The present application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201920248840.8, filed on Feb. 27, 2019, the content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present application relates to the technical field of battery, in particular, to a battery and a battery pack.
The present application proposes a battery and a battery pack for the above problems in the related art, which may at least reduce the temperature difference between the cell at the center and the cell at the edge of the battery, thereby improving the life of the cell.
The technical solution of the present application is implemented as follows:
According to an aspect of the present application, a battery is provided, including: a plurality of cells arranged in a stack; a plurality of first thermally conductive components arranged on a surface of each cell; and a second thermally conductive component constituting a portion of the surface of the battery, and each of the plurality of first thermally conductive components contacting the second thermally conductive component.
According to an embodiment of the present application, the second thermally conductive component is U-shaped the second thermally conductive component constitutes at least a portion of a first surface, a second surface, and at least a portion of a third surface of the battery, and the first surface, the second surface, and the third surface are sequentially connected to each other.
According to an embodiment of the present application, the second thermally conductive component includes a first thermally conductive sub-component and a second thermally conductive sub-component, and the first thermally conductive sub-component and the second thermally conductive sub-component are L-shaped; and the first thermally conductive sub-component constitutes the first surface and a first portion of the second surface of the battery, and the second thermally conductive sub-component constitutes a second portion of the second surface and the third surface of the battery.
According to an embodiment of the present application, wherein the sum of areas of the first portion of the second surface and the second portion of the second surface is greater than or equal to 90% of an area of the second surface.
According to an embodiment of the present application, wherein at least one of the first thermally conductive components is U-shaped, and located at least a portion of the first surface, the second surface, and at least a portion of the third surface of the respective cell, and the first surface, the second surface, and the third surface of the cell are sequentially connected to each other.
According to an embodiment of the present application, wherein two of the plurality of first thermally conductive components are respectively arranged on surfaces of adjacent two of the plurality of cells, and the two of the plurality of first thermally conductive components are arranged opposed to each other and are snapped each other.
According to an embodiment of the present application, the battery further includes a thermally conductive adhesive arranged between the second thermally conductive component and each of the plurality of first thermally conductive components.
According to an embodiment of the present application, edges of the plurality of first thermally conductive components are aligned with each other in a length direction of the cell.
According to an embodiment of the present application, the battery further includes a buffer sheet located between adjacent two of the plurality of cells.
According to another aspect of the present application, a battery pack is provided, including a plurality of batteries and a third thermally conductive component, each battery including a plurality of cells arranged in a stack; a plurality of first thermally conductive components arranged on a surface of each cell; and a second thermally conductive component constituting a portion of the surface of the battery, and each of the plurality of first thermally conductive components contacting the second thermally conductive component; wherein the third thermally conductive component contacts the second thermally conductive component. According to another aspect of the present application, the battery pack further comprises a second thermally conductive adhesive arranged between the third thermally conductive component and the second thermally conductive component.
According to another aspect of the present application, the plurality of batteries are stacked in a thickness direction of the battery.
According to another aspect of the present application, the third thermally conductive component is U-shaped, and the third thermally conductive component constitutes at least a portion of a first side surface, a second side surface, and at least a portion of a third side surface of the battery pack, wherein the first side surface, the second side surface, and the third side surface are sequentially connected to each other.
According to another aspect of the present application, the battery pack further includes a second buffer sheet located between adjacent two of the plurality of batteries.
According to another aspect of the present application, the plurality of batteries is divided into a first battery and a second battery, and the first battery is at a side within the battery pack; the first battery includes a plurality of first cells, and the second battery includes a plurality of second cells, wherein the number of the plurality of first cells is different from the number of the plurality of second cells.
According to another aspect of the present application, the second thermally conductive component is U-shaped, and the second thermally conductive component constitutes at least a portion of a first surface, a second surface, and at least a portion of a third surface of the battery, wherein the first surface, the second surface, and the third surface are sequentially connected to each other.
According to another aspect of the present application, the second thermally conductive component includes a first thermally conductive sub-component and a second thermally conductive sub-component, the first thermally conductive sub-component and the second thermally conductive sub-component are both L-shaped; the first thermally conductive sub-component constitutes the first surface and a first portion of the second surface of the battery, and the second thermally conductive sub-component constitutes a second portion of the second surface and the third surface of the battery.
According to another aspect of the present application, the sum of areas of the first portion of the second surface and the second portion of the second surface is greater than or equal to 90% of an area of the second surface.
According to another aspect of the present application, at least one of the plurality of first thermally conductive components is U-shaped and located at least a portion of the first surface, the second surface, and at least a portion of the third surface of the respective cell, wherein the first surface, the second surface, and the third surface of the cell are sequentially connected to each other.
According to another aspect of the present application, two of the first thermally conductive components are respectively arranged on surfaces of two adjacent ones of the cell, and the two of the first thermally conductive components are arranged as opposite to each other and are snapped each other.
The beneficial effects of the present application are as follows:
For the battery provided by above technical solution of the present application, since each of the first thermally conductive components is in contact with the second thermally conductive component, the heat conduction between the cell at the edge and the cell at the center may be achieved by the first thermally conductive component and the second thermally conductive component, so as to reduce the heat concentration effect at the center of the battery when working and reduce the temperature difference between the cell at the center and the cell at the edge, thereby improving the life of the cell.
For the battery pack provided by above technical solution of the present application, the heat conduction between the cell at the edge of the battery pack and the cell at the center of the battery pack may be achieved by the heat transfer among the first thermally conductive components, the second thermally conductive component and the third thermally conductive component, so as to reduce the heat concentration effect at the center of the battery pack when working and reduce the temperature difference between the cell at the center and the cell at the edge, causing the temperature between multiple cells in the battery pack more balanced, thereby improving the life of the battery pack. On the other hand, when the battery pack is assembled, it can be assembled in units of each battery. Therefore, the battery pack provided by the present application is more convenient to assemble, and may avoid the problem that assembly and movement are difficult due to the battery pack being too heavy during the assembly process.
In order to illustrate embodiments of the present disclosure or technical schemes in the prior art more clearly, the drawings which are required to be used in the description of the embodiments of the present disclosure are briefly described below. It is obvious that the drawings described below are only some embodiments of the present disclosure. It is apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that other drawings may be obtained based on the structures shown in accompanying drawings without inventive effort.
The technical schemes of the embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings. It is obvious that the embodiments to be described are only a part rather than all of the embodiments of the present disclosure. All other embodiments obtained by persons skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present disclosure without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure. Based on the embodiments of the present application, all the other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art are within the scope of the present application.
The respective exemplary embodiments in the following description and in the drawings may be combined with each other to form other embodiments not described below; and some of the components may be omitted in different embodiments. In other words, the following description does not limit the present application.
For the battery 10 provided by above technical solution of the present application, since the first thermally conductive components 14 on the surface of each cell is in contact with the second thermally conductive component 16, the heat conduction between the cell 12 at the edge and the cell 12 at the center may be achieved by the first thermally conductive components 14 and the second thermally conductive component 16, so as to reduce the heat concentration effect at the center of the battery when working and reduce the temperature difference between the cell 12 at the center and the cell 12 at the edge, causing the temperature between the plurality of cells 12 of the battery 10 more balanced, thereby improving the life of the cell.
The first thermally conductive component 14 and the second thermally conductive component 16 may take any suitable material having thermal conductivity. In an embodiment, the materials of the first thermally conductive component 14 and the second thermally conductive component 16 are both aluminum. In an embodiment, the materials of the first thermally conductive component 14 and the second thermally conductive component 16 may be different.
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In an embodiment, the battery 10 may further include a thermally conductive adhesive disposed between the second thermally conductive component 16 and each first thermally conductive component 14. In an embodiment, the material of the thermally conductive adhesive is thermal grease. In some embodiments, the material of the thermally conductive adhesive may also be other suitable thermally conductive materials. The transfer of heat between the first thermally conductive component 14 and the second thermally conductive component 16 may be achieved by filling the thermally conductive adhesive between the second thermally conductive component 16 and each of the first thermally conductive components 14. It should be understood that the connection and heat transfer between the first thermally conductive component 14 and the second thermally conductive component 16 may also be achieved by other suitable means.
In some embodiments, in a length direction L of each of the cells 12, the edges of the plurality of first thermally conductive components 14 may be aligned with each other. In some embodiments, the thickness of each first thermally conductive component 14 may be in the range of 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm, so that each first thermally conductive component 14 may have a proper thickness for achieving a good heat dissipation effect. In other embodiments, the first thermally conductive component 14 may have other suitable thicknesses depending on the actual application. In some embodiments, the first thermally conductive component 14 and the corresponding cell 12 may be joined by an adhesive. In some embodiments, the thickness of the adhesive may be in a range of 30 μm to 50 μm, e.g., 40 μm, thereby ensuring minimum conduction heat resistance and sufficient bonding strength on the heat transfer path. In an embodiment, the thickness of the second thermally conductive component 16 may be 0.2 mm. In other embodiments, the second thermally conductive component 16 may have other suitable thicknesses.
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In an embodiment, in order to obtain a sufficiently large heat transfer area, the sum of the areas of the first portion of the second surface and the second portion of the second surface is greater than or equal to 90% of the area of the second surface. That is to say, the second thermally conductive component 16 may constitute at least 90% of the surface area of the surface 104.
For the battery pack 200 provided by above technical solution of the present application, the heat conduction between the cell 12 at the edge of the battery pack 200 and the cell 12 at the center of the battery pack may be achieved by the heat transfer among the first thermally conductive component, the second thermally conductive component 16 and the third thermally conductive component 20, so as to reduce the heat concentration effect at the center of the battery pack when working and reduce the temperature difference between the cell 12 at the center and the cell 12 at the edge, causing the temperature between multiple cells 12 in the battery pack 200 more balanced, thereby improving the life of the battery pack. On the other hand, when assembling the battery pack, it can be assembled in units of each battery 10. Therefore, the battery pack 200 provided by the present application is more convenient to assemble, and may avoid the problems that assembly and movement are difficult due to the battery pack being too heavy during the assembly process.
In some embodiments, the battery 10 is divided into a first battery 101 and a second battery 103, and the first battery 101 is located outside the battery pack 200; the first battery 101 includes a plurality of first cells 121, and the second battery 103 includes a plurality of second cells 123, wherein the number of the plurality of first cells 121 of the first battery 101 may be different from the number of the plurality of second cells 123 of the second battery 103. In other embodiments, the number of the plurality of first cells 121 of the first battery 101 may be the same as the number of the plurality of second cells 123 of the second battery 103. The number of cells 12 in each battery 10 may be configured according to the heat transfer temperature difference of the cells in the thickness direction T of each of the cells 12 such that the temperature difference between each of the cells 10 in the battery pack 200 is minimized. Compared with the existing battery pack, the more the number of cells in the battery pack, the more excellent the effect of the battery pack provided by the present application. In particular, when the battery pack is charged and discharged at a large magnification, the effect of the battery pack of the present application may be further exhibited.
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In an embodiment, the battery pack 200 of the present application may further include a second thermally conductive adhesive disposed between the third thermally conductive component 20 and each second thermally conductive component 16. A distance of 1 mm to 2 mm is reserved between the third heat conducting component 20 and the plurality of batteries 10 to fill the second thermal conductive adhesive, so that the second thermal conductive adhesive has a thickness in the range of 1 mm to 2 mm, thereby ensuring the second thermal conductive adhesive can good contact with the third heat conducting member 20 and the plurality of batteries 10, and has a sufficient compression ratio.
In some embodiments, the second thermally conductive adhesive may include thermally conductive silica gel, one-component thermally conductive mud, and two-component thermally conductive gel. In an embodiment, the second thermally conductive adhesive may be made of a silicone rubber-based material, and filled with a highly thermally conductive metal oxide or other highly thermally conductive particles in the silicone rubber to simultaneously obtain the elasticity of the silicone rubber and the thermal conductivity of the filled particles.
In an embodiment, the third thermally conductive component 20 is U-shaped. The U-shaped third thermally conductive component 20 constitutes at least a portion of a first side surface 202, a second side surface 204, and at least a portion of a third side surface 206 of the battery pack 200, wherein the first side surface 202, the second side surface 204, and the third side surface 206 being sequentially connected to each other. In an embodiment, the first side surface 202, the second side surface 204 and the third side surface 206 of the battery pack 200 may be respectively the first side surface 202 extending in the width direction W, the second side surface 204 extending in the thickness direction T, and the third side surface 206 opposite to the first side surface 202. In other embodiments, the second thermally conductive component 16 may constitute other surfaces of the battery pack 200. In an embodiment, in the length direction L, the edge of the third thermally conductive component 20 exceeds the edge of the cell 12. In other embodiments, in the length direction L, the edge of the third thermally conductive component 20 may not exceed the edge of the cell 12. In some embodiments, the material of the third thermally conductive component 20 may be any suitable material that is advantageous for heat dissipation. For example, the material of the third thermally conductive component 20 includes any one of aluminum, stainless steel, and carbon steel.
The foregoing is only preferred exemplary embodiments of the present application and is not intended to be limiting of the present application, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements and the like within the spirit and principles of the present application are intended to be embraced by the protection range of the present application.
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201920248840.8 | Feb 2019 | CN | national |