IP Library Granted Patent US 9,373,866
Granted Patent B2
US 9,373,866 · App. 13/983,260 · Granted Jun 21, 2016

Solid electrolyte battery

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Patent No.
US 9,373,866
App. No.
13/983,260
Granted
Jun 21, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a solid electrolyte battery that has favorable charge-discharge characteristics with impedance reduced. This solid electrolyte battery has, on a substrate 10 , a stacked body of a positive electrode side current collector film 30 , a positive electrode protective film 31 , a positive electrode active material film 40 , a solid electrolyte film 50 , a negative electrode potential formation layer 64 , and a negative electrode side current collector film 70 stacked in this order. The positive electrode active material film 40 is composed of an amorphous positive electrode active material. The positive electrode protective film 31 is composed of LiCoO 2 , LiMn 2 O 4 , LiNiO 2 , or the like.

Claims (29)

1. A solid electrolyte battery comprising:

a positive electrode side layer;

a negative electrode side layer; and

a solid electrolyte layer between the positive electrode side layer and the negative electrode side layer,

wherein the positive electrode side layer includes:

a positive electrode current collector layer;

a positive electrode active material layer comprising a lithium-containing material in an amorphous state; and

a positive electrode protective layer between the positive electrode current collector layer and the positive electrode active material layer,

wherein the positive electrode protective layer is capable of suppressing a reaction between the positive electrode current collector layer and the positive electrode active material layer.

2. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 1 , wherein a material constituting the positive electrode protective layer is a lithium oxide comprising lithium and oxygen.

3. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 2 , wherein the lithium oxide comprising lithium and oxygen is a lithium-transition metal oxide comprising lithium, a transition metal, and oxygen.

4. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 3 , wherein the transition metal is at least one selected from the group consisting of: Co, Mn, and Ni.

5. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 3 , wherein the lithium-transition metal oxide is LiCoO 2 , LiMn 2 O 4 , or LiNiO 2 .

6. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 3 , wherein the lithium-transition metal oxide is crystalline or microcrystalline.

7. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 1 , wherein the lithium-containing material is an oxide comprising: lithium, phosphorus, oxygen, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of: Cu, Ni, Co, Mn, Au, Ag, and Pd.

8. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 7 , wherein the lithium-containing material is a lithium phosphate compound represented by a following formula (1):

Li x Cu y PO 4   Formula (1)

where x represents a composition ratio of lithium, y represents a composition ratio of copper, x satisfies 1.0 ≦×≦5.0; and y satisfies 1.0 ≦y ≦4.0.

9. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 1 , wherein:

the negative electrode side layer includes a negative electrode current collector layer and a negative electrode side protective layer comprising an oxide containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of: Mn, Co, Fe, P, Ni, and Sn, and

a negative electrode active material layer comprising lithium is formed at an interface between the solid electrolyte layer and the negative electrode side protective layer during charging.

10. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 1 , comprising a substrate,

wherein a stacked body including the positive electrode side layer, the negative electrode side layer, and the solid electrolyte layer is formed on the substrate.

11. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 10 , wherein the positive electrode current collector layer, the positive electrode protective layer, and the positive electrode active material layer are provided in this order from a side of the substrate.

12. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 10 , wherein the substrate is a resin substrate.

13. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 10 , comprising an inorganic insulating film provided between the substrate and the positive electrode side layer.

14. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 1 , wherein the positive electrode side layer, the negative electrode side layer, and the solid electrolyte layer each comprise a film formed by physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, electroplating, electroless plating, an application method, a sol-gel method, a solid-phase epitaxy method, or a Langmuir-Blodgett method.

15. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 14 , wherein the positive electrode side protective layer has a thickness of 5 nm or more and 20 nm or less.

16. The solid electrolyte battery according to claim 1 , wherein the solid electrolyte layer comprises a solid electrolyte film containing Li 3 PO 4 , Li 3 PO 4-x N x , Li x B 2 O 3 -y N y , Li 4 SiO 4 —Li 3 PO 4 , and Li 4 SiO 4 —Li 3 VO 4 .

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 Aug 2, 2013
From: SABI, YUICHI; HAYASHI, SAORI; SATO, SUSUMU
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 030931/0357 →