IP Library Granted Patent US 9,196,927
Granted Patent B2
US 9,196,927 · App. 11/871,676 · Granted Nov 24, 2015

Battery including an electrolytic solution containing a sulfone compound

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Patent No.
US 9,196,927
App. No.
11/871,676
Granted
Nov 24, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A 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 anode contains a material that can insert and extract an electrode reactant and contains at least one of a metal element and a metalloid element as an element, and the electrolytic solution contains a solvent, an electrolyte salt, and a sulfone compound having a given structure.

Claims (20)

1. A battery comprising:

a cathode;

an anode; and

an electrolytic solution, wherein:

the anode contains a silicon anode active material consisting of silicon,

the electrolytic solution consists of a solvent, an electrolyte salt, and a sulfone compound shown in Chemical formula 1:

where X represents an alkylene group with the carbon number in a range from 2 to 4 or an alkenylene group with the carbon number in a range from 2 to 4, and

the solvent includes at least one of 4-fluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one and 4,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one.

2. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein a content of the sulfone compound in the electrolytic solution is in a range from 0.01 wt % to 5 wt %.

3. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anode includes an anode current collector and an anode active material layer provided thereon; and

an interface between the anode current collector and the anode active material layer is alloyed at least in part.

4. The battery according to claim 3 , wherein the anode active material layer is formed by at least one method selected from the group consisting of vapor-phase deposition method, liquid-phase deposition method, and firing method.

5. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the solvent contains cyclic ester carbonate having an unsaturated bond.

6. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the electrolyte salt contains at least one selected from the group consisting of lithium hexafluorophosphate, lithium tetrafluoroborate, lithium perchlorate, lithium hexafluoroarsenate, and compounds shown in Chemical formula 4 to Chemical formula 6:

LiN(C m F 2m+1 SO 2 )(C n F2 n+1 SO 2 )  Chemical formula 4

where m and n represent an integer number of 1 or more, and are identical or different;

where R11 represents a straight chain/branched perfluoro alkylene group with a carbon number in a range from 2 to 4;

LiC(C p F 2p+1 SO 2 )(C q F 2q+1 SO 2 )(C r F 2r+1 SO 2 )  Chemical formula 6

where p, q, and r represent an integer number of 1 or more and are identical or different.

7. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the sulfone compound is a compound represented by Chemical formula 2(1) or Chemical formula 2(2):

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 22, 2018
From: TOHOKU MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
To: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 045103/0835 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 22, 2018
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: TOHOKU MURATA MANUFACTURING CO.,LTD
Reel/Frame 045104/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 9, 2008
From: IHARA, MASAYUKI; YAMAGUCHI, HIROYUKI; KUBOTA, TADAHIKO
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 020344/0021 →