Method for manufacturing secondary battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11870082-B2
Application number	US-202217991192-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2022
Priority date	Dec 15, 2017
Publication date	Jan 9, 2024
Grant date	Jan 9, 2024

Abstract

The present invention is a method for manufacturing a secondary battery. An electrode assembly and an electrolyte are accommodated into a body of a battery case. The body of the battery case has an accommodation part and a gas pocket part, and a passage that extends from the accommodation part to the outside discharges an internal gas from the accommodation part through the gas pocket part. The battery case is seated in a seating step on a support block, which has an inclined part on a side surface thereof, to support the battery case. The body is pressed to discharge a gas accommodated in the accommodation part through the gas pocket part in the battery case. This method allows easy discharging of internal gas while reducing discharge of the electrolyte with the gas.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a secondary battery, the method comprising:
a formation step of accommodating an electrode assembly and an electrolyte into a body of a battery case,
wherein the body of the battery case comprises an accommodation part and a gas pocket part,
wherein a passage is formed in the body of the battery case that extends from the accommodation part through the gas pocket part to an outside, and
wherein the passage is capable of discharging an internal gas from the accommodation part;
a seating step of seating the body of the battery case on a support block, which has an inclined part on a side surface and the inclined part supports the body of the battery case,
wherein the gas pocket part is bent and seated on a top surface of the support block; and
a gas discharge step of pressing the body of the battery case to discharge a gas accommodated in the accommodation part into the passage and through the gas pocket part to the outside.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in the gas discharge step, an outer surface of the body is surface-pressed through a pusher provided as a tilt press.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in the gas discharge step, an outer surface of the body is rolled to be pressed through a pusher provided as a roll press.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the support block has a planar top surface and a planar bottom surface, which are parallel to each other, and a side surface having an inclined part that is inclined with respect to the top and bottom surfaces, and
in the seating step, the body of the battery case is inclinedly disposed on the support block so as to be seated on the inclined part of the support block, and the gas pocket part is bent with respect to the body so as to be seated on the top surface of the support block.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein, in the seating step, the battery case is seated on the support block of which the side surface is inclined at an angle of 30 degrees to 60 degrees with respect to the bottom surface.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein a corner portion of the support block, which faces the bent portion of the gas pocket part is chamfered to form a two-stage bent part, and
in the seating step, the gas pocket part is bent in two stages in a shape corresponding to the two-stage bent part of the support block.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the formation step further comprises a first sealing step of sealing an edge of the battery case to seal the accommodation part and the gas pocket part, and
the gas discharge step further comprises a piercing step of piercing the gas pocket part to form one or more holes so that the internal gas is discharged through the one or more holes in the gas pocket part.

8. A method for manufacturing a secondary battery, the method comprising:
a formation step of accommodating an electrode assembly and an electrolyte into a body of a battery case,
wherein the body of the battery comprises an accommodation part and a gas pocket part,
wherein a passage in the body of the battery case extends from the accommodation part through the gas pocket part to an outside,
wherein the passage is capable of discharging an internal gas from the accommodation part;
a seating step of seating the gas pocket part on a support block, which has an inclined part on a side surface thereof, to support the gas pocket part in the battery case; and
a gas discharge step of pressing the body to discharge a gas accommodated in the accommodation part through the gas pocket part in the battery case,
wherein, in the seating step, the gas pocket part is seated on the inclined part of the support block.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the support block comprises a triangular block and a rectangular block, each of which has the inclined part, and
wherein in the seating step, an extension part of the gas pocket part, which extends from the body, is seated on the inclined part of the triangular block, and an end of the gas pocket part is seated on the rectangular block.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the seating step further comprises a fixing step of fixing a corner portion of the body through a fixing block in the battery case,
wherein the fixing block is supported by an elastic member.

Assignees

• Lg Energy Solution Ltd

Inventors

• Bae Dong Hun
• Park Hyo Jin
• Hong Suk Hyun
• Bae Joon Sung
• Lee Beom Koon
• Lim Dae Bong
• Heo Jin Woo

Classifications

• H01M50/105 Primary

  Pouches or flexible bags · CPC title

• H01M10/04

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

• H01M10/0404

  Machines for assembling batteries · CPC title

• H01M10/049

  Processes for forming or storing electrodes in the battery container · CPC title

• H01M50/325

  comprising deformable valve members, e.g. elastic or flexible valve members · CPC title