Abstract: A positive electrode plate of a lithium ion secondary battery includes a current collector foil, an active material layer including positive electrode active material particles containing lithium oxide on the current collector foil, and a protective conductive layer that does not include the positive electrode active material particles and includes a conductive material and a binding agent on the active material layer.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolytic solution that includes lithium fluorosulfonate and a sulfate ion in an amount of from 1.0×10?7 mol/L to 1.0×10?2 mol/L.

Abstract: A frame gasket may include a flat base, which is positioned along the edge of stack constitutional parts and which includes a first elastic base and reinforced fibers mixed therein to ensure sealing of a fuel cell stack, and first projection units, which project over the base and which include a second elastic base.

Abstract: Described herein are additives for use in electrolytes that provide a number of desirable characteristics when implemented within batteries, such as high capacity retention during battery cycling at high temperatures. In some embodiments, a high voltage electrolyte includes a base electrolyte and one or more vinylsilane or fluorosilane additives, which impart these desirable performance characteristics.

Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery which is capable of more reliably cutting off current by increasing a deformation amount of a member, which is deformed by a rise of an internal pressure of a battery container and cuts off current. The secondary battery is provided with a current cut-off mechanism in a current path between an external terminal and an electrode inside a battery container. The current cut-off mechanism is accommodated in the battery container, and is provided with a diaphragm connected to the external terminal and a current collector connected to the electrode. The diaphragm is disposed on an outer side of the battery container than the current collector and has a convex shape toward an inside of the battery container. The current collector includes a concave portion on a surface facing the outer side of the battery container, and the diaphragm is bonded to the concave portion.

Abstract: An electrode composite conducting agent for a lithium battery includes a carbonaceous conductive material, and the graphene-silica composite, wherein the graphene-silica composite includes a matrix including graphene, and a silicon suboxide of the formula SiOx wherein 0<x<2, or a combination of silicon dioxide and silicon suboxide of the formula SiOx wherein 0<x<2, or a combination thereof, wherein an amount of the graphene-silica composite is 20 parts by weight or less, based on 100 parts by weight of a total weight of the composite conducting agent. Also an electrode for a lithium battery including the electrode composite conducting agent, a method of manufacturing the electrode, and a lithium battery including the electrode.

Abstract: The invention relates to an accumulator having a plurality of electrode plates which are adjacently arranged and form at least one electrode plate stack in the form of a block, wherein each electrode plate comprises a frame having a grid arranged therein and wherein at least the grid is filled with an active mass, and wherein each electrode plate comprises at least one connecting lug protruding beyond the frame, wherein the connecting lugs of same-polarity electrode plates are arranged adjacent to one another in a row, wherein the connecting lugs adjacently arranged in a row are materially bonded together electrically and mechanically into a connecting lug block by at least one weld or solder point arranged between the connecting lugs. The invention furthermore relates to a method for manufacturing an accumulator.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a negative electrode active material capable of reducing the irreversible capacity of a lithium ion battery. The present invention provides a coated negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries wherein at least a portion of the surface of a particulate negative electrode active material for lithium ion batteries is coated with a coating agent and the coated negative electrode active material is doped with at least one of lithium and lithium ions.

Abstract: A solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell comprises a membrane electrode assembly comprising a polymer electrolyte disposed between an anode electrode and a cathode electrode, the anode and cathode electrodes each comprising a catalyst, a central region and a peripheral region, wherein the peripheral region of the cathode electrode comprises a cathode edge barrier layer; a fluid impermeable seal in contact with at least a portion of the anode and cathode peripheral regions and the cathode edge barrier layer; an anode flow field plate adjacent the anode electrode; and a cathode flow field plate adjacent the cathode electrode, wherein the cathode flow field separator plate comprises a cathode peripheral flow channel and at least one cathode central flow channel; wherein at least a portion of the cathode edge barrier layer traverses at least a portion of the cathode peripheral flow channel.

Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide an anode current collector that is capable of inhibiting the reaction with liquid electrolyte. The present invention achieves the object by providing an anode current collector to be used for a fluoride ion battery; and the anode current collector being a simple substance of Fe, Mg, or Ti, or an alloy containing one or more of these metal elements.

Abstract: A high discharge capacity in an all-solid-state battery in which lithium vanadium phosphate is used in a positive electrode active material layer and a negative electrode active material layer. An all-solid-state battery wherein a positive electrode active material layer and a negative electrode active material layer contain lithium vanadium phosphate, which includes a Li- and V-containing polyphosphate compound and satisfies 1.50<Li/V?2.30, with the percentage of divalent V included in the V being 5˜80%. Thus, a high discharge capacity can be provided.

Abstract: Described herein are additives for use in electrolytes that provide a number of desirable characteristics when implemented within batteries, such as high capacity retention during battery cycling at high temperatures. In some embodiments, a high temperature electrolyte includes a base electrolyte and one or more polymer additives, which impart these desirable performance characteristics.

Abstract: An electrode assembly includes a first sub-unit body including a plurality of stacked first unit bodies, and a second sub-unit body at a lower portion of the first sub-unit body and including a plurality of stacked first unit bodies and a second unit body at a lower portion of the first unit bodies, and each of the first unit bodies includes: first and second electrode plates of a first electrode separately arranged at a side of a first separator; a second separator on the first and second electrode plates of the first electrode; a first electrode plate of a second electrode arranged to correspond to the first electrode plate of the first electrode, with the first separator therebetween; and a second electrode plate of the second electrode arranged to correspond to the second electrode plate of the first electrode, with the second separator therebetween.

Abstract: A system for managing a battery of a vehicle may include: a temperature sensor measuring temperature of external air; an electric device cooler including an electric device mounted in the vehicle, an electric device cooling pipe through which cooling water for cooling the electric device flows, and a first pump circulating the cooling water; a battery cooler including a battery and a battery cooling pipe through which the cooling water for cooling the battery flows; one or more 3-way valves connecting or disconnecting the electric device cooling pipe to or from the battery cooling pipe; and a controller configured to control the first pump and the one or more 3-way valves to move the cooling water in the battery cooling pipe to the electric device cooling pipe when the measured temperature of the external air is the predetermined temperature or less.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stack of several electrochemical cells stacked on top of one another in a stacking direction. The stack comprises at least: a first electrochemical cell, a second electrochemical cell, and an intercalary plate. Each cell includes an upper frame housing a first electrode and a lower frame housing a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode being separated from one another by a membrane. The second electrode of the first electrochemical cell and the first electrode of the second electrochemical cell are separated by an intercalary plate. The stack includes an intercalary frame arranged on the periphery of the intercalary plate.

Abstract: A cell pack includes a plurality of unit cells arranged in an arrangement direction and a restraint mechanism for restraining these unit cells. The restraint mechanism includes: a first end plate portion disposed at an end portion in a first direction of the arrangement direction of the plurality of unit cells; a second end plate portion disposed at an end portion in a second direction of the arrangement direction of the plurality of unit cells; and a ring-shaped restraining hoop portion. A dimension in the arrangement direction between the first end plate portion and the second end plate portion of the restraining hoop portion is set such that a predetermined restraining pressure is applied in a direction of compressing the plurality of unit cells along the arrangement direction. A method for disassembling the cell pack is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which a decrease in discharge capacity after a charge-discharge cycle is reduced. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery in accordance with an aspect of the present invention includes (i) a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate whose results of a scratch test carried out in the TD and the MD fall within predetermined ranges, (ii) a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator that includes a porous film whose temperature rise ending period with respect to a resin amount per unit area at irradiation with microwave falls within a predetermined range, and (iii) a porous layer that contains an ?-form polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin of a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin at a predetermined proportion. The porous layer is arranged between the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator and at least one of the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a nonaqueous electrolyte energy storage device including a positive electrode containing a positive composite, the positive composite containing a positive active material, a phosphorus atom and an aluminum atom, in which in a spectrum of the positive composite as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, a peak position of P2p is at 134.7 eV or less, and a peak height ratio of Al2p to P2p (Al2p/P2p) is 0.1 or more.

Abstract: A flat battery of the present invention is a flat battery including an exterior can and a sealing can with which an opening of the exterior can is sealed, wherein the exterior can and the sealing can include a bottom portion and a circumferential wall extending upright from an outer circumference of the bottom portion and have a cylindrical shape that is open at one end; a distal end portion of the circumferential wall of the exterior can is bent toward a central axis of the sealing can to form a curve, whereby the exterior can is fixed to the sealing can by crimping; in a cross-sectional shape of the sealing can in the direction of the central axis, the circumferential wall of the sealing can is a single layer wall without being folded back, and the circumferential wall of the sealing can includes a rectilinear portion that is connected to the bottom portion via a corner portion; and an angle ?1 formed by the bottom portion and the rectilinear portion may be greater than 90°.

Abstract: Described herein are systems and apparatuses for securing and locking a battery or battery enclosure to a vehicle. In general, a vehicle may include a planar body mounted to any number of wheels, tracks, wings or flotation devices. In a preferred embodiment, the security device comprises a security plate and a locking pin system is used to secure the battery to any vehicle. The security plate is positioned between the fastener heads and the battery enclosure and has an opening for the locking pin to slide through. Once the pin is inserted into security plate the pin lock secures the pin in place and prevents removal of the battery or battery enclosure from the vehicle.