Rechargeable battery
AssigneeSamsung SDI Co., Ltd.
InventorsChi-Young LEE, Myung-Jae JANG
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Abstract
A rechargeable battery that reduces a production cost by reducing a number of processes of a case is provided. The rechargeable battery includes: a case that houses an electrode assembly; a cap plate that is coupled to an opening of the case; and an electrode terminal that is electrically connected to the electrode assembly to be provided in the cap plate, wherein the cap plate has an inclined portion at a side surface of an outer edge and a modified groove at a corner of an outer surface and is coupled to the opening with the inclined portion while the modified groove becomes narrow.
Claims12
A rechargeable battery, comprising:
- a case that houses an electrode assembly;
- a cap plate that is coupled to an opening of the case;
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- an electrode terminal that is electrically connected to the electrode assembly to be provided in the cap plate,
- wherein the cap plate has an inclined portion at a side surface of an outer edge and a modified groove at a corner of an outer surface and is coupled to the opening with the inclined portion so that the modified groove has an inclined inner wall that corresponds to the inclined surface of the cap plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.