# US 9,437,852 B2 · Method for manufacturing a battery, battery arrangement and modular system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,437,852 B2 - Document ID: US9437852B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/362,796 - Filed: 2012-11-27 - Published: 2015-05-07 - Granted: 2016-09-06 - Earliest claimed: 2011-12-05 - Assignees: Audi AG - Applicants: Audi AG - Inventors: Heiner Fees; Ralf Maisch; Andreas Track; Alexander Eichhorn; Ricky Hudi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9437852B2 ## CPC - H01M 10/613: Cooling or keeping cold - B60L 50/64: Constructional details of batteries specially adapted for electric vehicles - H01M 10/625: Vehicles - H01M 10/6556: Solid parts with flow channel passages or pipes for heat exchange (closed pipes H01M10/6552) - H01M 10/6561: Gases - H01M 10/6567: Liquids - H01M 50/204: Racks, modules or packs for multiple batteries or multiple cells - H01M 50/249: specially adapted for aircraft or vehicles, e.g. cars or trains (constructional details of batteries specially adapted for electric vehicles B60L50/64) - H01M 2220/20: Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane - Y02E 60/10: Energy storage using batteries - Y02P 70/50: Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product - Y10T 29/49004: including measuring or testing of device or component part - H01M: PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY - B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES - Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION - Y02P: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS - Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION ## Abstract The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a battery (10) in which at least one battery module (12) having a plurality of battery cells (14) is provided. A cooling device (26) is selected depending on whether liquid cooling or cooling by a gaseous medium is intended for the at least one battery module (12). Depending on the selection, at least one first heat sink (26), through which a cooling liquid can flow, or at least one second heat sink, through which a gaseous medium can flow, is arranged on the at least one battery module (12) as the cooling device. The invention further relates to a battery arrangement and a modular system for producing a battery (10). ## Claims ### Claim 1 A battery arrangement, comprising: at least one battery module having a plurality of battery cells; a support device configured to hold the at least one battery module and having two rails of substantially L-shaped cross section for supporting the at least one battery module and a single-piece support plate which is separate from said two rails, each of said rails has a vertical leg and also a horizontal leg with a longitudinal groove having a width in a vertical direction, said support plate extending between said two rails in a longitudinal direction and having two horizontally extending ends each having a vertical width which corresponds to the vertical width of the longitudinal groove and each fittingly engaging in a corresponding one of the longitudinal grooves of the horizontal legs of said two rails to connect them with each other, said at least one battery module and said support plate of said support device defining a receiving space; at least one heat sink insertable in the receiving space and configured to provide liquid cooling or cooling with a gaseous medium; and at least one guide arranged between the rails and configured to facilitate insertion of the at least one heat sink into the receiving space and to contact the at least one heat sink, when the at least one heat sink is accommodated in the receiving space in the guide, said guide being part of the support device or the battery module and including at least two vertical guide rails which extend in the receiving space upwardly from said support plate and in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction, said vertical guide rails are of one piece with said support plate and are spaced from said ends of said support plate and are spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction to receive each of the heat sinks exclusively directly between the two of the vertical guide rails extending from the support plate without intermediate elements so as to laterally embrace the heat sink, said support plate having a straight upper horizontal surface and each of said heat sinks has a straight lower horizontal surface and contact with said straight upper horizontal surface of said support plate. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The battery arrangement of claim 1, constructed for use in a vehicle. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The battery arrangement of claim 1, wherein the rails are formed through extrusion. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The battery arrangement of claim 3, wherein the rails are made of an aluminum alloy. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The battery arrangement of claim 1, wherein said support plate of the support device, said two rails, and a bottom of the at least one battery module jointly define the receiving space for the at least one heat sink. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The battery arrangement of claim 5, wherein the support plate is made from a plastic. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The battery arrangement of claim 1, wherein the at least one guide is configured as a guide bar. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The battery arrangement of claim 7, wherein the guide bar is formed in one piece with the support plate.