IP Library Granted Patent US 7,041,380
Granted Patent B2
US 7,041,380 · App. 10/362,048 · Granted May 9, 2006

Packaging material for battery

Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 7,041,380
App. No.
10/362,048
Granted
May 9, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a packaging material for forming an armor body for a battery, the armor body being adapted for use in such a manner that a battery body is inserted into the armor body and the peripheral edge of the armor body is then heat sealed for hermetic sealing, the packaging material being a laminate comprising at least a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, a barrier layer, a dry laminate layer, and a sealant layer, characterized in that at least the sealant layer comprises a low-fluidity polypropylene layer having low susceptibility to collapse upon exposure to heat and pressure at the time of heat sealing and a high-fluidity polypropylene layer having high susceptibility to collapse upon exposure to heat and pressure at the time of heat sealing, and the innermost layer is the high-fluidity polypropylene layer. This battery packaging material can impart moisture barrier properties and resistance to contents of the battery.

Claims (33)

1. A packaging material for forming an armor body for a battery, said armor body being adapted for use in such a manner that a battery body is inserted into the armor body and the peripheral edge of the armor body is then heat sealed for hermetic sealing, said packaging material being a laminate comprising at least a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, a barrier layer, a dry laminate layer, and a sealant layer, characterized in that

at least the sealant layer comprises a low-fluidity polypropylene layer having low susceptibility to collapse upon exposure to heat and pressure at the time of heat sealing and a high-fluidity polypropylene layer having high susceptibility to collapse upon exposure to heat and pressure at the time of heat sealing, and the innermost layer is the high-fluidity polypropylene layer.

2. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 1 , characterized in that the barrier layer comprises at least a conversion treated layer provided on its dry laminate layer side.

3. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 1 , characterized in that the sealant layer has a two-layer structure of the low-fluidity polypropylene layer and the high-fluidity polypropylene layer and the high-fluidity polypropylene layer is the innermost layer.

4. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 1 , characterized in that the sealant layer has a three-layer structure of the high-fluidity polypropylene layer, the low-fluidity polypropylene layer, and the high-fluidity polypropylene layer.

5. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 1 , characterized in that a film for a lead is interposed between the armor body for a battery and a lead part in the battery body.

6. A packaging material for forming an armor body for a battery, said armor body being adapted for use in such a manner that a battery body is inserted into the armor body and the peripheral edge of the armor body is then heat sealed for hermetic sealing, said packaging material being a laminate comprising at least a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, a barrier layer, an adhesive resin layer, and a sealant layer, characterized in that

at least the sealant layer comprises a low-fluidity polypropylene layer having low susceptibility to collapse upon exposure to heat and pressure at the time of heat sealing and a high-fluidity polypropylene layer having high susceptibility to collapse upon exposure to heat and pressure at the time of heat sealing, and the innermost layer is the high-fluidity polypropylene layer.

7. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 6 , characterized in that the barrier layer comprises at least a conversion treated layer provided on its adhesive resin layer side.

8. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 6 , characterized in that the sealant layer has a two-layer structure of the low-fluidity polypropylene layer and the high-fluidity polypropylene layer and the high-fluidity polypropylene layer is the innermost layer.

9. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 6 , characterized in that the sealant layer has a three-layer structure of the high-fluidity polypropylene layer, the low-fluidity polypropylene layer, and the high-fluidity polypropylene layer.

10. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 6 , characterized in that the adhesive resin layer is a baked layer of an emulsion of an acid-modified polyolefin, and the sealant layer has been adhered to the baked layer by heat lamination.

11. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 6 , characterized in that the adhesive resin layer is formed of acid-modified polypropylene and the sealant layer has been previously formed and has been stacked onto the adhesive resin layer by sandwich lamination.

12. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 6 , characterized in that the adhesive resin layer is formed of acid-modified polypropylene and the sealant layer has been stacked onto the adhesive resin layer by coextrusion lamination.

13. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 6 , characterized in that an adhesive film is interposed between the armor body for a battery and a lead part in the battery body.

14. A packaging material for forming an armor body for a battery, said armor body being adapted for use in such a manner that a battery body is inserted into the armor body and the peripheral edge of the armor body is then heat sealed for hermetic sealing, said packaging material being a laminate comprising at least a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, aluminum, a conversion treated layer, an adhesive resin layer, and a polypropylene resin-based sealant layer, characterized in that

the adhesive resin layer is formed of a resin having a melt index in the range of 5 to 20 g/10 min.

15. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 14 , characterized in that the adhesive resin layer comprises a polypropylene resin.

16. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 14 , characterized in that the adhesive resin layer comprises acid-modified polypropylene.

17. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 14 , characterized in that the adhesive resin layer comprises an acid-modified polypropylene resin and, added to the acid-modified polypropylene resin, at least one component selected from a low-density polyethylene resin, a low crystalline ethylene-butene-propylene copolymer with a density of 900 kg/M 3 , a noncrystalline ethylene-propylene copolymer, a propylene-α-olefin copolymer, and a rubber component.

18. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 14 , characterized in that the adhesive resin layer is formed of a blend of at least two polypropylene resins with different melt indexes.

19. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 18 , characterized in that at least one of the at least two polypropylene resins constituting the adhesive resin layer is an acid-modified polypropylene resin.

20. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 14 , characterized in that the laminate comprises at least the substrate layer, the adhesive layer, a conversion treated layer ( 1 ), aluminum, a conversion treated layer ( 2 ), the adhesive resin layer, and the polypropylene resin-based sealant layer.

21. A battery characterized by comprising a battery body housed and hermetically sealed into an armor body formed of the packaging material for a battery according to claim 14 .

22. A packaging material for forming an armor body for a battery, said armor body being adapted for use in such a manner that a battery body is inserted into the armor body and the peripheral edge of the armor body is then heat sealed for hermetic sealing, said packaging material being a laminate comprising at least a substrate layer, an adhesive layer 1 , a barrier layer, an adhesive layer 2 , and a sealant layer, characterized in that

the sealant layer comprises one resin layer or a laminate of two or more resin layers comprising metallocene linear low-density polyethylene.

23. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 22 , characterized in that the sealant layer is formed of a metallocene linear low-density polyethylene resin.

24. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 22 , characterized in that the sealant layer is formed of a polyethylene resin containing not less than 10% of a metallocene linear low-density polyethylene resin.

25. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 22 , characterized in that the sealant layer has a multilayer structure comprising at least a layer formed of a metallocene linear low-density polyethylene resin.

26. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 22 , characterized in that the sealant layer has a multilayer structure comprising a polyethylene resin layer containing not less than 10% of a metallocene linear low-density polyethylene resin.

27. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 22 , characterized in that the adhesive layer 2 has been formed by dry lamination.

28. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 22 , characterized in that the adhesive layer 2 is an acid-modified polyolefin coating-baked layer.

29. The packaging material for a battery according to claim 22 , characterized in that the adhesive layer 2 is an extruded layer of an acid-modified polyolefin.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 20, 2003
From: YAMASHITA, RIKIYA; MOCHIZUKI, YOICHI; YAMADA, KAZUKI; OKUSHITA, MASATAKA
To: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 014133/0622 →
Priority Claims (4)
JP 2001-186110 · Jun 20, 2001 · national
JP 2001-186136 · Jun 20, 2001 · national
JP 2001-237447 · Aug 6, 2001 · national
JP 2001-286578 · Sep 20, 2001 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20030180609A1 · Sep 25, 2003