Method for producing an energy storage device holder for a vehicle

• US 9,083,009 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2012
• Issued: 07/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ARKISS IP UG
• Original Assignee: Mahle Behr Gmbh & Co. Kg (MAHLE-STIFTUNG GmbH)
• Inventors: Heckenberger, Thomas, Isermeyer, Tobias, Kohlberger, Markus, Schiehlen, Thomas, Herrmann, Hans-Georg, Fehrenbacher, Christoph
• Primary Examiner(s): Afzali, Sarang
• Application Number:
  US13/417,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20120227931A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,219 Days
• Field of Search: 298/900.3, 298/900.35, 180/207.3, 180/68.5
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/04 Construction or manufacture in general H01M10/058, H01M10/12, H01M10/28, H01M10/38 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/052 Li-accumulators
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/613 Cooling or keeping cold
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/625 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/647 Prismatic or flat cells, e.g. pouch cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/6556 Solid parts with flow channel passages or pipes for heat exchange closed pipes H01M10/6552
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/119 Metals
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/176 for prismatic or rectangular cells H01M50/181 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/503 characterised by the shape of the interconnectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/55 on the same side of the cell
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/553 Terminals adapted for prismatic, pouch or rectangular cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/50 Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49359 Cooling apparatus making, e.g., air conditioner, refrigerator

Abstract

A method comprising a step of providing a cooling plate having at least one exposed cooling channel designed for guiding a cooling fluid. The method further comprises a step of providing a mounting unit designed for receiving and fixing at least one energy storage unit. The method finally comprises a step of connecting the cooling plate to the mounting unit, whereby the at least one cooling channel is closed.

Claims

1. A method for producing an energy storage device holder for a vehicle, the method comprising:

providing a holder unit that is configured to accommodate and secure at least one energy storage unit, the holder unit having a cover member and a base plate, the base plate being formed of a single, uniform structure and having at least one exposed cooling channel provided therein, the at least one exposed cooling channel being a recess in a surface of the base plate that is adapted to carry a cooling fluid,

wherein the recess penetrates partly through the base plate;

providing a cooling plate; and

connecting the cooling plate to the holder unit via which the at least one exposed cooling channel is closed,

wherein the holder unit entirely surrounds side surfaces of the at least one energy storage unit.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, during the step of providing the holder unit, a holder unit is provided that has on a side surface at least one additional exposed cooling channel that is also closed by an additional provided cooling plate during the connection step.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the base plate has a metal or metal constituents, steel, aluminum, magnesium, titanium, or a plastic/metal hybrid.