Patent Description:
With the development of science and technology, more and more electronic products have entered various aspects of people's lives, and the normal use of electronic products cannot be separated from batteries, where lithium-ion batteries have been widely used in electronic products in various fields due to their high energy density and environmental friendliness. With the development of electric vehicle technology, lithium-ion batteries have attracted the attention in the field of electric vehicles.

With the wide application of lithium-ion batteries, more and more attention has been paid to the quality and safety performance of lithium-ion batteries themselves. In the existing lithium-ion batteries, electrodes and the tabs are connected by ultrasonic welding. In a specific implementation, a welding head is in contact with a tab side and applies pressure and vibrations to weld and connect the tab and the electrode.

However, needle-shaped welding protrusions will be formed on the electrode side as shown in <FIG> after the ultrasonic welding, and the needle-shaped welding protrusions may easily pierce a separator between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, resulting in short-circuit contact between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, which may thus cause serious safety problems.

<CIT> relates to a method of welding an electrode tab which welds an electrode tab and a current collecting layer by using a pulsed laser beam, and a cable type rechargeable battery including an electrode manufactured according to the same.

<CIT> discloses a kind of electrode plate, including a tab and an electrode body, the tab is arranged on the electrode body and overlaps with the electrode body to form a welding area, and the welding area is provided with welding points; the welding points are composed of welding tracks. A burr between the tab and the electrode body in the electrode plate is less and a contact resistance is small.

<CIT> discloses a method for producing an electrode assembly includes a step of ultrasonically welding an exposed portion where the surface of an electrode current collector is exposed and an electrode lead to each other.

Abhishek Das et al. discloses an automotive battery pack for use in electric vehicles consists of a large number of individual battery cells that are structurally held and electrically connected.

Jozef Mesko et al. discloses microstructure analysis of welded joints after laser welding. And a result is achieved that the geometry of the weld is in technical practice dependent the most on the type of laser source.

<CIT> discloses a bimetallic thin plate jointing element, such that a good electric characteristics are maintained. Thin plate jointing element (<NUM>) is formed by welding and jointing positive-electrode terminal (<NUM>) and negative electrode terminal (<NUM>) having different melting points, and having flexibility.

<CIT> discloses a dissimilar metal joined body includes a copper material, an aluminum material and a molten mixed portion. The molten mixed portion is configured so that part of the aluminum material is melted and flows into the copper material. The depth from a surface of the copper material which contacts the aluminum material in the molten mixed portion is at least <NUM> and no greater than <NUM>.

<CIT> discloses a method for producing a welded joint between at least two components, comprises generating a weld seam (<NUM>) by laser welding in an overlapping region of the components, completely melting the first component (<NUM>) in the region of the weld seam to be produced, melting second component (<NUM>) at least up to a predetermined penetration depth, and forming a profile of the weld seam in spiral or meandering manner.

The present application provides a battery, a manufacturing method of a battery, and an electronic product, and protrusions formed by welding an electrode and a tab of the battery is less likely to pierce a separator between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, so that a short circuit could be prevented, which is beneficial to the improvement of the quality and safety performance of the battery.

In a first aspect, the present application provides a battery, which includes a housing and a battery cell accommodated in the housing; the battery cell includes electrodes and tabs, where each of the electrodes includes a current collector and an active material layer, and the current collector includes a coating zone coated with the active material layer and an empty foil zone not coated with the active material layer, an end of a tab overlaps the empty foil zone and the tab and the empty foil zone are fixedly connected by laser welding; a surface of the empty foil zone facing away from the tab has a plurality of dot-shaped welding marks arranged at intervals, and each of the dot-shaped welding marks includes a concave part and an annular convex part surrounding a periphery of the concave part; a surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone has no welding mark;.

The battery provided by the present application includes a housing and a battery cell accommodated in the housing, where the battery cell includes electrodes and tabs; each of the electrodes includes a current collector and an active material layer; the current collector includes a coating zone coated with the active material layer and an empty foil zone not coated with the active material layer; an end of the tab is overlapped over the empty foil zone, and the tab and the empty foil zone are fixedly connected by the laser welding, so as to, on the one hand, avoid that the performance of the battery is affected by pseudo welding or over welding caused by welding head wear, and on the other hand, save the work of replacing the welding head. After the laser welding is completed, a plurality of dot-shaped welding marks arranged at intervals are formed on the surface of the empty foil zone facing away from the tab, and the dot-shaped welding mark includes a concave part and an annular convex part surrounding the periphery of the concave part. Since the contact area between the annular convex part and a separator is larger than that between a needle-shaped welding protrusion and a separator in the prior art, the pressure between the annular convex part and the separator is lower, and thus the annular convex part is less likely to pierce the separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, thereby preventing a short circuit and being beneficial to the improvement of the quality and safety performance of the battery. Furthermore, the surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone has no welding mark, that is, the original flatness of the tab may be maintained unchanged through the surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone during the welding process, and thus the surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone could be prevented from forming an unfavorable structure to the separator during the welding process, which is beneficial to the improvement of the quality and reliability of the battery.

As for the battery described above, optionally, the depth of the concave part is between <NUM> and <NUM>.

As for the battery described above, optionally, a sidewall of the concave part at least has a partial cylindrical wall surface or a partial truncated cone-shaped wall surface.

As for the battery described above, optionally, a diameter of the dot-shaped welding mark is between <NUM> and <NUM>; and/or, a distance between two adjacent dot-shaped welding marks is not less than <NUM>.

As for the battery described above, optionally, a minimum distance between the dot-shaped welding mark and the coating zone is larger than <NUM>; and/or, the empty foil zone is located in the middle of the electrode.

As for the battery described above, optionally, a bottom surface of the concave part has a central convex part, and a height of the central convex part is smaller than a depth of the concave part.

In a second aspect, the present application provides a manufacturing method of a battery including: providing electrodes, tabs and a separator, where each of the electrodes has a coating zone and an empty foil zone; for each pair of an electrode and a tab, attaching the empty foil zone of the electrode to the tab; performing, by using a laser welding device, pulse dot welding from a surface of the empty foil zone facing away from the tab to form a plurality of dot-shaped welding marks arranged at intervals; each of the dot-shaped welding marks includes a concave part and an annular convex part surrounding a periphery of the concave part; a surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone has no welding mark; processing the electrode welded with the tab and a separator together to form a battery cell; and assembling the battery cell into a housing to form a battery; where a height of the annular convex part is within <NUM>; and a depth of the concave part is smaller than a sum of thicknesses of the empty foil zone and the tab; and a plurality of the dot-shaped welding marks are arranged in an array; and/or, the number of the dot-shaped welding marks is between <NUM> and <NUM>.

In the manufacturing method of a battery according to the present application, the empty foil zone of the electrode is attached to the tab, and the laser welding device is used to perform pulse dot welding from the surface of the empty foil zone facing away from the tab to form a plurality of dot-shaped welding marks arranged at intervals. Adopting the laser welding could, on the one hand, avoid that the performance of the battery is influenced by a pseudo welding or over welding caused by welding head wear, and on the other hand, save the work of replacing the welding head. Furthermore, the dot-shaped welding marks formed by laser welding include a concave part and an annular convex part surrounding the periphery of the concave part. Since a contact area between the annular convex part and a separator is larger than that between a needle-shaped welding protrusion and a separator in the prior art, the pressure between the annular convex part and the separator is lower, and thus the annular convex part is less likely to pierce the separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, thereby preventing a short circuit and being beneficial to the improvement of the quality and safety performance of the battery. Furthermore, the surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone has no welding mark, that is, the original flatness of the tab may be maintained unchanged through the surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone during the welding process, and thus the surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone could be prevented from forming an unfavorable structure to the separator during the welding process, which is beneficial to the improvement of the quality and reliability of the battery.

In a third aspect, the present application provides an electronic product including battery as described above.

The electronic product provided by the present application includes a battery, which includes a housing and a battery cell accommodated in the housing, where the battery cell includes electrodes and tabs; each of the electrodes includes a current collector and an active material layer; the current collector includes a coating zone coated with the active material layer and an empty foil zone not coated with the active material layer; an end of the tab is overlapped over the empty foil zone, and the tab and the empty foil zone are fixedly connected by the laser welding, so as to, on the one hand, avoid that the performance of the battery is affected by pseudo welding or over welding caused by welding head wear, and on the other hand, save the work of replacing the welding head. After the laser welding is completed, a plurality of dot-shaped welding marks arranged at intervals are formed on a surface of the empty foil zone facing away from the tab, and the dot-shaped welding marks include a concave part and an annular convex part surrounding the periphery of the concave part. Since a contact area between the annular convex part and a separator is larger than that between a needle-shaped welding protrusion and a separator in the prior art, the pressure between the annular convex part and the separator is lower, and thus the annular convex part is less likely to pierce the separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, thereby preventing a short circuit and being beneficial to the improvement of the quality and safety performance of the battery. Furthermore, the surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone has no welding mark, that is, the original flatness of the tab may be maintained unchanged through the surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone during the welding process, and thus the surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone could be prevented from forming an unfavorable structure to the separator during the welding process, which is beneficial to the improvement of the quality and reliability of the battery.

In order to explain the embodiments of the present application or the technical solution in the prior art more clearly, the drawings required in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present application.

In the prior art, tabs and electrodes of a battery cell are usually connected by ultrasonic welding and, the welding head is required to contact with the tab side and apply pressure and vibration so as to weld the tab and the electrode during the ultrasonic welding. In this process, the welding head may be worn, which on the one hand is easy to lead to pseudo welding or over welding between the tabs and electrodes and then affect the performance of the battery; on the other hand, the welding head requires to be replaced regularly, thereby increasing the workload.

At the same time, a sharp needle-shaped welding protrusion as shown in <FIG> will be formed on the electrode side by the ultrasonic welding, a contact area between the needle-shaped welding protrusion and a separator between a positive electrode and a negative electrode is only an area at an apex of the needle-shaped welding protrusion, leading to that pressure between the needle-shaped welding protrusion and the separator, is relatively large and the needle-shaped welding protrusion is likely to pierce the separator, resulting in a short-circuit contact between the positive electrode and negative electrode, which may cause serious safety problems.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present application provides a battery, where the electrode and the tab of the battery are fixedly connected by laser welding, and the laser welding process is a method of welding the electrode and the tab from the electrode side by using a laser beam with high energy density as a heat source. Laser welding does not have the problem of welding head wear, so there is no issue of pseudo welding or over welding caused by welding head wear, and there is also no issue of increased workload caused by the welding head replacement. At the same time, a contact area between the annular protrusion and the separator formed after laser welding is the whole annular top of the annular protrusion, which is obviously larger than the contact area between the needle-shaped welding protrusion and the separator in the prior art, so the pressure between the annular protrusion and the separator is lower, and thus the annular protrusion is less likely to pierce the separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and then cause a short circuit, which is beneficial to the improvement of the quality and safety performance of the battery.

To make the purpose, technical solution and advantage of the embodiments of the present application clearer, the technical solutions in embodiments of the present application are described in the following clearly and comprehensively with reference to the accompanying drawings in embodiments of the present application.

Referring to <FIG>, the present embodiment provides a battery, which includes a housing and a battery cell accommodated in the housing. The battery cell includes electrodes <NUM> and tabs <NUM>, where each of the electrodes <NUM> includes a current collector and an active material layer, the current collector includes a coating zone coated with the active material layer and an empty foil zone not coated with the active material layer, an end of the tab <NUM> overlaps the empty foil zone and the tab <NUM> and the empty foil zone are fixedly connected by laser welding.

The battery cell may be a wound battery cell or a laminated battery cell; the electrode may be either a positive electrode or a negative electrode. The electrode includes a current collector and an active material layer coated on the current collector surface. In order to weld the tab with the current collector, it is necessary to reserve an empty foil zone on the current collector surface which is not coated with the active material layer, or remove the active material layer in some area of the current collector surface to expose the current collector. The exposed current collector surface is the empty foil zone, while the area covered with the active material layer is the coating zone. Generally, the current collector of positive electrode is aluminum foil, while the current collector of negative electrode is copper foil.

Specifically, the wound battery cell includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator separating the positive electrode and the negative electrode; a positive tab is welded on the positive electrode and a negative tab is welded on the negative electrode; in the winding process, the positive electrode, the separator and the negative electrode are wound in the same direction from the winding head and finally form a wound battery cell.

The laminated battery cell includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator separating the positive electrode from the negative electrode; a positive tab is welded on the positive electrode and a negative tab is welded on the negative electrode; the positive electrode and the negative electrode are alternately stacked during the processing, and the separator is stacked between two adjacent positive electrode and negative electrode, and finally stacked to form a laminated battery.

Generally, the laser welding is to weld the tab <NUM> and the electrode <NUM> from the electrode <NUM> side. After the laser welding is completed, a plurality of dot-shaped welding marks <NUM>, such as round dot-shaped welding marks, arranged at intervals are formed on a surface of the empty foil zone facing away from the tab. Specifically, the dot-shaped welding mark <NUM> includes a concave part <NUM> and an annular convex part <NUM> surrounding a periphery of the concave part <NUM>.

A surface of the tab <NUM> facing away from the empty foil zone in the present embodiment has no welding mark. Since laser welding is carried out from the surface of the empty foil zone facing away from the tab <NUM>, the dot-shaped welding mark <NUM> is only formed on the surface of the empty foil zone facing away from the tab <NUM>, while the surface of the tab <NUM> facing away from the empty foil zone maintains the original surface of the tab <NUM>. That is to say, the original flatness of the surface of the tab <NUM> facing away from the empty foil zone will not be affected by welding, thereby avoiding the formation of unfavorable structures on the surface of the tab <NUM> during welding.

According to the invention, first, an end of the tab <NUM> and the empty foil zone of the electrode <NUM> are overlapped and attached. For example, the empty foil zone of the electrode <NUM> can be tightly attached to the tab <NUM> by a hold-down fixture or an absorption fixture, so as to avoid the situation that the electrode <NUM> is welded through due to loose attachment. Then, after setting a process parameter of the laser welding device, the laser welding device performs pulse dot welding on the tab <NUM> and the electrode <NUM> from a surface of the empty foil zone facing away from the tab <NUM>, so as to form dot-shaped welding marks <NUM> on the surface of the empty foil zone facing away from the tab <NUM>, while there is no welding mark on the surface of the tab <NUM> facing away from the empty foil zone. The dot-shaped welding mark <NUM> includes a concave part <NUM> and an annular convex part <NUM> surrounding the periphery of the concave part <NUM>. For example, the concave part <NUM> may be a circular pit, and the annular convex part <NUM> is a ring-shaped protrusion surrounding the periphery of the circular pit.

The battery provided in the present embodiment includes a housing and a battery cell accommodated in the housing, where the battery cell includes electrodes <NUM> and tabs <NUM>; each of the electrodes <NUM> includes a current collector and an active material layer; the current collector includes a coating zone coated with the active material layer and an empty foil zone not coated with the active material layer; an end of the tab is overlapped over the empty foil zone, and the tab <NUM> and the empty foil zone of the electrode <NUM> are fixedly connected by laser welding, so as to, on the one hand, avoid that the performance of the battery is affected by pseudo welding or over welding caused by welding head wear, and on the other hand, save the work of replacing the welding head. After the laser welding is completed, a plurality of dot-shaped welding marks <NUM> arranged at intervals are formed on the surface of the empty foil zone of the electrode <NUM> facing away from the tab, and the dot-shaped welding mark <NUM> includes a concave part <NUM> and an annular convex part <NUM> surrounding the periphery of the concave part <NUM>. Since the contact area between the annular convex part <NUM> and the separator is larger than that between the needle-shaped welding protrusion and the separator in the prior art, the pressure between the annular convex part <NUM> and the separator is lower, and thus the annular convex part <NUM> is less likely to pierce the separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, thereby preventing a short circuit and thus being beneficial to the improvement of the quality and safety performance of the battery. Furthermore, the surface of the tab <NUM> facing away from the empty foil zone has no welding mark, that is, the original flatness of the tab <NUM> could be maintained unchanged through the surface of the tab <NUM> facing away from the empty foil zone during the welding process, so that the surface of the tab <NUM> facing away from the empty foil zone could be prevented from forming an unfavorable structure to the separator during the welding process, which is beneficial to the improvement of the quality and reliability of the battery.

Specifically, in the present embodiment, after the laser welding, a height of the annular convex part <NUM> of the dot-shaped welding mark <NUM> formed on the side of the electrode <NUM> is within <NUM>; in the prior art, the height of the needle-shaped welding protrusion formed on the electrode side after ultrasonic welding reaches more than <NUM>. It can be seen that the annular convex part <NUM> in the present embodiment has a smaller height, and thus is less likely to pierce the separator between the positive electrode and negative electrode, thereby preventing a short circuit and thus being beneficial to the improvement of the quality and safety performance of the battery.

Generally, a distance between the separator located at the tab <NUM> side and the tab <NUM> is relatively close, and therefore it is easier to pierce the separator by forming a protrusion on the tab <NUM> side. The depth of the concave part <NUM> according to the invention is less than a sum of thicknesses of the empty foil zone of the electrode <NUM> and the tab <NUM>, that is, the concave part <NUM> of the dot-shaped welding mark <NUM> may not form a protrusion on the tab <NUM> side, thereby avoiding a short circuit caused by piercing the separator on the tab <NUM> side, and thus being beneficial to the improvement of the quality and safety performance of the battery. Further, a depth of the concave part <NUM> is between <NUM> and <NUM>. Generally, the thickness of the current collector of the electrode is between <NUM> and <NUM>, and the thickness of the tab is between <NUM> and <NUM>. In a specific implementation, the laser energy may be adjusted to make the depth of the concave part <NUM> between <NUM> and <NUM>, as long as it can be ensured that the concave part <NUM> would not form a protrusion on the tab <NUM> side, and that the electrode <NUM> and the tab <NUM> could not be welded through.

Referring to <FIG>, a sidewall of the concave part <NUM> in the present embodiment has at least a partial cylindrical wall surface or a partial truncated cone-shaped wall surface. In other implementations, the sidewall of the concave part <NUM> may also be formed as a truncated cone-shaped wall surface, and the end of the truncated cone-shaped wall surface near the bottom surface of the concave part <NUM> is smaller than the end of the truncated cone-shaped wall surface away from the bottom surface of the concave part <NUM>.

In the present embodiment, a diameter of the dot-shaped welding mark <NUM> is between <NUM> and <NUM>. In a specific implementation, when the diameter of the dot-shaped welding mark <NUM> is too small, the welding effect between the electrode <NUM> and the tab <NUM> is poor. When the diameter of the dot-shaped welding marks <NUM> is too large, it is not beneficial to the arrangement of the dot-shaped welding marks <NUM> on the electrode <NUM>.

In the present embodiment, the space between two adjacent dot-shaped welding marks <NUM> is not less than <NUM>. When the space between two adjacent dot-shaped welding marks <NUM> is too narrow, heat dissipation during the welding process is poor, thus resulting in heat accumulation and further oxidation and blackening or even perforation of the electrode <NUM>, which will affect the welding effect between the electrode <NUM> and the tab <NUM>, and is not beneficial to the quality and safety performance of the battery.

In an implementation, as shown in <FIG>, a plurality of dot-shaped welding marks <NUM> are arranged on the electrode <NUM> side. In a specific implementation, the number of rows and columns of the dot-shaped welding marks <NUM> may be set according to actual needs, as long as the electrode <NUM> and the tab <NUM> can be welded firmly to ensure a better power transmission effect between the electrode <NUM> and the tab <NUM>, which is not particularly limited herein.

In other implementations, the arrangement of a plurality of dot-shaped welding marks <NUM> on the side of the electrode <NUM> may also be adjusted according to actual needs, as long as the requirements of the present embodiment can be achieved, which will not be repeated herein.

Further, according to the invention the number of dot-shaped welding marks <NUM> is between <NUM> and <NUM>, which on the one hand can ensure that the welding tension between the electrode <NUM> and the tab <NUM> meets a requirement, and on the other hand ensure the efficiency of laser welding.

In order to avoid that the laser for welding impacts the coating zone of the electrode <NUM> and affects the active material layer of the electrode <NUM> during the laser welding process, a minimum distance between the dot-shaped welding marks <NUM> and the coating zone of the electrode <NUM> is set to be larger than <NUM> in the present embodiment, so as to avoid accidentally damaging the active material layer of the electrode during the welding process, which is further beneficial to ensuring that the quality of the battery is not affected.

Generally, the empty foil zone is located at the head or tail of the current collector in the electrode. When the tab <NUM> is welded with the empty foil zone of the electrode <NUM>, the tab <NUM> is located at the head or tail of the electrode <NUM>. In order to ensure the efficiency of electric energy transmission between the electrode <NUM> and the tab <NUM>, the empty foil zone of the electrode <NUM> may also be set in the middle of the electrode <NUM>, and part of the active material layer in the middle of the electrode <NUM> may be removed to form the empty foil zone. For example, in a wound battery cell, the empty foil zone may be disposed at the middle position of the electrode of the wound battery cell along the length direction; for another example, in a laminated battery cell, the empty foil zone may extend outward from the middle position of the electrode of the laminated battery cell. At this time, after the tab <NUM> is welded and connected with the empty foil zone of the electrode <NUM>, the tab <NUM> could be located in the middle of the electrode <NUM>, which is beneficial to the improvement of the power transmission efficiency between the tab <NUM> and the electrode <NUM>.

Referring to <FIG>, the bottom surface of the concave part <NUM> of the present embodiment has a central convex part <NUM>, and the height of the central convex part <NUM> is less than the depth of the concave part <NUM>. In a specific implementation, since the height of the central convex part <NUM> is less than the depth of the concave part <NUM>, the central convex part <NUM> does not contact the separator between the positive electrode and negative electrode, that is, the central convex part <NUM> will not affect the separator between the positive electrode and negative electrode.

The present embodiment also provides a manufacturing method of a battery, includes:.

In a specific implementation, the electrodes include a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and the tabs include a positive tab and a negative tab. First, the empty foil zone of the positive electrode may be attached to the positive tab, for example, the empty foil zone of the positive electrode may be tightly attached to the positive tab by a hold-down fixture or a absorption fixture. Then, a parameter of the laser welding device is set, for example, it may be set that the pulse frequency is greater than <NUM>, and the pulse width is less than <NUM>, etc., and the laser welding device is used to perform pulse dot welding on the positive tab and the positive electrode from the side of the positive electrode, with the total welding time not exceeding <NUM>, so that a plurality of dot-shaped welding marks arranged at intervals are formed on the surface of the positive electrode, where a dot-shaped welding mark includes a concave part and an annular convex part surrounding the periphery of the concave part, and meanwhile, there is no welding mark on the surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone.

In the same way, the empty foil zone of the negative electrode may be attached to the negative tab, and then the laser welding device may be used to perform pulse dot welding on the negative tab and the negative electrode from one side of the negative electrode, with the total welding time not exceeding <NUM>, so that a plurality of dot-shaped welding marks arranged at intervals are formed on the surface of the negative electrode, where a dot-shaped welding mark includes a concave part and an annular convex part surrounding the periphery of the concave part, and meanwhile, there is no welding on the surface of the tab facing away from the empty foil zone.

Finally, the positive electrode welded with the positive tab, the negative electrode welded with the negative tab and the separator are processed together to form a battery cell, for example, a wound battery cell may be formed by winding or a laminated battery cell may be formed by stacking.

In the battery cell of the present embodiment, after the electrode and the tab are welded together by laser welding, measured welding tension between the positive electrode and the positive tab is greater than 25N, and measured welding tension between the negative electrode and the negative tab is greater than 8N; besides, after the tension continues to be applied to pull the tab and the electrode apart, the area of the current collector of the electrode remaining on the tab accounts for more than <NUM>% of the area of the whole welding zone.

The process of measuring the welding tension between the tab and the electrode by using a tension meter is as follows: firstly, using adhesive tape to stick the welding zone on the electrode side; then clamping the top of the tab with the upper part of the tension meter, clamping the bottom of the aluminum foil material with the lower part of the tension meter, adjusting the tension display mode to the peak display mode, and resetting the tension meter to start the measurement: pressing the "up" button to pull in the opposite direction apart at <NUM> degrees until the tab is separated from the electrode; finally, reading the value displayed by the tension meter and recording it, and meanwhile, taking down the tab and measuring the ratio of the area of the current collector of the electrode remaining on the tab to the total area of the welding zone.

The present embodiment provides an electronic product, which includes a battery.

The battery in the present embodiment has the same structure as the battery according to the first embodiment, and could bring the same or similar technical effects, which will not be repeated herein. For details, please refer to the description of the above embodiment.

In the description of the present application, it should be understood that the orientations or positional relationships indicated by the terms "top", "bottom", "upper" and "lower" (if any) are based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the accompanying drawings, which are only for the convenience of describing the present application and simplifying the description, rather than indicating or implying that the referred apparatuses or elements shall have a specific orientation, or be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus should not be understood as limiting the present application.

In the description of the present application, it should be noted that, unless otherwise clearly specified and defined, the terms "installation", "interconnection", and "connection" should be understood in a broad sense, for example, they may be a fixed connection or a detachable connection, or an integrated connection; they may be a mechanical connection or an electrical connection; they may be a direct interconnection, or an indirect interconnection through an intermediate medium, and they may be an internal communication between two elements. For persons of ordinary skill in the art, the specific meanings of the above terms in the present application can be understood based on specific situations.

The terms "first", "second", etc., in the specification and claims and the above-mentioned accompanying drawings of the present application are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not necessarily used to describe a specific order or sequence. It should be understood that the number thus used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances, such that the embodiments of the application described herein for example may be implemented in an order other than those illustrated or described herein.

Claim 1:
A battery, comprising a housing and a battery cell accommodated in the housing, characterized in that:
the battery cell comprises electrodes (<NUM>) and tabs (<NUM>), wherein each of the electrodes (<NUM>) comprises a current collector and an active material layer, the current collector comprises a coating zone coated with the active material layer and an empty foil zone not coated with the active material layer, an end of a tab (<NUM>) overlaps the empty foil zone and the tab (<NUM>) and the empty foil zone are fixedly connected by laser welding;
a surface of the empty foil zone facing away from the tab (<NUM>) has a plurality of dot-shaped welding marks (<NUM>) arranged at intervals, and each of the dot-shaped welding marks (<NUM>) comprises a concave part (<NUM>) and an annular convex part (<NUM>) surrounding a periphery of the concave part (<NUM>); and
a surface of the tab (<NUM>) facing away from the empty foil zone has no welding mark;
wherein a height of the annular convex part (<NUM>) is within <NUM>; and a depth of the concave part (<NUM>) is smaller than a sum of thicknesses of the empty foil zone and the tab (<NUM>);
wherein the plurality of dot-shaped welding marks (<NUM>) are arranged in an array; and/or,
a number of the dot-shaped welding marks (<NUM>) is between <NUM> and <NUM>.