LAMINATED POROUS FILM, SEPARATOR FOR BATTERY, AND BATTERY

• US 20130196208A1
• Filed: 09/29/2011
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics Incorporated (Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics Incorporated (Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nemoto, Tomoyuki
• Application Number:
  US13/876,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20130196208A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/144
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/403 Manufacturing processes of separators, membranes or diaphragms
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/417 Polyolefins
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/44 Fibrous material
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/446 Composite material consisting of a mixture of organic and inorganic materials
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/451 comprising layers of only organic material and layers containing inorganic material
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/489 Separators, membranes, diaphragms or spacing elements inside the cells, characterised by their physical properties, e.g. swelling degree, hydrophilicity or shut down properties
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/491 Porosity
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

The purpose is to provide a laminated porous film having shutdown characteristics, which are important in terms of ensuring safety, while also having excellent air permeation performance, which contributes to electrical performance, when used a separator for a battery. The present invention is a laminated porous film characterized by comprising: a porous film layer having a thickness of 10 um or more, the main component thereof being a thermoplastics resin composition having a crystal-melting peak temperature of 150-250° C.; and a nonwoven fiber layer having a fiber diameter of 1 um or less, the main component thereof being a thermoplastic resin composition having a crystal-melting peak temperature of 100° C. to less than 150° C.; the air permeability of the laminated porous film being 10-10,000 s/100 mL.

Claims

1. A laminated porous film, comprising:

a porous film layer comprising a first thermoplastic resin composition as a main component thereof and having a thickness not less than 10 μ

m and

a nonwoven cloth layer comprising a second thermoplastic resin composition as a main component thereof and having a fiber diameter of not more than 1 μ

m,

wherein the first thermoplastic resin composition has a crystalline melting peak temperature of from 150°

C. to 250°

C., the second thermoplastic resin composition has a crystalline melting peak temperature of from 100°

C. to 150°

C., and the laminated porous film has an air permeability of from 10 to 10000 seconds 100 mL.

2. The laminated porous film according to claim 1.

wherein the second thermoplastic resin composition is a polyethylene resin.

3. The laminated porous film according to claim 1,

wherein the first thermoplastic resin composition is a polypropylene resin composition.

4. The laminated porous film according to claim 1, wherein the laminated porous film has a β

activity.

5. The laminated porous film according to claim 1, obtained by a process comprising adding a β

crystal nucleating agent to the first thermoplastic resin composition.

6. The laminated porous film according to claim 1, wherein a thickness of the nonwoven cloth layer is less than 10 μ

m, and a shut-down temperature thereof is from 100°

C. to 150°

C.

7. A method of producing the laminated porous film according to claim 1, the method comprising:

obtaining the nonwoven cloth layer on the porous film layer with a nonwoven cloth production method (electrospinning method),

wherein the nonwoven cloth production method comprises preparing a polymeric solution by dissolving the thermoplastic resin composition in a solvent and applying a voltage to the polymeric solution, thereby spinning the polymeric solution into fibers.

8. A battery separator, comprising the laminated porous film according to claim 1.

9. A battery, comprising the battery separator according to claim 8.

10. The laminated porous film according to claim 1,

wherein the porous film layer comprises the first thermoplastic resin composition as not less than 50 mass % of an entire mass of the porous film layer and the nonwoven cloth layer comprises the second thermoplastic resin composition as not less than 50 mass % of an entire mass of the nonwoven cloth layer.

11. The laminated porous film according to claim 6,

wherein a thickness of the nonwoven cloth layer is less than 7 μ

m.

12. The laminated porous film according to claim 1,

wherein a crystalline melting peak temperature of the second thermoplastic resin composition is from 100°

C. to 140°

C.

13. The laminated porous film according to claim 1,

wherein a fiber diameter of the nonwoven cloth layer is not more than 0.5 μ

m.

14. The laminated porous film according to claim 1,

wherein the air permeability of the laminated porous film is from 100 to 500 seconds/100 mL.

15. The laminated porous film according to claim 1,

wherein the first thermoplastic resin composition is suitable for a battery separator and the first thermoplastic resin composition is at least resin selected from the group consisting of polypropylene, polymethylpentene, polyvinylidene fluoride, polyacrylonitrile, aramid, polyimide, polyamide imide, polyacrylonitrile, polyarylate, cellulose, polyazomethine, polyacetylene, and polypyrrole.

16. The laminated porous film according to claim 15,

wherein the first thermoplastic resin composition is polymethylpentene.

17. The laminated porous film according to claim 4, the β

activity of the laminated porous film is not less than 20%.

18. The laminated porous film according to claim 17, the β

activity of the laminated porous film is not less than 60%.