12 December 2007

Toshiba SCiB super charge ion battery announced
5 min charge, 10 year lifespan

If you crack the back off of an Nokia N95 or any other modern portable electronic device, you'll find a crappy battery that takes up a huge amount of space and contributes to a large part of the device's weight and still can’t provide enough energy to maintain business as usual and especially use multimedia or internet on a higher activity level unfortunately.

There were very persistent rumors super fast charging and longer-lasting batteries and now Toshiba introduces a rechargeable battery that can recharge to 90% in less than 5 min and last for the 10 years!???

Sounds great isn’t it!? But as usually there is a tricky part, Toshiba aims to make this high potential battery a mainstay of its industrial systems and automotive products businesses. However, technology is here and we shouldn’t loose the faith that they will son or later implement this technology into mobile phone batteries.

Anyway, as for SCiB, doing safety and quick charging and which are high, the long-lived efficiency which exceeds 10 years, charge of 90% or more of capacity has possible boosting charge efficiency in only 5 minutes. Because this the quality balance which is superior is actualized, this corporation individual new cathode material, the new separator, the new electrolyte was adopted, the accumulator of high reliability was actualized furthermore by establishing new production technology. In addition, at the time of electric battery exchange it can contribute to also the decrease of environmental load the long-lived efficiency of SCiB, through the reduction of the waste which occurs.

The new product in the module (standard module) which arranges in series is formed 10 cells of 4. 2Ah (ampere hour). In order to utilize electric battery quality to the maximum, the battery management system which has the function of voltage temperature supervision, abnormal supervision protection and the cell balance adjustment etc. is loaded in standard module.

As for SCiB, application to use such as electrical regeneration with emergency power and wind force generation of electricity and stabilization of electrical quality is possible in addition to the electromotive bicycle and the electromotive motorcycle, the fork lift and the construction equipment etc. where already spread of the accumulator has started. After that, compared to the high performance it advances the development of the electric battery cell, aims also the application to the hybrid automobile and the future electric automobile and the like.

This corporation the new business whose growth characteristic is high defines SCiB business, focusing on industrial field and load field assures business development to global, aims toward gross sales 100000000000 Yen scale in 2015.