Battery system comprising cylindrical cells and a temperature sensor and method of installing the same
AssigneeSamsung SDI Co., Ltd.
InventorsBernhard Hadler, Markus Ridisser
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Abstract
A battery system includes: a battery pack including a plurality of cylindrical battery cells arranged in an array with clearances between neighboring ones of the battery cells; an electrical conductor having a main portion extending along a surface of the battery pack and a branch portion branching off of the main portion; a temperature sensor on the branch portion of the electrical conductor and configured to sense a temperature of at least one of the battery cells; and a pin element. The branch portion with the temperature sensor thereon and the pin element extend into the same clearance such that the pin element presses the temperature sensor against the at least one of the battery cells.
Claims15
A battery system comprising:
- a battery pack comprising a plurality of cylindrical battery cells arranged in an array with clearances between neighboring ones of the battery cells;
- an electrical conductor having a main portion extending along a surface of the battery pack and a branch portion branching off of the main portion;
- a temperature sensor on the branch portion of the electrical conductor and configured to sense a temperature of at least one of the battery cells;
- and
- a pin element,
- wherein the branch portion with the temperature sensor thereon and the pin element extend into the same clearance such that the pin element presses the temperature sensor against the at least one of the battery cells.
A method for installing a temperature sensor in a battery pack, the battery pack comprising a plurality of cylindrical battery cells arranged in an array with clearances between neighboring ones of the battery cells, the method comprising:
- arranging a main portion of an electrical conductor along a surface of the battery pack;
- inserting a branch portion of the electrical conductor that branches off of the main portion and comprises a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of one of the battery cells into one of the clearances;
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- inserting a pin element into the one of the clearances such that the pin element presses the temperature sensor against the one of the battery cells.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.