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).

  • Publication number: 20170117598
    Abstract: A battery including a heat absorbing layer that has a large endotherm per unit volume. The battery comprises at least one heat absorbing layer, the at least one heat absorbing layer comprising an inorganic hydrate and at least one organic heat absorbing material selected from the group consisting of a sugar alcohol and a hydrocarbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki MATSUSHITA, Mitsuru TATEISHI
  • Patent number: 9634358
    Abstract: An objective of the invention is to provide a method for producing an all-solid-state battery with fewer steps for minimizing warping than in the prior art, and an all-solid-state battery with lower warping. This is achieved by a method comprising the steps of: (A) disposing a first electrode active material layer on both sides of a first collector to form a first electrode layer, (B) disposing a solid electrolyte layer on each of the first electrode active material layers, (C) disposing a second electrode active material layer and a second collector on the solid electrolyte layers, in such a manner that the second electrode active material layers contact with the solid electrolyte layers, (D) pressing a stack formed in steps (A) to (C), to form a battery unit, (E) repeating steps (A) to (D) to form a plurality of battery units, and (F) stacking the plurality of battery units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20160315353
    Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide an anode active material capable of enhancing improvement of heat resistance in an all solid secondary battery. The present invention solves the problem by providing an anode active material comprising an active material particle having carbon as a main component, and a coating layer containing LixPOy (2?x?4, 3?y?5) and formed on a surface of the active material particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki MATSUSHITA, Satoshi YOSHIDA, Koichi SUGIURA, Hisataka FUJIMAKI
  • Publication number: 20160315324
    Abstract: An active material composite particle is capable of suppressing a reaction with a sulfide solid electrolyte material at high temperature. The active material composite particle may include an oxide active material of rock salt bed type and a coat layer containing lithium niobate formed on a surface of the oxide active material, wherein a thickness of the coat layer is in the range of 25 nm to 94 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nariaki MIKI, Yuki MATSUSHITA, Kouichi SUGIURA
  • Publication number: 20160248093
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide an all solid state battery in which compatibility between battery performance and safety is intended. The present invention attains the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising a cathode layer containing a cathode active material, an anode layer containing an anode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, containing a first sulfide solid electrolyte material, characterized in that a ratio of ion resistance of the whole all solid state battery to ion resistance of the solid electrolyte layer is 3.8 or less, and the ion resistance of the solid electrolyte layer is 7.6 ?·cm2 or more and 16 ?·cm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi SUGIURA, Satoshi YOSHIDA, Hisataka FUJIMAKI, Yuki MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20160028107
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a positive electrode for a solid-state battery, the method including: a step of mixing a positive electrode active material, a sulfide solid electrolyte, a binder, and a solvent with each other to prepare a positive electrode slurry; a step of applying the prepared positive electrode slurry to a surface of a solid electrolyte layer of the solid-state battery or a substrate of the positive electrode; and a step of drying the applied positive electrode slurry. In this method, the solvent is butyl butyrate, and the binder is a copolymer containing a vinylidene fluoride (VDF) monomer unit and a hexafluoropropylene (HFP) monomer unit, in which a molar ratio of the HFP monomer unit to a total amount of the VDF monomer unit and the HFP monomer unit is 10% to 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroki KUBO, Yuichi HASHIMOTO, Yuki MATSUSHITA, Keisuke WATANABE, Yoshiyuki NAGASAWA
  • Patent number: 9105931
    Abstract: A positive electrode plate for a lithium ion secondary battery is made of aluminum and includes a positive current collecting foil made of aluminum, in which at least a main surface portion constituting a main surface is porous, a positive active material layer formed on the main surface portion of the positive current collecting foil, and a coating layer, having electrical conductivity and corrosion resistance, formed between the positive current collecting foil and the positive active material layer to directly coat the main surface of the positive current collecting foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayasu Sato, Yuichiro Imamura, Yuki Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20150188195
    Abstract: An objective of the invention is to provide a method for producing an all-solid-state battery with fewer steps for minimizing warping than in the prior art, and an all-solid-state battery with lower warping. This is achieved by a method comprising the steps of: (A) disposing a first electrode active material layer on both sides of a first collector to form a first electrode layer, (B) disposing a solid electrolyte layer on each of the first electrode active material layers, (C) disposing a second electrode active material layer and a second collector on the solid electrolyte layers, in such a manner that the second electrode active material layers contact with the solid electrolyte layers, (D) pressing a stack formed in steps (A) to (C), to form a battery unit, (E) repeating steps (A) to (D) to form a plurality of battery units, and (F) stacking the plurality of battery units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventor: Yuki MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20140084203
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a material for at least any one of an energy device and an electrical storage device, the method being able to form a dense nanostructure, and the material for at least any one of an energy device and an electrical storage device. Disclosed is a method for producing a material for at least any one of an energy device and an electrical storage device, the method including the steps of: treating a raw material including a vitrifiable element with alkali, and solidifying the alkali-treated raw material in a temperature condition of 15 to 30° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Masayoshi Fuji, Takashi Shirai, Yuki Matsushita
  • Patent number: 8506433
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission configured to transmit a rotational driving force of one pulley to another pulley by a driving-force transmitting means wound between the two pulleys, wherein each of the two pulleys is configured to vary a groove width thereof, the continuously variable transmission including: an engagement-receiving portion provided to the driving-force transmitting means, in a side of the driving-force transmitting means on which the driving-force transmitting means is wound on the pulleys; and a movable engaging portion provided to a shaft portion of at least one of the two pulleys, wherein the movable engaging portion is movable in a radial direction of the shaft portion to protrude from and escape into the shaft portion, wherein the movable engaging portion is configured to protrude from the shaft portion so as to engage with the engagement-receiving portion at least one of when a pulley-ratio region is in a setting for highest speed and when the pulley-ratio region is in a setting f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Miura, Masashi Yoshino, Yoshiko Mineta, Akihiko Iwasaki, Yuki Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20130122359
    Abstract: A positive electrode plate for a lithium ion secondary battery is made of aluminum and includes a positive current collecting foil made of aluminum, in which at least a main surface portion constituting a main surface is porous, a positive active material layer formed on the main surface portion of the positive current collecting foil, and a coating layer, having electrical conductivity and corrosion resistance, formed between the positive current collecting foil and the positive active material layer to directly coat the main surface of the positive current collecting foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Takayasu Sato, Yuichiro Imamura, Yuki Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20120288754
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery cathode (30) that has a structure in which an active material layer (20) is held by a cathode collector (10). The cathode collector (10) is provided with: a metal base (12) which makes up the main body portion of the cathode collector (10); and a hydrophilic film (14) which is formed on the surface of the metal base (12) and is more hydrophilic than the surface of the metal base (12), and which is formed from a carbide or oxide having at least one constituent element selected from the group composed of tungsten, tantalum, hafnium, niobium, molybdenum, and vanadium, or has a hydrophilic surface formed from carbon. The cathode active material layer (20) has an uncompressed density of 0.9 g/cm3 to 1.5 g/cm3 and is formed on the hydrophilic film (14) of the cathode collector (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Yuki Matsushita, Takayasu Sato, Yuichiro Imamura
  • Publication number: 20110053717
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission configured to transmit a rotational driving force of one pulley to another pulley by a driving-force transmitting means wound between the two pulleys, wherein each of the two pulleys is configured to vary a groove width thereof, the continuously variable transmission including: an engagement-receiving portion provided to the driving-force transmitting means, in a side of the driving-force transmitting means on which the driving-force transmitting means is wound on the pulleys; and a movable engaging portion provided to a shaft portion of at least one of the two pulleys, wherein the movable engaging portion is movable in a radial direction of the shaft portion to protrude from and escape into the shaft portion, wherein the movable engaging portion is configured to protrude from the shaft portion so as to engage with the engagement-receiving portion at least one of when a pulley-ratio region is in a setting for highest speed and when the pulley-ratio region is in a setting f
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Miura, Masashi Yoshino, Yoshiko Mineta, Akihiko Iwasaki, Yuki Matsushita