Abstract: A method arranges a contact element on a battery cell of a battery layer of a battery stack for a battery device of a vehicle. Further, a contact element for a battery cell of a battery layer of a battery stack for a battery device of a device includes a contact plate section, a transition section and a positive pole section. The contact plate section surrounds the transition section and the transition section surrounds the positive pole section. The contact plate section and the positive pole section are arranged at a distance to one another and in parallel or at least substantially in parallel. Still further, battery stack having at least one battery layer with at least one battery cell includes a contact element that is arranged on the battery cell.

Abstract: Improved high energy capacity designs for lithium ion batteries are described that take advantage of the properties of high specific capacity anode active compositions and high specific capacity cathode active compositions. In particular, specific electrode designs provide for achieving very high energy densities. Furthermore, the complex behavior of the active materials is used advantageously in a radical electrode balancing design that significantly reduced wasted electrode capacity in either electrode when cycling under realistic conditions of moderate to high discharge rates and/or over a reduced depth of discharge.

Abstract: A battery includes a can, a jelly roll contained in the can, a top insulator contained in the can adjacent to and above the jelly roll, and a battery cap. The battery cap is welded to an inner surface of the can adjacent to and above the top insulator and includes an outer conductive ring, an insulator ring, and a conductive top plate, wherein the outer conductive ring, the insulator ring, and the conductive top plate are crimped together. The battery cap further includes a conductive rupture plate electrically connected to the conductive top plate and a cathode electrically connected to the conductive rupture plate and extending into the jelly roll. The battery may further include an opening in a central portion of the conductive top plate and a central portion of the conductive rupture plate cover welded upon the opening in the central portion of the conductive top plate.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of energy storage devices, and in particular, to a battery module and a battery pack. The battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells stacked in sequence, the plurality of battery cells being provided with vents; and a circuit board arranged above the plurality of battery cells. The circuit board is provided with a temperature sensing device, and a position of each of the temperature sensing device corresponds to positions of the vents. The temperature sensing device is connected to a battery management system to form a circuit, and the circuit is disconnected when any one of the vents is blasted.

Abstract: A straddle-type electric vehicle includes two approximately rectangular parallelepiped batteries, a battery case in which the batteries are housed, battery-side terminals provided on bottom surfaces of the batteries, and case-side terminals engaged with the battery-side terminals. The two batteries are arranged next to each other in a vehicle width direction. An operation lever for connecting or separating the battery-side terminals and the case-side terminals to/from each other is provided. The operation lever is arranged in a middle in the vehicle width direction between the two batteries, and the battery-side terminals and the case-side terminals are arranged nearer outer sides in the vehicle width direction. A pair of front and rear link mechanisms for coupling the operation lever and the case-side terminals to each other is provided in front of and behind the battery case.

Abstract: A vehicle battery assembly having specialized fasteners that includes an integrated compression limiter. The compression limiter provides protection for the fastening joint of a cover and a tray of a housing for the battery assembly. The battery assembly may also include nut and bolt assembly which may be installed by a nut insertion tool. The nut insertion tool allows the nut and bolt assembly to be installed without damaging the tray or the cover.

Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells stacked to be electrically connected to each other, each battery cell of the plurality of battery cells having a pair of electrode leads, a plurality of cell cartridges each configured to cover a protruding portion of one of the electrode leads, and a plurality of block bus bars respectively provided to the plurality of cell cartridges and respectively electrically connected to the electrode leads, the plurality of block bus bars each having a guide coupling formed on at least one side thereof to protrude along a stacking direction of the plurality of battery cells.

Abstract: A battery module includes: a unit module stack formed by stacking a plurality of unit modules, each of which has a battery cell, a bus bar attached to an electrode lead provided to the battery cell, and a bus bar frame attached to a terrace portion of the battery cell to accommodate at least a portion of the electrode lead and the bus bar, wherein each bus bar frame includes a connector holder; and a connector fixed by the connector holders of at least two unit modules of the plurality of unit modules to contact the bus bar.

Abstract: A connection module attachable to a power storage element group formed by lining up a plurality of power storage elements is provided with a bus bar (connection member) that extends in a vertical direction and is connected to electrode terminals, an insulating protector having a holding portion that holds the bus bar, and a cover that covers the bus bar. The cover is provided with an intake port and an exhaust port positioned above the intake port, and a ventilation passage through which air can flow in the vertical direction is formed between the cover and the holding portion, the ventilation passage being in communication with the intake port and the exhaust port, and the bus bar is arranged inside the ventilation passage.

Abstract: A bus bar includes a plurality of fastening holes in which a plurality of electrodes of a single cell is fastened with a nut, and a plurality of projections formed between the fastening holes and projecting in a direction away from the single cell. A case includes a bus bar hosing portion in which the bus bar is housed, and a support portion disposed in the projection of the bus bar housed in the bus bar housing portion and abutting against a back surface of the projection to support the bus bar. The support portion includes a base portion protruding in an arrangement direction of the fastening holes. At least a part of both side surfaces of the base portion overlaps with an inner side surface of the projection as viewed from a direction perpendicular to a fastening direction in which the bus bar is fastened to the electrode.

Abstract: A battery pack includes stacked battery cells, each battery cell including a first outer surface having an electrode tab protruding therefrom and a second outer surface that is a side surface intersecting the first outer surface, and a first case that surrounds the battery cells along the first outer surface and the second outer surface. An opening exposing the electrode tab is formed in the first case. The opening includes an inner surface that faces a side surface of all of the electrode tabs exposed through the opening and that is capable of abutting against the electrode tabs when the battery cells are inserted in the first case.

Abstract: A bipolar battery may comprise first, second, and third bipolar electrodes that are physically and electrically isolated from one another by intervening non-liquid electrolyte layers. Each of the bipolar electrodes may comprise a bipolar current collector including a first electroactive material layer connected to a first side thereof and a second electroactive material layer connected to a second side thereof. Each electroactive material layer may comprise at least one of: (i) a lithium ion battery positive electrode material, (ii) a lithium ion battery negative electrode material, and/or (iii) a capacitor electrode material. At least one of the electroactive material layers comprises a capacitor electrode material.

Abstract: A separator and an electrochemical device including the same. The separator includes: a porous substrate having a plurality of pores; and a first porous coating layer and a second porous coating layer formed on one surface and the other surface of the porous substrate, respectively, and including a plurality of inorganic particles, a binder polymer disposed on a part or the whole of the surface of the inorganic particles so that the inorganic particles are connected and fixed with each other, and an anionic surfactant, wherein the inorganic particles include boehmite particles and non-boehmite particles, and the boehmite particles and the binder polymer are present at a weight ratio of 1:1-1:5.

Abstract: Improved high energy capacity designs for lithium ion batteries are described that take advantage of the properties of high specific capacity anode active compositions and high specific capacity cathode active compositions. In particular, specific electrode designs provide for achieving very high energy densities. Furthermore, the complex behavior of the active materials is used advantageously in a radical electrode balancing design that significantly reduced wasted electrode capacity in either electrode when cycling under realistic conditions of moderate to high discharge rates and/or over a reduced depth of discharge.

Abstract: There is disclose a fuel cell system including at least one fuel cell and a duct to supply oxidant to the cathode of the at least one fuel cell. The duct includes at least one sorbent getter adapted to extract volatile species from the oxidant. The sorbent getter includes at least one member of the group consisting of magnesium oxide, calcium oxide and manganese oxide. The sorbent getter provides the advantage of extracting volatile species from the oxidant stream.

Abstract: When starting of a fuel gas consuming device configured to consume a fuel gas is instructed, an electric power is supplied to a fuel gas sensor that has a predetermined unstable period until an accuracy of fuel gas detection reaches a predetermined level after having been supplied with electric power, supply of the fuel gas from a fuel gas supply device to the fuel gas consuming device is started by opening an electric valve that is electrically opened and shut off. When a signal from the fuel gas sensor exhibits behavior of approaching a predetermined determination threshold value before the unstable period has elapsed, the electric valve is shut off. When the signal from the fuel gas sensor is less than a predetermined determination value in a predetermined period after the electric valve has been shut off, the electric valve is opened.

Abstract: An electrical assembly includes a plate unit disposed on a battery module, at least one electrical equipment loaded on the plate unit, and a pack terminal loaded on the plate unit. The pack terminal includes a terminal bolt configured to be contacted and connected to a connector of an external device; and a nut configured to be fastened to the terminal bolt. The electrical assembly further includes at least one bus bar loaded on the plate unit and configured to electrically connect the pack terminal to a module terminal of the battery module. At a side portion of the plate unit, an insert portion that is open to allow the nut to be inserted therein is formed, and a slot portion is formed to fix the nut inserted through the insert portion at a predetermined position.

Abstract: A cell including: a pair of interconnectors for electrically connecting unit cells; a membrane-electrode assembly disposed between the interconnectors; a pair of current collectors, each of which includes an abutting surface abutting against a corresponding one of the electrode layers and a first base material surface being in contact with a corresponding one of the interconnectors and electrically connecting the corresponding of the electrode layers and the corresponding one of the interconnectors; and elastic bodies biasing the abutting surface of at least one current collector toward a corresponding one of the electrode layers. The elastic bodies includes: a second base material surface being in contact with the first base material surface; and an elastic body protruding portion supporting the abutting surface and protruding from the second base material surface toward the corresponding one of the electrode layers to bias the abutting surface toward the corresponding one of the electrode layers.

Abstract: Provided is a battery pack that, even in a case in which a metal plate and an electrode terminal are made of different metals, can increase reliability of the connection strength by welding them and can be configured at a low cost. A battery pack 1 includes adjacent battery cells 2 having positive and negative electrode terminals connected each other by a metal plate 3, and a dissimilar material bonding plate 4 having a terminal insertion hole 43 is disposed above a terminal connection hole 32, which is a long hole or a loose hole, into which an electrode terminal 24 composed of a different kind of metal from the metal plate 3.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an end cover assembly, a secondary battery, a battery pack and an electric device. An end cover assembly for a secondary battery includes: an end cover; a first terminal including a first connecting section and a second connecting section disposed along a radial direction; a second terminal including a third connecting section, a fuse section and a fourth connecting section sequentially connected along the radial direction; along an axial direction, orthographic projections of the first and third connecting sections at least partially overlap with each other, one of the first and third connecting sections is configured to connect with a busbar, the other is configured to connect with an electrode assembly, the fourth connecting section is configured to connect with the second connecting section; and an insulating component, at least a part of which is located between the first connecting section and the third connecting section.