Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Norikatsu Akutsu

Munehisa Ikoma

Shingo Tsuda

Yasuharu Yamamura

Masashi Enokido

Hiromu Matsuda

Isao Matsumoto

Yoshio Moriwaki

Yoichi Izumi

Hideo Kaiya

Masumi Katsumoto

Fumihiko Yoshii

Takeshi Yao

Takashi Okawa

Kimie Muramatsu

An alkaline storage battery comprises a positive electrode prepared by filling a nickel hydroxide in a porous plaque as an active material, a negative electrode, a separator and an alkaline electrolyte, the positive electrode containing the nickel hydroxide as a main component and a complex oxide of lithium and cobalt as a conductive agent. The lithium-cobalt complex oxide as a conductive agent is preferably represented by the formula Li.sub.x CoO.sub.2 (x is 0.2-0.9).

Alkaline storage battery and method for treating surface of positive

A method for producing a hydrogen storage alloy electrode comprising the step of treating a hydrogen storage alloy by immersing it in an alkaline solution containing cobalt ion or copper ion at a high temperature at a stage wherein the alloy is in powder state before formed into an electrode and/or at a stage wherein the alloy has been formed into an electrode. By this treatment, a hydrogen storage alloy electrode having an excellent high-rate discharge performance at a low temperature is obtained.

Method for producing hydrogen storage alloy electrode

The tap density of nickel hydroxide powders is improved, the expansion of a positive electrode is inhibited and the energy density of the positive electrode and the cycle life characteristics are improved by specifying the shape of the nickel hydroxide powders and besides, adding to the nickel hydroxide powders at least one of Cd, Ca, Zn, Mg, Fe, Co and Mn. The nickel hydroxide active material powders contain 1-7 wt % of at least one of Cd, Ca, Zn, Mg, Fe, Co and Mn and comprise a mixture of spherical or nearly spherical particles and non-spherical particles.

Nickel hydroxide active material powder and nickel positive electrode

An alkaline storage battery made using a hydrogen-storing alloy for the negative electrode has suffered from the problems that the negative electrode is oxidized with oxygen gas generated from the positive electrode during overdischarge to cause increase of internal resistance and deterioration of charging and discharging cycle characteristics. Disclosed is a solution to the above problems which incorporates into the hydrogen-storing alloy negative electrode one of yttrium and yttrium compounds or a mixture thereof in such a state that it covers the surface of the hydrogen-storing alloy powder.

Alkaline storage battery and method for producing the same

A nickel positive electrode for use in alkaline storage batteries which is improved in the rate of utilization of the nickel hydroxide in a wide temperature range with an oxygen evolving overvoltage being increased by incorporating at least one selected from the group consisting of compounds of yttrium, indium, antimony, barium and beryllium, and at least one selected from the group consisting of compounds of cobalt and calcium into the nickel positive electrode (2), and a nickel-hydrogen storage battery using the same.

Nickel positive electrode for use in alkaline storage battery and

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Norikatsu Akutsu