Pressurization jig for pressurizing busbar and battery module manufacturing system comprising same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11660710-B2
Application number	US-201916766934-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 20, 2019
Priority date	Apr 4, 2018
Publication date	May 30, 2023
Grant date	May 30, 2023

Abstract

Disclosed is a pressing jig for welding an electrode lead located in a lead slit formed at the bus bar to the bus bar in a closely adhered state. The pressing jig includes a first frame having a first distance adjusting unit and a first pressing unit, and a second frame having a second distance adjusting unit facing the first distance adjusting unit and a second pressing unit facing the first pressing unit. The first frame and the second frame are coupled so that a distance between first pressing unit and the second pressing unit is increased when a distance between the first distance adjusting unit and the second distance adjusting unit is decreased, and the distance between first pressing unit and the second pressing unit is decreased when the distance between the first distance adjusting unit and the second distance adjusting unit is increased.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A pressing jig for welding, which is installed at one side of a battery module to press a bus bar of the battery module at both sides thereof so that an electrode lead located in a lead slit formed at the bus bar is able to be welded to the bus bar in a closely adhered state, the pressing jig comprising:
a first frame having a first distance adjusting unit and a first pressing unit;
a second frame having a second distance adjusting unit facing the first distance adjusting unit and a second pressing unit facing the first pressing unit;
a hinge configured to couple the first frame and the second frame;
a first fixing portion extending from one end of the first distance adjusting unit in a direction away from the hinge, and a second fixing portion extending from one end of the second distance adjusting unit in the direction away from the hinge,
a restoring member connected between the first fixing portion of the first distance adjusting unit and the second fixing portion of the second distance adjusting unit; and
a distance adjusting knob adjusting a distance between the first distance adjusting unit and the second distance adjusting unit,
wherein the first frame and the second frame are coupled by the hinge so that a distance between first pressing unit and the second pressing unit is increased when a distance between the first distance adjusting unit and the second distance adjusting unit is decreased, and the distance between the first pressing unit and the second pressing unit is decreased when the distance between the first distance adjusting unit and the second distance adjusting unit is increased, and
wherein the hinge, the restoring member and the distance adjusting knob are separated from each other so that the distance adjusting knob is located between the hinge and the restoring member.

2. The pressing jig according to claim 1 , wherein the hinge is configured to couple the first frame and the second frame so that the first frame and the second frame pivot relative to each other.

3. The pressing jig according to claim 1 , wherein the restoring member is connected between the first distance adjusting unit and the second distance adjusting unit to apply an elastic force to the first distance adjusting unit and the second distance adjusting unit toward each other.

4. The pressing jig according to claim 1 , wherein the distance adjusting knob is configured to rotate based on a rotary shaft having a thread so that the first frame moves toward or away from the second frame.

5. The pressing jig according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first pressing unit has a first gripping portion formed at an end thereof;
wherein the second pressing unit has a second gripping portion formed at an end thereof; and
wherein gripping grooves are respectively formed at facing surfaces of the first gripping portion and the second gripping portion in a predetermined depth so that the bus bar is inserted therein.

Assignees

• Lg Chemical Ltd
• Lg Energy Solution Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Kyung-Mo
• Mun Jeong-O
• Park Jin-Yong
• Lee Jung-Hoon
• Chi Ho-June

Classifications

• B25B5/062

  with clamping means pivoting around an axis parallel to the pressing direction · CPC title

• B23K37/0443 Primary

  Jigs · CPC title

• B23K2101/38

  Conductors · CPC title

• H01M10/0404

  Machines for assembling batteries · CPC title

• H01M50/211 Primary

  adapted for pouch cells · CPC title