Electrical storage element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9620762-B2
Application number	US-201314765360-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 1, 2013
Priority date	Feb 1, 2013
Publication date	Apr 11, 2017
Grant date	Apr 11, 2017

Abstract

An electrical storage element includes a power generation element that includes an electrode, a can in which the power generation element is stored, a lid that seals an opening of the can, an external terminal that is disposed on the lid, and a current collector that connects the electrode of the power generation element, and the external terminal. The external terminal includes a bus bar welding portion having a bus bar welding surface to which a bus bar is welded, and a current collector connection portion having a caulking-jig abutting surface, the current collector connection portion includes an insertion portion which is inserted into a through-hole of the lid and has a tip end which is fixed to the current collector by caulking, the bus bar welding portion and the current collector connection portion are integrally provided in parallel on the lid, and the jig abutting surface is extended from the bus bar welding surface in the same plane as the bus bar welding surface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electrical storage element comprising:
a power generation element that includes an electrode;
a can in which the power generation element is stored;
a lid that seals an opening of the can;
an external terminal that is disposed on the lid; and
a current collector that connects the electrode of the power generation element, and the external terminal,
wherein the external terminal includes a bus bar welding portion having a bus bar welding surface to which a bus bar is welded, and a current collector connection portion having a caulking-jig abutting surface,
the current collector connection portion includes an insertion portion which is inserted into a through-hole of the lid and has a tip end which is fixed to the current collector by caulking,
the bus bar welding portion and the current collector connection portion are integrally formed as a single piece and provided in parallel on the lid, and
the caulking-jig abutting surface extends from and is in a same plane as the bus bar welding surface.

2. The electrical storage element according to claim 1 , wherein
an object which protrudes toward an opposite side of the lid side from a virtual plane which includes the bus bar welding surface and the caulking-jig abutting surface, is not provided on the external terminal.

3. The electrical storage element according to claim 1 , wherein
the insertion portion has a tip-end-side insertion portion that is inserted into the through-hole of the current collector, and a base-end-side insertion portion which is not inserted into the through-hole of the current collector,
an abutment step portion which abuts on the current collector is provided between the base-end-side insertion portion and the tip-end-side insertion portion, and
a tip end of the tip-end-side insertion portion is fixed to the current collector by caulking such that the current collector is pinched between the tip end of the tip-end-side insertion portion and the abutment step portion.

4. The electrical storage element according to claim 1 , wherein
a seal member that performs sealing between the lid and the external terminal is provided between the external terminal and the lid, and
a seal portion that presses the seal member is provided on an outer circumference of the insertion portion.

Assignees

• Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Tsunaki Takuro
• Iwasa Masaaki
• Urano Kazuaki
• Saimaru Sho
• Matsumoto Sho

Classifications

• H01M50/516 Primary

  by welding, soldering or brazing · CPC title

• H01M50/505

  comprising a single busbar · CPC title

• H01M50/566

  by welding, soldering or brazing · CPC title

• H01M50/553

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

• H01M50/562

  characterised by the material · CPC title