Furukawa Battery

SOC regions of battery operation in various HEV duties. Source Furukawa Battery Corp. 

Axion Power International (USA) has replaced entirely the negative plates of VRLABs with carbon super-capacitor plates [80]. CSIRO and Furukawa Battery have developed and tested a battery (called the Ultra Battery) with negative plates comprising half regular lead plate and half carbon super-capacitor plate [81]. 

Furukawa Battery Co. Ltd has also developed Pb—Ca—Sn—Ba alloy for battery grids. 

In Japan, the Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd. industrialized a sintered-type vented nickel-cadmium battery for airplane starting in 1955. The Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd. started mass production of the vented-type nickel-cadmium secondary battery and a sealed nickel-cadmium secondary battery for industrial use in 1962 and developed the same to the fields, such as aircrafts. 

Furukawa Battery in Japan and CSIRO in Australia have codeveloped a hybrid lead-acid battery that they have called the Ultrabattery. In this hybrid, the battery and supercapacitor are integrated at the electrode plate level. Figure 1.33 shows the structure of the Ultrabattery. 

N. Furukawa, Y. lnoue, T. Matsumoto, Proc. 28th Battery Symp., Tokyo, Japan, 1987, p. 107. 

N. Furukawa, JECBattery Newsletter 2, Sanyo Battery Co.,JEC Press, Brunswick, Ohio, 1990. 

Figure 1.10 shows the SOC regions of operation of HEV batteries, as summarised by Furukawa Corporation. 

Fig. 5.5 Diagram of the construction of the Ultra Battery (Furukawa permission obtained)...

M. Furukawa, 22nd Switching Power Sources and Battery System Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 2007 (in Japanese). 

N. Furukawa, K. Nishio, eds.. Lithium Batteries with Polymer Electrodes, Chapman Hall, London, 1993. 

Nishio K, Furukawa N (2011) Practical batteries. In Besenhard JO, Daniel C (ed) Handbook of battery materials. 2nd edn, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim... 

Iwakura K, Ikoma S, Nohara N, Furukawa H, Inoue J (2003) Charge-discharge and capacity retention characteristics of new type Ni/MH batteries using polymer hydrogel electrolyte. Electrochem Soc 150 A1623... 

Iwakura C, Ikoma K, Nohara S, Furukawa N, Inoe H (2005) Capacity retention characteristics of nickel/ metal hydride batteries with polymer hydrogel electrolyte. Electrochem Solid-State Lett 8 A45... 

Nakanno, K., Takeshima, S., and Furukawa, J., Technological Trends in Lead-Acid Batteries for Automotive Applications, Furukawa Review, Vol. 32, pp. 49-55, 2007. 

T. Nohma and N. Furukawa, in K. M. Abraham and M. Saloman (eds.), Proc. Symp. Primary and Secondary Lithium Batteries, The Electrochemical Society, Pennington, N.J., 1991. 

Yamada Y, Furukawa K, Sodeyama K, Kikuchi K, Yaegashi M, Tateyama Y, Yamada A (2014) Unusual stabiUty of acetonitrile-based superconcentratede electrolytes for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries. J Am Chem Soc 136 5039-5046. doi 10.1021/ ja412807w... 

Nogami, M., K. Moriwaki and N. Furukawa, 1990, in Proc. 3rd Int. Rechargable Battery Seminar, March, Florida, USA. 

Narukawa, S. and Furukawa, N. (1993) in Modem Battery Technology, (ed. C.V. Stuck), Ellis Horwood, New York,... 

N. Furukawa, Development and commercialization of nickel-metal hydride secondary batteries,. Power Sources 51,1994,45-59. 

---