Patents Assigned to POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD
  • Publication number: 20240136515
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery, a manufacturing method thereof, and a lithium secondary battery including the same, wherein the positive electrode active material is a lithium nickel-based compound particle having a Ni content of 75 mol % or more, and a difference in concentration of Al between the center and the surface in the lithium nickel-based compound particle is less than 1 mol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: POSCO Holdings Inc., RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sanghyuk LEE, Jong II PARK, Jung Hoon SONG, Sang Cheol NAM, Kwon Young CHOI, Inchul PARK, Ohmin KWON
  • Publication number: 20240055604
    Abstract: It is related to a manufacturing method of negative electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, comprising: preparing an artificial graphite; forming a coating layer covering the artificial graphite by mixing the artificial graphite and a liquid coating material; and carbonizing the artificial graphite on which the coating layer is formed; wherein, the liquid coating material has a viscosity of 300 to 25000 mPa s at 35° C.; a negative electrode active material according to the method; and a lithium secondary battery including the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: POSCO HOLDINGS INC., RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Gang Ho LEE, Jung-Chul AN, Sei Min PARK, Jong Hoon YOON, Hyun-Chul JO
  • Publication number: 20240047669
    Abstract: The present exemplary embodiments relate to a positive electrode active material and a lithium secondary battery including the same. According to an exemplary embodiment, a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery including a metal oxide particle including nickel, cobalt, manganese and aluminum, and two types of doping elements doped on the metal oxide particle is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: POSCO Holdings Inc., RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jung Hoon SONG, Sang Cheol NAM, Sanghyuk LEE, Kwon Young CHOI, Inchul PARK, Ohmin KWON
  • Publication number: 20240006594
    Abstract: It relates to a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same, wherein the positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, comprising: a core containing a lithium nickel-based compound having a Ni content of 80 mol % or more; and a coating material positioned on at least a portion of the core surface; wherein, the coating material includes a first coating material containing at least one of group 5 elements and group 6 elements; and S; and a second coating material including B, LiOH, Li2CO3 and Li2SO4, and the second coating material is a needle-like material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: POSCO Holdings Inc., RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, POSCO CHEMICAL CO.,LTD
    Inventors: Ohmin KWON, Sang Cheol NAM, Kwon Young CHOI, Jung Hoon SONG, Sanghyuk LEE, Inchul PARK
  • Patent number: 11611074
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a positive active material for lithium secondary battery, its manufacturing method, and lithium secondary battery including the same, and it provides that a positive active material for lithium secondary battery, comprising: a core and a coating layer, wherein, the core is lithium metal oxide, the coating layer comprises boron, the boron compound in the coating layer comprises a lithium boron oxide and a boron oxide, the lithium boron oxide is included 70 wt % or more and 99 wt % in the entire coating layer, the lithium boron oxide comprises Li2B4O7, with respect to the lithium boron oxide 100 wt %, the content of Li2B4O7 is 55 wt % or more and 99 wt % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: POSCO HOLDINGS INC., RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Hwan Min, Jeong Han Kim, Jung Hoon Song
  • Publication number: 20230078432
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery comprising a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 is introduced. Li1+mNi1-w-x-y-zCowMnxM1yM2zO2-pXp??[Chemical Formula 1] (In the Chemical Formula 1, M1 and M2 are different from each other, and any one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, Zr, Sn, Ca, Ge, Ti, Cr, Fe, Zn, Y, Ba, La, Ce, Sm, Gd, Yb, Sr, Cu and Ga respectively, X is any one element selected from the group consisting of F, N, S, and P, w, x, y, z, p and m are respectively 0.125<w<0.202, 0.153<x<0.225, 0?y?0.1, 0?z?0.1, 0.34?w+x?0.36, 0?p?0.1, and ?0.1?m?0.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicants: POSCO, Research Institute of Industrial Science & Techology, POSCO Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Hwan Min, Jeong Han Kim, Jung Hoon Song
  • Publication number: 20230074546
    Abstract: An apparatus for calcining a secondary battery cathode material includes: a calcination furnace including an inner space that includes a temperature rising space, a temperature maintaining space, and a cooling space, which sequentially communicate; a plurality of rollers for transferring a sagger, in which a cathode material is accommodated, from the temperature rising space to the cooling space via the temperature maintaining space; a plurality of heaters arranged along the inner space; a plurality of gas feeding parts for feeding gas to the inner space; and a plurality of exhaust parts for exhausting gas from the inner space, wherein the cross-sectional area of the temperature maintaining space is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the temperature rising space and the cross-sectional area of the cooling space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicants: POSCO, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Choongmo YANG, Keeyoung JUNG, Yooncheol PARK, Yeong Woo KIM, Soon Cheol HWANG
  • Publication number: 20230053769
    Abstract: A vertical-type firing apparatus for a positive electrode material for a secondary battery, for vertically moving and firing the positive electrode material for the secondary battery, comprises: a vertical-type firing furnace including an exhaust part, an air supply part, and a firing space positioned between the exhaust part and the air supply part; and a heater for heating the firing space of the vertical-type firing furnace, wherein the firing space includes a temperature-raising space, a cooling space, and a temperature-maintaining space located between the temperature-raising space and the cooling space, and the temperature of the temperature-maintaining space is higher than the temperature of the temperature-raising space and the temperature of the cooling space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicants: POSCO, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Choongmo YANG, Soon Cheol HWANG, Yooncheol PARK, Keeyoung JUNG
  • Publication number: 20230041710
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a cathode active material, a method for manufacturing the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. According to an embodiment, a cathode active material can be provided, the cathode active material comprising: a lithium metal oxide including a core and a shell disposed on a surface of the core; and a coating layer disposed on a surface of the lithium metal oxide, wherein a c value that satisfies Equation 1 and is in a range of 0.3 to 0.7, and the core and the shell have a layered crystalline structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: POSCO, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kwon Young CHOI, Sang Cheol NAM, Sang Hyuk LEE, Inchul PARK, Jong Il PARK, Jung Hoon SONG, Ohmin KWON
  • Publication number: 20220388852
    Abstract: The present exemplary embodiments relate to a cathode active material, a manufacturing method thereof, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. A cathode active material according to an exemplary embodiment is a lithium metal oxide particle in the form of a secondary particle including a primary particle, a coating layer including a boron compound is positioned on at least a portion of a surface of the primary particle, and the boron compound includes an amorphous structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicants: POSCO, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sang Cheol NAM, Kwon Young CHOI
  • Publication number: 20220344657
    Abstract: The present exemplary embodiments relate to a positive electrode active material, a manufacturing method thereof, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. According to an exemplary embodiment, it is possible to provide a positive electrode active material containing: a lithium metal oxide, and a coating layer positioned on the surface of the lithium metal oxide, and the coating layer comprises a first compound having a peak observed in the range of 1580 cm?1 to 1600 cm?1 when measured by FT-IR and an average transmittance of the peak in the 0.990 to 0.998 range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicants: POSCO, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kwon Young CHOI, Inchul PARK, Jong ll PARK, Jung Woo PARK, Young Sang KIM, Sang Cheol NAM
  • Patent number: 11369941
    Abstract: A method for preparing a porous carbon material by using coal tar generated in a coke oven gas (COG) process is provided. The method includes: removing quinoline insoluble (QI) by mixing tetrahydrofuran (THF) with coal tar generated in a COG purification process; distilling coal tar by adding a phenolic resin to the QI-removed coal tar, and heating the same at a temperature of 100° C. to 330° C.; carbonizing the distilled coal tar by heating the same at 350° C. to 600° C.; mixing a carbide after the carbonization step and the coal tar, which has been distilled before the carbonization, and grinding/granulating the same; mixing the ground/granulated carbide and the coal tar, which has been distilled before the carbonization, with a pore forming agent, and heat treating the same at 300° C. to 500° C.; and forming pores by making the heat treated carbon material come into contact with water vapor at 700° C. to 1000° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Min Sung, Ki-Don Nam
  • Publication number: 20210376317
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a positive active material for a lithium rechargeable battery and a lithium rechargeable battery including the same, which include a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a second compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, and a content of the first compound is 65 wt % or more based of the positive active material of 100 wt %. Lia1Nib1Coc1Mnd1M1e1M2f1O2-f1 ??[Chemical Formula 1] Lia2Nib2Coc2Mnd2M3e2M4f2O2-f2 ??[Chemical Formula 2] Chemical Composition 1 and 2 of each composition and molar ratio is as defined in the specification. Each composition and molar ratio of Chemical Formula 1 and 2 is as defined in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicants: POSCO, POSCO Chemical Co., Ltd., Research Institute of Industrial Science & Techology, POSCO Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Hwan Min, Jeong Han Kim, Jung Hoon Song
  • Publication number: 20210159483
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a positive electrode active material for rechargeable lithium ion batteries and a method of preparing the positive electrode active material, in which a compound including sulfur is used as an additive in a wet treatment process to remove residual lithium impurities (LiOH, Li2CO3) present on a surface of the positive electrode active material, such that the residual lithium impurities are effectively removed without loss of capacity while a Li-S compound coating layer is formed on the surface thereof, thereby reducing resistance and leakage current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun Tai KIM, Hye Won PARK, Eun Hui PARK
  • Patent number: 11011749
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lithium-titanium complex oxide used in an electrode active material. A preparation method of a lithium-titanium complex oxide according to the present invention comprises the steps of: preparing a slurry mixture in which a titanium oxide, lithium and zirconium are mixed; wet-milling the mixture using beads having a size of 0.30 mm or less to obtain a wet-milled mixture; spray drying the wet-milled mixture to obtain a spray dried mixture; and calcining the spray dried mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Su Bong Choi, Chun Gu Kang, Jeong Eun Choi, Seung Chang Jeong, Jae An Lee, Jeong Han Kim
  • Publication number: 20210020930
    Abstract: A lithium titanium composite oxide including aluminum-coated primary particles and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. A lithium titanium composite oxide including aluminum-coated primary particles according to an embodiment is manufactured by coating lithium titanium oxide primary particles with aluminum by mixing an aluminum compound with re-pulverized particles and then by spray-drying the mixture again to prepare secondary particles. A battery including the lithium titanium composite oxide including the aluminum-coated primary particles exhibits effects of suppressing electrolyte decomposition and gas generation that may be respectively caused by titanium ions and residual lithium in conventional lithium titanium composite oxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: POSCO CHEMICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Su Bong CHOI, Chun Gu KANG, Jeong Han KIM, Jae An LEE