Heatable battery pack, heatable battery system, and vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12476295-B2
Application number	US-202218087248-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 22, 2022
Priority date	Sep 28, 2021
Publication date	Nov 18, 2025
Grant date	Nov 18, 2025

Abstract

The present application provides a heatable battery pack, a heatable battery system and a vehicle having thereof. The heatable battery pack includes a battery, a first switch module, and a heater that are connected in series to form a heating loop. The first switch module turns on the heating loop after a drive signal is received. Compared with the related art in which heaters in various battery packs are connected in series to both ends of a drive module in a high-voltage box, so as to perform high-voltage power supply on the heaters by the high-voltage box through a series loop, the present application directly performs low-voltage power supply on respective heaters by batteries in the battery packs, and the high-voltage power supply by the drive module is not required, which significantly improves the safety of power supply.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A heatable battery system, comprising: a battery management system, a drive module, a second switch module, and a plurality of heatable battery packs, wherein each of the plurality of heatable battery packs comprises: a battery, a first switch module, a heater, and a current sensor; wherein:
the battery, the first switch module, the heater, and the current sensor are connected in series to form a heating loop; a first end of the first switch module is connected to the battery, a second end of the first switch module is connected to the heater, and a control end of the first switch module is connected to a first end of the second switch module; the second switch module is a low-voltage relay, a second end of the second switch module is connected to the drive module, and the second switch module is connected to the battery management system through the drive module; the first switch module turns on the heating loop after a drive signal output by the drive module is received; the battery management system is respectively connected to a detection end of each of the plurality of heatable battery packs and a control end of the second switch module; the current sensor is configured to measure a current of the heating loop; and the battery management system is configured to:
calculate a present battery capacity of the battery based on the current measured by the current sensor; and
based on the present battery capacity of the battery, turn on the second switch module to connect the drive module and the control end of the first switch module, to cause the first switch module to receive the drive signal and turn on the heating loop.

2 . The heatable battery system according to claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of heatable battery packs further comprises a manual switch, and the manual switch is connected in series in the heating loop.

3 . The heatable battery system according to claim 1 , wherein the first switch module is a low-voltage relay.

4 . The heatable battery system according to claim 1 , wherein the battery, the first switch module, and the heater are connected in series through a low-voltage wiring harness to form a heating loop.

5 . The heatable battery system according to claim 4 , wherein the low-voltage wiring harness is integrated into a low-voltage wiring harness of each of the plurality of heatable battery packs.

6 . The heatable battery system according to claim 1 , wherein the battery management system, the drive module, and the second switch module are all integrated on a circuit board in the high-voltage box.

7 . The heatable battery system according to claim 1 , wherein the battery management system is configured to turn on the second switch module when it is determined that the heater in each of the heatable battery packs is required to heat the battery.

8 . The heatable battery system according to claim 1 , wherein the battery management system is further configured to turn on the second switch module in response to determining that a heater in a respective heatable battery pack of the plurality of heatable battery packs is required to heat the battery, and the current battery capacity of the battery is greater than a preset threshold.

9 . The heatable battery system according to claim 1 , wherein the battery management system is further configured to indirectly turn off the first switch module by turning off the second switch module in response to determining that the current on the heating loop is greater than a preset current.

10 . The heatable battery system according to claim 1 , wherein a power supply voltage provided by the drive module matches the number of heaters in the plurality of heatable battery packs connected in series.

11 . The heatable battery system according to claim 1 , wherein the respective heater in each of the plurality of heatable battery packs is lead out through a low-voltage interface of the heatable battery pack and connected to a low-voltage wiring harness of the control end of the first switch module, and the other end of the low-voltage wiring harness is connected to the drive module through the second switch module.

12 . A vehicle, comprising the heatable battery system according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Hong Kong Ltd

Inventors

• Li Xingxing
• Huang Xiaoteng
• Chen Zhiming

Classifications

• H02J7/82

  Control of state of charge [SOC] · CPC title

• H01M2220/20

  Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane · CPC title

• H01M10/48

  Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte (constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals, H01M50/569) · CPC title

• H01M10/425

  Structural combination with electronic components, e.g. electronic circuits integrated to the outside of the casing (printed circuits H05K1/00) · CPC title

• B60L2240/549

  Current · CPC title