Battery including bipolar cells that have an edge insulating device supported by a support frame

US12009469B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Robert Bosch Battery Systems GmbH · US
• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Ralf Angerbauer · Heubach, DE
• Bernd Schumann · Rutesheim, DE
• Florian Schmid · Ried im Innkreis, AT
• Joerg Thielen · Stuttgart, DE
• Christian Diessner · Балка Пшехская, DE
• Mark Kotik · Rochester Hills, US
• David Naughton · Oxford, US
• Jerome Homann · Renningen, DE
• Anne Serout · Stuttgart, DE
• Laura Bauer · Meckenheim, DE
• Steve Scott · Fairborn, US
• Dan Schneider · Lake Orion, US
• Gary Mosley · Cincinnati, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 17, 2019
• Grant date: Jun 11, 2024
• Expiry date: May 10, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P70/50
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A battery includes a stacked arrangement of electrochemical cells. Each electrochemical cell is free of a cell housing and includes a bipolar plate having a substrate, a first active material layer formed on a first surface of the substrate, and a second active material layer formed on a second surface of the substrate. Each cell includes a solid electrolyte layer that encapsulates at least one of the active material layers, and an edge insulating device that is disposed between the peripheral edges of the substrates of each pair of adjacent cells. A support frame surrounds the cell stack and is configured to receive and support the outer peripheral edge of the edge insulating device of each cell.