IP Library Granted Patent US 12,438,241
Granted Patent B2
US 12,438,241 · App. 18/054,607 · Granted Oct 7, 2025

Battery

Inventor: Satomi Yamamoto (Miyoshi, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H01M50/533H01M4/0404H01M10/0525H01M50/536H01M50/538
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Patent No.
US 12,438,241
App. No.
18/054,607
Granted
Oct 7, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a battery with excellent bonding of tabs and current collecting terminals. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a battery including a plurality of a power generating element, wherein: the power generating element includes a first active material layer, a second active material layer, an electrolyte layer arranged between the first active material layer and the second active material layer, a first current collector that collects currents of the first active material layer, and a second current collector that collects currents of the second active material layer; the first current collector includes a first tab including at least a root part; a plurality of the first tab is arranged to overlap with each other in a thickness direction of the power generating element; the battery includes a first current collecting terminal electronically connected to the plurality of the first tab; and in the plurality of the power generating element, a resin layer that reinforces the root part is arranged between the first tab neighboring.

Claims (14)

1. A battery comprising a plurality of a power generating element, wherein:

the power generating element includes a first active material layer, a second active material layer, an electrolyte layer arranged between the first active material layer and the second active material layer, a first current collector that collects currents of the first active material layer, and a second current collector that collects currents of the second active material layer;

the first current collector includes a first tab including at least a root part;

a plurality of the first tab is arranged to overlap with each other in a thickness direction of the power generating element;

the battery includes a first current collecting terminal electronically connected to the plurality of the first tab; and

in the plurality of the power generating element, a resin layer that reinforces the root part is arranged between the first tab neighboring.

2. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the first tab includes a curved part that is arranged in a tip of the root part, and extends to a direction crossing a direction to which the root part extends.

3. The battery according to claim 2 , wherein an angle formed by the direction to which the curved part extends and the thickness direction of the power generating element is 0° or more and 30° or less.

4. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein, when H T designates a height of the first tab and H R designates a height of the resin layer, the H T and the H R satisfy 0.5≤H R /H T ≤1.

5. The battery according to claim 4 , wherein the H T and the H R satisfy 0.5≤H R /H T ≤0.95.

6. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein, when W T designates a width of the first tab and W R designates a width of the resin layer, the W T and the W R satisfy 0.5≤W R /W T .

7. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein, when L C designates a center line of the first tab in a width direction, the resin layer is present so as to overlap the L C .

8. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the resin layer contains at least one of a thermoplastic resin and a curable resin.

9. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the resin layer contains an elastomer resin.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 11, 2022
From: YAMAMOTO, SATOMI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 061738/0496 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-189320 · Nov 22, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230163427A1 · May 25, 2023
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