Provided is a carbon material capable of obtaining a non-aqueous secondary battery, which has high capacity, initial efficiency, and low charging resistance and is excellent in productivity. As a result thereof, a high-performance non-aqueous secondary battery is stably provided with efficiency. A composite carbon material for a non-aqueous secondary battery is provided, which contains at least a bulk mesophase artificial graphite particle (A) and graphite particle (B) having an aspect ratio of 5 or greater, and which is capable of absorbing and releasing lithium ions. A graphite crystal layered structure of the graphite particle (B) is arranged in the same direction as a direction of an outer peripheral surface of the bulk mesophase artificial graphite particle (A) at a part of a surface of the bulk mesophase artificial graphite particle (A), and an average circularity of the composite carbon material is 0.9 or greater.

Provided are a preparation method of a current collector assembly, a current collector assembly, a battery cell, and a battery pack. The preparation method of the current collector assembly includes: abutting the at least one of the connection plate or the protection plate having the protrusion against the plurality of tabs; generating a high-frequency vibration between the at least one of the connection plate or the protection plate having the protrusion and the plurality of tabs; and piercing the plurality of tabs sequentially by the protrusion through the high-frequency vibration. A vibration frequency of the high-frequency vibration ranges from 15 KHz to 40 KHz.

Provided are a preparation method of a current collector assembly, a current collector assembly, a battery cell, and a battery pack. The preparation method of the current collector assembly includes: abutting the at least one of the connection plate or the protection plate having the protrusion against the plurality of tabs; generating a high-frequency vibration between the at least one of the connection plate or the protection plate having the protrusion and the plurality of tabs; and piercing the plurality of tabs sequentially by the protrusion through the high-frequency vibration. A vibration frequency of the high-frequency vibration ranges from 15 KHz to 40 KHz.

An electrode, a battery laminate, a battery and methods of providing the electrode, laminate or battery, where the electrode has an electrode layer and a current collector both having through-going bores of a size allowing liquid transport through the current collector and the electrode layer. The bores are provided by providing elongate slits or weakened portions and deforming the electrode. The current collector also has channels therein allowing liquid to travel along a plane of the current collector. In this manner, the drying of and introduction of electrolyte therein is made much faster.

Methods for electrically coupling electrode portions within electrochemical devices, and associated articles and systems, are generally described. In some cases, an electrically non-conductive layer is between multiple electrode portions that are to be coupled. In some cases, the method comprises penetrating the article to establish electrical coupling between the electrode portions previously separated by the electrically non-conductive layer.

An electrochemical cell is provided which includes a cathode, an anode, an electrolyte separator, and an anode current collector located on the anode. The anode is a three-dimensional (3D) porous anode including ionically conducting electrolyte strands and pores which extend through the anode from the anode current collector to the electrolyte separator. The anode also includes electronically conducting networks extending on sidewall surfaces of the pores from the anode current collector to the electrolyte separator.

An electrochemical cell is provided which includes a cathode, an anode, an electrolyte separator, and an anode current collector located on the anode. The anode is a three-dimensional (3D) porous anode including ionically conducting electrolyte strands and pores which extend through the anode from the anode current collector to the electrolyte separator. The anode also includes electronically conducting networks extending on sidewall surfaces of the pores from the anode current collector to the electrolyte separator.

A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery wherein interface resistance between a current collector and an active material layer is low. In the present disclosure, the above object is achieved by providing an all solid state battery comprising: an electrode including a current collector, an electron conductive layer, and an active material layer, in this order, and a solid electrolyte layer formed on the active material layer side of the electrode, and the electron conductive layer is an agglutinate of metal particles or a metal foil, and electron conductivity of the electron conductive layer is 1×10.sup.3 S/cm or more at 25° C.

A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery wherein interface resistance between a current collector and an active material layer is low. In the present disclosure, the above object is achieved by providing an all solid state battery comprising: an electrode including a current collector, an electron conductive layer, and an active material layer, in this order, and a solid electrolyte layer formed on the active material layer side of the electrode, and the electron conductive layer is an agglutinate of metal particles or a metal foil, and electron conductivity of the electron conductive layer is 1×10.sup.3 S/cm or more at 25° C.

Provided are an electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery and an all-solid state secondary battery including the electrode sheet. The electrode sheet includes a current collector, a primer layer, and an electrode active material layer in this order, in which the electrode active material layer includes an inorganic solid electrolyte having ion conductivity of a metal belonging to Group 1 or Group 2 in the periodic table, an active material, and a binder a1, the primer layer includes the binder a1 and a binder a2, and in a case where the primer layer is equally divided into six sub-layers in a thickness direction and the six sub-layers are set as a first sub-layer to a sixth sub-layer in order from the electrode active material layer side toward the current collector side, a relationship between a ratio B1 of a content of a1 to a total content of a1 and a2 in the first sub-layer and a ratio B6 of a content of a1 to a total content of a1 and a2 in the sixth sub-layer satisfies B1>B6.