Roll member, coating device, separator production device, and secondary battery production device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9656285-B2
Application number	US-201314416523-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 2, 2013
Priority date	Aug 6, 2012
Publication date	May 23, 2017
Grant date	May 23, 2017

Abstract

A roll member having an outer circumferential surface in which a plurality of grooves are formed, wherein the plurality of grooves are arranged at an angle relative to a direction parallel to a central axis of the roll member. A coating device for coating a film member with a coating liquid, the coating device comprising the roll member. A separator production device for producing a separator in which a heat-resistant layer is laminated over a substrate. The separator production device comprising the coating device. A secondary battery production device for producing a secondary battery comprising a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a pair of separators that sandwich the positive electrode plate or the negative electrode plate therebetween. The secondary battery production device comprising the separator production device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A roll member having an outer circumferential surface in which a plurality of grooves are formed, wherein
the plurality of grooves are arranged at an angle relative to a direction parallel to a central axis of the roll member;
in the outer circumferential surface of the roll member, there are provided a processing region where the plurality of grooves are formed and a non-processing region where the plurality of grooves are not formed;
a plurality of rows of the processing region and a plurality of rows of the non-processing region are arranged alternately along the direction parallel to the central axis;
the plurality of rows of the non-processing region is arranged at a direction orthogonal to the direction parallel to the central axis;
the processing region has a first processing region provided in one end portion in a width direction of the processing region parallel to the central axis, a second processing region provided in the other end portion in the width direction of the processing region, and a third processing region that is a processing region other than the first and second processing regions;
grooves in the third processing region are even in depth;
grooves in the first processing region are smaller in depth than the grooves in the third processing region;
the depth of the grooves in the first processing region gradually decreases as the distance from the one end portion in the width direction of the processing region decreases;
grooves in the second processing region are smaller in depth than the grooves in the third processing region;
the depth of the grooves in the second processing region gradually decreases as the distance from the other end portion in the width direction of the processing region decreases; and
a first length that is the length of the first processing region in the direction parallel to the central axis is different from a second length that is the length of the second processing region in the direction parallel to the central axis.

2. A roll member having an outer circumferential surface in which a plurality of grooves are formed, wherein
the plurality of grooves are arranged at an angle relative to a direction parallel to a central axis of the roll member;
in the outer circumferential surface of the roll member, there are provided a processing region where the plurality of grooves are formed, and a non-processing region where the grooves are not formed;
a plurality of rows of the processing region and a plurality of rows of the non-processing region are arranged alternately along the direction parallel to the central axis;
the plurality of rows of the non-processing region is arranged at the direction orthogonal to the direction parallel to the central axis;
the processing region has a first processing region provided in one end portion in a width direction of the processing region parallel to the central axis, and a fourth processing region that is a processing region other than the first processing region of the processing region;
grooves in the fourth processing region are even in depth;
grooves in the first processing region are smaller in depth than the grooves in the fourth processing region; and
the depth of the grooves in the first processing region gradually decreases as the distance from the one end portion in the width direction of the processing region decreases.

3. The roll member according to claim 1 , wherein the roll member satisfies the following expression (1):
50/3≦( L/d )≦1000/3  (1)

wherein d represents the depth of a groove formed in the first processing region and located farthest away from the one end portion of the first processing region, and L represents the length of the first processing region in the direction parallel to the central axis.

4. A coating device for coating a film member with a coating liquid, the device comprising:
the roll member according to claim 1 rotatably arranged around a central axis;
a supplier for supplying the coating liquid to an outer circumferential surface of the roll member; and
a blade member for scraping a surplus of the coating liquid that has attached to the outer circumferential surface of the roll member, wherein
the blade member is configured to come into contact with the processing region and the non-processing region of the roll member, thereby scraping a surplus of the coating liquid that has attached to the processing region, and further scraping the coating liquid that has attached to the non-processing region to remove the whole of the coating liquid in the non-processing region.

5. The coating device according to claim 4 , wherein a tip portion of the blade member, the tip portion being to come into contact with the roll member, is in the form of a straight line parallel to the central axis.

6. The coating device according to claim 4 , wherein the blade member is smaller in elastic modulus than the roll member.

7. The coating device according to claim 6 , wherein the roll member is made of a metallic material, and the blade member is made of a resin material.

8. A separator production device for producing a separator in which a heat-resistant layer is laminated over a substrate, the device comprising:
the coating device according to claim 4 ; and
a drying device for drying a coating liquid containing a material for forming the heat-resistant layer and transferred to a film member that is to become the substrate with the coating device.

9. A secondary battery production device for producing a secondary battery comprising a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a pair of separators that sandwich the positive electrode plate or the negative electrode plate therebetween, the device comprising:
the separator production device according to claim 8 ;
a stacking device which sandwiches the positive electrode plate or the negative electrode plate between the pair of separators produced with the separator production device; and
a heating device which heats peripheral edge portions of the pair of separators sandwiching the positive electrode plate or the negative electrode plate therebetween, to weld the paired separators to each other; wherein
the separator production device is a device with which the coating liquid held in the processing region of the roll member is transferred to a central portion of the substrate of each of the separators and thereby separators are produced, the separators each having, in a central portion thereof, a layer-formed-region in which the heat-resistant layer is formed and further having, in a peripheral edge portion, a layer-nonfonned-region in which the heat-resistant layer is not formed;
the stacking device is a device which arranges the pair of separators such that the layer-formed-regions of the pair of separators are superimposed on the positive electrode plate or the negative electrode plate; and
the heating device is a device which heats the layer-nonfonned-regions of the separators, each of the regions not being superimposed on the positive electrode plate or the negative electrode plate, thereby welding the pair of separators to each other.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Chemical Co

Inventors

• Watanabe Koichiro
• Wang Jian
• Hayakawa Noboru
• Minemoto Yasutoshi

Classifications

• B05C1/083

  being passed between the coating roller and one or more backing rollers · CPC title

• H01M10/0404

  Machines for assembling batteries · CPC title

• B05C1/0808 Primary

  Details thereof, e.g. surface characteristics · CPC title

• B05C1/0826

  the work being a web or sheets (B05C1/0804, B05C1/0808, B05C1/0813, B05C1/0817, B05C1/0821, B05C1/10, B05C1/12 take precedence) · CPC title

• B05C1/0817 Primary

  characterised by means for removing partially liquid or other fluent material from the roller, e.g. scrapers (coating roller co-operating with dosing rollers B05C1/0834) · CPC title