Abstract: A non-aqueous rechargeable battery includes an electrode body in which a positive plate and a negative electrode plate are stacked in a stacking direction with a separator arranged in between. The positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode substrate, and a positive electrode mixture layer and an insulating layer arranged on each of two opposite surfaces of the positive electrode substrate. The positive electrode substrate includes a positive electrode uncoated portion. The electrode body includes a positive electrode current collector portion in which layers of the positive electrode uncoated portion are stacked in the stacking direction. A first insulating layer on a first surface of the positive electrode substrate, facing a center of the positive electrode current collector portion in the stacking direction, has a thickness that is greater than that of a second insulating layer on a second surface of the positive electrode substrate opposite to the first surface.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery includes an electrode body, a negative electrode current collector, and a positive electrode current collector. The electrode body includes a stack of a negative electrode sheet, a positive electrode sheet, and a separator. The negative electrode sheet includes a negative electrode base, a negative electrode mixture layer, and a negative electrode connecting portion. The positive electrode sheet includes a positive electrode base, a positive electrode mixture layer, a positive electrode connecting portion, and an insulating protective layer. The insulating protective layer includes an outer insulating protective layer on a surface relatively far from the positive electrode current collector in a stacking direction of the electrode body and an inner insulating protective layer on a surface relatively close to the positive electrode current collector in the direction.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery includes a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, a separator, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode mixture layer including positive electrode active material particles and a conductor, and an insulative protection layer including insulative particles and a binder. In the insulative protection layer, a value of (the insulative particles)/(the insulative particles+the binder) is between 75 wt % and 85 wt %, inclusive. A single-surface thickness TI of the insulative protection layer is between 3.0 ?m and 15 ?m, inclusive. A porosity PI of the insulative protection layer is between 42% and 55%, inclusive. A ratio of the single-surface thickness TI to a single-surface thickness TP of the positive electrode mixture layer is between 0.12 and 0.80, inclusive.

Abstract: A producing method for a positive electrode plate includes a second coating process of coating a second positive electrode paste on either a surface of a first positive electrode paste layer which is formed on a current collector or a surface of a positive electrode mixture layer that has been formed by drying the first positive electrode paste layer, a drying process of drying the first positive electrode paste layer with the second positive electrode paste layer or a drying process having a first step of drying the first positive electrode paste layer to form the first positive electrode mixture layer and a second step of drying the second positive electrode paste layer coated on the surface of the first positive electrode mixture layer to form the positive electrode mixture layer. An average length of first carbon nanotubes is longer than an average length of second carbon nanotubes.

Abstract: A producing method for a positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode paste preparing process of preparing a positive electrode paste including carbon nanotubes, positive active material particles, and a solvent, a coating process of coating the positive electrode paste on a surface of a current collector to form a positive electrode paste layer on the surface of the current collector, and a drying process of drying the positive electrode paste layer to form a positive electrode mixture layer. The carbon nanotubes have the characteristics of being attracted by magnets, and the carbon nanotubes included in the positive electrode paste layer are attracted toward a side of the current collector by the magnets at least any one of directly before the drying process or during the drying process.

Abstract: A lithium-ion rechargeable battery includes a positive electrode mixture that includes a positive electrode active material and a lithium salt. The lithium salt reacts with hydrogen fluoride generated in an electrolytic solution to produce an organic acid that is a weak acid relative to the hydrogen fluoride, an acid dissociation constant of the organic acid being 3.15 or higher.

Abstract: A lithium-ion battery includes a positive electrode, which includes positive electrode mixture material containing positive electrode active material particles and conductive material, a negative electrode, which includes a negative electrode mixture material, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode active material particles include primary particles, a first particle aggregate of the primary particles cohered into a mass with a hollow portion having a diameter of less than 1 ?m, and a second particle aggregate of the primary particles cohered into a mass with a hollow portion having a diameter of 1 ?m or greater. When referring to the primary particles and the first particle aggregate as first particles, the first particles occupy 5% to 70% of the positive electrode active material particles. The positive electrode mixture material has a void percentage of 20% to 60%. The conductive material has an aspect ratio of 1:10 or greater.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a positive plate of a rechargeable battery includes producing an insulation protective paste forming an insulation protective layer of the positive plate, the insulation protective paste including insulation particles, a binder, and a solvent and having a pH adjusted corresponding to a zeta potential at which the insulation particles do not aggregate, producing a positive composite material paste forming a positive composite material layer of the positive plate, the positive composite material paste including a positive active material, a conduction support, a binder, and a solvent, and a pH adjuster being added to the positive composite material paste to adjust a pH corresponding to a zeta potential at which the insulation particles aggregate, and simultaneously coating a positive current collector of the positive plate with the positive composite material paste and the insulation protective paste disposed adjacent to an end of the positive composite material paste.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery includes a positive plate, a negative plate, a separator that insulates the positive plate from the negative plate, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. The positive plate includes a positive current collector, a positive composite layer disposed on a portion of a surface of the positive current collector and containing a positive active material particle, and an insulation protective layer disposed on another portion of the surface of the positive current collector adjacent to the positive composite layer and containing an insulation particle. The insulation protective layer has a smaller thickness than the positive composite layer. The insulation protective layer has a greater porosity than the positive composite layer.