Patents by Inventor Yuki Matsushita

Yuki Matsushita 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: 11011810
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stacked battery that can flow a larger rounding current in a short-circuit current shunt part than in an electric element when a short circuit occurs in the short-circuit current shunt part and the electric element in nailing, the stacked battery in which an electrical resistance of a current collector tab of the short-circuit current shunt part is smaller than an electrical resistance of a current collector tab of the electric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Norihiro Ose, Shigenori Hama, Hideaki Nishimura, Yuki Matsushita, Yusuke Okuhata, Mitsuru Tateishi, Hideyo Ebisuzaki
  • Patent number: 10971731
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an electrode current collector in which the peel-off of a coating layer and an aluminum oxide layer is inhibited. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an electrode current collector to be used in an all solid state battery, the electrode current collector comprising: a current collecting layer, an aluminum oxide layer, and a coating layer containing a conductive material, a resin, and an inorganic filler, in this order; and an Al—F bond is present in the aluminum oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Matsushita
  • Patent number: 10964953
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an electrode current collector in which the peel-off of a coating layer and an aluminum oxide layer is inhibited. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an electrode current collector to be used in an all solid state battery, the electrode current collector comprising: a current collecting layer, an aluminum oxide layer, and a coating layer containing a conductive material, a resin, and an inorganic filler, in this order; and the current collecting layer has a porous structure on a surface of the aluminum oxide layer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Matsushita
  • Patent number: 10910677
    Abstract: An objective of the present disclosure is to provide a stacked battery that suppresses sneak current caused by an unevenness of a short circuit resistance among a plurality of cells. The present disclosure provides a stacked battery comprising: a plurality of cells in a thickness direction, wherein the plurality of cells are electrically connected in parallel; the stacked battery includes a surface-side cell that is located on a surface side of the stacked battery, and a center-side cell that is located on a center side rather than the surface-side cell; wherein a resistance of the cathode current collecting tab in the surface-side cell is more than a resistance of the cathode current collecting tab in the center-side cell; or a resistance of the anode current collecting tab in the surface-side cell is more than a resistance of the anode current collecting tab in the center-side cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Yuki Matsushita, Hideaki Nishimura, Yusuke Okuhata, Norihiro Ose, Mitsuru Tateishi, Shigetaka Nagamatsu, Takayuki Uchiyama, Shigenori Hama, Dai Kato, Naohiro Mashimo, Hideyo Ebisuzaki, Ayano Kobayashi, Hisataka Fujimaki
  • Patent number: 10854867
    Abstract: To suppress heat generation in a short-circuit current shunt part in a stacked battery that includes the short-circuit current shunt part, in the stacked battery 100 including at least one short-circuit current shunt part 10, and a stack 20 that includes a plurality of electric elements 20a, 20b which are stacked, the short-circuit current shunt part 10 includes a first part 10a that is provided on one end side in a stacking direction of the stack 20, a second part 10b that is provided on another end side therein, and a third part 10c that connects the first part 10a and the second part 10b; at the first part 10a, the first current collector layer 11 and the cathode current collector layer 21 have an electric connection part 14a but the second current collector layer 12 and the anode current collector layer 25 do not have any electric connection part, at the second part 10b, the second current collector layer 12 and the anode current collector layer 25 have an electric connection part 14b but the first curren
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Norihiro Ose, Hideaki Nishimura, Yuki Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20200251715
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery wherein interface resistance between a current collector and an active material layer is low. In the present disclosure, the above object is achieved by providing an all solid state battery comprising: an electrode including a current collector, an electron conductive layer, and an active material layer, in this order, and a solid electrolyte layer formed on the active material layer side of the electrode, and the electron conductive layer is an agglutinate of metal particles or a metal foil, and electron conductivity of the electron conductive layer is 1×103 S/cm or more at 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Yuki MATSUSHITA, Kazuo YASO
  • Patent number: 10700338
    Abstract: Disclosed is an all-solid-state battery that makes it possible for a larger rounding current flow into a short-circuit current shunt part than to each electric element when the short-circuit current shunt part and the electric elements short-circuit in nail penetration testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Yuki Matsushita, Mitsuru Tateishi, Hideyo Ebisuzaki, Hideaki Nishimura, Yusuke Okuhata, Shigenori Hama, Norihiro Ose
  • Patent number: 10665850
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stacked battery including at least one short-circuit current shunt part and electric elements, wherein: the shunt part includes first and second current collector layers, and an insulating layer provided between the first and second current collector layers, all of these layers being stacked; each power generation element includes a cathode current collector layer, a cathode material layer, an electrolyte layer, an anode material layer, and an anode current collector layer all of these layers being stacked; the first current collector layer is electrically connected to the cathode current collector layer and the second current collector layer to the anode current collector layer; the electric elements are electrically connected in parallel; and the shunt part next to the electric elements includes a PPTC layer between the first current collector layer and the insulating layer and/or between the second current collector layer and the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Yuki Matsushita, Mitsuru Tateishi, Hideyo Ebisuzaki, Hideaki Nishimura, Yusuke Okuhata, Shigenori Hama, Norihiro Ose
  • Patent number: 10651456
    Abstract: In an all-solid-state battery including at least one short-circuit current shunt part and at least one electric element which are stacked, when the battery is constrained, cracking etc. of the adhesive in the short-circuit current shunt pail is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Yuki Matsushita, Mitsuru Tateishi, Hideaki Nishimura, Hideyo Ebisuzaki, Yusuke Okuhata, Norihiro Ose, Shigenori Hama
  • Patent number: 10559845
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a stacked battery in which an unevenness of short circuit resistance among a plurality of cells is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Hasegawa, Yuki Matsushita, Hideaki Nishimura, Yusuke Okuhata, Norihiro Ose, Mitsuru Tateishi, Shigetaka Nagamatsu, Takayuki Uchiyama, Shigenori Hama, Dai Kato, Naohiro Mashimo, Hideyo Ebisuzaki, Ayano Kobayashi, Hisataka Fujimaki
  • Publication number: 20200041992
    Abstract: The present invention enables a user to accurately perform operation when the user operates a touch panel of a terminal to control propulsion of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanobu NAGASHIMA, Yuki MATSUSHITA, Kenta YASUTOMO
  • Publication number: 20200035990
    Abstract: An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer; and wherein a porosity of the PTC resistor layer is from 5% to 13%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihiro OSE, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kazuo YASO, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20200035988
    Abstract: An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer; and wherein a surface roughness Ra of an electrode active material layer-contacting surface of the PTC resistor layer, is 1.1 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihiro OSE, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kazuo YASO, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20200036009
    Abstract: An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihiro OSE, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kazuo YASO, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20200035984
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries which comprises a PTC resistor layer containing an insulating inorganic substance and in which electronic resistance is low. The production method is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the method is a method for producing an electrode for use in a solid-state battery comprising a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode; wherein the electrode is at least one of the cathode and the anode, and the electrode comprises a current collector, an electrode active material layer and a PTC resistor layer disposed between the current collector and the electrode active material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihiro OSE, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kazuo YASO, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20200035983
    Abstract: An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains a carbon-containing electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a fluorine-containing polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihiro OSE, Tomoya SUZUKI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Kazuo YASO, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20200035989
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries, which comprises a PTC resistor layer and in which electronic resistance is low. The production method is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the method is a method for producing an electrode for use in a solid-state battery comprising a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode; wherein the electrode is at least one of the cathode and the anode, and the electrode comprises a current collector, an electrode active material layer and a PTC resistor layer disposed between the current collector and the electrode active material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihiro Ose, Tomoya Suzuki, Hajime Hasegawa, Kazuo Yaso, Hideaki Nishimura, Yuki Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20190348663
    Abstract: To suppress heat generation in a short-circuit current shunt part in a stacked battery that includes the short-circuit current shunt part, in the stacked battery 100 including at least one short-circuit current shunt part 10, and a stack 20 that includes a plurality of electric elements 20a, 20b which are stacked, the short-circuit current shunt part 10 includes a first part 10a that is provided on one end side in a stacking direction of the stack 20, a second part 10b that is provided on another end side therein, and a third part 10c that connects the first part 10a and the second part 10b; at the first part 10a, the first current collector layer 11 and the cathode current collector layer 21 have an electric connection part 14a but the second current collector layer 12 and the anode current collector layer 25 do not have any electric connection part, at the second part 10b, the second current collector layer 12 and the anode current collector layer 25 have an electric connection part 14b but the first curren
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Norihiro Ose, Hideaki Nishimura, Yuki Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20190319252
    Abstract: In the stacked battery, a short-circuit current shunt part is electrically connected to the electric elements, and an insulating layer of the short-circuit current shunt part is constituted of material having a predetermined melting point or glass transition temperature. When heat is excessively generated in the battery due to internal short circuits etc. and the temperature of the battery reaches the melting point of the insulating layer, the insulating layer melts and its shape is changed to short-circuit the short-circuit current shunt part, and current flows from the electric elements into the short-circuit current shunt part. To measure the current flowing into the short-circuit current shunt part makes it possible to easily grasp excessive heat generation of the battery to suppress deterioration of the battery due to heat generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime HASEGAWA, Norihiro OSE, Hideaki NISHIMURA, Yuki MATSUSHITA
  • Patent number: 10439260
    Abstract: A battery that can inhibit temperature rising when generating heat due to a short circuit etc., while inhibiting degradation of the battery output performance, includes a plurality of unit batteries stacked together; and an endothermic layer arranged between the unit batteries adjacent in a stacking direction, the layer including an endothermic material, wherein each unit battery includes: a pair of current collectors; and at least one electrode body, wherein: the pair of current collectors are arranged to both ends of the unit battery in the stacking direction respectively, the electrode body includes a first pole active material layer, a second pole active material layer which is different from the first pole active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer; the first and second pole active material layer are arranged between the pair of current collectors; and the current collectors have contact with the first or second pole active material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideyo Ebisuzaki, Hideaki Nishimura, Yuki Matsushita