US 12,431,576 B2
Battery module
Shigemitsu Akutsu, Saitama (JP); and Shinji Fujimoto, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/822,132.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-162748 (JP), filed on Oct. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0113935 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. H01M 10/04 (2006.01); H01M 50/258 (2021.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01); H01M 50/264 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 50/262 (2021.01) [H01M 10/0481 (2013.01); H01M 50/258 (2021.01); H01M 50/264 (2021.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery module comprising:
a cell stack in which solid battery cells are stacked;
end plates that are disposed at both ends of the cell stack in a stacking direction; and
pressurizing plates that are fastened to the end plates on an outer side of the end plates in the stacking direction,
wherein the pressurizing plates abut on the end plates at a plurality of load points,
the pressurizing plates are fastened along with the end plates with a fastening member that fastens the end plates to each other,
the end plates include first inclined portions that are inclined from the plurality of load points toward the cell stack,
the pressurizing plates include second inclined portions that are inclined along the first inclined portions, and
the fastening member is disposed between the first inclined portions and between the second inclined portions.