IP Library Granted Patent US 7,951,488
Granted Patent B2
US 7,951,488 · App. 12/713,980 · Granted May 31, 2011

Cathode and battery including same

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Patent No.
US 7,951,488
App. No.
12/713,980
Granted
May 31, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A cathode and a battery including the cathode are provided. The cathode includes a cathode mixture layer with a cathode active material and a binder. The binder can include, for example, a synthetic rubber latex and a thickener, polyvinylidene fluoride denaturalized by maleic acid and/or the like.

Claims (15)

1. A cathode, comprising:

a cathode mixture layer containing a cathode active material and a binder, the binder including maleic acid-denaturalized polyvinylidene fluoride

wherein the content of the maleic acid-denaturalized polyvinylidene fluoride in the cathode mixture layer is in the range from 0.5 wt % to 4 wt %, and

wherein an amount of polyvinylidene fluoride denaturalized maleic acid in the maleic-acid denaturalized polyvinylidene fluoride is in the range from 0.1 wt % to 0.4 wt %.

2. The cathode according to claim 1 , wherein part of the maleic acid-denaturalized polyvinylidene fluoride is substituted with hexafluoro propylene, and its substitution ratio is less than about 5 wt %.

3. The cathode according to claim 1 , wherein the cathode mixture layer contains a lithium phosphorous oxide having an olivine structure as the cathode active material.

4. A battery, comprising a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte, wherein:

the cathode includes a cathode active material and maleic acid-denaturalized polyvinylidene fluoride as a binder;

the content of the maleic acid-denaturalized polyvinylidene fluoride in the cathode mixture layer is in the range from 0.5 wt % to 4 wt %; and

an amount of polyvinylidene fluoride denaturalized by maleic acid in the maleic-acid denaturalized polyvinylidene fluoride is in the range from 0.1 wt % to 0.4 wt %.

5. The battery according to claim 4 , wherein part of the maleic acid-denaturalized polyvinylidene fluoride is substituted with hexafluoro propylene, and its substitution ratio is less than about 5 wt %.

6. The battery according to claim 4 , where in the cathode mixture layer contains a lithium phosphorous oxide having an olivine structure as the cathode active material.

7. The battery according to claim 4 , wherein a charge final voltage is 4.0 V or less.

8. The cathode according to claim 1 , wherein the binder is composed of the maleic acid-denaturalized polyvinylidene fluoride.

9. The battery according to claim 4 , wherein the binder is composed of the maleic acid-denaturalized polyvinylidene fluoride.

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 Apr 1, 2010
From: KATO, YOSHIKAZU; TAKAGI, RYOSUKE
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 024176/0232 →