Separator, method of manufacturing the separator, and electrochemical device including the separator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12368213-B2
Application number	US-202418659021-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 9, 2024
Priority date	Jun 9, 2022
Publication date	Jul 22, 2025
Grant date	Jul 22, 2025

Abstract

Provided are a separator, a method of manufacturing the separator, and an electrochemical device including the separator. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a separator including: a porous substrate and an inorganic particle layer provided on at least one surface of the porous substrate may be provided, wherein a value of the following Formula (1) is 0.135 or more: (1) BDV/t, wherein BDV is a voltage (kV) when a leakage current value is 5 mA, and t is an overall average thickness (μm) of the separator.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A separator for a secondary battery, the separator comprising:
a porous substrate; and
an inorganic particle layer comprising inorganic particles and a hydrolytic condensate of a silane compound, provided on at least one surface of the porous substrate,
wherein a value of the following Formula (1) is 0.14 or more:
BDV/t   (1)

wherein
‘BDV’ is a voltage (kV) measured in accordance with ASTM D 149 when a leakage current value is 5 mA measured under conditions of raising an applied voltage at 5 kV/10 sec after placing the separator between electrodes of a withstand voltage tester (Hipot Tester) , and ‘t’ is an overall average thickness (μm) of the separator.

2. The separator of claim 1 , wherein the inorganic particle layer has a (D80-D20)/D50 value of 0.01 to 2.0 in a particle size distribution of inorganic particles.

3. The separator of claim 1 , wherein when an average thickness of the porous substrate is t 1 , a t 1 /t value is 0.69 or more.

4. The separator of claim 1 , wherein a packing density of the inorganic particle layer is 1.3 g/(m 2 ·μm) or more.

5. The separator of claim 1 , wherein the porous substrate includes a polar functional group on the surface.

6. The separator of claim 1 , wherein the separator has heat resistance so that when the separator is manufactured into specimens each of which has a thickness of 5 to 50 μm, a width of 5 mm, and a length of 10 mm in which a length direction is MD and TD, and the specimen is mounted on a chamber of TMA by hooking both ends of the specimen to a metal jig and pulled downward with a force of 0.008 N while heating at 5° C. per minute, the specimen is broken at a temperature of 180° C. or higher in both MD and TD.

7. The separator of claim 1 , wherein a heat shrinkage rate in MD and TD directions measured after the separator is allowed to stand at 150° C. for 60 minutes is 3% or less.

8. The separator of claim 1 , wherein the hydrolytic condensate of a silane compound is a condensation-suppressed hydrolytic condensate produced under a weakly acidic atmosphere.

9. The separator of claim 1 , wherein the silane compound is a compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1:
A a Si(OR) b   [Chemical Formula 1]

wherein ‘A’ is independently hydrogen, a polar functional group, or a C1-C10 alkyl group having a polar functional group, ‘R’ is independently hydrogen or a C1-C5 alkyl group, ‘a’ is 0 to 2, ‘b’ is 2 to 4, and a+b is 4.

10. The separator of claim 9 , wherein the polar functional group includes any one or two or more of an amino group, an epoxy group, a carboxyl group, a hydroxyl group, an amide group, a thiol group, a ketone group, an ester group, and an aldehyde group.

11. An electrochemical device comprising the separator of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Sk Innovation Co Ltd
• Sk Ie Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kwon Tae Wook
• Bae Heung Taek

Classifications

• H01M10/052

  Li-accumulators · CPC title

• H01M50/449

  having a layered structure · CPC title

• H01M50/403 Primary

  Manufacturing processes of separators, membranes or diaphragms · CPC title

• H01M50/446

  Composite material consisting of a mixture of organic and inorganic materials · CPC title

• H01M50/494

  Tensile strength · CPC title