Patents by Inventor Yoshihide ENOMOTO

Yoshihide ENOMOTO 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: 11764397
    Abstract: To provide a method for production of an all-solid-state battery in which cracking of the ends of the electrodes can be suppressed even if a negative electrode active material layer including lithium-titanium oxide is roll-pressed, provided is a method for the production of an all-solid-state battery, including roll-pressing to consolidate a negative electrode active material layer; wherein the all-solid-state battery has a structure including a laminate of a positive electrode current collector layer, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, the negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector layer in this order, the negative electrode active material layer includes a lithium-titanium oxide as a negative electrode active material, and prior to the roll-pressing, a stress relaxation rate of the negative electrode active material layer is 32.5% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kota Nakamura, Hideki Asadachi, Norihiro Ose, Yoshihide Enomoto, Tomoya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11522215
    Abstract: To provide a method for production of an all-solid-state battery in which cracking of the ends of the electrodes can be suppressed even if a negative electrode active material layer including lithium-titanium oxide is roll-pressed, provided is a method for the production of an all-solid-state battery, including roll-pressing to consolidate a negative electrode active material layer; wherein the all-solid-state battery has a structure including a laminate of a positive electrode current collector layer, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, the negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector layer in this order, the negative electrode active material layer includes a lithium-titanium oxide as a negative electrode active material, and prior to the roll-pressing, a stress relaxation rate of the negative electrode active material layer is 32.5% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kota Nakamura, Hideki Asadachi, Norihiro Ose, Yoshihide Enomoto, Tomoya Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20220293911
    Abstract: A roll press apparatus forms a compressed strip-shaped electrode plate by roll-pressing a strip-shaped electrode plate including an active material portion and an active material absent portion and including a tensile-force-ratio adjustment mechanism adjusting a tensile force ratio of an upstream active material absent portion tensile force applied to an upstream side and a downstream active material absent portion tensile force applied to a downstream side of an inter-roll active material absent portion held in a non-compressed state between a pair of press rolls in an active material absent portion of the strip-shaped electrode plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicants: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kengo HAGA, Tomofumi HIRUKAWA, Kota NAKAMURA, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hideji NAITO, Yoshihide ENOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220293901
    Abstract: A roll press apparatus includes a first press roll and a second press roll. The first press roll includes a first contact part configured to contact an active material portion of a strip-shaped electrode sheet and a second contact part configured to contact an active-material absent portion of the strip-shaped electrode sheet. The second contact part has a large frictional-force generating form that causes a larger frictional force to be generated between the second contact part and the active-material absent portion of the strip-shaped electrode sheet than an imaginary frictional force which would be generated if the active-material absent portion of the strip-shaped electrode sheet were made to contact the first contact part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Kengo HAGA, Tomofumi HIRUKAWA, Kota NAKAMURA, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hideji NAITO, Yoshihide ENOMOTO
  • Patent number: 11431031
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery configured to suppress capacity degradation. The all-solid-state battery may comprise a stack of a cathode layer, a solid electrolyte layer and an alloy-based anode layer, and a confining structure confining the stack in an approximately parallel direction to a stacking direction, wherein the cathode layer has a cathode plane on a side facing the solid electrolyte layer; wherein the alloy-based anode layer has an anode plane on a side facing the solid electrolyte layer; wherein the cathode plane and anode plane of the stack have a long axis direction and a short axis direction; and wherein at least one of the cathode plane and the anode plane has one or more slit channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Suzuki, Shigetada Sugiyama, Yoshihide Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20220223908
    Abstract: To provide a method for production of an all-solid-state battery in which cracking of the ends of the electrodes can be suppressed even if a negative electrode active material layer including lithium-titanium oxide is roll-pressed, provided is a method for the production of an all-solid-state battery, including roll-pressing to consolidate a negative electrode active material layer; wherein the all-solid-state battery has a structure including a laminate of a positive electrode current collector layer, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, the negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector layer in this order, the negative electrode active material layer includes a lithium-titanium oxide as a negative electrode active material, and prior to the roll-pressing, a stress relaxation rate of the negative electrode active material layer is 32.5% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Kota Nakamura, Hideki Asadachi, Norihiro Ose, Yoshihide Enomoto, Tomoya Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200303770
    Abstract: To provide a method for production of an all-solid-state battery in which cracking of the ends of the electrodes can be suppressed even if a negative electrode active material layer including lithium-titanium oxide is roll-pressed, provided is a method for the production of an all-solid-state battery, including roll-pressing to consolidate a negative electrode active material layer; wherein the all-solid-state battery has a structure including a laminate of a positive electrode current collector layer, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, the negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector layer in this order, the negative electrode active material layer includes a lithium-titanium oxide as a negative electrode active material, and prior to the roll-pressing, a stress relaxation rate of the negative electrode active material layer is 32.5% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kota Nakamura, Hideki Asadachi, Norihiro Ose, Yoshihide Enomoto, Tomoya Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190326645
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery configured to suppress capacity degradation. The all-solid-state battery may comprise a stack of a cathode layer, a solid electrolyte layer and an alloy-based anode layer, and a confining structure confining the stack in an approximately parallel direction to a stacking direction, wherein the cathode layer has a cathode plane on a side facing the solid electrolyte layer; wherein the alloy-based anode layer has an anode plane on a side facing the solid electrolyte layer; wherein the cathode plane and anode plane of the stack have a long axis direction and a short axis direction; and wherein at least one of the cathode plane and the anode plane has one or more slit channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya SUZUKI, Shigetada SUGIYAMA, Yoshihide ENOMOTO