Current Collector, Electrode Plate And Electrochemical Device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019305319-A1
Application number	US-201916364751-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 26, 2019
Priority date	Mar 30, 2018
Publication date	Oct 3, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to the field of batteries and, specifically, to a current collector comprising a support layer, a conductive layer and a conductive material. The conductive layer is located on two surfaces of the support layer. A plurality of holes extending through the support layer and the conductive layer is provided in the current collector and is filled with the conductive material. The current collector of the present disclosure can improve the short circuit resistance of the battery using the current collector when a short circuit occurs under abnormal conditions, so that the short circuit current can be greatly reduced, and thus heat generated by the short circuit can be greatly reduced, thereby improving the safety performance of the battery.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A current collector, comprising:
a support layer, a conductive layer located on one or two surfaces of the support layer, and a conductive material, wherein the current collector is provided with a plurality of holes extending through the support layer and the conductive layer on the one or two surfaces of the support layer, and the conductive material is filled in the plurality of holes.

2 . The current collector according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of holes has a hole diameter of 0.001 mm to 3 mm;
an area ratio of the plurality of holes to an entire surface of the conductive layer on one surface of the support layer is 0.01% to 10%; a spacing between the plurality of holes is 0.2 mm to 5 mm; and the plurality of holes has a shape of parallelogram, near-parallelogram, circle, near-circle, ellipse, or near-ellipse.

3 . The current collector according to claim 2 , wherein the plurality of holes filled with the conductive material has a hole diameter of 0 to 50 μm.

4 . The current collector according to claim 1 , wherein the conductive material is at least one of a metal conductive material and a carbon-based conductive material, wherein the metal conductive material is preferably at least one of aluminum, copper, nickel, titanium, silver, nickel-copper alloy, and aluminum-zirconium alloy, and the carbon-based conductive material is preferably at least one of graphite, acetylene black, graphene, and carbon nanotube.

5 . The current collector according to claim 1 , wherein the conductive layer has a thickness of D2 satisfying: 30 nm≤D2≤3 μm, preferably 300 nm≤D2≤2 μm, and more preferably 500 nm≤D2≤1.5 μm.

6 . The current collector according to claim 2 , wherein the support layer has a thickness of D1 satisfying: 1 μm≤D1≤20 μm, preferably 2 μm≤D1≤10 μm, and more preferably 2 μm≤D1≤6 μm.

7 . The current collector according to claim 1 , wherein the support layer is made of a material selected from the group consisting of an insulation polymer material, an insulation polymer composite material, a conductive polymer material, and a conductive polymer composite material, and combinations thereof, wherein
the insulation polymer material is selected from the group consisting of polyamide, polyethylene terephthalate, polyimide, polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, aramid fiber, polydiformylphenylenediamine, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer, polybutylene terephthalate, poly-p-phenylene terephthalamide, ethylene propylene rubber, polyformaldehyde, epoxy resin, phenolic resin, polytetrafluoroethylene, polyvinylidene fluoride, silicone rubber, polycarbonate, cellulose and derivatives thereof, starch and derivatives thereof, proteins and derivatives thereof, polyvinyl alcohol and crosslinked products thereof, polyethylene glycol and crosslinked products thereof, and combinations thereof; the insulation polymer composite material is a composite material formed by an insulation polymer material and an inorganic material, wherein the inorganic material is preferably at least one of a ceramic material, a glass material, and a ceramic composite material; the conductive polymer material is at least one of a doped polysulfur nitride and a doped polyacetylene; and the conductive polymer composite material is a composite material formed by an insulation polymer material and a conductive material, wherein the conductive material is at least one of a conductive carbon material, a metal material, and a composite conductive material, wherein the conductive carbon material is at least one of carbon black, carbon nanotube, graphite, acetylene black, and graphene, the metal material is at least one of nickel, iron, copper, aluminum, and alloys thereof, and the composite conductive material is at least one of a nickel-coated graphite powder and a nickel-coated carbon fiber.

8 . The current collector according to claim 4 , wherein the conductive layer is made of the same material as the conductive material.

9 . An electrode plate, comprising the current collector according to claim 1 and an electrode active material layer formed on at least one surface of the current collector.

10 . An electrochemical device, comprising a positive electrode plate, a separator and a negative electrode plate, wherein the positive electrode plate and/or the negative electrode plate is the electrode plate according to claim 9 .

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liang Chengdu
• Huang Huafeng
• Huang Qisen
• Liu Xin

Classifications

• H01M4/13

  Electrodes for accumulators with non-aqueous electrolyte, e.g. for lithium-accumulators; Processes of manufacture thereof · CPC title

• H01M10/0525

  Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries · CPC title

• H01M4/667

  in the form of layers, e.g. coatings · CPC title

• H01M4/70

  characterised by shape or form · CPC title

• H01M4/661 Primary

  Metal or alloys, e.g. alloy coatings (H01M4/669 take precedence) · CPC title