Nissan Motor Company Limited

Tatsuo Shimizu

Etsuo Ogami

Yosuke Kita

Hideya Takahashi

Satoshi Iwatsu

Kiyoshi Katayama

A battery structure for an electric vehicle includes a plurality of columnar component cells and a substantially square battery casing for accommodating the component cell. The battery casing includes a casing body consisting of an upper casing, a lower casing and an intermediate casing interposed between the upper casing and the lower casing, and a pair of side covers fitted to both ends of the casing body. In the battery casing, a plurality of rib walls are formed to support the component cells and to divide an interior of the battery casing into a plurality of compartments in the longitudinal direction of the battery casing. Further, the battery casing has air holes formed in top and bottom walls of the battery casing for circulating cooling air in the compartments vertically. In operation, since the cooling air flows vertically through the upper and lower air holes in the respective compartments defined by the rib walls, it is possible to extend the cooling air over the whole lengths of the component cells, so that the cooling for the component cells can be effected to enhance the cooling capability of the whole batteries.

Battery structure for electric vehicle

A nonaqueous electrolytic secondary battery is formed by winding a thin-film positive electrode, a thin-film negative electrode, and a thin-film separator. A cap is arranged at the distal end portion of a pole bored through the cap and interposed between a nut and a disk-like portion of the pole through a ceramic washer being in contact with the nut and a ceramic patch being in contact with the disk-like portion. The ceramic washer and the ceramic patch consist of alumina or zirconia. For a bolt for interposing a bus bar or a conductive line to fix the bus bar or the conductive line, a female screw portion formed in the pole is arranged in a space of a spindle.

Secondary battery

A nonaqueous electrolytic secondary battery has a seal whose transparency and permeability with respect to external gas or moisture can be suppressed to a low level and which has high reliability. The nonaqueous electrolytic secondary battery has an electrolytic solution injection port (32) for injecting a nonaqueous electrolytic solution and an expansion plug (4) for air-tightly sealing the electrolytic solution injection port. A metal seal (2) is arranged between the electrolytic solution injection port (32) and the expansion plug (4). The metal seal (2) is of a metal containing aluminum as a main component, or a stainless steel, and the expansion plug (4) is of stainless steel.

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