Abstract:
A solid-state battery comprising a stack including at least one unit cell including a positive electrode layer including a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode layer including a negative electrode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer laminated between the positive and negative electrode layers, and an outer covering accommodating the stack, wherein the solid-state battery further including a pressure receiving member provided on at least a part of a periphery of the outer covering, and wherein the pressure receiving member has a thickness of less than a total thickness of the stack and the outer covering in a stacking direction of the unit cell.
Abstract:
A manufacturing method of an all-solid battery includes fabricating a single battery including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer; fabricating a plurality of battery packs including the plurality of single batteries; confining a plurality of battery packs by an equal confining pressure; measuring the electrical characteristics of the plurality of confined battery packs; determining the battery pack whose measured electrical characteristics are the worst of the plurality of battery packs; reducing the confining pressures of the other battery packs so that the electrical characteristics of the other battery packs are equal to that of the battery pack whose electrical characteristics have been determined to be the worst; and electrically connecting in parallel the battery packs.
Abstract:
An objective of the present invention is to provide a charging system, capable of increasing the rapid charging capacity of an on-vehicle all-solid-state battery, and reducing the effect of confining pressure on the all-solid-state battery. This is achieved by a charging system for an all-solid-state battery to be mounted in a vehicle, the charging system comprising: a charging section that charges an all-solid-state battery, a pressing section that applies confining pressure to the all-solid-state battery, and a pressure control section that controls the confining pressure, wherein the pressure control section directs the pressing section so that the confining pressure during charging is higher than the confining pressure during discharging.
Abstract:
A battery, includes: electrode body including positive and negative electrodes being alternately layered in a first direction with separator provided therebetween. The positive electrode current collector has a first burr and the negative electrode current collector has a second burr. In the battery, either the following (A) or (B) is satisfied: (A) plural first burrs do not include a pair of first burrs in which protrusion directions of adjacent first burrs differ, and plural second burrs do not include a pair of second burrs in which protrusion directions of adjacent second burrs differ; or (B) plural first burrs include only one pair of first burrs in which protrusion directions of adjacent first burrs differ, and plural second burrs include only one pair of second burrs in which protrusion directions of adjacent second burrs differ.
Abstract:
A battery includes a layer-type electrode body, a laminate exterior body, a positive electrode tab, and a negative electrode tab. In the electrode body, a positive electrode sheet and a negative electrode sheet are alternately layered in a layering direction via a separator sheet. The positive electrode tab protrudes from the laminate exterior body toward one side in a first direction orthogonal to the layering direction. The negative electrode tab protrudes from the laminate exterior body toward the one or another side in the first direction. The electrode body has an overlap region in which only plural separator sheets overlap at both edge regions in a second direction orthogonal to the layering direction and to the first direction. At least one of the two overlap regions has plural welded portions at which the plural separator sheets are welded. The plural welded portions are discretely formed along the first direction.
Abstract:
It is suppressed that an active material particle enters into or penetrates through a solid electrolyte layer when an active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer are pressed and that short circuits between a cathode and an anode occur. A method for producing an all solid-state battery includes: a first step of stacking an active material layer over at least one surface of a solid electrolyte layer to constitute a stack; and a second step of pressing the stack to constitute a compact, wherein in the first step, the active material layer contains a secondary particle of an active material, and in the second step, the secondary particle is crushed to primary particles by said pressing, the secondary particle being present in an interfacial portion between the active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer.
Abstract:
An active material, a solid electrolyte, and a solvent are hard-kneaded to prepare a first electrode material. A dispersion promotion component is added to the first electrode material to prepare a second electrode material. Slurry containing the second electrode material is prepared. An electrode is produced by applying the slurry to a surface of a base material. A composite body is formed by the solid electrolyte adhering to a surface of the active material. The dispersion promotion component promotes dispersion of the solid electrolyte in the solvent.
Abstract:
An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer; and wherein a surface roughness Ra of an electrode active material layer-contacting surface of the PTC resistor layer, is 1.1 μm or less.
Abstract:
An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains a carbon-containing electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a fluorine-containing polymer.
Abstract:
[Problem] To provide a method for the production of an all-solid-state battery using an alloy-based negative electrode active material in which it is possible to suppress degradation in performance of the all-solid-state battery during actual use while the restraint pressure during actual use of the all-solid-state battery is relatively small.[Solving Means] The method for producing an all-solid-state battery of the present disclosure produces an all-solid-state battery having a battery laminate comprising a positive electrode current collector layer, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector layer laminated in this order, wherein the battery laminate is restrained in the lamination direction by an actual use restraint member. The negative electrode active material layer contains particles of an alloy-based negative electrode active material. The method of the present disclosure comprises the steps of, in this order, charging and discharging the battery laminate in a state in which the batter, laminate is restrained in the lamination direction by a manufacturing restraint member and restraining the battery laminate in the lamination direction by the actual use restraint member, wherein when the restraint pressure applied by the manufacturing restraint member at the end of the discharging is a fourth restraint pressure and the restraint pressure applied by the actual use restraint member at the end of the discharging is a fifth restraint pressure, the fourth restraint pressure is greater than the fifth restraint pressure.