Battery Cell Heating Layer With Exhaust Venting for Uniform Heating

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing battery heating systems experience partial dry heating and uneven heating due to gas entrapment between the heating component and the battery cell, leading to reduced cycling performance and service life, especially in extreme cold conditions.

Innovation Solution

Incorporating an exhaust structure on the heating component to discharge gas between the battery cell and the heating component, ensuring complete adherence and improved heat transfer efficiency, with optional features like exhaust vents, anti-tear structures, and strategically placed heating wires.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Temperature

If the heating component is attached to the battery cell surface, then the heating effect is improved, but gas entrapment causes partial dry heating and reduces heating uniformity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheating effectVSAvoidheating uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
TemperatureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the harmful gas trapped between the heating component and battery cell surface by providing exhaust structures (exhaust vents or exhaust channels) that allow the gas to escape. This extraction of the harmful element (gas) enables complete adhesion of the heating component to the battery cell surface, eliminating partial dry heating and achieving uniform heating across the entire surface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Loss of energy

If the heating component adheres completely to the battery cell surface, then heat transfer efficiency is improved, but gas entrapment prevents complete adhesion

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheat transfer efficiencyVSAvoidgas entrapment
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent converts the harmful effect of gas entrapment into a beneficial exhaust flow pattern. By designing exhaust structures that guide gas escape, the gas that would otherwise cause dry heating is channeled through controlled paths (exhaust channels) or released through strategically positioned vents, transforming the harmful trapped gas into a controlled exhaust process that enables complete surface adhesion and efficient heat transfer.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

3Reliability

If the exhaust structure is added to the heating component, then gas discharge and adhesion are improved, but the structural complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadhesion qualityVSAvoidheating component structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the exhaust function directly into the heating component structure by integrating exhaust vents or exhaust channels into the heating component body. This integration allows the heating component to simultaneously perform heating and gas discharge functions through a single unified structure, avoiding the need for separate exhaust systems and thereby reducing overall structural complexity while maintaining reliable adhesion.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This solution enhances the heating effect, improves cycling performance, and extends the service life of the battery by ensuring uniform heating and preventing damage to the heating component.

Implementation Method 1

a heating component attached to the surface of at least one side of the battery cell, and the heating component is used to heat the battery cell

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectJoule heating: Joule Heating

Implementation Method 2

an exhaust structure is provided on the heating component at a position opposite to the side surface of the battery cell, and the exhaust structure is used to discharge the gas between the side surface of the battery cell and the heating component

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPressure gradient: Pressure Gradient

Data Source

PatentUS20230387507A1Battery and electrical apparatus
Publication Date: 2023.11.30 CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
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AI summary

The present application relates to the field of new energy technology, and discloses a battery and an electrical apparatus. The battery comprises: a battery cell; a heating component attached to the surface of at least one side of the battery cell, and the heating component is used to heat the battery cell; wherein, an exhaust structure is provided on the heating component at a position opposite to the surface of at least one side of the battery cell, and the exhaust structure is used to discharge the gas between the surface of at least one side of the battery cell and the heating component. In this way, the present application can make the heating component closely adhere to the surface of the battery cell, thereby improving the heat transfer efficiency.