Patents by Inventor Wataru Uno
Wataru Uno 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: 20240332639Abstract: An electrode structure for a secondary battery includes an electrode and a composite layer. In a cumulative frequency distribution of inorganic particles having average particle size of 3 ?m or more with respect to a thickness direction of the composite layer, a first region is set to a range 0 or more and less than 25 and the second region is set to a range 25 or more and 100 or less. The first region is 5% or more and 40% or less of the thickness of the composite layer. Average particle size of inorganic particles satisfy a relationship of R1<R2.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Wataru UNO, Hayato SEKI, Yasuyuki HOTTA, Keigo HOSHINA
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Publication number: 20240097206Abstract: An integrated sheet structure for a secondary battery, including a first mixture layer containing a first active material and a first binder, a second mixture layer containing a second active material and a second binder, and a third mixture layer located between the first mixture layer and the second mixture layer and containing solid particles and a third binder, in which the first mixture layer and the third mixture layer are bonded each other, and the second mixture layer and the third mixture layer are bonded each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hirofumi YASUMIISHI, Keigo HOSHINA, Yasuyuki HOTTA, Yumiko SEKIGUCHI, Kazuomi YOSHIMA, Hayato SEKI, Wataru UNO
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Publication number: 20240079575Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery including a negative electrode, a positive electrode, a separation layer in contact with an active material-containing layer of the negative electrode, and an aqueous electrolyte. A first concentration corresponding to a first metal concentration represented by Equation 1 (first metal concentration=atomic concentration of Hg, Pb, Zn, and/or Bi/sum of atomic concentrations of elements B to U in periodic table, excluding carbon and oxygen) in a boundary region between the active material-containing layer and the separation layer is 2% or more and 8.2% or less. A ratio of the first concentration to a second concentration corresponding to the first metal concentration represented by Equation 1 in the active material-containing layer excluding the boundary region is 2.5 or more and less than 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yumiko SEKIGUCHI, Keigo HOSHINA, Kazuomi YOSHIMA, Yasuyuki HOTTA, Hayato SEKI, Hirofumi YASUMIISHI, Wataru UNO
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Publication number: 20240012060Abstract: In a diagnosis method of a battery of an embodiment, based on a measurement result of a first impedance of a battery at a first frequency, it is determined, for each of a plurality of SOC values, whether an absolute value of a change ratio of the first impedance to the SOC is not more than a reference value. In the diagnosis method, for a target SOC value whose absolute value of the change ratio is not more than the reference value in the plurality of SOC values, a second impedance of the battery at a second frequency higher than the first frequency is measured. In the diagnosis method, determination concerning the state of the battery is performed based on the measurement results of the first impedance and the second impedance for the target SOC value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Wataru UNO, Yuta KANAI, Ryosuke YAGI
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Publication number: 20240006905Abstract: In a charging method of a battery of an embodiment, at each of a first time point and a second time point after a time point at which a predetermined time is elapsed from the first time point, a superimposed current obtained by superimposing a current waveform that periodically changes at a predetermined frequency on a charging current is input to the battery, thereby measuring, concerning an impedance of the battery at the predetermined frequency, a first impedance at the first time point and a second impedance at the second time point. In the charging method, using a parameter representing an increase state of the second impedance to the first impedance as an index, a current value of the charging current is adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yuta KANAI, Ryosuke YAGI, Wataru UNO
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Publication number: 20230400526Abstract: In a diagnosis method of an embodiment, a battery, which includes, as electrode active materials, a first electrode active material whose impedance has a first natural frequency and a second natural frequency lower than the first natural frequency and a second electrode active material whose impedance has a third natural frequency with a magnitude between the first natural frequency and the second natural frequency, is diagnosed. In the method, an impedance of the battery is measured at each of a plurality of measurement target frequencies by setting, as a measurement range, a first measurement range including the first natural frequency and not including the second and third natural frequencies, and a second measurement range including the second natural frequency and not including the first and third natural frequencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yuta KANAI, Ryosuke YAGI, Wataru UNO, Norihiro YOSHINAGA
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Publication number: 20230366939Abstract: In an embodiment, a diagnosis method of a secondary battery, which includes a first electrode including a first electrode active material that performs a two-phase coexistence reaction, and a second electrode including a second active material that performs a single-phase reaction and having a polarity opposite to a polarity of the first electrode, is provided. In the method, a relationship between an SOC of the secondary battery and at least one of a charge transfer resistance and a vertex frequency of the second electrode is acquired by calculating at least one of the charge transfer resistance and the vertex frequency of the second electrode based on a measurement result of an impedance of the secondary battery for each of a plurality of SOC values of the secondary battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Wataru UNO, Yuta KANAI, Ryosuke YAGI
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Patent number: 11811088Abstract: A separator includes an inorganic particle layer including an inorganic particle, a polymeric binder and a fiber substance. A mass ratio of the fiber substance with respect to a total mass of the inorganic particle, the polymeric binder and the fiber substance is 0.1 mass % or more and 40 mass % or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Wataru Uno, Yasuyuki Hotta, Shinsuke Matsuno, Norio Takami
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Patent number: 11637281Abstract: According to one embodiment, a secondary battery (100) including a positive electrode (5), a negative electrode (3), a first electrolyte (9), and a second electrolyte (8). The negative electrode (3) includes a lithium titanium oxide having a degree of proton substitution of 0.01 to 0.2. The first electrolyte (9) includes water and in contact with the positive electrode (5). The second electrolyte (8) includes water and in contact with the negative electrode (3).Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hayato Seki, Wataru Uno, Takashi Kuboki
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Patent number: 11456490Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a first aqueous electrolyte held on the positive electrode, a negative electrode, a second aqueous electrolyte held on the negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. A difference between an osmotic pressure (N/m2) of the first aqueous electrolyte and an osmotic pressure (N/m2) of the second aqueous electrolyte is 90% or less (including 0%) of the higher one of the osmotic pressure of the first aqueous electrolyte and the osmotic pressure of the second aqueous electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hayato Seki, Wataru Uno, Yasuyuki Hotta, Shinsuke Matsuno
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Publication number: 20220085364Abstract: According to one embodiment, a secondary battery (100) including a positive electrode (5), a negative electrode (3), a first electrolyte (9), and a second electrolyte (8). The negative electrode (3) includes a lithium titanium oxide having a degree of proton substitution of 0.01 to 0.2. The first electrolyte (9) includes water and in contact with the positive electrode (5). The second electrolyte (8) includes water and in contact with the negative electrode (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hayato SEKI, Wataru Uno, Takashi Kuboki
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Publication number: 20220069336Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrode structure is provided. The electrode structure includes an electrode group and a hold member. The hold member clamps the electrode group in a thickness direction of the electrode group. The electrode group satisfies a formula (1) below. m/L?0.01??(1) Here, m is a difference ?t in a cross section which is selected from among a plurality of cross sections along the thickness direction of the electrode group. L is a maximum length of the electrode group in an in-plane direction orthogonal to the thickness direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hayato SEKI, Yasuyuki HOTTA, Wataru UNO, Shinsuke MATSUNO
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Publication number: 20210091416Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a first aqueous electrolyte held on the positive electrode, a negative electrode, a second aqueous electrolyte held on the negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. A difference between an osmotic pressure (N/m2) of the first aqueous electrolyte and an osmotic pressure (N/m2) of the second aqueous electrolyte is 90% or less (including 0%) of the higher one of the osmotic pressure of the first aqueous electrolyte and the osmotic pressure of the second aqueous electrolyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hayato SEKI, Wataru UNO, Yasuyuki HOTTA, Shinsuke MATSUNO
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Publication number: 20210091358Abstract: A separator includes an inorganic particle layer including an inorganic particle, a polymeric binder and a fiber substance. A mass ratio of the fiber substance with respect to a total mass of the inorganic particle, the polymeric binder and the fiber substance is 0.1 mass % or more and 40 mass % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Wataru UNO, Yasuyuki HOTTA, Shinsuke MATSUNO, Norio TAKAMI
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Publication number: 20200201858Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a group generation unit that generates search action groups including plural search actions, based on occurrence time of each of search actions occurring along a time series, and a specifying unit that specifies a search action included in an identical search event, based on a group relevance between the search action groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryota OZAKI, Wataru UNO, Noriji KATO
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Publication number: 20200150855Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires, from plural pieces of first information viewed by a user, content information being information of contents described in the first information, an extraction unit that extracts a location in which the user has performed editing, from second information as a target of the user working, and a specifying unit that specifies the first information viewed during a period in which the user performs editing at the location or viewed before and after the editing among the plural pieces of first information from the content information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Wataru UNO, Ryota OZAKI, Noriji KATO
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Patent number: 5205030Abstract: A caulking machine has a column with a table for placing a work piece having rivet shanks passing therethrough, a cylinder vertically movably mounted on the column, a piston shaft fixedly mounted in the cylinder so as to be movable together with the cylinder, a spindle rotatably mounted in the piston shaft, and a rivet head forming tool having a forming shaft and mounted to the bottom end of the spindle. The forming shaft is adapted to be pressed against the rivet shank in the work piece by operating the cylinder, and can be rotated by a motor via the spindle to form a rivet head on the rivet shank. The machine has a rotation detector for determining whether a rivet head is being formed or the machine is idling by measuring the rotation of the forming shaft. If it is determined that the machine is idling, a display device can be activated and the operation of the machine can be stopped.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1991Date of Patent: April 27, 1993Assignee: Yoshikawa Iron Works Ltd.Inventor: Wataru Uno