Nonaqueous secondary electrolytic battery

• US 7,267,904 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2003
• Issued: 09/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd. (GS Yuasa Corporation)
• Original Assignee: GS Yuasa Corporation
• Inventors: Mukai, Hiroshi, Nagata, Mikito, Okada, Mikio, Murai, Tetsuya, Kitano, Shinya, Yumoto, Hiroyuki, Nakahara, Hiroshi, Komatsu, Shigeo
• Primary Examiner(s): Ryan; Patrick Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): Martin; Angela J.
• Application Number:
  US10/712,530
• Publication Number:
  US 20040096735A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,397 Days
• Field of Search: 429/176, 429/185, 429/178, 429/179, 429/171, 429/164, 429/163, 429/162, 429/94
• US Class Current: 429/176
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0431 Cells with wound or folded electrodes H01M10/045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/052 Li-accumulators
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0587 of accumulators having only wound construction elements, i.e. wound positive electrodes, wound negative electrodes and wound separators
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/105 Pouches or flexible bags
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/124 having a layered structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/126 comprising three or more layers
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/178 for pouch or flexible bag cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/55 on the same side of the cell
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/557 Plate-shaped terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/562 characterised by the material
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/566 by welding, soldering or brazing
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/10 with wound or folded electrodes
• 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 nonaqueous secondary electrolytic battery comprising an electricity-generating element formed by spirally winding a laminate of a positive electrode plate, a separating material and a negative electrode plate, and an electrolytic solution with which the separating material, if it is a separator, is impregnated. The electricity-generating element is sealed in a battery case formed by a resin-laminated sheet comprising a metal layer as a barrier layer. Only a pair of lead terminals are drawn to the exterior of the battery case. The resin sheet comprises an oriented resin layer laminated on both surfaces of the metal layer. The inner heat-fused layers are opposed and heat-fused to each other. A molten and solidified resin mass is formed protruding from the inner end of the welded portion toward the inner space of the battery by 0.1 mm or more. Alternatively, the welded portion is formed thinner at the outer end thereof than at the inner end thereof.

Claims

1. A nonaqueous secondary electrolytic battery comprising:

an electricity-generating element comprising;

a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate with a separating material interposed therebetween; and

a battery case accommodating said electricity-generatina element therein,

wherein said battery case has a portion which includes two resin sheets each comprising a heat fused layer, and a welded portion in which said resin sheets are welded together, being superimposed over each other so that each of said heat fused layers are integrated together;

wherein the relationship X<

Y is met, where X is a total thickness of said heat fused layers welded in said welded portion at an outer end thereof, and Y is a total thickness of said heat fused layers welded in said welded portion at an inner end thereof.

2. The nonaqueous secondary electrolytic battery according to claim 1, wherein said positive electrode plate and said negative electrode plate are wound about a winding axis, such that said electricity-generating element has an ellipsoidal cross-sectional shape, and

said nonaciueous secondary electrolytic battery is produced by accommodating said electricity-generating element in said battery case, such that the winding axis is perpendicular to a plane of an opening of said battery case.

3. The nonaqueous secondary electrolytic battery according to claim 1, wherein said resin sheet is a metal-laminated film comprising a metal foil and a resin layer laminated on each other.

4. The nonaqueous secondary electrolytic battery according to claim 2, wherein said resin sheet is a metal-laminated film comprising a metal foil and a resin layer laminated on each other.

5. A nonaqueous secondary electrolytic battery comprising:

an electricity-generating element having a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate opposed to each other with a separating material interposed therebetween, a positive lead terminal electrically connected to said positive electrode plate, and a negative lead terminal electrically connected to said negative electrode plate; and

a battery case, which is made of a resin sheet having welded portions in which overlapped portions of said resin sheet are welded together, accommodating said electricity-generating element therein, said lead terminals extending through one of said welded portions;

wherein said positive lead terminals is bent at a positive bent portion outside said battery case at a radius of from 0.5 mm to 4 mm; and

said negative lead terminal is bent at a negative bent portion outside said battery case at a radius of from 0.5 mm to 4 mm.

6. The nonaqueous secondary electrolytic battery according to claim 5, wherein said positive bent portion or said negative bent portion is covered by a resin layer.

7. The nonaqueous secondary electrolytic battery according to claim 6, wherein said resin layer is a resin tube of material that is different from the material of said battery case.

8. The nonaqueous secondary electrolytic battery according to claim 6, wherein said resin layer is a partially extended portion of said resin sheet.

9. The nonaqueous secondary electrolytic battery according to claim 5, wherein there is no bent portion in said positive lead terminal except for said positive bent portion, and

there is no bent portion in said negative lead terminal except for said negative bent portion.