Hydrogen Containing Patents (Class 429/200)
  • Publication number: 20130095388
    Abstract: A liquid hydrophobic phase transition substance is provided that may improve the safety of a battery and restrain the deterioration in performance of the battery without deteriorating the properties of the battery. The liquid hydrophobic phase transition substance includes a hydrophobic salt having a melting point of 80° C. or more and a hydrophilic salt of an alkali or an alkaline earth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirofumi Nakamoto
  • Publication number: 20130095379
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution is provided that realizes a large capacity, exhibits high storage characteristics and cycle characteristics, and is capable of inhibiting gas generation. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution comprises a lithium salt and a non-aqueous solvent, and further comprises: a cyclic carbonate compound having an unsaturated bond in a concentration of 0.01 weight % or higher and 8 weight % or lower; and a compound expressed by general formula (Ia) in a concentration of 0.01 weight % or higher and 5 weight % or lower. (in the formula (Ia), R11 and R12 represent, independently of each other, an organic group that is composed of one or more carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms and may optionally contain one or more oxygen atoms but excludes unsaturated bonds, provided that at least either R11 or R12 has an ether linkage. The total number of carbon atoms of R11 and R12 is between 3 and 18, and the total number of oxygen atoms contained in R11 and R12 is between 1 and 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: Minoru Kotato, Kunihisa Shima, Shinichi Kinoshita, Asao Kominato, Takashi Fujii, Teppei Yamada
  • Patent number: 8420265
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery that includes a lithium salt, a phosphine compound having at least one trialkylsilyl group and organic solvent, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the electrolyte. The phosphine compound may be tris(trialkylsilyl)phosphine wherein the alkyl groups are the same or different and are each independently selected from C1 to C6 alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mi-Hyeun Oh, Jin-Sung Kim, Na-Rae Park, Su-Hee Han, Jin-Hyunk Lim
  • Publication number: 20130089779
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution, wherein the electrolytic solution includes a cyano cyclic ester carbonate represented by Formula (1) described below, where each of R1 to R3 is one of a hydrogen group, a halogen group, a cyano group, a monovalent hydrocarbon group, a monovalent halogenated hydrocarbon group, a monovalent oxygen-containing hydrocarbon group, and a monovalent halogenated oxygen-containing hydrocarbon group; arbitrary two or more of the R1 to the R3 are allowed to be bonded to each other; and when the total number of cyano groups is 1, one or more of the R1 to the R3 each are a halogen group, a monovalent halogenated hydrocarbon group, or a monovalent halogenated oxygen-containing hydrocarbon group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Ihara, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20130089778
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution includes a cyano cyclic ester carbonate represented by Formula (1) described below and one or more of compounds represented by Formula (2) to Formula (6) described below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Ihara, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20130084493
    Abstract: This invention relates to a nonaqueous-electrolyte battery containing a current collector, a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. The positive electrode contains a lithium-containing phosphoric acid compound represented by LixMPO4 as a positive-electrode active material, where M is at least one element selected from Group-2 to Group-12 metals of the periodic table, and x satisfies 0<x?1.2. The negative electrode contains a negative-electrode active material capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution contains a chain ether and a cyclic carbonate having an unsaturated bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventor: Hiroyuki TOKUDA
  • Publication number: 20130084491
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ambient temperature molten salt having excellent electron conductivity in addition to ion conductivity. The present invention attains the object by providing an ambient temperature molten salt including a first imidazolium salt having a cationic segment represented by the general formula (1) and an anionic segment represented by MX4 (where M is a transition metal and X is a halogen); and a second salt having a cationic segment as a monovalent cation and an anionic segment as a halogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakamoto, Fuminori Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20130084492
    Abstract: In a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a first active material of a positive electrode includes at least one of carbon-coated LiFePO4, LiMnPO4 and Li3V2(PO4)3. A second active material of the positive electrode includes lithium nickel composite oxide. An electrolytic solution includes fluorinated ethylene carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo YANAGITA, Kazuki TAKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130078499
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for electrochemical cells and batteries containing electrochemical cells. An electrochemical cell may incorporate two types of conducting polymers each located at an electrode, a cation, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon radical anion that contacts one of the conducting polymers, and an electrolyte. The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon radical anion may be a covalent substituent of one of the conducting polymers or may be in noncovalent contact with one of the conducting polymers. The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon radical anion may permit the use of cations other than lithium, e.g. an alkali metal cation such as sodium or alkali earth metal cation such as calcium. Such an electrochemical cell may provide alternative batteries to existing lithium ion batteries, permitting the use of cations that may be more abundant, more easily extracted, or more sustainable compared to known lithium supplies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: Empire Technology Development, LLC
    Inventor: Vincenzo Casasanta
  • Publication number: 20130078509
    Abstract: A non-aqueous secondary battery contains a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution. The positive electrode contains a layered structure lithium-containing compound oxide, or a spinel lithium-containing compound oxide containing manganese as an active material. The non-aqueous electrolytic solution contains at least one additive selected from a sulfonic acid anhydride, a sulfonate ester derivative, a cyclic sulfate derivative and a cyclic sulfonate ester derivative, and a vinylene carbonate or a derivative of the vinylene carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL ENERGY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hitachi Maxell Energy, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130071732
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte solution which contains a silyl ester group-containing phosphonic acid derivative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Shigeru Mio, Hidenobu Nogi, Takashi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20130071733
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolytic solution which can improve the electrochemical characteristics in a broad temperature range, an electrochemical element produced by using the same and a sulfonic ester compound having a branched structure which is used for the same. The present invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolytic solution prepared by dissolving an electrolyte salt in a nonaqueous solvent, which comprises a sulfonic ester compound represented by the following Formula (I) in an amount of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Kazuhiro Miyoshi, Shoji Shikita, Kei Shimamoto
  • Publication number: 20130071731
    Abstract: Provided are a nonaqueous electrolyte battery having improved durability properties such as cycle and storage properties, and improved load characteristic, and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution that is appropriate for the nonaqueous electrolyte battery. The nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains a lithium salt and a nonaqueous solvent that dissolves the lithium salt. The nonaqueous electrolyte solution also contains a compound represented by formula (1) and a specific compound that acts in conjunction with the aforementioned compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
  • Patent number: 8399137
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrolyte containing novel additive for electrochemical device and the electrochemical device thereof. The additive is a compound represented by below formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, or halogen; n and m are independently 1, 2, or 3. The additive of the present invention can protect the surface of the carbonaceous material on the anode and suppress the occurrence of exfoliation, thereby increasing the lifetime of the electrochemical device. Furthermore, the additive of the present invention also slows down the decay of capacity on the cathode during charging-discharging cycles, and hence maintains a better performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Taiwan Hopax Chems. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li-Jane Her, Chih-Wei Huang, Po-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 8399126
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte is provided that includes a non-aqueous solvent and an electrolyte salt, wherein the non-aqueous solvent contains a fluorinated ether (1) represented by the following Formula: HCF2CF2CF2CH2—O—CF2CF2H (1). This non-aqueous electrolyte has good wettability to a polyolefin separator, can provide a battery with excellent load characteristics for a long period, does not easily decompose in the battery under high-temperature storage, and causes little gas generation due to decomposition. Furthermore, a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and the above-described non-aqueous electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tooru Matsui, Tetsuo Nanno
  • Publication number: 20130065114
    Abstract: A polymer electrolyte includes a fluorine-containing structure having an alicyclic 1,3-disulfonimide in a principal chain or side chain of the polymer. A battery includes the polymer electrolyte. An imide monomer is able to introduce a fluorine-containing structure having an alicyclic 1,3-disulfonimide into a principal chain or side chain of a polymer through a polymerization reaction or a combination of a polymerization reaction and a fluorination reaction. A manufacturing method for a polymer electrolyte includes a polymerization step of polymerizing a raw material that includes one or two or more types of imide monomers that are able to introduce a fluorine-containing structure having an alicyclic 1,3-disulfonimide into a principal chain or side chain of a polymer through a polymerization reaction or a combination of a polymerization reaction and a fluorination reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Shinohara, Naoki Hasegawa, Masaya Kawasumi, Masayoshi Takami, Toshihiko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8394539
    Abstract: Lithium salts with fluorinated chelated orthoborate anions are prepared and used as electrolytes or electrolyte additives in lithium-ion batteries. The lithium salts have two chelate rings formed by the coordination of two bidentate ligands to a single boron atom. In addition, each chelate ring has two oxygen atoms bonded to one boron atom, methylene groups bonded to the two oxygen atoms, and one or more fluorinated carbon atoms bonded to and forming a cyclic bridge between the methylene groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Olt E. Geiculescu, Ion C. Halalay, Darryl D. Desmarteau, Stephen E. Creager
  • Publication number: 20130059200
    Abstract: Described herein are materials for use in electrolytes that provide a number of desirable characteristics when implemented within batteries, such as high stability during battery cycling up to high temperatures high voltages, high discharge capacity, high coulombic efficiency, and excellent retention of discharge capacity and coulombic efficiency over several cycles of charging and discharging. In some embodiments, a high voltage electrolyte includes a base electrolyte and a set of additive compounds, which impart these desirable performance characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Inventors: Vinay V. BHAT, Gang CHENG, Steven S. Kaye, Bin LI, Risa OLUGBILE, Jen-Hsien YANG
  • Publication number: 20130059194
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution includes an unsaturated six-membered ring ester carbonate represented by Formula (1) described below, or an unsaturated six-membered ring ester carbonate represented by Formula (2) described below, or both, where each of W, X, and Y is one of >C?CR1R2 and >CR3R4; each of R1 to R4 is a hydrogen group or the like; arbitrary two or more of R1 to R4 are allowed to be bonded with each other; and one or more of W, X, and Y are >C?CR1R2, where Z is one of >C?CR7R8 and >CR9R10; each of R5 to R10 is a hydrogen group or the like; and arbitrary two or more of R5 to R10 are allowed to be bonded with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Ihara, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20130059210
    Abstract: An electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including the same is provided. The electrolyte includes a film-forming compound; a lithium salt; and an organic solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Yi YU, Woo-Cheol SHIN, Sang-II HAN, Mi-Hyun LEE, Tae-Hyun BAE
  • Publication number: 20130052525
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sodium secondary battery comprising a first electrode comprising a carbonaceous material which can be doped and dedoped with a sodium ion, a second electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution in which an electrolyte salt is dissolved in a non-aqueous solvent, wherein the non-aqueous electrolytic solution comprises a cyclic carbonate containing an unsaturated bond, a cyclic carbonate containing fluorine, or both, in the range of 0.01% by volume or more and 10% by volume or less relative to the non-aqueous electrolytic solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun-ichi KAGEURA, Satoru KUZE
  • Publication number: 20130052524
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution includes an allene compound having a tetravalent skeleton represented by Formula (1) described below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Yamada, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 8377597
    Abstract: A secondary battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics and the storage characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution contains a solvent contains a sulfone compound having a structure in which —S(?O)2—S—C(?O)— bond is introduced to a benzene skeleton and an ester carbonate halide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Ihara, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 8377596
    Abstract: There are provided a nonaqueous-type electrolyte solution having high flame retardancy and a good capacity retention rate, and a device comprising the nonaqueous-type electrolyte solution. The nonaqueous-type electrolyte solution is used in a device comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and the nonaqueous-type electrolyte solution, and contains a lithium salt and a compound having a phosphazene structure, and further contains 0.05% by mass or more and 12.0% by mass or less of at least one disulfonate ester selected from a cyclic disulfonate ester and a chain disulfonate ester based on the total of the nonaqueous-type electrolyte solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Energy Devices, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinako Kaneko, Hitoshi Ishikawa, Yasutaka Kono, Yoko Hashizume
  • Publication number: 20130034759
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolytic secondary battery includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte that contains a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, wherein the nonaqueous electrolytic solution contains at least one phosphorus compound selected from the group consisting of phosphine oxide, phosphonic ester, and phosphinic ester, and the phosphine oxide, the phosphonic ester, and the phosphinic ester are phosphorus compounds represented by the following formulae (I), (II), and (III), respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Funada, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20130029218
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising positive and negative electrodes capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ions; a nonaqueous electrolytic solution; and a separator provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The negative electrode comprises a negative electrode active material layer containing at least a styrene polymer as a binder in a content of 0.3 to 8.0 mass % based on the total mass of the negative electrode active material layer. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution contains at least a cyclic sulfonic acid ester including at least two sulfonyl groups in a content of 0.002 to 5.0 mass % based on the total mass of the nonaqueous electrolytic solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: NEC ENERGY DEVICES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ippei Waki, Hideaki Sasaki, Takehiro Noguchi, Yasutaka Kono, Hitoshi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130029230
    Abstract: An electrolyte for the lithium secondary battery having flame retardancy, low negative electrode interfacial resistance, and excellent high temperature properties and life characteristics, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. An electrolyte for lithium secondary battery of the present invention may include a non-aqueous organic solvent, a lithium salt, fluorinated ether or phosphazene, and a resistance-improving additive represented as the following chemical formula (1): RSO2—R1—SO2F??[Chemical Formula 1] wherein R1 is a C1-C12 hydrocarbon unsubstituted or substituted with at least one fluorine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG SDI, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sinyoung Park, Yongbeom Lee, Sunyoung Kim, Bora Lee
  • Publication number: 20130029219
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a nonaqueous electrolyte which is a liquid at 20° C. under a pressure of 1 atmosphere. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains a first compound having a functional group represented by Chemical formula (I), at least one compound selected from a compound having an isocyanato group and a compound having an amino group, a nonaqueous solvent, and an electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroki INAGAKI, Norio TAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20130022879
    Abstract: Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery which, even in the case of using a low-viscosity solvent having a narrow potential window, can increase the electrochemical stability of the nonaqueous electrolyte solution and suppress side reactions of the nonaqueous electrolyte solution during charge and discharge to reduce the degradation of the battery characteristics and has an excellent storage characteristic in high-temperature environments and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution for the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Yamamoto, Kouhei Tuduki, Taizou Sunano, Maruo Kamino, Youichi Ohashi, Minoru Kotato
  • Publication number: 20130011728
    Abstract: An object is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte and a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery which have excellent discharge load characteristics and are excellent in high-temperature storability, cycle characteristics, high capacity, continuous-charge characteristics, storability, gas evolution inhibition during continuous charge, high-current-density charge/discharge characteristics, discharge load characteristics, etc. The object has been accomplished with a nonaqueous electrolyte which comprises: a monofluorophosphate and/or a difluorophosphate; and further a compound having a specific chemical structure or specific properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TOKUDA, Takashi FUJII, Minoru KOTATO, Masahiro TAKEHARA, Masamichi ONUKI, Youichi OHASHI, Shinichi KINOSHITA
  • Patent number: 8349497
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same. The electrolyte includes a lithium salt, a trialkylsilyl cyanide compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, and an organic solvent. In the above Chemical Formula 1, R1 to R3 are the same or different, and selected from C1 to C6 alkyls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Na-Rae Park, Jin-Sung Kim, Su-Hee Han, Jin-Hyunk Lim, Mi-Hyeun Oh
  • Publication number: 20120328938
    Abstract: Lithium salts with fluorinated chelated orthoborate anions are prepared and used as electrolytes or electrolyte additives in lithium-ion batteries. The lithium salts have two chelate rings formed by the coordination of two bidentate ligands to a single boron atom. In addition, each chelate ring has two oxygen atoms bonded to one boron atom, methylene groups bonded to the two oxygen atoms, and one or more fluorinated carbon atoms bonded to and forming a cyclic bridge between the methylene groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: Clemson University, GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Olt E. Geiculescu, Ion C. Halalay, Darryl D. Desmarteau, Stephen E. Creager
  • Publication number: 20120328939
    Abstract: Described herein are materials for use in electrolytes that provide a number of desirable characteristics when implemented within batteries, such as high stability during battery cycling up to high temperatures high voltages, high discharge capacity, high coulombic efficiency, and excellent retention of discharge capacity and coulombic efficiency over several cycles of charging and discharging. In some embodiments, a high voltage electrolyte includes a base electrolyte and a set of additive compounds, which impart these desirable performance characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Vinay V. BHAT, Gang CHENG, Steven S. Kaye, Bin LI, Risa OLUGBILE, Jen-Hsien YANG
  • Patent number: 8334069
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte. The anode includes an anode active material containing silicon, boron, carbon, and one or more of metal elements selected from the group consisting of cobalt, titanium and iron. In the anode active material, a boron content is from 4.9 mass % to 19.8 mass % both inclusive, a carbon content is from 4.9 mass % to 19.8 mass % both inclusive, a total of the boron content and the carbon content is from 9.8 mass % to 29.8 mass % both inclusive, a ratio of a silicon content to the total of the silicon content and a content of the metal element is from 70 mass % to 95 mass % both inclusive. A reaction phase whose half-width of a diffraction peak obtained by X-ray diffraction is 1 degree or more is included and the anode active material is capable of reacting with an electrode reactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Hiroshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20120316716
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes: an electrode group including a positive electrode and a negative electrode; and a nonaqueous electrolyte including an electrolytic solution, the electrode group including an insulating layer, the insulating layer containing a ceramic, the electrolytic solution including an electrolyte salt and an additive, the electrolyte salt including the compound of formula (1), and the additive being at least one of the compounds of formulae (2) to (14), and the compound of formula (1) being contained in 0.001 mol/L to 2.5 mol/L with respect to the electrolytic solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Odani, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20120313570
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte includes: a nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing a nonaqueous solvent, an electrolyte salt, an overcharge controlling agent capable of generating a redox reaction at a prescribed potential, and at least one member selected from the compounds (1) to (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuko Ohtaniuchi, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 8329337
    Abstract: An electrode and method for preparing the same in which droplets of a first electrode ink composition and droplets of a second electrode ink composition are ejected from an ink jet device onto a base material and the first electrode ink composition contains at least one electrode active material and the second electrode ink composition contains at least one binder material. The resulting electrode is suitable for use in a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Saito, Takuya Kinoshita, Hideaki Horie, Kyouichi Watanabe, Osamu Shimamura
  • Publication number: 20120308883
    Abstract: Disclosed is a nonaqueous electrolytic solution which forms a nonaqueous-electrolyte battery having high capacity and excellent storage characteristics at high temperatures, while sufficiently enhancing safety at the time of overcharge, and a nonaqueous-electrolyte battery using the same. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution has an electrolyte and a nonaqueous solvent with (A) a compound of formula (2): wherein R7 is an optionally halogenated and/or phenylated alkyl group comprising 1-12 carbon atoms, R8 to R12 are independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an optionally halogenated ether or alkyl group comprising 1-12 carbon atoms, and at least one of R8 to R12 is an optionally halogenated alkyl group comprising 2-12 carbon atoms; and/or (B) a carboxylic acid ester with a phenyl group substituted by at least one alkyl group (having 4 or more carbon atoms) that is optionally substituted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yumiko NAKAGAWA, Minoru Kotato, Daisuke Noda, Shinichi Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20120308882
    Abstract: An ionic liquid having high electrochemical stability and a low melting point. An ionic liquid represented by the following general formula (G0) is provided. In the general formula (G0), R0 to R5 are individually any of an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a methoxy group, a methoxymethyl group, a methoxyethyl group, and a hydrogen atom, and A? is a univalent imide-based anion, a univalent methide-based anion, a perfluoroalkyl sulfonic acid anion, tetrafluoroborate, or hexafluorophosphate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyosuke ITO, Toru ITAKURA
  • Publication number: 20120301795
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiment has an object to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte solution having a flame retardancy over a long period and having a good capacity maintenance rate. The exemplary embodiment is a nonaqueous electrolyte solution containing a lithium salt, at least one oxo-acid ester derivative of phosphorus selected from compounds represented by a predetermined formula, and at least one disulfonate ester selected from a cyclic disulfonate ester and a linear disulfonate ester represented by the predetermined formulae.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: NEC ENERGY DEVICES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinako Kaneko, Hitoshi Ishikawa, Yoko Hashizume, Eiji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120301797
    Abstract: The present invention provides an excellent nonaqueous electrolytic solution capable of improving low-temperature and high-temperature cycle properties and load characteristics after high-temperature charging storage, an electrochemical element using it, and an alkynyl compound used for it. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution of the present invention comprises containing at least one alkynyl compound represented by the following general formula (I) in an amount of from 0.01 to 10% by mass in the nonaqueous electrolytic solution. R1(O)n—X1—R2??(I) (In the formula, X1 represents a group —C(?O)—, a group —C(?O)—C(?O)—, a group —S(?O)2—, a group —P(?O) (—R3)—, or a group —X2—S(?O)2O—.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Kazuhiro Miyoshi, Masahide Kondo
  • Publication number: 20120295166
    Abstract: Hybrid radical energy storage devices, such as batteries or electrochemical devices, and methods of use and making are disclosed. Also described herein are electrodes and electrolytes useful in energy storage devices, for example, radical polymer cathode materials and electrolytes for use in organic radical batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas GENNETT, David S. GINLEY, Wade BRAUNECKER, Chunmei BAN
  • Publication number: 20120295148
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution containing a nitrogen-containing aromatic compound, wherein the nitrogen-containing compound contains an aromatic skeleton containing one or two or more aromatic rings and one or two or more nitrogen-containing functional groups bonded to the one or two or more aromatic rings and represented by the following formula (1) (Y?X?N—??(1) wherein X represents C or P; Y represents a group constituted of one kind or two or more kinds of elements selected from the group consisting of H, C, N, O, S, F, Cl, Br, and I, provided that arbitrary two or more of X and Y may be bonded to each other to form a ring structure; and z is 2 or 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Yoshimura, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20120295155
    Abstract: Silicon oxide based materials, including composites with various electrical conductive compositions, are formulated into desirable anodes. The anodes can be effectively combined into lithium ion batteries with high capacity cathode materials. In some formulations, supplemental lithium can be used to stabilize cycling as well as to reduce effects of first cycle irreversible capacity loss. Batteries are described with surprisingly good cycling properties with good specific capacities with respect to both cathode active weights and anode active weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Haixia Deng, Yongbong Han, Charan Masarapu, Yogesh Kumar Anguchamy, Herman A. Lopez, Sujeet Kumar
  • Publication number: 20120295156
    Abstract: The non-aqueous secondary battery of the present invention comprises a positive electrode containing a lithium-containing composite oxide as an active material, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The non-aqueous electrolyte contains polyvalent organic lithium salt, and the content of the polyvalent organic lithium salt is 0.001 parts by mass or more and 1 part by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of all of the components of the non-aqueous electrolyte other than the polyvalent organic lithium salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Akira Yano, Katsunori Kojima
  • Publication number: 20120288755
    Abstract: An anode or an electrolytic solution or both contain a metal salt including an unsaturated carbon bond. The electrolytic solution contains an unsaturated carbon bond cyclic ester carbonate represented by Formula (1) or a halogenated cyclic ester carbonate represented by Formula (2) or both, and contains a cyclic ester represented by Formula (3), where each of R1 and R2 is a group such as a hydrogen group, where each of R3 to R6 is a group such as a hydrogen group; and each of one or more of R3 to R6 is a group such as a halogen group, where X is an ether bond (—O—) or a methylene group (—CH2—); each of R7 to R10 is a group such as a hydrogen group; and each of R7 to R10 is a group such as an alkyl group when X is the ether bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Yamada, Hideki Nakai, Toshio Nishi, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 8304117
    Abstract: A gel polymer electrolyte precursor and a rechargeable cell comprising the same are provided. The gel polymer electrolyte precursor comprises a bismaleimide monomer or bismaleimide oligomer, a compound having formula (I): a non-aqueous metal salt electrolyte, a non-protonic solvent, and a free radical initiator, wherein the bismaleimide oligomer is prepared by reaction of barbituric acid and bismaleimide, X comprises oxygen, organic hydrocarbon compounds, organic hydrocarbon oxide compounds, oligomers or polymers, n is 2 or 3, and A independently comprises wherein m is 0˜6, X comprises hydrogen, cyano, nitro or halogen, and R1 independently comprises hydrogen or C1˜4 alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yueh-Wei Lin, Tsung-Hsiung Wang, Jing-Pin Pan, Chang-Rung Yang, Jung-Mu Hsu
  • Patent number: 8298709
    Abstract: A secondary battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics while securing the initial charge and discharge characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The anode has an anode active material layer containing a plurality of anode active material particles having silicon (Si). The anode active material layer contains at least one of an oxide-containing film covering a surface of the anode active material particles and a metal material not being alloyed with an electrode reactant provided in a gap in the anode active material layer. The electrolytic solution contains a solvent containing an organic acid that has a portion including an electron attractive group such as —(O?)C—C(?O)— bond in the center and a hydroxyl group on the both ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Ihara, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20120270092
    Abstract: An object is to provide a high-capacity lithium ion secondary battery enhanced in safety against overcharging by adding an overcharge retardant additive, which is highly responsive to excessive voltage application, to a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. A lithium ion secondary battery comprising: a separator, positive and negative electrodes arranged with the separator interposed therebetween and reversibly storing/releasing lithium ions, and an organic electrolytic solution having an electrolyte containing the lithium ions dissolved therein, wherein the organic electrolytic solution contains an aromatic compound represented by a general formula (1) below: where R1 represents an alkyl group and R2 to R5 each independently represent any one of hydrogen, a halogen group, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group and a tertiary amine group; and a concentration of the aromatic compound is 0.1 mol/L or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Honbou, Masayoshi Kanno, Masanori Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20120264010
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte containing a monofluorophosphate and/or a difluorophosphate and a compound having a specific chemical structure or specific properties. The nonaqueous electrolyte can contain at least one of a saturated chain hydrocarbon, a saturated cyclic hydrocarbon, an aromatic compound having a halogen atom and an ether having a fluorine atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi KATO, Hiroyuki TOKUDA, Takashi FUJII, Minoru KOTATO, Masahiro TAKEHARA, Masamichi ONUKI, Youichi OHASHI, Shinichi KINOSHITA