Patents by Inventor Tadahiko Kubota

Tadahiko Kubota 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: 9583791
    Abstract: An electrolytic solution and a battery capable of improving cycle characteristics are provided. A separator is impregnated with an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution includes a cyclic carbonate derivative having a halogen atom such as 4-fluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one or 4-chloro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one and a cyclic imide salt such as 1,1,2,2,3,3-hexafluoropropane-1,3-disulfonimide lithium. Thereby, the decomposition reaction of the electrolytic solution can be inhibited, and the cycle characteristics can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsumichi Kawashima, Masayuki Ihara, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Horiuchi, Tadahiko Kubota, Akira Yamaguchi, Kumiko Takagi
  • Publication number: 20170054180
    Abstract: A battery includes a positive electrode containing sulfur, a negative electrode containing a material for occluding and releasing a lithium ion, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution contains at least one of a liquid complex and a liquid salt in which a polysulfide is insoluble or almost insoluble, and a solvent in which a polysulfide is soluble. The electrolytic solution has a Li2S8 saturation sulfur concentration of 10 mM or more and 400 mM or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: KAZUAKI FUKUSHIMA, KAZUMASA TAKESHI, TADAHIKO KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 9577288
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The anode includes an anode active material layer on an anode current collector. The anode active material layer includes a carbon material. The anode active material layer has a thickness from about 30 micrometers to about 100 micrometers both inclusive. The electrolytic solution includes an unsaturated cyclic ester carbonate represented by the following Formula (1) (X is a divalent group in which m-number of >C?CR1R2 and n-number of >CR3R4 are bonded in any order. Each of R1 to R4 is one of a hydrogen group, a halogen group, a monovalent hydrocarbon group, a monovalent halogenated hydrocarbon group, a monovalent oxygen-containing hydrocarbon group, and a monovalent halogenated oxygen-containing hydrocarbon group. Any two or more of the R1 to the R4 are allowed to be bonded to one another. m and n satisfy m?1 and n?0).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Ihara, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20170033402
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes a compound represented by M+[(Z1Y1)(Z2Y2)N]? (where M is a metal element, each of Z1 and Z2 is one of groups such as as a fluorine group, and each of Y1 and Y2 is one of groups such as a sulfonyl group), a compound such as a compound represented by R1-CN (where R1 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group), and a compound such as a compound represented by R22-(CN)n (where R22 is an n-valent hydrocarbon group, and n is an integer of 2 or more). A content of the compound represented by [(Z1Y1)(Z2Y2)N]? in the nonaqueous electrolytic solution is within a range of 2.5 mol/dm3 to 6 mol/dm3 both inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Tadahiko KUBOTA, Toru ODANI, Hiroki MITA
  • Patent number: 9548516
    Abstract: An electrolytic solution including a solvent including 4,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one. The content of 4,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one is preferably within a range from 5 wt % to 50 wt % In the case where 4,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one is mixed and used with 4-fluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one, the content of 4,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one is preferably within a range from 5 vol ppm to 2000 vol ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadahiko Kubota, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Masayuki Ihara
  • Patent number: 9543613
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a cathode, an anode, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution in a package member having a flat surface, in which the nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes a methylene cyclic carbonate represented by an expression (1): where R1 and R2 each are a hydrogen group, a halogen group, a monovalent hydrocarbon group, a monovalent halogenated hydrocarbon group, an oxygen-containing monovalent hydrocarbon group, or an oxygen-containing monovalent halogenated hydrocarbon group, and R1 and R2 may be bonded to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Ihara, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20160359200
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The anode includes a material including Si, Sn, or both as constituent elements. The electrolytic solution includes an unsaturated cyclic ester carbonate represented by the following Formula (1), where X is a divalent group in which m-number of >C?CR1-R2 and n-number of >CR3R4 are bonded in any order; each of R1 to R4 is one of a hydrogen group, a halogen group, a monovalent hydrocarbon group, a monovalent halogenated hydrocarbon group, a monovalent oxygen-containing hydrocarbon group, and a monovalent halogenated oxygen-containing hydrocarbon group; any two or more of the R1 to the R4 are allowed to be bonded to one another; and m and n satisfy m?1 and n?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki Ihara, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 9509015
    Abstract: A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics even if the thickness of an anode active material layer is increased is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode and an electrolytic solution. The anode has an anode active material layer on an anode current collector, and the anode active material layer contains a carbon material and has a thickness of 30 ?m or more. The electrolytic solution contains a solvent and an electrolyte salt, and the solvent contains at least one of sulfone compounds such as a cyclic disulfonic acid anhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Saito, Masayuki Ihara, Atsumichi Kawashima, Takehiko Tanaka, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20160308201
    Abstract: An anode in which an anode active material layer is arranged on an anode current collector. The anode active material layer includes anode active material particles made of an anode active material including at least one of silicon and tin as an element. An oxide-containing film including an oxide of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium and tin is formed in a region in contact with an electrolytic solution of the surface of each anode active material particle by a liquid-phase method such as a liquid-phase deposition method. The region in contact with the electrolytic solution of the surface of each anode active material particle is covered with the oxide-containing film, to thereby improve the chemical stability of the anode and the charge-discharge efficiency. The thickness of the oxide-containing film is preferably within a range from 0.1 nm to 500 nm both inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Horiuchi, Kenichi Kawase, Tadahiko Kubota, Hideki Nakai, Takakazu Hirose
  • Publication number: 20160301110
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery is provided. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes an anode; a cathode; a separator; an electrolytic solution including a solvent and an electrolyte salt; wherein the solvent includes a fluoro ethylene carbonate, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte battery has a discharge capacity ratio of a discharge capacity B when discharging at a 5 C rate to a discharge capacity A when discharging at a 0.2 C rate ((B/A)×100%), and wherein the discharge capacity ratio is 80% or more. An electrical apparatus including a nonaqueous electrolyte battery is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Akira Yamaguchi, Kunihiko Hayashi, Tadahiko Kubota, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Akira Ichihashi, Yuzuru Fukushima, Hironori Sato, Masaki Kuratsuka, Hideto Watanabe, Kimio Tajima, Masahiro Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9455476
    Abstract: A secondary battery capable of achieving superior cycle characteristics, superior storage characteristics, and superior swollenness characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte containing a solvent and an electrolyte salt. The solvent contains halogenated cyclic ester carbonate. The halogenated cyclic ester carbonate is a cyclic compound that has one or more fluorine groups, one or more fluorinated alkyl groups, and a carbonyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Ihara, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 9450273
    Abstract: Secondary batteries capable of improving cycle characteristics are provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. A separator provided between the cathode and the anode is impregnated with the electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution contains a solvent and an electrolyte salt. The solvent contains a cyclic compound having a disulfonic acid anhydride group (—S(?O)2—O—S(?O)2—) and at least one of a nitrile compound. Compared to a case that the solvent does not contain both the cyclic compound having the disulfonic acid anhydride group and succinonitrile or a case that that the solvent contains at least one thereof, chemical stability of the electrolytic solution is improved. Thus, even if charge and discharge are repeated, electrolytic solution decomposition is inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuko Hayakawa, Tadahiko Kubota, Masayuki Ihara
  • Patent number: 9431650
    Abstract: An anode active material including anode active material particles including silicon, tin, or both and at least partially coated with an oxide-containing film including an oxide of silicon, germanium, tin, or a combination of them formed by a liquid-phase method such as a liquid-phase deposition method. A region of the particles in contact with the electrolytic solution is covered with the oxide-containing film, to thereby improve the chemical stability of the anode and the charge-discharge efficiency. The thickness of the oxide-containing film is preferably within a range from 0.1 nm to 500 nm both inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Horiuchi, Kenichi Kawase, Tadahiko Kubota, Hideki Nakai, Takakazu Hirose
  • Patent number: 9401529
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes: a solvent, an electrolyte salt, a polyacid and/or a polyacid compound, and a monofluorophosphate and/or a difluorophosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Yamada, Shunsuke Saito, Haruo Watanabe, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20160204472
    Abstract: An electrolytic solution for a secondary battery is provided. The electrolyte solution includes an electrolyte salt; and a solvent including a first solvent and a second solvent; wherein the first solvent includes 4-fluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one; and wherein the second solvent includes at least one of Chemical Formula No. 23, Chemical Formula No. 24, or Chemical Formula No. 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki Ihara, Kiyohiko Suzuki, Akinori Kita, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20160028124
    Abstract: An electrolytic solution and battery are provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode and the electrolytic solution, and a separator arranged between the cathode and the anode is impregnated with the electrolytic solution. The solvent of the electrolytic solution includes a sulfone compound having a sulfonyl fluoride type structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki IHARA, Hiroyuki YAMAGUCHI, Tadahiko KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 9225039
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution includes an unsaturated cyclic ester carbonate and one or more selected from a group configured of aromatic compounds, dinitrile compounds, sulfinyl compounds, and lithium salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Ihara, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 9209480
    Abstract: A battery includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a nonaqueous electrolyte; and a separator, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte contains at least one sulfonic anhydride selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following chemical formulae (1) to (4) and an aromatic compound represented by the following chemical formula (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Odani, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 9196927
    Abstract: A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics and the storage characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The anode contains a material that can insert and extract an electrode reactant and contains at least one of a metal element and a metalloid element as an element, and the electrolytic solution contains a solvent, an electrolyte salt, and a sulfone compound having a given structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Ihara, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 9190666
    Abstract: The invention provides a battery, which can improve battery characteristics such as high temperature storage characteristics. The battery comprises a battery device, wherein a cathode and an anode are wound with a separator in between. The anode contains an anode material capable of inserting and extracting Li as an anode active material. An electrolytic solution is impregnated in the separator. The electrolytic solution contains a solvent, and an electrolyte salt such as Li[B(CF3)4] dissolved in the solvent, which is expressed by a chemical formula of Li[B(RF1)(RF2)(RF3)RF4]. RF1, RF2, RF3, and RF4 represent a perfluoro alkyl group whose number of fluorine or carbon is from 1 to 12, respectively. Consequently, high temperature storage characteristics are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadahiko Kubota, Momoe Adachi, Shigeru Fujita