The present application relates to the technical field of energy storage devices, in particular to a battery pack and cooling system thereof.
With the increasing development of the power battery, the energy density of batteries is constantly increasing. However, the problem caused by the increase in energy density is the increase in the heat generation amount of the battery, so the requirement for the cooling efficiency of the cooling system of the battery is becoming more and more strict. The power battery can be cooled by water cooling, specifically by installing a cooling system in the battery pack. The cooling system includes a collecting tube and a cooling tube, and the cooling tube is connected with the collecting tube to realize the communication between the flow channels of the two tubes, so that the cooling liquid can circulate in the flow channels of the two tubes, so as to realize the cooling of the battery pack.
At present, when the existing collecting tube is connected with the cooling tube, it is necessary to punch a flanging hole in the collecting tube, and the cooling tube is provided with a necking structure. A step is formed at the necking structure and goes deeply into the flanging hole. A stamping operation is performed on a partial region of the collecting tube, and the stamped portion will protrude from the rest part in the vicinity to form a flanging hole. The end of the flanging hole abuts against the step of the necking structure, and the necking structure is welded to the flanging hole, thereby realizing the connection between the collecting tube and the cooling tube. However, when the cooling tube is provided with a necking structure, the cooling tube needs to be processed by the necking processing equipment, which reduces the production efficiency of the cooling tube and the cooling system. At the same time, the flow resistance of the cooling liquid at the necking structure of the cooling tube increases, which leads to an increase in the energy consumption of the water pump of the cooling system and reduces the energy utilization rate of the cooling system.
In view of this, embodiments of the present application provide a battery pack and a cooling system thereof to solve the problem of low production efficiency and low energy utilization rate of the cooling system in the prior art.
Embodiments of the present application provide a cooling system for a battery pack, the cooling system including:
In the present application, by providing a limiting boss in the mounting hole of the collecting tube, the cooling tube can abut against the limiting boss, so as to limit the cooling tube in the width direction, realize the connection between the cooling tube and the two collecting tubes, and can limit the depth of the cooling tube entering into the mounting hole through the limit boss. At the same time, after the limiting boss is disposed in the collecting tube, there is no need to dispose a necking structure on the cooling tube, which can improve the production efficiency of the cooling system, can avoid the increase of the flow resistance of the cooling liquid caused by the cooling tube being disposed with the necking structure, and can improve the energy utilization rate of the cooling system.
In other aspect, embodiments of the present application further provide a battery pack, including:
In order to explain the technical solutions of embodiments of the present application more clearly, the drawings needed in the embodiments will be briefly introduced. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application. For the skilled person in the art, without inventive work, other drawings can be obtained from these drawings.
In the drawings, the drawings may not be drawn according to actual scale.
1—collecting tube;
11—body portion;
111—cooling flow channel;
111
a—second side wall;
112—first bottom wall;
12—protruding portion;
13—mounting hole;
131—first hole section;
131
a—first side wall;
132—second hole section;
133—third hole section;
14—limiting boss;
15—liquid inlet;
16—liquid outlet;
2—cooling tube;
21—mounting section;
22—cooling section;
3—blocking cover;
31—third side wall;
311—inner concave portion;
32—second bottom wall;
4—battery module.
In order to better understand the technical solutions of the present application, embodiments of the present application will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
It should be clear that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by the skilled person in the art without inventive work shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.
The terms used in the embodiments of the present application are only for the purpose of describing specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the present application. The singular forms of “a”, “said” and “the” used in the embodiments of the present application and the appended claims are also intended to include plural forms, unless the context clearly indicates other meanings.
It should be understood that the term “and/or” used in this text is only an associated relationship describing associated objects, indicating that there can be three types of relationships. For example, A and/or B can mean three cases: A alone exists, both A and B exist at the same time and B alone exists. In addition, the character “/” in this text generally indicates that the associated objects before and after are in an “or” relationship.
It should be noted that the “upper”, “lower”, “left”, “right” and other directional words described in the embodiments of the present application are described from the angle shown in the drawings, and should not be construed to limit the embodiments of the present application. In addition, in the context, it should also be understood that when it is mentioned that an element is connected “on” or “under” another element, it can not only be directly connected “on” or “under” the other element, but also it is indirectly connected “on” or “under” another element through an intermediate element.
Refers to
Embodiments of the present application provide a battery pack and a cooling system thereof. As shown in
In an embodiment, as shown in
In an embodiment, the cooling system further includes two collecting tubes 1. The two collecting tubes 1 are located at the two ends of the cooling tube 2 in the width direction W, respectively. The collecting tube 1 has a cooling flow channel 111 extending in the length direction L inside. The cooling flow channel 111 is used for cooling liquid to circulate. After the above-mentioned cooling tube 2 is connected to the collecting tube 1, the tube of the cooling tube 2 communicates with the cooling flow channel 111. One of the two collecting tubes 1 is provided with a liquid inlet 15 and a liquid outlet 16.
When the cooling system is operating, the cooling liquid enters the cooling flow channel 111 through the liquid inlet 15 and enters the cooling tubes 2 while flowing along the cooling flow channel 111. The cooling liquid can cool the bottom of the unit cell while flowing in the cooling tube 2, and the circulated cooling liquid is discharged out of the cooling system through the liquid outlet 16.
In the present application, the connection between the collecting tube 1 and the cooling tube 2 is mainly achieved by improving the structure of the collecting tube 1, thereby improving the operation efficiency of the cooling system and increasing the energy utilization rate of the cooling system.
In an embodiment, as shown in
In the present application, by providing the limiting boss 14 in the mounting hole 13 of the collecting tube 1, the cooling tube 2 can abut against the limiting boss 14, so that the limiting boss 14 functions to limit the cooling tube 2 along the width direction W and realizes the connection between the cooling tube 2 and the two collecting tubes 1, and can limit the depth of the cooling tube 2 entering into the mounting hole 13 through the limiting boss 14. At the same time, after the limiting boss 14 is provided in the collecting tube 1, there is no need to provide a necking structure in the cooling tube 2, which can improve the production efficiency of the cooling system, and can avoid the increase of the flow resistance of the cooling liquid caused by the cooling tube 2 being provided with a necking structure and thus help to improve the energy utilization rate of the cooling system. The necking structure means that after the end of the cooling tube 2 is processed by the necking process, the opening corresponding to the end is reduced.
In an example, as shown in
In the present embodiment, the mounting hole 13 for installing the cooling tube 2 in the collecting tube 1 is a stepped hole, so that the above-mentioned limiting boss 14 can be formed on the inner wall of the mounting hole 13. As shown in
As shown in
In an embodiment, after the cooling tube 2 abuts against the limiting boss 14, the inner wall of the second hole section 132 is flush with the inner wall of the cooling tube 2, that is, the inner diameter of the second hole section 132 is the same as the inner diameter of the cooling tube 2. In the present embodiment, since the inner wall of the second hole section 132 is flush with the inner wall of the cooling tube 2 with no stepped surface between the two, the flow resistance to the cooling liquid can be avoided when the cooling liquid flows through, thereby reducing the energy loss when the cooling liquid flows and improving the energy utilization rate of the cooling system. At the same time, it can also improve the stability of the cooling liquid flow, thereby ensuring the uniformity of the cooling effect. It is understandable that the inner wall of the second hole section 132 being flush with the inner wall of the cooling tube 2 is not exactly level, as long as the inner walls of the two are substantially flush to reduce the flow resistance to the cooling liquid.
In an embodiment, as shown in
Further, as shown in
The cooling tube 2 is welded to the collecting tube 1 through the mounting hole 13. In an example, the outer wall of the cooling tube 2 is welded to the inner wall of the mounting hole 13. In the present embodiment, the third hole section 133 with a tapered structure can facilitate welding operations. At the same time, the third hole section 133 can also be used to contain solder, thereby effectively improving the connection stability between the cooling tube 2 and the collecting tube 1.
In each of the above embodiments, the body portion 11 is provided with a protruding portion 12 inside. The protruding portion 12 protrudes toward the inside of the body portion 11 in the width direction W (the axial direction of the cooling tube 2) and the height direction H. The protruding portion 12 extends along the length direction L of the collecting tube 1 and the protruding portion 12 is correspondingly provided with a plurality of mounting holes 13 along the length direction L. Each mounting hole 13 extends along the width direction W, and each mounting hole 13 is used to connect with the corresponding cooling tube 2. In the present embodiment, by providing the protruding portion 12 inside the body portion 11, the size of the mounting hole 13 in the width direction W can be increased, thereby increasing the length of the engagement between the cooling tube 2 and the mounting hole 13, which is beneficial to improving the connection reliability between the two.
In an embodiment, as shown in
Further, as shown in
In the present embodiment, when the collecting tube 1 is molded, the mounting hole 13 is disposed in the protruding portion 12 in the body portion 11 by machining, without adopting the processing manner of punching the mounting hole via a die in the prior art. Therefore, there is no need to reserve the wall thickness of the punching die in the collecting tube 1, so that the height of the mounting hole 13 can be reduced. At the same time, the collecting tube 1 in the present application can be directly molded by extrusion, thereby improving the production efficiency of the collecting tube 1, and making the chamfer at the bottom of the collecting tube 1 smaller or omitted, so as to enable further reduction of the height of the mounting hole 13. In this way, compared with the prior art, the mounting hole 13 in the present application is closer to the bottom of the battery pack, so that the cooling tube 2 is closer to the bottom of the battery pack, that is, the height of the entire cooling system in the battery pack can be reduced, and the energy density and group efficiency of the battery pack is improved.
In each of the above embodiments, as shown in
In an embodiment, as shown in
Of course, the structure of the blocking cover 3 is not limited to this, and may be other structures. For example, the blocking cover 3 may be a flat plate structure, and the flat plate structure is attached to and welded to each of the two ends of the body portion 11 along the length direction L. In the present embodiment, the welding area between the blocking cover 3 and the body portion 11 is relatively large, which can improve the reliability of the connection between the two and prevent the blocking cover 3 from being disconnected from the body portion 11 under the action of hydraulic pressure.
In each of the above embodiments, as shown in
In the present application, after the above-mentioned limiting boss 14 is provided in the mounting hole 13 of the collecting tube 1, the cooling tube 2 can abut against the limiting boss 14, and therefore, there is no need to install the necking structure in the prior art on the cooling tube 2. That is, the mounting section 21 of the cooling tube 2 has the same cross-sectional area as the cooling section 22, which can reduce the processing difficulty of the cooling tube 2, improve production efficiency, and prevent increase in the flow resistance of the cooling liquid caused by disposing the necking structure, and improves the energy utilization rate of the cooling system.
Further, embodiments of the present application also provide a battery pack, which includes a battery module 4 and a cooling system. The cooling system is used to cool the battery module 4, wherein the cooling system is the cooling system of any of the above embodiments. Since the cooling system has the above technical effects, the battery pack including the cooling system should also have corresponding technical effects, which will not be repeated here.
The above are only the preferred embodiments of the present application and are not intended to limit the present application. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included within the scope of protection of the present application.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201920344391.7 | Mar 2019 | CN | national |
The present application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/CN2020/077273, filed on Feb. 28, 2020, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201920344391.7, filed on Mar. 18, 2019, both of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.
Number | Date | Country | |
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Parent | PCT/CN2020/077273 | Feb 2020 | US |
Child | 17478884 | US |