Patents by Inventor Teruaki OCHIAI

Teruaki OCHIAI 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: 12272822
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material has a small difference in a crystal structure between the charged state and the discharged state. For example, the crystal structure and volume of the positive electrode active material, which has a layered rock-salt crystal structure in the discharged state and a pseudo-spinel crystal structure in the charged state at a high voltage of approximately 4.6 V, are less likely to be changed by charging and discharging as compared with those of a known positive electrode active material. In order to form the positive electrode active material having the pseudo-spinel crystal structure in the charged state, it is preferable that a halogen source such as a fluorine and a magnesium source be mixed with particles of a composite oxide containing lithium, a transition metal, and oxygen, which is synthesized in advance, and then the mixture be heated at an appropriate temperature for an appropriate time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Mayumi Mikami, Yohei Momma, Teruaki Ochiai, Jyo Saitou
  • Publication number: 20250105277
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery which has a large capacity and a good charge-and-discharge cycle performance is provided. The positive electrode active material includes lithium, cobalt, oxygen, and magnesium, and has a compound represented by a layered rock-salt crystal structure. A space group of the compound is represented by R-3m. The compound is a composite oxide in which magnesium is substituted for a lithium position and a cobalt position. The compound is a particle. The magnesium substituted for a lithium position and a cobalt position exists more in the region from the surface to 5 nm than in the region deeper than 10 nm from the surface. More magnesium is substituted for a lithium position than for a cobalt position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Yohei MOMMA, Mayumi MIKAMI, Teruaki OCHIAI, Kazuhei NARITA, Jyo SAITO
  • Publication number: 20250055087
    Abstract: The relative position shifts of a positive electrode and a negative electrode occur owing to bending in charge or discharge, whereby uneven distribution is caused and potential varies. Not graphite but a lithium metal film is used as the negative electrode. A lithium metal film is formed over one side of the negative electrode current collector by an evaporation method or a sputtering method, and a laminated body is formed such that surfaces of two negative electrode current collectors where no film is formed are in contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Kazutaka KURIKI, Seiya SAITO, Teruaki OCHIAI, Kengo AKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240413342
    Abstract: In manufacture of a storage battery electrode containing graphene as a conductive additive, the efficiency of reduction of graphene oxide under mild conditions is increased, and cycle characteristics and rate characteristics of a storage battery are improved. Provided is a manufacturing method of a storage battery electrode. In the manufacturing method, a first mixture containing an active material, graphene oxide, and a solvent is formed; a reducing agent is added to the first mixture and the graphene oxide is reduced to form a second mixture; a binder is mixed with the second mixture to form a third mixture; and the third mixture is applied to a current collector and the solvent is evaporated to form an active material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuya IKENUMA, Takahiro KAWAKAMI, Yohei MOMMA, Teruaki OCHIAI
  • Patent number: 12142759
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material with high capacity and excellent charging and discharging cycle performance for a lithium-ion secondary battery is provided. The positive electrode active material contains lithium, cobalt, and oxygen, and the spin density attributed to a bivalent cobalt ion and a tetravalent cobalt ion is within a predetermined range. It is preferable that the positive electrode active material further contain magnesium. An appropriate magnesium concentration is represented as a concentration with respect to cobalt. It is also preferable that the positive electrode active material further contain fluorine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mayumi Mikami, Yohei Momma, Teruaki Ochiai
  • Patent number: 12080893
    Abstract: A novel electrode is provided. A novel power storage device is provided. A conductor having a sheet-like shape is provided. The conductor has a thickness of greater than or equal to 800 nm and less than or equal to 20 ?m. The area of the conductor is greater than or equal to 25 mm2 and less than or equal to 10 m2. The conductor includes carbon and oxygen. The conductor includes carbon at a concentration of higher than 80 atomic % and oxygen at a concentration of higher than or equal to 2 atomic % and lower than or equal to 20 atomic %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruaki Ochiai, Takahiro Kawakami, Takuya Miwa
  • Publication number: 20240266502
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material particle with little deterioration is provided. A power storage device with little deterioration is provided. A highly safe power storage device is provided. The positive electrode active material particle includes a first crystal grain, a second crystal grain, and a crystal grain boundary positioned between the crystal grain and the second crystal grain; the first crystal grain and the second crystal grain include lithium, a transition metal, and oxygen; the crystal grain boundary includes magnesium and oxygen; and the positive electrode active material particle includes a region where the ratio of the atomic concentration of magnesium in the crystal grain boundary to the atomic concentration of the transition metal in first crystal grain and the second crystal grain is greater than or equal to 0.010 and less than or equal to 0.50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro TAKAHASHI, Teruaki OCHIAI, Yohei MOMMA, Ayae TSURUTA
  • Publication number: 20240243255
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material particle with little deterioration is provided. A power storage device with little deterioration is provided. A highly safe power storage device is provided. The positive electrode active material particle includes a first crystal grain, a second crystal grain, and a crystal grain boundary positioned between the crystal grain and the second crystal grain; the first crystal grain and the second crystal grain include lithium, a transition metal, and oxygen; the crystal grain boundary includes magnesium and oxygen; and the positive electrode active material particle includes a region where the ratio of the atomic concentration of magnesium in the crystal grain boundary to the atomic concentration of the transition metal in first crystal grain and the second crystal grain is greater than or equal to 0.010 and less than or equal to 0.50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro TAKAHASHI, Teruaki OCHIAI, Yohei MOMMA, Ayae TSURUTA
  • Publication number: 20240234718
    Abstract: A method for forming a positive electrode active material that is stable in a high potential state and/or a high temperature state is provided. The method for forming a positive electrode active material includes a step of mixing a composite oxide containing lithium and cobalt with a barium source, a magnesium source, and a fluorine source to fabricate a first mixture containing barium fluoride, magnesium fluoride, and lithium fluoride; a step of heating the first mixture at a temperature higher than or equal to 800° C. and lower than or equal to 1100° C. for longer than or equal to 2 hours; a step of mixing the first mixture with a nickel source and an aluminum source to fabricate a second mixture; and a step of heating the second mixture at a temperature higher than or equal to 800° C. and lower than or equal to 1100° C. for longer than or equal to 2 hours. When a molar ratio of magnesium fluoride to barium fluoride contained in the first mixture is MgF2:BaF2=y:1, y satisfies greater than or equal to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jo SAITO, Yohei MOMMA, Mayumi MIKAMI, Teruaki OCHIAI
  • Publication number: 20240186486
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material particle with little deterioration is provided. A power storage device with little deterioration is provided. A highly safe power storage device is provided. The positive electrode active material particle includes a first crystal grain, a second crystal grain, and a crystal grain boundary positioned between the crystal grain and the second crystal grain; the first crystal grain and the second crystal grain include lithium, a transition metal, and oxygen; the crystal grain boundary includes magnesium and oxygen; and the positive electrode active material particle includes a region where the ratio of the atomic concentration of magnesium in the crystal grain boundary to the atomic concentration of the transition metal in first crystal grain and the second crystal grain is greater than or equal to 0.010 and less than or equal to 0.50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro TAKAHASHI, Teruaki OCHIAI, Yohei MOMMA, Ayae TSURUTA
  • Patent number: 11901548
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material, which has a high capacity and excellent charge and discharge cycle performance, for a lithium-ion secondary battery is provided. Alternatively, a positive electrode active material that inhibits a decrease in capacity in charge and discharge cycles when used in a lithium-ion secondary battery is provided. Alternatively, a high-capacity secondary battery is provided. Alternatively, a highly safe or reliable secondary battery is provided. The positive electrode active material contains a first substance including a first crack and a second substance positioned inside the first crack. The first substance contains one or more of cobalt, manganese, and nickel, lithium, oxygen, magnesium, and fluorine. The second substance contains phosphorus and oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhito Machikawa, Yohei Momma, Teruaki Ochiai, Mayumi Mikami
  • Publication number: 20240047655
    Abstract: A secondary battery has a high capacity and little deterioration can be provided. Alternatively, a novel power storage device is provided. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a first active material, a second active material, and a graphene compound. At least part of a surface of the first active material includes a region covered with the second active material. A surface of the second active material and at least part of the surface of the first active material each include a region covered with the graphene compound. The first active material includes graphite. The second active material includes silicon. The capacity of the positive electrode is greater than or equal to 50% and less than 100% of the capacity of the negative electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Kazutaka KURIKI, Taisuke NAKAO, Teruaki OCHIAI, Tatsuyoshi TAKAHASHI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11881578
    Abstract: In manufacturing a storage battery electrode, a method for manufacturing a storage battery electrode with high capacity and stability is provided. As a method for preventing a mixture for forming an active material layer from becoming strongly basic, a first aqueous solution is formed by mixing an active material exhibiting basicity with an aqueous solution exhibiting acidity and including an oxidized derivative of a first conductive additive; a first mixture is formed by reducing the oxidized derivative of the first conductive additive by drying the first aqueous solution; a second mixture is formed by mixing a second conductive additive and a binder; a third mixture is formed by mixing the first mixture and the second mixture; and a current collector is coated with the third mixture. The strong basicity of the mixture for forming an active material layer is lowered; thus, the binder can be prevented from becoming gelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kawakami, Yohei Momma, Teruaki Ochiai, Tatsuya Ikenuma
  • Publication number: 20230420674
    Abstract: Novel graphene is provided. A novel graphene compound is provided. An electrode having a high output is provided. A novel electrode is provided. A secondary battery with little deterioration is provided. A secondary battery with a high degree of safety is provided. Graphene has a vacancy formed with a many-membered ring that is a nine- or more-membered ring composed of carbon atoms. One or more of the carbon atoms included in the many-membered ring are terminated with fluorine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Kazutaka KURIKI, Taisuke NAKAO, Teruaki OCHIAI
  • Patent number: 11843113
    Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode active material which suppresses a reduction in capacity due to charge and discharge cycles when used in a lithium ion secondary battery. A covering layer is formed by segregation on a superficial portion of the positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material includes a first region and a second region. The first region exists in an inner portion of the positive electrode active material. The second region exists in a superficial portion of the positive electrode active material and part of the inner portion thereof. The first region includes lithium, a transition metal, and oxygen. The second region includes magnesium, fluorine, and oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kawakami, Teruaki Ochiai, Yohei Momma, Ayae Tsuruta, Masahiro Takahashi, Mayumi Mikami
  • Publication number: 20230361290
    Abstract: To increase capacity per weight of a power storage device, a particle includes a first region, a second region in contact with at least part of a surface of the first region and located on the outside of the first region, and a third region in contact with at least part of a surface of the second region and located on the outside of the second region. The first and the second regions contain lithium and oxygen. At least one of the first region and the second region contains manganese. At least one of the first and the second regions contains an element M. The first region contains a first crystal having a layered rock-salt structure. The second region contains a second crystal having a layered rock-salt structure. An orientation of the first crystal is different from an orientation of the second crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Takahiro KAWAKAMI, Teruaki OCHIAI, Shuhei YOSHITOMI, Takuya HIROHASHI, Mako MOTOYOSHI, Yohei MOMMA, Junya GOTO
  • Publication number: 20230343952
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material with high charge and discharge capacity is provided. A positive electrode active material with high charge and discharge voltage is provided. A positive electrode active material that hardly deteriorates is provided. The positive electrode active material is formed through a plurality of heating steps. The second and subsequent heating steps are preferably performed at a temperature higher than or equal to 742° C. and lower than or equal to 920° C. for longer than or equal to an hour and shorter than or equal to 10 hours. Through the heating, magnesium, fluorine, and the like are distributed in a surface portion of the positive electrode active material with preferable concentrations. The crystal structure of general lithium cobalt oxide is easily broken because it becomes the H1-3 phase type crystal structure when being charged at 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Yohei MOMMA, Mayumi MIKAMI, Teruaki OCHIAI
  • Publication number: 20230343924
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material which can improve cycle characteristics of a secondary battery is provided. Two kinds of regions are provided in a superficial portion of a positive electrode active material such as lithium cobaltate which has a layered rock-salt crystal structure. The inner region is a non-stoichiometric compound containing a transition metal such as titanium, and the outer region is a compound of representative elements such as magnesium oxide. The two kinds of regions each have a rock-salt crystal structure. The inner layered rock-salt crystal structure and the two kinds of regions in the superficial portion are topotaxy; thus, a change of the crystal structure of the positive electrode active material generated by charging and discharging can be effectively suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruaki OCHIAI, Takahiro KAWAKAMI, Mayumi MIKAMI, Yohei MOMMA, Masahiro TAKAHASHI, Ayae TSURUTA
  • Patent number: 11799080
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material having high capacity and excellent cycle performance is provided. The positive electrode active material has a small difference in a crystal structure between the charged state and the discharged state. For example, the crystal structure and volume of the positive electrode active material, which has a layered rock-salt crystal structure in the discharged state and a pseudo-spinel crystal structure in the charged state at a high voltage of approximately 4.6 V, are less likely to be changed by charge and discharge as compared with those of a known positive electrode active material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mayumi Mikami, Aya Uchida, Yumiko Yoneda, Yohei Momma, Masahiro Takahashi, Teruaki Ochiai
  • Publication number: 20230327088
    Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode active material which suppresses a reduction in capacity due to charge and discharge cycles when used in a lithium ion secondary battery. A covering layer is formed by segregation on a superficial portion of the positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material includes a first region and a second region. The first region exists in an inner portion of the positive electrode active material. The second region exists in a superficial portion of the positive electrode active material and part of the inner portion thereof. The first region includes lithium, a transition metal, and oxygen. The second region includes magnesium, fluorine, and oxygen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro KAWAKAMI, Teruaki OCHIAI, Yohei MOMMA, Ayae TSURUTA, Masahiro Takahashi, Mayumi MIKAMI