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Gs Yuasa Corporation

Du Pont-Mitsui Polychemicals Co., Ltd.

Yuki Fujimoto

Noboru Oyama

Hiroe Nakagawa

Toshiyuki Nukada

Kouichi Nishijima

Yoshiyuki Iwase

The object is to provide a nonaqueous-electrolyte battery having high charge/discharge efficiency and excellent high-rate performance. This subject is accomplished by using a nonaqueous electrolyte which comprises an organic solvent and a lithium salt dissolved therein and is characterized by containing at least one quaternary ammonium salt in an amount of 0.06 mol/L or larger and 0.5 mol/L or smaller. This effect is thought to be attributable to the following mechanism: in a relatively early stage (stage in which the negative-electrode potential is relatively noble) in a first charge step, a satisfactory protective coating film is formed on the negative electrode by the action of the quaternary ammonium salt and, hence, the organic solvent employed in the nonaqueous electrolyte is inhibited from decomposing.

Nonaqueous electrolyte and nonaqueous-electrolyte battery

A gel-type polymer electrolyte, wherein said polymer comprises (A) an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer or a derivative thereof and (B) a polyalkylene oxide having a hydroxyl group at one terminal thereof or a derivative thereof, which are bonded together by an ester bond. The gel-type polymer electrolyte has a high ionic conductivity, and makes it possible to provides a cell which has excellent charge/discharge characteristics at low temperatures as well as at high temperatures.

Gel-type polymer electrolyte and use thereof

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuki Fujimoto