Electrode tab structure and battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10388935-B2
Application number	US-201715590246-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 9, 2017
Priority date	Sep 21, 2016
Publication date	Aug 20, 2019
Grant date	Aug 20, 2019

Abstract

The present application provides an electrode tab structure and a battery, the electrode tab structure includes: an electrode tab substrate; a current collector connected with the electrode tab substrate, a largest thickness after the electrode tab substrate being welded with the current collector is less than or equal to 1.5 times of a sum of a thickness of the electrode tab substrate and a thickness of the current collector. In the present application, the thickness of the electrode tab structure is suitably limited with respect to the sum of the thickness of the electrode tab substrate and the current collector, which avoids defect of too large welding resistance caused by too large thickness of the electrode tab structure, so as to improve internal symmetry of the cell, increase the reliability of the electrode tab structure, and avoid from deforming, which thereby improving the overall performance of the battery.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrode tab structure, comprising:
an electrode tab substrate; and
a current collector, wherein the current collector is welded with the electrode tab substrate to form a tab structure, and the tab structure has a thickness greater than or equal to 1.25 times a sum of a thickness of the electrode tab substrate and a thickness of the current collector, and smaller than or equal to 1.5 times the sum of the thickness of the electrode tab substrate and the thickness of the current collector,
a welding region having a plurality of welding spots, the welding region being connected with the current collector through the plurality of welding spots,
wherein a welding area of each welding spot of the plurality of welding spots is less than 1 mm 2 , and
a number of welding spots per square millimeter of the welding region is larger than 1.

2. The electrode tab structure according to claim 1 , wherein at least one electrode tab substrate is provided, each electrode tab substrate is connected with the current collector.

3. The electrode tab structure according to claim 1 , wherein
the sum of the thickness of the electrode tab substrate and the thickness of the current collector is larger than or equal to 10 μm, and is less than or equal to 250 μm.

4. The electrode tab structure according to claim 1 , wherein a total welding area of the plurality of welding spots is less than or equal to 70% of an area of the welding region.

5. The electrode tab structure according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of welding spots are defined in a line-row layout or a circular layout.

6. The electrode tab structure according to claim 3 , wherein the electrode tab substrate further comprises:
an unwelded region connected with the welding region, an end of the unwelded region is shaped as an arc.

7. A battery, wherein at least one electrode tab of the battery comprises the electrode tab structure according to claim 1 .

8. The battery according to claim 7 , wherein the battery has a jelly roll, a stacking cell or a hybrid of jelly roll and stacking cell.

Assignees

• Dongguan Amperex Tech Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Kefei
• Xiao Liangzhen
• Zeng Qiao
• Yuan Qingfeng
• Geng Jibin

Classifications

• H01M10/04 Primary

  Construction or manufacture in general (H01M10/058, H01M10/12, H01M10/28, H01M10/38 take precedence) · CPC title

• H01M4/00

  Electrodes · CPC title

• H01M50/552

  characterised by their shape · CPC title

• H01M50/533

  characterised by the shape of the leads or tabs · CPC title

• H01M50/54

  Connection of several leads or tabs of plate-like electrode stacks, e.g. electrode pole straps or bridges · CPC title