Battery pack

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12424678-B2
Application number	US-202117908281-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2021
Priority date	Mar 10, 2020
Publication date	Sep 23, 2025
Grant date	Sep 23, 2025

Abstract

A partial battery pack structure includes a battery group, heat transfer plates, and a radiator, and is formed by stacking layers. Each layer arranges cylindrical batteries in parallel in a plane. The batteries in adjacent layers have alignment pitches shifted by a half pitch from each other. Each heat transfer plate contacts side surfaces of the batteries on both surfaces of the heat transfer plates, is formed by a heat transfer corrugated plate member, and extends through a gap between the batteries along an alignment direction of the cylindrical batteries in the layers in the plane intersecting center axis lines of the cylindrical batteries, a first intersection direction intersecting the alignment direction or a second intersection direction intersecting the alignment direction and the first intersection direction. The radiator is on a side of the battery group and connects with each heat transfer plate. Each battery contacts two or more heat transfer plates.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A partial structure of a battery pack comprising:
a battery group which is formed by stacking a plurality of layers, each of the layers being formed by arranging cylindrical batteries in parallel in a plane, the cylindrical batteries belonging to adjacent layers being arranged by shifting alignment pitches by a half pitch from each other between the adjacent layers;
heat transfer plates, wherein each of the heat transfer plates is in contact with side surfaces of the cylindrical batteries arranged on both surfaces of each of the heat transfer plates, is formed by a heat transfer corrugated plate member, and extends through a gap between the cylindrical batteries along an alignment direction of the cylindrical batteries in the layers in the plane intersecting center axis lines of the cylindrical batteries, a first intersection direction intersecting the alignment direction or a second intersection direction intersecting the alignment direction and the first intersection direction; and
a radiator which is arranged on a side of the battery group and is connected with a edge of each of the heat transfer plates,
wherein each of the cylindrical batteries is contact with at least two of the heat transfer plates, wherein
the battery group includes a first side and a second side in a direction in which the layers are stacked, a number of the cylindrical batteries belonging to each layer increases one by one from the first side to the second side,
the radiator is arranged on at least the second side, and
the heat transfer plates include a first direction heat transfer plate which extends in the first intersection direction, and a second direction heat transfer plate which extends in the second intersection direction, a number of the heat transfer plates crossing each of the layers being added in proportion to an increase of the number of the cylindrical batteries, and each of the heat transfer plates being connected to the radiator on the second side.

2. The partial structure of the battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein an edge of the added heat transfer plate which faces toward the first side is not connected with another heat transfer plate of the heat transfer plates.

3. The partial structure of the battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein an edge of the added heat transfer plate which faces toward the first side is connected with another heat transfer plate of the heat transfer plates.

4. The partial structure of the battery pack according to claim 1 , further comprising a radiator arranged on the first side in addition to the radiator arranged on the second side, wherein a heat transfer plate, of the heat transfer plates, which crosses a layer closest to the first side is connected to the radiator arranged on the first side.

5. A battery pack which forms a hexagonal shape by arranging cylindrical batteries in parallel, and in which a plurality of the cylindrical batteries aligned in the hexagonal shape are concentrically arranged, the battery pack comprising the partial structure of the battery pack according to claim 1 at a part corresponding to each side of the hexagonal shape.

Assignees

• Toyoda Gosei Kk

Inventors

• OYAKE Takafumi
• Ishigaki Masanori
• Harada Tomohisa
• Kusakabe Makoto
• Kusaba Kosuke
• Yoshida Satoshi
• Fujii Kohei

Classifications

• H01M50/512

  Connection only in parallel · CPC title

• H01M50/213

  adapted for cells having curved cross-section, e.g. round or elliptic (H01M50/209, H01M50/216 take precedence) · CPC title

• H01M50/291

  characterised by their shape · CPC title

• H01M50/24

  adapted for protecting batteries from their environment, e.g. from corrosion (thermal insulation H01M10/658) · CPC title

• H01M10/66

  Heat-exchange relationships between the cells and other systems, e.g. central heating systems or fuel cells · CPC title