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US 11,114,730 B2Granted
Accumulator battery pack, comprising devices for passive magnetic between accumulators and busbars, and, where appropriate, passive shunt of one or more accumulators in case of failure of these ones
AssigneeCommissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
InventorsJohann Lejosne, Pierre Jost, Pierre Perichon
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Abstract
A battery pack wherein each battery is mechanically and electrically connected by a magnetic device to a busbar. In case of failure of any accumulator, it is disconnected completely passively because its failure generates an inactivation of the magnetic device. The disconnection causes the gravity drop of the accumulator and the possibly completely passive implementation of an accumulator shunt.
Claims21
A battery pack comprising:
- a plurality of electrochemical batteries or accumulators, each comprising:
- a housing or a flexible packaging,
- a first output terminal and a second output terminal of an opposite polarity to the first output terminal;
- at least one of the output terminals comprising:
- an electrically conductive part,
- a magnetic lock comprising a permanent magnet;
- at least one ferromagnetic part secured to an electrical connecting busbar, called busbar, forming a closure plate of a magnetic circuit with the magnetic lock of the output terminal;
- the battery pack being configured such that:
- i/ in normal operation of the accumulator, magnetic attraction force of the permanent magnet of the output terminal on the closure plate of a first busbar, in a closed magnetic circuit configuration, ensures the mechanical and electrical connection between the output terminal and the first busbar,
- ii/ upon a failure of the accumulator provoking an overheating thereof, the permanent magnet of the output terminal heats up and at least to a temperature from which it loses its magnetic properties, to the point of mechanical disconnection between the output terminal and the first busbar, which causes the accumulator to drop through gravity.
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