And Acyclic Carbonate Or Acyclic Carboxylic Acid Ester Solvent Patents (Class 429/332)
  • Patent number: 8632918
    Abstract: A non-aqueous rechargeable electrochemical cell includes an electrolyte composition produced through the dissolution of a thermally stable lithium salt in a lactone solvent. The resulting cell has stable performance in a wide temperature range between ?40° C. and 80° C. The resulting cell operates across this wide temperature range with a commercially acceptable capacity retention, power loss characteristics, and safety characteristics across this temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Kang Xu, Shengshui Zhang, T. Richard Jow
  • Publication number: 20140017574
    Abstract: An additive for a sodium ion secondary battery of the present invention includes a compound of at least one of a saturated cyclic carbonate having a fluoro group and a chain carbonate having a fluoro group. A sodium ion secondary battery (1) of the present invention includes: a non-aqueous electrolytic solution including the additive for a sodium ion secondary battery and a non-aqueous solvent containing a saturated cyclic carbonate or a non-aqueous solvent containing a saturated cyclic carbonate and a chain carbonate; a positive electrode (11); and a negative electrode (12) that includes a coating formed in a surface of the negative electrode, the coating containing a composite material having carbon, oxygen, fluorine and sodium in the surface and includes a negative-electrode active material containing a hard carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Yasuhiko Ohsawa, Shinichi Komaba, Naoaki Yabuuchi, Wataru Murata, Toru Ishikawa, Yuta Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20140011098
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lithium secondary battery with improved rate characteristics. More particularly, disclosed is a lithium secondary battery including a cathode, an anode, a separator disposed between the cathode and the anode, and an electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte includes a mixed solvent of a cyclic carbonate-based material and a propionate-based material, the cathode includes a lithium manganese composite oxide represented by Formula 1 below as a cathode active material, and the anode includes a lithium metal oxide represented by Formula 2 below as an anode active material: LixMyMn2?yO4?zAz??(1) wherein 0.9?x?1.2, 0<y<2, and 0?z<0.2, M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, Ni, Co, Fe, Cr, V, Ti, Cu, B, Ca, Zn, Zr, Nb, Mo, Sr, Sb, W, Ti, and Bi; and A is at least one monovalent or divalent anion, LiaM?bO4?xAc??(2) wherein M? is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cu, Pb, Sb, Zn, Fe, In, Al, and Zr; 0.1?a?4 and 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Ho Jeon, Yoo Seok Kim, Doo Kyung Yang, Shulkee Kim
  • Publication number: 20140011097
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relate to a di-tert-butylphenyl alkylsulfonate compound, tertbutylphenyl alkylsulfonate compound, di-tert-butylphenyl arylsulfonate compound or tertbutylphenyl arylsulfonate compound useful as an intermediate raw material of a pharmaceutical, agricultural chemical, electronic material or polymer material and the like, or as a battery material, and also provides a nonaqueous electrolytic solution for a lithium secondary battery having superior cycle performance and other battery properties through the use thereof, and a lithium secondary battery. The disclosed embodiments further relate to a nonaqueous electrolytic solution for use as in a lithium secondary battery containing, in a nonaqueous electrolytic solution in which an electrolyte salt is dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Koji ABE
  • Patent number: 8623558
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte in which the proportion of diethyl carbonate is reduced, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same that has high safety are provided. The non-aqueous electrolyte of the invention for use in secondary batteries includes ethylene carbonate, propylene carbonate, diethyl carbonate, and an additive, as a non-aqueous solvent. The additive is at least one of a fluorinated aromatic compound having a molecular weight of 90 to 200 and a fatty acid alkyl ester having a molecular weight of 80 to 240. A weight ratio WEC ethylene carbonate, a weight ratio WPC of propylene carbonate, a weight ratio W DEC of diethyl carbonate, and a weight ratio WLV of the additive are 5 to 30 wt %, 15 to 60 wt %, 10 to 50 wt %, and 5 to 35 wt %, respectively, to the total of the non-aqueous electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Deguchi
  • Patent number: 8617749
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte and a lithium secondary battery using the same are provided, which satisfy both flame retardancy and charge-discharge cycle characteristics, and attain a longer lifetime of the battery. A mixture of a chain carbonate, vinylene carbonate, a fluorinated cyclic carbonate and a phosphate ester is used as the non-aqueous electrolyte. It is desirable that the phosphate ester includes trimethyl phosphate and a fluorinated phosphate ester. Further, it is desirable that ethylene carbonate is further contained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Kazushige Kohno
  • Publication number: 20130337344
    Abstract: In a lithium ion secondary battery using a positive electrode active material made of a lithium manganese based oxide that contains Li and tetravalent Mn and having a crystal structure known as a layered rock salt structure, oxidative and reductive degradation of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution is reduced. The battery uses a non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing fluorine in one or both of the non-aqueous solvent and the electrolytic salt. For the negative electrode active material, SiOx (0.3?x?1.6) is used. The combined use of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing fluorine and SiOx in the negative electrode active material reduces oxidative and reductive degradation of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kayo Mizuno, Keiichi Hayashi, Masaaki Suzuki, Takayuki Hirose
  • Publication number: 20130337343
    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: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tokuda, Takashi Fujii, Minoru Kotato, Masahiro Takehara, Masamichi Onuki, Youichi Ohashi, Shinichi Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20130337342
    Abstract: An electrochemical cell provided with a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode comprises a stabilized lithium metal oxide material, the lithium metal oxide material comprising one or more transition metal ions. The electrolyte is prepared by mixing ingredients comprising a solvent, a lithium salt, and a sultone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Peter B. Hallac, Junwei Jiang, Christopher R. Fell
  • Patent number: 8609279
    Abstract: A rechargeable lithium battery including a negative electrode made by depositing a noncrystalline thin film composed entirely or mainly of silicon on a current collector, a positive electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte, characterized in that said nonaqueous electrolyte contains carbon dioxide dissolved therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daizo Jito, Noriyuki Tamura, Nobuhiro Sakitani, Hiroshi Minami, Hiromasa Yagi, Maruo Kamino, Katsunobu Sayama, Yoshio Kato, Shigeki Matsuta
  • Publication number: 20130330598
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are provided. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes an organic solvent, an ionizable lithium salt, a dinitrile compound including an ether bond represented by Chemical Formula 1, and an aliphatic dinitrile compound represented by Chemical Formula 2. The lithium secondary battery including the non-aqueous electrolyte solution having the possibility of generating a swelling phenomenon while storing or charging/discharging at a high temperature may be restrained. In addition, a cycle life of the charging/discharging may be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: You Jin Shim, Jae Seung Oh, Yeon Suk Hong, Byoung Bae Lee, Hyo Jin Lee
  • Publication number: 20130330635
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolytic solution for a secondary battery containing an electrolyte, a solvent and methyl difluoroacetate as an additive in an amount of not less than 0.05 part by mass and not more than 10 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the whole solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Shishikura, Koji Irie, Akio Hasatani
  • Patent number: 8603683
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a battery component comprises an electrode and a separator deposited on a surface of the electrode is provided. The separator comprises a porous poly(para-xylylene) film. In some embodiments, the electrode can include at least one cavity or protrusion, and the separator layer can be gas phase deposited directly on the electrode. In certain embodiments, methods of making a battery component are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Enevate Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Yong Park, Alexander Gorkovenko, Rabih Bachir Zaouk, William Hubert Schank, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20130323606
    Abstract: The present invention is aimed at providing a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery capable of improving cycling characteristics by improving a positive electrode active material when particles with a structure in which primary particles are aggregated to front, secondary particles are used as the positive electrode active material of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, thereby permitting preferred use as a power supply of a hybrid electric car or the like. The positive electrode active material includes secondary particles 20 composed of aggregated primary particles 21, the primary particles 21 have an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more and 10.0 or less, and in powder X-ray diffraction measurement using CuK? ray, the positive electrode active material satisfies 0.10°?FWHM110 ?0.30° wherein FWHM110 represents a full width at half maximum of a 110 diffraction peak present within a range of diffraction angle 2? of 64.5°±1.0°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Yoshida, Fumiharu Niina, Hiroshi Kawada, Yoshinori Kida
  • Publication number: 20130323605
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte solution for secondary batteries, which maintains small internal resistance and high electrical capacitance in long-term use in a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery uses, as an active material, a crystalline carbon material having a high crystallinity, and a negative electrode produced using a polymeric carboxylic compound as a binding agent. The nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains: (A) at least one compound selected from a group consisting of an unsaturated phosphate ester compound represented by a general formula (1) and an unsaturated phosphate ester compound represented by a general formula (2); (B) at least one compound selected from a group consisting of a sulfite ester compound, a sulfonate ester compound, an alkali metal imide salt compound, a fluorosilane compound, an organic disilane compound or an organic disiloxane compound; (C) an organic solvent, and (D) an electrolyte salt. A secondary battery using such nonaqueous electrolyte solution is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicants: ADEKA CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouhei YAMAMOTO, Hisashi UMEMOTO, Kyohei USAMI, Manabu YAMADA, Takayuki TAKI, Yuyu OHNUMA, Hiroaki WATANABE, Atsuski SHIBUYA
  • Publication number: 20130316252
    Abstract: A method of preparing a tricyanoalkoxy alkane compound is disclosed. The tricyanoalkoxy alkane compound is prepared by reacting an alcohol compound including at least three hydroxyl groups and a nitrile compound in the presence of a potassium alkoxide catalyst. A non-aqueous electrolyte solution comprising the tricyanoalkoxy alkane compound and a lithium secondary battery also are disclosed. The swelling of the battery may be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventors: Byoung Bae Lee, Jae Seung Oh, Yeon Suk Hong, Min Ah Kim
  • Publication number: 20130302700
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that has a battery element including a positive electrode member, a negative electrode member, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The negative electrode member contains graphitizable carbon. With respect to 100 parts by weight of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution, fluoroethylenecarbonate is added at 0.5 parts by weight or more and 1.0 parts by weight or less, and lithium difluorobis(oxalato)phosphate is added at 0.5 parts by weight or more and 1.0 parts by weight or less, or fluoroethylenecarbonate and lithium difluorobis(oxalato)phosphate are added at 0.5 parts by weight or more and 2.0 parts by weight or less in total.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seitaro Washizuka
  • Patent number: 8580429
    Abstract: Disclosed are (1) a nonaqueous electrolytic solution for lithium battery comprising an electrolyte dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, which contains at least one hydroxy acid derivative compound represented by the formulae (I) and (II) in an amount of from 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Kazuyuki Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20130295468
    Abstract: The present invention provides non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery, comprising an ester-based compound having a branched-chain alkyl group and an ester-based compound having a straight-chain alkyl group; and a lithium secondary battery using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Sung-Hoon YU, Doo-Kyung YANG, Jong-Ho JEON, Min-Jung JOU
  • Publication number: 20130295467
    Abstract: (1) A container for a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, containing a material containing an aluminum or aluminum alloy layer, and storing a nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing a nonaqueous solvent having dissolved therein an electrolyte salt, the container having a cap and a plug each formed of a resin, and maintaining the nonaqueous electrolytic solution to have a water content of 50 ppm or less after storing in the container for 30 days, (2) a nonaqueous electrolytic solution placed in the container, and (3) a method for storing a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. The container for a nonaqueous electrolytic solution is a light weight container that prevents the nonaqueous electrolytic solution from being decomposed on storing to maintain the high quality, and facilitates and ensures the handling of the nonaqueous electrolytic solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Akikazu Ito
  • Patent number: 8568932
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolytic solution in which an electrolyte salt is dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, containing 0.01% to 30% by weight of a 1,2-cyclohexanediol derivative having a specific structure; and a lithium secondary battery using the nonaqueous electrolytic solution. The lithium secondary battery exhibits excellent battery characteristics such as electrical capacity, cycle property, and storage property and can maintain excellent long-term battery performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Kazuhiro Miyoshi, Chisen Hashimoto, Masahide Kondo
  • Publication number: 20130280621
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte solution that can be used as an electrolyte solution of a non-aqueous secondary battery to improve the discharge rate performance of the battery. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution comprises a non-aqueous solvent and a BF3-cyclic ether complex. The BF3-cyclic ether complex content is greater than zero part by mass, but less than 1 part by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the total amount of other electrolyte solution components. Preferable examples of the BF3-cyclic ether complex include BF3-tetrahydropyran complex and BF3-dioxane complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Tatsuya Koga, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20130260262
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery exhibiting superior stability characteristics and having charge/discharge characteristics exhibiting a high-rate discharge stroke, even when a lithium-nickel-cobalt manganate and a spinel-type lithium manganate are used as the positive electrode active material. [Solution] A mixture having a specific ratio of a tungsten- and zirconium-modified lithium-nickel-cobalt manganate and a spinel-type lithium manganate is used as the positive electrode active material. Furthermore, a nonaqueous electrolyte having a specific ratio of the content of dimethyl carbonate and the content of a cyclic carbonate is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Miyazaki, Hironori Shirakata
  • Publication number: 20130260261
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes a cyclic carbonate and a chain carbonate, and contains a glycol sulfate derivative represented by formula (I) below and fluoroethylene carbonate: [wherein each of R1 and R2 independently represents at least one selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom and a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms].
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Kenta KOTANI, Atsushi SANO
  • Patent number: 8546024
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery has an anode, a cathode, a separator between the anode and the cathode and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The non-aqueous electrolyte includes a lithium salt; and a non-linear carbonate-based mixed organic solvent in which (a) a cyclic carbonate compound, and (b) a propionate-based compound are mixed at a volume ratio (a:b) in the range from about 10:90 to about 70:30, and optionally (c) a vinylene carbonate; and an inhibitor against a reaction between the anode and the propionate-based ester compound. The cathode has a current density in the range from about 3.5 to about 5.5 mA/cm2 and a porosity in the range from about 18 to about 35%. This battery may be manufactured as a high-loading lithium secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Ho Jeon, Jeong-Ju Cho, Ho-Chun Lee
  • 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20130224606
    Abstract: The present invention directs to a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, including (I) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of fluorinated linear sulfones and fluorinated linear sulfonic acid esters, and (II) an electrolyte salt. Such a non-aqueous electrolyte solution has high oxidation resistance, minimizes its decomposition even when hydrofluoric acid is produced. Also, the solution is less likely to cause, in the case of being used for a secondary cell, swelling of the cell and lowering of the battery performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Meiten Koh, Hideo Sakata, Hitomi Nakazawa, Kyouhei Sawaki, Tomoyo Sanagi, Akiyoshi Yamauchi, Aoi Nakazono, Akinori Tani, Masahiro Tomita, Yuki Adachi
  • Publication number: 20130224605
    Abstract: Provide are fluorinated cyclic and acyclic carbonate solvent compositions such as various fluorine substituted 1,3-dioxolane-2-one compounds and fluorine substituted 1,3-dioxane-2-one compounds, which are useful as electrolyte solvents for lithium ion batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20130209895
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rechargeable lithium battery that includes a positive electrode having an active mass density of about 3.4 g/cc to about 4.0 g/cc, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte including a non-aqueous organic solvent including a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 in an amount of about 10 volume % to about 50 volume % based on the total amount of the non-aqueous organic solvent. Chemical Formula 1: CH3COO—R1, wherein R1 is a C1 to C4 linear or branched alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-Young Kim, Wan-Mook Lim, Myoung-Han Ryu, Hyun-Ki Jung, Hyo-Rim Bak
  • Patent number: 8501356
    Abstract: An additive typified by tris(trimethylsilyl)phosphate, tris(trimethylsilyl)borate, and tetrakis(trimethylsiloxy)titanium (Chem. 3) are applied to a nonaqueous electrolyte containing a chain carbonate and/or a chain carboxylate as a main solvent (contained at a ratio of 70 volume % or higher). It is preferable that 0?a<30 is satisfied, in which “a” denotes the volume of a cyclic carbonate among carbonates having no carbon-carbon double bond in the entire volume, defined as 100, of the carbonates having no carbon-carbon double bond and chain carboxylates in a nonaqueous solvent contained in the nonaqueous electrolyte (0<a<30 in the case no chain carboxylate is contained).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazusa Ohkubo, Koji Sukino, Shigeki Yamate, Suguru Kozono, Yoshihiro Katayama, Toshiyuki Nukuda
  • Publication number: 20130164634
    Abstract: A mixture useful as an electrolyte in lithium ion batteries and use thereof are provided. Lithium ion batteries with good performance, especially good cyclability after prolonged operation are obtained. The mixture contains an aprotic organic solvent, a cyclic compound containing C1-C10-alkyl, C3-C10-cycloalkyl, benzyl or C6-C14-aryl, water, optionally an additive and a lithium salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Simon SCHROEDLE, Jordan Keith Lampert, Martin Schulz-Dobrick, Itamar Michael Malkowsky, Arnd Garsuch, Klaus Leitner, Olaf Kutzki
  • Publication number: 20130157147
    Abstract: Electrolytes for lithium based batteries are described with good temperature tolerance over appropriate temperature ranges for uses in vehicles. In particular, the electrolytes are suitable for high voltage operation over 4.4V and can provide high rate performance. The electrolytes generally comprise a solvent that is a mixture of ethylene carbonate, dimethyl carbonate and ethylmethyl carbonate. Alternatively, a solvent combination of fluoroethylene carbonate and dimethyl carbonate was used. A primary lithium salt is includes at a concentration greater than about 1.05M. The electrolyte generally also comprises a lithium salt additive. The electrolytes can provide some battery capacity down to at least ?40° C. while providing good performance also at elevated temperatures of 45° or more, and the corresponding batteries can be cycled to several thousand cycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Bing Li, Shabab Amiruddin
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20130122377
    Abstract: Provided are an electrolyte solution for lithium secondary battery, which includes dipentaerythritol hexaacrylate and a (meth)acrylate compound having a C4 to C12 linear or branched alkyl group as electrolyte additives, and a lithium secondary battery including the electrolyte solution. The electrolyte solution can improve the safety of the battery, and the performance characteristics, particularly cycle life characteristics, of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: SOULBRAIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soo Young KIM, Ji Seong HAN, Eun Gi SHIM, Ji Young CHOI, Wan Chul KANG
  • Publication number: 20130122378
    Abstract: An electrolyte solution for a rechargeable lithium battery that includes a lithium salt; a non-aqueous organic solvent including ethyl acetate; and an additive including a sultone-based compound, wherein the sultone-based compound is included in an amount ranging from 0.1 to 5 wt % based on the total amount of the electrolyte solution is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mi-Hyeun Oh, Ho-Seok Yang, Dai-In Park, Jin-Hyunk Lim
  • Publication number: 20130108933
    Abstract: LiPO2F2 is manufactured by the reaction of P4O10 with LiF forming a reaction mixture comprising LiPO2F2. To isolate pure LiPO2F2, the reaction mixture is extracted with water, organic solvents or mixtures thereof, and if desired, pure LiPO2F2 is isolated from the solution. The pure LiPO2F2 can be re-dissolved in suitable organic solvents, e.g. in fluorinated and/or non-fluorinated organic carbonates. Another aspect of the present invention is crystalline LiPO2F2. LiPO2F2 is suitable as electrolyte salt or as electrolyte salt additive for Li ion batteries, for lithium-sulfur batteries and for lithium-oxygen batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: SOLVAY SA
    Inventors: Placido Garcia-Juan, Alf Schulz
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8415056
    Abstract: There is provided a non-aqueous electrolytic solution assuring good solubility of an electrolyte salt and having enough cell characteristics (charge and discharge cycle characteristic, discharge capacity, and the like), and the non-aqueous electrolytic solution comprises a solvent for dissolving an electrolyte salt comprising (A) at least one fluorine-containing solvent selected from the group consisting of fluorine-containing ethers and fluorine-containing carbonates, (B) a non-fluorine-containing cyclic carbonate and (C) a chain ester represented by the formula (C): R1COOR2, wherein R1 is an alkyl group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms; R2 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a fluorine-containing alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and (II) an electrolyte salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Meiten Koh, Hitomi Nakazawa, Hideo Sakata, Michiru Kagawa, Akiyoshi Yamauchi
  • 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