ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL LAYER, ALL SOLID STATE BATTERY, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL LAYER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ALL SOLID STATE BATTERY

• US 20110065007A1
• Filed: 09/08/2010
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: KAMIYA, Masato, Ueno, Yukiyoshi, Tsuchida, Yasushi, Hama, Shigenori
• Application Number:
  US12/877,382
• Publication Number:
  US 20110065007A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/322
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0562 Solid materials
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2300/0068 inorganic
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

An electrode active material layer includes an electrode active material and a sulfide solid state electrolyte material which is fused to a surface of the electrode active material and is substantially free of bridging sulfur.

Claims

1. An electrode active material layer comprising:

an electrode active material; and

a sulfide solid state electrolyte material which is fused to a surface of the electrode active material and is substantially free of a bridging sulfur.

2. The electrode active material layer according to claim 1, has a filling rate of at least 85%.

3. The electrode active material layer according to claim 1, wherein the sulfide solid state electrolyte material is a sulfide glass.

4. The electrode active material layer according to claim 1, wherein the sulfide solid state electrolyte material is a crystallized sulfide glass.

5. The electrode active material layer according to claim 1, wherein the sulfide solid state electrolyte material contains Li₂S and one material selected from the group consisting of P₂S₅, SiS₂, GeS₂, and Al₂S₃.

6. The electrode active material layer according to claim 5, wherein the sulfide solid state electrolyte material contains Li₂S and P₂S₅, and

a ratio of a mole number of the P₂S₅ to a mole number of the Li₂S in the sulfide solid state electrolyte material is no smaller than 11/39 and no larger than 14/36.

7. The electrode active material layer according to claim 1, wherein the electrode active material is a positive electrode active material.

8. An all solid state battery comprising:

a positive electrode active material layer;

a negative electrode active material layer; and

a solid state electrolyte layer formed between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer,

wherein at least one of the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer is the electrode active material layer according to claim 1.

9. A method for manufacturing an electrode active material layer containing an electrode active material and a sulfide solid state electrolyte material which is fused to a surface of the electrode active material and is substantially free of a bridging sulfur, comprising:

obtaining an electrode active material layer forming composite material by mixing together the electrode active material and the sulfide solid state electrolyte material;

pressure-molding the electrode active material layer forming composite material; and

performing a heat treatment on the electrode active material layer forming composite material to soften the sulfide solid state electrolyte material contained in the electrode active material layer forming composite material.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the pressure molding and the heat treatment are performed on the electrode active material layer forming composite material in parallel.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the heat treatment includes heating the electrode active material layer forming composite material at a temperature which is no lower than a temperature required for a glass transition of the sulfide solid state electrolyte material and lower than a temperature required for crystallization of the sulfide solid state electrolyte material.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the heat treatment includes heating the electrode active material layer forming composite material at a temperature which is no lower than a temperature required for a crystallization of the sulfide solid state electrolyte material.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the sulfide solid state electrolyte material contains Li₂S and one material selected from the group consisting of P₂S₅, SiS₂, GeS₂, and Al₂S₃.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein the sulfide solid state electrolyte material contains Li₂S and P₂S₅, and

a ratio of a mole number of the P₂S₅ to a mole number of the Li₂S in the sulfide solid state electrolyte material is no smaller than 11/39 and no larger than 14/36.

15. The method according to claim 9, wherein the electrode active material is a positive electrode active material.

16. A method for manufacturing an all solid state battery having an electrode active material layer that contains an electrode active material and a sulfide solid state electrolyte material which is fused to a surface of the electrode active material and is substantially free of a bridging sulfur, comprising:

obtaining an electrode active material layer forming composite material by mixing together the electrode active material and the sulfide solid state electrolyte material;

preparing a processing composite material containing the electrode active material layer forming composite material;

pressure-molding the processing composite material; and

performing a heat treatment on the processing composite material to soften the sulfide solid state electrolyte material contained in the electrode active material layer forming composite material.