BATTERY CELL MODULE, METHOD FOR OPERATING A BATTERY CELL MODULE AND BATTERY AND MOTOR VEHICLE

• US 20140127537A1
• Filed: 06/18/2012
• Published: 05/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH, Samsung SDI Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH, Samsung SDI Company Limited
• Inventors: Angerbauer, Ralf, Fink, Holger, Pflueger, Claus Gerald
• Application Number:
  US14/127,348
• Publication Number:
  US 20140127537A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/50
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/103 prismatic or rectangular H01M50/109, H01M50/11 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/147 Lids or covers
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/258 Modular batteries; Casings provided with means for assembling
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/30 Arrangements for facilitating escape of gases
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/325 comprising deformable valve members, e.g. elastic or flexible valve members
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/342 Non-re-sealable arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/358 External gas exhaust passages located on the battery cover or case
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A battery cell module includes a plurality of battery cells, which each have a ventilation opening. The battery cell module also includes a gas accommodation chamber which is assigned to a plurality of battery cells to at least temporarily accommodate gas which has escaped from said battery cells. The volume of the gas accommodation chamber is connected directly to the ventilation openings.

Claims

1. A battery cell module, comprising:

a plurality of battery cells each having a degassing orifice; and

a gas receiving chamber allocated to several battery cells of the plurality of battery cells, the gas receiving chamber configured to at least temporarily receive gases escaping from the several battery cells,

wherein a volume of the gas receiving chamber is directly connected to the degassing orifices of the several battery cells.

2. The battery cell module as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gas receiving chamber is open in a direction towards the several battery cells and an opening region of the gas receiving chamber is configured to extend over the several battery cells.

3. The battery cell module as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the gas receiving chamber includes several gas inlet orifices, and

each gas inlet orifice is flow-connected to a respective degassing orifice of a respective battery cell.

4. The battery cell module as claimed in claim 3, further comprising at least one multi-limb seal arranged in a connecting region between a material that forms the respective degassing orifice and a material that forms a respective gas inlet orifice.

5. The battery cell module as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gas receiving chamber includes an outlet orifice configured to discharge the gases received into said gas receiving chamber.

6. The battery cell module as claimed in claim 5, further comprising a non-return valve connected to the outlet orifice, wherein the non-return valve is a lip valve.

7. The battery cell module as claimed in claim 6, wherein:

the lip valve includes a predetermined breaking site configured such that a tear occurs in said lip valve if a predetermined gas pressure is exceeded in the gas receiving chamber, and

the tear allows an opening to be produced through which gas can flow out of the gas receiving chamber.

8. A method for operating a battery cell module, comprising:

receiving gases that escape from battery cells in the battery cell module within a gas receiving chamber;

producing an opening through which the gases can flow when a predetermined gas pressure in the gas receiving chamber is exceeded, the opening produced in a lip valve which is connected to an outlet orifice of the gas receiving chamber, and

sealing the gas receiving chamber with the lip valve with respect to an environment when a subsequent shortfall of the predetermined gas pressure in the gas receiving chamber occurs.

9. A battery, comprising:

a collective housing;

a degassing line connected to a gas outlet in the collective housing; and

several battery cell modules, each battery cell module including;

a plurality of battery cells each having a degassing orifice; and

a gas receiving chamber allocated to several battery cells of the plurality of battery cells, the gas receiving chamber configured to at least temporarily receive gases escaping from the several battery cells,

wherein a volume of the gas receiving chamber is directly connected to the degassing orifices,

wherein the battery cell modules are arranged in the collective housing and the gas receiving chambers of the battery cell modules are flow-connected to the degassing line.

10. The battery as claimed in claim 9, wherein the battery is connected to a drive system of a motor vehicle.