Having Connector Tab Patents (Class 429/211)
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Publication number: 20140170484Abstract: A negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery including a current collector and a negative active material layer positioned on the current collector, wherein the negative active material layer includes a first active material including a carbon-based material, a composite material including a second active material including a silicon-based material or a tin-based material, the second active material being coated with a combined binder and a fiber-shaped conductive material on the surface thereof, and a binder, a rechargeable lithium battery including the same and a method of preparing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventor: Hironobu Fukahori
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Patent number: 8753544Abstract: Ink is manufactured by mixing unoxidized metallic particles to a binder. The ink is printed on an object (502) and hardened for forming a conductor. The process is performed in an inert atmosphere or in vacuum for maintaining the electrical conductivity of the conductor (500).Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2008Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Valtion Teknillinen TutkimuskeskusInventors: Tiina Maaninen, Arto Maaninen, Markus Tuomikoski
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Publication number: 20140162118Abstract: An electrode structure of a lithium ion battery includes a current collector, at least one energy type active layer, and at least one power type active layer. The energy type active layer and the power type active layer are formed on the current collector. The energy type active layer includes a first lithium-containing compound and multiple first conductive particles. The power type active layer includes a second lithium-containing compound and multiple second conductive particles. The first and second lithium-containing compounds are lithium-containing complex transitional metal oxides. Compositions of the first and second lithium-containing compounds include at least one of Ni, Co and Mn. A lithium ion diffusion coefficient of the second lithium-containing compound is greater than that of the first lithium-containing compound. A specific capacity of the first lithium-containing compound is greater than that of the second lithium-containing compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Wen-Bing CHU, Dar-Jen LIU, Chen-Chung CHEN, Li-Chun CHEN, Shih-Tswen TSENG, Shu-Heng WEN, Chang-Rung YANG
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Publication number: 20140162097Abstract: A current collector for an electrochemical cell includes a member having an outer member and an inner member coupled to the outer member by a plurality of flexible arms configured to allow the inner member to move relative to the outer member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2014Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Johnson Controls - SAFT Advanced Power Solutions LLCInventors: Jason D. Fuhr, Gerald K. Bowen, John P. Dinkleman, Thomas J. Dougherty, Wataru Tsutsui, Christopher M. Bonin
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Publication number: 20140162120Abstract: A battery including a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is impregnated in a separator provided between the cathode and the anode. The anode has an insulative coat on an anode active material layer provided on an anode current collector. The coat contains an insulating material such as a meal hydroxide and a metal oxide. The coat is in a form of plate divided into a plurality of portions. The insulation property of the coat prevents internal short circuit. A plurality of portions of the coat prevent separation of the anode active material layer and decomposition of the electrolytic solution. Further, even when short circuit occurs, heat generation is prevented by heat absorption characteristics of the coat.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2014Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takayuki Fujii, Kenichi Kawase, Hideki Nakai, Rikako Imoto, Kensuke Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20140162119Abstract: A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery is disclosed. The positive material includes including a lithium-manganese oxide-based solid solution including primary particles and secondary particles having a particle diameter (D50) in the range of about 1 ?m to about 5 ?m, a particle diameter (D90) in the range of less than about 8 ?m, and a crystallite diameter of less than or equal to about 150 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Takei, Masatsugu Nakano
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Publication number: 20140162133Abstract: A high capacity lead acid battery includes a hybrid electrolyte system and a complex grid system. The hybrid electrolyte system includes an acid gel and adsorbed glass mat. The complex grid system includes a normal grid, a sub-grid and a basement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Inventor: Xiaogang Wang
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Publication number: 20140154566Abstract: An anode for a secondary battery capable of improving cycle characteristics, a secondary battery using the anode, and a method of manufacturing an anode for secondary battery. An anode active material layer is formed by vapor phase deposition method, and contains Si as an element. In the anode active material layer, there are a plurality of primary particles grown in the thickness direction. The primary particles aggregate and form a plurality of secondary particles. At least some of the primary particles have shape curved in the identical direction to an anode current collector on the cross section in the thickness direction. Thereby, stress due to expansion and shrinkage due to charge and discharge can be relaxed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2014Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takakazu Hirose, Isamu Konishiike, Kenichi Kawase
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Publication number: 20140154568Abstract: A negative electrode for an alkaline secondary battery includes a current collecting substrate having a substrate containing iron. The current collecting substrate does not have a conductive protecting layer, or has a conductive protecting layer having a thickness of 3 ?m or less or having defects, on the substrate. The negative electrode contains magnesium or a magnesium compound and a hydrogen storing alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Kakeya, Manabu Kanemoto, Mitsuhiro Kodama
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Publication number: 20140154567Abstract: An electrode constituent member for a battery module includes a current-carrying member including an internal connection portion relative to a tab-shaped terminal of an electricity-storage cell, and an external connection portion exposed to an outside of the battery module; a fastener member for fastening a member electrically connecting electrodes of a plurality of battery modules to the external connection portion of the current-carrying member; and an insulating member positioned between the external connection portion of the current-carrying member and the electricity-storage cell. In an inner side of the external connection portion, clamp portions receiving the insulating member in between are formed. In the clamp portions and the insulating member, respectively, engagement portions, engaging with each other when the insulating member is received, are formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicants: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., NIFCO INC.Inventors: Ryuhei Nishida, Tomoaki Nagayama, Hirotatsu Kamimura, Yuichi Yamauchi
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Publication number: 20140154570Abstract: A positive electrode material for a lithium ion secondary cell, includes: a binding agent in which an active material formed from a lithium metal oxide are dispersed together with barium titanate and conductive carbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: FUJIKURA KASEI CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi Kan
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Publication number: 20140154565Abstract: A fabricating method of a unit structure for accomplishing an electrode assembly formed by a stacking method, and an electrochemical cell including the same are disclosed. The fabricating method of the electrode assembly is characterized with fabricating the unit structure by conducting a first process of laminating and forming a bicell having a first electrode/separator/second electrode/separator/first electrode structure, and conducting a second process of laminating first separator/second electrode/second separator one by one on one of the first electrode among two of the first electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2014Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: LG CHEM. LTD.Inventors: Dae Geun KU, Hyuk Su KIM, Jun Woo HUH, Hyang Mok LEE, Chang Bum AHN
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Publication number: 20140154569Abstract: To provide a conductive adhesive composition for an electrochemical element electrode and used in forming a conductive adhesive layer that is highly uniform and is interposed between a collector and an electrode composition layer, being able to contribute to increased adhesion between the two. The conductive adhesive composition for an electrochemical element electrode is characterized by containing: conductive carbon; a particulate copolymer (A) containing a dibasic acid monomer unit; a particulate copolymer (B) containing an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid amide derivative unit; and a dispersing agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: ZEON CORPORATIONInventors: Koichiro Maeda, Naoki Yoshida
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Publication number: 20140154563Abstract: Composite particles for a positive electrode of an electrochemical element include a conductive material, a Ni containing positive electrode active material, a water soluble resin including a monomeric unit containing an acidic functional group, and a granular binder resin. The content of the water soluble resin is 1 to 10 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the Ni containing positive electrode active material. An electrochemical element includes a collector and a positive electrode active material layer obtained by formation with the composite particles. Furthermore, a method for producing the composite particles includes drying and granulating an aqueous slurry composition including the above components in order to obtain the composite particles. The content in the slurry composition of the water soluble resin is 1 to 10 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the Ni containing positive electrode active material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: ZEON CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroki OGURO
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Publication number: 20140154564Abstract: Provided are an anode active material including carbon-based particles, silicon nanowires grown on the carbon-based particles, and a carbon coating layer on surfaces of the carbon-based particles and the silicon nanowires, and a method of preparing the anode active material. Since the anode active material of the present invention is used in a lithium secondary battery, physical bonding force between the carbon-based particles and the silicon nanowires may not only be increased but conductivity may also be improved. Thus, lifetime characteristics of the battery may be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Jung Woo Yoo, Won Jong Kwon, Eui Yong Hwang, Kil Sun Lee, Je Young Kim, Yong Ju Lee
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Publication number: 20140154557Abstract: An energy storage device including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material layer containing a non-graphitizable carbon as a negative electrode active material, and the negative electrode active material has a negative electrode active material weight per unit volume of the negative electrode active material layer of 0.92 g/cc or more and 1.13 g/cc or less and a particle size D90 of 4.3 ?m or more and 11.5 ?m or less, the particle size D90 being a particle size in particle size distribution in which a cumulative volume is 90%.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Sumio MORI, Kenta Nakai, Akihiko Miyazaki, Tomonori Kako
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Publication number: 20140154562Abstract: A negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery is disclosed. The negative electrode includes a current collector and a negative active material layer positioned on the current collector and including a negative active material and a binder, wherein the negative active material includes a silicon-based material, a tin-based material, or a combination thereof, and the binder includes an organic acid including a carboxyl group-containing polymer and an organic base having a cyclic structure. A method of preparing the same, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventor: Iwao FUKUCHI
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Patent number: 8741482Abstract: Provided are a mixed cathode active material including layered structure lithium manganese oxide expressed as Chemical Formula 1 and a second cathode active material having a plateau voltage profile in a range of 2.5 V to 3.3 V, and a lithium secondary battery including the mixed cathode active material. The mixed cathode active material and the lithium secondary battery including the same may have improved safety and simultaneously, may be used in an operating device requiring the foregoing battery by widening a state of charge (SOC) range able to maintain power more than a required value by allowing the second cathode active material to complement low power in a low SOC range.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Jung Hwan Park, Song Taek Oh, Geun Chang Chung, Min Hee Lee, Juichi Arai
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Patent number: 8741471Abstract: A battery pack including a core pack including a plurality of unit cells, the plurality of unit cells including a first unit cell including a first electrode tab extending in a first direction, and a second unit cell including a second electrode tab coupled to the first electrode tab at a first coupling region at which the second electrode tab overlaps the first electrode tab; and a lead member coupled to the first electrode tab at a second coupling region at which the lead member overlaps the first electrode tab, the second coupling region being different from the first coupling region.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-Hun Park, Dea-Yon Moon
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Publication number: 20140147740Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which generation of gas resulting from a reaction between a lithium transition metal complex oxide and an electrolyte is suppressed even when the battery is stored at high temperature, thereby improving the reliability of the battery, suppressing deterioration of the lithium transition metal complex oxide, and suppressing the decrease in battery capacity. In the positive electrode active material, a compound containing zirconium and fluorine is attached to a surface of lithium cobaltate. This positive electrode active material can be produced by spraying a solution containing zirconium and fluorine onto lithium cobaltate while stirring lithium cobaltate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Takao Kokubu, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Takeshi Ogasawara
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Publication number: 20140147746Abstract: A collector for bipolar lithium ion secondary batteries comprises a first conductive layer that is obtained by adding a conductive filler to a base that contains an imide group-containing resin, and a second conductive layer that has a function of blocking lithium ions. The second conductive layer comprises a blocking resin layer that is obtained by adding a conductive filler to a base that contains a resin which contains no imide group, and a metal layer. This collector for bipolar lithium ion secondary batteries is used in such a manner that the first conductive layer is on the positive electrode active material layer side with respect to the second conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasuyuki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20140147744Abstract: Provided is a cathode material for lithium ion secondary battery containing a composite material of a lithium silicate crystal and a carbon material. The composite material shows a peak in a wave number range from 1400 cm?1 to 1550 cm?1 in infrared absorption spectrum and shows no peak in a wave number range from 1000 cm?1 to 1150 cm?1 in Raman spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: SHOEI CHEMICAL INC.Inventors: Atsushi Nemoto, Maki Moriya, Hirokazu Sasaki
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Publication number: 20140147741Abstract: In an aspect, a composite anode active material including: a porous particles, said porous particles including: a plurality of composite nanostructures; and a first carbonaceous material binding the composite nanostructures, wherein the porous particles have pores within the particle, and wherein the composite nanostructures include a crystalline second carbonaceous material substrate including at least one carbon nano-sheet, and a plurality of metal nanowires arranged at intervals on the crystalline second carbonaceous material substrate is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang-Su Shin, Jae-Myung Kim, So-Ra Lee, Yu-Jeong Cho, Su-Kyung Lee, Ui-Song Do, Sang-Eun Park, Ha-Na Yoo
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Publication number: 20140147743Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode of an electrochemical cell, comprising at least a fibrous active electrode material, wherein the fibers of the active material are arranged to form a nonwoven or felt-like self-supporting structure. Moreover the invention relates to a respective electrochemical cell and to a method of making such an electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: The Swatch Group Research and Development LtdInventors: Michael STALDER, Fredy ZUELLIG, Yoann METTAN
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Publication number: 20140147745Abstract: To provide a binder for a storage battery device, whereby good adhesion is obtainable, and it is possible to realize good charge and discharge characteristics in a secondary battery by well suppressing swelling of an electrode by an electrolytic solution. A binder for a storage battery device, which is made of a fluorinated copolymer comprising repeating units (a) derived from tetrafluoroethylene and repeating units (b) derived from propylene, wherein the molar ratio (a)/(b) is from 60/40 to 75/25, and the total of the repeating units (a) and (b) is at least 90 mol % in all repeating units.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2014Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Mizuna TOYODA, Takehiro KOSE, Hiroki NAGAI
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Publication number: 20140147742Abstract: A battery core includes an anode electrode collector and a cathode current collector. The battery core is created by defining an anode solution cavity on an anode electrode collector; defining a cathode solution cavity on a cathode electrode collector; depositing an anode solution into the anode solution cavity; depositing a cathode solution into the cathode solution cavity; curing the anode solution within the anode solution cavity; and curing the cathode solution within the cathode solution cavity. The anode electrode collector and the cathode current collector may be combined in a sandwich configuration and may be separated by one or more separators.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: George V. Anastas, Gregory A. Springer, Jack B. Rector, III, Joshua R. Funamura, Kenneth M. Silz
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Publication number: 20140147738Abstract: An electrode composite material is disclosed in the invention. The electrode composite material comprises ABxCyDz, wherein A is selected from at least one of polypyrrole, polyacrylonitrile, and polyacrylonitrile copolymer; B comprises sulfur; C is selected from carbon material; D is selected from metal oxides, l?x?20, 0?y<l, and 0?z<1. Comparing to the prior art, the conductivity of the electrode composite material is obviously increased, the material is dispersed uniformly and the size of the material is small. The electrochemical performance of the electrode composite material is improved. It has a good cycle life and high discharging capacity efficiency. A method for manufacturing the electrode composite material, a positive electrode using the electrode composite material and a battery including the same are also disclosed in the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: POSITEC POWER TOOLS (SUZHOU) CO., LTDInventors: Pu Chen, Yongguang Zhang, Zhumabay Bakenov, Aishuak Konarov, The Nam Long Doan
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Publication number: 20140147714Abstract: An electrode assembly includes a positive electrode including a positive active material layer on each of first and second surfaces of a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode including a negative active material layer on each of first and second surfaces of a negative electrode current collector, and an inner separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein each of the positive electrode and the negative electrode includes a side end uncoated region at respective side ends of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the side end uncoated regions of each of the positive and negative electrodes including no active material layers on respective electrode current collectors, and wherein at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode has an inner uncoated region positioned at a center of the electrode assembly, the inner uncoated region including no active material layer thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Inventors: Yoon-Tai KWAK, Jeong-Won OH
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Publication number: 20140147747Abstract: A three-dimensional porous electrode architecture for a microbattery includes a substrate having first and second conductive patterns disposed thereon where the first and second conductive patterns are electrically isolated from each other, a three-dimensional porous cathode disposed on the first conductive pattern, and a three-dimensional porous anode disposed on the second conductive pattern. The porous cathode includes a first conductive scaffold conformally coated with a layer of a cathode active material and having a porosity defined by a network of interconnected pores, where the first conductive scaffold has a lateral size and shape defined by the first conductive pattern and porous side walls oriented substantially perpendicular to the substrate. The porous anode includes a second conductive scaffold conformally coated with a layer of an anode active material and having a porosity defined by a network of interconnected pores.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: The Board of Trustee of the University of IllinoisInventors: William P. King, PAul V. Braun, JAmes H. Pikul
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Publication number: 20140147731Abstract: A battery system comprises a plurality of substantially planar layers extending over transverse areas. The plurality of layers comprises at least one cathode layer, at least one anode layer, and at least one separator layer therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: George V. Anastas, Gregory A. Springer, Jack B. Rector, III, Joshua R. Funamura, Kenneth M. Silz
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Patent number: 8734976Abstract: Disclosed is a battery including a cathode in which cathode active-material coating layers provided on both surfaces of a cathode collector are longitudinally deviated from each other, and an anode having at least one anode active-material coating layer provided on an anode collector, the cathode and anode being wound to face each other with a separator interposed therebetween. At least one of a winding beginning portion and winding ending portion of the cathode is provided with a cathode uncoated part for installation of a cathode lead. An insulator tape is attached to the boundary of the cathode active-material coating layer at a position where the anode active-material coating layer faces a non-coating part of the cathode not containing the cathode active-material coating layer, achieving enhanced electrical insulation capability and consequential safety of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Jin Soo Lee, Kil Young Lee, Dong-Myung Kim
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Patent number: 8734986Abstract: A battery including an electrode and electrode terminal, the electrode comprising a multilayered collector assembly having a multilayered portion that includes an insulation layer and two electrically conductive layers disposed on opposite sides of the insulation layer, and a conductive portion made of an electrically conductive material, connected to the two conductive layers and extending therefrom more toward a side end of the electrode than a side end of the insulation layer so as to be electrically connected to the electrode terminal, and a pair of active material layers disposed on opposite sides of the multilayered portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2008Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichiro Yamamura, Hideaki Horie, Osamu Shimamura, Yasuhiro Yanagihara, Kazuki Miyatake
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Patent number: 8734985Abstract: A jelly-roll type battery unit includes a first electrode plate having a first electrode current collector with a first electrode tab, and a first electrode active material layer on a surface of the first electrode current collector; a second electrode plate having a second electrode current collector with a second electrode tab, and a second electrode active material layer on a surface of the second electrode current collector; and a separator interposed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate. The electrode tab is incorporated into the electrode current collector in an area of either first or second electrode plate where the corresponding electrode active material layer is not coated. The electrode tab is cut widthwise with respect to the electrode current collector from a center area of the electrode current collector and folded, and an insulating tape is adhered to either surface of the electrode tab.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2005Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang-Seob Kim, Ju-Hyung Kim, Min-Ho Song, Jun-Won Kang
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Patent number: 8734987Abstract: The method of manufacturing an active material in accordance with the first aspect of the invention yields an active material containing LiVOPO4 capable of improving the cycle characteristic of a battery. Methods of manufacturing active materials in accordance with the second, third, and fourth aspects of the present invention yield active materials containing LiVOPO4 capable of improving the discharge capacity of a battery.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Atsushi Sano, Keitaro Otsuki, Kouji Tokita, Tomohiko Kato, Akiji Higuchi
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Publication number: 20140141314Abstract: A porous membrane for a secondary battery including non-conductive particles and a binder for a porous membrane, wherein the non-conductive particles are spherical polymer particles having a rough surface, the particles satisfy the expression 1.2?(SB)/(SD)?5.0 (1) (wherein SB represents an actual specific surface area of the particles and SD means a theoretical specific surface area of the particles), an arithmetic average of shape factor of the particles is 1.20 or less, and the particles include 50% by weight or more of a polyfunctional (meth)acrylic monomer unit; a method for producing the same; and an electrode, a separator and a battery having the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: ZEON CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya Kaneda
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Publication number: 20140141326Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrode sheet having an electrode active material applied to one major surface or opposite major surfaces of a current collector sheet, the electrode sheet being cut to manufacture a plurality of unit electrode plates, wherein first notch portions are formed at one side, selected from between an upper side and a lower side, of the electrode sheet such that the first notch portions are arranged at intervals corresponding to a width of each of the unit electrode plates and second notch portions corresponding to the first notch portions are formed at the other side of the electrode sheet, and wherein an upper end cut side for a cutting margin is formed at each of the second notch portions, the upper end cut side being smaller in size than a lower end cut side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Inventors: Sungjin Kwon, Dong-Myung Kim, Ki Woong Kim, Soonho Ahn
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Publication number: 20140141327Abstract: Compositions of discrete carbon nanotubes for improved performance lead acid batteries. Further disclosed is a method to form a lead-acid battery with discrete carbon nanotubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: Molecular Rebar Design, LLCInventors: Clive P. Bosnyak, Kurt W. Swogger
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Patent number: 8728660Abstract: An anode which can improve contact characteristics between an active material layer and anode lead and can prevent electrical resistance from increasing, a method of manufacturing the anode, and a battery including the anode are provided. An active material layer containing silicon as an element is provided on a current collector. An anode lead is bonded to the active material layer. At least part of a bond region between the anode lead and the active material layer is made of copper or an alloy containing copper. Thereby, the electrical resistance can be prevented from being increased even though the anode lead is bonded to the active material layer. The anode lead may be made of copper or an alloy containing copper. Otherwise, coating layer made of copper or an alloy containing copper may be provided on the surface of a base.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2006Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Isamu Konishiike, Kenichi Kawase
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Publication number: 20140134486Abstract: The method for manufacturing a lithium ion secondary battery includes a binder coating step (18), a mixture supplying step (20), a magnetic field applying step (22), and a convection generating step (24). The binder coating step (18) is a step of coating a slurry-form binder (18a) on a metal foil (12a) (collector). The mixture supplying step (20) is a step of supplying a negative electrode mixture containing graphite so as to be superposed on the slurry-form binder (18a) coated on the metal foil (12a) in the binder coating step (18). The magnetic field applying step (22) is a step of applying a magnetic field having magnetic lines of force pointing in the direction orthogonal to the metal foil (12a), to the negative electrode mixture (20a) coated on the metal foil (12a) in the mixture supplying step (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yozo Uchida, Nobuyuki Yamazaki, Tomohide Sumi, Tomohiko Ishida
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Publication number: 20140134485Abstract: A negative-electrode active material for secondary battery includes a sulfur-modified polyacrylonitrile. The sulfur-modified polyacrylonitrile includes a polyacrylonitrile, and sulfur being introduced into the polyacrylonitrile.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicants: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Takuhiro MIYUKI, Toshikatsu KOJIMA, Yuta IKEUCHI, Masanori MORISHITA, Tetsuo SAKAI, Kazuhito KAWASUMI, Masataka NAKANISHI, Junichi NIWA
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Publication number: 20140134487Abstract: An electric storage device includes an electrolyte and an electric storage unit including a positive electrode including a positive-electrode collector electrode and a positive-electrode active-material layer disposed on the positive-electrode collector electrode; a negative electrode including a negative-electrode collector electrode and a negative-electrode active-material layer disposed on the negative-electrode collector electrode and facing the positive-electrode active-material layer; a first insulating layer bonded to the positive electrode and the negative electrode to isolate the positive electrode and the negative electrode from each other; and a region that is sealed with the first insulating layer in plan view and that holds the electrolyte between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein an air permeability P of the first insulating layer satisfies the formula 1250 s/100 cc<P<95000 s/100 cc.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaharu Itaya, Keiji Horikawa, Manabu Sawada, Hiroyuki Harada, Yuusuke Ueba, Yukio Ehara, Yasuhiko Ueda, Yasutake Fukuda
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Publication number: 20140134472Abstract: Provided is a stack-type cell for a secondary battery including a stack of first electrode/separator/second electrode/separator/first electrode arranged in order, and an outer separator stacked on each of the first electrodes. Also, the present invention provides an electrode assembly for a secondary battery using the stack-type cell and a manufacturing method thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventor: Soo-Young KIM
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Publication number: 20140134484Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrode assembly including two or more electrode plates, each of which has electrode tabs, and a separator plate disposed between the electrode plates and/or a one-unit separation sheet disposed between the electrode plates to cover side surfaces of the electrode plates, which constitute an electrode tab non-formation region, wherein the electrode plates are stacked in a height direction on the basis of a plane such that the electrode plates having opposite polarities face each other in a state in which the separator plate and/or the separation sheet is disposed between the electrode plates, a stack constituted by the electrode plates includes electrode plates having different sizes, and an absolute value of the difference in thickness between the electrode plates having different sizes facing each other is 0 to 79 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Inventors: Sungjin Kwon, Dong-Myung Kim, Ki Woong Kim, Soonho Ahn
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Publication number: 20140127573Abstract: A particulate composite of silicon, tin, and aluminum (or other suitable metal) is prepared as a negative electrode composition with increased lithium insertion capacity and durability for use with a metal current collector in cells of a lithium-ion battery or a lithium-sulfur battery. This electrode material is formed such that the silicon is present as a distinct amorphous phase in separate matrix phases of crystalline tin and crystalline aluminum. While the distinct tin and aluminum phases provide electron conductivity, each phase accommodates the insertion and extraction of lithium in the operation of the cell and all phases interact in minimizing mechanical damage to the material as the cell experiences repeated charge and discharge cycles. Other suitable metals for use in the composite with silicon and tin include copper and titanium.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Xingcheng Xiao
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Publication number: 20140127568Abstract: A positive electrode for a nonaqueous secondary battery including an active material layer which has sufficient electron conductivity with a low ratio of a conductive additive is provided. A positive electrode for a nonaqueous secondary battery including an active material layer which is highly filled with an active material, id est, including the active material and a low ratio of a conductive additive. The active material layer includes a plurality of particles of an active material with a layered rock salt structure, graphene that is in surface contact with the plurality of particles of the active material, and a binder.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro KAWAKAMI, Masaki Yamakaji, Mako Motoyoshi, Rika Yatabe
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Publication number: 20140127563Abstract: Disclosed is a positive electrode composition for a lithium secondary battery and a secondary lithium battery using the same. The positive electrode composition for a lithium secondary battery includes a positive active material, a binder, and a compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1. The above Chemical Formula 1 is the same as defined in the detailed description.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventor: Dae-Sik KIM
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Publication number: 20140127574Abstract: A secondary-battery current collector comprising an aluminum foil and a film containing an ion-permeable compound and carbon fine particles formed thereon or a secondary-battery current collector comprising an aluminum foil, a film containing an ion-permeable compound and carbon fine particles formed thereon as the lower layer, and a film containing a binder, carbon fine particles and a cathodic electroactive material formed thereon as the upper layer, a production method of the same, and a secondary battery having the current collector are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Showa Denko K.K.Inventor: Masahiro OHMORI
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Publication number: 20140127567Abstract: To improve the long-term cycle performance of a lithium-ion battery or a lithium-ion capacitor by minimizing the decomposition reaction of an electrolytic solution and the like as a side reaction of charge and discharge in the repeated charge and discharge cycles of the lithium-ion battery or the lithium-ion capacitor. A current collector and an active material layer over the current collector are included in an electrode for a power storage device. The active material layer includes a plurality of active material particles and silicon oxide. The surface of one of the active material particles has a region that is in contact with one of the other active material particles. The surface of the active material particle except the region is partly or entirely covered with the silicon oxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazutaka KURIKI, Ryota Tajima, Nobuhiro Inoue, Junpei Momo
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Publication number: 20140127572Abstract: Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery capable of realizing a high energy density while maintaining output. A lithium ion secondary battery D1 according to the present invention includes an electrode having an active material mix layer 31 on both surfaces of a current collector 35. The active material mix layer 31 has a smaller void ratio in a current collector side region 34 of the active material mix layer 31 and a surface side region 32 of the active material mix layer 31 than in an intermediate region 33 between the current collector side region 34 and the surface side region 32 of the active material mix layer 31.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2011Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: HITACHI VEHICLE ENERGY, LTDInventors: Ikuo Ozaki, Yoshimasa Koishikawa
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Publication number: 20140127569Abstract: An object of the present invention is to eliminate deviation in the quality of a chromate film provided on a copper foil for a negative electrode current collector to eliminate fluctuation of electric capacity in a lithium ion secondary battery. To achieve the object, as the copper foil for a negative electrode current collector of a lithium ion secondary battery, a copper foil provided with a chromate film for a negative electrode current collector in which Cr(OH)3 constitutes 85 area % or more of the chromate film is employed. Further, the copper foil provided with a chromate film for a negative electrode current collector according to the present application is preferable to be that the apparent orientation number N of oxygen closest to chrome in the chromate film is 4.5 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki Maeda, Sakiko Tomonaga, Yasunori Tabira