Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kazushige Kinoshita

Tsumoru Ohata

Nobuo Eda

Makoto Tsutsue

Takashi Takano

Ken Nishimura

Masahiko Ogawa

Hiroki Muraoka

Akiko Ishida

Takashi Okawa

Toshihisa Hiroshima

Kyoushige Shimizu

Disclosed is a polymer electrolyte battery affording a high capacity density in which a layer of electrode active material mixture containing a polymer has an adequately regulated porosity and/or polymer content. The battery includes a unitary, laminated battery sheet composed of a negative electrode combined with positive electrodes, with a porous polymer separator being placed on both surfaces of the negative electrode. Each of the electrodes comprises a current collector and a layer of active material mixture disposed on both surfaces of the current collector, and the polymer is capable of absorbing and retaining nonaqueous electrolyte. The separator and the layer of electrode active material mixture have a porosity of 30 to 60%. Preferable polymer contents in the layer of active material mixture are in a range of 5 to 10 wt % for the positive electrode and in a range of 7 to 16 wt % for the negative electrode.

Polymer electrolyte battery

A hydrogen storage alloy electrode comprising, an electrically conductive support made of a punched or perforated metal sheet, a mixture supported on said conductive support and a water-repellent agent for giving a water-repellent property on the surface of the electrode, said mixture including; a hydrogen storage alloy powder, a styrene-butadiene copolymer having a styrene to butadiene weight ratio in a range of 100:30 to 100:100 as a binder, a polymeric material for giving a hydrophilic property inside the electrode, and carbon black for giving a hydrophobic property inside the electrode.

Hydrogen storage alloy electrode and sealed-type nickel-metal hydride

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Hirakata, Japan

Kazushige Kinoshita