Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Masahiko Ogawa

Nobuo Eda

Ken Nishimura

Akiko Ishida

Saburo Nakatsuka

Yoshio Goda

Makoto Uchida

Yoshio Moriwaki

Makoto Tsutsue

Masaki Kitagawa

Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Takeo Takayanagi

Mamoru Iida

Kazushige Kinoshita

Tetsuhisa Sakai

Yuko Aoyama

A lithium secondary battery has high capacity and excellent current characteristics. The lithium battery comprises of a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte; the negative electrode comprising AlOparticles not relating to the charge-and discharge reactions of the battery. The presence of the ceramics particles in the electrode leads to a decrease in the internal resistance of the battery because of the enhancement of ion conductivity in the electrode, resulting in higher capacity at high rate discharge of the lithium secondary battery.

Lithium secondary battery

In a first process, an electrically conductive thin metal plate is subjected to a press molding process employing a plurality of punches in a primary molding block and a plurality of dies in a secondary molding block , so as to form therein a plurality of hollow projections that project from one side of the metal plate , and bulges that bulge out in a direction opposite to that of the projections , positioned between the projections . In a second process, the metal plate on which have been formed the plurality of projections and bulges is subjected to either chemical etching or electrolytic etching, so as to form through holes by corrosively removing thin-walled portions from the tips of the projections , and, at the same time, to corrosively form innumerable fine irregularities over the entire surface of the metal plate

Battery cell electrode core plate, fabrication method therefor, and battery cell made therewith

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

An apparatus and method for producing expanded mesh sheets provides for forming fine slits in a metal sheet at a slit section by plate cutters, but excluding portions in a center and both sides in a widthwise direction of the metal sheet. The areas where the slits have been formed are drawn out at an expanding section thereby opening the slits and obtaining a mesh sheet which has solid portions in the central portion and on both sides. The mesh sheet is flattened at a rolling device to obtain the expanded mesh sheet. An electrode sheet is prepared by applying an active material onto mesh portions of the expanded mesh sheet, and collectors for a battery are cut out from the electrode sheet such that lead connecting portions thereof are located at the solid portion of the mesh sheet where there are no openings.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing expanded mesh sheet and battery using this expanded mesh sheet

A gelled polymer electrolyte having a high mechanical strength and a high ion conductivity and a lithium polymer battery using the same electrolyte are disclosed. The gelled polymer electrolyte comprises a polymer alloy and an organic electrolyte solution, wherein the polymer alloy includes a polymer which is hardly soluble in the organic electrolyte solution and another polymer which is soluble in the organic electrolyte solution. The lithium polymer battery comprises a negative electrode including metallic lithium, a lithium alloy, carbon or an inorganic compound, and a positive electrode including an active material of a metal oxide capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium in a reversible manner, such as LiCoO.sub.2, LiNiO.sub.2 or the like, and the gelled polymer electrolyte placed between both electrodes.

Polymer electrolyte and lithium polymer battery using the same

The invention provides a solid polymer electrolyte having high performances in which the reaction area of electrode is increased by uniformly dispersing and bonding a solid polymer electrolyte and a catalyst and the ability of gas feeding to the reaction site is improved by adding a fluoropolymer so that the catalyst is not excessively coated. A method for making the fuel cell is also provided. The electrode provided on at least one side of a solid polymer electrolyte membrane is formed by coating on one side of a gas-diffusible layer a mixed dispersion of a noble metal catalyst, a carbon fine powder and a colloidal dispersion of a solid polymer electrolyte, the colloidal dispersion being prepared using an organic solvent having a polar group other than hydroxyl group in the molecule and having a carbon chain of 1-8 carbon atoms which bonds to the polar group or having a dielectric constant of 3-10.

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Takarazuka, Japan

Masahiko Ogawa