Separator for secondary cell

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9941497-B2
Application number	US-201314389503-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 4, 2013
Priority date	Apr 5, 2012
Publication date	Apr 10, 2018
Grant date	Apr 10, 2018

Abstract

Provided are a secondary battery separator having good heat durability, high adhesion property with the electrode active material layer formed on the current collector, and good anti-blocking property, and a secondary battery having such a secondary battery separator. The secondary battery separator of the present invention includes an organic separator layer, a heat-durable layer formed adjacent to at least one surface of the organic separator layer, and an adhesive layer formed on the heat-durable layer, wherein the heat-durable layer contains non-conductive particles and a binder, and the adhesive layer contains a particulate polymer having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 10 to 100° C.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A secondary battery separator comprising an organic separator layer, a heat-durable layer formed adjacent to at least one surface of the organic separator layer, and an adhesive layer formed on the heat-durable layer, wherein
the heat-durable layer contains non-conductive particles and a binder,
the adhesive layer contains a particulate polymer having a glass transition temperature of 10 to 100° C.,
a content ratio of the particulate polymer in the adhesive layer is 60 to 100 wt %, and
the particulate polymer contains an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer unit, and a content ratio of the ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer unit in the particulate polymer is 30 to 50 wt %.

2. The secondary battery separator according to claim 1 , wherein the particulate polymer contains a crosslinkable monomer unit, and the content ratio of the crosslinkable monomer unit in the particulate polymer is 0.1 to 2 wt %.

3. The secondary battery separator according to claim 1 , wherein the swelling ratio of the particulate polymer in a reference solution at 20° C. is 1.1 to 15 times, the reference solution being 1 mol/L LiPF 6 dissolved in a mixture solvent of ethylene carbonate (EC) and diethyl carbonate (DEC) which are mixed at a volume ratio of EC:DEC=1:2.

4. The secondary battery separator according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the adhesive layer is 0.1 μm to 5 μm.

5. A secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator and an electrolyte solution, wherein the separator is the secondary battery separator of claim 1 .

6. A method for producing the secondary battery separator according to claim 1 , comprising:
applying onto an organic separator layer a slurry for a heat-durable layer containing a non-conductive particles and a binder, and then drying the slurry, to form a heat-durable layer; and
applying onto the heat-durable layer a slurry for an adhesive layer containing a particulate polymer having a glass transition temperature of 10 to 100° C., and then drying the slurry, to form an adhesive layer.

Assignees

• Zeon Corp

Inventors

• Toyoda Yujiro
• Sasaki Tomokazu

Classifications

• H01M10/0525 Primary

  Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries · CPC title

• H01M50/457

  comprising three or more layers · CPC title

• H01M50/489

  Separators, membranes, diaphragms or spacing elements inside the cells, characterised by their physical properties, e.g. swelling degree, hydrophilicity or shut down properties · CPC title

• H01M50/414

  Synthetic resins, e.g. thermoplastics or thermosetting resins · CPC title

• H01M50/403 Primary

  Manufacturing processes of separators, membranes or diaphragms · CPC title