Patents by Inventor Ryuichi Akagi
Ryuichi Akagi 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: 8562857Abstract: A process of producing positive electrode active material particles for a battery, comprising a step of providing a slurry comprising resin particles, a cationic surfactant and/or a polyvinyl alcohol derivative, lithium complex oxide particles, and a polar solvent; removing the polar solvent from the slurry to give a composition; and firing the composition and at the same time, removing the resin particles from the composition, wherein the cationic surfactant is a quaternary ammonium salt, the polyvinyl alcohol derivative is a polyvinyl alcohol into which a quaternary ammonium salt group has been introduced or which has been substituted by a quaternary ammonium salt group, and the resin particles have an average particle size of 0.1 to 20 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Ryuichi Akagi, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Kenichi Nishimura
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Patent number: 8465872Abstract: The positive electrode active material sintered body for a battery of the present invention is a positive electrode active material sintered body for a battery satisfying the following requirements (I) to (VII): (I) fine particles in a positive electrode active material are sintered to constitute the sintered body; (II) a peak pore diameter which provides a maximum differential pore volume value in a pore diameter range of 0.01 to 10 ?m in a pore distribution is 0.3 to 5 ?m; (III) a total pore volume is 0.1 to 1 cc/g; (IV) an average particle diameter is not less than the peak pore diameter and not more than 20 ?m; (V) any peak, which provides a differential pore volume value of not less than 10% of the maximum differential pore volume value, is not present on a smaller pore diameter side than the peak pore diameter in the pore distribution; (VI) a BET specific surface area is 1 to 6 m2/g; and (VII) a full width at half maximum of a strongest X-ray diffraction peak is 0.13 to 0.2.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2008Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignees: Kao Corporation, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuichi Akagi, Kenichi Nishimura, Yasuhisa Fukumoto, Kyoichi Watanabe, Tamaki Miura, Takamitsu Saito
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Patent number: 8273267Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for producing a positive electrode active material for a battery, which can realize easy regulation of pore size in porosity formation of a positive electrode active material and is less likely to undergo hindrance of ion conduction caused by residues and, thus, can realize excellent high-rate discharge characteristics, and a method for producing a composition for a battery using the positive electrode active material for the battery. The method for producing a positive electrode active material for a battery of the present invention is a method for producing a positive electrode active material for a battery, including: a step 1 of firing a mixture of a raw material for the positive electrode active material and carbon particles to remove the carbon particles; and a step 2 of milling and classifying a fired body obtained in the step 1.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2008Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Ryuichi Akagi, Kenichi Nishimura, Yasuhisa Fukumoto
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Patent number: 8241525Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a composite material for positive electrodes of lithium batteries which is particularly excellent in high-rate discharge characteristics. The method for producing a composite material for positive electrodes of lithium batteries, contains: a dispersing step of dispersing at least the positive electrode active material and the conductive material 1 in a solvent to be in a forcibly dispersed state; and a composite particle-forming step of obtaining composite particles containing the positive electrode active material and the conductive material 1 by a process for agglutinating the conductive material 1 together with the positive electrode active material in the solvent or by a process for removing the solvent.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: KAO CorporationInventors: Kazuo Oki, Yasuhisa Fukumoto, Ryuichi Akagi, Kenichi Nishimura
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Publication number: 20110206990Abstract: A sintered lithium complex oxide characterized in that the sintered lithium complex oxide is constituted by sintering fine particles of a lithium complex oxide, the peak pore size giving the maximum differential pore volume is 0.80-5.00 ?m, the total pore volume is 0.10-2.00 mL/g, the average particle size is not less than the above-specified peak pore size but not more than 20 ?m, there is a sub-peak giving a differential pore volume not less than 10% of the maximum differential pore volume on the smaller pore size side with respect to the above-specified peak pore size, the pore size corresponding to the sub-peak is more than 0.50 ?m but not more than 2.00 ?m, the BET specific surface area of the sintered lithium complex oxide is 1.0-10.0 m2/g, and the half width of the maximum peak among X-ray diffraction peaks in an X-ray diffraction measurement is 0.12-0.30 deg.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2009Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: Ryuichi Akagi, Hiroaki Kitayama, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Kenichi Nishimura, Takamitsu Saito, Tamaki Miura, Hiroshi Miyakubo
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Publication number: 20110204301Abstract: A process of producing positive electrode active material particles for a battery, comprising a step of providing a slurry comprising resin particles, a cationic surfactant and/or a polyvinyl alcohol derivative, lithium complex oxide particles, and a polar solvent; removing the polar solvent from the slurry to give a composition; and firing the composition and at the same time, removing the resin particles from the composition, wherein the cationic surfactant is a quaternary ammonium salt, the polyvinyl alcohol derivative is a polyvinyl alcohol into which a quaternary ammonium salt group has been introduced or which has been substituted by a quaternary ammonium salt group, and the resin particles have an average particle size of 0.1 to 20 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2009Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: Ryuichi Akagi, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Kenichi Nishimura
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Patent number: 8003015Abstract: The present invention provides a composite positive electrode material for a lithium ion battery, which is particularly excellent in high-rate discharge characteristics in a battery, and also provides a slurry, positive electrode and battery using the composite positive electrode material. The composite positive electrode material for a lithium ion battery contains: a positive electrode active material (a); a conductive material (b) having a primary particle diameter of 10 to 100 nm and/or a fibrous conductive material (c) having a fiber diameter of 1 nm to 1 ?m; and a conductive material (d) having an aspect ratio of 2 to 50.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignees: Kao Corporation, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Oki, Yasuhisa Fukumoto, Ryuichi Akagi, Kenichi Nishimura, Taketo Kaneko, Tamaki Miura, Takamitsu Saito, Mikio Kawai, Mieko Kawai, legal representative
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Publication number: 20100230641Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a composite material for positive electrodes of lithium batteries which is particularly excellent in high-rate discharge characteristics. The method for producing a composite material for positive electrodes of lithium batteries, contains: a dispersing step of dispersing at least the positive electrode active material and the conductive material 1 in a solvent to be in a forcibly dispersed state; and a composite particle-forming step of obtaining composite particles containing the positive electrode active material and the conductive material 1 by a process for agglutinating the conductive material 1 together with the positive electrode active material in the solvent or by a process for removing the solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2007Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventors: Kazuo Oki, Yasuhisa Fukumoto, Ryuichi Akagi, Kenichi Nishimura
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Publication number: 20100140554Abstract: Disclosed is a composite positive electrode material for lithium ion batteries, which especially enables to achieve excellent high-rate discharge characteristics in a battery. Also disclosed are a slurry, positive electrode and battery using such a composite positive electrode material. Specifically disclosed is a composite positive electrode material for lithium ion batteries, which contains a positive electrode active material (a), a conductive substance (b) having a primary particle diameter of 10-100 nm and/or a fibrous conductive substance (c) having a fiber diameter of from 1 nm to 1 ?m, and a conductive substance (d) having an aspect ratio of 2-50.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2007Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicants: Kao Corporation, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Oki, Yasuhisa Fukumoto, Ryuichi Akagi, Kenichi Nishimura, Taketo Kaneko, Tamaki Miura, Takamitsu Saito, Mikio Kawai
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Publication number: 20100117031Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for producing a positive electrode active material for a battery, which can realize easy regulation of pore size in porosity formation of a positive electrode active material and is less likely to undergo hindrance of ion conduction caused by residues and, thus, can realize excellent high-rate discharge characteristics, and a method for producing a composition for a battery using the positive electrode active material for the battery. The method for producing a positive electrode active material for a battery of the present invention is a method for producing a positive electrode active material for a battery, including: a step 1 of firing a mixture of a raw material for the positive electrode active material and carbon particles to remove the carbon particles; and a step 2 of milling and classifying a fired body obtained in the step 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Inventors: Ryuichi Akagi, Kenichi Nishimura, Yasuhisa Fukumoto
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Publication number: 20100119945Abstract: The positive electrode active material sintered body for a battery of the present invention is a positive electrode active material sintered body for a battery satisfying the following requirements (I) to (VII): (I) fine particles in a positive electrode active material are sintered to constitute the sintered body; (II) a peak pore diameter which provides a maximum differential pore volume value in a pore diameter range of 0.01 to 10 ?m in a pore distribution is 0.3 to 5 ?m; (III) a total pore volume is 0.1 to 1 cc/g; (IV) an average particle diameter is not less than the peak pore diameter and not more than 20 ?m; (V) any peak, which provides a differential pore volume value of not less than 10% of the maximum differential pore volume value, is not present on a smaller pore diameter side than the peak pore diameter in the pore distribution; (VI) a BET specific surface area is 1 to 6 m2/g; and (VII) a full width at half maximum of a strongest X-ray diffraction peak is 0.13 to 0.2.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicants: KAO CORPORATION, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryuichi Akagi, Kenichi Nishimura, Yasuhisa Fukumoto, Kyoichi Watanabe, Tamaki Miura, Takamitsu Saito
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Patent number: 5618783Abstract: The synthesized inorganic crystalline ion exchange material has a composition represented by the following general formula in an anhydride form:aX.sub.2 O.bSiO.sub.2.cX'O,wherein X represents Na and K; X' represents Ca, or Ca and Mg; b/a is 1.4 to 2.1; c/a is 0.001 to 0.35; K/Na in X.sub.2 O is 0.09 to 1.11; Mg/Ca in X'O is 0 to 100; and K.sub.2 O/SiO.sub.2 is 0.06 to 0.25. The synthesized inorganic crystalline ion exchange material exhibits main shift peaks at least at 1080.+-.6 cm.sup.-1 in Raman scattering spectra in the range of from 900 to 1200 cm.sup.-1. The inorganic ion exchange material of the present invention is excellent in cationic exchange capacity, cationic exchange speed, and anti-solubility, making it useful to be used for a water softener and an alkalinity adjusting agent in detergents.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1995Date of Patent: April 8, 1997Assignee: KAO CorporationInventors: Mikio Sakaguchi, Ichiro Sakamoto, Ryuichi Akagi, Shu Yamaguchi, Masaki Tsumadori
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Patent number: 5427711Abstract: The synthesized crystalline ion exchange material or a hydrate thereof has a chain structure and a composition represented by the following general formula (A) in an anhydride form:xM.sub.2 O.ySiO.sub.2.zM'O, (A)wherein M represents Na and/or K; M' represents Ca and/or Mg; y/x is 0.5 to 2.0; and z/x is 0.005 to 1.0. The chain structure exhibits at least one main scattering peak at 970.+-.20 cm.sup.-1 in Raman spectra. The detergent composition contains the above synthesized inorganic crystalline ion exchange material. The inorganic ion exchange material of the present invention is excellent in both cationic exchange capacity and anti-solubility, making it useful to be used for a water softener and alkalinity regulator in detergents. The detergent composition of the present invention contains an inorganic ion exchange material which has anti-solubility as well as excellent ion exchange capacity and alkaline capacity, thereby offering excellent washing effects and is suitable for the concentration of detergent.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1994Date of Patent: June 27, 1995Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Mikio Sakaguchi, Ichiro Sakamoto, Mutsumi Kuroda, Masaki Tsumadori, Motomitsu Hasumi, Yuichi Sakamoto, Ryuichi Akagi, Fumio Sai