Proposed is an electrode assembly for a secondary battery, the electrode assembly includes a stacked body including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator interposed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, and an outer periphery of the stacked body may be wound with the separator for exterior finishing. In addition, the present disclosure may include a method of manufacturing an electrode assembly for a secondary battery that is externally finished with a separator.

A system and method for optimizing electrochemical cells including electrodes employing coordination compounds by mediating water content within a desired water content profile that includes sufficient coordinated water and reduces non-coordinated water below a desired target and with electrochemical cells including a coordination compound electrochemically active in one or more electrodes, with an improvement in electrochemical cell manufacture that relaxes standards for water content of electrochemical cells having one or more electrodes including one or more such transition metal cyanide coordination compounds.

An electrode assembly including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate and a separator between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate. The separator includes an extension portion extending to the outside of the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate in a length direction of the electrode assembly. The extension portion is provided with a glue layer including a first bonding portion extending in a width direction of the electrode assembly. The first bonding portion is parallel to the width direction.

The present invention provides an electrode assembly in which a negative electrode coated with a negative electrode active material on a surface of a negative electrode collector, a separator, and a positive electrode coated with a positive electrode active material on a surface of a positive electrode collector are repeatedly laminated, the electrode assembly comprising: monocells in which the positive electrode, the separator, the negative electrode, and the separator are laminated, wherein at least two or more monocells are laminated, wherein, in any one of the monocells, an expansion part extending lengthily to one side is formed on the separators, and the expansion part of the separator surrounds the monocells laminated to be disposed at the outermost layers to fix the laminated monocells. Furthermore, the present invention provides an electrode assembly in which a negative electrode coated with a negative electrode active material on a surface of a negative electrode collector, a separator, and a positive electrode coated with a positive electrode active material on a surface of a positive electrode collector are repeatedly laminated, the electrode assembly comprising: monocells in which the positive electrode, the separator, the negative electrode, and the separator are sequentially laminated, wherein at least two or more monocells are laminated, wherein each of the two or more monocells of the monocells comprises a positive electrode extension part, in which a positive electrode collector extends lengthily to one side, and a negative electrode extension part, in which a negative electrode collector extends lengthily to the other side, and the positive electrode extension part and the negative electrode extension part are respectively bonded to a positive electrode extension part and a negative electrode extension part to fix the laminated monocells.

A unit cell includes a separator and an electrode, which are alternately laminated by a predetermined number. The unit cell is configured such that: the unit cell is laminated in the order of a lower separator, any one electrode of an anode or a cathode, an upper separator, and the other one electrode of the anode or the cathode, wherein at least one surface of the electrode and the separator is applied with an adhesive to adhere the electrode and the separator or the lower separator and the upper separator. The adhesive contains an adhesive composition comprising a copolymer and a rosin ester-based additive, the copolymer contains 60.1 to 79.9% by weight of two or more kinds of alkyl (meth)acrylate-based repeating units (A), and 20.1 to 39.9% by weight of (meth)acrylate-based repeating unit (B) having a hydroxyl group at its end.

Provided area an apparatus and a method for improving the foldability of a separator interposed between polar plates in prismatic secondary battery cell manufacturing equipment. Provided are an assembly and a method for improving the foldability of a separator, the assembly including a wheel knife capable of moving in a horizontal direction with respect to the supply direction of the separator on the prismatic secondary battery cell manufacturing equipment, wherein the wheel knife can rotate with respect to the center thereof, and, when the wheel knife moves on the separator, a recessed part is formed on the separator along the movement path thereof.

An electrode assembly includes first and second electrode plate having opposite polarities, and a separator separating the first and second electrode plates. The first electrode plate includes two first stack sections and a bend section connecting the first stack sections and including a guide portion configured to guide the bend section to bend during production. The second electrode plate includes a second stack section disposed between the first stack sections. The separator includes two separation sections each disposed between the second stack section and one first stack section. Thickness Da of each first stack section, thickness Dc of the second stack section, and thickness Ds of each separation section in a stacking direction of the first stack sections, and a dimension w of the guide portion in a bending direction of the bend section satisfy: Dc+2Ds≤w≤2×(Dc+2Ds+Da).

A package for a power storage device includes at least one laminated packaging material having first and second sections. The packaging material includes a metallic foil layer, a heat-resistant resin layer, and a heat-fusible resin layer. In a state in which the heat-fusible resin layers of the first and second sections are faced, peripheral edges thereof are heat-sealed to form a storage chamber for accommodating a device main body. One of the sections is extended outside the storage chamber to form a conductive flange having an exposed heat-fusible resin layer. The conductive flange is provided with an external conductive section in which the heat-fusible resin layer is partially removed to expose the metallic foil layer. The packaging material having the external conductive section is provided with an internal conductive section in the storage chamber in which the heat-fusible resin layer is partially removed to expose the metallic foil layer.

There is provided an apparatus for manufacturing a cell stack for a secondary battery, the apparatus including: a stack table on which a negative electrode plate and a positive electrode plate are sequentially stacked with a separator interposed therebetween; an electrode-plate-stacking-position adjusting means; a clamping means; a drive means configured to reciprocally turn the stack table, the electrode-plate-stacking-position adjusting means, and the clamping means to both sides so that the separator supplied to the stack table is folded in a zigzag shape and the negative electrode plate and the positive electrode plate are alternately stacked between folded portions of the separator; and a support means configured to support the stack table, the electrode-plate-stacking-position adjusting means, the clamping means, and the drive means.

An electrode assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object comprises: a first electrode formed in the form of a single sheet and repetitively in-folded and out-folded at a predetermined interval; a second electrode formed into a plurality of pieces and respectively interposed in spaces formed by folding the first electrode; and a separator formed in the form of a single sheet and interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode so as to be repetitively in-folded and out-folded at a predetermined interval together with the first electrode, wherein the first electrode is a single-sided electrode in which a first electrode active material is applied to only one surface of a first electrode collector, and the second electrode is a double-sided electrode in which a second electrode active material is applied to all both surfaces of a second electrode collector.