IP Library Granted Patent US 7,510,801
Granted Patent B2
US 7,510,801 · App. 10/617,637 · Granted Mar 31, 2009

Alkaline battery and method for producing the same

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Patent No.
US 7,510,801
App. No.
10/617,637
Granted
Mar 31, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided an alkaline battery produced by sealing in an outer package body: a positive mixture containing at least one selected from manganese dioxide and a nickel oxide, a conducting agent, and an alkaline electrolytic solution (A) containing potassium hydroxide; a separator; and a negative mixture containing zinc alloy powder, a gelling agent, and an alkaline electrolytic solution (B) containing potassium hydroxide where a concentration of potassium hydroxide of the alkaline electrolytic solution (A) is 45 wt % or more, and a concentration of potassium hydroxide of the alkaline electrolytic solution (B) is 35 wt % or less. Because of this, an alkaline battery can be provided, which has desirable load characteristics, prevents the generation of gas, prevents a decrease in a storage property due to the reaction with an electrolytic solution, and has heat generation behavior suppressed at a time of occurrence of a short-circuit.

Claims (6)

1. An alkaline battery comprising a positive mixture molded in a ring shape comprising at least one selected from manganese dioxide and a nickel oxide as a positive active material and a negative mixture comprising a negative active material,

wherein the positive mixture comprises an alkaline electrolytic solution comprising potassium hydroxide,

an amount of water comprised in the positive mixture is 8.4 to 10 wt % with respect to a total weight of the positive mixture including the alkaline electrolytic solution, and

the negative active material is zinc alloy powder, and a ratio of the zinc alloy powder that passes through a 200-mesh sieve is 4 to 40 wt % with respect to a total weight of the zinc alloy powder.

2. The alkaline battery according to claim l , wherein the zinc alloy powder comprises at least one selected from indium, bismuth, and aluminum.

3. The alkaline battery according to claim 2 , wherein contents of the at least one sciected from indium, bismuth, and aluminum comprised in the zinc alloy powder arc 0.03 to 0.07 wt %, 0.007 to 0.025 wt %, and 0.001 to 0.004 wt %, respectively.

Assignments (5)
MERGER Recorded Feb 5, 2018
From: HITACHI MAXELL ENERGY, LTD.
To: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 045245/0296 →
CHANGE OF NAME AND ADDRESS Recorded Feb 5, 2018
From: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
To: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 045247/0970 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 15, 2011
From: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
To: HITACHI MAXELL ENERGY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 026751/0059 →
CORRECTED COVER SHEET TO CORRECT ASSIGNEE NAME, PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME 014284/0340 (ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST) Recorded Feb 10, 2004
From: ITO, NORIYUKI; USHIJIMA, MINAJURO; IWAMOTO, SHINICHI; IZU, TETSUO
To: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 014982/0334 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 11, 2003
From: ITO, NORIYUKI; USHIJIMA, MINAJURO; IWAMOTO, SHINICHI; IZU, TETSUO
To: HITACHI MAXWELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 014284/0340 →