Separator, and separator for alkaline manganese dry battery comprising same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11450922-B2
Application number	US-201816772886-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 25, 2018
Priority date	Dec 26, 2017
Publication date	Sep 20, 2022
Grant date	Sep 20, 2022

Abstract

To provide a separator which has a combination of a preferable air permeability enabling high prevention of internal short circuit and a high retention rate of such an air permeability in an electrolytic solution, and has more improved uniformity of the air permeability.
A separator comprising a porous sheet and cellulose nanofibers, wherein the porous sheet comprises a binder component having the SP value of 11 to 16 (cal/cm 3 ) 1/2 , and the porous sheet has the cellulose nanofibers at the inside and on the surface thereof, and wherein the cellulose nanofibers are combined with the porous sheet by fusion of the binder component.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A separator comprising a porous sheet and cellulose nanofibers,
wherein the porous sheet comprises:
a main fiber, and
a binder component having an SP value of 11 to 16 (cal/cm 3 ) 1/2 , wherein the binder component is a fibrous binder,
wherein the porous sheet has the cellulose nanofibers at the inside and on the surface thereof, and
wherein the cellulose nanofibers are combined with the porous sheet by fusion of the binder component such that the binder component at least partially loses its shape.

2. The separator according to claim 1 , wherein the porous sheet comprises a vinyl acetate-based resin fiber as the main fiber.

3. The separator according to claim 2 , wherein the porous sheet comprises a polyvinyl alcohol fiber as the main fiber.

4. The separator according to claim 1 , wherein the binder component is based on a vinyl acetate-based resin fiber.

5. The separator according to claim 4 , wherein the binder component is based on a polyvinyl alcohol fiber.

6. The separator according to claim 1 , wherein a number average fiber diameter of the cellulose nanofibers is 2 to 300 nm.

7. The separator according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the porous sheet is 30 to 250 μm.

8. The separator according to claim 1 , wherein the porous sheet comprises mercerized pulp and/or a lyocell fiber as the main fiber.

9. The separator according to claim 1 , wherein a decrease rate of an air permeability of the separator after stationarily leaving the separator in water for 30 minutes with respect to an air permeability of the porous sheet is 50% or more.

10. An alkaline manganese dry battery, comprising the separator according to claim 1 .

11. A capacitor, comprising the separator according to claim 1 .

12. The separator according to claim 1 , wherein the main fiber and the binder component are different from each other.

13. The separator according to claim 3 , wherein the polyvinyl alcohol fiber as the main fiber has a dissolution temperature in water of 90° C. or more.

14. The separator according to claim 5 , wherein the polyvinyl alcohol fiber as the binder component has a dissolution temperature in water of 40 to 90° C.

Assignees

• Kuraray Co

Inventors

• Sakai Tomoki
• Kawai Hiroyuki
• Hayakawa Tomohiro
• Kusunoki Toshimichi

Classifications

• H01M50/489

  Separators, membranes, diaphragms or spacing elements inside the cells, characterised by their physical properties, e.g. swelling degree, hydrophilicity or shut down properties · CPC title

• H01M50/429

  Natural polymers · CPC title

• H01M50/414

  Synthetic resins, e.g. thermoplastics or thermosetting resins · CPC title

• H01M50/4295 Primary

  Natural cotton, cellulose or wood · CPC title

• H01M6/06

  Dry cells, i.e. cells wherein the electrolyte is rendered non-fluid · CPC title