CHARGING AND DISCHARGING JIG FOR IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT OF BATTERY CELL
20240077545 ยท 2024-03-07
Inventors
Cpc classification
G01R31/389
PHYSICS
International classification
G01R31/389
PHYSICS
G01R31/36
PHYSICS
Abstract
A jig for impedance measurement of a battery cell includes: a jig body configured to receive a battery cell in a longitudinal direction; a first bus bar installed on a first side of the jig body, the first bus bar being configured to couple to a first lead part of the battery cell; a second bus bar installed on a second side of the jig body, the second bus bar being configured to couple to a second lead part of the battery cell; an impedance measuring board in the jig body; and a conducting line for impedance measurement connecting the first bus bar, the impedance measuring board, and the second bus bar to constitute an impedance measuring circuit. A part of the conducting line for impedance measurement faces a surface of the battery cell and extends in the longitudinal direction of the battery cell.
Claims
1. A charging and discharging jig for impedance measurement of a battery cell, the charging and discharging jig comprising: a jig body configured to receive a battery cell in a longitudinal direction; a first bus bar installed on a first side of the jig body, the first bus bar being configured to couple to a first lead part of the battery cell; a second bus bar installed on a second side of the jig body, the second bus bar being configured to couple to a second lead part of the battery cell; an impedance measuring board in the jig body; and a conducting line for impedance measurement connecting the first bus bar, the impedance measuring board, and the second bus bar to constitute an impedance measuring circuit, wherein a part of the conducting line for impedance measurement faces a surface of the battery cell and extends in the longitudinal direction of the battery cell.
2. The jig of claim 1, wherein the conducting line for impedance measurement includes a signal line configured to apply an AC signal to the battery cell, and a sensing line configured to measure a voltage of the battery cell.
3. The jig of claim 2, wherein the first bus bar includes a first upper bus bar and a first lower bus bar, wherein the second bus bar includes a second upper bus bar and a second lower bus bar, and wherein the conducting line for impedance measurement is connected to the first upper bus bar, the second upper bus bar, a first lower bus bar, or the second lower bus bar.
4. The jig of claim 3, wherein the signal line and the sensing line are connected to the first upper bus bar and the second upper bus bar.
5. The jig of claim 2, wherein the impedance measuring board includes an AC signal source and an ammeter connected to the signal line, and a voltmeter connected to the sensing line.
6. The jig of claim 1, wherein the impedance measuring board is installed on a lower part of the jig body, wherein the conducting line for impedance measurement includes a loop connecting the first bus bar, the impedance measuring board, and the second bus bar, and wherein a part of the loop extends in the longitudinal direction of the battery cell along a bottom surface of the jig body.
7. The jig of claim 6, further comprising pedestals installed on a first lower sides of the jig body and a second lower side of the jig body, wherein the impedance measuring board is installed on the pedestals or the lower part of the jig body adjacent to the pedestals.
8. The jig of claim 6, further comprising pedestals installed on both lower sides of the jig body, wherein the impedance measuring board is installed on a measuring board support coupled to the pedestals.
9. The jig of claim 6, further comprising a conducting line support member on the bottom surface of the jig body, wherein the conducting line support member is configured to support a conductive line extending in the longitudinal direction of the battery cell along the bottom surface of the jig body.
10. The jig of claim 6, further comprising fixing jigs on a first side and a second side of the bottom surface of the jig body, wherein the fixing jigs are configured to fix a first sides and a second side of a conducting line extending in the longitudinal direction of the battery cell along the bottom surface of the jig body.
11. The jig of claim 6, wherein the impedance measuring board is installed in the a middle of the bottom surface of the jig body, and wherein the loop is drawn out to a first side and a second sides of the impedance measuring board and extends toward each of the first bus bar and the second bus bar.
12. The jig of claim 1, wherein the jig body includes a fixed block and a movable block slidably coupled to the fixed block, and wherein the first bus bar is installed on a side of the fixed block and the second bus bar is installed on a side of the movable block.
13. The jig of claim 12, wherein the movable block is slidably coupled to an upper surface of the fixed block.
14. The jig of claim 13, wherein guide slits are formed on both first and second sides of at least one of the fixed block or the movable block, and wherein sliding support members inserted into the guide slits are installed on the fixed block or the movable block that does not include the guide slits.
15. The jig of claim 14, wherein each of the sliding support members has a body part inserted into at least one of the guide slits and screwed to the fixed block or the movable block, and wherein a head part has a width greater than that of the at least one of the guide slits.
16. The jig of claim 1, wherein the jig is configured to charge and discharge the battery cell.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0016] The accompanying drawings illustrate a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure and together with the foregoing disclosure, serve to provide further understanding of the technical features of the present disclosure, and thus, the present disclosure is not construed as being limited to the drawing.
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0025] Hereinafter, the detailed configuration of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and various exemplary embodiments. The exemplary embodiments described below are illustratively shown to help with understanding of the present disclosure, the accompanying drawings may not be illustrated on an actual scale but sizes of some components may be exaggerated in order to help with understanding of the present disclosure.
[0026] In the present disclosure, since various modifications may be made and various forms may be applied, specific exemplary embodiments are illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the text. However, this is not intended to limit the present disclosure to the specific disclosed forms, which should be understood to include all modifications, equivalents and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
[0027] As described above, the present disclosure provides a charging and discharging jig for impedance measurement of a battery cell 10 in which a conducting line L for impedance measurement can be formed short and the conducting line can be installed to extend in parallel with the battery cell 10 while facing the battery cell 10.
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[0029] Conventionally, a battery cell and a charging and discharging jig for impedance measurement are installed in a temperature chamber, and an impedance measuring device (e.g., EIS measuring device) and a charging and discharging device are installed outside the temperature chamber to charge and discharge the battery cell and measure the impedance of the battery cell at the same time. Since the impedance measuring device and the charging and discharging device occupy a significant volume, the impedance measuring device and the charging and discharging device cannot be installed in the temperature chamber due to the size limitation of the space of the temperature chamber. For this reason, the configuration of the conducting line for impedance measurement during charging and discharging of the conventional battery cell had to be as shown in
[0030] On the other hand, as shown in
[0031] The present disclosure significantly shortens the length of a conducting line for impedance measurement connected to a battery cell by directly installing an impedance measuring board in a charging and discharging jig for impedance measurement of the battery cell, and excludes the influence of a magnetic field by extending the conducting line as shown in
[0032] Specific details regarding a charging and discharging jig for impedance measurement of a battery cell 10 of the present disclosure will be described with reference to exemplary embodiments and drawings.
First Exemplary Embodiment
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[0034] Referring to
[0035] The battery cell 10 is installed in the jig body 100 in the longitudinal direction, that is, so that electrode leads at both ends are disposed on both sides of the jig body 100. In
[0036] First, in order to measure the impedance of the battery cell 10, the battery cell 10 is positioned on the jig body 100, and the first and second bus bars on both sides of the charging and discharging jig are connected to the lead parts 11 and 12 of the battery cell 10. The first and second bus bars are both connected to the impedance measuring board 400 through the conducting line L for impedance measurement.
[0037] The impedance measuring board 400 of the present disclosure corresponds to the conventional impedance measuring device, and is constituted in the form of a small substrate required for impedance measurement by greatly simplifying the detailed configuration of a complex impedance measuring device. Therefore, by being made as a small substrate, the impedance measuring board can be easily introduced into a temperature chamber when measuring the impedance in the temperature chamber. In particular, in the present disclosure, the impedance measuring board is installed in the jig body. As a result, the length of the conducting line for impedance measurement constituted through the leads of both ends of the battery cell and the impedance measuring board is greatly shortened. That is, since an impedance measuring unit is installed in the charging and discharging jig, there is no need to extend the conducting line at length to the outside as in the conventional art.
[0038] Specifically, the impedance measuring board 400 of the present disclosure includes an AC signal source S configured to transmit an AC signal to the battery cell 10, a voltmeter V configured to measure a voltage difference between both ends of the battery cell 10, and an ammeter A configured to measure a current.
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[0040] Referring back to
[0041] The conducting line L for impedance measurement of the present disclosure preferably constitutes a loop connecting the first bus bar 200, the impedance measuring board 400, and the second bus bar 300. Referring to
[0042] Meanwhile, the charging and discharging jig of the present disclosure includes the first bus bar 200 and the second bus bar 300 coupled to the lead parts 11 and 12 at both ends of the battery cell 10. Referring to
[0043] The first and second bus bars are composed of upper bus bars 210 and 310 and lower bus bars 220 and 320 located below the upper bus bars 210 and 310, respectively, and the conducting line L for impedance measurement is connected to the upper bus bars 210 and 310 or the lower bus bars 220 and 320. Although not shown, when the conducting line L for impedance measurement is connected to the upper bus bars 210 and 310, the lower bus bars 220 and 320 are separately connected to a charging and discharging device configured to charge and discharge the battery cell 10 by the conducting line L.
[0044] The upper bus bars 210 and 310 or the lower bus bars 220 and 320 of the first bus bar 200 and the second bus bar 300 may each be separated into two bus bars. More preferably, among the upper bus bars 210 and 310 and the lower bus bars 220 and 320, the bus bars connected to the conducting line L for impedance measurement may be separated into two bus bars again. As described above, since the present disclosure measures the impedance using the four-terminal method, the upper bus bar or the lower bus bar is divided into two pieces so that a plurality of conducting lines may be connected to each of the separated bus bars.
[0045] In the exemplary embodiment of
[0046] Meanwhile, insulators 250 and 350 are installed between the upper bus bars 210 and 310 and the bus bar coupling frames 230 and 330, and the insulators 250 and 350 are coupled to upper parts of the upper bus bars. Adjustment screw parts 231 and 331 on the bus bar coupling frames 230 and 330 are screw-coupled to the insulators 250 and 350 through the bus bar coupling frames 230 and 330. Therefore, when the adjustment screw parts 231 and 331 are rotated, the insulators 250 and 350 and the upper bus bars 210 and 310 are lifted up and down, and accordingly, the lead parts 11 and 12 of the battery cell 10 may be easily inserted and removed between the upper bus bars 210 and 310 and the lower bus bars 220 and 320.
[0047] The bus bar coupling frames 230 and 330 configured to fix the first and second bus bars and the insulators 250 and 350 are fixed to both sides of the jig body 100, and at this time, bus bar support members 240 and 340 may be further interposed as needed between the bus bar coupling frames 230 and 330 and the jig body 100 for adjusting the height of the bus bars and supporting the bus bar coupling frames 230 and 330.
[0048] The jig body 100 of the present disclosure may further include pedestals 260 and 360 installed on both lower sides thereof. The pedestals 260 and 360 are coupled to the jig body 100 and serve to stably support the jig body 100.
[0049] Another characteristic point of the present disclosure is that the measuring board 400 is installed close to the jig body 100, so that the length of the conducting line L may be reduced as much as possible. The measuring board 400 may be installed on the upper part of the jig body 100 or on the lower part of the jig body as shown in
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[0051] As shown in
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[0053] On the bottom surface of the jig body 100 of the present disclosure, as shown in
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[0055] In this exemplary embodiment, the impedance measuring board 400 is installed in the middle of the bottom surface of the jig body 100. In the present disclosure, since the impedance measuring board 400 is installed in the jig body 100, the length of the conducting line for impedance measurement is shortened as described above. In this case, the impedance measuring board 400 may be installed on an upper part, a side part, and a lower part of the jig body. However, when installed on the upper part of the jig body 100, it may be an obstacle to installation of the battery cell on the jig, so that it is preferable to install the impedance measuring board on the side part or the lower part of the jig body. In addition, since the bus bars are installed on both sides of the jig body, it may be better to install the impedance measuring board on the lower part of the jig body in consideration of bus bar installation space. When the impedance measuring board is installed on the lower part the jig body 100, it may be installed on one of both sides of the jig body 100 as shown in
[0056] As the measuring board 400 is installed in the middle of the jig body 100, a part of the conducting line L constituting the loop is drawn out to both sides of the impedance measuring board 400 and extends toward each of the first bus bar 200 and the second bus bar 300. At this time, even if the conducting line L is drawn out to both sides of the measuring board 400, a magnetic field offsetting effect can be maintained because the conducting line L is still in a position where it faces the wide surface of the battery cell 10.
Second Exemplary Embodiment
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[0058] This exemplary embodiment is in the form of a variable jig in which the charging and discharging jig for impedance measurement may be displaced in the longitudinal direction. By changing the length of the jig, there is an advantage that the jig length can be adjusted to match different types of battery cells.
[0059] Referring to
[0060] According to the second exemplary embodiment, the jig body 100 of the present disclosure can be variably deformed to measure an impedance in accordance with the length of the battery cell 10. Specifically, the jig body 100 includes the fixed block 110 and the movable block 120 sliding in the longitudinal direction of the battery cell 10 with respect to the fixed block 110. Among the conducting lines L used at this time, a conducting line L extending along the bottom surface of the jig body 100 should be installed assuming that the fixed block 110 and the movable block 120 are as far away as possible so that the jig body 100 can be freely deformed. The movable block 120 may be slidably coupled to any one of the bottom surface and the upper surface of the fixed block 110. However, in this case, between two blocks, it is preferable that an impedance measuring board 400 be installed on the bottom surface of the block located lower than the other block. When the movable block 120 is slidably coupled to the upper surface of the fixed block 110 as shown in
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[0063] The present disclosure has been described above in more detail through drawings and exemplary embodiments. However, since the configurations described in the drawings or exemplary embodiments, etc. described in the present specification are only one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure and do not represent all the technical ideas of the present disclosure, it should be understood that there may be various equivalents and variations that can replace them at the time of filing of the application.
DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS
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TABLE-US-00001 10, Z: battery cell 11, 12: lead parts L: conducting line 100: jig body L1: signal line 110: fixed block L2: sensing line 120: movable block A: ammeter 130: sliding support member V: voltmeter 140: guide slit S: AC signal source 200: first bus bar Rwire: conducting line resistance 300: second bus bar 210, 310: upper bus bars C: coupling member 220, 320: lower bus bars 230, 330: bus bar coupling frames 231, 331: adjustment screw parts 240, 340: bus bar support members 250, 350: insulators 260, 360: pedestals 400: measuring board 410: measuring board support member 500: conducting line support member 600: fixing jig