US 12,476,272 B2
Battery for an at least partially electrically operable motor vehicle having at least one flexible tensioning device which is supported on a motor vehicle component, and motor vehicle
Rainer Kaufmann, Stuttgart (DE); Thomas Soczka-Guth, Schelkingen (DE); Ulrich Beck, Erdmannhausen (DE); Anselm Muelberger, Wernau (DE); and Jens Meintschel, Bernsdorf (DE)
Assigned to Daimler AG, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/627,349
Filed by Daimler AG, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 8, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/069175
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 14, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/008952, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 004 928.4 (DE), filed on Jul. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0271326 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 10/04 (2006.01); B60L 50/64 (2019.01); B60L 58/12 (2019.01); H01M 10/42 (2006.01); H01M 10/48 (2006.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 10/0481 (2013.01) [B60L 50/64 (2019.02); B60L 58/12 (2019.02); H01M 10/0468 (2013.01); H01M 10/425 (2013.01); H01M 10/482 (2013.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H01M 2010/4271 (2013.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery, comprising:
a first plurality of battery cells, wherein each of the battery cells has a first volume in a discharged state of the battery cell and a second volume which is different from the first volume in a charged state of the battery cell; and
a first flexible tensioning device, wherein a predetermined force is exertable on the first plurality of battery cells by the first flexible tensioning device in the discharged state and in the charged state,
wherein the battery has no solid-state battery housing and when the battery is installed in a motor vehicle a housing for the battery is formed by a plurality of motor vehicle components of the motor vehicle,
wherein the first flexible tensioning device is configured such that, in order to exert the predetermined force on the first plurality of battery cells, when the battery is installed in the motor vehicle, the first flexible tensioning device is supported on one of the plurality of motor vehicle components of the motor vehicle that form the housing for the battery.