Manufacturing method for molten salt battery and molten salt battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9391341-B2
Application number	US-201214128510-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2012
Priority date	Jun 29, 2011
Publication date	Jul 12, 2016
Grant date	Jul 12, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a method for manufacturing a molten salt battery. The method includes a housing step (S 100 ) for housing a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator in a battery container; an injecting step (S 110 ) for injecting the molten salt into the battery container while heating the battery container; a closing step (S 120 ) for closing the battery container with a closing lid; a heating and drying step (S 130 ) for heating the battery container in a vacuum state with a check valve open; and a sealing step (S 150 ) for closing the check valve. In summary, the positive electrode, negative electrode, separator and molten salt are heated and dried in a vacuum state.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for producing a molten salt battery, the method comprising:
a housing step of housing a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator in a battery container;
an injecting step of injecting a molten salt into the battery container;
a closing step of closing the battery container with a closing lid provided with a gas discharge port;
a heating and drying step of housing the battery container in a chamber, with the gas discharge port open, and heating the battery container under vacuum in the chamber; and
a sealing step of closing the gas discharge port, wherein:
the molten salt contains an anion represented by N(SO 2 —R1)(SO 2 —R2) (R1 and R2 are each independently a fluorine atom or a fluoroalkyl group) and a cation of at least one of an alkali metal and an alkaline earth metal, and
in the heating and drying step, the molten salt is heated to a temperature that is not lower than the melting point of the molten salt and not higher than the temperature at which the molten salt decomposes.

2. The method for producing a molten salt battery according to claim 1 , further comprising a heating and partial charging step before carrying out the heating and drying step in which the battery container is heated.

3. The method for producing a molten salt battery according to claim 1 , wherein the molten salt contains an anion represented by N(SO 2 —R1)(SO 2 -R2) (R1 and R2 are each independently a fluorine atom or a fluoroalkyl group) and, as cations, a sodium ion and at least one type of cation selected from among a quaternary ammonium ion, an imidazolium ion, an imidazolinium ion, a pyridinium ion, a pyrrolidinium ion, a piperidinium ion, a morpholinium ion, a phosphonium ion, a piperazinium ion and a sulfonium ion.

4. The method for producing a molten salt battery according to claim 1 , wherein the battery container is charged with an inert gas via the gas discharge port after the heating and drying step.

5. The method for producing a molten salt battery according to claim 4 , wherein the water content in the inert gas is 10 ppm or lower.

6. The method for producing a molten salt battery according to claim 1 , wherein the water content in the battery container is 200 ppm or lower.

7. The method for producing a molten salt battery according to claim 6 , wherein the water content in the molten salt in the battery container is 200 ppm or lower.

8. The method for producing a molten salt battery according to claim 1 , wherein the closing lid is provided with a check valve having a vent hole as the gas discharge port.

9. The method for producing a molten salt battery according to claim 1 , wherein the closing lid is provided with an outlet that is a gas discharge port and a gas exhaust pipe having a closable pipeline.

10. A molten salt battery produced using the method for producing a molten salt battery according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Sakai Shoichiro
• Fukunaga Atsushi
• Nitta Koji
• Inazawa Shinji
• Sumitomo Electric Industries

Inventors

• Sakai Shoichiro
• Fukunaga Atsushi
• Nitta Koji
• Inazawa Shinji

Classifications

• H01M50/609

  Arrangements or processes for filling with liquid, e.g. electrolytes · CPC title

• H01M50/636

  Closing or sealing filling ports, e.g. using lids · CPC title

• H01M2/1235

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01M10/0413

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

• H01M10/3909

  Sodium-sulfur cells · CPC title