Battery cell, method and system for manufacturing same, battery, and electrical device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12160009-B2
Application number	US-202217948688-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 20, 2022
Priority date	Dec 17, 2020
Publication date	Dec 3, 2024
Grant date	Dec 3, 2024

Abstract

A battery cell includes an electrode assembly, a housing, a cover plate, and a support member. The housing includes a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate. At least a part of the first electrode plate is stacked with the second electrode plate. The housing is provided with an opening and an accommodation cavity configured to accommodate the electrode assembly. The housing includes a side plate. The cover plate is perpendicular to the side plate and configured to close the opening. At least a part of the support member is disposed between the side plate and the electrode assembly, and the support member is configured to support the electrode assembly so that a spacing between an end, facing the side plate, of the first electrode plate and the side plate in a first direction is greater than a preset value. The first direction being a direction perpendicular to the side plate.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A battery cell comprising:
an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate, at least a part of the first electrode plate being stacked with the second electrode plate;
a housing provided with an opening and an accommodation cavity configured to accommodate the electrode assembly, the housing including a side plate, and the electrode assembly including a surface facing the side plate;
a cover plate perpendicular to the side plate and configured to close the opening;
a support member, at least a part of the support member being disposed between the side plate and the electrode assembly, and the support member being configured to support the electrode assembly so that a spacing between an end of the first electrode plate and the side plate in a first direction is greater than a preset value, the end facing the side plate, and the first direction being a direction perpendicular to the side plate;
a bonding member configured to connect the support member to the electrode assembly; and
an insulating member configured to isolate the electrode assembly from the housing;
wherein in a direction from the electrode assembly to the housing, the surface, the support member, the bonding member, the insulating member, and the side plate are sequentially arranged in this order.

2. The battery cell according to claim 1 , wherein:
the side plate is a first side plate;
the housing further includes a second side plate perpendicular to the first side plate and the cover plate, a transition plate is provided between the first side plate and the second side plate, and an inner surface of the transition plate is an arc face; and
the preset value and a radius of the inner surface of the transition plate satisfy: H≥0.8R, where H denotes the preset value and R denotes the radius of the inner surface of the transition plate.

3. The battery cell according to claim 2 , wherein the preset value H and the radius R satisfy: R≤H≤2R.

4. The battery cell according to claim 2 , wherein the radius is 0.5 mm to 2 mm.

5. The battery cell according to claim 2 , wherein an area of the second side plate is larger than an area of the first side plate.

6. The battery cell according to claim 1 ,
wherein the insulating member is a second insulating member;
the battery cell further comprising:
a first insulating member disposed at a side of the cover plate, the side facing the electrode assembly, and the first insulating member being configured to isolate the cover plate from the electrode assembly; and
the support member is spaced apart from the first insulating member along a second direction, the second direction being a direction perpendicular to the cover plate.

7. The battery cell according to claim 1 , wherein:
the housing further includes a bottom plate disposed at a side the electrode assembly, the side facing away from the cover plate, and the bottom plate being perpendicular to the side plate; and
the support member is spaced apart from the bottom plate along a second direction, the second direction being a direction perpendicular to the cover plate.

8. The battery cell according to claim 1 , wherein:
the side plate is one of two side plates of the housing, the two side plates are located at two sides of the electrode assembly along the first direction, respectively; and
the support member is one of two support members each disposed between the electrode assembly and a corresponding one of the two side plates.

9. The battery cell according to claim 1 , wherein the support member is located between the surface and the side plate.

10. The battery cell according to claim 9 , wherein two edges of the surface along a second direction exceed two edges of the support member along the second direction, respectively, two edges of the surface along a third direction exceed two edges of the support member along the third direction, respectively, the second direction is a direction perpendicular to the cover plate, and the third direction is perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction.

11. The battery cell according to claim 9 , wherein:
the insulating member includes an insulating portion disposed between the side plate and the surface.

12. The battery cell according to claim 11 , wherein:
the insulating portion is one of two first insulating portions disposed at two sides of the electrode assembly along the first direction;
the insulating member further includes a second insulating portion and two third insulating portions, the second insulating portion is located at a side of the electrode assembly and is connected to the third insulating portions, the side of the electrode assembly faces away from the cover plate along a second direction perpendicular to the cover plate, and the two third insulating portions are disposed at two sides, respectively, of the electrode assembly along a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction; and
each of the first insulating portions is connected to one of the third insulating portions, and at least one of the first insulating portions is connected to both of the two third insulating portions.

13. The battery cell according to claim 12 , wherein:
the second insulating portion is one of two second insulating portions of the insulating member, the two second insulating portions are connected to the two third insulating portions, respectively, and the two second insulating portions at least partly overlap in the second direction; and
the two first insulating portions are two of three first insulating portions of the insulating member, one of the three first insulating portions is disposed at one of the two sides of the electrode assembly along the first direction and is connected to both of the two third insulating portions, and other two of the three first insulating portions are disposed at another one of the two sides of the electrode assembly along the first direction, are connected to the two third insulating portions, respectively, and at least partly overlap in the first direction.

14. The battery cell according to claim 11 , wherein the support member is disposed between the insulating portion and the surface.

15. The battery cell according to claim 1 , wherein:
the surface is a first surface of the electrode assembly;
the electrode assembly further includes a second surface connected to the first surface, and the second surface is perpendicular to the side plate and the cover plate; and
the bonding member includes a first bonding portion and a second bonding portion, the first bonding portion is bonded to a surface of the support member, the surface of the support member is away from the first surface, and the second bonding portion is connected to the first bonding portion and bonded to the second surface.

16. The battery cell according to claim 1 , wherein the bonding member is one of a plurality of bonding member of the battery cell, and the plurality of bonding members are discrete and arranged at intervals along a second direction, the second direction being a direction perpendicular to the cover plate.

17. A battery comprising:
a box; and
the battery cell according to claim 1 accommodated in the box.

18. The battery according to claim 17 , wherein in the battery cell, the side plate is located at a lower side of the electrode assembly along a vertical direction.

19. An electrical device comprising the battery according to claim 17 configured to provide electrical energy.

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Hong Kong Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Wenwei

Classifications

• H01M2220/20

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

• H01M10/0585

  of accumulators having only flat construction elements, i.e. flat positive electrodes, flat negative electrodes and flat separators · CPC title

• H01M50/204

  Racks, modules or packs for multiple batteries or multiple cells · CPC title

• H01M50/102

  characterised by their shape or physical structure · CPC title

• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · CPC title