Abstract: In case of a conventional battery having a laminated sheet material as a battery case for storing a battery body, the metal foil on the laminated sheet does not contact to either a positive electrode or a negative electrode and electric potential is unstable. Therefore, there was a problem that it was impossible to obtain electrical shielding effect. In order to maintain the function of the sealed part in the battery case, an extended part extended from the sealed part is disposed at a position where it overlaps with the positive electrode lead or the negative electrode lead, and by jointing the lead and the extended part with the conductive material piercing therethrough, the metal foil on the laminated sheet material of the battery case is electrically connected to the lead to maintain the electric potential of the battery case to the electric potential of the positive electrode or the negative electrode.

Abstract: The battery of the present invention comprises the electrode which contains the pre-determined amount of electronically conductive material at which resistance increases in accordance with temperature rise and conductive agent; the electrode wherein the ratio of the total amount of the electronically conductive material and the conductive agent to the active material is set to a pre-determined value; and the electrode wherein the average particle size of the conductive agent based on the average particle size of the electronically conductive material is in a pre-determined range. The coducitive material contains an electrically conductive filler and a crystalline resin. The conductive material and the coductive agent are contacted with the active material. A significant reduction in short circuit current is achieved over a defined range of conductive agent particle size.

Abstract: Conventional batteries have a problem that, in case the battery temperature should rise to 100° C. or higher due to an internal short-circuit, etc., a large short-circuit current develops to generate heat. It follows that the battery temperature further increases, which can result in a further increase of the short-circuit current. Further, some of electrode structures involve reduction in discharge capacity. These problems are solved by a battery in which an electron conductive material (9), being in contact with an active material (8) in an electrode, comprises a conductive filler and a resin so that the electrode may increase its resistivity with a temperature rise, and the ratio of the particle size of the electron conductive material (9) to that of the active material (8) is in a range of from 0.1 to 20.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to obtain an electrode whose resistivity increases with temperature, and a battery using the same. Specifically, the invention consists in limiting the proportion of a conductive filler contained in electron conductive particles of an electron conductive particle layer to a range of from 55 to 70 parts by weight. A battery constituted by using the electrode has an increased discharge capacity and is capable of reducing a short-circuit current.

Abstract: Conventional batteries have a problem that, in case the battery temperature should rise to 100° C. or higher due to an internal short-circuit, etc., a large short-circuit current develops to generate heat. It follows that the battery temperature further increases, which can result in a further increase of the short-circuit current. Further, some of electrode structures involve reduction in discharge capacity. These problems are solved by a battery in which an electron conductive material (9), being in contact with an active material (8) in an electrode, comprises a conductive filler and a resin so that the electrode may increase its resistivity with a temperature rise, and the ratio of the particle size of the electron conductive material (9) to that of the active material (8) is in a range of from 0.1 to 20.

Abstract: A battery with an active material layer 6 having an active material 8, an electronically conductive material 9 contacted to the active material 8, and an electrolytic layer 3 jointed with the active material layer 6, wherein the electronically conductive material 9 comprises an electrically conductive filler and a resin having a predetermined thermal melting temperature T1, and has a Positive Temperature Coefficient (PTC) such that resistance of the electrically conductive material increases with temperature, and wherein the active material layer 6 and the electrolytic layer 3 are laminated and are jointed together by heating the resin to a predetermined thermal treatment temperature T2.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an electrode includes pulverizing an electron conductive material containing a conductive filler and a resin, dispersing the ground electron conductive material to make a paste, drying the paste to form an electron conductive material layer, dispersing an active material to prepare an active material paste, and applying the active material paste on the electron conductive material layer and pressing at a prescribed temperature under a prescribed pressure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte battery, of which impact resistance can be enhanced. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery comprising a electric power generating element, a baglike container, leads, and a resin for fixing the leads and an inner surface of the baglike container together.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte battery, of which impact resistance can be enhanced. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery comprising a flat electric power generating element, a baglike container, leads, and a resin for fixing surfaces of a thin portion of the electric power generating element and an inner surface of the baglike container together.

Abstract: Conventional batteries have a problem that, in case the battery temperature should rise to or above a temperature at which the separator melts or flows due to an internal short-circuit, etc., a large short-circuit current develops to generate heat at the part where the separator flows. It follows that the battery temperature further increases, which can result in a further increase of the short-circuit current. The invention has been completed to solve the abovementioned problem. It is an object of the invention to provide an electrode which increases its resistivity with temperature, a method of fabricating the electrode, and a battery using the electrode. Specifically, the electrode of the invention contains a resin which is in contact with an active material or a conducting agent and expands in volume with a rise in temperature.

Abstract: A conventional battery has a problem that when a temperature of the battery reaches at least 100° C. due to internal short-circuit or the like, large short-circuit current is generated, and therefore, a temperature of the battery further increases due to exothermic reaction to increase the short-circuit current. Also, if an aluminum laminated pack and the like are used as a casing material for the purpose of lightweight and improved energy density of the battery, and if an adhesive agent is used to joint an electrode with a separator to maintain the contact thereof, there is a problem that the adhesive agent intrudes into the opening part of the separator and the opening part area and the hole diameter decrease to bring about unfavorable results for discharge load characteristics of the battery.

Abstract: The battery of the present invention comprises the electrode which contains the pre-determined amount of electronically conductive material at which resistance increases in accordance with temperature rise and conductive agent; the electrode wherein the ratio of the total amount of the electronically conductive material and the conductive agent to the active material is set to a pre-determined value; and the electrode wherein the average particle size of the conductive agent based on the average particle size of the electronically conductive material is in a pre-determined range.

Abstract: In case of a conventional battery having a laminated sheet material as a battery case (1) for storing a battery body, the metal foil on the laminated sheet does not contact to either a positive electrode or a negative electrode and electric potential is unstable. Therefore, there was a problem that it was impossible to obtain electrical shielding effect.