Movable body equipped with battery
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSatomi Yamamoto
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Abstract
A battery includes: positive and negative electrode terminals at least partially provided outside an outer packaging body; and a current cut-off device placed inside the outer packaging body. The current cut-off device is provided in either one of the positive and negative electrode terminals and cuts off an electric current path between the battery element and the either one of the positive and negative electrode when a pressure in the outer packaging body increases. The battery is provided in the movable body such that the either one of the positive and negative electrode terminals provided with the current cut-off device is placed on a vertically upper side relative to the other one of them. The current cut-off device is placed on the vertically upper side relative to a liquid level of the electrolytic solution.
Claims4
A movable body comprising
- a battery including:
- a battery element;
- an outer packaging body configured to accommodate the battery element;
- an electrolytic solution enclosed inside the outer packaging body;
- a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal, each including a part provided outside the outer packaging body and a part provided inside the outer packaging body, and electrically connected to the battery element;
- and
- a current cut-off device placed inside the outer packaging body, the current cut-off device being provided only with one of the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal so as to form an electric current path between the battery element and the one of the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal, the current cut-off device being configured to cut off the electric current path when a pressure in the outer packaging body increases, wherein
- the battery is provided in the movable body as a power source for the movable body such that the one of the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal that is provided with the current cut-off device, is placed on a vertically upper side relative to the other one of the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal, the current cut-off device is placed on the vertically upper side relative to a liquid level of the electrolytic solution, and the part of the other one of the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal that is provided inside the outer packaging body is completely immersed in the electrolytic solution.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.