IP Library Granted Patent US 11,641,026
Granted Patent B2
US 11,641,026 · App. 17/340,347 · Granted May 2, 2023

All-solid-state battery manufacturing apparatus and all-solid-state battery manufacturing method

Inventors: Takuya Sakamoto (Toyota, JP); Yuki Nishibu (Seto, JP); Tomoya Hioki (Toyota, JP); Masato Ono (Nagoya, JP); Yosuke Koide (Nagoya, JP); Kazumasa Inata (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H01M10/0468H01M4/0435H01M4/134H01M4/625H01M10/0562H01M10/0585H01M2300/0068
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Patent No.
US 11,641,026
App. No.
17/340,347
Granted
May 2, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

An all-solid-state battery manufacturing apparatus disclosed herein includes a transport apparatus, a press roller, and an adhesive provision apparatus. The transport apparatus transports an active material layer. The press roller has a foil attachment surface, which is a cylindrical surface to which the current collection foil is to be attached. The press roller rotates and moves the current collection foil attached to the foil attachment surface to the surface of the active material layer being transported by the transport apparatus and presses the current collection foil and the active material layer between the press roller and the transport apparatus. The adhesive provision apparatus is provided on a movement path of the current collection foil rotated and moved by the foil attachment surface of the press roller, and provides an adhesive to the current collection foil attached to the press roller.

Claims (21)

1. A manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing an all-solid-state battery in which a current collection foil and an active material layer are stacked, the manufacturing apparatus comprising:

a transport apparatus configured to transport the active material layer supported on a support surface;

a press roller that has a foil attachment surface, which is a cylindrical surface to which the current collection foil supplied from the outside is to be attached, and that is configured to rotate and move the current collection foil attached to the foil attachment surface to a surface of the active material layer being transported by the transport apparatus by rotating using a central axis of the cylindrical surface as a rotational axis, and to press the current collection foil and the active material layer in a thickness direction between the press roller and the support surface of the transport apparatus; and

an adhesive provision apparatus that is provided on a movement path of the current collection foil rotated and moved by the foil attachment surface of the press roller, and that is configured to provide an adhesive to the current collection foil attached to the press roller;

wherein the press roller includes a plurality of ventilation holes that extend from the foil attachment surface to an interior, and

the current collection foil is attached to the foil attachment surface due to a gas being suctioned from the ventilation holes to the interior.

2. The manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the adhesive provision apparatus includes an adhesive roller that has an adhesive contact surface, which is a cylindrical surface that comes into contact with the adhesive, and the adhesive roller is configured to adjust a thickness of the adhesive on the current collection foil attached to the foil attachment surface by rotating using an axis parallel to the rotational axis of the press roller as a rotational axis.

3. The manufacturing apparatus according to claim 2 ,

wherein the adhesive provision apparatus further includes a supply apparatus configured to supply the adhesive to the adhesive contact surface of the adhesive roller, and

the adhesive roller adjusts the thickness of the adhesive while transferring the adhesive supplied to the adhesive contact surface by the supply apparatus to the current collection foil attached to the foil attachment surface.

4. The manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the adhesive is a photocurable adhesive that is cured due to a curing light being emitted thereto, and

the manufacturing apparatus further comprises a curing light emission unit configured to emit the curing light to the adhesive.

5. The manufacturing apparatus according to claim 2 ,

wherein the adhesive is a photocurable adhesive that is cured due to a curing light being emitted thereto,

at least a portion of the adhesive roller is made of a material through which the curing light passes, and

the manufacturing apparatus further comprises a curing light emission unit configured to emit the curing light through the adhesive roller to the adhesive on the current collection foil attached to the press roller.

6. The manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a viscosity of the adhesive when provided to the current collection foil is 100 mPa·s to 5000 mPa·s.

7. The manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein a surface of the current collection foil to which the adhesive is to be provided is coated with carbon, and

a viscosity of the adhesive when provided to the current collection foil is 500 mPa·s to 1500 mPa·s.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 7, 2021
From: SAKAMOTO, TAKUYA; NISHIBU, YUKI; HIOKI, TOMOYA; ONO, MASATO; KOIDE, YOSUKE; INATA, KAZUMASA
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2020-118341 · Jul 9, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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