Secondary battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9698408-B2
Application number	US-201314896003-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 14, 2013
Priority date	Jun 14, 2013
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

A secondary battery has a flat shape and houses a power generation element together with an electrolyte solution inside an exterior body. A terminal includes: a terminal main body including a nickel plane containing nickel on at least a surface thereof; an anticorrosive layer covering at least a part of the nickel plane that is more on the inside of the exterior body than a held portion; and a resin layer covering at least the held portion of a surface of the anticorrosive layer and having an internal extension portion extending from the held portion to the inside of the exterior body.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A flat secondary battery comprising:
a power generation element including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate stacked with a separator interposed between the plates;
an exterior body housing the power generation element and an electrolyte solution together and sealed by a laminated film having a resin layer stacked on at least an inner surface of a metal layer; and
a terminal having one end connected to the power generation element and the other end led out of the exterior body, held by the exterior body between the one end and the other end, and having a held portion, which is held by the exterior body, being sealed, wherein
the terminal includes a terminal main body including a nickel plane on a surface thereof, an anticorrosive layer covering at least a part of the nickel plane that is more on the inside of the exterior body than a held portion, and a resin layer covering at least the held portion of a surface of the anticorrosive layer and having an internal extension portion extending from the held portion to the inside of the exterior body, and
the held portion is sealed by heat-sealing the resin layer and the resin layer on an inner surface of the exterior body.

2. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the internal extension portion extends from the held portion to the inside of the exterior body by 0.5 mm to 5 mm.

3. The secondary battery according to claim 2 , wherein the exterior body is sealed under reduced pressure and a liquid volume coefficient of the electrolyte solution is 1.1 to 1.6.

4. The secondary battery according to claim 3 , wherein
the power generation element and the terminal are bonded to each other through a connection portion interposed between the power generation element and the terminal, and
the thickness of bonded portion of the connection portion after the bonding is larger than the thickness of the internal extension portion.

5. The secondary battery according to claim 2 , wherein
the power generation element and the terminal are bonded to each other through a connection portion interposed between the power generation element and the terminal, and
the thickness of bonded portion of the connection portion after the bonding is larger than the thickness of the internal extension portion.

6. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the exterior body is sealed under reduced pressure and a liquid volume coefficient of the electrolyte solution is 1.1 to 1.6.

7. The secondary battery according to claim 6 , wherein
the power generation element and the terminal are bonded to each other through a connection portion interposed between the power generation element and the terminal, and
the thickness of bonded portion of the connection portion after the bonding is larger than the thickness of the internal extension portion.

8. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein
the power generation element and the terminal are bonded to each other through a connection portion interposed between the power generation element and the terminal, and
the thickness of bonded portion of the connection portion after the bonding is larger than the thickness of the internal extension portion.

9. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anticorrosive layer has a thickness of 20 nm to 80 nm.

10. The secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein
the terminal includes a positive electrode terminal bonded to a positive electrode current collector included in the positive electrode plate, and a negative electrode terminal bonded to a negative electrode current collector included in the negative electrode plate,
a terminal main body of the negative electrode terminal has a nickel plane on a surface of copper,
a part of the nickel plane that is more on the inside of the exterior body than the internal extension portion is covered with the anticorrosive layer, and
the negative electrode terminal is bonded to the negative electrode current collector with ultrasonic waves.

11. A flat secondary battery comprising:
a power generation element including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate stacked with a separator interposed between the plates;
an exterior body housing the power generation element and an electrolyte solution together and sealed by a laminated film having a resin layer stacked on at least an inner surface of a metal layer;
a terminal having one end connected to the power generation element and the other end led out of the exterior body, held by the exterior body between the one end and the other end, and having the held portion sealed, wherein
the terminal includes a terminal main body including a nickel plane on at least a surface of the terminal main body, an anticorrosive layer covering the nickel plane, and a resin layer having an internal extension portion extending to the inside of the exterior body from the held portion and heat-sealed to the anticorrosive layer, and
the held portion is sealed by heat-sealing the resin layer and the resin layer on the inner surface of the exterior body.

12. The secondary battery according to claim 11 , wherein the internal extension portion extends from the held portion to the inside of the exterior body by 0.5 mm to 5 mm.

13. The secondary battery according to claim 12 , wherein the exterior body is sealed under reduced pressure and a liquid volume coefficient of the electrolyte solution is 1.1 to 1.6.

14. The secondary battery according to claim 13 , wherein
the power generation element and the terminal are bonded to each other through a connection portion interposed between the power generation element and the terminal, and
the thickness of bonded portion of the connection portion after the bonding is larger than the thickness of the internal extension portion.

15. The secondary battery according to claim 12 , wherein
the power generation element and the terminal are bonded to each other through a connection portion interposed between the power generation element and the terminal, and
the thickness of bonded portion of the connection portion after the bonding is larger than the thickness of the internal extension portion.

16. The secondary battery according to claim 11 , wherein the exterior body is sealed under reduced pressure and a liquid volume coefficient of the electrolyte solution is 1.1 to 1.6.

17. The secondary battery according to claim 16 , wherein
the power generation element and the terminal are bonded to each other through a connection portion interposed between the power generation element and the terminal, and
the thickness of bonded portion of the connection portion after the bonding is larger than the thickness of the internal extension portion.

18. The secondary battery according to claim 11 , wherein
the power generation element and the terminal are bonded to each other through a connection portion interposed between the power generation element and the terminal, and
the thickness of bonded portion of the connection portion after the bonding is larger than the thickness of the internal extension portion.

19. The secondary battery according to claim 11 , wherein the anticorrosive layer has a thickness of 20 nm to 80 nm.

20. The secondary battery according to claim 11 , wherein
the terminal includes a positive electrode terminal bonded to a positive electrode current collector included in the positive electrode plate, and a negative electrode terminal bonded to a negative electrode curr

Assignees

• Automotive Energy Supply Corp

Inventors

• Taguchi Hiromoto
• Kimura Aika
• Onodera Noriyasu
• Shinohara Koichi
• Sakaguchi Shinichiro

Classifications

• H01M10/0436 Primary

  Small-sized flat cells or batteries for portable equipment · CPC title

• H01M10/0585

  of accumulators having only flat construction elements, i.e. flat positive electrodes, flat negative electrodes and flat separators · CPC title

• H01M50/178

  for pouch or flexible bag cells · CPC title

• H01M50/562

  characterised by the material · CPC title

• H01M50/553

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