Battery and battery manufacturing method
View Patent ↗A battery and a battery manufacturing method are provided. The battery includes a main body portion, a cover plate assembly, a tab portion, and a connecting piece. The cover plate assembly is located on a top surface of the main body portion and includes a pole. The tab portion extends out from a side surface of the main body portion and is bent toward a first large surface of two opposite large surfaces of the main body portion. The connecting piece is bent into a first section, located on the top surface and connected with the pole, and a second section, parallel or almost parallel to the side surface and welded to a surface of one side of the tab portion facing or facing away from the main body portion. A surface where the connecting piece is connected with the second section is disposed opposite to the main body portion.
1. A battery manufacturing method, comprising:
a bending step of bending a tab portion of two tab portions toward a first large surface of two opposite large surfaces of a main body portion of two main body portions of a battery, so that a portion of the tab portion faces a side surface of the main body portion, and the tab portion extends out from the side surface of the main body portion; and
a welding step of disposing a second section of a connecting piece on a surface of one side of the tab portion facing or facing away from the side surface of the main body portion and parallel to or almost parallel to the side surface of the main body portion, and welding the tab portion to the second section of the connecting piece, wherein the connecting piece is a plate-shaped object bent into a first section and the second section, and the first section is configured to be connected with a pole disposed on a top surface of the main body portion, wherein
in the welding step, a supporting plate for welding is disposed to support the second section of the connecting piece and the portion of the tab portion facing the side surface of the main body portion, welding is implemented from a direction toward the side surface of the main body portion, and the supporting plate is closer to the side surface of the main body portion than the second section of the connecting piece and the portion of the tab portion facing the side surface of the main body portion;
the bending step is implemented on the two tab portions respectively extending out from two side surfaces of a same side of the two main body portions, and the first large surfaces of the two main body portions are oppositely disposed before or after the bending step is implemented;
the supporting plate corresponds to the two tab portions;
the steps are also implemented on two tab portions respectively extending out from two side surfaces of another side of the two main body portions and another connecting piece; and
the supporting plate is provided as two supporting plates, the two supporting plates are respectively disposed on two sides of the two main body portions and are connected through a cross beam disposed between the first large surfaces of the two main body portions and extending along a length direction of the two main body portions.
2. The battery manufacturing method according to claim 1 , further comprising a shaping step, wherein
in the bending step, a portion of the tab portion exceeds the first large surface in a width direction of the main body portion;
in the welding step, the portion of the tab portion exceeding the first large surface is welded; and
in the shaping step, a portion between a welding mark of the tab portion and the side surface of the main body portion is stacked to reduce a size of the tab portion along a width and/or height direction of the main body portion.
3. The battery manufacturing method according to claim 1 , wherein
the supporting plate comprises an extension portion extending out from one side of the first large surface of the main body portion to one side of another large surface, and in the welding step, welding is implemented on a portion of the tab portion and the connecting piece located between the two large surfaces of the main body portion.
4. The battery manufacturing method according to claim 3 , wherein in the welding step, the two tab portions are both welded onto the second section of the connecting piece.
5. The battery manufacturing method according to claim 1 , wherein welding tools used comprise the two supporting plates and the cross beam.
6. The battery manufacturing method according to claim 5 , wherein the welding tools further comprise two pressing plates respectively corresponding to the two supporting plates;
the pressing plate and the supporting plate are configured to clamp the connecting piece and the portion of the tab portion facing the side surface of the main body portion during welding; and
an avoidance area for avoiding welding energy is disposed on the pressing plate, so that the welding energy during welding acts on a clamped portion of the connecting piece and the tab portion.