Patents by Inventor Shuhei Oda

Shuhei Oda 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: 20240105935
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material having a suitable particle size and high uniformity, and a nickel composite hydroxide as a precursor of the cathode active material. When obtaining nickel composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction, nucleation is performed by controlling a nucleation aqueous solution that includes a metal compound, which includes nickel, and an ammonium ion donor so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 12.0 to 14.0, after which, particles are grown by controlling a particle growth aqueous solution that includes the formed nuclei so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 10.5 to 12.0, and so that the pH value is lower than the pH value during nucleation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi FUKUI, Katsuya INOUE, Shuhei ODA, Hiroyuki TOYA
  • Patent number: 11939759
    Abstract: Sewage flowing into a second water branching device is accurately controlled to separate into the following: sewage with a maximum sewage volume that can be discharged into a public water body W, the sewage sequentially passing through a first regulating tank, a first orifice, a second regulating tank, a second orifice, a third regulating tank and a third orifice to flow into a second discharge pipe; and sewage with an excess sewage volume, the sewage overflowing first to third overflow weirs to flow into an inflow pipe for a regulating reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventor: Shuhei Oda
  • Patent number: 11876222
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material having a suitable particle size and high uniformity, and a nickel composite hydroxide as a precursor of the cathode active material. When obtaining nickel composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction, nucleation is performed by controlling a nucleation aqueous solution that includes a metal compound, which includes nickel, and an ammonium ion donor so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 12.0 to 14.0, after which, particles are grown by controlling a particle growth aqueous solution that includes the formed nuclei so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 10.5 to 12.0, and so that the pH value is lower than the pH value during nucleation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Katsuya Inoue, Shuhei Oda, Hiroyuki Toya
  • Patent number: 11545663
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material having a suitable particle size and high uniformity, and a nickel composite hydroxide as a precursor of the cathode active material. When obtaining nickel composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction, nucleation is performed by controlling a nucleation aqueous solution that includes a metal compound, which includes nickel, and an ammonium ion donor so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 12.0 to 14.0, after which, particles are grown by controlling a particle growth aqueous solution that includes the formed nuclei so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 10.5 to 12.0, and so that the pH value is lower than the pH value during nucleation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Katsuya Inoue, Shuhei Oda, Hiroyuki Toya
  • Publication number: 20220407065
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material having a suitable particle size and high uniformity, and a nickel composite hydroxide as a precursor of the cathode active material. When obtaining nickel composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction, nucleation is performed by controlling a nucleation aqueous solution that includes a metal compound, which includes nickel, and an ammonium ion donor so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 12.0 to 14.0, after which, particles are grown by controlling a particle growth aqueous solution that includes the formed nuclei so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 10.5 to 12.0, and so that the pH value is lower than the pH value during nucleation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi FUKUI, Katsuya INOUE, Shuhei ODA, Hiroyuki TOYA
  • Publication number: 20220213676
    Abstract: Sewage flowing into a second water branching device is accurately controlled to separate into the following: sewage with a maximum sewage volume that can be discharged into a public water body W, the sewage sequentially passing through a first regulating tank, a first orifice, a second regulating tank, a second orifice, a third regulating tank and a third orifice to flow into a second discharge pipe; and sewage with an excess sewage volume, the sewage overflowing first to third overflow weirs to flow into an inflow pipe for a regulating reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: Shuhei ODA
  • Publication number: 20220123295
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a positive electrode active material for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes a water-washing step of washing a lithium-nickel composite oxide containing Li, Ni, and an element M with water, and conducting a filtration to form a washed-cake, a mixing step of mixing, while heating, the washed-cake and a tungsten compound without lithium while heating to obtain a tungsten mixture, and a heat treatment step of heat-treating the tungsten mixture, wherein a water content of the washed-cake is 3.0% by mass or more and 10.0% by mass or less, a ratio of a number of tungsten atoms contained in the tungsten mixture to a total number of nickel and the element M atoms contained in the lithium-nickel composite oxide is 0.05 at. % or more and 3.00 at. % or less, and a temperature of the mixing step is 30° C. or higher and 70° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventor: Shuhei ODA
  • Publication number: 20220102696
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery. The method includes a water-washing step of washing a lithium-nickel composite oxide containing lithium (Li), nickel (Ni) , and an element. M (wherein, the element M is at least one element selected from. Mn, V, Mg, Mo, Nb, T, Co, and Al) with water, and conducting a filtration to form a washed cake; a filling, step of filling, the washed cake which is a material to be dried and a tungsten compound without lithium into a dryer; and a drying step of drying the material to be dried by the dryer with flowing, wherein the filling step includes a time period in which the washed cake and the tungsten compound without lithium are supplied to the dryer at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventor: Shuhei ODA
  • Publication number: 20220093919
    Abstract: Provided is an industrial manufacturing method for producing a cathode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery capable of improving output characteristics in low-temperature environment use. A lithium mixture that includes composite hydroxide particles and a lithium compound is calcined in an oxidizing atmosphere under the condition of a temperature rising time from 650° C. to a calcination temperature being set to 0.5 to 1.5 hours and the calcination temperature being set to 850° C. to 1000° C. and maintained for 1.0 to 5.0 hours. The cathode active material that is obtained is expressed by the general formula (A): Li1+sNixCoyMnzMtO2, where ?0.05?s?0.20, x+y+z+t=1, 0.3?x?0.7, 0.1?y?0.4, 0.1?z?0.4, 0?t?0.05, and M is one or more types of elements selected from Ca, Mg, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta, and W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Shuhei ODA, Hiroyuki TOYA, Katsuya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20210265629
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material having a suitable particle size and high uniformity, and a nickel composite hydroxide as a precursor of the cathode active material. When obtaining nickel composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction, nucleation is performed by controlling a nucleation aqueous solution that includes a metal compound, which includes nickel, and an ammonium ion donor so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 12.0 to 14.0, after which, particles are grown by controlling a particle growth aqueous solution that includes the formed nuclei so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 10.5 to 12.0, and so that the pH value is lower than the pH value during nucleation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi FUKUI, Katsuya INOUE, Shuhei ODA, Hiroyuki TOYA
  • Patent number: 11038168
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material having a suitable particle size and high uniformity, and a nickel composite hydroxide as a precursor of the cathode active material. When obtaining nickel composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction, nucleation is performed by controlling a nucleation aqueous solution that includes a metal compound, which includes nickel, and an ammonium ion donor so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 12.0 to 14.0, after which, particles are grown by controlling a particle growth aqueous solution that includes the formed nuclei so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 10.5 to 12.0, and so that the pH value is lower than the pH value during nucleation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Katsuya Inoue, Shuhei Oda, Hiroyuki Toya
  • Patent number: 10840509
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for lithium secondary batteries disclosed herein comprises a lithium transition metal oxide of a layered structure, represented by formula Li1+?NixCoyMnzCa?M?O2 (where ?0.05???0.2, x+y+z+?+??1, 0.3?x??0.7, 0.1?y?0.4, 0.1?z?0.4, 0.0002???0.0025, 0.0002??+??0.02, and in a case where ?>0, M is absent or represents one, two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Na, Mg, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta and W). The tap density of the positive electrode active material ranges from 1.8 to 2.5 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Saka, Shuhei Oda, Tetsutaro Hayashi, Hiroyuki Toya
  • Patent number: 10829385
    Abstract: Provided are a positive electrode active material for nonagueous secondary batteries, the material having a narrow particle-size distribution and a monodisperse property and being capable of increasing a battery capacity; an industrial production method thereof; and a nonaqueous secondary battery using the positive electrode active material and having excellent electrical characteristics. The positive electrode active material is represented by a general formula: Li1+uNixCoyMnzMtO2+? (wherein, 0.05?u?0.95, x+y+z+t=1, 0?x?0.5, 0?y?0.5, 0.5?z<0.8, 0?t?0.1, and M is an additive element and at least one element selected from Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, and W), has an average particle diameter of 3 to 12 um, and has [(d90?d10)/average particle diameter], an index indicating a scale of particle-size distribution, of 0.60 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsumoto, Shuhei Oda, Katsuya Inoue, Hiroyuki Toya
  • Patent number: 10128501
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material having a suitable particle size and high uniformity, and a nickel composite hydroxide as a precursor of the cathode active material. When obtaining nickel composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction, nucleation is performed by controlling a nucleation aqueous solution that includes a metal compound, which includes nickel, and an ammonium ion donor so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 12.0 to 14.0, after which, particles are grown by controlling a particle growth aqueous solution that includes the formed nuclei so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 10.5 to 12.0, and so that the pH value is lower than the pH value during nucleation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Katsuya Inoue, Shuhei Oda, Hiroyuki Toya
  • Publication number: 20180190983
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material having a suitable particle size and high uniformity, and a nickel composite hydroxide as a precursor of the cathode active material. When obtaining nickel composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction, nucleation is performed by controlling a nucleation aqueous solution that includes a metal compound, which includes nickel, and an ammonium ion donor so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 12.0 to 14.0, after which, particles are grown by controlling a particle growth aqueous solution that includes the formed nuclei so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 10.5 to 12.0, and so that the pH value is lower than the pH value during nucleation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Atsushi FUKUI, Katsuya INOUE, Shuhei ODA, Hiroyuki TOYA
  • Publication number: 20170050864
    Abstract: Provided are a positive electrode active material for nonaqueous secondary batteries, the material having a narrow particle-size distribution and a monodisperse property and being capable of increasing a battery capacity; an industrial production method thereof; and a nonaqueous secondary battery using the positive electrode active material and having excellent electrical characteristics. The positive electrode active material is represented by a general formula: Li1+uNixCoyMnzMtO2+? (wherein, 0.05?u?0.95, x+y+z+t=1, 0?x?0.5, 0?y?0.5, 0.5?z<0.8, 0?t?0.1, and M is an additive element and at least one element selected from Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, and W), has an average particle diameter of 3 to 12 um, and has [(d90?d10)/average particle diameter], an index indicating a scale of particle-size distribution, of 0.60 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsumoto, Shuhei Oda, Katsuya Inoue, Hiroyuki Toya
  • Publication number: 20160172674
    Abstract: Provided is an industrial manufacturing method for producing a cathode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery capable of improving output characteristics in low-temperature environment use. A lithium mixture that includes composite hydroxide particles and a lithium compound is calcined in an oxidizing atmosphere under the condition of a temperature rising time from 650° C. to a calcination temperature being set to 0.5 to 1.5 hours and the calcination temperature being set to 850° C. to 1000° C. and maintained for 1.0 to 5.0 hours. The cathode active material that is obtained is expressed by the general formula (A): Li1+sNixCoyMnzMtO2, where ?0.05?s?0.20, x+y+z+t=1, 0.3?x?0.7, 0.1?y?0.4, 0.1?z?0.4, 0?t?0.05, and M is one or more types of elements selected from Ca, Mg, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta, and W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei ODA, Hiroyuki TOYA, Katsuya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20160006030
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for lithium secondary batteries disclosed herein comprises a lithium transition metal oxide of a layered structure, represented by formula Li1+?NixCoyMnzCa?M?O2 (where ?0.05???0.2, x+y+z+?+??1, 0.3?x??0.7, 0.1?y?0.4, 0.1?z?0.4, 0.0002???0.0025, 0.0002??+??0.02, and in a case where ?>0, M is absent or represents one, two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Na, Mg, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta and W). The tap density of the positive electrode active material ranges from 1.8 to 2.5 g/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicants: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki SAKA, Shuhei ODA, Tetsutaro HAYASHI, Hiroyuki TOYA
  • Publication number: 20150364761
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material having a suitable particle size and high uniformity, and a nickel composite hydroxide as a precursor of the cathode active material. When obtaining nickel composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction, nucleation is performed by controlling a nucleation aqueous solution that includes a metal compound, which includes nickel, and an ammonium ion donor so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 12.0 to 14.0, after which, particles are grown by controlling a particle growth aqueous solution that includes the formed nuclei so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 10.5 to 12.0, and so that the pH value is lower than the pH value during nucleation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Katsuya Inoue, Shuhei Oda, Hiroyuki Toya
  • Publication number: 20140087263
    Abstract: Provided are a positive electrode active material for nonagueous secondary batteries, the material having a narrow particle-size distribution and a monodisperse property and being capable of increasing a battery capacity; an industrial production method thereof; and a nonaqueous secondary battery using the positive electrode active material and having excellent electrical characteristics. The positive electrode active material is represented by a general formula: Li1+uNixCoyMnzMtO2+? (wherein, 0.05?u?0.95, x+y+z+t=1, 0?x?0.5, 0?y?0.5, 0.5?z<0.8, 0?t?0.1, and M is an additive element and at least one element selected from Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, and W), has an average particle diameter of 3 to 12 um, and has [(d90?d10)/average particle diameter], an index indicating a scale of particle-size distribution, of 0.60 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsumoto, Shuhei Oda, Katsuya Inoue, Hiroyuki Toya