IP Library Granted Patent US 9,350,050
Granted Patent B2
US 9,350,050 · App. 11/687,848 · Granted May 24, 2016

Current collector, negative electrode and battery

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Patent No.
US 9,350,050
App. No.
11/687,848
Granted
May 24, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A current collector includes a first principal plane and a second principal plane. In the current collector, the roughness of the first principal plane and second principal plane being mutually different.

Claims (15)

1. A battery comprising:

a positive electrode and a negative electrode spirally wound to form a wound body;

an electrolyte;

a negative current collector of the negative electrode having (a) a first principal plane facing outward and corresponding to an outer face of the wound body and (b) a second principal plane facing inward and corresponding to an inner face of the wound body, and

an active material layer comprising Si or Sn on at least one of the first principal plane and the second principal plane of the negative current collector,

wherein,

a surface roughness of the first principal plane of the negative current collector is higher than a surface roughness of the second principal plane of the negative current collector, and

the surface roughness of the first principal plane is in a range of 0.2 μm to 3.0 μm both inclusive.

2. A battery according to claim 1 , wherein:

the active material layer on the negative current collector includes the first principal plane and the second principal plane; and

one of the first principal plane and the second principal plane has a thickness of 80 μm or more at full discharge.

3. A battery according to claim 1 , wherein the active material layer on the negative current collector exhibits a volume change of 10% or more at full charge and full discharge.

4. A battery according to claim 1 , wherein at least part of the active material layer is alloyed with the negative current collector.

5. The battery according to claim 1 wherein the negative current collector has a thickness of about 5 μm to 30 μm, both inclusive.

6. The battery according to claim 1 wherein the difference between the surface roughness of the first principal plane and the second principal plane is equal to or greater than 0.05 μm.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 22, 2018
From: TOHOKU MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
To: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 045103/0835 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 22, 2018
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: TOHOKU MURATA MANUFACTURING CO.,LTD
Reel/Frame 045104/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 30, 2007
From: KAWASE, KENICHI; KONISHIIKE, ISAMU; TAKADA, TOMOO; IWAMA, MASAYUKI; MORITA, NOZOMU; KATO, YOSHIKAZU
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 019352/0952 →