Abstract: A negative electrode active substance layer of a negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery herein disclosed includes at least a first negative electrode active substance and a second negative electrode active substance. The first negative electrode active substance is configured with an aggregated body of a scaly graphite whose surface of at least one part is covered with a low crystalline carbon. A graphite interlayer distance of the low crystalline carbon is equal to or more than 3.8 ? and not more than 5.0 ?. The second negative electrode active substance is a natural graphite or an artificial graphite whose graphite interlayer distance based on electron diffraction images by the transmission electron microscope is equal to or more than 3.35 ? and not more than 3.4 ?. Here, a mass ratio of the first negative electrode active substance and the second negative electrode active substance is 50:50 to 90:10.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a bracket and a shock absorbing member. The battery pack includes a housing and a power storage module accommodated in the housing. The bracket is attached to a ladder frame. The bracket supports the power storage module between the ladder frame and a side guard. The shock absorbing member is disposed beside the power storage module.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for suppressing the formation of black regions in a wound electrode body. The production method disclosed herein is a method for producing a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes a wound electrode body, a non-aqueous electrolyte, and a battery case. This production method includes the following steps: an assembling step S1 of placing the wound electrode body and the non-aqueous electrolyte in the battery case to construct a secondary battery assembly; a first step S2 of performing initial charging on the secondary battery assembly; and a second step S3 of setting the temperature of the wound electrode body to 50° C. or lower and keeping this state for at least 72 hours after the first step.

Abstract: A roll press apparatus forms a compressed strip-shaped electrode plate by roll-pressing a strip-shaped electrode plate including an active material portion and an active material absent portion and including a tensile-force-ratio adjustment mechanism adjusting a tensile force ratio of an upstream active material absent portion tensile force applied to an upstream side and a downstream active material absent portion tensile force applied to a downstream side of an inter-roll active material absent portion held in a non-compressed state between a pair of press rolls in an active material absent portion of the strip-shaped electrode plate.

Abstract: An exterior package, a main body portion, and a detection unit are provided. The main body portion is disposed inside the exterior package. The detection unit detects a state of a power storage cell and performs wireless communication, at least a portion of the detection unit being disposed inside the exterior package.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided which is suppressed in capacity deterioration upon repeating charging and discharging irrespective of cracks being formed in a lithium manganese oxide particle having a spinel type crystal structure. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery herein disclosed includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer includes lithium manganese oxide particles having a spinel type crystal structure as the positive electrode active material. At least a part of the lithium manganese oxide particles has a cracked part. The lithium manganese oxide particles have a coating film on the particle surface including the surface of the cracked part. The coating film contains a P component including a LiMnPO4 component, and a F component.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material is prepared by mixing a first graphite particle and a second graphite particle. A negative electrode including the negative electrode active material is produced. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including the negative electrode, a positive electrode, and an electrolyte solution is produced. The first graphite particle has a first number-based particle size distribution. The second graphite particle has a second number-based particle size distribution. A relationship of “D250/D150?0.50” is satisfied. D150 is a D50 in the first number-based particle size distribution. D250 is a D50 in the second number-based particle size distribution. A relationship of “R2?R1” is satisfied. R1 is an arithmetic mean of circularity of the first graphite particle. R2 is an arithmetic mean of circularity of the second graphite particle.

Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of improving impregnation efficiency of a nonaqueous electrolyte into an electrode body. A manufacturing method herein disclosed includes producing a negative pressure in an inside of a battery case; introducing a nonaqueous electrolyte into the inside of the battery case; establishing communication between the inside of the battery case and external atmosphere; temporarily sealing a solution introduction port using a first sealing member, impregnating the electrode body with a nonaqueous electrolyte; opening the solution introduction port; and, sealing the solution introduction port using a second sealing member. Herein, the first sealing member includes an air permeable film. Air permeation is enabled between the inside of the battery case after the temporary sealing and external atmosphere. The permeability of a vapor derived from the nonaqueous electrolyte with respect to the film is smaller than the permeability of water vapor.

Abstract: An electrode of a secondary battery includes an electrode active material layer containing active material particles. A concave part is formed on the surface of the electrode active material layer. When the electrode active material layer is uniformly divided into three layers, an upper layer, an intermediate layer and a lower layer, in the thickness direction from the surface of the concave part to the electrode current collector, and the electrode densities (g/cm3) of the upper layer, the intermediate layer, and the lower layer are d1, d2, and d3, respectively, they have a relationship of 0.8<(d1/d3)<1.1. The porosity of the electrode active material layer is 10% or more and 50% or less. The area ratio of the concave part is 2% or more and 40% or less. The volume ratio of the concave part is 5% or more and 14% or less.

Abstract: An electrode disclosed here includes a surface part of an electrode active material layer has a plurality of first grooves extending in a width direction of the electrode current collector and at least one second groove extending in a longitudinal direction of an electrode current collector. The first groove is formed to be continuous from one end to another end. Here, a region in which the first groove and the second groove are formed is uniformly divided into three layers, which are an upper layer, an intermediate layer and a lower layer, in a thickness direction from the surface of the electrode active material layer to the electrode current collector, and when electrode densities (g/cm3) of the upper layer, the intermediate layer and the lower layer of the groove are d1, d2, and d3, respectively, a relationship of 0.8<(d1/d3)<1.1 is satisfied.

Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of suppressing the occurrence of uneven drying inside an electrode body. A secondary battery disclosed herein includes an electrode body and a battery case. The battery case has a pair of rectangular wide surfaces and four rectangular side surfaces between the pair of wide surfaces. The electrode body is accommodated in the battery case, wherein rectangular surfaces of the electrode body face the wide surfaces of the battery case. The battery case is provided with protrusions inside, and the protrusions are in contact with at least a part of a central region including a center line in the long side direction of the rectangular surfaces of the electrode body accommodated in the battery case.

Abstract: A power storage device includes a plurality of power storage cells. An end surface portion of a case has an aspect ratio of 1.4 or more. At least a part of a first region between a lower end of a sealing part projected image and an upper end of a principal surface region projected image receives a pressure of a first surface pressure. At least a part of a second region between the upper end of the principal surface region projected image and a lower end of the principal surface region projected image receives a pressure of a second surface pressure. The first surface pressure is higher than the second surface pressure and is 1.5 MPa or more and 3.5 MPa or less. A height of at least a part of the first region receiving the pressure of the first surface pressure is 1 mm or more.

Abstract: In the present disclosure, local increases in inter-electrode distance in a flat portion in the vicinity of electrode tab groups are suppressed in a secondary battery, in which a wound electrode body is accommodated in a state where electrode tab groups are bent, in a battery case. The secondary battery disclosed herein has a flat-shaped wound electrode body and a battery case that accommodates the wound electrode body. The wound electrode body in such a secondary battery has a positive electrode tab group being a stack of positive electrode tabs, and a negative electrode tab group being a stack of negative electrode tabs, such that the positive electrode tab groups and the negative electrode tab groups are bent. A separator of the secondary battery has a band-shaped base material layer, and a surface layer containing inorganic particles and a binder. At least one from among the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate is bonded to the surface layer of the separator.

Abstract: The electrodes disclosed herein, a low-density region having a relatively low electrode density and a high-density region having a relatively high electrode density are repeated on a surface of the electrode active material layer in a predetermined pattern at a constant pitch. The electrode active material layer is evenly divided into three layers of an upper layer, an intermediate layer, and a lower layer in a thickness direction from the surface of the active material layer to the electrode current collector, and when the electrode densities (g/cm3) of the upper layer, the intermediate layer, and the lower layer of the low-density region are respectively dL1, dL2, and dL3 and the electrode densities (g/cm3) of the upper layer, the intermediate layer, and the lower layer of the high-density region are respectively dH1, dH2, and dH3, a relation of dH3/dL3<dH1/dL1 is satisfied.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a secondary battery in which the occurrence of springback is suppressed in a wound electrode body having specific external shape dimensions. The secondary battery disclosed herein has a flat-shaped wound electrode body and a battery case that accommodates the wound electrode body. A separator of such a secondary battery has a band-shaped base material layer, and a surface layer containing inorganic particles and a binder. At least one from among a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate is bonded to the surface layer of the separator. A width dimension of the positive electrode active material layer in the secondary battery disclosed herein is 200 mm or larger, a thickness dimension of the wound electrode body is 8 mm or larger, and a height dimension of the wound electrode body is 120 mm or smaller.

Abstract: A battery module includes a pair of secondary batteries disposed adjacent to each other and a spacer disposed between the secondary batteries. Each of the secondary batteries includes a plurality of electrodes each of which has a rectangular shape and is disposed to face each other, a case configured to house the electrodes, the case having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and an electrolyte in the case. The spacer is made of an elastic body. An aspect ratio of each of the electrodes is 10 or less, and a spring constant of the spacer is 0.03 MPa/mm or more and 5.4 MPa/mm or less.

Abstract: Provided is a chlorine-containing positive electrode active material that can impart excellent high-temperature storage characteristic to a lithium ion secondary battery. The positive electrode active material disclosed herein includes 0.1% by mass or more and 3% by mass or less of Cl. Further, in the positive electrode active material disclosed herein, the ratio of a peak intensity of a (003) plane to a peak intensity of a (104) plane in Miller indexes hlk that is determined by powder X-ray diffraction is 0.8 or more and 1.5 or less.

Abstract: There are provided a method for manufacturing a wet granular body of an electrode active material mixture from which granular bodies with almost uniform grain size can be obtained, the wet granular body itself, a method for manufacturing an electrode plate using the same, and a manufacturing apparatus for the same. There are provided mixing of obtaining a wet powder body in a pendular state in which solid-matter powder includes at least electrode active material powder and conductive material powder, liquid components exist in facing portions of solid powder but the liquid components are not linked one another in the facing portions, and spaces among the solid powder are entirely linked, and granulating of obtaining an assembly of the wet granular body of the electrode active material mixture by forming the wet powder obtained in the mixing process into grains.

Abstract: A terminal component includes a first metal and a second metal overlapped on the first metal. The first metal is provided with a recess where an inside is wider than an opening at a portion overlapped with the second metal. A part of the second metal has entered the recess of the first metal, and the second metal has a portion that has entered a portion of the recess of the first metal where the inside is wider than the opening, and a recess on a surface opposite to the portion that has entered the recess of the first metal. At least a part of the portion of the second metal that has entered the recess of the first metal is metal-joined to the inner surface of the recess of the first metal.

Abstract: A portable charger has a pre-assigned battery ID. The portable charger includes a wireless power receiving device corresponding to a wireless power transfer device, and a communication device being communicable with a mobile communication terminal. The mobile communication terminal stores the battery ID and a user ID in association with each other. The service server stores the battery ID, the user ID, and a validity of a service user's right to receive a chatting service, in association with each other. The service server is configured to acquire the battery ID and the user ID from the mobile communication terminal and execute an authentication process of determining the validity of the service user's right to receive the charging service for the portable charger that is, identified by the acquired battery ID based on the acquired user ID.