Battery pack and electrical device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2024088460-A1
Application number	US-202318384675-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 27, 2023
Priority date	Jul 28, 2022
Publication date	Mar 14, 2024
Grant date	—

Abstract

A battery pack includes a first battery cell, a second battery cell, and a third battery cell. A positive electrode active substance of each battery cell is composed of lithium iron phosphate and a low-temperature additive. The low-temperature additive is selected from compounds containing at least two carbonyl groups, which are conjugated with an unsaturated structure or an atom having lone-pair electrons connected with the carbonyl groups, and a discharging cut-off voltage of the battery pack at a low temperature has the following rules: discharging cut-off voltages V1, V2, and V3 of the first battery cell, second battery cell, and third battery cell range from 1.95V to 2.1V, from 1.8 V to 2.0V, from 1.6V to 1.9V, respectively, and V1, V2, and V3 satisfy a relationship of V1>V2>V3.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A battery pack, comprising:
a battery pack case; and battery cells accommodated in the battery pack case; wherein:
based on a determined temperature distribution in entire internal space of the battery pack case when being applied at a low temperature, the internal space of the battery pack case comprises a first region, a second region, and a third region in a descending order of temperature;
a first battery cell is arranged in the first region, a second battery cell is arranged in the second region, a third battery cell is arranged in the third region, the first battery cell and the second battery cell are arranged adjacent to each other, and the second battery cell and the third battery cell are arranged adjacent to each other;
the internal space of the battery pack case comprises one or more first regions, second regions, and/or third regions;
a positive electrode of each of the first battery cell, the second battery cell, and the third battery cell comprises a positive electrode active substance, the positive electrode active substance including lithium iron phosphate and a low-temperature additive, the low-temperature additive being selected from one or more of compounds containing at least two carbonyl groups that are respectively or jointly conjugated with a double bond, an unsaturated monocyclic ring or unsaturated fused ring, an unsaturated group, and an atom having lone-pair electrons connected thereto; and
at temperatures of 10° C. and below, a discharging cut-off voltage V 1 of the first battery cell in the first region ranges from 1.95V to 2.1V, a discharging cut-off voltage V 2 of the second battery cell in the second region ranges from 1.8V to 2.0V, a discharging cut-off voltage V 3 of the third battery cell in the third region ranges from 1.6V to 1.9V, and V 1 , V 2 , and V 3 satisfy a relationship of V 1 >V 2 >V 3 .

2 . The battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein:
0.03V≤V 1 −V 2 ≤0.3V, and 0.03V≤V 2 −V 3 ≤0.3V.

3 . The battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein the compound has a theoretical gram capacity in a range from 150 mAh/g to 800 mAh/g.

4 . The battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein the compound has a relative molecular weight ranging from 100 to 800.

5 . The battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein:
an overall gram capacity of the positive electrode active substance of the first battery cell ranges from 136 mAh/g to 154 mAh/g; an overall gram capacity of the positive electrode active substance of the second battery cell ranges from 133 mAh/g to 163 mAh/g; and an overall gram capacity of the positive electrode active substance of the third battery cell ranges from 128 mAh/g to 172 mAh/g.

6 . The battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein the low-temperature additive is selected from the group consisting of simple quinones, substituted quinones, quinones fused with heterocycles, polycarbonyl quinones, cyclic dianhydrides or cyclic diimides fused with unsaturated rings and salts thereof, substituted or unsubstituted six-membered rings containing 3 or 4 carbonyl groups and 2 or 3 atoms having lone-pair electrons, alkoxides of a six-membered ring containing 2 to 4 carbonyl groups and 1 to 2 double bonds and containing no heterocyclic atoms, and carboxylates containing a benzene ring or a double bond that is conjugated with the at least two carbonyl groups.

7 . The battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein based on the determined temperature distribution in the entire internal space of the battery pack case when being applied at the low temperature, for the first region, the second region, and the third region, a difference between a highest temperature and a lowest temperature in a same region is greater than or equal to 3° C.

8 . The battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein:
in the entire internal space of the battery pack case, a highest temperature T H , a lowest temperature T L , and T H −T L =T M in the internal space of the battery pack case are determined when being applied at low temperature; in the first region, the highest temperature is T H , and the lowest temperature is T 1 =T H −(T M /3); in the second region, the highest temperature is T 1 , and the lowest temperature is T 2 =T H −2(T M /3); and in the third region, the highest temperature is T 2 , and the lowest temperature is T L , where 3° C.≤T M /3≤10° C.

9 . The battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein:
in the positive electrode of the first battery cell, a mass ratio of the low-temperature additive ranges from 0% to 2%, calculated based on a total mass of the active substance; in the positive electrode of the respective second battery cell, a mass ratio of the low-temperature additive ranges from 2% to 8%, calculated based on a total mass of the active substance; and in the positive electrode of the respective third battery cell, a mass ratio of the low-temperature additive ranges from 8% to 13%, calculated based on a total mass of the active substance.

10 . The battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein, when the positive electrode of each of the first battery cell, second battery cell, and third battery cell comprises a same positive electrode active substance:
a mass ratio of the low-temperature additive in the positive electrode of the first battery cell≤a mass ratio of the low-temperature additive in the positive electrode of the second battery cell≤a mass ratio of the low-temperature additive in the positive electrode of the third battery cell, the mass ratio of the low-temperature additive being calculated based on a total mass of the positive electrode active substance.

11 . The battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein, at a temperature below 10° C., when a sum of a discharging capacity corresponding to a discharging voltage platform of the lithium iron phosphate and a discharging capacity of a discharging voltage platform of the low-temperature additive is 100%:
a discharging capacity ratio corresponding to the discharging voltage platform of the low-temperature additive of the third battery cell is greater than a discharging capacity ratio corresponding to the discharging voltage platform of the low-temperature additive of the second battery cell; and
the discharging capacity ratio corresponding to the discharging voltage platform of the low-temperature additive of the second battery cell is greater than a discharging capacity ratio corresponding to the discharging voltage platform of the low-temperature additive of the first battery cell.

12 . The battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein, at a room temperature:
a discharging capacity of a single cell of the first battery cell>a discharging capacity of a single cell of the second battery cell>a discharging capacity of a single cell of the third battery cell.

13 . An electrical device, comprising the battery pack according to claim 1 .

14 . A method for arranging a battery pack comprising a battery pack case and battery cells accommodated in the battery pack case, the method comprising:
determining, based on a simulation method, a temperature distribution in entire internal space of the battery pack case when being applied at a low temperature; dividing, based on the temperature distribution, the internal space of the battery pack case into three regions in a descending order of temperature; arranging a first battery cell in the first region, arranging a second battery cell in the second region, and arranging a third battery cell in the third region, allowing the first battery cell and the second battery cell to be arranged adjacent to each other, and the second battery c

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Dong Miaomiao
• Ouyang Shaocong
• Ni Huan
• Liu Hongyu
• Bie Changfeng
• Sun Xin
• Fu Chenghua

Classifications

• H01M10/443 Primary

  in response to temperature · CPC title

• H01M4/136

  Electrodes based on inorganic compounds other than oxides or hydroxides, e.g. sulfides, selenides, tellurides, halogenides or LiCoFy · CPC title

• H01M10/0525

  Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries · CPC title

• H01M10/441

  for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• H01M50/249

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