Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

National Institute for Materials Science

Yasushi Tsuchida

Shigenori Hama

Yukiyoshi Ueno

Hiroshi Nagase

Masato Kamiya

Koji Kawamoto

Hirofumi Nakamoto

Takamasa Ohtomo

Yuki Kato

Noriaki Nishino

Yasuhiro Yamauchi

Fuminori Mizuno

Yoshinori Yokoyama

Kazunori Takada

Masahiro Tatsumisago

Toshihiro Takada

Akitoshi Hayashi

Satoshi Wakasugi

Satoshi Yoshida

Takayoshi Doi

Akira Kiyama

Masashi Kodama

Hironori Harada

Takanobu Yamada

Hiroki Kubo

Hiroshi Inukai

Isao Sakaguchi

Yukinari Kotani

Shigeki Sato

Naoya Tada

Tsuyoshi Ohnishi

Toshihiro Seguchi

Takashi Tokunaga

Xiaoxiong Xu

Ken Watanabe

Haruhisa Hirokawa

Masahiro Kawamura

Tenmei Nisino

A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including electrode body having structure in which positive electrode and negative electrode are laminated with separator and non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes positive electrode current collector, positive electrode active material layer which is disposed on positive electrode current collector and contains first positive electrode active material, and insulating layer which is disposed along one end of positive electrode active material layer in predetermined width direction, and contains inorganic filler and second positive electrode active material. The negative electrode includes negative electrode current collector, and negative electrode active material layer which is disposed on negative electrode current collector and contains negative electrode active material, in which length in width direction is longer than length of positive electrode active material layer in width direction, and negative electrode active material layer faces positive electrode active material layer and at least part of insulating layer.

Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery

The main object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with high Li ion conductivity. The present invention solves the problem by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising an ion conductor with an ortho-composition, and LiI, characterized in that the sulfide solid electrolyte material is glass with a glass transition point.

Sulfide solid electrolyte material and lithium solid state battery

An Object of the invention is to obtain an all solid lithium battery having an excellent output performance. To achieve the object, a sulfide based solid electrolyte is used as an electrolyte; an oxide containing lithium, a metal element that acts as a redox couple, and a metal element that forms an electron-insulating oxide is used as a cathode active material; and the concentration of the metal element that forms the electron-insulating oxide on the surface of the cathode active material (oxide) that is in contact with the sulfide solid electrolyte is made high.

All solid lithium battery

A prismatic secondary battery of one configuration has a current disconnection mechanism, and a distance from a first conductive member to a second conductive member along a surface of a first insulation member and passing an outer periphery of the first insulation member is greater than or equal to 2.4 mm. At least one of the first insulation member and a second insulation member is formed from a material having a weight reduction percentage of 100% in thermo gravimetric measurement under conditions of a measurement temperature of 25&#xb0; C.-600&#xb0; C., a temperature increase rate of 5&#xb0; C.&#xb1;0.5&#xb0; C./min, a measurement atmosphere of inert gas flow, and an amount of measurement sample of 10 mg&#xb1;5 mg.

Prismatic secondary battery having spark prevention mechanism and battery pack using the same

The main object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material which copes with both the restraint of the increase in interface resistance and the restraint of the increase in bulk resistance. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material characterized by containing at least one of Cl and Br.

Sulfide solid electrolyte material, cathode body and lithium solid state battery

The main object of the present invention is to provide a cathode active material capable of reducing the initial interface resistance against a solid electrolyte material. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems by providing a cathode active material comprising a cathode active substance exhibiting strong basicity and a coat layer formed so as to cover the surface of the above-mentioned cathode active substance and provided with a polyanionic structural part exhibiting acidity.

Cathode active material, cathode active material layer, all solid state battery and producing method for cathode active material

A composite positive electrode active material includes: a positive electrode active material which includes a transition metal; and a reaction suppressor which is formed so as to cover a surface of the positive electrode active material, and which is made of a polyanion structure-containing compound having a cation moiety composed of a metal atom that becomes a conducting ion and having a polyanion structural moiety composed of a center atom that is covalently bonded to a plurality of oxygen atoms. A transition metal-reducing layer which has self-assembled on the surface of the positive electrode active material in contact with the reaction suppressor owing to reaction of the transition metal with the polyanion structure-containing compound, has a thickness of 10 nm or less.

Composite positive electrode active material, all solid-state battery, and methods for manufacture thereof

An all-solid battery is formed so that an electrode active material layer of at least one of positive and negative electrodes has a composition distribution such that a local volume ratio, expressed by a ratio of a volume of an electrode active material contained in a part of the electrode active material layer with respect to a volume of a solid electrolyte material contained in the part of the electrode active material layer, increases as the part of the electrode active material layer approaches from an interface of the solid electrolyte layer toward an interface of a current collector in a thickness direction of the electrode active material layer, and a voidage of the electrode active material layer increases as the part of the electrode active material layer approaches from the interface of the solid electrolyte layer toward the interface of the current collector in the thickness direction.

All-solid battery

A method for charging a battery is used for charging a solid secondary battery including a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode active material layer and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer. Specifically, the method for charging a battery includes a process for obtaining or estimating temperature of the solid secondary battery; and an over-discharge process for lowering voltage of the solid secondary battery to or below a rated voltage by performing over-discharge and/or making an external short circuit with respect to the solid secondary battery prior to a process for charging the solid secondary battery, provided that the temperature is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature.

Method for charging battery and charge control device for battery

The main object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with less hydrogen sulfide generation amount. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material obtained by using a raw material composition containing LiS and sulfide of an element of the fourteenth family or the fifteenth family, characterized by not substantially containing cross-linking sulfur and LiS.

Sulfide solid electrolyte material

An all-solid lithium secondary battery which uses a sulfide-based solid electrolyte material and has a power-generating element that has formed therein an oxide layer containing substantially no moisture, which is produced by oxidation of the sulfide-based solid electrolyte material in a zone where the electrolyte-containing layer containing at least the sulfide-based solid electrolyte material is in contact with an external air.

All-solid lithium secondary battery

A solid electrolyte material that can react with an electrode active material to forms a high-resistance portion includes fluorine.

Solid electrolyte material, electrode element that includes solid electrolyte material, all-solid battery that includes solid electrolyte material, and manufacturing method for solid electrolyte material

In an all-solid secondary battery, in an electrode active material layer of at least one of positive and negative electrode bodies, a total content ratio, which is represented by a ratio of mass of an electrolyte contained in the electrode active material layer to mass of an active material contained in the electrode active material layer, is larger than 1; and the electrode active material layer of the at least one of the positive and negative electrode bodies has a composition distribution in which a local content ratio, which is represented by a ratio of mass of the electrolyte contained in a portion of the electrode active material layer to mass of the active material contained in the portion of the electrode active material layer, increases from a solid electrolyte interface toward a current collector interface in a thickness direction of the electrode active material layer.

All-solid secondary battery with graded electrodes

In a cathode active material coated with a resistance-reduction coating layer for preventing formation of a resistive layer, which has a cathode active material and a resistance-reduction coating layer with which a surface of the cathode active material is coated, the resistance-reduction coating layer contains substantially no fine particles of the cathode active material.

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