Battery cell and method for manufacturing battery cell

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11848410-B2
Application number	US-202017113291-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 7, 2020
Priority date	Jan 29, 2016
Publication date	Dec 19, 2023
Grant date	Dec 19, 2023

Abstract

Disclosed is a battery cell, which includes an electrode assembly, a pair of electrode leads electrically connected to the electrode assembly, a battery case configured to accommodate the electrode assembly and expose a portion of the pair of electrode leads to the outside, an electrolyte injection hole formed in the battery case and connectable to an electrolyte injecting device that injects an electrolyte in a vacuum state so that the electrolyte is injected into the battery case, and an injection hole cap configured to cover the electrolyte injection hole and mounted to the electrolyte injection hole so as to be detachable from the electrolyte injection hole by user manipulation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for injecting electrolyte, the system comprising:
a battery cell and an electrolyte injecting device,
wherein the battery cell includes:
an electrode assembly comprising flat, planar positive and negative electrode plates and a separator disposed therebetween;
a pair of electrode leads electrically connected to the electrode assembly;
a battery case configured to accommodate the electrode assembly and expose a portion of the pair of electrode leads to the outside, the battery case being a pouch-type case, the electrode leads extending through a periphery of the pouch-type case to an outside of the pouch-type case;
an electrolyte injection hole formed in the battery case and connectable to the electrolyte injecting device that injects an electrolyte in a vacuum state so that the electrolyte is injected into the battery case, the electrolyte injection hole being spaced apart from the electrode leads, the electrolyte injection hole having a diameter smaller than a width of the electrode leads and smaller than a width of the electrode assembly; and
an injection hole cap configured to cover the electrolyte injection hole and mounted to the electrolyte injection hole so as to be detachable from the electrolyte injection hole by user manipulation,
wherein the electrolyte injection hole has an inner hollow for injecting the electrolyte into the battery case and protrudes out of the battery case, and
wherein the electrolyte injecting device is configured to be inserted into an inner circumference of an inner collar of the electrolyte injection hole when the electrolyte is injected in the vacuum state, the inner collar extending into the battery case below an outer surface of the battery case, and

wherein the electrolyte injecting device includes:
an injection cylinder connected configured to extend into the electrolyte injection hole, the injection cylinder having an outer diameter that is approximately equal to an inner diameter of the inner collar of the electrolyte injection hole;
a mounting cylinder extending around an outer circumference of the injection cylinder, the mounting cylinder spaced apart from an open end of the injection cylinder in a longitudinal direction of the injection cylinder and defining a contact surface facing towards the open end of the injection cylinder, the contact surface configured to abut a confronting portion of the outer surface of the battery case extending away from the electrolyte injection hole, the mounting cylinder having an inner diameter that is approximately equal to the outer diameter of the injection cylinder;
a vacuum unit provided at the injection cylinder to decompress the inside of the battery case to a vacuum state; and
an electrolyte unit provided at the injection cylinder to provide an electrolyte into the battery case.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the injection hole cap is screwed to the electrolyte injection hole.

3. The system according to claim 2 , wherein the electrolyte injection hole has an inner hollow for injecting the electrolyte into the battery case and protrudes out of the battery case.

4. The system according to claim 3 , wherein the electrolyte injecting device is inserted into an outer circumference of the electrolyte injection hole when the electrolyte is injected in the vacuum state.

5. The system according to claim 3 , wherein an outer circumference of the electrolyte injection hole and an inner circumference of the injection hole cap respectively have threads for the screwing.

6. The system according to claim 1 , wherein an inner circumference of the electrolyte injection hole and an outer circumference of the injection hole cap respectively have threads for the screwing.

7. The system according to claim 2 , wherein at least one anti-slip groove for preventing a slip during the user manipulation is formed at an outer circumference of the injection hole cap.

Assignees

• Lg Chemical Ltd
• Lg Energy Solution Ltd

Inventors

• Park Sung-Ryul
• Chang Won-Seok

Classifications

• H01M10/0413 Primary

  Large-sized flat cells or batteries for motive or stationary systems with plate-like electrodes · CPC title

• H01M10/058 Primary

  Construction or manufacture · CPC title

• H01M10/42

  Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance of secondary cells or secondary half-cells (H01M10/60 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01M50/627

  Filling ports · CPC title

• H01M50/645

  Plugs · CPC title