Battery Box Middle Channel Beam for Protected Harness Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
In electric vehicles, the battery is often mounted at the bottom with exposed harnesses that are vulnerable to damage, compromising safety.
Innovation Solution
A box body design with a main body and middle channel beam that accommodates the battery cell, featuring a wiring channel for harnesses and a sealing member for protection, allowing for flexible and safer harness arrangement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the battery is mounted at the bottom with exposed harnesses, then the assembly is simple, but the harnesses are vulnerable to damage compromising safety
Solution Approach 1:
A middle channel beam is introduced as an intermediary structure between the battery and the external environment. This beam contains wiring channels that serve as protected pathways for the harnesses, shielding them from external damage while maintaining the bottom-mounted battery configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The protection system is segmented into distinct functional components: the middle channel beam structure, the wiring channels within it, and the sealing members. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently for its specific function while contributing to overall safety.
2Productivity
If the top of the box body is constructed as a chassis, then assembly efficiency is high, but the harness arrangement becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The middle channel beam serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides structural support as part of the chassis assembly, contains the wiring channels for harness protection, and offers mounting positions for sealing members. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated components.
Solution Approach 2:
The structural support function and the harness protection function are merged into a single middle channel beam structure. By combining these functions, the design achieves both high assembly efficiency and safe harness arrangement without requiring separate structural elements.
3Reliability
If the middle channel beam is used for wiring channel, then the harness arrangement is more flexible and safer, but the weight increases
Solution Approach 1:
The wiring channels are designed as integrated cavities within the middle channel beam structure rather than as separate bulky protective enclosures. This approach provides effective harness protection while minimizing additional weight through efficient use of the beam's internal volume.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a box body (10), a battery (100), and an electric device. The box body (10) includes a main body (11) and a middle channel beam (16). The main body (11) has an accommodation chamber(s). The middle channel beam (16) extends in a first direction and disposed at the top of the main body (11), and is equidistant from outer edges of two sides of the top of the main body (11) in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The middle channel beam (16) has a wiring channel (16a) configured to allow for passing of a harness.