Patents by Inventor Nagisa Watanabe

Nagisa Watanabe 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: 11929489
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for an electrode plate and an electrode plate are provided. The method includes deposition-layer forming to form a deposition layer in which active material particles and binder particles are deposited on a surface of a current collecting foil and heat pressing to form an electrode layer on the surface of the current collecting foil by heating and compressing a deposition-layer-formed current collecting foil having the deposition layer on the surface of the current collecting foil. The deposition layer includes a first deposition layer placed on a side of the current collecting foil and a second deposition layer constituting a surface of the deposition layer. The deposition-layer forming includes forming the deposition layer in which a content rate of the binder particles in the second deposition layer is lower than a content rate of the binder particles in the first deposition layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sokichi Okubo, Tomoyuki Uezono, Momoka Miyajima, Nagisa Shimasaki, Masaki Watanabe, Miyuki Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 9997772
    Abstract: Providing a negative-electrode material for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, the negative-electrode material including lithium silicate particles coated by a carbonaceous substance, a production process for the same, a negative electrode for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, and a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery. A negative-electrode material for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery includes lithium silicate particles having a surface at least some of which is coated by a carbonaceous substance formed by heating a carbon-containing compound at a thermal decomposition temperature of the carbon-containing compound or more and 1,100±° C. or less, the carbon-containing compound being a solid at ordinary temperature and exhibiting a zeta-potential absolute value being 60 or more against N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (or NMP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tomohiro Niimi, Yusuke Sugiyama, Nagisa Watanabe, Kazuhito Kawasumi, Masakazu Murase, Masataka Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20160233485
    Abstract: A lithium ion secondary cell comprises a negative electrode mixture layer containing 5 to 45% by mass of at least one negative electrode active material selected from the group consisting of hard carbon, soft carbon, Sn, Sn alloys, Si, Si alloys, SiOx (0<x<2), Ge, Ge alloys, carbon nanotubes, and carbon nanofibers, and a positive electrode mixture layer containing a lithium-containing transition metal oxide. The negative electrode mixture layer satisfies (Initial charge capacity per unit mass of the negative electrode mixture layer)/(Initial discharge capacity per unit mass of the negative electrode mixture layer)?1.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Nagisa WATANABE, Junichi NIWA
  • Publication number: 20150188127
    Abstract: Providing a negative-electrode material for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, the negative-electrode material including lithium silicate particles coated by a carbonaceous substance, a production process for the same, a negative electrode for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, and a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery. A negative-electrode material for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery includes lithium silicate particles having a surface at least some of which is coated by a carbonaceous substance formed by heating a carbon-containing compound at a thermal decomposition temperature of the carbon-containing compound or more and 1,100° C. or less, the carbon-containing compound being a solid at ordinary temperature and exhibiting a zeta-potential absolute value being 60 or more against N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (or NMP).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tomohiro Niimi, Yusuke Sugiyama, Nagisa Watanabe, Kazuhito Kawasumi, Masakazu Murase, Masataka Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20150111110
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte has a sheet shape, and is composed of an oxide sintered body. The solid electrolyte includes a layer-shaped dense portion whose sintered density is 90% or more, and a porous portion formed on a superficial side of the solid electrolyte so as to be continuous from at least one of opposite surfaces of the dense portion, and having a porosity of 50% or more. A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, and a negative electrode, the positive electrode and negative electrode arranged at opposite facing positions interposing the solid electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Nagisa Watanabe, Kazuhito Kawasumi, Junichi Niwa, Masataka Nakanishi