MULTI-CELLS CONNECTION BOARD (MCB) ASSEMBLY AND ITS FABRICATION METHOD

• US 20080131761A1
• Filed: 05/04/2007
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TD HiTech Energy, Inc.
• Original Assignee: TD HiTech Energy, Inc.
• Inventors: Fang, Yofu, Liu, Jenchih, Lin, Chunchu
• Application Number:
  US11/744,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20080131761A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/99
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0525 Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0565 Polymeric materials, e.g. gel-type or solid-type
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/209 adapted for prismatic or rectangular cells H01M50/216 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/211 adapted for pouch cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/213 adapted for cells having curved cross-section, e.g. round or elliptic H01M50/209, H01M50/216 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/503 characterised by the shape of the interconnectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/522 Inorganic material
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/569 Constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals battery terminal connectors with integrated measuring arrangements G01R31/364
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49108 Electric battery cell making

Abstract

A MCB assembly is disclosed to include an electrically insulative mounting board, which has an end plate and cell compartments extending from the end plate in a parallel manner and spaced from one another by a respective narrow crevice for dividing a plurality of battery cells, a metal conducting strip bar, which is joined to the electrically insulative mounting board by means of injection molding, having a plurality of metal conducting strips and two connecting strips respectively formed integral with the opposite ends of the metal conducting strips that are separated from the metal conducting strips after joining of the metal conducting strip bar to the mounting board, and a sensor connector mounted in through holes on the end plate of the mounting board and bonded with metal terminals thereof to a respective conducting bonding hole on each of the metal conducting strips.

Claims

1. A MCB assembly comprising:

an electrically insulative mounting board, said electrically insulative mounting board comprising an end plate, and a plurality of cell compartments extending from one side of said end plate in a parallel manner and spaced from one another by respective narrow crevices for dividing a plurality of battery cells; and

a metal conducting strip bar joined to said electrically insulative mounting board by means of injection molding, said metal conducting strip bar comprising a plurality of metal conducting strips corresponding to the narrow crevices between each two adjacent cell compartments of said electrically insulative mounting board.

2. The MCB assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said metal conducting strip bar further comprises at least one breakable connecting member that joins said metal conducting strips and is breakable from said metal conducting strips.

3. The MCB assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein said metal conducting strip bar further comprises a row of conducting bonding holes on said metal conducting strips;

said mounting board supports a sensor connector, having a plurality of locating holes corresponding to said conducting bonding holes and a plurality of bottom mounting grooves corresponding to said cell compartments for mounting of battery cells, said sensor connector comprising a plurality of metal terminals respectively inserted through said locating holes and respectively bonded to said conducting bonding holes.

10. The MCB assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said mounting boards each have a plurality of border mounting holes, and a plurality of positioning ribs respectively extended from one side thereof corresponding to said insertion holes for holding said battery cells in place;

wherein the dual-contact metal contact plates and single-contact metal contact plates of said metal contact sets each have a curved mounting portion.

4. A MCB assembly fabrication method comprising the steps of:

(a) stamping a metal sheet member into a metal conducting strip bar, said metal conducting strip bar comprising a plurality of metal conducting strips and at least one breakable connecting member joining said metal conducting strips, said metal conducting strips each having a bonding hole at one end thereof; and

(b) molding an electrically insulative mounting board on said metal conducting strip bar, said electrically insulative mounting board having an end plate and a plurality of cell compartments extending from one side of said end plate in a parallel manner and spaced from one another by respective narrow crevices, the narrow crevices between each two adjacent cell compartments being disposed corresponding to the metal conducting strips of said metal conducting strip bar.

5. The MCB assembly fabrication method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising, after step (b), the steps of:

(c) separating said at least one breakable connecting member from said metal conducting strips; and

(d) installing a sensor connector in said mounting board and soldering metal terminals of said sensor connector to the bonding holes of said metal conducting strips.

6. A MCB assembly comprising:

an electrically insulative mounting board, said electrically insulative mounting board comprising an end plate, a plurality of cell compartments extending from one side of said end plate in a parallel manner and spaced from one another by respective narrow crevices for dividing a plurality of battery cells, and two protruding blocks respectively extending from said end plate at two opposite lateral sides of said cell compartments; and

a metal conducting strip bar joined to said electrically insulative mounting board by means of injection molding, said metal conducting strip bar comprising a plurality of metal conducting strips corresponding to the narrow crevices between each two adjacent cell compartments of said electrically insulative mounting board.

7. The MCB assembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein said metal conducting strip bar further comprises two connecting strips respectively connected to two opposite ends of each of said metal conducting strips, a tearing line respectively connected between each of said connecting strips and each of said metal conducting strips through which said connecting strips are broken and separated from said metal conducting strips by an external force, said metal conducting strips each having a conducting bonding hole at one end thereof;

wherein said electrically insulative mounting board supports a sensor connector, said sensor connector having a plurality of metal terminals respectively bonded to the conducting bonding holes of said metal conducting strips.

8. The MCB assembly as claimed in claim 7, wherein said protruding blocks of said electrically insulative mounting board each have a notch and at least one outer locating groove;

said metal conducting strip bar further comprises two protruding metal strips disposed at two opposite lateral sides of said metal conducting strips, said two protruding metal strips being joined to one of said two connecting strips, said two protruding metal strips each having a vertical strip portion respectively extending from a respective adjacent one of said metal conducting strips at right angles, one of said metal conducting strips having a vertical strip portion spaced from and in line with the vertical strip portion of one of said two protruding metal strips.

9. A MCB assembly mounted on top and bottom ends of a set of battery cells to electrically connect said battery cells together, the MCB assembly comprising:

two mounting boards respectively attached to the top and bottom ends of said set of battery cells, said mounting board each having a plurality of insertion holes corresponding to one of the positive and negative terminals of each of said battery cells; and

two metal contact sets respectively joined to said mounting boards by means of injection molding and respectively electrically connected to the positive and negative terminals of said battery cells, said metal contact sets each comprising at least one dual-contact metal contact plate and a single-contact metal contact plate.