The present application claims priority to Chinese patent application No. CN201810833960.4, filed on Jul. 26, 2018, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to the field of battery technology, and particularly relates to an isolation board assembly and a battery module.
An isolation board assembly generally comprises an isolation board and an electrical connection piece, and the function of the isolation board is to limit the position of the electrical connection piece. However, the conventional isolation board assembly generally has the following problems: (1) most of the isolation boards cannot provide a fixing force for the electrical connection piece in the height direction, thereby resulting in the risk that the electrical connection piece falls off under vibration; (2) although some isolation boards can provide a fixing force for the electrical connection piece in the height direction, it is necessary to place the electrical connection piece on the isolation board from up to down, and for the convenience of assembling, the fixing structure of the isolation board reserves a certain assembling space, thereby resulting in that the fixing reliability between the isolation board and the electrical connection piece is not high; (3) the overall structure of the isolation board assembly is complicated and the volume is large, which is not beneficial to reduce the cost.
In view of the problem existing in the background, an object of the present disclosure is to provide an isolation board assembly and a battery module, the assembling of the isolation board assembly is simple, which improves the assembling efficiency and ensures the fixing reliability between the isolation board and the electrical connection piece, and the volume of the isolation board assembly is small, when the isolation board assembly is applied to the battery module, it decreases the space of occupied by the isolation board assembly in the battery module, thereby improving the space utilization of the battery module.
In order to achieve the above object, the present disclosure provides an isolation board assembly, which comprises: an isolation board; and a plurality of electrical connection pieces, each electrical connection piece is fixed to the isolation board. The isolation board comprises: a plurality of supporting portions formed on both sides of the isolation board in a width direction, and multiple supporting portions on the same side of the isolation board in the width direction are spaced apart from each other in a length direction; and a plurality of first limiting portions, each first limiting portion and the corresponding supporting portion form an interval therebetween in a height direction. Each electrical connection piece comprises: a first end portion; and a second end portion disposed opposite to the first end portion in the width direction. The first end portion of each electrical connection piece is received in the corresponding interval, clamped and fixed by the corresponding first limiting portion and the corresponding supporting portion, and the second end portion of each electrical connection piece extends out of the corresponding supporting portion in the width direction.
The isolation board further comprises a plurality of second limiting portions in pairs, the two second limiting portions in each pair face each other and are used for limiting a movement of the corresponding electrical connection piece in the length direction, and each second limiting portion is formed above the corresponding supporting portion and protrudes from the corresponding supporting portion in the height direction.
Each second limiting portion comprises a Y direction stopping wall positioned at an outer side of the corresponding electrical connection piece in the length direction and extending in the width direction, so as to limit the movement of the corresponding electrical connection piece in the length direction.
Each second limiting portion further comprises an X direction stopping wall formed on one end of the Y direction stopping wall in the width direction and extending in a direction toward the first limiting portion facing the second limiting portion in the length direction, so as to limit a movement of the corresponding electrical connection piece in the width direction.
The isolation board further comprises a plurality of elastic latching members, each elastic latching member and the corresponding first limiting portion are spaced apart from each other in the height direction, and each elastic latching member is latched to the first end portion of the corresponding electrical connection piece.
Each electrical connection piece is provided with a through hole passing through the first end portion of the electrical connection piece in the height direction. Each elastic latching member comprises: a main body portion; and a latching portion protruding from the main body portion in the height direction. The main body portion of each elastic latching member and the corresponding first limiting portion clamp and fix the first end portion of the corresponding electrical connection piece, and the latching portion of each elastic latching member is latched to the corresponding electrical connection piece via the through hole of the corresponding electrical connection piece.
The isolation board further comprises: a bottom wall; and two side walls formed on both sides of the bottom wall in the width direction, the two side walls and the bottom wall form a wiring groove, and each supporting portion and each first limiting portion are formed on an outer side of the corresponding side wall in the width direction. The isolation board assembly further comprises multiple sampling harnesses received and fixed in the wiring groove of the isolation board, and one end of each sampling harness is fixedly connected with the corresponding electrical connection piece.
The isolation board further comprises a plurality of third limiting portions formed above the bottom wall and spaced apart from each other in the length direction, a clamping groove is formed between each third limiting portion and the bottom wall, and the clamping groove is provided to allow the multiple sampling harnesses to pass through and constrain the multiple sampling harnesses.
The side wall of the isolation board is formed with a plurality of openings, each opening is provided for the one end of the corresponding sampling harness to pass through the side wall to be fixedly connected with the corresponding electrical connection piece. The isolation board further comprises a plurality of fourth limiting portions each formed above the corresponding supporting portion and protruding from the corresponding supporting portion in the height direction, each fourth limiting portion is positioned at an outer side of the corresponding opening in the width direction, each fourth limiting portion and the corresponding supporting portion form a channel to allow the one end of the corresponding sampling harness to pass through.
The present disclosure further provides a battery module, which comprises: a plurality of batteries arranged side by side in the length direction, and each battery comprises two electrode terminals spaced apart from each other in the width direction; and the isolation board assembly described above, the isolation board of the isolation board assembly is fixed between the two electrode terminals of the battery, and the second end portion of each electrical connection piece is fixed to the electrode terminal of the corresponding battery.
The present disclosure has the following beneficial effects: in the process of assembling the isolation board assembly, based on the structure of the isolation board, the first end portion of each electrical connection piece can be directly inserted into the interval formed between the corresponding first limiting portion and the corresponding supporting portion from one side of the isolation board in the width direction. Such an assembly manner is simple and fast, which improves the assembling efficiency. Because the first end portion of each electrical connection piece is clamped and fixed by the corresponding first limiting portion and the corresponding supporting portion of the isolation board, it ensures the fixing reliability between each electrical connection piece and the isolation board, and prevents each electrical connection piece falling off from the isolation plate. And because the first end portion of each electrical connection piece is supported on the corresponding supporting portion of the isolation board, and the second end portion of each electrical connection piece extends out of the corresponding supporting portion in the width direction, it makes the dimension of the isolation board in the width direction is small, thereby greatly decreasing the volume and weight of the isolation board.
Reference numerals are represented as follows:
11 electrode terminal
21 isolation board
22 electrical connection piece
23 sampling harness
Hereinafter an isolation board assembly and a battery module according to the present disclosure will be described in detail in combination with the figures.
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The plurality of batteries 1 are arranged side by side in a length direction L, and each battery 1 comprises two electrode terminals 11 spaced apart from each other in a width direction W.
The two end plates 3 are respectively positioned at both ends of the plurality of batteries 1 in the length direction L. The two end plates 3 are used for clamping the plurality of batteries 1 in the length direction L.
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In order to achieve the fixing between the isolation board 21 and each battery 1, a bottom surface of the isolation board 21 may be bonded with each battery 1 by a binder A, and the isolation board 21 is fixedly connected with each end plate 3 by a fastener S (such as a bolt), thereby ensuring the fixing reliability between the isolation board 21 and each battery 1. Compared with the existing fixing manner of the isolation board assembly 2 (that is, fixing by using a latching structure provided on a side plate of the battery module), the manner in the present disclosure is simpler, and it does not need to provide the side plate with the latching structure in the battery module, thereby greatly simplifying the structure of the battery module, reducing the costs, and improving the assembling efficiency of the battery module.
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In the process of assembling the isolation board assembly 2, based on the structure of the isolation board 21, the first end portion 221 of each electrical connection piece 22 can be directly inserted into the interval formed between the corresponding first limiting portion 212 and the corresponding supporting portion 211 from one side of the isolation board 21 in the width direction W. Such an assembly manner is simple and fast, thereby improving the assembling efficiency. After each electrical connection piece 22 and the isolation board 21 are assembled, the first end portion 221 of each electrical connection piece 22 is received in the corresponding interval, clamped and fixed by the corresponding first limiting portion 212 and the corresponding supporting portion 211, and the second end portion 222 of each electrical connection piece 22 extends out of the corresponding supporting portion 211 in the width direction W.
Because the first end portion 221 of each electrical connection piece 22 is clamped and fixed by the corresponding first limiting portion 212 and the corresponding supporting portion 211 of the isolation board 21, it ensures the fixing reliability between each electrical connection piece 22 and the isolation board 21, and prevents each electrical connection piece 22 falling off from the isolation plate 21. And because the first end portion 221 of each electrical connection piece 22 is supported on the corresponding supporting portion 211 of the isolation board 21, and the second end portion 222 of each electrical connection piece 22 extends out of the corresponding supporting portion 211 in the width direction W, it makes the dimension of the isolation board 21 in the width direction W small, thereby greatly decreasing the volume and the weight of the isolation board 21.
When the isolation board assembly 2 is assembled on the plurality of batteries 1, because the volume of the isolation board 21 is small, the isolation board 21 can be directly placed between the two electrode terminals 11 of each battery 1, meanwhile the second end portion 222 of each electrical connection piece 22 is positioned above the electrode terminal 11 of the corresponding battery 1 and fixed to the corresponding electrode terminal 11, therefore the space of occupied by the isolation board assembly 2 in the battery module is small, thereby improving the space utilization of the battery module and greatly reducing the costs.
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In order to ensure that the isolation board 21 can provide a sufficient fixing force for the first end portion 221 of each electrical connection piece 22 in the height direction H, each electrical connection piece 22 needs to be clamped and fixed by the first limiting portions 212 and the corresponding supporting portion 211. Specifically, referring to
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In the process of assembling the isolation board assembly 2, when the first end portion 221 of each electrical connection piece 22 is inserted into the interval formed between the corresponding first limiting portion 212 and the corresponding supporting portion 211, the elastic latching member 214 is deflected downward and generates elastic deformation, and when the through hole 223 of each electrical connection piece 22 and the latching portion 2142 of the corresponding elastic latching member 214 are aligned with each other in the height direction H, the latching portion 2142 of the elastic latching member 214 is inserted into the corresponding through hole 223 so as to latch to the corresponding electrical connection piece 22, thereby limiting the movement of the corresponding electrical connection piece 22 in the width direction W. At this time, the elastic latching member 214 elastically restores, the main body portion 2141 of the elastic latching member 214 and the corresponding supporting portion 211 and the corresponding first limiting portion 212 clamps and fixes the corresponding electrical connection piece 22 in the height direction H, thereby limiting a movement of the corresponding electrical connection piece 22 in the height direction H.
It is noted that, in the isolation board assembly 2 according to the present disclosure, each first limiting portion 212 and the corresponding supporting portion 211 limit the movement of the corresponding electrical connection piece 22 in the height direction H, the two second limiting portions 213 in each pair limit the movement of the corresponding electrical connection piece 22 in the length direction L, and meanwhile the latching function between the latching portion 2142 of each elastic latching member 214 and the corresponding electrical connection piece 22 limit the movement of the corresponding electrical connection piece 22 in the width direction W, and the main body portion 2141 of each elastic latching member 214 and the corresponding supporting portion 211 and the corresponding first limiting portion 212 further limit the movement of the electrical connection piece 22 in the height direction H, and thus the movement of each electrical connection piece 22 in the six directions are limited, thereby greatly improving the fixing reliability between each electrical connection piece 22 and the isolation board 21.
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In order to prevent an end portion of the sampling harness 23 close to the corresponding electrical connection piece 22 from shaking during the process of sampling, a clamping structure may be provided on the isolation board 21 of the isolation board assembly 2 and/or each electrical connection piece 22 to limit the shaking of the end portion of the sampling harness 23.
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The multiple sampling harnesses 23 may comprise a plurality of voltage sampling harnesses and a plurality of temperature sampling harnesses. Each voltage sampling harness may be welded to the corresponding electrical connection piece 22, and each temperature sampling harness may be bonded to the corresponding electrical connection piece 22.
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Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201810833960.4 | Jul 2018 | CN | national |