IP Library Granted Patent US 12695118
Granted Patent B2
US 12695118 · App. 17/442,031 · Granted Jul 28, 2026

Secondary battery

Inventors: Kenji Matsubara (Osaka, JP); Kazuhiro Iida (Nara, JP); Masanobu Takeuchi (Osaka, JP); Atsushi Fukui (Hyogo, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
H01M10/0567H01M4/5835H01M10/0525H01M10/0568H01M10/0569H01M2004/027H01M2300/0051
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Patent No.
US 12695118
App. No.
17/442,031
Granted
Jul 28, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A secondary battery which comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution, wherein the electrolytic solution comprises water, a lithium salt, and an additive, the additive including at least one of alkaline-earth metal salts, dicarboxylic acids, carboxylic anhydrides, and organic carbonates, and the negative electrode comprises a negative active material, the negative active material having a silane coupling agent adherent to the surface thereof.

Claims (20)

1 . A secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution, wherein

the electrolyte solution contains water, a lithium salt, and an additive,

the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material, and a silane coupling agent is adhered to a surface of the negative electrode active material,

the negative electrode active material contains carbon material as a main component,

the additive includes an organic carbonate,

a content of the water in the electrolyte solution relative to a total amount of the electrolyte solution is in a range from 8.5% by mass to 21% by mass,

wherein the organic carbonate contains at least one of fluoroethylene carbonate or vinylidene carbonate,

wherein the silane coupling agent is a fluoroalkylsilane and the fluoroalkylsilane includes C 8 F 17 CH 2 CH 2 —Si(OCH 3 ) 3 ,

wherein the organic carbonate is present in a first molar ratio in a range from 1:0.05 to 1:1 relative to the lithium salt, and the water is present in a second molar ratio in a range from 1:1 to 1:2.5 relative to the lithium salt.

2 . The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon material is hard carbon material.

3 . The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the silane coupling agent is reductively decomposed at a potential higher than a reductive decomposition potential of water.

4 . The secondary battery according to claim 3 , wherein a reductive decomposition potential of the silane coupling agent as determined with reference to Li is 2.1 V or higher.

5 . The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the fluoroalkylsilane additionally includes at least one of C 5 F 11 CH 2 CH 2 —Si(OCH 3 ) 3 , and C 6 F 13 CH 2 CH 2 —Si(OCH 3 ) 3 .

6 . The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein a content of the silane coupling agent is in a range from 0.01% by mass to 10% by mass relative to a mass of the negative electrode active material.

7 . The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the lithium salt includes a salt having a lithium ion and an imide anion.

8 . The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the lithium salt includes lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide.

9 . The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the organic carbonate is reductively decomposed at a potential lower than a reductive decomposition potential of the silane coupling agent.

10 . The secondary battery according to claim 9 , wherein a reductive decomposition potential of the organic carbonate as determined with reference to Li is 2.2 V or lower.

11 . The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the organic carbonate contains fluorine as a constituent element.

12 . The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the water is present in a molar ratio in a range from 1.8:0.22 to 2.0:0.03 relative to the organic carbonate.