Patent ID: 8329342

Claim:
An anode material used for a lithium secondary battery characterized in that the anode material is a soft carbon of which face interval d 002 is not less than 0.340 nm and not more than 0.370 nm, a pore volumes ratio V 1 /V 2 is not more than 0.2, where a volume of pores V 1 included in the soft carbon have diameters from not less than 1 nm to less than 10 nm and a volume of pores V 2 included in the soft carbon have diameters from not less than 10 nm to less than 100 nm, a specific surface area of the soft carbon is from not less than 1 m 2 /g to not more than 10 m 2 /g, and an average grain diameter (50% D of the soft carbon is not less than 3 μm and not more than 30 μm.