Patents by Inventor Shinsuke Matsuno

Shinsuke Matsuno 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).

  • Publication number: 20150303510
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. At least one of the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer contains carbon dioxide and releases the carbon dioxide in the range of 0.1 ml to 10 ml per 1 g when heated at 350° C. for 1 minute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shinsuke MATSUNO, Hiromichi KURIYAMA, Hideki SATAKE, Takashi KUBOKl
  • Publication number: 20150137393
    Abstract: The gas separation device separates or captures a target gas component from a gas to be processed by: causing an absorbing liquid to flow down on a surface of a packing disposed inside a processing tank while supplying the gas to be processed containing the target gas component into the processing tank; bringing the absorbing liquid flowing down on the surface of the packing and the gas to be processed into gas-liquid contact; and thereby causing the absorbing liquid to absorb the target gas component contained in the gas to be processed. The packing includes at least one packing unit formed from multiple expanded metal plates, which are disposed vertically and arranged in parallel. Each expanded metal plate includes strands forming the openings which are arranged like stairs. Each strand is inclined to the vertical direction at an angle in a range from 48° to 73°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Jian HUANG, Yoshiyuki ISO, Mariko KATOU, Shinsuke MATSUNO, Kenji TAKANO, Naoki FUJIWARA, Atsushi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20150086853
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of an embodiment includes an exterior member, a cathode including a cathode active material layer housed in the exterior member, an anode including an anode active material layer housed in the exterior member and spatially separated from the cathode by a separator, and a nonaqueous electrolyte filled in the exterior member. The cathode active material layer contains lithium-copper oxide and copper oxide. A peak intensity ratio d(002)/d(010) between a plane index d(010) derived from the lithium-copper oxide and a plane index d(002) derived from the copper oxide is not lower than 0.1 and not higher than 0.5 at an X-ray diffraction peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shinsuke MATSUNO, Norikazu OSADA, Keiko OKAMOTO, Tomokazu MORITA, Takashi KUBOKI
  • Publication number: 20150086854
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of an embodiment includes an electrode group including a cathode collector, a cathode having a cathode active material layer formed on the cathode collector, an anode collector, an anode having an anode active material layer formed on the anode collector, and a separator placed between the cathode and the anode, an exterior member housing the electrode group, and a nonaqueous electrolyte filled in the exterior member. In the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the anode collector is at least one metal selected from among Fe, Ti, Ni, Cr, and Al, or an alloy containing at least one metal selected from among Fe, Ti, Ni, Cr, and Al. In the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a coating containing at least one metal selected from Au and Cu is formed on at least one of the surfaces of the anode collector excluding the anode active material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shinsuke MATSUNO, Takashi KUBOKI, Keiko OKAMOTO, Norikazu OSADA, Sara YOSHIO
  • Publication number: 20150086852
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of an embodiment includes an exterior member; a positive electrode housed in the exterior member, a negative electrode containing an active material and housed in the exterior member so as to be spatially separated from the positive electrode via a separator, and a nonaqueous electrolyte filled in the exterior member. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer on the negative electrode current collector. A tensile strength of the negative electrode is 400 N/mm2 or more and 1200 N/mm2 or less. A peel strength between the negative electrode current collector and the negative electrode active material layer is 1.5 N/cm or more and 4 N/cm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shinsuke MATSUNO, Takashi KUBOKI, Keiko OKAMOTO, Norikazu OSADA, Sara YOSHIO
  • Publication number: 20150086862
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of an embodiment includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The electrolyte contains an organic solvent with a lithium salt dissolved therein and an additive. An active material of the negative electrode contains at least one metal selected from Si and Sn, at least one or more selected from an oxide of the metal and an alloy containing the metal, and a carbonaceous matter. A fluorine concentration of a film A formed on the metal, the oxide of the metal, or the alloy containing the metal in the negative electrode active material is higher than a fluorine concentration of a film B formed on the carbonaceous matter, the additive includes at least one compound containing fluorine and at least one compound containing no fluorine, or an electrolyte after initial charge contains at least one fluorine-containing additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Norikazu OSADA, Shinsuke MATSUNO, Keiko OKAMOTO, Takayuki FUKASAWA, Takashi KUBOKI
  • Publication number: 20150086811
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery module including two nonaqueous electrolyte batteries electrically connected in series is provided. Each of the nonaqueous electrolyte batteries includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode contains an iron-containing phosphorus compound represented by LixFe1?yMnyAzPO4 and having an olivine structure, wherein A is at least one element selected from the group consisting of V, Mg, Ni, Al, Sn, Zr, and Nb, and 0?x?1.1, 0?y?0.2, and 0?z?0.2 are set. The negative electrode contains a titanium-containing oxide. The battery module has a charge maximum voltage in a range of 4 V to 5 V.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Norio TAKAMI, Shinsuke Matsuno
  • Publication number: 20140162117
    Abstract: According to the embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising a positive electrode; a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer; and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode active material layer contains carbon dioxide and releases the carbon dioxide in the range of 0.01 ml to 3 ml per 1 g when heated at 400° C. for 1 minute. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains carbon dioxide of 50 ml/L to 1000 ml/L.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shinsuke Matsuno, Hidesato Saruwatari, Dai Yamamoto, Asato Kondo
  • Publication number: 20140141323
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an electrode. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode contains as an active material a titanium composite oxide. A lithium absorption/release reaction potential of the titanium composite oxide is higher than 0.5 V vs. Li/Li+. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains at least one element selected from B and S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hidesato SARUWATARI, Hiromichi Kuriyama, Shinsuke Matsuno, Dai Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140134477
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an embodiment includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material. A lithium insertion-extraction reaction potential of a negative electrode active material is higher than the oxidation-reduction potential of lithium by a value of 1 V or more. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains an electrolytic salt, a nonaqueous solvent, at least one hydroxyalkylsulfonic acid, and at least one sulfonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiromichi KURIYAMA, Hidesato SARUWATARI, Kazuya KURIYAMA, Shinsuke MATSUNO
  • Publication number: 20140131902
    Abstract: Provided is a gas separation apparatus advantageous in suppression of increase in pressure loss and achievement of reduced size and weight, thereby reducing costs. The gas separation apparatus causes an absorbent to flow down along the surface of a packing arranged in a treatment chamber, and supplies to the treatment chamber a gas to be treated which contains a target gas component, and then causes the gas to be treated and the absorbent flowing down along the surface of the packing to come into gas-liquid contact. Thus the target gas component contained in the gas to be treated is absorbed into the absorbent and separated or recovered from the gas to be treated. The packing has at least one packing unit configured by a plurality of expanded metal plates standing vertically and being aligned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Jian HUANG, Shinsuke Matsuno, Atsushi Murakami, Yoshiyuki Iso, Mariko Katou, Kenji Takano, Naoki Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20140106225
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode containing active material particles composed of a core section formed of olivine type LiFePO4; an intermediate section that lies on the outer side of the core section and has LiFexPyOz; and a surface section that lies on the outer side of the intermediate section and has LiFeaPbOc; and a negative electrode containing lithium titanate, in which battery the molar concentration ratio of Fe relative to P at the core section is greater than the average of x/y of LiFexPyOz, the average value of a/b of LiFeaPbOc at the surface section of the positive electrode active material particles is smaller than the average of x/y of LiFexPyOz, and the positive electrode active material particles include a region in which x/y of LiFexPyOz at the intermediate section increases continuously or intermittently in the direction from the surface section toward the core section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shinsuke MATSUNO, Dai Yamamoto, Hideki Satake, Norio Takami
  • Patent number: 8679682
    Abstract: A nonaqueous-electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode which is constituted of a negative-electrode current collector and a layer containing a negative active material and deposited on one or each side of the negative-electrode current collector and in which the layer contains at least one member selected from lithium carbonate, lithium sulfide, lithium phosphide, and lithium fluoride and further contains a lithium-titanium composite oxide, and a nonaqueous electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroki Inagaki, Norio Takami, Shinsuke Matsuno
  • Publication number: 20140011082
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode containing a titanium-containing oxide, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains carbon monoxide and at least one selected from difluorophosphoric acid and monofluorophosphoric acid. The ratio of the mass concentration of carbon monoxide to the sum of the mass concentrations of difluorophosphoric acid and monofluorophosphoric acid is in the range of 0.1 to 5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Dai YAMAMOTO, Shinsuke Matsuno, Hidesato Saruwatari, Hiroko Watando, Sayaka Morimoto, Kazuya Kuriyama, Hideki Satake
  • Publication number: 20130330629
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode active material layer contains carbon dioxide and releases the carbon dioxide in the range of 0.1 ml to 5 ml per 1 g when heated at 200° C. for 1 minute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shinsuke MATSUNO, Hidesato Saruwatari, Dai Yamamoto, Asato Kondo, Hiromichi Kuriyama, Hideki Satake, Takashi Kuboki
  • Publication number: 20130330627
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. At least one of the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer contains carbon dioxide and releases the carbon dioxide in the range of 0.1 ml to 10 ml per 1 g when heated at 350° C. for 1 minute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shinsuke Matsuno, Hiromichi Kuriyama, Hideki Satake, Takashi Kuboki
  • Publication number: 20130302686
    Abstract: A positive electrode material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries having high rate characteristics and high energy density, and a battery using the same are provided. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode containing a positive electrode material, a conductive agent and a binder; a negative electrode; a separator; and a non-aqueous electrolyte, in which the positive electrode material contains core particles and a coating material that covers from 10% to 90% of the surfaces of the core particles, the core particles are formed of a compound represented by LiaMbPO4 (wherein M represents at least one element selected from Fe, Mn, Co and Ni, and satisfies the relations: 0<a?1.1 and 0<b?1), and the coating material part is formed of a compound which is capable of insertion and extraction of Li ions in the potential range exhibited by the core particles at the time of charge and discharge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Dai Yamamoto, Shinsuke Matsuno, Yoshinao Tatebayashi, Norio Takami
  • Patent number: 8572965
    Abstract: A chimney has a lower portion substantially in the shape of a pyramid and an upper portion forming a cylindrical portion that extends with a predetermined dimension upwardly and is provided in a ceiling portion of a building of a coil yard that is used for temporary storage of the hot-rolled coil which is an intermediate iron and steel product acting as a high-temperature heat radiator that is manufactured using the hot-rolling equipment of an iron and steel mill. A power generating turbine is provided at a predetermined position in the cylindrical portion. An intake duct is provided on a lower end portion of the side walls of the building. Hot-rolled coils that are in a high-temperature condition after manufacture are successively imported into the coil yard and accumulated and stored until transfer to a subsequent processing step. An ascending airflow is generated by sequential heating of air introduced into the building from the intake duct using heat retained in the hot-rolled coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Otsuka, Hisakazu Onizuka, Shinsuke Matsuno, Takahisa Nagao, Yoshiyuki Yamane, Atsushi Hirata, Kazuo Miyoshi, Masahiro Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8420262
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a negative electrode and a positive electrode. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material having a lithium ion absorption potential of 0.4 V (vs. Li/Li+) or more. The negative electrode current collector is made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode current collector has a total area and specific capacitance larger than those of the negative electrode current collector, and is made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Norio Takami, Hiroki Inagaki, Shinsuke Matsuno
  • Patent number: 8415053
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. At least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode comprises a current collector made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy and an active material layer laminated on the current collector. The active material layer contains first active material particles having an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or less and a lithium diffusion coefficient of 1×10?9 cm2/sec or less at 20° C., and second active material particles having an average particle diameter of 2 to 50 ?m. A true density of the second active material particles is larger by 0.01 to 2.5 g/cm3 than a true density of the first active material particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hidesato Saruwatari, Hiroki Inagaki, Hideaki Morishima, Shinsuke Matsuno, Yumi Fujita, Norio Takami