Battery Core Sampling Support Structure for Vibration-Stable Connections

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Solution Overview

Problem

In battery systems, the sampling wire harness is not fixed, leading to loose connections between the sampling wire harness and battery cores due to vibration, resulting in inadequate collection of battery core information.

Innovation Solution

A battery core unit with a sampling structure featuring notches and limiting strips, and a fixing support with protrusions and conductive sheets, which securely arranges the sampling structure on the fixing support to reduce shaking and enhance connection reliability between the sampling structure and battery cores.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the sampling wire harness is arranged inside the battery to collect signals, then the battery core information can be collected, but the sampling wire harness is not fixed and shakes during vibration, causing loose connections

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection reliabilityVSAvoidsampling structure stability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The sampling structure is divided into multiple segments including the sampling wire harness, fixing support, limiting strips, and spacing regions. Each segment performs a specific function: the sampling wire harness collects signals, the fixing support provides mounting positions, the limiting strips constrain movement, and the spacing regions maintain proper distances. This segmentation allows the system to achieve both flexibility in signal collection and stability in connection maintenance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The fixing support acts as an intermediary component between the sampling wire harness and the battery core. It provides a stable mounting structure with limiting strips that prevent the sampling wire harness from shaking during vibration, while still allowing it to maintain electrical connection with the battery core groups. This intermediary structure resolves the contradiction by providing both fixation and flexibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If the sampling wire harness is fixed securely to reduce shaking, then connection reliability improves, but the structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection reliabilityVSAvoidsampling structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple functions are merged into the fixing support structure: it provides mounting positions for the sampling wire harness, incorporates limiting strips to prevent shaking, and creates spacing regions to maintain proper distances. By combining these functions into a single integrated component rather than separate elements, the structure achieves high connection reliability without excessive complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The fixing support serves multiple purposes simultaneously: it fixes the sampling wire harness in position, provides limiting strips to prevent movement during vibration, maintains spacing between components, and supports the overall sampling structure. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components, thereby limiting the increase in device complexity while achieving secure fixation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20240222729A1Battery core unit, battery, and vehicle
Publication Date: 2024.07.04 BYD CO LTD
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AI summary

A battery core unit includes a battery core string and a sampling structure. The battery core string includes multiple battery core groups and at least one fixing support, the battery core groups are connected and disposed along a first direction, and two adjacent battery core groups are connected via a fixing support of the at least one fixing support. The sampling structure is electrically connected with the battery core groups, the sampling structure includes a notch, and the notch includes a limiting strip. The fixing support includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion, the first protrusion and the second protrusion are located in the notch and disposed spaced apart to form a spacing region, and the limiting strip is fitted in the spacing region.