Patents by Inventor Toshifumi KOYANAGI

Toshifumi KOYANAGI 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: 20240376624
    Abstract: A roughened plated sheet including a roughened plated layer having a roughened nickel plated layer and a zinc plated layer formed on at least one surface of a metal substrate in this order from the metal substrate side, wherein a ten-point average roughness RZjis of a surface of the roughened plated layer, according to laser microscope measurement, is 3 ?m or more, an adhesion amount of the roughened nickel plated layer is 0.4 to 14.0 g/m2, and an adhesion amount of the zinc plated layer is 3 g/m2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki YANAGA, Shinichirou Horie, Etsuro Tsutsumi, Masashi Ichishima, Toshifumi Koyanagi, Koh Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 12104271
    Abstract: A roughened plated sheet including a roughened plated layer having a roughened nickel plated layer and a zinc plated layer formed on at least one surface of a metal substrate in this order from the metal substrate side, wherein a ten-point average roughness Rzjis of a surface of the roughened plated layer, according to laser microscope measurement, is 3 ?m or more, and the metal substrate is a steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yanaga, Shinichirou Horie, Etsuro Tsutsumi, Masashi Ichishima, Toshifumi Koyanagi, Koh Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20240229284
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a surface treated steel foil having hydrogen barrier properties suitable for a bipolar battery. [Solving Means] A surface treated steel foil having a first surface and a second surface located on a side opposite to the first surface, the surface treated steel foil including a base material composed of a low carbon steel or an ultra low carbon steel, and an iron-nickel alloy layer laminated on the base material on at least one surface side of the first surface side and the second surface side. Fe1Ni1 is included as an alloy phase in the iron-nickel alloy layer, an orientation index in X-ray diffraction of a (220) plane of Fe1Ni1 in the surface having the iron-nickel alloy layer is not less than 1.0, and the ratio of the maximum value of diffraction intensity of the (220) plane of Fe1Ni1 and the maximum value of diffraction intensity of a Fe(200) plane satisfies the following formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Kyoko TAKANO, Shinichirou HORIE, Koh YOSHIOKA, Keishi KATSURA, Satoko HARADA, Misato UENO, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Shunki OBATA
  • Publication number: 20240234740
    Abstract: To provide a surface treated steel foil that is for a current collector and that has hydrogen barrier properties suitable for a battery using a hydrogen occluding alloy. The surface treated steel foil for a current collector has a first surface on which a hydrogen occluding alloy is disposed and a second surface located on a side opposite to the first surface. The surface treated steel foil for a current collector is characterized by having an iron-nickel alloy layer that is laminated on at least one surface side of the first surface side and the second surface side on the side opposite to the first surface side of a metallic base material composed of steel foil and that restrains permeation or diffusion of hydrogen in the surface treated steel foil for a current collector, and is characterized in that at least one layer included in the iron-nickel alloy layer has a thickness of not less than 0.5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Keishi KATSURA, Misato UENO, Shinichirou HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Satoko HARADA, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Shunki OBATA, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240222645
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a surface treated steel foil for a current collector, the surface treated steel foil having suitable hydrogen barrier properties. [Solving Means] A surface treated steel foil for a current collector, the surface treated steel foil having a first surface and a second surface located on a side opposite to the first surface, includes a base material formed of a steel and an iron-nickel alloy layer that is laminated on the base material on the first surface side and/or the second surface side. The iron-nickel alloy layer contains Fe1Ni1 as an alloy phase. With respect to the surface including the alloy layer, the ratio of the maximum value of diffraction intensity of a Fe1Ni1 (311) plane and the maximum value of diffraction intensity of a Fe(211) plane in X-ray diffraction satisfies the following formula (1): I ? ( Fe 1 ? Ni 1 ( 311 ) ) / I ? ( Fe ( 211 ) ) ? 0.015 .
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Misato UENO, Keishi KATSURA, Shinichirou HORIE, Satoko HARADA, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Shunki OBATA, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240213461
    Abstract: A bipolar electrode (100) for a metal hydride battery includes a current collector (10), a negative electrode active material layer (20) provided on a first surface (10A) of the current collector (10), and a positive electrode active material layer (30) provided on a second surface (10B) of the current collector (10). The negative electrode active material layer (20) contains a metal hydride. The current collector (10) includes a steel sheet (13) and a Ni—Fe alloy layer (15) formed on at least one surface of the steel sheet (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIkI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki CHUJO, Tomohiro NAKAMURA, Kyohei MATSUURA, Yutaro KAWABATA, Takayuki HIROSE, Motoaki OKUDA, Takeo OKANISHI, Motoyoshi OKUMURA, Hiroyuki KAIYA, Masashi KODAMA, Daiki TERASHIMA, Masanobu OUCHI, Koh YOSHIOKA, Shinichirou HORIE, Toshifumi KOYANAGI
  • Patent number: 12021243
    Abstract: Provided is a sulfide all-solid battery having an anode current collector of powerful adhesiveness which is difficult to be sulfurized. The sulfide all-solid-state battery including: a cathode layer; an anode layer; and a sulfide solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, wherein the anode layer has an anode mixture layer, and an anode current collector on a face of the anode mixture layer, the face being on an opposite side of the sulfide solid electrolyte layer, the anode current collector is electrolytic iron foil that does not substantially contain other elements, and the anode current collector has surface roughness Ra of 0.2 ?m to 0.6 ?m, and surface roughness Rz of 2 ?m to 6 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Shigetaka Nagamatsu, Shinichirou Horie, Koh Yoshioka, Toshifumi Koyanagi, Etsuro Tsutsumi, Michio Kawamura, Yuma Yoshizaki
  • Patent number: 12018395
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a roughened nickel-plated material in which the formation unevenness such as generation of the unevenness or grooves in a roughened nickel plated layer is restrained. [Solving Means] A roughened nickel-plated material including a base material that is a rolled material, and a roughened nickel plated layer formed on at least one surface of the base material, in which SRzjis of the surface of the roughened nickel plated layer is equal to or more than 2 ?m, and, letting a maximum height of the roughened nickel plated layer be SRz, a valley region B in a given virtual planer region A as observed at a height position of SRz×0.25 satisfies the following (i). (i) The length of the valley region B in the rolling direction RD of the base material is less than 40 ?m in a direct distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichirou Horie, Etsuro Tsutsumi, Toshifumi Koyanagi, Shunki Obata, Michio Kawamura, Koh Yoshioka, Naoharu Harada, Tsuyoshi Irie, Yonosuke Yoshii
  • Publication number: 20230340685
    Abstract: A roughened plated sheet including a roughened plated layer having a roughened nickel plated layer and a zinc plated layer formed on at least one surface of a metal substrate in this order from the metal substrate side, wherein a ten-point average roughness Rzjis of a surface of the roughened plated layer, according to laser microscope measurement, is 3 ?m or more, and the metal substrate is a steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki YANAGA, Shinichirou HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Masashi ICHISHIMA, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Patent number: 11760063
    Abstract: There is provided a roughened nickel-plated sheet having a roughened nickel layer as an outermost surface layer on at least one surface of a metal base material, wherein the brightness L* of the surface of the roughened nickel layer is 30 to 50, the glossiness of 85° of the surface of the roughened nickel layer is 1.5 to 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichirou Horie, Etsuro Tsutsumi, Toshifumi Koyanagi, Koh Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11732376
    Abstract: Provided is a roughened plated sheet comprising a roughened plated layer having a roughened nickel plated layer and a zinc plated layer formed on at least one surface of a metal substrate in this order from the metal substrate side, wherein a ten-point average roughness Rzjis of a surface of the roughened plated layer, according to laser microscope measurement, is 3 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yanaga, Shinichirou Horie, Etsuro Tsutsumi, Masashi Ichishima, Toshifumi Koyanagi, Koh Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20230057775
    Abstract: A roughened nickel-plated sheet including a roughened nickel layer on at least one surface of a metal substrate as the outermost layer thereof, the roughened nickel layer being formed of a plurality of nickel protrusions. When the structure of the roughened nickel-plated sheet is observed at height positions with a focused ion beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM), the absolute value of the change rate of the nickel occupancy is equal to or less than a predetermined value, and the nickel occupancy and the number of nickel protrusions present at a height position located 2.0 ?m from the base position of the roughened nickel layer toward the surface in the height direction are equal to or more than predetermined values, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichirou HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Koh YOSHIOKA, Kyoto TAKANO, Shunki OBATA, Satoko HARADA, Keishi KATSURA, Misato UENO
  • Publication number: 20220282388
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a roughened nickel-plated material in which the formation unevenness such as generation of the unevenness or grooves in a roughened nickel plated layer is restrained. [Solving Means] A roughened nickel-plated material including a base material that is a rolled material, and a roughened nickel plated layer formed on at least one surface of the base material, in which SRzjis of the surface of the roughened nickel plated layer is equal to or more than 2 ?m, and, letting a maximum height of the roughened nickel plated layer be SRz, a valley region B in a given virtual planer region A as observed at a height position of SRz×0.25 satisfies the following (i). (i) The length of the valley region B in the rolling direction RD of the base material is less than 40 ?m in a direct distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichirou HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Shunki OBATA, Michio KAWAMURA, Koh YOSHIOKA, Naoharu HARADA, Tsuyoshi IRIE, Yonosuke YOSHII
  • Publication number: 20220235483
    Abstract: Provided is a roughened plated sheet comprising a roughened plated layer having a roughened nickel plated layer and a zinc plated layer famed on at least one surface of a metal substrate in this order from the metal substrate side, wherein a ten-point average roughness Rzjis of a surface of the roughened plated layer, according to laser microscope measurement, is 3 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki YANAGA, Shinichirou HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Masashi ICHISHIMA, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20220021000
    Abstract: Provided is a sulfide all-solid battery having an anode current collector of powerful adhesiveness which is difficult to be sulfurized. The sulfide all-solid-state battery including: a cathode layer; an anode layer; and a sulfide solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, wherein the anode layer has an anode mixture layer, and an anode current collector on a face of the anode mixture layer, the face being on an opposite side of the sulfide solid electrolyte layer, the anode current collector is electrolytic iron foil that does not substantially contain other elements, and the anode current collector has surface roughness Ra of 0.2 ?m to 0.6 ?m, and surface roughness Rz of 2 ?m to 6 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Shigetaka Nagamatsu, Shinichirou Horie, Koh Yoshioka, Toshifumi Koyanagi, Etsuro Tsutsumi, Michio Kawamura, Yuma Yoshizaki
  • Publication number: 20210268770
    Abstract: There is provided a roughened nickel-plated sheet having a roughened nickel layer as an outermost surface layer on at least one surface of a metal base material, wherein the brightness L* of the surface of the roughened nickel layer is 30 to 50, the glossiness of 85° of the surface of the roughened nickel layer is 1.5 to 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichirou HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Koh YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20210175513
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a laminated electrolytic foil having strength sufficient to successfully suppress tearing or ripping during manufacture, the tearing or ripping being concerned accompanying with a trend toward thinner structures in battery current collectors, and improved in handling properties during the manufacture, and also a battery using the laminated electrolytic foil. [Solution] A laminated electrolytic foil includes a first metal layer formed from Cu and a second metal layer formed from Ni or an Ni alloy, in which the first metal layer and the second metal layer are laminated together. The laminated electrolytic foil has an overall layer thickness, which is the thickness of the laminated electrolytic foil as a whole, of 3 to 15 ?m and tensile strength of 700 MPa or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichirou HORIE, Etsuro TSUTSUMI, Toshifumi KOYANAGI, Koh YOSHIOKA