A bus bar includes members made from a conductive material and consecutively arranged to form a plate shape defining a wiring pathway. The members adjacent to each other are connected to each other by laser joining. The members include a first connection member arranged at one end of the wiring pathway and having a first connection portion for electrical input-output, and a conductive member connected to the first connection member in a state where connection surfaces of the first connection member and the conductive member located in a same plane are in contact with each other. In the members, only the first connection member is plated.

A battery pack has a plurality of battery stacks, a case, and a thermal insulation cover. The case accommodates the plurality of battery stacks. The thermal insulation cover is arranged so as to expose an outer surface of at least one battery stack from among the plurality of battery stacks inside the case, and to cover an outer surface of a battery stack that is adjacent to the exposed battery stack. A difference obtained by subtracting an amount of removed heat from an amount of heat generated during heat generation is greater in the battery stack that is exposed from the thermal insulation cover than in the battery stack that is covered by the thermal insulation cover.

A battery pack has a plurality of battery stacks, a case, and a thermal insulation cover. The case accommodates the plurality of battery stacks. The thermal insulation cover is arranged so as to expose an outer surface of at least one battery stack from among the plurality of battery stacks inside the case, and to cover an outer surface of a battery stack that is adjacent to the exposed battery stack. A difference obtained by subtracting an amount of removed heat from an amount of heat generated during heat generation is greater in the battery stack that is exposed from the thermal insulation cover than in the battery stack that is covered by the thermal insulation cover.

A battery module includes a heat-shrinkable tube serving as a module housing. The battery module includes a cell assembly having a plurality of pouch-type secondary batteries; a bus bar assembly having a bus bar frame and a bus bar mounted to an outer surface of the bus bar frame; and a heat-shrinkable tube formed to be shrunk by heat and configured so that the cell assembly is located therein, the heat-shrinkable tube being provided to surround a side surface of the cell assembly and a portion of the bus bar assembly.

A battery module and a method of assembling a battery module are provided. The method includes selectively applying a light-cure adhesive to recesses in a first side of a carrier layer and inserting battery cells into respective recesses. The method further includes exposing the first side of the carrier layer to light to at least partially cure the light-cure adhesive with the carrier layer in a first orientation, moving the carrier layer into a second orientation, and exposing a second opposite side of the carrier layer to light to fully cure the light-cure adhesive. The recesses may include a sidewall having crush points spaced apart along the sidewall and a bottom portion having an opening between a pair of crush points, where adhesive is not disposed between the pair of crush points.

A connection module configured to connect a plurality of battery packs having positive and negative electrode terminals, the connection module including an insulating member having a holding portion that holds a bus bar configured to connect electrode terminals of adjacent battery packs, and a temperature detection portion that detects the temperature of the bus bar, the insulating member having a temporary locking portion that detachably locks the temperature detection portion.

A secondary battery module includes a plurality of battery blocks each obtained by stacking a plurality of battery cells. The secondary battery module includes a holding member adapted to hold the plurality of battery blocks and including a pair of opposed end plates, a pair of opposed side plates, and a section plate arranged between the adjacent battery blocks to partition the battery blocks; and an inter-block bus bar provided across the section plate and adapted to electrically connect the adjacent battery blocks. The inter-block bus bar has a fuse portion.

A battery module including a battery cell stack, which includes a plurality of battery modules; a busbar frame mounted on each of a front surface and a rear surface of the battery cell stack; a flexible printed circuit board unit to which a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of the battery cell stack is attached; and a reinforcing sheet attached to the flexible printed circuit board unit.

A battery module including a battery cell stack, which includes a plurality of battery modules; a busbar frame mounted on each of a front surface and a rear surface of the battery cell stack; a flexible printed circuit board unit to which a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of the battery cell stack is attached; and a reinforcing sheet attached to the flexible printed circuit board unit.

In order to create a module connector for electrically conductively connecting at least two battery modules, comprising a connecting conductor, which has a contact region that is arrangeable on a contact element of a battery module, in which module connector a sufficient contact protection for a fastening element is ensured in a simple and reliable manner, it is proposed that the module connector comprises a contact protection element, which at least partially covers the contact region of the connecting conductor, and a fastening element for fixing the contact region of the connecting conductor to the contact element, wherein the fastening element in a rest position is held on the contact protection element and is transferable from the rest position into an assembly position in which a contact protection is provided for at least a protected part of the fastening element by the contact protection element.