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Kenichi Kawase, Fukushima JP

Kenichi Kawase, Fukushima JP

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20080206651ANODE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING IT, AND BATTERY - A battery having a high charge and discharge efficiency is provided. An anode being provided with an anode active material layer on an anode current collector, in which the anode active material layer contains silicon as an anode active material and includes a compound film having Si—O bond and Si—N bond on at least part of the surface of the anode active material layer.08-28-2008
20080220337BATTERY - There is provided a battery including a positive electrode that includes an active material layer formed on a positive electrode current collector; a negative electrode that includes active material layers formed on first and second principal planes of a negative electrode current collector and the active material layer on the second principal plane has an alloyed region smaller than an alloyed region the active material layer has on the first principal plane between the second principal plane and the current collector; and an electrolyte.09-11-2008
20080220338ELECTRODE CURRENT COLLECTOR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, ELECTRODE FOR BATTERY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A current collector forming an electrode for battery is provided. The electrode current collector includes a conductive layer made of copper or a copper alloy. Furthermore, the conductive layer has a plurality of crystallites, the crystallites containing crystallites having a cross-section area of 20 μm09-11-2008
20080233478ANODE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING IT, BATTERY, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING IT - A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics and the swollenness characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The node has an anode current collector and an anode active material layer provided thereon, and the anode active material layer contains a plurality of anode active material particles having silicon, and a metal material having a metal element not being alloyed with an electrode reactant in a gap between the anode active material particles.09-25-2008
20080280201NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR USE WITH SECONDARY BATTERY AND SECONDARY BATTERY USING SUCH NEGATIVE ELECTRODE - A negative electrode for a secondary battery includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer provided in the negative electrode current collector and which is alloyed with the negative electrode current collector at least at a part of an boundary face between it and the negative electrode current collector, wherein the negative electrode current collector has a first surface on which the negative electrode active material layer is formed and a second surface on which the negative electrode active material layer is not formed, the negative electrode having a portion in which the second surfaces of the negative electrode current collector are opposed to each other.11-13-2008
20080305391ANODE AND BATTERY - A battery capable of improving cycle characteristics and a manufacturing yield is provided. An anode includes: an anode current collector; and an anode active material layer arranged on the anode current collector, in which the anode active material layer includes an anode active material including a plurality of pores, and the rate of change in the amount of mercury intruded into the plurality of pores is distributed so as to have a peak in a diameter range from 80 nm to 1200 nm both inclusive, the amount of mercury intruded being measured by mercury porosimetry.12-11-2008
20080305395ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A battery capable of improving cycle characteristics is provided. An anode includes: an anode current collector, and an anode active material layer arranged on the anode current collector, in which the anode active material layer includes an anode active material including silicon (Si), and including a pore group with a diameter ranging from 3 nm to 50 nm both inclusive, and the volumetric capacity per unit weight of silicon of the pore group with a diameter ranging from 3 nm to 50 nm both inclusive is 0.2 cm12-11-2008
20090004568ANODE AND BATTERY - A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode and an electrolytic solution. The anode has an anode current collector, an anode active material layer provided on the anode current collector, and a coat provided on the anode active material layer, in which the coat contains a fluorine resin having an ether bond.01-01-2009
20090035651ANODE AND BATTERY - A battery capable of improving cycle characteristics is provided. An anode includes: an anode active material layer including an anode active material on an anode current collector, the anode active material including silicon (Si) and having a plurality of pores, in which after electrode reaction, the volumetric capacity of a pore group with a diameter ranging from 3 nm to 200 nm both inclusive per unit weight of silicon is 0.3 cm02-05-2009
20090061079EVAPORATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ANODE USING SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BATTERY USING SAME - An evaporation apparatus that is capable of stably forming a good quality thin film and is highly suitable for mass production is provided. The evaporation apparatus include an evaporation source discharging an evaporation material by heating, a retention member retaining an evaporation object, and a heat shield member that is located between the evaporation source and the evaporation object retained by the retention member, has an opening for passing the evaporation material in a state of vapor phase from the evaporation source to the evaporation object, and shields the evaporation object from part of radiation heat of the evaporation source. The heat shield member is located closer to the evaporation source than to the retention member.03-05-2009
20090061326CURRENT COLLECTOR, ANODE, AND BATTREY - A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics is provided. A current collector containing copper (Cu), in which ratio I(200)/I(111) between intensity I (200) of a peak originated in (200) crystal plane of copper obtained by X-ray diffraction and intensity I (111) of a peak originated in (111) crystal plane thereof is in the range from 0.5 to 1.5.03-05-2009
20090068567ANODE FOR SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING IT, AND SECONDARY BATTERY - An anode for secondary battery is provided with an anode active material layer containing silicon on an anode current collector. Silicon in the anode active material has an amorphous structure. In a Raman spectrum of silicon having the amorphous structure after an initial charge and discharge, 0.25≦LA/TO and/or 45≦LO/TO is satisfied, where an intensity of a scattering peak occurred in the vicinity of shift position 480 cm03-12-2009
20090092892ANODE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND BATTERY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An anode capable of improving charge-discharge efficiency, and a method of manufacturing the anode, and a battery using the anode are provided. An anode 04-09-2009
20090098458ANODE AND BATTERY - A battery capable of obtaining superior cycle characteristics and safety is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is impregnated in a separator provided between the cathode and the anode. The anode has an insulative coat on an anode active material layer provided on an anode current collector. The coat contains an insulating material such as a meal hydroxide and a metal oxide. The coat is in a form of plate divided into a plurality of portions. The insulation property of the coat prevents internal short circuit. A plurality of portions of the coat prevent separation of the anode active material layer and decomposition of the electrolytic solution. Further, even when short circuit occurs, heat generation is prevented by heat absorption characteristics of the coat.04-16-2009
20090111019ANODE AND BATTERY - A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is impregnated in a separator provided between the cathode and the anode. The anode has a coat on an anode active material layer provided on an anode current collector. The coat contains a fluorine resin. A terminal of the fluorine resin is a hydroxyl group or the like capable of being fixed (for example, being absorbed or bound) on the surface of the anode active material layer (anode active material).04-30-2009
20090111031ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL, ANODE, AND BATTERY - A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The anode has an anode active material layer that contains an anode active material containing silicon on an anode current collector, and intensity ratio I04-30-2009
20090123839POSITIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY - A positive electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes a positive-electrode mixture layer, which includes a positive-electrode active material containing lithium composite oxide, a conductive material, and a binder, and a current collector. The positive-electrode mixture layer contains a compound including sulfur and/or phosphorous, a first polymer serving as a main binder, and a second polymer different from the first polymer.05-14-2009
20090123851POSITIVE-ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, POSITIVE ELECTRODE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY - A positive-electrode active material for a lithium-ion secondary battery has an average composition expressed by the following formula (1):05-14-2009
20090148778ANODE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING IT, AND BATTERY - A battery having a high charge and discharge efficiency in which a spirally wound electrode body having a lamination structure of a cathode, an anode 06-11-2009
20090246628ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery capable of improving cycle characteristics is provided. An anode includes: an anode active material layer on an anode current collector, the anode active material layer including a plurality of anode active material particles, in which the average particle area of the plurality of anode active material particles observed from a surface of the anode active material layer is within a range of 1 μm10-01-2009
20090253033ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics and the swollenness characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The anode includes an anode active material layer having a plurality of fine pores on an anode current collector. The anode active material layer contains an anode active material and an anode binder. A change rate of a mercury intrusion into the plurality of fine pores measured by mercury penetration technique is distributed to show a peak in the pore diameter range from 30 nm to 10000 nm, both inclusive.10-08-2009
20090269677ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is impregnated in a separator provided between the cathode and the anode. The anode has an anode structure on an anode current collector. The anode structure has a structure in which a plurality of anode active material particles having silicon are held by a plurality of metal fibers forming a three-dimensional network structure. Due to the plurality of metal fibers, sufficient conductive paths are obtained among the plurality of anode active material particles. Thus, compared to a general anode in which an active material layer is provided on a current collector made of a metal foil or the like, the current collectivity is improved.10-29-2009
20090291371ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME - A secondary battery having high cycle characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte. In the anode, an anode active material layer containing silicon, carbon, and oxygen as an anode active material is provided on an anode current collector. In the anode active material, a content of carbon is from 0.2 atomic % to 10 atomic % both inclusive, and a content of oxygen is from 0.5 atomic % to 40 atomic % both inclusive. A ratio from 0.1% to 17.29% both inclusive of the silicon contained in the anode active material exists as Si—C bond.11-26-2009
20090311608ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics and the voltage retention characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte. The anode includes an anode current collector, an anode active material layer formed on the anode current collector and including an anode active material containing silicon as an element, and a coat formed on the anode active material layer and having an integral structure of three-dimensional network.12-17-2009
20090317726ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics and the initial charge and discharge characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The anode has an anode active material layer on an anode current collector. The anode active material layer contains a crystalline anode active material having silicon as an element, and is linked to the anode current collector.12-24-2009
20100092856ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics and the initial charge and discharge characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The anode has an anode active material layer on an anode current collector. The anode active material layer contains a crystalline anode active material having silicon as an element, and is linked to the anode current collector.04-15-2010
20100099018SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery capable of improving cycle characteristics, initial charge and discharge characteristics, and swollenness characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is impregnated in a separator provided between the cathode and the anode. A cathode active material layer of the cathode contains a lithium-nickel based composite oxide (LiNi1-xMxO2) as a cathode active material capable of inserting and extracting lithium ions. An anode active material layer of the anode contains a material having silicon as an element as an anode active material capable of inserting and extracting lithium ions. The usage ratio in the fully charged state of the anode is set from 20% to 70% both inclusive, and the thickness in discharged state in the initial charge and discharge of the anode active material layer is 40 μm or less04-22-2010
20100104951ANODE CURRENT COLLECTOR, ANODE, AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery that has superior safety and is able to provide more favorable cycle characteristics is provided. A laminated body in which a cathode and an anode are layered with a separator impregnated with an electrolytic solution in between is contained in a package can and a package cup. In the anode, an anode active material layer containing an anode active material such as silicon is provided on an anode current collector in which projection sections are formed on a base material. The base material contains carbon and sulfur respectively having a content ratio of 100 ppm or less, and contains crystallites having an average diameter of from 0.01 μm to 5 μm both inclusive.04-29-2010
20100124706SECONDARY BATTERY AND ANODE - A secondary battery capable of obtaining superior cycle characteristics and superior swollenness characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is impregnated in a separator provided between the cathode and the anode. An anode active material layer contains a crystalline anode active material having silicon as an element. The anode active material layer has a coating section where the surface of an anode current collector is coated with the anode active material and a non-coating section where the surface of the anode current collector is not coated with the anode active material but is exposed. Thereby, the physical property of the anode active material is hardly deteriorated with age. Further, at the time of charge and discharge, the anode active material layer is hardly expanded and shrunk, and thus the anode current collector is hardly deformed.05-20-2010
20100124707SECONDARY BATTERY AND ANODE - A secondary battery capable of obtaining superior cycle characteristics and superior swollenness characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode and an anode capable of inserting and extracting an electrode reactant; and an electrolyte containing a solvent and an electrolyte salt. The anode has an anode active material layer on an anode current collector. The anode active material layer contains a plurality of crystalline anode active material particles having silicon (Si) as an element. The plurality of anode active material particles contain a spherical particle and a nonspherical particle.05-20-2010
20100159337ANODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A secondary battery is provided that is capable of improving the cycle characteristics. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is impregnated into a separator provided between the cathode and the anode. In the anode, an anode active material layer and a compound layer are provided on both faces of an anode current collector. The anode active material layer contains a plurality of anode active material particles. The anode active material particles have a multilayer structure of an anode active material containing silicon as an element. The thickness of each layer in the multilayer structure ranges from 50 nm to 1050 nm. Thus, contact characteristics between each layer, contact characteristics between the anode active material layer and the anode current collector, and current collectivity are improved.06-24-2010
20100190062NEGATIVE ELECTRODE AND SECONDARY BATTERY - A negative electrode includes a negative electrode collector and a negative electrode active material layer on the collector. The layer contains a negative electrode active material capable of occluding and releasing lithium. The material in a fully charged state satisfies a conditional expression (1) in 07-29-2010
20100233534RECHARGEABLE BATTERY, ANODE, AND CURRENT COLLECTOR - A rechargeable battery including a cathode and an anode each capable of inserting and extracting an electrode reaction material, and including an electrolyte, in which the anode includes an anode current collector which is formed by including a current collector body. The anode current collector is provided thereon with an active anode material layer, and a plurality of conductive particles disposed on the surface of the current collector body with the surface facing the active anode material layer. The plurality of conductive particles is formed to include spherical particles and plate-like particles. Since a tridimensional structure having irregularities is formed on the surface of the current collector body with the spherical particles and plate-like particles, anchoring effects are greatly increased. As a result, the adhesion of the active anode material layer to the anode current collector is considerably improved.09-16-2010
20110086269ANODE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND BATTERY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An anode in which an anode active material layer is arranged on an anode current collector. The anode active material layer includes anode active material particles made of an anode active material including at least one of silicon and tin as an element. An oxide-containing film including an oxide of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium and tin is formed in a region in contact with an electrolytic solution of the surface of each anode active material particle by a liquid-phase method such as a liquid-phase deposition method. The region in contact with the electrolytic solution of the surface of each anode active material particle is covered with the oxide-containing film, to thereby improve the chemical stability of the anode and the charge-discharge efficiency. The thickness of the oxide-containing film is preferably within a range from 0.1 nm to 500 nm both inclusive.04-14-2011
20110136008LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, ANODE FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, POWER TOOL, ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM - A lithium-ion secondary battery allowed to improve cycle characteristics and initial charge-discharge characteristics is provided. The lithium-ion secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode including an anode active material layer; and an electrolytic solution. The anode active material layer includes an anode active material and an inorganic compound, and the inorganic compound includes one or both of an alkoxysilane compound and a hydrolysate thereof.06-09-2011
20110143201BATTERY - A battery with more superior reliability is provided. The battery includes: a battery element in which a cathode having a cathode active material layer on a strip-shaped cathode current collector and an anode having an anode active material layer on a strip-shaped anode current collector are layered with a separator in between, wherein the anode active material layer is provided to occupy a first region that is overlapped with a cathode active material layer formation region in which the cathode active material layer is provided on the cathode current collector and a peripheral region thereof in the anode, and out of a second region adjacent to the first region in the longitudinal direction in the anode, a width of a third region in which the anode active material layer is not formed and the anode current collector is exposed is smaller than a width of the first region.06-16-2011
20110151326ANODE AND BATTERY - An anode capable of relaxing the stress concentration and improving the characteristics and a battery using it are provided. The anode includes an anode current collector and an anode active material layer containing silicon (Si) as an element, wherein the anode active material layer has a metal element increasing and decreasing region in which a metal element is contained as an element, and a concentration of the metal element is increased and then decreased in a thickness direction.06-23-2011
20110159368LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, ANODE FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, POWER TOOL, ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM - A lithium-ion secondary battery allowed to improve cycle characteristics and initial charge-discharge characteristics is provided. The lithium-ion secondary battery includes a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The anode includes an anode active material layer including a plurality of anode active material particles. The anode active material particles each include a core section and a coating section applied to a part or a whole of a surface of the core section, and the core section includes a silicon-based material (SiO06-30-2011

Patent applications by Kenichi Kawase, Fukushima JP