EP3577703A1 - Modularly constructed energy storage device - Google Patents
Modularly constructed energy storage deviceInfo
- Publication number
- EP3577703A1 EP3577703A1 EP17816858.9A EP17816858A EP3577703A1 EP 3577703 A1 EP3577703 A1 EP 3577703A1 EP 17816858 A EP17816858 A EP 17816858A EP 3577703 A1 EP3577703 A1 EP 3577703A1
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- Prior art keywords
- energy storage
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Classifications
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
- B62M—RIDER PROPULSION OF WHEELED VEHICLES OR SLEDGES; POWERED PROPULSION OF SLEDGES OR SINGLE-TRACK CYCLES; TRANSMISSIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SUCH VEHICLES
- B62M6/00—Rider propulsion of wheeled vehicles with additional source of power, e.g. combustion engine or electric motor
- B62M6/80—Accessories, e.g. power sources; Arrangements thereof
- B62M6/90—Batteries
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01M—PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
- H01M50/00—Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the non-active parts of electrochemical cells other than fuel cells, e.g. hybrid cells
- H01M50/20—Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders
- H01M50/218—Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders characterised by the material
- H01M50/22—Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders characterised by the material of the casings or racks
- H01M50/227—Organic material
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
- B62K—CYCLES; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES; CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE SIDE-CARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE
- B62K19/00—Cycle frames
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H01M—PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
- H01M50/00—Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the non-active parts of electrochemical cells other than fuel cells, e.g. hybrid cells
- H01M50/20—Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders
- H01M50/204—Racks, modules or packs for multiple batteries or multiple cells
- H01M50/207—Racks, modules or packs for multiple batteries or multiple cells characterised by their shape
- H01M50/213—Racks, modules or packs for multiple batteries or multiple cells characterised by their shape adapted for cells having curved cross-section, e.g. round or elliptic
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01M—PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
- H01M50/00—Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the non-active parts of electrochemical cells other than fuel cells, e.g. hybrid cells
- H01M50/20—Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders
- H01M50/262—Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders with fastening means, e.g. locks
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
- B62M—RIDER PROPULSION OF WHEELED VEHICLES OR SLEDGES; POWERED PROPULSION OF SLEDGES OR SINGLE-TRACK CYCLES; TRANSMISSIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SUCH VEHICLES
- B62M6/00—Rider propulsion of wheeled vehicles with additional source of power, e.g. combustion engine or electric motor
- B62M6/40—Rider propelled cycles with auxiliary electric motor
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H01M—PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
- H01M2220/00—Batteries for particular applications
- H01M2220/20—Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane
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- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02E60/00—Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
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Definitions
- the invention relates to an energy storage device of a vehicle, in particular a pedal-operated vehicle with backup drive, wherein the
- Energy storage device for receiving one or more cooperating energy storage units is formed, preferably receiving means for battery cells or accumulators and lines for electrical connection of the energy storage units with each other and with the support drive.
- Muscle or pedal operated vehicles with support drive so about electric bicycles with rechargeable energy storage, are known from the prior art in different versions.
- the energy storage are either permanently connected to the vehicle, so that the vehicle must be driven to a charging station and there can be recharged, or can be solved by the vehicle and be subjected to a separate charging process.
- energy storage special accumulators are usually used, but it can also be used commercially available rechargeable batteries, which are interconnected, for example, in a housing.
- DE 10 2010 000 740 AI discloses for this purpose a bicycle in a frame, a plurality of frame members and a battery pack, which is provided with a first and a second battery part.
- the battery pack is on the outside of a
- Frame element is arranged and has on the inside a shape that in the
- the battery parts themselves in turn have a plurality of battery cells.
- the battery cells and energy storage devices known in the prior art are relatively heavy when a certain power density or capacity is required.
- Energy storage units / accumulators are also relatively expensive. This is especially true for energy storage high performance and lifetime.
- the task was an energy storage device
- Blanking elements in shape and dimensions with the energy storage device or the receiving device can be completed and connected to each other, if necessary formed conductive connectable.
- the inventive design thus provides a modular system of energy storage device, with the adaptable to the everyday operation the
- Energy storage device can be so compiled or equipped with energy storage units, ie accumulators or battery cells, that in the normal case enough electrical capacity and power is available.
- dummy elements can therefore, depending on the requirement against
- dummy elements and energy storage units may also have different dimensions and shapes, but should be so designed that then a dummy element in shape and dimension many times a
- Energy storage unit represents or vice versa. This improves the modular structure. In addition, one achieves a cost saving in that according to the
- Energy storage device in shape and size can always be the same design (equal parts principle), but can be compiled / completed in different ways with energy storage units and blind elements. For certain
- Energy storage device can be provided so that the necessary number of expensive energy storage units used or can be exchanged for identical in shape and size dummy elements.
- Plug-in or snap-in contacts can be connected to one another, if necessary can be conductively connected to one another. Such a design results in a structurally very simple possibility of completion or compilation, which is also very easy to handle.
- a further advantageous embodiment is that the energy storage units are each provided with a separate electronic control device, which cooperate with a central control device of the bicycle in the sense of controlling the support drive.
- Control devices can then be designed so that the arbitrary
- Combinations of energy storage units each detected and corresponding signals can be given about power and current to the central control unit, which can then control the drive motor accordingly.
- the central control unit is arranged in the frame or in the vehicle, so that it can be seen from the signals which and how much energy storage units are available and can be addressed for the control.
- the energy storage device is formed together with energy storage units and dummy elements as a detachable connected to the frame of the bicycle separate component.
- the separate component is designed as a housing accommodating the energy storage units and / or reactive elements, and the
- Energy storage units and / or reactive elements can be removed from the housing, results in a simple integration of the energy storage device according to the invention in existing frame structures.
- the energy storage device is designed as a frame part or frame tube of a bicycle, wherein the frame part or frame tube at least one substantially parallel to its axis and along its outer side formed open concavity or groove for receiving the Energy storage units and / or reactive elements, wherein
- Energy storage units and dummy elements complementary to the concavity or groove and the inner volume of the concavity substantially filling are formed and the concavity or groove the energy storage units and dummy elements at least partially wrapped so that energy storage units and blind elements are fixed transversely to the frame part form fit in the concavity or groove, so also be held positively and not just about spring force.
- the concavity or groove in a partial region has an extension or opening through which the energy storage units and dummy elements can be inserted into the concavity or groove.
- the energy storage device is fully integrated in the frame and can be designed in an optically pleasing manner together with the frame and fitted into the overall impression.
- the inventive construction in the form that a completion or
- Composition of energy storage units and dummy elements facilitates the visual design in that it remains inconspicuous, whether accumulators or dummy elements fill the concavity.
- Blind elements are slidably inserted into the concavity or groove in the longitudinal direction.
- Energy storage units and dummy elements in the longitudinal direction of the frame member are resiliently fixed and inserted against spring pressure in the concavity or groove and / or latched, is given a very easy and easy to install design, in which the installation of the energy storage units and blind elements can be performed quickly and easily.
- This also applies to a further advantageous embodiment of a frame part or
- Frame tube formed energy storage device which consists in that a plurality of arranged in the frame, preferably electrically connected in parallel or in series
- Energy storage units are provided, e.g. rod-shaped battery cells or
- a further advantageous embodiment of an energy storage device designed as a frame part or frame tube is that the frame part has a plurality of cavities or grooves arranged on its circumference and a plurality of energy storage units and / or blind elements revolverartig, approximately in the form of a drum magazine, are arranged around the frame part.
- the energy storage units are located within concaves of the frame tube and can be completed as required.
- Frame part or frame tube and energy storage units and dummy elements have a common enclosure or outer shell, preferably one through
- Clamp connection attached outer shell made of plastic so have a kind of cladding, which can then be arbitrarily designed and colored.
- a panel may also serve to power the energy storage units on the To secure energy storage device.
- a further advantageous embodiment of a designed as a frame part or frame tube energy storage device is that frame part or frame tube consist of several composable to a common cross section of individual tubes or profiles, that is, for example, composed of half-pipe or quarter tube profiles.
- Such training can help, for example, the grooves or
- a further advantageous embodiment of an energy storage device designed as a frame part or frame tube is that the concavity or groove extends from the outside of the frame part or frame tube into the internal volume of the frame part or frame tube.
- the concavity or groove extends from the outside of the frame part or frame tube into the internal volume of the frame part or frame tube.
- projections or sockets may be formed, can be inserted or inserted into the energy storage unit.
- the energy storage units may themselves be designed in each case as a monolithic accumulator block or battery unit or else in each case a plurality of
- rod-shaped battery cells or accumulators which are connected in accordance with each other.
- a pedal-operated electric bicycle a so-called e-bike or pedelec, with at least one such inventive
- Operate energy storage device For such electric bicycles, which generally allow a low weight and with corresponding additional equipment a high payload, in their performance by different combinations of batteries and reactive elements customizable energy storage devices are particularly suitable. Due to the weight saving, the payload is not significantly reduced and the performance is adapted to everyday use.
- Fig. 1 is an electric bicycle with a bicycle arranged
- Fig. 2 shows an energy storage device according to the invention.
- Fig. 4 different shapes or cross sections of a as a
- FIG. 1 shows a pedal-operated vehicle with a support drive, namely an electric bicycle 1 with an electric auxiliary drive, which is arranged as a center motor 2 on the bottom bracket 3.
- the electric motor is here switched so that it is used to increase the pedal force.
- a releasably arranged on the bicycle energy storage device 4 is provided here namely integrated on or in the down tube 5, which connects the head tube 6 with the bottom bracket or, the motor mount and the seat tube 7
- the down tube 5 is formed as a frame profile, which has a recess not described here in detail, in which an inventive
- Energy storage device 4 therefore consists of the two differently powerful energy storage units 8 and 9 and from the
- the energy storage device 4 is thus formed here on the down tube 5 of a two-wheeler, wherein the down tube has an axis and along its outer side formed L-shaped open recess or concavity, in which the two
- Energy storage units 8 and 9 and also the dummy element 10 are included.
- the energy storage units and dummy elements are complementary to the L-shaped recess formed so that the inner volume of the recess is filled.
- the concavity comprises the energy storage units and dummy elements so that energy storage units and dummy elements are fixed transversely to the frame part positively in the concavity or groove and flush form a common outer contour.
- Fig. 3 shows a detail of a frame of another embodiment of a
- Energy storage device for a pedal-operated vehicle with support drive, namely one which is designed as a frame part, here as a down tube 12 of a two-wheeler.
- the housing 11 connects a bottom bracket with mid-engine, the down tube 12 to the seat tube 13th
- the down tube 12 has on both sides each one parallel to its axis 14 and along its outer sides formed open concave or groove 15, 16 for receiving the
- Energy storage units 17 and dummy elements 18 are fixed in the longitudinal direction of the frame part by means of a spring 20 and also inserted against spring pressure in the groove. This is also illustrated once again in FIG. 3a, which, as a sketch only, shows a further above and represents in the vicinity of the not visible here control tube portion of a differently shaped down tube 21, which has only a lateral concavity 22.
- the concavity 22 has, in an upper subregion, an extension 23, through which the energy storage units and dummy elements can be inserted into the concavity, as shown schematically by the arrows 24.
- the energy storage units and dummy elements are in this way in the concavities or grooves 15, 16, 22 in
- FIG. 4 shows once again in the cross-section possible different forms of
- Concaves or grooves as they can provide an embodiment of the invention, wherein the energy storage device is designed as a frame part or frame tube.
- an energy storage device which is provided as a hollow frame tube 25 with a concave 26, 27 formed on both sides.
- Fig. 4 In the middle part of Fig. 4 is the cross section of an energy storage device to see, which is also formed as a hollow frame tube 31, but only a concave 32 has on the bottom, in the energy storage devices energy storage units or blind elements 33, 34 can be used. Again, in the cavity of the frame tube 31 cable guides 30 can be laid in a simple manner.
- the cross section is also a frame part 35th
- the frame part 35 has a plurality of circumferentially disposed cavities or grooves 38 and a plurality
- the frame part consists of the two individual profiles 36 and 37 which can be combined to form a common cross-section.
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DE102017201828.3A DE102017201828A1 (en) | 2017-02-06 | 2017-02-06 | Modular energy storage device |
PCT/EP2017/083419 WO2018141455A1 (en) | 2017-02-06 | 2017-12-19 | Modularly constructed energy storage device |
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DE102010000740A1 (en) | 2010-01-08 | 2011-07-14 | Robert Bosch GmbH, 70469 | Electric bicycle has frame with multiple frame elements and battery pack with battery parts, where battery pack is detachably arranged at outer side of frame elements |
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