Method of producing electrode and electrode production apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12318807-B2
Application number	US-202418599423-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 8, 2024
Priority date	Oct 28, 2021
Publication date	Jun 3, 2025
Grant date	Jun 3, 2025

Abstract

(a) An aerosol including an active material, a binder, and a gas is made. (b) A film-like flow of the aerosol is formed. (c) An electrically-charged region is formed by corona discharge. (d) The film-like flow passes through the electrically-charged region. (e) The film-like flow is introduced into an electric field after passing through the electrically-charged region. In the electric field, an active material layer is formed by adhering a solid component of the film-like flow onto a surface of a substrate by electrostatic force.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of producing an electrode for a lithium-ion battery, the method comprising:
(a) making an aerosol including an active material, a binder and a gas;
(b) forming a film flow of the aerosol;
(c) forming an electrically-charged region by corona discharge;
(d) allowing the film flow to pass through the electrically-charged region;
(e) introducing the film flow into an electric field after passing through the electrically-charged region, and
(f) applying at least one of heat and pressure to the active material layer to fix the active material layer to a substrate;
wherein, in the electric field, an active material layer is formed by adhering a solid component of the film flow onto a surface of the substrate by electrostatic force;
the film flow has a flow direction and a width direction;
the width direction is orthogonal to the flow direction;
the corona discharge occurs from a corona discharge electrode;
the corona discharge electrode extends in a form of a line along the width direction; and
in the width direction, the corona discharge electrode has a width larger than a width of the film flow;
wherein each of the flow direction and the width direction is orthogonal to a vertical direction,
the corona discharge electrode is disposed vertically below the film flow, and the substrate is disposed vertically above the film flow.

2. The method of producing the electrode for a lithium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein
the corona discharge electrode includes a plurality of protrusions, and
the plurality of protrusions are arranged side by side in the width direction.

3. The method of producing the electrode for a lithium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein in the (d), a gas is blown toward the film flow in a direction in which the film flow is separated away from the corona discharge electrode.

4. The method of producing the electrode for a lithium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein
the substrate is in a sheet form, and
the flow direction and the width direction of the film flow are along the surface of the substrate.

5. The method of producing the electrode for a lithium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the lithium-ion battery is an all-solid-state battery.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Uezono Tomoyuki
• ODA Momoka

Classifications

• B05D3/12

  by mechanical means · CPC title

• B05D3/0254

  After-treatment · CPC title

• B05B5/0418

  designed for spraying particulate material · CPC title

• H01M4/0419 Primary

  involving spraying · CPC title

• H01M4/0404

  by coating on electrode collectors · CPC title