Electrode plate, electrochemical apparatus, and apparatus thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022102698-A1
Application number	US-202117547324-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 10, 2021
Priority date	Jun 28, 2019
Publication date	Mar 31, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

This application relates to an electrode plate, an electrochemical apparatus, and an apparatus thereof. The electrode plate includes a current collector, an electrode active material layer provided on at least one surface of the current collector, and an electrical connection member electrically connected to the current collector. The electrode active material layer is provided at a zone referred to as a membrane zone on a main body portion of the current collector, the electrical connection member and the current collector are welded and connected at a welding zone referred to as an adapting welding zone at an edge of the current collector, and a transition zone is referred to as an extension zone, where the transition zone is of the current collector between the membrane zone and the adapting welding zone and coated with no electrode active material layer. The current collector is a composite current collector.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electrode plate, comprising a current collector, an electrode active material layer provided on at least one surface of the current collector, and an electrical connection member electrically connected to the current collector, wherein
the electrode active material layer is provided at a zone referred to as a membrane zone on a main body portion of the current collector, the electrical connection member and the current collector are welded and connected at a welding zone referred to as an adapting welding zone at an edge of the current collector, and a transition zone is referred to as an extension zone, wherein the transition zone is of the current collector between the membrane zone and the adapting welding zone and coated with no electrode active material layer; the current collector comprises a support layer and a conductive layer provided on at least one surface of the support layer, single-sided thickness D2 of the conductive layer satisfies: 30 nm≤D2≤3 μm, and the support layer is a polymer material layer or a polymer composite material layer; and the electrode plate further comprises a thermally conductive coating layer, and the thermally conductive coating layer covers at least a part of the electrical connection member in the adapting welding zone.

2 . The electrode plate according to claim 1 , wherein the thermally conductive coating layer is a polyaniline layer, a polypyrrole layer, a polyacetylene layer, a polyurethane layer, or a polyimide layer.

3 . The electrode plate according to claim 1 , wherein the thermally conductive coating layer further covers at least a part of a surface of the extension zone.

4 . The electrode plate according to claim 1 , wherein a conductive primer coating layer containing a binder and a conductive material is provided on the surface of the current collector in the extension zone; and/or
a conductive primer coating layer containing a binder and a conductive material is provided on the surface of the current collector in the membrane zone; and/or preferably, a conductive primer coating layer containing a binder and a conductive material is provided on the surface of the current collector in both the extension zone and the membrane zone.

5 . The electrode plate according to claim 4 , wherein based on total weight of the conductive primer coating layer, a percentage of the conductive material by weight is 10% to 99%, preferably, 20% to 80%, or more preferably, 50% to 80%; and/or
based on total weight of the conductive primer coating layer, a percentage of the binder by weight is 1% to 90%, preferably, 20% to 80%, or more preferably, 20% to 50%.

6 . The electrode plate according to claim 5 , wherein preferably, single-sided thickness H of the conductive primer coating layer is 0.1 μm to 5 μm, or more preferably, a ratio of H to D2 is 0.5:1 to 5:1; and/or
preferably, the binder in the conductive primer coating layer contains an aqueous binder; and/or
preferably, the conductive material is a mixed material of a zero-dimensional conductive carbon material and a one-dimensional conductive carbon material or a mixed material of a zero-dimensional conductive carbon material and a two-dimensional conductive carbon material.

7 . The electrode plate according to claim 1 , wherein the conductive layer is a metal conductive layer, and a material of the metal conductive layer is preferably selected from at least one of aluminum, copper, nickel, titanium, silver, nickel-copper alloy, and aluminum-zirconium alloy; and/or
a material of the support layer is selected from at least one of an insulating polymer material, an insulating polymer composite material, a conductive polymer material, and a conductive polymer composite material, and preferably, the material of the support layer is an insulating polymer material or an insulating polymer composite material; and/or preferably, the current collector is further provided with a protective layer, and the protective layer is provided on one surface of the conductive layer of the current collector or two surfaces of the conductive layer of the current collector, wherein the protective layer is a metal protective layer or a metal oxide protective layer.

8 . The electrode plate according to claim 1 , wherein thickness D1 of the support layer satisfies: 1 μm≤D1≤15 μm; and/or
a room-temperature Young's modulus E of the support layer satisfies: 20 GPa≥E≥1.9 GPa; and/or
there are cracks in the conductive layer.

9 . The electrode plate according to claim 1 , wherein viewed in a width direction of a coated surface of the electrode plate, the electrode active material layer based on compacted density comprises 2n+1 zones, and compacted density of a middle zone is greater than compacted density of zones on both sides, wherein n=1, 2, or 3, or preferably, n=1.

10 . An electrochemical apparatus, comprising a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, a separator, and an electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode plate and/or the negative electrode plate are/is the electrode plate according to claim 1 .

11 . An apparatus, comprising the electrochemical apparatus according to claim 10 .

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Li Wei
• Xue Qingrui
• Li Jing
• Zhang Zige
• Zhang Yang
• Lu Yang
• Wang Pengxiang

Classifications

• H01M10/052

  Li-accumulators · CPC title

• H01M4/70

  characterised by shape or form · CPC title

• H01M50/54

  Connection of several leads or tabs of plate-like electrode stacks, e.g. electrode pole straps or bridges · CPC title

• H01M4/13 Primary

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

• H01M10/654

  located inside the innermost case of the cells, e.g. mandrels, electrodes or electrolytes · CPC title