Patent ID: 7488201
Filing Date: 2009-02-10
Classification: H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A terminal-connecting device to electrically connect the electrode terminals with each other comprising: an electrically insulating hollow connecting device body having an open upper end; and an electrically insulating cover coupled to the open upper end of the connecting device body, wherein the terminal-connecting device is constructed such that a plate-shaped conductive bus bar is mounted to a lower end of the connecting device body; two or more terminal insertion holes are formed in the lower end of the connecting device body and the bus bar, the terminal insertion holes formed in the lower end of the connecting device body communicating with the terminal insertion holes formed in the bus bar; and a connecting member insertion slit is formed in one side of connecting device body for allowing further connection of electrode terminals to an external connecting member, as occasion demands, wherein the connecting device body is provided at the inside surface thereof with downward-tapered fixing protrusions, which are slighty spaced apart from the lower end surface of the connecting device body such that the bus bar can be stably fixed to the lower end of the connecting device body, wherein when the electrode terminals are inserted into the terminal insertion holes formed in the lower end of the connecting device body of the terminal-connecting device, the electrode terminals are electrically connected with each other via the bus bar mounted to the lower end of the connecting device body.