Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.

Ono Roll Co., Ltd.

Tomoya Suzuki

Norihiro Ose

Hajime Hasegawa

Takashi Suzuki

Yuki Matsushita

Hideaki Nishimura

Kazuo Yaso

Shigenori Hama

Takahiro Nishigaki

Hideki Asadachi

Shigeru Mori

Masahiro Iwasaki

Kazuhito Kato

Naoki Osada

Kota Nakamura

Yoshihide Enomoto

Nariaki Miki

Keisuke Nagakura

Keisuke Omori

Kengo Haga

Daichi Kosaka

Kenya Maruyama

Mitsuyori Matsumura

Hideji Naito

Akihiro Kaneko

Tomofumi Hirukawa

Katsuhiko Yanai

Chisa Watanabe

Tatsuya Fujii

Asuka Tsunoda

Shigetada Sugiyama

A roll press apparatus forms a compressed strip-shaped electrode plate by roll-pressing a strip-shaped electrode plate including an active material portion and an active material absent portion and including a tensile-force-ratio adjustment mechanism adjusting a tensile force ratio of an upstream active material absent portion tensile force applied to an upstream side and a downstream active material absent portion tensile force applied to a downstream side of an inter-roll active material absent portion held in a non-compressed state between a pair of press rolls in an active material absent portion of the strip-shaped electrode plate.

Roll press apparatus for manufacturing compressed strip-shaped electrode plates

To provide a method for production of an all-solid-state battery in which cracking of the ends of the electrodes can be suppressed even if a negative electrode active material layer including lithium-titanium oxide is roll-pressed, provided is a method for the production of an all-solid-state battery, including roll-pressing to consolidate a negative electrode active material layer; wherein the all-solid-state battery has a structure including a laminate of a positive electrode current collector layer, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, the negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector layer in this order, the negative electrode active material layer includes a lithium-titanium oxide as a negative electrode active material, and prior to the roll-pressing, a stress relaxation rate of the negative electrode active material layer is 32.5% or more.

All-solid-state battery production method and all-solid-state battery

An all-solid-state battery configured to suppress capacity degradation. The all-solid-state battery may comprise a stack of a cathode layer, a solid electrolyte layer and an alloy-based anode layer, and a confining structure confining the stack in an approximately parallel direction to a stacking direction, wherein the cathode layer has a cathode plane on a side facing the solid electrolyte layer; wherein the alloy-based anode layer has an anode plane on a side facing the solid electrolyte layer; wherein the cathode plane and anode plane of the stack have a long axis direction and a short axis direction; and wherein at least one of the cathode plane and the anode plane has one or more slit channels.

All-solid-state battery

An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer; and wherein a porosity of the PTC resistor layer is from 5% to 13%.

Electrode for solid-state batteries and solid-state battery

Provided is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries which comprises a PTC resistor layer containing an insulating inorganic substance and in which electronic resistance is low. The production method is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the method is a method for producing an electrode for use in a solid-state battery comprising a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode; wherein the electrode is at least one of the cathode and the anode, and the electrode comprises a current collector, an electrode active material layer and a PTC resistor layer disposed between the current collector and the electrode active material layer.

Method for producing electrode for solid-state batteries

An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer; and wherein a surface roughness Ra of an electrode active material layer-contacting surface of the PTC resistor layer, is 1.1 &#x3bc;m or less.

An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer.

An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains a carbon-containing electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a fluorine-containing polymer.

A sulfide solid electrolyte material having a high Li ion conductivity is provided. A sulfide solid electrolyte material includes Li, P, I and S, having peaks at 2&#x3b8;=20.2&#xb0; and 23.6&#xb0;, not having peaks at 2&#x3b8;=21.0&#xb0; and 28.0&#xb0; in an X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK&#x3b1; ray, and having a half width of the peak at 2&#x3b8;=20.2&#xb0; of 0.51&#xb0; or less.

Sulfide solid electrolyte material, sulfide glass, solid state lithium battery, and method for producing sulfide solid electrolyte material

A sulfide solid electrolyte material having high Li ion conductivity can be obtained by providing a method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte material that has peaks at 2&#x3b8;=20.2&#xb0; and 2&#x3b8;=23.6&#xb0; in an X ray diffraction measurement using a CuK&#x3b1; ray, the method including steps of: an amorphizing step of obtaining sulfide glass by amorphization of a raw material composition that includes at least LiS, PS, LiI and LiBr and a heat treatment step of heating the sulfide glass at a temperature of 195&#xb0; C. or higher.

Method for producing sulfide solid electrolyte material

A method for producing an electrode body, suppressing a decrease in capacity of an oxide active material while improving the Li-ion conductance of a sulfide solid electrolyte material. The method producing an electrode body, including a heating step of heating an oxide active material and amorphous sulfide solid electrolyte material in state where the oxide active material and amorphous sulfide solid electrolyte material are in contact with each other, in which the oxide active material is a rock salt bed type active material, the sulfide solid electrolyte material contains a Li element, P element, and S element, and includes an ion conductor containing PS43&#x2014;as main component of an anion structure, LiI, and LiBr, and heating temperature in the step is equal to or higher than the crystallization onset temperature of the sulfide solid electrolyte material and equal to or lower than the sulfide solid electrolyte material crystallization peak temperature.

Method for producing electrode body

A vehicle includes: an internal combustion engine; a filter collecting particulate matter contained in exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine; a heater core configured to be able to heat up a vehicle cabin; and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute regeneration cut control and heating control. The regeneration cut control is a control for regenerating the filter by stopping a fuel supply to the internal combustion engine and supplying oxygen to the filter in a state where an output shaft of the internal combustion engine rotates. The heating control is a control for bringing the internal combustion engine into a combustion state and heating by the heater core. The electronic control unit is configured not to execute the heating control but to execute the regeneration cut control when the heating control is requested and the regeneration cut control is requested.

Vehicle and control method for vehicle

A hybrid vehicle includes: an engine for traveling in which a filter that removes particulate matter is attached to an exhaust system; a motor configured to generate a driving force for the hybrid vehicle; and an electronic control unit configured to restart injection of a fuel into the engine when a needed output of the engine reaches a threshold or higher while the injection of the fuel into the engine is stopped. The electronic control unit is configured to, when a filter regeneration condition that an accumulation amount of the particulate matter on the filter is equal to or more than a predetermined accumulation amount and a temperature of the filter is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature is established, set the threshold to be higher than a threshold set when the filter regeneration condition is not established.

Hybrid vehicle

During idle operation of an engine, on satisfaction of a predetermined condition including a condition that a vehicle speed is not higher than a reference value, a hybrid vehicle controls the engine with adjusting a throttle position such that a rotation speed of the engine becomes equal to target idle rotation speed or is in a predetermined rotation speed range including the target idle rotation speed. On non-satisfaction of predetermined condition, the hybrid vehicle controls the engine with setting the throttle position to a fixed value, The reference value is set to provide larger value when the rotation speed of the engine becomes equal to or lower than a predetermined rotation speed that is lower than the target idle rotation speed and is higher than a resonance rotation speed of the vehicle, compared with a value when the rotation speed of the engine is higher than the predetermined rotation speed.

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Seto, Japan

Tomoya Suzuki