CA1196376A - Elliptical column type battery with non-aqueous electrolyte - Google Patents

Elliptical column type battery with non-aqueous electrolyte

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CA1196376A
CA1196376A CA000430078A CA430078A CA1196376A CA 1196376 A CA1196376 A CA 1196376A CA 000430078 A CA000430078 A CA 000430078A CA 430078 A CA430078 A CA 430078A CA 1196376 A CA1196376 A CA 1196376A
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Hironosuke Ikeda
Shigehiro Nakaido
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Sanyo Electric Co Ltd
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01MPROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M10/00Secondary cells; Manufacture thereof
    • H01M10/05Accumulators with non-aqueous electrolyte
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01MPROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M4/00Electrodes
    • H01M4/02Electrodes composed of, or comprising, active material
    • H01M4/64Carriers or collectors
    • H01M4/70Carriers or collectors characterised by shape or form
    • H01M4/78Shapes other than plane or cylindrical, e.g. helical
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01MPROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M6/00Primary cells; Manufacture thereof
    • H01M6/04Cells with aqueous electrolyte
    • H01M6/06Dry cells, i.e. cells wherein the electrolyte is rendered non-fluid
    • H01M6/10Dry cells, i.e. cells wherein the electrolyte is rendered non-fluid with wound or folded electrodes
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01MPROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M6/00Primary cells; Manufacture thereof
    • H01M6/04Cells with aqueous electrolyte
    • H01M6/06Dry cells, i.e. cells wherein the electrolyte is rendered non-fluid
    • H01M6/10Dry cells, i.e. cells wherein the electrolyte is rendered non-fluid with wound or folded electrodes
    • H01M2006/106Elliptic wound cells

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  • Primary Cells (AREA)
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Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

An elliptical column type non-aqueous electrolyte battery comprising an elliptical column type spiral electrode assembly formed by winding a positive and negative electrode plate of lithium metal through a separator, around a resilient member positioned at the center of said electrode assembly and normally expanding said electrode assembly from the center toward outward directions of larger and smaller radius por-tions, the larger and smaller radius portions of the battery casing being in a size ratio with respect of each other of about 2:1, said battery having a voltage of about 3 volts.

Description

37~i This invention relates to an elliptical column type non-aqueous elec-trolyte battery provided with an ellip-tical column type spiral electrode assembly.

The present invention will be illustrated by way of the accompanying drawings, in which:-Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of a battery according to one embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the battery taken along a line A-A' in Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a resilient mem-ber (11) in Figs. 1 and 2;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a resilient mem-ber (11') according to another example; and Fig. 5 is a view showing that two cylindrical type conventional batteries are arranged in parallel and located in a space for batteries of an electronic appliance.

Recently, with rapid technical progress in various kinds of electronic equipment and appliances, batteries have been employed as their power sources. Among these equipment and applicances, comparatively high current has been especially required in the fields of radio receivers, tape recorders, cameras, and the like. In spite of small appliances, for example, two or four cylindrical type alka-line manganese batteries (bat-tery voltage: 1.5V) have been used as a 3 V- or 6 V-battery by connecting them in series with one another.

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3~376 As shown in Fig. 5 as a concrete example, two al~aline manganese batteries (20) are arranged in parallel so that positive and nega-tive terminals (21) and (22) are positioned at one end surface, and are placed in a space ~or batteries of an appliance (30) which includes positive and negative contact strips t31) and (32), respectively.

Recently, lithium non-aqueous electrolyte bat-teries, which include a negative active material of lithium and a positive active matelial of manganese dioxide, carbon fluoride, silver chromate or the like, have been put into practice, and such batteries have attracted the attention because the battery voltage is 3 V which is about two times as high as usual alkaline manganese batteries or manganese dry batteries and because such batteries include high energy density.

The inventors have found the described features of the non-aqueous electrolyte battery, and have proposed ~0 the non-aqueous electrolyte battery which is used instead of arranging two cylindrical type alkaline manganese bat-teries or manganese dry batteries in parallel. That is, the battery is one which includes an elliptically cylindri-cal casing which accommodates an elliptical column type spiral electrode assembly formed by winding positive and negative electrode plates through a separator. The ellip-tical column type spiral electrode assembly is provided by winding the electrode group around a plate-shaped core especially. The present invention is intended to improve further such elliptical column type non-aqueous battery described above, and the object is to improve the battery characteristics bylowering the internal resistance.

~ ~tti37ti The presen-t invention is to provide an elliptical column type non-aqueous electroly-te battery which includes an ellip-tical column type spiral elec-trode assembly formed by winding a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode pla-te of lithium metal through a separa-tor, around a resilien-t member loca-ted at the center of the electrode assembly and normally expanding the electrode assembly from the cen-ter toward the outward directions of larger and smaller radius portions, the larger and smaller radius portions of the battery casing being in a size ratio wi-th respect ofeach other of about 2:1, said battery having a voltage of about 3 volts.

According to the present invention, one bat-tery is not used instead of ob-taining high current by employing two cylindrical batteries arranged in parallel as shown in known manners, but also the adhesion of the positive electrode pla-te to the negative electrode plate through the separator is made high by the resilient member located at the center of the electrode assembly. As a resul-t, the internal resistance is reduced to improve the battery characteristics.

The electrode assembly used for the non-a~ueous electrolyte battery according to the present invention includes an elliptical column type electrode assembly which is provided by spirally winding belt-shaped negative and positive electrode plates through a belt-shaped separator.
The larger radius portion is about two times as large as the smaller radius portion in size.

The resilient member used for the non-aqueous electrolyte battery according to the present invention is made of, for example, a conduc-tive metal plate such as stainless steel, and is positioned at the center of the elliptical column type electrode assembly to expand it from the center to directions of larger and smaller radius por-tions. The structures of the elliptical resilent member are concretely given as follows: 1) a gap continuous from one open end to the other is provided at the side ..

walls as shown in Fig. 3, and 2) one end, cut from one open end to the other,,is bent so as to obtain an U-shaped recessed portion, and the other end is engaged with the U-shaped recessed portion as shown in Fig. 4.
The present invention will now be described by the embodiments, but will not be limited by them.
In FigS. 1 and 2, (1) is the stainless steel casing which is elliptical in cross section, and an insulating sheet (2) is provided at the bottom. In this case, the elliptical type cylindrical casing is designed in such a manner that the larger radius portion is about two times as large as the smaller radius portion, and corresponds approximately to the size in arranging two usual 1.5 V-cylindrical type batteries in parallel. (3) is a stainless steel cover plate for enclosing the open portion of the casing (1), whose periphery is fixed to the open end of the casing by using, for example, laser welding. (4) is a T-shaped terminal pin, a part of which is inserted through aninsulator (5) into a perforation formed in the cover plate (3), and whose end is crimped and secured to a metal ring (6). A negative external ter-minal plate (7) is secured to the upper surface of the me ~ ring (6). (8) is an insulating ring for preventing the electrical connection between the negative external terminal plate (7) and the cover plate (3). Further, (9) is a positive external terminal cap attached to the cover ` lt9ti3~76 plate (3) in opposition to the negative external terminal plate (7~. (10) is the elliptical column type spiral electrode assembly which is constituted by spot welding a negative collector net (12'), exposed from one end of lithium negative electrode palte (12), to the elliptical type conductive resilient member (11) of cylindrical form used as a winding core, superposing the positive electrode plate (14) of manganese dioxide on the negative electrode plate (12) through the separator ~13), and winding them around the resilient member. In the practical winding, a shaft of a take-up jig is inserted into the center of the resilient member (11) to carry out the winding.
In this case, the positive electrode plate ~14) is positioned at the outermost side of the electrode assembly, and the positive collector net (14') exposed from the positive electrode plate (14) is contacted to the inner surface of the casing (1) so as to be electrically connected. (15) is an insulating sheet arranged on the upper surface of the electrode assembly (10).
In the embodiment, the resilient member (11) located at the central space of the spiral electrode assembly (10~ is used as both the winding core in producing the electrode assembly and the negative collector. One end of a negative lead plate (16), which is secured to the resilient mem~er (11) by s~ot welding, is fixed to the lower end of the negative terminal pin (4) and is electri-cally connected thereto. Fi~. 4 shows a resilient member(11') according to anothar embodiment.
According to the non-aqueous electrolyte battery of the present invention, since the battery is provided with the elliptical col~lmn type spiral electrode assembly andthe appearance shape is the elliptical column type, the following advantages will be obtained when the battery is used instead of the power supply batteries of electronic equipment and appliances which employ two usual cylindrical batteries with the battery voltage of 1.5 V by arranging them in parallel and connecting them in series wlth each other as stated at the beginning a) Since the appearance shape is the elliptical column type, the battery is similar to the shape that two cylindrical type batteries are arranged in parallel, and it is possible to employ the battery in existing electronic equipment and appliances. In addition, because the battery has such a structure that the electrode assembly is posi-tioned at the space caused between two cylindrical type batteries when they are arranged in parallel, the volume efficiency is improved.
b) Although the attention must be taken so that two cylindrical type batteries are arranged in the defined directions, the insertion work is made simple according to the non-aqueous electrolyte battery of the present invention because it can be used instead of two cylindrical ~ l963~6 type batteries.
Further, the resilient member is positioned at the central space of the elliptical column type spiral electrode assembly, and the electrode assembly (10) is usually expanded outwardly ~rom the center due to the force of restitution of the resilient member (11) as shown in Fig. 2. Consequently, good adhesion of the positive electrode plate to the negative electrode plate are obtained, and the internal resistance is reduced to improve the battery characteristics.

Claims (6)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. An elliptical column type non-aqueous electro-lyte battery comprising an elliptical column type spiral electrode assembly formed by winding a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate of lithium metal through a separator, around a resilient member positioned at the center of said electrode assembly and normally expanding said electrode assembly from the center toward outward directions of larger and smaller radius portions, the larger and smaller radius portions of the battery casing being in a size ratio with respect of each other of about 2:1, said battery having a voltage of about 3 volts.
2. An elliptical column type non-aqueous electro-lyte battery according to claim 1, wherein said resilient member is used as a collector with one polarity.
3. An elliptical column type non-aqueous electro-lyte battery according to claim 1, wherein said resilient member is an elliptical cylindrical form, and used as a wind-ing core in producing said spiral electrode assembly.
4. An elliptical column type non-aqueous electro-lyte battery according to claim 1, wherein said positive electrode plate is composed of manganese dioxide, carbon fluoride, or silver chromate.
5. An elliptical column type non-aqueous electro-lyte battery according to claim 1, wherein said resilient member has the elliptical cylindrical form, and includes a gap continuous from one open end to the other at the side wall thereof.
6. An elliptical column type non-aqueous electro-lyte battery according to claim 1, wherein said resilient member has the elliptical cylindrical form, one end of said resilient member, cut from one open end to the other, is bent so as to obtain a U-shaped recessed portion, and the other end is engaged with said U-shaped recessed portion.
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