Patents by Inventor Takakazu Hirose

Takakazu Hirose 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: 11177501
    Abstract: A production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6) that contains Li, includes: making a silicon compound into which the lithium has been inserted contact with a solution B containing a polycyclic aromatic compound or a derivative thereof or both thereof (here, the solution B contains one or more kinds selected from an ether-based solvent, a ketone-based solvent, an ester-based solvent, an alcohol-based solvent, and an amine-based solvent as the solvent); and making the silicon compound contact with a solution C (here, the solution C contains one or more kinds selected from an alcohol-based solvent, a carboxylic acid-based solvent, and water as the solvent). Thereby, a production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries is capable of increasing a battery capacity and improving the cycle characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Kamo, Takakazu Hirose
  • Patent number: 11165058
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material contains a negative electrode active material particle; the negative electrode active material particle including a silicon compound particle containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6), wherein the silicon compound particle contains a Li compound, and the negative electrode active material particle contains at least one kind of salt selected from salts of polyacrylic acid and salts of carboxymethyl cellulose, together with a metal salt containing at least one kind of metal selected from Mg and Al. This provides a negative electrode active material that is capable of stabilizing slurry that is produced in production of a negative electrode for a secondary battery, and improving initial charge-discharge characteristics and cycle performance when it is used as a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Hirose, Kohta Takahashi, Takumi Matsuno, Reiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 11139469
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material including a negative electrode active material particle. The negative electrode active material particle includes a silicon compound particle including a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6). The silicon compound particle includes crystalline Li2SiO3 in at least part of the silicon compound particle. Among a peak intensity A derived from Li2SiO3, a peak intensity B derived from Si, a peak intensity C derived from Li2Si2O5, and a peak intensity D derived from SiO2 which are obtained from a 29Si-MAS-NMR spectrum of the silicon compound particle, the peak intensity A is the highest intensity, and the peak intensity A and the peak intensity C satisfy a relationship of the following formula 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Hirose, Hiromichi Kamo
  • Publication number: 20210296636
    Abstract: A negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer including a negative electrode active material including a negative electrode active material particle. The negative electrode active material particle includes a silicon compound particle including a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6). The silicon compound particle includes crystalline Li2SiO3 in at least part of the silicon compound particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu HIROSE, Hiromichi KAMO
  • Publication number: 20210193990
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material includes: particles of negative electrode active material, the particles of negative electrode active material contain particles of silicon compound containing a silicon compound (SiOx:0.5?x?1.6); the particles of silicon compound contain at least one kind or more of Li2SiO3 and Li4SiO4; the particles of negative electrode active material contain Li2CO3 and LiOH on a surface thereof; and a content of the Li2CO3 is 0.01% by mass or more and 5.00% by mass or less relative to a mass of the particles of negative electrode active material and a content of the LiOH is 0.01% by mass or more and 5.00% by mass or less relative to the mass of the particles of negative electrode active material. Thus a negative electrode active material is capable of improving initial charge/discharge characteristics and the cycle characteristics when used as a negative electrode active material of the secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu AWANO, Takumi MATSUNO, Hiromichi KAMO, Takakazu HIROSE, Masahiro FURUYA
  • Patent number: 11024838
    Abstract: A production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries containing particles of lithium-containing silicon compound includes: preparing particles of silicon compound containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6); obtaining particles of lithium-containing silicon compound by making the particle of silicon compound contact with a solution A that contains lithium and has an ether-based solvent as a solvent; and heating the particles of the lithium-containing silicon compound. A production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries is capable of increasing battery capacity of the negative electrode active material and capable of improving the first time efficiency and cycle characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Kamo, Takakazu Hirose, Katsunori Nishiura, Nan Fang
  • Patent number: 11005095
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material includes a negative electrode active material particle. The negative electrode active material particle includes a silicon compound particle including a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6). The silicon compound particle includes crystalline Li2Si2O5 in at least part of the silicon compound particle. Among peak intensities A derived from Li2SiO3, B derived from Si, a peak intensity C derived from Li2Si2O5, and D derived from SiO2 which are obtained from a 29Si-MAS-NMR spectrum of the silicon compound particle, the peak intensity C is the highest intensity, and the peak intensity A and the peak intensity C satisfy a relationship of the formula A<C/3. Thus, a negative electrode active material stabilizes a slurry prepared when a negative electrode of a secondary battery is prepared, and improves initial charge and discharge and cycle characteristics when used as a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Hirose, Hiromichi Kamo
  • Patent number: 10998544
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material containing a negative electrode active material particle; the negative electrode active material particle including a silicon compound particle containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6), wherein the silicon compound particle contains a Li compound, and the negative electrode active material particle contains an Al element and an Na element as constituent elements, with a mass ratio MNa/MAl of the Al element and the Na element satisfying the following Formula 1. This provides a negative electrode active material that is capable of stabilizing slurry that is produced in production of a negative electrode for a secondary battery, and improving initial charge-discharge characteristics and cycle performance when it is used as a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery. 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Hirose, Kohta Takahashi, Takumi Matsuno, Reiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10991971
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a negative electrode active material including: particles of negative electrode active material, wherein the particles of negative electrode active material contain particles of silicon compound containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.55?x?1.6), and the particles of silicon compound includes at least one or more kinds of Li2SiO3 and Li4SiO4; the particles of silicon compound contain nickel; and, a mass of the nickel to a mass of the particles of negative electrode active material is 2 mass ppm or more and 100 mass ppm or less. Thus, when used as the negative electrode active material of a secondary battery, a negative electrode active material capable of improving the initial charge/discharge characteristics and cycle characteristics is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Matsuno, Takakazu Hirose, Hiromichi Kamo, Masahiro Furuya, Hidekazu Awano
  • Patent number: 10991937
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material including a negative electrode active material particle, wherein the negative electrode active material particle includes a silicon compound particle comprising a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6), the silicon compound particle includes crystalline Li2SiO3 and Li2Si2O5 in at least part of the silicon compound particle, among a peak intensity A derived from Li2SiO3, a peak intensity B derived from Si, a peak intensity C derived from Li2Si2O5, and a peak intensity D derived from SiO2 which are obtained from a 29Si-MAS-NMR spectrum of the silicon compound particle, the peak intensity A or the peak intensity C is the highest intensity, and the peak intensity A and the peak intensity C satisfy a relationship of the following formula 1,formula 1: C/3?A?3C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Hirose, Hiromichi Kamo
  • Publication number: 20210028447
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, containing a negative electrode active material particle, wherein the negative electrode active material particle includes a silicon compound particle containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6), the silicon compound particle contains a Li compound, at least a part of the silicon compound particle is coated with a carbon material, and an O-component fragment and a CH-component fragment are detected from the negative electrode active material particle in a measurement by TOF-SIMS, and a ratio of a peak intensity A of the O-component fragment to a peak intensity B of the CH-component fragment is 0.5?A/B?100. This provides a negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery capable of increasing battery capacity and improving the cycle characteristics and battery initial efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohta TAKAHASHI, Takakazu HIROSE, Takumi MATSUNO
  • Patent number: 10873082
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material including a negative electrode active material particle; the negative electrode active material particle including a silicon compound shown by SiOx (0.5?x?1.6), wherein at least part of the Si4+ contained in the negative electrode active material particle is to be changed to at least one state selected from valence states of Siy+ (y is any of 0, 1, 2, and 3) in occlusion of Li in the negative electrode active material. This provides a negative electrode active material that is capable of increasing battery capacity and improving cycle performance when it is used as a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Hirose, Reiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10868303
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material contains particle of the negative electrode active material, wherein the particle of the negative electrode active material contains particle of a silicon compound which contains a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6), the particle of the silicon compound contains lithium, and the particle of the negative electrode active material has a total content rate of a polyphenylene compound component and a polycyclic aromatic component measured by TPD-MS of 1 ppm by mass or more and 4,000 ppm by mass or less. As a result, a negative electrode active material is capable of improving cycle characteristics and initial charge/discharge characteristics when it is used as a negative electrode active material of a lithium ion secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Kamo, Masahiro Furuya, Hidekazu Awano, Takakazu Hirose, Takumi Matsuno, Katsunori Nishiura, Nan Fang
  • Patent number: 10862122
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material which is a negative electrode active material containing particles of a negative electrode active material, wherein the particles of the negative electrode active material contain particles of a silicon compound which contain a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6), the particles of the negative electrode active material contain lithium, and the particles of the negative electrode active material have a peak in the range of 2?=31.8±0.5° measured by X-ray diffraction spectrum using K? line of Cu. According to this constitution, it is provided a negative electrode active material capable of improving cycle characteristics and initial charge and discharge characteristics when it is used as a negative electrode active material of a lithium ion secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Kamo, Takakazu Hirose
  • Patent number: 10833323
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, wherein the negative electrode active material includes negative electrode active material particles, the negative electrode active material particles include a silicon compound particle which includes a silicon compound including oxygen, the silicon compound particle includes a Li compound, and the silicon compound particle is adhered with a phosphate salt in an outermost surface layer thereof. With this, the negative electrode active material which is high in the capacity and the stability to aqueous slurry as well as excellent in the cycle characteristic and the first efficiency can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Hirose, Hiromichi Kamo, Takumi Matsuno, Reiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10811681
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material contains particles of negative electrode active material, wherein the particles of negative electrode active material contain a silicon compound represented by SiOx (0.5?x?1.6), and when the particles of negative electrode active material are measured by an atom probe method, and an Si 75% equivalent concentration surface obtained by the atom probe method is defined to be a boundary surface of a silicon grain, an average diameter of the silicon grains at a center portion of the particle in the particles of negative electrode active material is in the range of 0.25 nm to 5 nm. According to this constitution, when it is used as the negative electrode active material of a secondary battery, a negative electrode active material is capable of increasing battery capacity and improving cycle characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Hirose, Hiromichi Kamo, Hiroki Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20200243855
    Abstract: A method for producing a negative electrode active material containing particles of negative electrode active material containing particles of silicon compound. The method includes preparing a container in which silicon has been contained; melting the silicon contained in the container to form a silicon melt; generating a mixed gas in which a silicon gas and a silicon oxide gas are mixed by introducing a raw material which generates a silicon oxide gas into the silicon melt; producing particles of silicon compound containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5x<1.0) by solidifying and depositing the mixed gas on an adsorption plate, and inserting lithium into the particles of silicon compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu HIROSE, Hiromichi KAMO, Masahiro FURUYA, Takumi MATSUNO
  • Patent number: 10707482
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries which has particles of negative electrode active material, the particles of negative electrode active material containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6) that contains a Li compound, including a carbon coating on at least a part of a surface of the silicon compound and a salt coating containing one or more kinds of a metal silicate containing a metal element other than a lithium element and a metal salt containing a metal element other than the lithium element on a part of a surface of the silicon compound or a surface of the carbon coating or both of these. Thus, the negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries having high stability to an aqueous slurry, high capacity and excellent cycle characteristics and initial efficiency may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Hirose, Hiromichi Kamo, Reiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10686190
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material includes particles of negative electrode active material, wherein the particles of negative electrode active material contain particles of silicon compound containing silicon compound (SiOx:0.5?x?1.6), the particles of negative electrode active material contain crystalline Li2SiO3 in at least a part thereof, and the particles of negative electrode active material satisfy the following formula 1 and formula 2 between an intensity A of a peak derived from Li2SiO3, an intensity B of a peak derived from Si, an intensity C of a peak derived from Li2Si2O5, and an intensity D of a peak derived from SiO2, which are obtained from a 29Si-MAS-NMR spectrum. Thus a negative electrode active material capable of increasing a battery capacity, and improving the cycle characteristics and initial charge/discharge characteristics when used as a negative electrode active material of the lithium ion secondary battery is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Hirose, Hiromichi Kamo
  • Patent number: 10686189
    Abstract: The present invention provides a negative electrode material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, comprising negative electrode active material particles containing a silicon compound expressed by SiOx at least partially coated with a carbon coating where 0.5?x?1.6. The negative electrode active material particles have a negative zeta potential and exhibiting fragments of CyHz compound in an outermost surface layer of the silicon compound when subjected to TOF-SIMS. This negative electrode material can increase the battery capacity and improve the cycle performance and battery initial efficiency. The invention also provides a negative electrode active material layer, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using this material, and a method of producing this material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Kamo, Kohta Takahashi, Takakazu Hirose, Masahiro Furuya, Hiroki Yoshikawa