Arrangement and method for safely discharging an energy accumulator

US9246338B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• ZENTRUM FÜR SONNENENERGIE- UND WASSERSTOFF-FORSCHUNG BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG GEMEINNÜTZIGE STIFTUNG · DE
• CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Harry Döring · Langenau, DE
• Harald Brazel · Ulm, DE
• Michael Wörz · Neu-Ulm, DE
• Olaf Böse · Neu-Ulm, DE
• Hans-Georg Schweiger · Ingolstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 5, 2011
• Grant date: Jan 26, 2016
• Expiry date: Aug 20, 2032

Classification

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

Abstract

Energy storage arrangement for safely discharging an energy accumulator with electric poles via which the energy accumulator can be at least discharged, an electrically conductive conductor medium in the form of a fluid or fine-grained bulk material or a mixture of both, a reservoir container which is filled with the conductor medium, a collecting container which is provided for accommodating the conductor medium and which encloses the electric poles of the energy accumulator, and a triggerable discharging device, by means of which, in the case of triggering, conductor medium is discharged from the reservoir container into the collecting container such that the electric poles of the energy accumulator are connected to one another in an electrically conductive fashion via the conductor medium.