IP Library Granted Patent US 12,080,908
Granted Patent B2
US 12,080,908 · App. 17/564,108 · Granted Sep 3, 2024

Top cover assembly, secondary battery and apparatus using battery

Inventors: Siying Huang (Fujian, CN); Quankun Li (Fujian, CN); Shiyao Zhang (Fujian, CN); Jinmei Xu (Fujian, CN); Fenggang Zhao (Fujian, CN); Peng Wang (Fujian, CN)
Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
H01M50/271H01M50/143
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Patent No.
US 12,080,908
App. No.
17/564,108
Granted
Sep 3, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present application relates to the field of an energy storage device, and more particularly, to a top cover assembly of a secondary battery, the secondary battery and an apparatus using a battery. The top cover assembly includes: a top cover sheet provided with an explosion-proof hole; an explosion-proof sheet, a position of the explosion-proof sheet corresponding to the explosion hole; and a fixing member, at least part of the fixing member being located between the top cover sheet and the explosion-proof sheet and connecting the top cover sheet and the explosion-proof sheet; where one of the explosion-proof hole and the fixing member is provided with a protrusion and the other is provided with a first groove, and the protrusion and the first groove are fixed.

Claims (25)

1. A top cover assembly of a secondary battery, the top cover assembly comprising:

a top cover sheet provided with an explosion-proof hole;

an explosion-proof sheet, a position of the explosion-proof sheet corresponding to the explosion-proof hole; and

a fixing member, at least part of the fixing member being located between the top cover sheet and the explosion-proof sheet and connecting the top cover sheet and the explosion-proof sheet,

wherein one of the explosion-proof hole and the fixing member is provided with a protrusion and the other is provided with a first groove,

the protrusion and the first groove are fixed,

the protrusion is arranged on one side of an inner wall of the explosion-proof hole facing towards a central axis of the explosion-proof hole, the first groove is arranged on one side of the fixing member facing towards the top cover sheet, a second groove is arranged on one side of the fixing member facing towards the explosion-proof sheet, the explosion-proof sheet comprises a main body and a stretching-into portion located on an end part of the main body, and the stretching-into portion stretches into the second groove to be fixed;

the protrusion is located at a center of the inner wall of the explosion-proof hole along a height direction of the top cover assembly; and

a center line of the protrusion coincides with a center line of the stretching-into portion along a length direction of the top cover assembly.

2. The top cover assembly according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the stretching-in portion is greater than a thickness of the main body along a height direction of the top cover assembly.

3. The top cover assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the main body is provided with a nick; and

a projection of the nick along a height direction of the top cover assembly is located inside an inner side of a projection of the fixing member along the height direction of the top cover assembly.

4. The top cover assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the explosion-proof sheet is located above the protrusion along a height direction of the top cover assembly.

5. The top cover assembly according to claim 1 , wherein a melting point of the explosion-proof sheet and/or the fixing member is 80° C.-300° C.

6. The top cover assembly according to claim 5 ,

wherein the explosion-proof sheet and the fixing member are integrally molded.

7. The top cover assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the explosion-proof sheet is a metal member, and the fixing member is a plastic member.

8. The top cover assembly according to claim 7 , wherein the explosion-proof sheet and the fixing member are of split structures.

9. The top cover assembly according to claim 1 , wherein a sealing layer is arranged between the fixing member and the explosion-proof sheet and/or between the fixing member and the top cover sheet.

10. The top cover assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the top cover assembly further comprises a protective sheet, and the protective sheet is configured to cover a connecting interface between the fixing member and the top cover sheet.

11. A secondary battery, comprising:

a housing provided with an opening;

an electrode assembly accommodated in the housing; and

the top cover assembly of claim 1 , wherein the top cover assembly covers the opening to close the electrode assembly in the housing.

12. An apparatus using a battery, the apparatus comprising the secondary battery of claim 11 .

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 068338/0402 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 5, 2022
From: HUANG, SIYING; LI, QUANKUN; ZHANG, SHIYAO; XU, JINMEI; ZHAO, FENGGANG; WANG, PENG
To: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
Reel/Frame 058644/0127 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201921183823.7 · Jul 25, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
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