Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideyuki Koga

Yohei Shindo

Norihiro Ose

Hajime Hasegawa

Mitsutoshi Otaki

Hidenori Miki

Keisuke Omori

Mayuko Osaki

Taishi Shiotsuki

Manabu Imano

Hikaru Aso

Maarit Karppinen

Mikko Nisula

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a lithium ion battery with low resistance to ion conduction. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a lithium ion battery comprising: a cathode active material; an anode active material; an insulating oxide with neither electron conductivity nor ion conductivity that is formed in an interface between the cathode active material and the anode active material, and contains at least one kind of an element included in the cathode active material and at least one kind of an element included in the anode active material; and an electrolyte material that is an ion conducting path between the cathode active material and the anode active material; wherein the cathode active material comprises Li, at least one kind of Co, Mn, Ni, and Fe, and O; and the anode active material comprises at least one kind of Si, Li and Ti.

Lithium ion battery and method for producing lithium ion battery

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. A transition metal-containing sulfide region with a thickness of 10 nm or less and having sulfur and the transition metal derived from the olivine-type positive electrode active material is present on the surface of the secondary particles.

Positive electrode active material, all-solid-state battery and method for producing all-solid-state battery

A method is provided where an anode of an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery is easily doped with lithium and to provide a small resistance at a low battery capacity. The method includes a manufacturing method of a cathode including mixing at least a conductive assistant (C1) and a sulfide solid electrolyte (E1) to obtain a mixture; and mixing at least one cathode active material, a solid electrolyte (E2) and the mixture obtained from the first step to obtain a cathode mixture, wherein an amount of energy added to the sulfide solid electrolyte (E1) is larger than an amount of energy added to the solid electrolyte (E2), and the mixture is a material that releases lithium ions at a potential lower than a potential at which the cathode active material releases and occludes lithium ions. Manufacturing methods for a cathode and an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery including the cathode mixture are also disclosed.

Cathode mixture, cathode, and all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery, and method for manufacturing the same

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.

Method for producing lithium phosphorus oxynitride layer

The main object of the present invention is to provide a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery with high theoretical capacity. The present invention solves the problem by providing a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, wherein the cathode active material comprises a crystal structure belonging to a space group C12/c1, and is represented by (NaLi)MN(PO)(0.5&#x2266;&#x3b1;&#x2266;1, 2.5&#x2266;x&#x2266;3.5, 0&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.5, 1.5&#x2266;z&#x2266;2.5, M is at least one of V and Fe, and N is at least one of Co, Ni and Mn).

Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery, lithium secondary battery and method for producing cathode active material for lithium secondary battery

A main object of the invention is to provide a cathode active material used to form a lithium secondary battery having the improved cycle characteristics and output. The invention attains the object by providing a semiconductor-covered cathode active material comprising: a cathode active material; and a pn junction semiconductor covering layer which comprises an n-type semiconductor covering layer that covers a surface of the cathode active material and a p-type semiconductor covering layer that covers the surface of the n-type semiconductor covering layer.

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Numazu, Japan

Hideyuki Koga