Lg Chem, Ltd

Lg Energy Solution, Ltd.

Joo-Hwan Sung

Dongmyung Kim

Jin Hong Kim

Pil-Kyu Park

Eun Young Kim

Hyunwoo Cho

Soonho Ahn

Jong Hee Kim

Min-Gyu Kim

Min-Kyung Kim

Jinsoo Lee

Jong-Hoon Park

Han-Gab Song

Suyoung Ryu

Seung W Chu

Yong Jeong Kim

Sung-Min Park

Se-Hoon Baek

Kilyoung Lee

Hyungook Yoon

Sung-Pil Yoon

Dohyun Lee

Eui Kwang Jeong

A battery cell is configured such that a jelly-roll type electrode assembly is accommodated in a battery casing, and includes: the battery casing including upper, lower, and side surfaces, wherein the side surface of the battery casing includes an isolation wall providing a buffer space between the battery casing and the electrode assembly. The buffer space accommodates deformation of the electrode assembly when the electrode assembly is expanded, such that deformation of the side surface of the battery casing is prevented from occurring.

Battery cell having structure for prevention of swelling

Disclosed herein is a three-electrode-system-type electrode potential measurement device for measuring the electrode potential of a cylindrical battery cell in which a beading portion is in a divided condition, the beading portion provided between a top cap assembly and a battery case, a first electrode terminal of the cylindrical battery cell located at the top cap assembly, and a second electrode terminal of the cylindrical battery cell located at the battery case, the electrode potential measurement device including a working electrode connection unit connected to one of the first electrode terminal or the second electrode terminal; a counter electrode connection unit connected to the other of the first electrode terminal or the second electrode terminal; a reference electrode connection unit connected to a reference electrode; a measurement unit connected to the working electrode connection unit; and a short-circuit prevention member located between the top cap assembly and the battery case.

Three-electrode-system-type electrode potential measurement device including short-circuit prevention member

A lithium secondary battery is provided which includes a cylindrical jelly roll in which an electrode assembly having a stacked structure including a positive electrode is wound cylindrically, wherein a semi-cylindrical first winding core and second winding core are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined interval, the positive electrode includes a non-coated portion sheet having a positive electrode tab fused thereto and a coated portion sheet, and the non-coated portion sheet and the coated portion sheet are attached by a tape to provide the positive electrode, one end of the positive electrode is positioned at the core portion of the cylindrical jelly roll, and a portion of the positive electrode having the tape is positioned around a circumference of the winding core member such that it avoids a portion where the first winding core is spaced apart from the second winding core by the predetermined interval.

Lithium secondary battery including cylindrical jelly roll

Disclosed herein are a winding type electrode assembly ('jelly-roll') constructed in a structure in which a cathode sheet and an anode sheet are wound in a circle while a separator is interposed between the cathode sheet and the anode sheet or the assembly is compressed in one direction after winding, wherein the jelly-roll includes an active material non-coated portion formed at the wound end of the jelly-roll, a conductive tape attached to the wound end of the jelly-roll for covering the wound outside of the jelly-roll including the active material non-coated portion, and an elastic member attached to the inside of the active material non-coated portion, the elastic member having a thickness equivalent to 50 to 200% of the height of an active material layer, and a secondary battery including the same.

Jelly-roll of structure having elastic member adhered on active material-non-coated portion and secondary battery employed with the same

A prismatic secondary battery includes an electrode assembly having a cathode, an anode, and a separator mounted in a prismatic battery case in a sealed state, the battery case including a hexahedral case body open at the top thereof, the hexahedral case body being made of a metal material, and a case cap coupled to the open top of the case body, the case cap having an electrode terminal, wherein the case body is provided at a region exhibiting a stress distribution equivalent to 40% or less of the maximum stress of the case in a high pressure state with a line-shaped safety groove configured to be ruptured when high pressure occurs in the battery, and the safety groove is configured such that a residual thickness of the case body is decreased toward the middle from opposite ends of the safety groove in the longitudinal direction.

Prismatic secondary battery employed with safety groove

Disclosed herein is a jelly-roll type electrode assembly ('jelly-roll') of a cathode/separator/anode structure, wherein the jelly-roll is constructed in a structure in which each electrode has active material layers formed on opposite major surfaces of a sheet-type current collector, the loading amount of an active material for the inner active material layer, constituting the inner surface of each sheet when each sheet is wound, is less than that of an active material for the outer active material layer, constituting the outer surface of each sheet when each sheet is wound, and the loading amount of the active material for the inner active material layer gradually increases from the central region of each wound sheet to the outermost region of each wound sheet.

Jelly-roll having active material layer with different loading amount

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Daejeon, South Korea

Joo-Hwan Sung