Battery pack

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10217972-B2
Application number	US-201715628385-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2017
Priority date	Mar 29, 2010
Publication date	Feb 26, 2019
Grant date	Feb 26, 2019

Abstract

Provided are a pack main body of a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape in which a battery cell is embedded, and a terminal portion provided on a front face of the pack main body. The pack main body includes bevelled portions at corner portions formed by a top face and a bottom face and opposite side faces. The terminal portion is provided, in a protruding manner, on the front face at a position biased with respect to center lines in a width direction and a height direction. The corner portions on one side have a chamfered shape and the corner portions on the other side have a rounded shape.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A battery comprising:
a pack main body having a front side and a back side in a length direction, a top side and bottom side in a height direction, and opposite sides in a width direction in which a battery cell is embedded; and
a terminal portion provided on the front side of the pack main body,
wherein the pack main body includes first bevelled portions at corner portions formed by the top side and the opposite sides and second bevelled portions at corner portions formed by the bottom side and the opposite sides, and
wherein the terminal portion protrudes from the front side of the pack main body at a position biased to one side with respect to center lines in the width direction and the height direction, and
wherein third bevelled portions are formed at corner portions formed by the front side, and the top side, and the bottom side of the pack main body and a fourth bevelled portions are formed at corner portions formed by the back side, and the top side, and the bottom side of the pack main body, and
wherein the fourth bevelled portions are smaller than the third bevelled portions, and
wherein the first bevelled portions and the second bevelled portions are differently shaped.

2. The battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first bevelled portions have a first chamfered shape and the second bevelled portions have a second chamfered shape.

3. The battery according to claim 2 , wherein:
first bevelled portions have a continuous rounded shape that includes the first chamfered shape in a middle of the continuous rounded shape, and
the first chamfered shape is the same as the second chamfered shape of the second bevelled portions.

4. The battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein concave portions stretching between the opposite sides and the bottom side are formed on the front side of the pack main body.

5. The battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first bevelled portions have a first rounded shape and the second bevelled portions have a second rounded shape.

6. The battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first bevelled portions include a rounded shape and the second bevelled portions include a chamfered shape.

7. The battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the pack main body is formed by half cases, wherein one of the half cases is matte finished.

8. The battery according to claim 6 , further comprising:
an insertion direction display portion formed on the top side of the pack main body.

9. The battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the terminal portion is provided with a negative terminal, a control terminal, and a positive terminal in this order from the center line in the width direction.

10. The battery according to claim 6 ,
wherein the second bevelled portions include a chamfered surface and rounded surfaces provided at both sides of the chamfered surface.

11. The battery according to claim 10 ,
wherein the chamfered surface formed by the angle of the bevel is 45 degrees and a measurement of the bevel is 3 mm.

12. The battery according to claim 9 , further comprising:
concave portions positioned at the corner portions formed by the bottom side and the opposite sides, on the front side of the pack main body.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Hara Mieko
• Moriya Jiro
• Ueda Tomomaru
• Kobayashi Michihito
• Okada Toshiyuki
• Kamiya Hideki

Classifications

• H01M10/0525 Primary

  Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries · CPC title

• H01M50/202

  Casings or frames around the primary casing of a single cell or a single battery · CPC title

• H01M50/296

  characterised by terminals of battery packs (terminals of batteries H01M50/543) · CPC title

• H01M2/1011

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01M2/1061

  Electricity · mapped topic