Battery clamping device, battery heating device, battery drying device, battery cooling device and method for manufacturing battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9985322-B2
Application number	US-201414287622-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 27, 2014
Priority date	May 29, 2013
Publication date	May 29, 2018
Grant date	May 29, 2018

Abstract

A battery clamping device includes: interposition member configured to be interposed between rectangular parallelepiped batteries such that interposition member is stacked with a plurality of the batteries alternately; clamping portion configured to clamp by pressing the stacked batteries and interposition member in a stacking direction of the batteries and the interposition member from outside in the stacking direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A battery clamping device comprising:
an interposition member configured to be interposed between rectangular parallelepiped batteries such that the interposition member is stacked with a plurality of the batteries alternately;
a clamping portion configured to clamp by pressing the stacked batteries and the interposition member in a stacking direction of the batteries and the interposition member, from outside in the stacking direction, the interposition member includes an interposition portion which is interposed between the batteries and contact a side face perpendicular to the stacking direction of the battery and includes a base portion which is formed integrally with the interposition portion so as to be stretched at least to one side in the stacking direction from an end portion of the interposition portion thereby the base portion contacts a connecting face of the battery which connects the side faces of the battery to each other;
a heater configured so that the battery clamping device clamping the batteries is mounted thereon to heat the batteries during manufacturing the batteries; and
a depressurizing device including a depressurizing chamber that accommodates the battery heating device and a depressurizing pump for depressurizing the depressurizing chamber,
wherein the interposition member includes a battery contact face of the base portion which contacts the connecting face of the battery and includes a bottom face which is located on an opposite side to the battery contact face across the base portion and opposed to the heater, and
wherein the heater provides a bottom face contact face which the bottom face of the interposition member contacts and is configured to be capable of heating the interposition member via the bottom face which contacts the bottom face contact face.

2. The battery clamping device according to claim 1 , wherein
the base portion of the interposition member, when the battery is clamped between the interposition member and adjacent interposition member, is apart from the adjacent interposition member in the stacking direction.

3. The battery clamping device according to claim 1 , wherein
the base portion of the interposition member is stretched to both sides in the stacking direction from the end portion of the interposition portion.

4. The battery clamping device according to claim 3 , wherein
the base portion has a configuration in which a sum of the dimensions of the base portions stretched in the stacking direction from the interposition portion is smaller than a gap between the side faces of the battery in the stacking direction.

5. The battery heating device according to claim 1 , wherein
the bottom face of the interposition member is formed into a flat face,
the bottom face contact face of the heater is a flat face which contacts the bottom face of any of the interposition members.

6. The battery heating device according to claim 1 , wherein
the interposition member is made of metal having thermal conductivity of 100 W/(m·K) or more.

7. A battery cooling device comprising:
the battery clamping device according to claim 1 ; and
a cooling unit on which the battery clamping device clamping the batteries is mounted to cool the batteries, wherein
the interposition member includes a battery contact face of the base portion which contacts the connecting face of the battery and includes a bottom face which is located on an opposite side to the battery contact face across the base portion and opposed to the cooling unit, and wherein
the cooling unit provides a bottom face contact face which the bottom face of the interposition member contacts and is configured to be capable of cooling the interposition member via the bottom face which contacts the bottom face contact face.

8. The battery cooling device according to claim 7 , wherein
the bottom face of the interposition member is formed into a flat face, and wherein
the bottom face contact face of the cooling unit is a flat face which contacts the bottom face of any of the interposition members.

9. The battery cooling device according to claim 7 , wherein
the interposition member is made of metal having thermal conductivity of 100 W/(m·K) or more.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kado Hiroyasu

Classifications

• H01M50/256 Primary

  Carrying devices, e.g. belts · CPC title

• H01M50/627

  Filling ports · CPC title

• H01M10/058

  Construction or manufacture · CPC title

• H01M50/60

  Arrangements or processes for filling or topping-up with liquids; Arrangements or processes for draining liquids from casings · CPC title

• H01M50/291

  characterised by their shape · CPC title