Abstract: A film covered battery has a battery element, a positive and a negative lead terminal connected to the battery element, and a casing for sealing the lead terminals and the battery element together with an electrolytic solution, with portions of the lead terminals extending therefrom. The casing has a buffer in at least a portion thereof for accumulating a gas generated within the casing through deformation of the casing. The buffer is formed continuously with a region for accommodating the battery element.

Abstract: A secondary battery including an electricity generating element, which includes at least a positive electrode implemented by a lithium-manganese compound oxide, a negative electrode, an electrolyte and a separator, and films encasing the electricity generating element is disclosed. The secondary battery further includes a composition causing the electrolyte to react with water to thereby produce hydrogen ions, and a hydrogen ion uptaking agent so positioned as to contact the electrolyte existing in the battery. The battery is desirable in charge-discharge cycle characteristic, storage characteristic, and safety. In addition, the battery swells little despite a repeated charge-discharge cycle or storage.

Abstract: A radical compound may be used as an active material for an anode layer 2 to provide a novel stable secondary battery with a higher energy density and a larger capacity. The radical compound used has, for example, a spin concentration of 1021 spins/g or more.

Abstract: In a film packed battery, a battery power source comprising, at least, a cathode, an anode, an electrolyte, and a separator is packed with a film. In a method for producing film packed battery, a pre-charging step for charging the film packed battery while pressure is applied, for example, by sandwiching it between two flat plates is included at least once.

Abstract: A battery is fabricated on the basis of at least one of the following four concepts, i.e., lead terminals passing through a package not lower than the uppermost surface of an electrolyte cell, lead terminals projecting from a package in directions opposite to each other, a film package with a crushed portion expandable for accumulating gas and sheets of gas barrier sealant for keeping the boundaries between component parts of a package sealed; the seal is hardly broken so that the battery is durable and highly reliable.

Abstract: A battery with a laminated film as a casing encapsulating the battery power source is manufactured by the steps of: heat sealing the sealing area of the laminated film, whereby encapsulating the battery power source in the laminated film; and irradiating, with an electron beam, a portion of the heat sealed area, thereby the irradiated area crosses, in the direction along the peripheries of the heat sealed area, the overlapping areas of the heat sealed area and the leading electrodes projecting toward outside from the positive electrode and the negative electrode. According to this method, produced is a battery having a high peeling strength at the position of terminals of leading electrodes without sacrificing battery properties and therefore having high reliability and safety.

Abstract: A film-sealed nonaqueous electrolyte battery comprises: a battery element including a non-aqueous electrolyte; a film case having at least a sealant polymer resin film for sealing the battery element; at least a load terminal extending from the battery element and projecting from the film case, and the lead terminal with a surface having a contact area in contact directly with the sealant polymer resin film, and at least the contact area of the surface of the lead terminal is coated with an anti-corrosion coating film, wherein the anti-corrosion coating film includes: (A) a polymer of structural units of a phenolic compound, and at least a part of the structural units includes a substituent which comprises an amino group or a substituted amino group; (B) a phosphate compound; and (C) a titanium fluorine compound.

Abstract: In a secondary battery wherein a positive electrode active material layer 2 and a negative electrode active material layer 3 are allowed to face each other via a liquid electrolyte solution 1, there is used, as the electrolyte solution 1, a basic solvent containing a halogenated polyolefin and an aliphatic polyolefin dissolved therein.

Abstract: In a secondary battery wherein a positive electrode active material layer 2 and a negative electrode active material layer 3 are allowed to face each other via an electrolyte solution 1, there is used, as the electrolyte solution 1, a basic solvent containing a halogenated polyolefin dissolved therein.

Abstract: A secondary battery including an electricity Generating element, which includes at least a positive electrode implemented by a lithium-manganese compound oxide, a negative electrode, an electrolyte and a separator, and films encasing the electricity generating element is disclosed. The secondary battery further includes a composition causing the electrolyte to react with water to thereby produce hydrogen ions, and a hydrogen ion uptaking agent so positioned as to contact the electrolyte existing in the battery. The battery is desirable in charge-discharge cycle characteristic, storage characteristic, and safety. In addition, the battery swells little despite a repeated charge-discharge cycle or storage.

Abstract: A secondary battery has a positive electrode, an electrolyte, and a negative electrode. The electrolyte is made up of a high molecular gel electrolyte comprising a matrix polymer and an electrolyte solution included in the matrix polymer. The electrolyte solution is formed by dissolving an ionic compound in a nonaqueous organic solvent. The matrix polymer forms a high molecular network by dispersing (i) a compound containing at least two polymerizable functional groups, (ii) compound having a polymerizable functional group and containing one of a carbonyl group, an amido group, and an oxyalkylene group, and (iii) a vinylidene fluoride polymer and polymerizing them.

Abstract: A thick layer of polyaniline is evenly and efficiently deposited on the surface as well as the edges of an anode porous metal. A porous film-forming metal or porous valve metal is immersed in an anilinum protonic salt solution of a high temperature and a high concentration, thereafter, anilinum protonic salt crystals are deposited on the surface of the porous metal by cooling the porous metal to or below the dissolution temperature of the solution, and the porous metal is immersed in an oxidant solution.