BATTERY PACK

• US 20090087727A1
• Filed: 12/04/2008
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Inagaki, Hiroki, Takami, Norio, Tatebayashi, Yoshinao, HARADA, Yasuhiro
• Application Number:
  US12/328,178
• Publication Number:
  US 20090087727A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/120
• 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 10/613 Cooling or keeping cold
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/625 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/647 Prismatic or flat cells, e.g. pouch cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/6557 arranged between the cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/6567 Liquids
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/6568 characterised by flow circuits, e.g. loops, located externally to the cells or cell casings
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2004/027 Negative electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/485 of mixed oxides or hydroxides for inserting or intercalating light metals, e.g. LiTi2O4 or LiTi2OxFy H01M4/505, H01M4/525 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/661 Metal or alloys, e.g. alloy coatings H01M4/669 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/662 Alloys collectors of lead alloys H01M4/685
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/209 adapted for prismatic or rectangular cells H01M50/216 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/291 characterised by their shape
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/293 characterised by the material
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/50 Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product

Abstract

There is disclosed a battery pack which comprises a packing case, a combination battery housed in the packing case and having a plurality of flat and rectangular type secondary batteries which are laminated each other, a hollow body interposed at least between the flat and rectangular type secondary batteries in the combination battery and made of a thermoplastic resin film having a melting point of 110 to 200° C., and a cooling medium passed through the hollow body and includes an nonflammable insulating solvent.

Claims

1. A battery pack comprising:

a packing case;

a combination battery housed in the packing case and having a plurality of flat and rectangular type secondary batteries which are laminated each other;

a hollow body interposed at least between the flat and rectangular type secondary batteries in the combination battery and made of a thermoplastic resin film having a melting point of 110 to 200°

C.; and

a cooling medium passed through the hollow body and comprising an nonflammable insulating solvent.

2. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein the thermoplastic resin is olefin-based heat fusible resin, ester-based heat fusible resin or urethane-based heat fusible resin.

3. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein the thermoplastic resin film has a thickness of 100 to 300 μ

m.

4. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein the nonflammable insulating solvent is selected from the group consisting of diisopropyl naphthalene, 1-phenyl-1-(3,4-dimethylphenyl)ethane, liquid cellulose, ethylene glycol and carbon tetrachloride.

5. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein the hollow body is further disposed on at least one of the top and bottom surfaces of the lamination direction of the secondary batteries in the combination battery.

6. The battery pack according to claim 1, which further comprises spacers made of an insulating material, the spacers being respectively disposed to contact with at least opposite sidewalls of the hollow body.

7. The battery pack according to claim 1, which further comprises an inlet side joint tube which is communicated with the hollow body for introducing the cooling medium into the hollow body;

and an outlet side joint tube which is communicated with the hollow body for discharging the cooling medium from the hollow body;

wherein the inlet side joint tube has an aperture diameter which is larger than that of the outlet side joint tube.

8. The battery pack according to claim 7, wherein the inlet side joint tube has an aperture diameter which is 1.1 to 2.0 times as large as that of the outlet side joint tube.

9. The battery pack according to claim 1, which further comprises an inlet side joint tube which is communicated with the hollow body for introducing the cooling medium into the hollow body;

an outlet side joint tube which is communicated with the hollow body for discharging the cooling medium from the hollow body;

a cooling pipe communicated, through one end thereof, with the inlet side joint tube and also communicated, through the other end thereof, with the outlet side joint tube; and

a radiator and a pump both successively provided on an intermediate portion of the cooling pipe, the radiator being positioned closer to the outlet side joint tube than the pump.

10. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein the flat and rectangular type secondary battery is a non-aqueous lithium ion secondary battery comprising a negative electrode, a positive electrode and a separator.

11. The battery pack according to claim 10, wherein the negative electrode comprises a current collector, and an active material-containing layer containing lithium titanate oxide and formed on one or both surfaces of the current collector.

12. The battery pack according to claim 11, wherein the current collector is made of aluminum having an average crystal grain diameter of not more than 50 μ

m, or formed of aluminum alloy having an average crystal grain diameter of not more than 50 μ

m.