CN212412125U

CN212412125U - A casing, power battery package for power battery

Info

Publication number: CN212412125U
Application number: CN202020751682.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨鹏飞; 禹强; 陈尚云; 黄照昆
Original assignee: Dongfeng Motor Co Ltd
Current assignee: Dongfeng Motor Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-05-08
Filing date: 2020-05-08
Publication date: 2021-01-26
Anticipated expiration: 2030-05-08

Abstract

The utility model provides a casing and power battery package for power battery, the casing includes braced frame and heat-conducting plate, braced frame) includes a plurality of curb plates, the heat-conducting plate is installed on braced frame, enclose between a plurality of curb plates and merge and form the cavity that is used for holding the power battery module with the heat-conducting plate; the heat conducting plate is internally provided with a cooling liquid flow channel formed by the channel-shaped concave part, and the heat conducting plate is externally provided with a liquid inlet used for enabling cooling liquid to flow into the flow channel and a liquid outlet used for enabling the cooling liquid to flow out of the flow channel. The utility model discloses a liquid cooling board carries out the cooling of battery module, need not to set up the pipeline of connecting usefulness, has the advantage that integrated degree is high, space utilization is big.

Description

A casing, power battery package for power battery

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of power battery, concretely relates to a casing and power battery package for power battery.

Background

Electric automobile power battery generally all has the liquid cooling system to adjust the operating temperature of battery, and the battery liquid cooling system that has now on the market arranges in the battery package usually, as shown in fig. 1, adopt heat-conducting plate 1 ', pipeline 2 ', bearing structure 3 ' to constitute more among the prior art, and this structure requires highly to arranging the space, and the component is many, and the assembly is complicated, has the risk of pipeline leakage, and the cost is higher, is unfavorable for promoting the energy density of battery package, security and reduction part and manufacturing cost.

Along with cost control and lightweight design of automobile design becoming mainstream indexes, the power battery of the electric automobile needs to be integrated and improved so as to improve the space utilization rate of the battery pack and improve the energy density of the battery pack.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

To prior art's defect, the utility model provides a casing and power battery package for power battery, whole casing only adopts the heat-conducting plate to carry out the cooling of battery module, need not to set up the pipeline of connecting usefulness, has the advantage that integrated degree is high, space utilization is big.

The utility model discloses a concrete technical scheme is:

the shell comprises a supporting frame and a heat conducting plate, wherein the supporting frame) comprises a plurality of side plates, the heat conducting plate is arranged on the supporting frame, and the plurality of side plates are surrounded and form a cavity for accommodating the power battery module with the heat conducting plate; the heat conducting plate is internally provided with a cooling liquid flow channel formed by the channel-shaped concave part, and the heat conducting plate is externally provided with a liquid inlet used for enabling cooling liquid to flow into the flow channel and a liquid outlet used for enabling the cooling liquid to flow out of the flow channel.

The above technical scheme of the utility model, the heat-conducting plate is installed on braced frame, can directly carry out the heat transfer cooling to the power battery module that holds in the cavity, and through the directional flow of circulation that forms coolant liquid in the inside runner of heat-conducting plate, bring out the produced heat of power battery module and be in stable temperature range all the time in order to keep the power battery module.

Specifically, the utility model provides a passageway form concave part is preferred to be located same horizontal plane all the time, and the flow of coolant liquid is the velocity of flow that relies on liquid to carry out even directional flow process in its runner that forms, and the coolant liquid flows from the inlet to be full of completely or be close to the form of being full of the runner completely and flow, finally flows from the liquid outlet, takes away the produced heat of power battery module more fully.

According to the utility model discloses a another kind of embodiment, the heat-conducting plate includes heat-conducting plate and lower heat-conducting plate, and the channel form concave part forms on heat-conducting plate down, goes up the heat-conducting plate and sets up in the top of heat-conducting plate down and form the runner with the cooperation of channel form concave part.

According to the utility model discloses a another kind of embodiment, at least one curb plate outwards protrudes and forms and protects the frame structure, protect the frame structure including the first structural slab that sets up from top to bottom, the second structural slab, be equipped with first hole on the first structural slab, the second hole, the second structural slab is equipped with the third hole, the fourth hole, the inlet is equipped with the feed liquor component, the liquid outlet is equipped with out the liquid component, first hole aligns each other so that the feed liquor component runs through with the third hole and fixes a position the installation, the second hole aligns each other so that it runs through with the fourth hole and fixes a position the installation to go out the liquid component.

In this scheme, the feed liquor component adopts vertical mode to arrange with a play liquid component, protects the frame structure and provides the mounted position for feed liquor component and a play liquid component on the one hand, and on the other hand can effectively protect feed liquor component and a play liquid component, makes it have good structure steadiness ability, can effectively avoid the phenomenon of revealing of coolant liquid.

In the prior art (publication number 107331920), a first flow channel arranged in a heat exchange substrate and a second flow channel arranged on a side plate are adopted to carry out a heat exchange process, a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet of the first flow channel are arranged on the side plate provided with the second flow channel, the side plate is connected with the heat exchange substrate in a welding mode according to the structure of the side plate, on one hand, a processing technology of adaptation needs to be carried out, the communicating and matching precision between the second flow channel and the first flow channel is high, the manufacturing difficulty is high, on the other hand, the second flow channel flows in a non-horizontal plane, cooling liquid does not easily flow in a circulating mode, cooling liquid in the second flow channel is difficult to transfer and discharge quickly, and stable outflow of the cooling liquid is also or completed by adopting the flow channel through special design.

In addition, the joint between the second flow channel and the first flow channel in the prior art still has the risk of weeping, brings certain safety risk to the use of power battery module.

In addition, in the prior art, when the cooling liquid is added, because part of the air in the second flow channel cannot be completely discharged, a small amount of gas remains at the top of the second flow channel, the cooling liquid cannot be completely filled in the heat exchange circulating flow channel all the time, and a certain amount of bubbles exist in the cooling liquid in the subsequent use process, so that the flowing uniformity and the flowing stability of the cooling liquid are caused, and the heat exchange efficiency is influenced.

Therefore, the cooling mode that the first flow channel is matched with the second flow channel in the prior art needs to be redesigned, so that the cooling liquid can flow uniformly, rapidly and unimpededly on the basis of simplifying the structure and improving the safety performance, and finally, a high-efficiency heat exchange process is realized.

The above technical solution of the present invention adopts the flowing heat exchange in a single plane, the liquid inlet (liquid inlet element) and the liquid outlet (liquid outlet element) are preset outside the heat conducting plate, and the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet are protected by the protective frame structure, on one hand, the flowing heat exchange process of the cooling liquid in the flow channel is always uniform, has stable flow velocity, and is in the flowing process in the plane, the flowing of the cooling liquid is stable, and the heat exchange efficiency is high; on the other hand inlet and liquid outlet all are higher than the runner slightly, form similar U type communicating pipe structure, fill the mobile coolant liquid in the runner from the inlet after discharging its gas in completely, just can flow from the liquid outlet, in whole heat transfer process, do not have gas in the runner, the flow of coolant liquid is more even, flow stability is better.

According to the utility model discloses a another kind of embodiment, the braced frame inboard is provided with the protruding portion that is used for installing power battery module, and the protruding portion is arranged in the cavity and is connected with a plurality of curb plates respectively.

According to the utility model discloses a another concrete implementation way, the protruding portion has the first plane that is located the top, the second plane that is located the below, and be located the third plane between first plane and the second plane, first plane is used for installing power battery module, be the echelonment between second plane and the third plane, the outward flange of protruding portion is close to the second plane, the inward flange of protruding portion is close to the third plane, wherein, have the difference in height between second plane and the third plane in order to form the semi-closed loop recess that is used for installing the heat-conducting plate, the notch shape of closed loop recess is unanimous with the edge shape of heat-conducting plate, the degree of depth of closed loop recess is not less than the heat-conducting plate thickness.

Preferably, the depth of the closed-loop groove is equal to the thickness of the heat conducting plate.

Wherein, the first plane in the protruding portion is used for installing the power battery module, the third plane of protruding portion and the closed loop recess that the second plane formed are used for installing the heat-conducting plate, the power battery module supports on the protruding portion and contacts in the upper surface of heat-conducting plate, the heat-conducting plate is preferably fixed through friction stir welding's connection structure, it does not provide the supporting force or does not provide main holding power for the power battery module, even after long-time use, the heat-conducting plate still can keep good stability, can not take place because the exogenic action produces extrusion deformation, connect insecure phenomenon.

Preferably, a heat conduction layer is arranged between the battery module and the upper surface of the heat conduction plate for conducting heat.

According to the utility model discloses a another kind of embodiment is provided with at least one internal support roof beam in the cavity, is equipped with a plurality of bosss on the internal support roof beam, is provided with on the heat-conducting plate with boss one-to-one complex hole.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the flow channel comprises a main water inlet flow channel extending along a central axis direction L of the heat conducting plate, a main water return flow channel disposed at two side edges of the heat conducting plate parallel to the central axis direction, and a plurality of main heat exchange flow channels connecting the main water inlet flow channel and the main water return flow channel, wherein the main water inlet flow channel is communicated with the liquid inlet, and the main water return flow channel is communicated with the liquid outlet;

in this scheme, the main runner of intaking mainly carries out the inflow of coolant liquid, also can carry out the process of heat transfer simultaneously, and the main return water runner mainly carries out the backward flow of coolant liquid, also can carry out the process of heat transfer simultaneously, and the heat transfer process of heat-conducting plate is mainly gone on through a plurality of main heat transfer runners.

According to the utility model discloses a another kind of embodiment, main heat transfer runner forms to circuitous snakelike runner to carry out more abundant heat transfer process.

According to the utility model discloses a another kind of embodiment, the cross sectional area of the main heat transfer runner of at least partial district section increases along the flow direction of coolant liquid gradually, make the coolant liquid follow each heat transfer runner of flowing through from the inlet, the flow resistance that reachs the delivery port at last is the same or is close the same completely, thereby ensure to flow through each heat transfer regional flow and equal, can ensure that the heat transfer between each heat transfer regional coolant liquid and the battery module is more even, can effectively reduce the difference in temperature between each battery module like this, effectively improve the life-span of battery module.

Specifically, the at least partial section herein refers to a part of the main heat exchange flow channel, for example, a partial section connected to the main water return flow channel, and the cross section of the main heat exchange flow channel herein refers to a cross section perpendicular to the flow direction of the coolant.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the holes are one or more of circular, rectangular, diamond-shaped, quincunx, and star-shaped.

According to the utility model discloses a another embodiment, the heat-conducting plate is including the marginal district section that is located the edge, the runner district section that is located central authorities and the district section of keeping apart, and the runner is located the runner district section, and adjacent runner district section separates through keeping apart the district section, is connected between marginal district section and the third plane.

According to the utility model discloses a another kind of embodiment, passageway form concave part is the big, the little concave groove structure in lower level of the higher authority, and this big concave groove structure in lower level of the higher authority can provide great area of contact and carry out the heat transfer with more abundant and power battery module contact on the one hand, and on the other hand, this big concave groove structure in lower level of the higher authority can reduce the resistance of coolant liquid flow process.

According to the utility model discloses a another kind of embodiment, go up between heat-conducting plate and the lower heat-conducting plate through welding or splice the shaping as an organic whole.

In addition, the utility model also provides a power battery package, the power battery package includes the aforesaid casing and one or more power battery module in the cavity in the casing that is fixed in; wherein, the upper surface of the heat conducting plate in the shell is provided with a heat conducting layer made of a heat conducting material.

According to the utility model discloses a another kind of embodiment still includes the backplate, and the backplate setting is in braced frame and lie in the below of heat-conducting plate, has the clearance in order to form thermal-insulated chamber between backplate and the heat-conducting plate.

The backplate that sets up in this scheme is installed on braced frame and is located the below of heat-conducting plate, wherein has certain clearance between backplate and the heat-conducting plate in order to form thermal-insulated chamber, prevents that the heat-conducting plate absorbed from diffusing to other equipment unit parts to the downside.

Preferably, the heat insulation cavity is closed, air can be filled in the heat insulation cavity, and heat insulation materials can be filled in the heat insulation cavity to play a role in heat insulation of the heat conduction plate and the external environment.

The guard plate can be fixed on the body of the vehicle at a position corresponding to the battery pack, so that the energy density of the battery pack can be further improved.

The utility model discloses possess following beneficial effect:

1. the manufacturing is convenient and the cost is low;

the heat-conducting plate in the utility model is integrated on the supporting frame, the whole shell only has one heat-conducting plate without pipeline connection, the number of parts is greatly reduced, the part cost and the manufacturing cost are greatly reduced, in addition, the application of shell materials is also reduced by the integrally formed heat-conducting plate, which is beneficial to improving the energy density;

2. the space utilization rate is improved, and the energy density of the battery pack is improved;

the heat-conducting plate is integrated behind braced frame, has reduced the whole height of battery package, can effectively promote the space utilization of battery package through the design of no pipeline.

3. The safety is improved;

the shell is internally provided with no connecting pipeline, so that the leakage risk of the cooling liquid is reduced, the heat conducting plate can realize dry-wet separation, and the safety of a battery system is improved; adopt external protecting frame structure to protect liquid outlet, inlet, whole runner an organic whole forms, need not to set up complex assembly structure, and whole steadiness can be stronger.

4. The cooling efficiency is high, and the flow of the cooling liquid in the flow channel is more stable;

the utility model discloses a be in the runner in the single plane, the coolant liquid can be even, quick, unimpeded flow, realize efficient heat transfer process.

5. Flow stabilization of coolant

The parallel main heat exchange flow channels are arranged, so that the design of parallel water paths in each small heat exchange area is realized, the temperature and the flow uniformity of inflow cooling liquid of each main heat exchange flow channel are kept, the pressure loss of a system is reduced, the energy consumption of the system is reduced, and the uniformity of heat exchange among battery modules is effectively improved.

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a liquid cooling system for a battery of the prior art;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an example of the power battery pack of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is an exploded schematic view of FIG. 2;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of the housing of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a top view of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a bottom view of FIG. 4;

fig. 7 is a schematic view of the installation structure of the heat conducting plate and the supporting frame of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic view of the flow channel of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is an enlarged schematic view of one of the primary heat exchange flow channels of FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of an alternative distribution of the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet of FIG. 8;

fig. 11 is a schematic view of the installation of the heat-conducting plate and the supporting frame of the present invention;

fig. 12 is a schematic view of the installation of the heat conducting plate with the cross beam and the longitudinal beam of the present invention;

fig. 13 is a schematic view of the protective frame structure of the present invention;

FIG. 14 is a schematic view of the installation of FIG. 13;

fig. 15 is a schematic partial cross-sectional view of the power battery pack of the present invention.

Detailed Description

A power battery pack can be used as a power system of an electric automobile, wherein the power battery pack in the example is designed in a regular square structure, and in other examples, the power battery pack can be in other shapes such as a hexagon shape, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the power battery pack comprises a power battery module 10, a heat insulation layer 20, a supporting frame 30, a heat conduction plate 40 and a protection plate 50 from top to bottom, wherein the supporting frame 30, the heat conduction plate 40 and the protection plate 50 are assembled to form a shell, a plurality of power battery modules 10 are supported by the shell, and the heat insulation layer 20 is arranged on the lower surface of the power battery module 10 and used for improving the heat transfer effect.

The power battery module 10 in this example can adopt the existing battery structure, the utility model discloses aim at improving to this power battery module 10's cooling system, do not do unnecessary the perplexing to the battery structure here.

As shown in fig. 4, the supporting frame 30 in this example includes a front plate 31, a rear plate 32, a left plate 33, a right plate 33, two transverse inner supporting beams 35, and a longitudinal inner supporting beam 35, the front plate 31, the rear plate 32, the left plate 33, and the right plate 33 enclose and form a cavity 30a with the heat conducting plate 40 for accommodating the power battery module 10, wherein the transverse inner supporting beams 35 and the longitudinal inner supporting beams 35 divide the cavity 30a into several same regions for respectively carrying the power battery module 10.

In order to better realize the contact heat exchange between the heat conduction plate 40 and the power battery module 10, as shown in fig. 4, the present example is provided with a continuous protrusion 60 on the inner side of the support frame 30, the protrusion 60 is disposed in the cavity 30a and is connected with the front side plate 31, the rear side plate 32, the left side plate 33 and the right side plate 33, respectively, and the protrusion 60 has a first plane 61 on the upper side, a second plane 62 on the lower side, and a third plane 63 between the first plane 61 and the second plane 62.

The power battery module 10 is mounted on the first plane 61, the transverse inner support beam 35 and the longitudinal inner support beam 35, and the lower side surface of the power battery module sinks below the first plane 61 to serve as a heat exchange surface to perform contact heat exchange with the heat conduction plate 40.

The mounting structure of the heat-conducting plate 40 in this example is shown in fig. 7-9:

the second plane 62 and the third plane 63 in the protrusion 60 are stepped, the second plane 62 is close to the outer edge of the protrusion 60, the third plane 63 is close to the inner edge of the protrusion 60, a height difference is formed between the second plane 62 and the third plane 63 to form a semi-closed loop groove 64 for installing the heat conduction plate 40, the shape of the notch of the closed loop groove 64 is consistent with the shape of the edge of the heat conduction plate 40, the depth of the closed loop groove 64 is not less than the thickness of the heat conduction plate 40, specifically, the depth of the closed loop groove 64 is the same as the thickness of the heat conduction plate 40, and the heat conduction plate 40 is directly fixed in the closed loop groove 64, for example, by friction stir welding or fasteners, so as to realize the fixed connection with the support.

The distance between the first plane 61 and the third plane 63 is controlled to be the same as the sinking distance of the power battery module 10, so that the surface of the heat conducting plate 40 is in contact with the heat exchange surface of the power battery module 10, and at the moment, the heat conducting plate 40 does not provide supporting acting force or main supporting force for the power battery module 10, so as to ensure that the firmness of the structure of the heat conducting plate is better.

Specifically, the heat conductive plate 40 of the present example is mounted in engagement with the lateral inner support beams 35 and the longitudinal inner support beams 35, as shown in fig. 9, in which the cross-sections of the lateral inner support beams 35 and the longitudinal inner support beams 35 are formed in an inverted T-shape to provide the mounting surface 38 flush with the first plane 61.

The heat-conducting plate 40 in this example is in the form of a double-layer plate structure, as shown in fig. 10 and 11, the heat-conducting plate 40 includes an upper heat-conducting plate 41 and a lower heat-conducting plate 42, the lower heat-conducting plate 42 has a channel-shaped recess 42a, and the upper heat-conducting plate 41 is laid on the upper side of the lower heat-conducting plate 42 and cooperates with the channel-shaped recess 42a to form the flow passage 80.

The upper heat-conducting plate 41 and the lower heat-conducting plate 42 are preferably welded or glued together.

Referring to fig. 7, the heat conducting plate 40 includes an edge section 40a, a flow channel 80 section 40b and an isolation section 40c, the edge section 40a is used for installation connection, especially friction stir welding, the flow channel 80 is not arranged on the edge section 40a, and the remaining part arranges the flow channel 80 section 40b and the isolation section 40c in a manner of uniformly spacing, wherein the adjacent transverse flow channel 80 section 40b and the longitudinal flow channel 80 section 40b are separated by different isolation sections 40c to form a flow channel 80 with a determined flow direction, and directional circulation flow of the cooling liquid in the whole flow channel 80 is realized by arranging the flow channel 80 sections 40b in the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction which are communicated with each other.

The structure of the flow channel 80 formed in the heat conductive plate 40 in this example is shown in fig. 8-10:

the flow passage 80 comprises a first main water inlet flow passage 81, a second main water inlet flow passage 82, a first main water return flow passage 83, a second main water return flow passage 84 and a plurality of main heat exchange flow passages 85;

the first main water inlet channel 81 and the second main water inlet channel 82 extend along a central axis direction L of the heat conductive plate to respectively provide cooling liquid to spatial positions at two sides, the first main water return channel 83 is disposed at one side edge (upper side in fig. 8) of the heat conductive plate, the second main water return channel 84 is disposed at the other side edge (lower side in fig. 8) of the heat conductive plate, a part of the main heat exchange channels 85 is located between the first main water inlet channel 81 and the first main water return channel 83 to form a main heat exchange area a, and the remaining part of the main heat exchange channels 85 is located between the second main water inlet channel 82 and the second main water return channel 84 to form a main heat exchange area B.

The first main water inlet channel 81 and the second main water inlet channel 82 are directly communicated with the liquid inlet 44, the first main water return channel 83 and the second main water return channel 84 are directly communicated with the liquid outlet 45, external cooling liquid flows into the first main water inlet channel 81 and the second main water inlet channel 82 from the liquid inlet 44 respectively, sufficient heat exchange is carried out through the processes of the plurality of main heat exchange channels 85, and finally the external cooling liquid flows out from the liquid outlet 45 through the first main water return channel 83 and the second main water return channel 84, so that the heat exchange process is completed.

In particular, the positions of the inlet 44 and the outlet 45 in this example can be interchanged, and the arrangement of the inlet 44 and the outlet 45 can be set at other suitable positions according to the installation requirement, as shown in fig. 9.

Specifically, referring to fig. 8, a plurality of main heat exchange flow channels 85 are arranged in a matrix manner, a single main heat exchange flow channel 85 is distributed in a circuitous serpentine flow channel manner to perform a more sufficient heat exchange process, and the openings of the connection portions of the first water inlet flow channel 81, the second water inlet flow channel 82 and the plurality of main heat exchange flow channels 85 are preferably: the opening of the joint close to the water inlet is small (the effective flow area is small), and the opening of the joint far away from the water inlet is large (the effective flow area is large), so that the flowing uniformity of the cooling liquid is further improved.

Referring to fig. 9, a preferred main heat exchanging flow channel 85 specifically includes a first section 85a, a second section 85b, and a third section 85c, wherein the third section 85c is a straight flow section, and the first section 85a and the second section 85b are symmetrically distributed on two sides of the third section 85c, wherein the first section 85a and the second section 85b are U-shaped roundabout structures, and the cross-sectional area of the third section 85c gradually increases along the flow direction of the cooling liquid, so as to ensure that the flow resistance of the cooling liquid in each main heat exchanging flow channel 85 is completely the same or nearly the same, and the heat exchanging is more uniform.

For more uniform flow of the cooling liquid, the channel-shaped concave portion 42a in this example is a concave groove structure with a large upper side and a small lower side, wherein the channel-shaped concave portion 42a is, for example, an inverted trapezoid, and further, for example, a semicircle, and on the one hand, the concave portion with the large upper side and the small lower side can provide a larger contact area to more sufficiently contact with the power battery module 10 for heat exchange, and on the other hand, the concave portion with the large upper side and the small lower side can reduce the resistance of the flow process of the cooling liquid.

Referring to fig. 7 and 12 again, in order to achieve more stable installation and positioning of the heat conducting plate 40, a plurality of holes 43 are provided on the heat conducting plate 40, bosses 37 corresponding to the plurality of holes 43 are provided on the transverse inner support beam 35 and the longitudinal inner support beam 35, and the bosses 37 can pass through the holes 43 to achieve installation and positioning of the heat conducting plate 40.

Specifically, the boss 37 matches the shape of the hole 43, such as one or more of a circle, a rectangle, a diamond, a quincunx, and a star, and fig. 7 shows the matching form of the rectangular hole and the rectangular boss.

In this example, a structure with an external liquid inlet and an external liquid outlet is adopted to better maintain the structural firmness, the upper heat conduction plate 41 is provided with a liquid inlet 44 and a liquid outlet 45 respectively communicated with the flow channel 80, and the front side plate 31 is provided with a frame protection structure 70 near the external liquid inlet 44 and the external liquid outlet 45.

Referring to fig. 13 and 14, the protective frame structure 70 includes a first structural plate 71, a second structural plate 72 and a reinforcing rib 73, the first structural plate 71 is provided with a first hole 711 and a second hole 712, the second structural plate 72 is provided with a third hole 721 and a fourth hole 722, the liquid inlet 44 is provided with a liquid inlet element 46, such as a prefabricated liquid inlet pipe, communicated with the flow channel 80, the liquid outlet 45 is provided with a liquid outlet element 47, such as a prefabricated liquid outlet pipe, communicated with the flow channel 80, the first hole 711 and the third hole 721 are aligned with each other so that the liquid inlet element 46 can be installed in a positioning manner after penetrating through, and the second hole 712 and the fourth hole 722 are aligned with each other so that the liquid outlet element 47 can be installed in a positioning manner after penetrating through.

Wherein, after heat-conducting plate 40 installation location, the location installation has also been accomplished with play liquid component 47 to feed liquid component 46, protects frame structure 70 and can protect feed liquid component 46, play liquid component 47 not receive external force to destroy, promotes holistic structure steadiness, effectively avoids revealing of coolant liquid.

The liquid inlet 44 and the liquid outlet 45 in this example are both slightly higher than the flow channel 80 to form a structure similar to a U-shaped communicating tube, and the flowing cooling liquid filled into the flow channel 80 from the liquid inlet 44 flows out from the liquid outlet 45 after the gas in the flowing cooling liquid is completely discharged, so that no gas exists in the flow channel 80 in the whole heat exchange process, and the flowing of the cooling liquid is more uniform and the flowing stability is better.

The protector plate 50 in this example is mounted on the support frame 30 below the heat conductive plate 40, and as shown in fig. 15, a certain gap is present between the protector plate 50 and the heat conductive plate 40 to form an insulating chamber 51 to prevent heat absorbed by the heat conductive plate 40 from being diffused to the lower side to other equipment component parts.

Preferably, the heat insulation chamber 51 is closed, and the inside thereof may be air or filled with a heat insulation material, so as to perform the heat insulation function between the heat conduction plate 40 and the external environment.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments, it is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. Any person skilled in the art can make some modifications without departing from the scope of the invention, i.e. all equivalent modifications made according to the invention shall be covered by the scope of the invention.

Claims

1. The shell for the power battery is characterized by comprising a supporting frame (30) and a heat conducting plate (40), wherein the supporting frame (30) comprises a plurality of side plates (31, 32, 33 and 34), the heat conducting plate (40) is installed on the supporting frame (30), and a cavity (30a) for accommodating the power battery module is formed between the side plates (31, 32, 33 and 34) in a surrounding manner and with the heat conducting plate (40); the cooling liquid flow channel (80) formed by the channel-shaped concave part (42a) is arranged in the heat conduction plate (40), and a liquid inlet (44) for enabling the cooling liquid to flow into the flow channel (80) and a liquid outlet (45) for enabling the cooling liquid to flow out of the flow channel (80) are arranged outside the heat conduction plate (40).

2. The casing according to claim 1, characterized in that said plate (40) comprises an upper plate (41) and a lower plate (42), said channel-like depression (42a) being formed on said lower plate (42), said upper plate (41) being arranged above said lower plate (42) and cooperating with said channel-like depression (42a) to form said flow channel (80).

3. The housing according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one of the side panels (31, 32, 33, 34) projects outwards to form a protective frame structure (70), the protective frame structure (70) comprises a first structural plate (71) and a second structural plate (72) which are arranged up and down, the first structural plate (71) is provided with a first hole (711) and a second hole (712), the second structural plate (72) is provided with a third hole (721) and a fourth hole (722), the liquid inlet (44) is provided with a liquid inlet element (46), the liquid outlet (45) is provided with a liquid outlet element (47), the first hole (711) and the third hole (721) are aligned with each other so that the liquid inlet member (46) penetrates for positioning installation, the second hole (712) and the fourth hole (722) are mutually aligned so that the liquid outlet element (47) penetrates through for positioning installation.

4. The case of claim 1, wherein the support frame (30) is provided inside with protrusions (60) for mounting power battery modules, the protrusions (60) being located in the cavities (30a) and connected to the plurality of side plates, respectively.

5. The housing according to claim 4, wherein the protrusion (60) has a first plane (61) at the upper side, a second plane (62) at the lower side, and a third plane (63) between the first plane (61) and the second plane (62), the first plane (61) is used for mounting a power battery module, the second plane (62) and the third plane (63) are stepped, the second plane (62) is close to the outer edge of the protrusion (60), the third plane (63) is close to the inner edge of the protrusion (60), wherein the second plane (62) and the third plane (63) have a height difference to form a semi-closed loop groove (64) for mounting the heat-conducting plate (40), the notch shape of the closed loop groove (64) is consistent with the edge shape of the heat-conducting plate (40), the depth of the closed loop groove (64) is not less than the thickness of the heat conducting plate (40).

6. A casing according to claim 4, characterized in that at least one inner supporting beam (35, 36) is arranged in the cavity (30a), that a plurality of bosses (37) are arranged on the inner supporting beam (35, 36), and that holes (43) are arranged on the heat-conducting plate (40) for one-to-one correspondence with the bosses.

7. The housing of claim 1, wherein the flow passage (80) comprises:

main water inlet channels (81, 82) extending in a central axis direction L of the heat conducting plate (40);

main water return channels (83, 84) arranged on the two side edges of the heat-conducting plate (40) parallel to the central axis direction L; and

a plurality of main heat exchange flow channels (85) connecting the main water inlet flow channels (81, 82) and the main water return flow channels (83, 84);

the main water inlet flow channels (81, 82) are communicated with the liquid inlet (44), and the main water return flow channels (83, 84) are communicated with the liquid outlet (45).

8. The housing according to claim 1, characterized in that the cross-sectional area of the main heat exchange flow channel (85) of at least a section increases gradually in the flow direction of the cooling liquid.

9. A power battery pack, comprising:

the housing of any one of claims 1-8; and

one or more power battery modules (10) secured within said cavity (30a) in said housing;

the upper surface of the heat conducting plate (40) in the shell is provided with a heat conducting layer (20) made of heat conducting materials.

10. The power battery pack of claim 9, further comprising a shield (50), the shield (50) being disposed below the thermally conductive plate (40) and the support frame (30), a gap being present between the shield (50) and the thermally conductive plate (40) to form an insulating cavity (51).