Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the present invention includes: a positive electrode in which an olivine-type compound is used as a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode in which amorphous-based carbon is used as a negative electrode active material; a separator sandwiched between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; a non-aqueous electrolyte; and a casing which houses the positive electrode, the negative electrode, the separator, and the non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the non-aqueous electrolyte are configured to satisfy an inequality: (Rn/(Rp+Rn))?0.

Abstract: The present invention provides a positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, having a novel overcharge protective function. The positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention includes a positive electrode active material layer including a plurality of positive electrode active material particles, wherein the positive electrode active material layer comprises: a carbonaceous coating film formed on a surface of each of the positive electrode active material particles; and 0% by weight or more and 20% by weight or less of a conductive auxiliary agent disposed between the plurality of positive electrode active material particles, and at least one of the carbonaceous coating film and the conductive auxiliary agent is graphitizable carbon.

Abstract: The present invention provides a power storage device capable of preventing rain water, washing water, and the like from entering a casing. The power storage device of the present invention includes a secondary battery, the casing having a sealed structure, a safety valve, and a drainage through hole, the casing includes an external container configured to accommodate the secondary battery and an upper lid disposed above the external container, the upper lid has an upper surface having a concave portion formed therein, the safety valve is disposed in the concave portion, and the drainage through hole is provided to pass through a side wall of the concave portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, having novel overcharge protection functions. The present invention provides a positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, comprising a carbon layer and a positive-electrode active material layer provided on the carbon layer, wherein the carbon layer includes graphitizable carbon.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention is characterized by including positive electrode active material particles, and a carbonaceous coating film formed on the surface of the positive electrode active material particle and including a plurality of carbon hexagonal network planes, wherein the carbonaceous coating film is formed so that a Raman spectrum, in which a ratio ID/IG between a peak intensity ID of the D band and a peak intensity IG of the G band is 0.9 or lower and the full width at half maximum of the peak of the G band is 80 cm?1 or smaller, is measured.

Abstract: The present invention is conceived in such a way as to prevent any damage to the battery management unit even if the solution leaks out of the cell, providing the battery with high safety. The battery according to the present invention is characterized by being provided with a cell, a battery management unit for managing the cell, a protection case holding the battery management unit, and a housing containing the cell and the protection case, wherein the protection case inside is hermetically sealed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a power storage device capable of preventing deterioration of sealability even when a pulling force is applied to a casing and having high safety and excellent durability.

Abstract: The occurrence of separation or reaggregation is suppressed in a suspension such as a battery electrode slurry. A battery electrode slurry distributing apparatus includes: a circulation pipe via which a positive electrode slurry is to be circulated; and a control unit that controls the supply of the positive electrode slurry to each of coaters. In a period in which either the coater is allowed to receive the supply of the positive electrode slurry, the control unit inhibits the supply of the positive electrode slurry to the other coater. The circulation pipe is structured in a polygonal loop. The coaters are connected to respective elbow portions formed in the circulation pipe via the pipes, respectively.

Abstract: A sealed battery of the present invention includes a power generation element including an electrode sheet and a separator; a laminate film disposed in such a way as to enclose the power generation element therein; an electrode connection terminal connected to the electrode sheet; and an electrolyte. The laminate film is shaped to form a housing section for power generation element, the housing section being hermetically sealed at a fusion bonding section where parts of the laminate film are overlapped and fusion-bonded and at a first sealing section where the electrode connection terminal is sandwiched between and fusion-bonded with parts of the laminate film. The power generation element and the electrolyte are housed in the housing section for power generation element. The electrode connection terminal comprises an external connection section for connecting with external and a conductive section disposed between the external connection section and the first sealing section.

Abstract: The present invention provides a power storage device capable of preventing deterioration of sealability even when a pulling force is applied to a casing and having high safety and excellent durability.

Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that can suppress a drop in a flash point of an electrolyte solution even if the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is used for a long time. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: an electrode body having a structure in which a positive electrode including a positive-electrode active material and a negative electrode including a negative-electrode active material are stacked with a separator interposed therebetween; a non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing a flame retardant; and an outer casing accommodating the electrode body and the non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution in the electrode body has a flame retardant concentration lower than a flame retardant concentration in the non-aqueous electrolyte solution between the electrode body and the outer casing.

Abstract: A method for producing a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention is characterized in that the method comprises the steps of: placing an electrode body into an outer casing, the electrode body having a folded-separator structure or a wound structure in which a positive electrode including a positive-electrode active material and a negative electrode including a negative-electrode active material are stacked with a separator interposed therebetween; placing a non-aqueous electrolyte free of a flame retardant into the outer casing; charging the electrode body by applying a voltage between the positive electrode and the negative electrode placed in the outer casing; placing a flame retardant into the outer casing; and sealing the outer casing, wherein the step of charging is a step of charging the electrode body with the state in which the surface of the positive-electrode active material and the surface of the negative-electrode active material are in contact with the non-aqu

Abstract: The present invention provides a test battery case which is capable of conducting an internal short-circuit test with accuracy. The test battery case according to the present invention includes a container for housing a power generating element, and a closing member detachably secured to the container, wherein the container has an opening for the internal short-circuit test, the opening being closed by the closing member.

Abstract: Techniques effectively prevent an overcurrent from occurring in a system comprising assembled batteries connected in parallel to a power supply line, when a given assembled battery is connected to the power supply line. Multiple battery units are each configured such that they can be connected to a power supply line. Each battery unit includes a battery cell group configured including multiple battery cells, a switching unit arranged between the power supply line and the battery cell group so as to control a current that flows between the power supply line and the battery cell group, and a control unit that controls the switching unit.

Abstract: A secondary battery manufacturing method enables smooth pulling of a separator by guide members by inhibiting a phenomenon in which, when the separator is being pulled by the guide members, the separator moves in the width direction and rattles. The method includes pulling in a separator by guide bars to zigzag-fold the separator; and suspending the separator between the guide bars via a suspension roller while locating buffer rollers at a predetermined descending position, the buffer rollers being disposed between support rollers for supporting the separator at midpoints upstream, in the transport direction of the separator, of the suspension roller, the buffer rollers being ascendable and descendable in contact with an upper surface of the separator to be adjustable vertically, and allowing the buffer rollers to ascend in accordance with movement of the guide bars, thereby supplying the separator of a length pulled in by the guide bars.

Abstract: After a separator is brought into a tension-free state, a plurality of guide members are crossed in a horizontal direction between rows of the guide members to fold the separator or a superposed body zigzag. Positive electrode plates or negative electrode plates are inserted into the resulting furrows to produce a secondary battery.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing an electrode assembly for a rectangular battery, in which positive electrodes and negative electrodes are alternately laminated so that a separator exists between the respective positive and negative electrodes, the manufacturing method includes the steps of: arranging a plurality of guide members in zigzag form in a perpendicular direction; inserting a continuous member of the separator between one and another one rows of the guide members; folding, into zigzag form, the continuous member by intersecting the rows of the guide members in a horizontal direction; inserting alternately the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes in respective valley grooves of the zigzag-folded continuous member; withdrawing the guide members from the respective valley grooves of the continuous member; and pressing, thereafter, the continuous member in the zigzag direction so as to make flat the continuous member.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention is provided with a porous positive electrode active material layer that contains a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material layer is formed so that a logarithmic differential pore volume distribution curve thereof, which shows the relation between pore diameter and pore volume of pores in the positive electrode active material layer, is a single-peak type curve. The distribution curve has a main peak having a full width at half maximum of from 0.001 ?m to 0.05 ?m inclusive, and the sum of the pore volumes of the pores within a pore diameter range corresponding to the full width at half maximum is 70% or more of the total pore volume.

Abstract: A production apparatus is equipped with a supply unit which has a cassette member 50 for bearing a predetermined number of positive electrode plates or negative electrode plates, and which batchwise supplies a plurality of positive electrode plates 5 or negative electrode plates 6 placed on the cassette member 50 to respective electrode plate conveying trays 19 of an electrode plate conveying member 20.