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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
May. 03, 2012
Keiji Saisho, Moriguchi, JP;
Hidekazu Yamamoto, Moriguchi, JP;
Masahiro Takehara, Inashiki-gun, JP;
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi-shi, JP;
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The objective of the present invention is to prevent deterioration and expanding of anode active material and to improve charge-discharge cycle characteristics in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising an anode of which current collector has thereon a thin layer of an anode active material containing a metal. To solve this problem, in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery wherein a thin layer of anode active material containing a metal which absorbs and discharges lithium is formed on a current collector and the thin layer of the anode active material is divided into columns by a gap formed along the thickness thereof, a compound represented by the following formula is contained in the non-aqueous electrolyte.A-N═C═O In the above formula, A represents an element or a group other than hydrogen.