Lg Chem, Ltd

Lg Energy Solution, Ltd.

Sun Hwak Woo

Sei Woon Oh

Eun Ju Lee

Hyun Min Kim

Soo Hyun Lim

Yeo Kyung Yoon

Jinseo Park

Seok Koo Kim

Ji Eun Lee

Soo Ji Hwang

Min Kyung Kim

Sung Hwan Cho

Ji Won Min

Yu Ra Jeong

Jin Seo Park

Minkyung Kim

Soo-Hyun Lim

A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly; a case having a sealing portion surrounding the electrode assembly; and a lead electrically connected to the electrode assembly and extending in a first direction, wherein the lead includes a first region in contact with the electrode assembly and located inside the case; a second region exposed to an outside of the case; and a third region located between the first region and the second region and overlapping the sealing portion of the case, wherein the third region has a width greater than that of the first region and the second region in a second direction and has a thickness smaller than that of the first region and the second region in a third direction, and wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction, and the third direction is perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction.

Rechargeable battery

SUMMARY A method of preparing an electrode for a secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes the steps of: injecting a first slurry prepared by dissolving a first active material in a first solvent and a second slurry prepared by dissolving a second active material in a second solvent into a single coating device; and coating the first slurry and the second slurry onto a current collector through the single coating device, wherein the first solvent and the second solvent have different physical properties, and form a layered structure of a first layer including the first slurry and a second layer including the second slurry on the current collector, respectively.

Method of preparing electrode for secondary battery

A punching system for an electrode base material is disclosed, in which the electrode base material coated with an active material on a surface of a collector is molded or cut in a predetermined shape. The punching system comprises: an unwinder on which the electrode base material in the form of a roll is mounted and around which the electrode base material is unwound; a punching device spaced a predetermined distance from the unwinder, the punching device being configured to mold or cut the electrode base material supplied from the unwinder in a predetermined shape; and a curl correcting device disposed between the unwinder and the punching device to inject or suction air onto a surface of the electrode base material while the electrode base material moves to the punching device so as to planarize the electrode base material. A punching method for an electrode base material is also disclosed.

Punching system for electrode base material and punching method

The present invention provides a manufacturing device of a battery case including a first mold including a first space part having a shape corresponding to a storage part formed therein; a second mold including a second space part having a shape corresponding to the storage part and a through-hole communicating with the second space part formed therein, and coupled to the first mold with a laminate sheet interposed therebetween; and an air pressure regulator mounted in the through-hole in a state in which the first space part and the second space part are isolated from the outside, and increasing or decreasing an air pressure of the second space part through the through-hole to stretch and modify the laminate sheet into a shape corresponding to the first space part or the second space part.

Manufacturing device of battery case having improved manufacturing processability and manufacturing method using the same

The present invention provides a method for preparing an electrode for a secondary battery, including the steps of: (i) mixing and kneading an active material, a binder, and a conductive material together with a solvent to prepare a slurry in the form of a paste having a solid content of 70 to 90 wt %; (ii) positioning the slurry in the form of a paste on a current collector; and (iii) passing the current collector through a rolling apparatus together with the slurry in the form of a paste to simultaneously press it while forming an electrode coating layer on the current collector.

Method for preparing electrode for secondary battery

The present invention provides a method of manufacturing n battery cells (n&#x2265;2), each including a respective reference electrode for measuring a relative electrode potential, including: (i) manufacturing a reference cell composed of an electrolyte solution, the reference electrodes, and a lithium electrode; (ii) charging the reference cell; (iii) charging the reference cell to 40% to 60% of a capacity discharged in the process (ii), thereby performing formation on the reference electrodes; (iv) manufacturing the n battery cells, each of the battery cells including a respective one of the reference electrodes, an electrode assembly, the electrolyte solution and a battery case; and (v) in each of the battery cells, measuring a relative potential of the respective one of the reference electrodes and a positive electrode of the respective electrode assembly, and a relative potential of the respective one of the reference electrodes and a negative electrode of the respective electrode assembly.

Method of manufacturing battery cell including reference electrode for measuring relative electrode potential, and battery cell manufactured therefrom

The present invention relates to an electrode assembly including at least two electrode plates and a separator interposed between the electrode plates, wherein indented portions are formed from lower ends of opposite sides of the electrode tab in an opposite direction to an externally extending direction of the electrode tab in a side of the electrode body in which the electrode tab externally extends, in the electrode plates.

Electrode assembly having indented portion formed on electrode plate, and secondary battery including same

The present invention provides a secondary battery in which an electrode assembly is sealed within a battery case together with an electrolyte, wherein a gas-absorbing polymer having an azo group is included in the battery cell so as to absorb gas generated within the battery.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Sun Hwak Woo