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.

Embodiments described herein relate generally to electrochemical cells having semi-solid electrodes that are coated on only one side of a current collector. In some embodiments, an electrochemical cell includes a semi-solid positive electrode coated on only one side of a positive current collector and a semi-solid negative electrode coated on only one side of a negative current collector. A separator is disposed between the semi-solid positive electrode and the semi-solid negative electrode. At least one of the semi-solid positive electrode and the semi-solid negative electrode can have a thickness of at least about 250 μm.

A battery includes: a power generating element including a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a first solid electrolyte layer located between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; and a reference electrode section including a second solid electrolyte layer having a first main surface in contact with a side surface of the power generating element and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, and a reference electrode in contact with the second main surface of the second solid electrolyte layer, in which a length of the first main surface is longer than a length of the side surface in a laminating direction in the power generating element.

A method comprises obtaining a stack for an energy storage device, the stack comprising a first electrode layer and an electrolyte layer. The method comprises depositing a first material over an exposed portion of the first electrode layer and an exposed portion of the electrolyte layer. The method comprises depositing a second material over the first material and to form a second electrode layer of the stack, and to provide an electrical connection from the second electrode layer, for connecting to a further such second electrode layer via the second material. The electrolyte layer is between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The first material insulates the exposed portions of the first electrode layer and the electrolyte layer from the second material. Also disclosed is an apparatus for maintaining top-down inkjet material deposition.

Battery including at least one unit cell formed by an anode, an electrolyte, and a cathode, defining a stack. The stack of the battery has a plurality of faces that includes two end faces opposite one another, two lateral faces opposite one another, and two longitudinal faces opposite one another. The first longitudinal face includes at least one anode connection zone and a second longitudinal face of the battery includes at least one cathode connection zone that is laterally opposite to the at least one anode connection zone. In a first longitudinal direction of the battery, each anode current-collecting substrate protrudes from each anode layer, from each layer of electrolyte material or layer of a separator impregnated with an electrolyte, from each cathode layer and from each cathode current-collecting substrate layer. In a second longitudinal direction of the battery that is opposite to the first longitudinal direction, each cathode current-collecting substrate protrudes from each anode layer, from each layer of electrolyte material, or layer of a separator impregnated with an electrolyte, from each cathode layer and from each anode current-collecting substrate layer.

A lithium ion-conductive solid electrolyte including a freestanding inorganic vitreous sheet of sulfide-based lithium ion conducting glass is capable of high performance in a lithium metal battery by providing a high degree of lithium ion conductivity while being highly resistant to the initiation and/or propagation of lithium dendrites. Such an electrolyte is also itself manufacturable, and readily adaptable for battery cell and cell component manufacture, in a cost-effective, scalable manner. An automated machine based system, apparatus and methods assessing and inspecting the quality of such vitreous solid electrolyte sheets, electrode sub-assemblies and lithium electrode assemblies can be based on spectrophotometry and can be performed inline with fabricating the sheet or web (e.g., inline with drawing of the vitreous Li ion conducting glass) and/or with the manufacturing of associated electrode sub-assemblies and lithium electrode assemblies and battery cells.

There is provided a manufacturing method for a sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, including subjecting an inorganic solid electrolyte-containing composition containing an inorganic solid electrolyte and a dispersion medium to application and film formation onto a base material, in which in the inorganic solid electrolyte-containing composition, any one or both of a preparation temperature and a temperature before the application and the film formation is set to 35° C. to 90° C. There are also provided a manufacturing method for an all-solid state secondary battery, which carries out manufacture through this manufacturing method, a sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, and an all-solid state secondary battery.

An active material powder that includes a foreign particle and an active material particle is prepared. A first electrode material that includes the active material powder is prepared. Dry classification treatment is performed on the first electrode material, and thereby the foreign particle included in the first electrode material is decreased. An active material layer that includes the first electrode material after the dry classification treatment is formed. The first electrode material is in powder form. The foreign particle includes a metal foreign object and is a coarse particle.

Provided is an all-solid-state battery that makes it possible to suppress increase in resistance due to charge and discharge thereof even when the battery includes a Si-based active material for an anode active material. The all-solid-state battery has a cathode, an anode, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode contains a Si-based active material, and 2≤x≤2.7 and 21.43x+14.14≤y≤4.29x+60.43 where x represents the ratio of the anode capacity to the cathode capacity and y represents the fill factor of the anode.

A method for manufacturing a lithium secondary battery including a pre-lithiated negative electrode. A composite of lithium and a negative electrode active material is formed through a lamination process which is a process of manufacturing a battery. In the case of the lithium secondary battery to which the negative electrode having the composite formed by lithium and the negative electrode active material is applied, when the battery starts to operate, the negative electrode active material is pre-lithiated, and thus the charging/discharging process proceeds in the state where the lithium alloy is already formed on the negative electrode, thereby showing an effect of reducing initial irreversible phases.