Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode is for manufacturing an electrode that includes an active material doped with an alkali metal. An electrode precursor is immersed in a pretreatment solution. The electrode precursor includes a current collector and an, active material layer, which is formed on a surface of the current collector and contains an active material. The pretreatment solution includes alkali metal ion, a solvent, and an additive that is capable of controlling reductive decomposition of the solvent. After immersing the electrode precursor in the pretreatment solution, the active material is doped with an alkali metal by using a dope solution including alkali metal ion.

Abstract: An electrode manufacturing apparatus dopes an active material in a strip-shaped electrode precursor having a layer including the active material with alkali metal. The electrode manufacturing apparatus includes a doping bath configured to store a solution including alkali metal ions; a conveyor unit configured to convey the electrode precursor along a path passing through the doping bath; a counter electrode unit housed in the doping bath and comprising a conductive base material and an alkali metal-containing plate arranged on the conductive base material; and a connection unit configured to electrically connect the electrode precursor and the counter electrode unit. A distance between the alkali metal-containing plate and the electrode precursor becomes greater as a measurement position of the distance becomes closer to a connection position in which the electrode precursor and the connection unit connect each other.

Abstract: The electrode manufacturing method for manufacturing an electrode provided with an active material layer that contains an active material doped with alkali metal. In an atmosphere with an oxygen concentration of 1 volume % or more and 18 volume % or less, the active material is doped with alkali metal using a dope solution containing alkali metal ions. In a manufacturing method for a power storage device, a negative electrode active material contained in a negative electrode active material layer of a negative electrode is doped with alkali metal using a dope solution containing alkali metal ions in an atmosphere with an oxygen concentration of 1 volume % or more and 18 volume % or less. After the doping with alkali metal, the negative electrode, a separator, and an electrode different from the negative electrode are sequentially stacked to form the electrode cell.

Abstract: An electrode manufacturing apparatus manufactures a strip-shaped doped electrode by doping an active material contained in a layer of a strip-shaped electrode precursor with alkali metal. The electrode manufacturing apparatus includes a sensor configured to detect a mark that the electrode precursor has, at least one doping tank that stores a solution that contains alkali metal ions, a conveyer member configured to convey the electrode precursor along a path passing through the doping tank, a counter electrode member that is accommodated in the doping tank, a connector configured to electrically connect the electrode precursor and the counter electrode member, a power source configured to flow an electric current to the counter electrode member via the connector, and a power controller configured to control the power source based on a result of detection by the sensor.

Abstract: An electrical storage device includes a casing that has an opening, an electrode assembly that is placed inside the casing, a terminal plate that is electrically connected to the electrode assembly, and a holder that is provided to surround the terminal plate, the terminal plate having a step or a slope in an area in which the terminal plate comes in contact with the holder.

Abstract: An energy storage module in which a plurality of energy storage cells including electrode terminals are stacked, includes a bus bar that electrically connects a plurality of electrode terminals, a conductive member that is secured on the bus bar, a detection section that detects a voltage of each of the energy storage cells, and a wiring board, a wire that is electrically connected to the detection section, and a pad that is connected to the wire being formed on the wiring board, the conductive member coming in contact with the pad.

Abstract: An electrical storage device includes a casing that has an opening, an electrode assembly that is placed inside the casing, a terminal plate that is electrically connected to the electrode assembly, and a holder that is provided to surround the terminal plate, the terminal plate having a step or a slope in an area in which the terminal plate comes in contact with the holder.

Abstract: A sealed battery includes a sealing plate 13 sealing a mouth of an outer can, an external terminal 16 attached to the sealing plate 13 and having a connecting terminal 23, and a current interruption mechanism 18 interrupting current in response to pressure increase in the outer can that is installed in a conductive pathway electrically connecting the connecting terminal 23 and an electrode assembly. In the connecting terminal 23, a through-hole 23b continuing to the space on the current interruption mechanism 18 at the side corresponding to the outside of the battery is formed. The through-hole 23b is sealed with a terminal stopper 30 made of an elastic member so as to form a closed space between the terminal stopper 30 and current interruption mechanism 18. An electrolyte or washing solution hardly enters the current interruption mechanism during the manufacture can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of a lithium ion capacitor having high capacity and high output characteristics and also having high safety that allows suppression of an increase in surface temperature even when an internal short circuit accidentally occurs. The lithium ion capacitor of the present invention comprises: a lithium ion capacitor element formed by overlaying a positive electrode sheet and a negative electrode sheet on top of one another with a separator interposed therebetween; an electrolyte solution; and an outer container that contains the lithium ion capacitor element and the electrolyte solution, a porous layer is formed on an outer surface of the lithium ion capacitor element, and the lithium ion capacitor satisfies following relational expressions (1) and (2): 35?T×R/C??relational expression (1): 0.

Abstract: A method for producing an electrical storage device includes winding a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a lithium ion source to form a wound element that has a flat part and a curved part, the lithium ion source including a plurality of parts that are arranged in a winding direction through a gap, the wound element being formed so that the gap is situated in the curved part.

Abstract: A method of producing an electric storage device includes a fastening that includes fastening a laminate that includes a lithium foil and a metal foil to at least one of a first separator and a second separator using a bonding member, and a winding that includes winding the first separator, the second separator, the laminate, a cathode, and an anode to obtain a wound element, one of the first separator and the second separator being disposed between the cathode and the anode.

Abstract: Disclosed is an accumulator device that can prevent aluminum forming an outer container from forming an alloy with lithium even when fine lithium metal powder is isolated from a lithium ion supply source to adhere to the outer container. The accumulator device has an outer container at least a part of which is formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, a positive electrode and a negative electrode that are arranged in the outer container, and an electrolytic solution injected into the outer container and containing a lithium salt, wherein the negative electrode and/or the positive electrode is doped with a lithium ion by electrochemical contact of a lithium ion supply source arranged in the outer container with the negative electrode and/or the positive electrode, and the portion formed of aluminum or the aluminum alloy in the outer container is set to a positive potential.

Abstract: An energy storage module in which a plurality of energy storage cells including electrode terminals are stacked, includes a bus bar that electrically connects a plurality of electrode terminals, a conductive member that is secured on the bus bar, a detection section that detects a voltage of each of the energy storage cells, and a wiring board, a wire that is electrically connected to the detection section, and a pad that is connected to the wire being formed on the wiring board, the conductive member coming in contact with the pad.

Abstract: A method for producing a prismatic secondary cell housing a flat electrode assembly includes disposing a first current-collecting member onto a first to-be-welded portion at a flat portion of an edge of the electrode assembly where a core-body exposed portion of the first electrode protrudes. A first receiving member is disposed onto a plane opposing the flat portion. The first current-collecting member, the core-body exposed portion, and the first receiving member are resistive-welded with the core-body exposed portion between the other members. A second current-collecting member is disposed onto a second to-be-welded portion at a position of the flat portion distanced from the first to-be-welded portion while avoiding contact between the collecting members. A conductive connecting member is placed between the collecting members or between the receiving members. The conductive connecting member and its abutting members are welded. One of the members is electrificably connected to an external output terminal.

Abstract: A sealed battery including: an electrode assembly 11 having multiple positive electrode substrates exposed at one end and negative electrode substrates exposed at the other end; and collectors 181 and collector receiving parts 183 that are resistance-welded on both sides of the multiple positive or the multiple negative electrode substrates or both, grooves 23 being formed around the resistance-welded portion of at least one of the collector 181 and the collector receiving part 183. Due to the spattered particles 26 generated during the resistance-welding being captured within the grooves 23, few particles burst into the inside of the electrode assembly 11 or into the outside.

Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of a lithium ion capacitor having high capacity and high output characteristics and also having high safety that allows suppression of an increase in surface temperature even when an internal short circuit accidentally occurs. The lithium ion capacitor of the present invention comprises: a lithium ion capacitor element formed by overlaying a positive electrode sheet and a negative electrode sheet on top of one another with a separator interposed therebetween; an electrolyte solution; and an outer container that contains the lithium ion capacitor element and the electrolyte solution, a porous layer is formed on an outer surface of the lithium ion capacitor element, and the lithium ion capacitor satisfies following relational expressions (1) and (2): 35?T×R/C??relational expression (1): 0.

Abstract: A sealed battery includes a sealing plate 13 sealing a mouth of an outer can, an external terminal 16 attached to the sealing plate 13 and having a connecting terminal 23, and a current interruption mechanism 18 interrupting current in response to pressure increase in the outer can that is installed in a conductive pathway electrically connecting the connecting terminal 23 and an electrode assembly. In the connecting terminal 23, a through-hole 23b continuing to the space on the current interruption mechanism 18 at the side corresponding to the outside of the battery is formed. The through-hole 23b is sealed with a terminal stopper 30 made of an elastic member so as to form a closed space between the terminal stopper 30 and current interruption mechanism 18. An electrolyte or washing solution hardly enters the current interruption mechanism during the manufacture can be provided.

Abstract: The external terminal 19 has sword-guard portion 191 provided with a terminal portion 193 formed at one end thereof and a cylindrical crimping member 192 formed at another end thereof, the cylindrical crimping member 192 being inserted through openings each formed at a first insulating member 211, the opening-sealing plate 13, a second insulating member 212 and the collector 181, and being crimped in a diameter-enlarging direction, so that the sword-guard portion 191 of the external terminal 19, the opening-sealing plate 13 and the collector 181 are mechanically-fixed and a thin-walled portion made thinner than other portions formed in a tip portion of the cylindrical crimping member 192 is adhered to the collector, and the thin-walled portion 194 and the collector being welded with a high energy beam.

Abstract: A sealed battery including: an electrode assembly 11 having multiple positive electrode substrates exposed at one end and negative electrode substrates exposed at the other end; and collectors 181 and collector receiving parts 183 that are resistance-welded on both sides of the multiple positive or the multiple negative electrode substrates or both, grooves 23 being formed around the resistance-welded portion of at least one of the collector 181 and the collector receiving part 183. Due to the spattered particles 26 generated during the resistance-welding being captured within the grooves 23, few particles burst into the inside of the electrode assembly 11 or into the outside.