An energy storage cell includes a cylindrical housing that encloses an interior space and a housing casing, a wound composite body arranged in the interior space and having a helical structure including at least two electrode strips and at least one separator strip arranged between the electrode strips, each including a strip-shaped current collector having an active material coating, the wound composite body includes two terminal end faces, a circumferential outer composite body lateral surface and a circumferential inner composite body lateral surface, the inner composite body lateral surface defines an axially oriented cavity, a winding core having a substantially cylindrical or hollow cylindrical shape and has an outer circumferential surface that rests flat on the inner composite body lateral surface, and the winding core has a local deviation from the cylindrical or hollow cylindrical shape in at least one region of the outer circumferential surface.

Provided are nickel manganese composite hydroxide particles that are a precursor for forming cathode active material comprising lithium nickel manganese composite oxide having hollow structure of particles having a small and uniform particle size for obtaining a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having high capacity, high output and good cyclability. When obtaining the nickel manganese composite hydroxide particles from a crystallization reaction, an aqueous solution for nucleation, which includes at least a metallic compound that contains nickel and a metallic compound that contains manganese, and does not include a complex ion formation agent that forms complex ions with nickel, manganese and cobalt, is controlled so that the temperature of the solution is 60° C. or greater, and so that the pH value that is measured at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. is 11.5 to 13.5, and after nucleation is performed, an aqueous solution for particle growth, which includes the nuclei that were formed in the nucleation step and does not substantially include a complex ion formation agent that forms complex ions with nickel, manganese and cobalt, is controlled so that the temperature of the solution is 60° C. or greater, and so that the pH value that is measured at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. is 9.5 to 11.5, and is less than the pH value in the nucleation step.

The battery unit (1) includes a flat battery (2) having a cylindrical positive electrode can (10) with a bottom and a cylindrical negative electrode can (20) with a bottom that covers an opening side of the positive electrode can and having a side wall of the positive electrode can on the opening side fitted to an outer circumferential surface of a side wall of the negative electrode can and a substrate (61) provided on a flat surface of one of the negative electrode can and the positive electrode can and mounted with circuit components (62) thereon. The other of the negative electrode can and the positive electrode can that has a flat surface on an opposite side to the substrate in a thickness-wise direction of the flat battery serves as an external terminal for one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode.

A cell includes a case designed to form a housing, an assembly of stacked electrodes placed inside the housing and including one or more units each having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator between the positive and negative electrodes and an electrolyte. The assembly is held together, and at least each negative electrode of the one or more units includes one or more notches, vertically aligned along the height of the assembly so to design a substantially flat contact surface.

A secondary battery includes a power generation element including a plurality of electrodes. The electrodes are stacked on each other in a stacking direction with a separator interposed therebetween. Each of the electrodes includes a current collector led out in a first direction intersecting the stacking direction. Each of a plurality of current collectors led out in the first direction includes an end part, and the end part includes a first bent part that is bent in a second direction intersecting the first direction. Each of a plurality of first bent parts overlaps and is in contact with an adjacent first bent part in the second direction. At least one of the first bent parts terminates at a middle point on an end face along the second direction of the power generation element.

A rechargeable battery includes: an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode; a case accommodating the electrode assembly and connected to the first electrode, the case having an opening exposing the electrode assembly; a cap plate coupled with the case and covering an outer region of the opening in the case, the cap plate having an opening exposing a central region of the opening in the cap plate and including an insulation layer coated on a surface thereof corresponding to the opening in the cap plate; and a terminal portion connected with the second electrode and bonded in an insulated manner to the cap plate. The terminal portion covers the opening in the cap plate, and the terminal portion includes a plating layer that is directly bonded to the insulation layer of the cap plate.

To provide a current collecting structure capable of reliably collecting current while maintaining a pressurized and constrained state of a coin-type all-solid-state battery. A coin-type all-solid-state battery includes a solid electrolyte layer; a pair of first electrode current collectors each including a metal porous body, the first electrode current collectors being respectively disposed on both sides of the solid electrolyte layer; a pair of second electrode current collectors each including a metal porous body, the second electrode current collectors being respectively disposed on outer sides of the first electrode current collectors; and a pair of lid members being respectively disposed on outer sides of the pair of second electrode current collectors.

A rechargeable battery includes: a case receiving an electrode assembly and including an opening; a cap assembly including a cap plate coupled to the case to cover the opening, and a terminal plate thermally fused to the cap plate by a thermal-fusion member, the thermal-fusion member electrically insulating the cap plate and the terminal plate from each other; and a sealing part attached to and located on a side of the thermal-fusion member, a side surface of the terminal plate, and an outer surface of the cap plate.

A button cell configured as a secondary lithium ion battery includes a button cell housing and an electrode separator assembly disposed inside the button cell housing. The button cell housing includes a metal cell cup, the metal cell cup having a cell cup plane region connected to a cell cup lateral surface region, a metal cell top, the metal cell top having a cell top plane region connected to a cell top lateral surface region, and an electrically insulating seal disposed between the cell cup lateral surface region and the cell top lateral surface region. The electrode separator assembly includes a positive electrode formed from a first portion of a first current collector, a negative electrode formed from a first portion of a second current collector, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.

A rechargeable battery includes: an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode; a case configured to be connected to the first electrode to accommodate the electrode assembly, and including an opening to receive the electrode assembly; a cap plate configured to be coupled with the case to cover an outer area of the opening, and including a through-hole to expose a central area of the opening; and a terminal plate configured to be connected to the second electrode and to be insulation-bonded to the cap plate, and including a flange portion covering the through-hole, and a protrusion penetrating the through-hole from the flange portion.