Secondary battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10205141-B2
Application number	US-201615187909-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 21, 2016
Priority date	Mar 17, 2016
Publication date	Feb 12, 2019
Grant date	Feb 12, 2019

Abstract

The secondary battery of the present invention includes: a top cover, a first electrode terminal, a second electrode terminal, an electrode-tab pad-plate, an electrode assembly, a first electrode-tab and a second electrode-tab; the first and second electrode terminal are arranged on the top cover, the electrode-tab pad-plate is a strip-plate shaped structure, and is located between the top cover and electrode assembly, the first electrode-tab includes a connecting part, a folding part and a welding part, the connecting part is beneath the electrode-tab pad-plate, the welding part is above the electrode-tab pad-plate, the connecting part is connected with the electrode assembly, the welding part is connected with the first electrode terminal, the folding part is connected with the connecting part and welding part bypassing the electrode-tab pad-plate; the second electrode terminal is connected with the electrode assembly through the second electrode-tab.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A secondary battery, characterized by comprising: a top cover, a first electrode terminal, a second electrode terminal, an electrode tab pad plate, an electrode assembly, a first electrode tab and a second electrode tab; the first electrode terminal and the second electrode terminal are both arranged at the top cover;
the electrode tab pad plate is of a strip plate shaped structure, and is located between the top cover and the electrode assembly;
the first electrode tab comprises a connecting part, a folding part and a welding part, the connecting part is beneath the electrode tab pad plate, the welding part is above the electrode tab pad plate, the connecting part is connected with the electrode assembly, the welding part is connected with the first electrode terminal, the folding part is connected with the connecting part and the welding part bypassing the electrode tab pad plate;
the second electrode terminal is connected with the electrode assembly through the second electrode tab,
wherein the secondary battery further comprises a first connection plate and a second connection plate;
there are at least two electrode assemblies, each of the at least two electrode assemblies are provided with the first electrode tab and the second electrode tab,
the folding parts of the first electrode tabs of the at least two electrode assemblies are located at two sides of the electrode tab pad plate respectively, and the welding parts of the first electrode tabs of the at least two electrode assemblies are connected with the first electrode terminal through the first connection plate,
the second electrode tabs of the at least two electrode assemblies are connected with the second electrode terminal through the second connection plate.

2. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , characterized in that: the electrode tab pad plate comprises two pad plate end parts and a pad plate middle part; width of the pad plate middle part is less than width of the pad plate end part.

3. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , characterized in that: the electrode tab pad plate comprises two pad plate end parts and a pad plate middle part; thickness of the pad plate end part is greater than thickness of the pad plate middle part.

4. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , characterized in that: the secondary battery further comprises an anti-explosion valve;
the anti-explosion valve is arranged on the top cover, and an air hole corresponding to position of the anti-explosion valve is arranged at the electrode tab pad plate.

5. The secondary battery according to claim 2 , characterized in that: the secondary battery further comprises an anti-explosion valve,
the anti-explosion valve is arranged on the top cover, and a screen net corresponding to position of the anti-explosion valve is arranged at the electrode tab pad plate.

6. The secondary battery according to claim 5 , characterized in that: thickness of a part of the electrode tab pad plate on which the screen net is arranged is greater than thickness of the other parts.

7. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , characterized in that: at least one narrow lateral surface extending along an extending direction of the electrode tab pad plate is of an arc-shaped surface.

8. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , characterized in that: the secondary battery further comprises an insulating layer;
the insulating layer is located between the top cover and the electrode tab pad plate, a first electrode terminal hole and a second electrode terminal hole are arranged on the insulating layer, the first electrode terminal hole and the first electrode terminal have corresponding position, the second electrode terminal hole and the second electrode terminal have corresponding position, the first electrode terminal is embedded into the first electrode terminal hole, the second electrode terminal is embedded into the second electrode terminal hole;
a buckle is arranged on the insulating layer, a limiting hole corresponding to position of the buckle is arranged at an edge of the electrode tab pad plate, the buckle is fastened with the limiting hole.

9. The secondary battery according to claim 8 , characterized in that: an embossment is arranged in the limiting hole.

10. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , characterized in that: a viscous material is coated on an upper surface of the electrode tab pad plate.

11. The secondary battery according to claim 5 , characterized in that: the screen net is made of a metal material or a high temperature resistant material.

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Guo Jian
• Li Quankun
• Deng Pinghua
• Wang Peng
• Zhu Lingbo
• Chi Qingkui

Classifications

• H01M2220/20

  Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane · CPC title

• H01M10/0431 Primary

  Cells with wound or folded electrodes (H01M10/045 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01M50/566

  by welding, soldering or brazing · CPC title

• H01M50/50 Primary

  Current conducting connections for cells or batteries · CPC title

• H01M50/176

  for prismatic or rectangular cells (H01M50/181 takes precedence) · CPC title