Hybrid battery

• US 8,057,937 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2006
• Issued: 11/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: VINATECH Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: VINATECH Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Jung, Jun Tae, Sung, Do Kyong
• Primary Examiner(s): Crepeau; Jonathan
• Application Number:
  US12/094,018
• Publication Number:
  US 20080318135A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,980 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 429/324
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 11/04 Hybrid capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 11/28 arranged or disposed on a current collector; Layers or phases between electrodes and current collectors, e.g. adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 11/34 characterised by carbonisation or activation of carbon
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 11/46 Metal oxides
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 11/62 characterised by the solute, e.g. salts, anions or cations therein
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0567 characterised by the additives
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0568 characterised by the solutes
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2004/027 Negative electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2300/0025 Organic electrolyte
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/131 Electrodes based on mixed oxides or hydroxides, or on mixtures of oxides or hydroxides, e.g. LiCoOx
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/525 of mixed oxides or hydroxides containing iron, cobalt or nickel for inserting or intercalating light metals, e.g. LiNiO2, LiCoO2 or LiCoOxFy
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/13 Energy storage using capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/50 Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a hybrid battery using an electrochemically stable electrolyte composition and electrodes suitable for use in the electrolyte composition. The hybrid battery is non-toxic and highly stable, and has improved high-current charge/discharge characteristics.

The hybrid battery comprises an electrode unit consisting of an anode and a cathode, a separator for electrically separating the anode and the cathode, and an electrolyte filled in a space between the anode and the cathode so as to form an electric double layer on surfaces of the anode and cathode when a voltage is applied wherein the electrolyte contains a mixture of a lithium salt, an ammonium salt and a pyrrolidinium salt as solutes in a carbonate-based solvent so that the solute mixture has a concentration of 1.0-2.5 mol/L.

Claims

1. A hybrid battery, comprising:

an electrode unit including an anode and a cathode;

a separator for electrically separating the anode and the cathode; and

an electrolyte filled in a space between the anode and the cathode for forming an electric double layer on surfaces of the anode and cathode when a voltage is applied,

wherein the electrolyte contains a mixture of a lithium salt, an ammonium salt, and a pyrrolidinium salt as solutes in a carbonate-based solvent so that the mixture has a concentration of 1.0-2.5 mol/L, and

wherein the pyrrolidinium salt is butylmethylpyrrolidinium having a concentration of 1.5-2.0 mol/L.

2. The hybrid battery according to claim 1, wherein the electrolyte further contains an imide salt as the solutes of the electrolyte, and the imide salt is lithium pentafluoroethylsulfonimide (LiN(C₂F₅ S0₂)₂) having a concentration of 0.1 mol/L.

3. The hybrid battery according to claim 1, wherein the electrolyte further contains an imide salt as the solutes of the electrolyte, and the imide salt is lithium trifluoromethylsulfonimide (LiN(CF₃SO₂)₂) having a concentration of 0.01-0.1 mol/L.

4. The hybrid battery according to claim 1, wherein the ammonium salt is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of ammonium salts, including tetraethylammonium tetrafluoroborate, tetraethylammonium hexafluoroborate, and tetraethylammonium perchlorate.

5. The hybrid battery according to claim 1, wherein the ammonium salt and the pyrrolidinium salt make up 50-90 mol % of the solutes.

6. The hybrid battery according to claim 1, wherein the ammonium salt and the pyrrolidinium salt are mixed in a molar ratio of 1:

9 to 3;

7.

7. The hybrid battery according to claim 1, wherein the carbonate-based solvent is selected from the group consisting of propylene carbonate (PC), ethylene carbonate (EC), dimethyl carbonate (DMC), diethyl carbonate (DEC), ethylmethyl carbonate (EMC), and mixtures thereof.

8. The hybrid battery according to claim 1, wherein the carbonate-based solvent includes 10-40 vol % of ethylene carbonate (EC).

9. The hybrid battery according to claim 1, wherein the lithium salt is at least one kind selected from lithium salts, including lithium tetrafluoroborate, lithium trifluoromethlysulfonimide, lithium perchlorate and lithium hexafluoroborate.

10. The hybrid battery according to claim 1, wherein the anode is made of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium manganate, lithium cobalt oxide and lithium nickel oxide, or is made of a material selected from the group consisting of composite metal oxides, including lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide.

11. The hybrid battery according to claim 1, wherein the cathode is made of activated carbon having a capacitance of 100-300 F/g.

12. The hybrid battery according to claim 1, wherein a mixing molar ratio of the lithium salt to a sum of the ammonium salt and the pyrrolidinium salt is in the range of 0.1 to 0.7:

0.9 to 1.8.

13. The hybrid battery according to claim 1, wherein the electrolyte further contains an imidazolium.

14. The hybrid battery according to claim 13, wherein the imidazolium is ethylmethylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate.