Battery unit comprising an accommodating device and a plurality of electrochemical cells and battery module comprising a plurality of such battery units

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9741983-B2
Application number	US-201514689121-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 17, 2015
Priority date	Apr 17, 2014
Publication date	Aug 22, 2017
Grant date	Aug 22, 2017

Abstract

A battery unit ( 1 ) comprising a plurality of electrochemical cells ( 2 ), which each have an electrode arrangement ( 3 ) comprising a cathode contact-making element ( 4 ) and an anode contact-making element ( 5 ), and an accommodating device ( 6 ) comprising a plurality of accommodating units ( 7 ), which are each separated from one another by side walls ( 8 ), wherein in each case the electrode arrangement ( 3 ) of an electrochemical cell ( 2 ) of the battery unit ( 1 ) is introduced into the accommodating units ( 7 ), and the accommodating units ( 7 ) are closed by at least one electrolytic barrier ( 10 ), which is connected to the accommodating device ( 6 ), in such a way that the closed accommodating units ( 7 ) with the electrode arrangements ( 3 ) arranged therein form the electrochemical cells ( 2 ) of the battery unit ( 1 ).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A battery unit ( 1 ) comprising
a plurality of electrochemical cells ( 2 ), which each have an electrode arrangement ( 3 ) including a cathode contact-making element ( 4 ) and an anode contact-making element ( 5 ),
an accommodating device ( 6 ) including a plurality of accommodating units ( 7 ), which are each separated from one another by side walls ( 8 ), and
an electrolytic barrier ( 10 ) that is connected to the accommodating device ( 6 ),
wherein in each case the electrode arrangement ( 3 ) of an electrochemical cell ( 2 ) of the battery unit ( 1 ) is introduced into the accommodating units ( 7 ), and
wherein the electrolytic barrier ( 10 ) is larger than each of the plurality of accommodating units ( 7 ) such that a plurality of the accommodating units ( 7 ) are closed by the electrolytic barrier ( 10 ), which is connected to the accommodating device ( 6 ) in such a way that the closed accommodating units ( 7 ) with the electrode arrangements ( 3 ) arranged therein form the electrochemical cells ( 2 ) of the battery unit ( 1 ).

2. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , characterized in that the battery unit ( 1 ) comprises at least one first electrically conductive connecting element ( 12 ) and at least one second electrically conductive connecting element ( 13 ), wherein the electrochemical cells ( 2 ) are electrically conductively connected to one another via the at least one first connecting element ( 12 ) and the at least one second connecting element ( 13 ).

3. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 2 , characterized in that at least one of the side walls ( 8 ) is in the form of a multipurpose side wall ( 9 ), which is extended with respect to the other side walls ( 8 ) by at least one further functionality.

4. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 3 , characterized in that the multipurpose side wall ( 9 ) comprises the at least one first connecting element ( 12 ) and the at least one second connecting element ( 13 ).

5. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 3 , characterized in that the accommodating units ( 7 ) of the accommodating device ( 6 ) are arranged as a first row ( 19 ) of accommodating units ( 7 ) arranged next to one another and a second row ( 20 ) of accommodating units ( 7 ) arranged next to one another, wherein the side wall of the accommodating device ( 6 ) is formed as the multipurpose side wall ( 9 ) between the first row ( 19 ) of accommodating units ( 7 ) and the second row ( 20 ) of accommodating units ( 7 ).

6. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 5 , characterized in that the accommodating device ( 6 ) has at least one hinge element in a region of the multipurpose side wall ( 9 ) such that the first row ( 19 ) of accommodating units ( 7 ) is pivotable towards the second row ( 20 ) of accommodating units ( 7 ).

7. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 5 , characterized in that the electrode arrangements ( 3 ) are arranged in the accommodating units ( 7 ) in such a way that the contact-making elements ( 4 , 5 ) of said electrode arrangements point towards the multipurpose side wall ( 9 ).

8. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 5 , characterized in that the accommodating device ( 6 ) has at least one hinge element in the region of the multipurpose side wall ( 9 ) such that the first row ( 19 ) of accommodating units ( 7 ) is pivotable towards the second row ( 20 ) of accommodating units ( 7 ), in such a way that the first row ( 19 ) of accommodating units ( 7 ) can be arranged on the second row ( 20 ) of accommodating units ( 7 ) by means of pivoting.

9. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , characterized in that the battery unit ( 1 ) comprises at least one electrically conductive line pair, which is in electrically conductive contact with at least one electrochemical cell ( 2 ) of the battery unit ( 1 ) for detecting at least one parameter of this electrochemical cell ( 2 ).

10. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 9 , wherein at least one of the side walls ( 8 ) is in the form of a multipurpose side wall ( 9 ), which is extended with respect to the other side walls ( 8 ) by at least one further functionality, and wherein the multipurpose side wall ( 9 ) comprises the at least one line pair.

11. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , characterized in that the accommodating units ( 7 ) each have a safety valve ( 14 ), which is configured to open in the event of a predetermined excess pressure within the accommodating units ( 7 ).

12. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 11 , wherein at least one of the side walls ( 8 ) is in the form of a multipurpose side wall ( 9 ), which is extended with respect to the other side walls ( 8 ) by at least one further functionality, and wherein the multipurpose side wall ( 9 ) comprises the safety valves ( 14 ).

13. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , characterized in that the battery unit ( 1 ) comprises a degassing collector ( 22 ), which is configured to discharge a fluid released by an electrochemical cell ( 2 ).

14. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 13 , wherein at least one of the side walls ( 8 ) is in the form of a multipurpose side wall ( 9 ), which is extended with respect to the other side walls ( 8 ) by at least one further functionality, and wherein the multipurpose side wall ( 9 ) comprises the degassing collector ( 22 ).

15. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , characterized in that the accommodating device ( 6 ) is produced as an injection-molded part.

16. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , characterized in that the accommodating device ( 6 ) is stackable such that a plurality of battery units ( 1 ) can be connected to one another by stacking the respective accommodating device ( 6 ) one on top of the other.

17. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , characterized in that at least one cooling channel ( 23 ) is integrated in the accommodating device ( 6 ).

18. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 1 further comprising
at least one first electrically conductive connecting element ( 12 ) and at least one second electrically conductive connecting element ( 13 ), wherein the electrochemical cells ( 2 ) are electrically conductively connected to one another via the at least one first connecting element ( 12 ) and the at least one second connecting element ( 13 ),
at least one electrically conductive line pair, which is in electrically conductive contact with at least one electrochemical cell ( 2 ) of the battery unit ( 1 ) for detecting at least one parameter of this electrochemical cell ( 2 ), and
a degassing collector ( 22 ), which is configured to discharge a fluid released by an electrochemical cell ( 2 ),
wherein the accommodating units ( 7 ) each have a safety valve ( 14 ), which is configured to open in the event of a predetermined excess pressure within the accommodating units ( 7 ) and via which a fluid may flow into the degassing collector ( 22 ),
wherein at least one of the side walls ( 8 ) is in the form of a multipurpose side wall ( 9 ), which is extended with respect to the other side walls ( 8 ) by at least one further functionality, and
wherein the multipurpose side wall ( 9 ) includes the at least one first connecting element ( 12 ), the at least one second connecting element ( 13 ), the at least one line pair, and at least one of the safety valves ( 14 ) and the degassing collector ( 22 ).

19. The battery unit ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the electrolytic barrier ( 10 ) is a first electrolytic barrier ( 10 ) a

Assignees

• Bosch Gmbh Robert

Inventors

• Poller Silvan
• Gerlach Martin
• Reinshagen Holger
• Kaiser Rudi
• Hore Sarmimala

Classifications

• H01M10/482 Primary

  for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• H01M50/207

  characterised by their shape · CPC title

• H01M50/503

  characterised by the shape of the interconnectors · CPC title

• H01M50/552

  characterised by their shape · CPC title

• H01M50/569

  Constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals (battery terminal connectors with integrated measuring arrangements G01R31/364) · CPC title