Fabricating apparatus and method for secondary battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10008734-B2
Application number	US-201514791134-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 2, 2015
Priority date	Aug 4, 2014
Publication date	Jun 26, 2018
Grant date	Jun 26, 2018

Abstract

Provided is a fabricating apparatus for a secondary battery, the fabricating apparatus including: a base material supplier configured to supply a base material; a winder configured to wind the base material through a mandrel; and a controller configured to control a base material supply amount of the base material supplier and a mandrel rotation amount of the winder, wherein the controller is further configured to store a profile of the base material supply amount with respect to the mandrel rotation amount, and to synchronously control the base material supply amount and the mandrel rotation amount based on the profile.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fabricating apparatus for a secondary battery, the fabricating apparatus comprising:
a base material supplier configured to supply a base material;
a winder configured to wind the base material through a mandrel; and
a controller configured to control a base material supply amount of the base material supplier and a mandrel rotation amount of the winder,
wherein the controller is further configured to store a profile of the base material supply amount with respect to the mandrel rotation amount, and to synchronously control the base material supply amount and the mandrel rotation amount based on the profile.

2. The fabricating apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the profile comprises the base material supply amount with a circumference variation corresponding to the mandrel rotation amount.

3. The fabricating apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a tension measurer configured to measure a tension of the base material between the base material supplier and the winder.

4. The fabricating apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the tension measurer comprises a dancer system, a load cell, or a combination thereof.

5. The fabricating apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a base material supply amount measurer configured to measure the base material supply amount between the base material supplier and the winder.

6. The fabricating apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the base material supply amount measurer comprises an encoder.

7. The fabricating apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to control the base material supply amount corresponding to the mandrel rotation amount to control the tension of the base material.

8. The fabricating apparatus of claim 1 , wherein when the secondary battery comprises a cylindrical battery, the profile comprises a base material unit supply amount that gradually increases per turn of the mandrel.

9. The fabricating apparatus of claim 1 , wherein when the secondary battery comprises a rectangular battery, the profile comprises a base material unit supply amount appearing as two parabolas per turn of the mandrel.

10. A fabricating method for a secondary battery comprising an electrode assembly formed by winding a supplied base material, the method comprising:
acquiring a profile of a base material supply amount of a base material supplier for supplying the base material with respect to a mandrel rotation amount of a winder for winding the base material; and
synchronously driving the mandrel and the base material supplier based on the profile.

11. The fabricating method of claim 10 , wherein the acquiring of the profile comprises measuring the base material supply amount from the base material supplier as the mandrel is rotated.

12. The fabricating method of claim 11 , wherein the acquiring of the profile comprises measuring the base material supply amount utilizing a base material supply amount measurer while continuously rotating the mandrel.

13. The fabricating method of claim 11 , wherein the acquiring of the profile comprises measuring the base material supply amount by multiplying a roller diameter of the base material supplier with a rotation angle while rotating the mandrel.

14. The fabricating method of claim 11 , further comprising:
calculating the base material supply amount with respect to the mandrel rotation amount at a point of time of the profile to control the tension of the base material at the point of time; and
controlling the calculated base material supply amount.

15. The fabricating method of claim 11 , wherein when the secondary battery comprises a cylindrical battery, the profile comprises a base material unit supply amount that gradually increases per turn of the mandrel.

16. The fabricating method of claim 11 , wherein when the secondary battery comprises a rectangular battery, the profile comprises a base material unit supply amount appearing as two parabolas per turn of the mandrel.

Assignees

• Samsung Sdi Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Seunghwan
• Cho Gibong
• Kim Dongwoo
• Hwang Soonhak
• Hong Jinuk
• Kim Kyuho
• Choi Kyungtaek
• Maeng Sangjin
• Min Jungki

Classifications

• H01M2220/30

  Batteries in portable systems, e.g. mobile phone, laptop · CPC title

• H01M10/0409 Primary

  for cells with wound electrodes · CPC title

• B65H2515/31

  Tensile forces · CPC title

• B65H23/1806

  in reel-to-reel type web winding and unwinding mechanism, e.g. mechanism acting on web-roll spindle · CPC title

• B65H2557/242

  involving a particular data profile or curve · CPC title