Patents by Inventor Yohei Shindo
Yohei Shindo 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: 20230420735Abstract: A solid-state battery having a low heat generation amount and low resistance, and a method for producing the same. The solid-state battery is a solid-state battery comprising: a cathode comprising a cathode layer that contains an oxide-based cathode active material, an anode comprising an anode layer that contains an anode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer being disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer and containing a solid electrolyte, wherein at least any one of the cathode layer and the solid electrolyte layer contains a sulfide-based solid electrolyte, and wherein the sulfide-based solid electrolyte comprises a high oxygen concentration layer on a contact surface with the oxide-based cathode active material, the high oxygen concentration layer having a higher oxygen element concentration than other parts except the contact surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Jun YOSHIDA, Shinya SHIOTANI, Masaru KUBOTA, Yohei SHINDO, Takeshi USAMI
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Patent number: 11791497Abstract: A solid-state battery having a low heat generation amount and low resistance, and a method for producing the same. The solid-state battery is a solid-state battery comprising: a cathode comprising a cathode layer that contains an oxide-based cathode active material, an anode comprising an anode layer that contains an anode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer being disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer and containing a solid electrolyte, wherein at least any one of the cathode layer and the solid electrolyte layer contains a sulfide-based solid electrolyte, and wherein the sulfide-based solid electrolyte comprises a high oxygen concentration layer on a contact surface with the oxide-based cathode active material, the high oxygen concentration layer having a higher oxygen element concentration than other parts except the contact surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Yoshida, Shinya Shiotani, Masaru Kubota, Yohei Shindo, Takeshi Usami
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Publication number: 20220367879Abstract: The present disclosure provides a current collector of a secondary battery in which the current inside the battery is easily blocked at the time of inside short circuit, and in which the capacity retention rate and the decreasing rate of the electric resistance are outstanding. The current collector herein disclosed includes a laminate structure in which a resin layer and a metal layers formed on the both surfaces of the resin layer are laminated. The surface of the metal layer includes a rough surface part provided with a plurality of protruding parts and a plurality of recessed parts. On the rough surface part, a resin coat layer is formed, and at least one part of the protruding part among the plurality of protruding parts includes an exposed part that is exposed from the resin coat layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Daisuke HORIKAWA, Yohei SHINDO
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Publication number: 20220367880Abstract: The secondary battery current collector disclosed herein includes a resin layer, a first metal layer covering one main surface of the resin layer, and a second metal layer covering the other main surface of the resin layer. Each of the first metal layer and the second metal layer extend beyond an external side of the main surface of the resin layer. The secondary battery current collector has a resin-laminated part, in which the first metal layer, the resin layer, and the second metal layer are laminated; and a metal-laminated part, in which the first metal layer and the second metal layer are overlaid, on an external side of the resin-laminated part. A thickness of the metal-laminated part is greater than a total thickness of the first metal layer and the second metal layer in the thickest portion of the resin-laminated part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Daisuke HORIKAWA, Yohei SHINDO
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Publication number: 20220344671Abstract: The electrical collector body of the secondary battery includes a resin layer, and metal foils that cover both surfaces of the resin layer. On the metal foils, multiple holes are formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Daisuke HORIKAWA, Yohei SHINDO
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Publication number: 20220344670Abstract: The present disclosure can improve activation stability of the current cut-off function of the electrode current collector. The electrode current collector 10 disclosed herein includes a sheet-like resin base material 12, and a metal thin film 14 provided on a surface 12a, 121 of the resin base material 12. in the electrode current collector 10 disclosed herein, the surface 12a. 12b of the resin base material 12 in contact with the metal thin films 14 has a surface rough ness Rz of 2 ?m or more. This can largely improve the adhesion between the resin base material 12 and the metal thin film 14. Thus, when abnormal heat generation occurs, the resin base material 12 is melted and deformed so as to pull the metal thin film 14, thereby breaking the metal thin films 14. As a result, the current cut-off function can be stably activated, and the progression of abnormal heat generation can be substantially prevented, as appropriate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Yohei SHINDO, Daisuke HORIKAWA
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Publication number: 20220209242Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery disclosed herein includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive and negative electrodes each include a current collector and a mixture layer formed on the surface of the current collector. The current collector includes a resin layer and metallic foils provided on both surfaces of the resin layer in at least one of the positive and negative electrodes. A surface of the metallic foils on which the mixture layer is formed is roughened. Furthermore, the average X (?m) of the thicknesses at the thinnest parts and the average Y (?m) of the thicknesses at the thickest parts of the metallic foil determined based on a plurality of obtained sectional SEM images in a stacked direction of the resin layer and the metallic foils satisfy the following relationship: 0.1 ?m<X<4 ?m, and 1.2?Y/X.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Daisuke HORIKAWA, Yohei SHINDO
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Publication number: 20220037659Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery with good capacity property. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising a cathode layer including a composite cathode active material, an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, and the composite cathode active material includes a cathode active material represented by LiaNixCoyAlzNbbO2 wherein 1.0?a?1.05, x+y+z+b=1, 0.8?x?0.83, 0.13?y?0.15, 0.03?z?0.04, 0<b?0.011; and a coating layer covering at least a part of a surface of the cathode active material and including an ion conductive oxide, and at least one of the cathode layer and the solid electrolyte layer includes a sulfide solid electrolyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Nishimura, Yohei Shindo, Masaru Kuboto, So Yubuchi, Hitomi Nakamura, Ryousuke Okamoto, Kazuhide Hayashi, Mikako Touma
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Publication number: 20210202987Abstract: A solid-state battery having a low heat generation amount and low resistance, and a method for producing the same. The solid-state battery is a solid-state battery comprising: a cathode comprising a cathode layer that contains an oxide-based cathode active material, an anode comprising an anode layer that contains an anode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer being disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer and containing a solid electrolyte, wherein at least any one of the cathode layer and the solid electrolyte layer contains a sulfide-based solid electrolyte, and wherein the sulfide-based solid electrolyte comprises a high oxygen concentration layer on a contact surface with the oxide-based cathode active material, the high oxygen concentration layer having a higher oxygen element concentration than other parts except the contact surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Jun YOSHIDA, Shinya SHIOTANI, Masaru KUBOTA, Yohei SHINDO, Takeshi USAMI
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Patent number: 10873077Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery is disclosed that can inhibit generation of gas due to decomposition of a non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The lithium ion battery includes a cathode, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution and an anode, wherein the cathode includes a conductive material, a layered niobium-containing oxide that coats a surface of the conductive material, and a lithium-containing oxide active material having an upper-limit potential to a redox potential of metal lithium of no less than 4.5 V (vs. Li/Li+).Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohei Shindo, Yoshitomo Takebayashi, Sho Ando, Yusuke Shimo
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Patent number: 10629907Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery with a high capacity retention rate, and a method for producing the lithium ion secondary battery. The lithium ion secondary battery may comprise a cathode including a cathode active material layer comprising a cathode active material and Li3PO4, an anode including an anode active material layer comprising an anode active material, and an electrolyte layer being disposed between the cathode and the anode and comprising a liquid electrolyte, wherein a C1s element ratio obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurement of the Li3PO4 is 18.82 at % or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohei Shindo, Yoichi Koike
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Publication number: 20190229331Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery is disclosed that can inhibit generation of gas due to decomposition of a non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The lithium ion battery includes a cathode, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution and an anode, wherein the cathode includes a conductive material, a layered niobium-containing oxide that coats a surface of the conductive material, and a lithium-containing oxide active material having an upper-limit potential to a redox potential of metal lithium of no less than 4.5 V (vs. Li/Li+).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Yohei SHINDO, Yoshitomo TAKEBAYASHI, Sho ANDO, Yusuke SHIMO
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Patent number: 10361427Abstract: An all-solid-state battery having an olivine-type positive electrode active material and a sulfur solid electrolyte and a method for producing the all-solid-state battery is provided. The positive electrode active material is a positive electrode active material in which primary particles aggregate into secondary particles. The primary particles have an olivine-type positive electrode active material and a coating layer that coats all or a portion of the olivine-type positive electrode active material. The coating layer contains a transition metal derived from the olivine-type positive electrode active material, lithium, phosphorous and oxygen as components thereof, and the concentration of the transition metal is lower the concentration of the olivine-type positive electrode active material.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mayuko Osaki, Yohei Shindo, Manabu Imano, Hideyuki Koga, Hidenori Miki
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Patent number: 10141762Abstract: The all-solid-state battery system that has an all-solid-state battery, the all-solid-state battery having a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer and a negative electrode active material layer, and a control device that controls the lower limit discharge potential of the positive electrode active material layer of the all-solid-state battery. The positive electrode active material layer and/or the solid electrolyte layer have a sulfide solid electrolyte. In addition, the positive electrode active material layer has an olivine-type positive electrode active material. In addition, the capacity of the negative electrode active material layer is lower than the capacity of the positive electrode active material layer. In addition, the control device controls the lower limit discharge potential of the positive electrode active material layer during normal use of the all-solid-state battery to within the range of 1.6 V vs. Li/Li+ to 2.1 V vs. Li/Li+.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yohei Shindo, Manabu Imano, Mayuko Osaki, Taishi Shiotsuki
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Patent number: 10026955Abstract: To provide a method for producing a positive electrode active material layer for lithium ion battery that can improve durability and internal resistance of lithium ion battery, and particularly lithium ion battery that operates at high voltage. The method for producing positive electrode active material layer for a lithium ion battery includes coating a substrate with positive electrode mixture slurry containing positive electrode active material, first lithium salt, second lithium salt and solvent, and drying off the solvent. First lithium salt is lithium phosphate, the second lithium salt is selected from the group including of lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, lithium nitrate, lithium acetate, lithium sulfate and combinations thereof, and the proportion of the second lithium salt with respect to the first lithium salt is 1 to 50 mol % based on the number of lithium atoms.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yohei Shindo
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Publication number: 20180102540Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery with a high capacity retention rate, and a method for producing the lithium ion secondary battery. The lithium ion secondary battery may comprise a cathode including a cathode active material layer comprising a cathode active material and Li3PO4, an anode including an anode active material layer comprising an anode active material, and an electrolyte layer being disposed between the cathode and the anode and comprising a liquid electrolyte, wherein a C1s element ratio obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurement of the Li3PO4 is 18.82 at % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohei SHINDO, Yoichi KOIKE
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Patent number: 9920426Abstract: A method for producing a lithium phosphorus oxynitride layer having high ionic conductivity is provided. The method for producing a lithium phosphorus oxynitride layer on a substrate by atomic layer deposition comprises an atmosphere interchanging step, wherein the atmosphere surrounding the substrate is alternately switched between a first atmosphere, containing a first precursor such as a dialkyl phosphoramidate and/or alkyl phosphorodiamidate, and a second atmosphere, containing a second precursor such as a lithium hexaalkyl disilazide.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yohei Shindo, Taishi Shiotsuki, Hideyuki Koga, Maarit Karppinen, Mikko Nisula
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Patent number: 9786918Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which it is possible to increase a capacity retention rate is provided. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided which includes: a positive electrode layer that includes a positive electrode active material and a conductive material; a negative electrode layer; and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution that is arranged between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, where an upper limit voltage is equal to or more than 4.5 V with respect to the oxidation-reduction potential of lithium, and the surface of the conductive material is coated with a coating layer mainly formed of P, O, C and H.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yohei Shindo
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Publication number: 20170279117Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery is disclosed that can inhibit generation of gas due to decomposition of a non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The lithium ion battery includes a cathode, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution and an anode, wherein the cathode includes a conductive material, a layered niobium-containing oxide that coats a surface of the conductive material, and a lithium-containing oxide active material having an upper-limit potential to a redox potential of metal lithium of no less than 4.5 V (vs. Li/Li+).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Yohei SHINDO, Yoshitomo TAKEBAYASHI, Sho ANDO, Yusuke SHIMO
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Publication number: 20170155127Abstract: The all-solid-state battery system that has an all-solid-state battery, the all-solid-state battery having a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer and a negative electrode active material layer, and a control device that controls the lower limit discharge potential of the positive electrode active material layer of the all-solid-state battery. The positive electrode active material layer and/or the solid electrolyte layer have a sulfide solid electrolyte. In addition, the positive electrode active material layer has an olivine-type positive electrode active material. In addition, the capacity of the negative electrode active material layer is lower than the capacity of the positive electrode active material layer. In addition, the control device controls the lower limit discharge potential of the positive electrode active material layer during normal use of the all-solid-state battery to within the range of 1.6 V vs. Li/Li+ to 2.1 V vs. Li/Li+.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Yohei Shindo, Manabu Imano, Mayuko Osaki, Taishi Shiotsuki