Nonaqueous electrolyte battery, battery pack, and vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10439226-B2
Application number	US-201715455666-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 10, 2017
Priority date	Apr 6, 2016
Publication date	Oct 8, 2019
Grant date	Oct 8, 2019

Abstract

A nonaqueous electrolyte battery comprising:
a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material layer containing a lithium iron manganese phosphate composite having an olivine structure; and
a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer containing a titanium-containing metal oxide composite,
wherein an atomic concentration of manganese is 1 atm % or more and 15 atm % or less in a region from a surface to a depth D of the negative electrode active material layer and the depth D is more than 0 nm and 10 nm or less.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A nonaqueous electrolyte battery comprising:
a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material layer containing a lithium iron manganese phosphate composite having an olivine structure; and
a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer containing a titanium-containing metal oxide composite,
wherein an atomic concentration of manganese is 1 atm % or more and 15 atm % or less in a region from a surface to a depth D of the negative electrode active material layer and the depth D is more than 0 nm and 10 nm or less, and
the atomic concentration of manganese has a peak and the peak is located in a region of a depth of more than 0 nm and 10 nm or less under the surface of the negative electrode active material layer.

2. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery according to claim 1 , wherein the positive electrode active material layer contains LiMn 1-x-y Fe x A y PO 4 (A is at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, Zn, and Zr, 0<x≤0.3, 0≤y≤0.1).

3. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery according to claim 1 , wherein the titanium-containing metal oxide composite contains at least one kind among a niobium-containing titanium oxide, spinel-type lithium titanate, and a monoclinic β-type titanium composite oxide.

4. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of metal manganese to the entire amount of manganese on a surface of the negative electrode active material layer is 15 atm % or more and 70 atm % or less.

5. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery according to claim 1 , wherein a surface atomic concentration of manganese of the negative electrode active material layer is 3 atm % or more and 10 atm % or less.

6. A battery pack comprising the nonaqueous electrolyte battery according to claim 1 .

7. The battery pack according to claim 6 , further comprising:
an external power distribution terminal; and
a protective circuit.

8. The battery pack according to claim 6 , further comprising a plural of the nonaqueous electrolyte batteries,
wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte batteries are electrically connected in series, in parallel, or in a combination of in series and in parallel.

9. A vehicle comprising the battery pack according to claim 6 .

10. The vehicle according to claim 9 , wherein the battery pack is configured to recover a regenerative energy of a power of the vehicle.

11. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery according to claim 1 , wherein the atomic concentration of manganese in a region from the surface to the depth of 10 nm is higher than the atomic concentration of manganese in an interior region that is deeper than the depth of 10 nm under the surface of the negative electrode active material layer.

Assignees

• Toshiba Kk

Inventors

• Yamashita Yasunobu
• Hoshina Keigo
• Isozaki Yoshiyuki
• Takami Norio

Classifications

• H01M50/204

  Racks, modules or packs for multiple batteries or multiple cells · CPC title

• H01M4/485

  of mixed oxides or hydroxides for inserting or intercalating light metals, e.g. LiTi2O4 or LiTi2OxFy (H01M4/505, H01M4/525 take precedence) · CPC title

• H01M10/0525

  Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries · CPC title

• H01M4/5825

  Oxygenated metallic salts or polyanionic structures, e.g. borates, phosphates, silicates, olivines · CPC title

• H01M10/44

  Methods for charging or discharging (circuits for charging H02J7/00) · CPC title