Abstract: A method for manufacturing a separator for an electrochemical device including a silicon-based negative electrode is provided. The method includes a step of forming a freestanding porous separator by simultaneously electrospinning a first spinning solution containing a polymer binder and a second spinning solution containing inorganic particles, wherein a flow rate of the second spinning solution is allowed to be greater than that of the first spinning solution such that a separator having compression resistance against expansion of the silicon-based negative electrode during charging and discharging is manufactured.

Abstract: Disclosed is a separator for an electrochemical device capable of securing peel strength between a porous polymer substrate and an organic and inorganic composite porous layer and having excellent heat resistance. A manufacturing method thereof and an electrochemical device equipped with the separator are also disclosed. The separator according to one embodiment includes a porous polymer substrate and an organic and inorganic composite porous layer on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate. The organic and inorganic composite porous layer includes inorganic particles and a particulate acrylic binder polymer, in which the particulate acrylic binder polymer has a crosslinked structure mediated by a benzophenone functional group.

Abstract: A separator for secondary batteries including a separator substrate having a porous structure, wherein the separator substrate comprises a polymer material. A coating layer is present on at least one surface of the separator substrate, wherein the coating layer includes a crystalline binder and an amorphous binder miscible with each other. The crystalline binder includes a first crystalline binder and a second crystalline binder, and an amount of the amorphous binder is 2 weight % to 5 weight % based on the total weight of a solid content of the coating layer, whereby the resistance in the coating layer of the separator is reduced and thus ionic conductivity is improved.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode assembly in which positive electrodes and negative electrodes are alternately stacked with separators interposed therebetween and which includes two or more types of separators having different temperatures at which adhesion is maximized, wherein the temperature at which the adhesion of the separators, positioned in the central portion of the electrode assembly, to the electrodes is maximized is lower than the temperature at which the adhesion of the separators, positioned in the other regions, to the electrodes is maximized, and also a secondary battery including the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a non-woven separator for a lithium secondary battery, includes: (S1) preparing a first solution of ?-chitin dissolved in a first solvent and a second solution of vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer (PVDF-TrFE) dissolved in a second solvent; (S2) coaxial electrospinning with the first solution as a core solution and the second solution as a shell solution to produce a non-woven fabric formed of a fiber with a core-shell structure having a core portion of the ?-chitin and a shell portion of the vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer; and (S3) performing heat treatment on the non-woven fabric at a temperature lower than a thermal decomposition point of the ?-chitin and higher than a melting point of the vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer to melt and recrystallize the vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer.

Abstract: An electrode assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention may include: a cell stack part including a plurality of stacked unit cells provided by integrally coupling electrodes and separators, which are alternately stacked; and a sub unit cell which is stacked on the cell stack part and is provided with a polymer film at the outermost side thereof, and in which the electrodes and the separators, which are alternately stacked, are integrally coupled together with the polymer film. The polymer film may be flat or be concavely bent toward the cell stack part so that a distance between a reference plane, which connects both edges in a width direction, and a central portion is less than 1 mm. The polymer film may have a thickness equal to or greater than that of the separator.

Abstract: A battery cell pressurization device may include a housing in which battery cells are disposed in parallel, pressurizing plates alternately disposed with the battery cells and configured to heat and pressurize the battery cells in the housing, and a pressurizing driver configured to drive the pressurizing plates to pressurize the battery cells. Each pressurizing plate may include pressurizing protrusions and heating lines installed in the pressurizing protrusions on a side facing the respective battery cell.

Abstract: A separator for an electrode assembly of a battery includes a non-woven fabric base formed by mixing a first fiber with an average diameter of approximately 10 ?m or more and a second fiber with an average diameter of approximately 1 ?m or less; and inorganic particles positioned in pores formed between the first and second fibers of the non-woven fabric base. The first fiber has a melting point of about 150° C. or less, and the inorganic particles have D50 of about 400 nm or less.

Abstract: A degassing apparatus for a secondary battery, and a degassing method using same, is provided. The degassing apparatus includes a drive motor and a jig arm configured to pressurize a first surface of a gas pocket of a battery cell and a second surface opposite the first surface by controlling a separation distance by the operation of a driving motor. The degassing apparatus is capable of performing an effective degassing and sealing process for the battery cell without positional movement of the battery cell during cell activation or after cell activation.

Abstract: A pressing jig for removing gas generated in an activation process of a battery cell includes a plate-shaped lower plate on which the battery cell that has undergone the activation process is placed and fixed, and an upper plate that presses the battery cell placed on the lower plate from above. At least one of the upper plate or the lower plate has a structure in which n (n?3) separated sub-plates are assembled to form a single plate, and the sub-plates independently press the battery cell. The pressing jig can suppress trapping of internal gas by sequentially pressing the battery cell.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for manufacturing a secondary battery. An electrode assembly and an electrolyte are accommodated into a body of a battery case. The body of the battery case has an accommodation part and a gas pocket part, and a passage that extends from the accommodation part to the outside discharges an internal gas from the accommodation part through the gas pocket part. The battery case is seated in a seating step on a support block, which has an inclined part on a side surface thereof, to support the battery case. The body is pressed to discharge a gas accommodated in the accommodation part through the gas pocket part in the battery case. This method allows easy discharging of internal gas while reducing discharge of the electrolyte with the gas.

Abstract: An electrode includes a unit body stack part formed by stacking at least one basic unit having a four-layer structure in which a first electrode, a first separator, a second electrode and a second separator are sequentially stacked. Each surface of the first separator and the second separator is coated with a coating material having adhesiveness, and the basic unit adheres to an adjacent radial unit in the unit body stack part. The electrode assembly of allows a heating and pressing process to be performed prior to a primary formation process so that a separator of one basic unit and a first electrode of the other basic unit to be adhered and fixed by a coating material coated on the separator, and thus a bending phenomenon caused by a difference in electrode expansion rates in a charging/discharging process is prevented.

Abstract: A separator for an electrochemical device, an electrode assembly and secondary battery including the same, and a method of manufacturing the separator. The separator for an electrochemical device includes a porous polymer substrate; and a porous coating layer on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate. The porous coating layer includes a binder polymer and inorganic particles. The separator has a central portion and two end portions. The thickness of the separator at the two end portions in the transverse direction (TD) is larger than the thickness of the separator at the central portion in the TD. The separator prevents generation of a deficiency in adhesion at the two end portions in the TD upon the adhesion of the separator with the electrodes and has uniform adhesion by controlling the thickness of the two end portions of the separator in the TD.

Abstract: A device for charging and discharging a battery cell capable of suppressing a swelling phenomenon of a terrace portion of a battery cell during a formation process of the battery cell includes first and second plates configured to receive a battery cell therebetween and to press two surfaces of the battery cell; first and second grippers connected to the first and second plates, respectively, the first and second grippers protrude to face each other and configured to contact a lead region of the battery cell; and first and second pressing pads positioned inward of the first and second grippers, the first and second pressing pads being configured to contact a terrace region of the battery cell. A method of charging and discharging a battery cell using the same is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a secondary battery and an apparatus for manufacturing a secondary battery. The method for manufacturing the secondary battery according to the present invention comprises: an accommodation process of accommodating an electrode assembly, in which electrodes and separators are alternately stacked, an electrolyte, and one side portion of electrode leads connected to the electrodes, in a pouch to form a cell; an activation process of charging the cell to activate the cell; a pressing process of sequentially pressing the cell through pressing rolls after the activation process to press the cell; and a degassing process of discharging an internal gas of the cell to the outside after the pressing process.

Abstract: A device for charging and discharging a battery cell includes first and second plates spaced from each other, the first and second plates being configured to press respective first and second surfaces of a battery cell locatable therebetween, and first and second pressing blocks located on the first and second plates, respectively, the first and second pressing blocks protruding from the first and second plates to face each other. The first and second pressing blocks are locatable in a space between a body and a gas pocket of the battery cell. A method using the device is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for manufacturing a secondary battery. An electrode assembly and an electrolyte are accommodated into a body of a battery case. The body of the battery case has an accommodation part and a gas pocket part, and a passage that extends from the accommodation part to the outside discharges an internal gas from the accommodation part through the gas pocket part. The battery case is seated in a seating step on a support block, which has an inclined part on a side surface thereof, to support the battery case. The body is pressed to discharge a gas accommodated in the accommodation part through the gas pocket part in the battery case. This method allows easy discharging of internal gas while reducing discharge of the electrolyte with the gas.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gas removing device, which removes a gas generated inside a pouch, in which an electrode assembly is accommodated. The gas removing device includes a pair of vacuum tubes configured to press opposing surfaces of a pouch so as to form a vacuum surface on the pouch; a heating member provided on a pressing surface of each of the vacuum tubes, which presses the pouch, is configured to seal only a portion of an edge of the vacuum surface so as to form a sealed part and an unsealed part; a cutting member configured to cut the vacuum surface of the pouch and form a cutoff hole; and a gas discharging member configured to discharge a gas from inside the pouch to the outside through the unsealed part, the cutoff hole, and the vacuum tubes.

Abstract: A device for charging and discharging a battery cell capable of suppressing a swelling phenomenon of a terrace portion of a battery cell during a formation process of the battery cell includes first and second plates configured to receive a battery cell therebetween and to press two surfaces of the battery cell; first and second grippers connected to the first and second plates, respectively, the first and second grippers protrude to face each other and configured to contact a lead region of the battery cell; and first and second pressing pads positioned inward of the first and second grippers, the first and second pressing pads being configured to contact a terrace region of the battery cell. A method of charging and discharging a battery cell using the same is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for manufacturing a secondary battery. An electrode assembly and an electrolyte are accommodated into a body of a battery case. The body of the battery case has an accommodation part and a gas pocket part, and a passage that extends from the accommodation part to the outside discharges an internal gas from the accommodation part through the gas pocket part. The battery case is seated in a seating step on a support block, which has an inclined part on a side surface thereof, to support the battery case. The body is pressed to discharge a gas accommodated in the accommodation part through the gas pocket part in the battery case. This method allows easy discharging of internal gas while reducing discharge of the electrolyte with the gas.