Method for producing secondary battery

• US 9,157,964 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2009
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Kitsunai, Shinichiro, Ikuta, Kazuo, Jikuri, Norihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Dunn, Drew A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zhou, Zixuan
• Application Number:
  US13/497,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20120176140A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,210 Days
• Field of Search: 324/426, 320134-136, 320/150, 320153-154
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/385 Arrangements for measuring battery or accumulator variables for monitoring G01R31/382
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/52 Testing for short-circuits, leakage current or ground faults
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/052 Li-accumulators
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4207 for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• 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

Disclosed is method for producing a secondary battery, capable of selection of a secondary battery having a defect caused by a micro short-circuit with high accuracy. A step for producing a secondary battery includes an inspection step for selecting the secondary battery having the defect among multiple secondary batteries. In the inspection step, a short circuit resistance is calculated based on capacitances of the multiple secondary batteries calculated before self-discharge inspection, a time required for the self-discharge inspection, first and second reference voltages calculated from open circuit voltages measured before and after the self-discharge inspection in the multiple secondary batteries, and first and second voltages which are open circuit voltages of one selected from the multiple secondary batteries measured before and after the self-discharge inspection. If the short circuit resistance is equal to or lower than a predetermined standard value, the selected secondary battery is determined to have the defect.

Claims

1. A method for producing a secondary battery, comprising:

an inspection step for selecting the secondary battery having a defect caused by a micro short-circuit among a plurality of the secondary batteries,

wherein the inspection step includes a first step for performing a self-discharge inspection in which the plurality of the secondary batteries are allowed to stand at normal temperature for a predetermined period, a second step for calculating a short circuit resistance of said each secondary battery, and a third step for determining the defect caused by the micro short-circuit on the basis of the short circuit resistance in said each secondary battery,

wherein in the second step, the short circuit resistance Rs is calculated from a formula Rs=t/C·

In{Vs1·

Vi0/(Vs0·

Vi1)} by using a capacitance C of said each secondary battery calculated before the self-discharge inspection, a time t required for the self-discharge inspection, a first reference voltage Vi0 calculated from open circuit voltages of the plurality of the secondary batteries measured before the self-discharge inspection, a second reference voltage Vi1 calculated from the open circuit voltages of the plurality of the secondary batteries measured after the self-discharge inspection, a first voltage Vs0 which is the open circuit voltage, measured before the self-discharge inspection, of one secondary battery selected from the plurality of the secondary batteries, and a second voltage Vs1 which is the open circuit voltage of the selected secondary battery measured after the self-discharge inspection,

wherein in the third step, if the short circuit resistance is equal to or lower than a predetermined standard value, the selected secondary battery is determined to have the defect caused by the micro short-circuit,

wherein the first reference voltage is a smaller value of an average and a median of the open circuit voltages of the plurality of the secondary batteries measured before the self-discharge inspection, and

wherein the second reference voltage is a larger value of an average and a median of the open circuit voltages of the plurality of the secondary batteries measured after the self-discharge inspection.

2. A method for producing a secondary battery, comprising:

an inspection step for selecting the secondary battery having a defect caused by a micro short-circuit among a plurality of the secondary batteries,

wherein the inspection step includes a first step for performing a self-discharge inspection in which the plurality of the secondary batteries are allowed to stand at normal temperature for a predetermined period, a second step for calculating a short circuit resistance of said each secondary battery, and a third step for determining the defect caused by the micro short-circuit on the basis of the short circuit resistance in said each secondary battery,

wherein in the second step, the short circuit resistance Rs is calculated from a formula Rs=t/C·

In{Vs1·

Vi0/(Vs0·

Vi1)} by using a capacitance C of said each secondary battery calculated before the self-discharge inspection, a time t required for the self-discharge inspection, a first reference voltage Vi0 calculated from open circuit voltages of the plurality of the secondary batteries measured before the self-discharge inspection, a second reference voltage Vi1 calculated from the open circuit voltages of the plurality of the secondary batteries measured after the self-discharge inspection, a first voltage Vs0 which is the open circuit voltage, measured before the self-discharge inspection, of one secondary battery selected from the plurality of the secondary batteries, and a second voltage Vs1 which is the open circuit voltage of the selected secondary battery measured after the self-discharge inspection,

wherein in the third step, if the short circuit resistance is equal to or lower than a predetermined standard value, the selected secondary battery is determined to have the defect caused by the micro short-circuit,

wherein the first reference voltage is the open circuit voltage measured before the self-discharge inspection, which constitutes the smaller value of an average and a median of values obtained by dividing the open circuit voltages of the plurality of the secondary batteries measured before the self-discharge inspection by the open circuit voltages of the plurality of the secondary batteries measured after the self-discharge inspection, and

wherein the second reference voltage is the open circuit voltage measured after the self-discharge inspection, which constitutes the smaller value of the average and the median of the values obtained by dividing the open circuit voltages of the plurality of the secondary batteries measured before the self-discharge inspection by the open circuit voltages of the plurality of the secondary batteries measured after the self-discharge inspection.