Patents by Inventor Takamasa Ohtomo

Takamasa Ohtomo 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: 20150333368
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material having satisfactory ion conductivity. In the present invention, the above object is solved by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising a Li element, a Si element, a P element, a S element, and an X element (in which X represents at least one of F, Cl, Br and I), the sulfide solid electrolyte material having a crystal phase A having a peak at the position of 2?=29.58°±1.00° measured by X-ray diffractometry using CuK? ray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki KATO, Takamasa OHTOMO
  • Publication number: 20150333367
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material having satisfactory ion conductivity. In the present invention, the above object is solved by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising a Li element, a Si element, a P element, a S element, and an X element (in which X represents at least one of F, Cl, Br and I), the sulfide solid electrolyte material having a crystal phase B having a peak at the position of 2?=30.12°±1.00° measured by X-ray diffractometry using CuK? ray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki KATO, Takamasa OHTOMO
  • Patent number: 9172112
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte glass with high Li ion conductivity. The present invention achieves the above-mentioned object by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte glass comprising Li4P2S6, characterized by having a glass transition point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigenori Hama, Takamasa Ohtomo, Yuki Kato, Koji Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 9172113
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte material contains glass ceramics that contains Li, A, X, and S, and has peaks at 2?=20.2° and 23.6° in X-ray diffraction measurement with CuK? line. A is at least one kind of P, Si, Ge, Al, and B, and X is a halogen. A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte material includes amorphizing a raw material composition containing Li2S, a sulfide of A, and LiX to synthesize sulfide glass, and heating the sulfide glass at a heat treatment temperature equal to or more than a crystallization temperature thereof to synthesize glass ceramics having peaks at 2?=20.2° and 23.6° in X-ray diffraction measurement with CuK? line, in which a ratio of the LiX contained in the raw material composition and the heat treatment temperature are controlled to obtain the glass ceramics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamasa Ohtomo, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama, Yuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20150270537
    Abstract: A method of producing an active material powder includes (i) an attachment step of obtaining a powder including an active material particle, which stores and releases lithium ions at a potential of 4.5 V or higher based on Li, and a coating layer precursor, which is attached to a surface of the active material particle, by attaching an alkoxide solution containing lithium ions and niobium ions to the surface of the active material particle and drying the attached alkoxide solution; and (ii) a heating step of forming a coating layer on the surface of the active material particle by heating the powder obtained in the attachment step to be within a temperature range of 120° C. to 200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Yuki KATO, Takamasa OHTOMO, Hisatsugu YAMASAKI, Masatsugu KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20150236373
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of producing a solid state lithium battery module in which the occurrence of short circuit caused by dendrites is suppressed. The invention solves this problem by providing a method of producing a solid state lithium battery module, including steps of: a pressing step of pressing a sulfide glass having an ion conductor containing a Li element, a P element, and a S element, and forming a solid electrolyte layer; and a restraining step of restraining a solid state lithium battery including the solid electrolyte layer, using restraining member, wherein, in the pressing step, the solid electrolyte layer is formed such that the average pore radius obtained by a mercury intrusion method is R (?m), and in the restraining step, the solid state lithium battery is restrained such that when the confining pressure is designated as P(MPa), the relationship: P??5900R+74 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Takamasa OHTOMO, Yuki KATO, Masatsugu KAWAKAMI
  • Patent number: 9105941
    Abstract: A lithium ion conducting material includes a sulfide-based solid electrolyte material that contains Li, an element that belongs to group 13 to group 15 and S, and that contains an MSx unit, wherein M is an element that belongs to group 13 to group 15, S is a sulfur element, and x is the maximum number of S atoms that can be bonded with M, and an inhibitor that is in contact with the sulfide-based solid electrolyte material and that contains a metal element having an ionization tendency lower than that of hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamasa Ohtomo, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama
  • Publication number: 20140329118
    Abstract: Disclosed is an all solid state battery that includes a cathode layer containing a cathode active material, an anode layer containing an anode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, wherein the anode layer contains the anode active material such that a carbon-based active material and a metal-based active material are mixed, the metal-based active material is a metal represented by a general formula M or a metal oxide represented by a general formula MxOy (M is a metal) for causing an alloying reaction with Li, a charge and discharge potential of the metal-based active material is nobler than that of the carbon-based active material, and a capacity ratio of the carbon-based active material in the anode layer is higher than that of the metal-based active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagase, Takamasa Ohtomo
  • Publication number: 20140141341
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte material contains glass ceramics that contains Li, A, X, and S, and has peaks at 2?=20.2° and 23.6° in X-ray diffraction measurement with CuK? line. A is at least one kind of P, Si, Ge, Al, and B, and X is a halogen. A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte material includes amorphizing a raw material composition containing Li2S, a sulfide of A, and LiX to synthesize sulfide glass, and heating the sulfide glass at a heat treatment temperature equal to or more than a crystallization temperature thereof to synthesize glass ceramics having peaks at 2?=20.2° and 23.6° in X-ray diffraction measurement with CuK? line, in which a ratio of the LiX contained in the raw material composition and the heat treatment temperature are controlled to obtain the glass ceramics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamasa Ohtomo, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama, Yuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20140079967
    Abstract: A solid secondary battery system includes a solid secondary battery including a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode active material layer and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer; a heater for warming the solid secondary battery; an over-discharge process unit configured to perform over-discharge process of the solid secondary battery; and a control unit configured to warm the solid secondary battery by means of the heater and/or to make the over-discharge process unit perform the over-discharge process of the solid secondary battery after the warming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Kodama, Shigenori Hama, Takamasa Ohtomo
  • Publication number: 20130288134
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte glass with high Li ion conductivity. The present invention achieves the above-mentioned object by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte glass comprising Li4P2S6, characterized by having a glass transition point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigenori Hama, Takamasa Ohtomo, Yuki Kato, Koji Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20130177821
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material which copes with both the restraint of the increase in interface resistance and the restraint of the increase in bulk resistance. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material characterized by containing at least one of Cl and Br.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasushi Tsuchida, Noriaki Nishino, Takamasa Ohtomo
  • Publication number: 20130164631
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with high Li ion conductivity. The present invention solves the problem by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising an ion conductor with an ortho-composition, and LiI, characterized in that the sulfide solid electrolyte material is glass with a glass transition point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamasa Ohtomo, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama, Yasushi Tsuchida, Yuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20120301796
    Abstract: A method of producing a sulfide solid electrolyte material includes: forming an intermediate having crosslinking sulfur but no Li2S, by vitrifying, in a first vitrification process, a starting material composition obtained by mixing Li2S and a sulfide of a group 14 or group 15 element such that a proportion of Li2S with respect to the sum total of the Li2S and the sulfide of a group 14 or group 15 element is smaller than a proportion of Li2S required for the sulfide solid electrolyte material to obtain an ortho composition; and eliminating the crosslinking sulfur by vitrifying, in a second vitrification process, an intermediate-containing composition resulting from mixing a bond cleaving compound, which cleaves a bond of the crosslinking sulfur, with the intermediate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamasa Ohtomo, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama, Yuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20120231348
    Abstract: A lithium ion conducting material includes a sulfide-based solid electrolyte material that contains Li, an element that belongs to group 13 to group 15 and S, and that contains an MSx unit, wherein M is an element that belongs to group 13 to group 15, S is a sulfur element, and x is the maximum number of S atoms that can be bonded with M, and an inhibitor that is in contact with the sulfide-based solid electrolyte material and that contains a metal element having an ionization tendency lower than that of hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamasa Ohtomo, Koji Kawamoto, Shigenori Hama
  • Publication number: 20120189918
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte with excellent ion conductivity and a method for producing a crystallized glass contained in the sulfide solid electrolyte. A sulfide solid electrolyte comprising a crystallized glass represented by the following chemical formula yLi2S.(100-x-y)P2S5.xP2O5, wherein 0<x<25 and 67<y<80.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Tatsumisago, Akitoshi Hayashi, Shigenori Hama, Koji Kawamoto, Takamasa Ohtomo