Lithium solid battery, lithium solid battery module, and producing method for lithium solid battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10141602-B2
Application number	US-201415106172-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 11, 2014
Priority date	Dec 26, 2013
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

A problem of the present invention is to provide a lithium solid battery in which generation of short-circuits caused by dendrite is inhibited. The present invention solves the problem by providing a lithium solid battery comprising a solid electrolyte layer having a sulfide glass containing an ion conductor which has a Li element, a P element and a S element, and having an average pore radius calculated by mercury press-in method being 0.0057 μm or less.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A lithium solid battery comprising:
a solid electrolyte layer comprising:
a sulfide glass comprising:
an ion conductor that comprises a Li element, a P element and a S element, wherein

the solid electrolyte layer has an average pore radius calculated by mercury press-in method of 0.0057 μm or less.

2. The lithium solid battery according to claim 1 wherein the sulfide glass comprises the ion conductor and LiI,
the ion conductor comprises PS 4 3− structure, and a proportion of the PS 4 3− structure to all anion structures of the ion conductor is 50 mol % or more, and
a proportion of the LiI is within a range of 20 mol % to 30 mol %.

3. The lithium solid battery according to claim 1 wherein an average pore area of the solid electrolyte layer to a plane 100 μm 2 vertical to a thickness direction is 7.30 μm 2 or less.

4. The lithium solid battery according to claim 1 wherein a pore disconnected distance in the solid electrolyte layer is 3 μm or more.

5. The lithium solid battery according to claim 1 wherein a pore connected length in the thickness direction in the solid electrolyte layer is 3.7 μm or less.

6. The lithium solid battery according to claim 1 wherein the battery comprises:
a cathode active material layer comprising a cathode active material,
an anode active material layer comprising an anode active material, and
the solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer.

7. The lithium solid battery according to claim 1 wherein the battery comprises:
an anode current collector,
the solid electrolyte layer,
the cathode active material layer, and
a cathode current collector, in this order, and
the solid electrolyte layer is provided on the surface of the anode current collector.

8. The lithium solid battery according to claim 1 wherein the battery comprises:
an anode current collector,
the solid electrolyte layer,
the cathode active material layer, and
a cathode current collector, in this order, and
a Li metal anode active material layer deposited on the solid electrolyte layer side surface of the anode current collector.

9. A lithium solid battery module comprising:
the lithium solid battery according to claim 1 , and
a restraining member that applies restraining pressure to the lithium solid battery in the thickness direction.

10. A producing method for a lithium solid battery comprising:
forming a solid electrolyte layer by pressing a sulfide glass comprising an ion conductor that comprises a Li element, a P element and a S element,
wherein an average pore radius of the solid electrolyte layer calculated by mercury press-in method is 0.0057 μm or less.

11. The lithium solid battery according to claim 2 , wherein the sulfide glass comprises the ion conductor and LiI, and
a proportion of the LiI is within a range of 20 mol % to 30 mol %.

12. The producing method according to claim 10 , wherein the sulfide glass comprises the ion conductor and LiI, and
a proportion of the LiI is within a range of 20 mol % to 30 mol %.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ohtomo Takamasa
• Yamasaki Hisatsugu
• Nagase Hiroshi

Classifications

• H01M10/0525

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• H01M10/0562 Primary

  Solid materials · CPC title

• H01M10/058

  Construction or manufacture · CPC title

• H01M2300/008

  Halides · CPC title

• H01M10/0436

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