Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation

Kabushtkt Kaisha Toshiba

Kazuomi Yoshima

Norio Takami

Yasuhiro Harada

Tomoe Kusama

Shinsuke Matsuno

Tetsuya Sasakawa

Yasunobu Yamashita

Tomoko Sugizaki

Kazuki Ise

Keigo Hoshina

Takashi Kishi

Wen Zhang

Hayato Seki

Yasuyuki Hotta

Takuya Iwasaki

Hiroki Inagaki

Yorikazu Yoshida

Taro Fukaya

Yumiko Sekiguchi

Yuta Kanai

Tsuyoshi Kobayashi

Shinya Sakurada

Tadahiko Kobayashi

Masaya Hagiwara

Yosuke Horiuchi

Keiko Okamoto

Masaki Endo

Mitsuru Ishibashi

Kazuhiro Yasuda

An electrode material may include an active material particle containing: a niobium-titanium composite oxide having an average composition in which a molar ratio of niobium to titanium (M/M) is greater than 2; and at least one element A selected from the group consisting of potassium, iron and phosphorus. The active material particle may contain the element A at a concentration in the range of 100 ppm to 2000 ppm.

Electrode material, electrode, secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle

According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes an active material-containing layer and a current collector. The active material-containing layer comprises a first edge having an arc shape and a second edge positioned opposite to the first edge. The current collector comprises an active material-supporting section supporting the active material-containing layer, and an active material-non-supporting section. The curving amount is represented by a maximum distance from the first edge to a reference line connecting two points on the first edge. The curving amount is in a range of −1 mm or more and less than 0 mm.

Battery electrode

According to one embodiment, an electrode group is provided. The electrode group includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a gel polymer layer interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. At least a part of the negative electrode is opposed to the positive electrode. The gel polymer layer is formed of a gel electrolyte composed of a polymer material, an organic solvent and a lithium salt, and a sheet base member which supports the gel electrolyte, or the gel polymer layer is formed of only the gel electrolyte.

Electrode group, secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle

According to one embodiment, an electrode material is provided. The electrode material includes active material particle containing: a niobium-titanium composite oxide having an average composition in which a molar ratio of niobium to titanium (M/M) is greater than 2; and at least one element A selected from the group consisting of potassium, iron and phosphorus. The active material particle contain the element A at a concentration in the range of 100 ppm to 2000 ppm.

According to one embodiment, an electrode includes a current collector and an active material-containing layer. The active material-containing layer includes an active material, a conductive agent, and cellulose fiber. The conductive agent includes carbon fiber. The active material-containing layer includes a first surface brought into contact with the current collector, and a second surface. 2000/mmor less of first agglomerates are present on the second surface. Each of the first agglomerates includes at least one of the carbon fiber or the cellulose fiber, and does not include the active material. Each of the first agglomerates has a longest diameter of 5 μm or more and a shortest diameter of 1 μm or more.

Electrode, secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle

According to one embodiment, there is provided an electrode including active material particles, polymer fibers and inorganic solid particles. The polymer fibers have an average fiber diameter of 1 nm to 100 nm.

According to one embodiment, a secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator layer, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. The separator layer includes a first porous layer containing a solid electrolyte and a second porous layer containing fibers. The second porous layer is in contact with a first surface of the first porous layer. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes a first solvent including at least one of methyl propionate and ethyl propionate, and a second solvent different from the first solvent. The first porous layer has a void fraction of 10% by volume or greater and 50% by volume or less. The second porous layer has a void fraction greater than the void fraction of the first porous layer.

Secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle

According to one embodiment, provided is an electrode group including a positive electrode and a negative electrode that includes a titanium-containing oxide. The electrode group has a wound structure of a flat shape, in which a stack including the positive electrode and the negative electrode is wound such that a center of the wound structure lies along a first direction. At least a part of a portion of the negative electrode, positioned within a thickness of 0.2 t from an innermost lap along a longest straight line in a wound cross-section of the wound structure orthogonal to the first direction with respect to a thickness t from the innermost lap to an outermost lap along the longest straight line, includes a slit that lies along the first direction.

According to one embodiment, a secondary battery includes a positive electrode including first vacancies, a negative electrode including second vacancies, and an electrolyte. The electrolyte includes a gel polymer portion and a liquid portion, and the gel polymer portion has a gel-part ratio within a range of from 20% to 80%. At least a part of the electrolyte is held in the first vacancies and the second vacancies. A first ratio r1 of the liquid portion to the gel polymer portion in the first vacancies is within a range of 0.01&#x2264;r1&#x2264;10. A second ratio r2 of the liquid portion to the gel polymer portion in the second vacancies is within a range of 0.01&#x2264;r2&#x2264;10.

According to one embodiment, a separator is provided. The separator includes a composite membrane. The composite membrane includes a substrate layer, a first composite layer, and a second composite layer. The first composite layer is located on one surface of the substrate layer. The second composite layer is located on the other surface of the substrate layer. The composite membrane has a coefficient of air permeability of 1&#xd7;10mor less. The first composite layer has a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is in contact with the substrate layer. The second surface is located on an opposite side to the first surface. Denseness of a portion including the first surface is lower than denseness of a portion including the second surface in the first composite layer.

Separator, electrode group, secondary battery, battery pack, vehicle, and stationary power supply

According to a management method in an embodiment, in charging of a battery in each of a constant current mode and a constant power mode, it is determined that the battery is unusable based on a voltage of the battery dropping by a voltage threshold value or more from a starting time of dropping without increasing again to a voltage value at the starting time of dropping. In the management method, in charging of the battery in a constant voltage mode, it is determined that the battery is unusable based on a current supplied to the battery increasing by a current threshold value or more from a starting time of increasing without dropping again to a current value at the starting time of increasing.

Management method, management device, management system, battery-mounted apparatus, and non-transitory storage medium

According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The active material-containing layer includes an active material, inorganic solid particles having lithium ion conductivity, and carbon fiber. A pore diameter Dat the first peak is 0.05 &#x3bc;m to 10 &#x3bc;m. A value SA&#x2212;SB is 1.4 or more in a slope distribution curve of the active material-containing layer, where a vertical axis of the slope distribution curve represents a slope of a straight line passing through two adjacent measurement points on the log differential pore volume distribution curve and a horizontal axis of the slope distribution curve represents a smaller pore diameter of the two adjacent measurement points. The value SA&#x2212;SB is obtained by subtracting a minimum slope value SB from a maximum slope value SA.

According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes a current collector, a first layer formed on the current collector, and a second layer formed on at least part of the first layer. The first layer contains a monoclinic niobium titanium composite oxide. The second layer contains lithium titanate having a spinel structure. A porosity P2 of the second layer is within a range from 30% to 80%.

According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. A length of a first active material portion along a first direction is within a range of 0.7T or more and 0.95T or less with respect to a thickness T of an active material-containing layer. The first direction is parallel to a thickness direction. A second active material portion further contains solid electrolyte particles. A ratio E1/E2 is 0 or more and 0.01 or less. The ratio E1/E2 represents a ratio of a content E1 of the solid electrolyte particles per unit area in the first active material portion (including 0) to a content E2 of the solid electrolyte particles per unit area in the second active material portion.

According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes an active material-containing layer. The active material-containing layer includes: an active material including a titanium-containing composite oxide; inorganic solid particles having lithium ion conductivity; and carbon fiber. The active material-containing layer has a first peak indicating a maximum log differential pore volume in a log differential pore volume distribution curve according to mercury porosimetry. A pore diameter PD at the first peak is 0.01 &#x3bc;m to 0.1 &#x3bc;m. The first peak has a full width at half maximum of 0.05 &#x3bc;m or less.

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Yokohama, Japan

Kazuomi Yoshima