IP Library Granted Patent US 8,137,835
Granted Patent B2
US 8,137,835 · App. 12/303,002 · Granted Mar 20, 2012

Plated steel plate for cell can, battery, alkaline dry battery

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Patent No.
US 8,137,835
App. No.
12/303,002
Granted
Mar 20, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

The plated steel plate for a cell can provides stable and good electrical contact on an outer surface of the cell can, and the evolution of gas within a battery can be suppressed by reducing damage to a plated surface of the steel plate when the cell can is formed by drawing press. In this manner, it is possible to provide a battery and an alkaline dry battery that can realize stable electrical contact with devices and reduce the evolution of gas. In a plated steel plate for a cell can both of whose surfaces are plated mainly with nickel, one surface of a steel plate that is a plated substrate is a dull finished surface, and another surface thereof is a bright finished surface.

Claims (16)

1. A battery, comprising:

an electricity generating element; and

a cell can

that accommodates the electricity generating element and is closed and sealed, the cell can

also serving as a battery terminal of one electrode, the cell can including a steel plate serving as a substrate for plating, one of surfaces of the steel plate to be on an outer side of the cell can being dull finished, another surface of the steel plate to be on an inner side of the cell can being bright finished, the plated steel plating being plated with a plating mainly of nickel, the plated steel plate being pressed into a bottomed cylindrical shape in such a manner that the cell can has a dull finished surface on an outer side thereof and a bright finished surface on an inner side thereof, wherein a center line average roughness of a surface of the plating formed on the dull finished surface is set to 0.6 μm or more, wherein a center line average roughness of a surface of the plating formed on the bright finished surface is set to 0.4 μm or less, and wherein the thickness of the plating on the bright surface is set to 1.5 μm or more.

2. An alkaline dry battery comprising:

a bottomed cylindrical metal cell can

that also serves as a battery terminal of one electrode,

the cell can including a steel plate serving as a substrate for plating, one of surfaces of the steel plate to be on an outer side of the cell can being dull finished, another surface of the steel plate to be on an inner side of the cell can being bright finished, the plated steel plating being plated with a plating mainly of nickel, the plated steel plate being pressed into a bottomed cylindrical shape in such a manner that the cell can has a dull finished surface on an outside side thereof and a bright finished surface on an inner side thereof, wherein a center line average roughness of a surface of the plating formed on the dull finished surface is set to 0.6 μm or more, wherein a center line average roughness of a surface of the plating formed on the bright finished surface is set to 0.4 μm or less, and wherein the thickness of the plating on the bright surface is set to 1.5 μm or more.

3. A cell can, comprising:

a plated steel plate

including a steel plate serving as a substrate for plating, one of surfaces of the steel plate to be on an outer side of the cell can being dull finished, another surface of the steel plate to be on an inner side of the cell can being bright finished, the plated steel plating being plated with a plating mainly of nickel, the plated steel plate being pressed into a bottomed cylindrical shape in such a manner that the cell can has a dull finished surface on an outer side thereof and a bright finished surface on an inner side thereof, wherein a center line average roughness of a surface of the plating formed on the dull finished surface is set to 0.6 μm or more, wherein a center line average roughness of a surface of the plating formed on the bright finished surface is set to 0.4 μm or less, and wherein the thickness of the plating on the bright surface is set to 1.5 μm or more.

4. A cell can according to claim 3 , wherein

at least the plating on the dull finished surface is a plating formed without adding a sulfur compound in a plating process.

5. A cell can according to claim 3 , wherein

a diffusion layer of nickel-iron is not included between the steel plate and a plated layer.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jan 8, 2016
From: FDK CORPORATION
To: FDK CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 037952/0896 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 19, 2009
From: TSUCHIDA, YUJI; KUNIYA, SHIGEYUKI; YAMAZAKI, TATSUYA
To: FDK ENERGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 022124/0572 →