Outer packaging material for battery, and battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9425449-B2
Application number	US-201314050504-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 10, 2013
Priority date	Nov 1, 2012
Publication date	Aug 23, 2016
Grant date	Aug 23, 2016

Abstract

An outer packaging material for a battery includes a heat resistant stretched resin film layer as an outer layer integrally laminated on one of surfaces of an aluminum foil layer via a first adhesive layer. A thermoplastic unstretched resin film layer as an inner layer is integrally laminated on the other surface of the aluminum foil layer via a second adhesive layer. An adhesive strength between the inner layer and the aluminum foil layer is 4N/15 mm-width to 30N/15 mm-width, and an adhesive strength between the outer layer and the aluminum foil layer is 2N/15 mm-width to 14N/15 mm-width. As a thermoplastic unstretched resin film constituting the inner layer, a thermoplastic unstretched resin film having a sealing strength of two sheets of the thermoplastic unstretched resin films arranged one on the other and heat sealed exceeding 30N/15 mm-width but not exceeding 110N/15 mm-width is used.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An outer packaging material for a battery, comprising:
an aluminum foil layer;
a stretched nylon film layer as an outer layer integrally laminated on one surface of the aluminum foil layer via a first adhesive layer; and
a thermoplastic unstretched resin film layer as an inner layer integrally laminated on the other surface of the aluminum foil layer via a second adhesive layer,
wherein an adhesive strength between the inner layer and the aluminum foil layer is 4N/15 mm-width to 30N/15 mm-width,
wherein an adhesive strength between the outer layer and the aluminum foil layer is 2N/15 mm-width to 14N/15 mm-width, and
wherein a sealing strength of the inner layer heat sealed to the inner layer exceeds 30N/15 mm-width but does not exceed 110N/15 mm-width.

2. The outer packaging material for a battery as recited in claim 1 , wherein the second adhesive layer is a layer formed by a dry lamination method using an adhesive agent.

3. A battery comprising:
the outer packaging material as recited in claim 1 ; and
a battery main body portion,
wherein a peripheral edge portion of the inner layer of the outer packaging material is seal-bonded by heat sealing to form a battery case, and
wherein the battery main body portion is encapsulated in the battery case.

4. The battery as recited in claim 3 , wherein, when an internal pressure of the battery case is increased to a range of 40 kPa to 80 kPa due to a gas generated in the battery case, a penetrated exhaust passage communicated with an inner space of the battery case is formed in the inner layer, and a separation gap communicated with the penetrated exhaust passage is formed between the aluminum foil layer and the inner layer, so that a gas in the battery case is released to the outside via the penetrated exhaust passage and the separation gap to prevent rupturing of the battery case due to an internal pressure increase.

5. The battery as recited in claim 3 , wherein the outer packaging materials is formed into a three-dimensional shape by deep draw processing or bulge processing.

6. The battery as recited in claim 5 , wherein the penetrated exhaust passage is formed at a curved or bent shaped corner portion of the inner layer formed by the processing or vicinity thereof.

Assignees

• Showa Denko Packaging Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yoshino Kenji

Classifications

• H01M50/105

  Pouches or flexible bags · CPC title

• H01M50/133

  Thickness · CPC title

• H01M50/129 Primary

  with two or more layers of only organic material · CPC title

• H01M50/119

  Metals · CPC title

• H01M50/121

  Organic material · CPC title