Battery pack
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroki Nagai, Koji Tamaru, Ryo Kagami, Yuki Okamoto
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Abstract
The battery pack disclosed herein includes a plurality of unit cells. The plurality of unit cells is connected to each other by a bus bar. The bus bar has two terminal connection portions and a linking portion. A linear welded portion is formed in a portion where the terminal connection portions and the external terminals overlap with each other. The linear welded portion is non-annular in the plane of the terminal connection portions and has a straight linear portion extending in a direction orthogonal to the arrangement direction, and two circular arc portions that extend from respective ends of the straight linear portion and are curved toward a side opposite to the side where the linking portion is located.
Claims6
A battery pack configured by arranging a plurality of unit cells in a predetermined direction, the battery pack comprising:
- a plurality of unit cells each including an electrode body having a positive electrode and a negative electrode, a battery case accommodating the electrode body, and external terminals attached to the outside of the battery case, wherein
- in the plurality of unit cells, one external terminal and another external terminal are linked to each other by a bus bar between the adjacent unit cells;
- the bus bar is a plate-shaped member extending in the arrangement direction and has two terminal connection portions which overlap the respective external terminals, and a linking portion for linking the two terminal connection portions;
- a linear welded portion is formed in a portion where the terminal connection portion of the bus bar and the external terminal overlap with each other;
- the linear welded portion is non-annular in a plane of the terminal connection portion, and has
- a straight linear portion that extends in a direction orthogonal to the arrangement direction, and
- two circular arc portions that extend from respective ends of the straight linear portion and are curved toward a side opposite to the side where the linking portion is located,
- wherein the straight linear portion is formed at a position displaced, in the arrangement direction, from a center point of the portion where the terminal connection portion overlaps the entire external terminal, toward the side where the linking portion is located.
The battery pack according to claim , wherein a central angle θ of the circular arc portion is 30 degrees or more and 120 degrees or less.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.