Battery box

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11114726-B2
Application number	US-201916973609-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 26, 2019
Priority date	Dec 27, 2018
Publication date	Sep 7, 2021
Grant date	Sep 7, 2021

Abstract

A battery box including a lower box body, where the lower box body includes a first plate and a second plate. The first plate includes: a bottom wall; a peripheral wall connected to a periphery of the bottom wall and extending upward; and the bottom wall and the peripheral wall form an accommodating space opening upwards; the second plate is fixed to the bottom wall from a bottom and engages with the bottom wall to form a flow passage. The second plate is provided with: a second protrusion protruding to the first plate from a side facing away from the first plate and extending along a transverse direction; and an opening running through the second protrusion in a height direction and extending along the transverse direction, the second protrusion of the second plate being connected to the bottom wall of the first plate in a sealed manner.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A battery box, comprising:
a lower box body, wherein the lower box body comprises:
a first plate, comprising: a bottom wall; a peripheral wall, which is connected to a periphery of the bottom wall and extends upward; and the bottom wall and the peripheral wall form an accommodating space opening upwards;
a second plate, which is fixed to the bottom wall from a bottom and engages with the bottom wall to form a flow passage, wherein the second plate is provided with: at least one protrusion, which protrudes from a side facing at least one reinforcing beam to the first plate and extends along a transverse direction; and at least one opening, which runs through the at least one protrusion of the second plate along a height direction and extends along the transverse direction, the at least one protrusion of the second plate being connected to the bottom wall of the first plate in a sealed manner; and
the battery box also comprises: the at least one reinforcing beam, which is arranged under the second plate and extends along the transverse direction, the at least one reinforcing beam being installed at a position corresponding to the at least one opening and being fixedly connected to the first plate and/or the second plate.

2. The battery box according to claim 1 , wherein the bottom wall of the first plate is provided with at least one protrusion which is concave downward from a side of the bottom wall facing away from the second plate and protrudes to the second plate, and the at least one protrusion of the first plate passing through the at least one opening to fix the at least one reinforcing beam on the at least one protrusion of the first plate passing through the at least one opening.

3. The battery box according to claim 2 , wherein the at least one reinforcing beam comprises a first plate body, and the first plate body comprises:
a bottom, which extends along the transverse direction; and
two connecting portions, which are integrally connected to both sides in the longitudinal direction of the bottom, wherein each connecting portion extends upward along the height direction and extends outward along the longitudinal direction from a corresponding side of the bottom, and the two connecting portions are close to and fixed on the at least one protrusion of the first plate.

4. The battery box according to claim 3 , wherein
the second plate is provided with a first concave portion for forming a flow passage, and the first concave portion is concave downward from a side of the second plate facing the first plate and protrudes to the other side, the first concave portion protruding beyond the at least one protrusion of the first plate; and
each connecting portion of the first plate body is provided with a sinking table at a position corresponding to the first concave portion of the second plate, and the sinking table is concave downward from a side of the connecting portion facing the second plate.

5. The battery box according to claim 3 , wherein
the at least one reinforcing beam also comprises: two second plate bodies, which are fixed at both ends in the transverse direction of the first plate and are located outside of the first plate and the second plate along the transverse direction; and
each second plate body comprises: a top wall, which is provided with a through hole passing through along the height direction; two side walls, which are connected to both sides in the longitudinal direction of the top wall and extend to the first plate body; two connecting walls, which are connected to a corresponding side wall and bend outward along the longitudinal direction, respectively, each connecting wall being attached and fixed to a corresponding connecting portion of the first plate body.

6. The battery box according to claim 5 , wherein
the bottom of the first plate body and the two connecting portions form a first concave groove concaved downward; and
the top wall and the two side walls of each second plate body form a second concave groove concaved upward, and the second concave groove and the first concave groove form a storage cavity together along the height direction.

7. The battery box according to claim 5 , wherein each second plate body also includes two lugs, each lug is connected to an inner side of a corresponding side wall in the transverse direction and bends outward along a plane intersecting with the transverse direction, and each lug is close to the peripheral wall of the first plate.

8. The battery box according to claim 2 , wherein the at least one reinforcing beam is provided to be multiple reinforcing beams, and each reinforcing beam is fixed on a corresponding protrusion of the first plate passing through the at least one opening of the first plate.

9. The battery box according to claim 3 , wherein the battery box also comprises:
a carling which extends along the longitudinal direction; and
at least one fastener which passes through a corresponding connecting portion of the at least one reinforcing beam and the at least one protrusion of the first plate and is fixed on the carling.

10. The battery box according to claim 1 , wherein, the accommodating space is configured to accommodate a plurality of battery packs.

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Gu Yanlong
• Jiang Liwen

Classifications

• H01M50/209 Primary

  adapted for prismatic or rectangular cells (H01M50/216 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01M50/262

  with fastening means, e.g. locks · CPC title

• H01M50/204

  Racks, modules or packs for multiple batteries or multiple cells · CPC title

• H01M10/6556

  Solid parts with flow channel passages or pipes for heat exchange (closed pipes H01M10/6552) · CPC title

• H01M10/625

  Vehicles · CPC title