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US 12,230,820 · App. 17/422,130 · Granted Feb 18, 2025

Power battery pack and electric vehicle

Inventors: Long He (Shenzhen, CN); Huajun Sun (Shenzhen, CN); Wenfeng Jiang (Shenzhen, CN); Zhipei Lu (Shenzhen, CN); Weixin Zheng (Shenzhen, CN); Jianglong Tang (Shenzhen, CN); Yan Zhu (Shenzhen, CN); Xinyue Wang (Shenzhen, CN); Kefeng He (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
H01M50/209B60K1/04B60L50/64B60L50/66H01M10/052H01M10/425H01M10/613H01M10/625H01M10/647H01M10/6551H01M10/6554H01M50/103H01M50/119H01M50/244H01M50/249H01M50/271H01M50/317H01M50/342H01M50/3425H01M50/35H01M50/383H01M50/531H01M50/543B60K2001/0405B60K2001/0438B60L58/26H01M2010/4271H01M2220/20
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Patent No.
US 12,230,820
App. No.
17/422,130
Filed
Jul 9, 2021
Granted
Feb 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Art Unit
3614
USPC
180/68.5
Abstract

Provided are a power battery pack and an electric vehicle. The power battery pack includes: a pack body; and a plurality of cells, directly arranged in the pack body. The cell extends from a first side of the pack body to a second side of the pack body, and the first side and the second side are disposed opposite to each other. The first side of the pack body is provided with a first side wall, the second side of the pack body is provided with a second side wall, an end of the cell is supported by the first side wall, and the other end of the cell is supported by the second side wall.

Claims (45)

1. A power battery pack, comprising:

a pack body comprising a first side wall and a second side wall opposite to the first side wall; and

a plurality of cells, directly arranged in the pack body, wherein:

one of the plurality of cells comprises a battery body, a first electrical terminal connected to a first electrode tab and disposed at a first end of the battery body, and a second electrical terminal connected to a second electrode tab and disposed at a second end of the battery body;

the one of the plurality of cells extends from the first side wall to the second side wall; and

the first end of the battery body is supported by the first side wall, and the second end of the battery body is supported by the second side wall.

2. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a length direction of the one of the plurality of cells extends along a width direction of the pack body, the first side wall is disposed on a side of the pack body in the width direction of the pack body, and the second side wall is disposed on another side of the pack body in the width direction of the pack body.

3. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a sum V1 of volumes of the plurality of cells and a volume V2 of the power battery pack meet: V1/V≥55%.

4. The power battery pack according to claim 3 , wherein V1/V≥60%.

5. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein an accommodating space is formed in the pack body, and the plurality of cells are directly arranged in the accommodating space; and

a sum V1 of volumes of the plurality of cells and a volume V0 of the accommodating space meet: 81%≤V1/V0≤97%.

6. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein an accommodating space is formed in the pack body, and the plurality of cells are directly arranged in the accommodating space; and

the accommodating space has a bottom surface, and a sum S1 of areas of orthographic projections of the plurality of cells on the bottom surface and an area S0 of the bottom surface meet: 72%≤S1/S0≤88%.

7. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a length direction of the one of the plurality of cells is in parallel with a width direction of the power battery pack, and the plurality of cells are arranged along a length direction of the power battery pack; and

only one cell is accommodated in the pack body in the width direction of the power battery pack.

8. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a length direction of the one of the plurality of cells is in parallel with a width direction of the power battery pack, and the plurality of cells are arranged along a length direction of the power battery pack; and

in the width direction of the power battery pack, a shortest distance between the first end of the battery body and a side beam of the pack body close to the first end of the battery body is L1, a shortest distance between the second end of the battery body and a side beam of the pack body close to the second end of the battery body is L2, and a length L0 of the one of the plurality of cells meets: L1+L2<L0.

9. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a length direction of the one of the plurality of cells is in parallel with a width direction of the power battery pack, and the plurality of cells are arranged along a length direction of the power battery pack; and

the battery body extends along the width direction of the power battery pack.

10. The power battery pack according to claim 7 , wherein the pack body comprises two side beams located respectively on two sides of the power battery pack in the width direction of the power battery pack, and the first and second ends of the battery body are supported respectively by the two side beams; and

the pack body comprises two end beams located respectively at two ends of the power battery pack in the length direction of the power battery pack.

11. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a length direction of the one of the plurality of cells is in parallel with a width direction of the power battery pack, the plurality of cells are arranged along the length direction of the power battery pack, and at least two layers of battery arrays are arranged in the pack body along a height direction of the power battery pack.

12. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a length direction of the one of the plurality of cells is in parallel with a length direction of the power battery pack, and the plurality of cells are arranged along a width direction of the power battery pack; and

only one cell is accommodated in the pack body in the length direction of the power battery pack.

13. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a length direction of the one of the plurality of cells is in parallel with a length direction of the power battery pack, and the plurality of cells are arranged along a width direction of the power battery pack; and

in the length direction of the power battery pack, a shortest distance between the first end of the battery body and a first end beam of the pack body close to the first end of the battery body is L3, a shortest distance between the second end of the battery body and a second end beam of the pack body close to the second end of the battery body is L4, and a length L0 of each cell meets: L3+L4<L0.

14. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a length direction of the one of the plurality of cells is in parallel with a length direction of the power battery pack, and the plurality of cells are arranged along a width direction of the power battery pack; and

the one of the plurality of cells extends along the length direction of the power battery pack.

15. The power battery pack according to claim 12 , wherein the pack body comprises two end beams located respectively on two ends of the power battery pack in the length direction of the power battery pack, and the first and second ends of the battery body are supported respectively by the two end beams; and

the pack body comprises two side beams located at two sides of the power battery pack in the width direction of the power battery pack.

16. The power battery pack according to claim 12 , wherein at least two layers of battery arrays are arranged in the pack body along a height direction of the power battery pack.

17. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein the pack body comprises a vehicle-use tray connected to a vehicle body.

18. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a width F of the pack body in a width direction of the power battery pack is 500 mm to 1500 mm.

19. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , further comprising at least one of a battery management system and a battery thermal management system.

20. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein the pack body is integrally formed on an electric vehicle.

21. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein the battery body has a length L, a width H, and a thickness D, the length L of the battery body is greater than the width H, and the width H of the battery body is greater than the thickness D, wherein the length L and the width H of the battery body meet: L/H=4 to 21.

22. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a length L of the battery body and a thickness D of the battery body meet: L/D=23 to 208.

23. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a length L of the battery body and a volume V of the battery body meet: L/V=0.0005 to 0.002 mm −2 .

24. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a width H of the battery body and a volume V of the battery body meet: H/V=0.0001 to 0.00015 mm −2 .

25. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness D of the battery body and a volume V of the battery body meet: D/V=0.0000065 mm to 0.00002 mm −2 .

26. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a length L of the battery body and a total outer surface area S of the battery body meet: L/S=0.002 to 0.005 mm −1 .

27. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a total outer surface area S of the battery body and a volume V of the battery body meet: S/V=0.1 to 0.35 mm −1 .

28. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein a length L of the battery body is 600 mm to 2500 mm.

29. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of cells comprises an explosion-proof valve disposed on at least one of the first end and the second end of the battery body.

30. The power battery pack according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first and second ends of the battery body is provided with an explosion-proof valve, and the explosion-proof valves are configured to discharge gas through different exhaust channels.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2021
From: HE, LONG; SUN, HUAJUN; JIANG, WENFENG; LU, ZHIPEI; ZHENG, WEIXIN; TANG, JIANGLONG; ZHU, YAN; WANG, XINYUE; HE, KEFENG
To: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
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