Patents by Inventor Takashi Kanno

Takashi Kanno 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: 10305121
    Abstract: There is provided a frame body used for a cell of a redox flow battery, that can improve heat dissipation of an electrolyte in a slit and can suppress rise of the temperature of the electrolyte. It is a frame body used for a cell of a redox flow battery, comprising: an opening formed inside the frame body; a manifold allowing an electrolyte to pass therethrough; and a slit which connects the manifold and the opening and forms a channel of the electrolyte between the manifold and the opening, the slit having a pair of sidewalls facing each other in a cross section orthogonal to a direction in which the electrolyte flows, the slit having, at at least a portion thereof in the slit's depthwise direction, a width narrowing portion allowing the sidewalls to have a spacing narrowed in the depthwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kanno, Takeshi Yamana, Kenji Motoi
  • Patent number: 10305122
    Abstract: There is provided a frame body used for a cell of a redox flow battery, that can improve heat dissipation of an electrolyte in a slit and can suppress rise of the temperature of the electrolyte. It is a frame body used for a cell of a redox flow battery, comprising: an opening formed inside the frame body; a manifold allowing an electrolyte to pass therethrough; and a slit which connects the manifold and the opening and forms a channel of the electrolyte between the manifold and the opening, the slit having a pair of sidewalls facing each other in a cross section orthogonal to a direction in which the electrolyte flows, the slit having, at at least a portion thereof in the slit's depthwise direction, a width narrowing portion allowing the sidewalls to have a spacing narrowed in the depthwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kanno, Takeshi Yamana, Kenji Motoi
  • Publication number: 20190157699
    Abstract: The battery cell for a flow battery includes a cell frame including a frame including a through-window and a manifold serving as an electrolyte flow path, and a bipolar plate blocking the through-window; a positive electrode disposed on one surface side of the bipolar plate; and a negative electrode disposed on another surface side of the bipolar plate. In this battery cell, in the frame, a thickness of a portion in which the manifold is formed is defined as Ft; in the bipolar plate, a thickness of a portion blocking the through-window is defined as Bt; in the positive electrode, a thickness of a portion facing the bipolar plate is defined as Pt; in the negative electrode, a thickness of a portion facing the bipolar plate is defined as Nt; and these thicknesses satisfy Ft?4 mm, Bt?Ft?3.0 mm, Pt?1.5 mm, and Nt?1.5 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi KANNO, Katsuya YAMANISHI, Takefumi ITO, Masahiro KUWABARA, Kiyoaki MORIUCHI, Hideyuki YAMAGUCHI, Hayato FUJITA, Kousuke SHIRAKI, Kiyoaki HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10263263
    Abstract: There is provided a frame body used for a cell of a redox flow battery, that can improve heat dissipation of an electrolyte in a slit and can suppress rise of the temperature of the electrolyte. It is a frame body used for a cell of a redox flow battery, comprising: an opening formed inside the frame body; a manifold allowing an electrolyte to pass therethrough; and a slit which connects the manifold and the opening and forms a channel of the electrolyte between the manifold and the opening, the slit having a pair of sidewalls facing each other in a cross section orthogonal to a direction in which the electrolyte flows, the slit having, at at least a portion thereof in the slit's depthwise direction, a width narrowing portion allowing the sidewalls to have a spacing narrowed in the depthwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kanno, Takeshi Yamana, Kenji Motoi
  • Patent number: 10230123
    Abstract: The battery cell for a flow battery includes a cell frame including a frame including a through-window and a manifold serving as an electrolyte flow path, and a bipolar plate blocking the through-window; a positive electrode disposed on one surface side of the bipolar plate; and a negative electrode disposed on another surface side of the bipolar plate. In this battery cell, in the frame, a thickness of a portion in which the manifold is formed is defined as Ft; in the bipolar plate, a thickness of a portion blocking the through-window is defined as Bt; in the positive electrode, a thickness of a portion facing the bipolar plate is defined as Pt; in the negative electrode, a thickness of a portion facing the bipolar plate is defined as Nt; and these thicknesses satisfy Ft?4 mm, Bt?Ft?3.0 mm, Pt?1.5 mm, and Nt?1.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kanno, Katsuya Yamanishi, Takefumi Ito, Masahiro Kuwabara, Kiyoaki Moriuchi, Hideyuki Yamaguchi, Hayato Fujita, Kousuke Shiraki, Kiyoaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10224563
    Abstract: A frame body that is a part of a flat cell frame for a cell stack of a redox flow battery, and that supports, on an outer peripheral side of a bipolar plate of the cell frame, the bipolar plate, the frame body including a frame-facing surface that is to face, when a plurality of the cell frames are stacked, a frame body of another cell frame that is adjacent to the cell frame in a stacking direction, wherein the frame-facing surface has a surface roughness Ra of 0.03 ?m or more and 3.2 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hayato Fujita, Takashi Kanno, Kenji Motoi, Takeshi Yamana
  • Publication number: 20190067726
    Abstract: A redox flow battery includes a cell frame having a frame body in which a sealing groove is formed and a sealing member disposed in the sealing groove. The redox flow battery includes an adhesive that fixes the sealing member to the sealing groove, and a type A durometer hardness of the adhesive after curing is 100 or less. Preferably, the type A durometer hardness of the adhesive after curing is less than or equal to a type A durometer hardness of the sealing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kousuke Shiraki, Takashi Kanno, Haruhisa Toyoda, Takefumi Ito, Masahiro Kuwabara, Hideyuki Yamaguchi, Hayato Fujita, Kiyoaki Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190067711
    Abstract: Provided is a redox flow battery in which damage is unlikely to occur in a membrane. A redox flow battery includes a pair of adjacent cell frames, each cell frame including a frame body in which a flow channel for an electrolyte is formed, and a bipolar plate disposed inside the frame body; a positive electrode and a negative electrode disposed so as to face each other between the bipolar plates of the pair of cell frames; a membrane interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; a protection plate which covers the flow channel and presses edge portions of the positive electrode or the negative electrode toward the bipolar plate; and a membrane protection structure which prevents the membrane from being broken by contact between the protection plate and the membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kosuke Shiraki, Takashi Kanno, Takefumi Ito, Masahiro Kuwabara, Hideyuki Yamaguchi, Hayato Fujita, Kiyoaki Hayashi, Kiyoaki Moriuchi
  • Patent number: 10211467
    Abstract: A cell frame for a redox flow battery comprises: a bipolar plate; and a frame body provided at an outer periphery of the bipolar plate, the frame body including a manifold which penetrates through front and back surfaces of the frame body and through which an electrolyte flows, and at least one slit being formed on the front surface of the frame body and forming a channel of the electrolyte between the manifold and the bipolar plate, a cross sectional shape of the slit, in a longitudinal direction of the slit, having a width w and a depth h, the width w and the depth h satisfying (A) w?3 mm and (B) 1/8<h/w<1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takefumi Ito, Takashi Kanno, Masahiro Kuwabara, Katsuya Yamanishi, Hideyuki Yamaguchi, Hayato Fujita, Kiyoaki Hayashi, Kousuke Shiraki, Kiyoaki Moriuchi
  • Patent number: 10193178
    Abstract: A frame body for a redox flow battery is provided with a window. The expressions A>C, B>D, and (B/A)?0.2 are satisfied, where A represents the length of a long side of a rectangle that envelops the window, B represents the width of a horizontal frame corresponding to the long side, C represents the length of a short side of the rectangle, and D represents the width of a vertical frame corresponding to the short side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Inductries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kuwabara, Haruhisa Toyoda, Takashi Kanno, Takefumi Ito, Hideyuki Yamaguchi, Hayato Fujita, Kousuke Shiraki, Kiyoaki Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190027770
    Abstract: Provided are a redox flow battery having a low internal resistance, an electrode used in a redox flow battery, and an electrode characteristic evaluation method with which a characteristic of an electrode can be simply and accurately evaluated. The redox flow battery includes at least one pair of electrodes in a stacked manner, the electrodes including a positive electrode and a negative electrode to which an electrolyte is supplied and in which a battery reaction is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kosuke Shiraki, Takashi Kanno, Takefumi Ito, Masahiro Kuwabara, Hideyuki Yamaguchi, Hayato Fujita, Kiyoaki Hayashi, Kiyoaki Moriuchi
  • Publication number: 20180375115
    Abstract: A bipolar plate disposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a redox flow battery has, in a surface of the bipolar plate facing at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, at least one groove through which an electrolyte flows. The groove has a pair of sidewalls facing each other in a cross section orthogonal to a direction in which the electrolyte flows. The groove has a narrow portion in which a distance between the sidewalls decreases in a depth direction of the groove, the narrow portion being provided in at least a part of the groove in the depth direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi Kanno, Kenji Motoi
  • Patent number: 10158127
    Abstract: A cell frame for a redox flow battery comprises: a bipolar plate; and a frame body provided at an outer periphery of the bipolar plate, the frame body including a manifold which penetrates through front and back surfaces of the frame body and through which an electrolyte flows, and at least one slit being formed on the front surface of the frame body and forming a channel of the electrolyte between the manifold and the bipolar plate, a cross sectional shape of the slit, in a longitudinal direction of the slit, having a width w and a depth h, the width w and the depth h satisfying (A) w?3 mm and (B) 1/8<h/w<1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takefumi Ito, Takashi Kanno, Masahiro Kuwabara, Katsuya Yamanishi, Hideyuki Yamaguchi, Hayato Fujita, Kiyoaki Hayashi, Kousuke Shiraki, Kiyoaki Moriuchi
  • Publication number: 20180358633
    Abstract: A cell frame includes a bipolar plate in contact with an electrode constituting a battery cell; and a frame body surrounding a periphery of the bipolar plate, wherein the frame body includes a liquid supply manifold through which an electrolyte is supplied into the battery cell, the bipolar plate includes, in a surface facing the electrode, a plurality of main groove portions that are arranged adjacent to one another and through which the electrolyte flows, at least one of the frame body and the bipolar plate includes a supply flow directing portion configured to distribute, in a direction in which the main groove portions are arranged adjacent to one another, the electrolyte supplied through the liquid supply manifold, to supply the electrolyte to each of the main groove portions, and each of widths Wi of electrolyte inlets of the main groove portions, and a width Wr of the supply flow directing portion in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the main groove portions are arranged adjacent to one
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Kanno
  • Publication number: 20180316017
    Abstract: An electrode for redox flow battery is disposed opposite a membrane of a redox flow battery. The electrode includes a fiber assembly including a plurality of carbon fibers. The fiber assembly includes soft carbon fibers with a Young's modulus of 200 GPa or less. An average carbon fiber diameter of the soft carbon fibers is preferably 20 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Kei Hanafusa, Kenichi Ito, Takashi Kanno, Souichirou Okumura
  • Publication number: 20180277858
    Abstract: A bipolar plate for a battery has two surfaces on which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are to be disposed respectively. At least one of the surfaces of the bipolar plate is provided with a plurality of groove sections through which an electrolyte flows and a ridge section located between the groove sections that are adjacent to each other. The groove sections include an introduction groove section and a discharge groove section that are not in communication with each other. The ridge section includes an uneven portion configured to suppress sliding of the positive electrode or the negative electrode in a direction in which the adjacent groove sections are arranged in parallel. The uneven portion includes a rough surface provided on at least a part of a surface of the ridge section and having an arithmetical mean roughness Ra of 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Hayato Fujita, Masahiro Kuwabara, Takashi Kanno, Haruhisa Toyoda, Hideyuki Yamaguchi, Kousuke Shiraki, Kiyoaki Hayashi, Takefumi Ito
  • Patent number: 10070814
    Abstract: A magnetic stimulator includes a coil which applies magnetic stimulation to a head of a living body, an intensity controller which controls an intensity of the magnetic stimulation applied by the coil, an acquiring section which acquires a biological signal from the living body, a detector which detects an adverse event of the living body from the biological signal acquired by the acquiring section, and an intensity suppressing section which, when an adverse event of the living body is detected by the detector, suppresses the intensity of the magnetic stimulation that is controlled by the intensity controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hyodo, Takashi Kanno
  • Publication number: 20180248215
    Abstract: A frame body that is a part of a flat cell frame for a cell stack of a redox flow battery, and that supports, on an outer peripheral side of a bipolar plate of the cell frame, the bipolar plate, the frame body including a frame-facing surface that is to face, when a plurality of the cell frames are stacked, a frame body of another cell frame that is adjacent to the cell frame in a stacking direction, wherein the frame-facing surface has a surface roughness Ra of 0.03 ?m or more and 3.2 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Hayato Fujita, Takashi Kanno, Kenji Motoi, Takeshi Yamana
  • Publication number: 20180248217
    Abstract: A cell frame includes a bipolar plate and a frame body. The bipolar plate is in contact with an electrode included in a battery cell. The frame body surrounds a peripheral edge of the bipolar plate. The frame body has a liquid discharging manifold. The bipolar plate has a plurality of main channels. At least one of the frame body and the bipolar plate has a liquid discharging regulator in which the electrolyte discharged from each of the main channels is gathered, so that the electrolyte is guided toward the liquid discharging manifold. When a width of the main channels is Wc, a total width Wctotal of the plurality of main channels is larger than a width Wd of the liquid discharging regulator in a direction perpendicular to an arrangement direction of the main channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventor: Takashi KANNO
  • Publication number: 20180248216
    Abstract: A frame body for a cell frame of a redox flow battery, the frame body including an outer peripheral portion, the outer peripheral portion including a thin region whose thickness gradually decreases in a direction from the center of the frame body toward the outer periphery of the frame body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Hideyuki Yamaguchi, Takashi Kanno, Kenji Motoi, Takeshi Yamana