METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE HOLDER FOR A VEHICLE

• US 20120227931A1
• Filed: 03/12/2012
• Published: 09/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ARKISS IP UG
• Original Assignee: Mahle Behr Gmbh & Co. Kg (MAHLE-STIFTUNG GmbH)
• Inventors: HECKENBERGER, Thomas, ISERMEYER, Tobias, KOHLBERGER, Markus, SCHIEHLEN, Thomas, HERRMANN, Hans-Georg, FEHRENBACHER, Christoph
• Granted Patent: US 9,083,009 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 165/41
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/04 Construction or manufacture in general H01M10/058, H01M10/12, H01M10/28, H01M10/38 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/052 Li-accumulators
• 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 10/6556 Solid parts with flow channel passages or pipes for heat exchange closed pipes H01M10/6552
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/119 Metals
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/176 for prismatic or rectangular cells H01M50/181 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/503 characterised by the shape of the interconnectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/55 on the same side of the cell
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/553 Terminals adapted for prismatic, pouch or rectangular cells
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49359 Cooling apparatus making, e.g., air conditioner, refrigerator

Abstract

A method comprising a step of providing a cooling plate having at least one exposed cooling channel designed for guiding a cooling fluid. The method further comprises a step of providing a mounting unit designed for receiving and fixing at least one energy storage unit. The method finally comprises a step of connecting the cooling plate to the mounting unit, whereby the at least one cooling channel is closed.

Claims

1. A method for producing an energy storage device holder for a vehicle, the method comprising:

providing a cooling plate with at least one exposed cooling channel that is configured to carry a cooling fluid;

providing a holder unit that is configured to accommodate and secure at least one energy storage unit; and

connecting the cooling plate to the holder unit via which the at least one cooling channel is closed.

3. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of providing an additional cooling plate, wherein the additional cooling plate has at least one additional exposed cooling channel, and wherein the additional exposed cooling channel in the additional cooling plate is closed by a side surface of the holder unit during the connection step or wherein, during the step of providing the holder unit, a holder unit is provided that has on a side surface at least one additional exposed cooling channel that is also closed by an additional provided cooling plate during the connection step.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein a cooling plate that has a metal or metal constituents, steel, aluminum, magnesium, titanium, or a plastic/metal hybrid, is provided during the step of providing the cooling plate, or wherein during the step of providing the holder unit, a holder unit with a base plate having exposed cooling channels is provided wherein the base plate has a metal or metal constituents, steel, aluminum, magnesium, titanium, or a plastic/metal hybrid.

5. A method for producing an energy storage unit for a vehicle, the method comprising:

the steps of the method according to claim 1; and

inserting at least one energy storage element in the holder unit to produce the energy storage unit.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the method further comprises a step of providing an additional cooling plate, the additional cooling plate having at least one opening, and wherein the method further comprises a step of mounting the additional cooling plate on the holder unit such that, after the mounting step, a contact terminal of the at least one energy storage element is contacted through the at least one opening in the at least one cooling plate.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein a plurality of energy storage elements are inserted in direct contact next to one another in the holder unit during the insertion step, and wherein the energy storage units are inserted in the holder unit during the insertion step such that establishment of an electrical contact to contact terminals of the individual energy storage elements from a common contact side is made possible.

8. The method according to claim 6, further comprising a step of mounting a contact bar between different contact terminals of energy storage units.

9. The method according to claim 5, further comprising a step of mounting a cover, wherein the cover is made and mounted such that an electrically conductive connection from a contact terminal of the at least one energy storage element to a jacket of the energy storage element is prevented.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein, in the insertion step, the insertion of the at least one energy storage element takes place in such a manner that a jacket of the at least one energy storage element is connected in an electrically conductive manner to a contact terminal of the energy storage element.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein, in the step of providing the holder unit, a holder unit is provided that is designed to accommodate without play at least one energy storage element that has a honeycomb-shaped or round outer structure.

12. A device for holding an energy storage unit for a vehicle that was produced by the method according to claim 1.

2. A method for producing an energy storage device holder for a vehicle, the method comprising:

providing a holder unit that is configured to accommodate and secure at least one energy storage unit, the holder unit having a base plate that includes at least one exposed cooling channel that is adapted to carry a cooling fluid;

providing a cooling plate; and

connecting the cooling plate to the holder unit via which the at least one exposed cooling channel is closed.