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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2013
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Daito-shi, Osaka, JP;
Motoki Kinugawa, Kyoto, JP;
Kenji Date, Hyogo, JP;
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An electrode active material layer containing an electrode active material and a binder. The electrode active material layer includes a portion containing the smallest amount of the binder in a middle region across the thickness of the electrode active material layer. The binder is distributed in the electrode active material layer such that the amount of the binder increases continuously from the portion toward the core and an outer surface of the electrode active material layer. Preferably, the amount of the binder present in the electrode active material layer per unit thickness is limited to more than 10 in a region extending 10% of the thickness from the outer surface of the electrode active material layer, with 10 being assigned to the amount of the binder present in the electrode active material layer per unit thickness if the binder is uniformly distributed.