The present disclosure relates generally to an electricity supply structure, and particularly to a high-voltage, high-capacity, and three-dimensionalized horizontal composite electricity supply structure by serially connecting electrochemical system elements and concurrently connecting parallelly and/or serially electrochemical system element groups in the electricity supply structure.
In recent years, due to the exhaustion of petrochemical fuels and the prevalence of the consciousness of environmental protection, people are forced to rethink how to balance between living convenience and environmental protection for those objects using petrochemical fuels as the power source and exhausting massive greenhouse gases. Cars, as important transportation vehicles, become one of the primary objects to be inspected. Accordingly, under the global trend of energy saving and carbon reduction, many countries worldwide set car electrification as an important target for carbon dioxide reduction. Unfortunately, electric cars face many problems in practical applications. For example, the capacity of electricity supply elements limits the endurance. Consequently, more batteries should be connected in series or parallelly for increasing the capacity and thus extending the mileage.
To reduce the car weight for extending mileage, the secondary batteries with high energy density and light weight, such as lithium-ion secondary batteries, become the best choice for the battery of electric cars. Nonetheless, how to assemble multiple lithium-ion secondary batteries to form a safe and stable power source has become an urgent challenge for people.
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According to the US patent application No. 2004/0091771, adjacent battery modules share a common electricity collecting layer. By using this method, the problem of electrolyte decomposition as described above can be solved. Unfortunately, owing to the series connection to the common electricity collecting layer, the design will be less flexible. Only internal series connection can be adopted. To form a battery module, external parallel connection of a plurality of battery cells still should be adopted.
Furthermore, according to a composite battery cells of Taiwan patent application No. 106136071, series and parallel connections can be done inside battery cells directly for giving high-voltage and high-unit-capacity battery cells, eliminating the drawbacks of lower performance and reduced capacity density due to external connection according to the prior art. Unfortunately, according to the technology, the electricity supply element group achieves high capacity and high voltage by vertically stacking a great number of electricity supply elements for series and/or parallel connections.
Nonetheless, while facing puncture of metal objects, the high voltage drop caused by puncture is unavoidable extremely dangerous for fully solid, pseudo solid (solid/liquid), or liquid electrolyte systems. It is particularly dangerous for battery cells formed by vertically stacking massive electricity supply elements internally.
According to the drawbacks, the present disclosure provides a novel horizontal composite electricity supply structure for avoiding safety concerns caused by puncture of battery elements by metal objects.
An objective of the present disclosure is to provide a horizontal composite electricity supply structure, which adopts series and/or parallel connections in the horizontal direction to connect electrically multiple electrochemical system element groups for reducing the number of vertically stacked electrochemical system elements and avoiding safety problems caused by punching by metal objects.
Another objective of the present disclosure is to provide a horizontal composite electricity supply structure. A first insulation layer and a second insulation are disposed at the top and bottom, respectively. Multiple electrochemical system element groups extending horizontally and connected serially and/or parallelly are disposed between the first and second insulation layers. By using the first and second insulation layers, the potential damages caused by punctures on battery cells by external metal objects can be prevented.
Another objective of the present disclosure is to provide a horizontal composite electricity supply structure. There is no electrochemical reaction between adjacent electrochemical system elements except charge transfer. Thereby, electricity supply elements will not limit to the maximum voltage of allowance of electrolyte, and could connect in series and/or parallel way. Hence, the capacity density and voltage can be improved.
Still another objective of the present disclosure is to provide a horizontal composite electricity supply structure. Multiple channels are formed between adjacent electrochemical system element groups, acting as paths for heat dissipation.
A further objective of the present disclosure is to provide a horizontal composite electricity supply structure. The electricity collecting layers between adjacent electrochemical system elements are shared for connection. The contact area is much larger than the one by nickel plate soldering according to the prior art. Thereby, the internal resistance of the electrochemical system element group can be reduced substantially. The performance of the power module formed by the electrochemical system element groups hardly loses. In addition, because the reduction of resistance, the charging and discharging speeds increase significantly, and the heating problem is reduced significantly. Then the cooling system of the electrochemical system element group can be simplified and can be managed and controlled easily. Thereby, the reliability and safety of the overall composite electricity supply structure can be enhanced.
To achieve the above objectives, the present disclosure provides a horizontal composite electricity supply structure, which comprises a first insulation layer, a second insulation layer, two patterned conductive layers, and a plurality of electrochemical system element groups. The second insulation layer is disposed opposing to the first insulation layer. The two patterned conductive layers are disposed on the surface of the first and second insulation layers, respectively, and faced to each other. The plurality of electrochemical system element groups are disposed between the first insulation layer and the second insulation layer, and connected serially and/or parallelly via the patterned conductive layers. Each electrochemical system element group is formed by one or more electrochemical system elements. A package layer is deposited on the periphery of each electrochemical system element, so that there is no circulation between adjacent electrolyte system elements except charge transfer. Thereby, electricity supply elements will not be limited to the maximum voltage of allowance of electrolyte, and could connect in series and/or parallel at same time. Each electrochemical system element comprises an isolation layer, two active material layers, and an electrolyte system. The two active material layers are disposed on both sides of the isolation layer, respectively. The electrolyte system is disposed in the active material layers. The electrochemical system elements on the two outermost sides of each electrochemical system element group adopt the patterned conductive layers as the electricity collecting layers.
In the following, concrete embodiment are described in detail for understanding the objective, technologies, feature, and the effects provided by the present disclosure.
Given the safety problem caused by puncture on multiple electrochemical system elements stacked vertically and connected serially by metal sharp objects for the demand of high voltage and high capacity, the present disclosure provides a novel horizontal composite electricity supply structure to solve the puncture problem.
The present disclosure mainly discloses a horizontal composite electricity supply structure, which comprises a plurality of electrochemical system element groups. The electrochemical system element group comprises one or more mutually serially and/or parallelly connected electrochemical system elements. Then, after multiple electrochemical system element groups are mutually connected serially and/or parallelly via the patterned conductive layers, a first conductive terminal and a second conductive terminal are connected to electrochemical system element groups to form the composite electricity supply structure. In other words, inside the composite electricity supply structure, series and parallel connections can be done concurrently. The electrochemical system elements forming the electrochemical system element group according to the present disclosure don't share electrolyte systems each other. Figures are used for further description. The above composite electricity supply structure can be any supply element capable of storing energy and supply external devices, such as batteries or capacitors.
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The electrochemical system element group 20 as described above is formed by one or more electrochemical system elements 22. For example, in
The material of the isolation layer 226 with micro holes allowing ions to passing through can be selected from the group consisting of polymer materials, ceramic materials, and glass fiber materials. The micro holes can be penetrating holes, nonlinear holes, or even made by porous materials. In addition, porous ceramic insulative materials can be distributed inside the micro hole of the substrate. The ceramic insulative materials can be formed by materials such as micrometer- or nanometer-grade titanium dioxide (TiO2), aluminum oxide (Al2O3), silicon dioxide (SiO2), or alkylated ceramic particles. The ceramic insulative materials can further include polymer adhesives, such as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), polyvinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-HFP), polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), acrylic acid glue, epoxy, polyethylene oxide (PEO), polyacrylonitrile (PAN), or polyimide (PI).
The electrolyte system is disposed in the first and second active material layers 225, 227. The form of the electrolyte system can be selected from the group consisting of liquid state, pseudo solid state, gel state, solid state or combinations thereof. The active materials of the active material layers 225, 227 can convert chemical energy to electrical energy for usage (supplying electricity) or electrical energy to chemical energy for storage (charging), and can achieve ion conduction and transport concurrently. The generated electrons can be led outward via the adjacent electricity collecting layers.
The material of the package layer 23 can include epoxy, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyurethane, thermoplastic polyimide, silicone, acrylic resin, or ultraviolet-hardened glue. The package layer 23 is disposed on the periphery of the electrochemical system element 22 with two ends glued to the electricity collecting layers on both sides of the electrochemical system element 22. According to the present embodiment, the package layer 23 is glues to the patterned conductive layers 16, 18 for sealing the electrolyte system between the patterned conductive layers 16, 18 and the package layer 23 for avoiding leakage and circulation with the electrolyte system of other electrochemical system elements 22. Thereby, the electrochemical system element 22 is an independent and complete electricity supply module.
To improve the sealing effect of the package layer 23, the package layer 23 can be designed to have three layers. Please refer to
In addition, for easier description and identification, the electrochemical system elements 22 in the figures for illustrating the horizontal composite electricity supply structure use simple positive and negative symbols to identify the positive and negative electrical polarities for illustrating the electrical properties, instead of plotting the detailed components of the electrochemical system element 22 as shown in
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Due to the requirement of contacting positive and negative electrode (active material layers 225,227) concurrently, the materials of the patterned conductive layers 16, 18 and/or the common electricity collecting layer 19 as described above should be able to tolerate high and low voltages and no oxidation reaction should occur. For example, the materials include stainless steel (SUS) or graphite. Furthermore, the materials can be the metal powders selected from the group consisting of aluminum, copper, titanium, nickel, stainless steel, and the alloys thereof. By spraying or calendering the metal powers mixed with adhesive, the patterned conductive layers 16, 18 and/or the common electricity collecting layer 19 can be manufactured.
The horizontal composite electricity supply structure 10 according to the present disclosure further comprises a first conductive lead 24 and a second conductive lead 26. In
Furthermore, the first conductive lead 24 and the second conductive lead 26 can be formed integrally with the patterned conductive layers 16, 18 connected electrically with them. As shown in
When the first and second conductive leads 24, 26 are formed not adopting the integral method, the materials of the first and second conductive leads 24, 26 can be different from those of the patterned conductive layers 16, 18. In addition, direct contact can be formed by soldering with or without soldering material, or by melting method. Alternatively, conductive silver glue or conductive cloth can be adopted.
Under the architecture of the horizontal composite electricity supply structure according to the present disclosure, to increase the total capacity or total voltage of the battery module, the only thing to do is to perform external series/parallel connection of multiple horizontal composite electricity supply structures 10 by using the first and second conductive leads 24, 26. Then the total capacity or the total voltage of the battery module can be increased. For example, by externally connecting serially multiple horizontal composite electricity supply structures 10, the total voltage can be increased, as shown in
To increase the voltage of a single horizontal composite electricity supply structure, simply add the electrochemical system element group. For example, as shown in
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The benefits of the present disclosure will be further described. For example, according to the composite electricity supply structure of the Taiwan patent application No. 106136071, 24 electrochemical system elements are vertically and serially connected to give a voltage value of 24*4.2 volts. By adopting the horizontal composite electricity supply structure according to the present disclosure given the same voltage value and number of electrochemical system elements, 24 single electrochemical system elements can be connected in opposite polarities horizontally via the conductive layers 16, 18, as shown in
Next, when the electrochemical system element group 20 is formed by two or more electrochemical system elements 22, the serial and/or parallel configurations of the plurality of electrochemical system elements 22 are described.
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To sum up, the present disclosure provides a horizontal composite electricity supply structure, which comprises multiple electrochemical system element groups. The electrochemical system element groups are serially and/or parallelly connected internally in a horizontal extension method via the patterned conductive layers for reaching a certain voltage and capacity. In addition, external series and/or parallel connections of multiple horizontal composite electricity supply structures can be done via the first and second conductive leads of the horizontal composite electricity supply structures. Furthermore, the horizontal composite electricity supply structure according to the present disclosure comprises a first and a second insulation layers at the top and bottom for effectively preventing potential damages caused by puncture of metal objects on the electricity supply structure.
Moreover, in addition to blocking puncture effectively, the first and second insulation layers 12, 14 according to the present disclosure can act as the blocking layers for electrical contact between the patterned conductive layers when multiple electricity supply structures 10 are externally connected serially and/or parallelly.
Accordingly, the present disclosure conforms to the legal requirements owing to its novelty, nonobviousness, and utility. However, the foregoing description is only embodiments of the present disclosure, not used to limit the scope and range of the present disclosure. Those equivalent changes or modifications made according to the shape, structure, feature, or spirit described in the claims of the present disclosure are included in the appended claims of the present disclosure.
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107127703 | Aug 2018 | TW | national |
107135860 | Oct 2018 | TW | national |