IP Library Granted Patent US 12,126,013
Granted Patent B2
US 12,126,013 · App. 17/058,865 · Granted Oct 22, 2024

Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell

Inventors: Junichi Sugaya (Osaka, JP); Takuya Shinomiya (Osaka, JP); Takamitsu Tashita (Tokushima, JP); Fumikazu Mizukoshi (Tokushima, JP); Tsukasa Gejo (Osaka, JP)
Assignees: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.; PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
H01M4/364H01M4/133H01M4/134H01M4/386H01M4/587H01M10/0525H01M2004/021H01M2004/027
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Patent No.
US 12,126,013
App. No.
17/058,865
Granted
Oct 22, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell comprising a negative electrode ( 12 ) having a negative electrode collector ( 40 ) and a negative electrode active material layer ( 42 ) provided on the negative electrode collector ( 40 ). The negative electrode active material layer ( 42 ) contains graphite particles A and graphite particles B as negative electrode active materials. The graphite particles A have an internal void rate of 5% or less. The graphite particles B have an internal void rate of 8 to 20%. When the negative electrode active material layer 42 is halved in the thickness direction, a region 42 b on the half closer to the outer surface contains more graphite particles A than a region 42 a on the half closer to the negative electrode collector.

Claims (16)

1. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising:

a positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer disposed on the positive electrode current collector, wherein the positive electrode active material includes a lithium/transition metal oxide containing lithium and a transition metal element,

a negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer disposed on the negative electrode current collector, and

a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein

the non-aqueous electrolyte includes a non-aqueous solvent, and an electrolyte salt dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent, and

the non-aqueous solvent includes fluoroethylene carbonate; wherein

the negative electrode active material layer includes graphite particles A and graphite particles B each as a negative electrode active material, wherein the graphite particles A and the graphite particles B are configured to reversibly intercalate and deintercalate lithium ions,

the graphite particles A have a porosity due to closed pores of 5% or less and the graphite particles B have a porosity due to closed pores of 8% to 20%, wherein the porosity due to closed pores is an average percentage of a total area of closed pores relative to a cross sectional area of each of the graphite particles A and the graphite particles B, wherein the closed pores are not linked from internals of a graphite particle to an external surface of the graphite particle, and

the graphite particles A are more included in a half region on an outer surface side than in a half region on a negative electrode current collector side in the case of bisection of the negative electrode active material layer in a thickness direction.

2. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein a mass ratio between the graphite particles A and the graphite particles B in the half region on the outer surface side is 20:80 to 100:0.

3. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the negative electrode active material includes a Si material.

4. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of surfaces of the graphite particles A is covered with amorphous carbon.

5. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein

a plane spacing (d 002 ) of the (002) plane with respect to the graphite particles A and B according to a wide-angle X-ray diffraction method is 0.3354 nm or more and less than 0.340 nm.

6. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein

a crystallite size (Lc(002)) with respect to the graphite particles A and B as determined according to an X-ray diffraction method is 5 nm or more and 300 nm or less.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 12, 2023
From: SANYO ELECTRIC CO. LTD
To: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 063623/0047 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 12, 2022
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 060054/0248 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 8, 2021
From: SUGAYA, JUNICHI; SHINOMIYA, TAKUYA; TASHITA, TAKAMITSU; MIZUKOSHI, FUMIKAZU; GEJO, TSUKASA
To: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 055515/0833 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-114169 · Jun 15, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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