Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolytic solution comprising a cyclic disulfonic acid ester represented by the specific formula and a cyclic dicarboxylic acid ester represented by the specific formula, and the secondary battery using the same. According to the present invention, the electrolytic solution which can improve a cycle characteristics in a secondary battery and a secondary battery using the same can be provided.

Abstract: One of the objects of the present invention is to suppress a short circuit due to metal deposition in an insulating layer in a secondary battery in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are disposed to face each other via the insulating layer. The secondary battery comprises a battery element including at least one positive electrode 11 and at least one negative electrode 12, and a casing that seals the battery element together with an electrolyte. At least one of the positive electrode 11 and the negative electrode 12 comprises a current collector, an active material layer formed on at least one surface of the current collector, and an insulating layer 112 formed on the surface of the active material layer. The electrolyte comprises an electrolyte component and a crosslinked gelling agent.

Abstract: A purpose of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a highly safe lithium ion secondary battery comprising a layered lithium nickel composite oxide with high nickel content and a polyethylene terephthalate separator. The first lithium ion secondary battery of the present invention is characterized by comprising a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode mixture layer and an insulation layer, and a separator comprising polyethylene terephthalate, wherein the positive electrode mixture layer comprises a layered lithium nickel composite oxide having a nickel ratio of 60 mol % or more based on metals other than lithium.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode, comprising: a metal foil; an electrode layer formed on at least one surface of the metal foil; and an insulating layer formed on the electrode layer; wherein boundary portion between the insulating layer and the electrode layer is in a state in which a part of the insulating layer engages into a part of the electrode layer, and Ls/L is 1.25 or more, wherein a reference length of a straight line in a direction in which the metal foil extends is taken as L and a boundary length along boundary between the insulating layer and the electrode layer is taken as Ls.

Abstract: The purpose of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a lithium ion secondary battery which has improved cycle characteristics and the negative electrode of which comprises a silicon oxide. The present invention relates to a lithium ion secondary battery comprising a silicon oxide and an electrolyte solution comprising a fluorinated acid anhydride.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolytic solution comprising a cyclic dicarboxylic acid ester represented by the specific formula, and the secondary battery comprising the same. According to the present invention, the electrolytic solution comprising an additive which can improve a characteristics in a secondary battery and a secondary battery comprising the same can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lithium ion secondary battery comprising a positive electrode having a coating amount per unit area of 50 mg/cm2 or more and an electrode density of 3.3 g/cc or more and a negative electrode having a coating amount per unit area of 24 mg/cm2 or more and an electrode density of 1.5 g/cc or more, a separator having a shrinking ratio of 2% or less by heat treatment at 80° C. for 6 hours, and an electrolyte solution comprising at least one sulfonic acid ester compound, and a ratio of a sulfur content in the central portion (As) and a sulfur content in the edge portion (Bs) of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, in each, is 0.7?As/Bs?1.1.

Abstract: An adhesive skin patch including a base film, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on one side of the base film, and a release liner peelably laminated so as to cover an adhesive surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains an acrylic copolymer, and wherein the base film has a thickness of 1 to 9 mm, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a thickness of 16 to 50 mm, the adhesive skin patch having good adhesiveness to a skin surface and a good fit feeling as if no skin patch is adhered; and a wound body of an adhesive skin patch obtained by winding the adhesive skin patch.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a electrode for a secondary battery in which the electrode has a first layer and a second layer laminated on a current collector. The method comprising applying a slurry for a first layer to a surface of a current collector, applying a slurry for a second layer to the slurry for the first layer before the slurry for the first layer is dried, and drying the slurries for the first layer and the second layer after applying the slurries for the first layer and the second layer to obtain a laminated structure in which the first layer and the second layer are laminated in this order on the current collector.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrolytic solution capable of suppressing gas generation. The present exemplary embodiment is an electrolytic solution comprising a supporting salt, a nonaqueous solvent that dissolves the supporting salt, a cyclic sulfonic acid ester compound represented by predetermined formula (1), and an acid anhydride. According to the exemplary embodiment, an electrolytic solution capable of suppressing gas generation can be provided.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material constituting a lithium ion secondary battery having high energy density and excellent cycle characteristics, and a negative electrode and a lithium ion secondary battery comprising the same are provided. The present invention relates to a negative electrode active material comprising graphite particles and crystalline silicon particles, wherein a median diameter of the crystalline silicon particles is 0.7 ?m or less, and a weight ratio of the crystalline silicon particles to the total weight of the graphite particles and the crystalline silicon particles is 1 wt % or more and 25 wt % or less.

Abstract: The lithium ion secondary battery is a secondary battery in which a positive electrode 30 and a negative electrode 40 are stacked alternatively via a separator 25, wherein the separator 25 is a single layer and is not melted or softened at least 200° C., a thermal shrinkage ratio of the separator being 3% or below, wherein an insulating layer 70 is formed on a surface of the positive electrode 30, the surface facing to the separator 25.

Abstract: An electric power steering device includes a phase advance correction unit configured to advance a phase of a steering torque signal detected by a torque sensor detecting a steering torque input from a steering wheel, a specific frequency extraction unit configured to extract a component in a specific frequency band out of the steering torque signal detected by the torque sensor, a gain multiplication unit configured to correct a steering torque signal computed on the basis of an output signal of the phase advance correction unit and an output signal of the specific frequency extraction unit such that the steering torque signal reaches a limit value set by a limiter by multiplying the steering torque signal by a gain, and an addition unit configured to add an assist correction command value calculated on the basis of an output signal output from the gain multiplication unit to the assist command value.

Abstract: An electric power steering device includes a basic return command value calculation unit configured to calculate a basic return command value in a direction to return a steering wheel to a neutral position on the basis of a steering angle of a steering wheel, a turn/return determination unit configured to determine the turn and the return of the steering wheel, a gradually changing return command value calculation unit configured to calculate a gradually changing return command value, the gradually changing return command value gradually increasing, while the return of the steering wheel is determined by the turn/return determination unit, and a return command value calculation unit configured to calculate a return command value by adding the gradually changing return command value to the basic return command value. The electric motor is driven by adding the return command value to the assist command value.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium ion secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode; a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode active material comprising at least one carbon material selected from the group consisting of a natural graphite, an artificial graphite, a non-graphitizable carbon and a graphitizable carbon; and an electrolyte solution comprising a specific cyclic disulfonate ester compound and an acid anhydride.

Abstract: Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery with high safety and high energy density which solves a concern about the safety, when a large amount of metal is used in a negative electrode active materials to achieve higher energy density and therefore an acceptable amount of lithium in a carbon material of the negative electrode is smaller than a releasable amount of lithium in a positive electrode active material. The present invention relates to a lithium ion secondary battery, wherein the positive electrode has a charge capacity per unit area of 3 mAh/cm2 or more, the negative electrode comprises a metal and/or a metal oxide and a carbon as negative electrode active materials, the acceptable amount of lithium in the carbon in the negative electrode is less than the releasable amount of lithium from the positive electrode, and the separator has a thermal shrinkage coefficient of less than 3% at a boiling point of the electrolyte solution in the electrolyte solution.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lithium ion secondary battery comprising a positive electrode having a coating amount per unit area of 50 mg/cm2 or more and an electrode density of 3.3 g/cc or more and a negative electrode having a coating amount per unit area of 24 mg/cm2 or more and an electrode density of 1.5 g/cc or more, a separator having a shrinking ratio of 2% or less by heat treatment at 80° C. for 6 hours, and an electrolyte solution comprising at least one sulfonic acid ester compound, and a ratio of a sulfur content in the central portion (As) and a sulfur content in the edge portion (Bs) of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, in each, is 0.7?As/Bs?1.1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lithium ion secondary battery comprising an electrode element comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator, and an electrolyte solution, wherein the separator has a shrinking ratio of 2% or less by heat treatment at 90 ° C. for 6 hours, and a contest of physically adsorbed water of the electrode element is 2% by mass or less, or a content of chemically adsorbed water in a positive electrode active material layer of the positive electrode is 1% by mass or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a gel electrolyte comprising a cyclic sulfonic acid ester represented by formula (1). According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a gel electrolyte capable of suppressing the self-discharge of a polymer secondary battery, and a polymer secondary battery using the gel electrolyte. wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a halogen group or an amino group with the proviso that R1 and R2 are not hydrogen atoms at the same time; R3 represents a linkage group selected from the group consisting of an alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a carbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, a fluoroalkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and a divalent group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms in which alkylene units or fluoroalkylene units are bonded through an ether group.

Abstract: The separator for secondary battery, comprising: a porous substrate having a melting temperature or a decomposition temperature of 200° C. or more; and a resin member formed at least inside of the substrate in a plane section that occupies at least a part of a plane along with a thickness direction of the substrate; wherein said resin member is coated on inner surfaces of pores without completely blocking connecting paths that connects pores of the porous member, and wherein a distribution density of the resin member becomes lower toward inside of the substrate.