IP Library Granted Patent US 9,893,342
Granted Patent B2
US 9,893,342 · App. 14/909,751 · Granted Feb 13, 2018

Electricity storage module

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Patent No.
US 9,893,342
App. No.
14/909,751
Granted
Feb 13, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electricity storage module in which a plurality of battery cells are electrically connected via conductive members, wherein: each of the conductive members has a pair of electrode connecting parts that are welded to respective electrode terminals of a pair of adjacent battery cells, a base part that is connected to the pair of electrode connecting parts via a pair of elastically deformable parts, and a voltage detecting terminal that is connected to the base part and detects a terminal voltage of a battery cell.

Claims (13)

1. An electricity storage module in which a plurality of battery cells are electrically connected via conductive members, wherein:

each of the conductive members has a pair of electrode connecting parts that are welded to respective electrode terminals of a pair of adjacent battery cells, a base part that is connected to the pair of electrode connecting parts via a pair of elastically deformable parts, and a voltage detecting terminal that is connected to the base part and detects a terminal voltage of a battery cell;

the voltage detecting terminal has a rising part that rises up from the base part, and a terminal part that is arranged oppositely to the base part; and

each of the elastically deformable part has a bending part that projects from the base part towards the terminal part;

a height dimension of the bending part from the base part as a reference point is equal to or lower than a height dimension of the voltage detecting terminal from the base part as a reference point;

the terminal part is provided with an opening part, through which a shaft of a bolt is inserted; and

a nut or a head of the bolt is fixedly secured on a surface of the terminal part on the base part side.

2. The electricity storage module according to claim 1 , wherein:

each of the pair of battery cells is cylindrically shaped and the pair of battery cells are arranged so that central axes thereof are parallel to each other; and

the pair of elastically deformable parts are plane-symmetrical with respect to a plane orthogonal to a plane including the central axes of the pair of battery cells so that distances from a center between the central axes of the pair of the battery cells to the pair of the elastically deformable parts are equal to each other.

3. The electricity storage module according to claim 1 , comprising:

a constraining member that constrains positions of the battery cells, wherein:

a coefficient of linear expansion of the constraining member is different from a coefficient of linear expansion of the conductive members.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 7, 2020
From: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: HITACHI VEHICLE ENERGY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 051842/0485 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 7, 2020
From: HITACHI VEHICLE ENERGY, LTD.
To: VEHICLE ENERGY JAPAN INC.
Reel/Frame 051889/0333 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 3, 2016
From: SENGOKU, EISUKE; HOSHI, HIROSHI; HAGA, TAKESHI; KIYOTA, SHIGEYUKI; TANAKA, YOSHIYUKI; IGUCHI, TOYOKI; SAITOU, HIROAKI; SAEKI, MASAYOSHI
To: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.; NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 037654/0087 →