Conductor module

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10003151-B1
Application number	US-201715725483-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Oct 5, 2017
Priority date	Dec 19, 2016
Publication date	Jun 19, 2018
Grant date	Jun 19, 2018

Abstract

A conductor module includes a busbar, an accommodation case, and a fixing member. The accommodation case has two or more fixing holes that pass through a fixing body first surface and a fixing body second surface. The fixing member includes a main body and fixing legs. The fixing legs are associated with the respective fixing holes, and have a part of the busbar interposed therebetween. The fixing legs are capable of plastic deformation by external force, are inserted in the respective fixing holes from a side of the fixing body first surface to protrude from a side of the fixing body second surface, and, under a fixed condition in which the busbar is fixed to the accommodation case by the fixing member, have leading ends disposed on an outside in a radial direction with respect to the fixing holes as viewed in an axial direction of the fixing holes.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A conductor module, comprising:
at least one connection conductor configured to be connected electrically with a connection target;
a fixing body to which the at least one connection conductor is fixed; and
a fixing member that fixes each of the at least one connection conductor to the fixing body, wherein
the fixing body has two or more fixing holes that pass through a fixing body first surface and a fixing body second surface opposite to the fixing body first surface,
the fixing member includes:
a main body having an opposed surface that faces the fixing body first surface and that clamps, with the fixing body first surface, part of the at least one connection conductor disposed between the opposed surface and the fixing body first surface; and
fixing legs that protrude from the opposed surface, that are associated with the respective fixing holes, and that have the part of the at least one connection conductor interposed between the fixing legs, and

the fixing legs are capable of plastic deformation by an external force, are inserted in the respective fixing holes from a side of the fixing body first surface to protrude from a side of the fixing body second surface, and, under a fixed condition in which the at least one connection conductor is fixed to the fixing body by the fixing member, have leading ends disposed on an outside in a radial direction with respect to the fixing holes as viewed in an axial direction of the fixing holes.

2. The conductor module according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one connection conductor includes at least one connection conductor having through holes that pass through a conductor first surface and a conductor second surface opposite to the conductor first surface and that are associated with the respective fixing holes, and
the fixing legs are inserted in the through holes and the fixing holes under the fixed condition.

3. The conductor module according to claim 2 , wherein
the at least one connection conductor includes:
a first connection conductor; and
a second connection conductor different from the first connection conductor, and

the second connection conductor is fixed, using the fixing member that fixes the first connection conductor, to the fixing body that is identical to the fixing body to which the first connection conductor is fixed.

4. The conductor module according to claim 3 , wherein
the connection target is a battery cell, and
the conductor module further comprises:
a status detector including a detection conductor that electrically connects the second connection conductor with a status detection unit that detects a status of the battery cell with which the second connection conductor is electrically connected.

Assignees

• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Sato Katsunori
• Goto Takuto
• Yanagihara Shinichi
• Ichikawa Yoshiaki
• Shoji Takao

Classifications

• H01M50/289

  characterised by spacing elements or positioning means within frames, racks or packs (spacing elements inside cells other than separators, membranes or diaphragms H01M50/471) · CPC title

• H01M50/505

  comprising a single busbar · CPC title

• H01M50/227

  Organic material · CPC title

• H01M50/562

  characterised by the material · CPC title

• H01M10/482

  for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title