A battery sealing device, including an upper pressing member, a polar rod, a battery cover plate, and a sealing member. The polar rod includes polar rod large and small ends, and a polar rod connecting plate. The upper pressing member includes an upper pressing through hole matched with the periphery of the polar rod large end. The battery cover plate includes a cover plate through hole; the polar rod large end penetrates through the upper pressing through hole and the cover plate through hole; the upper pressing member arranged above the battery cover plate. The sealing member includes an upper sealing element formed between the upper pressing member and the battery cover plate, an intermediate sealing element formed in the gap between the cover plate through hole and the polar rod large end, and a lower sealing element formed between the battery cover plate and the polar rod connecting plate.

A sealing body for sealing an upper opening of a battery can having a tube shape with a closed bottom includes an electrode terminal, a sealing plate, and gaskets. The electrode terminal includes a flat plate-shaped stepped portion in an area of a lower surface of a flat plate-shaped terminal portion. The electrode terminal has an inserting portion extending downward in a columnar shape on a lower surface of the stepped portion, and a protrusion in a non-circular planar shape that goes around the inserting portion. The sealing plate has an opening, and has an upper surface and a lower surface on which a non-circular sealing-plate recessed portion and a sealing-plate protruding portion are formed. The gaskets have a shaft portion inserted through the opening of the sealing plate, and a protruding portion that engages the sealing-plate recessed portion and a recessed portion that engages the sealing-plate protruding portion.

An electrochemical cell includes an electrode body which includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode and an outer package which is formed by overlapping a first member and a second member. The outer package includes: a housing portion which houses the electrode body; and a sealing portion which is formed along an outer circumference of the housing portion, by fusing and bending the first member and the second member, at a portion corresponding to the outer circumference of the housing portion.

A battery includes a battery case including a housing having side walls defining a first open end and a second open end, the battery case including a separate top cover to cover the first open end of the housing and a separate bottom cover to cover the second open end of the housing; a first electrode located within the case; a second electrode located within the case; a first terminal coupled to the first electrode and exposed outside the case; and a second terminal coupled to the second electrode and exposed outside the case.

An insulating molding (1) for a housing of at least one battery cell is disclosed, specifically for a housing of at least one lithium-ion battery cell, wherein, on at least one molding sidewall (3a, 3b) of the insulating molding (1), a depression (5) is configured, which is constituted by means of a reduced wall thickness, in order to reduce the force acting on the battery cell.

Disclosed herein are an insulation member, a method of manufacturing the insulation member, and a method of manufacturing a cylindrical battery including the insulation member, and more particularly an insulation member including an insulation plate substrate configured as a reticular structure formed by glass fiber strands and a binder applied to the insulation plate substrate, a method of manufacturing the insulation member, and a method of manufacturing a cylindrical battery including the insulation member.

At least one aspect is directed to a battery cell. The battery cell can include a current collector having a wall that defines an opening. The wall can have a surface from a first planar surface of the current collector to a second planar surface of the current collector. The battery cell can have a lid having a protrusion. The protrusion can have a surface, the surface of the protrusion coupled with the surface of the wall.

A seal assembly for a battery cell includes a grommet having an opening having an inner surface. A nail has a nail head and a stem extending from the stem. The stem includes a first portion with a larger diameter and a second portion with a smaller diameter and the stem extends through the opening in the grommet. The stem and the grommet form a first interference fit at a distal end of the opening. A trap clearance is formed between the distal end of the opening and the nail head. The trap clearance defines a trap for a sealant. A sealant is disposed on the stem and is located at least partially in the trap.

Electrode assemblies and battery cells including the electrode assemblies are disclosed. In some implementations, a battery cell includes: an electrode assembly; one or more protective assemblies disposed on at least one side of the electrode assembly; and a case having an internal space in which the electrode assembly is accommodated, wherein the one or more protective assemblies includes: a protective frame including an insulating material; and a connection unit coupled to the protective frame and electrically connected to the electrode assembly.

An electrochemical cell has a cylindrically-shaped casing tube with at least first and second lithium sheets swaged onto its inner surface. The first lithium sheet has respective spaced apart first right and left edges, and the second lithium sheet has spaced apart second right and left edges. The first and second right edges and the first and second left edges of the swaged first and second lithium sheets are adjacent to but spaced apart from each other by about 0.5 to about 1 about the inner circumference of the cylindrically-shaped casing tube. A novel process for swaging the first and second lithium sheets onto the inner surface of the casing tube is also described.