Abstract: An inter-cell cooling unit for arrangement between two cell rows, each having at least one battery cell, the inter-cell cooling unit includes a cooling plate unit which has a first cooling plate which includes a first and a second end region which are opposite one another with respect to a first direction, an integrated first cooling duct extending from the first to the second end region, a first coolant supply opening arranged in the first end region, and a first coolant discharge opening arranged in the second end region. The cooling plate unit includes a second cooling plate which is arranged next to the first cooling plate with respect to a second direction and which comprises a third and a fourth end region, at least one integrated second cooling duct extending from the third to the fourth end region.

Abstract: An intercell cooling element for arrangement between two cell rows, each having at least one battery cell, the intercell cooling element comprises a cooling plate including a first outer wall and a second outer wall opposite the same in a first direction. Between the first and second outer walls there is an interior space in which at least one cooling channel is arranged. The intercell cooling element includes at least one plastic component arranged on the outside of the cooling plate. A layered compression element compressible in the first direction is arranged in the interior of the cooling plate, and a layered stiffening element less compressible than the compression element is arranged in a second direction adjacent to the compression element.

Abstract: A cell separating device for spacing two adjacent battery cells in a battery module. The cell separating device includes an incompressible frame unit and a deformable compression element enclosed by the frame unit. The frame unit includes a first frame member and a second frame member for enclosing the compression element, between which the compression element is arranged with a specified edge region.

Abstract: A traction battery for a motor vehicle, with a cell module including a battery cell arrangement and a temperature control device for controlling the temperature of the battery cell arrangement. A cell connector is arranged between each pair of battery cells of the battery cell assembly, which connector is connected to connection terminals of the battery cells in order to establish an electrical connection between the battery cells. The temperature control device includes a temperature control element with at least one fluid channel and a temperature control surface to which the battery cells are in heat-transferring contact. A heat transfer projection extends from the temperature control element between the battery cells and is in heat-transferring contact with the cell connector.

Abstract: A module connector arrangement for a battery module having a cell stack which includes a plurality of battery cells arranged next to one another in a stacking direction (x), the module connector arrangement having an end plate for delimiting the end of the cell stack in the stacking direction (x), and the end plate includes an insertion opening and a receiving space accessible from outside the end plate via the insertion opening for receiving two busbar ends of a first and a second busbar to be electrically contacted over a flat surface in a receiving region of the receiving space. In particular, the module connector arrangement includes a clamping device adjacent to the receiving region and operable from outside the end plate for clampingly fastening the busbar ends received in the receiving region.

Abstract: A method for cooling a battery of a motor vehicle, which includes multiple battery cells, by a cooling device through which a coolant can flow, as part of at least one cooling circuit through which the coolant can flow, which includes at least one coolant pump, which in an active state circulates the coolant present in at least one cooling circuit in the cooling circuit. In particular, a control device controls at least one coolant pump depending on a detection of a faul state which is connected to a thermal runaway of at least one of the battery cells of the battery, such that the at least one coolant pump is activated or continues to be operated in the active state when the faul state is detected.

Abstract: A cell separating element for arrangement between two battery cells, which includes an outer wall which encloses an interior space and which provides a first outer wall and an opposite second outer wall, a first cooling region located in the interior space, which adjoins the first outer wall and which includes a first cooling channel, and a second cooling region located in the interior space, which adjoins the second outer wall and which includes a second cooling channel. The cell separating element includes a compression layer made of an elastically deformable material arranged in the interior space. The compression layer is arranged between the first and second cooling regions with respect to the first direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pigment mixture based on spherical particles having a defined particle-size distribution, and to the use thereof in paints, coatings, printing inks, security printing inks, plastics, ceramic materials, glasses, in cosmetic formulations, as tracer, as filler and for the preparation of pigment preparations and dry preparations.

Abstract: A cell separating element for arrangement between two battery cells. The cell separating element is elastically compressible with respect to a first direction and, in an uncompressed state, has a maximum first thickness of the cell separating element in at least one first region and a maximum second thickness of the cell separating element in at least one second region, which are different, and in a state of the cell separating element in which the at least one first region and the at least one second region are compressed to an identical maximum thickness with respect to the first direction, the restoring forces caused by the compression of the cell separating element in the at least one first region and in the at least one second region are different.

Abstract: A method for cooling a battery of a motor vehicle, which includes multiple battery cells, by a cooling device through which a coolant can flow, as part of at least one cooling circuit through which the coolant can flow, which includes at least one coolant pump, which in an active state circulates the coolant present in at least one cooling circuit in the cooling circuit. In particular, a control device controls at least one coolant pump depending on a detection of a faul state which is connected to a thermal runaway of at least one of the battery cells of the battery, such that the at least one coolant pump is activated or continues to be operated in the active state when the faul state is detected.

Abstract: An energy storage device for a motor vehicle, including an energy storage housing and at least one battery cell accommodated therein. At least one cooling device is arranged adjacent to the battery cell or to at least one of the battery cells in such a way that this battery cell can be cooled by a cooling fluid guided in at least one cooling fluid guide portion of the cooling device. At least one portion of the cooling device is plastically or elastically deformable, so that an expansion of the adjacent battery cell or the adjacent battery cells due to the charging cycle and/or aging causes a deformation of the cooling device in such a way that the cross-section of the cooling fluid guide portion is reduced at least in portions.

Abstract: A battery cell housing for forming a battery cell for an energy storage device of a motor vehicle. The battery cell housing has at least one receiving chamber in its interior for receiving at least one active material unit. The receiving chamber is delimited on the outside by at least one housing wall, the housing wall has at least one cooling chamber for guiding a cooling fluid provided for cooling the active material unit. At least one portion of the housing wall is plastically or elastically deformable, so that an expansion of the active material unit due to the charging cycle and/or aging causes a deformation of the housing wall such that the cross-section of the cooling chamber is reduced at least in portions.

Abstract: A housing device for a battery cell, including a housing adapted to enclose a battery cell, a first local weakening adapted to yield at a first pressure generated by the battery cell, and a second local weakening arranged at least partially above the first local weakening and adapted to yield at a second pressure generated by the battery cell.

Abstract: A battery housing arrangement with a first housing unit for accommodating at least two prismatic battery cells, which has a side wall, a first outer wall with a first wall portion, and a second outer wall opposite the first outer wall with a second wall portion, which is opposite the first wall portion, the side wall connecting the first and second outer walls to one another. The first housing unit can be reversibly coupled to a second housing unit of the same design as the first housing unit, forming a cuboid receiving space, in such a way that the side wall of the first housing unit is opposite a side wall of the second housing unit, and in that the at least two prismatic battery cells can be arranged next to one another in the receiving space.

Abstract: An inter-cell cooling device for arrangement in an intermediate space between two battery cells arranged adjacent to one another in a stacking direction. The inter-cell cooling device has a first side wall with a first outer side for arrangement on a first cell side and a second side wall opposite the first side wall with respect to a first direction and with a second outer side for arrangement on a second cell side, as well as a heating device designed as a heating layer for heating the inter-cell cooling device. With respect to the first direction, at least one cooling channel through which a coolant can flow is formed between the first and second side wall as part of the central inter-cell cooling region of the inter-cell cooling device, and the heating layer is designed to heat a coolant located in the at least one cooling channel.

Abstract: A battery assembly with a battery and a cell degassing channel for discharging gases from the battery, which includes at least one battery cell. The cell degassing channel has a chamber which is designed such that a gas emerging from the at least one battery cell can be introduced into it and can be guided through it along at least one gas discharge path to at least one outlet opening of the chamber. The chamber has at least one gas guiding structure arranged in an interior of the chamber and not running in a straight line in a main course direction that corresponds to a first direction, which is designed such that the at least one gas discharge path has multiple changes of direction in its course in the main course direction with respect to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: An inter-cell cooling unit for arrangement a battery module for arrangement in an intermediate space between twin an intermediate space between two battery cells of a cell stack which are arranged adjacent to one another in a stacking direction. The inter-cell cooling unit has two cooling walls including a first cooling wall for arrangement on a first of the two battery cells and a second cooling wall for arrangement on a second of the two battery cells. At least one free space through which a coolant can flow is formed between the first and second cooling walls. At least one first opening is arranged in at least one of the two cooling walls, through which first opening a fluidic connection is provided between the at least one free space and an environment of the inter-cell cooling unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cell degassing channel arrangement with a cell degassing channel for discharging gases from a battery which has at least one battery cell, wherein the cell degassing channel has at least one inlet opening, and has an outlet opening, and is designed such that a gas emerging from the at least one battery cell can be introduced through the at least one inlet opening into the cell degassing channel, can be guided through the channel to the outlet opening and can be discharged from the outlet opening. In particular, the cell degassing channel has at least one component for gas cooling that is different from a cooling device for cooling the battery.

Abstract: A cooling device for an energy storage, which has multiple cooling channels through which a coolant can flow and an adjusting device which includes at least one temperature-dependently adjustable adjusting element, through the adjustment of which a flow characteristic of at least one of the cooling channels can be changed. The cooling device is designed as an inter-cell cooling element for arrangement in an intermediate space between a first and a second storage cell of the energy storage. Through the displacement of the at least one adjusting element the flow characteristic of at least one first of the cooling channels can be changed with respect to a second of the cooling channels.

Abstract: A detection arrangement for detecting a possible fault of an energy storage device of a motor vehicle. The detection arrangement has an underride guard, a sensor arranged on or integrated into the same, and a control device for detecting at least two different possible fault cases including a possible first fault case and a possible second fault case, and for determining based on a measurement signal received from the sensor, whether the possible first or second fault case is present. At least one first reaction measure is assigned to the possible first fault case and at least one second reaction measure, which is different from the first, is assigned to the possible second fault case.