Battery cell and battery module

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025030033-A1
Application number	US-202418679925-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 31, 2024
Priority date	Jul 18, 2023
Publication date	Jan 23, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A battery cell includes: an electrode body including plural layered structures, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. At least one of the current collector in the positive electrode or the current collector in the negative electrode has, on a peripheral portion of a surface thereof, an uncoated portion at which the mix is not coated. A current collector of which the distance from the surface of the battery cell case is the greatest among current collectors each having an uncoated portion has a first uncoated portion, and the first uncoated portion extends to the outside of the battery cell case, thereby forming a first exposed portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A battery cell, comprising:
an electrode body including a plurality of layered structures layered one on another, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case, wherein: each of the positive electrode and the negative electrode includes a current collector and a mix that includes an active material and that is coated on a surface of the current collector, at least one of the current collector in the positive electrode or the current collector in the negative electrode has, on a peripheral portion of a surface thereof, an uncoated portion at which the mix is not coated, and a current collector of which a distance from a surface of the battery cell case is greatest among current collectors each having an uncoated portion has a first uncoated portion, and the first uncoated portion extends to outside of the battery cell case, thereby forming a first exposed portion.

2 . The battery cell of claim 1 , wherein a shape of an electrode face of the electrode body is rectangular, and the first exposed portion is disposed at a side along a long side of the rectangular shape.

3 . The battery cell of claim 1 , wherein a shape of an electrode face of the electrode body is rectangular, and the first exposed portion is provided at either a positive electrode or a negative electrode of which a length of a long side of a rectangular shape thereof is greater.

4 . The battery cell of claim 1 , wherein a current collector of which a distance from the surface of the battery cell case is smaller than a distance of the current collector having the first uncoated portion has a second uncoated portion, and the second uncoated portion extends to outside of the battery cell case, thereby forming a second exposed portion.

5 . The battery cell of claim 4 , wherein the battery cell has, inside the battery cell case, a site at which the first uncoated portion and the second uncoated portion are joined.

6 . The battery cell of claim 4 , wherein a thickness of the first uncoated portion is greater than a thickness of the second uncoated portion.

7 . A battery module, comprising:
the battery cell of claim 1 ; and at least one of a condenser or a battery module case, wherein the first exposed portion is joined to at least one of the condenser or the battery module case in an electrically insulating manner.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ono Masato
• Utsumi Shintaro
• Kato Kazuhito
• Kintsu Yusuke
• Yamanaka Atsushi
• Goto Takaaki
• Awano Hiroki

Classifications

• H01M4/70

  characterised by shape or form · CPC title

• H01M4/02

  Electrodes composed of, or comprising, active material · CPC title

• H01M10/0413 Primary

  Large-sized flat cells or batteries for motive or stationary systems with plate-like electrodes · CPC title

• H01M10/6553

  Terminals or leads · CPC title

• H01M10/655

  Solid structures for heat exchange or heat conduction · CPC title