Sony Corporation

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Sachio Akahira

Masayuki Shida

Takanobu Yoshino

Tsuyoshi Sugiyama

Kazuhiro Imaizumi

Takeru Yamamoto

Nobuya Okano

Toshinori Saito

Yasuhiro Oi

Osamu Tahara

Yasuhiro Ol

A battery pack includes: a battery having a main surface; and a resin layer capable of being integrated with an armor member armoring the battery so that at least a part of the main surface of the battery is exposed and covering the main surface of the battery, wherein the resin layer is formed by curing a reaction curable resin having a viscosity of not less than 80 mPa&#xb7;second to less than 1000 mPa&#xb7;second and a thickness of the resin layer on the main surface of the battery ranges from 0.05 mm to smaller than 0.4 mm.

Battery pack and method for making same

Provided are an electrode manufacturing apparatus and a method of manufacturing an electrode in which an electrode capable of preventing the occurrence of an internal short circuit is manufactured. A current collector is passed through a coating position in a downward direction by a reference roll. Thereby, just after coating of a mixture is interrupted, a built-up mixture between the current collector and a coating outlet is pulled in a downward direction by the current collector, so the position of the built-up mixture is lower than the position of the coating outlet. Therefore, the adhesion of the mixture to the coating outlet can be prevented, and as a result, a non-forming region where no mixture is formed can be prevented from being coated with the mixture.

Electrode manufacturing apparatus and method of manufacturing electrode

A non-aqueous electrolyte cell in which the cell capacity is improved and positioning accuracy of external terminals is assured. A unit cell is housed in an exterior packaging material of a laminated film and encapsulated on heat sealing. To elongated positive and negative electrodes of the unit cell are electrically connected electrode terminal leads which are exposed to outside of the exterior packaging material as the leads are surrounded by heat fused portions. The unit cell is a wound assembly of the positive and negative electrodes each of which is includes of a current collector carrying a layer of an active material. The electrode terminal leads are mounted on the current collectors of the positive and negative electrodes in the vicinity of the innermost turn of the wound assembly. In manufacturing the unit cell, the positions of the electrode terminal leads are detected and positioned with respect to the flat winding arbor. The positive and negative electrodes then are wound on the winding arbor.

Non-aqueous electrolyte cell and manufacturing method therefor

To provide a method of manufacturing a battery capable of providing an equal amount of electrolyte in each battery and of enhancing productivity and coating machines employed thereof. The sensor detects a boundary from the collector exposed region C of the belt-shaped positive electrode to the positive electrode mixture layer exposed region B, on the basis of the detection timing, the shutter is withdrawn to open the flowing path and the proportioning pomp is driven. Following this, when the sensor detected a boundary from the positive electrode mixture layer exposed region B to a collector exposed region C, and on the basis of the detection timing, the shutter is protruded inside the flowing path to close the flowing path and the proportioning pump stops. As a result of this, the electrolyte stops to be delivered from the nozzle. The electrolyte layers are intermittently formed by repeating the same procedures. With the proportioning pump, the electrolyte is evenly applied to pressure in order to push the electrolyte from the nozzle, so that a given amount of the electrolyte can be delivered. Thereby, the electrolyte layers, which are thin and even in thickness in width and longitudinal directions can be formed and an amount of the electrolyte included in each of the batteries can be uniform.

Method of manufacturing a battery

A non-aqueous electrolyte cell in which the cell capacity is improved and positioning accuracy of external terminals is assured. A unit cell is housed in an exterior packaging material of a laminated film and encapsulated on heat sealing. To elongated positive and negative electrodes of the unit cell are electrically connected electrode terminal leads which are exposed to outside of the exterior packaging material as the leads are surrounded by heat fused portions. The unit cell is a wound assembly of the positive and negative electrodes each of which is includes a current collector carrying a layer of an active material. The electrode terminal leads are mounted on the current collectors of the positive and negative electrodes in the vicinity of the innermost turn of the wound assembly. In manufacturing the unit cell, the positions of the electrode terminal leads are detected and positioned with respect to the flat winding arbor. The positive and negative electrodes then are wound on the winding arbor.

Non-aqueous electrolyte cell comprising electrode terminal leads attached to the innermost end of a wound electrode assembly

A solid electrolyte battery is provided which is able to satisfactorily perform discharge of a large electric current in a short time and large electric current pulse even in a low temperature environment. A solid electrolyte battery incorporates: a battery structure portion constituted by forming a positive-electrode active-material layer in a portion of the surface of a positive-electrode collector and a negative-electrode active-material layer in a portion of the surface of a negative-electrode collector to be opposite to each other through a polymer electrolyte. The solid electrolyte battery incorporates a first charge-accumulating portion constituted by disposing, through a dielectric-material layer, the positive-electrode collector to be opposite to a portion of the negative-electrode collector in which the negative-electrode active-material layer is formed; and a second charge-accumulating portion constituted by disposing, through a dielectric layer, the negative-electrode collector to be opposite to a portion of the positive-electrode collector in which the positive-electrode active-material layer is formed.

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Sachio Akahira