This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no. 110143078, filed on Nov. 18, 2021. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
The invention relates to a fixing member, a module and a fixing structure having the fixing member, and especially relates to a battery accommodating member, a battery module and a battery fixing structure having the battery accommodating member.
In energy storage systems, cylindrical batteries are usually fixed through an integrated honeycomb fixing structure. This integrated honeycomb fixing structure is designed according to the size, appearance and internal available space of the product. For different products, different molds need to be developed to produce fixing structures with different specifications, such that the development cost is increased. Besides, the integrated honeycomb fixing structure cannot be reused, which is not conducive to energy saving and carbon reduction.
In the current market, the number of batteries required for energy storage systems is increasing, since the integrated honeycomb fixing structure is only suitable for a single product, the number and placement of the batteries are limited, which in turn affects the diversity of products.
The invention provides a battery accommodating member, a battery module and a battery fixing structure, which can lower the cost and can solve the problems of limited number and placement of batteries.
The battery accommodating member of the invention includes a housing, a battery placement portion, an electrical connecting portion, at least one first engaging structure and at least one second engaging structure. The housing has a first surface, a second surface and a plurality of side surfaces. The first surface and the second surface are opposite to each other, and each of the side surfaces are connected between the first surface and the second surface. The battery placement portion is formed in the housing, penetrates from the first surface of the housing to the second surface of the housing, and is adapted for a battery to be partially accommodated therein. The electrical connecting portion is formed in the first surface. At least one conductive sheet is adapted to be disposed at the electrical connecting portion to electrically connect the battery. The at least one first engaging structure is formed on one of the side surfaces. The at least one second engaging structure is formed in another one of the side surfaces.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the at least one first engaging structure protrudes outwards from the one of the side surfaces and includes a first guide curved surface and at least one guide rib, and the at least one second engaging structure extends inwards from the another one of the side surfaces and includes a second guide curved surface and at least one guide groove.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the housing further has at least one guide opening. The guide opening and the second engaging structure are formed in a same side surface and are adjacent to each other, and the guide opening penetrates through the side surface in a first guide direction.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the battery accommodating member further includes at least one first auxiliary connecting portion and at least one second auxiliary connecting portion. The first auxiliary connecting portion is disposed on the one of the side surfaces where the first engaging structure is located, and the second auxiliary connecting portion is disposed on the another one of the side surfaces where the second engaging structure is located.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the first auxiliary connecting portion and the second auxiliary connecting portion are magnets with opposite polarities, respectively.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the housing further has at least one locking hole disposed in the first surface.
The battery module of the invention includes two battery accommodating members and a battery. Each of the battery accommodating members includes a housing, a battery placement portion, an electrical connecting portion, at least one first engaging structure and at least one second engaging structure. The housing has a first surface, a second surface and a plurality of side surfaces. The first surface and the second surface are opposite to each other, and each of the side surfaces are connected between the first surface and the second surface. The battery placement portion is formed in the housing and penetrates from the first surface of the housing to the second surface of the housing. The electrical connecting portion is formed in the first surface, and at least one conductive sheet is adapted to be disposed at the electrical connecting portion. The at least one first engaging structure is formed on one of the side surfaces. The at least one second engaging structure is formed in another one of the side surfaces. An end of the battery is accommodated in the battery placement portion of one of the battery accommodating members, and another end of the battery is accommodated in the battery placement portion of the other one of the battery accommodating members.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the at least one first engaging structure protrudes outwards from the one of the side surfaces and includes a first guide curved surface and at least one guide rib, and the at least one second engaging structure extends inwards from the another one of the side surfaces and includes a second guide curved surface and at least one guide groove.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the housing further has at least one guide opening. The guide opening and the second engaging structure are formed in a same side surface and are adjacent to each other, and the guide opening penetrates through the side surface in a first guide direction.
According to an embodiment of the invention, each of the battery accommodating members further includes at least one first auxiliary connecting portion and at least one second auxiliary connecting portion. The first auxiliary connecting portion is disposed on the one of the side surfaces where the first engaging structure is located, and the second auxiliary connecting portion is disposed on the another one of the side surfaces where the second engaging structure is located.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the first auxiliary connecting portion and the second auxiliary connecting portion are magnets with opposite polarities, respectively.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the housing further has at least one locking hole disposed in the first surface.
The battery fixing structure of the invention includes two battery accommodating members. Each of the battery accommodating members includes a housing, a battery placement portion, an electrical connecting portion, at least one first engaging structure and at least one second engaging structure. The housing has a first surface, a second surface and a plurality of side surfaces. The first surface and the second surface are opposite to each other, and each of the side surfaces are connected between the first surface and the second surface. The battery placement portion is formed in the housing, penetrates from the first surface of the housing to the second surface of the housing, and is adapted for a battery to be partially accommodated therein.
The electrical connecting portion is formed in the first surface. At least one conductive sheet is adapted to be disposed at the electrical connecting portion to electrically connect the battery. The at least one first engaging structure is formed on one of the side surfaces. The at least one second engaging structure is formed on one of the side surfaces. The first engaging structure of one of the battery accommodating members engages the second engaging structure of the other one of the battery accommodating members.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the at least one first engaging structure protrudes outwards from the one of the side surfaces and includes a first guide curved surface and at least one guide rib. The at least one second engaging structure extends inwards from the another one of the side surfaces and includes a second guide curved surface and at least one guide groove. The first engaging structure of the one of the battery accommodating members and the second engaging structure of the other one of the battery accommodating members are engaged with each other. The first guide curved surface of the one of the battery accommodating members contacts the second guide curved surface of the other one of the battery accommodating members. The guide rib of the one of the battery accommodating members engages with the guide groove of the other one of the battery accommodating members.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the housing further has at least one guide opening. The guide opening and the second engaging structure are formed in a same side surface and are adjacent to each other, and the guide opening penetrates through the side surface in a first guide direction. The first engaging structure of the one of the battery accommodating members is adapted to be moved into the housing of the other one of the battery accommodating members in the first guide direction through the guide opening of the other one of the battery accommodating members, and is moved through guiding of the second engaging structure of the other one of the battery accommodating members to engage with the second engaging structure of the other one of the battery accommodating members.
According to an embodiment of the invention, each of the battery accommodating members further includes at least one first auxiliary connecting portion and at least one second auxiliary connecting portion. The first auxiliary connecting portion is disposed on the one of the side surfaces where the first engaging structure is located, and the second auxiliary connecting portion is disposed on the another one of the side surfaces where the second engaging structure is located. The first auxiliary connecting portion of the one of the battery accommodating members is connected to the second auxiliary connecting portion of the other one of the battery accommodating members.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the first auxiliary connecting portion and the second auxiliary connecting portion are magnets with opposite polarities, respectively.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the housing further has at least one locking hole disposed in the first surface.
Based on the above, the battery accommodating member of the invention is provided with the battery placement portion, and a portion of the battery is accommodated inside the battery placement portion. In the battery accommodating member of the invention, the first engaging structure and the second engaging structure are respectively disposed at two different side surfaces of the housing, such that two battery accommodating members is able to be engaged with each other to form a battery fixing structure. That is, the first engaging structure of one of the battery accommodating members can engage with the second engaging structure of another one of the battery accommodating members. In this way, only one battery accommodating member with single specification is needed to infinitely extend different types of products. At the same time, the cost can be reduced, and the number and arrangement of the batteries in the product are not limited. In addition, the battery accommodating member can be reused to facilitate energy saving and carbon reduction.
To make the aforementioned more comprehensible, several embodiments accompanied with drawings are described in detail as follows.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the disclosure, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate exemplary embodiments of the disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.
In this embodiment, the housing 110 has a first surface 111, a second surface 112 and a plurality of side surfaces 113a, 113b. To be specific, as shown in
In this embodiment, the battery accommodating member 100 includes two first engaging structures 140 and two second engaging structures 150, but the number of the first engaging structures 140 and the number of the second engaging structures 150 are not limited in the invention. In this embodiment, the two first engaging structures 140 are symmetrical to each other and respectively formed on two opposite side surfaces 113a, and the two second engaging structures 150 symmetrical to each other and are respectively formed on two opposite side surfaces 113b, but the invention is not limited thereto. In other embodiments, two first engaging structures may be arranged in asymmetrical manner and respectively formed on two adjacent side surfaces, and two second engaging structures may be arranged in asymmetrical manner and respectively formed on two adjacent side surfaces.
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In this embodiment, the housing 110 further has at least one guide opening 114. The guide opening 114 and the second engaging structure 150 are formed in the same side surface 113b and are adjacent to each other. The guide opening 114 extends in a first guide direction D1 and penetrates through the housing 110 from the side surface 113b. The guide grooves 154 of the second engaging structure 150 extend in the housing 110 in a second guide direction D2 perpendicular to the first guide direction D1. The guide grooves 154, the guide opening 114 and the battery placement portion 120 are in communication with each other. Besides, the housing 110 in this embodiment further has at least one locking hole 115. The locking hole 115 penetrates through the housing 110 from the first surface 111 to the second surface 112.
The battery accommodating member 100 further includes at least one first auxiliary connecting portion 160 and at least one second auxiliary connecting portion 170 (as shown in
Detailed explanation of assembling of the two battery accommodating members 100 are described in the following. When intending to assemble the two battery accommodating members 100, first, please refer to
In order to clearly show the engagement relationship between the first engaging structure 140 of one battery accommodating member 100 and the second engaging structure 150 of the other battery accommodating member 100,
When intending to separate the two battery accommodating members 100, first, a force is exerted to the second surface 112 of one battery accommodating member 100, that is, the one battery accommodating member 100 is pressed in a direction opposite to the second guide direction D2, so as to disengage the first engaging structure 140 of the one battery accommodating member 100 from the second engaging structure 150 of the other battery accommodating member 100. At this time, the first engaging structure 140 is located at the position shown in
It is worth mentioning that, since the first engaging structure 140 enters the housing 110 in the first guide direction D1 and then moves in the second guide direction D2 to engage with the second engaging structure 150, when the first engaging structure 140 and the second engaging structure 150 are engaged, the first engaging structure 140 needs to move in the direction opposite to the second guide direction D2 to a position aligned to the guide opening 114, before the first engaging structure 140 can disengage from the second engaging structure 150 in the direction opposite to the first guide direction D1. Therefore, it is able to prevent the first engaging structure 140 and the second engaging structure 150 from being unintendedly separated from each other, thereby achieving a good securing effect.
Moreover, please refer to six (three columns and two rows) battery accommodating members 100 combined together surrounded by the dashed line on lower right side in
Based on the above, in the battery accommodating member of the invention, the first engaging structure and the second structure are disposed at different side surfaces of the housing, such that the first engaging structure of one battery accommodating member is able to engage with the second engaging structure of the other battery accommodating member, so as to form the battery fixing structure. In this way, only one battery accommodating member with single specification is needed to infinitely extend different products with different configurations, this saves the cost of mold opening and is conducive to energy saving and carbon reduction. Also, the battery accommodating member with single specification can achieve diverse arrangement according to internal available space of different products, thus the number of the batteries in the products is not limited.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the disclosed embodiments without departing from the scope or spirit of the disclosure. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the disclosure covers modifications and variations provided that they fall within the scope of the following claims and their equivalents.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 110143078 | Nov 2021 | TW | national |