METHOD FOR PRODUCING POWER STORAGE DEVICE
A method for producing a power storage device includes placing a lid assembly that includes a lid and a terminal member integrated therewith via a resin member to close an opening portion of a case body with the lid, and laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid over an entire circumference. In placing the lid assembly, a peripheral high-level region, in which a peripheral outer surface of the peripheral portion of the lid is located on the outer side relative to an opening end surface of the opening portion of the case body is provided in proximate long-side opening portions, close of the opening portion and proximate long-side peripheral portions of the peripheral portion.
1 . A method for producing a power storage device,
the power storage device including:
a case including:
a case body that has a bottomed tube-shape and includes an opening portion having a rectangular ring shape and including a pair of long-side opening portions and a pair of short-side opening portions; and
a lid that is laser-welded to the case body over an entire circumference to close the opening portion and includes a peripheral portion having a rectangular ring shape and including a pair of long-side peripheral portions and a pair of short-side peripheral portions;
a terminal member inserted in an insertion hole that penetrates through the lid in a lid thickness direction; and
a resin member joined to the terminal member and joined to an insertion hole surrounding portion of the lid, which surrounds the insertion hole, while insulating between the insertion hole surrounding portion of the lid and the terminal member,
wherein the method comprises:
placing a lid assembly that includes the lid and the terminal member integrated with the lid via the resin member, to close the opening portion of the case body with the lid so that the pair of long-side peripheral portions of the lid of the lid assembly faces the pair of long-side opening portions of the case body and the pair of short-side peripheral portions of the lid of the lid assembly faces the pair of short-side opening portions of the case body; and
laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid over the entire circumference to form the case by irradiating a laser beam from an outer side of the lid in the lid thickness direction so that the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid are melted and mixed and then solidified to form a melt-solidified portion, wherein
in placing the lid assembly,
a peripheral high-level region, in which a peripheral outer surface of the peripheral portion of the lid, facing the outer side, is located on the outer side relative to an opening end surface of the opening portion of the case body, facing the outer side, is provided in at least proximate long-side opening portions, close to the resin member, of the pair of long-side opening portions of the opening portion and at least proximate long-side peripheral portions, close to the resin member, of the pair of long-side peripheral portions of the peripheral portion, and
in laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid,
the melt-solidified portion is formed such that the peripheral outer surface of the lid is located on the outer side relative to the melt-solidified portion in the peripheral high-level region.
2 . The method for producing the power storage device according to claim 1 , wherein
in placing the lid assembly,
the peripheral high-level region is provided over an entire circumference of the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid, and
in laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid,
the melt-solidified portion is formed such that the peripheral outer surface of the lid is located on the outer side relative to the melt-solidified portion over the entire circumference of the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid.
3 . The method for producing the power storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the opening portion of the case body has a form in which the proximate long-side opening portions are located on an inner side in the lid thickness direction relative to another portion of the opening portion.
4 . A power storage device comprising:
a case including:
a case body that has a bottomed tube-shape and includes an opening portion having a rectangular ring shape and including a pair of long-side opening portions and a pair of short-side opening portions; and
a lid that is laser-welded to the case body over an entire circumference to close the opening portion and includes a peripheral portion having a rectangular ring shape and including a pair of long-side peripheral portions and a pair of short-side peripheral portions;
a terminal member inserted in an insertion hole that penetrates through the lid in a lid thickness direction; and
a resin member joined to the terminal member and joined to an insertion hole surrounding portion of the lid, which surrounds the insertion hole, while insulating between the insertion hole surrounding portion of the lid and the terminal member, wherein
of the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid,
for at least proximate long-side opening portions, close to the resin member, of the pair of long-side opening portions and at least proximate long-side peripheral portions, opposing the proximate long-side opening portions and close to the resin member, of the pair of long-side peripheral portions,
a peripheral outer surface of the peripheral portion, facing an outer side in the lid thickness direction, is located on the outer side relative to a melt-solidified portion which is a portion solidified after the opening portion and the peripheral portion are melted and mixed.
5 . The power storage device according to claim 4 , wherein the peripheral outer surface of the lid is located on the outer side relative to the melt-solidified portion over an entire circumference of the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid.