Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120115035 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NET-LIKE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, ELECTRODE USING THE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY USING THE ELECTRODE, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE CAPACITOR USING THE ELECTRODE - Provided are a three-dimensional net-like aluminum porous body in which the diameter of cells in the porous body is uneven in the thickness direction of the porous body; a current collector and an electrode each using the aluminum porous body; and methods for producing these members. The porous body is a three-dimensional net-like aluminum porous body in a sheet form, for a current collector, in which the diameter of cells in the porous body is uneven in the thickness direction of the porous body. When a cross section in the thickness direction of the three-dimensional net-like aluminum porous body is divided into three regions of a region 1, a region 2 and a region 3 in this order, the average cell diameter of the regions 1 and 3 is preferably different from the cell diameter of the region 2. | 05-10-2012 |
20120263993 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE - Provided is an electrochemical device which is easy to produce and which has excellent characteristics. An electrochemical device includes a first electrode including an aluminum porous body having interconnecting pores and an active material filled into the pores of the aluminum porous body, a separator, and a second electrode, the first electrode, the separator, and the second electrode being stacked, in which a plurality of electrode bodies each including the first electrode, the separator, and the second electrode are stacked without being wound. | 10-18-2012 |
20120264022 | ELECTRODE FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is electrochemical device, such as a nonaqueous electrolyte battery, which has excellent discharge characteristics and the like by forming a thick electrode using a metal porous body, such as an aluminum porous body, as a current collector. An electrode for an electrochemical device includes a metal porous body filled with an active material, in which the metal porous body is sheet-like and is a stacked porous body in which a plurality of single-layer metal porous bodies are stacked and electrically connected to each other. The metal porous body may be an aluminum porous body having a three-dimensional network structure. | 10-18-2012 |
20120288757 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK ALUMINUM POROUS BODY FOR CURRENT COLLECTOR, ELECTRODE USING THE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY, CAPACITOR AND LITHIUM-ION CAPACITOR - It is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector which is suitably used for electrodes for nonaqueous electrolyte batteries and electrodes for capacitors, an electrode and a capacitor each using the same. The three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector of the present invention is a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector used for electrodes, and the aluminum porous body has been made to have an average cell diameter of 50 μm or more and 1000 μm or less in order to enhance the filling performance of an active material slurry. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288758 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK ALUMINUM POROUS BODY FOR CURRENT COLLECTOR, ELECTRODE USING THE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, AND BATTERY, CAPACITOR AND LITHIUM-ION CAPACITOR EACH USING THE ELECTRODE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector which is suitably used for electrodes for nonaqueous electrolyte batteries and electrodes for capacitors, an electrode and a capacitor each using the same. In such a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector, the aluminum porous body has been made to have a compressive strength in a thickness direction of 0.2 MPa or more in order to efficiently fill an active material into the sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body. | 11-15-2012 |
20120292191 | METHOD OF PRODUCING ALUMINUM STRUCTURE AND ALUMINUM STRUCTURE - A surface of a porous resin body having a three-dimensional network structure can be plated with aluminum at a uniform thickness and thus a high-purity aluminum structure is formed. A method for producing an aluminum structure includes a step of plating a resin porous body, which has a three-dimensional network structure and has a surface that has been made electrically conductive, with aluminum in a molten-salt bath, in which the molten salt is a salt mixture of aluminum chloride and an organic salt and plating is conducted while controlling the temperature of the molten-salt bath to be 45° C. or higher and 100° C. or lower. Preferably, the molten-salt bath further contains 1,10-phenanthroline at a concentration of 0.25 g/l or more and 7 g/l or less. | 11-22-2012 |
20120295169 | AIR BATTERY AND ELECTRODE - Provided is a structure for effectively utilizing a novel metal porous body, such as an aluminum porous body, having a three-dimensional network structure as a battery electrode. | 11-22-2012 |
20120308886 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK ALUMINUM POROUS BODY FOR CURRENT COLLECTOR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides an electrode current collector for a secondary battery or the like, wherein a compressed part for attaching a tab lead to an end part of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body to be used as an electrode current collector of a secondary battery, a capacitor using a nonaqueous electrolytic solution or the like is formed, and a method for producing the same. That is, the present invention provides a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector having a compressed part compressed in a thickness direction for connecting a tab lead to its end part, wherein the compressed part is formed at a central part in the thickness direction of the aluminum porous body. | 12-06-2012 |
20120312692 | ALUMINUM POROUS BODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is a method for readily removing urethane resin without causing oxidation of aluminum, from an aluminum structure in which an aluminum film is formed on the surface of a urethane resin porous body having a three-dimensional network structure: a method for producing an aluminum porous body, including forming an aluminum film having a purity of 99.9% by mass or more on a surface of a urethane resin porous body having a three-dimensional network structure to provide an aluminum structure including the urethane resin porous body and the aluminum film, and subjecting the aluminum structure to a heat treatment at 370° C. or more and less than 660° C. in the air to remove urethane resin and to provide an aluminum porous body. | 12-13-2012 |
20120315540 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK ALUMINUM POROUS BODY FOR CURRENT COLLECTOR, ELECTRODE USING THE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION CAPACITOR AND LITHIUM-ION CAPACITOR EACH USING THE ELECTRODE - It is an object of the present invention to provide an aluminum porous body for a current collector in which electric resistivity is reduced to enhance current collecting performance, and an electrode, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery, a capacitor and a lithium-ion capacitor each using the aluminum porous body for a current collector. Such a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body of the present invention is a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector including an electric resistivity in an in-plane direction and in a thickness direction of 0.5 mΩcm or less. An electrode can be configured by using the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector, and further a nonaqueous electrolyte battery, a capacitor and a lithium-ion capacitor can be configured by using the electrode. | 12-13-2012 |
20120328941 | CURRENT COLLECTOR USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, ELECTRODE USING THE CURRENT COLLECTOR, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY, CAPACITOR AND LITHIUM-ION CAPACITOR WITH NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION, EACH USING THE ELECTRODE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE ELECTRODE - It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrode using a current collector made of an aluminum porous body which is suitably used for an electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte battery and an electrode for a capacitor, and a method for producing the electrode. In the current collector of the present invention, a strip-shaped compressed part compressed in a thickness direction is formed at one end part of a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body and a tab lead is bonded to the compressed part by welding. The width of the compressed part is 2 to 10 mm. Further, the electrode is formed by filling the current collector with an active material. | 12-27-2012 |
20120328957 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, ELECTRODE USING THE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY, CAPACITOR AND LITHIUM-ION CAPACITOR WITH NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION, EACH USING THE ELECTRODE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body which enables to produce an electrode continuously, an electrode using the aluminum porous body, and a method for producing the electrode. The present invention provides a long sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body to be used as a base material in a method for producing an electrode including at least winding off, a thickness adjustment step, a lead welding step, an active material filling step, a drying step, a compressing step, a cutting step and winding-up, wherein the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body has a tensile strength of 0.2 MPa or more and 5 MPa or less. | 12-27-2012 |
20130008217 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRODE FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL ELEMENT - It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for producing an electrode for an electrochemical element, which can easily adjust a capacity and can produce the electrochemical element at low cost. The method for producing an electrode for an electrochemical element of the present invention includes a thickness adjustment step of compressing an aluminum porous body having continuous pores to adjust the thickness of the aluminum porous body to a predetermined thickness, and a filling step of filling the aluminum porous body, the thickness of which is adjusted, with an active material. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010401 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, ELECTRODE USING THE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY, CAPACITOR USING NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION AND LITHIUM-ION CAPACITOR USING NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION, EACH USING THE ELECTRODE - A three-dimensional network aluminum porous body in which the amount of aluminum forming a skeleton of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body is uneven in the thickness direction, and a current collector and an electrode each using the aluminum porous body, and a manufacturing method thereof. In such a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector, the amount of aluminum forming a skeleton of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body is uneven in the thickness direction. For example, in the case where a cross section in the thickness direction of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body is divided into three regions of a region | 01-10-2013 |
20130040195 | ELECTRODE USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY, CAPACITOR AND LITHIUM-ION CAPACITOR WITH NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION, EACH USING THE ELECTRODE - In an electrode according to the present invention including a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body as a base material, the electrode is a sheet-shaped electrode, and a cell of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body has an elliptic shape having a minor axis in the thickness direction of the electrode in a cross section parallel to the longitudinal direction and thickness direction of the electrode, and a cell of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body has an elliptic shape having a minor axis in the thickness direction of the electrode in a cross section parallel to the width direction and thickness direction of the electrode. The electrode is preferably obtained by subjecting the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body to at least a current collecting lead welding step, an active material filling step and a compressing step. | 02-14-2013 |
20130045425 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, CURRENT COLLECTOR AND ELECTRODE EACH USING THE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY, CAPACITOR AND LITHIUM-ION CAPACITOR WITH NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION, EACH USING THE ELECTRODE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body which can be used for a process continuously producing an electrode and enables to produce a current collector having small electric resistance in the current collecting direction, and an electrode using the aluminum porous body, and a production method thereof. In a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector, when one of two directions orthogonal to each other is taken as an X-direction and the other is taken as a Y-direction, a cell diameter in the X-direction of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body differs from a cell diameter in the Y-direction thereof. | 02-21-2013 |
20130288123 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK ALUMINUM POROUS BODY FOR CURRENT COLLECTOR, ELECTRODE USING THE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, AND BATTERY, CAPACITOR AND LITHIUM-ION CAPACITOR EACH USING THE ELECTRODE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector which is suitably used for electrodes for nonaqueous electrolyte batteries and electrodes for capacitors, an electrode and a capacitor each using the same. In such a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector, the aluminum porous body has been made to have a compressive strength in a thickness direction of 0.2 MPa or more in order to efficiently fill an active material into the sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body. | 10-31-2013 |
20140234720 | ELECTRODE MATERIAL; AND BATTERY, NONAQUEOUS-ELECTROLYTE BATTERY, AND CAPACITOR ALL INCORPORATING THE MATERIAL - The invention offers an electrode material that can accomplish both high capacity and high output and a battery, a nonaqueous-electrolyte battery, and a capacitor all incorporating the electrode material. The electrode material has a sheet-shaped aluminum porous body carrying an active material. The above-described aluminum porous body has a skeleton structure that is formed of an aluminum layer and that has a vacant space at the interior. When observed by performing cutting in a direction parallel to the direction of thickness of the sheet, the above-described vacant space in the skeleton structure has an average area of 500 μm | 08-21-2014 |
20140346050 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ALUMINUM FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ALUMINUM FOIL - A method for producing an aluminum film by electrodepositing aluminum on a base in an electrolytic cell to which a liquid electrolyte containing a molten salt is fed includes adjusting a concentration of an additive in such a manner that a measured value of an overvoltage is within a predetermined range on the basis of a predetermined relationship between the overvoltage and the concentration of the additive added to the molten salt upon electrodepositing aluminum in the liquid electrolyte. | 11-27-2014 |