US 12,155,060 B2
Energy storage device
Tomonori Kako, Kyoto (JP); Kazuki Kawaguchi, Kyoto (JP); Shota Ito, Kyoto (JP); Jun Oyama, Kyoto (JP); and Taisei Sekiguchi, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to GS Yuasa International Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
Appl. No. 17/257,877
Filed by GS Yuasa International Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/028233
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/017580, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-135917 (JP), filed on Jul. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0273219 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. H01M 4/36 (2006.01); H01M 4/02 (2006.01); H01M 4/133 (2010.01); H01M 4/505 (2010.01); H01M 4/525 (2010.01); H01M 4/62 (2006.01); H01M 10/0525 (2010.01); H01M 10/0562 (2010.01)
CPC H01M 4/364 (2013.01) [H01M 4/133 (2013.01); H01M 4/505 (2013.01); H01M 4/525 (2013.01); H01M 4/623 (2013.01); H01M 10/0525 (2013.01); H01M 10/0562 (2013.01); H01M 2004/021 (2013.01); H01M 2004/027 (2013.01); H01M 2004/028 (2013.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01); H01M 2300/008 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An energy storage device comprising a positive electrode containing:
first positive active material particles containing a first nickel-cobalt-manganese-containing lithium-transition metal composite oxide containing lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese as constituent elements, and a metal element capable of forming a conductive metal oxide; and
second positive active material particles containing a second nickel-cobalt-manganese-containing lithium-transition metal composite oxide containing lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese as constituent elements, and not containing the metal element capable of forming the conductive metal oxide,
wherein
the metal element capable of forming the conductive metal oxide includes tungsten and optionally one or more selected from a group consisting of vanadium, iron, copper, tin, gallium, indium, zinc, cadmium, lanthanum, cerium, samarium, neodymium, yttrium, rhodium, palladium and platinum,
in the first nickel-cobalt-manganese-containing lithium-transition metal composite oxide, a mole ratio of nickel to a sum of metal elements excluding lithium is 0.30 or more and 0.95 or less, a mole ratio of cobalt to the sum of the metal elements excluding lithium is 0.050 or more and 0.80 or less, and a mole ratio of manganese to the sum of the metal elements excluding lithium is 0.050 or more and 0.80 or less,
in the second nickel-cobalt-manganese-containing lithium-transition metal composite oxide, a mole ratio of nickel to a sum of metal elements excluding lithium is 0.30 or more and 0.95 or less, a mole ratio of cobalt to the sum of the metal elements excluding lithium is 0.050 or more and 0.80 or less, and a mole ratio of manganese to the sum of the metal elements excluding lithium is 0.050 or more and 0.80 or less,
the first positive active material particles are larger in median diameter than the second positive active material particles, and
a ratio of a median diameter of the first positive active material particles to a median diameter of the second positive active material particles is 3.30 or more and 7.00 or less.