Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rechargeable battery includes a simultaneous coating process for simultaneously coating an electrode substrate with one strip of a mixture paste and two strips of an insulation paste dispensed from a dispenser so that each widthwise end of the strip of the mixture paste is adjacent to a different strip of the insulation paste. The simultaneous coating process includes a gap adjustment process for changing a distance between the dispenser and the electrode substrate based on a coating width of the mixture paste, detected in the simultaneous coating process by an image inspection unit, so that the coating width of the mixture paste approaches a target value.

Abstract: A lithium-ion battery includes a roll formed by rolling a stack of a negative electrode plate, separator, and positive electrode plate in a rolling direction into a flattened form. A negative electrode collector portion formed at one roll end where the negative electrode mixture layer is not applied to two opposite surfaces of the negative electrode substrate layer has an undulated form. The negative electrode substrate layer has two opposite surfaces that are less the negative electrode mixture layer at the end of the roll. A positive electrode collector portion formed at the other roll end where the positive electrode mixture layer is not applied to two opposite surfaces of the positive electrode substrate layer has an undulated form. The positive electrode substrate layer has two opposite surfaces that are less the positive electrode mixture layer at the other roll end.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrode plate including a current collector and an active material layer includes preparing, forming, and pressing. In the preparing, a mixture is prepared by kneading an active material. In the forming, the active material layer is formed on the current collector by applying the mixture to the current collector. In the pressing, the active material layer is pressed so that active material layer has a predetermined thickness. The mixture applied to the current collector has a weight per unit area based on a specific surface area of the active material used in the mixture and a tapped density of the active material used in the mixture.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery includes a positive plate, a negative plate, a separator that insulates the positive plate from the negative plate, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. The positive plate includes a positive current collector, a positive composite layer disposed on a portion of a surface of the positive current collector and containing a positive active material particle, and an insulation protective layer disposed on another portion of the surface of the positive current collector adjacent to the positive composite layer and containing an insulation particle. The insulation protective layer has a smaller thickness than the positive composite layer. The insulation protective layer has a greater porosity than the positive composite layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rechargeable battery includes forming a mixture layer and an insulating layer on an electrode substrate having an edge extending in a specified direction so that an exposed portion where the electrode substrate is exposed extends between the edge and the insulating layer; pressing the mixture layer; and stretching an extension portion, located between the edge and the mixture layer, and the insulating layer in the specified direction. The stretching includes applying a stress greater than or equal to yield stress of the electrode substrate or greater than or equal to 0.2% proof stress of the electrode substrate and less than tensile strength of the electrode substrate to the extension portion, and applying a stress greater than or equal to yield stress of the insulating layer or greater than or equal to 0.2% proof stress of the insulating layer to the insulating layer.

Abstract: An inspecting step includes a first period after a cooling step ends and a second period after the first period ends. Variations in a voltage drop value per unit time in a nonaqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery are smaller in the second period than in the first period. The cooling step cools the battery in a state where the electrode body is directly or indirectly pressurized and restrained in a thickness direction with a smaller pressure than that in the inspecting step or in a state where the electrode body is not restrained. The voltage value of the battery is measured when a specified time has passed after the voltage value of the battery was measured in the second period. The battery is determined as being normal when the voltage drop value per unit time based on the measured voltage value is less than or equal to a threshold value.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a positive plate of a rechargeable battery includes producing an insulation protective paste forming an insulation protective layer of the positive plate, the insulation protective paste including insulation particles, a binder, and a solvent and having a pH adjusted corresponding to a zeta potential at which the insulation particles do not aggregate, producing a positive composite material paste forming a positive composite material layer of the positive plate, the positive composite material paste including a positive active material, a conduction support, a binder, and a solvent, and a pH adjuster being added to the positive composite material paste to adjust a pH corresponding to a zeta potential at which the insulation particles aggregate, and simultaneously coating a positive current collector of the positive plate with the positive composite material paste and the insulation protective paste disposed adjacent to an end of the positive composite material paste.

Abstract: Each of a plurality of units includes a plurality of battery cells and a supporting member. The plurality of battery cells are arranged side by side in the first direction and each of the plurality of battery cells has a prismatic shape. The supporting member supports the plurality of battery cells. Each of the plurality of battery cells has a housing having an upper surface on which an electrode terminal is disposed and a lower surface facing the upper surface along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. When each of the plurality of units is placed on the first plane, the supporting member is capable of supporting the plurality of battery cells such that the second direction is substantially parallel to a normal direction of the first plane and the electrode terminal is oriented in a direction away from the first plane.

Abstract: A battery cell includes: an electrode assembly; an exterior container; two electrode terminals provided on an upper surface of the exterior container and arranged side by side in a first direction; and an insulating sheet that is in a form of a film and that is provided on the outer surface of the exterior container. The insulating sheet has a folded portion that reaches the upper surface from a short side surface of the exterior container. The folded portion includes a peak portion and valley portions, the peak portion protruding from the short side surface side to the two electrode terminals side along the first direction, the valley portions being located on both sides with respect to the peak portion in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, each of the valley portions being recessed toward a side away from the two electrode terminals.

Abstract: Provided is art that allows joining an external conductive member and a bus bar more stably. A method for producing a secondary battery disclosed herein has: an attachment step; an arrangement step; a covering step; and, a joining step. The external conductive member has a recess sunk from the upper surface, around a through-hole. In the joining step, the external conductive member and the terminal are joined in a state where an edge portion of a cover member is disposed between a planned joint portion, and an outer peripheral edge of the recess, in a cross-sectional view along a direction of penetration into the through-hole.

Abstract: A herein disclosed manufacturing method of a secondary battery is a manufacturing method of a secondary battery that includes a wound electrode assembly and a battery case. The herein disclosed manufacturing method of the secondary battery comprising: an arranging step for arranging the plural wound electrode assemblies inside the battery case; a peeling step for peeling off at least one, among the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and the separator; and a liquid injection step for performing a liquid injection of the electrolyte solution into the battery case. At the peeling step, at least one, among the positive electrode and the negative electrode of each wound electrode assembly, and the separator are peeled off to make a state where a peeled area is formed on each of the plural wound electrode assemblies.

Abstract: The herein disclosed nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode assembly in which a positive electrode including positive electrode active layers, a negative electrode including negative electrode active layers, and a separator are provided. The negative electrode active material layer includes a first area between an end side and a position 5 mm away from the end side in the width direction. An end part of the positive electrode is opposed to at least a part of the first area. A thickness T1 at a central part of the positive electrode and a thickness T2 at the end part of the positive electrode satisfy 0.95<T2/T1<1.05. Regarding the negative electrode active material layer, a basis weight M1 at a central part of the negative electrode and a basis weight M2 of an area opposed to the positive electrode active material layer of the first area satisfy 0.95<M2/M1<1.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing battery including an electrode assembly having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a battery case configured to accommodate the electrode assembly. The separator is provided with adhesion layers formed on both surfaces of the separator. The method comprising: an arranging step for arranging the electrode assembly, in which the positive electrode and the separator are adhered by the adhesion layer and the negative electrode and the separator are adhered by the adhesion layer, inside the battery case; a peeling step for peeling off at least one, among the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and the separator on the electrode assembly; and a liquid injection step for performing a liquid injection of an electrolyte solution into the battery case after the peeling step.

Abstract: A method for inspecting self-discharge of a power storage device includes: a) continuously applying a continuous power-supply voltage to the power storage device that has been charged in advance from an external power supply to a first device voltage), the continuous power-supply voltage being higher than the first device voltage and having a constant magnitude; b) detecting a power-supply current flowing from the external power supply to the power storage device; and c) determining a self-discharge state of the power storage device based on the detected power-supply current.

Abstract: A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged side by side in a first direction, each of the plurality of battery cells having a prismatic shape; a restraint mechanism that restrains the plurality of battery cells in the first direction; and a restraint force adjustment mechanism capable of adjusting a restraint load in the first direction, the restraint load being applied by the restraint mechanism. The restraint force adjustment mechanism includes an operation portion to be operated when adjusting the restraint load. The operation portion is provided on the battery module.

Abstract: A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells stacked in a predetermined direction; a restraint member that applies, to the plurality of battery cells, restraint force along the predetermined direction; and a plurality of bus bars that electrically connects the plurality of battery cells together, the plurality of bus bars including a first bus bar and a second bus bar. The first bus bar has a first joining portion that joins separated members to each other by a first joining form, and connects, via the first joining portion, between battery cells adjacent to each other in the predetermined direction. The second bus bar has a second joining portion that joins separated members to each other by a second joining form different from the first joining form, and connects, via the second joining portion, between battery cells adjacent to each other in the predetermined direction.

Abstract: A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells stacked in a predetermined direction; and a plurality of bus bars that electrically connect the plurality of battery cells together. The plurality of bus bars include a first bus bar extending between a first battery cell and a second battery cell of the plurality of battery cells, the first battery cell and the second battery cell being adjacent to each other in the predetermined direction. The first bus bar has a first base portion connected to the first battery cell, a second base portion connected to the second battery cell, and a rising portion that has a shape to rise from the first base portion and the second base portion and that connects between the first base portion and the second base portion. A fragile portion is provided in a root region of the rising portion.

Abstract: A separator having both high adhesion to electrodes and high impregnating ability of a nonaqueous electrolyte is provided. The separator disclosed here includes a base material layer of a porous resin, and a ceramic layer containing inorganic particles and disposed on at least one surface of the base material layer. Principal surfaces of the separator have long sides. The separator further includes an adhesive layer having portions arranged at a predetermined pitch to form a stripe pattern on at least one of the principal surfaces. An angle formed by the adhesive layer and the long side of the at least one principal surface of the separator is 20° or more and 70° or less.

Abstract: A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells stacked in a predetermined direction and electrically connected together; a plurality of bus bars that electrically connect the plurality of battery cells together; and a plurality of voltage detection wires each connected to one set of two or more battery cells electrically connected together. According to the battery module, the number of the voltage detection wires is reduced, thereby attaining reduced sizes of the bus bars, productivity improved by improved workability, and reduced cost.

Abstract: A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged side by side in a first direction, each of the plurality of battery cells having a prismatic shape; and a partition wall portion provided between the plurality of battery cells to secure electrical insulation between the plurality of battery cells. The partition wall portion includes a first partition wall portion and a second partition wall portion, the first partition wall portion and the second partition wall portion being provided alternately, the second partition wall portion having a shape different from a shape of the first partition wall portion, the second partition wall portion forming a cooling space between the second partition wall portion and each of two battery cells located on both sides beside the second partition wall portion in the first direction.