Lithium secondary battery

• US 6,503,661 B1
• Filed: 08/01/2000
• Issued: 01/07/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: SK Innovation Company Limited
• Original Assignee: SKC Company Limited
• Inventors: Manivannan, Venkatesan, Liu, Peikang, Chai, Chul, Kakirde, Archana, Ihm, Dong-joon, Lee, Jon-ha, Park, Chi-kyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Kalafut, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALEJANDRO, RAYMOND
• Application Number:
  US09/629,950
• Time in Patent Office: 889 Days
• Field of Search: 429/306, 429/304, 429/319, 429/316, 429/303, 429/309, 429/249, 429/320, 252/62.2
• US Class Current: 429/306
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0525 Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0565 Polymeric materials, e.g. gel-type or solid-type
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/168 by additives
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/181 with polymeric electrolytes
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/188 Processes of manufacture
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A composition for forming polymer electrolyte and a lithium secondary battery employing the polymer electrolyte prepared using the composition are provided. The composition for forming polymer solid electrolyte having a polymer resin, a plasticizer, a filler and a solvent, wherein the filler is synthetic zeolite having an affinity for an organic solvent or moisture. Therefore, the mechanical strength and ionic conductivity can be improved by adding synthetic zeolite as a filler when forming polymer electrolyte. Also, use of such polymer electrolyte makes it possible to prepare lithium secondary batteries having good high-current discharge characteristics and excellent discharge capacity characteristics even under repeated charge/discharge conditions.

Claims

1. A lithium secondary battery having a cathode, an anode and a polymer electrolyte interposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the polymer electrolyte is a dried coating of a polymer electrolyte-forming composition comprising a polymer resin, a plasticizer, a filler and a solvent, and wherein the filler is a synthetic zeolite having an affinity for moisture and is at least one selected from the group consisting of aluminosilicate and aluminophosphate.

2. The lithium secondary battery according to claim 1, wherein the content of the filler is 10 to 75 parts by weight based on the total weight of the polymer electrolyte-forming composition.

3. The lithium secondary battery according to claim 1, wherein the polymer resin of the polymer electrolyte-forming composition is at least one selected from the group consisting of polyvinylidenefluoride (PVdF), a vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene (VdF-HFP) copolymer A having a hexafluoropropylene (HFP) content of greater than 0 and less than 8% by weight, a mixture of VdF-HFP copolymer A and PVdF, and a mixture of VdF-HFP copolymer A and a vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene (VdF-HFP) copolymer B having a hexafluoropropylene (HFP) content of greater than 0 and less than or equal to 15% by weight.

4. A lithium secondary battery comprising:

a cathode;

an anode; and

a solid polymer electrolyte interposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein

said solid polymer electrolyte includes a polymer resin, a plasticizer, and at least one synthetic zeolite having an affinity for moisture selected from the group consisting of aluminosilicate and aluminophosphate.

5. The lithium secondary battery as in claim 4, wherein said solid polymer electrolyte is a dried layer of a solvated composition which comprises said polymer resin, said plasticizer, and said at least one synthetic zeolite.

6. The lithium secondary battery as in claim 5, wherein said at least one synthetic zeolite is present in said solvated composition in an amount, based on total weight of the solvated composition, of 10 to 75 parts by weight.

7. The lithium secondary battery as in claim 4, 5 or 6, wherein said solid polymer electrolyte has a thickness of 20 to 50 μ

m.

8. The lithium secondary battery according to claim 4, wherein the polymer resin is at least one selected from the group consisting of polyvinylidenefluoride (PVdF), a vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene (VdF-HFP) copolymer A having a hexafluoropropylene (HFP) content of greater than 0 and less than 8% by weight, a mixture of VdF-HFP copolymer A and PVdF, and a mixture of VdF-HFP copolymer A and a vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene (VdF-HFP) copolymer B having a hexafluoropropylene (HFP) content of greater than 0 and less than or equal to 15% by weight.