Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20190288246
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery that includes a battery element and an exterior material covering a surface of the battery element, wherein the exterior material includes one or more glass state materials and one or more crystalline state materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kato, Keisuke Shimizu, Masamitsu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190260070
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte layer. At least one of the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the electrolyte layer includes a lithium ion conductor having an exothermic peak in a differential thermal analysis. The ionic conductivity on the side of the temperature higher than the rising temperature of the exothermic peak is lower than the ionic conductivity on the side of the temperature lower than the rising temperature of the exothermic peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Kenji Kishimoto, Masayuki Arimochi, Masahiro Morooka, Keisuke Shimizu, Masamitsu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190252728
    Abstract: A solid battery including at least one first laminate body in which a first electrolyte layer, a first positive electrode layer, a first current collecting layer, and a second positive electrode layer are laminated in this order; at least one second laminate body in which a second electrolyte layer, a first negative electrode layer, a second current collecting layer, and a second negative electrode layer are laminated in this order; a first insulating layer connected to at least part of a side surface portion of the first laminate body; and a second insulating layer connected to at least part of a side surface portion of the second laminate body. Each of the first current collecting layer and the second current collecting layer has ionic conductivity of 10?7 S/cm or lower, and each of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer has ionic conductivity of 10?7 S/cm or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Masamitsu Suzuki, Norio Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20190252727
    Abstract: A solid battery including a positive electrode layer; a negative electrode layer; a current collecting layer; a solid electrolyte layer; and an insulating layer. Each of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the current collecting layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the insulating layer contains a material having a glass transition point of 500° C. or less in an amount of 10 vol % to 60 vol %, and among contents of the material having a glass transition point of 500° C. or less in each of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the current collecting layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the insulating layer, a difference between a maximum content and a minimum content is 30 vol % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Tomohiro Kato, Masamitsu Suzuki, Noriyuki Aoki, Masahiro Morooka
  • Publication number: 20180026300
    Abstract: A lithium ion conductor includes a first lithium ion conductor that contains at least one selected from among oxide crystals and glass ceramics, and a second lithium ion conductor that has a sintering temperature of not more than 600° C. The lithium ion conductivity of the first lithium ion conductor is higher than the lithium ion conductivity of the second lithium ion conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Keisuke SHIMIZU, Masamitsu SUZUKI, Tatsuya FURUYA, Kenji KISHIMOTO, Go SUDO, Yasushi TAMURA, Yumiko YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170229734
    Abstract: A glass-ceramic includes an oxide containing lithium (Li), silicon (Si), and boron (B) and has an X-ray diffraction spectrum with two or more peaks appearing in the range 20°?2??25° and with two or more peaks appearing in the range 25°<2??30°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Keiko FURUKAWA, Tatsuya FURUYA, Hideyuki KUMITA, Sae MIYAJI, Harumi SHIBATA, Masamitsu SUZUKI, Go SUDO, Keisuke SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20160344032
    Abstract: A battery is provided including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte layer between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. At least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode includes at least one kind of an inorganic binder that includes an oxide of at least one kind of element selected from the group including bismuth (Bi), zinc (Zn), boron (B), silicon (Si) and vanadium (V).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Harumi SHIBATA, Tatsuya FURUYA, Keiko FURUKAWA, Masamitsu SUZUKI, Go SUDO
  • Patent number: 8076265
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which solves the defects of the prior art, that is, exhibits a good slipping property between the thermal transfer image-receiving sheets in forming images and can completely prevent feeding troubles such as multi feeding particularly in a thermal transfer printer in a low temperature environment. The present invention pertains to a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet in which a receiving layer is formed on at least one side of a substrate sheet, wherein the receiving layer is formed by applying and drying a coating solution comprising a binder resin, a release agent, and a lubricant in an amount of 0.05 to 5 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the binder resin and said lubricant is a main-chain single-end or a main-chain dual-end modified silicone oil having a viscosity of 50 to 500 mm2/s at 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Suzuki, Shinji Kometani
  • Patent number: 7704922
    Abstract: A thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which comprises a substrate sheet and a receiving layer comprising a polyester resin provided on at least one surface of the substrate sheet, wherein the receiving layer is a layer formed by applying a coating solution comprising 1 to 3% by weight of a modified silicone oil (I) modified with both groups of an aminoalkyl group and a polyalkylene ether group, and 0.1 to 4.0% by weight of a curing agent based on 100 parts by weight of the polyester resin, and drying the solution, 0.2 to 3% by weight of a polyether-modified silicone oil (II) and/or phenol-modified silicone oil (III) being contained in the coating solution, if desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Suzuki, Mitsuru Maeda, Masahiro Yuki