Flexible Air Guide Assembly for Battery Rack Cooling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Energy storage containers face safety hazards due to excessive heat generated by batteries, which existing technologies have not adequately addressed.
Innovation Solution
An energy storage container design incorporating a container body with a battery rack, an air duct, and an air guide that includes a flexible portion to facilitate cooling by directing cooling gas through the air duct and guide to the battery rack, preventing excessive temperature rise and ensuring stable connections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a rigid air guide is used to connect the air duct and battery rack, then the connection stability is improved, but the assembly difficulty increases and abnormal connections may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies a flexible air guide made of elastic material to connect the air duct and battery rack. This flexible structure can deform during assembly to accommodate positioning errors and then recover to maintain stable connection, resolving the contradiction between connection stability and assembly difficulty.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the physical parameter of the air guide from rigid to flexible by selecting elastic materials with appropriate mechanical properties. This parameter change allows the air guide to adapt to assembly variations while maintaining reliable connection, addressing both connection stability and ease of assembly.
2Reliability
If the air guide structure is made complex to ensure stable connection, then the connection reliability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a simple flexible air guide structure that relies on elastic deformation rather than complex mechanical features to ensure stable connection. This reduces device complexity while maintaining connection reliability through the inherent flexibility of the elastic material.
3Device complexity
If traditional cooling structures are used, then the structure is simple, but the cooling effect is insufficient leading to safety hazards
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces cooling gas as an intermediary substance to transfer heat from the battery rack. The flexible air guide serves as a mediator to deliver this cooling gas precisely to the battery surfaces, achieving effective cooling without complex structural modifications.
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
The solution effectively cools the energy storage container, enhancing safety by managing heat and improving assembly efficiency through the use of a flexible air guide that can be easily deformed for installation, thus preventing abnormal connections.
Implementation Method 1
An air guide is compressed towards a side close to an air duct, so that a flexible air guide portion of the air guide is deformed
Implementation Method 2
The air guide communicates with the air duct and the battery rack... directing cooling gas through the air duct and guide to the battery rack
Data Source
AI summary
An energy storage container and an assembly method thereof are provided. The energy storage container includes a container body, an air duct, and an air guide. The container body is provided with at least one battery rack. The air duct is arranged on a top portion of the battery rack. The air guide communicates with the air duct and the battery rack. The air guide includes a first connecting portion, a flexible air guide portion, and a second connecting portion. The first connecting portion is connected to the air duct, the second connecting portion is connected to the battery rack, and the flexible air guide portion is connected to both the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion.