Modular Battery Stack Plate Assembly for Flexible Wire Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing battery stack plates lack versatility to accommodate different specifications, requiring specific wire direction configurations that limit their adaptability to various battery stack designs.
Innovation Solution
A battery stack plate design featuring a housing with interchangeable sub-housings, including voltage detection, temperature detection, and dummy units, coupled via protruding and recessed portions, allowing for flexible assembly to meet diverse specifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a battery stack plate is designed with a fixed wire pull-out direction configuration, then the manufacturing process is simplified, but the adaptability to various battery stack specifications deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The battery stack plate is divided into a first plate and a second plate that can be selectively combined. Each plate has standardized coupling portions with protruding and recessed structures, allowing them to be segmented and reconfigured. This segmentation enables the same basic components to be assembled in different orientations and configurations to accommodate various wire pull-out directions while maintaining standardized manufacturing processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The coupling portions are designed with universal protruding and recessed structures that can accommodate multiple configuration scenarios. The same coupling design works for different plate combinations and orientations, making the battery stack plate system multi-functional. This universal design allows a single standardized component to serve multiple specification requirements without requiring custom manufacturing for each configuration.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple specialized battery stack plate designs are created to accommodate different wire pull-out directions, then adaptability to various specifications is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple configuration options are merged into a single standardized design system. The first and second plates, along with their coupling portions, are designed as standardized components that can be combined in various ways to achieve different wire pull-out directions. This merging approach consolidates what would otherwise require multiple specialized designs into one unified system, reducing overall device complexity while maintaining adaptability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If standardized coupling portions are used to enable flexible assembly, then versatility is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling portions utilize asymmetric protruding and recessed structures that provide self-aligning characteristics. The asymmetric design ensures that the protruding portion of one plate fits into the recessed portion of another plate in a specific orientation, providing natural alignment guidance during assembly. This asymmetric geometry reduces the precision requirements compared to symmetric designs that would require more complex alignment procedures.
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AI summary
A battery stack plate including a housing is provided. The housing has a first sub housing and a second sub housing. Each of the first and second sub housings has a coupling portion coupling the first and second sub housings to each other. The coupling portion includes a protruding portion provided on a coupling plate side face on which the first sub housing and the second sub housing are coupled to each other, and a recessed portion provided on the coupling plate side face at a position shifted from the protruding portion in the up-down direction.