Electricity storage module

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9893342-B2
Application number	US-201414909751-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 17, 2014
Priority date	Aug 9, 2013
Publication date	Feb 13, 2018
Grant date	Feb 13, 2018

Abstract

An electricity storage module in which a plurality of battery cells are electrically connected via conductive members, wherein: each of the conductive members has a pair of electrode connecting parts that are welded to respective electrode terminals of a pair of adjacent battery cells, a base part that is connected to the pair of electrode connecting parts via a pair of elastically deformable parts, and a voltage detecting terminal that is connected to the base part and detects a terminal voltage of a battery cell.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electricity storage module in which a plurality of battery cells are electrically connected via conductive members, wherein:
each of the conductive members has a pair of electrode connecting parts that are welded to respective electrode terminals of a pair of adjacent battery cells, a base part that is connected to the pair of electrode connecting parts via a pair of elastically deformable parts, and a voltage detecting terminal that is connected to the base part and detects a terminal voltage of a battery cell;
the voltage detecting terminal has a rising part that rises up from the base part, and a terminal part that is arranged oppositely to the base part; and

each of the elastically deformable part has a bending part that projects from the base part towards the terminal part;
a height dimension of the bending part from the base part as a reference point is equal to or lower than a height dimension of the voltage detecting terminal from the base part as a reference point;
the terminal part is provided with an opening part, through which a shaft of a bolt is inserted; and
a nut or a head of the bolt is fixedly secured on a surface of the terminal part on the base part side.

2. The electricity storage module according to claim 1 , wherein:
each of the pair of battery cells is cylindrically shaped and the pair of battery cells are arranged so that central axes thereof are parallel to each other; and
the pair of elastically deformable parts are plane-symmetrical with respect to a plane orthogonal to a plane including the central axes of the pair of battery cells so that distances from a center between the central axes of the pair of the battery cells to the pair of the elastically deformable parts are equal to each other.

3. The electricity storage module according to claim 1 , comprising:
a constraining member that constrains positions of the battery cells, wherein:
a coefficient of linear expansion of the constraining member is different from a coefficient of linear expansion of the conductive members.

Assignees

• Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd
• Nissan Motor

Inventors

• Sengoku Eisuke
• Hoshi Hiroshi
• Haga Takeshi
• Kiyota Shigeyuki
• Tanaka Yoshiyuki
• Iguchi Toyoki
• Saitou Hiroaki
• Saeki Masayoshi

Classifications

• H01G11/76 Primary

  specially adapted for integration in multiple or stacked hybrid or EDL capacitors · CPC title

• H01G11/08 Primary

  Structural combinations, e.g. assembly or connection, of hybrid or EDL capacitors with other electric components, at least one hybrid or EDL capacitor being the main component · CPC title

• H01G11/10

  Multiple hybrid or EDL capacitors, e.g. arrays or modules (housings, cases, encapsulations or mountings thereof H01G11/78) · CPC title

• Y02E60/13

  Energy storage using capacitors · CPC title

• H01M2220/20

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