Module battery

• US 7,270,912 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2003
• Issued: 09/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Envision AESC Japan Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Oogami, Etsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Kalafut; Stephen J.
• Application Number:
  US10/608,134
• Publication Number:
  US 20040050414A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,541 Days
• Field of Search: 429/156, 429/158, 429/159, 429/160, 429/161, 429/162, 429/211
• US Class Current: 429/159
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/613 Cooling or keeping cold
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/647 Prismatic or flat cells, e.g. pouch cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/652 characterised by gradients for achieving a desired temperature gradient H01M10/617
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/6555 arranged between the cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/105 Pouches or flexible bags
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/503 characterised by the shape of the interconnectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/50 Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance, e.g. for maintaining operating temperature 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: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A module battery comprises a cell including an electrode tab and a cell body having a power generating element hermetically sealed in a package film. The module battery has a constitution in which a plurality of the cells are stacked on one another, and the electrode tabs of the cells adjacent to each other in a stacking direction are interconnected. Further, a bent portion of an approximate L-shape toward the stacking direction of the cells is formed in each of the electrode tabs of the cells, and the bent portions of the cells adjacent to each other in the stacking direction are at least partially overlapped with each other so as to be interconnected.

Claims

1. A module battery, comprising:

a plurality of cells including an electrode tab and a cell body having a power generating element hermetically sealed in a package film, the power generating element being formed by stacking electrode plates, the electrode tab being connected to the power generating element and being drawn outward from an edge of the package film,

wherein the module battery is configured such that the plurality of the cells are stacked on one another, and the electrode tabs of the cells adjacent to each other in a stacking direction are interconnected,

wherein the electrode tabs of the cells form an approximate L-shape and the electrode tabs have a bent portion which is a portion extending from a folding line in the stacking direction of the cells,

wherein the bent portions of the cells adjacent to each other in the stacking direction are at least partially overlapped with each other so as to be interconnected, and

wherein the cells are mounted and held on respective frame-shaped cell holders, and the electrode tabs of the cells are exposed from between the cell holders adjacent to each other in the stacking direction.

2. The module battery of claim 1,

wherein a slit is provided in the bent portion.

3. The module battery of claim 2,

wherein the slit is provided in the overlapped bent portions of the electrode tabs but excluding a portion of the electrode tabs between the bent portion and the respective cell body.

4. The module battery of claim 1,

wherein the cell holders are made of heat-resistant insulating resin.

5. The module battery of claim 1,

wherein the cell holders have a locate pin, and the cells are provided with a through-bore penetrated by the locate pin of the cell holders.

6. The module battery of claim 5,

wherein the locate pin of the cell holders is projected toward the stacking direction of the cell holders, and a locate hole which receives the locate pin of the cell holders is provided in a cell holders adjacent to other cell holders in the stacking direction.