A winding device and a material winding method are provided. The winding device is configured to wind a material and includes: a winding switching mechanism, a compounding mechanism and a breaking mechanism. The winding switching mechanism includes a rotating disc and a plurality of winding pins arranged on the rotating disc at intervals. The material is wound around one winding pin along a preset path. The compounding mechanism is provided upstream of the winding pin along the preset path and configured to laminate and then compound the plural layers of materials at a preset position. The breaking mechanism is provided between the compounding mechanism and any winding pin along the preset path and configured to break the compounded plural layers of materials at a compounding region.

A battery comprises an electrode group including a separator, a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The negative electrode comprises a negative electrode core, negative electrode mixture layers retained to the negative electrode core, and a fluorine resin layer disposed on the surface of the negative electrode mixture layers. The negative electrode mixture layers include a first outermost peripheral region located at the outermost periphery of the electrode group and a second outermost peripheral region located opposite to the first outermost peripheral region. When the amount of the fluorine resin constituting a first fluorine resin layer in a portion of the first outermost peripheral region is represented by A, and the amount of the fluorine resin constituting a second fluorine resin layer in a portion of the second outermost peripheral region is represented by B, a relation A>B is satisfied.

The present disclosure discloses a button cell, and a method for welding electrode tabs to a pole shell of the button cell. The button cell includes the pole shell and an electric core. The pole shell consists of an anode shell and a cathode shell. The button cell further comprises at least one metal sheet. A cathode tab and/or an anode tab of the electric core is/are welded to the metal sheet, and the metal sheet is then welded to the cathode shell and/or the anode shell. The button cell manufactured by the invention has a complete surface, and can avoid phenomena such as electrolyte leakage and surface bulging caused by the rupture of the polar shell.

A secondary battery includes a positive electrode current collector attached to an electrode group, a sealing body including a lid plate and a positive electrode terminal, and a current collecting lead interposed between the positive electrode current collector and the sealing body, and joined to the positive electrode current collector and the sealing body. The current collecting lead has a top wall located on a side of the sealing body, a bottom wall facing the top wall, and located on a side of the positive electrode current collector, and a pair of side walls and extending between a side edge of the top wall and a side edge of the bottom wall, and facing each other. The top wall includes faced parts and facing the bottom wall, and extension parts extending outward from the faced parts, and the extension parts are joined to the lid plate.

The invention provides a method of improving the cycle-life of a rechargeable alkali metal-sulfur cell. The method comprises implementing an anode-protecting layer between an anode active material layer and a porous separator/electrolyte, and/or implementing a cathode-protecting layer between a cathode active material and the porous separator/electrolyte, wherein the anode-protecting layer or cathode-protecting layer comprises a conductive sulfonated elastomer composite having from 0.01% to 50% by weight of a conductive reinforcement material dispersed in a sulfonated elastomeric matrix material and the protecting layer has a thickness from 1 nm to 100 m, a fully recoverable tensile strain from 2% to 500%, a lithium ion conductivity from 10.sup.7 S/cm to 510.sup.2 S/cm, and an electrical conductivity from 10.sup.7 S/cm to 100 S/cm when measured at room temperature. This battery exhibits an excellent combination of high sulfur content, high sulfur utilization efficiency, high energy density, and long cycle life.

An electrode body, which includes a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate, is contained in a battery case, which is composed of a rectangular casing and a sealing plate. A first positive-electrode tab group, which is composed of a plurality of positive electrode tabs, and a second positive-electrode tab group, which is composed of a plurality of positive electrode tabs, are disposed between the sealing plate and the electrode body. The first positive-electrode tab group and the second positive-electrode tab group are disposed so as to be displaced from each other in the longitudinal direction of the sealing plate. The first positive-electrode tab group and the second positive-electrode tab group are connected to different positions on a positive-electrode current collector.

Alkaline electrochemical cells are provided, containing cathodes with a nickel compound active material, wherein active material particles are coated with at least one of a number of materials so as to improve the shelf life of the electrochemical cell. Methods of preparing such cathodes and electrochemical cells are also provided.

A current collecting lead is interposed between a sealing body and a positive electrode current collector for connecting the sealing body and the positive electrode current collector, the sealing body including a positive electrode terminal, the positive electrode current collector being attached to an electrode group, the current collecting lead including: a top wall portion positioned on the side of the sealing body; leg portions positioned on the side of the positive electrode current collector and that face the top wall portion; and a pair of side wall portions that extend between side edges of the top wall portion and side edges of the leg portions and that face each other, a first corner portion and a second corner portion formed by the top wall portion and the side wall portions and a third corner portion and a fourth corner portion formed by the leg portions and the side wall portions being rounded corners that are curved.

A battery system including: a lithium-ion cell including a positive electrode including a first metal oxide, an electrolyte, and a negative electrode including a second metal oxide having an electrochemical redox potential of 0.5 volt to 3 volts versus lithium; and an electrical circuit including a switchable component connecting the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the switchable component provides a shunt between the positive electrode and the negative electrode in a first switch position, and wherein the electrical circuit is configured to provide a voltage of 0.1 volt or less between the positive electrode and the negative electrode when the switchable component is in the first switch position.

An alkaline storage battery includes a spiral electrode group in which a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a separator arranged between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate are laminated, the negative electrode plate is located on the inner peripheral side of the positive electrode plate at an innermost peripheral portion, and an electrically conductive outer packaging can in which the spiral electrode group is accommodated together with an alkaline electrolytic solution. The negative electrode plate includes a negative electrode core body, a first negative electrode mixture layer carried on a surface on the outer peripheral side of the negative electrode core body, and a second negative electrode mixture layer carried on a surface on the inner peripheral side of the negative electrode core body. The negative electrode core body has a burr protruding toward the outer peripheral side at an edge portion of an innermost peripheral portion of the negative electrode core body. The thickness of the edge portion of an innermost peripheral portion of the first negative electrode mixture layer is smaller than the thickness of a portion other than the edge portion of the first negative electrode mixture layer. The height of the burr is 30% or less of the thickness of the separator.