Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Ihi Corporation

Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaihsa Toshiba

Kabushtkt Kaisha Toshiba

Shinsuke Matsuno

Norio Takami

Hiroki Inagaki

Yasuyuki Hotta

Takashi Kuboki

Yasunobu Yamashita

Hayato Seki

Hidesato Saruwatari

Kazuomi Yoshima

Yumiko Sekiguchi

Dai Yamamoto

Hideki Satake

Hiromichi Kuriyama

Yumi Fujita

Yasuhiro Harada

Naoki Fujiwara

Keigo Hoshina

Takao Sawa

Kazuki Ise

Kenji Takano

Hideaki Morishima

Asato Kondo

Yoshiyuki Iso

Jian Huang

Tomokazu Morita

Takayuki Fukasawa

Kenji Essaki

Norikazu Osada

Fumiyuki Kawashima

Hiroyuki Uchida

Hiroyuki Kimura

Tetsuya Sasakawa

Tatsuoki Kohno

Keiko Okamoto

Atsushi Murakami

Tatsuoki Kono

Kazuya Kuriyama

Wataru Uno

Mariko Katou

Kenji Tokuda

Mariko Saga

Masahiro Nakajima

Seiichi Suenaga

Yoshinao Tatebayashi

Yasuhiro Goto

Hiroyuki Otsuka

Yoshiyuki Isozaki

Atsushi Hirata

Naoki Seki

Sara Yoshio

Arisa Yamada

Kazuo Miyoshi

Shiko Nakamura

Yuma Kikuchi

Hiroko Watando

Satoshi Seo

Noriko Morioka

Toshiya Sakamoto

Tomoya Muramoto

Yoshiyuki Yamane

Kakuya Ueda

Sayaka Morimoto

Takahisa Nagao

Hisakazu Onizuka

An unsaturated hydrocarbon production apparatus includes: a light collecting device configured to collect sunlight, and to convert the sunlight into solar heat; and a heating furnace configured to heat a raw material gas containing at least any one selected from the group consisting of methane and hydrogen, methane and oxygen, and ethane with the solar heat generated by the light collecting device to 700° C. or more and 2,000° C. or less.

Unsaturated hydrocarbon production apparatus

A secondary battery that includes: a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode; a separator arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a first aqueous electrolyte held in at least the positive electrode. pH of the first aqueous electrolyte is more than 7. The positive electrode active material contains a lithium-containing compound that exhibits an average operating potential of less than 4.0 V based on lithium metal.

Secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle

According to one embodiment, a secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator. The positive electrode includes a first electrolyte containing aluminum ions. The negative electrode is capable of allowing lithium ions to be inserted and extracted. The separator is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator has lithium ion conductivity.

Secondary battery, battery pack, vehicle, and stationary power supply

According to an embodiment, an electrode group is provided. The electrode group includes a positive electrode, and a negative electrode. The negative electrode active material-containing layer includes a facing section which faces the positive electrode active material-containing layer and a non-facing section which does not. A first fluorine-containing coating is formed on a main surface of the negative electrode active material-containing layer in at least a part of the non-facing section. The abundance ratio of fluorine atoms included in the first fluorine-containing coating is in the range of 2.5 atom % to 10 atom %.

Electrode group, secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle

According to one embodiment, provided is an electrode including a current collector and an active material-containing layer in contact with the current collector. The active material-containing layer contains a carbon nanotube and particles of titanium-containing oxide having an average particle size or 0.1 μm to 3 μm. A peel strength between the current collector and the active material-containing layer is within a range of 0.2 kN/m to 0.7 kN/m.

Electrode, electrode group, secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle

According to one embodiment, a secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an insulating layer, and a nonaqueous electrolyte is provided. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material-containing layer containing a lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material-containing layer having a first surface. The insulating layer includes a solid electrolyte layer having a second surface that is at least partly opposed to or partly in contact with the first surface and containing a Li ion conductive oxide. At least part of the second surface or the first and second surfaces includes a Mn-containing substance. An abundance ratio of Mn on the second surface is higher than that on the first surface.

According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes a current collector, and an active material-containing layer which is formed on a surface of the current collector and includes a plurality of niobium titanium composite oxide particles. A X-ray diffraction pattern using a Cu-Kα ray source with respect to a surface of the active material-containing layer includes a peak A with a highest intensity in a range of 2θ=26°±0.2° and a peak B with a highest intensity in a range of 2θ=23.9°±0.2°. An intensity ratio (Ia/Ib) between an intensity Ia of the peak A and an intensity Ib of the peak B is in a range of 1.80 or more to 2.60 or less.

Electrode, secondary battery, battery pack and vehicle

A separator includes an inorganic particle layer including an inorganic particle, a polymeric binder and a fiber substance. A mass ratio of the fiber substance with respect to a total mass of the inorganic particle, the polymeric binder and the fiber substance is 0.1 mass % or more and 40 mass % or less.

Separator, electrode group, secondary battery, battery pack, vehicle, and stationary power supply

According to one embodiment, an electrode construct including an electrode and a composite membrane is provided. The electrode includes an active material-containing layer and a current collecting layer. The active material-containing layer includes a first principal surface and a second principal surface. The current collecting layer is in contact with the second principal surface. The composite membrane includes a composite layer in contact with the first principal surface. The composite layer contains inorganic solid particles and a polymeric material. A peel strength &#x3c3;1 at a first interface between the active material-containing layer and the composite layer and a peel strength &#x3c3;2 at a second interface between the active material-containing layer and the current collecting layer satisfy a relationship of &#x3c3;1&#x3e;&#x3c3;2, and &#x3c3;2&#x2264;1 N/cm.

Electrode construct, electrode group, secondary battery, battery pack, vehicle, and stationary power supply

According to one embodiment, there is provided a secondary battery including a negative electrode, a positive electrode, a first electrolyte, a second electrolyte, and a hydrogel electrolyte. The first electrolyte is in contact with at least a part of the negative electrode. The second electrolyte is in contact with at least a part of the positive electrode. The hydrogel electrolyte includes a gel having a chemically crosslinked structure. A first electrolyte composition of the first electrolyte is different from a second electrolyte composition of the second electrolyte. At least one of the first electrolyte and the second electrolyte includes an aqueous solvent, the aqueous solvent including water. At least a part of at least one of the negative electrode and the positive electrode overlaps at least a part of the hydrogel electrolyte.

According to one embodiment, provided is a secondary battery including a negative electrode containing a titanium-containing oxide, a positive electrode, a separator between the negative electrode and the positive electrode, a first aqueous electrolyte, a second aqueous electrolyte, and a third aqueous electrolyte. The first aqueous electrolyte is held in the negative electrode and contains 0.001% by mass to 0.5% by mass of zinc ions. The second aqueous electrolyte is held in the separator and contains 1% by mass to 5% by mass of a first compound that includes a hydrophobic portion and a hydrophilic portion. The third aqueous electrolyte is held in the positive electrode.

According to one embodiment, an electrode group is provided. The electrode group includes a positive electrode that includes a lithium composite oxide LiMMnO(0&#x3c;x&#x2264;0.5, M is at least one selected from a group consisting of Ni, Cr, Fe, Cu, Co, Mg, and Mo) as a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode that includes a negative electrode active material, a composite electrolyte layer that includes at least one of a solid electrolyte and an inorganic compound containing alumina, and a separator. The composite electrolyte layer and the separator are arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. A density of the composite electrolyte layer is in the range of 1.0 g/cc and 2.2 g/cc.

Electrode group, nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle

According to one embodiment, a separator is provided. The separator includes a composite membrane. The composite membrane includes a substrate layer, a first composite layer, and a second composite layer. The first composite layer is located on one surface of the substrate layer. The second composite layer is located on the other surface of the substrate layer. The composite membrane has a coefficient of air permeability of 1&#xd7;10mor less. The first composite layer has a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is in contact with the substrate layer. The second surface is located on an opposite side to the first surface. Denseness of a portion including the first surface is lower than denseness of a portion including the second surface in the first composite layer.

According to one embodiment, a battery includes a container member, a separator, a first electrode, a first electrolyte, a second electrode and a second electrolyte. The container member has a housing space in the interior, and the separator is housed in the housing space of the container member. The separator includes a bag, and the first electrode is housed in an interior of the bag. The first electrolyte is retained on the first electrode in the interior of the bag. The second electrode is located outside the bag in the housing space. The second electrolyte is retained by the second electrode outside the bag in the housing space.

Battery, battery pack, and stationary power supply

According to one embodiment, an electrode includes a current collector and an active material layer. The active material layer is disposed on at least one of faces of the current collector. The active material layer comprises active materials which include at least a cobalt-containing oxide and a lithium nickel manganese oxide. A ratio of a weight of the cobalt-containing oxide to a total of weights of the cobalt-containing oxide and the lithium nickel manganese oxide is 5 wt % or more and 40 wt % or less.

Electrode, non-aqueous electrolyte battery, battery pack, and vehicle

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Tokyo, Japan

Shinsuke Matsuno