Plate-like fluid container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11791508-B2
Application number	US-202016927822-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2020
Priority date	Jul 15, 2019
Publication date	Oct 17, 2023
Grant date	Oct 17, 2023

Abstract

A plate-like fluid container for conducting a fluid, usable for regulating the temperature of an electrochemical system such as batteries, battery stacks and the like, and, in particular traction batteries, having a metallic baseplate and a metallic channel plate adjacent to the baseplate. The channel plate includes at least one channel for conducting the fluid, and the baseplate for thermal contact with the electrochemical system that includes at least one indentation directed toward the channel plate where within the baseplate is welded to the channel plate, with the weld seam on the side of the baseplate facing away from the channel plate.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A plate-like fluid container for conducting a fluid, usable for regulating the temperature of an electrochemical system, the fluid container comprising:
a metallic baseplate; and
a metallic channel plate adjacent to the baseplate, wherein the channel plate includes at least one channel for conducting the fluid formed by at least one channel-like depression which is directed away from the baseplate,
wherein the baseplate has at least one indentation directed in the direction of the channel plate, wherein in the base of the indentation, on that surface of the baseplate which faces the channel plate and outside the channel-like depressions of the channel plate, the baseplate lies on the channel plate and is welded to the channel plate, forming at least one weld seam running in the base of the indentation, wherein the weld seam on that side of the baseplate which faces away from the channel plate protrudes above regions of the baseplate which are directly adjacent to the weld seam, and wherein the indentation has a depth TG such that the baseplate outside the indentation protrudes above the weld seam running in the indentation and the depth TG is at least 0.1 mm and at most 70% of a height DS of the weld seam in at least one portion of the indentation.

2. The fluid container according to claim 1 , wherein one or more regions of the baseplate in which no indentations are present is/are arranged spaced apart, perpendicularly to the layer plane of the baseplate, from at least one of the channel-like depressions of the channel plate and adjacent to each other.

3. The fluid container according to claim 1 , wherein the baseplate has, in circumambient manner along its outer edge, an outer indentation, with a weld seam running in this outer indentation in circumambient manner around the outer edge, with optionally the outer indentation like the aforementioned indentations being formed in the baseplate.

4. A plate-like fluid container for conducting a fluid, usable for regulating the temperature of an electrochemical system, the fluid container comprising:
a metallic baseplate; and
a metallic channel plate adjacent to the baseplate, wherein the channel plate includes at least one channel for conducting the fluid formed by at least one channel-like depression which is directed away from the baseplate,
wherein the baseplate has at least one indentation directed in the direction of the channel plate, wherein in the base of the indentation, on that surface of the baseplate which faces the channel plate and outside the channel-like depressions of the channel plate, the baseplate lies on the channel plate and is welded to the channel plate, forming at least one weld seam running in the base of the indentation, wherein the weld seam on that side of the baseplate which faces away from the channel plate protrudes above regions of the baseplate which are directly adjacent to the weld seam, and wherein the indentation has a depth TG such that the baseplate outside the indentation protrudes above the weld seam running in the indentation and in at least one portion of the indentations, the depth TG of the indentation of the baseplate is:
0.1 mm≤TG≤0.75 mm or 0.1 mm≤TG≤0.5 mm.

5. The fluid container according to claim 1 , wherein, in one, several or all portions of the indentations of the baseplate in which the baseplate has a weld seam which protrudes on the outside, the thickness DK of the channel plate and the depth TK of the channel-like depressions of the channel plate are:
1 DK≤TK≤5 DK.

6. The fluid container according to claim 1 , wherein, in one, several or all portions of the indentations of the baseplate in which the baseplate has a weld seam which protrudes on the outside, the depth TK of the channel-like depressions of the channel plate is:
0.6 mm≤TK≤15 mm.

7. The fluid container according to claim 1 , wherein, in one, several or all portions of the indentations in which the baseplate has a weld seam which protrudes on the outside and in which that surface of the baseplate which is located opposite the base of the indentation lies on a portion of the channel plate between two adjacent channel-like depressions of the channel plate, the width BS of the weld seam on the surface of the baseplate which faces away from the channel plate is:
0.5 mm≤BS≤3 mm.

8. A plate-like fluid container for conducting a fluid, usable for regulating the temperature of an electrochemical system, the fluid container comprising:
a metallic baseplate; and
a metallic channel plate adjacent to the baseplate, wherein the channel plate includes at least one channel for conducting the fluid formed by at least one channel-like depression which is directed away from the baseplate,
wherein the baseplate has at least one indentation directed in the direction of the channel plate, wherein in the base of the indentation, on that surface of the baseplate which faces the channel plate and outside the channel-like depressions of the channel plate, the baseplate lies on the channel plate and is welded to the channel plate, forming at least one weld seam running in the base of the indentation, wherein the weld seam on that side of the baseplate which faces away from the channel plate protrudes above regions of the baseplate which are directly adjacent to the weld seam, and wherein the indentation has a depth TG such that the baseplate outside the indentation protrudes above the weld seam running in the indentation and in at least one portion of the indentations in which the baseplate has a weld seam which protrudes on the outside and in which that surface of the baseplate which is located opposite the base of the indentation lies on a portion of the channel plate between two adjacent channel-like depressions of the channel plate, a width BG of the base of the indentation of the baseplate is:
1 mm≤BG≤6 mm.

9. The fluid container according to claim 1 , wherein, in one, several or all portions of the indentations in which the baseplate has a weld seam which protrudes on the outside and in which that surface of the baseplate which is located opposite the base of the indentation lies on a portion of the channel plate between two adjacent channel-like depressions of the channel plate, the width BS of the weld seam on the surface of the baseplate which faces away from the channel plate, the width BK of the portion between the channel-like depressions of the channel plate, and the width BG of the base of the indentation of the baseplate are:
BS≤BK≤3 BG.

10. The fluid container according to claim 1 , wherein the baseplate consists of a metal sheet with a thickness 0.3 mm≤DG≤3 mm.

11. The fluid container according to claim 1 , wherein the channel plate consists of a metal sheet with a thickness 0.3 mm≤DK≤3 mm.

12. The fluid container according to claim 1 , having an inlet socket for supplying fluid to the channels and an outlet socket for removing fluid from the channels, the inlet socket and the outlet socket being arranged on the baseplate.

13. The fluid container according to claim 12 , wherein the inlet socket and/or the outlet socket is/are welded to the baseplate by way of a weld seam which advantageously runs around the inlet socket, advantageously in a closed loop, and/or runs around the outlet socket, advantageously in a closed loop.

14. The fluid container according to claim 1 , wherein one, several or all of the weld seams which run in one of the indentations in each case has or have a length L SN , where L SN ≥100 mm.

15. The fluid container according to claim 10 , wherein one, several or all of the weld seams which ru

Assignees

• Reinz Dichtungs Gmbh

Inventors

• Hoehe Kurt
• Luksch Christian
• Senf Felix

Classifications

• H01M10/6554 Primary

  Rods or plates · CPC title

• B23K26/22

  Spot welding · CPC title

• H01M10/613 Primary

  Cooling or keeping cold · CPC title

• H01M10/647

  Prismatic or flat cells, e.g. pouch cells · CPC title

• H01M10/6556

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