Secondary battery
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTetsuo HARA
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Abstract
A secondary battery includes a battery case, an electrode body, and a collector member connecting the battery case and the electrode body. A positive electrode includes an insulation layer provided so as to be adjacent to a positive electrode active material layer. The collector members include first portions, and second portions continuous to the first portions and bent relative to the first portions. The first portions are fixed to the battery case. The second portions are connected, at ends thereof opposite to the bent portions, to collector regions, respectively. The collector members further include ribs connected, at the bent portions, to the first portions and the second portions, respectively.
Claims5
A secondary battery, comprising:
- a battery case;
- an electrode body in which a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator are stacked, with the positive electrode and the negative electrode being insulated from each other by the separator;
- and
- a collector member connected to the battery case and the electrode body, wherein
- the positive electrode includes
- a positive electrode collector including an active material layer forming region, an insulation layer forming region adjacent to the active material layer forming region, and a collector region adjacent to the insulation layer forming region,
- a positive electrode active material layer including a positive electrode active material provided on a surface of the active material layer forming region, and
- an insulation layer provided on a surface of the insulation layer forming region,
- the collector member includes a first portion, and a second portion continuous to the first portion and bent relative to the first portion,
- the first portion is fixed to the battery case,
- the second portion is connected, at an end thereof on an opposite side to the bent portion, to the collector region,
- the collector member further including a rib integrally formed, at the bent part, with the first portion and the second portion;
- wherein the rib has a length that is shorter than a space between a top of the electrode body and the first portion of the collector member, and a width that is half or less than a thickness of the electrode body;
- wherein the rib is connected, among surfaces of the first portion and the second portion, to a surface on an opposite side to the electrode body;
- and
- wherein the collector member includes the first portion, the second portion, and the rib, which are continuously and integrally formed, and is at least one of a bent product and a pressed product of a sheet-shaped metal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.