LITHIUM-ION RECHARGEABLE BATTERY
A lithium-ion rechargeable battery includes an electrode body including a stack of a cathode plate having a cathode mixture layer, an anode plate having an anode mixture layer, and a separator arranged between the anode plate and the cathode plate. A porosity PP of the cathode mixture layer and a porosity NP of the anode mixture layer are set to be greater than a porosity SP of the separator.
1 . A lithium-ion rechargeable battery, comprising:
an electrode body including a stack of a cathode plate having a cathode mixture layer, an anode plate having an anode mixture layer, and a separator arranged between the anode plate and the cathode plate,
wherein a porosity PP of the cathode mixture layer and a porosity NP of the anode mixture layer are set to be greater than a porosity SP of the separator.
2 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 1 , wherein
a difference PPD is a difference between the porosity PP of the cathode mixture layer and the porosity SP of the separator,
a difference NPD is a difference between the porosity NP of the anode mixture layer and the porosity SP of the separator, and
a difference ΔP, which is a difference between the difference PPD and the difference NPD, is 4% or less.
3 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 2 , wherein the difference PPD is 2.00% to 6.59%.
4 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 2 , wherein the difference NPD is 3.96% to 7.86%.
5 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 1 , wherein the porosity SP of the separator is 42.15% or less.
6 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 5 , wherein the porosity SP of the separator is 39.54% or greater.
7 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 1 , wherein the porosity PP of the cathode mixture layer is 44.16% or greater.
8 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 7 , wherein the porosity PP of the cathode mixture layer is 48.61% or less.
9 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 1 , wherein the porosity NP of the anode mixture layer is 45.38% or greater.
10 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 9 , wherein the porosity NP of the anode mixture layer is 49.88% or less.
11 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 1 , wherein the cathode mixture layer has a density of 2.9 g/cm 3 or less.
12 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 11 , wherein the density of the cathode mixture layer is 2.2 g/cm 3 or greater.
13 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anode mixture layer has a density of 1.2 g/cm 3 or less.
14 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 13 , wherein the density of the anode mixture layer is 0.9 g/cm 3 or greater.
15 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 1 , wherein
a load cell presses the lithium-ion rechargeable battery with a load of 9.8 kN in a thickness direction of the lithium-ion rechargeable battery and the load is then changed to 4.5 kN,
a displacement amount in this state is represented by D mm,
the load of the load cell when the load cell is held in place and the lithium-ion rechargeable battery is left standing for 600 seconds is represented by L kN, and
when a spring constant of the lithium-ion rechargeable battery represented by C kN/mm is set to be C=(9.8-L)/D, C≤95.38 kN/mm is satisfied.
16 . The lithium-ion rechargeable battery according to claim 15 , wherein the spring constant C satisfies C≥84.96 kN/mm.