The Hetero Ring Is A Cyclic Carbonate Patents (Class 429/330)
  • Patent number: 8546023
    Abstract: Disclosed is a secondary battery including a cathode, an anode, a separator, and an electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte includes a ternary eutectic mixture prepared by adding (c) a carbonate-based compound to a eutectic mixture containing (a) an amide group-containing compound and (b) an ionizable lithium salt, and the carbonate-based compound is included in an amount of less than 50 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the electrolyte. The use of the disclosed ternary eutectic mixture having flame resistance, chemical stability, high conductivity, and a broad electrochemical window, as the electrolyte material, improves both the thermal stability and quality of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiwon Park, Jae Seung Oh, Byoung-bae Lee, Shin Jung Choi, Jaeduk Park
  • Publication number: 20130252113
    Abstract: The present invention provides non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery, comprising a pyrimidine-based compound, a non-fluorinated solvent and a fluorinated solvent; and a lithium secondary battery using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Hoon Yu, Doo Kyung Yang, Min-Jung Jou, Yoo-Seok Kim, Yoo-Sun Kang
  • Publication number: 20130252112
    Abstract: A rechargable magnesium battery having an non-aqueous electrolyte is provided. The properties of the electrolyte include high conductivity, high Coulombic efficiency, and an electrochemical window that can exceed 3.5 V vs. Mg/Mg+2. The use of the electrolyte promotes the electrochemical deposition and dissolution of Mg without the use of any Grignard reagents, other organometallic materials, tetraphenyl borate, or tetrachloroaluminate derived anions. Other Mg-containing electrolyte systems that are expected to be suitable for use in secondary batteries are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: PELLION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Ellis Doe, George Hamilton Lane, Robert E. Jilek, Jaehee Hwang
  • Publication number: 20130244120
    Abstract: The present invention provides non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery, comprising fluoroethylene carbonate and a pyrimidine-based compound; and a lithium secondary battery using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Hoon Yu, Doo-Kyung Yang, Min-Jung Jou, Yoo-Seok Kim, Yoo-Sun Kang
  • Patent number: 8530080
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolytic solution that provides a lithium secondary battery with excellent electrical capacity, cycling properties, storage properties and other battery characteristics and that maintains the battery characteristics for a long time; and a lithium secondary battery comprising it. A nonaqueous electrolytic solution comprising an electrolytic salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, containing 0.1 to 10% by weight of an ethylene carbonate derivative represented by the general formula (I), and 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Takaaki Kuwata
  • Publication number: 20130230781
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery, comprising an ester-based compound having a branched-chain alkyl group; and a lithium secondary battery using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Hoon YU, Doo-Kyung YANG, Min-Hyung LEE, Min-Jung JOU
  • Patent number: 8524399
    Abstract: Disclosed is a non-aqueous electrolyte including an electrolyte salt and an electrolyte solvent, the non-aqueous electrolyte further including a compound containing both a carboxy group and a (meth)acrylic group, and a secondary battery including the non-aqueous electrolyte. The use of the compound containing both the carboxy group and the (meth)acrylic group as a component for an electrolyte significantly reduces the increase of battery thickness at high temperature storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Soojin Kim, Jeong-Ju Cho
  • Patent number: 8524401
    Abstract: An electrolyte for a lithium battery and a lithium battery including the electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Beom Lee, Sun-Young Kim, Bo-Ra Lee, Sin-Young Park
  • Publication number: 20130224531
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes an outer package, a positive electrode housed in the outer package, a negative electrode housed with a space from the positive electrode in the outer package and including an active material, and a non-aqueous electrolyte filled in the outer package. The active material includes a lithium-titanium composite oxide particle, and a coating layer formed on at least a part of the surface of the particle and including at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Zr, Fe, Nb, Co, Ni, Cu and Si, an oxide of at least one metal selected from the group or an alloy containing at least one metal selected from the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
  • Patent number: 8512897
    Abstract: Provided are (1) a novel phenyl sulfonate compound, (2) a nonaqueous electrolytic solution comprising an electrolyte salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent and containing a phenyl sulfonate compound of the following general formula (II) in an amount of from 0.01 to 10% by mass of the nonaqueous electrolytic solution, and (3) a lithium battery containing the nonaqueous electrolytic solution and excellent in low-temperature cycle property. (wherein X1 to X5 each independently represents a fluorine atom or a hydrogen atom, and from one to four of these are fluorine atoms; R2 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a linear or branched alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms in which at least one hydrogen atom is substituted with a halogen atom, or an aryl group having from 6 to 9 carbon atoms).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Kazuhiro Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 8512900
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolytic solution secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution having an electrolyte salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent. The nonaqueous solvent contains 80% by mass or more of a cyclic carbonate which does not have a carbon-carbon multiple bond and which does not contain a halogen and contains a cyclic sulfone compound having any one of structures represented by the following formulae (1) to (4): wherein each of R1 and R2 represents CmH2m where 1?m?4. Also, each of R3 to R10 independently represents CnH2n+1 where 1?n?4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Atsumichi Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20130209894
    Abstract: An organic electrolyte for magnesium batteries including an ether solvent; a magnesium compound represented by Formula 1 dissolved in the ether solvent; and a Lewis acid: wherein CY1 is an optionally substituted C6-C50 aromatic ring, X1 is, each independently, an electron withdrawing group, X2 is a halogen, n is an integer of 1 to 10, and an angle between a CY1-X1 bond and a CY1-Mg bond is 150 degrees or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 8481216
    Abstract: Disclosed is an inhibitor of the reduction of life cycle of a redox shuttle additive that undergoes oxidation-reduction cycling, the inhibitor being at least of one compound selected from the group consisting of vinylene carbonates, ethylene carbonates, cyclic sulfites and unsaturated sultones. Also, Disclosed is a non-aqueous electrolyte and secondary battery comprising the same inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon Ho Ahn, Sung Hoon Yu, Byung Hoon Oh, Joo Mi Jeon
  • Publication number: 20130164603
    Abstract: The object is to provide a secondary battery with higher performance, and especially to provide a secondary battery having low impedance. An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a secondary battery, comprising an electrode assembly in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are oppositely disposed, an electrolyte liquid, and a package which encloses the electrode assembly and the electrolyte liquid inside; wherein the negative electrode is formed by binding a negative electrode active substance to a negative electrode collector with a negative electrode binder; and wherein the electrolyte liquid comprises a fluorine-containing cyclic ether compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Suguro, Daisuke Kawasaki, Midori Shimura, Kazuaki Matsumoto, Yoko Hashizume
  • Publication number: 20130164604
    Abstract: An objection is to provide a high performance secondary battery having good flame retardancy and cycle properties. The present exemplary embodiment provides a secondary battery comprising an electrode assembly in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are arranged to face each other, an electrolyte liquid and a package accommodating the electrode assembly and the electrolyte liquid, wherein the negative electrode is formed by binding a negative electrode active substance comprising a metal (a) capable of being alloyed with lithium, a metal oxide (b) capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions and a carbon material (c) capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, to a negative electrode current collector, with a negative electrode binder, and the electrolyte liquid comprises a supporting salt and an electrolytic solvent, the electrolytic solvent comprising at least one phosphate ester compound selected from phosphite esters, phosphonate esters and bisphosphonate esters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Matsumoto, Daisuke Kawasaki, Masahiro Suguro, Midori Shimura, Yoko Hashizume
  • Publication number: 20130164633
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode contains active material particles and a coating material. The active material particles are represented by any one of the following formulae (1) to (3): LixM1yO2??(1) LizM22wO4??(2) LisM3tPO4??(3) and have an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 10 ?m. The coating material comprises at least particles having an average particle diameter of 60 nm or less or layers having an average thickness of 60 nm or less. The particles or the layers contain at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ti, Zr, Ba, B and C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
  • Publication number: 20130157116
    Abstract: Disclosed is a non-aqueous electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The non-aqueous electrolyte including an ionizable lithium salt and an organic solvent may further include (a) 1 to 10 parts by weight of a compound having a vinylene group or vinyl group per 100 parts by weight of the non-aqueous electrolyte, and (b) 10 to 300 parts by weight of a dinitrile compound having an ether bond per 100 parts by weight of the compound having the vinylene group or vinyl group. The lithium secondary battery comprising the non-aqueous electrolyte may effectively suppress the swelling and improve the charge/discharge cycle life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventor: LG CHEM, LTD.
  • Patent number: 8460830
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same. The electrolyte includes a lithium salt, trialkylsilyl(meth)acrylate compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, a halogenated carbonate compound, and an organic solvent. In the above Chemical Formula 1, R1 is hydrogen or methyl, and R2 to R4 are the same or different and one selected from C1 to C6 alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Sung Kim, Na-Rae Park, Su-Hee Han, Jin-Hyunk Lim, Mi-Hyeun Oh
  • Patent number: 8455143
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium ion secondary battery includes a lithium salt and an organic solvent. The organic solvent includes a carbonate compound, a linear ester compound and a linear ester decomposition inhibitor. This non-aqueous electrolyte solution restrains swelling while improving low temperature charging/discharging characteristics of the secondary battery in comparison to a conventional electrolyte since it contains the linear ester compound and the linear ester decomposition inhibitor. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution may be used in making a lithium ion secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-Chun Lee, Jong-Ho Jeon, Jeong-Ju Cho
  • Patent number: 8455142
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte can suppress decomposition of a solvent, improve the cycle life of a secondary battery, suppress the rise of resistance of a secondary battery and improve the capacity maintenance ratio of a secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Energy Devices, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ishikawa, Yasutaka Kono, Koji Utsugi, Yoko Hashizume, Shinako Kaneko, Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20130137001
    Abstract: A lithium/oxygen battery includes a lithium anode, an air cathode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte soaked in a microporous separator membrane, wherein non-aqueous electrolyte comprises a lithium salt with a general molecular formula of LiBF3X (X?F, Cl, or Br, respectively) and a non-aqueous solvent mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: U.S Government as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Shengshui Zhang, Donald L. Foster, Jeffrey A. Read
  • Patent number: 8440349
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolytic solution exhibiting excellent battery characteristics such as electrical capacity, cycle property and storage property and capable of maintaining the battery characteristics for a long time, and a lithium secondary battery using the nonaqueous electrolytic solution. A nonaqueous electrolytic solution for a lithium secondary battery, in which an electrolyte salt is dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, containing 0.1 to 10% by weight of an ethylene carbonate derivative represented by the general formula (I) shown below, and 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Takaaki Kuwata
  • Patent number: 8435680
    Abstract: A rechargeable lithium battery including: a positive electrode including a nickel-based positive active material; a negative electrode including a negative active material; and an electrolyte including a non-aqueous organic solvent, a lithium salt, a first fluoroethylene carbonate additive, a second vinylethylene carbonate additive, and a third alkane sultone additive, wherein when the battery is thicker than about 5mm, a mixing weight ratio of the first fluoroethylene carbonate additive to the second vinylethylene carbonate additive ranges from about 5:1 to about 10:1, or when the battery is thinner than about 5 mm, the mixing weight ratio of the first fluoroethylene carbonate additive to the second vinylethylene carbonate additive ranges from about 1:1 to about 4:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Na-Rae Park, Jin-Sung Kim, Su-Hee Han, Jin-Hyunk Lim
  • Publication number: 20130095391
    Abstract: In a lithium on secondary battery, lithium ions are reversibly absorbed to and released from a negative electrode. A positive electrode includes lithium vanadium phosphate. A non-aqueous electrolytic solution includes fluorinated carbonate as a solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken BABA, Yasuyuki Kiya, Takahito Sakuraba
  • 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: 20130089792
    Abstract: An electrochemical cell is described. The electrochemical cell includes an anode, a cathode, a separator between said anode and said cathode, and an electrolyte. The electrolyte includes a salt dissolved in an organic solvent. The separator in combination with the electrolyte has an area specific resistance less than 2 ohm-cm2. The electrochemical cell has an interfacial anode to cathode ratio of less than about 1.1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: THE GILLETTE COMPANY
    Inventor: THE GILLETTE COMPANY
  • Patent number: 8409757
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery is intended to suppress deterioration upon storage at high temperature of 50° C. or higher without deteriorating the output characteristics at a room temperature. The battery includes a positive electrode capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, a negative electrode capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The electrolyte contains a compound having a double bond in the molecule and a compound having a plurality of polymerizable functional groups in the molecule, and the electrolyte contains a compound represented by formula (4): (in which Z1 and Z2 each represent any one of an allyl group, a methallyl group, a vinyl group, an acryl group, and a methacryl group).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takefumi Okumura, Shigetaka Tsubouchi, Ryo Inoue
  • Patent number: 8404390
    Abstract: The present invention provides (1) a sulfone compounds having a propargyl group, (2) a nonaqueous electrolytic solution for lithium secondary batteries, which comprises an electrolyte salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent and contains a sulfone compound having a specific structure that has an SO2 group with a propargyl group or a vinyl group bonding thereto, in an amount of from 0.01 to 10% by weight of the nonaqueous electrolytic solution, and which can prevent gas generation and is excellent in battery characteristics such as cycle property and the like, and (3) a lithium secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution of an electrolyte salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, wherein the nonaqueous electrolytic solution contains a sulfone compound having a specific structure, in an amount of from 0.01 to 10% by weight of the nonaqueous electrolytic solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Kazuhiro Miyoshi, Yoshihiro Ushigoe, Manabu Takase, Kazuyuki Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20130071758
    Abstract: The nonaqueous electrolyte for an electrochemical device of the present invention includes at least one selected from an imide compound represented by the general formula (1) and an imide compound represented by the general formula (2): where R1 is an organic residue or an F-containing organic residue, X1 and X2 are each H, F, an organic residue or an F-containing organic residue, and X1 and X2 may be the same or different from each other; and where R2 is an organic residue or an F-containing organic residue, and H of a benzene ring may be partially or entirely replaced with F.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL ENERGY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki OYA, Mitsuhiro KISHIMI, Fusaji KITA
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8398883
    Abstract: A composition including a first material and a metal or a metal oxide component for use in an electrochemical redox reaction is described. The first material is represented by a general formula M1xM2yXO4, wherein M1 represents an alkali metal element; M2 represents an transition metal element; X represents phosphorus; O represents oxygen; x is from 0.6 to 1.4; and y is from 0.6 to 1.4. Further, the metal or the metal oxide component includes at least two materials selected from the group consisting of transition metal elements, semimetal elements, group IIA elements, group IIIA elements, group IVA elements, alloys thereof and oxides of the above metal elements and alloys, wherein the two materials include different metal elements. Moreover, the first material and the metal or the metal oxide component are co-crystallized or physically combined, and the metal or the metal oxide component takes less than about 30% of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Advanced Lithium Electrochemistry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ko-Yu Chiu
  • Patent number: 8389162
    Abstract: An electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery that includes a non-aqueous organic solvent, a lithium salt, and an electrolyte additive. The electrolyte additive includes 2 to 6 wt % of succinonitrile, 2 to 6 wt % of alkane sultone, and 1 to 3 wt % of vinylethylene carbonate based on the total weight of the electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Duck-Chul Hwang, Sang-Min Lee, Kyoung-Han Yew, Sang-Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 8383269
    Abstract: A rechargeable lithium-ion battery includes a positive electrode having a first capacity and a negative electrode having a second capacity that is less than the first capacity such that the battery has a negative-limited design. The negative electrode includes a lithium titanate active material. A liquid electrolyte that includes a lithium salt dissolved in at least one non-aqueous solvent a porous polymeric separator are located between the positive electrode and negative electrode. The separator is configured to allow lithium ions to flow through the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik R. Scott, Gaurav Jain, Kevin W. Eberman, Craig L. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8383276
    Abstract: An organic electrolyte solvent includes a compound of the formula: R1—SO2—NR2—OR3 wherein R1 is selected from alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aryls and their substituted derivatives and perfluorinated analogues; R2 is selected from alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aryls and their substituted derivatives; R3 is selected from alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aryls and their substituted derivatives wherein the electrolyte solvent is stable at voltages of greater than 4.0 volts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Synthonix Corporation
    Inventors: John Muldoon, Gary Allred, Anthony Dotse
  • Publication number: 20130043843
    Abstract: Battery formation protocols are used to perform initial charging of batteries with lithium rich high capacity positive electrode to result a more stable battery structure. The formation protocol generally comprises three steps, an initial charge step, a rest period under an open circuit and a subsequent charge step to a selected partial activation voltage. The subsequent or second charge voltage is selected to provide for a desired degree of partial activation of the positive electrode active material to achieve a desired specific capacity while providing for excellent stability with cycling. The formation protocol is particularly effective to stabilize cycling for compositions with moderate lithium enrichment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventors: Shabab Amiruddin, Bing Li
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20130040187
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a negative electrode including a current collector and a negative electrode active material having a Li ion insertion potential not lower than 0.4V (vs. Li/Li+). The negative electrode has a porous structure. A pore diameter distribution of the negative electrode as determined by a mercury porosimetry, which includes a first peak having a mode diameter of 0.01 to 0.2 ?m, and a second peak having a mode diameter of 0.003 to 0.02 ?m. A volume of pores having a diameter of 0.01 to 0.2 ?m as determined by the mercury porosimetry is 0.05 to 0.5 mL per gram of the negative electrode excluding the weight of the current collector. A volume of pores having a diameter of 0.003 to 0.02 ?m as determined by the mercury porosimetry is 0.0001 to 0.02 mL per gram of the negative electrode excluding the weight of the current collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroki Inagaki, Norio Takami
  • Patent number: 8372548
    Abstract: An organic electrolytic solution including: a lithium salt; an organic solvent; and a compound represented by Formula 1 below, and a lithium battery including the organic electrolytic solution. In Formula 1: R1, R2, and R3 may be each independently a hydrogen atom, a C1 to C10 alkyl group, a C6 to C10 cycloalkyl group, a C6 to C10 aryl group, a C2 to C10 alkenyl group, or a C2 to C10 alkynyl group; X is C (R2) or nitrogen; and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok-soo Lee, Young-gyoon Ryu, Dong-joon Lee
  • Patent number: 8367252
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte contains a non-aqueous solvent, a solute dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent, and hydrogenated terphenyl, the solute includes a boron-containing alkali salt and a boron-free alkali salt, the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material comprising a randomly oriented carbon composite (A), and the carbon composite (A) contains a graphitic carbon substance (B) and a carbon substance (C) that is different from the graphitic carbon substance (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Takaharu Morikawa, Atsushi Ueda, Takafumi Oura, Shinichi Kinoshita, Minoru Kotato, Hideharu Satou, Hitoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8361660
    Abstract: Disclosed are a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery may include difluorotoluene having a lowest oxidation potential among components of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The lithium secondary battery may have improvement in basic performance including high rate charge/discharge characteristics, cycle life characteristics, and the like, and may remarkably reduce swelling caused by decomposition of an electrolyte solution under high voltage conditions such as overcharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Ho Jeon, Yong-Gon Lee, Seung-Woo Chu, Shul-Kee Kim, Hyun-Yeong Lee, Jae-Deok Jeon
  • 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: 20130004860
    Abstract: A quaternary ammonium salt of the formula (1), a composition containing the quaternary ammonium salt and an organic solvent, and an electrochemical device using the salt wherein R1 and R2 are both methyl and X? is BF4? or N(CF3SO2)2?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Tetsuo NISHIDA, Yasutaka Tashiro, Megumi Tornisaki, Masashi Yamamoto, Kazutaka Hirano, Akihiro Nabeshima, Hiroaki Tokuda, Kenji Sato, Takashi Higono
  • Publication number: 20120321965
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lithium ion secondary battery including: a positive electrode, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer comprising an alloy-type active material, a lithium ion-permeable insulating layer interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode active material layer includes lithium which has been absorbed therein beforehand. The non-aqueous electrolyte includes a lithium salt and a non-aqueous solvent, and the non-aqueous solvent includes: at least one fluorine-containing compound selected from hydrogen fluoride and a specific fluoroethylene carbonate compound (A); and a carbonate-based solvent (B) other than the fluoroethylene carbonate compound (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Masato Fujikawa, Tomoki Shiozaki
  • Publication number: 20120315548
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lithium secondary battery including: a positive electrode, a negative electrode including an alloy-type material, and a non-aqueous electrolyte with lithium ion conductivity. The non-aqueous electrolyte includes a non-aqueous solvent and a lithium salt dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent. The non-aqueous solvent contains a carbonic acid ester, and a sulfinyl compound represented by the general formula (1): R1—SO—R2, where R1 and R2 are independently an alkyl group having one to three carbon atoms. The amount of the sulfinyl compound contained in the non-aqueous solvent is 0.1 to 10 wt %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujikawa, Tomiki Shiozaki
  • Patent number: 8329343
    Abstract: An electrode includes: an electrode collector and an electrode active material layer, wherein a film containing a salt represented by the following formula (I) is provided on the electrode active material layer: R1AnMx ??(I) wherein R1 represents an n-valent organic group containing a sulfur atom; n represents an integer of from 1 to 4; A represents an anion; M represents a metal ion; and x represents an integer of 1 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Toru Odani, Masayuki Ihara, Tadahiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 8329344
    Abstract: There is provided an electrolytic solution which has excellent flame retardance, low temperature characteristics and withstand voltage, high solubility of an electrolyte salt and excellent compatibility with hydrocarbon solvents, and comprises a chain carbonate (I) and an electrolyte salt (II), and the chain carbonate (I) is represented by the formula (I): wherein Rf1 is a fluorine-containing alkyl group having a fluorine content of 10 to 76% by mass and having, at its end, a moiety represented by the formula (Ia): (HCX1X2??(Ia) wherein X1 and X2 are the same or different and each is H or F; Rf2 is a fluorine-containing alkyl group having a fluorine content of 10 to 76% by mass and having, at its end, —CF3 or the moiety represented by the above-mentioned formula (Ia).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Meiten Koh, Akiyoshi Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 8313866
    Abstract: An electrochemical cell includes a cathode capable of reversibly releasing and receiving an alkali metal; an anode capable of reversibly releasing and receiving the alkali metal; and a non-aqueous electrolyte including one or more dissolved lithium salts, one or more nitriles, sulfur dioxide, and one or more other polar aprotic solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Tiax LLC
    Inventors: David Ofer, Bookeun Oh
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20120276456
    Abstract: Electrolyte, comprising an aprotic solvent, a lithium salt as conducting salt, and an additive, characterized in that the additive is a compound which contains a protonable nitrogen atom and is hydrolysable by water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: LI-TEC BATTERY GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Pilgram, Rolf-Walter Terwonne, Denny Thiemig, Joerg Kaiser, Andreas Gutsch
  • 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