BATTERY

• US 20130078492A1
• Filed: 06/06/2011
• Published: 03/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd. (GS Yuasa Corporation)
• Original Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd. (GS Yuasa Corporation)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Takeshi, Mori, Sumio, Teshima, Minoru, Yamafuku, Taro
• Application Number:
  US13/701,996
• Publication Number:
  US 20130078492A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/94
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/00 Electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/103 prismatic or rectangular H01M50/109, H01M50/11 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/528 Fixed electrical connections, i.e. not intended for disconnection
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/533 characterised by the shape of the leads or tabs
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/538 Connection of several leads or tabs of wound or folded electrode stacks
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/55 on the same side of the cell
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/553 Terminals adapted for prismatic, pouch or rectangular cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/564 characterised by their manufacturing process
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/50 Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product

Abstract

The present invention suppresses movement of a power generating element in a case of a battery while minimizing an increase in a workload in an assembly process of the battery.

In the battery including: a power generating element 3; a case BC housing the power generating element 3; an electrode terminal 5 disposed outside the case; a current collector 4 connected to the power generating element 3; and a fixing member FE for fixing the current collector 4 to the case BC and having electric conductivity, the current collector 4 and the fixing member FE forming an energizing path between the power generating element 3 and the electrode terminal 5, a spacer 11 which is positioned by engagement with the fixing member FE and which suppresses movement of the power generating element 3 is disposed between the fixing member FE and the power generating element 3.

Claims

1. A battery comprising:

a power generating element;

a case housing the power generating element;

an electrode terminal disposed outside the case;

a current collector connected to the power generating element; and

a fixing member for fixing the current collector to the case and having electric conductivity, the current collector and the fixing member forming an energizing path between the power generating element and the electrode terminal,

wherein a spacer which is positioned by engagement with the fixing member and which suppresses movement of the power generating element is disposed between the fixing member and the power generating element.

2. The battery according to claim 1, wherein the fixing member is formed by a hollow rivet for fixing the current collector to the case with at least an inner side of the hollow rivet with respect to the case caulked and

the spacer is positioned while fitted into a hollow portion in the hollow rivet.

3. The battery according to claim 1, wherein the spacer is formed by integrally forming a portion positioned between the fixing member and the power generating element on a positive electrode side and a portion positioned between the rivet member and the power generating element on a negative electrode side.

4. The battery according to claim 1, wherein the power generating element is formed as a winding-type power generating element formed by winding long foil-shaped positive electrode plate, negative electrode plate, and separator in a layered state and

a face of the spacer facing the power generating element is formed in a shape of a recessed face adapted to a shape of a side face of the power generating element curved by the winding.

5. The battery according to claim 1, wherein the current collector is formed into a bent shape having a portion extending along a face of the case to which the electrode terminal is mounted and a portion extending in a direction of a normal to the face of the case to which the electrode terminal is mounted and

the spacer is formed in a shape extending to a bent portion of the current collector.

6. The battery according to claim 1, wherein a portion not applied with an active material is formed on one end side of at least one of the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate included in the power generating element and the spacer is disposed between the fixing member and the not-applied portion.