IP Library Granted Patent US 10,355,307
Granted Patent B2
US 10,355,307 · App. 14/438,199 · Granted Jul 16, 2019

Aluminum secondary battery and electronic device

Inventors: Yuri Nakayama (Kanagawa, JP); Hideki Kawasaki (Kyoto, JP); Hiroyuki Morioka (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
H01M10/054H01M4/131H01M4/137H01M4/463H01M4/485H01M4/505H01M4/525H01M4/602H01M4/604H01M4/608H01M10/0567H01M10/0569H01M10/0568H01M2004/028
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Patent No.
US 10,355,307
App. No.
14/438,199
Granted
Jul 16, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An aluminum secondary battery includes a positive electrode 11 , a negative electrode 12 , and an electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode 11 includes an anion receptor such as polyaniline, the negative electrode 12 includes aluminum or an aluminum alloy, the electrolyte includes an aluminum salt, a sulfone, and a solvent with a dielectric constant of 20 or less, wherein the aluminum salt is typically AlCl 3 or the like, the sulfone is typically ethyl n-propyl sulfone or the like, and the solvent with a dielectric constant of 20 or less is typically toluene or the like.

Claims (26)

1. An aluminum secondary battery, comprising:

a positive electrode;

a negative electrode including at least aluminum; and an electrolyte,

wherein the electrolyte includes an aluminum salt, a sulfone, and a solvent with a dielectric constant of at most 20,

wherein the positive electrode includes an anion receptor, and

wherein the anion receptor is at least one selected from the group consisting of a metal complex that allows halogen to be coordinated to or detached from a metal moiety based on an oxidation-reduction reaction in the aluminum secondary battery when the aluminum secondary battery is charged and discharged and a metal oxide that allows chlorine to be coordinated to or detached from the metal moiety based on the oxidation-reduction reaction in the aluminum secondary battery when the aluminum secondary battery is charged and discharged.

2. The aluminum secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anion receptor further consists of a p-type conductive polymer.

3. The aluminum secondary battery according to claim 2 , wherein

the p-type conductive polymer is at least one selected from the group consisting of polyaniline, polypyrrole, polyacetylene, polyparaphenylene, polythiophene, polyacene, and derivatives thereof,

a metal of the metal complex is V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, or Cu, and

the metal oxide is at least one selected from the group consisting of V 2 O 3 , MnO, FeO, CoO, NiO, and Cu 2 O.

4. The aluminum secondary battery according to claim 3 , wherein the sulfone is an alkyl sulfone represented by R 1 R 2 SO 2 , wherein R 1 and R 2 each represent an alkyl group, or an alkyl sulfone derivative.

5. The aluminum secondary battery according to claim 4 , wherein

the alkyl sulfone is at least one selected from the group consisting of dimethylsulfone, methyl ethyl sulfone, methyl n-propyl sulfone, methyl isopropyl sulfone, methyl n-butyl sulfone, methyl isobutyl sulfone, methyl sec-butyl sulfone, methyl tert-butyl sulfone, ethyl methyl sulfone, diethylsulfone, ethyl n-propyl sulfone, ethyl isopropyl sulfone, ethyl n-butyl sulfone, ethyl isobutyl sulfone, ethyl sec-butyl sulfone, ethyl tert-butyl sulfone, di-n-propylsulfone, diisopropylsulfone, n-propyl n-butyl sulfone, n-butyl ethyl sulfone, isobutyl ethyl sulfone, sec-butyl ethyl sulfone, and di-n-butylsulfone, and

the alkyl sulfone derivative is ethyl phenyl sulfone.

6. The aluminum secondary battery according to claim 5 , wherein a proportion of the solvent in the electrolyte is from 30% by mole to less than 88% by mole, and a molar ratio of the aluminum salt to the sulfone is from 4/5 to less than 7/3.

7. The aluminum secondary battery according to claim 6 , wherein the proportion of the solvent in the electrolyte is from 30% by mole to 84% by mole, and the molar ratio of the aluminum salt to the sulfone is from 4/5 to 5/3.

8. The aluminum secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the solvent has the dielectric constant of at most 10.

9. The aluminum secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the solvent is an aromatic hydrocarbon.

10. The aluminum secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the solvent is at least one selected from the group consisting of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, o-xylene, m-xylene, p-xylene, and 1-methylnaphthalene.

11. The aluminum secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the metal complex is a metalloporphyrin.

12. An electronic device, comprising: at least one aluminum secondary battery,

wherein the aluminum secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode including at least aluminum, and an electrolyte,

wherein the electrolyte includes an aluminum salt, a sulfone, and a solvent with a dielectric constant of at most 20,

wherein the positive electrode includes an anion receptor, and

wherein the anion receptor is at least one selected from the group consisting of a metal complex that allows halogen to be coordinated to or detached from a metal moiety based on an oxidation-reduction reaction in the aluminum secondary battery when the aluminum secondary battery is charged and discharged and a metal oxide that allows chlorine to be coordinated to or detached from the metal moiety based on the oxidation-reduction reaction in the aluminum secondary battery when the aluminum secondary battery is charged and discharged.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 14, 2017
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: TOHOKU MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 044880/0953 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 14, 2017
From: TOHOKU MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
To: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 044881/0005 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 24, 2015
From: NAKAYAMA, YURI; MORIOKA, HIROYUKI; KAWASAKI, HIDEKI
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 035494/0638 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-239159 · Oct 30, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150280279A1 · Oct 1, 2015