Battery-embedded board for building-integrated energy storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing natural power generation apparatuses have low transformation rates, requiring large batteries for storage, which occupy indoor space and pose safety risks, deterring the adoption of these systems.
Innovation Solution
A battery-embedded board is designed to be integrated into building structures like floors, walls, and ceilings, allowing for extensive electricity storage without occupying indoor space, using a base with accommodation slots for batteries and electrical connections for series or parallel configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a large battery is used to store power, then electricity storage capacity is improved, but indoor space occupation and safety risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The large battery is divided into multiple small battery units, each embedded within separate board members. These distributed small batteries collectively provide the required storage capacity while eliminating the need for a centralized large battery that would occupy indoor space.
Solution Approach 2:
The battery storage system transitions from a vertical/indoor placement to a horizontal/integrated placement within building structures (floors, walls, ceilings). By embedding batteries in the architectural framework, the system utilizes previously unused structural spaces rather than dedicating indoor floor space to battery storage.
2Quantity of substance
If a large battery is used to store power, then electricity storage capacity is improved, but safety risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The battery system is segmented into many small independent battery units distributed throughout the building structure. This segmentation reduces safety risks because a failure in one small battery unit cannot propagate to affect the entire system, whereas a single large battery represents a concentrated safety hazard.
Solution Approach 2:
The potential harm of battery failures is converted into a benefit through distribution. The very act of spreading batteries throughout the structure transforms what would be a concentrated safety risk into a distributed, manageable system where individual failures are isolated and containable.
3Area of stationary object
If batteries are embedded in building structures, then indoor space is saved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The board members serve multiple functions: they provide structural support for the building while simultaneously housing battery units and providing electrical connections. This multi-functionality reduces overall system complexity by combining what would otherwise be separate systems (structural framework and energy storage system) into a unified integrated solution.
Solution Approach 2:
The structural elements of the building and the energy storage system are merged into a single integrated system. Board members that form the building's floors, walls, or ceilings also contain and connect battery units, eliminating the need for separate battery rooms or storage facilities.
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AI summary
A battery-embedded plate includes a base and a battery is present. The base has an accommodation space on a bottom face, and comprises a corner-locating element and two edge-locating elements, each of the two edge-locating elements adjoins to one side of the corner-locating element respectively and two through slots communicated with the accommodation space is defined respectively between each edge-locating element and each side of the corner-locating element. The battery is set in the accommodation space and fixed by the corner-locating element and the two edge-locating elements. The battery is electrically connected with a positive cable and a negative cable respectively, and the two cables are extended out of the accommodation space through the two through slots respectively.