BATTERY PACK

• US 20150064524A1
• Filed: 05/23/2014
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung SDI Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Samsung SDI Company Limited
• Inventors: NOH, Kyoung-Hwan, BAE, Min-Cheol
• Application Number:
  US14/285,728
• Publication Number:
  US 20150064524A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/90
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/364 Battery terminal connectors with integrated measuring arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/48 Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals, H01M50/569
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/482 for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/486 for measuring temperature
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/613 Cooling or keeping cold
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/6555 arranged between the cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/209 adapted for prismatic or rectangular cells H01M50/216 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/293 characterised by the material
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/50 Current conducting connections for cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/507 comprising an arrangement of two or more busbars within a container structure, e.g. busbar modules
• 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: H01R 11/05 the connecting locations having different types of direct connections
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/12 End pieces terminating in an eye, hook, or fork
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/288 Interconnections between batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/115 U-shaped sockets having inwardly bent legs, e.g. spade type
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/20 Pins, blades, or sockets shaped, or provided with separate member, to retain co-operating parts together
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/2442 with a single cantilevered beam
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/4809 using a leaf spring to bias the conductor toward the busbar
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A battery pack includes at least one battery cell, a connector on the at least one battery cell, the connector including first and second connection parts integral with each other, and first and second sensing terminals insertable into the first and second connection parts, respectively, the first and second sensing terminals being configured to measure a temperature and a voltage of the battery cell, respectively.

Claims

1. A battery pack, comprising:

at least one battery cell;

a connector on the at least one battery cell, the connector including first and second connection parts integral with each other; and

first and second sensing terminals insertable into the first and second connection parts, respectively, the first and second sensing terminals being configured to measure a temperature and a voltage of the battery cell, respectively.

2. The battery pack as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first and second sensing terminals are slidable into the first and second connection parts, respectively.

3. The battery pack as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one battery cell includes at least first and second battery cells, a bus bar electrically connecting the at least first and second battery cells.

4. The battery pack as claimed in claim 3, wherein the connector is on the bus bar, the connector further comprising a coupling part coupled to the bus bar.

5. The battery pack as claimed in of claim 4, wherein the coupling part and the first and second connection parts are integral with each other to be formed in one piece.

6. The battery pack as claimed in claim 4, wherein the coupling part is at an outer side of the bus bar, and the first and second connection parts are at an inner side of the bus bar, the inner side of the bus bar being between the outer side of the bus bar and a center line of the battery cells.

7. The battery pack as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first connection part defines an accommodation space together with the bus bar to receive the first sensing terminal.

8. The battery pack as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first connection part presses the first sensing terminal against the bus bar.

9. The battery pack as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first connection part includes a cantilever member having a fixed end connected to the coupling part and an opposite free end.

10. The battery pack as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first connection part further comprises slots along two sides of the cantilever member, the slots separating the cantilever member from other portions of the first connection part.

11. The battery pack as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first sensing terminal is slidable between the cantilever member and the bus bar via the free end toward the fixed end.

12. The battery pack as claimed in claim 9, wherein the cantilever member includes a pressing part protruding toward the bus bar, the pressing member pressing against the first sensing terminal upon insertion of the first sensing terminal into the first connection part.

13. The battery pack as claimed in claim 12, wherein the pressing part is closer to the free end than to the fixed end.

14. The battery pack as claimed in claim 9, wherein the cantilever member includes a pressure adjusting part protruding toward the bus bar.

15. The battery pack as claimed in claim 14, wherein the pressure adjusting part has a stepped shape facing the bus bar.

16. The battery pack as claimed in claim 4, wherein the second connection part includes a fixed end connected to the coupling part and an opposite free end.

17. The battery pack as claimed in claim 16, wherein the second connection part extends in an oblique direction relative to the bus bar, a distance between the second connection part and the bus bar increasing in a direction from the fixed end to the free end of the second connection part.

18. The battery pack as claimed in claim 16, wherein the second connection part includes an assembling hole, a protrusion of the second sensing terminal being inserted into the assembling hole upon assembly of the second sensing terminal and the second connection part.

19. The battery pack as claimed in claim 18, wherein the second sensing terminal includes a pair of guide rails configured to accommodate edges of the second connection part, the protrusion being on a pressing plate between the guide rails.

20. The battery pack as claimed in claim 19, wherein the second sensing terminal further comprises a catch jaw at an end of the pressing plate, the catch jaw being configured to align with an assembling position of the second connection part.