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US 12,476,251 · App. 17/641,322 · Granted Nov 18, 2025

Globular carbon-based anode active material, method for manufacturing same, and anode and lithium secondary battery comprising same

Inventors: Hyun-Chul Kim (Daejeon, KR); Sang-Wook Woo (Daejeon, KR); Dong-Sub Jung (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
H01M4/587H01M4/0404H01M10/052H01M2004/021H01M2004/027
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Patent No.
US 12,476,251
App. No.
17/641,322
Granted
Nov 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for preparing a spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material, including the steps of: mixing microgranular scaly graphite with macrogranular scaly graphite, wherein the macrogranular scaly graphite has a larger average particle diameter than the microgranular scaly graphite, to form a mixture, and spheronizing the mixture to prepare spheronized granulated particles; carrying out carbon coating of the spheronized granulated particles; and disintegrating the carbon-coated spheronized granulated particles.

Claims (16)

1 . A spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material having a specific surface area of 1.5 m 2 /g to 2.8 m 2 /g and a total pore volume of 1.0e −2 cm 3 /g to 1.8e −2 cm 3 /g,

wherein pores having a size of 24 nm or more in the negative electrode active material have a specific surface area of 0.1 m 2 /g to 0.8 m 2 /g.

2 . The spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein the specific surface area of the negative electrode active material is 1.8 m 2 /g to 2.5 m 2 /g.

3 . The spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein the total pore volume of the negative electrode active material is 1.19e −2 cm 3 /g to 1.57e −2 cm 3 /g.

4 . The spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein the pores having the size of 24 nm or more in the negative electrode active material have a specific surface area of 0.3 m 2 /g to 0.7 m 2 /g.

5 . The spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material according to claim 4 , having wherein the negative electrode active material has an average particle diameter of 10 μm to 20 μm.

6 . The spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material according to claim 4 , having wherein the negative electrode active material has a sphericity of 0.82 to 0.98.

7 . A negative electrode, comprising:

a current collector; and

a negative electrode active material layer on at least one surface of the current collector,

wherein the negative electrode active material layer comprises the spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material as defined in claim 1 .

8 . A lithium secondary battery comprising the negative electrode as defined in claim 7 .

9 . The spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein the total pore volume of the negative electrode active material is 1.0e −2 cm 3 /g to 1.57e −2 cm 3 /g.

10 . A method for preparing the spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material according to claim 1 , comprising the steps of: mixing microgranular scaly graphite with macrogranular scaly graphite, wherein the macrogranular scaly graphite has a larger average particle diameter than the microgranular scaly graphite, to form a mixture, and spheronizing the mixture to prepare spheronized granulated particles; carrying out carbon coating of the spheronized granulated particles; and disintegrating the carbon-coated spheronized granulated particles.

11 . The method for preparing the spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material according to claim 10 , wherein the microgranular scaly graphite has an average particle diameter of 20 μm to 50 μm, and the macrogranular scaly graphite has an average particle diameter of 50 μm to 100 μm.

12 . The method for preparing the spheronized carbonaceous negative electrode active material according to claim 10 , wherein the macrogranular scaly graphite and the microgranular scaly graphite are present at a weight ratio of 70:30 to 40:60.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 9, 2022
From: KIM, HYUN-CHUL; WOO, SANG-WOOK; JUNG, DONG-SUB
To: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
Reel/Frame 059213/0781 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2019-0123397 · Oct 4, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220344660A1 · Oct 27, 2022
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