CN108630844B - Battery protection structure and assembly method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a protection structure and an assembly method of a battery, which is characterized by comprising a plurality of sheets, wherein the top of each sheet comprises an assembly area, and the plurality of sheets are detachably assembled into a whole through the assembly area so as to enclose a containing space for containing the battery; each sheet also comprises a protection area which can cover at least a part of the corresponding side surface to be protected of the battery placed in the accommodating space. According to the battery protection structure, the plurality of sheets of the protection structure are covered with the corresponding sides to be protected on the battery, so that collision, direct contact and the like with the inner wall of the battery compartment during battery assembly are avoided, and damage to the battery is avoided.

Description

Battery protection structure and assembly method

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the technical field of terminals, and in particular relates to a battery protection structure and an assembly method.

Background

In the related art, when the battery is assembled, the battery is directly assembled with a battery compartment of the electronic equipment, so that during the assembly process, the inner wall of the battery compartment is easy to collide with the battery due to improper assembly angle and the like, the battery is damaged, and even a circuit protection board in the battery is possibly damaged, and further the battery is short-circuited, leaked and the like.

Disclosure of Invention

The present disclosure provides a protection structure and an assembling method of a battery to solve the shortcomings in the related art.

According to a first aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a protection structure of a battery, the protection structure including:

A plurality of sheets, wherein the top of each sheet comprises an assembling area, and the plurality of sheets are detachably assembled into a whole through the assembling area so as to enclose a containing space for containing the battery; each sheet also comprises a protection area which can cover at least a part of the corresponding side surface to be protected of the battery placed in the accommodating space.

Optionally, the protection area corresponding to at least one sheet in the plurality of sheets is folded inwards along the bottom edge of the corresponding side to be protected on the battery, and is attached to at least a part of the area of the bottom surface of the battery.

Optionally, the plurality of sheets include two sheets that set up relatively, two sheets are respectively along the bottom border of the corresponding side that waits to protect on the battery inwards buckle, and attach to at least a partial region of the bottom surface of battery.

Optionally, the width of the protection area is not greater than the width of the corresponding side to be protected in the extending direction of the bottom edge of each side to be protected.

Optionally, a holding portion is disposed at an assembling area corresponding to at least one of the plurality of sheets.

Optionally, the battery includes a first side connected to the device motherboard; the plurality of sheets comprises a first sheet, a second sheet and a third sheet, wherein the protection areas of the first sheet and the second sheet respectively cover a second side surface and a third side surface which are adjacent to the first side surface, and the protection area of the third sheet covers a fourth side surface which is opposite to the first side surface.

Optionally, the assembly area of the third sheet includes a first assembly portion and a second assembly portion, and the first assembly portion and the first sheet, the second assembly portion and the second sheet are respectively detachably assembled.

Optionally, the protection structure is made of a ductile material.

Optionally, the protection structure is made of PET material.

According to a second aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of assembling a battery for assembling the battery to a battery compartment of an electronic device, the method comprising:

Placing the battery into the accommodating space of the protection structure according to any one of the embodiments, thereby obtaining a battery assembly;

placing the battery assembly into the battery compartment;

Disassembling a plurality of sheets forming the protection structure so that the sheets are independent;

Sequentially taking out each sheet material forming the protection structure;

and fixing the battery in the battery compartment.

According to the embodiment, the plurality of sheets of the protection structure are covered with the corresponding side surfaces to be protected on the battery, so that direct contact, collision and the like with the inner wall of the battery compartment during battery assembly are avoided, and damage to the battery is avoided.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the disclosure.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the disclosure and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.

Fig. 1 is a schematic view showing a protection structure of a battery according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 2 is a schematic view illustrating a structure of a battery according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 3 is an assembled schematic view of a protection structure and a battery according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 4 is an assembled schematic view of another protection structure and a battery according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 5 is an assembled schematic diagram of a battery assembly and an electronic device according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 6 is an assembled schematic view of another protection structure and a battery according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an assembly method of a battery according to an exemplary embodiment.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, the same numbers in different drawings refer to the same or similar elements, unless otherwise indicated. The implementations described in the following exemplary examples do not represent all implementations consistent with the application. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with aspects of the application as detailed in the accompanying claims.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the application. As used in this specification and the appended claims, the singular forms "a," "an," and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It should also be understood that the term "and/or" as used herein refers to and encompasses any or all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

It should be understood that although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used herein to describe various information, these information should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one type of information from another. For example, first information may also be referred to as second information, and similarly, second information may also be referred to as first information, without departing from the scope of the application. The word "if" as used herein may be interpreted as "at … …" or "at … …" or "in response to a determination" depending on the context.

Fig. 1 is a schematic view showing a protection structure of a battery according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 1, the protective structure 100 may include a plurality of sheets 1, such as sheets 11, 12, etc., which sheets 1 may be assembled as one piece; for example, an assembly area 111, 121 may be provided on top of the sheets 11, 12, such that the sheets 11 and 12 may be assembled based on the assembly area 111, 121, for example, the assembly area 111 and the assembly area 121 may be bonded, such that the plurality of sheets 1 are assembled as one body. Based on the assembled protection structure 100, a receiving space 10 may be defined for receiving the battery 2 as shown in fig. 2.

As shown in fig. 2, the battery 2 may be substantially rectangular parallelepiped for supplying power to electronic devices such as a mobile phone and a tablet. The battery 2 includes a first side 21, and the first side 21 may include a power supply interface 20 as shown in fig. 2, for connecting with a device motherboard of the electronic device; meanwhile, the battery 2 further includes three other sides: a second side 22 and a third side 23 adjacent to the first side 21, and a fourth side 24 opposite to the first side 21. Since the first side 21 includes the power supply interface 20, the protection structure 100 cannot generally protect the first side 21 and avoid affecting the assembly process of the battery 2, so that only the second side 22, the third side 23 and the fourth side 24 are generally used as the sides to be protected, and at least a portion of the sides to be protected may be protected by the protection structure 100.

In an embodiment, when the battery 2 is accommodated in the protection structure 100 shown in fig. 1, a battery assembly 200 shown in fig. 3, that is, a combination of the protection structure 100 and the battery 2 accommodated in the accommodating space 10, can be obtained. When the sheet 11 and the sheet 12 are disposed opposite to each other, the sheet 11 and the sheet 12 may include the protection area 112 and the protection area 122 shown in fig. 1, and at least a portion of the second side 22 and the third side 23 on the battery 2 may be respectively covered, so as to achieve corresponding collision protection, and prevent or reduce possible damage to the second side 22 and the third side 23 during the assembly process of the battery 2. Of course, if the sheet 11 and the sheet 12 are in other engagement, such as when the sheet 11 is disposed adjacent to the sheet 12 (at an angle of approximately 90 °), two adjacent sides of the battery 2 may be covered and protected, for example, the second side 22 and the fourth side 24, respectively, or the third side 23 and the fourth side 24, respectively, etc.

In another embodiment, when the protective structure 100 includes a greater number of sheets 1, more sides of the battery 2 may be covered and protected. For example, as shown in fig. 4, the protection structure 100 may include, in addition to the above-described sheets 11, 12, a sheet 13 provided that the sheet 11 is disposed opposite to the sheet 12, and the sheet 13 is disposed adjacent to the sheets 11, 12, and the sheets 13 and 11, 12 may be assembled as a unit; the sheet 13 may include an assembly area 131, so that the sheets 11, 12 and 13 may be assembled based on the assembly area 111, the assembly area 121 and the assembly area 131, for example, the assembly area 131 includes a first assembly portion 1311 and a second assembly portion 1312, and the first assembly portion 1311 is adhered to the assembly area 111 and the second assembly portion 1312 is adhered to the assembly area 121, so that the plurality of sheets 1 are assembled into a whole. Then, the sheets 11, 12 can protect the opposite second 22, third 23 sides, while the sheet 13 can protect the fourth 24 side of the battery 2 via the protection area 132, in order to protect as much as possible of the side to be protected on the battery 2 by the protection structure 100, in order to achieve an optimal protection effect.

Based on the battery assembly 200 (as shown in fig. 3 or 4, or other structures) in the above embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, the battery assembly 200 may be picked up by an assembler or a robot arm and then loaded into the battery compartment 3 on the electronic device 300. Among them, it should be noted that:

With respect to movement of the battery assembly 200. Taking the protection structure 100 shown in fig. 1 as an example, a holding portion 113 may be disposed at the assembling area 111 of the sheet 11, a holding portion 123 may be disposed at the assembling area 121 of the sheet 12, and the holding portion 113 and the holding portion 123 may form a "handle", so that an assembler or a mechanical arm may pass through the "handle" to lift the entire battery assembly 200, so as to place the battery assembly 200 in the battery compartment 3. Of course, the grip portion may be provided only on the single sheet 1, such as the grip portion 113 provided only on the sheet 11, and the like, which is not provided by the present disclosure. In addition, even if the above-described grip portion is not provided, an assembler or a robot arm may put the battery assembly 200 into the above-described battery compartment 3 by "pinching" the sheet 11, the assembly region 111, the assembly region 121 of the sheet 12 from both sides, or by picking up the entire battery assembly 200 by other means.

Regarding the support of the battery 2. The protection area corresponding to at least one sheet 1 can be bent inwards along the bottom edge of the corresponding side to be protected on the battery 2 and is attached to at least a part of the area of the bottom surface of the battery 2, so that the battery 2 can be supported by the protection area attached to the bottom surface of the battery 2, and the battery is prevented from being damaged by falling. In one case, only a single sheet 1 may support the cells 2, but it may be desirable for the sheet 1 to extend more to the bottom of the cells 2; in another case, the cells 2 may be supported by a plurality of sheets 1 at the same time, so that the area of each sheet 1 extending into the bottom of the cell 2 is smaller, which not only facilitates the extraction of the sheet 1 from between the cell 2 and the cell compartment 3, but also improves the stability of the support of the cell 2, for example, when the cell 2 is supported by two sheets 1 disposed opposite to each other in the protection structure 100 at the same time. For example, as shown in fig. 6, one ends of the protection areas 112 and 122 corresponding to the sheets 11 and 12 respectively may be attached to the bottom surface of the battery 2, so as to relatively reduce the contact area between each sheet and the bottom surface of the battery 2, and reduce the difficulty in taking out the sheets 11 and 12 after the battery assembly 200 is placed in the battery compartment.

Regarding the specification restrictions on the sheet 1. As shown in fig. 5, the width of the protection areas 112, 122, 132, etc. should be not greater than the width of the corresponding side to be protected in the extending direction of the bottom edge of each side to be protected (i.e., the direction A-A' shown in fig. 5), so as to prevent the protection areas from protruding from the two ends of the battery 2, which may cause the battery assembly 200 to be not smoothly placed in the battery compartment 3, but may even damage the battery 2.

Further, in the above-described technical solutions of the present disclosure, the plurality of sheets 1 may be detachably assembled together to obtain the corresponding protection structure 100. For example, the sheets 11, 12, 13, etc. may be assembled by means of separable glue, so that the individual sheets 1 may be easily torn apart without damaging the sheets 1. Of course, the individual sheets 1 may also be detachably assembled by other means, which the present disclosure is not limited to. Based on the detachable structure, after the battery 2 is wrapped by the protection structure 100 and the battery assembly 200 is integrally placed in the battery compartment 3 of the electronic device 300, each sheet 1 can be detached smoothly, so that each sheet 1 can be taken out respectively, the assembly efficiency of the battery 2 can be improved, and the repeated use of each sheet 1 can be realized.

In the above embodiments, the protection structure 100 is made of a ductile material, and further, may be made of a PET (Polyethylene terephthalate ) material, so as to reduce breakage when the sheet material constituting the protection structure 100 is taken out from the battery compartment, avoid the sheet material remaining in the battery compartment, and improve the assembly success rate of the battery 2.

With respect to the protection structure 100 proposed in the present disclosure, the present disclosure also proposes a corresponding battery assembling method, which can protect the battery 2 through the protection structure 100 in the process of assembling the battery 2 to the battery compartment 3 of the electronic device 300; as shown in fig. 7, the assembly method may include:

In step 701, the battery 2 is placed in the accommodating space 10 of the protection structure 100 according to any one of the above embodiments, to obtain the battery assembly 200.

In this embodiment, before the battery 2 is assembled with the battery compartment, the battery 2 is first placed into the accommodating space 10 of the protection structure 100 to obtain the battery assembly 200, so that the side surface to be protected of the battery 2 can be covered and protected by a plurality of sheets forming the protection structure 100, and damage to the battery 2 due to collision during assembly is avoided.

In step 702, the battery assembly 200 is placed into the battery compartment 3.

In step 703, the plurality of sheets constituting the protective structure 100 are disassembled so that the respective sheets are independent from each other.

In this embodiment, the protection structure 100 is detachably assembled by a plurality of sheets, so after the battery assembly 200 is placed in the battery compartment 301, the protection structure 100 can be detached according to the interconnection relationship between the plurality of sheets, so as to obtain each sheet independent of each other, and facilitate the subsequent removal of all the sheets.

In step 704, the individual sheets constituting the protective structure are sequentially taken out.

In this embodiment, each sheet is made of a ductile material, for example, a PET material, so that breakage can be reduced when the sheet is taken out, and the sheet is effectively prevented from remaining in the battery compartment.

In step 705, the battery 2 is fixed in the battery compartment 3.

As can be seen from the above embodiments, the present disclosure pre-assembles the battery 2 and the protection structure 100, so that each sheet of the protection structure 100 can protect the corresponding side to be protected on the battery 2, thereby avoiding the direct collision between the battery 2 and the inner wall of the battery compartment 3 during assembly, and reducing the damage of the battery 2.

In the technical solution of the present disclosure, the electronic device 300 may be various types of mobile phones, tablet devices, notebook computers, etc., which is not limited in this disclosure; then, through the assembly of battery 2 and battery compartment 3 is realized to the technical scheme of this disclosure, can avoid the battery 2 during the assembly with the collision of battery compartment 3 inner wall, direct contact etc. reduce the damage that causes battery 2.

Other embodiments of the disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosure disclosed herein. This application is intended to cover any adaptations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure following, in general, the principles of the disclosure and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the disclosure pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.

It is to be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown in the drawings, and that various modifications and changes may be effected without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the present disclosure is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims (9)

1. The protection structure of the battery is characterized by comprising a plurality of sheets, wherein the sheets are oppositely or adjacently arranged, and a protection area corresponding to at least one sheet in the sheets is inwards bent along the bottom edge of a corresponding side surface to be protected on the battery and is attached to at least one part of the area of the bottom surface of the battery; the top of each sheet comprises an assembling area, and the plurality of sheets are detachably assembled into a whole through the assembling area so as to enclose an accommodating space for accommodating the battery, and the battery is arranged in the accommodating space to obtain a battery assembly; each sheet also comprises a protection area which can cover at least one part of the corresponding side surface to be protected of the battery placed in the accommodating space; after the battery assembly is placed in a battery compartment, the protective structure is disassembled into the plurality of sheets independent of each other through the assembly area to take out each sheet;

wherein the plurality of sheets are detachably assembled as one body through the assembly area, comprising:

when the plurality of sheets are two sheets, the plurality of sheets are oppositely arranged, and the assembly area of each sheet and the assembly area of the opposite sheet are detachably assembled into a whole;

when the plurality of sheets are more than two sheets, the plurality of sheets are adjacently arranged and the assembly area of each sheet is detachably assembled with the assembly area of the adjacent sheets into a whole.

2. The protective structure of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sheets comprises two sheets disposed opposite each other, the two sheets being folded inwardly along bottom edges of corresponding sides to be protected on the battery, respectively, and attached to at least a portion of a bottom surface of the battery.

3. The protective structure of claim 1, wherein the width of the protective area is no greater than the width of the corresponding side to be protected in the direction of extension of the bottom edge of each side to be protected.

4. The protective structure of claim 1, wherein a grip is provided at an assembly area corresponding to at least one of the plurality of sheets.

5. The protective structure of claim 1 wherein said battery includes a first side for connection to a device motherboard; the plurality of sheets comprises a first sheet, a second sheet and a third sheet, wherein the protection areas of the first sheet and the second sheet respectively cover a second side surface and a third side surface which are adjacent to the first side surface, and the protection area of the third sheet covers a fourth side surface which is opposite to the first side surface.

6. The protective structure of claim 5 wherein the assembly area of the third sheet comprises a first assembly portion and a second assembly portion, the first assembly portion being removably assembled with the first sheet, the second assembly portion being removably assembled with the second sheet, respectively.

7. The protective structure of claim 1, wherein the protective structure is made of a ductile material.

8. The protective structure of claim 1, wherein the protective structure is made of PET material.

9. A battery assembly method for assembling the battery to a battery compartment of an electronic device, the assembly method comprising:

placing the battery into the accommodating space of the protection structure according to any one of claims 1 to 8 to obtain a battery assembly;

placing the battery assembly into the battery compartment;

Disassembling a plurality of sheets forming the protection structure so that the sheets are independent;

Sequentially taking out each sheet material forming the protection structure;

and fixing the battery in the battery compartment.