Patents by Inventor Tamaki Hirai
Tamaki Hirai 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).
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Publication number: 20190221880Abstract: To provide a means capable of suppressing the occurrence of internal short circuit in a power generating element when a battery is destroyed from the outside in a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a capacity and a size corresponding to a high energy density.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2016Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Tamaki Hirai, Takayuki Fujii, Seiji Ishimoto, Fumihiro Kawamura
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Patent number: 9899674Abstract: [Object] Provided is a means which is capable, with respect to a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, of suppressing a decrease in capacity when the battery is used for a long period of time, and improving cycle characteristics. [Solving Means] Provided is a positive electrode active substance for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the positive electrode active substance being a lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt composite oxide and having true density of 4.40 to 4.80 g/cm3.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tamaki Hirai, Manabu Kaseda, Osamu Shimamura, Kenji Ohara, Kousuke Hagiyama, Fumihiro Kawamura, Masanori Aoyagi
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Patent number: 9847518Abstract: A separator with a heat-resistant insulation layer for an electric device includes a resin porous substrate and a heat-resistant insulation layer containing heat-resistant particles and a binder, the heat-resistant insulation layer being formed on at least one surface of the resin porous substrate. The heat-resistant particles contain alumina and a parameter X is 0.018 to 0.336. Parameter X is represented by X=Ca×Rzjis/D, wherein C? is a ratio of the alumina, which occupies the heat-resistant particles, Rzjis is surface roughness of a surface of the heat-resistant insulation layer, the surface being opposite the resin porous substrate, and D is a thickness of the heat-resistant insulation layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tamaki Hirai, Miyuki Nakai, Takashi Honda
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Patent number: 9728757Abstract: A separator having a heat-resistant insulating layer of the present invention includes a porous resin base layer and a heat-resistant insulating layer which is formed on one or both sides of the porous resin base layer and contains inorganic particles and a binder. The porous resin base layer contains a resin having a melting temperature of 120° C. to 200° C. The separator is configured so that the ratio of the basis weight of the heat-resistant insulating layer to the basis weight of the porous resin base layer is not less than 0.5. Accordingly, the separator having a heat-resistant insulating layer of the present invention exhibits excellent thermal shrinkage resistance while ensuring a shutdown function.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Honda, Tamaki Hirai, Hironobu Muramatsu
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Patent number: 9716266Abstract: [Object] Provided is a means for improving cycle characteristics by suppressing electrode deterioration resulting from non-uniformity of voltage across an electrode plane in a high-capacity and large-area non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes lithium nickel-based composite oxide as a positive electrode active substance.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Ohara, Yoshiaki Nitta, Satoru Ichikawa, Gentaro Kano, Manabu Nishijima, Osamu Shimamura, Fumihiro Kawamura, Kousuke Hagiyama, Shigeo Ibuka, Manabu Kaseda, Masanori Suenaga, Tamaki Hirai, Masahiro Takaya, Kuniharu Nomoto
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Patent number: 9608261Abstract: [Object] Provided is a means for improving cycle characteristics by suppressing electrode deterioration resulting from non-uniformity of voltage across an electrode plane in a high-capacity and large-area non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes lithium nickel-based composite oxide as a positive electrode active substance.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Ohara, Yoshiaki Nitta, Satoru Ichikawa, Gentaro Kano, Manabu Nishijima, Osamu Shimamura, Fumihiro Kawamura, Kousuke Hagiyama, Shigeo Ibuka, Manabu Kaseda, Masanori Suenaga, Tamaki Hirai, Masahiro Takaya, Kuniharu Nomoto
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Patent number: 9543077Abstract: A separator with a heat resistant insulation layer includes a porous substrate, and a heat resistant insulation layer formed on one surface or both surfaces of the porous substrate and containing at least one kind of inorganic particles and at least one kind of a binder, wherein a content mass ratio of the inorganic particles to the binder in the heat resistant insulation layer is in a range from 99:1 to 85:15, a BET specific surface area of the inorganic particles is in a range from 3 m2/g to 50 m2/g, and a ratio of the moisture content per mass of the binder to the BET specific surface area of the inorganic particles is greater than 0.0001 and smaller than 2.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2012Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Honda, Kazuki Miyatake, Haruyuki Saito, Tamaki Hirai, Hironobu Muramatsu
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Patent number: 9312527Abstract: A separator (1) having heat resistant insulation layers for an electric device includes a resin porous substrate (2), and heat resistant insulation layers (3) formed on both surfaces of the resin porous substrate (2) and containing heat resistant particles having a melting point or a thermal softening point of 150° C. or higher. A parameter X represented by the following mathematical formula 1 is greater than or equal to 0.15: X = ( A ? + A ? ) C × ( A ? / A ? ) 2 [ Math ? ? 1 ] where A? and A? represent thicknesses (?m) of the respective heat resistant insulation layers (3) formed on both surfaces of the resin porous substrate (2) while fulfilling a condition of A??A?, and C represents the entire thickness (?m) of the separator (1) having heat resistant insulation layers.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hironobu Muramatsu, Tamaki Hirai, Kazuki Miyatake
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Publication number: 20160036044Abstract: [Object] Provided is a means for improving cycle characteristics by suppressing electrode deterioration resulting from non-uniformity of voltage across an electrode plane in a high-capacity and large-area non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes lithium nickel-based composite oxide as a positive electrode active substance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: February 4, 2016Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji OHARA, Yoshiaki NITTA, Satoru ICHIKAWA, Gentaro KANO, Manabu NISHIJIMA, Osamu SHIMAMURA, Fumihiro KAMAMURA, Kousuke HAGIYAMA, Shigeo IBUKA, Manabu KASEDA, Masanori SUENAGA, Tamaki HIRAI, Masahiro TAKAYA, Kuniharu NOMOTO
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Publication number: 20160028073Abstract: [Object] Provided is a means for improving cycle characteristics by suppressing electrode deterioration resulting from non-uniformity of voltage across an electrode plane in a high-capacity and large-area non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes lithium nickel-based composite oxide as a positive electrode active substance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji OHARA, Yoshiaki NITTA, Satoru ICHIKAWA, Gentaro KANO, Manabu NISHIJIMA, Osamu SHIMAMURA, Fumihiro KAWAMURA, Kousuke HAGIYAMA, Shigeo IBUKA, Manabu KASEDA, Masanori SUENAGA, Tamaki HIRAI, Masahiro TAKAYA, Kuniharu NOMOTO
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Publication number: 20160013486Abstract: [Object] Provided is a means which is capable, with respect to a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, of suppressing a decrease in capacity when the battery is used for a long period of time, and improving cycle characteristics. [Solving Means] Provided is a positive electrode active substance for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the positive electrode active substance being a lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt composite oxide and having true density of 4.40 to 4.80 g/cm3.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tamaki HIRAI, Manabu KASEDA, Osamu SHIMAMURA, Kenji OHARA, Kousuke HAGIYAMA, Fumihiro KAWAMURA, Masanori AOYAGI
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Publication number: 20150017542Abstract: A laminated-structure battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte layer and a laminated structure prepared by laminating at least three layers of single battery layers each of the single battery layers prepared by opposing the cathode and the anode to each other with an interposal of the electrolyte layer. The cathode includes a cathode active material having at least a lithium-transition metal complex, a lithium-transition metal phosphorus compound or a lithium-transition metal sulfuric acid compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Tamaki Hirai, Kenji Ohara
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Publication number: 20140287295Abstract: A separator with a heat resistant insulation layer includes a porous substrate, and a heat resistant insulation layer formed on one surface or both surfaces of the porous substrate and containing at least one kind of inorganic particles and at least one kind of a binder, wherein a content mass ratio of the inorganic particles to the binder in the heat resistant insulation layer is in a range from 99:1 to 85:15, a BET specific surface area of the inorganic particles is in a range from 3 m2/g to 50 m2/g, and a ratio of the moisture content per mass of the binder to the BET specific surface area of the inorganic particles is greater than 0.0001 and smaller than 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2012Publication date: September 25, 2014Inventors: Takashi Honda, Kazuki Miyatake, Haruyuki Saito, Tamaki Hirai, Hironobu Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20140242443Abstract: A separator with a heat-resistant insulation layer for an electric device includes a resin porous substrate and a heat-resistant insulation layer containing heat-resistant particles and a binder, the heat-resistant insulation layer being formed on at least one surface of the resin porous substrate. The heat-resistant particles contain alumina and a parameter X is 0.018 to 0.336. Parameter X is represented by X=Ca×Rzjis/D, wherein C? is a ratio of the alumina, which occupies the heat-resistant particles, Rzjis is surface roughness of a surface of the heat-resistant insulation layer, the surface being opposite the resin porous substrate, and D is a thickness of the heat-resistant insulation layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tamaki Hirai, Miyuki Nakai, Takashi Honda
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Publication number: 20140113176Abstract: A separator (1) having heat resistant insulation layers for an electric device includes a resin porous substrate (2), and heat resistant insulation layers (3) formed on both surfaces of the resin porous substrate (2) and containing heat resistant particles having a melting point or a thermal softening point of 150° C. or higher. A parameter X represented by the following mathematical formula 1 is greater than or equal to 0.15: X = ( A ? + A ? ) C × ( A ? / A ? ) 2 [ Math ? ? 1 ] where A? and A? represent thicknesses (?m) of the respective heat resistant insulation layers (3) formed on both surfaces of the resin porous substrate (2) while fulfilling a condition of A??A?, and C represents the entire thickness (?m) of the separator (1) having heat resistant insulation layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Inventors: Hironobu Muramatsu, Tamaki Hirai, Kazuki Miyatake
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Publication number: 20140113173Abstract: A separator having a heat-resistant insulating layer of the present invention includes a porous resin base layer and a heat-resistant insulating layer which is formed on one or both sides of the porous resin base layer and contains inorganic particles and a binder. The porous resin base layer contains a resin having a melting temperature of 120° C. to 200° C. The separator is configured so that the ratio of the basis weight of the heat-resistant insulating layer to the basis weight of the porous resin base layer is not less than 0.5. Accordingly, the separator having a heat-resistant insulating layer of the present invention exhibits excellent thermal shrinkage resistance while ensuring a shutdown function.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Honda, Tamaki Hirai, Hironobu Muramatsu