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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2018
Nio Usa, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Alexander J. Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);
Austin L. Newman, San Jose, CA (US);
NIO USA, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A tapered busbar for an energy storage device is provided. The tapered busbar is configured to interconnect with a first row of series-connected energy storage cells in a battery module at a first end of the busbar. As the busbar tapers from a first cross-sectional area at the first end to a larger second cross-sectional area at a second opposite end, the busbar is configured to interconnect with sequentially additional electrically-parallel rows of series-connected energy storage cells. The tapered cross-sectional area of the busbar provides a substantially uniform current density at any point along the length of the busbar regardless of the number of rows of energy storage cells connected before or after the point.