Clamping bar holder component for a battery module and method thereof

US11183726B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TIVENI MERGECO, INC. · US

Inventors

• Heiner Fees · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
• Andreas Track · Sachsenheim, DE
• Ralf Maisch · Abstatt, DE
• Alexander Eichhorn · Eppingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 15, 2017
• Grant date: Nov 23, 2021
• Expiry date: Sep 12, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E60/10
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In an embodiment, a clamping bar holder component configured to be secured to an endplate of a battery module includes a plurality of clamping bar holders configured to hold a respective plurality of clamping bars and to facilitate transitions of each of the plurality of clamping bars between a parked state and an unparked state. In the parked state, each clamping bar is secured by a respective clamping bar holder inside of a respective clearance threshold so as to permit the battery module to be inserted into a battery module compartment and/or to be removed from the battery module compartment. In the unparked state, each clamping bar extends out of the clamping bar holder past the clearance threshold so as to block removal of the battery module from the battery module compartment.