Battery device loaded on moving body

• US 6,379,837 B1
• Filed: 02/10/2000
• Issued: 04/30/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Hideya, Kanaishi, Yoshikazu, Yamane, Ryoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): KALAFUT, STEPHEN J
• Application Number:
  US09/501,715
• Time in Patent Office: 810 Days
• Field of Search: 429/61.99, 429/120, 429/148, 429/151, 429/156, 429/159
• US Class Current: 429/151
• 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 10/4207 for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/613 Cooling or keeping cold
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/617 for achieving uniformity or desired distribution of temperature
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/625 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/643 Cylindrical cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/652 characterised by gradients for achieving a desired temperature gradient H01M10/617
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/6566 Means within the gas flow to guide the flow around one or more cells, e.g. manifolds, baffles or other barriers H01M10/6565 takes precedence
• 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 50/284 with incorporated circuit boards, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB]
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/296 characterised by terminals of battery packs terminals of batteries H01M50/543
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/505 comprising a single busbar
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/51 Connection only in series
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A battery device in which a large number of secondary batteries are efficiently housed and cemented strongly so that malfunctioning secondary batteries found after assembling can be exchanged and so that unusual heat evolution can be detected reliably. To this end, a pair of modular casing halves 43, 44 having battery housing half sections 49, 64 and a large number of terminal openings 46, 47 communicating with the battery housing half sections are coupled to each other to constitute a modular casing 13 having a battery housing section 45. A large number of secondary batteries 12 are housed in the battery housing section so that both end terminals of the secondary batteries will be exposed to outside through the terminal openings. Each modular casing half is provided with bottomed adhesive charging openings 72 in register with the respective terminal openings and adhesive efflux opening parts 78 communicating with the terminal openings and with the adhesive charging openings. An adhesive 76 charged through the adhesive charging openings is affixed to the outer periphery of the secondary batteries through the adhesive efflux opening parts to cement the ends of the secondary batteries to the terminal openings.

Claims

1. A battery device able to be loaded on a moving body, comprising:

a modular casing having a battery housing section therein and a plurality of terminal openings;

a plurality of secondary batteries housed in said battery housing section so that terminal portions thereof are exposed to outside through said terminal openings;

an adhesive charging opening and an adhesive efflux opening part in register with each terminal opening, said adhesive efflux opening part communicating with each terminal opening and with the adhesive charging opening;

an adhesive charged through the adhesive charging opening, said adhesive efflux opening part being arranged to cause said adhesive to flow around the peripheral surface of each secondary battery; and

each secondary battery being cemented by said adhesive to peripheral wall portions around said terminal openings.

2. The battery device able to be loaded on a moving body according to claim 1, wherein said modular casing is combined from a first modular casing half and a second modular casing half each of which has battery housing half spatial sections opened in one lateral side and said terminal opening on another lateral side thereof.

3. The battery device able to be loaded on a moving body according to claim 1, wherein said modular casing is housed in an outer casing member.

4. The battery device able to be loaded on a moving body according to claim 1, wherein said adhesive is selected from the group consisting of an urethane-composite adhesive agent, a silicon-composite adhesive agent and a modified silicon-composite adhesive agent.

5. The battery device able to be loaded on a moving body according to claim 1, wherein:

an annular adhesive charging guide groove communicating with said adhesive charging opening through said adhesive efflux opening part is formed in an inner surface of the outer periphery of each terminal opening; and

said adhesive flowing around the outer periphery of each secondary battery through said adhesive charging guide groove to seal the entire space between the outer periphery of said secondary battery and the terminal opening.

6. The battery device able to be loaded on a moving body according to claim 1, wherein:

an annular guide recess larger in diameter than each respective secondary battery is formed around each terminal opening in said modular casing; and

an opening peripheral wall of said terminal opening being punched through said annular guide recess to form a punched opening through which the respective secondary battery can be exchanged.

7. The battery device able to be loaded on a moving body according to claim 6, wherein:

an adapter plate is mounted in a mounting opening provided around said annular guide recess, said adapter plate having an opening through which each respective secondary battery is retained in a state in which the terminal thereof is exposed; and

said adapter plate being mounted to close said punched opening.

8. The battery device able to be loaded on a moving body according to claim 1, wherein a temperature sensor is introduced and mounted in said adhesive charging opening.

9. The battery device able to be loaded on a moving body according to claim 1, wherein:

said secondary batteries are lithium ion secondary batteries, and a pre-set number of the batteries are connected in series with one another and grouped together as a set to constitute a battery module, there being provided a plurality of such sets.

10. The battery device able to be loaded on a moving body according to claim 9, further comprising:

a cell control unit including a circuit board, and a micro-processor and circuit elements or electronic components loaded on said circuit board, said cell control unit detecting or controlling the voltage of said secondary batteries or said battery module or controlling the capacity of said secondary batteries or said battery module.

11. The battery device able to be loaded on a moving body according to claim 10, wherein:

said cell control unit is mounted in a mounting opening formed in the circuit board by fitting a fitting weld portion provided on the mounting portion formed on the modular casing and by thermally fusing said fitting weld portion; and

said mounting opening being an elongated opening.