Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery cell configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly, including positive electrodes, negative electrodes, and separators disposed respectively between the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes, is mounted in a battery case made of a laminate sheet including a resin layer and a metal layer, wherein the battery case is made of a one-unit member, which is bent to form an upper case and a lower case, at least one of the upper and lower cases is provided with a receiving part, in which the electrode assembly is mounted, the receiving part having a round corner formed at at least one side edge thereof, and sealed portions, which are formed at the upper case and the lower case by thermal welding, are located at an upper side of the battery case at which at least one electrode terminal is located, a first lateral side of the battery case adjacent to the upper side, and a lower side of the battery case opposite to the upper side, and a second lateral side of the ba

Abstract: A drain pipe assembly for installation of a basin includes: a drain pipe which is inserted in a drain port formed in a base of basin and has a flange of which an upper end is caught by the drain port; and a fastening member which fixes the basin against the flange, wherein the fastening member pulls the drain pipe, which is exposed below the basin, in a downward direction, to upwardly press the basin, thereby fastening the basin and the drain pipe.

Abstract: Disclosed is a secondary battery having a structure in which a jelly-roll having a cathode/separator/anode structure is mounted in a cylindrical battery case and a plate-shaped insulator is mounted on top of the jelly-roll, wherein the insulator has a porous structure in which a plurality of fine pores communicate in a longitudinal direction, or in traverse and longitudinal directions.

Abstract: There are provided an electrode assembly, a battery cell including the electrode assembly, and a device including the electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a combination of two or more electrode units having the same width and different lengths, wherein the electrode units are stacked so that a stepped portion is formed between the electrode units, and electrodes having different polarities face each other at an interface between the electrode units.

Abstract: There are provided an electrode assembly, a battery cell including the electrode assembly, and a device including the electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a combination of two or more electrode units having the same length and different widths, wherein the electrode units are stacked so that a stepped portion is formed between the electrode units, and electrodes having different polarities face each other at an interface between the electrode units.

Abstract: There is provided an electrode assembly having steps including: a first electrode stair including at least one first electrode unit; and a second electrode stair including at least one second electrode unit having an area different from that of the first electrode unit, wherein the first electrode stair and the second electrode stair are stacked to be adjacent, separated by at least one separator as a boundary therebetween and including one or more electrode laminates having steps formed by a difference between areas of the first electrode stair and the second electrode stair, and shapes of the corners of the first electrode stair and the second electrode stair having steps are different. There is also provided a secondary battery including the electrode assembly. Secondary batteries having various designs without restriction in shapes of corners of electrode units can be provided.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery cell including an electrode assembly configured to have a structure in which two or more electrode rolls are stacked in a height direction on the basis of a plane, wherein the electrode rolls have the same size or at least two of the electrode rolls have different sizes, and the electrode rolls having different sizes are stacked to form one or more stepped structures in width and/or height.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery cell including an electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a case in which the electrode assembly is mounted, wherein a body of the electrode assembly and a body of the case are provided with cut portions.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrode group stack including a stacked structure of electrode groups, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, in which the electrode groups are stacked in a height direction on the basis of a plane such that the positive electrode and the negative electrode face each other in a state in which the separator is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the stacked structure of the electrode groups includes electrode groups having different areas at an interface between the electrode groups, and a ratio of capacity to area of the positive electrode and the negative electrode at the interface between the electrode groups (N/P ratio) is equal to or greater than a ratio of capacity to area of a positive electrode and a negative electrode constituting an electrode group having a relatively large area (N/P ratio).

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery cell configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly, including positive electrodes, negative electrodes, and separators disposed respectively between the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes, is mounted in a battery case, wherein the electrode assembly is provided with a deformation part, a sectional width of which is discontinuously or continuously decreased, formed at at least a portion of an outer edge of the electrode assembly on the basis of positions of electrode terminals of the electrode assembly in vertical section, and the battery case includes two or more case members each made of a metal sheet, the case members being coupled to each other in a state in which the electrode assembly is mounted in the case members, at least one of the case members being provided with a receiving part having an internal shape corresponding to the deformation part of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery cell configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly, including positive electrodes, negative electrodes, and separators disposed respectively between the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes, is mounted in a battery case, wherein the electrode assembly includes two or more electrodes or unit cells stacked in a height direction when viewed in a plan view, the battery case is provided with a receiving unit, in which electrode assembly is mounted, the electrode assembly is configured to have a quadrangular shape having side (a), side (b), side (c), and side (d) when viewed in a plan view, and inclined such that an interior angle between side (a) of each of the electrode plates or the unit cells, at which an electrode terminal is located, and side (b) adjacent to side (a) is less than 90 degrees, and the receiving unit of the battery case has an internal shape corresponding to a planer shape of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery cell configured to have a structure in which two or more electrode assemblies, each including positive electrodes, negative electrodes, and separators disposed respectively between the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes, are mounted in a battery case, wherein the electrode assemblies are stacked such that electrode terminals of the electrode assemblies are aligned in a vertical direction, one side lower edge of an upper one of the electrode assemblies is disposed in contact with a top surface of a lower one of the electrode assemblies, and one side upper edge of the lower electrode assembly is disposed in contact with a bottom surface of the upper electrode assembly at an interface between the electrode assemblies, and the battery case has an internal shape corresponding to an external shape of the stacked electrode assemblies.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery cell configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly, including positive electrodes, negative electrodes, and separators disposed respectively between the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes, is mounted in a battery case, wherein the electrode assembly is provided at one and/or the other of opposite surfaces thereof adjacent to electrode terminals, among outer surfaces thereof, with a depression having an outwardly increasing size.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrode assembly including two or more electrode plates, each of which has electrode tabs, and a separator plate disposed between the electrode plates and/or a one-unit separation sheet disposed between the electrode plates to cover side surfaces of the electrode plates, which constitute an electrode tab non-formation region, wherein the electrode plates are stacked in a height direction on the basis of a plane such that the electrode plates having opposite polarities face each other in a state in which the separator plate and/or the separation sheet is disposed between the electrode plates, a stack constituted by the electrode plates includes electrode plates having different sizes, and an absolute value of the difference in thickness between the electrode plates having different sizes facing each other is 0 to 79 ?m.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery cell configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly, including positive electrodes, negative electrodes, and separators disposed respectively between the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes, is mounted in a battery case, wherein the battery case includes an upper case and a lower case, the upper case being provided with a first receiving part, in which the electrode assembly is received, the lower case being provided with a second receiving part, in which the electrode assembly is received, the first receiving part and the second receiving part being configured to have structures of different sizes, and the electrode assembly has an external shape corresponding to internal shapes of the first receiving part and the second receiving part.

Abstract: There is provided a stepped electrode assembly including: a first electrode stack including at least one first unit cell, the first unit cell including at least one positive electrode and at least one negative electrode having the same area and being alternately stacked in a vertical direction with a separator disposed therebetween; and a second unit cell including at least one positive electrode and at least one negative electrode that are alternately stacked in the vertical direction with a separator disposed therebetween, the second unit cell disposed on a side of the first electrode stack with a separator disposed therebetween, wherein the second unit cell includes a first area electrode having the same area as an electrode area of the first electrode stack and a second area electrode having an area different from the area of the first area electrode, wherein the second unit cell is a stepped unit cell including a stepped portion formed by an area difference between the first and second area electrodes.

Abstract: Provided are a stepped battery and a method and device for manufacturing the stepped battery, and more particularly, a stepped battery and a method and device for manufacturing the stepped battery, which processes a tent part of a separation film formed on a stepped part of the stepped battery, to prevent a defect from occurring during a subsequent process. A stepped battery manufacturing method includes preparing a stepped battery (10) having a tent portion of a separation film (16) formed on at least one stepped surface (18), and pressing the tent portion by using a press tool (30) having a shape corresponding to the stepped surface (18) of the stepped battery (10).

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mandrel configured to be used in a winding process for manufacturing a jelly roll type electrode assembly using a long sheet type stack of a cathode/separator/anode structure, wherein the mandrel is oval in a section perpendicular to a rotational central axis of the mandrel, a length ratio of a major axis to a minor axis of the mandrel being 1.5 or more, and a tilt of an outer side of the mandrel is continuously changed from an end of the minor axis of the mandrel to an end of the major axis of the mandrel in the section perpendicular to the rotational central axis of the mandrel.

Abstract: There is provided an electrode assembly including a first electrode laminate having at least one or more electrode units having a first area, stacked therein, a second electrode laminate having at least one or more electrode units having a second area smaller than the first area, stacked therein, and a step portion provided by stacking the first electrode laminate and the second electrode laminate in a direction perpendicular to a plane and having a step formed due to a difference in areas of the first and second electrode laminates, the electrode assembly being characterized in that, the electrode unit is wound by a rectangular-shaped separation film such that at least a portion of the rectangular-shaped separation film covers the step portion of the electrode assembly, and a step having a shape identical to the step portion is formed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery including a cathode and an anode wound to face each other with a separator interposed therebetween. Both surfaces of a cathode collector are provided with cathode active-material coating layers so as not to provide a cathode uncoated part at a winding beginning portion of the cathode. The cathode uncoated part for installation of a cathode lead is provided only at a winding ending portion of the cathode. An insulator tape is attached to the boundary of the cathode active-material coating layer facing the anode at the winding ending portion of the cathode. Providing the insulator tape to the boundary of the cathode active-material coating layer at a position where a non-coating part not containing the cathode active-material coating layer and an anode active-material coating layer face each other achieves enhanced electrical insulation capability and consequential safety of the battery.