Electrode composite body, method of manufacturing electrode composite body, and battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016226094-A1
Application number	US-201615007765-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 27, 2016
Priority date	Jan 30, 2015
Publication date	Aug 4, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An electrode composite body includes a composite body which includes an active material molded body that is constituted by a porous body in which a plurality of active material particles are three-dimensionally connected to each other, and which has a communication hole, a solid electrolyte layer which is formed on a surface, which includes a surface of the communication hole of the active material molded body, of the active material molded body, and includes granular bodies (solid electrolyte particles) containing a solid electrolyte, and an electron conduction layer which covers at least a part of one of the active material molded body and the solid electrolyte layer in the communication hole, and has electron conductivity, and a current collector that is provided on one surface of the composite body to be joined to the active material molded body.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electrode composite body, comprising:
a composite body; and a first current collector that comes into contact with the composite body, where the composite body includes, an active material molded body in which a plurality of active material particles are connected to each other, a solid electrolyte layer in which a plurality of solid electrolyte particles are connected to each other, and which comes into contact with the active material particles, and a plurality of electron conduction layers which come into contact with the active material molded body and the solid electrolyte layer, wherein the active material molded body includes a communication hole, and parts of the plurality of solid electrolyte particles come into contact with the active material molded body in the communication hole, and the electron conduction layer is provided to come into contact with the active material molded body, and is disposed to be rich on a first current collector side.

2 . The electrode composite body according to claim 1 ,
wherein electron conductivity of the electron conduction layer is higher than electron conductivity of the active material molded body.

3 . The electrode composite body according to claim 1 ,
wherein the electron conduct ion layer selectively covers a part of the active material molded body between the active material molded body and the solid electrolyte layer.

4 . The electrode composite body according to claim 1 ,
wherein the electron conduction layer is at least one kind of a carbon-containing coat layer and a metal layer.

5 . The electrode composite body according to claim 1 ,
wherein in the composite body, the active material molded body, the solid electrolyte layer, and the electron conduction layer are exposed from a surface with which the first current collector comes into contact, and the solid electrolyte layer is exposed alone from at least a different one surface.

6 . A method of manufacturing an electrode composite body, comprising:
forming an active material molded body in which a plurality of active material particles are connected to each other; applying a precursor of a solid electrolyte to a surface of the active material molded body and heating the precursor to form a first composite body of the active material molded body and the solid electrolyte layer; forming an electron conduction layer at the inside of the first composite body to form a second composite body; and forming a first surface, from which the active material molded body, the solid electrolyte layer, and the electron conduction layer are exposed, in the second composite body, and joining a first current collector to the first surface, wherein the active material molded body includes a communication hole, the solid electrolyte layer includes a plurality of solid electrolyte particles, and parts of the plurality of solid electrolyte particles come into contact with the active material molded body in the communication hole, and the electron conduction layer is formed to come into contact with the active material molded body, and is disposed to be rich on a first current collector side.

7 . The method of manufacturing an electrode composite body according to claim 6 ,
wherein in the formation of the second composite body, a metal layer, which selectively covers a part of the active material molded body between the active material molded body and the solid electrolyte layer, is formed as the electron conduction layer by using an electrolytic plating method.

8 . The method of manufacturing an electrode composite body according to claim 6 ,
wherein in the formation of the second composite body, a carbon-containing coat layer, which covers a part of both the active material molded body and the solid electrolyte layer, is formed as the electron conduction layer by using a sol-gel method.

9 . A battery, comprising:
the electrode composite body according to claim 5 ; and a second current collector that is joined to a surface of the electrode composite body from which the solid electrolyte layer is exposed alone.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Yamazaki Yasushi

Classifications

• H01M4/0407

  by coating on an electrolyte layer · CPC title

• H01M4/1391 Primary

  of electrodes based on mixed oxides or hydroxides, or on mixtures of oxides or hydroxides, e.g. LiCoOx · CPC title

• H01M4/131

  Electrodes based on mixed oxides or hydroxides, or on mixtures of oxides or hydroxides, e.g. LiCoOx · CPC title

• H01M10/0565

  Polymeric materials, e.g. gel-type or solid-type · CPC title

• H01M4/045

  Electrochemical coating; Electrochemical impregnation · CPC title