Traction battery module

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11752852-B2
Application number	US-202117500049-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 13, 2021
Priority date	Oct 27, 2020
Publication date	Sep 12, 2023
Grant date	Sep 12, 2023

Abstract

A traction battery module has a housing body having four side walls and two end walls, and a plurality of cell elements which are arranged in the housing body, are arranged parallel to one another and parallel to two of the four side walls and are combined to form a cell element stack. A respective holding frame is positioned at the two end-side longitudinal ends of the cell element stack, on which holding frame the longitudinal ends of the cell elements are held such that the cell element stack is spaced apart in all four transverse directions from the four side walls. Each holding frame has a spring arrangement on its spring side facing a side wall and does not have a spring arrangement on its fixed side opposite the spring side. The holding frame is pressed by the spring arrangement onto the side wall assigned to the fixed side.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A traction battery module comprising:
a housing body which is rectangular in cross section and has four side walls and two end walls,
a plurality of battery cell elements which are combined to form a cell element stack and are arranged (i) in the housing body, (ii) parallel to one another, and (iii) parallel to two of the four side walls, and
holding frames which are each respectively positioned at one of two end-side longitudinal ends of the cell element stack, wherein the longitudinal ends of the cell elements are held on the holding frames such that the cell element stack is spaced apart from the four side walls,
wherein each holding frame has a spring arrangement, a spring side that faces one of the four side walls of the housing body, and a base side that is opposite the spring side,
wherein, for each holding frame, the spring arrangement is disposed on the spring side and no spring arrangement is disposed on the base side, and
wherein, for each holding frame, the respective holding frame is pressed by the spring arrangement directly onto a first side wall of the four side walls of the housing body, wherein said first side wall faces said base side of the respective holding frame.

2. The traction battery module as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a heat conductor disposed in an intermediate space between the cell element stack and said first side wall.

3. The traction battery module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the four side walls of the housing body are formed by a monolithic profile body.

4. The traction battery module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said base side is at a bottom end of the respective holding frame and the spring side is at a top end of the respective holding frame.

5. The traction battery module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the battery cell elements each stand in a vertical plane.

6. The traction battery module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the spring arrangements of the holding frames each have an insertion bevel, wherein the two-insertion have the same orientation in a longitudinal direction.

7. The traction battery module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the spring arrangement comprises a plurality of spring elements distributed over the spring side.

8. The traction battery module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the two holding frames are each composed of plastic.

9. The traction battery module as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the spring elements are formed integrally with the respective holding frame.

10. The traction battery module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cell elements have electric contact elements at their longitudinal ends, wherein the electric contact elements of mutually adjacent cell elements are each connected electrically to one another by a busbar.

11. A motor vehicle comprising the traction battery module of claim 1 .

12. The traction battery module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein one of the holding frames has a wall side extending between the spring side and the base side, wherein the base side is positioned against at least one of the battery cell elements and the first side wall of the four side walls, wherein the wall side is positioned directly against a second side wall of the four side walls, and wherein the spring arrangement is arranged between the spring side and a third side wall of the four side walls.

13. A traction battery module comprising:
a housing body which is rectangular in cross section and has four side walls and two end walls,
a plurality of battery cell elements which are combined to form a cell element stack and are arranged (i) in the housing body, (ii) parallel to one another, and (iii) parallel to two of the four side walls, and
holding frames which are each respectively positioned at one of two end-side longitudinal ends of the cell element stack, wherein the longitudinal ends of the cell elements are held on the holding frames,
wherein each holding frame has a spring arrangement, a spring side that faces one of the four side walls of the housing body, and a base side that is opposite the spring side,
wherein, for each holding frame, the spring arrangement is disposed on the spring side and no spring arrangement is disposed on the base side, and
wherein, for each holding frame, the respective holding frame is pressed by the spring arrangement onto a first side wall of the four side walls of the housing body, wherein said first side wall faces said base side of the respective holding frame
wherein the cell elements have electric contact elements at their longitudinal ends, wherein the electric contact elements of mutually adjacent cell elements are each connected electrically to one another by a busbar, and
wherein each busbar is held directly by a respective one of the holding frames.

Assignees

• Porsche Ag

Inventors

• Kellner Philipp
• Schiebel Dieter
• Vogel Immanuel
• Mostofi Sascha
• Volkmer Christopher
• Starczewski Adrian

Classifications

• H01M50/209 Primary

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

• H01M50/289 Primary

  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

• H01M50/249 Primary

  specially adapted for aircraft or vehicles, e.g. cars or trains (constructional details of batteries specially adapted for electric vehicles B60L50/64) · CPC title

• B60K1/04 Primary

  of the electric storage means for propulsion · CPC title

• H01M50/264

  for cells or batteries, e.g. straps, tie rods or peripheral frames · CPC title