Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a collector for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, excellent in corrosion resistance (typically, alkali resistance) and capable of achieving low resistance.SOLUTION: The present invention provides a collector 32 including a base material 32a made of metal and a corrosion resistant layer 32b provided on a surface of the base material. The corrosion resistant layer 32b contains a carbon material 33, an alginic acid 34, and a compound 35 having a polyoxyalkylene styrenated phenyl ether structure. When the carbon material 33 is taken as 100 pts.mass, the percentage of the alginic acid 34 is 0.3 pt.mass or more and 10 pts.mass or less, and the percentage of the compound 35 having a polyoxyalkylene styrenated phenyl ether structure is 0.1 pt.mass or more and 2 pts.mass or less. In a preferable embodiment, the corrosion resistant layer 32b has an average thickness of 0.5 μm or more and 6.5 μm or less.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a filtration filter which is a filter for filtrating slurry formed by dispersing at least an electrode active material and carbon black into a non-aqueous solvent and hard to generate an inconvenience such as clogging or the like.SOLUTION: A filter is provided which is for filtrating slurry for active material layer formation of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery formed by dispersing at least an electrode active material and carbon black into a non-aqueous solvent. An aperture of such a filter is 50 μm or less. At least a portion on the surface of such a filter is formed with a material whose Hamaker constant is 6×10J or less.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wound type nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having excellent processability, capable of suppressing a rise of a potential at a positive electrode end while preventing the occurrence of a failure such as winding deviation and burr in an electrode body, and also to provide a method for manufacturing the same.SOLUTION: A secondary battery 1 includes an electrode body 3 constituted by laminating a negative electrode sheet 32, a positive electrode sheet 31 and a separator 33 and furthermore, winding them therearound. In the electrode body 3, the negative electrode sheet 32 (negative electrode sheet 32A or negative electrode sheet 32B) constituting the outermost peripheral part of the electrode body 3 includes a recess 7 formed by coating a negative electrode mixture at the end in the width direction of the negative electrode sheet 32 with less amount in comparison with the negative electrode mixture in the other portion.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery in which there is no wrinkles in the boundary of the mixture layer coated part and the mixture layer uncoated part of an electrode substrate, and to provide a manufacturing method therefor.SOLUTION: The manufacturing method of a battery includes an electrode mixture layer formation step (S1) for forming an electrode mixture layer 159 by coating a part of the surface of an electrode substrate 158 with an electrode mixture containing an active material and then drying, and a press step (S3) for pressing the electrode mixture layer 159 in the thickness direction. The manufacturing method of a battery further includes a framing step (S2) for framing a part of the surface of the electrode substrate 158 not coated with the electrode mixture layer 159 in the electrode mixture layer formation step (S1) or a mixture layer uncoated part 158b, prior to the press step (S3).
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a battery capable of improving filter permeability of an electrode paste and battery productivity.SOLUTION: A method for manufacturing a battery 100 comprises: a step S1 of granulating an active material particle 125 including a 1.0 to 15.0 wt% fine particle having a grain diameter of 0.1 to 3.0 μm; a step S2 of creating a paste; a step S3 of making a filter permeable; and a step S4 of forming an active material layer. A ratio of fine particles after granulation having a grain diameter of 0.1 to 3.0 μm in the granulation particle formed in the step S1 is lower than a ratio of fine particles in the active material particle 125. The ratio of fine particles after granulation in the granulation particle is not more than 10.0 wt%, and an occupation ratio of granulation particles having a grain diameter of 90 μm or lower is not less than 99.8 wt%.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sealed type nonaqueous secondary battery, incorporating a current cutoff mechanism actuated by a rise in the internal pressure of a battery case, which maintains high battery performance and further exhibits increased reliability under a wider range of temperature environments than before.SOLUTION: A sealed type nonaqueous secondary battery having a cathode including a cathode active material, an anode including an anode active material, and a nonaqueous electrolyte housed in a battery case is provided by the present invention. Here, the nonaqueous electrolyte contains a redox shuttle agent which can cause reversible oxidation-reduction reaction to occur at higher potential than the cathode active material, a gas generating agent which can be decomposed to generate gas when a designated battery voltage is exceeded, and a viscosity adjustment agent which can restrain a reduction in the viscosity of the nonaqueous electrolyte due to a rise in temperature. Also, the battery case is provided with a current cutoff mechanism which is actuated when the internal pressure of the battery case rises as the gas is generated.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which retention of the nonaqueous electrolyte between positive and negative electrodes is enhanced.SOLUTION: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including an electrode body, in which a porous filler layer is interposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, is provided. The porous filler layer of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery contains a nonaqueous electrolyte. The electrode body has an opening communicating from a region between the positive electrode and negative electrode to the outside of the electrode body. The porous filler layer includes a first region, and a second region located closer to the opening side than at least a part of the first region. The second region has a porosity lower than that of the first region, and a hardness higher than that of the first region.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which the impregnation property of a positive electrode mixture layer is enhanced in the central part thereof in the winding axis direction, and superior battery performance is ensured by preventing outflow of nonaqueous electrolyte from the positive electrode mixture layer during charge/discharge.SOLUTION: In the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, both ends 66A, 66A of a positive electrode mixture layer 66 in the winding axis direction of a wound electrode are mainly composed of a first positive electrode material 68A, and the central part 66B including at least the center of the positive electrode mixture layer 66 in the winding axis direction is mainly composed of a second positive electrode material 68B. The amount of DBP absorption (mL/100 g) is different from each other between the first positive electrode material and second positive electrode material, and the amount of DBP absorption A(mL/100 g) of the first positive electrode material is smaller than the amount of DBP absorption B(mL/100 g) of the second positive electrode material.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing an electrode at low cost by efficiently drying a coated foil formed of a metal foil coated with a paste-like coating material while restraining migration.SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing an electrode includes: a coating step for forming the coated foil 2 by applying the coating material 4 to the metal foil 3 while the metal foil is fed forward; and a drying step for heating and drying the coated foil 2 while the coated foil 2 passes through a drying oven 20 of a drying machine 10 disposed in line on a feeding path. The drying oven 20 includes four drying chambers 21, 22, 23, and 24 divided and arranged by three partitions, and has at least a first drying chamber 21 through which the coated foil 2 first passes in the drying process and a second drying chamber 22 through which the coated foil passes subsequent to the first drying chamber 21. The volume V1 of the first drying chamber 21 is smaller than the volume V2 of the second drying chamber 22 by making the area of a cross-section S1 perpendicular to a feed direction F along the feeding path smaller than a cross-section S2 of the second drying chamber 22.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a secondary battery and an electrode plate of the secondary battery, in which curvature of a current collector foil is restrained after rolling an electrode plate.SOLUTION: A lithium ion secondary battery has an electric power generation element, in which a positive electrode plate 61 and a negative electrode plate are laminated to sandwich a separator. Then, for example, a positive electrode current collector foil 611 of the positive electrode plate 61 includes a coating region P1 that is a region in which a positive electrode mixture layer 612 exists when seen from a thickness direction, and a non-coating region P2 that is positioned at one end of a width direction of the positive electrode current collector 611 and is a region in which the positive electrode mixture layer 612 does not exist. A relationship between thickness TA of the coating region P1 of the positive electrode current collector foil 611 and thickness TB of a width direction end P4 of the non-coating region P2 satisfies TA>TB.