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).

  • Patent number: 8372541
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode containing lithium-iron phosphate, and a negative electrode containing a lithium-titanium composite oxide and a lithium composite oxide which is different from the lithium-titanium composite oxide. The lithium composite oxide has a potential of 2.5 to 3V vs. Li/Li+ at a lithium absorption/desorption and a spinel-type crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinsuke Matsuno, Hiroki Inagaki, Norio Takami
  • Publication number: 20120183849
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode spaced apart from the positive electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution. The negative electrode includes a collector, and a negative electrode layer formed on one or both surfaces of the collector and containing an active material having a potential of 0.5 V or more and 2 V or less based on metallic lithium at the insertion and the desorption of lithium. Metallic iron is formed on the surface of the negative electrode layer in an amount of 10 to 80% per unit area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Shinsuke Matsuno, Hiroki Inagaki, Norio Takami
  • Publication number: 20120097151
    Abstract: In this steam supply apparatus, a steam inlet (20a) of a steam injector (20) is connected to a steam outlet (19a) of a high-pressure steam-generating boiler (19). A solar heat-collector (22) is connected to an inlet port (20b) of the steam injector (20), and steam-utilizing equipment (25) is connected to a discharging port (20c). The steam injector (20) is driven by high-pressure and high-temperature steam (27) generated by the high-pressure steam-generating boiler (19), and pressure of the inlet port (20b) is decreased. In the inner portion of the solar heat-collector (22) which is decompressed according to a decrease in pressure of the inlet port (20b), water with a temperature increased by irradiation of the sunlight (24) is boiled and evaporated at less than 100° C., and low-pressure and low-temperature steam (28) is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Matsuno, Kazuo Miyoshi, Hiroyuki Otsuka
  • Patent number: 7858234
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a negative electrode containing a titanium-containing oxide, a positive electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a lithium-transition metal composite oxide and at least one kind of oxide selected from a group consisting of FePO4, Li3Fe2(PO4)3, LiFeP2O7, Fe4(P2O7)3, Fe2(SO4) 3, and V2O5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hideaki Morishima, Hiroki Inagaki, Hidesato Saruwatari, Shinsuke Matsuno, Yumi Fujita, Norio Takami
  • Publication number: 20100314879
    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: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Otsuka, Hisakazu Onizuka, Shinsuke Matsuno, Takahisa Nagao, Yoshiyuki Yamane, Atsushi Hirata, Kazuo Miyoshi, Masahiro Nakajima
  • Patent number: 7837900
    Abstract: An electrode material includes an alloy having a Gd3Ni8Sn16 type crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Matsuno, Takao Sawa, Tatsuoki Kono, Norio Takami, Fumiyuki Kawashima, Toshiya Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20100248038
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a lithium/manganese-containing oxide represented by LiaMnbMcOZ (M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co, Al and F, and a, b, c and Z satisfy the following equations: 0?a?2.5, 0<b?1, 0?c?1 and 2?Z?3) and a Fe-containing phosphorous compound having an olivine structure. The negative electrode includes a titanium-containing metal oxide into which lithium ions are inserted and from which lithium ions are extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Norio TAKAMI, Hiroki Inagaki, Shinsuke Matsuno
  • Publication number: 20100237277
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a case, a positive electrode housed in the case and including a positive electrode active material containing a lithium-nickel composite oxide and at least one of lithium hydroxide and lithium oxide, the sum of lithium hydroxide and lithium oxide falling within not less than 0.1% to not more than 0.5% by weight based on the total amount of the positive electrode active material, a negative electrode housed in the case and capable of lithium intercalation-deintercalation, and a separator sandwiched between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and impregnated with a nonaqueous electrolyte containing ?-butyrolactone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: Haruchika ISHII, Shinsuke MATSUNO, Hidesato SARUWATARI, Hiroki INAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20100075230
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode containing lithium-iron phosphate, and a negative electrode containing a lithium-titanium composite oxide and a lithium composite oxide which is different from the lithium-titanium composite oxide. The lithium composite oxide has a potential of 2.5 to 3V vs. Li/Li+ at a lithium absorption/desorption and a spinel-type crystal structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Shinsuke Matsuno, Hiroki Inagaki, Norio Takami
  • Patent number: 7604897
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode contains an intermetallic compound having an La3Co2Sn7 type crystal structure of which alkaline-earth metal atoms occupy La sites. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains at least one of methyl ethyl carbonate and dimethyl carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Matsuno, Takao Sawa, Yumi Fujita, Tatsuoki Kono, Norio Takami, Fumiyuki Kawashima
  • Patent number: 7572552
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode contains an alloy having a CeNiSi2 type crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinsuke Matsuno, Tatsuoki Kohno, Takao Sawa, Norio Takami
  • Patent number: 7556887
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a case, a nonaqueous electrolyte provided in the case, a positive electrode provided in the case and capable of absorbing-releasing Li, and a negative electrode provided in the case and containing an alloy that has a La3Co2Sn7 type crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinsuke Matsuno, Tatsuoki Kohno, Takao Sawa, Fumiyuki Kawashima, Norio Takami
  • Publication number: 20090061292
    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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroki INAGAKI, Norio TAKAMI, Shinsuke MATSUNO
  • Publication number: 20080241689
    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: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Norio TAKAMI, Hiroki Inagaki, Shinsuke Matsuno
  • Publication number: 20080102196
    Abstract: A method of producing an electrode including decreasing a yield stress of a slurry containing an active material to two-thirds or less, and applying the slurry to a current collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Hideaki MORISHIMA, Hiroki Inagaki, Hidesato Saruwatari, Shinsuke Matsuno, Yumi Fujita, Norio Takami
  • Publication number: 20070281214
    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: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Hidesato Saruwatari, Hiroki Inagaki, Hideaki Morishima, Shinsuke Matsuno, Yumi Fujita, Norio Takami
  • Publication number: 20070059602
    Abstract: A nonaqueous eletrolyte battery includes a negative electrode containing a titanium-containing oxide, a positive electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a lithium-transition metal composite oxide and at least one kind of oxide selected from a group consisting of FePO4, Li3Fe2(PO4)3, LiFeP2O7, Fe4(P2O7)3, Fe2(SO4) 3, and V2O5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Hideaki Morishima, Hiroki Inagaki, Hidesato Saruwatari, Shinsuke Matsuno, Yumi Fujita, Norio Takami
  • Publication number: 20070054189
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode contains an intermetallic compound having an La3Co2Sn7 type crystal structure of which alkaline-earth metal atoms occupy La sites. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains at least one of methyl ethyl carbonate and dimethyl carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Inventors: Shinsuke Matsuno, Takao Sawa, Yumi Fujita, Tatsuoki Kono, Norio Takami, Fumiyuki Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20060275663
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material includes an intermetallic compound. The intermetallic compound has a long period order along each of at least two crystal axes. The intermetallic compound is represented by formula (1) given below: LnM1yM2z??(1) where y and z fall within the ranges of 0.3?y?1 and 2?z?3, respectively, Ln denotes at least one element having an atomic radius in crystal in a range of 1.6×10?10 to 2.2×10?10 m, M1 denotes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn and Nb, and M2 denotes at least one element selected from the group consisting of P, Si, Ge, Sn and Sb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Shinsuke Matsuno, Tatsuoki Kono, Norio Takami, Takao Sawa
  • Publication number: 20060134520
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a case, a positive electrode housed in the case and including a positive electrode active material containing a lithium-nickel composite oxide and at least one of lithium hydroxide and lithium oxide, the sum of lithium hydroxide and lithium oxide falling within not less than 0.1% to not more than 0.5% by weight based on the total amount of the positive electrode active material, a negative electrode housed in the case and capable of lithium intercalation-deintercalation, and a separator sandwiched between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and impregnated with a nonaqueous electrolyte containing ?-butyrolactone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Haruchika Ishii, Shinsuke Matsuno, Hidesato Saruwatari, Hiroki Inagaki