Abstract:
An IC card includes at least one plastic layer, a battery and at least one electronic device embedded in the plastic layer. The battery is electrically connected to the electronic device for providing power to the device. The battery includes an anode, a cathode, and at least one polymer matrix electrolyte (PME) separator disposed between the anode and the cathode. The PME separator includes a polyimide, at least one lithium salt and at least one solvent all intermixed. The PME is substantially optically clear and stable against high temperature and pressure, such as processing conditions typically used in hot lamination processing or injection molding.
Abstract:
This invention relates to an electrochemical cell comprising a cathode containing a proton-conducting compound as an electrode active material, an anode containing a proton-conducting compound as an electrode active material and an aqueous electrolytic solution containing a proton source as an electrolyte, wherein the electrolytic solution comprises a polymeric compound having an atom with an unpaired electron in its principal chain as an electron-transfer promoter. This invention can provide an electrochemical cell exhibiting improved capacity, high-speed charge/discharge properties and cycle properties.
Abstract:
In accordance with the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the invention and the process for the preparation thereof, charging is carried out with a combination of a positive electrode provided with excess lithium and a negative electrode in order to cause lithium to be deposited on the negative electrode. Accordingly, no oxidized surface film is interposed between lithium and the current collector of negative electrode or the negative active material layer as in the case where a metallic lithium foil is laminated on the negative electrode. In this arrangement, a battery having a small internal resistance can be provided. Since the deposition of lithium is conducted in the assembled battery, lithium does not come in contact with air, preventing the formation of a thick ununiform oxidized film on the surface thereof. Thus, the deposition of dendrite can be inhibited, making it possible to inhibit the drop of battery capacity and hence provide a battery having an excellent cycle life performance. Further, lithium can be retained on the negative electrode in an amount excess to the capacity of the positive electrode. Accordingly, even when lithium is lost due to the deposition of dendrite or the reaction with the electrolyte solution, the drop of battery capacity can be inhibited because the negative electrode is provided with excess lithium.
Abstract:
A method for producing a molded article, preferably a sheet-type molded article, which method comprises the following stage:I) Compounding and melt extrusion of a mixture I which comprises a blend II which contains: a) from 1 to 95 wt % of at least one pigment III having a primary particle size of from 5 nm to 20 mm which is selected from the group consisting of an electrochemically inert solid IIIa, a compound IIIb which during charging is able to give off lithium ions, and a compound IIIc which during charging is able to take up lithium ions, and a mixture of the solid Ma with the compound IIIb or the compound IIIc, b) from 5 to 99 wt % of at least one polymeric binder IV, and c) from 0 to 200 wt %, based on the total amount of the components a) and b), at least one plasticizer V,wherein the proportion by weight of the blend II in the mixture I is from 1 to 100 wt %, andwherein mixtures I comprising blends II containing, as the polymeric binder IV, a copolymer of vinylidene fluoride (VdF) and hexafluoropropylene (HFP) having an HFP content of from 8 to 25 wt % and, as the plasticizer V, a compound selected from the group consisting of dibutyl phthalate, dimethyl phthalate, diethyl phthalate, tris(butoxyethyl)phosphate, propylene carbonate, ethylene carbonate, trimethyl trimellitate and mixtures thereof are excluded.
Abstract:
A battery section for a Li-ion and/or Li-ion polymer cell, comprised of: a planar metal mesh layer having a body portion and a coplanar tab portion defining a battery lead extending from one edge of the mesh layer; electrode film laminated to opposite surfaces of the body portion of the metal mesh layer; and a protective layer on at least one side of the tab, the protective layer having a portion of the tab that is adjacent to the electrode film, the protective layer comprised of an outer polymer layer and an inner adhesive layer adhering the outer polymer layer to the portion of the tab.
Abstract:
An electrochemical capacitor includes a polymer thin film, a liquid electrolyte absorbed in the polymer thin film, and thin flexible active electrode layers constituting anode and cathode composed of energy dense material of high intrinsic surface area positioned at either side of the electrolyte-retaining polymer thin film to tightly sandwich it between the electrode layers. In one embodiment, the capacitor includes a polymer electrolyte in which a polymer thin film is cast from the base polymer and impregnated with the electrolyte solution, which contains a salt for ionic conduction. In another embodiment, the base polymer material includes an ionically conducting polymer, a perfluorocarbon polymer backbone to which sulfonic acid sites are permanently anchored. The energy dense material of the electrode layers may be physically mixed with battery active material to enhance the capacity and discharge time of the capacitor. In fabrication, the electrode material is reduced to particle size suitable for application to a thin film metallized polymer substrate, and applied directly and adherently on opposite sides of the substrate by injection, spraying, or evaporation, and a final thin flexible film of each electrode is formed with a desired thickness by use of rods if a slurry, or by controlling the extent of spray or evaporation, followed by curing. In another embodiment, the electrode elements are laminated directly onto opposite sides of a single- or double-metallized polymer substrate.
Abstract:
This invention relates to crosslinked polymers useful as electrolytes in rechargeable batteries, to electrolytes containing such crosslinked polymers, to methods for making such polymer electrolytes, to electrodes incorporating such crosslinked polymers, to rechargeable batteries employing such crosslinked polymers as the electrolyte and to methods for producing such batteries.
Abstract:
This invention relates to electrolyte solution compositions useful in lithium-ion batteries. These electrolytes feature lower volatility than solutions known in the art while retaining excellent battery performance using graphite based negative electrode active materials.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a unique polymeric battery system of electrochemical cells that are connected in series, and can be of nanometer size. The polymers possess conjugated bonds along their backbones and high levels of metals. The invention also concerns methods for the fabrication of the polymers and battery system as well as methods for the use of the polymers as a nanoscale solid-state battery.
Abstract:
To offer excellent hermeticity inside a battery having high productivity and being covered with package members by means of solving a problem such as sealing failures caused by gaps between sides of lead electrodes and the package members in sealing parts, in which the lead electrode to be disposed. During a step of sealing between ends of the package members and the lead electrodes by fusing the sealing members, or during a step of adhering the fused sealing members to the lead electrodes, stripping sheets made of a material such that the fused sealing members does not adhere to heaters, are inserted between the package members, or the sealing members and the heaters. Accordingly, even if the fused sealing members are forced out from ends of the package members, or leaked toward the outside, the sealing members does not adhere to surfaces of the heaters or crumble their shapes.