A battery packaging material includes a laminate that includes at least a base material layer, a metal layer, an insulating layer, and a sealant layer laminated in this order. The insulating layer is formed of a resin composition containing a modified polyolefin resin modified with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or acid anhydride thereof and has a hardness, when measured by using a nanoindenter and pressing an indenter 5 m into the insulating layer from a cross-section of the laminate in the laminating direction thereof, that ranges from 10 MPa to 300 MPa. In the sealant layer, an elastic modulus, when measured by using a nanoindenter and pressing an indenter 5 m into the sealant layer from a cross-section of the laminate in the laminating direction thereof, ranges from 100 MPa to 1000 MPa.

A battery packaging material including a laminate including at least a base material layer, a barrier layer, an adhesive layer, and a heat-sealable resin layer in this order, in which crushing of the adhesive layer is effectively prevented when the heat-sealable resin layer is heat-sealed with itself, and a high sealing strength is achieved in a high-temperature environment. The battery packaging material includes a laminate including at least a base material layer, a barrier layer, an adhesive layer, and a heat-sealable resin layer in this order, wherein the adhesive layer has a logarithmic decrement E of 2.0 or less at 120 C. according to rigid-body pendulum measurement.

Lithium metal batteries are provided. A lithium metal battery includes a case being a cylinder with an opening at one end; a battery cover configured to cover the opening of the case, the case and the battery cover jointly forming a closed space; a support column in the case; and a battery winding core wound around the support column and received into the closed space. The battery winding core includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode containing lithium, and an electrolyte between the negative electrode and the positive electrode. The support column is a hard support column and is coaxially disposed in the case.

A battery cell includes an electrode assembly and a packaging bag. The electrode assembly includes first electrode plates, second electrode plates and separators. The first electrode plates include two outer electrode plates and at least one inner electrode plate. In the first direction, the two outer electrode plates are disposed on two outermost sides of the electrode assembly respectively, the inner electrode plate is disposed between the two outer electrode plates, and the second electrode plates are disposed between the two outer electrode plates. The packaging bag includes a metal layer, and a relationship between a first strength S1 of the first current collectors in the outer electrode plates and a second strength S2 of the metal layer satisfies: 0.2 S1/S20.5.

A surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container, including a steel sheet, an iron-nickel diffusion layer formed on the steel sheet, and a nickel layer formed on the iron-nickel diffusion layer (and constituting the outermost layer, wherein when the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured from the surface of the surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container along the depth direction with a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, the thickness of the iron-nickel diffusion layer being the difference between the depth at which the Fe intensity exhibits a first predetermined value and the depth at which the Ni intensity exhibits a second predetermined value is 0.04 to 0.31 m; and the total amount of the nickel contained in the iron-nickel diffusion layer and the nickel contained in the nickel layer is 4.4 g/m2 or more and less than 10.8 g/m2.

A surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container, including a steel sheet, an iron-nickel diffusion layer formed on the steel sheet, and a nickel layer formed on the iron-nickel diffusion layer (and constituting the outermost layer, wherein when the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured from the surface of the surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container along the depth direction with a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, the thickness of the iron-nickel diffusion layer being the difference between the depth at which the Fe intensity exhibits a first predetermined value and the depth at which the Ni intensity exhibits a second predetermined value is 0.04 to 0.31 m; and the total amount of the nickel contained in the iron-nickel diffusion layer and the nickel contained in the nickel layer is 4.4 g/m2 or more and less than 10.8 g/m2.

The present application discloses a battery casing and a lithium battery. The battery casing comprises a casing, a housing bottom, and a housing cover, wherein the housing is a cylindrical structure which has openings at two ends, the housing is formed by bending and welding plates, the plates are provided with first side edges and second side edges which are welded and connected, and the first side edges and second side edges are provided with a positioning structure. The housing bottom is welded to a first end of the housing, and the housing bottom is configured to seal the first end of the housing. The housing cover is welded to a second end of the housing, and the housing cover is configured to seal the second end of the housing distant from the housing bottom.

The present application discloses a battery casing and a lithium battery. The battery casing comprises a casing, a housing bottom, and a housing cover, wherein the housing is a cylindrical structure which has openings at two ends, the housing is formed by bending and welding plates, the plates are provided with first side edges and second side edges which are welded and connected, and the first side edges and second side edges are provided with a positioning structure. The housing bottom is welded to a first end of the housing, and the housing bottom is configured to seal the first end of the housing. The housing cover is welded to a second end of the housing, and the housing cover is configured to seal the second end of the housing distant from the housing bottom.

A packaging material for a power storage device is formed of a laminated material in which a metal foil layer, a substrate layer provided on an outer surface side of the metal foil layer, and a heat-fusible resin layer provided on an inner surface side of the metal foil layer are laminated. The heat-fusible resin layer is arranged on an inner surface of the packaging material. The heat-fusible resin layer is formed of a polyolefin-based film. A ratio E.sub.IT/H.sub.IT of an indentation modulus E.sub.IT to an indentation hardness H.sub.IT of the heat-fusible resin layer measured using a Berkovich indenter is in a range of 21 to 50.

Disclosed is a secondary battery pouch film, including an outer layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer, wherein the sealant layer includes a cast polypropylene (CPP) layer and an extruded polypropylene (PP) layer, and the secondary battery pouch film satisfies the [Equation 1] where A+B<1.354, 0.6?C. In [Equation 1], A is a value obtained by dividing a thickness of the metal layer by a total thickness of the secondary battery pouch film, B is a value obtained by dividing a thickness of the metal layer by a thickness of the sealant layer, and C is a value obtained by dividing a thickness of the extruded polypropylene (PP) layer of the sealant layer by a thickness of the cast polypropylene (CPP) layer of the sealant layer. The pouch film has excellent formability, curling, insulation, bending, and peel strength.