Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery comprising a positive electrode plate containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode plate containing a negative electrode active material, a separator, an electrolyte, and a battery can for enclosing these, wherein the positive electrode active material comprises manganese spinel and a layer-type lithium manganese oxide, and the electrolyte comprises vinylene carbonate and unsaturated sultone.

Abstract: A positive electrode for lithium secondary batteries and a lithium secondary battery are provided in which, by using an olivine Mn based positive-electrode active material and an optimal binder for the olivine Mn based positive-electrode active material, peel-off of the electrode and gelatinization of the slurry can be prevented, with large energy density, excellent in rate characteristic and cycle life. The positive electrode includes a positive-electrode composite including at least a positive-electrode active material and a binder; and a positive-electrode current collector. The positive-electrode active material includes a lithium composite oxide having an olivine-type structure, which is represented by the formula LiMnxM1?xPO4 (where 0.3?x?1 and M is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Li, Fe, Ni, Co, Ti, Cu, Zn, Mg, and Zr) . The binder includes an acrylonitrile-based copolymer.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery of excellent high temperature cycle characteristic using, as a positive electrode material, a surface-covering lithium manganese composite oxide capable of stably suppressing the leaching of Mn even at high temperature and high voltage without lowering the electric conductivity, in which the positive electrode material for the lithium secondary battery is a lithium transition metal composite oxide having a hexagonal layered structure and represented by a compositional formula: LiMnxM1-xO2 (in which 0.3?x?0.6, M is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Li, B, Mg, Al, Co, and Ni), or a lithium transition metal composite oxide having a cubic spinel structure and represented by a compositional formula: LiMnyN1-yO4 (in which 1.5?y?1.9, N is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Li, Mg, Al, and Ni), and the lithium transition metal composite oxide has a metal fluoride and a lithium phosphate compound on the surface thereof.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a lithium secondary battery capable of suppressing the elution of Mn, the lithium secondary batteries being excellent in the cycle life and having a high energy density. A positive electrode material for the lithium secondary battery has a cubic spinel structure (space group Fd3m), and comprises a metal phosphate compound and a cubic metal oxide in a surface of a lithium manganese composite oxide represented by a composition formula LiMnxM2-xO4 (where 1.75?x<2 and M represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Li, Mg, and Ni), wherein the metal phosphate compound contains lithium phosphate.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to improve load characteristics at the time of charging or discharging by assuring a lithium ion transport pathway in the crystal structure of olivine lithium-containing manganese phosphate. There is used a positive electrode active material which is a composite material comprising a material having an olivine structure and represented by Li1-y[Mn1-xMx]PzO4 (0<x?0.3, ?0.05?y<1, 0.99?z?1.03, and M includes at least one of Li, Mg, Ti, Co, Ni, Zr, Nb, Mo or W) and a carbon material, and which shows an average half width of 0.17 or more, and an intensity ratio between a diffraction line near 20° and a diffraction line near 35° of not less than 0.7 and not more than 1.0, in powder X-ray diffractometry.

Abstract: To provide a lithium secondary battery excellent in the life characteristic and the power density. A lithium secondary battery, comprising: a positive electrode capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium; and an negative electrode capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium, wherein the positive electrode contains a manganese-containing positive electrode active material of a spinel structure and an oxide that coats the surface of this positive electrode active material, wherein the oxide contains a metallic element, wherein the metallic element forms a solid solution with the positive electrode active material, and wherein the atomic concentration of the metallic element is approximately 0 at depths of from 50 to 100 nm from an external surface of the negative electrode.

Abstract: An air duct for vehicle air conditioning, includes a duct body defining a passage, and a passage dividing wall for dividing an interior of the duct body into a first passage and a second passage. In the air duct, the width of the duct body in an arrangement direction of the first and second passages in a bending section is larger than the width of the duct body in upstream-side and downstream side straight sections adjacent to the bending section, so as to increase a passage length difference (L1?L2) between the first passage and the second passage. Accordingly, the air duct has a structure capable of reducing the duct width while obtaining a desired passage length difference between the first passage and the second passage.