Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Hiroto Mori

Katsunori Yokoshima

An electrochemical device includes: an electricity storage device that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a plurality of lead plates electrically connected to the positive electrode or the negative electrode, the positive electrode and the negative electrode being stacked via the separator and wound; a connection plate having a first surface on a side of the electricity storage device and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the plurality of lead plates being stacked and welded to the first surface; a rupture disc connected to the second surface of the connection plate; and an insulator that abuts on a first area that is an outer peripheral area of the second surface and insulates the connection plate and the rupture disc from each other, the plurality of lead plates being welded to a second area opposite to the first area of the first surface.

Electrochemical device and method of producing the same

An electrochemical device includes: an electricity storage device that includes positive and negative electrodes stacked via a separator and wound, and lead plates electrically connected to the positive or negative electrode; a connection plate having a first surface on an electricity storage device side and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the lead plates being stacked and welded to the first surface; and a rupture disc connected to the second surface, the lead plates being welded to the connection plate at first and second welding portions on the first surface separated from each other, a lead plate on a connection plate side being welded to the connection plate at the first and second welding portions, a lead plate on a side opposite to the connection plate being welded to the connection plate at the first welding portion and unwelded to the connection plate at the second welding portion.

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Takasaki, Japan

Hiroto Mori