Battery

• US 6,007,936 A
• Filed: 02/07/1997
• Issued: 12/28/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Aoki, Kenichi, Asano, Gota, Suzuki, Norio, Iwase, Akira, Tokumoto, Tadahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): KALAFUT, STEPHEN J
• Application Number:
  US08/796,293
• Time in Patent Office: 1,054 Days
• Field of Search: 429/94, 429/163, 429/164
• US Class Current: 429/94
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0431 Cells with wound or folded electrodes H01M10/045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/56 Cup shaped terminals
• 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

A battery having a stable internal resistance with a small deviation of internal resistance, and capable of suppressing a change or elevation of internal resistance due to external impact is provided. The battery comprises a battery can having a conductivity, serving also as a negative terminal, and including an opening, a spiral electrode group disposed in the battery can, a positive plate and a negative plate wound around a separator, an electrolyte member disposed in the battery can, and a sealing member serving also as a positive terminal, disposed in the opening of the battery can through an electric insulating member. In the inner wall of the battery can, contacting with the negative electrode positioned on the outermost circumference of the plate group, plural linear bumps vertical to the bottom of the battery can are formed. The height of each linear bump of the plural linear bumps ranges from 0.05 mm to 0.25 mm, and the pitch of the linear bumps ranges from 0.5 mm to 10 mm. The negative electrode member comprises a metal core and a negative electrode material covering the surface of the metal core, and linear bumps are formed on the inner surface of the battery can, and the bumps are contact the surface of the negative electrode material.

Claims

1. An enclosed alkaline storage battery comprising:

a battery can having an opening and a conductivity, said battery can serving as a negative terminal,

a plurality of linear bumps formed inside said battery can, said plurality of linear bumps formed substantially vertically from a bottom of said battery can,

an electrode group disposed in said battery can, said electrode group including i) a positive electrode member, ii) a negative electrode member, and iii) a separator disposed between said positive electrode member and said negative electrode member, said negative electrode member including a metal core material and a negative electrode material covering a surface of said metal core material,

an electrolyte member disposed in said battery can,

an electric insulating member disposed around said opening of said battery can, and

a sealing member disposed in said opening of said battery can through said electric insulating member, said sealing member serving as a positive terminal and electrically conductive with part of said positive electrode member,

wherein said electrode group is wound and disposed in a spiral state so that said negative electrode member is positioned outside of the electrode group and that said positive electrode member is positioned inside of the electrode group, and

each bump of said plurality of linear bumps i) is disposed in electrical contact with and ii) bites into a surface of said negative electrode material so that said negative electrode material is in a compressed state.

2. A battery of claim 1, wherein said battery can is cylindrical shaped.

3. A battery of claim 1, wherein said plurality of bumps are a plurality of linear bumps formed vertically to the bottom of said battery can, and the pitch between linear bumps of said plurality of linear bumps ranges from 0.5 mm to 10 mm.

4. A battery of claim 1, wherein said plurality of bumps are a plurality of linear bumps formed vertically to the bottom of said battery can, and the height of each linear bump of said plurality of linear bumps ranges from 0.05 mm to 0.25 mm.

5. A battery of claim 1, wherein said battery can is cylindrical shaped, each bump of said plurality of bumps is a linear bump formed vertically to the bottom of said battery can, and the height of each linear bump ranges from 0.05 mm to 0.25 mm.

6. A battery of claim 1, wherein said battery can is cylindrical shaped, said plurality of bumps are a plurality of linear bumps formed vertically to the bottom of said battery can, the pitch between linear bumps of said plurality of linear bumps ranges from 0.5 mm to 10 mm, and the height of each linear bump ranges from 0.05 mm to 0.25 mm.

7. A battery of claim 1, wherein said battery can confronting said electric insulating member is a nearly smooth surface.

8. A battery of claim 1, wherein said metal core material has a conductivity smaller than that of the negative electrode material.

9. A battery comprising:

a battery can having a conductivity and an opening, said battery can serving as a negative terminal,

a spiral electrode group comprising a positive plate and a negative plate wound through a separator and disposed in said battery can, said negative plate positioned on an outermost circumference of said spiral electrode group, said negative plate including a metal core material and a negative electrode material covering a surface of said metal core material,

a plurality of linear bumps formed in the inner wall of said battery can substantially vertical to a bottom of said battery can i) in electrical contact with said negative electrode material, ii) biting into said negative electrode material, and iii) disposing said negative electrode material in a compressed state, wherein a height of each linear bump ranges from 0.05 mm to 0.25 mm and a pitch between the linear bumps ranges from 0.5 mm to 10 mm,

an electrolyte member disposed in said battery can,

an electric insulating member disposed around said opening of said battery can, and

a sealing member disposed in said opening of said battery can through said electric insulating member, said sealing member serving as a positive terminal.

10. A battery comprising:

a battery can serving as a negative terminal and having an opening,

a spiral wound electrode group disposed in said battery can comprising a positive electrode member, a negative electrode member, and a separator disposed between said positive electrode member and said negative electrode member, said negative electrode member including a metal core material and a negative electrode material covering a surface of said metal core material,

a plurality of bumps formed on the inner surface of said battery can and in electrical contact with said negative electrode member, each of said plurality of bumps disposed against a surface of said negative electrode material and biting into said negative electrode member so that said negative electrode material is in a compressing state,

an electrolyte member disposed in said battery can,

an electric insulating member disposed around said opening of said battery can, and

a sealing member serving as a positive terminal disposed in said opening of said battery can through said electric insulating member.