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`Publication Number
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`JPH07254402A
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`(19) [Publication country] JP
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`(12) [Kind of official gazette] A
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`(11) [Publication number] 07254402
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`(43) [Date of publication of application] 19951003
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`(54) [Title of the invention] SEALED BATTERY
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`(51) [international Patent Classification 6th Edition]
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`HOIM 2/34
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`#HOIM 2/12
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`(21) [Application number] 06068988
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`(22) {Filing date] 19940315
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`(71) [Applicant]
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`[Name] TOSHIBA BATTERY CO LTD
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`(72) [Inventor]
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`[Full name] HANABUSA SOICHI
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`[Full name] ISHIHARA YOU!
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`Abstract
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`(57) [Overview]
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`PURPOSE: To prevent burst or ignition of a battery at the time of over-charging/
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`discharging, or short-circuiting by providing a lead between a power generation element
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`and an insulation plate, and welded with a protrusion of a safety plate, and cutting it by
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`deformation of the safety valve plate when a battery inner pressure rises.
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`CONSTITUTION: A terminal plate of a sealing body group, an overcurrent/overheat
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`protective element 22, and a safety valve plate 23 are held by an insulation sealing
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`packing 23, and a protrusion 27 at a center of the valve plate 23 is protruded through a
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`center hole 28 of an insulation plate 25. Lead 26 from an electrode group is welded with
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`the protrusion 27, and an insulation plate 25 is fixed by a beat part of an outer can, so
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`scattering of contents of the electrode group is prevented when the valve plate 23 is
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`actuated to release an inner pressure. At the time of abnormality, when the battery inner
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`pressure rises, the valve plate 23 is deformed upward, and because the insulation plate
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`25 has no deformation by the inner pressure because of the center hole 28, the lead 26
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`is cut at a welded part to cut the current. In the case where the battery inner pressure
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`rises because of over-charging/discharging, or short-circuiting, the current is cut, thereby
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`burst or ignition can be prevented preliminarily without giving any effects on peripheral
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`parts.
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`Claim
`[Patent Claims]
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`[Claim 1]
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`In the sealed battery, a power generating element composed of a positive
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`electrode, a separator and a negative electrode and a sealing body group having a safety
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`valve plate deformed when the internal pressure of the battery is increased are welded
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`by a lead wire led out from the power generating element.
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`The lead wire is interposed between a power generating element and an insulating plate
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`and welded to a safety valve plate, and the welding is broken by the insulating plate when
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`the internal pressure of the battery is increased.
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`{Claim 2] A sealed battery according to claim 1, further comprising: a safety valve plate
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`which is deformable upward by an internal pressure and has a projection at a center
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`thereof; a fixed insulating plate having a center hole; and a lead wire, wherein the
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`projection and the lead wire are welded at the center hole.
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`[Claim 3] A sealed battery according to claim 7 or 2, wherein said safety valve plate is
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`provided with a mark to facilitate displacement.
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`Description
`{Detailed description of the invention]
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`{0001}
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`[industrial field of application] The present invention relates to an improvement in a
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`sealing body group of a cylindrical battery.
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`{0002}
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`[Prior art]
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`in recent years, development of
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`the rechargeable battery using the
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`nonaqueous electrolyte in which small lightweight and an energy density are high, and
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`charge and discharge are repeatedly more possible still is demanded with development
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`of an electronic device. As this type of secondary battery, one using lithium or lithium
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`alloys as a negative electrode active material and using oxides, sulfides, selenides, and
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`the like of molybdenum, vanadium, titanium, niobium, and the like as a positive electrode
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`active substance is known. [n recent years, studies on spinel-type LiMin2 O04 and other
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`lithium manganese oxides, which improve and enhance the cycle characteristics of
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`manganese oxides having high energy density, have been actively conducted. However,
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`in the battery system as described above, dissolution and deposition reactions of lithium
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`as a negative electrode active material are repeated by repeating charge and discharge
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`cycles, and a needle-like lithium dendrite deposit is formed on a lithium substrate, which
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`causes an internal short circuit.
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`[O003]Further,
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`in the battery as described above, at the time of abnormality such as
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`overcharge, overdischarge, or short circuit, gasification of the electrolytic solution occurs,
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`and explosion or ignition may occur due to an increase in the internal pressure of the
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`battery. in order to solve such a problem, conventionally, a method of providing a safety
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`valve plate in the sealing body group and releasing the increased internal pressure by
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`valve operation has been adopted. Further, in order to prevent the contents from being
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`discharged when the safety valve is operated, an insulating plate made of an insulating
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`material and having a gas vent hole is provided at the upper end of the electrode group
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`to enhance safety.
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`{0004}
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`{Problem to be solved by the invention] However, with only the safety valve structure as
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`described above, although the danger of the battery itself is reduced at the time of valve
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`operation, in the case where the battery is built in an electronic device or the like, the
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`device is filled with a vaporized electrolytic solution, which not only damages the
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`surrounding devices but also may cause explosion or ignition. Therefore, the internal
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`pressure rise of the battery is stopped before the safety valve operates.
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`Such a mechanism has been sought.
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`{O005]The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an
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`object of the present invention to provide a current interruption mechanism which breaks
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`a lead wire in a battery due to an increase in the internal pressure of the battery when
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`the battery has an abnormality such as overcharge, overdischarge, or short circuit, and
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`stops the increase in the internal pressure before a safety valve is actuated.
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`{O006}
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`[Means for solving the problem] In the sealed battery, a power generating element
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`composed of a positive electrode, a separator and a negative electrode, and a sealing
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`body group having a safety valve plate deformed when the internal pressure of the
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`battery rises are welded by a lead wire led out from the power generating element. The
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`lead wire is interposed between the power generating element and the insulating plate
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`and welded to the safety valve plate, and the welding is broken by the insulating plate
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`when the internal pressure of the battery is increased.
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`{O007)A detailed structure of the present invention is a sealed battery comprising a safety
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`valve plate which can be deformed upward by an internal pressure and has a protrusion
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`at its center, a fixed insulating plate having a center hole, and a lead wire, wherein the
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`protrusion and the lead wire are welded at the center hole.
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`{0008}
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`[Action and effect] The safety valve plate has a downward projection at its center, and
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`the projection is welded to a lead wire from the power generating element at the center
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`hole of the insulating plate. Further, an insulating plate is arranged and fixed under a
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`beat part provided for mounting the sealing body group on the outer can, the scattering
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`of the content such as the electrode group is prevented at the time of valve operation,
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`and at the sametime, the lead wire is broken from the safety valve plate. The lead wire
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`passes between the power generating element and the insulating plate, and is welded
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`to the projection of the safety valve plate at the center hole.
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`[O009jin the present invention, the safety valve plate is abnormally deformed upward
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`when the internal pressure of the battery is increased, and the lead wire is pressed by
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`the insulating plate, so that the weld is broken. An abnormal current can be cut off by the
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`breakage.
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`{0010}
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`[Examples] An embodimentof the present invention will be described with reference to
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`FIGS.
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`1
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`to 5. The positive electrode is prepared by adding a conductive agent and a
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`binderto lithium and manganese composite oxides (LiIMnO2), mixing them, applying the
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`mixture to an aluminum substrate, and drying the mixture to form a sheet. In the negative
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`electrode, metal lithium is press-bonded to a copper substrate. A positive electrode and
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`a negative electrode are wound through a separator of a polypropylene porousfilm to
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`form an electrode group (12). Lithium hexafluorophosphate (LIPF6) by dissolving lithium
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`hexafiuorophosphate () in a mixed solution of propylene carbonate and diethyl carbonate
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`ina volumetric ratio of 50:50, and the resulting solution is poured into a cylindrical outer
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`can (11) housing a group of electrodes (12). Next, the sealing body group (13) was
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`inserted up to the beat portion (14) of the outer can (11} and caulked and sealed to
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`produce a cylindrical cell having an outer 18mm, a height 50mm, and an electric
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`capacitance 1500mAHas shownin FIG. 14.
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`{O011]FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view of a sealing portion of the battery.
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`A terminal plate (21), an overcurrent overheat protection element (22) and a safety valve
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`plate (23) of a mouth group are held by an insulating sealing packing (24), and the safety
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`valve plate (23) has a projection (27) at its center, which projects through a center hole
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`(28) of an insulating plate (25) and is welded to a lead wire (26) from an electrode group.
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`{0012]The insulating plate (25) is disposed on the lower surface of the bead portion (14)
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`of the outer can (11) in order to prevent the contents such as the electrode group (12)
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`from scattering when the internal pressure is released by the operation of the valve, and
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`a lead wire (26) from the electrode group and a projection (27) of the safety valve plate
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`(23) are welded at a central hole (28) of the insulating plate (25). In order to facilitate the
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`welding of the projections 27 to the lead wires 26, the projections 27 have lengths 3mm
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`and diameters 2mm, and their tips are positioned under the insulating plate and are
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`welded at that position.
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`{OO43]As shown in FIG. 3, when the internal pressure of the battery is increased, the
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`safety valve plate (23) is deformed upward by the internal pressure. Since the insulating
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`plate (25) fixed by the beat portion (14) has the central hole (28), it is not deformed by
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`the internal pressure, so that the iead wire (26) cannot move upward. Therefore, when
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`the safety valve plate (23) is deformed upward by the internal pressure, the welding with
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`the lead wire is broken, and the abnormal current is interrupted. The safety valve plate
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`(23) used in the present invention has an engraved mark (41) as shown in FIG. 4 so as
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`to be easily deformed upward, and is provided with a thin portion so as to be easily bent
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`and to be easily cleaved to release the internal pressure to the outside.
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`[0014]Next, as a comparative example, as shown in FIG. 5, a cylindrical battery was
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`produced in the same manner as in the example except that a safety valve plate (51)
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`having no central protrusion was used, and a sealing body group having a structure in
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`which the lead wire (53) cannot be broken bythe insulating plate (52) even if the safety
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`valve plate (51) is deformed upward when the internal pressure is increased was used.
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`jO015}]These batteries were housed in a sealed type holder for batteries made of
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`polypropylene and subjected to a 3A overcharge test, a 1A overdischarge test and an
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`external short-circuit test, and the numberof batteries with current interruption is shown
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`in Table 1, the number of operated gas discharge vaives is shown in Table 2, the number
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`of deformed holders is shown in Table 3, and the numberof ruptured orfired batteries is
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`shown in Table 4.
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`[0016]
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`[Table 1]
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`[0017]
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`[Table 2]
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`[0018]
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`[Table 3]
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`[0019]
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`[Table 4]
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`{OO20}in these tests, the batteries of the present invention cut off the current only by
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`small deformation of the safety valve plate in the battery, and the safety valve did not
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`operate so as to discharge a large amount of gas, but all of the batteries of the
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`comparative examples operated the valve, deformed the holder, and burst and ignited
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`by the generated gas or the vaporized electrolyte. The present invention can be applied
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`not only to cylindrical and prismatic primary and secondary non-aqueous electrolyte
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`batteries but also to alkaline primary and secondary batteries, sealed lead-acid batteries,
`and the like.
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`{0021}
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`[Effect of the Invention] As described above,
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`in the sealed battery provided with the
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`current interruption mechanism of the present invention, when the battery is placed in a
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`state in which the internal pressure of the battery increases due to overcharging,
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`overdischarging, short-circuiting, or the like, the lead wire in the battery is broken before
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`the safety valve is operated, and explosion and ignition can be prevented without
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`affecting the peripheral portion of the battery.
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`[Brief Description of the Drawings]
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`[Fig. 1]lt is a cross sectional view of the sealed type cell which is an Example of the
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`present invention.
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`[Fig. 2]it is an expanded sectional view of the obturation portion of the cell of the present
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`invention.
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`[Fig. 3]FlG. 10 is a structural view of the insulation plate of the present invention when
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`the lead wire is broken from the safety valve plate.
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`[Fig. 4]lt is one example of the stampof a safe ports plate.
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`[Fig. 5]FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of a sealing portion of a conventional
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`comparative battery.
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