Jm Energy Corporation

Makoto Taguchi

Nobuo Ando

Yuu Watanabe

Naoshi Yasuda

Teruaki Tezuka

Toshihiro Hayashi

Kenji Nansaka

Kenji Kojima

Takashi Chiba

Chisato Marumo

Hidenori Takagi

Hirobumi Suzuki

An accumulator device includes: an outer container with mutually overlapped outer films bonded air-tightly to each other at a bonding portion formed along respective outer peripheral edge portions; an electrode unit accommodated inside the outer container and including positive and negative electrode sheets stacked one on another with a separator disposed therebetween, the positive and negative electrode sheets each including a current collector on which an electrode layer is formed; positive and negative electrode terminals provided to protrude from inside the outer container to outside through the bonding portion; and an electrolytic solution injected in the outer container. The positive electrode terminal includes an aluminum terminal substrate and a nickel-plating coating formed on a surface of an outer end portion of the terminal substrate located outside the outer container; an inner edge of the nickel-plating coating is located within the bonding portion.

Accumulator device

A wound-type accumulator is equipped with a cylindrical wound electrode unit, which has belt-like positive electrode and negative electrode and configured by winding an electrode stack obtained by stacking the positive electrode and negative electrode through a separator from one end thereof, and an electrolytic solution. The negative electrode and/or the positive electrode is doped with lithium ions by electrochemical contact of the negative electrode and/or the positive electrode with a lithium ion source, intra-positive electrode spaces are formed in the positive electrode, and at least one lithium ion source is provided in the intra-positive electrode space or at a position opposing to the intra-positive electrode space in the negative electrode in a state coming into no contact with the positive electrode.

Wound-type accumulator having simplified arrangement of a lithium ion source

An accumulator device which provides a high energy density and high output power is provided. The accumulator device (D) includes a positive electrode in which a positive electrode layer (A) is formed, a negative electrode in which a negative electrode layer (B) is formed, and an electrolytic solution (C). The accumulator device is characterized by satisfying that 1.02&#x2266;W/W&#x2266;2.08 and that 390 &#x3bc;m&#x2266;T&#x2266;750 &#x3bc;m, where Wis the weight of the positive electrode layer (A), Wis the weight of the negative electrode layer (B), and Tis the thickness of the positive electrode in which the positive electrode layer (A) is formed.

Provided is a lithium ion capacitor having a low internal resistance, a high energy density, and a high capacity retention rate. The lithium ion capacitor includes a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material layer formed on a roughened positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer containing graphite-based particles formed on a negative electrode current collector, and an electrolytic solution containing a solution of a lithium salt in an aprotic organic solvent, wherein the total thickness of the positive electrode active material layer is 50 &#x3bc;m to 140 &#x3bc;m, and the ratio of mass of the positive electrode active material layer to the sum of the mass of the positive electrode active material layer and that of the negative electrode active material layer is 0.4 to 0.5.

Lithium ion capacitor

The present invention has as its object the provision of a lithium ion capacitor having high capacity and high output characteristics and also having high safety that allows suppression of an increase in surface temperature even when an internal short circuit accidentally occurs. The lithium ion capacitor of the present invention comprises: a lithium ion capacitor element formed by overlaying a positive electrode sheet and a negative electrode sheet on top of one another with a separator interposed therebetween; an electrolyte solution; and an outer container that contains the lithium ion capacitor element and the electrolyte solution, a porous layer is formed on an outer surface of the lithium ion capacitor element, and the lithium ion capacitor satisfies following relational expressions (1) and (2):35&#x2266;&#x2003;&#x2003;relational expression (1):0.01&#x2266;&#x2266;5&#x2003;&#x2003;relational expression (2):

A laminate-packaged electric storage device includes an outer package, an electric storage device element, and an electrolyte solution, the outer package formed by stacking and seal-tight bonding outer package films along a bonding section formed in an outer edge area of the outer package films, the electric storage device element and the electrolyte solution being held in a receiving section formed inside the outer package. A non-bonding section surrounded by the bonding section and communicating with the receiving section is formed in the outer edge area, an opening is formed through at least one outer package film, and a seal section is formed to surround the opening formed in an area of the non-bonding section, the outer package films bonded in the seal section, and the opening formed in the area of the non-bonding section at a position other than a center position.

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Makoto Taguchi