Patents by Inventor Yushi Suzuki
Yushi Suzuki 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: 20230411699Abstract: A method for producing an all solid state battery using a precipitation-dissolution reaction of metallic Li as a reaction of an anode, includes a preparation step, a liquid composition preparation step, a coating layer formation step, and a separator formation step. The preparation step includes preparing a sulfide solid electrolyte represented by Li7-aPS6-aXa (X is at least one of Cl, Br, and I, and a satisfies 0?a?2), the liquid composition preparation step includes dissolving the sulfide solid electrolyte in an alcohol-based solvent to prepare a liquid composition, the coating layer formation step includes applying the liquid composition to an anode current collector to form a coating layer, the separator formation step includes forming a separator by volatilizing the alcohol-based solvent from the coating layer by drying, and the ratio of the sulfide solid electrolyte contained in the liquid composition is 10% by weight to 30% by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keisuke MORITA, Chihiro Yada, Yushi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11784351Abstract: A method for producing an all solid state battery using a precipitation-dissolution reaction of metallic Li as a reaction of an anode, includes a preparation step, a liquid composition preparation step, a coating layer formation step, and a separator formation step. The preparation step includes preparing a sulfide solid electrolyte represented by Li7-aPS6-aXa (X is at least one of Cl, Br, and I, and a satisfies 0?a?2), the liquid composition preparation step includes dissolving the sulfide solid electrolyte in an alcohol-based solvent to prepare a liquid composition, the coating layer formation step includes applying the liquid composition to an anode current collector to form a coating layer, the separator formation step includes forming a separator by volatilizing the alcohol-based solvent from the coating layer by drying, and the ratio of the sulfide solid electrolyte contained in the liquid composition is 10% by weight to 30% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Morita, Chihiro Yada, Yushi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11611110Abstract: A method for producing an all-solid-state battery, comprising the following steps (a) to (d), which are performed in the order of (a), (b), (c), and (d) or in the order of (a), (b), (d), and (c): (a) introducing the all-solid-state battery laminate into the metal case, (b) welding a protruding part of the positive electrode current collector layer or the negative electrode current collector layer and the folding margin part of the metal case, (c) folding the folding margin part, and the protruding part of the positive electrode collector layer or the negative electrode current collector layer, which has been welded to the folding margin part toward the inside of the metal case together, and (d) injecting a sealing resin into the metal case from the opening part of the metal case and then curing the sealing resin to seal the all-solid-state battery laminate in the metal case.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yushi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11575143Abstract: At a position between a fuel offgas inlet portion and a fuel gas inlet portion in a main body portion in the facing direction where a first end faces a second end, a fluid confluence joint is provided with at least either one of (i) at least one step formed over a whole circumference of an inner wall of the main body portion by reducing the passage sectional area on a fuel gas passage portion side to be smaller than the passage sectional area on a confluence passage portion side, and (ii) at least one partition wall formed over the whole circumference so as to project inwardly from the inner wall of the main body portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takanao Tomura, Yushi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20220407120Abstract: A battery having a plurality of series bodies including a first series body and a second series body, in which each of the series bodies has a plurality of electrode bodies and has at least one intermediate current collector, the series bodies is electrically connected in parallel to each other, in each of the series bodies, the electrode bodies are electrically connected in series to each other through the intermediate current collector, and the intermediate current collectors in the first series body and the second series body are directly connected electrically to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventor: Yushi SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220200057Abstract: A method for producing an all-solid-state battery, comprising the following steps (a) to (d), which are performed in the order of (a), (b), (c), and (d) or in the order of (a), (b), (d), and (c): (a) introducing the all-solid-state battery laminate into the metal case, (b) welding a protruding part of the positive electrode current collector layer or the negative electrode current collector layer and the folding margin part of the metal case, (c) folding the folding margin part, and the protruding part of the positive electrode collector layer or the negative electrode current collector layer, which has been welded to the folding margin part toward the inside of the metal case together, and (d) injecting a sealing resin into the metal case from the opening part of the metal case and then curing the sealing resin to seal the all-solid-state battery laminate in the metal case.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventor: Yushi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11329300Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a mixed gas supply passage, and an agitation mixer. The fuel cell stack includes a plurality of fuel cells each including a power generation portion. The fuel cells are stacked. The mixed gas supply passage is configured to communicate with the fuel cell stack. The mixed gas supply passage is configured to supply a mixed gas to the fuel cell stack. The mixed gas is a mixture of a fuel gas and a fuel off-gas that has been discharged from the fuel cell stack. The agitation mixer is provided in the mixed gas supply passage. The agitation mixer is configured to apply a swirling force to the mixed gas. The agitation mixer includes a guide rib configured to guide liquid water contained in the mixed gas to a side opposite to the power generation portion-side.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yushi Suzuki, Koro Fujio, Shuji Kurita
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Patent number: 11302969Abstract: A method for producing an all-solid-state battery, comprising the following steps (a) to (d), which are performed in the order of (a), (b), (c), and (d) or in the order of (a), (b), (d), and (c): (a) introducing the all-solid-state battery laminate into the metal case, (b) welding a protruding part of the positive electrode current collector layer or the negative electrode current collector layer and the folding margin part of the metal case, (c) folding the folding margin part, and the protruding part of the positive electrode collector layer or the negative electrode current collector layer, which has been welded to the folding margin part toward the inside of the metal case together, and (d) injecting a sealing resin into the metal case from the opening part of the metal case and then curing the sealing resin to seal the all-solid-state battery laminate in the metal case.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yushi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20220093961Abstract: A method for producing an all solid state battery using a precipitation-dissolution reaction of metallic Li as a reaction of an anode, includes a preparation step, a liquid composition preparation step, a coating layer formation step, and a separator formation step. The preparation step includes preparing a sulfide solid electrolyte represented by Li7-aPS6-aXa (X is at least one of Cl, Br, and I, and a satisfies 0?a?2), the liquid composition preparation step includes dissolving the sulfide solid electrolyte in an alcohol-based solvent to prepare a liquid composition, the coating layer formation step includes applying the liquid composition to an anode current collector to form a coating layer, the separator formation step includes forming a separator by volatilizing the alcohol-based solvent from the coating layer by drying, and the ratio of the sulfide solid electrolyte contained in the liquid composition is 10% by weight to 30% by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke MORITA, Chihiro YADA, Yushi SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11211631Abstract: A fuel cell system that can prevent impurities from intensively collecting near inlets of fuel cells. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack formed by stacking fuel cells, each fuel cell having a power generation portion, a stack manifold with a fuel gas inlet communication hole disposed at an end of the fuel cell stack in the stacking direction of the fuel cells, a mixed gas supply channel communicating with the fuel gas inlet communication hole for supplying a mixed gas of a fuel gas and fuel off-gas to the fuel cell stack, a stirring mixer for swirling the mixed gas provided in the mixed gas supply channel, and a guide rib provided on the inner wall of the fuel gas inlet communication hole of the stack manifold, on the side opposite to the side of the power generation portions of the fuel cells.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuji Kurita, Yushi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11149678Abstract: Provided is a stroke determination device which detects a secondary output from an ignition coil without using a high breakdown voltage element, and is capable of accurately establishing the stroke being carried out during an ignition operation of a four-stroke engine from the waveform of the detected secondary output. In the present invention, a secondary coil of an ignition coil is constituted from a first coil portion, and a second coil portion wound so as to have fewer windings than does the first coil portion and connected in series to the first coil portion. A tap is drawn out from a boundary part between both coil portions, the voltage at both ends of the second coil portion or the current flowing through the second coil portion is detected through the tap, and a parameter to be used in stroke determination is detected from the waveform of the detected voltage or current.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: MAHLE ELECTRIC DRIVES JAPAN CORPORTIONInventors: Takuma Ayuzawa, Masayuki Sugiyama, Yushi Suzuki, Naoya Takamura
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Patent number: 10752775Abstract: A silicone composition is provided comprising (A) an alkenyl-containing organopolysiloxanc having a viscosity of 1.0-100 Pa·s at 25° C., (B) an organopolysiloxane of formula (1), (C) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane of formula (2), (D) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane of formula (3), (E) a filler, (F) a platinum group metal catalyst, and (G) a reaction inhibitor. The composition has a low viscosity and good moldability prior to curing and cures into a dilatant product that exhibits a low storage elastic modulus at a low strain rate and a high storage elastic modulus at a high strain rate.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignees: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SOKEN, INC.Inventors: Nobuaki Matsumoto, Akira Sakamoto, Naomi Goto, Masahiko Ishii, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Yushi Suzuki, Shinji Miyoshi
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Publication number: 20200168925Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a mixed gas supply passage, and an agitation mixer. The fuel cell stack includes a plurality of fuel cells each including a power generation portion. The fuel cells are stacked. The mixed gas supply passage is configured to communicate with the fuel cell stack. The mixed gas supply passage is configured to supply a mixed gas to the fuel cell stack. The mixed gas is a mixture of a fuel gas and a fuel off-gas that has been discharged from the fuel cell stack. The agitation mixer is provided in the mixed gas supply passage. The agitation mixer is configured to apply a swirling force to the mixed gas. The agitation mixer includes a guide rib configured to guide liquid water contained in the mixed gas to a side opposite to the power generation portion-side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yushi SUZUKI, Koro FUJIO, Shuji KURITA
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Patent number: 10629867Abstract: To provide an all-solid-state battery and a production method thereof, ensuring that deterioration of the all-solid-state battery resulting from movement of an all-solid-state battery element inside a metal outer casing is prevented. An all-solid-state battery comprising an all-solid-state battery element, a metal outer casing having an opening at least at one end, in which the all-solid-state battery element is housed, a resin sealing body sealing the opening and contacting with an all-solid-state battery element surface facing the opening, and a negative electrode current collector layer protrusion and a positive electrode current collector layer protrusion, each protruding from the resin sealing body to the opposite side of the all-solid-state battery element, wherein the resin sealing body penetrates at least part of a gap between the outer circumference of the all-solid-state battery element and the inner circumference of the metal outer casing to form a gap filling body.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yushi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20200119386Abstract: At a position between a fuel offgas inlet portion and a fuel gas inlet portion in a main body portion in the facing direction where a first end faces a second end, a fluid confluence joint is provided with at least either one of (i) at least one step formed over a whole circumference of an inner wall of the main body portion by reducing the passage sectional area on a fuel gas passage portion side to be smaller than the passage sectional area on a confluence passage portion side, and (ii) at least one partition wall formed over the whole circumference so as to project inwardly from the inner wall of the main body portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanao TOMURA, Yushi SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20200011265Abstract: Provided is a stroke determination device which detects a secondary output from an ignition coil without using a high breakdown voltage element, and is capable of accurately establishing the stroke being carried out during an ignition operation of a four-stroke engine from the waveform of the detected secondary output. In the present invention, a secondary coil of an ignition coil is constituted from a first coil portion, and a second coil portion wound so as to have fewer windings than does the first coil portion and connected in series to the first coil portion. A tap is drawn out from a boundary part between both coil portions, the voltage at both ends of the second coil portion or the current flowing through the second coil portion is detected through the tap, and a parameter to be used in stroke determination is detected from the waveform of the detected voltage or current.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: TAKUMA AYUZAWA, MASAYUKI SUGIYAMA, YUSHI SUZUKI, NAOYA TAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20190267659Abstract: A fuel cell system that can prevent impurities from intensively collecting near inlets of fuel cells. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack formed by stacking fuel cells, each fuel cell having a power generation portion, a stack manifold with a fuel gas inlet communication hole disposed at an end of the fuel cell stack in the stacking direction of the fuel cells, a mixed gas supply channel communicating with the fuel gas inlet communication hole for supplying a mixed gas of a fuel gas and fuel off-gas to the fuel cell stack, a stirring mixer for swirling the mixed gas provided in the mixed gas supply channel, and a guide rib provided on the inner wall of the fuel gas inlet communication hole of the stack manifold, on the side opposite to the side of the power generation portions of the fuel cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuji KURITA, Yushi SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20190190073Abstract: A method for producing an all-solid-state battery, comprising the following steps (a) to (d), which are performed in the order of (a), (b), (c), and (d) or in the order of (a), (b), (d), and (c): (a) introducing the all-solid-state battery laminate into the metal case, (b) welding a protruding part of the positive electrode current collector layer or the negative electrode current collector layer and the folding margin part of the metal case, (c) folding the folding margin part, and the protruding part of the positive electrode collector layer or the negative electrode current collector layer, which has been welded to the folding margin part toward the inside of the metal case together, and (d) injecting a sealing resin into the metal case from the opening part of the metal case and then curing the sealing resin to seal the all-solid-state battery laminate in the metal case.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventor: Yushi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20180212210Abstract: To provide an all-solid-state battery and a production method thereof, ensuring that deterioration of the all-solid-state battery resulting from movement of an all-solid-state battery element inside a metal outer casing is prevented. An all-solid-state battery comprising an all-solid-state battery element, a metal outer casing having an opening at least at one end, in which the all-solid-state battery element is housed, a resin sealing body sealing the opening and contacting with an all-solid-state battery element surface facing the opening, and a negative electrode current collector layer protrusion and a positive electrode current collector layer protrusion, each protruding from the resin sealing body to the opposite side of the all-solid-state battery element, wherein the resin sealing body penetrates at least part of a gap between the outer circumference of the all-solid-state battery element and the inner circumference of the metal outer casing to form a gap filling body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yushi SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20180179384Abstract: A silicone composition is provided comprising (A) an alkenyl-containing organopolysiloxanc having a viscosity of 1.0-100 Pa·s at 25° C., (B) an organopolysiloxane of formula (1), (C) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane of formula (2), (D) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane of formula (3), (E) a filler, (F) a platinum group metal catalyst, and (G) a reaction inhibitor. The composition has a low viscosity and good moldability prior to curing and cures into a dilatant product that exhibits a low storage elastic modulus at a low strain rate and a high storage elastic modulus at a high strain rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Applicants: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SOKEN, INC.Inventors: Nobuaki MATSUMOTO, Akira SAKAMOTO, Naomi GOTO, Masahiko ISHII, Hiroaki TAKEUCHI, Yushi SUZUKI, Shinji MIYOSHI