Patent ID: 10504663

Abstract:
An electrochemical device has a positive electrode, a negative electrode, separators, and an electrolyte. The negative electrode has: a negative-electrode collector having a first principal face and a second principal face on the opposite side of the first principal face; a first negative-electrode active-material layer formed on the first principal face; and a second negative-electrode active-material layer which is formed intermittently on the second principal face and whose density of negative-electrode active material is lower than that of the first negative-electrode active-material layer. In the electrolyte, the positive electrode, negative electrode, and separators are immersed. The electrochemical device is such that the first and second negative-electrode active-material layers are pre-doped with lithium ions as a metallic lithium is electrically connected to the second principal face where the second negative-electrode active-material layer is not formed, and then immersed in the electrolyte.