IP Library Granted Patent US 10,686,171
Granted Patent B2
US 10,686,171 · App. 15/730,489 · Granted Jun 16, 2020

Battery module

Inventors: Zhiming Chen (Ningde, CN); Lin Ma (Ningde, CN)
Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
H01M2/1077H01M10/0413H01M10/0486H01M10/647H01M10/658
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Patent No.
US 10,686,171
App. No.
15/730,489
Granted
Jun 16, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a battery module. The battery module comprises: a plurality of mono-batteries arranged along an arrangement direction; and a frame receiving and fixing the plurality of mono-batteries. The battery module further comprises a plurality of isolating plates, each isolating plate is interposed between two adjacent mono-batteries, each isolating plate is provided with a through hole penetrating along the arrangement direction. Each isolating plate is configured to be capable of self-foaming to make a volume of each isolating plate expanded when each isolating plate is heated and a temperature of each isolating plate is more than 200° C. When one mono-battery suffers thermal runaway, the through hole of each isolating plate can form air thermal resistance, thereby preventing heat generated by the runaway mono-battery from massively and quickly transferring to the large surfaces of the adjacent mono-batteries, so as to achieve the purpose of thermal isolation.

Claims (23)

1. A battery module, comprising:

a plurality of mono-batteries arranged along an arrangement direction; and

a frame receiving and fixing the plurality of mono-batteries;

wherein

the battery module further comprises a plurality of isolating plates, each isolating plate is interposed between two adjacent mono-batteries, each isolating plate is provided with a through hole penetrating along the arrangement direction;

each isolating plate is configured to be capable of self-foaming to make a volume of the isolating plate expanded when the isolating plate is heated and a temperature of the isolating plate is more than 200° C.; and

a main component of each isolating plate is thermosetting resin which is capable of self-foaming to make a volume thereof expanded when heated, and the thermosetting resin is selected from allyl compound modified bismaleimide resin.

2. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein the allyl compound is 2,2′-diallylbisphenol A.

3. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein a compressive strength of each isolating plate is larger than an expansion pressure of the mono-battery adjacent to each isolating plate.

4. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein a compressive strength of each isolating plate is 20 MPa-150 Mpa.

5. The battery module according to claim 4 , wherein the compressive strength of each isolating plate is 50 MPa-150 Mpa.

6. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein the through hole is provided as one or multiple in number.

7. The battery module according to claim 6 , wherein the through hole is provided as multiple in number.

8. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein when each isolating plate is heated and the temperature of each isolating plate is more than 200° C. and each isolating plate has been self-foamed, a porosity in the inside of each isolating plate is 10%-90%.

9. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein the frame comprises:

two end plates respectively positioned at two ends of the plurality of the mono-batteries along the arrangement direction; and

two side plates respectively positioned at two sides of the plurality of the mono-batteries and perpendicular to the two end plates, the two end plates and the two side plates are fixed together;

the two side plates each are a L-type side plate;

each L-type side plate has a vertical portion and a horizontal portion;

the vertical portion of each side plate and the two end plates are fixed together;

the two horizontal portions of the two L-type side plates are spaced apart from each other and contact and support the plurality of mono-batteries and the two end plates from below.

10. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein a total plane area of the through hole in each isolating plate is 30%-80% of a total plane area of the isolating plate.

11. The battery module according to claim 10 , wherein the total plane area of the through hole in each isolating plate is 60%-70% of the total plane area of the isolating plate.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 6, 2024
From: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
To: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
Reel/Frame 068338/0723 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 22, 2019
From: CHEN, ZHIMING; MA, LIN
To: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
Reel/Frame 051097/0222 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2016 1 0910232 · Oct 19, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180108888A1 · Apr 19, 2018
Cited By (1)
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