Battery module assembly for vehicle's battery pack

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9306194-B2
Application number	US-201414548075-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 19, 2014
Priority date	Apr 29, 2013
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

Disclosed is a battery module assembly for a vehicle's battery pack, which has four battery modules, among which two battery modules are arranged in parallel and two battery modules are stacked and provided on the two battery modules arranged in parallel, wherein cylindrical secondary battery cells respectively included in the battery modules are electrically connected in parallel by means of plates respectively disposed at tops of the two battery modules arranged in parallel, wherein the two battery modules arranged in parallel are electrically connected in parallel by means of a lower metal plate disposed on the two battery modules arranged in parallel, wherein cylindrical secondary battery cells respectively included in the battery modules are electrically connected in parallel by means of metal plates respectively disposed at tops and bottoms of the two battery modules stacked on the two battery modules arranged in parallel, and wherein the four battery modules are electrically connected in series. Therefore, it is possible to provide a stable and economic battery module assembly including a plurality of secondary battery cells.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A battery module assembly having four battery modules, among which two battery modules are arranged side by side and two battery modules are stacked and provided on the two battery modules arranged side by side,
wherein cylindrical secondary battery cells respectively included in the battery modules are electrically connected in parallel by means of plates respectively disposed at tops of the two battery modules arranged side by side,
wherein the two battery modules arranged side by side are electrically connected in series by means of a lower metal plate disposed on the two battery modules arranged side by side,
wherein cylindrical secondary battery cells respectively included in the battery modules are electrically connected in parallel by means of metal plates respectively disposed at tops and bottoms of the two battery modules stacked on the two battery modules arranged side by side, and
wherein the four battery modules are electrically connected in series.

2. The battery module assembly according to claim 1 ,
wherein the metal plate is made of any one selected from the group consisting of nickel,
copper, brass and nickel-plated copper.

3. The battery module assembly according to claim 1 ,
wherein the metal plate is connected to the cylindrical secondary battery cells included in each battery module by means of resistance welding, ultrasonic welding, laser welding or conductive adhesive.

4. The battery module assembly according to claim 1 ,
wherein the metal plate has a thickness of 0.1 mm to 0.4 mm.

5. The battery module assembly according to claim 1 , further comprising a bus bar configured to electrically connect the two battery modules arranged side by side and the two battery modules stacked thereon.

6. The battery module assembly according to claim 5 ,
wherein the plates respectively disposed at the tops of the two battery modules arranged side by side have a greater area in comparison to each battery module,
wherein a region of each plate beyond the area of the battery module is vertically folded, and
wherein the bus bar is interposed between the vertically folded region and the plates respectively disposed at the bottoms of the stacked two battery modules.

Assignees

• Lg Chemical Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Sung-Jong
• Cho Chae-Yang
• Ahn Soon-Ho

Classifications

• H01M50/507 Primary

  comprising an arrangement of two or more busbars within a container structure, e.g. busbar modules · CPC title

• H01M50/51

  Connection only in series · CPC title

• H01M50/227

  Organic material · CPC title

• H01M50/213 Primary

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