WO2018162719A1 - Installation de formation et procédé de charge d'une installation de formation - Google Patents

Installation de formation et procédé de charge d'une installation de formation Download PDF

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WO2018162719A1
WO2018162719A1 PCT/EP2018/055926 EP2018055926W WO2018162719A1 WO 2018162719 A1 WO2018162719 A1 WO 2018162719A1 EP 2018055926 W EP2018055926 W EP 2018055926W WO 2018162719 A1 WO2018162719 A1 WO 2018162719A1
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formation
contacting
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formation chamber
battery cells
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Ronny SEIDEL
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Thyssenkrupp System Engineering Gmbh
Thyssenkrupp Ag
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01M—PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M10/00—Secondary cells; Manufacture thereof
    • H01M10/06—Lead-acid accumulators
    • H01M10/12—Construction or manufacture
    • H01M10/128—Processes for forming or storing electrodes in the battery container
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01M—PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M4/00—Electrodes
    • H01M4/02—Electrodes composed of, or comprising, active material
    • H01M4/04—Processes of manufacture in general
    • H01M4/0438—Processes of manufacture in general by electrochemical processing
    • H01M4/044—Activating, forming or electrochemical attack of the supporting material
    • H01M4/0445—Forming after manufacture of the electrode, e.g. first charge, cycling
    • H01M4/0447—Forming after manufacture of the electrode, e.g. first charge, cycling of complete cells or cells stacks
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E60/00—Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
    • Y02E60/10—Energy storage using batteries
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02P—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
    • Y02P70/00—Climate change mitigation technologies in the production process for final industrial or consumer products
    • Y02P70/50—Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product

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  • the invention relates to a formation system for the formation of battery cells, with at least one formation chamber within which a contacting unit for contacting the battery cells for the formation is arranged and a delivery device, arranged on a workpiece carrier battery cells from outside the formation chamber in the clear space of the formation chamber retractable and extendable.
  • the formation designates the first charging and discharging processes of a battery cell immediately after the so-called assembly of the battery cell.
  • a large number of individual battery cells are clamped on special goods carriers or workpiece carriers and retracted into formation chambers where they are acted upon or contacted via spring contact pins against respective contacting units. During this contact the formation takes place, which can take on the order of 12 to 24 hours.
  • the formation chambers are lined up and stacked in an arrangement comparable to a high rack. Also, the startup and retraction of the equipped with the battery cells workpiece carriers in the formation chambers takes place, as usual in the field of high-bay warehouses, with storage and retrieval equipment.
  • the workpiece carrier in the case of the formation, it is necessary that the workpiece carrier, after it has been moved into the clear space of a formation chamber, undergoes a positionally exact loading against the contacting unit.
  • the contacting unit is arranged regularly in an upper region of the contacting cell, so that in this case the workpiece carrier must be delivered vertically upwards against the contacting unit.
  • a separate Zustellaktuatorik is arranged in each formation chamber, which delivers the retracted workpiece carrier against the contacting unit and permanently applied. Accordingly, in this conventional formation plant, this chamber-related infeed actuation is required corresponding to the number of formation chambers provided. This means a corresponding mechanical and control engineering effort.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a formation system, which takes into account the boundary conditions outlined above and reduces the mechanical and control engineering effort.
  • a formation system for forming battery cells comprising at least one formation chamber within which a contacting unit for contacting the battery cells for the formation is arranged, a multi-axially movable feed device, arranged with the arranged on a workpiece carrier battery cells from outside of the For- mation chamber in the clear space of the formation chamber are retractable and extendable and with the battery cells within the clear space of the formation chamber indirectly via the workpiece carrier in a contacting position against the contacting unit are acted upon.
  • a locking unit which locks the workpiece carrier in the contacting position.
  • the locking unit is a structural unit of the formation chamber.
  • locking unit ensures that the workpiece carrier for the period of formation is held securely and accurately positioned in the contacting position.
  • this creates the prerequisite that the delivery device is not bound to the formation chamber, but can extend out of the clear space of the currently equipped with a workpiece carrier formation chamber and can equip another formation chamber with another workpiece carrier.
  • the locking unit may comprise a latch arrangement which blocks a movement space of the workpiece carrier to the side remote from the contacting unit.
  • an advantageous embodiment of the invention provides that the locking unit can be transferred at least indirectly via the feed device from a locked position to an unlocked position.
  • the feed device enters into operative connection with the latch arrangement in such a way that the latch arrangement releases the movement space of the workpiece carrier to the side remote from the contacting unit.
  • An advantageous embodiment of the invention provides that the feed device has two traversing units which can be moved into the clear space of the formation chamber independently of one another.
  • a first moving part is provided in an advantageous manner, which may have a rather low positioning accuracy and rather is designed to carry the high load of the workpiece carrier.
  • the second moving part can be designed such that it has a high positioning accuracy, but this in conjunction with a nem supporting the load, at least indirectly to the formation chamber.
  • it is provided for the second traversing unit that it acts on the workpiece carrier in the contacting position.
  • the moving part acts on the workpiece carrier along a vertically movable linear guide in the contacting position.
  • the load of the workpiece carrier is delivered via the moving unit and the linear guide to the formation chamber.
  • the object is further achieved by a method for feeding a tool carrier equipped with battery cells into a formation system with a system as described, with the following steps:
  • An advantageous embodiment of the method provides for locking the tool carrier in the contacting position.
  • An advantageous embodiment of the method provides for unlocking of the tool carrier by means of the delivery device.
  • An advantageous embodiment of the method provides for retraction of the tool carrier into the clear space of the formation chamber by means of one of the two moving units.
  • FIG. 1 shows a formation plant by way of example based on a formation chamber and a delivery device
  • Figure 2 is an illustration of the delivery device
  • Figure 3 shows a detail of a locking unit of the delivery device
  • Figures 4 to 9 are respective side views of the formation plant of Figure 1 in different positions of a delivery process of the battery cells.
  • FIG. 1 shows a formation system 10, for which only one formation chamber 12 is shown by way of example.
  • the formation chamber 12 may be formed by a cuboidal volume, wherein the outer boundary may be formed by a support structure 14, which is expediently composed of interconnected profile elements.
  • the cuboidal volume within the formation chamber 12 should be referred to as a clear space.
  • a contacting unit 16 is provided, which is preferably arranged in an upper region of the formation chamber 12.
  • the contacting unit 16 usually comprises a plurality of charging cards and the spring contact pins, via which the contact is made to the poles of the battery cells.
  • the formation system 10 comprises a feed unit 18, which can be moved in several axes.
  • the feed unit 18, as long as it has not yet retracted into the clear space of the formation chamber 12, are moved along an x-axis and along a z-axis on one side of the formation chamber.
  • a formation installation 10 is regularly composed of a multiplicity of formation chambers 12 arranged side by side and stacked one on top of the other.
  • a plurality of mutually parallel, stacked rows are regularly provided, so that in each case passages are formed between these rows, in which the feed unit can move both along the x-axis and the z-axis, to each of the formation chambers 12 with a workpiece carrier to equip and remove the workpiece carrier after the formation of the battery cells.
  • the feed unit 18 is shown in a position in front of the formation chamber 12, that is to say the feed unit 18 or parts thereof are not located in the clear space of the formation chamber 12.
  • the feed unit 18 can comprise two moving units 20 and 30.
  • the first traversing unit 20 may include two telescopic forks 22i and 22 2 aligned parallel to one another and displaceable along the x-axis.
  • the telescopic forks 22 ⁇ 22 2 are adapted to grip a pallet-like carrier element or to receive and this both to move in the aisles between rows and stacked formation chambers 12, as retract in the clear space of each formation chamber 12th
  • the second displacement unit 30 is initially also displaceable along the x-axis, so that it can also, when it is positioned in front of a formation chamber 12, enter the clear space of the respective formation chamber 12. Furthermore, the second displacement unit 30 is also displaceable along the z-axis, as will be described later. Furthermore, the formation chamber 12 comprises a linear guide 50, which is preferably also arranged in the clear space of the formation chamber 12. In the case of the preferred embodiment of the contacting unit 16 arranged in an upper region of the formation chamber 12, the linear guide 50 is a vertical guide which is movable at least over a partial height of the formation chamber 12. About the linear guide 50, a lifting table 52 is guided vertically movable. FIG.
  • the second moving part 30 comprises three drives 32, 34, 38.
  • a piston-cylinder unit 32 may be provided, which is operated pneumatically, hydraulically or electromechanically and via which the second displacement unit 30 can be driven along the x-axis.
  • a trained as an electrically driven spindle gear drive 34 may be provided which drives a vertically extendable lifting ram 36 to move over the lifting ram 36 the lifting table 52 in the vertical direction, that is along the linear guide 50.
  • a drive 38 may be provided, which may also be embodied as an electrically driven spindle gear and which can transfer a locking pawl 40 from a locked position to an unlocked position. It is provided that the locking pawl 40 is pivotally supported on the linear guide 50 and with respect to the lifting table 52 can take the locked or unlocked position. Furthermore, a locked position can be understood to mean a blocking of a vertical movement of the lifting table 52 to vertically below. For a locking of the lifting table 52 forms a locking pin 54, which projects into the linear guide 50 and the vertically extending movement space overlaps with the movement space of the locking pawl 40.
  • FIG 3 A detail of the locking pawl 40, whose interaction with the locking pin 54 of the lifting table 52 and the unlocking by the drive 38 of the second moving part 30 is shown in FIG 3.
  • Figure 3a is a locked position of the lifting table 52, which in this position in a vertical upper position is shown, and in the figure 3b), an unlocked position of the lifting table 52 is shown, wherein the lifting table 52, however, is still shown in the vertically upper position.
  • the locking pawl 40 is preferably pivotably articulated about a pivot axis S on the linear guide 50.
  • a locking cam 42 is arranged, which can take over the pivoting of the locking pawl 40 at least two positions.
  • the locking pawl 40 is acted upon by spring means 44 in the shown, that is the locked, position.
  • the drive 38 of the second moving part 30 can move or pivot the locking pawl 40 from the locked position to the unlocked position, as shown in FIG. 3b).
  • the drive 38 has a vertically extendable lifting ram 46 which can engage at least indirectly under the end remote from the pivot axis S end of the locking pawl 40 and pivots the locking pawl 40 in the present counterclockwise direction via an extension movement.
  • the locking cam 42 moves out of the range of movement of the locking pin 54 of the lifting table 52, so that the locking pin 54 is released to the bottom vertically and the lifting table 52 can perform a movement along the linear guide 50.
  • the lifting table 52 is raised at least minimally, for example 1 mm to 3 mm, vertically via the drive 34 in order to release the locking cam 42 of the locking pawl 40 and the locking pin 54 of the lifting table 52 from one another.
  • the locking pawl 40, the spring means 44, the locking cam 42 and the locking pin 54 may be collectively referred to as a locking unit 28.
  • FIGS. 4 to 9 show side views of a formation installation 10 in different positions.
  • FIG. 4 shows a first position of a feed operation of battery cells 102 clamped on a workpiece carrier 100 in order to supply them to a formatting process.
  • the workpiece carrier 100 is held on a support member 104, which may for example have the dimensions of a standard Euro-pallet and may be made of aluminum.
  • a support member 104 which may for example have the dimensions of a standard Euro-pallet and may be made of aluminum.
  • the workpiece carrier 100 is received in the position shown by the telescopic forks 22 ⁇ 22 2 of the first moving part 20 and placed in front of the formation chamber 12 to be retracted into this. It is preferably provided that there is no objective connection between the feed unit 18 and the formation chamber 12 in this position.
  • FIG. 5 shows a further position of a Zustellvorgangs in which the workpiece carrier is retracted 100 in the clear space of the formation chamber 12 via the telescopic forks 22 ⁇ 22. 2 In this position, the battery cells 102 have no contact with the contacting unit 16. Furthermore, the second moving part 30 has been retracted into the clear space of the formation chamber 12. 6 shows a further position of a Zustellvorgangs in which the workpiece holder was lowered 100 via the telescopic forks 22 ⁇ , 22 2, so that the work piece carrier 100, there is a support surface in the formation chamber 12 for conditioning and is here about carried from the formation chamber 12th In addition, the second moving unit 30 comes to rest on a contact surface 24 of the formation chamber 12. Following this, the telescopic forks 22 ⁇ drive, 22 2 free from the workpiece carrier 100 and finally out of the sparse room of the formation chamber.
  • FIG. 7 shows a further position of a feed process, in which the workpiece carrier 100 has been lifted by way of the second moving unit 30 and thus is acted upon by the contacting unit 16.
  • the lifting takes place via the drive 34 and the drive thereof vertically extendable lifting punch 36.
  • a transmission element 26 is provided for indirect transmission of the lifting movement of the Hubstempels 36 on a cantilever 56 of the lifting table 52. It is expedient in this case if the surface of the power transmission from the lifting ram 36 or the transmission element 26 on the cantilever 56 is arranged substantially vertically aligned with the surface of the power transmission of the second moving part 30 on the contact surface of the formation chamber 12.
  • the lifting table 52 and the locking pawl 40 have assumed the locked position described in connection with FIG. In this locked position, the battery cells 102 are acted upon by the lifting table 52 and the workpiece carrier 100 against the contacting unit 16.
  • the feed unit 18 is now able according to the invention to equip further formation chambers 12 with workpiece carriers 100 or to extend the workpiece carriers 10 from the formation chamber 12 after the formation has taken place. According to the invention, this possibility is realized in that the second moving unit 30 can act on the workpiece carriers 100 against the contacting unit 16 and the formation chamber 12 is able via the locking unit 28 to hold the workpiece carrier 100 in the contacted position for the formation process or arrest. After that, the delivery unit 18 is free again for other assembly operations.
  • FIG. 8 shows a further position of a feed process in which lift table 52 is further locked in a vertically upper position with respect to formation chamber 12 and battery cells 102 are contacted against contacting unit 16 and feed unit 18 is completely extended out of the clear space of formation cell 12 ,
  • the workpiece carrier 100 and thus also the battery cells 102 are in a contacting position with respect to the contacting unit 16 and the formation process of the battery cells 102 can be carried out, which may take on the order of 12 to 24 hours.
  • FIG. 9 shows a further position of a feed operation, in which the second moving unit 30 has again been moved into the clear space of the formation chamber 12 in order to remove the workpiece carrier 100 from the formation chamber 12 after the formation of the battery cells 102.
  • the illustrated position of the Zustellvorgangs take the lift table 52 and the locking pawl 40 described in connection with the figure 3b) unlocked position to each other by the locking pawl 40 is pivoted via the drive 38 in the counterclockwise direction and released from the locking pin 54 of the lifting table 52 becomes.

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L'invention concerne un installation de formation pour la formation d'éléments de batterie, comprenant une chambre de formation dans laquelle est disposée une unité de contact destinée à la mise en contact des éléments de batterie pour la formation, et un dispositif de positionnement grâce auquel des éléments de batterie disposés sur un porte-pièces peuvent être escamotés et déployés depuis l'extérieur de la chambre de formation dans l'espace intérieur de la chambre de formation.
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