The method of metal-thermoplastic resin direct bonding is characterized by comprising a first step for irradiating a surface of the metal material with a pulse laser under an oxidizing atmosphere to form a surface modification region, a second step for causing the thermoplastic resin material to abut against the surface modification region to form a bonding interface, and a third step for heating up the bonding interface by laser irradiation to achieve bonding, the first step including forming metal oxide particle clusters obtained when metal oxide particles having a particle diameter of 5-500 nm to be continuously bonded at the surface modification region, so that the maximum height (Sz) of a surface of the metal oxide particle clusters is 50 nm-3 .Math.m.

A display device including a rear chassis, a display panel arranged in front of the rear chassis to display an image, a middle mold arranged between the display panel and the rear chassis and coupleable to the rear chassis, an optical member arranged between the rear chassis and the display panel, and a welding portion formed by laser-welding the display panel and at least one of the middle mold or the optical member.

The present invention relates to a battery pack capable of securing a welding strength between a tab plate and an electrode tab, and a manufacturing method therefor. As an example, disclosed is a battery pack comprising: a battery cell from which an electrode tab is withdrawn; and a protection circuit module which is electrically connected to the battery cell and which has a circuit board and a tab plate formed on one surface of the circuit board and electrically connected to the electrode tab, wherein the tab plate has a through hole for heating the electrode tab.

Disclosed is a compact secondary battery module, which includes a cartridge assembly having a plurality of cartridges stacked while accommodating cells, respectively, so that a plurality of lead overlapping portions where leads of adjacent cells overlap with each other are located at a cartridge sidewall with a predetermined pattern; and a sensing housing having a plurality of bus bars located and welded corresponding to the lead overlapping portions, respectively, the sensing housing being capable of being arranged at a side of the cartridge assembly, wherein a first lead of a cell of each lead overlapping portion is configured to have a shorter width than a second lead having a polarity opposite to the first lead as much as a predetermined width, and in a state where the sensing housing is coupled to the cartridge assembly, a corresponding bus bar comes into contact with the second lead substantially on the same line as the first lead, and the second lead and the bus bar are welded to each other.

Disclosed is a compact secondary battery module, which includes a cartridge assembly having a plurality of cartridges stacked while accommodating cells, respectively, so that a plurality of lead overlapping portions where leads of adjacent cells overlap with each other are located at a cartridge sidewall with a predetermined pattern; and a sensing housing having a plurality of bus bars located and welded corresponding to the lead overlapping portions, respectively, the sensing housing being capable of being arranged at a side of the cartridge assembly, wherein a first lead of a cell of each lead overlapping portion is configured to have a shorter width than a second lead having a polarity opposite to the first lead as much as a predetermined width, and in a state where the sensing housing is coupled to the cartridge assembly, a corresponding bus bar comes into contact with the second lead substantially on the same line as the first lead, and the second lead and the bus bar are welded to each other.

The present disclosure relates to a battery module that includes a stack of battery cells, where each battery cell has a terminal, and the terminal has a first alloy of a metal. The battery module has a bus bar that includes a body having a second alloy of the metal, nickel plating on at least a portion of the body, and an indentation disposed on the body, where a thickness of the nickel plating is between 0.2% and 20% of an overall thickness of the body, and a weld physically and electrically coupling the respective terminal to the bus bar. The indentation has a depth between 10% and 90% of the overall thickness, an area of the indentation is between 5% and 20% of an overall area of the body, and the nickel plating enables the weld to be stronger than a weld between the first and second alloys.

The present disclosure relates to a battery module that includes a stack of battery cells, where each battery cell has a terminal, and the terminal has a first alloy of a metal. The battery module has a bus bar that includes a body having a second alloy of the metal, nickel plating on at least a portion of the body, and an indentation disposed on the body, where a thickness of the nickel plating is between 0.2% and 20% of an overall thickness of the body, and a weld physically and electrically coupling the respective terminal to the bus bar. The indentation has a depth between 10% and 90% of the overall thickness, an area of the indentation is between 5% and 20% of an overall area of the body, and the nickel plating enables the weld to be stronger than a weld between the first and second alloys.

A method for working a first component and a second component comprises the following steps: providing the first component, which comprises a thermally sprayed electrically conductive layer, providing the second component, which has a longitudinally extended strip of copper, which at least in a first region has a thickness transversely to the longitudinal direction of more than 0.1 millimeter, arranging the strip and the layer one on top of the other, so that the first region of the strip and the layer have a contact region in common with one another, emitting a laser beam onto the contact region and forming a welded connection, which connects the strip and the layer to one another.

A method for working a first component and a second component comprises the following steps: providing the first component, which comprises a thermally sprayed electrically conductive layer, providing the second component, which has a longitudinally extended strip of copper, which at least in a first region has a thickness transversely to the longitudinal direction of more than 0.1 millimeter, arranging the strip and the layer one on top of the other, so that the first region of the strip and the layer have a contact region in common with one another, emitting a laser beam onto the contact region and forming a welded connection, which connects the strip and the layer to one another.

A welding step involves solid-state welding together an external terminal and a seat portion of an internal terminal by causing the external terminal or the internal terminal to vibrate while detaching an insulator from the external terminal in at least a region surrounding the seat portion and pressing the external terminal against the seat portion.