Battery pack with protective circuit board and electric bicycle including the battery pack

• US 9,287,591 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2011
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Envision AESC Energy Devices Ltd.
• Original Assignee: NEC Energy Devices, Ltd. (Envision Group /TX/)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Toru
• Primary Examiner(s): RYAN, PATRICK J
• Assistant Examiner(s): O Donnell, Lucas J
• Application Number:
  US14/008,465
• Publication Number:
  US 20140017521A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,651 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 10/0585 of accumulators having only flat construction elements, i.e. flat positive electrodes, flat negative electrodes and flat separators
• 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 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/20 Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/105 Pouches or flexible bags
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/211 adapted for pouch cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/24 adapted for protecting batteries from their environment, e.g. from corrosion thermal insulation H01M10/658
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/51 Connection only in series
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/512 Connection only in parallel
• 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: H01M 50/557 Plate-shaped terminals
• 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

Abstract

To provide a battery pack that is less likely to be affected by vibrations, shocks and the like and has a stable characteristic, and an electric bicycle that uses the battery pack.

A battery pack includes: a battery protective member having a first plate section and a second plate section which is integrally connected to both edge portions of a width direction of the first plate section and extends substantially in a direction perpendicular to both surfaces of the first plate section, wherein the flat batteries are placed on the first plate section; and a protective circuit board. A moistureproof film for the protective circuit board is formed using a plurality of film forming materials different in viscosity, hardness, and thixotropic properties.

Claims

1. A battery pack comprising:

a battery connecting structure on which a plurality of flat batteries are placed; and

a protective circuit board that protects the flat batteries during charging and discharging of the flat batteries, a film formation for the protective circuit board being made using a plurality of film forming materials different in viscosity, hardness, and thixotropic properties, wherein circuit components implemented on the protective circuit board include;

a circuit component having a highest height from the board and having a surface covered only with a first hardening resin, and a circuit component having a surface covered only with a second hardening resin whose viscosity, hardness, and thixotropic properties are lower than those of the first hardening resin.

2. The battery pack according claim 1, wherein

the battery connecting structure includes a battery protective member having a first plate section and a second plate section which is integrally connected to both edge portions of a width direction of the first plate section and extends substantially in a direction perpendicular to both surfaces of the first plate section, wherein

the flat batteries are placed on the first plate section.

3. The battery pack according to claim 2, wherein

a surface on which the flat batteries are placed is formed on both surfaces of the first plate section.

4. The battery pack according to claim 3, wherein

a flat-plate surface of the flat battery is put on the first plate section.

5. The battery pack according to claim 1, wherein

the flat batteries are film-covered batteries.

6. An electric bicycle comprising the battery pack as claimed in claim 1.