# US 12,603,328 B2 · Method for manufacturing secondary battery

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- Number: US 12,603,328 B2
- Document ID: US12603328B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/690,010
- Filed: 2022-03-09
- Published: 2022-09-15
- Granted: 2026-04-14
- Earliest claimed: 2021-03-12
- Assignees: Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.
- Applicants: Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.
- Inventors: Takeru Hara
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12603328B2

## CPC

- H01M 10/0481: {Compression means other than compression means for stacks of electrodes and separators}
- H01M 10/0587: of accumulators having only wound construction elements, i.e. wound positive electrodes, wound negative electrodes and wound separators
- H01M 10/049: {Processes for forming or storing electrodes in the battery container}
- H01M 10/0525: Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries
- Y02E 60/10: Energy storage using batteries
- Y02P 70/50: Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product
- H01M: PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
- Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02P: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS

## Abstract

Provided is a technique capable of suppressing the occurrence of uneven drying inside an electrode body. The manufacturing method disclosed herein is for manufacturing a secondary battery comprising an electrode body and a battery case. The method comprises the steps of: accommodating the electrode body in the battery case to produce a battery assembly; arranging a gripping tool on the outside of the battery case of the battery assembly and gripping the battery assembly with the gripping tool; and drying the inside of the battery assembly, wherein the battery assembly is gripped and heated. In the gripping, a larger restraining pressure is applied to a central region of a rectangular surface of the electrode body than to other regions.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for manufacturing a secondary battery comprising
an electrode body that comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator that separates the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and comprises at least a pair of rectangular surfaces, and
a battery case that accommodates the electrode body,
the method comprising the steps of:
accommodating the electrode body in the battery case to produce a battery assembly;
arranging a gripping tool on the outside of the battery case of the battery assembly and gripping the battery assembly with the gripping tool, wherein the battery case comprises two facing surfaces facing the pair of rectangular surfaces of the electrode body accommodated inside the case, and the two facing surfaces of the battery case are sandwiched with the gripping tool;
drying the inside of the battery assembly, wherein the battery assembly is gripped and heated at 60° C. or higher and 150° C. or lower,
after the drying, injecting an electrolytic solution to the battery case through an injection hole on the battery case;
after the injecting, sealing the injection hole; and
after the sealing, performing an initial charging and an aging treatment,
wherein in the gripping, a larger restraining pressure is applied to a central region including a center line in a long side direction of the rectangular surface of the electrode body than to other regions of the rectangular surface excluding the central region,
the ratio (L2/L1) of the length L2 in the long side direction of the central region to the length L1 in the long side direction of the rectangular surface of the electrode body is ⅛ or more and ½ or less,
the gripping tool has gripping plates arranged in a direction, and a plate heater on which the gripping plates are arranged outside,
in the gripping,
a plurality of the battery assembly are prepared,
each of the plurality of the battery assembly is arranged between two adjacent gripping plates in the direction where the gripping plates are arranged to form grip bodies, wherein each of the grip bodies is composed of the two adjacent gripping plates and the battery assembly arranged therebetween,
the grip bodies are arranged on the plate heater,
an elastic body is arranged in a space between two adjacent grip bodies to apply a restraining pressure to each of the plurality of the battery assembly.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein the ratio (L2/L1) of the length L2 in the long side direction of the central region to the length L1 in the long side direction of the rectangular surface of the electrode body is ¼ or more and ⅓ or less.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein the length L1 is 100 mm or more and 1000 mm or less.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein
the positive electrode is a long strip-shaped positive electrode sheet;
the negative electrode is a long strip-shaped negative electrode sheet; and
the electrode body is a wound electrode body in which the positive electrode sheet and the negative electrode sheet are laminated with the separator interposed therebetween and are wound around a winding axis orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the sheets,
wherein the laminated surfaces of the positive electrode sheet, the negative electrode sheet, and the separator are open to the outside of the electrode body from both ends in the winding axis direction.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein
the gripping plates are in contact with the battery case in a region facing the central region and are not in contact with the battery case in a region facing the other region.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein in the drying, the plurality of the battery assembly, the gripping tool, and the plate heater are accommodated in a drying chamber, and a pressure inside the drying chamber is reduced.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein the elastic body is a spring.

### Claim 8 (depends on 5)

The manufacturing method according to claim 5, wherein the elastic body is a spring.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The manufacturing method according to claim 1, wherein each of the gripping plates entirely faces the rectangular surface of the electrode body, and has a protrusion only in a portion facing the central region.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The manufacturing method according to claim 9, wherein the elastic body is a spring.