Patents by Inventor Norihiro Ose

Norihiro Ose 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: 9985314
    Abstract: A method is provided for preparing an all-solid battery that at least includes a negative electrode layer containing a negative electrode active material and a sulfide solid electrolyte, and a negative electrode current collector containing a metal that is in contact with the negative electrode layer and can react with the sulfide solid electrolyte, in which a sulfur compound generated by a reaction of the metal contained in the negative electrode current collector and the sulfide solid electrolyte contained in the negative electrode layer is not present in a contact portion of the negative electrode layer and the negative electrode current collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihiro Ose, Kengo Haga, Tomoharu Sasaoka
  • Patent number: 9903918
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for inspecting an all-solid battery with which a battery capacity where a voltage abnormality occurs can be grasped before the voltage abnormality occurs. The present invention is an apparatus for inspecting an all-solid battery including a storage section storing a relationship between the battery capacity where the voltage abnormality occurs and a resistance of the all-solid battery, and a resistance calculation section calculating the resistance based on a current and voltage in charging the all-solid battery, wherein the battery capacity where the voltage abnormality occurs in the all-solid battery is calculated from the relationship stored in the storage section and the resistance calculated in the resistance calculation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norihiro Ose
  • Patent number: 9882234
    Abstract: An all-solid battery having stacked therein, in order, a positive electrode laminate, an intermediate solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode laminate is manufactured by a first pressing step (i) of applying pressure to the positive electrode laminate, a second pressing step (ii) of applying pressure to the negative electrode laminate, and a third pressing step (iii) of applying pressure to the positive electrode laminate, the intermediate solid electrolyte layer, and the negative electrode laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daichi Kosaka, Norihiro Ose, Kengo Haga, Tomoya Suzuki, Hajime Hasegawa, Keisuke Omori
  • Patent number: 9786946
    Abstract: A solid-state battery comprising a stack including at least one unit cell including a positive electrode layer including a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode layer including a negative electrode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer laminated between the positive and negative electrode layers, and an outer covering accommodating the stack, wherein the solid-state battery further including a pressure receiving member provided on at least a part of a periphery of the outer covering, and wherein the pressure receiving member has a thickness of less than a total thickness of the stack and the outer covering in a stacking direction of the unit cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoharu Sasaoka, Norihiro Ose, Hajime Hasegawa, Kazuhito Kato, Kengo Haga, Daichi Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20170244097
    Abstract: A method is provided where an anode of an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery is easily doped with lithium and to provide a small resistance at a low battery capacity. The method includes a manufacturing method of a cathode including mixing at least a conductive assistant (C1) and a sulfide solid electrolyte (E1) to obtain a mixture; and mixing at least one cathode active material, a solid electrolyte (E2) and the mixture obtained from the first step to obtain a cathode mixture, wherein an amount of energy added to the sulfide solid electrolyte (E1) is larger than an amount of energy added to the solid electrolyte (E2), and the mixture is a material that releases lithium ions at a potential lower than a potential at which the cathode active material releases and occludes lithium ions. Manufacturing methods for a cathode and an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery including the cathode mixture are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Norihiro OSE, Hikaru ASO, Keisuke OMORI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Mitsutoshi OTAKI, Hideyuki KOGA
  • Publication number: 20170200972
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide all-solid-state battery with a high capacity retention rate, and a sulfide all-solid-state battery with a high capacity retention rate. The method for producing a sulfide all-solid-state battery may comprise forming a sulfide all-solid-state battery, initially charging the sulfide all-solid-state battery after the forming of the sulfide all-solid-state battery, and exposing the sulfide all-solid-state battery to an oxygen-containing gas atmosphere at at least any one of a time of the initially charging of the sulfide all-solid-state battery and a time after the initially charging of the sulfide all-solid-state battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Norihiro OSE, Kengo HAGA, Mitsutoshi OTAKI, Keisuke OMORI, Takeshi TOJIGAMORI
  • Publication number: 20170092988
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode laminate, which includes an active material layer and a solid electrolyte layer formed on the active material layer, includes: an active material layer forming step of forming an active material layer; and a solid electrolyte layer forming step of forming a solid electrolyte layer on the active material layer by applying a solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry to the active material layer and drying the solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry. In this method, a product of a filling factor of the active material layer and a volume proportion of an active material in the active material layer is 0.33 to 0.41.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Kengo Haga, Junichiro Nishino, Norihiro Ose, Hajime Hasegawa, Mitsutoshi Otaki, Hiroki Kubo, Keisuke Omori
  • Publication number: 20170092987
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode laminate, which includes an active material layer and a solid electrolyte layer formed on the active material layer, includes: an active material layer forming step of forming an active material layer; and a solid electrolyte layer forming step of forming a solid electrolyte layer on the active material layer by applying a solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry to the active material layer and drying the solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry. In this method, a surface roughness Ra value of the active material layer is 0.29 ?m to 0.98 ?m when calculated using a laser microscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Kengo Haga, Junichiro Nishino, Norihiro Ose, Hajime Hasegawa, Mitsutoshi Otaki, Hiroki Kubo, Keisuke Omori
  • Publication number: 20170077732
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery system comprising an all-solid-state battery comprising a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode active material layer, and a control device configured to control a charge-discharge voltage during use of the all-solid-state battery. The negative electrode active material layer includes alloy negative electrode active material particles. The amorphization degree of the alloy negative electrode active material particles is in the range of 27.8% to 82.8% and a ratio Z/W is in the range of 0.32 to 0.60, where Z is a controlled discharge capacity of the all-solid-state battery, and W is a theoretical capacity of the alloy negative electrode active material particles×a total weight of the alloy negative electrode active material particles×the amorphization degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi OTAKI, Keisuke OMORI, Norihiro OSE, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kengo HAGA
  • Publication number: 20170077548
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an all-solid-state battery includes a lamination step of laminating a deactivated lithium-containing negative electrode active material layer containing deactivated lithium, a solid electrolyte layer for the all-solid-state battery, and a positive electrode active material layer for the all-solid-state battery such that the solid electrolyte layer for the all-solid-state battery is disposed between the deactivated lithium-containing negative electrode active material layer and the positive electrode active material layer for the all-solid-state battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Keisuke Omori, Hajime Hasegawa, Kengo Haga, Mitsutoshi Otaki, Norihiro Ose, Daichi Kosaka, Masato Hozumi
  • Patent number: 9564655
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an all-solid battery includes fabricating a single battery including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer; fabricating a plurality of battery packs including the plurality of single batteries; confining a plurality of battery packs by an equal confining pressure; measuring the electrical characteristics of the plurality of confined battery packs; determining the battery pack whose measured electrical characteristics are the worst of the plurality of battery packs; reducing the confining pressures of the other battery packs so that the electrical characteristics of the other battery packs are equal to that of the battery pack whose electrical characteristics have been determined to be the worst; and electrically connecting in parallel the battery packs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Norihiro Ose, Tomoharu Sasaoka, Kazuhito Kato, Kengo Haga, Daichi Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20160380301
    Abstract: An all-solid battery having stacked therein, in order, a positive electrode laminate, an intermediate solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode laminate is manufactured by a first pressing step (i) of applying pressure to the positive electrode laminate, a second pressing step (ii) of applying pressure to the negative electrode laminate, and a third pressing step (iii) of applying pressure to the positive electrode laminate, the intermediate solid electrolyte layer, and the negative electrode laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daichi KOSAKA, Norihiro OSE, Kengo HAGA, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Keisuke OMORI
  • Patent number: 9525192
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide an all solid state battery suitable for high rate charging. The present invention solves the problem by providing an all solid state battery including a battery element having a cathode active material layer, an anode active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer, characterized in that the anode active material layer contains graphite as an anode active material and a sulfide solid electrolyte, the graphite has a hardness of 0.36 GPa or more by a nanoindentation method, and the battery element is confined at a pressure more than 75 kgf/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihiro Ose, Hiroshi Nagase
  • Patent number: 9399404
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a charging system, capable of increasing the rapid charging capacity of an on-vehicle all-solid-state battery, and reducing the effect of confining pressure on the all-solid-state battery. This is achieved by a charging system for an all-solid-state battery to be mounted in a vehicle, the charging system comprising: a charging section that charges an all-solid-state battery, a pressing section that applies confining pressure to the all-solid-state battery, and a pressure control section that controls the confining pressure, wherein the pressure control section directs the pressing section so that the confining pressure during charging is higher than the confining pressure during discharging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihiro Ose, Tomoharu Sasaoka, Hajime Hasegawa, Kazuhito Kato, Kengo Haga, Daichi Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20150357674
    Abstract: An all-solid battery that includes a negative electrode layer, a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, a negative electrode current collector connected to the negative electrode layer, and a positive electrode current collector connected to the positive electrode layer, wherein the negative electrode layer contains a sulfide solid electrolyte, the negative electrode current collector contains a metal that reacts with the sulfide solid electrolyte, a sulfur compound layer that contains a sulfur compound generated by a reaction of the sulfide solid electrolyte and the metal is present between the negative electrode layer and the negative electrode current collector, charge capacity when constant current charge was conducted up to 3.6 V at 0.3 C or more and 3.6 C or less in an initial charge after preparation of the all-solid battery is 50 mAh/g or more and 90 mAh/g or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kengo HAGA, Norihiro OSE, Hajime HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150349378
    Abstract: An all-solid battery that at least includes a negative electrode layer containing a negative electrode active material and a sulfide solid electrolyte, and a negative electrode current collector containing a metal that is in contact with the negative electrode layer and can react with the sulfide solid electrolyte, in which a sulfur compound generated by a reaction of the metal contained in the negative electrode current collector and the sulfide solid electrolyte contained in the negative electrode layer is not present in a contact portion of the negative electrode layer and the negative electrode current collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihiro OSE, Kengo HAGA, Tomoharu SASAOKA
  • Publication number: 20150270585
    Abstract: A solid-state battery comprising a stack including at least one unit cell including a positive electrode layer including a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode layer including a negative electrode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer laminated between the positive and negative electrode layers, and an outer covering accommodating the stack, wherein the solid-state battery further including a pressure receiving member provided on at least a part of a periphery of the outer covering, and wherein the pressure receiving member has a thickness of less than a total thickness of the stack and the outer covering in a stacking direction of the unit cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Tomoharu SASAOKA, Norihiro OSE, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kazuhito KATO, Kengo HAGA, Daichi KOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20150207177
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide an all solid state battery suitable for high rate charging. The present invention solves the problem by providing an all solid state battery including a battery element having a cathode active material layer, an anode active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer, characterized in that the anode active material layer contains graphite as an anode active material and a sulfide solid electrolyte, the graphite has a hardness of 0.36 GPa or more by a nanoindentation method, and the battery element is confined at a pressure more than 75 kgf/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihiro Ose, Hiroshi Nagase
  • Publication number: 20150180076
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an all-solid battery includes fabricating a single battery including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer; fabricating a plurality of battery packs including the plurality of single batteries; confining a plurality of battery packs by an equal confining pressure; measuring the electrical characteristics of the plurality of confined battery packs; determining the battery pack whose measured electrical characteristics are the worst of the plurality of battery packs; reducing the confining pressures of the other battery packs so that the electrical characteristics of the other battery packs are equal to that of the battery pack whose electrical characteristics have been determined to be the worst; and electrically connecting in parallel the battery packs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Norihiro OSE, Tomoharu SASAOKA, Kazuhito KATO, Kengo HAGA, Daichi KOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20150134172
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a charging system, capable of increasing the rapid charging capacity of an on-vehicle all-solid-state battery, and reducing the effect of confining pressure on the all-solid-state battery. This is achieved by a charging system for an all-solid-state battery to be mounted in a vehicle, the charging system comprising: a charging section that charges an all-solid-state battery, a pressing section that applies confining pressure to the all-solid-state battery, and a pressure control section that controls the confining pressure, wherein the pressure control section directs the pressing section so that the confining pressure during charging is higher than the confining pressure during discharging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Norihiro OSE, Tomoharu SASAOKA, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kazuhito KATO, Kengo HAGA, Daichi KOSAKA