A battery manufacturing method uses a battery manufacturing apparatus, including an electrode layer forming unit, a counter electrode layer forming unit, and a current collector folding unit that folds a first current collector. The battery manufacturing method includes forming (a11) a first electrode layer in contact with the first electroconductive portion by the electrode layer forming unit, forming (a12) a second electrode layer in contact with the second front face region by the electrode layer forming unit, and forming (b11) the first counter electrode layer, which is the counter electrode of the first electrode layer, in contact with the first front face region by the counter electrode layer forming unit. The method also includes folding (c11) the first fold region by the current collector folding unit, and folding (d11) the first insulating portion by the current collector folding unit.

A battery includes a current collector, first electrode layer, first counter electrode layer, and second electrode layer. The current collector includes a first electroconductive portion, first insulating portion, and second electroconductive portion. The second electroconductive portion includes a first edge region, first front face region, first rear face region, first fold portion, second front face region, second rear face region, and second edge region. The first and second rear face regions face each other by the current collector being folded. The first electrode layer is disposed in contact with the first electroconductive portion, the first counter electrode layer in contact with the first front face region, and the second electrode layer in contact with the second front face region. The first insulating portion links the first electroconductive portion and first edge region. The first electrode layer and first counter electrode layer face each other by the current collector being folded.

The present application discloses a current collector, an electrode plate, and an electrochemical device. The current collector comprises: a support layer comprising opposite two surfaces along the thickness direction thereof; a conductive layer disposed on at least one of the two surfaces of the support layer; wherein the support layer comprises a support material selected from one or more of a polymer material and a polymer matrix composite material, and wherein the light transmittance T of the support layer is 0T98%. The current collector, electrode plate and electrochemical device provided by the present application have good processability.

Disclosed herein is an electrode for a secondary battery including an electrode mixture layer including an electrode active material on one surface or both surfaces of a current collector, wherein the electrode mixture layer includes a plurality of fine holes recessed toward the current collector from a vertical cross-sectional surface, and each of the fine holes is a horn-shaped hole whose diameter is gradually decreased from the vertical cross-sectional surface toward the current collector in the electrode mixture layer.

The present disclosure relates to the field of battery and, in particular, relates to a current collector, an electrode plate including the current collector, and an electrochemical device. The current collector of the present disclosure includes an insulation layer and a conductive layer. The insulation layer is used to support the conductive layer. The conductive layer is used to support an electrode active material layer and is located on at least one surface of the insulation layer. The insulation layer has a density smaller than that of the conductive layer. The insulation layer has a thickness of D1 satisfying 1 mD110 m. The conductive layer has a thickness of D2 satisfying 200 nmD21.5 m. The insulation layer has a tensile strength greater than or equal to 150 MPa.

The invention relates to a lead acid battery assembly comprising plurality of cells which are disposed within a housing and each cell having two electrodes namely positive plate and negative plate placed in a volume of an electrolyte in the housing. The cell formed comprises as per the invention at least one electrode plate prepared with a multilayered structure comprising a graphite composite material having higher electronic conductivity during charging and discharging of the battery assembly. The electrode plate structure formed is a three layered plate comprises a first base/substrate layer (100) made of electrically conductive material; a second transition layer (110) made of graphite composite material being adhered to the first base layer using an adhesive agent; and a third chemically active conductive layer (120) surrounding the second transition layer (110)

A battery includes a first current collector, a laminate disposed on a first region of a surface of the first current collector, a thermal-expandable layer disposed on a second region of the surface of the first current collector, and a second current collector disposed on both of the laminate and the thermal-expandable layer. The laminate includes a first active material layer disposed on the first region, an electrolyte layer disposed on the first active material layer, and a second active material layer disposed on the electrolyte layer. A thermal expansion ratio of the thermal-expandable layer is greater than a thermal expansion ratio of the laminate.

A secondary battery including a first electrode structure; a second electrode structure spaced apart from the first electrode structure; and an electrolyte layer disposed between the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure, wherein the first electrode structure includes: a current collector layer; and plurality of first active material plates electrically connected to the current collector layer, protruding from the current collector layer, and including a first active material, wherein each plate of the plurality of first active material plates has a width and a length greater than the width, and the plurality of first active material plates are spaced apart from one another in a widthwise direction and in a lengthwise direction, and wherein the electrolyte layer extends into gaps between the plurality of first active material plates along the lengthwise direction.

A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery including a protective layer formed with a conductive fabric, in particular, to a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery including a conductive fabric formed on at least one surface of the lithium metal layer and having pores, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The lithium secondary battery including a negative electrode having the conductive fabric as a protective layer that induces uniform reactions within the pores, thus preventing local lithium metal formation on the lithium metal surface, and thereby suppressing dendrite formation on the lithium metal surface, and thereby suppressing dendrite formation and cell volume expansion. In addition thereto, mechanical stability can be maintained even when lithium plating and stripping occurs due to the flexibility and tension/contraction of the conductive fabric.

The present invention relates to a lithium secondary battery comprising: a current collector comprising a structure in a fabric form in which fiber bundles are cross-woven, wherein each of the fiber bundles is formed of sets of fiber yarns and each of the fiber yarns includes a polymer fiber and a metal layer surrounding the polymer fiber; and an electrode including an active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the current collector.