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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1997
Nobuharu Koshiba, Nara Pref., JP;
Tatsuo Mori, Ibaraki, JP;
Emi Asaka, Takatsuki, JP;
Akira Kakinuma, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides a lithium secondary battery with improved withstanding overcharge and overdischarge characteristics which employs a cathode active material of lithium-containing manganese dioxide having a crystal structure of the Ramsdellite-type. An electrolyte combined with the cathode includes LiN(CF.sub.3 SO.sub.2).sub.2 as a solute. The solute is preferably dissolved in ethylene carbonate. A graphite or LiAl alloy is applied for an anode. LiAl alloy is corrosion-resistant, thereby improving high temperature as well as charge-discharge cycle life characteristics.