Patent ID: 9276250
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H01M,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A battery array comprising: a plurality of batteries arranged into 2N+1 bundles, each of the bundles comprising M+1 batteries of the batteries arranged in parallel, where N and M are natural numbers, and each of the batteries has a positive terminal and a negative terminal opposite the positive terminal; a plurality of connection tabs arranged at a first side of the battery array and at a second side of the battery array, each of the connection tabs being coupled to a corresponding pair of the bundles to electrically couple a first bundle through a 2N+1th bundle of the 2N+1 bundles in series; a first output terminal having a positive polarity, and connected to the positive terminal of each of the batteries of the first bundle; a second output terminal having a negative polarity, and connected to the negative terminal of each of the batteries of the 2N+1th bundle, a case enclosing the batteries, the connection tabs, and the first and second output terminals; and a holder case between each of the bundles and the case, wherein the 2N+1 bundles are arranged to have: