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US 10,644,353 · App. 14/352,864 · Granted May 5, 2020

Non-aqueous secondary battery

Inventors: Naoki Matsuoka (Tokyo, JP); Takehiro Koga (Tokyo, JP); Hitoshi Shobukawa (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
H01M10/0567H01M4/0445H01M4/13H01M4/139H01M10/052H01M10/0568H01M10/0569H01M10/446H01M4/131H01M4/133H01M4/62H01M10/0525H01M2004/021H01M2010/4292H01M2300/0028H01M2300/0037
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Patent No.
US 10,644,353
App. No.
14/352,864
Granted
May 5, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A non-aqueous secondary battery including an electrolyte solution that contains a lithium salt and a non-aqueous solvent, a positive electrode, and a negative electrode, wherein a basis weight of a positive-electrode active material layer included in the positive electrode is 8 to 100 mg/cm 2 , and/or, a basis weight of a negative-electrode active material layer included in the negative electrode is 3 to 46 mg/cm 2 , and wherein the electrolyte solution has an ion conductivity at 25° C. of 15 mS/cm or more.

Claims (37)

1. A non-aqueous secondary battery comprising:

an electrolyte solution that contains a lithium salt and a non-aqueous solvent,

a positive electrode, and

a negative electrode,

wherein a basis weight of a positive-electrode active material layer included in the positive electrode is 8 to 100 mg/cm 2 , and/or, a basis weight of a negative-electrode active material layer included in the negative electrode is 3 to 46 mg/cm 2 ,

wherein the electrolyte solution has an ion conductivity at 25° C. of 20 mS/cm or more, and

wherein the electrolyte solution satisfies Composition 1:

Composition 1:

the electrolyte solution contains acetonitrile, a lithium salt and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of compounds of Formula (1):

R 1 -A-R 2   (1)

wherein R 1 and R 2 each independently represents an alkyl group optionally substituted with an aryl group or a halogen atom, or an aryl group optionally substituted with an alkyl group or a halogen atom, or R 1 and R 2 are bonded to each other to form a cyclic structure that may have an unsaturated bond with A, wherein A represents a divalent group having a structure represented by any one of the following formulae (2), (4) and (5):

wherein the electrolyte solution further contains one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of cyclic carbonates having a carbon-carbon double bond.

2. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the electrolyte solution has an ion conductivity at 25° C. of 50 mS/cm or less.

3. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the basis weight of the positive-electrode active material layer included in the positive electrode is 24 to 100 mg/cm 2 , and/or, the basis weight of the negative-electrode active material layer included in the negative electrode is 10 to 46 mg/cm 2 .

4. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein an electrode active material layer included in at least one of the positive electrode or the negative electrode has a porosity of 20 to 45%.

5. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the positive-electrode active material layer included in the positive electrode has a porosity of 20 to 45%.

6. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the negative-electrode active material layer included in the negative electrode has a porosity of 20 to 45%.

7. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein a content of acetonitrile in the non-aqueous solvent is 5 to 97 vol. %.

8. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein a content of acetonitrile in the non-aqueous solvent is 25 to 80 vol. %.

9. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the compound represented by the Formula (1) is one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of ethylene sulfite, propylene sulfite, butylene sulfite, pentene sulfite, 1,3-propane sultone, 1,4-butane sultone and 1,3-propanediol sulfate.

10. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the lithium salt is an inorganic lithium salt having a fluorine atom.

11. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 10 , wherein the inorganic lithium salt is LiPF 6 .

12. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 10 , wherein the inorganic lithium salt is LiBF 4 .

13. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 10 , wherein a content of the inorganic lithium salt based on a total amount of the electrolyte solution is 0.1 to 40 mass %.

14. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the organic lithium salt is one or more organic lithium salts selected from the group consisting of lithium bis(oxalato)borate and lithium oxalato difluoroborate.

15. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the positive electrode contains one or more materials selected from the group consisting of materials capable of doping and dedoping lithium ions as a positive-electrode active material, and the negative electrode contains one or more materials selected from the group consisting of materials capable of doping and dedoping lithium ions and metal lithium as a negative-electrode active material.

16. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 15 , wherein the positive electrode contains a lithium-containing compound as the positive-electrode active material.

17. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 16 , wherein the lithium-containing compound includes one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of a metal oxide having lithium and a metal chalcogenide having lithium.

18. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 15 , wherein the negative electrode contains as the negative-electrode active material one or more materials selected from the group consisting of metal lithium, a carbon material, and a material including an element capable of forming an alloy with lithium.

19. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 15 , wherein the negative electrode contains as the negative-electrode active material a material that dopes lithium ions at a lower potential than 1.4 V vs. Li/Li + .

20. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein a positive electrode mixture of the positive electrode includes a positive-electrode active material, a conductive aid, a binder, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of organic acids and organic acid salts.

21. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 20 , wherein the compound includes a divalent or greater organic acid or organic acid salt.

22. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 20 , wherein a thickness of a positive-electrode active material layer produced from the positive electrode mixture is 50 to 300 μm.

23. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the positive electrode and/or the negative electrode are an electrode formed by coating the positive-electrode active material layer and/or the negative-electrode active material layer on an electrode substrate formed by coating a conductive layer that includes a conductive material on an electrode current collector.

24. The non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 23 , wherein the conductive layer includes a conductive material and a binder.

25. A method for producing the non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 1 , comprising the step of performing initial charging of 0.001-0.3 C.

26. The method for producing the non-aqueous secondary battery according to claim 25 , wherein the initial charging is performed by charging at a constant voltage during a part of the charging process.

Assignments (2)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNEE ADDRESS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 033239 FRAME 0174. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded May 12, 2016
From: MATSUOKA, NAOKI; KOGA, TAKEHIRO; SHOBUKAWA, HITOSHI
To: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 038689/0472 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 3, 2014
From: MATSUOKA, NAOKI; KOGA, TAKEHIRO; SHOBUKAWA, HITOSHI
To: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 033239/0174 →
Priority Claims (5)
JP 2011-237706 · Oct 28, 2011 · national
JP 2011-237707 · Oct 28, 2011 · national
JP 2011-237765 · Oct 28, 2011 · national
JP 2011-237808 · Oct 28, 2011 · national
JP 2012-103331 · Apr 27, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
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