Box for set of electric storage batteries

• US 6,841,293 B1
• Filed: 03/10/2000
• Issued: 01/11/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hawker Corporation
• Original Assignee: Hawker Corporation
• Inventors: Dreulle, Claude Maurice, Lenain, Pierre Georges
• Primary Examiner(s): Kalafut, Stephen J.
• Application Number:
  US09/914,040
• Time in Patent Office: 1,768 Days
• Field of Search: 429/96, 429/99, 429/100, 180/68.5, 211/49.1, 211/59.4, 211/119.003, 211/153, 211/59.2
• US Class Current: 429/99
• 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 50/233 characterised by physical properties of casings or racks, e.g. dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/249 specially adapted for aircraft or vehicles, e.g. cars or trains constructional details of batteries specially adapted for electric vehicles B60L50/64
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A box for a set of electric storage batteries for an electric motor vehicle includes at least two mutually opposite side walls (14, 16) extending substantially parallel and defining between them a housing for receiving batteries. Each side wall (14, 16) is internally provided with a series of projecting support elements (30, 32) extending along the wall, each support element (30,32) forming, jointly with a support element of the other side wall, a support for at least one rack of storage batteries.

Claims

1. A combination of a box for a set of electric storage batteries for an electric self-propelled vehicle and a set of electric storage batteries, said box comprising:

a top;

a bottom;

two mutually opposite side walls extending between said top and bottom and defining therebetween a housing for receiving said set of storage batteries, one of said side walls having a plurality of support elements extending longitudinally along said one of said side walls, another one of said side walls having a plurality of support elements extending longitudinally along said another one of said side walls, coplanar with said plural support elements of said one of said side walls, so that a pair of coplanar support elements directly contacts and supports at least one battery of said set of electric storage batteries and provides a space between each battery of said set of electric storage batteries.

2. The combination as claimed in claim 1, wherein a distance between said plural supports of said one of said side walls and said plural supports of said another one of said side walls is less than a width of said at least one battery.

3. The combination as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said support elements extend along said side walls at an angle inclined with respect to a horizontal plane.

4. The combination as claimed in claim 3, wherein the box further comprises two end plates connected to said top, said bottom and said side walls and removably enclosing said housing.

5. The combination as claimed in claim 4, wherein said end plates each comprise a plurality of ventilation openings therethrough.

6. The combination as claimed in claim 4, further comprising a battery holding element connected perpendicularly between adjacent ones of said plural support plates on each said side walls.

7. The combination as claimed in claim 6, wherein one end of each battery contacts one of said two end plate and another end of each battery contacts said battery holding element.

8. The combination as claimed in claim 1, comprising a plurality of boxes connected in parallel.