US 11,990,631 B2
Battery bank with unitary battery terminal connector straps
Robert P. Kittell, Brentwood, TN (US); Curtis Ray Wylie, Jr., Citrus Heights, CA (US); Calvin Richard Wylie, Roseville, CA (US); Eric S. Johnson, Cool, CA (US); and William A. Landgraf, Carmichael, CA (US)
Assigned to Villara Corporation, Mcclellan, CA (US)
Filed by Villara Corporation, McClellan, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/691,054.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/159,030, filed on Mar. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0294055 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 50/209 (2021.01); H01M 50/258 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 50/209 (2021.01) [H01M 50/258 (2021.01); H01M 2220/10 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An energy storage apparatus for a bank of batteries comprising:
a fixed, wall mounted cabinet having a plurality of spaced apart shelves secured in place on left, right and back sides of the shelves by walls of the cabinet, the cabinet and shelves having a preselected depth, the cabinet closed on all sides enclosing the shelves;
a battery module fixed to each of said shelves, the module having a depth corresponding to the depth of a shelf and seating a plurality of batteries fixed within each module and electrically connected to each other for energy delivery, the batteries transmitting power through a power port defined in a module through comb-shaped battery straps having blades of the comb-shaped straps contacting battery terminals of specified polarity along columns of such terminals in a column of batteries on each shelf and joined to ports by cables merging to a plug, with the ports of each module transmitting power in wiring running through holes in each shelf and in regions behind a back wall of each module to allow modules on adjacent shelves to be combined, and from a bottom shelf out of the cabinet;
a fixed adapter in the volumetric space between shelves; and
a plurality of battery cells fixed within each adapter and electrically connected to each other by the comb-shaped straps for energy delivery, the battery cells of each adapter communicating power to the power port;
wherein each adapter has a left side wall having power and signal ports for receiving respective power and signal cables running behind a back wall of the adapter in the volumetric space between that adapter and a back wall of the cabinet.