IP Library Granted Patent US 12,199,242
Granted Patent B2
US 12,199,242 · App. 17/822,079 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

Electrolyte solution, secondary battery, battery module, battery pack and electric device

Inventors: Zeli Wu (Ningde, CN); Changlong Han (Ningde, CN)
Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
H01M10/0567H01M4/505H01M4/525H01M10/0569H01M2004/021H01M2004/028H01M10/0525H01M2220/20H01M2300/0025
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Patent No.
US 12,199,242
App. No.
17/822,079
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Various embodiments provide an electrolyte solution, a secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack and an electric device. In those embodiments, the electrolyte solution includes an electrolyte, a solvent and an additive, the additive including sodium hydrosulfite. Various embodiments improve an overall performance of the secondary battery, for example, initial DCR, storage gas production, a rate performance, or the like.

Claims (20)

1. A secondary battery comprising a positive plate, a negative plate, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, wherein the positive plate comprises a positive material, and the positive material comprises a high-nickel ternary positive active substance, the high-nickel ternary positive active substance has a chemical structural formula (1):

Li 1+y Ni a Co b Me 1-a-b O 2-z A z   formula (1), where

0.1≤y≤0.2, 0.5<a<0.9, 0<b<0.5, 0.5<a+b<1, and 0≤z≤0.2;

Me is one or more selected from Mn, Fe, Cr, Ti, Zn, V, Al, Zr and Ce; and

A is one or more selected from S, N, F, Cl, Br and I,

the non-aqueous electrolyte solution comprises an electrolyte, a solvent and an additive, the additive comprises sodium hydrosulfite, wherein the sodium hydrosulfite has a mass percentage greater than 0.1% and less than or equal to 0.5% in the non-aqueous electrolyte solution.

2. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein

the sodium hydrosulfite has a mass percentage of 0.2%-0.4% in the electrolyte solution.

3. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the additive further comprises one or a combination of more of 1,3-propane sultone, fluoroethylene carbonate and ethylene sulfate.

4. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the additive has a total mass percentage greater than 0.1% and less than or equal to 5% in the electrolyte solution.

5. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the electrolyte has a molar concentration of 0.8 mol/L-1.2 mol/L in the non-aqueous electrolyte solution.

6. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the solvent comprises one or a combination of more of chain ester and cyclic ester.

7. The secondary battery according to claim 6 , wherein the chain ester comprises one or a combination of more of dimethyl carbonate, diethyl carbonate, ethyl methyl carbonate, methyl propyl carbonate, methyl formate, ethyl formate, methyl acetate, ethyl acetate, propyl propionate, ethyl butyrate, ethyl propionate and propyl butyrate; and/or

the cyclic ester comprises one or a combination of more of ethylene carbonate, propylene carbonate, butylene carbonate, y-butyrolactone and tetrahydrofuran.

8. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein Ni element has a mass percentage greater than or equal to 80% in the high-nickel ternary positive active substance.

9. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the positive material has a specific surface area BET ranging from 0.15 m 2 /g to 0.75 m 2 /g.

10. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the negative plate comprises a negative material, and the negative material comprises one or a combination of more of natural graphite, artificial graphite, mesophase carbon micro beads, hard carbon, soft carbon, an oxide of silicon, a silicon-carbon composite, a Li—Sn alloy, a Li—Sn—O alloy, Sn, SnO, SnO 2 , a lithium compound of a spinel structure and a Li—Al alloy.

11. The secondary battery according to claim 10 , wherein the negative material has a specific surface area BET ranging from 0.8 m 2 /g to 1.5 m 2 /g.

12. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the secondary battery has an upper use limit voltage greater than or equal to 4.15V.

13. A battery module, comprising the secondary battery according to claim 1 .

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 6, 2024
From: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
To: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
Reel/Frame 068338/0402 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 24, 2022
From: WU, ZELI; HAN, CHANGLONG
To: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
Reel/Frame 060892/0411 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2021107669 · Jul 21, 2021
Related Publication 20230043895A1 · Feb 9, 2023
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