A method of manufacturing a lithium secondary battery, which includes coating a slurry for forming a porous coating layer on a porous polymer substrate and drying the porous coating layer under a humidified condition to form a preliminary separator; forming an electrode assembly, wherein the preliminary separator is interposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, placing the electrode assembly into a battery case and injecting an electrolytic solution into the battery case; and thermally treating the electrode assembly. A lithium secondary battery manufactured by the method is also provided. Accordingly, the separator has significantly improved ionic conductivity compared to separators commonly used in the art.

Provided is a secondary battery comprising: an electrode assembly; a battery case which accommodates the electrode assembly; a first electrolyte which is accommodated in the battery case and primarily impregnates the electrode assembly; and a reinforcement electrolyte member which comprises a packaging material and a second electrolyte, wherein the packaging material is accommodated in the battery case and provided with an oxidation part which is oxidized and decomposed at a set voltage, and the second electrolyte is stored in the packaging material, released to the outside of the packaging material due to the decomposition of the oxidation part, and secondarily impregnates the electrode assembly.

A method of preparing a secondary battery which includes pre-lithiating an electrode assembly which includes an electrode structure including a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of separators, and a metal substrate. The plurality of electrodes and the plurality of separators are alternatingly, stacked. The metal substrate is present on an outermost surface of the electrode structure in a direction in which the electrode and the separator are stacked. Each positive electrode and negative electrode are spaced apart from each other with one separator of the plurality of separators disposed therebetween. The pre-lithiating includes applying a first current by electrically connecting one of the plurality of positive electrodes and one of the plurality of negative electrodes, and applying a second current by electrically connecting the metal substrate and one of the plurality of positive electrodes, after applying the first current.

Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a pouch-shaped battery cell, the method including (a) receiving an electrode assembly in a preliminary battery case and sealing other outer peripheries of the preliminary battery case excluding a first side outer periphery of the preliminary battery case, through which gas is discharged, (b) attaching a protective film to at least one corner portion of an electrode assembly receiving portion, (c) performing an activation process and a degassing process, (d) resealing a first side outer periphery of the electrode assembly receiving portion, and (e) removing the protective film, wherein the inner surface of the protective film is attached to the outer surface of the corner portion of the electrode assembly receiving portion in tight contact therewith without being crumpled in order to support the shape of the corner portion of the electrode assembly receiving portion, which is technology capable of preventing the preliminary battery case from being deformed by force continuously applied to the preliminary battery case in a process of manufacturing the pouch-shaped battery cell.

An electrode transferring apparatus of a battery cell includes: a transferring body configured to transfer at least one electrode of the battery cell; and an electrode gripper mounted to the transferring body to be vertically movable, the electrode gripper being configured to grip at least one electrode of the battery cell and having a rounded end in contact with the at least one electrode.

A current collector is disclosed and comprises a conductive material and an elemental metal of a group 6 metal contacting the conductive material. Also disclosed are an electrochemical cell comprising a current collector, a cathode adjacent to the current collector, and an alkali metal-based electrolyte between the current collector and the cathode, with the cathode separated from the group 6 metal by the alkali metal-based electrolyte. A method of operating the electrochemical cell is also disclosed.

The disclosure relates to the technical field of batteries, and provides a battery manufacturing method, a battery, a battery module, and a battery pack. The battery manufacturing method includes following steps. Providing an insulating mylar, laminating on the insulating mylar to form a laminated cell that includes a separator film different from the insulating mylar, and wrapping the laminated cell with the insulating mylar. By laminating on the insulating mylar to form the laminated cell and then wrapping the laminated cell with the insulating mylar, a process of moving the laminated cell to the insulating mylar is omitted.

The disclosure relates to the technical field of batteries, and provides a battery manufacturing method and a battery. The battery manufacturing method includes the following steps. Providing a first casing that includes one of an upper cover and a bottom plate of a battery casing, and laminating on the first casing to form a laminated cell.

An electrochemical cell includes a cell housing and an electrode assembly disposed in the cell housing. The electrode assembly includes an electrode pair that is arranged to form a winding having a polygonal spiral wound shape in which a radius of the corner portions of each turn of the winding is constant, regardless of the number of turns. In addition, a length of the linear portions of one turn of the winding is different than a length of the linear portions of another turn of the winding. Since each turn of the winding includes the corner portions having a desired radius, the volumetric efficiency of the electrode assembly including the winding within a cell housing is improved relative to some cells that use conventional windings. An apparatus and method of forming a polygonal spiral wound winding are disclosed.

A method for non-invasive characterisation of a cell for a battery is provided, the method comprising: measuring a magnetic field generated by the cell using a plurality of magnetic field sensors positioned adjacent to the cell, the measuring producing magnetic field sensor data, wherein the measuring is performed while the cell is in a passive state; determining current density profile data across the cell based on the magnetic field sensor data; and determining a condition of the cell using the current density profile data.