BATTERY ASSEMBLIES
After the electrical requirements have been determined, the designing of the battery pack can begin. The areas that need to be considered in battery pack design include:
- Battery Pack Configuration
- Protective Devices
- Connectors
- Packaging
- Labeling
With the rising demand for portable battery packs, the materials and technologies for battery pack assembly have become more advanced and refined.
The battery pack configuration is the way the cell configurations are assembled together. Typical pack configurations are shown in Figure 2. Packs can be assembled in configurations listed in Figure 2 using cells configured in the “single” or “stick” configurations listed in Figure 1.
Figure 1
| Single Cell | 2 Cell Stick | 3 Cell Stick |
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Figure 2
| Flat | Square | Nested | Staggered |
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The “flat” battery pack configuration is the most common because of its ease of assembly. Next are the “square” and then the “nested” battery pack configurations. The “staggered” configurations are not common and more difficult to assemble, but will sometimes work for battery packs with restrictions in depth.
The configuration of a battery pack is almost limitless, yet designing a battery pack that is considered “non-typical” is usually not cost effective. A “non-typical” battery pack often incorporates a mixture of cell configurations as well as locating cells at various directions to one another that would inhibit the ease of assembly. To ensure the efficient reproduction of a battery pack, the above cell and pack configurations are recommended.
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