IP Library Granted Patent US 9,786,921
Granted Patent B2
US 9,786,921 · App. 14/377,107 · Granted Oct 10, 2017

Secondary battery, manufacturing method of secondary battery, electrode for secondary battery, and electronic device

Inventors: Tatsuya Furuya (Kanagawa, JP); Yuri Nakayama (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
H01M4/78H01M4/13H01M4/366H01M4/624H01M10/0525H01M10/0562H01M2004/025H01M2220/20H01M2220/30Y02T10/7011
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Patent No.
US 9,786,921
App. No.
14/377,107
Granted
Oct 10, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode contains a granular solid electrolyte and a granular conduction aid both bonded to a surface of a granular electrode active substance.

Claims (25)

1. A secondary battery, comprising:

a positive electrode comprising a first aggregate of positive electrode particles;

a negative electrode comprising a second aggregate of negative electrode particles; and

a solid electrolyte layer between the first aggregate of the positive electrode particles and the second aggregate of the negative electrode particles, wherein the solid electrolyte layer is in contact with a portion of the first aggregate of the positive electrode particles and in contact with a portion of the second aggregate of the negative electrode particles,

wherein each of the positive electrode particles and the negative electrode particles contains a granular electrode active substance and a mixed conductive layer, and

wherein the mixed conductive layer includes a mixture of a granular solid electrolyte and a granular conduction aid, and the mixed conductive layer is on a surface of the granular electrode active substance.

2. The secondary battery according to claim 1 ,

wherein the granular solid electrolyte and the granular conduction aid are bonded to the surface of the granular electrode active substance to cover at least a portion of the surface of the granular electrode active substance.

3. The secondary battery according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first aggregate of the positive electrode particles includes a first positive electrode particle and at least one second positive electrode particle,

wherein a first mixed conductive layer of the first positive electrode particle is in contact with a second mixed conductive layer of the at least one second positive electrode particle.

4. The secondary battery according to claim 3 ,

wherein the mixed conductive layer that includes the mixture of the granular solid electrolyte and the granular conduction aid is present in at least a portion of a space between neighboring electrode particles of the first aggregate of the positive electrode particles.

5. The secondary battery according to claim 1 ,

wherein each of the granular solid electrolyte and the granular conduction aid has a particle size of less than a particle size of the granular electrode active substance.

6. The secondary battery according to claim 1 ,

wherein the granular conduction aid includes at least one selected from the group consisting of metal, carbon, and a conductive polymer.

7. The secondary battery according to claim 1 ,

wherein the solid electrolyte layer includes at least one selected from the group consisting of an oxide, a phosphoric acid-based compound, a germanic acid-based compound, a sulfide, and a nitride.

8. The secondary battery according to claim 1 ,

wherein the granular electrode active substance includes a substance containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of C, Li, Mg, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, B, Al, Ti, Si, Ge, Sn, Bi, and W.

9. The secondary battery according to claim 1 ,

wherein the positive electrode particles or the negative electrode particles contains the granular solid electrolyte at a ratio of greater than or equal to 3% by weight and less than or equal to 15% by weight.

10. The secondary battery according to claim 1 ,

wherein the mixed conductive layer is configured to cover the surface of the granular electrode active substance with a coverage of greater than or equal to 90% of the surface of the granular electrode active substance.

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 Aug 8, 2014
From: FURUYA, TATSUYA; NAKAYAMA, YURI
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 033501/0601 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-032279 · Feb 17, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
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