Battery pack

• US 7,935,441 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2007
• Issued: 05/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd. (GS Yuasa Corporation), Panasonic Energy (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Sanyo GS Soft Energy Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tononishi, Masamitsu
• Primary Examiner(s): HODGE, ROBERT W
• Application Number:
  US11/712,896
• Publication Number:
  US 20070207380A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,523 Days
• Field of Search: D13/103, D13/119
• US Class Current: 429/179
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/052 Li-accumulators
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/42 Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance of secondary cells or secondary half-cells H01M10/60 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/425 Structural combination with electronic components, e.g. electronic circuits integrated to the outside of the casing printed circuits H05K1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/119 Metals
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/591 Covers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A case is made by disposing side plate portions on the long side and a side plate portion on one short side on the circumference of a plate portion. Provided on the other short side of the case in two tiers are a side plate portion and a substrate casing portion which has a height lower than the side plate portion. The substrate casing portion has a lower plate portion, side plate portions and an upper plate portion. The lower plate portion is provided with window portions from which the respective output terminals are exposed. The battery assembly is held in the case by fitting the protection circuit substrate which is laid down on a side face, into the substrate casing portion.

Claims

1. A battery pack comprising:

a battery assembly in which a protection circuit substrate having an output terminal is laid on one side face of a cell having a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped;

a case for holding the battery assembly; and

a label for covering a part or whole of the battery assembly and the case,

wherein the case comprises a rectangular plane plate portion, two opposed side plate portions and a further side plate portion, provided on three sides of the plane plate portion and a substrate casing portion which is provided on another side of the plane plate portion opposite the further side plate portion, for casing the protection circuit substrate, and

the substrate casing portion has five faces with which two plane faces and three side faces of the protection circuit substrate are covered, is obtained by molding with the remainder of the case in an integrated manner, and has a window portion from which the output terminal is exposed.

2. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein a height of the substrate casing portion is lower than a height of the another side where the substrate casing portion is provided.

3. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein a bottom face of the substrate casing portion and the plane plate portion of the case are continuous in one plane.

4. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein a height dimension of the side plate portions of the case and a thickness dimension of the battery assembly are substantially equal, and the label covers an opening of the case as well as a part or whole of a side plate portion.

5. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein a thickness of the plate portion of the case is equal to or smaller than 0.3 mm.

6. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein the substrate casing portion has a rib for inhibiting vertical motion of the protection circuit substrate.

7. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein the substrate casing portion has a rib for inhibiting in-plane motion of the protection circuit substrate.

8. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein a height of the substrate casing portion is lower than a height of the another side where the substrate casing portion is provided,

a bottom face of the substrate casing portion and the plate portion of the case are continuous in one plane,

a height dimension of the side plate portions of the case and a thickness dimension of the battery assembly are substantially equal, and

the label covers an opening of the case as well as a part or whole of a side plate portion.

9. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein a height of the substrate casing portion is lower than a height of the another side where the substrate casing portion is provided,

a bottom face of the substrate casing portion and the plate portion of the case are continuous in one plane,

a height dimension of the side plate portions of the case and a thickness dimension of the battery assembly are substantially equal,

a thickness of the plate portion of the case is equal to or smaller than 0.3 mm, and

the label covers an opening of the case as well as a part or whole of a side plate portion.

10. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein a height of the substrate casing portion is lower than a height of the another side where the substrate casing portion is provided,

a bottom face of the substrate casing portion and the plate portion of the case are continuous in one plane,

a height dimension of the side plate portions of the case and a thickness dimension of the battery assembly are substantially equal,

the substrate casing portion has a rib for inhibiting a vertical motion of the protection circuit substrate, and

the label covers an opening of the case as well as a part or whole of a side plate portion.

11. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein a height of the substrate casing portion is lower than a height of the another side where the substrate casing portion is provided,

a bottom face of the substrate casing portion and the plate portion of the case are continuous in one plane,

a height dimension of the side plate portions of the case and a thickness dimension of the battery assembly are substantially equal,

a thickness of the plate portion of the case is equal to or smaller than 0.3 mm,

the substrate casing portion has a rib for inhibiting a vertical motion of the protection circuit substrate, and

the label covers an opening of the case as well as a part or whole of a side plate portion.

12. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein a height of the substrate casing portion is lower than a height of the another side where the substrate casing portion is provided,

a bottom face of the substrate casing portion and the plate portion of the case are continuous in one plane,

a height dimension of the side plate portions of the case and a thickness dimension of the battery assembly are substantially equal,

a thickness of the plate portion of the case is equal to or smaller than 0.3 mm,

the substrate casing portion has a rib for inhibiting in-plane motion of the protection circuit substrate, and

the label covers an opening of the case as well as a part or whole of a side plate portion.

13. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein a height of the substrate casing portion is lower than a height of the another side where the substrate casing portion is provided,

a bottom face of the substrate casing portion and the plate portion of the case are continuous in one plane,

a height dimension of the side plate portions of the case and a thickness dimension of the battery assembly are substantially equal,

a thickness of the plate portion of the case is equal to or smaller than 0.3 mm,

the substrate casing portion has a rib for inhibiting a vertical motion of the protection circuit substrate, and a rib for inhibiting in-plane motion of the protection circuit substrate, and

the label covers an opening of the case as well as a part or whole of a side plate portion.