Storage Battery Rack With Adjustable Support Portions For Cooling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional storage battery racks are inefficient in housing batteries with non-standard height dimensions while maintaining high volumetric efficiency and securing a refrigerant passage for cooling, leading to increased costs and reduced energy density.
Innovation Solution
A storage battery rack design featuring a bottom and ceiling portion with long support posts, side panels with attachment holes, and support portions that accommodate batteries with a refrigerant passage, allowing for high-density storage using standard racks while ensuring effective cooling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a conventionally existing standard rack is used to house storage batteries, then cost is reduced, but volumetric efficiency and energy density are compromised due to non-standard height dimensions of batteries
Solution Approach 1:
The side panels are designed with adjustable support portions that can be positioned at different heights to accommodate storage batteries of varying non-standard height dimensions. This dynamic adjustability allows the standard rack structure to adapt to different battery sizes, maximizing volumetric efficiency while maintaining cost-effectiveness of using conventional standard racks
Solution Approach 2:
The support portions on the side panels have adjustable height positions, allowing changes in the vertical parameter of battery support. This enables the rack to accommodate batteries with different height dimensions, improving volumetric efficiency without requiring a completely custom-designed rack structure
2Ease of manufacture
If storage batteries with non-standard height dimensions are housed in a standard rack, then cost is reduced, but securing a refrigerant passage for effective cooling becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The side panels are segmented into multiple support portions at different height levels, creating distinct zones between batteries. These segmented spaces naturally form refrigerant passages that allow cooling medium to flow between batteries of different heights, ensuring effective cooling while maintaining the cost advantage of using standard rack structures
Solution Approach 2:
The support portions act as intermediaries that create controlled spaces between batteries. These spaces serve dual functions: providing structural support for non-standard height batteries and forming channels for refrigerant flow, thereby mediating between the conflicting requirements of cost reduction and cooling performance
3Volume of moving object
If support structures are added to accommodate non-standard battery heights, then volumetric efficiency improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The side panels serve multiple functions: they provide structural support for batteries of varying heights through adjustable support portions, and simultaneously create refrigerant passages for cooling. This multi-functionality improves volumetric efficiency without proportionally increasing device complexity, as the same structural elements perform multiple roles
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AI summary
A storage battery rack includes bottom frame portion, ceiling frame portion, long support posts, and side panels installed facing the support posts. Each support post has a plurality of attachment holes with a predetermined pitch along the longitudinal direction. Side panel has a plurality of female screw holes with a pitch corresponding to the predetermined pitch. Each side panel is attached to a pair of the support posts with screws fastened to attachment holes and the female screw holes. Side panel has a plurality of parallel support portions. A distance between support portions is set substantially equal to a total value of a predetermined height dimension of a refrigerant passage formed between a plurality of storage batteries and a predetermined height dimension of each storage battery.