IP Library Granted Patent US 6,998,190
Granted Patent B2
US 6,998,190 · App. 10/346,102 · Granted Feb 14, 2006

Battery having a sheet current collector fluid-tightly separating basic cells

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Patent No.
US 6,998,190
App. No.
10/346,102
Granted
Feb 14, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A small battery and an electric double layer capacitor exhibit adequate cell voltage and capacitor withstand voltage. Specifically, the battery or electric double layer capacitor includes basic cells having a pair of electrodes oppositely laminated via the separator, and an electrolyte are packaged in a resin sheet package. The basic cells are laminated in series via a sheet current collector. The sheet current collector extends to an edge of the resin sheet package around the periphery of the basic cells laminated on both sides of the current collector. The sheet current collector is glued or fused to the resin sheet in its edge. The adjacent basic cells via the sheet current collector are fluid-tightly separated within the resin sheet package.

Claims (35)

1. A battery, comprising:

a plurality of basic cells, each of said basic cells comprising a separator, a cathode and an anode oppositely laminated via the separator, and an electrolyte; and

a resin sheet package containing said plural basic cells, wherein

the basic cells are laminated in series via a sheet current collector;

the sheet current collector extends to an edge of the resin sheet package around an entire periphery of the basic cells, which are directly laminated on both sides of the current collector;

the sheet current collector is glued or fused to the resin sheet in its edge; and

the basic cells via the sheet current collector are liquid-tightly separated within the resin sheet package.

2. The battery as claimed in claim 1 , wherein

at each of the top side and the bottom side of a laminated structure comprising the laminated basic cells, is disposed a metal terminal plate with a lead extending to the outside of resin sheet package;

each of the top side and the bottom side of the laminated structure has a sheet current collector, which is glued or fused to the internal surface of the resin sheet package such that the sheet current collector covers the metal terminal plate except its lead.

3. The battery as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the resin sheet is a laminated sheet consisting of a resin film and a metal film.

4. The battery as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the sheet current collector liquid-tightly separates each of the basic cells from each other.

5. A battery, comprising:

a plurality of basic cells which each comprise a cathode, an anode and a separator between said cathode and said anode;

a current collector directly between a cathode of one of said plural basic cells and an anode of an adjacent one of said plural basic cells;

a resin sheet surrounding said plural basic cells to form a resin sheet package; and

an electrolyte within said resin sheet package,

wherein an entirety of said current collector extends to an edge of said resin sheet package and is connected to said resin sheet at said edge, so that adjacent ones of said plural basic cells are liquid-tightly separated from each other by said current collector.

6. The battery as claimed in claim 5 , further comprising:

a first sheet current collector at a top of a laminated structure comprising said plural basic cells laminated in series;

a second sheet current collector at a bottom of said laminated structure;

a first metal terminal plate between the first sheet current collector and said resin sheet package; and

a second metal terminal plate between the second sheet current collector and said resin sheet package, each of said first and second metal plates having a lead extending outside of said resin sheet package such that the first and second sheet current collectors cover a respective one of said first and second metal terminal plates except for said lead.

7. The battery as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the resin sheet is a laminated sheet consisting of a resin film and a metal film.

8. The battery as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the sheet current collector liquid-tightly separates each of the basic cells from each other.

9. A battery, comprising:

a plurality of basic cells which each comprise a cathode, an anode and a separator between said cathode and said anode;

a first sheet current collector between an adjacent two of said plural basic cells;

a resin sheet surrounding said plural basic cells to form a resin sheet package, wherein an entirety of said first sheet current collector extends to an edge of said resin sheet package and is connected to said resin sheet at said edge, so that adjacent ones of said plural basic cells are liquid-tightly separated from each other by said first sheet current collector;

an electrolyte within said resin sheet package;

a second sheet current collector at a top of a laminated structure comprising said plural basic cells laminated in series;

a third sheet current collector at a bottom of said laminated structure;

a first metal terminal plate between the second sheet current collector and said resin sheet package; and

a second metal terminal plate between the third sheet current collector and said resin sheet package, each of said first and second metal plates having a lead extending outside of said resin sheet package such that the second and third sheet current collectors cover a respective one of said first and second metal terminal plates except for said lead.

10. The battery as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the sheet current collector liquid-tightly separates each of the basic cells from each other.

Assignments (4)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Oct 28, 2024
From: SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION, AS SECURITY AGENT
To: ENVISION AESC JAPAN LTD.; ENVISION AESC ENERGY DEVICES LTD.
Reel/Frame 069461/0179 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT Recorded Jul 2, 2019
From: ENVISION AESC ENERGY DEVICES, LTD.
To: SUMITOMO MITUSI BANKING CORPORATION, AS SECURITY AGENT
Reel/Frame 049649/0924 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 21, 2019
From: NEC ENERGY DEVICES, LTD.
To: ENVISION AESC ENERGY DEVICES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 049556/0123 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 24, 2010
From: NEC TOKIN CORPORATION
To: NEC ENERGY DEVICES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 025041/0001 →