Battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025070424-A1
Application number	US-202418617697-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 27, 2024
Priority date	Aug 25, 2023
Publication date	Feb 27, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

In a battery, a lid member of a battery case is provided with a terminal part and a resin member. The terminal part has a terminal plate-shaped portion located inside the battery case, which extends wider than a through hole along an inner surface of the lid member. The resin member has an inner resin plate-shaped portion located between the inner surface of the lid member and the terminal plate-shaped portion. The lid member, on the inner surface side around the through hole, includes a protruding portion defined by a protruding inner surface joined to the inner resin plate-shaped portion and protruding toward the inside of the battery case relative to a non-protruding inner surface farther from the through hole than the protruding inner surface. Side surfaces of the protruding portion and the terminal plate-shaped portion do not project outward beyond a side surface of the inner resin plate-shaped portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A battery comprising:
a battery case formed with a through hole; a terminal part provided extending through the through hole to inside and outside of the battery case; and a resin member provided between and joined to the battery case and the terminal part, wherein the terminal part includes a columnar portion, at least a part of which is located in the through hole, and a terminal plate-shaped portion that is located in the battery case and has a shape extending more widely than the through hole along an inner surface of the battery case, the resin member includes a tube-shaped portion located between a wall surface of the through hole and the columnar portion of the terminal part, and a resin plate-shaped portion located between the inner surface of the battery case and the terminal plate-shaped portion, the battery case includes a protruding portion, on the inner surface along a circumferential edge of the through hole, the protruding portion including a joining inner surface that is joined to the resin plate-shaped portion and located protruding toward the inside of the battery case as compared with a portion of the inner surface, that is farther from the through hole than the joining inner surface, and the protruding portion and the terminal plate-shaped portion each have a side surface that does not project outward beyond a side surface of the resin plate-shaped portion.

2 . The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the side surface of the resin plate-shaped portion projects beyond at least one of the side surface of the protruding portion and the side surface of the terminal plate-shaped portion.

3 . The battery according to claim 1 , wherein
the resin member is made of base resin containing filler, and the filler in the resin plate-shaped portion is mainly oriented in an orientation direction parallel to the joining inner surface of the battery case and a joining surface of the terminal plate-shaped portion joined to the resin plate-shaped portion.

4 . The battery according to claim 2 , wherein
the resin member is made of base resin containing filler, and the filler in the resin plate-shaped portion is mainly oriented in an orientation direction parallel to the joining inner surface of the battery case and a joining surface of the terminal plate-shaped portion joined to the resin plate-shaped portion.

5 . The battery according to claim 1 , wherein
at least one of the protruding portion of the battery case and the terminal plate-shaped portion of the terminal part includes a region that faces the resin plate-shaped portion and is formed with fine asperities, and the resin member penetrates into the asperities to form an anchor structure.

6 . The battery according to claim 2 , wherein
at least one of the protruding portion of the battery case and the terminal plate-shaped portion of the terminal part includes a region that faces the resin plate-shaped portion and is formed with fine asperities, and the resin member penetrates into the asperities to form an anchor structure.

7 . The battery according to claim 3 , wherein
at least one of the protruding portion of the battery case and the terminal plate-shaped portion of the terminal part includes a region that faces the resin plate-shaped portion and is formed with fine asperities, and the resin member penetrates into the asperities to form an anchor structure.

8 . The battery according to claim 4 , wherein
at least one of the protruding portion of the battery case and the terminal plate-shaped portion of the terminal part includes a region that faces the resin plate-shaped portion and is formed with fine asperities, and the resin member penetrates into the asperities to form an anchor structure.

Assignees

• Prime Planet Energy & Solutions Inc
• Toyota Motor Co Ltd
• Primearth Ev Energy Co Ltd

Inventors

• Fujimura Satoshi
• Sato Yuki
• Uchida Yozo
• Tateyama Nozomi
• Uchimura Masahiro
• Asai Masataka
• Matsumoto Shigeru
• Takimoto Takashi
• Nakamura Shunsuke
• Machida Keitaro

Classifications

• H01M50/172

  Arrangements of electric connectors penetrating the casing · CPC title

• H01M50/59

  characterised by the protection means · CPC title

• H01M50/552 Primary

  characterised by their shape · CPC title

• H01M50/553

  Terminals adapted for prismatic, pouch or rectangular cells · CPC title

• H01M50/176

  for prismatic or rectangular cells (H01M50/181 takes precedence) · CPC title