Patent ID: 9634295
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H01M,Y02E,Y02P

Claim:
1. A system for housing a plurality of pouch cell batteries, the system comprising: a battery cell container including at least one cell compartment interposed between a first end plate and a second end plate; a pouch battery cell housed within the at least one cell compartment wherein the pouch battery cell has one or more cell plates aligned with the first end plate and second end plate and wherein the first end plate is connected to the second end plate by a plurality of tension rod assemblies, each having at least one surrounding elastic deformation device medial of a distal end thereof operable to elastically deform to a prescribed limit so as to place the one or more cell plates of the pouch battery cell in a constant amount of compression, and wherein each of the plurality of tension rod assemblies includes a tension rod dimension so as to plastically deform upon the elastic deformation device elastically deforming to the prescribed limit.