Air battery including oxygen-containing solvent
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShinji Nakanishi, Hirotoshi Imai
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Abstract
An air battery which can maintain a good performance and inhibit ingress of water into its housing. The air battery including a power section having an air electrode, an anode containing an alkali metal, and an electrolyte layer conducting ions between the air electrode and the anode; an oxygen-containing solvent showing both hydrophobic nature and oxygen solubility; a housing being configured to incorporate the power section and the oxygen-containing solvent; and an oxygen supply portion being configured to supply oxygen gas to the oxygen-containing solvent. The oxygen-containing solvent being arranged between the oxygen supply portion and the electrolyte layer.
Claims17
An air battery comprising:
- a power section which comprises:
- an air electrode, an anode containing an alkali metal, and an electrolyte layer conducting ions between the air electrode and the anode;
- an oxygen-containing solvent showing both hydrophobic nature and oxygen solubility;
- a housing being configured to incorporate the power section and the oxygen-containing solvent;
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- an oxygen supply portion being configured to supply oxygen gas to the oxygen-containing solvent,
- the oxygen-containing solvent being arranged between the oxygen supply portion and the electrolyte layer
- the oxygen-containing solvent being a fluorine-based solvent, wherein the housing is provided with an inlet port and an outlet port for the oxygen-containing solvent, and wherein the oxygen-containing solvent is a liquid which is insoluble in an electrolytic solution provided to the electrolyte layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.