Gs Yuasa International Ltd.

Keisuke Anami

Yudai Kawasoe

Kenta Nagamine

Noriyoshi Munenaga

Shinya Kitano

Taku Nakamura

Hirotsugu Ioka

Yasushi Uebo

A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery disclosed herein includes a positive electrode plate including a positive composite layer, a negative electrode plate including a negative composite layer, and a nonaqueous electrolyte, in which the negative composite layer is composed of a facing portion facing a surface of the positive composite layer, and a non-facing portion that is on the same surface as the facing portion and does not face the surface of the positive composite layer, and the area ratio of the non-facing portion to a combined area of the facing portion and the non-facing portion of the negative composite layer is 7% or more, and the nonaqueous electrolyte contains a fluorinated carbonate and a cyclic sulfone compound.

Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery

Provided is an energy storage device including a container with high productivity and satisfactory corrosion resistance. In the energy storage device including the container housing an electrode assembly having a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and electrolyte solution, the container is made of stainless steel including 0.09% by weight or more aluminum and has welded portions and where the stainless steel is welded.

Energy storage device

A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte solution, wherein the negative electrode includes a negative active material layer, the electrolyte solution contains fluoroethylene carbonate, and when a content (mg) of the fluoroethylene carbonate is denoted as X and a reaction area (m) of the negative active material layer is denoted as Y, X and Y satisfy a relation of 10&#x2266;(X/Y)&#x2266;100.

A positive electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention includes particles A of a lamellar type lithium transition metal oxide and particles B of a spinel type lithium transition metal oxide, as a positive active material, at a ratio within the range of A:B=20:80 to 80:20 (weight ratio), in which a particle size distribution of the positive active material has a peak based on the particles A and a peak based on the particles B within the range of 1 to 50 &#x3bc;m. In the integrated distribution curve of the particle diameter, a particle diameter A(D50) at a degree of accumulation of the particles A of 50% and a particle diameter B(D50) at a degree of accumulation of the particles B of 50% satisfy the following expression (1), and a particle diameter A(D95) at a degree of accumulation of the particles A of 95% and a particle diameter B(D5) at a degree of accumulation of the particles B of 5% satisfy the following expression (2):(50)&#x2212;(50)&#x2267;5 &#x3bc;m&#x2003;&#x2003;Expression (1)(5)&#x3e;(95)&#x2003;&#x2003;Expression (2).

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Kyoto, Japan

Keisuke Anami