The present disclosure relates to the field of battery technologies, and for example to a battery pack.
A battery pack may include a case body, a battery module and a tray, where the case body includes a pressure relief member, a bottom plate and an accommodation trough disposed on the bottom plate, the battery module is disposed in the accommodation trough by the tray, and the tray abuts against a notch of the accommodation trough with a fastening screw, so that the tray is tightly secured to the case body, and the tray and the bottom plate are spaced apart to form a pressure relief cavity communicating with the pressure relief member. However, the battery pack having the above structure has a disadvantage in that the bottom of the battery module is protected only by the bottom plate, so that the impact protection effect of the bottom of the battery module is poor; and when a thermal runaway of the battery module occurs, a high-pressure gas is directly discharged from the pressure relief member through the pressure relief cavity, and the pressure relief is too fast, so that the oxygen inside the pressure relief cavity is not exhausted and an open fire occurs when the high-pressure gas is discharged from the pressure relief member, and thus safety of the battery pack is poor.
The present disclosure provides a battery pack capable of achieving good impact resistance and high safety.
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a battery pack, including: a case body, a plurality of battery modules, and a plurality of trays each corresponding to corresponding one of the battery modules, where the case body is provided with an accommodation trough and one or more pressure relief members, the each of the trays includes a tray body and a plurality of supports, each of the battery modules is bonded to an upper side of the tray body of the tray corresponding to the battery module by an adhesive, the plurality of supports are spaced apart and projected from a lower side of the tray body away from the battery modules, a first end of each of the supports is connected to the tray body, a second end of the each of the supports is in contact with a bottom portion of the accommodation trough, the tray body and the bottom portion of the accommodation trough are spaced apart to form a pressure relief cavity communicated with the pressure relief members, each of the supports is provided with a first through hole penetrating through the second end and the first end of the support, the first through hole is communicated with the upper side of the tray body, and the adhesive is bonded to the bottom portion of the accommodation trough through the first through hole from the upper side of the tray body.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, each of the battery modules includes a plurality of battery cells, the tray body of the tray corresponding to the each of the battery modules includes a plurality of cell holders for holding the battery cells, the plurality of cell holders are spaced apart, and each of the battery cells corresponds to corresponding one of the cell holders, each of the cell holders is provided with at least one of the supports at a peripheral side of the cell holder, and the first through hole in each of the supports is communicated with an interior of corresponding one of the cell holders.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, each of the cell holders includes a supporting table configured to support corresponding one of the battery cells, where the supporting table is provided with a second through hole penetrating through a top portion and a bottom portion of the supporting table, and the second through hole is opposite to a pressure relief portion of the battery cell.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, each of the battery cells is a cylindrical cell and the second through hole is a circular hole.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, each of the cell holders is provided with at least three ones of the supports at a peripheral side of the cell holder, and the at least three supports are evenly spaced apart around a center of the cell holder.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, each of the cell holders further includes a plurality of limiting plates projecting from the top portion of the supporting table of the cell holder, where the plurality of limiting plates are disposed around a peripheral side of the supporting table and configured to limit the battery cell corresponding to the cell holder, two adjacent ones of the limiting plates are spaced apart to form a gap through which the first through hole is communicated with the top portion of the supporting table.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a reinforcing plate is connected between each of the supports and a supporting table adjacent to the support and projected from a lower side of the tray body of the tray provided with the supports.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the adhesive is a structural adhesive.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the battery pack further includes a cover plate and a thermally conductive adhesive layer, where the cover plate is provided at the notch of the accommodation trough and bonded to the top portion of each of the plurality of battery modules by the thermally conductive adhesive layer.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the cover plate is locked to the notch of the accommodation trough by a locking member.
Advantageous effects of the present disclosure are that the first end of the support is connected to the tray body and the second end of the support is in contact with the bottom portion of the accommodation trough to enable the tray body to be supported in the accommodation trough, so that the support provides a supporting function for the tray and the battery module; the first through hole communicating with the upper side of the tray body is disposed inside the support to enable the adhesive to be bonded to the bottom portion of the accommodation trough through the first through hole from the upper side of the tray body, so that the tray, the battery module, and the bottom portion of the accommodation trough are fixed together. As such, the overall rigidity of the bottom portion of the case body may be improved to provide effective protection for the battery module, and the impact resistance of the bottom portion of the battery pack may be improved, and the bottom portion of the case body may be prevented from beating the bottom portion of the tray to generate noise. High-temperature substances generated when the thermal runaway of the battery module occurs (such as high-temperature gas and high-temperature particles) may enter the pressure relief cavity, and then the plurality of supports distributed at intervals in the pressure relief cavity obstructs the flow of the high-temperature substances in the pressure relief cavity, which prolongs the time for the high-temperature substances to remain in the pressure relief cavity. As such, the temperature of the high-temperature substance may be reduced and the oxygen inside the pressure relief cavity may be reduced, preventing occurrence of the open fire when the high-temperature substances are discharged from the pressure relief members, and improving the safety of the battery pack.
1. Case body; 11. Accommodation trough; 12. Bottom plate; 13. Side plate; 14. End plate; 15. Side beam; 151. Pressure relief channel; 16. First reinforcing beam; 17. Second reinforcing beam; 18. Cover plate; 2. Battery module; 21. Battery cell; 22. Busbar; 3. Tray; 30. Tray body; 31. Cell holder; 311. Supporting table; 3111. Second through hole; 3112. Extension portion; 312. Limiting plate; 313. Gap; 32. Support; 321. First through hole; 33. Reinforcing plate; 4. Adhesive; 5. Pressure relief member; 6. Thermally conductive adhesive layer; 7. Pressure relief cavity.
In description of the present disclosure, it should be noted that the terms “interconnection”, “connection” and “fixing” should be understood in a broad sense, unless otherwise clearly specified and defined. For example, “fixing” can be a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or integrated connection. It can be a mechanical connection or an electrical connection. It can be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediary. It can also be the connection between two elements or the interaction between two elements. Those ordinary skilled in the art can understand the specific meanings of the above terms in the present disclosure according to specific situations.
In the present disclosure, it should be noted that unless otherwise clearly defined and limited, a first feature “on” or “under” a second feature may mean that the first feature directly contacts the second feature, or that the first feature contacts the second feature via an additional feature there between instead of directly contacting the second feature. Moreover, the first feature “on”, “above”, and “over” the second feature may mean that the first feature is right over or obliquely upward over the second feature or mean that the first feature has a horizontal height higher than that of the second feature. The first feature “under”, “below”, and “beneath” the second feature may mean that the first feature is right beneath or obliquely downward beneath the second feature or mean that horizontal height of the first feature is lower than that of the second feature.
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The first end of the support 32 is connected to the tray body 30 and the second end of the support 32 is in contact with the bottom portion of the accommodation trough 11 to enable the tray body 30 to be supported in the accommodation trough 11, so that the support 32 provides a supporting function for the tray 3 and the battery module 2. The first through hole 321 communicating with the upper side of the tray body 30 is disposed inside the support 32 to enable the adhesive 4 to be bonded to the bottom portion of the accommodation trough 11 through the first through hole 321 from the upper side of the tray body 30, so that the tray 3, the battery module 2, and the bottom portion of the accommodation trough 11 are fixed together. As such, the overall rigidity of the bottom portion of the case body 1 may be improved to provide effective protection for the battery module 2, and the impact resistance of the bottom portion of the battery pack may be improved, and the bottom portion of the case body 1 may be prevented from beating the bottom portion of the tray 3 to generate noise. In some embodiments, high-temperature substances generated when a thermal runaway of the battery module 2 occurs (such as high-temperature gas and high-temperature particles) may be discharged to the outside of the case body 1 through the pressure relief cavity 7 and the pressure relief members 5, thereby realizing pressure relief of the battery pack. The high-temperature substances generated when the thermal runaway of the battery module occurs (such as the high-temperature gas and the high-temperature particles) may enter the pressure relief cavity 7, and then the plurality of supports 32 distributed at intervals in the pressure relief cavity 7 obstructs the flow of the high-temperature substances in the pressure relief cavity 7, which prolongs the time for the high-temperature substances to remain in the pressure relief cavity 7. As such, the temperature of the high-temperature substances may be reduced and the oxygen inside the pressure relief cavity 7 may be reduced, preventing occurrence of the open fire when the high-temperature substances are discharged from the pressure relief members 5, and improving the safety of the battery pack.
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In other embodiments, the number of the battery modules 2 may be flexibly set as required.
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In order to ensure safety of the battery cells 21, a pressure relief portion is provided on each of the battery cells 21. When a thermal runway of the battery cell 21 occurs, a high-temperature substance generated inside the battery cell 21 may be discharged to the outside of the battery cell 21 through the pressure relief portion. In the present embodiments, referring to
In some embodiments, the second through hole 3111 is located at a central portion of the supporting table 311, so that the battery cell 21 may be supported with a region where the supporting table 311 is located at the peripheral side of the second through hole 3111.
In the present embodiments, the battery cell 21 is a cylindrical cell, and the pressure relief portion of the battery cell 21 is generally circular, and the second through hole 3111 is a circular hole, so that the shape of the second through hole 3111 is adapted to the pressure relief portion of the battery cell 21, thereby facilitating optimization of the structure of the supporting table 311. In other embodiments, the battery cell 21 may be another type of cell, such as a square cell, and the specific shape of the second through hole 3111 may be flexibly adjusted according to the shape of the pressure relief portion on the battery cell 21.
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In other embodiments, the number of the supports 32 at the peripheral side of the cell holder 31 may also be set as one, two, three, four or five, etc., and the number of the limit plates 312 on the cell holder 31 may also be set as one, two, three, four or five, etc.
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In the present embodiments, the supports 32, the supporting table 311, the limiting plates 312, and the extension portion 3112 are integrally formed, so as to facilitate manufacture of the trays 3.
In some embodiment, the adhesive 4 may be a structural adhesive. The structural adhesive refers to an adhesive, which is high in strength (where a compressive strength is greater than 65 MPa, a steel-steel tensile bonding strength is greater than 30 MPa, and a shear strength is greater than 18 MPa), may withstand large loads, and is resistant to aging, fatigue, corrosion, stable in performance over an expected life, and is suitable for bonding a structural member subjected to strength. Such an adhesive 4 may provide a better strength for the battery modules 2 and the trays 3, and enables the battery modules 2, the trays 3, and the bottom portion of the accommodation trough 11 to provide a good bonding strength, thereby improving impact resistance of the battery modules 2.
In other embodiments, the adhesive 4 is not limited to the structural adhesive, but may be other types of adhesive 4.
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In some embodiments, the cover plate 18 is locked to the notch of the accommodation trough 11 by a locking member. The cover plate 18 is provided with a first locking hole, the notch of the accommodation trough 11 is provided with a second locking hole, and one end of the locking member is screwed in the second locking hole through the first locking hole, so that the cover plate 18, the thermally conductive adhesive layer 6 and the case body 1 are locked with each other. The locking member may be a locking bolt or a locking screw.
In the description of the present disclosure, it should be understood that orientations or position relationships indicated by the terms “upper”, “lower”, “left”, and “right” are based on orientations or position relationships illustrated in the drawings. The terms are used to facilitate and simplify the description and operations of the present disclosure, rather than indicate or imply that the devices or elements referred to herein are required to have specific orientations or be constructed or operate in the specific orientations. Accordingly, the terms should not be construed as limiting the present disclosure. In addition, the terms “first” and “second” are used solely for the purpose of distinguishing elements in terms of description of the elements and not in a particular sense.
In the description of the present specification, a description with reference to the terms “an embodiment,” “an example,” and the like, means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present disclosure. In the present specification, the schematic representation of the above terms does not necessarily refer to the same embodiments or examples.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 202310479230.X | Apr 2023 | CN | national |
| 202321010436.X | Apr 2023 | CN | national |
| PCT/CN2023/099940 | Jun 2023 | WO | international |
The present disclosure claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202321010436.X, filed on Apr. 27, 2023, and priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202310479230.X, filed on Apr. 27, 2023, and further claims priority to International Application No. PCT/CN2023/099940, filed on Jun. 13, 2023, contents of both of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.