Gs Yuasa International Ltd.

Gs Yuasa Corporation

Taro Yamafuku

Masaki Masuda

Takeshi Sasaki

Kazuki Kawaguchi

Akihiko Miyazaki

Sumio Mori

Masashi Takano

Tomonori Kako

Toshiyuki Nukuda

Kenta Nakai

Yoshihiro Katayama

Shigeki Yamate

Jun Oyama

Suguru Kozono

Shota Ito

Fumiya Nakano

Minoru Teshima

Ryosuke Shimokawa

Atsushi Funabiki

Kenta Ogi

Kei Kumabayashi

Kazusa Yukimoto

Provided is a method for manufacturing an energy storage device including an electrode that has an active material layer, an electrolyte solution, and a case. According to the present embodiment, the method including injecting an electrolyte solution in a predetermined amount into a case is characterized in that the predetermined amount is an amount such that, an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal at least partially comes into contact with a free electrolyte solution that is the electrolyte solution excluding the electrolyte solution soaking into the electrode assembly in the case, with the case housing therein: the alkali metal or the alkaline earth metal of an ion supply member that has the alkali metal or the alkaline earth metal disposed on a conductive member other than the active material layer; and an electrode assembly including the stacked electrode that has electrical conduction to the conducive member of the ion supply member.

Method for manufacturing energy storage device, and energy storage device

An aspect of the present invention is an energy storage device including an electrode assembly that has a negative electrode and a positive electrode, where the negative electrode contains a negative electrode substrate and a negative active material, and has a negative active material layer disposed in an unpressed shape along at least one surface of the negative electrode substrate, the negative active material includes solid graphite particles as a main component, and the solid graphite particles have an aspect ratio of 1 or more and 5 or less.

Energy storage device and method for manufacturing energy storage device

An energy storage device includes: a flattened electrode assembly formed by winding electrodes such that a hollow portion is formed, the electrode assembly including a pair of curved portions opposed manner in a major axis direction and a pair of flat portions opposed in a minor axis direction; and a case storing the electrode assembly therein, wherein assuming a thickness of the flat portion in the minor axis direction as A, a thickness of the curved portion in a radial direction as B, and a thickness of the hollow portion in the minor axis direction as W, the electrode assembly satisfies A+(W/2)&#x2264;B in a state where the electrode assembly is discharged.

Energy storage device

According to an embodiment of the present invention, deterioration of a non-aqueous electrolyte power storage element is detected based on a first increase rate and a second increase rate, the first increase rate being an increase rate of a direct current resistance value obtained by measuring the non-aqueous electrolyte power storage element over a first time period, the second increase rate being an increase rate of a direct current resistance value obtained by measuring the non-aqueous electrolyte power storage element over a second time period that is longer than the first time period.

Deterioration detector for non-aqueous electrolyte power storage element, power storage device, deterioration detection system for non-aqueous electrolyte power storage element, and deterioration detection method for non-aqueous electrolyte power storage element

An energy storage apparatus includes: at least one energy storage device which includes an electrode assembly and a case for housing the electrode assembly; a spacer which is arranged adjacent to the case; and a holder which holds the energy storage device and the spacer. The energy storage device includes an insulating film which covers an outer surface of the case and is adhered to at least a portion of the outer surface of the case. The spacer has at least one of edges and corners thereof disposed at positions where the edges or the corners are in contact with the outer surface of the case with the insulating film interposed therebetween.

Energy storage apparatus

An energy storage device includes a metal case which houses an electrode assembly therein, and an insulation sheet mounted on a portion of an outer surface of the case. The case includes a projecting portion which extends in a thickness direction of the insulation sheet along an edge surface of at least a portion of the insulation sheet, and a distal end of the projecting portion projects from the insulation sheet.

Energy storage device and energy storage apparatus

An energy storage device includes: an electrode assembly; a case for storing the electrode assembly therein, the case having an electrolyte solution sealing portion where an electrolyte solution pouring hole formed in the case is sealed; and at least one partition member arranged in a gap formed between the case and the electrode assembly stored in the case. The partition member partitions the gap in the winding axis direction of the electrode assembly by surrounding the electrode assembly in the winding direction of the electrode. The electrolyte solution pouring hole is arranged at a position closer to one end of the electrode assembly than the partition member close to one end of the case is in the winding axis direction.

Energy storage device and method of manufacturing energy storage device

An energy storage device includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The negative electrode includes graphite and non-graphitizable carbon, and a D50 particle size of the graphite at which a cumulative volume in a particle size distribution of a particle size reaches 50% is 2 &#x3bc;m or more. A ratio of a mass of the non-graphitizable carbon to a total amount of a mass of the graphite and a mass of the non-graphitizable carbon is 5% by mass or more and 45% by mass or less and a ratio of the D50 particle size of the graphite to a D50 particle size of the non-graphitizable carbon is 1.02 or less.

An energy storage device includes: a first guide portion which is arranged in the inside of a case and allows an electrolyte solution to flow toward one end of an electrode assembly in a winding axis direction from an electrolyte solution pouring hole; and a second guide portion which is arranged in the inside of the case and allows a fluid to flow toward the electrolyte solution pouring hole from the inside of the case, and which prevents the electrolyte solution from flowing toward the other end of the electrode assembly in the winding axis direction from the electrolyte solution pouring hole or suppresses the electrolyte solution from flowing toward the other end of the electrode assembly in the winding axis direction from the electrolyte solution pouring hole.

Provided is an electric storage device including: a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate having a polarity opposite to that of the first electrode plate, and a separator interposed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, wherein the first electrode plate includes a current collector, a conductive layer laminated onto the current collector, and a mixture layer laminated onto the conductive layer, the mixture layer contains a binder and primary particles of an active material as its constituents, and the primary particles as a constituent of the mixture layer are partially retained in the conductive layer.

Electric storage device and manufacturing method thereof

An energy storage apparatus includes: an energy storage device including a flat electrode assembly in which electrodes are layered and a prismatic case in which the electrode assembly is housed; and a spacer arranged adjacently to the energy storage device in a first direction, wherein the spacer is formed such that a thickness size in the first direction of a center portion of the spacer in a second direction, which is a direction orthogonal to the first direction and is a direction parallel to a surface of the spacer that faces the energy storage device, is set larger than a thickness size in the first direction of other portions of the spacer arranged adjacently to the center portion of the spacer in the second direction, and a width of the center portion of the spacer in a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions at a contact portion of the spacer with the energy storage device is set smaller than a width of the case in the third direction.

Provided is an electric storage device including: a first electrode plate; a second electrode plate having a polarity opposite to that of the first electrode plate; and a separator interposed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, wherein the first electrode plate includes a current collector and a mixture layer laminated onto the current collector, the mixture layer contains at least one of the binder and the conductive additive, primary particles of an active material, and secondary particles each having a hollow region formed therein by aggregation of a plurality of the primary particles, and the at least one of the binder and the conductive additive is partially distributed in the hollow region.

An energy storage device includes a casing, a power generating element, a current collector, a connection conductor, an external terminal, and a rivet. The energy storage device further includes a welded portion where at least one of a contact portion between a casing inner portion of the rivet and the current collector, a contact portion between a casing outer portion of the rivet and the connection conductor, and a contact portion between the connection conductor and the external terminal is welded at least partially.

An electric storage device includes: a rolled electrode assemblyformed by winding a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator so as to have curved portions and linear portions; current collectors; and an electrolyte solution. A positive electrode substrate has at one endA an unformed portionE formed without a positive electrode mixture layer, and a negative electrode substrate has at the other endB an unformed portionE formed without a negative electrode mixture layer. The current collectorsare connected respectively to at least part of the linear portions in the unformed portion of the positive electrode at the one endA and that of the negative electrode at the other endB. The one endA in the positive electrode has a length greater than the winding length, and/or the other endB in the negative electrode has such a length.

Electric storage device, electric storage system, and manufacturing method thereof

An object is to provide an electrode assembly for an electric storage device, such as a nonaqueous electrolyte cell, and an electric storage device that are capable of preventing increase of a short-circuit current at the time of occurrence of a short-circuit within a cell and have high safety. In order to achieve the object, provided is an electrode assembly for an electric storage device including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, in which at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode includes a current collector, an active material layer formed on at least one face of the current collector, and an undercoat layer formed between the current collector and the active material layer and including an organic binder that evaporates and decomposes when heated to a predetermined temperature or more.

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Taro Yamafuku