BATTERY, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING BATTERY

Abstract

This application discloses an electric core, an electronic device and a method for packaging an electric core. The electric core includes a shell and a battery cell, the shell includes a steel lower shell and a steel upper shell, surfaces of the upper shell and the lower shell are provided with insulating layers, the lower shell and the upper shell are hermetically connected by welding to form a sealed cavity, the shell is provided with a positive contact plate and a negative contact plate; the battery cell is a laminated battery cell fixed in the sealed cavity, and a positive lug and a negative lug of the laminated battery cell are respectively connected with the positive contact plate and the negative contact plate.

Claims

1. An electric core, comprising: a shell and a battery cell, wherein the shell comprises a steel lower shell and a steel upper shell, surfaces of the upper shell and the lower shell are provided with insulating layers, the lower shell and the upper shell are hermetically connected by welding to form a sealed cavity, and the shell is provided with a positive contact plate and a negative contact plate; the battery cell is a laminated battery cell fixed in the sealed cavity, and a positive lug and a negative lug of the laminated battery cell are respectively connected with the positive contact plate and the negative contact plate.

2. The electric core according to claim 1, wherein the shell is a special-shaped shell with a special-shaped cross-section.

3. The electric core according to claim 2, wherein the laminated battery cell is special-shaped and is adapted to a shape of the shell.

4. The electric core according to claim 3, wherein the shell has a bend and the laminated battery cell has a bend.

5. The electric core according to claim 1, wherein the upper shell and the lower shell have a wall thickness of 0.07 mm-0.15 mm.

6. The electric core according to claim 1, wherein the shell is provided with an installation through-hole, the negative contact plate is embedded in the installation through-hole, and an insulating film is arranged between the negative contact plate and the shell.

7. The electric core according to claim 1, wherein the shell is provided with a convex protruding outwards, the convex and the shell are of an integrated structure, and the convex is the positive contact plate or the negative contact plate.

8. The electric core according to claim 1, wherein the shell is provided with a liquid injection hole where a pressure relief valve is arranged.

9. An electronic device, comprising: a device body provided with a battery compartment; and the electric core according claim 1, wherein, the electric core is installed in the battery compartment.

10. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the shell of the electric core and the battery compartment are fixed by clamping.

11. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the device body comprises a control main board where a battery protection board is installed, and the battery protection board is connected with the electric core.

12. A method for packaging an electric core, wherein the electric core comprises a shell and a laminated battery cell, the shell comprises a steel lower shell and a steel upper shell, surfaces of the upper shell and the lower shell are provided with insulating layers, the lower shell is provided with a positive contact plate and a negative contact plate, the upper shell or the lower shell is provided with a liquid injection hole; the method for packaging the electric core comprises: packaging the laminated battery cell into the lower shell; welding a positive lug of the laminated battery with the positive contact plate of the lower shell, and welding a negative lug of the laminated battery with the negative contact plate of the lower shell; buckling the upper shell to the lower shell, and hermetically welding peripheries of the upper shell and the lower shell; injecting electrolyte from a liquid injection hole of the upper shell or the lower shell; and arranging a pressure relief valve at a position of the liquid injection hole.

13. The electric core according to claim 3, wherein the shell has an outward convex groove, and the laminated battery cell has a convex matching with the convex groove.

14. The electric core according to claim 3, wherein the shell has an inward concave groove, and the laminated battery cell has a concave matching with the concave groove.

15. The electric core according to claim 3, wherein a corner part of the shell is provided with a cut edge, and a corner part of the laminated battery cell is provided with a cut edge.

16. The electric core according to claim 1, wherein the shell is provided with an installation through-hole, the positive contact plate is embedded in the installation through-hole, and an insulating film is arranged between the positive contact plate and the shell.

17. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the shell of the electric core and the battery compartment are fixed by bonding.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0021] The accompanying drawings are used to provide an understanding of the technical solution of this application in some embodiments, and form a part of the description. Together with the embodiments of the application, the accompanying drawings are used to explain the technical solution of this application and do not constitute a limitation of the technical solution of this application.

[0022] FIG. 1 is a structural diagram of an electric core provided by an embodiment of this application;

[0023] FIG. 2 is a breakdown structural diagram of the electric core shown in FIG. 1;

[0024] FIG. 3 is an enlarged diagram of part A structure of FIG. 2;

[0025] FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of a laminated battery cell of the electric core shown in FIG. 1;

[0026] FIG. 5 is a sectional diagram of a partial structure of the electric core shown in FIG. 1;

[0027] FIG. 6 is a sectional diagram of a partial structure of the electric core shown in FIG. 1;

[0028] FIG. 7 is a sectional diagram of a partial structure of the electric core shown in FIG. 1;

[0029] FIGS. 8a-8l are schematic diagrams of the process of packaging the electric core.

[0030] Herein, the relationship between the reference signs and the component names in FIGS. 1-8l is as follows:

[0031] 1 upper shell, 2 lower shell, 20 positive contact plate, 21 negative contact plate, 22 insulating film, 23 liquid injection hole, 24 installation through-hole, 3 laminated battery cell, 30 positive plate, 31 negative plate, 32 separator, 33 positive lug, 34 negative lug, 4 steel ball.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0032] In order to make the purpose, technical solution and advantages of this application clearer, embodiments of this application will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments in this application and the features in the embodiments can be combined with each other arbitrarily without conflict.

[0033] As shown in FIG. 1, this embodiment provides an electric core, including a shell and a battery cell.

[0034] As shown in FIG. 2, the shell includes a steel lower shell 2 and a steel upper shell 1. Since the steel material has good rigidity and is easy to shape, the upper shell 1 and the lower shell 2 may be made into various sizes and shapes (such as special-shaped shapes). Thus the shell may be made into various shapes, so as to adapt to the design requirements of electronic devices such as mobile phones or wearable devices.

[0035] In addition, the lower shell 2 and the upper shell 1 may be connected by welding due to the weldability of the steel material to realize the sealing connection between the upper shell 1 and the lower shell 2, and form a sealed cavity between the upper shell 1 and the lower shell 2, so as to hermetically fix the battery cell in the sealed cavity of the shell.

[0036] In addition, as the shell is made of steel, the structure of the shell has good strength and is not easy to deform, and the electric core in the shell is further protected from deformation, so that the battery cell is safe and reliable to use, not easy to deform and fail, and can be reused after disassembled.

[0037] In some embodiments, the surfaces of the upper shell 1 and the lower shell 2 are provided with insulating layers, so that the shell is not conductive to avoid leakage.

[0038] As shown in FIG. 4, the battery cell is a laminated battery cell 3, that is, the laminated battery cell 3 includes a laminated positive plate 30, a negative plate 31 and a separator 32. Herein, the separator 32 is arranged between the positive plate 30 and the negative plate 31, the positive plate 30 is connected with the positive lug 33 by welding, and the negative plate 31 is connected with the negative lug 34 by welding. In some embodiments, the shell is provided with a positive contact plate 20 and a negative contact plate 21, the positive lug 33 of the laminated battery cell 3 is connected with the positive contact plate 20 of the shell, and the negative lug 34 of the laminated battery cell 3 is connected with the positive contact plate 20 of the shell.

[0039] In some embodiments, both the uppermost layer and the lowermost layer of the laminated battery cell 3 are separators 32, to prevent the positive plate 30 or the negative plate 31 from directly contacting the shell and to prevent the occurrence of leakage.

[0040] The laminated battery cell 3 is formed by laminating the positive plate 30, the negative plate 31 and the isolation plate, so that the laminated battery cell 3 may take on various shapes by making the positive plate 30, the negative plate 31 and the isolation plate of each layer into various shapes. The shell which may be made into various shapes is combined with the battery cell which may be made into various shapes, so that the electric core may take on various shapes and can better adapt to the design requirements of electronic devices such as mobile phones or wearable devices.

[0041] Since both the steel shell and the laminated battery cell 3 have good shaping characteristics, the shell may be shaped into a special-shaped shell with a special-shaped cross-section, and meanwhile the upper shell 1 and the lower shell 2 are also special-shaped. Correspondingly, the laminated battery cell 3 also has special-shaped shape, and adapts to the shape of the shell, so as to fix the laminated battery cell 3 in the shell.

[0042] In some embodiments, unlike the electric core with a shape of square generally, the special-shaped shell may have a bend, and the laminated battery cell 3 correspondingly has a bend. Alternatively, the shell has an outward convex groove, and the laminated battery cell 3 has a convex matching with the convex groove. Alternatively, the shell has an inward concave groove, and the laminated battery cell 3 has a concave matching with the concave groove. Alternatively, a corner of the shell has a cut edge, and a corner of the laminated battery cell 3 correspondingly also has a cut edge.

[0043] The outward convex groove of the shell may be a groove which protrudes outward at a position of the shell away from the electric core, and the inward concave groove of the shell may be a groove which protrudes towards the position of the shell close to the electric core.

[0044] As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, in this embodiment, an L-shaped special-shaped electric core with a missing angle and a convex plate is provided, that is to say, the installation space left for the battery in the electronic device is an L-shaped complex space with a missing angle and a convex plate. The previous battery cannot fully utilize these spaces, while the electric core of this embodiment may fully utilize these spaces, thereby greatly increasing the capacity of the electric core. Moreover, a lot of previous production process methods and materials used for protecting the electric core may be reduced in terms of the design of the whole machine.

[0045] The shell may be made relatively thin under the condition of meeting the strength requirements due to the good strength of steel materials. In some embodiments, the upper shell 1 and the lower shell 2 have a wall thickness of 0.07-0.15 mm, and are formed by stamping. The wall thickness is basically the same as the thickness of the aluminum-plastic film used for the soft-packed electric core, but the strength is much stronger than that of the aluminum-plastic film used for the soft-packed electric core, so that the electric core may not be easily deformed. In addition, making the shell thinner may save materials and reduce costs, and meanwhile, may help to reduce the volume occupied by the shell, which is convenient to make the laminated battery cell relatively larger to increase the capacity of the electric core.

[0046] In some embodiments, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 5, the lower shell 2 is provided with an installation through-hole 24. The negative contact plate 21 is embedded in the installation through-hole 24, and an insulating film 22 is arranged between the negative contact plate 21 and the lower shell 2 to insulate the negative contact plate 21 and the lower shell 2, so as to prevent the lower shell 2 from conducting electricity, and generating electric leakage, etc. Then, the negative lug 34 is connected to the negative contact plate 21 by welding.

[0047] In some embodiments, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 6, the lower shell 2 is provided with a convex protruding outwards. The convex and the lower shell 2 are of an integrated structure. The convex may be used as the positive contact plate 20, and the positive lug 33 may be connected by welding to the lower shell 2 at a position of the convex.

[0048] Of course, the positive contact plate and the negative contact plate may also be in other forms. For example, the lower shell is provided with an installation through-hole, the positive contact plate is embedded in the installation through-hole, and an insulating film is arranged between the positive contact plate and the lower shell; the lower shell is provided with a convex with an integrated structure, and the convex is the negative contact plate. Alternatively, the lower shell is provided with two installation through-holes, and both the positive contact plate and the negative contact plate are embedded in the installation through-holes and insulating films are arranged between each of the contact plates and the lower shell. Alternatively, both the positive contact plate and the negative contact plate may be arranged on the upper shell. Alternatively, one of the positive contact plate and the negative contact plate may be arranged on the upper shell and the other one is arranged on the lower shell.

[0049] As the steel shell is not easy to deform, the positive contact plate 20 and the negative contact plate 21 arranged on the steel shell are not easy to deform, and may be used as the external contact points for connecting the electric core with an electronic device such as a mobile phone, so that the electric core may be used to supply power for the electronic device without secondary packaging process. Therefore, in order to remove the secondary packaging process of the electric core, a battery protection board is arranged on a control main board of the electronic device such as the mobile phone. In this way, the electric core may be directly delivered to a mobile phone assembly plant for mobile phone assembly after leaving the factory. It is no longer necessary to re-package the electric core, thereby greatly improving the production efficiency of the whole machine industry, reducing a complex battery packaging production process and saving production costs. The electric core of this embodiment has changed the production process of the whole battery industry and further influenced the relevant certification standards in the battery industry, which is an earth-shaking change.

[0050] In some embodiments, the shell is provided with a liquid injection hole 23 from which electrolyte may be injected into the shell.

[0051] In some embodiments, a pressure relief valve is arranged at the liquid injection hole 23. When the pressure in the shell is too large, the pressure relief valve may be opened to relieve the pressure, so as to prevent the shell from exploding due to excessive internal pressure and danger.

[0052] In some embodiments, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7, the lower shell 2 is provided with a liquid injection hole 23, of course, the liquid injection hole 23 may also be arranged on the upper shell 1. The pressure relief valve is a steel ball 4 which is in interference fit with the liquid injection hole 23, herein the fit of the steel ball 4 can be tested to give an appropriate interference amount. The steel ball 4 is in sealing fit with the liquid injection hole 23, so that the ball 4 may seal the liquid injection hole 23. In addition, when the internal pressure of the shell is too large (such as due to the generation of gas), the pressure may push the steel ball 4 out and open the liquid injection hole 23, so that the internal gas or electrolyte may be discharged from the liquid injection hole 23 to prevent the shell from exploding due to excessive internal pressure and danger.

[0053] In conclusion, the biggest difference between the electric core of this embodiment and the existing electric core lies in that the steel shell is adopted to replace the former aluminum shell and aluminum-plastic film, and the steel material has the characteristics of good strength and weldability, so that the steel material may be used to manufacture the shell of the battery cell. The positive contact plate 20 and the negative contact plate 21 are directly added to the steel shell as external contact points for the connection of the electric core with the devices such as the mobile phone, and the battery protection board is arranged on the control main board of the electronic devices such as the mobile phone, so that the electric core may be used for mobile phone assembly without secondary packaging.

[0054] The shell of the electric core is made of steel sheet with a thickness of 0.07-0.15 mm. The wall thickness of the shell is thin, and the strength is greatly enhanced compared with that of the soft-packed electric core. The shell will not be deformed and damaged due to the dropping of the whole machine, making the use of the electric core safe and reliable, and the electric core may be used for secondary use after disassembled, thereby saving costs.

[0055] The impact molding performance of the steel sheet is good, which make the size of the shell be not limited, so that the shell of the electric core may be made into the shape of removing corner edges or be made into a stepped shape. The laminated battery cell 3 may be made into a corresponding shape, so that the electric core may be special-shaped, which may meet the complex modeling requirements of the electronic device such as the mobile phone or wearable device, and make full use of the design space, to meet the requirements of increasing the capacity of the electric core and the strength of the electric core.

[0056] This embodiment provides an electronic device (not shown), including a device body provided with a battery compartment and an electric core described in embodiment 1, herein the electric core is installed in the battery compartment.

[0057] The electronic device of this embodiment includes the electric core described in embodiment 1, so it also has all beneficial effects of the electric core described in embodiment 1.

[0058] As the shell of the electric core is a steel shell with good strength, the electric core may be fixed in the battery compartment not only by bonding, but also by clamping. For example, a buckle and a buckling position may be provided respectively in the shell of the electric core and the battery compartment and the electric core is fixed in the battery compartment by buckling the buckle and the buckling position. The electric core fixed by clamping is convenient to disassemble and assemble, which is convenient to replace the electric core and recycle the electric core.

[0059] In some embodiments, the device body includes a control main board on which a battery protection board is welded, and the battery protection board is connected with the electric core.

[0060] As the electric core has a good strength in the whole, not easy to deform, and may be directly used for supplying power to electronic devices, the battery protection board is installed on the control main board instead of the electric core, in this way the electric core may be directly delivered to a mobile phone assembly plant for mobile phone assembly after leaving the factory, without secondary packaging of the electric core, which may greatly improve the production efficiency of the whole machine industry, reduce a complex battery packaging production process and save the production cost.

[0061] This embodiment provides a method for packaging an electric core. Herein the electric core includes a shell and a laminated battery cell, and the shell includes a steel lower shell and a steel upper shell. Surfaces of the upper shell and the lower shell are provided with insulating layers. The lower shell is provided with a positive contact plate and a negative contact plate, and the upper shell or the lower shell is provided with a liquid injection hole.

[0062] The method for packaging the electric core includes the following steps:

[0063] S1: packaging the laminated battery cell 3 into the lower shell 2;

[0064] S2: welding the positive lug 33 of the laminated battery with the positive contact plate 20 of the lower shell 2, and welding the negative lug 34 of the laminated battery with the negative contact plate 21 of the lower shell 2;

[0065] S3: buckling the upper shell 1 to the lower shell 2, and hermetically welding peripheries of the upper shell 1 and the lower shell 2;

[0066] S4: injecting electrolyte from a liquid injection hole 23;

[0067] S5: arranging a pressure relief valve at the liquid injection hole 23.

[0068] The assembly process of the laminated battery cell 3 is as follows: first, as shown in FIG. 8a, the positive plate 30, the negative plate 31 and the separator 32 are laminated layer by layer, herein the separator 32 is arranged between the positive plate 30 and the negative plate 31; then, as shown in FIGS. 8b and 8c, the positive plate 30 is connected to the positive lug 33 by welding, and the negative plate 31 is connected to the negative lug 34 by welding.

[0069] In the packaging method of this embodiment, after the laminated battery cell 3 is assembled, the laminated battery cell 3 is placed into the lower shell 2, as shown in FIG. 8d.

[0070] Then, the laminated battery cell 3 is connected to the positive contact plate 20 and the negative contact plate 21 by welding. First, the positive lug 33 is welded with the positive contact plate 20. Since the positive contact plate 20 is a convex which is integrated with the lower shell 2, the welding connection between the positive contact plate 20 and the positive lug 33 may be realized by welding the positive lug 33 with the lower shell 2 at the convex position, as shown in FIG. 8e. Then the negative lug 34 and the negative contact plate 21 are welded. As shown in FIGS. 8f and 8g, the negative contact plate 21 and the insulating film 22 which is required to isolate and insulate the negative contact plate 21 and the lower shell 2 are embedded into an installation through-hole 24 of the lower shell 2, and then the negative contact plate 21 and the negative lug 34 are welded.

[0071] After the connection between the laminated battery cell 3 and the lower shell 2 is completed, as shown in FIG. 8h, the upper shell 1 is buckled to the lower shell 2, and then the periphery of the upper shell 1 are welded with the periphery of the lower shell 2, as shown in FIG. 8i, so that the connection between the upper shell 1 and the lower shell 2 is sealed.

[0072] Then, as shown in FIG. 8j, electrolyte is injected into the sealed shell at the liquid injection hole 23 of the lower shell 2;

[0073] After the completion of electrolyte injection, as shown in FIGS. 8k and 8l, a steel ball 4 is pressed into the liquid injection hole 23, and the steel ball 4 and the liquid injection hole 23 are in a state of interference fit. The liquid injection hole 23 may be sealed to prevent the electrolyte from flowing out of the liquid injection hole 23, and the packaging of the electric core is completed at this time.

[0074] It should be noted that in the description of this application, the terms “up”, “down” and the like indicate the orientation or positional relationship based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, only for convenience of describing this application and simplifying the description, rather than indicating or implying that the indicated apparatus or elements must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, so it cannot be understood as limitations of this application.

[0075] Although the implementations disclosed in this application have been described above, the described contents are only the implementations adopted for convenience of understanding this application, and are not used to limit this application. Any person skilled in the art to which this application belongs may make any modifications and changes in the form and details of implementation without departing from the spirit and scope disclosed in this application, but the scope of patent protection of this application shall still be subject to the scope defined in the appended claims.