IP Library Granted Patent US 8,603,661
Granted Patent B2
US 8,603,661 · App. 13/496,991 · Granted Dec 10, 2013

Battery connection plate

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Patent No.
US 8,603,661
App. No.
13/496,991
Granted
Dec 10, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A battery connection plate has a plurality of bus bars provided on a base plate section and is to be attached to a battery assembly containing a stacked plurality of batteries so that the bus bars are connected to terminals on the batteries. The base plate section has a wiring member attachment section to which a plurality of signal output wires connected to the bus bars can be wired, and window sections through which bosses can be inserted are formed on wiring paths of the signal output wires at the wiring member attachment section. The signal output wires are wired so as to bypass or wind around the bosses inserted into the window sections, and then the bosses are pulled out from the window sections, and thereby surplus length sections are formed on the signal output wires.

Claims (12)

1. A battery connection plate, comprising:

a base plate section having a plurality of bus bars thereon, the base plate section being configured to attach to a battery assembly containing a stacked plurality of batteries so that the bus bars are connected to terminals on the batteries,

wherein the base plate section includes:

a wiring member attachment section to which a plurality of signal output wires connected to the bus bars are wired, and

window sections formed on wiring paths of the signal output wires at the wiring member attachment section, said window sections having through holes in the base plate section, and

wherein each of the signal output wires has a surplus length section having a curved shape, and the surplus length sections of the signal output wires are arranged in the corresponding window sections respectively.

2. The battery connection plate according to claim 1 , wherein the wiring member attachment section has a wiring space for the signal output wires to be wired from an end portion of an assembling start end of the batteries to a connection position with the bus bars;

wherein a region of the wiring space is gradually reduced in accordance with a decrease of the number of the signal output wires toward an assembling finish end of the batteries; and

wherein each of the window sections is formed in a range including a region where the signal output wires are not wired for the wiring space is gradually reduced toward the assembling finish end so that the sizes of the window sections are gradually increased.

3. The battery connection plate according to claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of bosses respectively attached to said window sections and configured to be removed therefrom, wherein the signal output wires are respectively wound at least partially around said bosses when said bosses are attached to said window sections.

4. The battery connection plate according to claim 3 , wherein the signal output wires are wired so as to be completely coiled around the bosses when the bosses are attached to the window sections.

5. The battery connection plate according to claim 1 , wherein the signal output wires are extended in a main wire path and are branched to a branch wire path, the surplus length section is arranged between the main wire path and the branch wire path, and an extension direction of the main wire path is parallel with an extension direction of the branch wire path.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 5, 2023
From: YAZAKI CORPORATION
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063845/0802 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 19, 2012
From: IKEDA, TOMOHIRO; SATO, KATSUNORI; KATO, HIROYUKI
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 027886/0604 →