Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided with a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer formed on the surface of the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode mixture layer includes a first negative electrode mixture layer opposite to the negative electrode current collector, and a second negative electrode mixture layer laminated on the surface of the first negative electrode mixture layer. The negative electrode mixture layer includes graphite particles and a highly dielectric material having a higher dielectric constant than the graphite particles. The porosity between the graphite particles in the second negative electrode mixture layer is greater than in the first negative electrode mixture layer.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery capable of suppressing an increase in man-hour for a compression process in the production of a negative electrode and also suppressing a deterioration in charge/discharge cycle characteristics is provided. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is provided with a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer, wherein: the negative electrode active material layer includes graphite particles A and graphite particles B as a negative electrode active material; the internal porosity of the graphite particles A is 5% or less, and the internal porosity of the graphite particles B is 8-20%; and the mass ratio of the graphite particles A to the graphite particles B is 70:30 to 90:10.

Abstract: A negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries is provided with: a negative electrode current collector; a first negative electrode mix layer arranged on a surface of the negative electrode current collector; and a second negative electrode mix layer arranged on a surface of the first negative electrode mix layer. The first negative electrode mix layer contains a first carbon material having a true density of 2.1 g/cm3 to 2.3 g/cm3, the second negative electrode mix layer contains a second carbon material having a true density of 1.5 g/cm3 to 2.0 g/cm3, the inter-particle porosity of the second carbon material in the second negative electrode mix layer is larger than that of the first carbon material in the first negative electrode mix layer, and the ratio of the mass of the first negative electrode mix layer to that of the second negative electrode mix layer is 95:5 to 80:20.

Abstract: A negative electrode comprises a negative electrode collector, a first negative electrode mixture layer that is provided on the surface of the negative electrode collector, and a second negative electrode mixture layer that faces the positive electrode; the first negative electrode mixture layer and the second negative electrode mixture layer contain graphite particles; the ratio of the void fraction (S2) among the graphite particles in the second negative electrode mixture layer to the void fraction (S1) among the graphite particles in the first negative electrode mixture layer, namely S2/S1 is from 1.1 to 2.0; the ratio of the packing density (D2) of the second negative electrode mixture layer to the packing density (D1) of the first negative electrode mixture layer, namely D2/D1 is from 0.9 to 1.1; and the separator has a thickness of 10 ?m or less, while having a porosity of from 25% to 45%.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure is provided with a negative electrode having: a negative electrode collector: a first negative electrode mixture layer provided on the surface of the negative electrode collector; and a second negative electrode mixture layer provided on the surface of the first negative electrode mixture layer. Each of the first negative electrode mixture layer and the second negative electrode mixture layer contains graphite particles. The ratio (S2/S1) of the inter-particle porosity (S2) of the graphite particles in the second negative electrode mixture layer to the inter-particle porosity (S1) of the graphite particles in the first negative electrode mixture layer is 1.1-2.0. The ratio (D2/D1) of the filling density (D2) of the second negative electrode mixture layer to the filling density (D1) of the first negative electrode mixture layer is 0.9-1.1.

Abstract: A first negative electrode mixture layer contains a first negative electrode active material and a first water-soluble polymer material; and a second negative electrode mixture layer contains a second negative electrode active material and a second water-soluble polymer material. The ratio of the amount (S1) of the first water-soluble polymer material present on the surface of the first negative electrode active material to the amount (V1) of the first water-soluble polymer material present in voids among particles of the first negative electrode active material, namely S1/V1 is larger than the ratio of the amount (S2) of the second water-soluble polymer material present on the surface of the second negative electrode active material to the amount (V2) of the second water-soluble polymer material present in voids among particles of the second negative electrode active material, namely S2/V2.

Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery which is provided with a negative electrode mixture layer that exhibits excellent electrolyte absorbing properties.

Abstract: A cylindrical battery, as one example according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, is provided with: an electrode body formed by spirally winding a positive electrode and a negative electrode with a separator interposed therebetween; and a bottomed cylindrical exterior can for accommodating the electrode body. The negative electrode has a negative-electrode core body and a negative-electrode mixture layer provided on a surface of the negative-electrode core body. An exposed area in which the surface of the negative-electrode core body is exposed is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the electrode body, and the exposed area is in contact with the inner surface of the exterior can. The negative-electrode mixture layer contains, as a negative-electrode active material, graphite particles having an internal porosity of 5% or less and a fracture strength of 25-55 MPa.

Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having excellent low-temperature properties. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure comprises a negative electrode having: a negative electrode current collector; and a negative electrode active material layer disposed on the negative electrode current collector, wherein the negative electrode active material layer contains graphite particles A and graphite particles B as a negative electrode active material. The internal porosity of graphite particles A is 8-20%, and the internal porosity of graphite particles B is 5% or less. When the negative electrode active material layer is bisected in the thickness direction into a negative electrode current collector-side first half region and an outer surface-side second half region, the amount of graphite particles A in the second half region is greater than in the first half region.

Abstract: The objective of the present disclosure is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery capable of suppressing an increase in man-hour for a compression process in the production of a negative electrode and also suppressing a deterioration in charge/discharge cycle characteristics. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is provided with a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer, wherein: the negative electrode active material layer includes graphite particles A and graphite particles B as a negative electrode active material; the internal porosity of the graphite particles A is 5% or less, and the internal porosity of the graphite particles B is 8-20%; and the mass ratio of the graphite particles A to the graphite particles B is 70:30 to 90:10.

Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a non-aqueous secondary battery that is able to suppress a decrease in charge-discharge cycle characteristics. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that is a mode of the present disclosure comprises a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer, wherein the negative electrode active material layer contains a negative electrode active material that contains graphite particles, and an SBR component selected from at least one of a styrene-butadiene copolymer rubber and a modified product thereof, the internal porosity of the graphite particles is 1% to 5%, the porosity due to voids between particles of the negative electrode active material layer is 10% to 20%, and the content of the SBR component is 1.5 mass % to 3 mass % with respect to the mass of the negative electrode active material.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell comprising a negative electrode (12) having a negative electrode collector (40) and a negative electrode active material layer (42) provided on the negative electrode collector (40). The negative electrode active material layer (42) contains graphite particles A and graphite particles B as negative electrode active materials. The graphite particles A have an internal void rate of 5% or less. The graphite particles B have an internal void rate of 8 to 20%. When the negative electrode active material layer 42 is halved in the thickness direction, a region 42b on the half closer to the outer surface contains more graphite particles A than a region 42a on the half closer to the negative electrode collector.