Abstract: A method of mounting a bus-bar frame includes: forming a plurality of cell lead blocks and a battery cell stacked body by alternately stacking a cell lead block and at least one battery cell; disposing a top cover with respective ends on which a bus-bar frame is installed so as to cover the battery cell stacked body; removing the lead blocks from a space between the battery cell stacked body and the bus-bar frame; and installing the bus-bar frame on the battery cell stacked body by rotating the bus-bar frame. The alternately stacking of the cell lead block and the at least one battery cell includes positioning an electrode lead protruding from each battery cell between neighboring ones of the cell lead blocks.

Abstract: Disclosed is a high voltage signal and low voltage signal sampling and transmission system based on a high voltage MCU, including a sampling unit, a high voltage processing unit, a communication unit and a low voltage processing unit. The sampling unit includes a bus voltage sampling module, a phase voltage detection module and an IGBT temperature detection module. The high voltage processing unit adopts the high voltage MCU, and the high voltage MCU is configured to perform state monitoring and analog-to-digital conversion on the three-way analog detection signals, and output a digital signal to the communication unit; the communication unit adopts an isolated communication unit to transmit the three-way digital signal converted by the high voltage MCU to the low voltage processing unit; the low voltage processing unit adopts a low voltage MCU to realize sampling and communication of high and low voltage sampling signals.

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery including a casing including cells housed therein and a terminal part including a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus, in which in the casing, a functional groove having a predetermined function in which a longitudinal direction coincides with a connection direction of the connection terminal and the electrode terminal is formed, and the functional groove includes a plurality of functional units having different lengths which are continuously formed. Accordingly, since there is no part that divides a functional unit between a plurality of functional units having different lengths, a size of the functional groove in a direction in which the functional units are continuous is a sum of sizes of a plurality of functional units, and thus it is possible to reduce the size of the battery while securing high functionality.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a non-aqueous secondary battery includes the steps of preparing a case main body, preparing a lid, applying a lubricant to a contact location, and assembling a lid to an open end of the case main body. In the step of preparing a lid, a lid to be fitted to the open end of the case main body is prepared. In the step of applying a lubricant, the lubricant is applied to at least a portion of the contact location at which the case main body and the lid are in contact with each other. In the step of assembling the lid to the open end, the lid is assembled to the open end with the lubricant having been applied to the contact location. The lubricant may be a solvent used in a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for non-aqueous secondary batteries.

Abstract: A battery module includes a cell stack including a plurality of battery cells stacked therein, a bus bar assembly coupled to a side of the cell stack, on which an electrode lead of the battery cell is disposed, and a sensing device coupled to the bus bar assembly and measuring a temperature of the battery cell. The bus bar assembly is coupled to the cell stack in a vertical direction, and the sensing device includes a temperature sensor disposed in close contact with the battery cell, and an elastic bracket pressing the temperature sensor toward the battery cell through elastic force.

Abstract: An installation structure of a temperature sensor includes a measured object support provided with an installation section, a guide section, and a measured object support section configured to support a measured object; and a temperature sensor provided with a guided section engaged with the guide section of the measured object support, and installed in the installation section of the measured object support by moving in a predetermined direction relative to the measured object support in a manner along one predetermined outer surface of the measured object while engaging the guided section with the guide section.

Abstract: A maturation process for an electric battery cell comprises charging the electric battery cell, subjecting the electric battery cell to a maturation period of at least one day while no electrical load other than a measurement apparatus is connected to the electric battery cell, and taking at least one measurement of the open circuit voltage of the electric battery cell during the maturation period using the measurement apparatus. The measurement apparatus is incorporated into a structure of the electric battery cell, forming an integral part of the electric battery cell. The maturation process further comprises determining whether electric battery cell is defective in dependence on the at least one measurement.

Abstract: A conductive module includes: a conductive component as a flat flexible printed circuit substrate that electrically connects electric conductors to a plurality of battery cells; a thermistor that is placed on as electrical connection part of a bifurcating body of the conductive component and detects the temperature of a battery cell as a temperature detection target; and a housing that houses or/and holds the conductive component. The bifurcated body includes a coupling part that couples the electrical connection part to a main body. The electrical connection part is a part to which heat of an outer wall surface of the battery cell is directly or indirectly transferred from a surface on a side opposite to a placement surface on which the thermistor is placed.

Abstract: A reference electrode with a liquid-impermeable enclosure comprises a chamber for a reference electrolyte. The reference electrode also comprises a first electrode element comprises a reference electrolyte electrode surface arranged to contact a reference electrolyte located within the chamber and a second electrode element is provided at least partially outside the enclosure and comprises a sample electrode surface for contacting a sample. The first and second electrode are electrically connected through the enclosure. Alternatively or additionally, a conductive connecting element defining a part of the enclosure and/or extending through the enclosure electrically connects the first electrode element and the second electrode element.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a thermal runaway of a battery for an electric vehicle may include: an exterior case; a plurality of battery cells provided inside the exterior case; a sensing module provided in one of the plurality of battery cells and detecting deformation amount of the battery cell; and a printed circuit board transmitting a voltage and a temperature of the battery cell, and the deformation amount of the battery cell detected by the sensing module, to a battery management system.

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery module including a battery cell, a protection circuit module coupled integrally to the battery cell, the protection circuit module having a thermal cut-out element formed integrally therewith, a battery management unit connected to the protection circuit module, and a connection unit to detachably connect the protection circuit module and the battery management unit to each other.

Abstract: A battery coolant heater assembly including a coolant manifold having liquid coolant pathways and a heat transfer surface for transferring heat to liquid coolant flowable within the coolant manifold, an electric heater element thermally contacted to the heat transfer surface of the manifold, and a cover sealably enclosing the heating element between the heat transfer surface and the cover via a gasket. The electric heater element is electrically connected via an electrical connector extending through and formed integrally with the gasket.

Abstract: A bus bar module includes: a case attached to a battery assembly including a plurality of single cells; a bus bar supported by the case and electrically connected to electrodes of the plurality of single cells of the battery assembly; and a plurality of electric wires routed in the case. The plurality of electric wires include: a plurality of voltage detection electric wires connected to the bus bar, and a temperature measurement electric wire connected to a thermistor configured to measure a temperature of at least one of the plurality of single cells. The case includes: an electric wire routing groove portion in which the plurality of voltage detection electric wires are routed, and a thermistor attachment portion to which the thermistor is attached. The thermistor attachment portion is provided in the electric wire routing groove portion.

Abstract: A battery system, a method of detecting leaks inside a battery system, and a vehicle, the battery system including a housing including a housing frame and a base frame, the housing frame and the base frame enclosing a housing space; a battery module including a plurality of battery cells electrically connected to each other via a bus bar, the battery module being in the housing space; a tray including a tray frame and a tray base; and a battery management system including a liquid detector, wherein the liquid detector is configured to detect a liquid inside the tray, and the liquid detector includes a high-voltage conductor, a first end of the high-voltage conductor being connected to the bus bar and a second end of the high-voltage conductor being between the base frame and the tray base.

Abstract: Provided is a temperature measuring device which includes: a flexible printed circuit board with wiring; a thermistor element; a heat collecting plate; and a pressing member. The flexible printed circuit board is configured to be attached to a case that is fixed to an object to be measured, the thermistor element is electrically connected to the wiring, the heat collecting plate is disposed on a side opposite to the thermistor element via the flexible printed circuit board so as to be pressed against a temperature measuring point in the object to be measured, and the pressing member is made of a foam material and is configured to be compressed when the case is fixed to the object to be measured and to press the heat collecting plate against the object to be measured.

Abstract: A battery monitoring apparatus includes a circuit board, a signal control unit configured to cause a predetermined AC signal to be outputted from a storage battery through a first electrical path, a response signal input unit configured to input, through a pair of second electrical paths, a response signal of the storage battery to the AC signal, and a calculating unit configured to calculate, based on the response signal, a complex impedance of the storage battery. The first and second electrical paths are provided on a major face of the circuit board. On the circuit board, there is defined a first region which is surrounded by the first and second electrical paths and two terminals of the storage battery. The size of the first region is set to have an electromotive force, which is induced in the second electrical paths by the AC signal, be within an allowable electromotive-force range.

Abstract: A linked battery module includes a first battery module and a second battery module having a same configuration. The first battery module includes: a battery stack that includes rectangular batteries, stacked in a row in a thickness direction; a restraint member on one side that restrains one side, in a Y direction, of the battery stack; a restraint member on the other side that restrains the other side, in the Y direction, of the battery stack; an end plate on one side that restrains one side, in an X direction, of the battery stack; and an end plate on the other side that restrains the other side, in the X direction, of the battery stack. A linking unit links the end plate on one side of the first battery module to the end plate on the other side of the second battery module.

Abstract: When a temperature Tedge of a cell at an end of a battery pack is higher than a temperature Tcen of a cell in a pack central portion, a management server generates rebuilding information for rebuilding a battery pack such that a cell less likely to deteriorate than a cell arranged in the pack central portion is arranged at a pack end. When temperature Tcen is higher than temperature Tedge, the management server generates rebuilding information such that a cell less likely to deteriorate than a cell arranged at the pack end is arranged in the pack central portion.

Abstract: A battery cell includes: an electrode unit including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a current collector, and a separator; a housing unit accommodating the electrode unit; a first insulator disposed inside the housing unit and between the electrode unit and the housing unit, an internal terminal disposed inside the housing unit and electrically connected to the current collector; a second insulator disposed inside the housing unit and between the internal terminal and the housing unit; and an external terminal disposed outside the housing unit. A contact surface of the first insulator with the electrode unit has indented shape. The first insulator is fixed to the housing unit.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to an access cover detection circuit for an electrified vehicle component and a corresponding method. An exemplary component of an electrified vehicle includes an access cover configured to selectively open and close relative to the component, and a circuit configured to indicate whether the access cover is open. The circuit includes a light sensitive electronic component.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element; and a wavelength conversion member including: a wavelength conversion part configured to convert light emitted from the light emitting element into light having a different wavelength and to output the light having the different wavelength, an enclosing part enclosing the wavelength conversion part, and a conducting layer disposed on the enclosing part and surrounding the wavelength conversion part. The conducting layer comprises ruthenium oxide.

Abstract: A power storage system with excellent characteristics is provided. A power storage system with a high degree of safety is provided. A power storage system with less deterioration is provided. A storage battery with excellent characteristics is provided. The power storage system includes a neural network and a storage battery. The neural network includes an input layer, an output layer, and one or more hidden layers between the input layer and the output layer. The predetermined hidden layer is connected to the previous hidden layer or the previous input layer by a predetermined weight coefficient, and connected to the next hidden layer or the next output layer by a predetermined weight coefficient. In the storage battery, voltage and time at which the voltage is obtained are measured as one of sets of data. The sets of data measured at different times are input to the input layer and the operational condition of the storage battery is changed in accordance with a signal output from the output layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of monitoring the state of a battery or the like is provided. The states of a plurality of batteries in a battery module is easily acquired. The semiconductor device that can be attached to an electrode of a battery or the like includes a first substrate, an element layer, and first to third conductive layers. The element layer includes a first circuit and a second circuit and is provided on a side of a first surface of the first substrate. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are provided on a side of a second surface positioned opposite to the first surface of the first substrate. The first circuit is electrically connected to each of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer through an opening provided in the first substrate. The third conductive layer is provided to be stacked on a side opposite to the first substrate side of the element layer and electrically connected to the second circuit.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of stacked battery assemblies and an insulating spacer. The battery assemblies are provided with a pair of unit cells stacked in a thickness direction. Each unit cell includes a cell body having a power generation element and a flat shape, and an electrode tab protruding out from the cell body. The spacer is disposed between electrode tabs of the pair of the unit cells holding the electrode tabs and is electrically connected in the battery assemblies. A pair of the electrode tabs has distal end portions electrically connecting adjacent battery assemblies of the battery assemblies to each other. The distal end portions are bent in the stacking direction on a side of a surface of the insulating spacer. The distal end portions are positioned on opposite sides of the cell body. The distal end portions that are bent are electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to processor and chipset continuity testing of package interconnect for functional safety applications are described. In an embodiment, voltage divider logic circuitry divides a reference voltage. Controller logic circuitry compares a divided voltage value from a node of the voltage divider logic circuitry and a threshold voltage value. A first end of the voltage divider logic circuitry is coupled to receive the reference voltage and a second end of the voltage divider logic circuitry is coupled to a Non-Critical-To-Function (NCTF) solder ball. The controller logic circuitry generates an error signal in response to a mismatch between the divided voltage value and the threshold voltage value. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: A temperature measuring device includes an electrical temperature measuring instrument configured to measure the temperature of a temperature sensitive section electrically; a heat transfer part formed of an elastomer in which the temperature sensitive section is embedded; and a heat insulation part formed of an elastomer covering a single surface of the heat transfer part. The heat transfer part has a thermal conductivity that is greater than a thermal conductivity of the heat insulation part. A mounting section is formed at the heat insulation part, and is to be mounted at a mounting location.

Abstract: A diagnostic apparatus for a secondary battery includes a control device. The control device acquires an electricity storage amount that is the amount of electricity stored in the secondary battery, and V/K indicating the magnitude of change in OCV of the secondary battery with respect to temperature change of the secondary battery. The control device determines whether or not an SOC unevenness occurs in an electrode surface of the secondary battery by using the acquired electricity storage amount and V/K.

Abstract: A degradation-determination system includes at least four strain gauges that are installed on a principal surface of a lithium-ion battery and each of which is configured to detect pressure of a battery surface at a corresponding installation position, and a degradation determining unit configured to determine degradation of the lithium-ion battery based on measured values at the strain gauges. The degradation determining unit is configured to estimate a maximum expansion position where volume expansion is maximal in a region defined by the strain gauges, of the surface of the lithium-ion battery.

Abstract: A system and method for detecting electrode tabs of a PACK flexible packaging battery relate to the field of PACK battery technologies. The system comprises a bus plate and a distance sensor, wherein through slots are disposed on the bus plate, and electrode tabs of a battery to be detected are inserted into the through slots during detection; and the distance sensor directly faces protruding portions of the electrode tabs of the battery to be detected after passing through the through slots, and is used for measuring the distance between the distance sensor and a protruding portion of an electrode tab nearest to the distance sensor.

Abstract: A composite battery cell includes a plurality of electricity supply elements connected to each other in series/parallel to form the electricity supply element groups. The electricity supply element groups are connected to each other in parallel/series and packed to form the battery cell with high capacity and high voltage. Each electricity supply element is an independent module and the electrolyte system does not circulate therebetween. There only have charges transferred rather than electrochemical reactions between the adjacent electricity supply elements. Therefore, the electrolyte decomposition would not occur result from the high voltage caused by connecting in series. Both series and parallel connection are made within the package of the battery cell to achieve high capacity and high voltage.

Abstract: A battery system with a large-format Li-ion battery pack powers attached equipment by discharging battery cells distributed among a plurality of battery packs. A limp home notification is generated from a smart lithium-ion battery pack to one or more application devices using an analog signal. The battery pack may provide broadcast messages over electronic communication lines, that includes state of charge (SoC), fault status, etc. which can be read by one or more application devices to enter limp home mode. In another example, a “fully charged” notification is generated from the smart lithium-ion battery pack to one or more application devices using an analog signal. The end device powered by the battery pack system receives and reacts to the outputted fully charged signal by modifying the state of the circuitry on the end device.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides an all-solid battery including a laminated electrode body having a structure portion in which an electrode mixture material layer and a solid electrolyte layer are laminated, and a sealing part for covering a lamination end face of the laminated electrode body. The electrode mixture material layer includes an active material and a binder resin. The sealing part includes a sealing resin and an insulation particle. The absolute value of the difference between the solubility parameter of the binder resin included in the electrode mixture material layer and the solubility parameter of the sealing resin included in the sealing part is 1.9 (cal/cm3)0.5 or less.

Abstract: A battery system may include multiple battery cells grouped into modules. Each battery module may have a diffuser plate to direct the hot gases and molten material that are ejected during cell failure. The gas and material may be directed away from the nearest neighboring cells in the event of a single cell thermal runaway. Residual thermal energy is wicked away, absorbed or contained to keep heat away from the neighboring cells. These and other features may manage the blast energy and residual thermal energy of a single cell failure event. This may prevent a cascading failure of the larger battery system, thereby mitigating the risk of injury to personnel and property.

Abstract: A battery and an electrical battery monitoring device are disclosed having a first group of sensing switches connected in series on a first monitoring circuit, the sensing switches, a second group of electrical sensing switches connected in series on a second monitoring circuit, an input unit to provide an input to the first and second monitoring circuits, a monitoring unit to receive an output from the first and second monitoring circuits, wherein the monitoring unit receives at least two outputs from two measuring points of the first monitoring circuit, the two measuring points being separated by at least one sensing switch. The location of a defective battery cell may be early detected and precisely located by the monitoring of the battery cells in rows and columns.

Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board includes: a trunk portion; and a pair of branch portions as two portions branched from the trunk portion and arranged on a battery including multiple arrayed cells, in which for at least one branch portion of the pair of branch portions, bending is performed using a pair of parallel bending lines extending apart from the other branch portion as extending apart from the trunk portion, and the at least one branch portion is bent such that a direction of bending at one bending line of the pair of parallel bending lines and a direction of bending at the other bending line are directions opposite to each other.

Abstract: A system for permanently marking at least one battery component includes at least one marking element which is assigned to the battery component. The system includes a battery management system for operating the battery component in dependence on a state of the marking element. At least one marking device can be electrically connected to the marking element in such a way that a permanent change in the state of the marking element can be carried out by the marking device. The marking element is provided outside the battery management system such that operation of the battery component is permanently adaptable by the change of state.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a secondary battery and a display device. The secondary battery is mounted on the vehicle as a power source. The display device is configured to display an indicator that indicates a capacity retention rate of the secondary battery at a current point in time. The capacity retention rate is a ratio of a capacity of the secondary battery at the current point in time to a reference capacity of the secondary battery. The reference capacity is set in advance based on a virtual capacity of the secondary battery after a lapse of a predetermined period from manufacture of the vehicle.

Abstract: An analysis device determines, by the Maharanobis-Taguchi system using a plurality of explanatory variables, to which of a first group and a second group a module representing a nickel metal hydride battery will belong when the module is subjected to capacity restoration processing, the first group being defined as a group of modules of which battery capacity is lower than a reference capacity, the second group being defined as a group of modules of which battery capacity is higher than a reference capacity. The plurality of explanatory variables include a plurality of feature values extracted from a Nyquist plot of the module. The plurality of feature values include at least two AC impedance real number components plotted in a semicircular portion, at least two AC impedance imaginary number components plotted in the semicircular portion, and at least one AC impedance imaginary number component plotted in a linear portion.

Abstract: The life of a secondary battery has not been able to be prolonged due to deterioration of the secondary battery. In one step, whether a difference between an average value of a negative electrode capacity deviations calculated in a different step and a negative electrode capacity deviation calculated in another step is larger than a predetermined value is determined. In a case where the average value of the measured negative electrode capacity deviations is larger than the ideal negative electrode capacity deviation, and deterioration of the negative electrode capacity deviation is proceeding, a secondary battery is controlled to operate at a high voltage in a further step. With the control, the deterioration of the negative electrode capacity deviation is suppressed and the life of the secondary battery is prolonged.

Abstract: A sensor mounting structure includes an insulator and a temperature sensor. The insulator is attached to a wall of a case of an electric storage component to hold an electrode terminal projecting from the case and insulating the electrode terminal from the case. The temperature sensor includes a temperature sensing portion, a locking portion, and a spring portion. The temperature sensing portion holds a temperature sensing component and includes a temperature sensing surface that contacts the wall of the case. The locking portion is locked to the insulator. The spring portion presses the temperature sensing portion to hold the temperature sensing surface in close contact with the wall of the case.

Abstract: Various arrangements for a battery module cooling system are presented. A thermal tower may be contoured to contact one or more battery cells. The thermal tower may include a holding member and a cooling member. A hollow interior region having a top aperture may be defined by the holding member. A portion of each of the one or more battery cells may be contacted by the cooling member to provide localized cooling to each of the one or more battery cells. A seal may be formed between the holding member and the cooling member by positioning the cooling member on the top aperture of the holding member. Optionally, the portion that the cooling members may contact to provide localized cooling may include a hot region having a higher temperature than other portions of each of the one or more battery cells.

Abstract: A bus bar module includes a case assembled to a battery assembly including single cells, a bus bar held in the case and fastened to electrodes of the single cells, a circuit body connected to the bus bar and is wired in the case, and a circuit board to which the circuit body is connected. The case includes a case main body including a board accommodation space, and a lid body attached to one side at which the board accommodation space in the case main body is open. The circuit body is led from an opening portion into the board accommodation space, the opening portion being formed on a surface of the other side opposite to the one side of the board accommodation space in the case main body. The circuit body is soldered to the circuit board from the one side.

Abstract: A shock absorbing device for a rechargeable battery, in particular for supplying a machine tool with electrical energy, wherein the rechargeable battery includes a housing for accommodating at least one energy storage cell. The shock absorbing device includes at least one shock absorbing element for absorbing shock energy exerted on the housing of the rechargeable battery.

Abstract: A composition containing a carbon monofluoride admixture is provided. The carbon monofluoride admixture is generally in the form of layer having opposing upper and lower surfaces. Usually, an ion conducting or a solid electrolyte layer is position on one of the upper or lower layers of the monofluoride admixture. In some configurations, the ion conducting or a solid electrolyte layer can be alkaline metal aluminum oxide or alkaline metal aluminum fluoride. The alkaline metal is commonly lithium, and the alkaline metal aluminum oxide or alkaline metal aluminum fluoride is more commonly MzAlXy (M is one of alkali metals, X=O, F), Z commonly can have a value from about 0.5 to about 10 and y can have a value from about 1.75 to about 6.5, more commonly z can have a value from about 1 to about 5 and y can have a value from about 2 to about 4. The carbon monofluoride admixture can include a polymeric binder and one or more of a conductive carbon black and conductive graphite.

Abstract: A battery pack circuit controls the charging and discharging of a battery pack including a first standard cell having a first standard cell capacity coefficient/voltage characteristic curve and a shift cell having a shift cell capacity coefficient/voltage characteristic curve. The shift cell capacity coefficient/voltage characteristic curve mirrors the standard cell capacity coefficient/voltage characteristic curve but is offset from the standard cell capacity coefficient/voltage characteristic curve by a predetermined amount along a reference axis of the shift cell and standard cell capacity coefficient/voltage characteristic curves. A memory stores a potential difference characteristic curve for the standard and shift cells. A processor detects a present potential difference between the standard cell and the shift cell.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a cathode composite for an all-solid-state battery and a method of manufacturing an all-solid-state battery including the same. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a cathode composite for an all-solid-state battery in which the cathode composite is manufactured by mixing a solid electrolyte, a conductive material and a cathode active material with a solvent, and then performing two-step vacuum drying, whereby interfacial resistance between the cathode active material, the solid electrolyte and the conductive material is reduced to thus increase ionic conductivity, thereby improving battery performance and capacity, and a method of manufacturing an all-solid-state battery including the same.

Abstract: A battery module includes: a cell laminated body; a first and a second end plates which are provided at both end portions of the cell laminated body; and a sensor device which is mounted on a mounting surface and detects the voltage of each cell in the cell laminated body. The sensor device includes: a sensor device body; and a sensor fixing portion which is fixed to the first end plate by a fastening member. In the perpendicular direction, an end surface of the fastening member is located to be lower than or equal to an end surface of the sensor device body, the mounting surface of the cell laminated body is located to be lower than a bottom surface of the sensor fixing portion, and an end surface of the first end plate is located to be lower than the mounting surface of the cell laminated body.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pouch casing material including two cups forming an electrode assembly receiving portion and formed integrally in one pouch film. The pouch casing material includes an upper pouch member and a lower pouch member formed integrally with each other, and the connection between the upper pouch member and the lower pouch member does not protrude toward the outside. Thus, the total length of a battery is reduced.

Abstract: A method of controlling an air-conditioning system of a vehicle when the vehicle is in an ignition-off state during vehicle stopping or parking, includes receiving, in the ignition-off state, a set air-conditioning time for operating an air-conditioning system of the vehicle and a set air-conditioning target temperature; determining the required air-conditioning energy for operating the air-conditioning system of the vehicle on a basis of the set air-conditioning time and a difference between the set air-conditioning target temperature and an outside temperature of the vehicle; and increasing, by the controller, a set minimum charge amount to be secured in a battery of the vehicle to secure the required air-conditioning energy.

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery pack. The battery pack includes: a plurality of battery modules each having a plurality of battery cells therein; and a guide member coupled to each of the battery modules, the guide member being configured to guide movement of the battery modules when the plurality of battery modules are assembled adjacent to one another.