US 12,230,839 B2
Apparatus and method of manufacturing battery module
Woo Seung Jeong, Daejeon (KR); Hun Byung Park, Daejeon (KR); Seung Ryul Baek, Daejeon (KR); Jongkyun Oh, Daejeon (KR); Jaekwan Baek, Daejeon (KR); Yongseok Choi, Daejeon (KR); Yeongkyun Ko, Daejeon (KR); and Siwon Jeon, Daejeon (KR)
Assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD., Seoul (KR)
Appl. No. 17/613,248
Filed by LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD., Seoul (KR)
PCT Filed Nov. 5, 2020, PCT No. PCT/KR2020/015425
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/101137, PCT Pub. Date May 27, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0148013 (KR), filed on Nov. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0223957 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 50/507 (2021.01); H01M 10/04 (2006.01); H01M 50/209 (2021.01); H01M 50/211 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 50/507 (2021.01) [H01M 10/0404 (2013.01); H01M 50/209 (2021.01); H01M 50/211 (2021.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for manufacturing a battery module, the apparatus comprising:
a support member configured to support a module frame, the module frame comprising a bottom part and two side surface parts facing each other;
a side surface guide member configured to align the two side surface parts of the module frame; and
a spreading jig located at an end of the side surface guide member and configured to spread opposite ends of the two side surface parts of the module frame; and
auxiliary guide members located on the support member and configured to align the bottom part of the module frame,
wherein a battery cell stack is inserted into an interior of the module frame by the spreading jigs.