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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2019
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Yasuaki Uemura, Hyogo, JP;
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The vehicle battery system includes a plurality of battery blocks including a plurality of battery cells and an exterior case that stores the plurality of battery blocks. The exterior case includes a tubular case in which the upper case is fixed to lower case, a pair of end face plates fixed to both ends of the tubular case to close the openings at both ends, and partition walls fixed to the middle portion of the tubular case. Lower case, the upper case, end face plates, and partition walls are made of pressed metal plates, lower case has a groove shape having side walls coupled to both sides of bottom plate, having coupling ribs coupled to an upper end edge of side walls, and having a same shape in a cross section at each portion separated in a longitudinal direction, the plurality of battery blocks are disposed in the longitudinal direction in an orientation extending in the longitudinal direction of the tubular case, and fixed to the exterior case, and the exterior case is further fixed to the vehicle via external fixing brackets.