CN110707276A - Terminal combination suitable for modularization lithium cell module - Google Patents

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CN110707276A
CN110707276A CN201910982048.XA CN201910982048A CN110707276A CN 110707276 A CN110707276 A CN 110707276A CN 201910982048 A CN201910982048 A CN 201910982048A CN 110707276 A CN110707276 A CN 110707276A
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Abstract

The application discloses terminal combination suitable for modularization lithium cell module includes: the unit terminal is used for electrically connecting the battery cell units connected in series in the modular lithium battery module; the parallel terminal is used for electrically connecting the parallel battery cell units in the modular lithium battery module; the leading-out terminal is used for electrically connecting a group of parallel battery cell units in the modular lithium battery module with the outside; the unit terminal and the parallel terminal are electrically connected, and the parallel terminal and the lead-out terminal are electrically connected. The terminal combination suitable for the modular lithium battery module has the advantages that welding is avoided, and the electrical connection can be formed when the battery cell units are mechanically connected.

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Terminal combination suitable for modularization lithium cell module
Technical Field
The application relates to a terminal combination of a battery module, in particular to a terminal combination suitable for a modularized lithium battery module.
Background
A "lithium battery" is a type of battery using a nonaqueous electrolyte solution with lithium metal or a lithium alloy as a negative electrode material. Lithium metal batteries were first proposed and studied by Gilbert n. Lewis in 1912. In the 70 s of the 20 th century, m.s.whittingham proposed and began to study lithium ion batteries. Because the chemical characteristics of lithium metal are very active, the requirements on the environment for processing, storing and using the lithium metal are very high. With the development of science and technology, lithium batteries have become the mainstream nowadays.
With the further development of science and technology, lithium batteries have become very important electric energy sources in the fields of new energy automobiles and the like, and a single battery cell is often packaged into a battery module and then is supplemented with a peripheral circuit to form a battery pack which can be used independently.
In the description of the related documents, the assembly of the battery module is often inconvenient and complicated for forming electrical connection with the battery cell.
If chinese patent document CN208093630U describes a lithium battery module, which uses an aluminum strip to electrically connect each parallel battery cell in a series unit, and then uses an external electrical connection structure to connect each series unit in series, such a connection would cause the imbalance of the parallel battery cells in a series unit, and thus cause the deterioration of some battery cells, which affects the life of the series unit, and thus reduces the utilization rate of the battery cells in a better state.
Disclosure of Invention
A terminal assembly adapted for use in a modular lithium battery module, comprising: the unit terminal is used for electrically connecting the battery cell units connected in series in the modular lithium battery module; the parallel terminal is used for electrically connecting the parallel battery cell units in the modular lithium battery module; the leading-out terminal is used for electrically connecting a group of parallel battery cell units in the modular lithium battery module with the outside; the unit terminal and the parallel terminal are electrically connected, and the parallel terminal and the lead-out terminal are electrically connected.
Further, the cell terminal includes: an annular portion configured in an annular shape; a plurality of clamping parts which are arranged on the periphery of the annular part and extend towards the first direction; and a contact portion formed inside the annular portion and extending in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
Further, the clamping part at least comprises an arc-shaped structure so that the clamping part protrudes towards the direction close to the battery cell unit.
Furthermore, a plurality of contact parts are arranged inside the annular part, and are formed on the inner ring edge of the annular part and distributed along the inner ring edge.
Further, the annular portion, the clamping portion, and the contact portion are integrally formed.
Further, the parallel terminal includes: a unit section configured to contact the cell unit; a connection part disposed between the unit parts to connect different unit parts into a whole; a plurality of unit sections are arranged repeatedly in a first dimension and a second dimension perpendicular to the first dimension to form an array; a connecting part is arranged between two adjacent unit parts.
Further, a portion of the connection extends substantially along the first dimension.
Further, a portion of the connection extends substantially along the second dimension.
Further, the connecting portion is at least partially configured to have two parallel straight edges.
Further, the lead-out terminal includes: a conductive portion for contacting the parallel terminal; the fixing part is used for being fixed on the outer side of the modular lithium battery module bracket; the conductive part and the fixing part are integrally formed.
The application has the advantages that:
the terminal combination suitable for the modular lithium battery module is free from welding and capable of forming electrical connection while forming mechanical connection among the battery cell units.
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The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, serve to provide a further understanding of the application and to enable other features, objects, and advantages of the application to be more apparent. The drawings and their description illustrate the embodiments of the invention and do not limit it. In the drawings:
fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a modular lithium battery module according to the present application;
fig. 2 is an exploded view of the modular lithium battery module shown in fig. 1;
fig. 3 is an exploded view of the modular lithium battery module shown in fig. 1;
fig. 4 is a schematic structural view of a bracket in the modular lithium battery module shown in fig. 1;
fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of a unit terminal in the modular lithium battery module shown in fig. 1;
fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of a parallel terminal in the modular lithium battery module shown in fig. 1;
fig. 7 is a schematic view of a partial structure of the modular lithium battery module shown in fig. 1;
FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the opposite side of the detail shown in FIG. 7;
figures 9 and 10 show another embodiment of a terminal of a cell of the present application;
FIGS. 11 and 12 illustrate another embodiment of a terminal of a cell of the present application;
fig. 13 illustrates another embodiment of a modular lithium battery module of the present application;
FIG. 14 is a schematic view of the cell terminal structure of FIG. 13;
FIG. 15 is a schematic view of the arrangement of FIG. 13 from another perspective;
FIG. 16 shows another embodiment of a parallel cell of the present application;
fig. 17 illustrates one embodiment of a terminal assembly of the present application;
FIG. 18 is a schematic view of the structure of one cell terminal in the arrangement shown in FIG. 17;
fig. 19 shows another embodiment of a modular lithium battery module of the present application;
FIG. 20 is a schematic view of a portion of the structure of FIG. 19;
fig. 21 is an exploded view of the structure shown in fig. 19.
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In order to make the technical solutions better understood by those skilled in the art, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only partial embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.
It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of this application and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It should be understood that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application described herein may be used. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.
In this application, the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "front", "rear", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "middle", "vertical", "horizontal", "lateral", "longitudinal", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings. These terms are used primarily to better describe the present application and its embodiments, and are not used to limit the indicated devices, elements or components to a particular orientation or to be constructed and operated in a particular orientation.
Moreover, some of the above terms may be used to indicate other meanings besides the orientation or positional relationship, for example, the term "on" may also be used to indicate some kind of attachment or connection relationship in some cases. The specific meaning of these terms in this application will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.
Furthermore, the terms "mounted," "disposed," "provided," "connected," and "sleeved" are to be construed broadly. For example, it may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or a unitary construction; can be a mechanical connection, or an electrical connection; may be directly connected, or indirectly connected through intervening media, or may be in internal communication between two devices, elements or components. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.
It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.
As shown in fig. 1 to 8, a modular lithium battery module 100 includes: the battery cell comprises a plurality of battery cell units 102, a support 101, a unit terminal 107, a parallel terminal 108 and a connecting assembly.
The battery cell unit 102 is configured to store electric energy. As a specific solution, the battery cell unit 102 may be a 18650 battery cell. Of course, other types of cells may be used.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 4, the holder 101 is formed with a fixing groove 106 for fixing an end of the cell unit 102, and the end of the cell unit 102 is embedded in the fixing groove 106. The bottom surface of the fixing groove 106 is perforated to facilitate the connection member to pass through to connect different cell units 102 to form an electrical connection.
As shown in fig. 7 to 8, also for realizing unitized mounting, fixing slots 106 are formed on both sides of the bracket 101, wherein the fixing slot 106 on one side is mainly used for fixing the cell unit 102, and is defined as a first-type slot 119; the fixing groove 106 on the other side, in addition to fixing the cell unit 102, also fixes both the unit terminal 107 and the parallel terminal 108, and is defined as a second-type groove 120.
The application is further provided with a sealing piece 104 for sealing the fixing groove 106 of the bracket 101, when assembling, the bracket 101 at the end of the assembly can be sealed by the sealing piece 104, and the bracket 101 in the middle can simultaneously position the battery cell units 102 at two sides.
A unit terminal 107 is mounted at one end of the cell unit 102 and makes contact with another cell unit 102 (the other cell unit 102 is also fixed by the same bracket 101); the unit terminals 107 are disposed in the second type grooves 120, and the second type grooves 120 are formed with a stopper structure capable of stopping the unit terminals 107 and a terminal through-hole 121 for allowing the unit terminal 107 to pass through the holder 101.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 5, the cell terminal 107 includes: an annular portion 113, a clamping portion 115, and a contact portion 114.
Wherein the annular portion 113 is configured as a ring; a plurality of clamping parts 115 are arranged on the periphery of the annular part 113 and extend towards the first direction; the contact portion 114 is formed inside the annular portion 113 and extends in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
Specifically, the clamping portion 115 includes at least one arc-shaped structure, so that the clamping portion 115 protrudes toward the cell unit 102. This enables the clamping portion 115 to better clamp the end portion of the cell unit 102.
As a development, the groove wall of the second type groove 120 is provided with a plurality of positioning notches 123, and the clamping portion 115 of the unit terminal 107 can be inserted into the positioning notches 123, so that on one hand, the positioning notches 123 can perform a positioning function on the unit terminal 107, and on the other hand, the positioning notches 123 provide a space for partially accommodating the clamping portion 115.
Specifically, the annular portion 113 is provided therein with a plurality of contact portions 114 formed at and distributed along an inner circumferential edge of the annular portion 113. The contact portion 114 is used to pass through the terminal through-hole 121 of the bracket 101 to contact another cell unit 102. Specifically, the contact portion 114 has a trapezoidal outer surface. The annular portion 113, the nip portion 115, and the contact portion 114 are integrally formed. This configuration is also relatively easy to machine.
The modular lithium battery module 100 further includes: and a parallel terminal 108. The parallel terminal 108 is at least partially inserted into the fixing groove 106 and brought into contact with the cell terminal 107; the holder 101 is formed with parallel passages so that the parallel terminals 108 extend from one fixing groove 106 to the other fixing groove 106 to enable the parallel terminals 108 to make contact with at least two or more cell terminals 107 at the same time.
As shown in fig. 6 and 8, the parallel terminal 108 includes: a unit portion 116 and a connection portion 117, the unit portion 116 being configured to contact and adhere to the unit portion 116 of the unit terminal 107 to constitute an electrical connection; the connection portion 117 is formed between the different cell portions 116 so that a channel for conducting current is formed between the different cell portions 116. The unit portion 116 may be configured in a circular ring shape.
The parallel terminals 108 are connected to the plurality of cell terminals 107, respectively, so that the plurality of cell units 102 are connected in parallel.
As shown in fig. 8, in order to position and accommodate the connection portions 117 of the parallel terminals 108, the holder 101 is formed with communication grooves 122 between the different second-type grooves 120, and the connection portions 117 are fitted in the communication grooves 122.
The lead-out terminal 105 includes: a conductive portion 124, a fixed portion 125, and an intermediate portion 126. Wherein the conductive portion 124 is used for contacting the parallel terminal; the fixing part 125 is to be fixed to an outer side of the modular lithium battery module support. The intermediate portion 126 is provided between the conductive portion 124 and the fixed portion 125. The conductive portion 124 is integrally formed with the fixing portion 125.
The modular lithium battery module 100 further includes: lead-out terminals 105; the outgoing terminal 105 is at least partially disposed in a fixing groove 106 of the holder 101 at an edge and is in contact with at least one of the series terminal and the parallel terminal 108. Another part of which is led out of the range of the holder 101.
As a preferable scheme, the modular lithium battery module 100 further includes: and a lead-out member 118, the lead-out member 118 being fixed at one side wall of the holder 101 and provided with a groove in which a portion of the lead-out terminal 105 located outside the range of the holder 101 is fitted.
Specifically, the lead terminal 118 includes a conductive portion 124, an intermediate portion 125, and a fixing portion 126. The conductive part 124 is used for contacting the parallel terminal 108, and the fixing part 126 is used for being fixed at the outer side of the bracket 101; the intermediate portion 12 is used to connect between the conductive portion 124 and the fixing portion 126 so that the fixing portion 126 can be folded back to the outside of the holder 101. The conductive portion 124, the intermediate portion 125, and the fixing portion 126 are integrally molded.
Specifically, the modular lithium battery module 100 further includes: and the sealing piece 104, wherein the sealing piece 104 is arranged in the fixing groove 106 of the support 101 positioned at the outermost side in the modular lithium battery module 100. The seal 104 acts like a cover to the enclosed space, and it acts to close the outermost fixation grooves 106 (including the first type of groove 119 and the second type of groove 120).
Specifically, the connecting assembly comprises a first connecting piece and a second connecting piece; the first connecting member is connected to one of the brackets 101 and the second connecting member is connected to the other bracket 101 so that the two brackets 101 are integrated. Specifically, the first connecting member is configured as one connecting bolt 103, and the second connecting member is configured as a connecting nut 112; the bracket 101 is formed with a bolt hole 110 through which the coupling bolt 103 passes and a nut groove 111 into which the coupling nut 112 is inserted.
As shown in fig. 8, the bracket 101 is provided with a plurality of nut grooves 111, and the nut grooves 111 have a hexagonal structure to receive and position the coupling nuts 112.
The whole structure adopts a non-welding process, so that the electric core unit 102 can be conveniently recycled in the later period.
As shown in fig. 9 and 10, the unit terminal 200 has the similar ring-shaped portion 201 and the similar contact portion 205, and the structure of the unit terminal 200 for clamping or sleeving the end of the cell unit is configured to be more closed, specifically, the clamping portion of the unit terminal 200 includes a sleeving ring 203 and a clamping leg 204. Wherein, the suit ring 203 has formed a ring structure, and this ring structure is used for suit electric core unit, and the centre gripping leg 204 forms in the circumference of cyclic annular portion to set up to a plurality ofly along circumference, centre gripping retreat 204 is connected between cyclic annular portion 201 and suit ring 203, and as a concrete scheme, centre gripping leg 204 is formed with a plurality of curved structures. The cell terminal 200 may be integrally stamped from a unitary piece of metal stock.
Note that the edge of the ring-shaped portion 201 of the cell terminal 200 may be configured to be circular.
The unit terminal 300 shown in fig. 11 and 12 includes a ring portion 301, a grip portion 302, and a contact portion 303. As an alternative, the cell terminal 300 is different from the cell terminal 107 in that the edge of the ring-shaped portion 301 is configured as a hexagon, where the configuration as a hexagon means that at least a portion of the edge coincides with a hexagon, such as shown in fig. 11, and the edge of the ring-shaped portion 301 is actually a hexagon with rounded corners.
As shown in fig. 13 to 15, the modular lithium battery module 400 includes a support 401, a unit terminal 402, and a battery cell 409.
The cell terminal 402 includes: the ring-shaped portion 403, the clamping portion 404, the contact portion 405, the rising portion 406, the falling portion 407, the bridge portion 408, and the connection portion 411.
The ring-shaped portion 403, the clamping portion 404, and the contact portion 405 of the unit terminal 402 have the same structure as the unit terminal 107. The unit terminals 402 are distinguished by a rising portion 406, a falling portion 407, a bridging portion 408, and a connecting portion 411, which constitute a passage through which current can be made between different unit terminals 402, and which can lead out the current to the outside of the holder 401.
The raised portion 406 is adapted to extend up the grooves of the bracket 401 to allow the terminals to rise out of the grooves, and the bridge portion 408 allows the cell terminal 402 structure to extend from one groove of the bracket to another groove or from one groove of the bracket to the outside of the bracket. The drop down portion 407 extends down the other pocket or cradle outer wall, all the way to the butt portion 411, the butt portion 411 being connected to the drop down portion 407. The flat portion 411 is formed with a contact surface that can make contact with the ring-shaped portion 403 of the other cell terminal 402 to conduct current.
By adopting the scheme, the bracket does not need to be provided with other grooves except the groove for accommodating the battery cell unit. In addition, the cell terminals 402 are only used for adjusting the corresponding positioning direction, so that the functions of series connection, parallel connection and lead-out connection of the cell units in the battery module can be realized.
As shown in fig. 16, the parallel terminal 500 includes: a unit portion 501 and a connection portion 502. Wherein the unit sections 501 are configured to contact the cell units, the connection may be direct or indirect, and the connection portions 502 are disposed between the unit sections 501 to connect the different unit sections 501 into a whole.
A plurality of unit sections 501 are arranged repeatedly in a first dimension and a second dimension perpendicular to the first dimension to form an array; a connecting portion 502 is provided between two adjacent unit portions 501. A portion of the connection 502 extends generally along a first dimension; a portion of the connection 504 extends generally along the second dimension.
The connecting portions 502, 504 are at least partially configured to have two parallel straight edges, the straight edges of the connecting portion 502 being parallel to a first dimension and the straight edges of the connecting portion 504 being parallel to a second dimension. The connecting portion 502 is provided with a notch.
As a specific aspect, the connection portions 502, 504 are configured in a rectangular shape having a rounded corner structure.
The terminal assembly 600 shown in fig. 17 includes a plurality of unit terminals 601.
The cell terminal 601 includes: contact portion 602, annular portion 603, clamping portion 604, socket portion 605, and socket portion 606.
The contact portion 602, the ring portion 603, and the clamping portion 604 of the cell terminal 601 may be similar to the cell terminal 107.
The groove 605 and the socket 606 are formed to face each other in the circumferential direction of the annular portion 603, specifically, two sockets 605 are provided in the circumferential direction, and two sockets 606 are provided in positions rotated by 90 degrees relative to each other.
The slot 605 is formed with a slot, and the plug 606 can be inserted into the slot of the slot 605 to connect one unit terminal 601 with another unit terminal 601. In this way, the cell terminals 605 realize both series connection of the cell terminals 601 and parallel connection between different cell terminals 601.
As an extension, the unit terminal 601 located at the edge also has the rising portion 406, the falling portion 407, the bridging portion 408, and the connecting portion 411 of the unit terminal 402, thereby realizing a function of terminal lead-out.
The modular lithium battery module 700 shown in fig. 19 to 20 includes a plurality of unit modules 701 and a plurality of battery cell units 702.
The unit modules 701 are provided with the protruding blocks 704 and the slots 705, and the unit modules 701 can be spliced by the protruding blocks 704 and the slots 705, so as to form a bracket as described above. The unit module 701 is provided with a groove to fix the cell unit 702.
As an extension, the corner circular arc profiles or other notch profiles of the unit modules 701 may be combined into a through hole for a bolt or the nut hole described above after the unit modules 701 are spliced.
The cell terminal 703 may adopt the scheme shown in the figure, or may adopt the structure of another cell terminal as described above.
As can be seen from the foregoing description of the specific embodiments and with reference to the drawings, the minimum repetitive components of a modular lithium battery module are mainly used to make a plurality of cell units form a whole, which is not only a structural whole, but also means that the cell units are electrically connected, so that when the whole is combined with another cell unit, the cell units of the whole can be electrically connected, and the whole is defined as a modular lithium battery module unit.
In a modular lithium battery module unit, the cell units are only repeatedly arranged in two mutually perpendicular dimensions in space to form a cell unit single-layer array; the modularization lithium battery module unit still includes: the two supports are used for fixing the positions of the cell units from the two sides of the single-layer array of the cell units; the terminal assembly is used for enabling each battery cell unit in the single-layer array to form electrical connection; the terminal assembly includes: the first terminal part is used for contacting the battery cell unit of the modular lithium battery module unit; a second terminal portion for making an electrically conductive connection between the respective first terminal portions; and a third terminal portion for passing through the passing hole to enable the terminal assembly to guide a current through the passing hole of the bracket.
As a specific aspect, the terminal assembly further includes: a fourth terminal portion and a fifth terminal portion. The fourth terminal part is used for clamping a battery cell unit of the modular lithium battery module unit; the fifth terminal portion is at least partially outside the bracket to guide the terminal assembly to guide the current out of the bracket.
As a first specific aspect, the first terminal portion, the third terminal portion, and the fourth terminal portion are an integral body, such as the cell terminal 107 in the previous embodiment.
As another specific example, the first terminal portion, the second terminal portion, and the third terminal portion are an integral body, such as the unit terminal 601 in the previous embodiment.
As another specific solution, the first terminal portion, the second terminal portion, the third terminal portion, and the fourth terminal portion are an integral body, such as the cell terminal 402 in the previous embodiment.
The terminal assembly includes: in the case of the unit terminal, the parallel terminal, and the lead terminal, the first terminal part may be formed of a ring portion, the second terminal part may be formed of a connection portion, the third terminal part may be formed of a contact portion, the fourth terminal part may be formed of a clamping portion, and the fifth terminal part may be formed of a lead terminal.
As in the above embodiment, the terminal assembly may also include only the unit terminals and the lead-out terminals, or only the unit terminals.
In another aspect, the present application also introduces a method for manufacturing a modular lithium battery module, the method comprising:
manufacturing a cell unit, a bracket, a unit terminal and a connecting assembly;
arranging the unit terminal in a fixing groove of the holder at the inner side;
arranging the battery cell unit between the two brackets, and embedding the end part of the battery cell unit into the fixed groove provided with the unit terminal so as to electrically connect the battery cell unit and the unit terminal;
a plurality of brackets and the battery cell units fixed by the brackets form a whole by using a connecting assembly;
manufacturing a parallel terminal;
arranging the parallel terminals in fixing grooves of the bracket on the inner side;
inserting a coupling nut into the nut groove;
the connecting bolt penetrates through the bolt hole and is screwed into the connecting nut in the nut groove;
and installing the seal piece into the fixing groove of the outermost bracket.
As an alternative, the material of the unit terminal comprises the following components in percentage by mass: silver: 0.9% to 1.1%; aluminum: 0.1% to 2%; iron: 0.1% to 2%; the balance being copper.
As a specific scheme, the overall material also comprises the following components in percentage by mass: beryllium: 1.5% to 2.5%. The integral material also comprises the following components in percentage by mass: cobalt: 0.5% to 1.5%; nickel: 4% to 6%; silicon: 0.1% to 2%.
As an example, the beryllium content is 1.85% to 2.1%; the content of cobalt is 1.5 to 2.5 percent; the content of nickel is 4-6%; the silicon content is 0.15%, the aluminum content is 0.15%, and the iron content is 0.15%.
As an alternative, the material of the parallel terminal comprises the following components in percentage by mass: iron: 0.2% to 0.4%; nickel: 0.1% to 0.2%; the balance being copper.
As a specific scheme, the material of the parallel terminal also comprises the following components in percentage by mass: PTC material: 20% to 40%. More specifically, the content of the PTC material is 25% to 35%.
As a specific scheme, the content of iron is 0.3 percent; the content of nickel is 0.15%; the content of the PTC material is 30 percent; the balance being copper.
The whole parallel terminal suitable for the modularized lithium battery module is made of the same material and is integrally formed.
The materials are adopted, so that the conductive performance can be ensured, and the processing is also suitable.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.

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1. The utility model provides a terminal combination suitable for modularization lithium cell module which characterized in that:
the terminal combination suitable for modularization lithium cell module includes:
the unit terminal is used for electrically connecting the battery cell units connected in series in the modular lithium battery module;
the parallel terminal is used for electrically connecting the parallel battery cell units in the modular lithium battery module;
the leading-out terminal is used for electrically connecting a group of parallel battery cell units in the modular lithium battery module with the outside;
the unit terminal and the parallel terminal form an electrical connection, and the parallel terminal and the leading-out terminal form an electrical connection.
2. The terminal assembly of claim 1, wherein the terminal assembly comprises:
the cell terminal includes:
an annular portion configured in an annular shape;
the clamping parts are arranged on the periphery of the annular part and extend towards the first direction;
and a contact portion formed inside the annular portion and extending in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
3. The terminal assembly of claim 2, wherein the terminal assembly comprises:
the clamping part at least comprises an arc-shaped structure so that the clamping part protrudes towards the direction close to the battery cell unit.
4. The terminal assembly of claim 2, wherein the terminal assembly comprises:
the annular part is internally provided with a plurality of contact parts which are formed on the inner ring edge of the annular part and distributed along the inner ring edge.
5. The terminal assembly of claim 2, wherein the terminal assembly comprises:
the annular portion, the clamping portion, and the contact portion are integrally formed.
6. The terminal assembly of claim 1, wherein the terminal assembly comprises:
the parallel terminal includes:
a unit section configured to contact the cell unit;
a connection part disposed between the unit parts to connect different unit parts into a whole;
a plurality of the unit sections are arranged repeatedly in a first dimension and a second dimension perpendicular to the first dimension to form an array;
the connecting portion is provided between two adjacent unit portions.
7. The terminal assembly of claim 6, wherein the terminal assembly comprises:
a portion of the connecting portion extends substantially along the first dimension.
8. The terminal assembly of claim 7, wherein the terminal assembly comprises:
a portion of the connecting portion extends generally along the second dimension.
9. The terminal assembly of claim 8, wherein the terminal assembly comprises:
the connecting portion is at least partially configured to have two parallel straight edges.
10. The terminal assembly of claim 2, wherein the terminal assembly comprises:
the leading-out terminal includes:
a conductive portion for contacting the parallel terminal;
the fixing part is used for being fixed on the outer side of the modular lithium battery module bracket;
the conductive part and the fixing part are integrally formed.
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