All-solid battery and manufacturing method of the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12113176-B2
Application number	US-202016991963-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 12, 2020
Priority date	Aug 22, 2019
Publication date	Oct 8, 2024
Grant date	Oct 8, 2024

Abstract

An all-solid battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer mainly composed of oxide-based solid electrolyte; a first electrode layer formed on a first principal face of the solid electrolyte layer, the first electrode layer containing an active material; a second electrode layer formed on a second principal face of the solid electrolyte layer, the second electrode layer containing another active material, wherein no collector layer that is in contact with the second electrode layer is provided in a direction in which the solid electrolyte layer, the first electrode layer, and the second electrode layer are stacked, and the second electrode layer includes board-shaped carbon.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An all-solid battery comprising:
a solid electrolyte layer mainly composed of oxide-based solid electrolyte;
a first electrode layer formed on a first principal face of the solid electrolyte layer, the first electrode layer containing an active material;
a second electrode layer formed on a second principal face of the solid electrolyte layer, the second electrode layer containing another active material, wherein
no collector layer that is in contact with the second electrode layer is provided in a direction in which the solid electrolyte layer, the first electrode layer, and the second electrode layer are stacked, and
the second electrode layer includes board-shaped carbon defined as carbon having an average thickness of 3 μm or less and a diameter in a longitudinal direction equal to or greater than three times the average thickness,
wherein, in the second electrode layer, a proportion of fine-grained carbon defined as carbon made of particles having a primary particle size of 0.5 μm or less is 6 vol % or less, and
wherein the second electrode layer is a sintered layer and includes a solid electrolyte, and
wherein a D90 size of the diameter in the longitudinal direction of the board-shaped carbon is 2 μm or more and 30 μm or less.

2. The all-solid battery according to claim 1 , wherein
in the second electrode layer, a proportion of the board-shaped carbon is 20 vol % or greater.

3. The all-solid battery according to claim 1 , wherein
in the second electrode layer, a proportion of the board-shaped carbon is 50 vol % or less.

4. The all-solid battery according to claim 1 , wherein
in the second electrode layer, a proportion of an amount of the board-shaped carbon to an entire amount of carbon is 80 vol % or greater.

5. The all-solid battery according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an external electrode coupled to an end of the second electrode layer, wherein
a distance from the external electrode to an end farthest from the external electrode of the second electrode layer is 50 mm or less.

6. The all-solid battery according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an external electrode coupled to an end of the second electrode layer, wherein
L/(W×t) is 2000 or less where t represents an average thickness of the second electrode layer, L represents a collecting distance from the external electrode to an end farthest from the external electrode of the second electrode layer, and W represents an electrode layer width in a direction perpendicular to the collecting distance L in a plane of the second electrode layer.

7. A manufacturing method of an all-solid battery comprising:
preparing a multilayer structure including: a green sheet containing oxide-based solid electrolyte powder, a layer formed on a first principal face of the green sheet by applying paste for a first electrode layer to the first principal face of the green sheet, and a layer formed on a second principal face of the green sheet by applying paste for a second electrode layer to the second principal face of the green sheet, no paste mainly composed of a metal being applied to at least the paste for the second electrode layer; and
firing the multilayer structure, wherein
the paste for the second electrode layer includes board-shaped carbon defined as carbon having an average thickness of 3 μm or less and a diameter in a longitudinal direction equal to or greater than three times the average thickness,
wherein, in the second electrode layer, a proportion of fine-grained carbon defined as carbon made of particles having a primary particle size of 0.5 μm or less is 6 vol % or less,
wherein the paste for the second electrode layer includes a solid electrolyte, and
wherein the second electrode layer is a sintered layer after the firing, and

wherein a D90 size of the diameter in the longitudinal direction of the board-shaped carbon is 2 μm or more and 30 μm or less.

8. The all-solid battery according to claim 1 , wherein a proportion of an amount of the board-shaped carbon is 25 vol % or more and 50 vol % or less in the second electrode layer.

9. The all-solid battery according to claim 1 , wherein the second electrode layer includes the fine-grained carbon.

10. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the paste for the second electrode layer includes the fine-grained carbon after the firing.

Assignees

• Taiyo Yuden Kk

Inventors

• Tomizawa Sachie
• Ito Daigo
• Kawamura Chie

Classifications

• H01M4/625 Primary

  Carbon or graphite · CPC title

• H01M2300/0071

  Oxides · CPC title

• H01M2004/021

  Physical characteristics, e.g. porosity, surface area · CPC title

• H01M10/0562

  Solid materials · CPC title

• Y02P70/50

  Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product · CPC title