Device for manufacturing electrode plate and method for manufacturing electrode plate

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12334541-B2
Application number	US-202117915777-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 25, 2021
Priority date	Mar 30, 2020
Publication date	Jun 17, 2025
Grant date	Jun 17, 2025

Abstract

A manufacturing apparatus for an electrode plate includes: a conveyance line of the electrode plate having an applied portion in which an electrode active material is applied to a surface of a base material and a non-applied portion in which the electrode active material is not applied to the surface of the base material; a compression roll provided in the conveyance line and compressing the applied portion; and a tension reducing mechanism provided in at least one of an upstream section ending at the compression roll or a downstream section starting at the compression roll in the conveyance line and reducing a tension applied to the electrode plate.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A manufacturing apparatus for an electrode plate, comprising:
a conveyance line of the electrode plate having an applied portion in which an electrode active material is applied to a surface of a base material and a non-applied portion in which the electrode active material is not applied to the surface;
a compression roll provided in the conveyance line and structured to compress the applied portion; and
a tension reducing mechanism provided in at least one of an upstream section ending at the compression roll or a downstream section starting at the compression roll in the conveyance line and structured to reduce a tension applied to the electrode plate,
wherein the manufacturing apparatus further comprises:
a stretching mechanism structured to stretch the non-applied portion at a position farther from the compression roll than the tension reducing mechanism in the conveyance line by applying, to the non-applied portion, a tension larger than the tension applied to the electrode plate in a section in which the tension is reduced by the tension reducing mechanism,

wherein the conveyance line includes an unwinding device that sends the electrode plate not subjected by the compression roll to a compression treatment of the applied portion to a downstream side of the conveyance line and includes a winding device that collects the electrode plate subjected to the compression treatment, and
wherein the tension reducing mechanism and the stretching mechanism are disposed at least in one of a section between the unwinding device and the compression roll or a section between the compression roll and the winding device.

2. The manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the tension reducing mechanism is provided in both the upstream section and the downstream section.

3. The manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the stretching mechanism is provided on both an upstream side and a downstream side of the compression roll.

4. The manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the conveyance line has a conveyance mechanism that grips or sucks the applied portion and conveys the electrode plate.

5. The manufacturing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein
when a dimension of a portion gripped or sucked by the conveyance mechanism in the applied portion in a width direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the electrode plate is set to a, and a dimension of the applied portion in the width direction is set to b,
a/b≥0.4 is satisfied.

Assignees

• Panasonic Holdings Corp
• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Maruo Tetsumasa
• Hirukawa Tomofumi

Classifications

• H01M4/04

  Processes of manufacture in general · CPC title

• B65H23/18

  by controlling or regulating the web-advancing mechanism, e.g. mechanism acting on the running web · CPC title

• B30B3/00 Primary

  Presses characterised by the use of rotary pressing members, e.g. rollers, rings, discs · CPC title

• H01M10/04

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

• H01M10/0409

  for cells with wound electrodes · CPC title